Your link only shows that one authour was full of shit. The way I heard it, it was before there was a USA and this article references enough letters to show it was probably true and if not then it was planned. http://www.nativeweb.org/pages... shows Lord Jeffrey Amherst as full of hate and genocidal against the native Indians with multiple discussions (actually postscripts) about giving the Indians smallpox blankets and handkerchiefs.
You left out one driver of climate change over geologic time scales. Continental drift which over the eons might be the largest driver of climate change. Relatively recent examples could be the closing of the isthmus of Panama stopping currents between the Pacific and Atlantic and the opening of the straight between Antarctica and S. America. Of course this is long term affects and obviously has nothing to do with historical climate.
The coppers mostly already laid and was paid for by the government originally and now often the developers have to pay in new subdivisions. They also do a crappy job of maintenance with quite a few trees leaning on the lines where they don't use the electric poles (high voltage due to the damn). Here in Canada the telecommunication companies do still regularly have record profits.
Crows (and Ravens) don't spend much time in trees looking for food, mostly nuts and they use cars to break the shell, showing understanding of the intersection rules, safe on red. They are omnivores and seem to eat anything. They've also adapted very well to city life and love McDonalds so not that smart.
The State owned oil company got sold to private interests years ago. The companies selling gasoline are mostly international, mostly American though I guess Shell is still Dutch and the gasoline comes from Washington State or Texas.
The problem is the people outside of town. It's easy to have a cell tower or 2 in the centre of town but to have multiple towers will mean eating into their profits.
I'm in a big sparse country so not quite the same as the States but if I lost my land line I'd be out of contact. No cell service as I'm 40 miles outside of a city that including suburbs only has a million and half people and internet comes over that land line at a whole 3KB/s. Satellites are behind mountains and trees and lots of rain as well.
I REAL capitalism, when you screw over your customers, they leave you and go to the competition. In fake capoitalism (read government controlled), you're pretty much the only game in town and have a protected monopoly and can screw your customers with impunity.... Kinda like the current utilities system we have.
In real capitalism, you make sure there is no competition left before you screw over your customers. Being good capitalists does mean using any means to destroy your competition and government is a good tool, fairly cheap and well armed.
is it complex innate behavior that evolved or "understanding"?
what is the difference?
Understanding takes some thought whereas instinctive evolved behaviour does not take thought. The Bowerbird builds an elaborate nest because it feels right and it is easy to understand how that may have evolved, females that are attracted to elaborate nests and males that though small mutations and genetic recombining that make more elaborate nests having more breeding success. Needing to get something out of reach and having to improvise by bending a wire or studying a situation until understanding a series of steps will get something out of reach seem harder to have simply evolved as pure instincts. Instinct might partially come into it but coming up with novel tools and using them would include some understanding. People are the same, some instinctive tool usage built into us and then innovating through understanding tools to the point where I'm typing on a computer to communicate with you.
Some people need to feel special in relationship to other animals while the truth is that we are an animal and operate with a mixture of instincts and understanding and other animals can be similar though we do seem to do the understanding part better.
There are better studies that show crows having understanding. Things like using a short tool to get a medium tool to get the long tool to reach the unreachable. Fashioning the correct tool from a piece of wire. Or in one case studying the situation for close to 2 minutes before flawlessly completing all the steps required to reach the unreachable, without any training. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Ravens are known for stashing food in caches including faking the cache and stealing other ravens stashes. They show quite some smarts in doing it and remembering as well. What has always amazed me is how much intelligence can be crammed into that bird brain that is smaller then a walnut.
Sure, I need to buy gas today. 6 brands that are priced identically and seem to perform exactly the same. When the price changes, it changes for all at almost the same time. When Russia does something, the price of the gas in the service station tanks changes price everywhere by the same amount. .
We have the example of America to show what happens when markets are left to themselves. The successful do whatever it takes to make a monopoly or oligarchy including taking over the government. America has the government it has due to market forces.
You mean you're a native of the United States of America.If you were actually a native American, you'd be able to show up at the Canadian border, show proof that you're a native American and enter with most all rights of a Canadian. Works the other way too, a Canadian citizen who is a native American can enter the USA and have most all rights of a citizen of the USA. This is one case where American means the North American continent and the founders of the USA agreed that certain peoples had these rights as part of the peace treaty with Great Britain and re-agreed as part of the treaty ending the war of 1812. Note that treaties are just below the Constitution when it comes to law.
