This assumption is widely accepted, but, if its roots are understood, it can be effectively challenged. Recently, however, a growing body of plant designers, utility companies, government agencies, and financial players are recognizing that smaller plants can take advantage of greater opportunities to apply lessons learned, take advantage of the engineering and tooling savings possible with higher numbers of units, and better meet customer needs in terms of capacity additions and financing.
The word-to-comma ratio is a little on the high side. (I'm not an English major)
Change the perception, make it cool to be a CS/IT person. THEN you will have your "cyberwarriors" that are on par with the Russian/Chinese blackhats. Otherwise, the CS students will be taking their CS degree into law or business school.
There is a definitely a perception fix needed, but we need more. If we want to build up cyberwarriors, we need to reduce our exporting of jobs (offshoring), experience (H1B), and knowledge (foreign students). I'm not saying stop, but keep it in check.
Second, we know how to train a soldier or a spy but we don't know how to train a cyber warrior. If we haven't had the equivalent of the OSS yet, we need it now. Also, what would be the incentive? People still join the military when they run out of employment options (I know one), but most (if not all) good candidates will be making 6 figures in the private sector. We would need the best, not the can't-make-it-in-industry types. The government would probably need to spend the kind of cash they waste on defense contractors building weapons to fight an imaginary war with Russia.
Ages ago when I was in mainland China, every day our tour guides would takes us to at least one or two "friendship" stores geared towards tourists. Late in our trip when we were buying some bigger ticket items, we shopped without the guides so we could negotiate a better deal.
Apple has and always will be a company that prioritizes looks and simplicity over function. It's the same reason their products have almost no user options. They are too complicated. They force you to use the product the way they want you to.
During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage.
RIM's market are business people and others who really use their phone for calling, email, and other communications. They bought it to do a function.
People bought the iPhone because it was Apple and they wanted to have a stylish phone. They wanted to look marvelous.
If it wasn't the case, then why did the iPhone sell like hot cakes in markets where AT&T was known to have shitty service? Consumer Reports have been tracking that for years.
Having used both, I'll have to say that I like having an easy to use phone. The Blackberry that I use for work is crap in this department. An iPhone is more functional for non-work use (video, games, pictures).
I'm not saying that there are people who bought it to be stylish, but you're over-simplifying things.
3) High tax rate, say taxing the corporations for 120% of the difference between US cost of labor and offshored cost of labor. Consumers will pay more in the US, but get some new jobs, and are worse off unless they would be unemployed otherwise. The government earns very little in taxes and is barely better off. The corporations sell fewer products due to higher cost, and are much worse off.
You're analysis is impressive, but is missing one point in scenario 3. While cost of goods are higher, domestic demand is raised due to more jobs and a higher median income. Neglecting domestic jobs has reduced demand (less money to shop with), which has been offset by cheaper goods.
Nope. Even Apple has had problems with bad power supply caps--on the G5 towers and possibly others (iMac G4?). All computer manufacturers have had batches of faulty machines from time to time
And, BTW, lest you think I'm an Apple basher, I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro.
I liked back when the iMacs were new that the special ones came with no fans and would over-heat.
(I'm not on a MacBook Pro, but I'm not an Apple basher either).
Now you're assuming Apple cares about any product more than 2 years old. After all, they just cut support for first generation iPhones and iTouches, and those are just a hair over 2 years... I guess that's a better business model, though - planned obsolescence in 24 months.
A hair over 2 years? The first iPhone model itself is 3 years old. Combine that with the expected life-span of a mobile phone to be 2 years (subsidized phone every 2 years), they aren't doing anything outside of the norm.
including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun
Right. People operating as telemarketers. Should they be strung up along with the big fish? I don't know. Often times it's the only "job" people can get that isn't in the restaurant business. I mean should the cook at McDonalds be put in Jail because he knows he's poisoning civilians with fatty food and giving them diabetes? Should the Factory worker @ Intel be fined x amount of dollars if the CEO's collude and price fix the processors?
