I can testify that most Russians I know speak better English than most Americans I know.
I work with four Russians (actually only one is from Russia (Moscow), one is from Belarus, one from the Ukraine, and the other I'm not sure - but they're all native Russian language speakers.) They've lived in the US from 20 to 35 years. None of the four speak better English than most Americans I know. Two of them speak pretty well (the owners of the business), the other two range from passable to pretty bad. Even the well spoken bosses don't know some of the common idioms of the language.
Just to be clear, it is common for certain types of buildings in a lot of jurisdictions that they are required to have a locked box (Knox Box (TM)) with keys to the facility in it, and the fire department has the keys to that box.
I was involved with a project where the local fire department insisted on having a Knox Box for access to a pharmacy located within an office building (they already had access to the building) but the state health department insisted that only a licensed pharmacist could have that key. Both positions were backed by law, but the health department won, stating that local fire chiefs with drug problems had been known to abuse such access in the past.
Medicare solvency depends in large part on healthcare costs being under control, so I'll give you that it might become insolvent. But Social Security itself is not mathematically insolvent now, and its' future solvency issues can be easily addressed with upward adjustment of the top income cutoff, modest reductions in benefits, slight increases in retirement ages, or a combination. The real issue is that the US Treasury owes money to the Social Security trust fund, which it might or might not pay back.
* But first off... the value of the share and the value of the company have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
Untrue. The market may set a price that veers away from the "actual" value of the share, but the value of the share definitely has a lot to do with the value of the company.
* A stock is more of an "I Owe You" than a piece of a company. And what makes this IOU different is that the company doesn't owe you anything at all.
But the company does owe you a share of the company for the stock share you have. And the share is more than an IOU if the company has an ongoing history of paying dividends.
* The CEO of a company (see Meg Whitman) isn't responsible for making a company succeed. His/her job is to provide a return on investment to shareholders.
Sounds like you're contradicting the statement above. BTW, part of the responsibility to provide a return on investment is a responsibility to make the company and its' returns sustainable in the long run.
The US currently has the ability to double it's oil production output and knock prices down so low that OPEC, Venezuela, and Russia would go bankrupt.
Actually, though the US producers have the capacity to knock prices down with oversupply, it is the US production that can't compete on price with most of the OPEC countries. Drawing oil out of the Saudi reserves is much cheaper than fracking. Over-production would put the US fields out of business, not the OPEC producers. As it is, the OPEC countries have been trying to limit output, but still the 'low' current prices make US oil production borderline profitable, and many fields have been idled. Although I have no doubt that Venezuela will probably go bankrupt anyway, even with high oil prices, and Russia isn't doing too well economically, either..
2C makes a huge difference in the timing of spring & fall weather, in the elevations at which certain plants can live (and they can't simply move) and in the ability of pests to survive in different locations.
Whether changes are limited to 2C average remains to be seen, especially as CO2 changes have been happening very quickly (in geological terms) and the ability of the ocean to absorb CO2 and heat has left the atmospheric climate changes to lag, so far.
Or, like in my wife's case, a CAT scan and a PET scan done pre-surgery were billed at over $30,000 total. But the insurance company got it down to around $8,000 total, of which we had to pay 20%. So without insurance, we might have been borrowing money to pay 3 to 4 times what the insurance company agreed to pay, and somewhat lesser ratios for the costs of surgery, doctor's visits, medicine, specialist pathologist, etc.
Australia seems to be going towards the same direction as the US.
So, Australia is going towards having the second biggest manufacturing output in the world, or at least the 4th biggest on a per capita basis? Because that's where the US is. Granted, the percentage of the US's economy that is in manufacturing has gone down over the years, but that is probably to be expected in a mature economy. China has overtaken the number one spot on overall output, but the US is a solid second in output per country and China is not even close on a per capita basis. Some old numbers
The algorithm is: buy low, sell high. It's quite simple . . .
The much better algorithm is buy before it rises, sell before it drops. But that's even harder to stick to, since you need to be able to forecast the future.