How can having a cell phone in one hand not be more dangerous? One hand on the steering wheel, one hand holding the phone and one hand shifting gears. Fine if you're a Motie. But seriously, carrying on a conversation with someone not in the car is distracting, especially as the other end has no idea what is happening around the car. The problem with the laws is that it just makes people more distracted as they try to hide the fact that they're using the phone. A law by itself is not the solution.
The inch was defined (in America) as 2.54 mm in 1959 when you signed a treaty to use the Canadian inch. You're thinking of 1866 when the definition was defined as 1 metre = 39.37 inches. A few millionths difference there. The pound was defined in 1893 and even more accurately in 1894 as 2.20462234 to the kilo and it was still different from the UK pound by a couple of 10 millionths.
Most of these types of calendars have days that aren't in a month or sometimes even a week, Saturday, New Years Day, Sunday kind of thing. Of course the simple thing to do would be to adjust the orbits of the Moon and the Earth along with the rotation period of the Earth to make the numbers come out better.
Most of your examples weren't times of massive unemployment and there is a lag. Remember that some of periods of high-unemployment lasted for a generation or more such as in the times of the original Luddites. America has been using their surplus labour for war for quite a while. Using it for war doesn't mean fighting a war, it can be preparing for war such as by spending more money then the rest of the world. Of course there is a tendency to want to use armies once you have them.
A republic like N. Korea which firmly follows the one man one vote rule and we all know who that one man is or a republic like Switzerland which practices direct democracy?
The biggest roadblock to metric adoption in the US was the insane idea that anything expressed in metric units had to be some whole multiple of 10 or 100. We weren't allowed to have 5mL and 15mL measuring spoons... they had to be 1mL and 10mL, bundled with an equally-useless 100mL measuring cup. Or at least, that was what you'd think if you saw the useless set of baking utensils my mom & grandmother got for Christmas at some point in the late 70s. It was like there was some unwritten rule banning 250mL measuring cups, because it wasn't a "proper" metric size.
That seems weird. I remember the switch in Canada in the early '70's and measuring stuff just got rounded as you suggest, 5ml and 15ml spoons being the most popular and cups with metric on one side and imperial on the other, occasionally with some American to screw your mind. Same with purchasing stuff, a Quart shrunk to a litre, a gallon likewise shrinking to 4l. It still happening as many containers are 3.78 litres so almost a pint and a half shaved off the old gallon.
The sole exception to the "whole multiple of 10" rule was speed limits. Without exception, the speed limit in km/h was always less than the speed limit in miles per hour -- sometimes, a lot. Hence, signs that listed metric speed limits for 55mph and 30mph as 88km/h and 40km/h. I specifically remember the news reports on TV about how the 30mph/40km/h signs were vandalized at an abnormally-high rate (in rural areas, they were usually shot full of bullet holes). Had the government given drivers a freebie, and listed the metric speed limits for 55 and 30mph as 90km/h and 50km/h respectively, I *guarantee* American drivers would have LOVED the metric system. At least, in that specific context.
In Canada the shift was the logical 20=30 30=50 40=60 50=80 55=90 60=100 70=110 with the only real loses being 60km/h and 110km/h. They had commercials with jingles focusing on the first 3 or four.
40 odd years later, we drive mostly in metric with most people being bilingual, weather is in metric. Groceries are in litres and pounds, hardware is mostly in standard. So go out and buy a litre of milk, a pound of hamburger then half a kilo of 1/2 in nails, some 8ft 2x4s and 3/8 plywood. Probably varies across the country.
That's not true. Think about it, if you had the ultimate in inefficient engines, non of the fuel would get burnt good enough to form CO2, Instead you'd have CO and HC coming out of the exhaust. Every molecule of CO means one less molecule of CO2 and similar with the HC. CO2 is formed by complete combustion and complete combustion is the goal in an efficient engine.
Every time there has been a surplus of labour over the last 200 years, the surplus has been used for war. England was the first industrial nation with an excess of labour to use for military purposes and quite successful at using their military to expand their empire. America first expanded west including killing off the original inhabitants to use up their excess of labour and then also became a military power. Now the military is also getting more automated. Not much need for infantry or ship builders anymore.