You cover this pretty well. There is a quote that sums it up pretty well:
"These are tough times. If a man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is."
I know it has applied to me personally, although I haven't done telemarketing (instead, a job promoting products I don't completely agree with). Would someone pick working as a telemarketer over starving? Welfare? The real problem is people who chose to create a shady telemarketing business rather than a more constructive business.
Please don't try to tell me that a first person shooter is in any way "overuse of the brain". Even with a game like Starcraft for experrienced gamers many of the details are now muscle memory and rote repetition of patterns.
Even the very idea of "brain overuse" causing mental problems makes me shudder... what has happened to our society!?
Besides, a baseball pitcher, football quarterback, hockey goalie, auto racer, etc, require just as much (or more) focus, attention, and often strategy as most video games...
I know that after work, playing Empire Total War for extended sessions was too much. I recently found playing FFXIII to be nice candy for the brain. It's not too thought-intensive, I'm still playing a game and I'm still having fun even if I'm not working all that hard at it.
What is the solution? Having smart, well-informed people make the important, big decisions. How do we make that happen?
Do like Singapore and pay them enough that it attracts the best and the brightest and not the ones willing to take a lower day-job salary in exchange for power and corruption.
And, given the choice between "unimpressive performance" and "living to see your children grow up," it's amazing people continue to be so shortsighted. Investment in vehicle safety could save far more lives than the war on terror.
Lifetime chance of dying in a car accident: 1 in 83
Lifetime chance of dying of terrorist acts: 1 in 45,000
Lifetime chance of dying of a lightning strike: 1 in 80,000
my check card (debit card that allows you to run it as a credit card anyplace that accepts mastercard, but takes the money from your account with 0% interest owed instead of racking up money you owe to faceless megacorp with 18% interest) has the exact same protections as a credit card.
I'm not sure where all these debit card stories come from. assuming that they are not urban legends, then perhaps people need to find a better bank.
You may have these kinds of protections. However, since it's tied to your bank account you are immediately missing the $2,000 you need for your mortgage payment. Some banks take days or longer to credit your account as a result of fraud. With a credit card, there is a buffer between your bank account and the card.
Also, your comment about 18% interest only applies if you don't pay your bill off every month. If you are restrained, credit cards insulate your checking account plus give you points for flights or gift cards. If you aren't restrained, you'll get screwed over more by a debit card with overdraft fees.
Or, you know, a practical vehicle for moving cargo or tools from place to place and/or getting through adverse conditions including snow and undeveloped terrain. Granted, many people go too far and get a 1-ton truck with dual rear wheels and a heavy-duty diesel engine and matching transmission and then never one pull a trailer or haul a load, but they are the minority of pickup owners. Most people with that mindset just end up with a Hummer H1 or Corvette.
Except in Southern California. And according to another poster, Houston.
I especially like the ones that raised the body way up, but still have the suspension / drive train at the original height.
Not to mention that the ignition cycle is the most demanding thing on a car's engine. This system would wear out your engine one hell of a lot faster. I expect all automakers to be in favor of implementing this system because you'll have to buy a new car every few years.
While you raise good points, I will say that on engines designed to be stopped / started frequently it's not as big of an issue (as is the case with hybrids). However, these cars already shut off on their own. Cars that don't can and will have more issues.
A bigger issue is how many cars might not start up in a timely manor. Or if one had been jumped recently and is low on battery power. Long story short, the idea might be well intended but it's not the best execution.
Roosevelt's son should have run against FDR. We might not had 20 years of economic hell.
Does anyone realize that FDR ran against the "socialistic" Irish in NY, then completed a 180 after the election? He took all of those "socialistic" ideals that he abhorred.
Riiiight, because Hoover had nothing to do with making the great depression worse. FDR wasn't president until 4 years into the depression and 4 of those years people were more concerned with Jerry and the Japanese than what the stock market was doing.
It's like blaming Obama for the melt down and initial bailout: both occurred under Bush's term and TARP was signed by Bush (plus, there's always the question of how much a president's policies affect economics).
