I would hardly call STEM grads "cheap workers." Especially if they want to settle down in the US, they're probably the most valuable immigrants we can get our hands on.
Far better than bringing the foreigners here, letting them get their advanced STEM degrees, then kicking them back to their home countries. That's brilliant when combined with the majority of American kids who majored in liberal arts. (I'm one of those...)
...that when we were raping, looting, pillaging, etc - the Muslim world was the center of tolerance, science, learning, etc.
When they were overrun a few times by barbarians from the east... somehow all the high parts of their society were lost for good (so far.)
Damned shame.
I am a strong believer in free market economics. But I also believe that man is at least partly responsible for global warming and I am much less of a conspiracy theorist than most of the tin-foil hat crew here on/.
Why? I can charge you different prices for cash/credit. So I already know you're willing to pay different prices for the same goods. Now if you come in all Mr. T wearing 99 gold chains and a T-shirt that says "I ALWAYS NEED MORE BLANG" and I have a gold chain shop, there's a good chance that my prices are going up to what I think you'll pay.
'Course, I'm a big fan of haggling as much as possible, too.
Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If a vendor knows who is willing to pay what, they can improve profits while maximizing sales.
Hell, if I had a store and could identify people willing to pay more for my goods, I'd charge them more too.
Problem 1) The "initiative" process, that allows any group of morons to pass the "Feed the Kittens" proposition.
Problem 2) Gerrymandering of districts so that you have a state legislature of extremists on both sides who are incapable of agreeing on anything*.
Problem 3) The legislature has to figure out how to pay for all the *existing* programs, plus now the Feed the Kittens. And oh by the way, budgets in CA have to be passed with a 60% vote.
Recipe for disaster. I wish them luck with their constitutional convention.
Um. Why would you expect the US government to extend the constitutional rights of US citizens to non-US citizens? (Especially if they aren't even in the US.)
Love the show. Can't believe the cast took center stage at the UN. And Edward James-Adama yelling SO SAY WE ALL?!?!? I want to laugh and cry at the same time.
I heard the BBC virus also installed a photo of David Attenborough in a bikini as the user's wallpaper and also informed the British government if it found any pictures of knives, guns, or pointed sticks.
* Star forms. The remaining disk around the star consists mainly of grains of dust, which slowly clump together under their own gravity.
* As clumps get bigger, they create a gravitational "wake" of particulates in the vicinity of their orbit. The wake closer to the star orbits faster and therefore its mass provides a "forward pull" on the object, whereas the part of the wake farther out orbits more slowly and provides a "rearward pull" on the object. The disk gets bigger as you go out (geometry!) and therefore there is more material in the outer half of the "wake," so the "rearward pull" is stronger than the foreward pull. This slows the object slightly and causes it to spiral inward towards the star.
* At a certain distance from the star (the "snow line") water ice converts to water vapor and the "rearward pull" on our orbiting object goes away. (I'm still not clear on why this is the case, BTW.) So inward-spiraling objects tend to stop at the snow line, and this is where a gas giant planet is most likely to form.
* Jupiter's wake at the snow line leads to the formation of Saturn as Jupiter's large mass starts throwing nearby things into a higher orbit.
* "Ice giants" like Neptune and Uranus can't grow as big as Jupiter because their local environment is depleted as they formed later than Jupiter & Saturn and mostly benefitted from more throw-offs by Saturn.
So to see an 8-Jupiter-mass gas giant orbiting 330AU from a sunlike star seems extremely unusual and it ought to imply that it was ejected into a higher orbit by something else because there's no reason for it to form there.
Again, IANAastrophysicist or planetary scientist, but I really get off on this stuff.;)
Smoke rockets were launched just before detonation of the test device. When scientists later watched films of the detonation, they could see how the shock wave propegated through the air by watching the smoke trails.
I'm surprised you can pay for them with all the money that must be flowing out of your country! I get emails all the time about rich people with no next-of-kin who die there and they need somewhere to send the cash. Truly your economy's strength is staggering.
that (area code)555-1212 is directory service. So if somebody was prank calling you from there you'd know it was an operator, which would really narrow down the list of culprits.;-)
Jim
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I would hardly call STEM grads "cheap workers." Especially if they want to settle down in the US, they're probably the most valuable immigrants we can get our hands on. Far better than bringing the foreigners here, letting them get their advanced STEM degrees, then kicking them back to their home countries. That's brilliant when combined with the majority of American kids who majored in liberal arts. (I'm one of those...)
Kaaaaaaaaaaaaahnn!
...that when we were raping, looting, pillaging, etc - the Muslim world was the center of tolerance, science, learning, etc. When they were overrun a few times by barbarians from the east... somehow all the high parts of their society were lost for good (so far.) Damned shame.
