You are operating under a false principle. I'm 40 years old so I'm considered and old fart. When we get job applications we do a Google or Facebook search and all I see is kids posting things online that I did when I was a kid and I would of posted if I was their age. I remember one kid had a great resume. We looked online and he was in a metal band. He had wild hair and facial hair and piercings. We found videos and he was basically screaming at the top of his lungs. Pretty funny stuff. So we gave him an interview and he came in all clean cut and gave a great interview. We gave him the summer internship. A few weeks in we started calling him by his band name as a nickname. He said "That's so weird, I'm in a band with that name!". We didn't tell him we knew all about it for another week and he was freaked out.
I would never hold what someone posts online. We all have our demons and if there wasn't a criminal record I really don't care.
The Artemis river has a wheel like you are describing. It's a solid spoked aluminum hub. Then a bunch of sharp metal claws are spring mounted to the hub with wire ropes. It's flexible at all temperatures and has lots of traction.
I don't think I was clear. I didn't mean to say you would have a Rover that could go anywhere. It means you could have one Rover that is designed for Lunar Polar Regions, One for Lunar Equatorial Regions, One for Mars Polar, Mars Equatorial, etc. The same with the Landers and instruments.
You are right that in the past it's been difficult due to launch costs. But with commercial space we are seeing launch costs drop. This opens up some interesting opportunities. When your launch vehicle costs $300 million your mission is already expensive without a payload. You have to try to maximize your science. Spending another $600 million for a customized payload doesn't seem too bad.
But if you can get a $50 million dollar launcher things change. It starts to make sense to spend less on the mission in return for less science. If you can get the costs of the Landers and Rovers down you can start to afford to do missions that don't have every bell and whistle on board.
There are a few projects that NASA, CSA, and other agencies are working on together. The idea is to try to make exploration much cheaper by having modular components. So you can pick a target like the moon. Decide what you want to do like drill some core samples from the polar regions and sample them. You need a chem lab, drill, Rover, lander, and launch vehicle. If you can pick ones that have already been designed and flown you can save lots of money.
This comes from Gresham's law that bad money drives out good. People desire a money that holds it's purchasing power. If there is a money that loses purchasing power and one that holds it the good money will be hoarded and the bad money will be circulated.
I'll throw one more thing about interest rates and their link to unemployment. When a business is looking to start or expand they have to make a calculation whether to do it by buying capital goods or hiring people. This is highly dependent on interest rates. In a free market when there is high unemployment there is typically lower savings which drives up interest rates. This makes the business tend towards hiring people rather than capital goods. When there is low unemployment and high savings this drives rates down and makes it more economical to buy capital goods. This is maintains a balance between labor and automation that so many/.ers always complain about.
I'm sorry but there is very little about Iran's markets that are free. What you will get to see and analyse how a centrally planned economy responds to a lack of physical fiat currency.
I don't know how many people have tried this in a science center. They have two tubes of alternating warm and cool wrapped around a cylinder. When you place your hands on them it tricks your brain into thinking it's very hot. If you put a finger on each tube they are mildly cool and warm.
I'm certified as an Enriched Air diver and you are a bit confused. It's the partial pressure of Oxygen that will kill you. The safe limit we dive to is 1.6 atm partial pressure of O2. This means that you could breath pure O2 in about 20 ft of water. Below that it's toxic. In spacesuits they breath pure O2 at about 3-4 psi. The reason is if you put in other gases your mixed gas pressure will be too high and you can't move in a flexible suit. If you go too low you are in trouble too.
You are describing a utopia where there is no scarcity and no labor or resources has to be allocated to produce things. Where what people need is magically created just by wishing for it to exist.
In the real world resources and labor is scarce and needs to be allocated. The most efficient way is a free market that respects property rights and contracts.
You failed to read the rest of this sentence. "Get rid of profit and you have no way of knowing what people want and how to allocate resources to meet it." The key part is how to allocate resources to meet those wants. Everyone has wants and needs. The question is how do you allocate resources to meet it? You provide no real method other than "They need it so they should have it".
I guess I have to make this clearer. Making a killing is important because it lets others know this is where the demand is and it shifts resources towards it which brings down prices and profits. You need someone to make a killing by charging what the market will bear otherwise the demand and investments needed to ramp up production CANNOT be identified.
