The US does have universal healthcare. If you walk into a hospital you get treated.
Health Insurance is like every other insurance. You only need it if you have assets you want protected. It is a financial product. I have car insurance in case I get into an accident. It will buy me a new car or keep my house from being taken in a lawsuit.
I have life insurance not to keep me alive but to protect my family from income they would lose if I died.
I have homeowners insurance because if my house burns down I'd like a new one.
A poor person doesn't need health insurance because they don't have assets that need protecting.
This whole universal health insurance debate is an attack on the poor. They already get healthcare. It's just the non-poor don't want to pay for them. Well too bad.
Let's assume for a second it was counterfeiting. Who is the victim? The person who paid for the counterfeit good. Apple would be an uninterested third party.
It's a really cool idea if you can get it to work. It breeds fuel right before it burns it. So you can load the thing once and have it run for 50 years without refueling. It's nice because you don't have to have move large amounts of enriched uranium or plutonium around.
Right now one big social problem is unwanted kids, public welfare, and family courts. The problem is there are lots if incentives for poor single women to get pregnant. They get better preferential treatment for things like housing, WIC, college, ect. If there was a male pill or reversible chemical vasecomy the change in social dynamics would change as severely as when the pill for women came out.
I think most federal agencies do this. Like I said the problem is they are legal issues and many times the contractor can do just enough to meet your requirements.
Did you ever write requirements? My experience in private industry was wet would sit down with potential vendors and contractors and discuss the project. They would ask questions to get a better idea of what we wanted and this would improve the requirements from having different groups with different views looking at it. They would make the requirements better because it was in their interest. These meetings were also like an interview so we could get an idea of what they were like.
In the government I can't do this. I have to be very careful talking to vendors because if I give specific information out before I release a request for proposal I could get in trouble. I understand why it's done that way. I'm spending tax dollars so it is only fair that any company that can do the work should be allowed to bid and not just the few I know. But is requires lots of time to develop good requirements and it's not very efficient.
Ah. The old JNCP (Justification for Non-Competitive Procurement). My nemesis. You can try to use it but in my experience as a low level engineer the only time it gets approved is when there really are no other vendors that can do what you want. If you try to say use this machine shop or circuit board maker because they do a good job you won't get it approve.
I didn't have that experience in private industry. We usually had to fight and explain to management why we wanted to go with a more expensive company because they did good work and we had a good relationship with them. Sometimes we would use a new person for something not critical. Often we did this because our contract had penalties for coming in late and it was worth it to pay more knowing we would get it done in time.
But you can't. Like I said these contractors did things by the book. They aren't doing anything illegal. It's just that in a business relationship sometimes you let things slide because both sides want the project to succeed so everyone can make a profit and can work together in the future. To government contractors it doesn't matter if a project is successful. As long as they follow the legality of the contract requirements they can make as much money as they can get away with. It's not like the government is going to run out of money.
Here is an example. We needed a test bed that you could mount a 150kh mass. Then accelerate it at 30m/s^2 for 4m and bring it to a stop in another 4m. It had to do this in the horizontal and in the vertical +z direction. Pretty simple request for proposal. A local company got the bid. They built it and we went to the acceptance test. It could do it horizontally but it didn't have the power to reach 30m/s^2 in the +z. We told them they needed to fix it. They said it met the requirement because you have to take into account that just sitting still it was resisting 9.8m/s^2 of acceleration from gravity. We said BS. We took it to the lawyers and they said since it was a small business contract they were going to side with the company. I then resigned the part that held the test mass to remove enough mass to get back the capabilities we needed. We did those mods on the tax pays dime.
I've worked in private industry and for government and let me tell you the difference from what I've seen.
In business if you put out a quote for a project you can shop around and use other companies reputation and try to come to a decision.If there is is something vague they will call you and try to figure it out. They will sometimes let little changes go. But sometimes they won't. Let's say you pick a company and they nickel and dime you on changes. You finish that project and decide never to use them again if you though you got screwed.
In government it's the opposite. The lowest bidder get's the job as long as they have the capabilities to do it. If there are two ways to interpret something they intentionally pick the wrong way and deliver it so that they can get paid to make the changes. They are legally right. And next time there is a job they are right back in line and you can't bar them from bidding. A companies reputation for screwing over the government doesn't prevent them from winning the bid. What this does is cause the government to waste even more time and effort to make "perfect" requirements. But as any of us know when you are building something from scratch your requirements are going to evolve.
I am a mechanical engineer and this is how I keep it straight in my head. Just remember F=m a SI is easy. N = kg*m/s^2 English is trickier you need a constant 1 lbf = 1lbm * 32.2 ft/s^2 so the constant gc is 32.2 lbm*ft/lbf*s^2 F=m a / gc The slug is used to get rid of the constant 1lbf = 1 slug * 1 ft/s^2
Here is my interpretation. First you have to realize the US was created by the states and the states wrote and passed the Constitution to try to balance powers. It also enumerated the powers of Congress. If the power isn't written there they don't have it.
