The federal government highly regulates the milk industry, deciding who can sell milk, how much of it they can sell, and for how much (the price is fixed artificially high)
The federal minimum charge might be a little high for a megafarm, but for a dairy producer with, say, 400 cows (a large family farm), the price ends up acting as a price cap forcing prices very near the minimum that a farmer can feed, maintain, and milk the herd. My uncle was a dairy farmer for around 25 years, successfully growing his herd to 400+ cows over that time, and got out of the business a few years ago when milk prices in NY were maintained at a level just below the costs of production for longer than he could afford to wait. He did well compared to some of the other regional farmers, too, though he refused for ethical and health reasons to use bovine growth hormone to increase production.
But if they only sell them with a 256MB memory card (or no memory card) then do they fall under this category or not? The product, as sold, can only record a few minutes of video, you have to purchase an add-on to record all that video. Taxing the add-on would be absurd, because it can be used for a wide variety of things other than just sticking into the camera to record video.
Ignoring the possibility of a random mutation causing the same genetic code and that I've painted with a simplified, broad brush, and that I imply the genetic inclination is likely to be displayed (not entirely recessive), where does it go wrong? In the case that a particular trait is carried in the genetic code and that particular trait is allowed to prevent reproduction, wouldn't that genetic code, and thus that trait, become less frequent?
Most gay rights advocates like to point out that the number of gay people is a larger portion than we think and growing... They also like to claim the most people are not 100% in either direction... The irony being, from a social growth point of view, birth control, homosexuality, delayed marriage, and abortion are ALL negatives if you want positive population growth. All are seen as individual liberties to be protected for the individual. It's EXTREMELY ironic that America, founded by champion's of liberty, has such a large religious population that it's the only "western" nation where the pillars of modern secular individualism are challenged.
There's one thing which I'd be curious to see how it sorts out:
IF homosexuality is a genetic trait, AND IF homosexuality becomes socially accepted to the point where someone entirely homosexual does not produce offspring, THEN incidence of the genetic trait of homosexuality will plummet in just a few generations.
On the other hand, if it is a social phenomenon, then if it becomes widely accepted it is possible that the entire population will see a drop and incidence of homosexuality will continue to show a substantial presence, percentagewise.
Sorry, I was being a nitpicking pain in the ass.:)
The biggest hurdle in my mind is the storage mechanism. The lifetime of the cells these days is 25 years or more at 75% or more of their rated wattage. By the time they expire, I expect that the most current generation will cost substantially less. Using your example and extrapolating, the $65k installation will ber in the $10k range, if you had to reinstall everything from scratch. Batteries, however, are expensive and messy. Unfortunately, while gyroscopic storage is ideal, most research in that direction has been for super high tech methods of getting the highest energy density possible. I'd really like to see some research into a low-tech method with good bearings, a low pressure environment rather than total vacuum, and a big rotating drum of perhaps concrete, steel, plastic, or a container of water. It shouldn't be terribly expensive to build and while the energy efficiency won't approach 100% as closely as the super high tech methods, it should still be more than adequate.
Also, I have no data on how long a high quality inverter would last, but I expect that with proper maintenance 25 years is nothing.
I was very excited to read that prices are dropping 7% per year however. That would imply the production cost would be roughly $50,000 in 6 years. $50,000 in six years is very unlikely to generate enough interest income to cover gasoline and electricity (my electric runs about $1800 a year and gas about $1200 a year).
Not quite, the cost would be close to $50k in 10 years. 100,000 * (1 -.07)^6 = 100,000 *.93^6 = about $65k. 10 years would be 100,000 *.93^10, or about $48k.
Also, as a side note, your investment is only likely to net $4k/year when you consider capital gains taxes and the amount you need to cycle back into the system to keep up with inflation.
"get the receipt"? I'm not sure why the voter would get a receipt with their votes on it. The receipt should go into a secure collection location, pass by where the voter can see (behind a window of some kind so they can review it) and then into a secure bin. The point of the receipt is to confirm the machine count with a hand count later.
You really don't want to give the voter a piece of paper to take home with them that says who they voted for, because that leads to abuse. A person affiliated with an organisation (works for them, or is otherwise beholden to them) is strongarmed into voting a certain way and then the organisation can verify the way they voted. Of course, absentee ballots can lead to the same thing and they've gotten way too popular for my comfort.
