The real thing these guys have in common is they didn't just create companies they helped created industries.
So if you want to start a company that does something other companies do it would make sense to go to school and learn about those industries. But if you want to create an industry that doesn't exist you are not going to learn it in school.
That doesn't happen too often in Florida because every tree sees strong winds every year. 50+ mph thunderstorms are typical a couple times a summer. So if a limb on a tree is weak it will break before it can get too big.
In Florida since we get nasty storms all of the time the power companies have full time crews that trim trees near power lines. They are going to have to do it anyway when a storm comes and it's easier to do it when the weather is nice for 3/4 of the year than when the storms come in the heat and humidity of the summer. All you have to do is call them up to take a look at a tree near their lines and they will take a look and trim it if needed.
The rest of the country might not get this weather often enough to spend the time to maintain the trees so when a freak storm comes by you not only have had lots of tree growth but it's growth that hasn't been subjected to high winds.
This is only a guess by RO filters have two things that take power. They require a high pressure differential across the membrane which makes for expensive pumps, piping and electric bills. Also they have a lot of bypass water which wastes energy by making you bring it up to pressure and then just dump it out.
If this membrane requires less pressure and less bypass it will significantly reduce both the capital costs and operating costs of such a system.
If you keep your wealth in a foreign currency you will be subject to capital gains if the government decides to devalue your currency. That should be eliminated to allow easier competition.
It has been abused when $10 Trillion or so was created and handed out to the banks and foreign governments to prop them up. What you aren't looking at is who gets harmed and who gets the benefits of the inflated dollars. The rise in your dollar is a good thing. It allows you to buy more things from countries that decided to devalue their money. Do you want to produce or consume? Is your government doing you a favor by stealing the value of your money in order to make you poorer thereby making your exports cheaper?
Take it to extremes. Would you rather have the money in your bank account be worth 10% of what it's worth now or 1000%? If it's worth 10% you would have to work harder for less money and you could export more. If it's worth 1000% you wouldn't be able to export because you would be able to buy what you need and it would take a bunch of money to entice you to work.
The one option nobody installing about is allow competition in money. There rally doesn't need to be a forced standard with legal tender laws. In this at gold, silver, bit coins, clam shells, and even federal reserve notes can all exist and be used. In that way If there wasn't enough gold to function properly as money something else would step in.
The problem with fiat money is that it can be created at no cost. That is the ultimate power and will always be abused.
The whole point of islamic terrorism is to get the US out of their countries. This strategy will work because eventually we will not be able to pay the bills and the troops will have to come home. Like Rome, Britain, Spain, France, and Russia. All empires end the same way the people can't afford to keep paying troops deployed abroad.
Not only was the memory limited but they didn't even have enough memory for a frame buffer so they used a line buffer. You had to make the program fast enough to write the data into the register before it was scanned to the screen. What is crazy is that even though there were only two bit mapped sprites, two 2 pixel missiles, and a one pixel ball you could really do a lot more by changing the colors and locations of these things between scan lines.
One interesting story was in Yars Revenge they ran out of memory to store color data. So in the one place on the screen where there was a safe zone it just read random data from the program to generate this random static looking area. That was good enough to get the program to fit.
I put CC on every movie I watch with the kids. They are loud and it's nice not missing the dialog. Also there are many Movies that have their sound so skewed that I can't hear the dialog without turning the volume up load enough to shake the house during the loud scenes.
The truth is everyone is a producer and a consumer. As a consumer we want lots of choices and cheap prices. As a producer we want a monopoly and outrageous prices. The same is true with immigration. Most people are fine with immigrant labor as long as it doesn't compete with them directly because it helps drive down the prices they pay. But if there is competition they don't like it.
There are only a few logical reasons to not want immigrant and they are all due to the welfare state. The fear is that the immigrant will come here and not produce and just consume off the taxpayers. If we didn't have a welfare state this fear wouldn't exist. If the purpose of the state was to protect peoples property and liberty immigrants would be welcome because they couldn't use the state to take your money by force.
That argument assumes that people are the property of the government. If a person wants to leave a country and move somewhere where they are welcomed what's the problem?
Interesting theory. But it seems the effects is strongest for things that people already like to do. From the abysmal availability of organs I would think this would have no effect. Also a free market would not force payments only allow for them.
You have to give consent before you die so the motivation has to apply to the living.
I wonder if the producers of the show will screw with the people like say the supply ship isn't coming when it is? Or do other things since the producers will be their only line of communication?
Nope. Right now there are price controls on the supply of organs. The price is zero. How do you think that is effecting supply? If you allow people to get paid for their own body the supply will increase dramatically. This increase in supply will allow more people to get organs. Sure the rich will be able to buy their way to the front of the line but that is true with everything. The rich have much better and safer cars, houses, ect than other people. But this also helps innovation by allowing the development costs be borne by the new adopters.
