It looks to me like authors severly undervalue themselves and as a result take contracts that give the lions share of the money to publishers. If you (or any other author) were stupid enough to sign a contract that gave you 10 cents for every 70 cents the publisher got then that is your fault. The fact that they are able to get authors to agree to terms like that is a clue that their buisness model isn't broken yet.
Copper coils in the dynamos? Last I checked, copper was getting rarer. Even things like Cat-5e costs twice as much as it did a few years ago.
When was the last time you checked? With the economic slowdown metal prices have gone through the floor. Copper has gone from ~$4 a pound 6 months ago to ~$1.5 a pound now (prices quoted from the London Metal Exchange).
Unless you could use iron coils or something like that.
You can always use Aluminum for the coils (~63% the conductivity of copper, third most abundant element in the crust).
I agree with you in spirit, but the plural of anecdote is not data.
Also, please read up on Ali. What he so visible suffers from is Parkinson's
I agree, Ali suffers from Parkinson's Syndrome. Now you only have to ask "Why does Ali suffer from Parkinson's Syndrome". I've read a few papers over the years which have found a pretty good corolation between head trauma and incrased odds of devolping Parkinson's.
The US standardized at ~110V because that was what basically as high of a voltage as you could put through a ligthbulb at that time (higer voltage light bulbs have more delicate filiments, and therefor arn't as robust). Germany on the other hand standardized several years later, when better lightbulbs were available, so they standardized on a higher voltage which made more efficient use of wire (higher voltage lets you put more power through a given cross-section of wire).
Both made the best choice given the state of technology at the time.
One of the first games you ever played, tic-tac-toe can be won a decent amount of the time with random moves. Ditto rogue.
Against a decent opponent Tic-Tac-Toe is impossible to win with deliberate moves. Rogue isn't impossible to win with deliberate moves, but it's damn hard. I therefor find it impossible that either could be won a decent amount of the time with random moves.
That is a terrible misconception. Conventional bombing was already doing more damage and killing more people than we could do with our two little atom bombs. Japan had already started the peace negotiations before we dropped the bombs. The starvation that would have followed durring the 1945-1946 winter in Japan would have been horrific. Japan couldn't grow anywhere near the amount of food it's people needed, and they wern't going to import any with the US Navy controlling the oceans around their country.
Japan had ~580k Civilian deaths durring WWII. The two atomic bombs killed 100k+ in a week. Conventional bombing did kill more people in total, but the atomic bombs did it a heck of a lot faster.
Also, you don't negotiate unconditional surrender. That's what makes it unconditional. If Japan was engaging in negotations then they by definition were not meeting the Allies demands.
That is, Social Security money goes into the general fund and is spent as fast as it comes in. It isn't invested and it isn't saved for the day Social Security starts paying out more than it takes in (projected to be 2017). So, yes, Social Security is as much a part of the federal budget as national defense spening.
The fun will be, come 2017, when Social Security becomes insolvent.
The money the Social Security system lends the federal government is in return for intereste bearing Treasury Bonds, which is an investmemnt. As a result in 2017 the Social Security system will not be insolvent, it will be able to use the value in these bonds to keep going for a while (estimatess I've seen suggest ~25 years).
The government having a surplus and the government reducing its total debt are two very different things. Having a surplus means that the government is taking in more money then it's spending. But, depending on where that money is comming in it's still possible for other things (intragovernmental debt obligations, debt held by trust funds) to cause the total debt to increase.
On the other hand, as this chart shows here, it's not like we've ever really had a non-Christian as president.
Your chart clearly lists three Unitarians. Unitarians are not Christians at least to any definition of "Unitarianism" and "Christianity" that I've ever seen. Your link also lists several presidents who were Deists, again not Christans by any definition that I've ever seen.
The point of a ban like this is to keep him honest. If he is caught doing it again proving was in a theater, or was carrying a camera, is a lot easier then proving they were videotaping a specific movie. For example, if he deletes the video/tosses the disk before the police catch him, then the authorities don't have to worry about trying to restore it, or proving it was there, because he's still in trouble for having the camera or being in the theater.
Most bans imposed as a result of a criminal trial work under the same idea. The court tries to it a lot harder for the criminal to repeat his crime without being convicted, and hopefully that works to deter him.
