Yet, when I phoned 911 a few weeks back (a car fire) on my old cell phone, the first question the operator asked was what city I was in, then my address.
Criminal behaviour is often based on class, race, sex, age and other factors. A black person is way more likely to be stopped, and if caught doing something illegal such as having a small amount of a banned substance, much more likely to be charged, convicted and have a worse sentence handed down then a well off white person. Amongst other things this makes them politically impotent as in unable to vote to change a law that was originally enacted for racist and economical reasons rather then hurting other people. What's to say that the felons didn't vote for the libertarian or green candidate or even write themselves in? Though I would agree that if people who shouldn't have voted, did vote and there was enough of them to swing the election then the election should be declared null by a judge and a bye-election held. Unluckily the American system seems pretty rigid when it comes to elections and their timing so I don't know if bye-elections are allowed.
How can a modern representative democratic country have segregation where whole classes of people can not vote? It's not the early 19th century anymore. And how do you know that those disenfranchised citizens didn't vote for other then Franken?
Let's imagine for a moment a world where 50% of what a young person makes goes to support the non-working elderly. Sounds horrible, right? But lets imagine in that world in which those young people are 4x as productive as they are now. Would they have a legitimate beef supporting an older generation that bequeathed them a world whose technology, infrastructure and educational institutions allow them to take home twice as much pay as they did?
You're assuming that the increased productivity will result in higher real pay. This has not been the reality for quite a while now, productivity keeps increasing and real wages keep dropping for most.
The problem is that the cost of living is increasing way faster then inflation. The cost of living being those things that you have to have such as food, housing and fuel.
Technology can be used to increase everyones wealth or it can be used to increase population so there is an increasing base of poor people slaving away to support an upper class who get richer beyond imagination. Me, I'd like to see everyone being rich to some degree including having leisure time to enjoy their life.
You think it's bad that liberals think that heritability is one influence of intelligence and that light rail when done in some ways is economical? I guess being of the conservative bend of mind you think people should stick with whatever they were taught before puberty, change is bad, progress is bad, we need to regress back to the old days when everything was better
Another object of research is caesarean births where the infant does not pass through the birth canal and misses picking up the flora present in the vagina which jump starts their gut flora. Between mothers being given way too many antibiotics, infants not getting inoculated with their mothers gut flora, infants and children being given too many antibiotics and the attempts to raise children in a sterile environment, people are very deficient in gut flora. Antibiotics, while having saved more lives then most any other medical advance, are also causing many problems from unneeded and over usage. Not only do they wipe out our gut flora but the bacteria that they kill are evolving to make antibiotics useless.
If it happened once, and us being here is pretty good evidence that abiogenesis did happen, then in an infinite universe it must have happened infinite times. Of course those other times may not have been in the finite visible universe. As for sentience, I think what you actually mean is technological life. Life could be sentient and never interested in technology or only minimally interested in technology. Has to be capable too, an octopus might be sentient but living under water is limiting and not having families to propagate a culture is also limiting when it comes to producing much technology.
And the best way to protect unwanted vulnerable infants is to stop them from ever coming into existence and studies show that educating people, especially young people is the most effective way to do this. Prohibition on the other hand has been shown to be a failure when ever tried and in the case of abortion just led to more suffering.
Most of the anti-abortionists don't care about people in the uterus particularity, what they care about is people doing something pleasurable such as sex, else they'd be pushing birth control to make abortions unneeded instead of being just as uptight about birth control as abortion.
And if the ignition was advanced, eg you forgot to retard it (back in the day there was a retard lever on the steering column) or the points worn, out of adjustment or such, it could break your arm. Not a good failure mode. The big selling point of electric starters was actually that women could take the car out and go shopping etc.
I had a serpentine belt seize (actually the idler pulley) while making a right turn into a side street, I would have hit any car that was coming out of the side street no matter what due to the timing of losing the steering entering a turn. Luckily I had room. I drove Nissan trucks in the '70's and '80's, they had a check valve in the vacuum line for the brake booster and were good for about 3 break applications with the engine off and when I updated to an American vehicle I was amazed that my truck had no power brakes when the engine was off. Its just cheap manufacturing not to have a check valve giving a bit of a vacuum reservoir.
Oldest car I ever owned, '69 Datsun, had one key. Same with my '70 cornbinder. I was amazed when I got a '88 F150 and it had a different ignition key from the doors and glovebox. Perhaps for American cars it was normal to have 2 keys but most every car I've seen had one.