However, my grandmother had an even better algorithm (from my perspective): Always Buy, Never Sell. And she kept that policy even through the great depression. Thanks, Grandma!
Well, TFA said that the vulnerability was discovered by McAfee, so it probably has something to do with hookers and designer drugs, rather than Russians.
I just don't think predicting one decades out is anything more than speculation . . .
For extra-ordinary claims like this, you'll need fairly extraordinary evidence.
RTFA, no one is predicting it to happen in the next few decades. What they are saying is that they previously thought that it takes millennia for the magma to build up to a cataclysmic eruption, but they now think they it can happen in a couple of decades, which won't give humanity much time to "prepare".
The Democrats have been moving further and further to the left since at least the mid 90's.
That has got to be the least insightful comment I've seen in a while.
The reality is that, other than a couple of social issues like LGBT rights, Democrats have been moving a little to the right (still a little left of center overall), while the far right has been gaining, pulling the "center" to the right.
BTW, Sanders is not a Democrat; he's an independent and to the left of most Democrats, which is why he lost the primary race.
When downsizing occurs I always assumed talent had nothing to do with the decision. It was the higher payed guys that were let go
Pretty much true.
During the last recession, the first group of people laid off from the company I worked at were mostly people you would imagine should be the first to go. During the last round of lay-offs, which included me, one of the vice presidents quipped to me that the only people left were partners and inexperienced kids, and no one who really could do the work.
Not in the field of programming, but we're currently trying to dig out of the hole that one of those negative productivity workers dug, about 3 months after firing him.
The big reason most helicopters have one rotor is simplicity in design, maintenance, and control.
Also, I'm not sure about your reasoning on thrust being nearly proportional to blade length. At any given tip speed, the proportion of any blade length running within any given range of speed is the same no matter what size the rotor, and the maximum tip speed is fixed regardless of the size. In addition, the longer the blades (for a given amount of lift), the more efficient they are. There are trade-offs among lift, blade length, bending moment, structural strength and weight, etc., that limit rotor diameter, but you don't go into those.
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I work with four Russians (actually only one is from Russia (Moscow), one is from Belarus, one from the Ukraine, and the other I'm not sure - but they're all native Russian language speakers.) They've lived in the US from 20 to 35 years. None of the four speak better English than most Americans I know. Two of them speak pretty well (the owners of the business), the other two range from passable to pretty bad. Even the well spoken bosses don't know some of the common idioms of the language.
Just to be clear, it is common for certain types of buildings in a lot of jurisdictions that they are required to have a locked box (Knox Box (TM)) with keys to the facility in it, and the fire department has the keys to that box.
I was involved with a project where the local fire department insisted on having a Knox Box for access to a pharmacy located within an office building (they already had access to the building) but the state health department insisted that only a licensed pharmacist could have that key. Both positions were backed by law, but the health department won, stating that local fire chiefs with drug problems had been known to abuse such access in the past.
Medicare solvency depends in large part on healthcare costs being under control, so I'll give you that it might become insolvent. But Social Security itself is not mathematically insolvent now, and its' future solvency issues can be easily addressed with upward adjustment of the top income cutoff, modest reductions in benefits, slight increases in retirement ages, or a combination. The real issue is that the US Treasury owes money to the Social Security trust fund, which it might or might not pay back.
Untrue. The market may set a price that veers away from the "actual" value of the share, but the value of the share definitely has a lot to do with the value of the company.
But the company does owe you a share of the company for the stock share you have. And the share is more than an IOU if the company has an ongoing history of paying dividends.
Sounds like you're contradicting the statement above. BTW, part of the responsibility to provide a return on investment is a responsibility to make the company and its' returns sustainable in the long run.
Understandable feeling.
Just don't let that feeling convince you that the current Russia regime isn't out to get us.
Still doesn't sound like it should be patentable.
No one ever claimed that. It was a design patent, not a utility patent.
