I don't see why the DoD can't contract Texas Instruments to make them a custom Android phone entirely in the US.
Because even the DoD can't afford a seventy-thousand-dollar-each cellular phone with every component made in the USA.
Heck, considering that you'd have to open new fabs for some of the parts, it'd probably run more like $170,000 each.
Even with the defense contractor mark-up, 170k is not how much it would cost to make an iPhone or Android in the US. Well, unless the plants were run like a unionized auto-plant...
I own several apartment buildings. If something happens, I have to take care of it ASAP.
That thing rings during a trial you will have plenty of time cooling your heels in jail (without a phone) for contempt of court.
You do NOT use a phone when on Jury duty.
The last time I went to jury duty, a judge spoke saying that a ring of the phone messed the questioning of a witness. The lawyer had spent quite a while getting the person in the right position to get a case-making statement to be made when a juror's phone went off, giving the witness 45 seconds to prepare their answer.
There is an adapter for USB-in so you can download pictures from a camera straight to the iPad. You're comment is still valid since a very small number of iPad owners would buy it.
Not that I'm in favor of having these scanners everywhere, but we do have metal detectors in nearly every government building - even on the city level in many places.
And in schools.
If the x-ray scanners become the norm at airports, they will eventually replace all metal detectors. We've seen this at select court houses and jails already, but they will be at all court houses (including the jury entrance) and in schools. The people who support x-ray scanners and gropes need to understand that it won't stop at airports and that if we do nothing, their children or grandchildren will be walking through an x-ray scanner as they go to school to be viewed by a high school drop out who probably won't be sequestered from the students (and who may have the record button on).
EXACTLY!!! How is that American citizens can be treated with less regard than a captured member of the Taliban? How is it that a sexual assault is now necessary and endorsed in order to board a plane? And just try boarding a plane without the sexual assault and you're likely to be shot at, imprisoned, put on a no-fly list, and your life will be essentially ruined by the government, forever, all because you're trying to retain your rights and dignity.
It Soviet Russia and communist China, there isn't this kind of board-gate sexual-assault.
First metal detectors, then x-rays, then luggage searches, then shoe removal, then body scanners, then pat downs, then "enhanced" pat downs (are those anything like enhanced interrogation techniques?)
Nitpick: they used to do pat downs and luggage searches before metal detectors and x-rays were standard practice. This is ancient before most./ers (including myself) were born. I've seen the luggage searches in old movies, but I'm sure they didn't go through the bags like they do today (back then they were looking for big pieces of C4, today they are looking for C4, toothpaste, a PS3...).
This has been pointed out by others in the post, but I'll say it here. Talk to the Israelis. While one (small) piece of their security system includes profiling, they don't make assumptions and have an excellent safety record over several decades.
The history of sudden plane accidents over densely populated areas does not have a high people-on-the-ground death rate. At least, not on the level that you're trying to imagine up.
Also, "taking a wing off..."? What is this, the Twilight Zone except that it's a terrorist instead of a gremlin?
Obligatory XKCD. I'd do it if it were available over the counter. I'm not willing to go through faking to get an Rx or get it from questionable sources.
There were other ideas I saw, including kilts without anything underneath. I'm sure there are other ways you can take out out on the TSA officer, but regretfully that won't change policies that come from the top.
How do you shoplift $75,000 and not have it be armed robbery? Walk out of costco with a pallet of 65" TVs? I'd like to see you not get mugged in the parking lot.
To a certain extent; I'd extend the top school list down more, though. Like Vanderbilt is first-rate, has a strong alum network and great academic reputation nationwide (no, I didn't go there). USC probably not worth the money, even if you want to be the next Spielberg. SMU is way too expensive unless you're staying in Dallas and need to rely on the alumni network.
I would not lump University of Phoenix together with even obscure state schools. I would always take the state school over UoP.
To add to the parent's point, there are tiers. There is the top tier populated with the Harvards and MITs. There is the second tier populated with good schools (both public and private). Going to one of these will look good on a resume but shouldn't make any recruiter drool. The third tier is populated with the safety schools of students who went to the first and second; you can still get a good education but it's not going to jump out on a resume. Fourth tier would have trade schools like University of Phoenix.
Disclaimer: I literally put these definitions together on the spot. Feel free to critique them but understand they are underdeveloped definitions.
I wish you had told my church's finance committee this before they looked into buying a 15ft tall caveman cartoon to advertise tithing. Thankfully they balked at the quote, but they printed tons of fliers and some 6ft standups.:(
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
Somehow, I suspect that the number of small business owners among this group of ~1700 odd households is a tiny fraction of the overall.
-1 Misinformation for mis-reading the table you linked.
The table says "Households (thousands)". 1.7 million households making over 250k makes a lot more sense to me than 1,700 households (there are more VPs, chief officers, and presidents than this).
Most teaching faculty have day jobs — and in fact are hired because they have day jobs — and teach at the university for a nominal stipend
I would guess that they are working a 2nd job to make ends meet. Not for the "love" of teaching.