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Your link only shows that one authour was full of shit. The way I heard it, it was before there was a USA and this article references enough letters to show it was probably true and if not then it was planned. http://www.nativeweb.org/pages... shows Lord Jeffrey Amherst as full of hate and genocidal against the native Indians with multiple discussions (actually postscripts) about giving the Indians smallpox blankets and handkerchiefs.
You left out one driver of climate change over geologic time scales. Continental drift which over the eons might be the largest driver of climate change. Relatively recent examples could be the closing of the isthmus of Panama stopping currents between the Pacific and Atlantic and the opening of the straight between Antarctica and S. America.
Of course this is long term affects and obviously has nothing to do with historical climate.
The coppers mostly already laid and was paid for by the government originally and now often the developers have to pay in new subdivisions. They also do a crappy job of maintenance with quite a few trees leaning on the lines where they don't use the electric poles (high voltage due to the damn).
Here in Canada the telecommunication companies do still regularly have record profits.
Crows (and Ravens) don't spend much time in trees looking for food, mostly nuts and they use cars to break the shell, showing understanding of the intersection rules, safe on red. They are omnivores and seem to eat anything. They've also adapted very well to city life and love McDonalds so not that smart.
The State owned oil company got sold to private interests years ago. The companies selling gasoline are mostly international, mostly American though I guess Shell is still Dutch and the gasoline comes from Washington State or Texas.
It's all semantics but legally in American law you are not a native American, just a natural citizen of the United States of America.
The problem is the people outside of town. It's easy to have a cell tower or 2 in the centre of town but to have multiple towers will mean eating into their profits.
I'm in a big sparse country so not quite the same as the States but if I lost my land line I'd be out of contact. No cell service as I'm 40 miles outside of a city that including suburbs only has a million and half people and internet comes over that land line at a whole 3KB/s. Satellites are behind mountains and trees and lots of rain as well.
I REAL capitalism, when you screw over your customers, they leave you and go to the competition. In fake capoitalism (read government controlled), you're pretty much the only game in town and have a protected monopoly and can screw your customers with impunity.... Kinda like the current utilities system we have.
In real capitalism, you make sure there is no competition left before you screw over your customers. Being good capitalists does mean using any means to destroy your competition and government is a good tool, fairly cheap and well armed.
is it complex innate behavior that evolved or "understanding"?
what is the difference?
Understanding takes some thought whereas instinctive evolved behaviour does not take thought. The Bowerbird builds an elaborate nest because it feels right and it is easy to understand how that may have evolved, females that are attracted to elaborate nests and males that though small mutations and genetic recombining that make more elaborate nests having more breeding success.
Needing to get something out of reach and having to improvise by bending a wire or studying a situation until understanding a series of steps will get something out of reach seem harder to have simply evolved as pure instincts. Instinct might partially come into it but coming up with novel tools and using them would include some understanding.
People are the same, some instinctive tool usage built into us and then innovating through understanding tools to the point where I'm typing on a computer to communicate with you.
Some people need to feel special in relationship to other animals while the truth is that we are an animal and operate with a mixture of instincts and understanding and other animals can be similar though we do seem to do the understanding part better.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
There are better studies that show crows having understanding. Things like using a short tool to get a medium tool to get the long tool to reach the unreachable. Fashioning the correct tool from a piece of wire. Or in one case studying the situation for close to 2 minutes before flawlessly completing all the steps required to reach the unreachable, without any training.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Ravens are known for stashing food in caches including faking the cache and stealing other ravens stashes. They show quite some smarts in doing it and remembering as well.
What has always amazed me is how much intelligence can be crammed into that bird brain that is smaller then a walnut.
Sure, I need to buy gas today. 6 brands that are priced identically and seem to perform exactly the same. When the price changes, it changes for all at almost the same time. When Russia does something, the price of the gas in the service station tanks changes price everywhere by the same amount. .
We have the example of America to show what happens when markets are left to themselves. The successful do whatever it takes to make a monopoly or oligarchy including taking over the government.
America has the government it has due to market forces.
You mean you're a native of the United States of America.If you were actually a native American, you'd be able to show up at the Canadian border, show proof that you're a native American and enter with most all rights of a Canadian. Works the other way too, a Canadian citizen who is a native American can enter the USA and have most all rights of a citizen of the USA. This is one case where American means the North American continent and the founders of the USA agreed that certain peoples had these rights as part of the peace treaty with Great Britain and re-agreed as part of the treaty ending the war of 1812.
