Unfortunately, some parts of the world just aren't ready for democracy.
This is what has to be remembered. The west, especially those countries descended from England, has a tradition of democracy which is why it sorta works. Other cultures not so much so we have situations where the majority are serf like (in Russia actual serfs), and then suddenly expected to democratically govern themselves. This usually results in failure of one type or another. With luck a benevolent dictator, more likely a nutjob dictator or a totally corrupt pseudo-democracy. Forcing democracy on cultures that aren't ready seldom works.
We don't know how fertile the offspring were. There are species where if species X is male and species Y is female the offspring are fertile but not the other way around. There are also hybrids where only occasionally the offspring are also fertile such as mules where there are only a couple of recorded pregnancies. Species is more a spectrum thing then binary and Neanderthals are different enough to be considered at least a different subspecies if not a different species.
We're also the first species that has the technological know how (or will soon) to play with our own genome. Once it gets relatively inexpensive to customize our children, it will happen. Enough customization and you get a new species. It may only be as different from Homo sapiens as Homo neanderthal was but still strictly speaking, a different species. Of course there is also the question of what is human. It's not too much of a stretch to call all members of the genus Homo human in which case we might both be right.
The average species lasts something like a million years, it's hard to believe that we'll last much longer. Either intelligent design will evolve us or natural selection depending on whether we stay on a technological high or knock ourselves back to the stone age. What, if anything, replaces us is any-ones guess. A billion years is a long time,perhaps twice as long as complex life has existed.
Some theories say that solar forced global warming will push us into a Venus-style runaway greenhouse effect in about a billion years. Once it gets hot enough to boil the oceans, it's game over (unless we, or a natural event, move the Earth out close to Mars) Solar theory says the Sun has gotten 25% brighter since the beginning and will continue to get brighter as it gets more dense due to having a larger portion of He. Venus being closer to the Sun experienced the oceans boiling thing at least a billion years back judging by crater counts. (Resurfacing limits how far in the past we can see on Venus)
Some of the African Christians are pretty backwards as the sibling points out. Christianity has also had much longer to evolve and it wasn't that long ago that there were unofficial death sentences for not embracing Christianity, at least for natives sent to the residential schools here in Canada.
You mean like in Syria where the end result has been ISIS? The Iranian people are actually moving towards more freedom on their own. They've voted in a pretty liberal (for that part of the world) President, they have more religious freedoms then most of that part of the world and isn't much different in some ways as American allies such as Saudi Arabia where they have morals police who will execute you on the spot and women have even less rights then Iranian women. It's all a weird game where our friends are just as bad as our enemies, just that there is a lot of propaganda from both sides.
Well democracy itself is pretty left wing, at least by the original definition where the left was the common people and the right was the aristocracy. It's just a shame that currently a quote like
Our mission: To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism
Around here it usually works the opposite, the government delivers cheaper service including running at a lose in some rural places that private business would never service and puts money into the general fund. This is the danger with government infrastructure, they discover they can cut taxes and make up the shortfall by raising prices and pretty soon you're paying almost as much (or in the case of monopoly, more) then private business would charge. If big cable company can charge X, pretty soon some government decides that it can also charge X and get voted in by lowering taxes. Then they can use the high prices as an excuse to give the infrastructure to their friends in industry.
I"m well aware of various European health care systems and also what is wrong here but I'm not most Canadians. I'm also well aware that we get bombarded with American shit so understand why most Canadians are more aware of the States then elsewhere.
But, but he claims to be the leader of the most scientific government in our history with billions spent on proving that bitumen floats and more billions spent on proving bitumen sinks, not to mention the billions spent proving that bitumen is oil rather then a tar like substance.
It's what we're most exposed to including lots of ads for insurance if traveling south and scary stories of being denied insurance such as for not mentioning you had a tummy ache 60 years age.
The governments (healthcare is a Provincial responsibility with the feds setting minimum standards and in charge of equalization payments) have an interest in educating the population on health as a healthy population is cheaper.
