Actually they would get just enough labor. This has already been tried. It is called the Alaska crab fishery where you make about that much under terrible conditions and they still have a hard time getting a full crew that can handle the demands of the job.
After exhausting its primary battery, it went into hibernation, most likely never to wake again.
Huh? ESA has insisted that they expect it to wake up again, maybe within the next few days and failing that by 2015.
The politburo was informed in 1979 in a super secret session that the economy could no longer support the arms race and the USSR was broke. Nothing much seems to have come out of it, except that one young Comrade Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was in attendance. Some believe that this was the moment he started planning the changes needed for the USSR to survive.
As to Reagan his true contribution was his willingness to negotiate with the USSR. Thatcher had to point out to Reagan that Gorbachev was a willing negotiating partner. After a hesitating start Reagan got the message and bought full in on the negotiations. This was his contribution, not increase in spending, not the speech in the Berlin Wall, not his deficit increasing tax cuts.
Contrary to what you say, many studies have found that the better educated and informed you are the more likely you are to be a liberal.
Of course it makes you feel better to state the opposite opinion as if it were a fact, which is yet another confirmation of the studies above.
Actually, I recall reading articles in Newsweek in the early 80s which were already outrageous. Most of them are a consequence of the war on drugs, which was intensified by Reagan and followed up by all other administrations (Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr. Obama).
Flynn, an ardent libertarian,
Ardent libertarian is the term used in polite society for "emotionally immature and intellectually unsophisticated". A libertarian society replicates the current status quo in terms or taxes and tariffs but with the difference that now you have no power over the revenue collector, which is as private corporation.
In a libertarian society I can simply refuse you to drive on my highway because I don't like your face.
It is easy to post growing sales if your profits are zero. The hard part is to have a growing business that actually makes money on each sales. Every time they seem to have gained traction on a market (like books) they seem to negate it by offering incentives such as Amazon prime. T
hey have yet to prove that they can sell products at operating costs+3% on an ongoing basis.
Microsofts success was BUYING DOS for $50k.
Minor quibble: Microsoft licensed DOS for $50K, while Patterson held back some rights. Later on after various payments and negotiations it is estimated that the final cost was more like $500K. By then DOS was already a screaming success, so they got off easy.
Many other people were introduced to IBM including Gary Kildall from Digital Research, yet he didn't become a billionaire.
And by the time he was introduced personally to IBM he was already well known for shipping the dominant basic interpreter for all personal computers, IBM compatible or not.
moment you view data through a lens of politics is the moment you stop noticing opportunities.
Or as Krugman likes to point out, how are the right wing inflationistas doing? Yet their rants are still welcome at the WSJ in spite of the fact that their views have meant losses in the tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars for WSJ readers.
Here's a quip on the low quality editorials at the WSJ from The Economist, using subtle British humor:
The WSJ, a newspaper famous for publishing its comics in the Editorial page.
The main advantage of the PPC was supposed to be higher clock rate, and looking at press releases there were supposedly higher clock rates chips available for PPC over x86.
Yet at one point I took the time to track down the actual "shipping now" announcements for the main PC manufacturers and for Apple and almost invariably by the time computers came out the door speeds were comparable.
The fact that PPC wouldn't commit to a mobile low power version was the final straw.
If you are going to count Leif Ericson as a "discoverer" then you must count the Mongols who populated America across the Bering Straight as earlier discoverers.
If on the other hand we use "discoverer" in the standard sense or person who first widely disseminated a fact then there is no doubt Columbus deserves the moniker.
Then why is it in places where guns are banned or severely restricted, like London, that the violent crime and murder rate is obscenely high?
Because they don't? London's murder rate is lower than that of any US state including generally considered safe states like New Hampshire. If you now compare with metropolitan areas London blows most cities right out of the water with its lower murder rate.
Correlation does not imply causation.
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Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