First off: Your list has "New Hampshire" on it, did you even bother to read the whole thing before you claimed that New Hampshire is the one with the corner outside the "Constitution Free Zone"?
Second: If you look at the map here you can see the grey part of Vermont yourself.
Third: If you look click on Vermont on the map here you get a page which CLEARLY states that only 94.13% of Vermonts population is in the "Constitution Free Zone". On the other hand if you click on New Hampshire on the map here you get a page which CLEARLY states that all of New Hampshires population is in the constitution free zone.
So to sum it up: You don't know what the heck you're talking about.
The US Army doesn't have the will to turn cities in Iraq into blackened craters, what makes you think they would do it to an American city? When you get into large cities like that, you start running into the problem that a lot of people in your army are going to have friends/family in said city, and are probably not going to want to blow the thing up.
...The RoHS demonization of lead had the best of intentions and all, but the results are in, and some things just kinda crap out (including, big, expensive and very dangerous things) without it. Thanks EU, but we're gonna have to wrap this avoid-lead-at-all-cost show up right about now...
The failing solderbumps were high-lead solder. The solution was to switch to a eutectic solder, which has less lead. So why would RoHS anti-lead policies be to blame?
If I could get money loaned to me at the rates the government does (0% or close to it), and was then able to loan that money out at 12%, I would call it a windfall. The government is going to basically get something for nothing out of this.
Remarkably, you can tell more a difference between what is supposedly the same 'flavor' (Root Beer) between MUG, A&W, and Barq's.. "Root Beer" isn't a flavor any more then "Beer" is a flavor. About the only requirement to be root beer is to have sasafrass flavoring. Everything else is up to the manufacturer.
For example: Last I checked Barq's was the only root beer on your list to contain caffeine.
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It looks to me like authors severly undervalue themselves and as a result take contracts that give the lions share of the money to publishers. If you (or any other author) were stupid enough to sign a contract that gave you 10 cents for every 70 cents the publisher got then that is your fault. The fact that they are able to get authors to agree to terms like that is a clue that their buisness model isn't broken yet.
Why wouldn't a drop in the paper market cause more wood suppliers to go backrupt, and have their forests stripped?
When was the last time you checked? With the economic slowdown metal prices have gone through the floor. Copper has gone from ~$4 a pound 6 months ago to ~$1.5 a pound now (prices quoted from the London Metal Exchange).
You can always use Aluminum for the coils (~63% the conductivity of copper, third most abundant element in the crust).
I agree with you in spirit, but the plural of anecdote is not data.
Also, please read up on Ali. What he so visible suffers from is Parkinson's
I agree, Ali suffers from Parkinson's Syndrome. Now you only have to ask "Why does Ali suffer from Parkinson's Syndrome". I've read a few papers over the years which have found a pretty good corolation between head trauma and incrased odds of devolping Parkinson's.
There was a lot of thought.
The US standardized at ~110V because that was what basically as high of a voltage as you could put through a ligthbulb at that time (higer voltage light bulbs have more delicate filiments, and therefor arn't as robust). Germany on the other hand standardized several years later, when better lightbulbs were available, so they standardized on a higher voltage which made more efficient use of wire (higher voltage lets you put more power through a given cross-section of wire).
Both made the best choice given the state of technology at the time.
Against a decent opponent Tic-Tac-Toe is impossible to win with deliberate moves. Rogue isn't impossible to win with deliberate moves, but it's damn hard. I therefor find it impossible that either could be won a decent amount of the time with random moves.
That's what 17 people?
The 1980's Vostok rocket explosion killed 48 people on it's own.
Unless "chronically unemployed" means "to lazy to look for a job", they are counted by the goverment.
The 7.2% US unemployment rate counts anyone who wasn't employed, could work, and tried to find a job.
"The World" doesn't have anything to do with NPR. It's a PRI show.
That is a terrible misconception. Conventional bombing was already doing more damage and killing more people than we could do with our two little atom bombs. Japan had already started the peace negotiations before we dropped the bombs.
The starvation that would have followed durring the 1945-1946 winter in Japan would have been horrific. Japan couldn't grow anywhere near the amount of food it's people needed, and they wern't going to import any with the US Navy controlling the oceans around their country.