Actually, though the US producers have the capacity to knock prices down with oversupply, it is the US production that can't compete on price with most of the OPEC countries. Drawing oil out of the Saudi reserves is much cheaper than fracking. Over-production would put the US fields out of business, not the OPEC producers. As it is, the OPEC countries have been trying to limit output, but still the 'low' current prices make US oil production borderline profitable, and many fields have been idled. Although I have no doubt that Venezuela will probably go bankrupt anyway, even with high oil prices, and Russia isn't doing too well economically, either..
"Recoverable quantities of petroleum products in the mantle"
This gets modded up to 5? Really?
Anyone who thinks SS won't be there in 13 years, is betting that the US government will default on their debts.
If you really want to limit CO2 output, you need to find a better way to make concrete, or outlaw portland cement.
2C makes a huge difference in the timing of spring & fall weather, in the elevations at which certain plants can live (and they can't simply move) and in the ability of pests to survive in different locations.
Whether changes are limited to 2C average remains to be seen, especially as CO2 changes have been happening very quickly (in geological terms) and the ability of the ocean to absorb CO2 and heat has left the atmospheric climate changes to lag, so far.
Or, like in my wife's case, a CAT scan and a PET scan done pre-surgery were billed at over $30,000 total. But the insurance company got it down to around $8,000 total, of which we had to pay 20%. So without insurance, we might have been borrowing money to pay 3 to 4 times what the insurance company agreed to pay, and somewhat lesser ratios for the costs of surgery, doctor's visits, medicine, specialist pathologist, etc.
GM was the initial investor that later got out, not GE.
So, Australia is going towards having the second biggest manufacturing output in the world, or at least the 4th biggest on a per capita basis? Because that's where the US is. Granted, the percentage of the US's economy that is in manufacturing has gone down over the years, but that is probably to be expected in a mature economy. China has overtaken the number one spot on overall output, but the US is a solid second in output per country and China is not even close on a per capita basis.
Some old numbers
The much better algorithm is buy before it rises, sell before it drops. But that's even harder to stick to, since you need to be able to forecast the future.
However, my grandmother had an even better algorithm (from my perspective): Always Buy, Never Sell. And she kept that policy even through the great depression. Thanks, Grandma!
How do you think you protect your carreer?
By maximizing failure?
Well, TFA said that the vulnerability was discovered by McAfee, so it probably has something to do with hookers and designer drugs, rather than Russians.
RTFA, no one is predicting it to happen in the next few decades.
What they are saying is that they previously thought that it takes millennia for the magma to build up to a cataclysmic eruption, but they now think they it can happen in a couple of decades, which won't give humanity much time to "prepare".
That has got to be the least insightful comment I've seen in a while. The reality is that, other than a couple of social issues like LGBT rights, Democrats have been moving a little to the right (still a little left of center overall), while the far right has been gaining, pulling the "center" to the right.
BTW, Sanders is not a Democrat; he's an independent and to the left of most Democrats, which is why he lost the primary race.
My laptop is AMD based, you insensitive clod.
Pretty much true.
During the last recession, the first group of people laid off from the company I worked at were mostly people you would imagine should be the first to go. During the last round of lay-offs, which included me, one of the vice presidents quipped to me that the only people left were partners and inexperienced kids, and no one who really could do the work.
Actually pay rises as the square root of productivity, so we're in imaginary territory here.
Not in the field of programming, but we're currently trying to dig out of the hole that one of those negative productivity workers dug, about 3 months after firing him.
The big reason most helicopters have one rotor is simplicity in design, maintenance, and control.
Also, I'm not sure about your reasoning on thrust being nearly proportional to blade length. At any given tip speed, the proportion of any blade length running within any given range of speed is the same no matter what size the rotor, and the maximum tip speed is fixed regardless of the size. In addition, the longer the blades (for a given amount of lift), the more efficient they are.
There are trade-offs among lift, blade length, bending moment, structural strength and weight, etc., that limit rotor diameter, but you don't go into those.