So, what about pure science? Not all science has immediate applications. Companies are only interested in science applications. You can patent a new drug, but you can't exactly patent a new theory of gravity. Also, some potential research applications are too risky and expensive to be invested in by venture capitalists--e.g. fusion power. Corporate interests skew the funding towards applications which are most profitable, which doesn't always align with which applications are most beneficial.
Paul wants to give up on science. Science is too communist. Everyone on the planet benefits from science. As a physicist who is getting funded by the DOE, I don't like this. I suppose us researchers will just have to emigrate. Maybe to China; they are upping their investment in science.
Agreed. Rare incidents like car crashes generally generate Poisson distributions. Without knowing how many accidents typically occur in a week, there's no way to know if a 40% change is statistically meaningful. The standard deviation is just the square root of the mean count. The value 40% is suggestive of a total count of 5 or 10, though of course any multiple of 5 would work. If it's a change from 5 to 3, it's not meaningful.
It should be treated as marine salvage. I'm no expert at marine salvage law, so I don't know what that entails, but the fact that it took place on the moon should make no difference.
Big difference. Microsoft is tracing the point spread function using accelerometers. Adobe is computing the PSF from the data (and perhaps these loaded parameters). Microsoft's technique seems more novel to me....
Fair enough. But banks are going to charge a lot more than 2% interest. (I tried to find some typical subprime mortgage APRs, but this seems to be a guarded secret.) The usury laws are so full of holes that they might as well not exist. Most states have usury thresholds around 6-12%, but of course banks are exempt from all that. So, maybe it's not a crime in the legal sense, but I don't know. The loopholes are too complicated for me.
Some wealth disparity will always exist, because some people work harder and smarter than others. But extreme wealth disparity only exists because of usury--making money from money (in all its forms).
They may have started with no specific goal, but it got people together and talking. The protesters are using cooperative-styled meeting structure, and people are coming up with decisions in a democratic process. As the protest goes on, specific goals are being brainstormed and voted on. This is happening all over United States, and it's shaping politics on a local level. There might not be a global focus, but there is certainly a purpose to the protest. It's rejuvenating democracy which has been taking out of hands of people by the representative system.
Don't group credit unions with banks. They both provide roughly the same services, but banks siphon off money into the pockets of uber-wealthy executives and politicians, while credit unions don't.
\Just because you or anyone else can become fairly well off by working really hard (and kudos for you), doesn't mean the system isn't broken. You shouldn't have to work 60+ hours a week and risk frequent bankruptcy to do so. There's still an upper class of people who siphon off wealth through control of capital and politics which makes it harder for everyone else to succeed. Maybe you can still succeed, but it's twice as hard.
Read it? I thought this was inspired by it. I figured the DHS was regularly studying dystopian sci-fi to figure what would be most feasible to adopt with today's technology.
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So, what about pure science? Not all science has immediate applications. Companies are only interested in science applications. You can patent a new drug, but you can't exactly patent a new theory of gravity. Also, some potential research applications are too risky and expensive to be invested in by venture capitalists--e.g. fusion power. Corporate interests skew the funding towards applications which are most profitable, which doesn't always align with which applications are most beneficial.
Paul wants to give up on science. Science is too communist. Everyone on the planet benefits from science. As a physicist who is getting funded by the DOE, I don't like this. I suppose us researchers will just have to emigrate. Maybe to China; they are upping their investment in science.
Ron Paul wants to slash the military budget by 15% and also end foreign aid which mostly gets used to buy weapons anyways.
You underestimate the ability for people to spend money on things they don't need.
It's a fuzzy line between discovery and invention.
Agreed. Rare incidents like car crashes generally generate Poisson distributions. Without knowing how many accidents typically occur in a week, there's no way to know if a 40% change is statistically meaningful. The standard deviation is just the square root of the mean count. The value 40% is suggestive of a total count of 5 or 10, though of course any multiple of 5 would work. If it's a change from 5 to 3, it's not meaningful.
How can anything you do be illegal if you own the lawmakers?
It should be treated as marine salvage. I'm no expert at marine salvage law, so I don't know what that entails, but the fact that it took place on the moon should make no difference.
Big difference. Microsoft is tracing the point spread function using accelerometers. Adobe is computing the PSF from the data (and perhaps these loaded parameters). Microsoft's technique seems more novel to me....
Fair enough. But banks are going to charge a lot more than 2% interest. (I tried to find some typical subprime mortgage APRs, but this seems to be a guarded secret.) The usury laws are so full of holes that they might as well not exist. Most states have usury thresholds around 6-12%, but of course banks are exempt from all that. So, maybe it's not a crime in the legal sense, but I don't know. The loopholes are too complicated for me.
And after their incomes go to zilch, we'll have to bail them out.
Some wealth disparity will always exist, because some people work harder and smarter than others. But extreme wealth disparity only exists because of usury--making money from money (in all its forms).
Damn all of you who admit that there's something wrong but have consigned that there's nothing we can do about it.
It's the crime of usury.
They may have started with no specific goal, but it got people together and talking. The protesters are using cooperative-styled meeting structure, and people are coming up with decisions in a democratic process. As the protest goes on, specific goals are being brainstormed and voted on. This is happening all over United States, and it's shaping politics on a local level. There might not be a global focus, but there is certainly a purpose to the protest. It's rejuvenating democracy which has been taking out of hands of people by the representative system.
Don't group credit unions with banks. They both provide roughly the same services, but banks siphon off money into the pockets of uber-wealthy executives and politicians, while credit unions don't.
\Just because you or anyone else can become fairly well off by working really hard (and kudos for you), doesn't mean the system isn't broken. You shouldn't have to work 60+ hours a week and risk frequent bankruptcy to do so. There's still an upper class of people who siphon off wealth through control of capital and politics which makes it harder for everyone else to succeed. Maybe you can still succeed, but it's twice as hard.
Seems the legislature should just pick one and stick with it.
If you are ever undecided about an action to take from a purely financial perspective, just ask yourself, which one action is more evil?
Read it? I thought this was inspired by it. I figured the DHS was regularly studying dystopian sci-fi to figure what would be most feasible to adopt with today's technology.
Get with the times. Nobody uses dial-up anymore. Now it's NETWORK SERVICE UNAVAILABLE
Which definition of the word "troll" are you using here? Is it trolling to state a plain fact?
Unfortunately, the bullies tend to be bigger and older (having been held back a few grades).
Kids automatically want to ask why. But when they grow up, they are conditioned not to ask why.
The only way Bethesda can get positive PR now is to fire their legal department.