You are correct but missing the point. In a closed environment the air conditioner or heat pump will make heat. After all it takes energy to run. But what the other poster is talking about is how efficient it is for its purpose which is heating or cooling your house.
Let's say you have an electric strip heater of 1kW. The most heat it can generate would be 1kW right?
Now say you have 1kW heat pump. You can use this to pump in heat from housing your house to inside your house and provide much more than 1kW of heating into your house.
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You are right but also the fact that there is such a thing as a prescription. The laws that make certain drugs only available by prescription in effect makes doctors gatekeepers to getting well. I have allergies and maybe once or twice a year it gets out of control and I get a painful ear/sinus infection. I usually try to tough it out but with all of the normal adult responsibilities I sometimes need an antibiotic and course of steroids. This has been going on every year of my adult life. But by law I am not allowed to go to the store and get the $10 in drugs I need. Instead I need to go to a doctor and pay a $30 copay and whatever the insurance company is billed to get better.
An easy way to reduce healthcare costs is to eliminate prescription drugs. Also eliminate the FDA's ability to approve drugs. You own your body and should be able to take what you want. I would keep the FDA as an advisory board like UL. Drug companies can pay to have an FDA review the drug and put a seal of approval on it.
By eliminating the FDA's approval process drugs would get to market much faster and you can get rid of drug patents. All the drug company would be responsible for was insuring the content of the drugs they produce is what is on the label similar to a food label. They wouldn't be responsible for side effects and that risk would be borne by the user. This is similar to food also. There are people with allergies that need to avoid certain foods. As long as the manufacturer lists the ingredients it is up to the user to decide if it is safe for them.
Why does is there such a hatred of air conditioning? I post like yours all the time. But nobody complains about heating. It's much more efficient to live in a warm area and have to cool the house 10 degrees than live in a cold area and warm it 60.
I get refunds all of the time. This year I've have at least 10. I download an app and check it out right away. If it sucks I just to to iTunes and report that I bought it by mistake. One time they rejected it but I followed up saying I did due diligence but the app didn't perform as advertised. They gave me the refund right there.
I suggested all app purchases should have a 5 minute trial period. In 5 minutes you pretty much know if you have been conned.
It seems some people are saying don't take it out on the device manufacturer. If that sentiment is held by the majority than the PR firm would have in fact done it's job well. More people know about the product and will by it despite the PR guy. This means the PR guy did a good job.
Wait a second. Do you mean free people have tools at their disposal to handle companies that take advantage of people? That can't be true. Don't we need some wort of regulation or law?
Since we are talking ethics I'll use the real dollar amounts. I was right out of college in 1996. I interned for this company for 2 years and I when I was hired full time was getting paid $13.50/hr. I was newly married and I didn't want to spend 16 hour days in the office. We were a small office where we had a few permanent people and as jobs came in we hired temps or sent work out. This was standard practice. I saw this and went to my boss and offered to do the work for a fixed price at home where it was quiet. I took one job that was being sent out and I bid 200 hours on it at my regular pay of $13.50/hr and I'd have it done in 6 weeks. So fixed price. $2700 done in 6 weeks all to our company standards. He said no.
They send it for bid the winning bid was 8 weeks and I don't know the price. One of the drafters was moonlighting as well with this company and he gave them my name. They called and asked if I would bid the job. I gave them the same numbers I gave my boss. These guys were very nice old Italian guys. He laughed at me when I gave him the bid. He said he couldn't in good conciseness pay me so little. So he gave it to me for a fixed price of $5000 and 8 weeks. So in reality I have no clue how much they charged I was just guessing.
I have no ethical problems with this because I gave my company a chance to let me do it and save money. I also never signed a contract stating I wouldn't moonlight. I also never slacked at work in order for more work to go out.
Yeah. I forgot to mention the best part. My boss was impressed with the great work the job shop (I) did. So he had me just do the assembly design and layout and sent all the detail work to the job shop (me again). I made lots of money that year. Unfortunately I didn't realize when you are self employed you have to pay your taxes quarterly. I was saving the money since I at least knew I owed taxes at the end of the year. I didn't count on the 10% penalty.