Indeed, if they really were doing it for the love of teaching, why would they do it at a for-profit university?
Probably due to entry barriers at a regular university. If I want to teach at a UC school (even as a lecturer), I have high entry barrier if I've been working in the industry rather than teaching or doing research. However, someone motivated enough in popular field with a masters would probably have a comparably easy time moonlighting as a teacher at Pheonix.
(I say this as someone who is actually considering such simply because I want to teach the noobs to be great at what they do; the pay is secondary).
I second this. I feel like FFXIII did what FFXII tried to do with the gambits (which ended up not being enjoyable for me). In a battle I can focus on strategy instead of tactics. I'm curious to see what they take from FFXIII when they do FFXV.
You misunderstand: I'm not saying savings is bad (it's a very good thing). I'm making a rebuttal to your argument that savings drives the economy as much as consumption. I agree that consumption isn't the only thing that matters. Most notably, you're equating savings with investment. They are different (the simplest example being the mattress vs the savings account).
Even investments aren't created equal. Investing in a CD or other bank savings account gives the bank the choice to lend or not (in 2008, they chose not to because their books were in bad shape). This is where most (but not all) funding for capital expenses come from (such as your factory example).
Investing in the stock market (usually) only directly gives money to other investors; not the businesses themselves. There is exception to this, such as when a business is selling stock to raise capital. Today, so many businesses are buying back stock that you could actually be hurting them by buying their stock (price goes up and they pay more per share).
The single best investment for helping the economy is investing in the small business, but carries the risk that 9 out of 10 new small businesses fail (I think it's within a year).
Yes or no, is this a satisfactory rebuttal to "saving drives the economy just as much as consuming"?
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I don't see why the DoD can't contract Texas Instruments to make them a custom Android phone entirely in the US.
Because even the DoD can't afford a seventy-thousand-dollar-each cellular phone with every component made in the USA.
Heck, considering that you'd have to open new fabs for some of the parts, it'd probably run more like $170,000 each.
Even with the defense contractor mark-up, 170k is not how much it would cost to make an iPhone or Android in the US. Well, unless the plants were run like a unionized auto-plant...
The fastest part of this trip is done at the highest air pressure.
Launch from the top of Mt. Everest. Problem solved. :-)
Unless it's on a specific component, such as the propeller or engine.
Yes.
I own several apartment buildings. If something happens, I have to take care of it ASAP.
That thing rings during a trial you will have plenty of time cooling your heels in jail (without a phone) for contempt of court.
You do NOT use a phone when on Jury duty.
The last time I went to jury duty, a judge spoke saying that a ring of the phone messed the questioning of a witness. The lawyer had spent quite a while getting the person in the right position to get a case-making statement to be made when a juror's phone went off, giving the witness 45 seconds to prepare their answer.
Oh come on, it's interesting because the summary submitter says so. It's like reading a blog!
Or a tweet.
Then how do you go around and buy a computer from Best Buy? With a money order? Cash? Pennies?
There is an adapter for USB-in so you can download pictures from a camera straight to the iPad. You're comment is still valid since a very small number of iPad owners would buy it.
Not that I'm in favor of having these scanners everywhere, but we do have metal detectors in nearly every government building - even on the city level in many places.
And in schools.
If the x-ray scanners become the norm at airports, they will eventually replace all metal detectors. We've seen this at select court houses and jails already, but they will be at all court houses (including the jury entrance) and in schools. The people who support x-ray scanners and gropes need to understand that it won't stop at airports and that if we do nothing, their children or grandchildren will be walking through an x-ray scanner as they go to school to be viewed by a high school drop out who probably won't be sequestered from the students (and who may have the record button on).
EXACTLY!!! How is that American citizens can be treated with less regard than a captured member of the Taliban? How is it that a sexual assault is now necessary and endorsed in order to board a plane? And just try boarding a plane without the sexual assault and you're likely to be shot at, imprisoned, put on a no-fly list, and your life will be essentially ruined by the government, forever, all because you're trying to retain your rights and dignity.
It Soviet Russia and communist China, there isn't this kind of board-gate sexual-assault.
Wow, a freedom that they have that we don't.
First metal detectors, then x-rays, then luggage searches, then shoe removal, then body scanners, then pat downs, then "enhanced" pat downs (are those anything like enhanced interrogation techniques?)
Nitpick: they used to do pat downs and luggage searches before metal detectors and x-rays were standard practice. This is ancient before most ./ers (including myself) were born. I've seen the luggage searches in old movies, but I'm sure they didn't go through the bags like they do today (back then they were looking for big pieces of C4, today they are looking for C4, toothpaste, a PS3...).
This has been pointed out by others in the post, but I'll say it here. Talk to the Israelis. While one (small) piece of their security system includes profiling, they don't make assumptions and have an excellent safety record over several decades.
The history of sudden plane accidents over densely populated areas does not have a high people-on-the-ground death rate. At least, not on the level that you're trying to imagine up.