They just have different excuses for it.
I am a strong believer in free market economics. But I also believe that man is at least partly responsible for global warming and I am much less of a conspiracy theorist than most of the tin-foil hat crew here on /.
Why? I can charge you different prices for cash/credit. So I already know you're willing to pay different prices for the same goods. Now if you come in all Mr. T wearing 99 gold chains and a T-shirt that says "I ALWAYS NEED MORE BLANG" and I have a gold chain shop, there's a good chance that my prices are going up to what I think you'll pay.
'Course, I'm a big fan of haggling as much as possible, too.
Something is worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
If a vendor knows who is willing to pay what, they can improve profits while maximizing sales.
Hell, if I had a store and could identify people willing to pay more for my goods, I'd charge them more too.
Actually, that's only part of it.
Problem 1) The "initiative" process, that allows any group of morons to pass the "Feed the Kittens" proposition.
Problem 2) Gerrymandering of districts so that you have a state legislature of extremists on both sides who are incapable of agreeing on anything*.
Problem 3) The legislature has to figure out how to pay for all the *existing* programs, plus now the Feed the Kittens. And oh by the way, budgets in CA have to be passed with a 60% vote.
Recipe for disaster. I wish them luck with their constitutional convention.
* CA is not the only state with this problem
There's more than one Android app that does the same thing.
Um. Why would you expect the US government to extend the constitutional rights of US citizens to non-US citizens? (Especially if they aren't even in the US.)
While I don't agree with everything roman_mir says, I'd hardly call it Trolling. It's just a different point of view.
Wait a minute, you mean all I have to do is say "anti-filtering" and it'l#$^&@&O$p1ethi....###NO CARRIER
Thanks, Mollari.
Love my Drobo! Filled it with 2TB Seagates I found on sale for $69/ea right after the floods.
... [/obligatory response]
Love the show. Can't believe the cast took center stage at the UN. And Edward James-Adama yelling SO SAY WE ALL?!?!? I want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Wow.
I heard the BBC virus also installed a photo of David Attenborough in a bikini as the user's wallpaper and also informed the British government if it found any pictures of knives, guns, or pointed sticks.
Interestingly, I'll bet lots of teachers in Nawlins were laid off after Katrina. But probably fewer in Minneapolis. ;)
There was an excellent article in a recent issue of Scientific American that discussed updated theories of planet formation based on not only our solar system, but observations of other systems as well.
;)
The short version, IIRC goes something like this:
* Star forms. The remaining disk around the star consists mainly of grains of dust, which slowly clump together under their own gravity.
* As clumps get bigger, they create a gravitational "wake" of particulates in the vicinity of their orbit. The wake closer to the star orbits faster and therefore its mass provides a "forward pull" on the object, whereas the part of the wake farther out orbits more slowly and provides a "rearward pull" on the object. The disk gets bigger as you go out (geometry!) and therefore there is more material in the outer half of the "wake," so the "rearward pull" is stronger than the foreward pull. This slows the object slightly and causes it to spiral inward towards the star.
* At a certain distance from the star (the "snow line") water ice converts to water vapor and the "rearward pull" on our orbiting object goes away. (I'm still not clear on why this is the case, BTW.) So inward-spiraling objects tend to stop at the snow line, and this is where a gas giant planet is most likely to form.
* Jupiter's wake at the snow line leads to the formation of Saturn as Jupiter's large mass starts throwing nearby things into a higher orbit.
* "Ice giants" like Neptune and Uranus can't grow as big as Jupiter because their local environment is depleted as they formed later than Jupiter & Saturn and mostly benefitted from more throw-offs by Saturn.
So to see an 8-Jupiter-mass gas giant orbiting 330AU from a sunlike star seems extremely unusual and it ought to imply that it was ejected into a higher orbit by something else because there's no reason for it to form there.
Again, IANAastrophysicist or planetary scientist, but I really get off on this stuff.
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Smoke rockets were launched just before detonation of the test device. When scientists later watched films of the detonation, they could see how the shock wave propegated through the air by watching the smoke trails.
I love SciAm. Subscribed for over 10 years now. Great articles, very informative magazine. I highly recommend it. Jim
I'm surprised you can pay for them with all the money that must be flowing out of your country! I get emails all the time about rich people with no next-of-kin who die there and they need somewhere to send the cash. Truly your economy's strength is staggering.
I have no friggin' clue what "soliocentric" would mean. 8)~
that (area code)555-1212 is directory service. So if somebody was prank calling you from there you'd know it was an operator, which would really narrow down the list of culprits. ;-)
Jim