What on earth are you talking about? It's a "wingnut" position that the professional organization for psychologists probably shouldn't be advising the government on torture techniques? Please explain your logic.
It's e-books, not e-readers. You can read an e-book on practically any device with a screen, from a $30 e-reader to a cell phone or a 10 year-old computer.
Same difference. There are libraries filled with books you can read for free. It's a sunk cost. What specific problem are ebooks going to solve?
You mean like this?
Exactly. Now take the money wasted on ebooks and fund that instead.
By definition the middle class can AFFORD things, the poor and lower class need help MORE than the middle-class does.
So we're blowing money on e-readers when, last time I checked, libraries still exist? How about $250 million worth of more free pre-school for underprivileged kids, which has been proven to lead to better outcomes?
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Seriously, I've never seen mechanical energy expressed in BTUs, and I'm in the US. I know a few automotive engineers and they use W/h when calculating engine efficiency.
Why is energy here measured in BTUs? I've usually seen total energy use expressed in Watts, especially in the mechanical realm.
I've yet to have anyone explain clearly why having the internet under the same regulatory regime as the telephone system would be a, net, positive thing. Title II explicitly permits a lot of bad behavior. To me, it fixes one problem and introduces a few dozen others.
The company I work for has only ever hired one H-1B worker, because he was literally the only qualified candidate. That's one worker over a ten year period.
The H-1B program is useful, but I don't see why it needs to be expanded.
Your argument is like saying "OMG! The Prosecutor can seek charges whenever he wants! Clearly he will abuse this power to arrest millions for years!"
That may not be the best example for alleging hyperbole.
LOL regulatory capture
EPA: We need to see that study.
Researcher B: Sure, it uses a novel Beysian quantitative analysis based on 3 dimensional heat maps of multivariate data. I'm sure you have a team of domain-specific PhDs to go over the statistical methodology.
EPA: No, we're going to need more evidence...
Researcher B: What's that? I can't hear you over the screaming Greenpeace and Audubon Society protesters. Seriously, you need to do something about this industrial toxin poisoning our biosphere!
If you're wondering why using "secret" science to regulate various environmental issues is a bad idea:
Researcher A: I've just discovered a substrate that makes solar cells 50% more efficient. This pushes their cost effectiveness to the point of making widespread adoption a no-brainer.
Researcher B, funded by the coal lobby: Hey EPA - this new solar substrate causes birth defects in robins! You can't show the proof to anyone though as it involves a secret process...
EPA: OK, effective immediately this substrate is banned.
Yes. That's the difference between car services and taxi cabs. Usually they are regulated differently.
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Comparatively, chimps are fairly intelligent animals. Of course, compared to worms, chickens are fairly intelligent animals, and chickens are incredibly dumb.
How many antitrust investigations happened to Nokia when they had the vast majority of the smartphone market in Europe? None? That's weird.
Any circuit design must contain at least one part which is obsolete, two parts which are unobtainable, and three parts which are still under development.
