Nope, it's not natural. It'll just take a while for people to believe it. Have you heard the parable of how to boil a frog? If we were to cease emissions today, the average global temperature would still increase for about 50 years.
It'd be slicker if they did something like xen and allowed windows to be run as a guest OS at near full speed. That'd be more historically consistant as well.
I can't believe you are knocking the post office. The USPS receives no outside money and delivers letters cheaper than anyone else in the world. I think it costs over half a euro to mail a letter in Germany.
Compared to dealing with HMOs the IRS might not be so bad... *shudder*
Another thing to keep in mind is that (my numbers are a little old) canadians pay, by gdp, 1/3 of what americans pay. In the US very few people have insurance that is as good as what all canadians have. For those lucky few, the US system gives them better care, but for the rest, it sucks. Most americans wouldn't go in because they couldn't afford it. I agree that there are some problems with it, but I would be very interested to see if the complaints would remain if canada spent anywhere close to the US on healthcare. I've worked in the healthcare industry, and the insurance industry makes me sick. It leeches off fear and death and posistions itself into mini-monopolies. I think that they should have to offer coverage to everyone as individuals and not through employers. They abuse it far too often.
No, they'd just get a lot sicker before they went to the ER where the taxpayers would have to foot the bill anyways. It's cheaper to do public healthcare.
woah, woah, this isn't a monarchy. Last time I checked, NASA was not under the executive branch. They are responsible to congress, then the people. Democracy assumes informed voters, so for congress to receive information that is not as accurate as possible is against the core of both democracy and NASA's purpose. And it isn't necessarily just his wishes. If it is the policy of NASA for its reports to be as truthful as possible, then he is just ignoring a middle manager. If I were working for a company, and my boss wanted me to lie on a report because it would help him, at the cost of the company and the world, I wouldn't find that an ethical course.
I was going to respond to each point, but there isn't really any benefit to that. If you have some time, you might enjoy "The People's History of the United States". It never claims to be right, but it is history from the side not represented in normal history books.
grouping people into "left" and "right" is pretty stupid. I understand why people do it, but it still pisses me off.
FWIW, if you want to look at a group that has a good historical track record, check out the Quakers. (specifically hicksite) They were pro women's rights and racial equality in the 1600s and were talking about many other social issues way before most people would consider them.
If I purchase a CD legally in Russia I can legally bring it back and listen to it here. Why shouldn't it be the same for Russian servers? I smell imperialism.
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so the poorest 99% who cannot afford a shelter will slowly die?
Forest fires, pine trees and volcanoes consume a good percentage of the earths fossil fuels in a few years?
Nope, it's not natural. It'll just take a while for people to believe it. Have you heard the parable of how to boil a frog? If we were to cease emissions today, the average global temperature would still increase for about 50 years.
It'd be slicker if they did something like xen and allowed windows to be run as a guest OS at near full speed. That'd be more historically consistant as well.
I can't believe you are knocking the post office. The USPS receives no outside money and delivers letters cheaper than anyone else in the world. I think it costs over half a euro to mail a letter in Germany.
Compared to dealing with HMOs the IRS might not be so bad... *shudder*
Another thing to keep in mind is that (my numbers are a little old) canadians pay, by gdp, 1/3 of what americans pay. In the US very few people have insurance that is as good as what all canadians have. For those lucky few, the US system gives them better care, but for the rest, it sucks. Most americans wouldn't go in because they couldn't afford it. I agree that there are some problems with it, but I would be very interested to see if the complaints would remain if canada spent anywhere close to the US on healthcare. I've worked in the healthcare industry, and the insurance industry makes me sick. It leeches off fear and death and posistions itself into mini-monopolies. I think that they should have to offer coverage to everyone as individuals and not through employers. They abuse it far too often.
No, they'd just get a lot sicker before they went to the ER where the taxpayers would have to foot the bill anyways. It's cheaper to do public healthcare.
It's too bad that I don't give a shit. I came here to learn, not do well on exams. Those two activities are often mutually exclusive.
The last is the most important. We all should want the USPS to be responsible to its charter, not the president.
I'm sitting in my environmental engineering class (breadth elected, I'm a CompE major) ignoring the instructor to post on slashdot.
woah, woah, this isn't a monarchy. Last time I checked, NASA was not under the executive branch. They are responsible to congress, then the people. Democracy assumes informed voters, so for congress to receive information that is not as accurate as possible is against the core of both democracy and NASA's purpose. And it isn't necessarily just his wishes. If it is the policy of NASA for its reports to be as truthful as possible, then he is just ignoring a middle manager. If I were working for a company, and my boss wanted me to lie on a report because it would help him, at the cost of the company and the world, I wouldn't find that an ethical course.
-He's a GOVERNMENT employee-
Exactly, he is his own boss. He is working for himself to give himself the best information possible.
you could also try http://www.zinf.org/
I was going to respond to each point, but there isn't really any benefit to that. If you have some time, you might enjoy "The People's History of the United States". It never claims to be right, but it is history from the side not represented in normal history books.
grouping people into "left" and "right" is pretty stupid. I understand why people do it, but it still pisses me off.
FWIW, if you want to look at a group that has a good historical track record, check out the Quakers. (specifically hicksite) They were pro women's rights and racial equality in the 1600s and were talking about many other social issues way before most people would consider them.
Cisco releases a linux version of their vpn client. That being said, I like vpnc better.
me.. for one game:
Starcraft.
Could you fix it with harmony?
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http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/harmony/index.
Aluminium wires are a huge fire hazard. It was tried when copper was scarce because of WWII and hopefully no one will do it again.
I heard somewhere that the G5s will still hang around for at least a year, maybe two.
This would work better when coupled with Onion Routing. TOR would work nicely. Speed might be an issue, but that is a temporary problem.
If I purchase a CD legally in Russia I can legally bring it back and listen to it here. Why shouldn't it be the same for Russian servers? I smell imperialism.
Artists don't get anything substantial from iTMS. You may as well download it for free.
They can try to filter all Freenet traffic.
Luckily, agile protocols can bail us out.
He wouldn't be able to relate to them any better.
It's too bad that those engineers don't actually build anything in school.