As the other poster said, you should have tried OS/2. I had pretty good multi-tasking on a 486DLC at 33Mhz on a good 386 board with 8MBs, localbus and a 120MB drive. It seemed to fly on a 486/100 with 32MBs, even X was fast and it was nice having 3 desktops (X, Win16 and WPS) running at once though you had only one displayed (actually Windows ran seamless with each program in its own session so when they crashed only the program died instead of the system).
Have you seen the price of oxtail? Close to $10 a pound. There's no way I can afford it. Same thing has happened with ribs, used to be cheap meat, not anymore. I haven't seen tongue for ages.
And to make things more fun, there are whole classes of people who can't get a bank account or credit card and according to the story the other day, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... trades that the government don't like are getting their bank accounts closed by the helpful bank. Even if the banks are voluntarily closing undesirables accounts, it makes it hard to function in society.
There's life that may well survive on Mars but what are the odds that it'll infect a spacecraft? Eventually we could send a cocktail of extremophiles and let nature do its thing but it would be nice to have a look around first.
Sure, we can get the Earth down to its black body temperature and with the oceans frozen the albedo will increase and it'll even get colder. Shouldn't be a problem surviving with an average temperature of -20 or less. Many people just don't have any idea of the balance between the various greenhouse gases including water vapor which keeps the Earth hospitable to life..
Depends on the government. Currently the American government is in thrall to the banking industry whereas the previous government was in thrall to the oil industry. The banking industry will make money no matter what and see climate change as a chance to build a new bubble so it is kind of true that the American government has an interest in supporting the climate change science as there is money to be made by the bankers but the bankers will make money no matter what. Here in Canada the government is definitely in thrall to the oil industry and only exists to make sure they make maximum profits. When it comes to science, all they've been able to do is shut it down. Most all climate science stopped in the name of saving money when what they'd really like is science that says man made climate change is bullshit. Seems the scientists would rather be unemployed rather then make up science.
Why the fuck are police getting financed by speeding tickets? That's one of the big problems, underfunding forcing the cops to spend their time making sure there is enough funding to pay them. Same problem with the other ways police are forced to get funding such as civil forfeiture.
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Yet, when I phoned 911 a few weeks back (a car fire) on my old cell phone, the first question the operator asked was what city I was in, then my address.
Criminal behaviour is often based on class, race, sex, age and other factors. A black person is way more likely to be stopped, and if caught doing something illegal such as having a small amount of a banned substance, much more likely to be charged, convicted and have a worse sentence handed down then a well off white person. Amongst other things this makes them politically impotent as in unable to vote to change a law that was originally enacted for racist and economical reasons rather then hurting other people.
What's to say that the felons didn't vote for the libertarian or green candidate or even write themselves in?
Though I would agree that if people who shouldn't have voted, did vote and there was enough of them to swing the election then the election should be declared null by a judge and a bye-election held. Unluckily the American system seems pretty rigid when it comes to elections and their timing so I don't know if bye-elections are allowed.
How can a modern representative democratic country have segregation where whole classes of people can not vote? It's not the early 19th century anymore. And how do you know that those disenfranchised citizens didn't vote for other then Franken?
Let's imagine for a moment a world where 50% of what a young person makes goes to support the non-working elderly. Sounds horrible, right? But lets imagine in that world in which those young people are 4x as productive as they are now. Would they have a legitimate beef supporting an older generation that bequeathed them a world whose technology, infrastructure and educational institutions allow them to take home twice as much pay as they did?
You're assuming that the increased productivity will result in higher real pay. This has not been the reality for quite a while now, productivity keeps increasing and real wages keep dropping for most.
The problem is that the cost of living is increasing way faster then inflation. The cost of living being those things that you have to have such as food, housing and fuel.
Technology can be used to increase everyones wealth or it can be used to increase population so there is an increasing base of poor people slaving away to support an upper class who get richer beyond imagination.
Me, I'd like to see everyone being rich to some degree including having leisure time to enjoy their life.
You think it's bad that liberals think that heritability is one influence of intelligence and that light rail when done in some ways is economical? I guess being of the conservative bend of mind you think people should stick with whatever they were taught before puberty, change is bad, progress is bad, we need to regress back to the old days when everything was better
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... is an example why dirt can be good for you.
Another object of research is caesarean births where the infant does not pass through the birth canal and misses picking up the flora present in the vagina which jump starts their gut flora. Between mothers being given way too many antibiotics, infants not getting inoculated with their mothers gut flora, infants and children being given too many antibiotics and the attempts to raise children in a sterile environment, people are very deficient in gut flora.
