What currency do you have to pay your taxes in? This is what gives 'power' to a currency. There is also a very interesting web site I've been reading philosophyofmetrics.com , that details how the worlds central banks are trying to replace the usd with sdr's.

I can't hear myself think for all the /. Groupthink.
All my kids a fully vaccinated, but I smell something fishy about the industry.
http://www.amazon.com/Dissolvi...

So if I said:
I stopped watching 60 minutes 10 years ago, because went from serious journalism to trashy current affairs program.

Then that would be ad-hominem .?

The book of Revelation has the ultimate answer for "It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost" and "My wallet is on a chain"

It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead.
Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything.
Solve a riddle: Put your heads together and figure out the meaning of the number of the Beast. It's a human number: six hundred sixty-six. (Revelation 13:15-18 MSG)

I worked with a chemist 15 years ago to develop such a product. A professor had found a salt, Fast Blue B, would change color specific to THC.
We were charged with trying to commercialize this, BUT, we couldn't prove that blood ratio had anything to do with breath concentration.

Breathalyzers for Alcohol are calibrated with an inferred ratio of 2100:1, of blood/breath concentration ratio. This is usually a fairly accurate assumption. The alcohol molecule is very volatile. THC on the other hand is a very different beast. If someone has smoked Marijuana, what you are reading is the residue on the lining of the airways which has a very poor correlation to what is in their blood.

This alone was enough to kill the idea, because ingesting vs smoking would give wildly different results.

I'd be interested to see if this has an impact on tinnitus, which for most people who suffer it, is like audio neuropathic pain.

Great Post:
The USA has allowed capitalists to subvert government to impoverish its people... but look at northern Europe: highly socialist while allowing capitalism and I think a much more mature society than the USA.
Even in Australia, we are much more socialized than the USA, and yes I hate the high taxes, but it provides a much better safety net for the poor.

I priced 10 2core VMs. It was 24k/annum. We do that internally on an R720 that cost 10k and needs about 3 hours a month maintenance. So for mainly internal use networks, where is the value?

Cheaper?
10 x 2core vms is $20k /annum. We do that on r720 that cost $10k and a couple of hours a month maintainance.

AC is correct. Most forms of subharmonic oscillation are caused by slope compensation issues, but pole filtering can also be an issue . For those who want the nitty gritty details, see this. http://www.ti.com/lit/ml/slup2...

I've designed lots of these little switch mode supplies. (SMPSs)
The noise comes from the inductors. Inductors are coils of wire around a ferrite. When the current changes through the wire, the wire physically expands and contacts from every other wire. This is the source of the noise. (SMPSs normally switch from 200kHz to 2MHz, so well outside our audio range)
There are a few things a designer can do.
1. Encapsulate the coil. This holds the wire tighter together and can minimise noise, but is only usually used in large inductors like those in invertors for UPSs or solar.
2. Eliminate subsonic oscillation with good multi-pole compensation. Switch mode power supplies have, have first second and third order responses which require filters to damp them. If you don't design these filters well, you can get subsonic oscillation which falls into the audio band. The power supply still regulates OK, but you can get that annoying whine.
3. Occasionally the noise can also come from a periodic load with that falls into an audio range. More capacitors on the output can help that.

Also, very very occasionally, it can come from ceramic capacitors that use a high k dielectric that are microphonic, but in my experience it is usually the capacitor acting as a microphone that upsets the circuit.

It describes Supercapitalism. Look it up on amazon and read the first review which summarises the concept well. Companies exists to provide the best value both shareholders and customers which deflates real wages. They play by the rules governments set, so it is up to governments to legislate the social outcomes they expect.

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Have a look at the talk page.
Regardless of what you think of the subject, the article is clearly biased. Read the thread under ''What about these studies then ?''

HaHa... Modded Insightful!!

I'm encouraging my engineers to refer to GPS as GNSS, as there are 3 other systems
Glosnass, the Russian system which is now operating.
BeiDou the Chinese system also operational.
And Galileo, the EU system which has had all sorts of delays.