How many actual stranger attacks on children are there? Seems like a lot because it sells news, so it is over reported. There was one around here about 30 years back, sad because the kid vanished at a baseball game, but the news still talks about it. Most child kidnappings seem to be by their divorced other parent and even most molestation is by relatives, friends and trusted figures like the priest, coach or scout leader.
Yea, where I am, 3-4 inches is recommended but a lot of people struggle to have a golf green length lawn. Another reason for longish grass is weed suppression, weed seeds and seedlings need light so if you shade them out...
It can be for fire suppression too. Short dry grass doesn't burn the same as long dry grass. Helps if you're somewhere where you can't water in the middle/end of summer.
Weed eater string rips rather then cuts, which injures the grass. Ideal would be (safety) scissors or a miniature reel mower. Rather then sharp, two right angle surfaces with about a thou of clearance between them.
I don't know about Pakistan, but was happened to be reading a bit about Egypt, where you do usually put religion on their ID and if you're not one of the 3 Abrahamic religions, you had to perjure yourself or be disenfranchised and couldn't get any ID until a 2006 court decision that allowed not putting your religion on your national ID. Without the national ID, no other ID was possible. Seems this is common in Islamic countries. Seems really weird living in a secular country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, more men died in child birth. It is true that as property women were more protected, people look after their property. Now whether being safely owned out weighs the lack of freedom is a question. You could try prison as that is sorta like being owned, might even include the rape that women are traditional on the receiving end of. Definitely you will be taken care off in return for your freedom.
Well Japan is trying their hardest to automate nursing. Seems to be more male nurses then ever, took a friend to emergency the other day and dealt with a couple of male nurses. Does seem a bit weird but I guess it cancels out the female Doctors. There's quite a few male teachers as well, though in the higher grades. Lots of places austerity is cutting back on the number of teachers with computers replacing, or rather picking up the slack. There's also a lot of traditional women's jobs that have already been largely automated away, mostly by computers. Nowhere near the number of secretaries, typists and similar since computers became common.
Business usually has short term priorities rather then long term plans. And the governments seem more interested in protecting IP then workers. Just look at the CUSMA trade thing and how quick GM reacted by shutting down non-Mexican factories. at least Canada will be forced to extend copyright for another 20 years and protect the pharmaceutical companies patents more, TPP backdoored.
Yea, I've watched a few YouTube videos on Chinese manufacture as well as things like logging and bridge building. The level of automation and specialized machinery is pretty amazing. It also makes catching up to them look pretty hopeless.
I saw something on Chinese automotive factories. The price of labour is actually pretty high as all the workers have to be highly trained robot technicians. Seems lots of their factories are very modern.
The Apple II was similar, at least at first. I think the schematics and ROM source was included in the box. Of course the floppy drive came a bit later and was an interesting hack.
Err, Apple released a computer in 1986 with a "Ensoniq ES5503 DOC 8-bit wavetable synthesis sound chip, 32-channels, stereo", "The ES5503 DOC is the same chip used in Ensoniq Mirage and Ensoniq ESQ-1 professional-grade synthesizers." This did upset Apple Records. Had other advanced features like a colour GUI at a time when the Mac was still black and white. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, fire is perhaps the biggest step. Still it seems it is a step that was taken perhaps more then a million years ago and pretty surely 120,000+ years ago for being able to start fires, so still a lot happened after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is interesting.
It's hard to imagine technology that keeps working for 100's to 1000's of years and hard to imagine a group of people staying stable for 100's of years. Look at how civilization has changed on the Earth just over a couple of hundred years, little well 1000's. Longer life times might be a requirement and would definitely help. Need stability and the means to repair and maintain for a long time just to cover a few light years at a few percent of light speed. Takes a lot of energy to accelerate a substantial mass even to 1% of light speed.
It's not just intelligence. We have multiple examples of intelligence on our Earth at our time. Has to be general purpose, as in not stuck in a small habitat. Has to be in an environment that allows technology, hard to do under water for example. Needs the means to manipulate its environment, something like hands along with the coordination to use them. Needs the means to pass on knowledge. An octopus for example starts each generation with zero knowledge as they don't have families. They also have relatively short lifetimes. Then they have to have the drive to make the jump to high technology. Humanity seems to have spent 100's of thousands of years at the stone age level of technology with only a couple of groups advancing beyond on their own. A lot of things have to come together for advanced technological intelligence.
Or a combination of the two. Seems a lot has to go right for complex life to evolve, took close to 4 billion years on the Earth, that means everything has to be right and stay right for a hell of a long time. Then intelligent, technological, curious life must evolve. Then there is the vast distances. Even if there were a 100,000 civilizations in our galaxy, that's still 1 in a million stars.
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How many actual stranger attacks on children are there? Seems like a lot because it sells news, so it is over reported. There was one around here about 30 years back, sad because the kid vanished at a baseball game, but the news still talks about it.
Most child kidnappings seem to be by their divorced other parent and even most molestation is by relatives, friends and trusted figures like the priest, coach or scout leader.
I wonder how it deals with mole hills, and tunnels. Moles have been doing very well around here.
