I can't understand why the tin foil hat people think vaccines are a scam to make insane amounts of cash by the pharmaceuticals industry.
The reality is the last thing the industry wants is a cure for a disease. What they want is a drug that treats without curing, and has to be taken indefinitely. Something like Prozac, statin drugs, Viagra - that's where the money is.
You're right that 3G coverage and radio selection out in the middle of nowhere sucks. And there is a market for people who're willing to pay for Sirius/XM because of that.
The problem is this market isn't big enough to pay Sirius/XM's costs. That's why they've never made a profit, and likely never will. And with the credit situation the way it is today, the life expectancy for companies that constantly lose money is not very long.
I remember during the 2000 election fiasco, I was watching some news call in show. A woman said that Gore had an unfair advantage, because he was a career politician and probably knew about this electoral college stuff, while she was sure Bush didn't. She apparently had never heard of it.
It doesn't hurt to remind people of the bizarre way that the US Presidential election works.
Debt is the accumulated deficit - it's the total amount we owe. Deficit is how much we added to the debt this year. If we could magically balance the budget this year, we'd still owe $10 trillion, we just wouldn't be adding more to it.
This distinction is important. When Bush took office in 2001, we had a $5 trillion debt, but were running a slight surplus. He talked like the government was taking in money and had nothing good to do with it. If you weren't paying close attention, it sounded like the $5 trillion debt had been eliminated, just because we weren't running a deficit that year. So he was able to pass massive tax cuts and spending increases, and now we've doubled the national debt.
Maybe that's the reason self-identified elected officials did so badly - they were probably overwhelmingly Republican.
Anyway, I interesting:
"Forty percent of respondents, meanwhile, incorrectly believed that the US president has the power to declare war, while 54 percent correctly answered that that power rests with Congress"
Could it be that people were responding to what has really happened over the last couple decades instead of what the Constitution says should happen? Quick question - when was the last time the US officially declared war - following the Constitution?
Or why OLED would require something other than Blu-Ray. OLED sounds like an alternative to Plasma or LCD for the screen, but doesn't explain why I'd need a different DVD format for that.
Most hydrogen today is actually produced from natural gas, which releases carbon. Using electricity is too costly.
Also, it takes a lot of energy to compress the hydrogen enough that you can store a decent amount. Not sure where that energy comes from.
It seems that the ultimate in business today is to hide the actual cost of a product from the consumer until after they've committed to but it. That greatly increases what they can charge.
One example is concert tickets. If Livenation advertises a concert ticket for $25, what do you end up pay? It's anybody's guess after all the "fees" they tack on - "parking fees", "facility charges", "convenience fees", etc. If you can find a Livenation event where they advertise the price as $25 and you can actually buy that ticket for less than $40 I'd be shocked.
Airlines are now getting into the game buy selling tickets, then adding hidden fees for checking bags. I'm sure there will be lots more extra charges after you've committed to buying the ticket.
I've been to Central America, and internet cafes are everywhere, and they're usually packed. Many people don't have a phone, but they do have a hotmail, gmail, or yahoo email account.
They could save massively on the weight issues for sending astronauts into space, if they would start using jockeys. I couldn't help noticing how tiny those guys are while watching the Belmont Stakes yesterday.
I'm thinking they would eat a lot less, require less water and oxygen. The would all help to get the launch costs down.
I find it sad that those of religious pursuasion are prepared to make definitive statements without the facts to back them up. I thought that was the whole point of religion
Ever read the old testament? Especially the parts about the conquest of the promised land. I lost track of how many races of people were exterminated because God said so.
I live in an area of the country (the south) where part of the culture is parking your truck in the yard and having a few appliances on the front porch or the yard. But lately we've had a bunch on Yankees move in and start creating HOAs in the new neighborhood, trying to destroy our local culture. Everything has to be painted beige and the HOAs have mailbox police to make sure every mailbox looks exactly the same.
The original plan for sending a man to the moon assumed that one ship would lift off from earth, land on the moon, then take off and return to earth. The required size for the rocket at liftoff from earth was staggering - many times larger than the Saturn V. The paper you're talking about was probably assuming the same thing.
Then someone at NASA came up with the concept of having a small lander that would seperate from the main craft, then later dock with the craft in lunar orbit. At the time, the idea of getting two spacecraft to dock in orbit seemed way too difficult. But they finally decided that was the only way it could be done. One of the main reasons for the Gemini program was to learn how to get spacecraft to dock in orbit
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Unfortunately, most people don't have the time to go through medical school.
I can't understand why the tin foil hat people think vaccines are a scam to make insane amounts of cash by the pharmaceuticals industry.
