Whats meat for one is poison for other. Freedom fighter for one is terrorist for the other. Whats "conspiracy against workers to shaft them in every which way possible" is "standard operating procedures" for the pointy haired bosses.
The late night comics are also going to be affected by the driverless cars. As the accidents drop and insurance needs plummet, the auto insurance companies witll out do each other in creating great funny creative commercials. They will suck in all the creative talent. What the late night comics offer will pale in comparison.
When the first typewriters came in 19th century they were prone to jamming a lot. The actual levers will lock. I have done it myself with a Smith Corona. So one solution was to make it difficult to type fast. So they deliberately made the layout strange and difficult to type fast. But looks like the Europeans made it even more difficult than ill designed QWERTY. Serves them right for using such funny symbols on letters to change the pronunciation. But after all that accent marks to guide them they still pronounce words very strangely. The later half of ALL French words seem to be silent. I think it best for them to give up all those variants and adopt English as their language.
I think it is fair to pay the solar customers wholesale price when they feed the grid, But it should be wholesale price in the spot market at the time. Most solar customers generate excess energy at the peak summer heat, that is exactly the time the spot electricity price spikes, These solar panels are reducing the peak load of the utilities and the need to buy high priced electricity in the spot market.
So if the utilities want wholesale price they should pay spot market price. Electronics is cheap, we can create a complete log of when and how much the solar panels fed the grid.
Glad you agree a neighbor storing gasoline endangers the neighbors. Even if I don't use the big bank, people I deal with use big banks, my customers losing their will hurt my business. In the last housing crisis, I did not get a liar loan or fail to make a mortgage payment. But when the market crashed the value of my home dropped too. Lucky I did not need to sell it immediately nor did the value fall below the mortgage. But many millions of people who stayed away from the real estate frenzy were affected when the market crashed.
It is perfectly reasonable to add a graduated tax on big banks, based on the assets under their control and to build an insurance fund.
The graduated tax on big banks depending on size *IS* is the libertarian fix. Big government fix is making rules about reserve requirement, and additional auditing and disclosure requirements.
As a libertarian I recognize your right to store as much gasoline as you want in your garage for any reason you want with any level of safety you feel comfortable. But you may not have the ability to pay for the damages to your neighbors should an accident happen. It is perfectly reasonable, proper and constitutional to demand you have liability insurance for activities that could cause damage beyond your property. Gasoline in your garage, deposits in banks.. all the same thing.
The big government solution is to mandate necessary safety equipment for all gasoline storage in all garages and regular inspections and filing of inspection reports with proper authorities.... Ditch that. Do anything you want without hurting others. Show that you can compensate if you hurt someone accidentally.
So it was an inside job, and some people in the finance department stole 50 million $ from the company using computers.
Young whippersnappers, all instant gratification and me me me me all the time. No patience, no hard work, nothing. In our days we stole fractions of pennies in each transaction to add up to 50 million $. Bah.. now get off my lawn.
The article is presenting an one sided view. Bank heists still happen, with increasing frequency and magnitude. But the tools have changed. At best you can argue blue collar bank heists have gone down.
But now the bank heists have become inside jobs, white collar and legal. Banks "lend" money to questionable borrowers and sell the loan to some unsuspecting investors, pocket the commission. The bank robbers pay themselves huge bonuses. When the loans go bad, it is the re-insurance companies, investors and eventually the tax payers who pay for it. They risk a billion dollars in loans to get measly bonus of 1 million dollars.
The real owners of these banks, the shareholders are so widespread and their power to control the bank has become so diffuse, it is basically inmates running the asylum situation in banks and other financial institutions.
We need laws to stop banks from becoming too big to fail. US Banks claim they need to get big to compete with foreign banks. Foreign banks claim they need to get big to compete with US banks. The solution is an unilateral move by USA. All banks with assets more than 1% of GDP should pay a tax to insure against systemic risks. And they should keep larger reserves. We can use free market tools and gradually deflate the big banks. Or they will be deflated suddenly by peasants with pitchforks.
Are you surrounded by chrome and tile? Running water nearby? Odd smells? People stopping by, crapping all over you, then leaving? Do people drop off pieces of paper to you?
You might be in that lavatory you wrote about.
Some days it's difficult to tell the lavatory users apart from the middle managers.
Okay, okay. MOST days.
You are way ahead of me. I can't tell the lavatory porcelain from the middle managers.
The American Congress is the best legislature in the world money can buy. Already the House has introduced bills that will limit and protect VW from the common citizen. Senate is going to follow suit. So VW will be safe.