Not at all. Right now the donor gets zero compensation so there is a very limited supply. This pushes the value up which makes the people in charge of distribution very powerful. This power attracts corruption by those with the means to do it.
A market is the exact opposite. By allowing compensation to the donor there will be a vastly larger supply of organs. This will push prices down and make them more available.
Even if this wasn't the case I would still be for it because to reject the argument means that you accept that other people own your body.
This is the type of stuff that always happens when there is a prohibition on something. It makes the gatekeepers so powerful that people will use whatever means necessary to influence them.
Acknowledging that people own their bodies would allow them to sell parts of their bodies. Those that can be harvested while they are alive like bone marrow, kidneys, parts of the liver, would be pretty straight forward. Those that are harvested after death might involve getting a deal on life insurance if you transfer ownership of your organs to the insurance company after death, or you could will them to a family member.
This would make organs so readily available that no black market would exist.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer that works in a Machine Shop. 1/1000 of an inch is usually called one thousandth or one mil. I say one thousandth. On drawings it is written.001. There is actually a whole system of tolerancing mechanical drawings ASME Y14.5. You don't just put a tolerance on a dimension but also how it relates to other features.
In this case the critical dimension would be a flatness tolerance on both parts and would be less than.001.
This isn't a difficult tolerance to meet but it would require some care and post machining inspection to verify. As for making SI parts on English machines it isn't too difficult if you have CNC machines. Most modern CAD software keeps track of units so if I have an SI model the program that writes the tool paths for my English CNC mill does all the conversions. The only extra equipment you usually need are the drills and taps for making threaded holes.
AutoCAD isn't used by too many serious mechanical engineers anymore. We have moved to parametric CAD like Solid Works, Pro/E, CATIA, ect. Structural Engineers use programs like STAAD that have tools for compiling with structural steel standards. I do know some people that still use AutoCAD for schematic work.
The only problems with immigrants are due to our own stupid laws that attract the wrong kind of immigrants and the problems they bring. The war on drugs brings the drug gangs, the war on poverty brings the destitute that aren't here to work but be a parasite, and the war on terror brings the ever elusive mid-eastern terrorist posing as a mexican.
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The real thing these guys have in common is they didn't just create companies they helped created industries.
So if you want to start a company that does something other companies do it would make sense to go to school and learn about those industries. But if you want to create an industry that doesn't exist you are not going to learn it in school.
That doesn't happen too often in Florida because every tree sees strong winds every year. 50+ mph thunderstorms are typical a couple times a summer. So if a limb on a tree is weak it will break before it can get too big.
In Florida since we get nasty storms all of the time the power companies have full time crews that trim trees near power lines. They are going to have to do it anyway when a storm comes and it's easier to do it when the weather is nice for 3/4 of the year than when the storms come in the heat and humidity of the summer. All you have to do is call them up to take a look at a tree near their lines and they will take a look and trim it if needed.
The rest of the country might not get this weather often enough to spend the time to maintain the trees so when a freak storm comes by you not only have had lots of tree growth but it's growth that hasn't been subjected to high winds.
http://www.fpl.com/residential/trees/index.shtml
No The Constellation program was cancelled. The Orion capsule and the SLS portuons were kept.
Yeah. It's called ASME B31.
http://www.asme.org/products/books/process-piping--the-complete-guide-to-asme-b31-3--
This is only a guess by RO filters have two things that take power. They require a high pressure differential across the membrane which makes for expensive pumps, piping and electric bills. Also they have a lot of bypass water which wastes energy by making you bring it up to pressure and then just dump it out.
If this membrane requires less pressure and less bypass it will significantly reduce both the capital costs and operating costs of such a system.
God I loved "Top Secret"
If you keep your wealth in a foreign currency you will be subject to capital gains if the government decides to devalue your currency. That should be eliminated to allow easier competition.
It has been abused when $10 Trillion or so was created and handed out to the banks and foreign governments to prop them up. What you aren't looking at is who gets harmed and who gets the benefits of the inflated dollars. The rise in your dollar is a good thing. It allows you to buy more things from countries that decided to devalue their money. Do you want to produce or consume? Is your government doing you a favor by stealing the value of your money in order to make you poorer thereby making your exports cheaper?
Take it to extremes. Would you rather have the money in your bank account be worth 10% of what it's worth now or 1000%? If it's worth 10% you would have to work harder for less money and you could export more. If it's worth 1000% you wouldn't be able to export because you would be able to buy what you need and it would take a bunch of money to entice you to work.
The one option nobody installing about is allow competition in money. There rally doesn't need to be a forced standard with legal tender laws. In this at gold, silver, bit coins, clam shells, and even federal reserve notes can all exist and be used. In that way
If there wasn't enough gold to function properly as money something else would step in.
The problem with fiat money is that it can be created at no cost. That is the ultimate power and will always be abused.
