According to Maxwell Wessel of the Harvard Business review, the well-deserved business accolades that have been bestowed upon Steve Jobs since his death should be saved for Bill Gates instead, citing Gates’ philanthropy as the business model to emulate.
His argument is simple: Bill Gates sees his ultimate legacy as helping others and changing the world via philanthropy, while Steve Jobs saw his ultimate legacy as building a great company.
Federal airport screeners still find four to five guns at checkpoints on a typical day, the Transportation Security Administration’s chief told a Senate hearing Wednesday.
“Yesterday we found six, including one at … Bradley (airport in Connecticut) — a loaded gun with seven rounds in it, in a checked bag that (a passenger) was trying to get through,” Administrator John Pistole said.
Passengers typically say they forgot the weapon was in their bag, TSA officials said. But in one recent case, a passenger at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport tried to board a plane with two pistols, three ammunition magazines, eight knives and a hand saw in a carry-on bag, the TSA said. That passenger was arrested by local law enforcement.
When you own a car, you spend time in it driving and sitting in traffic. You spend time parking it, washing it, cleaning it, and gassing it up. You spend time at work earning money to pay for the car, and also the gas, the repairs, taxes and registration.
In the end, the average American spends 4.4 hours per day either using the car, maintaining the car, or earning money to pay for the car. That same average American drives 7500 miles per year. That American probably believes that his car goes 75 MPH, but the math says that he averages 7500/(4.4*365) = 4.7 MPH (hour being hour invested for the convenience of easy mobility)
I don’t know about you, but I can ride my bike a lot faster. But to be fair, let’s do a strict comparison.
In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.\