There is a law that says you can't change the law in a way it adversely affects you restrospectively. That is the principle under which some old products are exempted from food labeling, ingredient disclosure requirements, and the rule under which coal power plants operate under older pollution standards. So the affected citizen can claim "the new law can not take away my right to sue VW retrospectively". But VW is safe there too. The claim has to be adjudicated by the Roberts court. There is no court in the world that is more friendly than Roberts' court for Corporations, who are people. So all bases are covered.
But still there are some appeals courts and district courts that show autonomy. The issue will soon be fixed by TPP. Corportate lawyers will form arbitration boards and hear complaints argued by other corporate lawyers, who would be sitting as arbitrators in other proceedings where these arbitrators will be pleading for their clients. It is all chummy-chummy clubby atmosphere with lots of give and take. The arbitrators give tax payer funds and the corporations take it.
So let us all look forward to this brave new world.
The number of subatomic particles in the known universe is estimated to be less than 1.0e99. So if tag each subatomic particle with an integer you would run out of subatomic particles before you reach even one googol.
as soon as there is a hint of flexibility or laxity in the oversight, will slip through lower quality where ever they think they can get away with
That's my understanding. It's an East versus West thing - Eastern mindset is "if you don't catch me cheating I'm a clever businessman"
I think Wall Street thinks that too.
Wall Street thinks, "If you don't catch me cheating I am clever, I make bonus. If you catch me cheating, you are a danger to the society, FBI will take care of you, I make bonus". In fact all scenarios lead to "I make bonus".
Yes, there is some truth in what you are saying. But it is worth their time for the undergrads slogging through social science degrees to take it as a project and comb through the records. Show it one way or the other.
NASA officially had a policy not to list female contributors to papers as co-authors? Wow! That was simply awful. How did they even justify such an unscientific discriminatory policy? Were there any male scientists who objected to it? Did any female scientist raise objections? Is it possible to dig through old NASA records to find such contributions?
BTW it should be possible to find it in the archives. NASA records and documents everything. Richard Feynman suggested something trivial. He noticed they were marking the bolts at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions to help align solid booster rocket section assembly. He suggesting marking the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock bolts in addition to help them better. NASA studied the suggestion for two years and rejected it because the documentation update would be prohibitive. That is the level of documentation they maintain. I am sure it would be possible to find the long forgotten women contributors and right the wrong.
We award Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously after several decades. We restored Robert E Lee's citizenship decades after he died. Gen Lee's application for citizenship with formal sworn renunciation of his allegiance to Confederacy was taken home as a personal souvenir by the Secretary of State and was found in attic after several decades.
If restoring that traitor's citizenship status after a century is deemed to be important, giving credit to women scientists for their contribution to NASA is important too. We can and we should find the historical wrong and right it.
The goal of landing the rocket on three legs seems to be a very great challenge. Especially on a floating platform that is bobbing in the sea. They are able to get the speed and targeting precise enough to pull it off once, and got very close three times now. May be they should be thinking of a recovery system that is less demanding than this.
These rockets are putting some 50000 lb in LEO. It hurts to add weight that reduces pay load. But SpaceX claims the first stage is worth 60 million dollars. May be if they would come up with some kind of system that would fire a cable with grappling hooks at the last moment to snag a cable hung between towers like a clothesline and end up hanging without hitting the ground. It could be heavier than three struts and take some away from payload capacity. By that might be less demanding than precisely landing on three legs, and save enough money make up for it in the next launch.
But anyway it is an amazing achievement. I really hated to see Wired mag calling it "botched" in its head line. May be it is not an inaccurate description, may be they were using standard headline language to find smaller words. But still, if most projects achieve this much in their botched operations...
It can do whatever it wants. It can choose to cooperate with this search at whatever level it wants to. I suggest you do not use gmail and google docs to share bomb making recipes.
All dogs belong to the same species, and their variation is so much larger than what we see in Homo sapiens. Even if we include hominids, I am not sure the variation is larger.
Chakra is Sanskrit for Wheel. Core of the wheel is the axle. Sanskrit for Axle is Aksa. So shouldn't ChakraCore be Aksa?
English and Sanskrit both belong to the Indo-European family of languages. S it is not a surprise the word for such an ancient invention as the axle sounds alike in both English and Sanskrit. But what about wheel? Well, Sanskrit word for wheel Chakra comes from circle, which is a cognate in so many languages. Why English disconnected the word for circle from the word for wheel, I don't know.