Lots of variables here. If you have a good rapport with your boss you can bring up the subject and say that you noticed a lot of time was being spent doing routine tasks that you think can be automated. Give him a business case where you can figure out how much money that software can save him in his budget each year either by reducing downtime, staff, ect. Then say you would like a promotion and raise where you split those savings 50/50 (or whatever) over what you are making now. If that's not possible say you are willing to do the job on a contract basis where you do the work at home and bill them when the software is delivered.
I was once an engineer at a company where we sent work out when we were busy. I saw how much they were spending to get these parts drawings made and I offered to do it for 1/2 the price at home. My boss refused. So I went to the job shop that was doing the work and offered to do the work for 75% of what they charged. Since I was familiar with the job I could get it done very quickly. The job shop accepted because they were getting paid for doing nothing.
In real business it always comes down to peoples motivations. What are your bosses biggest headaches? To get ahead you have to figure them out and how much it's worth to them.
I remember a lecture where they went over why the months have the number of days they do. I'm not sure this is entirely accurate but at least it helps me remember what months have how many days.
It was a 10 month calendar where it alternated between 31 and 30 days and started in March (Mars) which was the start of nice battle weather and ended in December and they just didn't bother counting the days in winter and waiting for spring to arrive. Eventually January and February were added to the end. to get this.
1 March 31 2 April 30 3 May 31 4 June 30 5 Quintilis 31 6 Sextilis 30 7September 31 8 October 30 9 November 31 10 December 30 11 January 31 12 February 28 basically whatever was left over.
Notice the first 4 months are named after Gods. So when Julius Cesear came to power he renamed the 5th Month July after himself. Then they also changed the order so it started with January. Then Augustus came to power and took the 6th month. But he didn't want his month to be shorter so he changed it to 31 days and changed the rest of the months to alternate from 30 to 31.
So that is why the months have the number of days they have.
I knew this would happen on Slashdot. This was a comment about economics not science. It was describing what happens when manufacturing costs drop and those jobs are eliminated and if it's a good thing or bad thing for society.
I'm not sure where you vote but where I live in Florida we use an optical scan ballot. This is a paper ballot that gets scanned at the polling place and checked for under/over votes then counted. The paper ballots are fed directly out of the scanner into a locked box. They can be validated in the future if needed.
I like this system the best because there is only one machine required per polling place but you can have dozens of people actually filling in ballots in booths made with cheap little privacy screens. This keeps the costs down.
When a star trek replicator is invented all manufacturing and agriculture will cease to exist. There will be no jobs required because there will be no scarcity. It doesn't make you poorer in real terms. People will be creative doing all types of design and art because that is what they want to do.
The thing I always wonder about in such a world is how to allocate the few limiting resources left like personal performances. I guess a holodeck is close but if people really want to see someone in person what could the charge or offer to decide on who gets to go.
You are confusing labor and leisure. There seems to be a lot of that these days. When you say people need a basic income it is unsustainable. You are saying everyone deserves to be able to force someone else to labor for them. After all that is what food, shelter, energy, and healthcare is. But if you accept your premise that anyone can use force to take the fruits of someone else's labor then you create a system where everyone is busy trying to steal instead of produce. That is unsustainable and is the reason the world economy is collapsing.
I give plenty of money to all different organizations. The problem I have with the Red Cross is that they are dishonest. If you want to have cash on hand to prepare for future disasters fine. But at least be honest and open about it. And don't put commercials on TV asking for donations to help victims of some high profile disaster when you know full well that money isn't going towards it.
Simple. Drive paranoid. When I drive I assume that I pissed off someone in their family and they want to kill me. So I don't drive right next to someone. I always try to leave an out.
Now I live in a mostly rural place. I used to live in NJ and the traffic there made it near impossible to drive this way.
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You are correct but missing the point. In a closed environment the air conditioner or heat pump will make heat. After all it takes energy to run. But what the other poster is talking about is how efficient it is for its purpose which is heating or cooling your house.
Let's say you have an electric strip heater of 1kW. The most heat it can generate would be 1kW right?
