Normally a solvent (eg water is the easiest example here, but air can also be a solvent) can only hold a certain amount of a solute (solid or liquid compound that is dissolved in it). Anything amount above that, and it will not dissolve further. However under certain special conditions ...
Price policy restored; high court rules.(Supreme Court, retailers can charge whatever the market will bear)(Brief Article)Ryan, Ken
I was in first-year university at the time (wow, does that ever make me feel old), and it was a big deal for us; the TV room on the North E floor of Village Two was quite full as we were all introduced to Captain Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, and the rest of the gang. I r...
This case runs against my general thesis, because it was the (Bush-era) FCC, not the market, that put a stop to it. (Oddly, the FCC was able to do it at a time when it had no regulatory authority over ISPs at all, which says something about the intimidation powers of federal ...
Before digital cameras came on the market, the iconic company had some 60,000 employees. Today, after closing many labs and factories, it has fewer than 25,000. 7) Population growth from immigration—legal and illegal—further compounds the employment problem. The U.S. admits about 700,000 ...
Metaphysics concerns itself with what exists, but also other questions related to the fundamental nature of reality. I am not sure how to give a precise definition of metaphysics, but that rough characterization will do for now. The prefix “meta” has acquired a special meaning in philosophy,...
That claim seemed fairly strong, as I think Blizzard has "B.NET" trademarked, and obviously BnetD and B.NET operate in the same market: there is a fair case that the names are confusingly similar. Another was that the BnetD software circumvented content protection mechanisms (that is, the...
This omission, as we will see, is not mentioned in the more recently added editor’s note. In the second boldfaced part of the correct Mader quote we see that Thomas somehow altered the quote to make Mader wrongly say that the first pair of pharyngeal pouches are modified during development...
This quote reflects a key idea from Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations (1776), often summarized as the “invisible hand” concept. Smith argued that individuals pursuing their own self-interest in a free market unintentionally contribute to the overall economic good of society. Key Points: Sel...
9 Medicines Are Priced at Whatever the Market Will Bear We have seen that in late summer 2015 medicine prices suddenly became headline news in the United States (see chapter 2). It is worth looking a lit- tle more into the background and context of this phenomenon. The drug that ...