I never buy California citrus because they all look and taste like they are plastic. If you have an orange tree you know the ugliest citrus tend to taste the best. I have a Satsuma Tangerine tree. The fruit from that are some of the best tasting I've ever had. The problem is the fruit are loose in the skin which makes them easy to peel but impossible to ship since they bruise so easy. Also they are only ripe for about 3 weeks a year.
When are your oranges ripe? My tangerines are done, oranges in a few weeks, Grapefruit is ready now, and limes are all year long.
I understand how the satellites work. What I am saying is the satellites give an uninterrupted high resolution measurement across the globe using a few tightly calibrated instruments. So I trust those trends because there is no selection bias where you are only taking measurements where they are convenient.
I used to think Florida produce sucked until I moved here. It's the shipping that kils the product. Orange trees need fertilizer 3 times a year and I use Fertilome Citrus. They don't need any spraying because no bugs like to eat them. The only thing that bothers them are the deer that like to eat the leaves and fruit,
Same with all the other produce I grow in my Garden.
The only data I trust is the Satelite data from about 1980 forward. Those are pretty unbiased numbers. To me the ice core and tree ring data is open to lots of selection bias. I know they attempt to correct and fit the data. But when you are trying to pull data out of the mud Indont have lots of confidence in it.
Or some employees strike out on their own start a new company and undercut the competition by poaching the best employees of both companies and offering them better benefits.
Critics of laws against predatory pricing may support their case empirically by arguing that there has been no instance where such a practice has actually led to a monopoly. Conversely, they argue that there is much evidence that predatory pricing has failed miserably. For example, Herbert Dow not only found a cheaper way to produce bromine but also defeated a predatory pricing attempt by the government-supported German cartel Bromkonvention, who objected to his selling in Germany at a lower price. Bromkonvention retaliated by flooding the US market with below-cost bromine, at an even lower price than Dow's. But Dow simply instructed his agents to buy up at the very low price, then sell it back in Germany at a profit but still lower than Bromkonvention's price. In the end, the cartel could not keep up selling below cost, and had to give in. This is used as evidence that the free market is a better way to stop predatory pricing than regulations such as anti-trust laws.
I did some rough calculations and it would take about 8 Billion Ping Pong Balls to fill it assuming there are no airtight compartments left. On Amazon you can get them for $11 per gross so that about $600 million in Ping Pong Balls.
I work in a machine shop and every time I do finish carpentry at home I think about what a pain it is coping all of those joints. It would be nice to have a little CNC surfacing router that can measure the joint and cut the cope.
The way the law works is that the police attempt to capture the suspect and bring them in for trial. If during the capture attempt the suspect takes an aggressive act like shooting at the police the police are allowed to return fire in self defense. You don't send the SWAT team in as an execution squad.
There is no way this can be considered self-defense. Defense by definition is stopping an aggressor. This is executing people suspected of terrorism without trial.
Sorry but it is you that is wrong. Value is completely subjective. Everyone has their own individual value scale.
Price is where the market can clear the supply based on demand. An idea once created can be copied infinitely with little cost. So supply is infinite. Since supply is infinite the price will be zero regardless of demand.
I think the free market is an ideal to strive for. That is why I don't want the complexities and burden of the government getting in the way running a temporary IP monopoly scheme. The market rewards the first person to come up with an idea. Apple is an excellent example. They are typically first and even when someone else copies their products they are not as profitable. Imagine how many better products we would have if all of the tech companies fired the lawyers and hired more engineers and technicians?
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I never buy California citrus because they all look and taste like they are plastic. If you have an orange tree you know the ugliest citrus tend to taste the best. I have a Satsuma Tangerine tree. The fruit from that are some of the best tasting I've ever had. The problem is the fruit are loose in the skin which makes them easy to peel but impossible to ship since they bruise so easy. Also they are only ripe for about 3 weeks a year.
When are your oranges ripe? My tangerines are done, oranges in a few weeks, Grapefruit is ready now, and limes are all year long.
I understand how the satellites work. What I am saying is the satellites give an uninterrupted high resolution measurement across the globe using a few tightly calibrated instruments. So I trust those trends because there is no selection bias where you are only taking measurements where they are convenient.
