Capitalism has nothing to do with harnessing greed.
If you want to try an engineering analogy think of Economic systems as Control Systems linking allocation of resources and production to what consumers want. Capitalism is the best system because it has feedback in the form of proftis and loses. Entrepreneurs take an educated guess as to what people want and how to arrange resources to meet that demand. Freely set prices let them (and the rest of the market) know if it's a good idea (profits) or bad idea (loses). If you make loses it means you are not using resources efficiently and those resources are freed up. If you make profits it means you are doing a good job and you get more resources to work with. If you make "Outragous" profits this gets the markets attention and other people will move into your market driving down profits towards an economy wide average.
Every regulation and political policy that gets in the way of this process makes things worse. Central planning by definition means overriding consumers choices and makes things worse.
It went from 169 MW to 1 MW in 30 months. We are about 18 months past Dec 2013 so if the reduction is about the same we have approximately 10 kW of heat.
This happened before when one of NASA's HR people left their laptop with every employees information in an unencrypted file in their car and it was stolen. We got 2 whole years of credit monitoring.
Not entirely true. A judge needs to approve this. I tried getting a restraining order against someone that was sending me harrassing e-mails but since they didn't have a history of violence against me or act on the threat it was not approved.
OK so they ban mills. I can make a mill from stepper motors and linear slides. Going to regulate those as well?
You ae missing the point. Libertarians (actually the agorist wing) is doing this because this is how your bring down the State. Just like the drugs are finally starting to be legalized only after it becomes obvious how tyrannical and unjust the drug war is.
The tolerances on an AR lower contribute very little to the accuracy of the gun due to the design. The cartdrige is locked into the barrel with a bolt. Once fired it is basically a loose bunch of parts until they all lock together at the last moment. The precision parts are the ones you can buy online without any checks.
There were plenty of drugs with acetaminophen back then. Excedrin did with a combination of asprin and caffeine. There were others but obviously Tylanol was the most popular.
It's pretty simple. There were alternatives to Tylenol and they knew if they didn't act it would cost them billions. There is no alternative to the internet so people are pretty much stuck with the standards in use. The losses are socalized enough that there isn't much reason for most people to change. If people personally stood to lose tens of thousands of dollars they might take things seriously.
The pancreas releases glucagon which causes the body to release glucose. Without this there is a real danger of this device lowering blood glucose too far.
When people talk about the size of government they mean the power it has over our lives. If you look at dictators they are rarely doing the killing and intimidation by themselves. They require a huge state of police, soldiers, henchmen, spies, etc to keep everyone in line.
Your argument is that the more diffuse the power is the farther from fascism we are and I agree with that. Taken to its logical conclusion that would mean government should have very few (if any) power. That would leave the most power in the hands of the individuals.
Like all Intellectual Monopoly faithful you are missing the point.
The whole concept of property rights exists to determine who has the best claim on a scarce resource. I own my car so I get to determine what happens to it. If someone steals it I can't use it.
Ideas are not property. I can come up with a recipie for a great soup and share it with you and both you and I can still use it.
By creating laws granting intellectual monopoly this violates property rights. I supposedly own my hard drive but now because someone wrote a song and broadcasted it onto my property via radio waves they now have a claim on my hard drive. They will use force against me if I arrange the bits on my hard drive in a way that represents the radio waves they broadcasted onto my property.
This isn't a robot as there is no internal power source, controls, or actuators. It is a very clever mechanism that responds to outside temperature and magnetic fields.
Not necessarily. I am a Mechanical Engineer and I work in a machine shop. Every part you design has tolerances on every dimension. But if you work with machinists with lots of pride like I do they will tend to try to hit the tightest tolerance they can just to keep up good practice and produce nice parts. So I can have a design that when I send it to my shop works flawlessly. But if I send the same drawings to an outside shop and they take full advantage of the tolerances I allowed I might be in for a surprise.
The same could be true here. The design worked because one shop produced parts that exceeded the specifications but might fail for a certain combination of tolerances that are still within the allowed design.
They sell UV lights to put in your air handler to keep mold and mildew growth down but the units are expensive and the bulbs need replacement quite often. A long lasting UV source could be built into the units and keep them clean.
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Capitalism has nothing to do with harnessing greed.
If you want to try an engineering analogy think of Economic systems as Control Systems linking allocation of resources and production to what consumers want. Capitalism is the best system because it has feedback in the form of proftis and loses. Entrepreneurs take an educated guess as to what people want and how to arrange resources to meet that demand. Freely set prices let them (and the rest of the market) know if it's a good idea (profits) or bad idea (loses). If you make loses it means you are not using resources efficiently and those resources are freed up. If you make profits it means you are doing a good job and you get more resources to work with. If you make "Outragous" profits this gets the markets attention and other people will move into your market driving down profits towards an economy wide average.