I am amazed at how many people despise profit. Profit and loss are some of the most important things in a society. They are the single biggest factors that helps efficiently allocate resources. Think of it this way. Big profits is a signal that the demand for a good or service is so outstripping supply that people are willing to pay way more than it costs to provide them. In the same way losses mean people aren't willing to pay what it costs to provide something. In this situation those providers operating at a loss look to see what industries are making big profits and try to shift production towards meeting that unfilled demand. This shifts labor and materials to where people want it most.Get rid of profit and you have no way of knowing what people want and how to allocate resources to meet it.
Now there are lots of things we could do to make this reallocation quicker and easier. The first would be to get rid of the concept of intellectual property. Let people and businesses concentrate on innovating and meeting demand and not worrying about if someone else did it first.
The supreme court is like having the referees of a game be an employee of one team. Most trials that go to the supreme court are individuals vs the government. And which side do you think the court sides with?
I think we need a rule change. Make it like a criminal trial. In order for the government to win they need to get all 9 votes. One no and the government loses.
The Senate before the 17th amendment represented the state governments in Washington DC. This was important because it pit one group of greedy power hungry bastards against another. The 17th amendment was passed because they said the way senators were elected was corrupt. Of course it was. That was the purpose. Now nobody represents the state governments in DC and it shows.
Second. The final check is a jury trial and nullification. A jury can rule on not only the guilt or innocence but on the law itself. In the jury room you can decide a law is unconstitutional and declare the defendant innocent. This is why whenever these bullies punish or detain people without trial it is such a dangerous path to go down.
Bowman should win and this is exactly how intellectual property will work when patents and copyrights are eliminated. Contracts will rule and people that are not parties to the contract cannot be held responsible.
Take a DVD as an example. The company selling the DVD could make it a part of the contract to buy the DVD that the person wont copy it. But if someone copies the DVD and it becomes available no third party to the coping could be responsible. This puts the onerous of protecting the distribution of the media on the media company and not socialized.
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You are operating under a false principle. I'm 40 years old so I'm considered and old fart. When we get job applications we do a Google or Facebook search and all I see is kids posting things online that I did when I was a kid and I would of posted if I was their age. I remember one kid had a great resume. We looked online and he was in a metal band. He had wild hair and facial hair and piercings. We found videos and he was basically screaming at the top of his lungs. Pretty funny stuff. So we gave him an interview and he came in all clean cut and gave a great interview. We gave him the summer internship. A few weeks in we started calling him by his band name as a nickname. He said "That's so weird, I'm in a band with that name!". We didn't tell him we knew all about it for another week and he was freaked out.
I would never hold what someone posts online. We all have our demons and if there wasn't a criminal record I really don't care.
The Artemis river has a wheel like you are describing. It's a solid spoked aluminum hub. Then a bunch of sharp metal claws are spring mounted to the hub with wire ropes. It's flexible at all temperatures and has lots of traction.
I don't think I was clear. I didn't mean to say you would have a Rover that could go anywhere. It means you could have one Rover that is designed for Lunar Polar Regions, One for Lunar Equatorial Regions, One for Mars Polar, Mars Equatorial, etc. The same with the Landers and instruments.
You are right that in the past it's been difficult due to launch costs. But with commercial space we are seeing launch costs drop. This opens up some interesting opportunities. When your launch vehicle costs $300 million your mission is already expensive without a payload. You have to try to maximize your science. Spending another $600 million for a customized payload doesn't seem too bad.
But if you can get a $50 million dollar launcher things change. It starts to make sense to spend less on the mission in return for less science. If you can get the costs of the Landers and Rovers down you can start to afford to do missions that don't have every bell and whistle on board.
There are a few projects that NASA, CSA, and other agencies are working on together. The idea is to try to make exploration much cheaper by having modular components. So you can pick a target like the moon. Decide what you want to do like drill some core samples from the polar regions and sample them. You need a chem lab, drill, Rover, lander, and launch vehicle. If you can pick ones that have already been designed and flown you can save lots of money.
http://www.americaspace.org/?p=21059
This comes from Gresham's law that bad money drives out good. People desire a money that holds it's purchasing power. If there is a money that loses purchasing power and one that holds it the good money will be hoarded and the bad money will be circulated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
If you are really interested I would recommend reading Man Economy and State by Murray Rothbard.
http://mises.org/books/mespm.pdf
You will see why this isn't a science like Physics. The reason is all human action is based on preferential choices and every human is different.
That was nearly a perfect post.