Antibiotics, while having saved more lives then most any other medical advance, are also causing many problems from unneeded and over usage. Not only do they wipe out our gut flora but the bacteria that they kill are evolving to make antibiotics useless.
If it happened once, and us being here is pretty good evidence that abiogenesis did happen, then in an infinite universe it must have happened infinite times. Of course those other times may not have been in the finite visible universe.
As for sentience, I think what you actually mean is technological life. Life could be sentient and never interested in technology or only minimally interested in technology. Has to be capable too, an octopus might be sentient but living under water is limiting and not having families to propagate a culture is also limiting when it comes to producing much technology.
And the best way to protect unwanted vulnerable infants is to stop them from ever coming into existence and studies show that educating people, especially young people is the most effective way to do this. Prohibition on the other hand has been shown to be a failure when ever tried and in the case of abortion just led to more suffering.
Most of the anti-abortionists don't care about people in the uterus particularity, what they care about is people doing something pleasurable such as sex, else they'd be pushing birth control to make abortions unneeded instead of being just as uptight about birth control as abortion.
I have a wife for that, even used to push start the diesel. Now I have an automatic and live in fear of when the starter dies.
And if the ignition was advanced, eg you forgot to retard it (back in the day there was a retard lever on the steering column) or the points worn, out of adjustment or such, it could break your arm. Not a good failure mode.
The big selling point of electric starters was actually that women could take the car out and go shopping etc.
I had a serpentine belt seize (actually the idler pulley) while making a right turn into a side street, I would have hit any car that was coming out of the side street no matter what due to the timing of losing the steering entering a turn. Luckily I had room.
I drove Nissan trucks in the '70's and '80's, they had a check valve in the vacuum line for the brake booster and were good for about 3 break applications with the engine off and when I updated to an American vehicle I was amazed that my truck had no power brakes when the engine was off. Its just cheap manufacturing not to have a check valve giving a bit of a vacuum reservoir.
Oldest car I ever owned, '69 Datsun, had one key. Same with my '70 cornbinder. I was amazed when I got a '88 F150 and it had a different ignition key from the doors and glovebox. Perhaps for American cars it was normal to have 2 keys but most every car I've seen had one.
As the other poster said, you should have tried OS/2. I had pretty good multi-tasking on a 486DLC at 33Mhz on a good 386 board with 8MBs, localbus and a 120MB drive. It seemed to fly on a 486/100 with 32MBs, even X was fast and it was nice having 3 desktops (X, Win16 and WPS) running at once though you had only one displayed (actually Windows ran seamless with each program in its own session so when they crashed only the program died instead of the system).
Have you seen the price of oxtail? Close to $10 a pound. There's no way I can afford it. Same thing has happened with ribs, used to be cheap meat, not anymore. I haven't seen tongue for ages.
And to make things more fun, there are whole classes of people who can't get a bank account or credit card and according to the story the other day, http://yro.slashdot.org/story/... trades that the government don't like are getting their bank accounts closed by the helpful bank. Even if the banks are voluntarily closing undesirables accounts, it makes it hard to function in society.
Be nice to have a look around first. See if life has already migrated there or begun separately.
There's life that may well survive on Mars but what are the odds that it'll infect a spacecraft? Eventually we could send a cocktail of extremophiles and let nature do its thing but it would be nice to have a look around first.
Good points from both ACs, namely its a problem handling funds as much as anything and still needs fixing somehow
Sure, we can get the Earth down to its black body temperature and with the oceans frozen the albedo will increase and it'll even get colder. Shouldn't be a problem surviving with an average temperature of -20 or less.
Many people just don't have any idea of the balance between the various greenhouse gases including water vapor which keeps the Earth hospitable to life..
Depends on the government. Currently the American government is in thrall to the banking industry whereas the previous government was in thrall to the oil industry. The banking industry will make money no matter what and see climate change as a chance to build a new bubble so it is kind of true that the American government has an interest in supporting the climate change science as there is money to be made by the bankers but the bankers will make money no matter what.
Here in Canada the government is definitely in thrall to the oil industry and only exists to make sure they make maximum profits. When it comes to science, all they've been able to do is shut it down. Most all climate science stopped in the name of saving money when what they'd really like is science that says man made climate change is bullshit. Seems the scientists would rather be unemployed rather then make up science.
Why the fuck are police getting financed by speeding tickets? That's one of the big problems, underfunding forcing the cops to spend their time making sure there is enough funding to pay them. Same problem with the other ways police are forced to get funding such as civil forfeiture.