Our health care system is pretty stressed out by all the average Americans sneaking up here and pretending to be Canadian so they can get some treatment. I pity the poor American who can't even afford to come up here. Of course the wealthy people go to Cuba, India, Thailand or such for inexpensive medical care.
We already have lots of experience building things to stand up to one gee, a suspension bridge for example can be extended until its ends meet and its cables can be attached to the opposite point. The important thing is having light strong cables. What is really needed is some information on just how much gravity we need. I'd guess we'd do fine with Venuses 90% but what about 50% or Mars with its 33%? Seems that fetus development would also be dependent on close to normal gravity.
I'm actually in BC and haven't been to Baker since I was a kid, over 40 years ago. Considering went there in the summer up to the glacier and the local ski reports include Baker, you must be able to get a ways up the mountain without a helicopter. Getting to the peak might be different though, it's a big mountain.
For Mt. St. Helens, it wasn't so much predicted as the first signs of an impending eruption were noticed and acted on. There's a similar volcano close to where I am (Mt Baker) and all science says is it is currently quiet and very unlikely to erupt real soon. It can't say 10 or a 100 years or even if it will erupt again though it is likely to. Earthquakes are similar, there seems to be early signs that some animals pick up on and may be measurable but for the fault I live by, all science can say is statistically we're due for an earthquake. Could be next week or next century. And yes, the question is whether the methane release is normal or not along with other methane releases. This one could be normal and others could be recent. Climate change is complicated and we don't really know how things will evolve but there is a good chance that the world will warm up and it safer to act on that just like it was safer to evacuate Mt St Helens even though it may have been more of a fizzle then a major eruption.
Petroleum and coal have only been forming for some 100's of millions of years, basically since plants colonized the land and pseudo-forests started to grow. (Some petroleum may have been formed earlier by algae). For the first period of perhaps 60 million odd years there were no fungi to break down the plant matter and much of current fossil fuels were created, sequestering lots of carbon which we're now releasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
The proverb you are grasping for with lethologica is "together we stand, divided we fall" how do you think George Washington et al would feel about that statement if you had a time machine and suggested that to them?
He'd probably say, "you're right, lets have a Continental Congress and unite the colonies, at least diplomatically and militarily"
I'm not even American and even I know that only Texas and Hawaii were ever separate countries that gave up their sovereignty to join the USA. It can be said that the original 13 colonies had a choice between signing the articles of confederation or being sovereign countries after the war of separation but as far as I know all 13 signed the articles of confederation and later the constitution. Seems most of the rest were conquered or purchased territory rather then sovereign independent states that decided to join the USA. At that even some of the original 13 had to be reconquered and forced back into the union, which shows how much sovereignty they actually had. As for expansion of federal power, its been ongoing ever since 1776 with notable events being the US Constitution, written up by a bunch of guys at the pub who didn't have a mandate to write a constitution (at least the 13 voluntarily signed it), Andrew Jackson who ignored the judiciary branch as he practiced genocide to add States to the USA, and the big one, Lincoln and the new Republican party who actually went to war to push the Federal agenda and after the war, occupied State Legislatures and forced them to pass amendments at gunpoint.
.Perhaps I don't quite understand your wording and this is not double speak, but assuming you wrote correctly this is a Government problem.
That's true, the government has been implicit in enclosing the commons since 1235 and without common land to drag cable/fiber across you can't just start an ISP.
The majority of monopolization in the US is due exactly to monopolization by Government intervention.
Perhaps we need to stop the government from giving the aristocracy (the rich) the right to own the land and infrastructure built on our land. Traditionally there was private land, eg your house and immediate property and their was common land for the use of all. Government has removed the common part and given it to the lords and now naturally those who own the commons want to profit off it.
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Unfortunately, some parts of the world just aren't ready for democracy.
