I work in neurology research at a university- so far, the jury (data) hasn't decided yet. Increases in cellular calcium ion channel activity result from exposure to EMF. This includes L-type calcium channels in neurons.
Does that also happen if you go outside in daylight? How much activity do you see in daylight relative to a cellphone?
After the second (or third) year, patent damages are limited to 20 times the amount the patent holder pays as patent fees. The patent fees are voluntary, you pay as much or as little as you want and you can only increase the fee by 25% in any given year.
Under this scheme nobody can afford to sit on huge piles of junk patents and collect any real court damages from them. People will only pay large fees (and be able to collect large damages) for patents which are earning real money.
The patent system, for as much as it gets bad press, offers the little guy (independent inventor) a chance to get ahead. With no patents, anyone with money can make a clone of an existing product and do whatever they want with it, including selling their clone as the original item.
That's the theory, yes.
The practice is that the wealthy just use the patent system as a weapon against small guys to achieve the exact same thing.
The way to protect the average investor is to stabilize the economy. The best way to do that is:
a) Make company CEOs and boards of directors personally responsible for failure. b) Give the bailout to the affected people, not the company that caused it (does their business model magically change just because they get a bailout?)
Uhm, no. The point is that if they fail, it will be more than just "some people will lose their jobs", because other companies would be dragged in the fall, and the entire economy would suffer. Now I'm not even agreeing with the reasoning, but you didn't quite seem to even grasp it.
Um, no. Imagine what would happen to the economy if everybody's debt was wiped out overnight. No mortgage or credit card payments.
Plus the government still has a trillion dollars to spend.
Those 'jobless' would be working again within a couple of weeks.
All we need to do is make sure the bank directors lose all their personal assets and we've got a working plan, methinks.
It wasn't ever about the amount of money in the various accounts. It was about the services these banks performed for other banks. If those large banks failed, then the credit card processing they did for other banks would fail. The check clearing they did for other banks would fail. The funds clearing they did for other banks would fail. The cash transport they did for other banks would fail.
Yep. There was no way they could have kept their computers switched on without a bailout.
Fuck-em. Let them fail. bail out the deposits, make sure you get what you can from the loans outstanding
Nope. If the bank collapses, cancel all the mortgages/loans/credit card debt.
Shareholders would be pissed, some people get a windfall and that's not fair on the others.... but imagine what it would do for the economy - probably far more good than any bank bailout and shareholders would be more likely to vote for a CEO with his feet on the ground instead of the one with the best hair.
If Congress had not acted to bail out the various banking institutions during the crisis, about half of wage earning American's would have suddenly discovered that: - they did not get paid - they cannot access their bank account
Even if true, how about we give those trillions directly to the people and/or cancel their mortgages instead of propping up the system that caused the problem.
I bet a bank facing the loss of all its mortgages would be a damn sight more careful with their money than one that isn't.
The government also needs to step in every time they see a lot of money being magicked out of thin air by people near the bottom of the food chain (eg. the dotcom bubble, housing bubble, etc.). That never leads to anything other than collapse, a lot of rich people getting richer and the poor people picking up the tab.
The point is that you need to bail them out, because otherwise a recession becomes a depression or whole sectors of the economy will be destroyed. That's what "too big to fail" means.
Yeah, telling CEOs they still get golden parachutes if they drive huge corporations to ruin is a much better plan for the long term.
My idea to 'improve the system' is to only bail them out if the entire board of directors agrees to turn over all their assets to the taxpayer and/or go to jail.
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"Chair", dammit.
(I meant to do that just to show how spelling checkers aren't magically going to make you write perfectly. No, really...)
Yep. An electric char that shocked people every time they misused a possessive would do a lot more good than this.
(It's useless anyway because it only vibrates when it's too late and there's already an indelible mark on the paper).
I am hearing about a lot of kids that are 14 year olds that had sex with OTHER 14 year olds. So legally both of them are raping children.
Yes, but they're both minors so the law can't touch them.
Thermal effects are indisputable, but do they mean anything?
Compared to going outside on a sunny day?
Or doing some exercise?
No. A cellphone pales into insignificance compared to those two.
(And there's plenty more - what about evil central heating systems??)
I work in neurology research at a university- so far, the jury (data) hasn't decided yet. Increases in cellular calcium ion channel activity result from exposure to EMF. This includes L-type calcium channels in neurons.
Does that also happen if you go outside in daylight? How much activity do you see in daylight relative to a cellphone?
Sticky back plastic is what you used at school to cover the outside of your books.
Yes, a giant ball of gas catching fire when fired upon and crashing into DC will sure help protect it.
At that altitude it will burn up long before it reaches the ground.