I used to think Florida produce sucked until I moved here. It's the shipping that kils the product. Orange trees need fertilizer 3 times a year and I use Fertilome Citrus. They don't need any spraying because no bugs like to eat them. The only thing that bothers them are the deer that like to eat the leaves and fruit,
Same with all the other produce I grow in my Garden.
The only data I trust is the Satelite data from about 1980 forward. Those are pretty unbiased numbers. To me the ice core and tree ring data is open to lots of selection bias.
I know they attempt to correct and fit the data. But when you are trying to pull data out of the mud Indont have lots of confidence in it.
I live in Florida and all we plant in is sand. All of those oranges tomatoes and strawberries are grown in sand.
Run some refrigerant lines around the inside of the ship and freeze the water in the ship and since it's lighter than liquid it will float.
Or some employees strike out on their own start a new company and undercut the competition by poaching the best employees of both companies and offering them better benefits.
There was a funny case involving Dow Chemicals and a German Chemical Cartel.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
Critics of laws against predatory pricing may support their case empirically by arguing that there has been no instance where such a practice has actually led to a monopoly. Conversely, they argue that there is much evidence that predatory pricing has failed miserably. For example, Herbert Dow not only found a cheaper way to produce bromine but also defeated a predatory pricing attempt by the government-supported German cartel Bromkonvention, who objected to his selling in Germany at a lower price. Bromkonvention retaliated by flooding the US market with below-cost bromine, at an even lower price than Dow's. But Dow simply instructed his agents to buy up at the very low price, then sell it back in Germany at a profit but still lower than Bromkonvention's price. In the end, the cartel could not keep up selling below cost, and had to give in. This is used as evidence that the free market is a better way to stop predatory pricing than regulations such as anti-trust laws.
Wikipedia gives it 114,137 GT
See Gross Tonnage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_tonnage
The volume is 366663m^3
You also forgot packing density.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_packing
I get about 8 Billion Ping Pong balls.
I did some rough calculations and it would take about 8 Billion Ping Pong Balls to fill it assuming there are no airtight compartments left. On Amazon you can get them for $11 per gross so that about $600 million in Ping Pong Balls.
Your kidding right?
Build a coffer dam around it and pump it out to make a dry dock.
From Pearl Harbor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxjgZ1IOa8
This is used in the pipeline industry when you need to put a new port or hole on a pipeline but don't want to shut it down.
Here is a little video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJoImbxSMFE
I work in a machine shop and every time I do finish
carpentry at home I think about what a pain it is
coping all of those joints. It would be nice to have a little CNC surfacing router that can measure the joint and cut the cope.
Just sayin.
And 5 1/4 floppies.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/7-BASF-5-25-FLOPPY-DISKS-/140338067360
The way the law works is that the police attempt to capture the suspect and bring them in for trial. If during the capture attempt the suspect takes an aggressive act like shooting at the police the police are allowed to return fire in self defense. You don't send the SWAT team in as an execution squad.
It's already registered to a BDSM website.
There is no way this can be considered self-defense. Defense by definition is stopping an aggressor. This is executing people suspected of terrorism without trial.
I worked there as a kid which was around 1990. In the employee area the drinks were 25 cents and hamburgers 50 cents. Holy crap I feel old.
Copper is more dense than steel. I don't know if the equivalent capacity cable is lighter though.
I sure hope so otherwise I've been putting RT inspection on my welds notes for no reason.
Sorry but it is you that is wrong. Value is completely subjective. Everyone has their own individual value scale.
Price is where the market can clear the supply based on demand. An idea once created can be copied infinitely with little cost. So supply is infinite. Since supply is infinite the price will be zero regardless of demand.
I think the free market is an ideal to strive for. That is why I don't want the complexities and burden of the government getting in the way running a temporary IP monopoly scheme. The market rewards the first person to come up with an idea. Apple is an excellent example. They are typically first and even when someone else copies their products they are not as profitable. Imagine how many better products we would have if all of the tech companies fired the lawyers and hired more engineers and technicians?
My booger sculpture garden works well.