That brings up something that machine voting can actually solve, though. If the ballot were distributed (and returned) in a standard XML format that all voting machines could understand, then voting booths could be set up in all embassies worldwide and a registered voter would merely go to the voting machine on the designated day and the computer would retrieve that person's ballot based on their voter registration records and send their votes back. No more mailing ballots around through an insecure unreliable mail system in the hopes that they'll arrive on time.
I'm not defending Bush's policies, but so far as we know, he hasn't abused his executive spying 'privileges' yet
That's part of the problem, 'as far as we know' is limited to what he's willing to allow investigators to see. He personally stonewalled the wiretapping investigation into oblivion. ( news story -- there are more examples but I can't find them right now )
Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. I think we're saying the same thing.
Testing of drugs for humans would only work on warm blooded people, naturally drugs for lawyers wouldn't work the same.
Of course, if they *did* work on lawyers too, the lawyers wouldn't need to actually get infusions of the drugs, they would acquire them from people during their normal course of bloodsucking.
I always order the Kosher meal if my plane has "lunch" listed. What would you rather have, a giant hot pastrami on rye (seriously, the airlines heap it on, and that's *always* what they serve for kosher lunch) or a cold ham with american cheese sandwich?
I haven't flown in quite a few years now, though, so I haven't yet been subjected to these sorts of civil rights violations.
Oops, lets try that again. I'd just copied a quote and was about to start writing my comment when I hit the submit button. D'oh!
One thing which often gets overlooked by the "industry" (and associated press) is that to the majority of viewers "quality" comes a long way behind availability. There are plenty of people who will quite happily watch a VHS recording full of dropout recorded from poor quality broadcast.
Personally, what I like about movies is solid acting, plot, and direction. These can come through on any recording from high definition video through a barely watchable overly compressed copy. Unless it is something I really want to see right away with the full big-screen experience, all the bells and whistles in the world won't make that much difference for me.
So when you say "quality" you need to be specific, you mean "media quality" or "image/sound quality", because to me a large portion of a film's overall quality is something technology won't substantially impact.
Compare some of the great classic films, their images projected onto today's screens, and the images are grainy, color is black & white or sometimes oversaturated where it does exist, sound is thin, but they still stand up as great films.
One thing which often gets overlooked by the "industry" (and associated press) is that to the majority of viewers "quality" comes a long way behind availability. There are plenty of people who will quite happily watch a VHS recording full of dropout recorded from poor quality broadcast.
The batch of explorers who most recently settled the Americas from Europe left home with little or no hope of returning home and with no means of communicating with their home port. The settlers who moved west were in a similar state. This sort of exploration and settlement has happened time and time again throughout human history.
Twelve years ago, as a single college student, I would've been excited at the opportunity to be among the first to set foot on a planet in a distant solar system. Even today, if my immediate family were amenable to the idea, I'd uproot my immediate family and ship out as a settler if there were a real opportunity to do so. I'm sure there are thousands, perhaps even tens or hundreds of thousands, around the world who would be similarly eager to begin the process of settling the galaxy.
If we as a species are to survive the ages, we need to spread further than the home we've settled. The same pattern has driven the expansion of mankind throughout the world and we're just awaiting the technological leap that allows us to move to the next step.
In the US, we've begun taking human life a bit too seriously. We as a society have begun valuing a person's life and social interactions so strongly that the very idea that an explorer might volunteer for near certain death in the pursuit of science is appalling. What if an agency of the US government were to develop plans for a one-way settlement ship to Mars? Think a simple biosphere. Sure, the experiment in the midwest found the mechanism was unsustainable and had to be abandoned eventually, but what if the 6 months to, say, 6 years that it was sustainable yielded immense scientific results for a relatively minimal cost but required 6 people who would live in the biosphere until they died? The concept would be shot down until a system for their retrieval in a timely period in case of diaster was in place. Even though volunteers for a mission like that would come out of the woodwork the public backlash would be immense.
Oh, you've got to include Physical Education, that's where the physical examples of evolution in action can be displayed, where the strong overpower the weak. Unless the weak are smart.
I agree, this was a poor way to handle the class. I was expecting a nice scholarly look at all sides of an issue that would, as a result of being accurate, logical, and scientific, completely destroy the ability of I.D. to be taught as a serious scientific platform. Unfortunately, the instructor couldn't refrain from name-calling. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
Internet Archive tells you what a page contained on a given date. If what you want to do is prove that someone said something bad on their website on a given date, then naturally it could be a good piece of evidence.