By the time nano tech incandescent are ready for the market, the market will have nano tech LEDs which would be even more efficient than it is today. It is like the gallium-arsenide that is going to replace silicon any time now, except by the time GaAs improves, silicon improves too...Or the solid state drives making spinning disks of rust obsolete... By the time solid state achieves a breakthrough, the rust disks are already meeting matching it in price. Only when people are willing to pay premium for the *other* advantages of solid state drives, lower power consumption, silence, small form factor, etc they are viable.
So let us give these guys a well deserved PhD or Masters as the case may be and move on...
Look, let us be reasonable. Someone somewhere creates an app that duplicates the functionality of Google Maps. How will Google know about it instantly? Only when they find it they will send out the ToS violation notice. Do you really expect trawl through every dark corner of the internet, cataloging, classifying, indexing everything found? Its not like you can just ask someone or something "how do I plan a route" and it will list all possible ways one can use the internet resources to do it. It takes time for things to be found. Is there someone bragging "found 660,000,000 results in 0.54 seconds" about every conceivable thing one is looking for?
So be reasonable, cut Google some slack. Internet is huge and it will take time for certain things to be found.
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Whats meat for one is poison for other. Freedom fighter for one is terrorist for the other. Whats "conspiracy against workers to shaft them in every which way possible" is "standard operating procedures" for the pointy haired bosses.
What is wrong? Why is it illegal?
The late night comics are also going to be affected by the driverless cars. As the accidents drop and insurance needs plummet, the auto insurance companies witll out do each other in creating great funny creative commercials. They will suck in all the creative talent. What the late night comics offer will pale in comparison.
Amazon has this amazing review site where you can post reviews of all the products and services. Just log in and post a scathing 1 star review.
When the first typewriters came in 19th century they were prone to jamming a lot. The actual levers will lock. I have done it myself with a Smith Corona. So one solution was to make it difficult to type fast. So they deliberately made the layout strange and difficult to type fast. But looks like the Europeans made it even more difficult than ill designed QWERTY. Serves them right for using such funny symbols on letters to change the pronunciation. But after all that accent marks to guide them they still pronounce words very strangely. The later half of ALL French words seem to be silent. I think it best for them to give up all those variants and adopt English as their language.
Blue origin landed a suborbital rocket twice!
Slashdot thinks Flew and Few are one and the same.
So if the utilities want wholesale price they should pay spot market price. Electronics is cheap, we can create a complete log of when and how much the solar panels fed the grid.
It is perfectly reasonable to add a graduated tax on big banks, based on the assets under their control and to build an insurance fund.
As a libertarian I recognize your right to store as much gasoline as you want in your garage for any reason you want with any level of safety you feel comfortable. But you may not have the ability to pay for the damages to your neighbors should an accident happen. It is perfectly reasonable, proper and constitutional to demand you have liability insurance for activities that could cause damage beyond your property. Gasoline in your garage, deposits in banks.. all the same thing.
The big government solution is to mandate necessary safety equipment for all gasoline storage in all garages and regular inspections and filing of inspection reports with proper authorities.... Ditch that. Do anything you want without hurting others. Show that you can compensate if you hurt someone accidentally.
Young whippersnappers, all instant gratification and me me me me all the time. No patience, no hard work, nothing. In our days we stole fractions of pennies in each transaction to add up to 50 million $. Bah.. now get off my lawn.
But now the bank heists have become inside jobs, white collar and legal. Banks "lend" money to questionable borrowers and sell the loan to some unsuspecting investors, pocket the commission. The bank robbers pay themselves huge bonuses. When the loans go bad, it is the re-insurance companies, investors and eventually the tax payers who pay for it. They risk a billion dollars in loans to get measly bonus of 1 million dollars.
The real owners of these banks, the shareholders are so widespread and their power to control the bank has become so diffuse, it is basically inmates running the asylum situation in banks and other financial institutions.
We need laws to stop banks from becoming too big to fail. US Banks claim they need to get big to compete with foreign banks. Foreign banks claim they need to get big to compete with US banks. The solution is an unilateral move by USA. All banks with assets more than 1% of GDP should pay a tax to insure against systemic risks. And they should keep larger reserves. We can use free market tools and gradually deflate the big banks. Or they will be deflated suddenly by peasants with pitchforks.
Are you surrounded by chrome and tile? Running water nearby? Odd smells? People stopping by, crapping all over you, then leaving? Do people drop off pieces of paper to you?