This is what has to be remembered. The west, especially those countries descended from England, has a tradition of democracy which is why it sorta works. Other cultures not so much so we have situations where the majority are serf like (in Russia actual serfs), and then suddenly expected to democratically govern themselves. This usually results in failure of one type or another. With luck a benevolent dictator, more likely a nutjob dictator or a totally corrupt pseudo-democracy.
Forcing democracy on cultures that aren't ready seldom works.
We don't know how fertile the offspring were. There are species where if species X is male and species Y is female the offspring are fertile but not the other way around. There are also hybrids where only occasionally the offspring are also fertile such as mules where there are only a couple of recorded pregnancies.
Species is more a spectrum thing then binary and Neanderthals are different enough to be considered at least a different subspecies if not a different species.
We're also the first species that has the technological know how (or will soon) to play with our own genome. Once it gets relatively inexpensive to customize our children, it will happen. Enough customization and you get a new species. It may only be as different from Homo sapiens as Homo neanderthal was but still strictly speaking, a different species. Of course there is also the question of what is human. It's not too much of a stretch to call all members of the genus Homo human in which case we might both be right.
The average species lasts something like a million years, it's hard to believe that we'll last much longer. Either intelligent design will evolve us or natural selection depending on whether we stay on a technological high or knock ourselves back to the stone age. What, if anything, replaces us is any-ones guess.
A billion years is a long time,perhaps twice as long as complex life has existed.
Some theories say that solar forced global warming will push us into a Venus-style runaway greenhouse effect in about a billion years. Once it gets hot enough to boil the oceans, it's game over (unless we, or a natural event, move the Earth out close to Mars)
Solar theory says the Sun has gotten 25% brighter since the beginning and will continue to get brighter as it gets more dense due to having a larger portion of He. Venus being closer to the Sun experienced the oceans boiling thing at least a billion years back judging by crater counts. (Resurfacing limits how far in the past we can see on Venus)
So you're saying we'll have to pay to import it, and then pay to export it, and then pay for it as fuel?
Some of the African Christians are pretty backwards as the sibling points out. Christianity has also had much longer to evolve and it wasn't that long ago that there were unofficial death sentences for not embracing Christianity, at least for natives sent to the residential schools here in Canada.
Wasn't that long ago the Christians were the same.
Be nice to more then double my download speed and quadruple my upload speeds.
You mean like in Syria where the end result has been ISIS? The Iranian people are actually moving towards more freedom on their own. They've voted in a pretty liberal (for that part of the world) President, they have more religious freedoms then most of that part of the world and isn't much different in some ways as American allies such as Saudi Arabia where they have morals police who will execute you on the spot and women have even less rights then Iranian women.
It's all a weird game where our friends are just as bad as our enemies, just that there is a lot of propaganda from both sides.
Well democracy itself is pretty left wing, at least by the original definition where the left was the common people and the right was the aristocracy. It's just a shame that currently a quote like
Our mission: To serve democracy by revealing abuses of power, corruption and betrayal of public trust by powerful public and private institutions, using the tools of investigative journalism
has become an insult.
Around here it usually works the opposite, the government delivers cheaper service including running at a lose in some rural places that private business would never service and puts money into the general fund. This is the danger with government infrastructure, they discover they can cut taxes and make up the shortfall by raising prices and pretty soon you're paying almost as much (or in the case of monopoly, more) then private business would charge.
If big cable company can charge X, pretty soon some government decides that it can also charge X and get voted in by lowering taxes. Then they can use the high prices as an excuse to give the infrastructure to their friends in industry.
I"m well aware of various European health care systems and also what is wrong here but I'm not most Canadians. I'm also well aware that we get bombarded with American shit so understand why most Canadians are more aware of the States then elsewhere.
But, but he claims to be the leader of the most scientific government in our history with billions spent on proving that bitumen floats and more billions spent on proving bitumen sinks, not to mention the billions spent proving that bitumen is oil rather then a tar like substance.
It's what we're most exposed to including lots of ads for insurance if traveling south and scary stories of being denied insurance such as for not mentioning you had a tummy ache 60 years age.