So as you wrote the Federal Congress has the power to coin money, and regulate the value of it and foreign coins.
OK that is pretty simple. Congress is granted the power to coin money and regulate it's value and foreign coins. This doesn't prohibit the states or citizens from making and using their own coinage.
Next is the part that prevents the states from writing legal tender laws for anything except gold and silver coin. OK fine. This means if a state wants to write a legal tender law they can except it has to use gold and silver coins as payment. Notice nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government or Congress given the power to write legal tender laws at all. Remember these are enumerated powers. So therefore the US Congress cannot write any legal tender laws.
This is pretty simple. You have to remember that back then things like legal tender laws and all other financial type crimes were punished by the states not the federal government. Legal tender has to do with forcing someone to pay their debts in a specific form. This restricted a state from saying debts could be paid in some commodity that was cheap in one state and expensive in another. So North Carolina couldn't pass a legal tender law saying debts would be paid in tobacco. The whole idea was to make trade across the states fair and simple. Also notice that a state doesn't even have to have a legal tender law at all. It was up to them.
Not quite. The bond price takes that future return into account. If rates rise the value of your bond goes to where the present value of a new bond. So it will be a wash if you sell your old low interest bond and buy new bonds with the high interest rate with the proceeds.
I thought it would be fun to run for Congress on a libertarian platform. I would make it a reality show in that I would have a camera following me broadcasting everything I do live on the internet. A cross between The Truman Show and Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Then I realized that Federal Employees are not allowed to run for partisan political office because of the Hatch Act.
Anytime you mill a rectangular pocket it has rounded corners because the endmill is a cylinder. Mechanical engineers have been using rounded rectangles forever.
The US patent was filed to use the threat of force to prevent others from using their own liberty and property from using this idea. The idea is not protected by the patent.
You have to be careful. Bond prices drop as interest rates rise. This happens when they contract the money supply. No investment does well during that period in dollar terms but the purchasing power of cash increases so your cash holdings will see real gains.
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The US does have universal healthcare. If you walk into a hospital you get treated.
Health Insurance is like every other insurance. You only need it if you have assets you want protected. It is a financial product. I have car insurance in case I get into an accident. It will buy me a new car or keep my house from being taken in a lawsuit.
I have life insurance not to keep me alive but to protect my family from income they would lose if I died.
I have homeowners insurance because if my house burns down I'd like a new one.
A poor person doesn't need health insurance because they don't have assets that need protecting.
This whole universal health insurance debate is an attack on the poor. They already get healthcare. It's just the non-poor don't want to pay for them. Well too bad.
It's not about selling illegal drugs it's about illegally selling drugs?
Let's assume for a second it was counterfeiting. Who is the victim? The person who paid for the counterfeit good. Apple would be an uninterested third party.
It's a really cool idea if you can get it to work. It breeds fuel right before it burns it. So you can load the thing once and have it run for 50 years without refueling. It's nice because you don't have to have move large amounts of enriched uranium or plutonium around.
Not reliably reservable.
I get monthly allergy shots that total 1.8ml. Can I add this to the mix?
Right now one big social problem is unwanted kids, public welfare, and family courts. The problem is there are lots if incentives for poor single women to get pregnant. They get better preferential treatment for things like housing, WIC, college, ect. If there was a male pill or reversible chemical vasecomy the change in social dynamics would change as severely as when the pill for women came out.
By making your balls smaller it will make other things in that area appear larger.
I think most federal agencies do this. Like I said the problem is they are legal issues and many times the contractor can do just enough to meet your requirements.
Did you ever write requirements? My experience in private industry was wet would sit down with potential vendors and contractors and discuss the project. They would ask questions to get a better idea of what we wanted and this would improve the requirements from having different groups with different views looking at it. They would make the requirements better because it was in their interest.
These meetings were also like an interview so we could get an idea of what they were like.
In the government I can't do this. I have to be very careful talking to vendors because if I give specific information out before I release a request for proposal I could get in trouble. I understand why it's done that way.
I'm spending tax dollars so it is only fair that any company that can do the work should be allowed to bid and not just the few I know. But is requires lots of time to develop good requirements and it's not very efficient.
Interesting. I haven't heard about it. What is the new sole source procedure? I am not a purchasing person so I haven't run into this yet.
Ah. The old JNCP (Justification for Non-Competitive Procurement). My nemesis. You can try to use it but in my experience as a low level engineer the only time it gets approved is when there really are no other vendors that can do what you want. If you try to say use this machine shop or circuit board maker because they do a good job you won't get it approve.
Again just my experience.
I didn't have that experience in private industry. We usually had to fight and explain to management why we wanted to go with a more expensive company because they did good work and we had a good relationship with them. Sometimes we would use a new person for something not critical.