Also, "taking a wing off..."? What is this, the Twilight Zone except that it's a terrorist instead of a gremlin?
Obligatory XKCD. I'd do it if it were available over the counter. I'm not willing to go through faking to get an Rx or get it from questionable sources.
There were other ideas I saw, including kilts without anything underneath. I'm sure there are other ways you can take out out on the TSA officer, but regretfully that won't change policies that come from the top.
... my lady friend ...
... with a 50 year old Hawaiian wife ...
I think the real question is: why were you traveling to your wife's home state with your mistress? :-)
shoplift 75 thousand or more, get second degree
How do you shoplift $75,000 and not have it be armed robbery? Walk out of costco with a pallet of 65" TVs? I'd like to see you not get mugged in the parking lot.
To a certain extent; I'd extend the top school list down more, though. Like Vanderbilt is first-rate, has a strong alum network and great academic reputation nationwide (no, I didn't go there). USC probably not worth the money, even if you want to be the next Spielberg. SMU is way too expensive unless you're staying in Dallas and need to rely on the alumni network. I would not lump University of Phoenix together with even obscure state schools. I would always take the state school over UoP.
To add to the parent's point, there are tiers. There is the top tier populated with the Harvards and MITs. There is the second tier populated with good schools (both public and private). Going to one of these will look good on a resume but shouldn't make any recruiter drool. The third tier is populated with the safety schools of students who went to the first and second; you can still get a good education but it's not going to jump out on a resume. Fourth tier would have trade schools like University of Phoenix.
Disclaimer: I literally put these definitions together on the spot. Feel free to critique them but understand they are underdeveloped definitions.
The real difference is a private company can fire their employees when they do wrong...
And can't get away with excessive screening as they are more vulnerable to lawsuits.
I wish you had told my church's finance committee this before they looked into buying a 15ft tall caveman cartoon to advertise tithing. Thankfully they balked at the quote, but they printed tons of fliers and some 6ft standups. :(
So easy, even a caveman could do it?
In response to your FYI, the top 5% is earners over $157K, and above 250K is a meager 1.57%. Thus that $700B will be distributed over a mere 1,699 households over the next 10 years.
Somehow, I suspect that the number of small business owners among this group of ~1700 odd households is a tiny fraction of the overall.
2005 census data : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
-1 Misinformation for mis-reading the table you linked.
The table says "Households (thousands)". 1.7 million households making over 250k makes a lot more sense to me than 1,700 households (there are more VPs, chief officers, and presidents than this).
that all works until someone needs 4 to mean AM sometimes and PM all the other time.
Defaulting the current year makes sense, until you have cards for December being entered in January (11 months difference), a common yearly adventure.
Did you miss the part that she would rather manually sort through the records than type two characters?
Your heart was in the right place, but failed when you fixed a pain the customer didn't mind by creating one they did.
+1 Informative. This was a fair and accurate assessment.
Most teaching faculty have day jobs — and in fact are hired because they have day jobs — and teach at the university for a nominal stipend
I would guess that they are working a 2nd job to make ends meet. Not for the "love" of teaching.
Indeed, if they really were doing it for the love of teaching, why would they do it at a for-profit university?
Probably due to entry barriers at a regular university. If I want to teach at a UC school (even as a lecturer), I have high entry barrier if I've been working in the industry rather than teaching or doing research. However, someone motivated enough in popular field with a masters would probably have a comparably easy time moonlighting as a teacher at Pheonix.
(I say this as someone who is actually considering such simply because I want to teach the noobs to be great at what they do; the pay is secondary).
I second this. I feel like FFXIII did what FFXII tried to do with the gambits (which ended up not being enjoyable for me). In a battle I can focus on strategy instead of tactics. I'm curious to see what they take from FFXIII when they do FFXV.
I think we both agree in the short run, consumption dominates. Can we agree that, in the long run, savings and investment matter at least as much?
Yes and yes. Long-term growth can't occur without investment.
You misunderstand: I'm not saying savings is bad (it's a very good thing). I'm making a rebuttal to your argument that savings drives the economy as much as consumption. I agree that consumption isn't the only thing that matters. Most notably, you're equating savings with investment. They are different (the simplest example being the mattress vs the savings account).
Even investments aren't created equal. Investing in a CD or other bank savings account gives the bank the choice to lend or not (in 2008, they chose not to because their books were in bad shape). This is where most (but not all) funding for capital expenses come from (such as your factory example).
Investing in the stock market (usually) only directly gives money to other investors; not the businesses themselves. There is exception to this, such as when a business is selling stock to raise capital. Today, so many businesses are buying back stock that you could actually be hurting them by buying their stock (price goes up and they pay more per share).
The single best investment for helping the economy is investing in the small business, but carries the risk that 9 out of 10 new small businesses fail (I think it's within a year).
Yes or no, is this a satisfactory rebuttal to "saving drives the economy just as much as consuming"?