On a separate note, I've been shown how to make a normal sheet of printer paper into a deadly weapon. In this case, it's death from a single paper cut.
In order to motivate his men to fight the Aztecs Hernando Cortes burned his ships. History is as much about the right leadership as it is purely logistical concerns.
Conquistadors had a much better opportunity to live off the land than a WWII army that requires fuel for tanks, shells for artillery, lots of ammo for guns, food for soldiers, and effectively no animals to hunt for food. 500 men vs 500,000 (minimum).
When Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach, he wasn't just blowing smoke.
If a German invasion force could rapidly advance off a beach head such that British naval intervention would be mitigated in immediate importance (essentially give the beach back for a period of time, decisively create a pocket supplied and supported by air focused on expanding to critical resource/transit hubs) there might have been a chance.
I don't think you realize how hard / near impossible it is to supply an army (let alone an advancing army) by air. Add to that the fact that they are cut off with a navy in the channel. And that Britain still contests air supremacy. And how hard it is to recapture what has been lost.
Losing control of the channel and control of the beach head would be the start of the end of the battle. And without control of the channel, there is no option to "Dunkirk".
I didn't chose the best word; gentleman's club would have been a better choice (although I bet the rules for patrons is more strict at American night clubs compared to other party-focused destinations).
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This assumption is widely accepted, but, if its roots are understood, it can be effectively challenged. Recently, however, a growing body of plant designers, utility companies, government agencies, and financial players are recognizing that smaller plants can take advantage of greater opportunities to apply lessons learned, take advantage of the engineering and tooling savings possible with higher numbers of units, and better meet customer needs in terms of capacity additions and financing.
The word-to-comma ratio is a little on the high side. (I'm not an English major)
Change the perception, make it cool to be a CS/IT person. THEN you will have your "cyberwarriors" that are on par with the Russian/Chinese blackhats. Otherwise, the CS students will be taking their CS degree into law or business school.
There is a definitely a perception fix needed, but we need more. If we want to build up cyberwarriors, we need to reduce our exporting of jobs (offshoring), experience (H1B), and knowledge (foreign students). I'm not saying stop, but keep it in check.
Second, we know how to train a soldier or a spy but we don't know how to train a cyber warrior. If we haven't had the equivalent of the OSS yet, we need it now. Also, what would be the incentive? People still join the military when they run out of employment options (I know one), but most (if not all) good candidates will be making 6 figures in the private sector. We would need the best, not the can't-make-it-in-industry types. The government would probably need to spend the kind of cash they waste on defense contractors building weapons to fight an imaginary war with Russia.
Thoughts?
Ages ago when I was in mainland China, every day our tour guides would takes us to at least one or two "friendship" stores geared towards tourists. Late in our trip when we were buying some bigger ticket items, we shopped without the guides so we could negotiate a better deal.
Apple has and always will be a company that prioritizes looks and simplicity over function. It's the same reason their products have almost no user options. They are too complicated. They force you to use the product the way they want you to.
+1 Excellent use of bold.
During that time, RIM has avoided designs like the one Apple used in the iPhone 4 and instead has used innovative designs which reduce the risk for dropped calls, especially in areas of lower coverage.
RIM's market are business people and others who really use their phone for calling, email, and other communications. They bought it to do a function.
People bought the iPhone because it was Apple and they wanted to have a stylish phone. They wanted to look marvelous.
If it wasn't the case, then why did the iPhone sell like hot cakes in markets where AT&T was known to have shitty service? Consumer Reports have been tracking that for years.
Having used both, I'll have to say that I like having an easy to use phone. The Blackberry that I use for work is crap in this department. An iPhone is more functional for non-work use (video, games, pictures).
I'm not saying that there are people who bought it to be stylish, but you're over-simplifying things.
i like scp better than sftp for what it's worth.
That's interesting... because they're the same. You might have meant to say "ftps".