Wikipedia also tracks changes, so if, again, what you want to do is prove that someone said something on wikipedia on at a given time, then you could use Wikipedia as evidence too.
What neither of these sources is good for is finding out how accurate the statements made on the webpage are. Wikipedia has a decent reputation, but sources are not always cited and "facts" can be hard to cross-check.
I'm just a bit unclear on how police (who are sworn to uphold law and order and all that) stealing buses is socialist? Sounds to me like they're not doing they're jobs, and are contributing to the anarchy.
I think for them to be characterized as socialist they would've gotten the tourists out of the danger zone and then siezed the buses and taken them to start transporting refugees out.
My usual 'solution' to driving problems in the USA is to suggest more education and enforcement of 'polite driving'.
Polite driving results in doing something unexpected (being nice and letting someone do something they normally wouldn't), and doing something unexpected causes accidents as the people around you have to react to an unusual situation.
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Ok, just show me where to enter my taxpayer ID number to prove that I've paid for the research already.
But if they only sell them with a 256MB memory card (or no memory card) then do they fall under this category or not? The product, as sold, can only record a few minutes of video, you have to purchase an add-on to record all that video. Taxing the add-on would be absurd, because it can be used for a wide variety of things other than just sticking into the camera to record video.
Ignoring the possibility of a random mutation causing the same genetic code and that I've painted with a simplified, broad brush, and that I imply the genetic inclination is likely to be displayed (not entirely recessive), where does it go wrong? In the case that a particular trait is carried in the genetic code and that particular trait is allowed to prevent reproduction, wouldn't that genetic code, and thus that trait, become less frequent?
Good point. I was very specific in my initial conditions, and other possible initial conditions could exist as well, greatly modifying the outcome.
There's one thing which I'd be curious to see how it sorts out:
IF homosexuality is a genetic trait, AND IF homosexuality becomes socially accepted to the point where someone entirely homosexual does not produce offspring, THEN incidence of the genetic trait of homosexuality will plummet in just a few generations.
On the other hand, if it is a social phenomenon, then if it becomes widely accepted it is possible that the entire population will see a drop and incidence of homosexuality will continue to show a substantial presence, percentagewise.
The biggest hurdle in my mind is the storage mechanism. The lifetime of the cells these days is 25 years or more at 75% or more of their rated wattage. By the time they expire, I expect that the most current generation will cost substantially less. Using your example and extrapolating, the $65k installation will ber in the $10k range, if you had to reinstall everything from scratch. Batteries, however, are expensive and messy. Unfortunately, while gyroscopic storage is ideal, most research in that direction has been for super high tech methods of getting the highest energy density possible. I'd really like to see some research into a low-tech method with good bearings, a low pressure environment rather than total vacuum, and a big rotating drum of perhaps concrete, steel, plastic, or a container of water. It shouldn't be terribly expensive to build and while the energy efficiency won't approach 100% as closely as the super high tech methods, it should still be more than adequate.
Also, I have no data on how long a high quality inverter would last, but I expect that with proper maintenance 25 years is nothing.
Not quite, the cost would be close to $50k in 10 years. 100,000 * (1 - .07)^6 = 100,000 * .93^6 = about $65k. 10 years would be 100,000 * .93^10, or about $48k.
Also, as a side note, your investment is only likely to net $4k/year when you consider capital gains taxes and the amount you need to cycle back into the system to keep up with inflation.
You really don't want to give the voter a piece of paper to take home with them that says who they voted for, because that leads to abuse. A person affiliated with an organisation (works for them, or is otherwise beholden to them) is strongarmed into voting a certain way and then the organisation can verify the way they voted. Of course, absentee ballots can lead to the same thing and they've gotten way too popular for my comfort.
That brings up something that machine voting can actually solve, though. If the ballot were distributed (and returned) in a standard XML format that all voting machines could understand, then voting booths could be set up in all embassies worldwide and a registered voter would merely go to the voting machine on the designated day and the computer would retrieve that person's ballot based on their voter registration records and send their votes back. No more mailing ballots around through an insecure unreliable mail system in the hopes that they'll arrive on time.
That's part of the problem, 'as far as we know' is limited to what he's willing to allow investigators to see. He personally stonewalled the wiretapping investigation into oblivion. ( news story -- there are more examples but I can't find them right now )
You need to ask when you buy your ticket. By the time you get on the plane its too late.