Japan had ~580k Civilian deaths durring WWII. The two atomic bombs killed 100k+ in a week. Conventional bombing did kill more people in total, but the atomic bombs did it a heck of a lot faster.
Also, you don't negotiate unconditional surrender. That's what makes it unconditional. If Japan was engaging in negotations then they by definition were not meeting the Allies demands.
The Smallpox vaccination contains functional virus.
It doesn't count as successful interbreeding unless you can produce fertile offspring. Male Liger's are not fertile.
That is, Social Security money goes into the general fund and is spent as fast as it comes in. It isn't invested and it isn't saved for the day Social Security starts paying out more than it takes in (projected to be 2017). So, yes, Social Security is as much a part of the federal budget as national defense spening.
The fun will be, come 2017, when Social Security becomes insolvent.
The money the Social Security system lends the federal government is in return for intereste bearing Treasury Bonds, which is an investmemnt. As a result in 2017 the Social Security system will not be insolvent, it will be able to use the value in these bonds to keep going for a while (estimatess I've seen suggest ~25 years).
Wow, talk about a strawman argument.
The government having a surplus and the government reducing its total debt are two very different things. Having a surplus means that the government is taking in more money then it's spending. But, depending on where that money is comming in it's still possible for other things (intragovernmental debt obligations, debt held by trust funds) to cause the total debt to increase.
My understanding is that Deists believe in a supreme God, but don't believe that God gets involved in our lives.
On the otherhand Christians believe that God got involved in at least one very big way with Jesus.
I don't see a way to reconsile the two.
Feel free to explain if I am mistaken somewhere?
Your link doesn't mention anything about Switzerland being a direct democracy. So what exactly was your point?
On the other hand, as this chart shows here, it's not like we've ever really had a non-Christian as president.
Your chart clearly lists three Unitarians. Unitarians are not Christians at least to any definition of "Unitarianism" and "Christianity" that I've ever seen. Your link also lists several presidents who were Deists, again not Christans by any definition that I've ever seen.
The point of a ban like this is to keep him honest. If he is caught doing it again proving was in a theater, or was carrying a camera, is a lot easier then proving they were videotaping a specific movie. For example, if he deletes the video/tosses the disk before the police catch him, then the authorities don't have to worry about trying to restore it, or proving it was there, because he's still in trouble for having the camera or being in the theater.
Most bans imposed as a result of a criminal trial work under the same idea. The court tries to it a lot harder for the criminal to repeat his crime without being convicted, and hopefully that works to deter him.
First off: Your list has "New Hampshire" on it, did you even bother to read the whole thing before you claimed that New Hampshire is the one with the corner outside the "Constitution Free Zone"?
Second: If you look at the map here you can see the grey part of Vermont yourself.
Third: If you look click on Vermont on the map here you get a page which CLEARLY states that only 94.13% of Vermonts population is in the "Constitution Free Zone". On the other hand if you click on New Hampshire on the map here you get a page which CLEARLY states that all of New Hampshires population is in the constitution free zone.
So to sum it up: You don't know what the heck you're talking about.
The US Army doesn't have the will to turn cities in Iraq into blackened craters, what makes you think they would do it to an American city? When you get into large cities like that, you start running into the problem that a lot of people in your army are going to have friends/family in said city, and are probably not going to want to blow the thing up.
The failing solderbumps were high-lead solder. The solution was to switch to a eutectic solder, which has less lead. So why would RoHS anti-lead policies be to blame?
It's up to engineers working on a production system to bring something out of beta, kthx.
That would be the "D" component of R&D.
If I could get money loaned to me at the rates the government does (0% or close to it), and was then able to loan that money out at 12%, I would call it a windfall. The government is going to basically get something for nothing out of this.
Remarkably, you can tell more a difference between what is supposedly the same 'flavor' (Root Beer) between MUG, A&W, and Barq's..
"Root Beer" isn't a flavor any more then "Beer" is a flavor. About the only requirement to be root beer is to have sasafrass flavoring. Everything else is up to the manufacturer.
For example: Last I checked Barq's was the only root beer on your list to contain caffeine.
It would seem to me someone who was worried about their privacy being violated by dog shit wouldn't have left said dog shit laying around in public.