The whole point of islamic terrorism is to get the US out of their countries. This strategy will work because eventually we will not be able to pay the bills and the troops will have to come home. Like Rome, Britain, Spain, France, and Russia. All empires end the same way the people can't afford to keep paying troops deployed abroad.
I suggest reading this. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11696
Not only was the memory limited but they didn't even have enough memory for a frame buffer so they used a line buffer. You had to make the program fast enough to write the data into the register before it was scanned to the screen. What is crazy is that even though there were only two bit mapped sprites, two 2 pixel missiles, and a one pixel ball you could really do a lot more by changing the colors and locations of these things between scan lines.
One interesting story was in Yars Revenge they ran out of memory to store color data. So in the one place on the screen where there was a safe zone it just read random data from the program to generate this random static looking area. That was good enough to get the program to fit.
You got me. I'm a horrible parent by letting my 2, 6, and 8 year old laugh and enjoy movies at home.
I put CC on every movie I watch with the kids. They are loud and it's nice not missing the dialog. Also there are many Movies that have their sound so skewed that I can't hear the dialog without turning the volume up load enough to shake the house during the loud scenes.
The truth is everyone is a producer and a consumer. As a consumer we want lots of choices and cheap prices. As a producer we want a monopoly and outrageous prices. The same is true with immigration. Most people are fine with immigrant labor as long as it doesn't compete with them directly because it helps drive down the prices they pay. But if there is competition they don't like it.
There are only a few logical reasons to not want immigrant and they are all due to the welfare state. The fear is that the immigrant will come here and not produce and just consume off the taxpayers. If we didn't have a welfare state this fear wouldn't exist. If the purpose of the state was to protect peoples property and liberty immigrants would be welcome because they couldn't use the state to take your money by force.
That argument assumes that people are the property of the government. If a person wants to leave a country and move somewhere where they are welcomed what's the problem?
Post a link to show it in context.
Interesting theory. But it seems the effects is strongest for things that people already like to do. From the abysmal availability of organs I would think this would have no effect. Also a free market would not force payments only allow for them.
You have to give consent before you die so the motivation has to apply to the living.
I wonder if the producers of the show will screw with the people like say the supply ship isn't coming when it is? Or do other things since the producers will be their only line of communication?
I think Congressman Hank Johnson would agree with your theory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
Nope. Right now there are price controls on the supply of organs. The price is zero. How do you think that is effecting supply? If you allow people to get paid for their own body the supply will increase dramatically. This increase in supply will allow more people to get organs. Sure the rich will be able to buy their way to the front of the line but that is true with everything. The rich have much better and safer cars, houses, ect than other people. But this also helps innovation by allowing the development costs be borne by the new adopters.
Not at all. Right now the donor gets zero compensation so there is a very limited supply. This pushes the value up which makes the people in charge of distribution very powerful. This power attracts corruption by those with the means to do it.
A market is the exact opposite. By allowing compensation to the donor there will be a vastly larger supply of organs. This will push prices down and make them more available.
Even if this wasn't the case I would still be for it because to reject the argument means that you accept that other people own your body.
This is the type of stuff that always happens when there is a prohibition on something. It makes the gatekeepers so powerful that people will use whatever means necessary to influence them.
Acknowledging that people own their bodies would allow them to sell parts of their bodies. Those that can be harvested while they are alive like bone marrow, kidneys, parts of the liver, would be pretty straight forward. Those that are harvested after death might involve getting a deal on life insurance if you transfer ownership of your organs to the insurance company after death, or you could will them to a family member.
This would make organs so readily available that no black market would exist.
I'm a Mechanical Engineer that works in a Machine Shop. 1/1000 of an inch is usually called one thousandth or one mil. I say one thousandth. On drawings it is written .001. There is actually a whole system of tolerancing mechanical drawings ASME Y14.5. You don't just put a tolerance on a dimension but also how it relates to other features.
In this case the critical dimension would be a flatness tolerance on both parts and would be less than .001.
This isn't a difficult tolerance to meet but it would require some care and post machining inspection to verify. As for making SI parts on English machines it isn't too difficult if you have CNC machines. Most modern CAD software keeps track of units so if I have an SI model the program that writes the tool paths for my English CNC mill does all the conversions. The only extra equipment you usually need are the drills and taps for making threaded holes.
AutoCAD isn't used by too many serious mechanical engineers anymore. We have moved to parametric CAD like Solid Works, Pro/E, CATIA, ect. Structural Engineers use programs like STAAD that have tools for compiling with structural steel standards. I do know some people that still use AutoCAD for schematic work.
The only problems with immigrants are due to our own stupid laws that attract the wrong kind of immigrants and the problems they bring. The war on drugs brings the drug gangs, the war on poverty brings the destitute that aren't here to work but be a parasite, and the war on terror brings the ever elusive mid-eastern terrorist posing as a mexican.