Testing of drugs for humans would only work on warm blooded people, naturally drugs for lawyers wouldn't work the same.
Of course, if they *did* work on lawyers too, the lawyers wouldn't need to actually get infusions of the drugs, they would acquire them from people during their normal course of bloodsucking.
Grandparent said humans. What do lawyers have to do with it?
I always order the Kosher meal if my plane has "lunch" listed. What would you rather have, a giant hot pastrami on rye (seriously, the airlines heap it on, and that's *always* what they serve for kosher lunch) or a cold ham with american cheese sandwich? I haven't flown in quite a few years now, though, so I haven't yet been subjected to these sorts of civil rights violations.
Personally, what I like about movies is solid acting, plot, and direction. These can come through on any recording from high definition video through a barely watchable overly compressed copy. Unless it is something I really want to see right away with the full big-screen experience, all the bells and whistles in the world won't make that much difference for me.
So when you say "quality" you need to be specific, you mean "media quality" or "image/sound quality", because to me a large portion of a film's overall quality is something technology won't substantially impact. Compare some of the great classic films, their images projected onto today's screens, and the images are grainy, color is black & white or sometimes oversaturated where it does exist, sound is thin, but they still stand up as great films.
The batch of explorers who most recently settled the Americas from Europe left home with little or no hope of returning home and with no means of communicating with their home port. The settlers who moved west were in a similar state. This sort of exploration and settlement has happened time and time again throughout human history. Twelve years ago, as a single college student, I would've been excited at the opportunity to be among the first to set foot on a planet in a distant solar system. Even today, if my immediate family were amenable to the idea, I'd uproot my immediate family and ship out as a settler if there were a real opportunity to do so. I'm sure there are thousands, perhaps even tens or hundreds of thousands, around the world who would be similarly eager to begin the process of settling the galaxy. If we as a species are to survive the ages, we need to spread further than the home we've settled. The same pattern has driven the expansion of mankind throughout the world and we're just awaiting the technological leap that allows us to move to the next step. In the US, we've begun taking human life a bit too seriously. We as a society have begun valuing a person's life and social interactions so strongly that the very idea that an explorer might volunteer for near certain death in the pursuit of science is appalling. What if an agency of the US government were to develop plans for a one-way settlement ship to Mars? Think a simple biosphere. Sure, the experiment in the midwest found the mechanism was unsustainable and had to be abandoned eventually, but what if the 6 months to, say, 6 years that it was sustainable yielded immense scientific results for a relatively minimal cost but required 6 people who would live in the biosphere until they died? The concept would be shot down until a system for their retrieval in a timely period in case of diaster was in place. Even though volunteers for a mission like that would come out of the woodwork the public backlash would be immense.
Oh, you've got to include Physical Education, that's where the physical examples of evolution in action can be displayed, where the strong overpower the weak. Unless the weak are smart.
I agree, this was a poor way to handle the class. I was expecting a nice scholarly look at all sides of an issue that would, as a result of being accurate, logical, and scientific, completely destroy the ability of I.D. to be taught as a serious scientific platform. Unfortunately, the instructor couldn't refrain from name-calling. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
One tenth of one percent, actually, not ten percent. The number went by a little quick for me the first time too.
Crazy might be apt, but it isn't really the right word. As the movie indicates, they're agressive to an absurd degree.
Internet Archive tells you what a page contained on a given date. If what you want to do is prove that someone said something bad on their website on a given date, then naturally it could be a good piece of evidence. Wikipedia also tracks changes, so if, again, what you want to do is prove that someone said something on wikipedia on at a given time, then you could use Wikipedia as evidence too. What neither of these sources is good for is finding out how accurate the statements made on the webpage are. Wikipedia has a decent reputation, but sources are not always cited and "facts" can be hard to cross-check.
Also, I can't find a confirmation of this report anywhere. Can you find a clip on the CNN site of what you're referring to?
I'm just a bit unclear on how police (who are sworn to uphold law and order and all that) stealing buses is socialist? Sounds to me like they're not doing they're jobs, and are contributing to the anarchy. I think for them to be characterized as socialist they would've gotten the tourists out of the danger zone and then siezed the buses and taken them to start transporting refugees out.
Polite driving results in doing something unexpected (being nice and letting someone do something they normally wouldn't), and doing something unexpected causes accidents as the people around you have to react to an unusual situation.
I encourage good driving, not polite driving.