The governments (healthcare is a Provincial responsibility with the feds setting minimum standards and in charge of equalization payments) have an interest in educating the population on health as a healthy population is cheaper.
Our health care system is pretty stressed out by all the average Americans sneaking up here and pretending to be Canadian so they can get some treatment. I pity the poor American who can't even afford to come up here.
Of course the wealthy people go to Cuba, India, Thailand or such for inexpensive medical care.
We already have lots of experience building things to stand up to one gee, a suspension bridge for example can be extended until its ends meet and its cables can be attached to the opposite point. The important thing is having light strong cables.
What is really needed is some information on just how much gravity we need. I'd guess we'd do fine with Venuses 90% but what about 50% or Mars with its 33%?
Seems that fetus development would also be dependent on close to normal gravity.
I'm actually in BC and haven't been to Baker since I was a kid, over 40 years ago. Considering went there in the summer up to the glacier and the local ski reports include Baker, you must be able to get a ways up the mountain without a helicopter. Getting to the peak might be different though, it's a big mountain.
For Mt. St. Helens, it wasn't so much predicted as the first signs of an impending eruption were noticed and acted on. There's a similar volcano close to where I am (Mt Baker) and all science says is it is currently quiet and very unlikely to erupt real soon. It can't say 10 or a 100 years or even if it will erupt again though it is likely to.
Earthquakes are similar, there seems to be early signs that some animals pick up on and may be measurable but for the fault I live by, all science can say is statistically we're due for an earthquake. Could be next week or next century.
And yes, the question is whether the methane release is normal or not along with other methane releases. This one could be normal and others could be recent. Climate change is complicated and we don't really know how things will evolve but there is a good chance that the world will warm up and it safer to act on that just like it was safer to evacuate Mt St Helens even though it may have been more of a fizzle then a major eruption.
Petroleum and coal have only been forming for some 100's of millions of years, basically since plants colonized the land and pseudo-forests started to grow. (Some petroleum may have been formed earlier by algae). For the first period of perhaps 60 million odd years there were no fungi to break down the plant matter and much of current fossil fuels were created, sequestering lots of carbon which we're now releasing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
The proverb you are grasping for with lethologica is "together we stand, divided we fall" how do you think George Washington et al would feel about that statement if you had a time machine and suggested that to them?
He'd probably say, "you're right, lets have a Continental Congress and unite the colonies, at least diplomatically and militarily"
I'm not even American and even I know that only Texas and Hawaii were ever separate countries that gave up their sovereignty to join the USA. It can be said that the original 13 colonies had a choice between signing the articles of confederation or being sovereign countries after the war of separation but as far as I know all 13 signed the articles of confederation and later the constitution.
Seems most of the rest were conquered or purchased territory rather then sovereign independent states that decided to join the USA. At that even some of the original 13 had to be reconquered and forced back into the union, which shows how much sovereignty they actually had.
As for expansion of federal power, its been ongoing ever since 1776 with notable events being the US Constitution, written up by a bunch of guys at the pub who didn't have a mandate to write a constitution (at least the 13 voluntarily signed it), Andrew Jackson who ignored the judiciary branch as he practiced genocide to add States to the USA, and the big one, Lincoln and the new Republican party who actually went to war to push the Federal agenda and after the war, occupied State Legislatures and forced them to pass amendments at gunpoint.
.Perhaps I don't quite understand your wording and this is not double speak, but assuming you wrote correctly this is a Government problem.
That's true, the government has been implicit in enclosing the commons since 1235 and without common land to drag cable/fiber across you can't just start an ISP.
The majority of monopolization in the US is due exactly to monopolization by Government intervention.
Perhaps we need to stop the government from giving the aristocracy (the rich) the right to own the land and infrastructure built on our land. Traditionally there was private land, eg your house and immediate property and their was common land for the use of all. Government has removed the common part and given it to the lords and now naturally those who own the commons want to profit off it.
Thing is the other providers are the same companies as own the ISPs.