I'll throw one more thing about interest rates and their link to unemployment. When a business is looking to start or expand they have to make a calculation whether to do it by buying capital goods or hiring people. This is highly dependent on interest rates. In a free market when there is high unemployment there is typically lower savings which drives up interest rates. This makes the business tend towards hiring people rather than capital goods. When there is low unemployment and high savings this drives rates down and makes it more economical to buy capital goods. This is maintains a balance between labor and automation that so many /.ers always complain about.
If you are bald you just might be a terrorist.
The center of gravity of Pluto and Charon is not inside of Pluto's radius.
I'm sorry but there is very little about Iran's markets that are free. What you will get to see and analyse how a centrally planned economy responds to a lack of physical fiat currency.
I don't know how many people have tried this in a science center. They have two tubes of alternating warm and cool wrapped around a cylinder. When you place your hands on them it tricks your brain into thinking it's very hot. If you put a finger on each tube they are mildly cool and warm.
How about just mind our own buisiness?
So instead we sided with the communists in Russia and China who had much better human rights records. Oh wait...
I'm certified as an Enriched Air diver and you are a bit confused. It's the partial pressure of Oxygen that will kill you. The safe limit we dive to is 1.6 atm partial pressure of O2. This means that you could breath pure O2 in about 20 ft of water. Below that it's toxic.
In spacesuits they breath pure O2 at about 3-4 psi. The reason is if you put in other gases your mixed gas pressure will be too high and you can't move in a flexible suit. If you go too low you are in trouble too.
Ahhh memories.
You are describing a utopia where there is no scarcity and no labor or resources has to be allocated to produce things. Where what people need is magically created just by wishing for it to exist.
In the real world resources and labor is scarce and needs to be allocated. The most efficient way is a free market that respects property rights and contracts.
You failed to read the rest of this sentence. "Get rid of profit and you have no way of knowing what people want and how to allocate resources to meet it." The key part is how to allocate resources to meet those wants. Everyone has wants and needs. The question is how do you allocate resources to meet it? You provide no real method other than "They need it so they should have it".
I guess I have to make this clearer. Making a killing is important because it lets others know this is where the demand is and it shifts resources towards it which brings down prices and profits. You need someone to make a killing by charging what the market will bear otherwise the demand and investments needed to ramp up production CANNOT be identified.
I am amazed at how many people despise profit. Profit and loss are some of the most important things in a society. They are the single biggest factors that helps efficiently allocate resources. Think of it this way. Big profits is a signal that the demand for a good or service is so outstripping supply that people are willing to pay way more than it costs to provide them. In the same way losses mean people aren't willing to pay what it costs to provide something. In this situation those providers operating at a loss look to see what industries are making big profits and try to shift production towards meeting that unfilled demand. This shifts labor and materials to where people want it most.Get rid of profit and you have no way of knowing what people want and how to allocate resources to meet it.
Now there are lots of things we could do to make this reallocation quicker and easier. The first would be to get rid of the concept of intellectual property. Let people and businesses concentrate on innovating and meeting demand and not worrying about if someone else did it first.
Great book that teaches you that you have to live your life for yourself and not let rules or other people try to keep you down.
Well nobody is forcing car maker to put airbags in. Right?
The supreme court is like having the referees of a game be an employee of one team. Most trials that go to the supreme court are individuals vs the government. And which side do you think the court sides with?
I think we need a rule change. Make it like a criminal trial. In order for the government to win they need to get all 9 votes. One no and the government loses.
Good post let me add some points.
The Senate before the 17th amendment represented the state governments in Washington DC. This was important because it pit one group of greedy power hungry bastards against another. The 17th amendment was passed because they said the way senators were elected was corrupt. Of course it was. That was the purpose. Now nobody represents the state governments in DC and it shows.
Second.
The final check is a jury trial and nullification. A jury can rule on not only the guilt or innocence but on the law itself. In the jury room you can decide a law is unconstitutional and declare the defendant innocent. This is why whenever these bullies punish or detain people without trial it is such a dangerous path to go down.
Or just run your shower water automatically through a filter and reuse.
At the expense of everyone else.
Bowman should win and this is exactly how intellectual property will work when patents and copyrights are eliminated. Contracts will rule and people that are not parties to the contract cannot be held responsible.
Take a DVD as an example. The company selling the DVD could make it a part of the contract to buy the DVD that the person wont copy it. But if someone copies the DVD and it becomes available no third party to the coping could be responsible. This puts the onerous of protecting the distribution of the media on the media company and not socialized.