2012年2月4日土曜日

What Does Bookkeeping Cost

what does bookkeeping cost

Carbon Pricing in Australia

Carbon Pricing in Australia

While Tony Abbott has stated he will repeal the Carbon Pricing Scheme when elected, the Carbon Pricing Scheme will nevertheless become effective on 1 July 2012. What does this mean for businesses?

Around 500 businesses will be directly affected by the Carbon Pricing Scheme. These are companies which emit more than 25,000 tonnes of CO2. They will be charged a price for each tonne of carbon, and be mandated to further reporting and compliance obligations.

Resources Are Scarce In Nature-true Or False

resources are scarce in nature-true or false

Knowledge Is A Universal Natural Resource - And Locking It Up Hurts Everyone

One of the more important points in understanding some of the fights over the ridiculousness of today's copyright and patent laws is to recognize how knowledge (information) is a natural resource. It is the input that makes other great things. Economist Paul Romer's famous research really showed how knowledge and information as a resource is what creates economic growth. Once you recognize that fact, you begin to run into problems when you think about locking up that natural resource. Think of other natural resources. Do we think the world is better off if there's a greater supply of each of those? An abundance? If we have an abundance of wheat, that's a good thing. If we have an abundance of energy, that's a good thing. There may be side effects of such abundances, but the overall abundance is something worth cherishing.

The problem, however, comes when you have a new abundance where once there was scarcity. And that's because anywhere there's a scarcity, someone has built a business model based on that very scarcity. But that is a business model issue. Years ago, most economies rejected the idea of mercantilism, where governments would purposely build up monopolies and artificial scarcities, because of the realization that, in the long run, everyone was better off with a competitive market. The guy who had the sugar monopoly may have hated it -- but everyone else was much, much better off.

And, so, we go back to knowledge and information. Unlike most other resources, knowledge is not just abundant... it is infinite. As Thomas Jefferson once famously wrote:

2012年2月3日金曜日

Where Is Burundi

where is burundi

Abantu Beza (The Good People)— Jason Alden

Starter for 10: Where is Burundi?
 
No, don't feel alone most people don't even get the continent right. It borders The Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania in East Africa (here).
 

 
I went to Burundi in partnership with Emerge Poverty Free. The idea was to follow their work across the country and document it for fundraising campaigns and potentially for an exhibition back in the U.K.
 
One of the most exciting projects that the charity is running works with the Batwa (Pygmys) that have always lived rurally but have been displaced in recent years. The Batwa, are generally seen by other ethnic groups (Hutu/Tutsi) as inferior.

What Is Pragmatic And Syntaxmatic

what is pragmatic and syntaxmatic

Recent thinking about scientific explanation

What do we want from a scientific explanation? Is there a single answer to this question, or is the field of explanation fundamentally heterogeneous, perhaps by discipline or by research community? Do biologists explain outcomes differently from physicists or sociologists? Is a good explanation within the Anglo-American traditions of science also a good explanation in the German or Chinese research communities? Is the idea of a scientific explanation paradigm-dependent? For several decades in the twentieth century there was a dominant answer to this question, that was an outgrowth of the tradition of logical positivism and examples from the natural sciences. This theory of explanation focused on the idea of subsumption of an event or regularity under a higher-level set of laws. The deductive-nomological theory of explanation specified that an outcome is explained when we have produced a deductively valid argument with premises that include at least one general law and that lead to a description of the event as conclusion. Carl Hempel was the most prominent advocate for this theory (Aspects of Scientific Explanation), but it was widely accepted throughout the philosophy of science in the 1950s and 1960s. The "covering law" model was a core dogma for the philosophy of science for several decades. The D-N theory was subject to many kinds of criticisms, including the obvious point that much explanation involves phenomena that are probabilistic rather than deterministic. Hempel introduced the inductive version of the D-N model to cover probabilistic-statistical explanation, along these lines. An argument provides a scientific explanation of E if it provides at least one probabilistic law and a set of background conditions such that, given the law and conditions, E is highly probable. This model was described as the "Inductive-Statistical" model (I-S model). Wesley Salmon'sScientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World falls within this tradition but offers important refinements, including his formal definition of causal relevance. In each case the motivation for the theory of explanation is a plausible one: we explain an event when we show how it was necessary [or highly probable] in the circumstances, given existing conditions and relevant laws of nature.

2012年2月2日木曜日

What Each Key Does On The Keyboard

what each key does on the keyboard

Cleankey Devlin, a sealed keyboard to prevent infection

Cleankey Devlin, a sealed keyboard to prevent infection

Now running time of a pandemic, masks and flu contagious every precaution seems little to some. Even for keyboards have more bacteria than a toilet. Some germs that just concentrating there and reducing its life and usefulness. To avoid this, comes Cleankey Devlin, a keyboard, the British company created by Devlin.

If the dirt on a keyboard is inconvenient for anyone, in places like hospitals much more. There, the viruses and infections traveling with some generosity. And we must take special care for a disease does not spread from one patient to another. For these environments is for precisely targeted by the keyboard Devlin.

The novelty of Devlin Cleankey it is absolutely flat and tight. In this way, dirt is not under or between the keys and can be cleaned with a disinfectant. Or dipping under the tap.

Furthermore, like the Medigenic, another keyboard toilet for hospitals, has a lock button called "Clean" that allows it to be cleaned by pressing the buttons without sending information to the computer.

2012年2月1日水曜日

What Is Palnarian

what is palnarian

Planaria aquarium worms | Animal and Pet Article,Pictures,video

Who Is Jesus Mother

who is jesus mother

The Luminous Mysteries::Holy Rosary::Mother mary pray for us

 

1st Luminous Mysteries - The Baptism of Jesus

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John. 14But John tried to deter him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" Jesus replied, "Let it be so now; it is proper for us to do this to fulfill all righteousness." Then John consented. As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. (Mt 3,13-17)

 

 

The Baptism in the Jordan is first of all a mystery of light. Here, as Christ descends into the waters, the innocent one who became "sin" for our sake (cf. 2Cor 5:21), the heavens open wide and the voice of the Father declares him the beloved Son (cf. Mt 3:17 and parallels), while the Spirit descends on him to invest him with the mission which he is to carry out.

2nd Luminous Mysteries - The wedding of Cana