The reality is the last thing the industry wants is a cure for a disease. What they want is a drug that treats without curing, and has to be taken indefinitely. Something like Prozac, statin drugs, Viagra - that's where the money is.
You're right that 3G coverage and radio selection out in the middle of nowhere sucks. And there is a market for people who're willing to pay for Sirius/XM because of that.
The problem is this market isn't big enough to pay Sirius/XM's costs. That's why they've never made a profit, and likely never will. And with the credit situation the way it is today, the life expectancy for companies that constantly lose money is not very long.
This site says solar has an EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested) of about 10, vs about 18 for nuclear
I remember during the 2000 election fiasco, I was watching some news call in show. A woman said that Gore had an unfair advantage, because he was a career politician and probably knew about this electoral college stuff, while she was sure Bush didn't. She apparently had never heard of it.
It doesn't hurt to remind people of the bizarre way that the US Presidential election works.
Debt is the accumulated deficit - it's the total amount we owe. Deficit is how much we added to the debt this year. If we could magically balance the budget this year, we'd still owe $10 trillion, we just wouldn't be adding more to it.
This distinction is important. When Bush took office in 2001, we had a $5 trillion debt, but were running a slight surplus. He talked like the government was taking in money and had nothing good to do with it. If you weren't paying close attention, it sounded like the $5 trillion debt had been eliminated, just because we weren't running a deficit that year. So he was able to pass massive tax cuts and spending increases, and now we've doubled the national debt.
Maybe that's the reason self-identified elected officials did so badly - they were probably overwhelmingly Republican. Anyway, I interesting: "Forty percent of respondents, meanwhile, incorrectly believed that the US president has the power to declare war, while 54 percent correctly answered that that power rests with Congress" Could it be that people were responding to what has really happened over the last couple decades instead of what the Constitution says should happen? Quick question - when was the last time the US officially declared war - following the Constitution?
Or why OLED would require something other than Blu-Ray. OLED sounds like an alternative to Plasma or LCD for the screen, but doesn't explain why I'd need a different DVD format for that.
Most hydrogen today is actually produced from natural gas, which releases carbon. Using electricity is too costly. Also, it takes a lot of energy to compress the hydrogen enough that you can store a decent amount. Not sure where that energy comes from.
It seems that the ultimate in business today is to hide the actual cost of a product from the consumer until after they've committed to but it. That greatly increases what they can charge. One example is concert tickets. If Livenation advertises a concert ticket for $25, what do you end up pay? It's anybody's guess after all the "fees" they tack on - "parking fees", "facility charges", "convenience fees", etc. If you can find a Livenation event where they advertise the price as $25 and you can actually buy that ticket for less than $40 I'd be shocked. Airlines are now getting into the game buy selling tickets, then adding hidden fees for checking bags. I'm sure there will be lots more extra charges after you've committed to buying the ticket.
I've been to Central America, and internet cafes are everywhere, and they're usually packed. Many people don't have a phone, but they do have a hotmail, gmail, or yahoo email account.
They could save massively on the weight issues for sending astronauts into space, if they would start using jockeys. I couldn't help noticing how tiny those guys are while watching the Belmont Stakes yesterday. I'm thinking they would eat a lot less, require less water and oxygen. The would all help to get the launch costs down.
Actually, it's much lower ground than Earth orbit - since you have to go back down into a gravity well.
Please quit injecting reality into our Sci-Fi fantasies.
Ever read the old testament? Especially the parts about the conquest of the promised land. I lost track of how many races of people were exterminated because God said so.
No, I think they're made in China
Fortunately the MSM hasn't completely missed this story
I live in an area of the country (the south) where part of the culture is parking your truck in the yard and having a few appliances on the front porch or the yard. But lately we've had a bunch on Yankees move in and start creating HOAs in the new neighborhood, trying to destroy our local culture. Everything has to be painted beige and the HOAs have mailbox police to make sure every mailbox looks exactly the same.
Most likely they decided to spend more money advertising their existing drugs - they've found that's a much better use of their money than R&D
The original plan for sending a man to the moon assumed that one ship would lift off from earth, land on the moon, then take off and return to earth. The required size for the rocket at liftoff from earth was staggering - many times larger than the Saturn V. The paper you're talking about was probably assuming the same thing. Then someone at NASA came up with the concept of having a small lander that would seperate from the main craft, then later dock with the craft in lunar orbit. At the time, the idea of getting two spacecraft to dock in orbit seemed way too difficult. But they finally decided that was the only way it could be done. One of the main reasons for the Gemini program was to learn how to get spacecraft to dock in orbit
Yeah, if it hadn't been for Elian Gonzales, Al Gore would be President, and we wouldn't be in this mess in Iraq.
If China can launch a man into space, then they can already hit the US.