Well, the sample size is small, but it really depends on how they were selected. Of course, the item of most concern is that it's not a peer-reviewed study published in a reputable journal, it's just a "survey".
"Imagine being a bully taking a nice swing at your gut, when his hand his stopped by space-age meteor
shielding!"
Well, I think that sending your child to school in bully-proof, shiny reflective crinkly coating will just invite bullies to field test the stuff. Punches don't work? Lets try tables. Tables thrown at his head!!:D
I'd suggest that by stating that X is not an A, you assume that there exists an A to compare to. You could state that you're just talking about possible A items, and not actual A items, but that just serves to diminish the value of the argument.:)
Mod parent down. Decentralization is not happening in any industry, because it's inefficient. The most under-developed countries have highly decentralised systems of government, production, and control. Sure, it's nice to have solar panels on every home, and pretty good in a disaster, but that's all it's good for.
Put it this way, you can spend $X to get Y amount of power from decentralised generation, or you can spend $X and get multiples of Y from centralised generation. Centralised generation is easier to monitor, cheaper to maintain, and vastly more efficient.
It used to be "Don't put all your eggs in one basket". Then it became "Put all your eggs in one basket". But really, the best outcome is when we adopt "Put all the eggs in one basket, and watch it very carefully".:)
Maybe, or perhaps the custom arose out of a necessity to prevent the spread of infectious diseases (where they were the cause of death) or other harmful organisms that consume the body. Or maybe both are a factor. Perhaps dead bodies just smell bad:)
From TFA:"The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not."
Some companies PAY for a little link to their site to appear when there is a relevant Google search. These newspapers get indexed, and linked to, from a high traffic site, for FREE, and they are complaining. Instead of throwing lawyers at the problem, they should engage their brains for a moment and figure out which option is better for their business.
"Profit is the net earnings AFTER taxes are paid. Even before taxes, the company sees less than a 6% monetary gain on their investment; rather poor margins."
A mistake on my part - I only meant to restate the figure in $USD, not magically change it to profit. However, for someone so rude, you don't understand that profit takes several forms. You describe NET Profit After Tax. EBIT is of course, operating profit, which demonstrates the earning power of the company before the lawmakers take their share. In this sense, it's a better measure of the strength of the companies operations.
Plus, that doesn't show a 6% Return on investment, it's 6% Return on Revenue. I'm willing to bet that the ROI that the parent company is getting from the purchase of Random House is much better than 6%.
Contrary to what they say, I'm fairly certain that Random House can throw several million Euros at fact-checking, and still return a good profit. Or operating profit. Or Gross Profit. Whatever:)
Could someone tell this uninformed person what the hype is all about? So, we run out of IP addresses, so what? Seems like a market then exists where you could on-sell your IP addresses for $$$. Prices go up too high, market forces then result in IPv6 implementation. What's the problem?
"Does anyone have any percentage or statistical data illustrating the success to failure ratio of past Shuttle deployments to (say) Saturn rockets (or past similar systems)?"
No doubt a few minutes work with Google, and you'd have one. But something far more interesting would be say, ratio of engineers:management compared to Saturn and Shuttle. Or even engineers salaries:management salaries compared to accidents.
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Well, the sample size is small, but it really depends on how they were selected. Of course, the item of most concern is that it's not a peer-reviewed study published in a reputable journal, it's just a "survey".
"Imagine being a bully taking a nice swing at your gut, when his hand his stopped by space-age meteor shielding!"
:D
Well, I think that sending your child to school in bully-proof, shiny reflective crinkly coating will just invite bullies to field test the stuff. Punches don't work? Lets try tables. Tables thrown at his head!!
I'd suggest that by stating that X is not an A, you assume that there exists an A to compare to. You could state that you're just talking about possible A items, and not actual A items, but that just serves to diminish the value of the argument. :)
"The only reason barcodes weren't the mark is because they can't mark humans"
I can tattoo myself with a barcode, does that count?
Fallacy: You have assumed that there -is- an invention corresponding to a "mark". :)
Mod parent down. Decentralization is not happening in any industry, because it's inefficient. The most under-developed countries have highly decentralised systems of government, production, and control. Sure, it's nice to have solar panels on every home, and pretty good in a disaster, but that's all it's good for.
:)
Put it this way, you can spend $X to get Y amount of power from decentralised generation, or you can spend $X and get multiples of Y from centralised generation. Centralised generation is easier to monitor, cheaper to maintain, and vastly more efficient.
It used to be "Don't put all your eggs in one basket". Then it became "Put all your eggs in one basket". But really, the best outcome is when we adopt "Put all the eggs in one basket, and watch it very carefully".
Maybe, or perhaps the custom arose out of a necessity to prevent the spread of infectious diseases (where they were the cause of death) or other harmful organisms that consume the body. Or maybe both are a factor. Perhaps dead bodies just smell bad :)
"I call dibs on using Toxoplasma as a name for my rock band."
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Some Germans beat you to it by about 20 years. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artis
From TFA:"The news aggregators are taking headlines, photos, sometimes the first three lines of an article -- it's for the courts to decide whether that's a copyright violation or not."
Some companies PAY for a little link to their site to appear when there is a relevant Google search. These newspapers get indexed, and linked to, from a high traffic site, for FREE, and they are complaining. Instead of throwing lawyers at the problem, they should engage their brains for a moment and figure out which option is better for their business.
"Profit is the net earnings AFTER taxes are paid. Even before taxes, the company sees less than a 6% monetary gain on their investment; rather poor margins."
:)
A mistake on my part - I only meant to restate the figure in $USD, not magically change it to profit. However, for someone so rude, you don't understand that profit takes several forms. You describe NET Profit After Tax. EBIT is of course, operating profit, which demonstrates the earning power of the company before the lawmakers take their share. In this sense, it's a better measure of the strength of the companies operations.
Plus, that doesn't show a 6% Return on investment, it's 6% Return on Revenue. I'm willing to bet that the ROI that the parent company is getting from the purchase of Random House is much better than 6%.
Contrary to what they say, I'm fairly certain that Random House can throw several million Euros at fact-checking, and still return a good profit. Or operating profit. Or Gross Profit. Whatever
"the profit-margins in publishing don't allow for hiring fact-checkers"
/ customers/bmcorp/pdf/Interim_Report_2005_.pdf
Lies! For those that didn't read TFA, Random House is owned by Bertelsmann AG. In 2005, the Random House division posted (EBIT) Earnings Before Interest and Taxes of 48 million Euros on revenues of 818 million Euros. So about USD$58 million in profit. http://www.bertelsmann.de/bertelsmann_corp/wms41/
Could someone tell this uninformed person what the hype is all about? So, we run out of IP addresses, so what? Seems like a market then exists where you could on-sell your IP addresses for $$$. Prices go up too high, market forces then result in IPv6 implementation. What's the problem?
Good one, but someone beat you to it.u .shuttle.fix.ap/
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/11/25/sprj.col
"Does anyone have any percentage or statistical data illustrating the success to failure ratio of past Shuttle deployments to (say) Saturn rockets (or past similar systems)?" No doubt a few minutes work with Google, and you'd have one. But something far more interesting would be say, ratio of engineers:management compared to Saturn and Shuttle. Or even engineers salaries:management salaries compared to accidents.