Yea, where I am, 3-4 inches is recommended but a lot of people struggle to have a golf green length lawn. Another reason for longish grass is weed suppression, weed seeds and seedlings need light so if you shade them out...
It can be for fire suppression too. Short dry grass doesn't burn the same as long dry grass. Helps if you're somewhere where you can't water in the middle/end of summer.
Weed eater string rips rather then cuts, which injures the grass. Ideal would be (safety) scissors or a miniature reel mower. Rather then sharp, two right angle surfaces with about a thou of clearance between them.
I don't know about Pakistan, but was happened to be reading a bit about Egypt, where you do usually put religion on their ID and if you're not one of the 3 Abrahamic religions, you had to perjure yourself or be disenfranchised and couldn't get any ID until a 2006 court decision that allowed not putting your religion on your national ID. Without the national ID, no other ID was possible.
Seems this is common in Islamic countries.
Seems really weird living in a secular country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yep, more men died in child birth. It is true that as property women were more protected, people look after their property. Now whether being safely owned out weighs the lack of freedom is a question. You could try prison as that is sorta like being owned, might even include the rape that women are traditional on the receiving end of. Definitely you will be taken care off in return for your freedom.
Well Japan is trying their hardest to automate nursing. Seems to be more male nurses then ever, took a friend to emergency the other day and dealt with a couple of male nurses. Does seem a bit weird but I guess it cancels out the female Doctors. There's quite a few male teachers as well, though in the higher grades. Lots of places austerity is cutting back on the number of teachers with computers replacing, or rather picking up the slack.
There's also a lot of traditional women's jobs that have already been largely automated away, mostly by computers. Nowhere near the number of secretaries, typists and similar since computers became common.
My understanding is that QT is working hard to make their WebKit basically blink with QT rather then GTK by basically merging in Chromium.
Business usually has short term priorities rather then long term plans.
And the governments seem more interested in protecting IP then workers. Just look at the CUSMA trade thing and how quick GM reacted by shutting down non-Mexican factories. at least Canada will be forced to extend copyright for another 20 years and protect the pharmaceutical companies patents more, TPP backdoored.
Yea, I've watched a few YouTube videos on Chinese manufacture as well as things like logging and bridge building. The level of automation and specialized machinery is pretty amazing. It also makes catching up to them look pretty hopeless.
I saw something on Chinese automotive factories. The price of labour is actually pretty high as all the workers have to be highly trained robot technicians. Seems lots of their factories are very modern.
The Apple II was similar, at least at first. I think the schematics and ROM source was included in the box. Of course the floppy drive came a bit later and was an interesting hack.
Err, Apple released a computer in 1986 with a "Ensoniq ES5503 DOC 8-bit wavetable synthesis sound chip, 32-channels, stereo", "The ES5503 DOC is the same chip used in Ensoniq Mirage and Ensoniq ESQ-1 professional-grade synthesizers."
This did upset Apple Records.
Had other advanced features like a colour GUI at a time when the Mac was still black and white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Paper phone book just showed up in my mailbox, so they're still a thing. Does seem to be shrinking though.
On the other hand, https://weather.gc.ca/city/pag... note the sunrise and sunset times, about 11:45-16:30 as well as the cold temperatures.
Yes, fire is perhaps the biggest step. Still it seems it is a step that was taken perhaps more then a million years ago and pretty surely 120,000+ years ago for being able to start fires, so still a lot happened after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is interesting.
It's hard to imagine technology that keeps working for 100's to 1000's of years and hard to imagine a group of people staying stable for 100's of years.
Look at how civilization has changed on the Earth just over a couple of hundred years, little well 1000's.
Longer life times might be a requirement and would definitely help. Need stability and the means to repair and maintain for a long time just to cover a few light years at a few percent of light speed. Takes a lot of energy to accelerate a substantial mass even to 1% of light speed.
From a few light years or more away, the Solar System would appear to have 3 inhabitable planets.
It's not just intelligence. We have multiple examples of intelligence on our Earth at our time.
Has to be general purpose, as in not stuck in a small habitat.
Has to be in an environment that allows technology, hard to do under water for example.
Needs the means to manipulate its environment, something like hands along with the coordination to use them.
Needs the means to pass on knowledge. An octopus for example starts each generation with zero knowledge as they don't have families. They also have relatively short lifetimes.
Then they have to have the drive to make the jump to high technology. Humanity seems to have spent 100's of thousands of years at the stone age level of technology with only a couple of groups advancing beyond on their own.
A lot of things have to come together for advanced technological intelligence.
Or a combination of the two. Seems a lot has to go right for complex life to evolve, took close to 4 billion years on the Earth, that means everything has to be right and stay right for a hell of a long time. Then intelligent, technological, curious life must evolve.
Then there is the vast distances. Even if there were a 100,000 civilizations in our galaxy, that's still 1 in a million stars.
US can't learn from other countries?
The suggestion did cross my mind.
Why does the government have to be involved in socialism? Stalinism is not socialism or if it is, it is only one of many types of socialism.
Not the American glue obviously.