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On October 24 2014 22:09 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is there a specific/technical word or phrase for the money a company pays out to their employees, then the employees spend on the companies products?
usually the companies that do that have their own words for that kind of "money".... most of the times its the company name followed by the word points or cash...."walt mart points", "home depot cash",etc etc
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Can you drown in liquid oxygen?
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That depends on your definition of drowning. If it is death by submersion and you could somehow avoid freezing to death upon initial contact then yes, you could possibly drown in liquid oxygen.
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if condoms are supposedly electric tested and are top notch german tec, why are they not 100% efficient vs pregnancy ?
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On October 25 2014 09:48 miky_ardiente wrote:
if condoms are supposedly electric tested and are top notch german tec, why are they not 100% efficient vs pregnancy ?
So many reasons. Operator error is certainly a thing. There are a lot of ways to fuck up condom use.
Condoms also do break. They're marvels of engineering, but sex can be an extremely difficult situation to engineer for/in.
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On October 25 2014 09:48 miky_ardiente wrote:
if condoms are supposedly electric tested and are top notch german tec, why are they not 100% efficient vs pregnancy ?
So that when they do not work you can't sue the maker is probably a big reason too.
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On October 25 2014 08:26 Ghostcom wrote:
That depends on your definition of drowning. If it is death by submersion and you could somehow avoid freezing to death upon initial contact then yes, you could possibly drown in liquid oxygen.
I am not convinced of that without further data. If we assume that for some reason you have no problem with bein at very, very low temperatures, and the inside of your lung also does not have any problems with that, i don't see why the chemical reactions that take place in your lung and transport oxygen into your bloodstream should not have that magical protection, too. Or your warmth would melt the liquid oxygen in your lungs, specifically on the places that touch it, which would also be the ones absorbing oxygen into the bloodstream. In which case you should be fine breathing liquid oxygen. Well, fine-ish, you might still have problems with oxygen poisoning.
Of course, in a realistic situation, any part of you that touches liquid oxygen just freezes solid instantly. Which will probably break any oxygen-absorption mechanism. Or anything else in your body. But that was something that we deliberately chose to not talk about in this thought experiment.
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On October 25 2014 16:03 Simberto wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2014 08:26 Ghostcom wrote:
That depends on your definition of drowning. If it is death by submersion and you could somehow avoid freezing to death upon initial contact then yes, you could possibly drown in liquid oxygen. I am not convinced of that without further data. If we assume that for some reason you have no problem with bein at very, very low temperatures, and the inside of your lung also does not have any problems with that, i don't see why the chemical reactions that take place in your lung and transport oxygen into your bloodstream should not have that magical protection, too. Or your warmth would melt the liquid oxygen in your lungs, specifically on the places that touch it, which would also be the ones absorbing oxygen into the bloodstream. In which case you should be fine breathing liquid oxygen. Well, fine-ish, you might still have problems with oxygen poisoning. Of course, in a realistic situation, any part of you that touches liquid oxygen just freezes solid instantly. Which will probably break any oxygen-absorption mechanism. Or anything else in your body. But that was something that we deliberately chose to not talk about in this thought experiment.
Well the liquid oxygen would displace all of the gas in your lungs and then you would drown from oxygen poisoning.
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On October 25 2014 07:19 miky_ardiente wrote:Show nested quote +On October 24 2014 22:09 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is there a specific/technical word or phrase for the money a company pays out to their employees, then the employees spend on the companies products? usually the companies that do that have their own words for that kind of "money".... most of the times its the company name followed by the word points or cash...."walt mart points", "home depot cash",etc etc
I was just wondering because it was the foundation of Ford . Most of the attention gets paid to the assembly line (which existed in China millennia before Ford) But what I find captivating is the idea of recapturing expenses from your employees purchasing your product.
If it doesn't have a specific term I have to believe those who would be responsible for giving it one are terribly irresponsible?
I was really wondering if it had a generic economic term which it appears it does not. Which just seems astounding to me.
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I thought Fords big thing was less the assembly line and more the housing he gave his workers so they never left.
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Praise Ford
Also, wikipedia says that he is famous for revolutionizing the automobile industry by producing affordable cars. Fairly certain he didn't start any particular new industry practices, but rather brought a few together in a clever way.
Providing employees with housing, schools, etc. was fairly common practice in the latter part of the industrial revolution (at least in Europe).
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Zurich15366 Posts
On October 25 2014 20:19 GreenHorizons wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2014 07:19 miky_ardiente wrote:On October 24 2014 22:09 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is there a specific/technical word or phrase for the money a company pays out to their employees, then the employees spend on the companies products? usually the companies that do that have their own words for that kind of "money".... most of the times its the company name followed by the word points or cash...."walt mart points", "home depot cash",etc etc I was just wondering because it was the foundation of Ford . Most of the attention gets paid to the assembly line (which existed in China millennia before Ford) But what I find captivating is the idea of recapturing expenses from your employees purchasing your product. If it doesn't have a specific term I have to believe those who would be responsible for giving it one are terribly irresponsible? I was really wondering if it had a generic economic term which it appears it does not. Which just seems astounding to me.