3) High tax rate, say taxing the corporations for 120% of the difference between US cost of labor and offshored cost of labor. Consumers will pay more in the US, but get some new jobs, and are worse off unless they would be unemployed otherwise. The government earns very little in taxes and is barely better off. The corporations sell fewer products due to higher cost, and are much worse off.
You're analysis is impressive, but is missing one point in scenario 3. While cost of goods are higher, domestic demand is raised due to more jobs and a higher median income. Neglecting domestic jobs has reduced demand (less money to shop with), which has been offset by cheaper goods.
I'm moving to Sweden and starting the Hooker Party. The party supporters will still get screwed, but not in the way usually associated with politics.
Umm, dude, prostitution is legal in many European countries. Why go through all the work of starting a party when you could just start a "party".
Apple?
Nope. Even Apple has had problems with bad power supply caps--on the G5 towers and possibly others (iMac G4?). All computer manufacturers have had batches of faulty machines from time to time
And, BTW, lest you think I'm an Apple basher, I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro.
I liked back when the iMacs were new that the special ones came with no fans and would over-heat.
(I'm not on a MacBook Pro, but I'm not an Apple basher either).
Now you're assuming Apple cares about any product more than 2 years old. After all, they just cut support for first generation iPhones and iTouches, and those are just a hair over 2 years... I guess that's a better business model, though - planned obsolescence in 24 months.
A hair over 2 years? The first iPhone model itself is 3 years old. Combine that with the expected life-span of a mobile phone to be 2 years (subsidized phone every 2 years), they aren't doing anything outside of the norm.
including a Steyr AUG, a Tommygun, an AK-47, a belt-fed M429 PARA, an Arctic Warfare sniper rifle, a Glock 17, a pair of semi-automatic TEC-9s, a SPAS 12 pump-action shotgun
So... I take it he plays counter strike.
Right. People operating as telemarketers. Should they be strung up along with the big fish? I don't know. Often times it's the only "job" people can get that isn't in the restaurant business. I mean should the cook at McDonalds be put in Jail because he knows he's poisoning civilians with fatty food and giving them diabetes? Should the Factory worker @ Intel be fined x amount of dollars if the CEO's collude and price fix the processors?
You cover this pretty well. There is a quote that sums it up pretty well:
"These are tough times. If a man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is."
I know it has applied to me personally, although I haven't done telemarketing (instead, a job promoting products I don't completely agree with). Would someone pick working as a telemarketer over starving? Welfare? The real problem is people who chose to create a shady telemarketing business rather than a more constructive business.
(dm^3)/(100*km) is fine, but I prefer to simplify by measuring gas consumption in square meters.
That might work for you, but I prefer simply measuring gas consumption by bankruptcies per vehicle.
Please don't try to tell me that a first person shooter is in any way "overuse of the brain". Even with a game like Starcraft for experrienced gamers many of the details are now muscle memory and rote repetition of patterns.
Even the very idea of "brain overuse" causing mental problems makes me shudder... what has happened to our society!?
Besides, a baseball pitcher, football quarterback, hockey goalie, auto racer, etc, require just as much (or more) focus, attention, and often strategy as most video games...
I know that after work, playing Empire Total War for extended sessions was too much. I recently found playing FFXIII to be nice candy for the brain. It's not too thought-intensive, I'm still playing a game and I'm still having fun even if I'm not working all that hard at it.
What is the solution? Having smart, well-informed people make the important, big decisions. How do we make that happen?
Do like Singapore and pay them enough that it attracts the best and the brightest and not the ones willing to take a lower day-job salary in exchange for power and corruption.
And, given the choice between "unimpressive performance" and "living to see your children grow up," it's amazing people continue to be so shortsighted. Investment in vehicle safety could save far more lives than the war on terror.
Lifetime chance of dying in a car accident: 1 in 83 Lifetime chance of dying of terrorist acts: 1 in 45,000 Lifetime chance of dying of a lightning strike: 1 in 80,000
http://reason.com/archives/2006/08/11/dont-be-terrorized
This is a point I've been trying to make (but I didn't have the specific statistics to back it up).
my check card (debit card that allows you to run it as a credit card anyplace that accepts mastercard, but takes the money from your account with 0% interest owed instead of racking up money you owe to faceless megacorp with 18% interest) has the exact same protections as a credit card.