Note that treaties are just below the Constitution when it comes to law.
How can having a cell phone in one hand not be more dangerous? One hand on the steering wheel, one hand holding the phone and one hand shifting gears. Fine if you're a Motie.
But seriously, carrying on a conversation with someone not in the car is distracting, especially as the other end has no idea what is happening around the car.
The problem with the laws is that it just makes people more distracted as they try to hide the fact that they're using the phone. A law by itself is not the solution.
The inch was defined (in America) as 2.54 mm in 1959 when you signed a treaty to use the Canadian inch. You're thinking of 1866 when the definition was defined as 1 metre = 39.37 inches. A few millionths difference there.
The pound was defined in 1893 and even more accurately in 1894 as 2.20462234 to the kilo and it was still different from the UK pound by a couple of 10 millionths.
Most of these types of calendars have days that aren't in a month or sometimes even a week, Saturday, New Years Day, Sunday kind of thing.
Of course the simple thing to do would be to adjust the orbits of the Moon and the Earth along with the rotation period of the Earth to make the numbers come out better.
Most of your examples weren't times of massive unemployment and there is a lag. Remember that some of periods of high-unemployment lasted for a generation or more such as in the times of the original Luddites.
America has been using their surplus labour for war for quite a while. Using it for war doesn't mean fighting a war, it can be preparing for war such as by spending more money then the rest of the world. Of course there is a tendency to want to use armies once you have them.
Yea, I should have used soot as the example of carbon that isn't CO2.
A republic like N. Korea which firmly follows the one man one vote rule and we all know who that one man is or a republic like Switzerland which practices direct democracy?
The biggest roadblock to metric adoption in the US was the insane idea that anything expressed in metric units had to be some whole multiple of 10 or 100. We weren't allowed to have 5mL and 15mL measuring spoons... they had to be 1mL and 10mL, bundled with an equally-useless 100mL measuring cup. Or at least, that was what you'd think if you saw the useless set of baking utensils my mom & grandmother got for Christmas at some point in the late 70s. It was like there was some unwritten rule banning 250mL measuring cups, because it wasn't a "proper" metric size.
That seems weird. I remember the switch in Canada in the early '70's and measuring stuff just got rounded as you suggest, 5ml and 15ml spoons being the most popular and cups with metric on one side and imperial on the other, occasionally with some American to screw your mind. Same with purchasing stuff, a Quart shrunk to a litre, a gallon likewise shrinking to 4l. It still happening as many containers are 3.78 litres so almost a pint and a half shaved off the old gallon.
The sole exception to the "whole multiple of 10" rule was speed limits. Without exception, the speed limit in km/h was always less than the speed limit in miles per hour -- sometimes, a lot. Hence, signs that listed metric speed limits for 55mph and 30mph as 88km/h and 40km/h. I specifically remember the news reports on TV about how the 30mph/40km/h signs were vandalized at an abnormally-high rate (in rural areas, they were usually shot full of bullet holes). Had the government given drivers a freebie, and listed the metric speed limits for 55 and 30mph as 90km/h and 50km/h respectively, I *guarantee* American drivers would have LOVED the metric system. At least, in that specific context.
In Canada the shift was the logical 20=30 30=50 40=60 50=80 55=90 60=100 70=110 with the only real loses being 60km/h and 110km/h. They had commercials with jingles focusing on the first 3 or four.
40 odd years later, we drive mostly in metric with most people being bilingual, weather is in metric. Groceries are in litres and pounds, hardware is mostly in standard. So go out and buy a litre of milk, a pound of hamburger then half a kilo of 1/2 in nails, some 8ft 2x4s and 3/8 plywood. Probably varies across the country.
That's not true. Think about it, if you had the ultimate in inefficient engines, non of the fuel would get burnt good enough to form CO2, Instead you'd have CO and HC coming out of the exhaust. Every molecule of CO means one less molecule of CO2 and similar with the HC. CO2 is formed by complete combustion and complete combustion is the goal in an efficient engine.
Every time there has been a surplus of labour over the last 200 years, the surplus has been used for war. England was the first industrial nation with an excess of labour to use for military purposes and quite successful at using their military to expand their empire. America first expanded west including killing off the original inhabitants to use up their excess of labour and then also became a military power. Now the military is also getting more automated. Not much need for infantry or ship builders anymore.