Comment Re:data protection in the EU (Score 1) 103
That and it's a jobs bill. Hard to consolidate your data centers out of country if that's illegal. Need in-country monkeys to run those boxes!
A cop doing their job.
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This strikes me just like the cops back in college that would pull over TAXIS leaving bars in order to ticket the kids leaving the bar with public intoxication. Technically doing their job. Definitely adding incentive to the wrong behavior. It was "safer" to leave certain bars in your own car rather than in a cab
The incentive is certainly going to encourage the greater of the two evils
Citation needed.
from wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States)
The minimum wage was re-established in the United States in 1938 (pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act), once again at $0.25 per hour ($4.10 in 2012 dollars[63]).
What a crock of sh*t! I grew up around lead, lead pipes in the house, lead paint, lead-acid batteries, etc. I haven't tried to kill anyone, and last I knew, I had a very high IQ (well, at least in HS, many, many years ago anyway), so this study is BS! We need lead in every day life. We need lead in solder, batteries, electronics, weights, etc. Lead is a very important metal, we can not do without it.
I am so sick of these environmentalist freaks, so sick.
So sick you wish to do them violent harm perhaps?
You might want to ask the Kurds, how that non-terrorism worked for them.
Agreed in principal. But when the gov't defines terrorism
Is any of Apple's current product capable of wireless charging? Did they develop any of the technology, as in doing the research?
Nah. The new Lumia and Nexus 4 can do wireless charging. Those happen to be Microsoft and Google's flagship phones. Apple's phones don't do it yet, so they want to sue this competitive disadvantage out of existence. I guess they are unable to compete otherwise
If you own AAPL
Current industrial farming practices use 10 calories of energy (mostly from petrochemicals) to produce 1 calorie of food.
Contemporary farming techniques are heavily dependent on petrochemicals to produce fertilizer.
Contemporary farming techniques deplete topsoil faster than it will naturally replenish.
That said, there're a lot of dandelions and wild garlic in most yards (and more acreage in lawns in the U.S. than any single crop).
When you figure out how to feed people oil we'll be 10x as efficient! Only mildly sarcastic there. Just how many "calories" of solar energy are used to grow that 1 calorie of food?
(From wikipedia) The approximate average value cited,[4] 1.361 kW/m, is equivalent to 1.952 calories per minute per square centimeter, or 1.952 langleys (Ly)—or, in SI units— about 81.672 kJ/m per minute.
So for any plant that produces 1 calorie of nutritional value, every square centimeter of leaf area "wastes" the VAST majority of 1.952 calories a minute!
Bottom line, conversion losses exist. Solar energy is no more useful to our bodies as direct nourishment than crude oil. Energy is lost converting either oil (as fertilizer) or sunlight into a potato
deliberate political policy
Today the statists have us burning our food, while simultaneously driving pig farmers and egg producers out of business with animal `welfare' regulation and high feed cost.
Naturally, when the crash comes it will be the fault of `corporations.'
I wouldn't say it's the statists burning our food, or at least in my limited experience it wasn't the case. I grew up in a rural Indiana town and outside of a single factory, the largest portion of its economy is corn. When I was in HS in the 90's there were a couple years when the farmers had absolutely huge yields
At first I was a bit disgusted. After all, we were just talking about starving kids in Africa and Susanne Sommers makes a great pitch! But then I realized that in order to get that corn to the folks that need it, someone has to pay the farmer or HIS FAMILY will be the ones starving. (Maybe not literally starving, but they'd certainly lose the farm.)
Makes the ethanol mandates and their timing make more sense now that I think about it. A politician (or group there of) would be very likely to make the mistake "Corn is too cheap! Let's artificially create demand by using it in gasoline!"
The only difference is that when I was doing it, we were doing it for the "country". Now it is for Foxconn.
There is a difference?
Since Foxconn is not a Chinese company (it is Taiwanese), I would say that yes, there is a difference.
To be fair, many (most?) Chinese see Taiwan as a part of China (if the news is to be believed).
Devout Mormons are instructed to store away a year's worth of food and necessities. Here in Salt Lake City, Utah, there are numerous stores that cater to this. I wonder what NASA could learn from them. Some stores sell a complete [Freeze Dried] year's worth of food prepackaged, and variety is a big selling point. (And they have various options at various at various prices depending on the variety and quantity you want. (Or buy one of their grain grinders and some grain to mix it up a bit.)
So, NASA could just mail order three one-year packages per person, and be done with it.
So Mitt Romney will get us to Mars first? Color me confused
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