I'm not sure where all these debit card stories come from. assuming that they are not urban legends, then perhaps people need to find a better bank.
You may have these kinds of protections. However, since it's tied to your bank account you are immediately missing the $2,000 you need for your mortgage payment. Some banks take days or longer to credit your account as a result of fraud. With a credit card, there is a buffer between your bank account and the card.
Also, your comment about 18% interest only applies if you don't pay your bill off every month. If you are restrained, credit cards insulate your checking account plus give you points for flights or gift cards. If you aren't restrained, you'll get screwed over more by a debit card with overdraft fees.
Or, you know, a practical vehicle for moving cargo or tools from place to place and/or getting through adverse conditions including snow and undeveloped terrain. Granted, many people go too far and get a 1-ton truck with dual rear wheels and a heavy-duty diesel engine and matching transmission and then never one pull a trailer or haul a load, but they are the minority of pickup owners. Most people with that mindset just end up with a Hummer H1 or Corvette.
Except in Southern California. And according to another poster, Houston.
I especially like the ones that raised the body way up, but still have the suspension / drive train at the original height.
Not to mention that the ignition cycle is the most demanding thing on a car's engine. This system would wear out your engine one hell of a lot faster. I expect all automakers to be in favor of implementing this system because you'll have to buy a new car every few years.
While you raise good points, I will say that on engines designed to be stopped / started frequently it's not as big of an issue (as is the case with hybrids). However, these cars already shut off on their own. Cars that don't can and will have more issues.
A bigger issue is how many cars might not start up in a timely manor. Or if one had been jumped recently and is low on battery power. Long story short, the idea might be well intended but it's not the best execution.
Roosevelt's son should have run against FDR. We might not had 20 years of economic hell. Does anyone realize that FDR ran against the "socialistic" Irish in NY, then completed a 180 after the election? He took all of those "socialistic" ideals that he abhorred.
Riiiight, because Hoover had nothing to do with making the great depression worse. FDR wasn't president until 4 years into the depression and 4 of those years people were more concerned with Jerry and the Japanese than what the stock market was doing.
It's like blaming Obama for the melt down and initial bailout: both occurred under Bush's term and TARP was signed by Bush (plus, there's always the question of how much a president's policies affect economics).
A pen and pencil are also very effective weapons.
The pen is mightier than the... oh forget it.
On a separate note, I've been shown how to make a normal sheet of printer paper into a deadly weapon. In this case, it's death from a single paper cut.
If you want to see what happens when an assaulting WWII army is cut off and is resupplied by air only, see Stalingrad.
In order to motivate his men to fight the Aztecs Hernando Cortes burned his ships. History is as much about the right leadership as it is purely logistical concerns.
Conquistadors had a much better opportunity to live off the land than a WWII army that requires fuel for tanks, shells for artillery, lots of ammo for guns, food for soldiers, and effectively no animals to hunt for food. 500 men vs 500,000 (minimum).
When Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach, he wasn't just blowing smoke.
If a German invasion force could rapidly advance off a beach head such that British naval intervention would be mitigated in immediate importance (essentially give the beach back for a period of time, decisively create a pocket supplied and supported by air focused on expanding to critical resource/transit hubs) there might have been a chance.
I don't think you realize how hard / near impossible it is to supply an army (let alone an advancing army) by air. Add to that the fact that they are cut off with a navy in the channel. And that Britain still contests air supremacy. And how hard it is to recapture what has been lost.
Losing control of the channel and control of the beach head would be the start of the end of the battle. And without control of the channel, there is no option to "Dunkirk".
nightclub restrictions
Sorry, offtopic, but nightclub restrictions?!?
I didn't chose the best word; gentleman's club would have been a better choice (although I bet the rules for patrons is more strict at American night clubs compared to other party-focused destinations).