Often we did this because our contract had penalties for coming in late and it was worth it to pay more knowing we would get it done in time.
But you can't. Like I said these contractors did things by the book. They aren't doing anything illegal. It's just that in a business relationship sometimes you let things slide because both sides want the project to succeed so everyone can make a profit and can work together in the future. To government contractors it doesn't matter if a project is successful. As long as they follow the legality of the contract requirements they can make as much money as they can get away with. It's not like the government is going to run out of money.
Here is an example. We needed a test bed that you could mount a 150kh mass. Then accelerate it at 30m/s^2 for 4m and bring it to a stop in another 4m. It had to do this in the horizontal and in the vertical +z direction. Pretty simple request for proposal. A local company got the bid. They built it and we went to the acceptance test. It could do it horizontally but it didn't have the power to reach 30m/s^2 in the +z. We told them they needed to fix it. They said it met the requirement because you have to take into account that just sitting still it was resisting 9.8m/s^2 of acceleration from gravity. We said BS. We took it to the lawyers and they said since it was a small business contract they were going to side with the company. I then resigned the part that held the test mass to remove enough mass to get back the capabilities we needed. We did those mods on the tax pays dime.
I've worked in private industry and for government and let me tell you the difference from what I've seen.
In business if you put out a quote for a project you can shop around and use other companies reputation and try to come to a decision.If there is is something vague they will call you and try to figure it out. They will sometimes let little changes go. But sometimes they won't. Let's say you pick a company and they nickel and dime you on changes. You finish that project and decide never to use them again if you though you got screwed.
In government it's the opposite. The lowest bidder get's the job as long as they have the capabilities to do it. If there are two ways to interpret something they intentionally pick the wrong way and deliver it so that they can get paid to make the changes. They are legally right. And next time there is a job they are right back in line and you can't bar them from bidding. A companies reputation for screwing over the government doesn't prevent them from winning the bid. What this does is cause the government to waste even more time and effort to make "perfect" requirements. But as any of us know when you are building something from scratch your requirements are going to evolve.
RTA. That facility was to be used to help maintain our nuclear weapons. That is why Kucinich was against it.
When was the last time we had one that didn't flip flop? The straight shooters usually don't make it past the primaries.
Unless the Senate is split 50/50 no effect.
I am a mechanical engineer and this is how I keep it straight in my head.
Just remember F=m a
SI is easy.
N = kg*m/s^2
English is trickier you need a constant
1 lbf = 1lbm * 32.2 ft/s^2
so the constant gc is 32.2 lbm*ft/lbf*s^2
F=m a / gc
The slug is used to get rid of the constant
1lbf = 1 slug * 1 ft/s^2
Here is my interpretation. First you have to realize the US was created by the states and the states wrote and passed the Constitution to try to balance powers. It also enumerated the powers of Congress. If the power isn't written there they don't have it.
So as you wrote the Federal Congress has the power to coin money, and regulate the value of it and foreign coins.
OK that is pretty simple. Congress is granted the power to coin money and regulate it's value and foreign coins. This doesn't prohibit the states or citizens from making and using their own coinage.
Next is the part that prevents the states from writing legal tender laws for anything except gold and silver coin.
OK fine. This means if a state wants to write a legal tender law they can except it has to use gold and silver coins as payment. Notice nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government or Congress given the power to write legal tender laws at all. Remember these are enumerated powers. So therefore the US Congress cannot write any legal tender laws.
This is pretty simple. You have to remember that back then things like legal tender laws and all other financial type crimes were punished by the states not the federal government. Legal tender has to do with forcing someone to pay their debts in a specific form. This restricted a state from saying debts could be paid in some commodity that was cheap in one state and expensive in another. So North Carolina couldn't pass a legal tender law saying debts would be paid in tobacco. The whole idea was to make trade across the states fair and simple. Also notice that a state doesn't even have to have a legal tender law at all. It was up to them.
When my Helium has a positive JT coefficient it's really cold.
Not quite. The bond price takes that future return into account. If rates rise the value of your bond goes to where the present value of a new bond. So it will be a wash if you sell your old low interest bond and buy new bonds with the high interest rate with the proceeds.
I thought it would be fun to run for Congress on a libertarian platform. I would make it a reality show in that I would have a camera following me broadcasting everything I do live on the internet. A cross between The Truman Show and Mr. Smith goes to Washington. Then I realized that Federal Employees are not allowed to run for partisan political office because of the Hatch Act.
Anytime you mill a rectangular pocket it has rounded corners because the endmill is a cylinder. Mechanical engineers have been using rounded rectangles forever.
This line actually made me laugh out loud.
The US patent was filed to use the threat of force to prevent others from using their own liberty and property from using this idea. The idea is not protected by the patent.
You have to be careful. Bond prices drop as interest rates rise. This happens when they contract the money supply. No investment does well during that period in dollar terms but the purchasing power of cash increases so your cash holdings will see real gains.