And there's no reason it would burst into flames anyway if it's properly grounded.
How's this for a way to fix it:
After the second (or third) year, patent damages are limited to 20 times the amount the patent holder pays as patent fees. The patent fees are voluntary, you pay as much or as little as you want and you can only increase the fee by 25% in any given year.
Under this scheme nobody can afford to sit on huge piles of junk patents and collect any real court damages from them. People will only pay large fees (and be able to collect large damages) for patents which are earning real money.
The patent system, for as much as it gets bad press, offers the little guy (independent inventor) a chance to get ahead. With no patents, anyone with money can make a clone of an existing product and do whatever they want with it, including selling their clone as the original item.
That's the theory, yes.
The practice is that the wealthy just use the patent system as a weapon against small guys to achieve the exact same thing.
Um, no.
All those eyes looking at it will have it fixed up in no time.
A "full motion" sim can't replicate more than 1.0 G in any given direction, much less a sustained 5g pull.
Is there any reason why a simulator mounted on a gimbal on the end of a spinning arm can't produce any amount of G in any direction?
(OK, it can never simulate zero G but I"m guessing that's not very important for dogfight simulators)
The way to protect the average investor is to stabilize the economy. The best way to do that is:
a) Make company CEOs and boards of directors personally responsible for failure.
b) Give the bailout to the affected people, not the company that caused it (does their business model magically change just because they get a bailout?)
You missed another important market - some people lose their life savings.
Clue: Many people lost their life savings even though there was a bailout.
The bailout mostly made rich people richer. It's mostly the poor who lost out, and they got to pick up the tab for the bailout.
Except in the case of banks, they have all your money, so if they fail, all your money is gone.
So is all your debt.
PS: People have savings...? Really?
Iceland seems to be doing great actually http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html
Hush, you're not supposed to mention Iceland anywhere in the 'free' world. It might lead to subversion.
Uhm, no. The point is that if they fail, it will be more than just "some people will lose their jobs", because other companies would be dragged in the fall, and the entire economy would suffer. Now I'm not even agreeing with the reasoning, but you didn't quite seem to even grasp it.
Um, no. Imagine what would happen to the economy if everybody's debt was wiped out overnight. No mortgage or credit card payments.
Plus the government still has a trillion dollars to spend.
Those 'jobless' would be working again within a couple of weeks.
All we need to do is make sure the bank directors lose all their personal assets and we've got a working plan, methinks.
It wasn't ever about the amount of money in the various accounts. It was about the services these banks performed for other banks. If those large banks failed, then the credit card processing they did for other banks would fail. The check clearing they did for other banks would fail. The funds clearing they did for other banks would fail. The cash transport they did for other banks would fail.
Yep. There was no way they could have kept their computers switched on without a bailout.
Fuck-em. Let them fail. bail out the deposits, make sure you get what you can from the loans outstanding
Nope. If the bank collapses, cancel all the mortgages/loans/credit card debt.
Shareholders would be pissed, some people get a windfall and that's not fair on the others .... but imagine what it would do for the economy - probably far more good than any bank bailout and shareholders would be more likely to vote for a CEO with his feet on the ground instead of the one with the best hair.
If Congress had not acted to bail out the various banking institutions during the crisis, about half of wage earning American's would have suddenly discovered that:
- they did not get paid
- they cannot access their bank account
Even if true, how about we give those trillions directly to the people and/or cancel their mortgages instead of propping up the system that caused the problem.
I bet a bank facing the loss of all its mortgages would be a damn sight more careful with their money than one that isn't.
The government also needs to step in every time they see a lot of money being magicked out of thin air by people near the bottom of the food chain (eg. the dotcom bubble, housing bubble, etc.). That never leads to anything other than collapse, a lot of rich people getting richer and the poor people picking up the tab.
The point is that you need to bail them out, because otherwise a recession becomes a depression or whole sectors of the economy will be destroyed. That's what "too big to fail" means.
Yeah, telling CEOs they still get golden parachutes if they drive huge corporations to ruin is a much better plan for the long term.
My idea to 'improve the system' is to only bail them out if the entire board of directors agrees to turn over all their assets to the taxpayer and/or go to jail.
there is no way I'm paying $100+ for a single 2TB drive
LOL! Cry me a river...
That's a couple of trips to the cinema. A tank of gas.
The problem with SSDs is frankly they have never really licked the controller issues
Try Intel instead of OCZ.
Not all SSD manufacturers feel they have to put out a new controller every three weeks just to keep themselves in the headlines.
They don't last forever but this one's been going quite a while now. No need to hoard, though, unless Unicomp goes out of business.
I think the phrase "1.0 G in any given direction" contains the clue...