You mean Fordism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism#Background
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United States44373 Posts
The idea of merging the employment of an area with the needs of an area was experimented with all over the place in the new industrial model towns of the 19th Century by various industrialists. Some were trying to use their position as an employment monopoly and their much greater wealth to essentially recoup all the money they spent in wages while others were doing it as an experiment in building a cooperative community in which the company provided quality housing and the like to its employees.
It was one of many ongoing questions in the early industrial age when the super rich were building societies from the ground up to fuel their factories. The idea of expanding the factory, where raw materials go in and manufactured goods go out, to encompass the entire town, importing raw materials and consumer goods for the workers and exporting the manufactured goods, is not a new one. It turns the workers into components within a broader machine who are not paid but rather fueled with money acting as an illusory lubricant. Such mental exercises appealed to the minds of the day.
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On October 25 2014 17:14 Zess wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2014 16:03 Simberto wrote:On October 25 2014 08:26 Ghostcom wrote:
That depends on your definition of drowning. If it is death by submersion and you could somehow avoid freezing to death upon initial contact then yes, you could possibly drown in liquid oxygen. I am not convinced of that without further data. If we assume that for some reason you have no problem with bein at very, very low temperatures, and the inside of your lung also does not have any problems with that, i don't see why the chemical reactions that take place in your lung and transport oxygen into your bloodstream should not have that magical protection, too. Or your warmth would melt the liquid oxygen in your lungs, specifically on the places that touch it, which would also be the ones absorbing oxygen into the bloodstream. In which case you should be fine breathing liquid oxygen. Well, fine-ish, you might still have problems with oxygen poisoning. Of course, in a realistic situation, any part of you that touches liquid oxygen just freezes solid instantly. Which will probably break any oxygen-absorption mechanism. Or anything else in your body. But that was something that we deliberately chose to not talk about in this thought experiment. Well the liquid oxygen would displace all of the gas in your lungs and then you would drown from oxygen poisoning.
which is a thing i also didn't know, but oxygen in high doses is poisonous.
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dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous too
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your Country52798 Posts
On October 26 2014 01:52 Kupon3ss wrote:
dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous too
I hear that it's good in small quantities, can anyone confirm this?
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On October 26 2014 00:26 zatic wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2014 20:19 GreenHorizons wrote:On October 25 2014 07:19 miky_ardiente wrote:On October 24 2014 22:09 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is there a specific/technical word or phrase for the money a company pays out to their employees, then the employees spend on the companies products? usually the companies that do that have their own words for that kind of "money".... most of the times its the company name followed by the word points or cash...."walt mart points", "home depot cash",etc etc I was just wondering because it was the foundation of Ford . Most of the attention gets paid to the assembly line (which existed in China millennia before Ford) But what I find captivating is the idea of recapturing expenses from your employees purchasing your product. If it doesn't have a specific term I have to believe those who would be responsible for giving it one are terribly irresponsible? I was really wondering if it had a generic economic term which it appears it does not. Which just seems astounding to me. You mean Fordism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism#Background
according to your link fordism stands for more than just helping employees aquire the company products.
Funny thing, whenever someone ask me about improving worker conditions i think of google and not ford. next time i'll be sure to tell this story
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On October 26 2014 02:42 miky_ardiente wrote:Show nested quote +On October 26 2014 00:26 zatic wrote:On October 25 2014 20:19 GreenHorizons wrote:On October 25 2014 07:19 miky_ardiente wrote:On October 24 2014 22:09 GreenHorizons wrote:
Is there a specific/technical word or phrase for the money a company pays out to their employees, then the employees spend on the companies products? usually the companies that do that have their own words for that kind of "money".... most of the times its the company name followed by the word points or cash...."walt mart points", "home depot cash",etc etc I was just wondering because it was the foundation of Ford . Most of the attention gets paid to the assembly line (which existed in China millennia before Ford) But what I find captivating is the idea of recapturing expenses from your employees purchasing your product. If it doesn't have a specific term I have to believe those who would be responsible for giving it one are terribly irresponsible? I was really wondering if it had a generic economic term which it appears it does not. Which just seems astounding to me. You mean Fordism? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordism#Background according to your link fordism stands for more than just helping employees aquire the company products. Funny thing, whenever someone ask me about improving worker conditions i think of google and not ford. next time i'll be sure to tell this story
Google is terrible to it's non-engineers.
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is there a way to make our bodies more resistant to cold weathers?, im not talking about wearing jackets and scarfs, i want to know how to grow more hair on the arms or make my skin thicker (or whatever the term for cold resistant skin is)
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