Now say you have 1kW heat pump. You can use this to pump in heat from housing your house to inside your house and provide much more than 1kW of heating into your house.
You are right but also the fact that there is such a thing as a prescription. The laws that make certain drugs only available by prescription in effect makes doctors gatekeepers to getting well. I have allergies and maybe once or twice a year it gets out of control and I get a painful ear/sinus infection. I usually try to tough it out but with all of the normal adult responsibilities I sometimes need an antibiotic and course of steroids. This has been going on every year of my adult life. But by law I am not allowed to go to the store and get the $10 in drugs I need. Instead I need to go to a doctor and pay a $30 copay and whatever the insurance company is billed to get better.
An easy way to reduce healthcare costs is to eliminate prescription drugs. Also eliminate the FDA's ability to approve drugs. You own your body and should be able to take what you want. I would keep the FDA as an advisory board like UL. Drug companies can pay to have an FDA review the drug and put a seal of approval on it.
By eliminating the FDA's approval process drugs would get to market much faster and you can get rid of drug patents. All the drug company would be responsible for was insuring the content of the drugs they produce is what is on the label similar to a food label. They wouldn't be responsible for side effects and that risk would be borne by the user. This is similar to food also. There are people with allergies that need to avoid certain foods. As long as the manufacturer lists the ingredients it is up to the user to decide if it is safe for them.
This is true. The only way to prevent this in the future is to boycott the Avenger. Otherwise you are rewarding the A-hole.
In Michael Vick's defense he was a big Pokemon fan.
You mean like this brilliant location for a climate temperature monitor?
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_itemId=849
Why does is there such a hatred of air conditioning? I post like yours all the time. But nobody complains about heating. It's much more efficient to live in a warm area and have to cool the house 10 degrees than live in a cold area and warm it 60.
I'm not a chemist but it says its a isopropylamine salt of glyphosate. Isn't a salt an electrolyte?
Or we have to grow food underground away from insects using only torches for light.
I get refunds all of the time. This year I've have at least 10. I download an app and check it out right away. If it sucks I just to to iTunes and report that I bought it by mistake. One time they rejected it but I followed up saying I did due diligence but the app didn't perform as advertised. They gave me the refund right there.
I suggested all app purchases should have a 5 minute trial period. In 5 minutes you pretty much know if you have been conned.
It seems some people are saying don't take it out on the device manufacturer. If that sentiment is held by the majority than the PR firm would have in fact done it's job well. More people know about the product and will by it despite the PR guy. This means the PR guy did a good job.
It might have to do with the fact he looked EXACTLY like the PHB.
Wait a second. Do you mean free people have tools at their disposal to handle companies that take advantage of people? That can't be true. Don't we need some wort of regulation or law?
I suck at mnemonics.
Since we are talking ethics I'll use the real dollar amounts. I was right out of college in 1996. I interned for this company for 2 years and I when I was hired full time was getting paid $13.50/hr. I was newly married and I didn't want to spend 16 hour days in the office. We were a small office where we had a few permanent people and as jobs came in we hired temps or sent work out. This was standard practice. I saw this and went to my boss and offered to do the work for a fixed price at home where it was quiet. I took one job that was being sent out and I bid 200 hours on it at my regular pay of $13.50/hr and I'd have it done in 6 weeks. So fixed price. $2700 done in 6 weeks all to our company standards. He said no.
They send it for bid the winning bid was 8 weeks and I don't know the price. One of the drafters was moonlighting as well with this company and he gave them my name. They called and asked if I would bid the job. I gave them the same numbers I gave my boss. These guys were very nice old Italian guys. He laughed at me when I gave him the bid. He said he couldn't in good conciseness pay me so little. So he gave it to me for a fixed price of $5000 and 8 weeks. So in reality I have no clue how much they charged I was just guessing.
I have no ethical problems with this because I gave my company a chance to let me do it and save money. I also never signed a contract stating I wouldn't moonlight. I also never slacked at work in order for more work to go out.