You might be in that lavatory you wrote about.
Some days it's difficult to tell the lavatory users apart from the middle managers.
Okay, okay. MOST days.
You are way ahead of me. I can't tell the lavatory porcelain from the middle managers.
You post anonymously in slashdot. VW spends millions of dollars in lobbying. Who are they going to listen to? You or the lobbyists?
There is a law that says you can't change the law in a way it adversely affects you restrospectively. That is the principle under which some old products are exempted from food labeling, ingredient disclosure requirements, and the rule under which coal power plants operate under older pollution standards. So the affected citizen can claim "the new law can not take away my right to sue VW retrospectively". But VW is safe there too. The claim has to be adjudicated by the Roberts court. There is no court in the world that is more friendly than Roberts' court for Corporations, who are people. So all bases are covered.
But still there are some appeals courts and district courts that show autonomy. The issue will soon be fixed by TPP. Corportate lawyers will form arbitration boards and hear complaints argued by other corporate lawyers, who would be sitting as arbitrators in other proceedings where these arbitrators will be pleading for their clients. It is all chummy-chummy clubby atmosphere with lots of give and take. The arbitrators give tax payer funds and the corporations take it.
So let us all look forward to this brave new world.
The number of subatomic particles in the known universe is estimated to be less than 1.0e99. So if tag each subatomic particle with an integer you would run out of subatomic particles before you reach even one googol.
as soon as there is a hint of flexibility or laxity in the oversight, will slip through lower quality where ever they think they can get away with
That's my understanding. It's an East versus West thing - Eastern mindset is "if you don't catch me cheating I'm a clever businessman"
I think Wall Street thinks that too.
Wall Street thinks, "If you don't catch me cheating I am clever, I make bonus. If you catch me cheating, you are a danger to the society, FBI will take care of you, I make bonus". In fact all scenarios lead to "I make bonus".
Yes, there is some truth in what you are saying. But it is worth their time for the undergrads slogging through social science degrees to take it as a project and comb through the records. Show it one way or the other.
BTW it should be possible to find it in the archives. NASA records and documents everything. Richard Feynman suggested something trivial. He noticed they were marking the bolts at 12 o'clock and 6 o'clock positions to help align solid booster rocket section assembly. He suggesting marking the 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock bolts in addition to help them better. NASA studied the suggestion for two years and rejected it because the documentation update would be prohibitive. That is the level of documentation they maintain. I am sure it would be possible to find the long forgotten women contributors and right the wrong.
We award Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously after several decades. We restored Robert E Lee's citizenship decades after he died. Gen Lee's application for citizenship with formal sworn renunciation of his allegiance to Confederacy was taken home as a personal souvenir by the Secretary of State and was found in attic after several decades.
If restoring that traitor's citizenship status after a century is deemed to be important, giving credit to women scientists for their contribution to NASA is important too. We can and we should find the historical wrong and right it.
These rockets are putting some 50000 lb in LEO. It hurts to add weight that reduces pay load. But SpaceX claims the first stage is worth 60 million dollars. May be if they would come up with some kind of system that would fire a cable with grappling hooks at the last moment to snag a cable hung between towers like a clothesline and end up hanging without hitting the ground. It could be heavier than three struts and take some away from payload capacity. By that might be less demanding than precisely landing on three legs, and save enough money make up for it in the next launch.
But anyway it is an amazing achievement. I really hated to see Wired mag calling it "botched" in its head line. May be it is not an inaccurate description, may be they were using standard headline language to find smaller words. But still, if most projects achieve this much in their botched operations ...
It can do whatever it wants. It can choose to cooperate with this search at whatever level it wants to. I suggest you do not use gmail and google docs to share bomb making recipes.
All dogs belong to the same species, and their variation is so much larger than what we see in Homo sapiens. Even if we include hominids, I am not sure the variation is larger.
English and Sanskrit both belong to the Indo-European family of languages. S it is not a surprise the word for such an ancient invention as the axle sounds alike in both English and Sanskrit. But what about wheel? Well, Sanskrit word for wheel Chakra comes from circle, which is a cognate in so many languages. Why English disconnected the word for circle from the word for wheel, I don't know.
So let us give these guys a well deserved PhD or Masters as the case may be and move on...
Come on Elon. You think coast-to-coast autonomous car is possible in 2 years but you can't give us a 40K car in 2 years?
So be reasonable, cut Google some slack. Internet is huge and it will take time for certain things to be found.