Every regulation and political policy that gets in the way of this process makes things worse. Central planning by definition means overriding consumers choices and makes things worse.
It went from 169 MW to 1 MW in 30 months. We are about 18 months past Dec 2013 so if the reduction is about the same we have approximately 10 kW of heat.
This happened before when one of NASA's HR people left their laptop with every employees information in an unencrypted file in their car and it was stolen. We got 2 whole years of credit monitoring.
If we are going to change systems why not use the International Standard?
You mean like the arms race that helped bring down the Soviet Union?
Yep. If you want to hit 100% you need to use dececants.
You mean water heaters, 6 ft of copper tube, and a few pounds of stainless nuts?
Not entirely true. A judge needs to approve this. I tried getting a restraining order against someone that was sending me harrassing e-mails but since they didn't have a history of violence against me or act on the threat it was not approved.
OK so they ban mills. I can make a mill from stepper motors and linear slides. Going to regulate those as well?
You ae missing the point. Libertarians (actually the agorist wing) is doing this because this is how your bring down the State. Just like the drugs are finally starting to be legalized only after it becomes obvious how tyrannical and unjust the drug war is.
It's easy to make a barel. It's just hard to make a good one.
I don't know if your internet get's blocked but check amazon for ar parts. I can buy barrels and bolts.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb...
There are plenty of people whom I don't trust to make an informed vote. Those cause the loss of much more innocent lives then firearms.
If by "us" you mean criminals then you are correct.
The tolerances on an AR lower contribute very little to the accuracy of the gun due to the design. The cartdrige is locked into the barrel with a bolt. Once fired it is basically a loose bunch of parts until they all lock together at the last moment. The precision parts are the ones you can buy online without any checks.
Home brewing was illegal from prohibition until Carter legalized it which is what started the U.S. micro brewing revolution.
There were plenty of drugs with acetaminophen back then. Excedrin did with a combination of asprin and caffeine. There were others but obviously Tylanol was the most popular.
It's pretty simple. There were alternatives to Tylenol and they knew if they didn't act it would cost them billions. There is no alternative to the internet so people are pretty much stuck with the standards in use. The losses are socalized enough that there isn't much reason for most people to change. If people personally stood to lose tens of thousands of dollars they might take things seriously.
The pancreas releases glucagon which causes the body to release glucose. Without this there is a real danger of this device lowering blood glucose too far.
When people talk about the size of government they mean the power it has over our lives. If you look at dictators they are rarely doing the killing and intimidation by themselves. They require a huge state of police, soldiers, henchmen, spies, etc to keep everyone in line.
Your argument is that the more diffuse the power is the farther from fascism we are and I agree with that. Taken to its logical conclusion that would mean government should have very few (if any) power. That would leave the most power in the hands of the individuals.
Like all Intellectual Monopoly faithful you are missing the point.
The whole concept of property rights exists to determine who has the best claim on a scarce resource. I own my car so I get to determine what happens to it. If someone steals it I can't use it.
Ideas are not property. I can come up with a recipie for a great soup and share it with you and both you and I can still use it.
By creating laws granting intellectual monopoly this violates property rights. I supposedly own my hard drive but now because someone wrote a song and broadcasted it onto my property via radio waves they now have a claim on my hard drive. They will use force against me if I arrange the bits on my hard drive in a way that represents the radio waves they broadcasted onto my property.
This isn't a robot as there is no internal power source, controls, or actuators. It is a very clever mechanism that responds to outside temperature and magnetic fields.
And that is a design flaw which was my point.
Nope. QA makes sure the parts are within engineering specs. It's the engineers job to make sure the design meets the requirements.
Not necessarily. I am a Mechanical Engineer and I work in a machine shop. Every part you design has tolerances on every dimension. But if you work with machinists with lots of pride like I do they will tend to try to hit the tightest tolerance they can just to keep up good practice and produce nice parts. So I can have a design that when I send it to my shop works flawlessly. But if I send the same drawings to an outside shop and they take full advantage of the tolerances I allowed I might be in for a surprise.
The same could be true here. The design worked because one shop produced parts that exceeded the specifications but might fail for a certain combination of tolerances that are still within the allowed design.
They sell UV lights to put in your air handler to keep mold and mildew growth down but the units are expensive and the bulbs need replacement quite often. A long lasting UV source could be built into the units and keep them clean.