Yeah. I forgot to mention the best part. My boss was impressed with the great work the job shop (I) did. So he had me just do the assembly design and layout and sent all the detail work to the job shop (me again). I made lots of money that year. Unfortunately I didn't realize when you are self employed you have to pay your taxes quarterly. I was saving the money since I at least knew I owed taxes at the end of the year. I didn't count on the 10% penalty.
Lots of variables here. If you have a good rapport with your boss you can bring up the subject and say that you noticed a lot of time was being spent doing routine tasks that you think can be automated. Give him a business case where you can figure out how much money that software can save him in his budget each year either by reducing downtime, staff, ect. Then say you would like a promotion and raise where you split those savings 50/50 (or whatever) over what you are making now. If that's not possible say you are willing to do the job on a contract basis where you do the work at home and bill them when the software is delivered.
I was once an engineer at a company where we sent work out when we were busy. I saw how much they were spending to get these parts drawings made and I offered to do it for 1/2 the price at home. My boss refused. So I went to the job shop that was doing the work and offered to do the work for 75% of what they charged. Since I was familiar with the job I could get it done very quickly. The job shop accepted because they were getting paid for doing nothing.
In real business it always comes down to peoples motivations. What are your bosses biggest headaches? To get ahead you have to figure them out and how much it's worth to them.
I remember a lecture where they went over why the months have the number of days they do. I'm not sure this is entirely accurate but at least it helps me remember what months have how many days.
It was a 10 month calendar where it alternated between 31 and 30 days and started in March (Mars) which was the start of nice battle weather and ended in December and they just didn't bother counting the days in winter and waiting for spring to arrive. Eventually January and February were added to the end. to get this.
1 March 31
2 April 30
3 May 31
4 June 30
5 Quintilis 31
6 Sextilis 30
7September 31
8 October 30
9 November 31
10 December 30
11 January 31
12 February 28 basically whatever was left over.
Notice the first 4 months are named after Gods. So when Julius Cesear came to power he renamed the 5th Month July after himself. Then they also changed the order so it started with January.
Then Augustus came to power and took the 6th month. But he didn't want his month to be shorter so he changed it to 31 days and changed the rest of the months
to alternate from 30 to 31.
So that is why the months have the number of days they have.
I knew this would happen on Slashdot. This was a comment about economics not science. It was describing what happens when manufacturing costs drop and those jobs are eliminated and if it's a good thing or bad thing for society.
I'm not sure where you vote but where I live in Florida we use an optical scan ballot. This is a paper ballot that gets scanned at the polling place and checked for under/over votes then counted. The paper ballots are fed directly out of the scanner into a locked box. They can be validated in the future if needed.
I like this system the best because there is only one machine required per polling place but you can have dozens of people actually filling in ballots in booths made with cheap little privacy screens. This keeps the costs down.
When a star trek replicator is invented all manufacturing and agriculture will cease to exist. There will be no jobs required because there will be no scarcity. It doesn't make you poorer in real terms. People will be creative doing all types of design and art because that is what they want to do.
The thing I always wonder about in such a world is how to allocate the few limiting resources left like personal performances. I guess a holodeck is close but if people really want to see someone in person what could the charge or offer to decide on who gets to go.
You are confusing labor and leisure. There seems to be a lot of that these days. When you say people need a basic income it is unsustainable. You are saying everyone deserves to be able to force someone else to labor for them. After all that is what food, shelter, energy, and healthcare is. But if you accept your premise that anyone can use force to take the fruits of someone else's labor then you create a system where everyone is busy trying to steal instead of produce. That is unsustainable and is the reason the world economy is collapsing.
I am making my way through Human Action right now.
I give plenty of money to all different organizations. The problem I have with the Red Cross is that they are dishonest. If you want to have cash on hand to prepare for future disasters fine. But at least be honest and open about it. And don't put commercials on TV asking for donations to help victims of some high profile disaster when you know full well that money isn't going towards it.
Simple. Drive paranoid. When I drive I assume that I pissed off someone in their family and they want to kill me. So I don't drive right next to someone. I always try to leave an out.
Now I live in a mostly rural place. I used to live in NJ and the traffic there made it near impossible to drive this way.
Someone better tell NASA since they did it already.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist#The_Ulysses_probe_changed_the_plane_of_its_trajectory