Knowing the European Parliament, some minor symbolic thing will be changed, it will be hailed by bought off parliamentarians as a major victory, and it will be passed. No attention will be paid to parliamentarians who stand by their principles, usually from parties dismissed as "radical" and "extreme" by mainstream media.
Maybe banning or at least regulating HFCS would be a better approach, it's apparently a large contributor to obesity.. But if cup sizes are as large as I've read in this thread (i.e. medium at almost 1 liter, not even large is even remotely that big over here and medium is 0.4 liters, the only place you can get around one liter intended for drinking and not pouring that I know of is in movie theaters) perhaps drink sizes need to be regulated as well.
So medium is almost a liter? That sounds extremely excessive, not even large is that big here. The extra large sizes you can get at the movie theater are probably around a liter, but that's just way too much for one person during a 90 minute movie IMO, maybe they're intended for sharing. Medium is usually 0.4 liters, or 13.5 US fluid ounces.
The Nolan chart is also way too simplistic to describe political ideologies though. It is quite obviously biased due to its "libertarian"/anarcho-capitalist origins. For instance, one axes is supposed to indicate "economic freedom", but it doesn't specify freedom for whom. Anarcho-capitalists would of course argue that it's freedom for everyone to do what they wish economically whereas socialists would argue (correctly, IMO) that only the wealthy are "free" to do as they wish, with the rest stuck in wage slavery in servitude to capitalists with little choice in the matter. To me, economic freedom is for everyone to take part in the ownership and control of the means of production. Economic freedom restricted to an elite is no freedom at all, just as freedom of speech restricted to a small group is no freedom at all.
It may be going to far, but maybe police officers should also have some sort of marker installed that can tell a scanner whether a certain person is a police officer, it would really help identify police instigators at protests. Of course it would be detrimental to legitimate undercover work but maybe they could get a special permission to disable it which would be public record after a certain time period has passed.
I came across this about a week ago: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/11/more-than-half-of-police-officers-voted-for-neo-nazi-party/ It says that half of the Greek police force voted for the neo-nazis. I realize that this is only one datapoint and it's in Greece specifically, but I think it's an international phenomenon that I have long suspected: the people who are attracted to the policing profession tend to have somewhat fascistoid tendencies. I'm sure there are some great cops out there who became a cop because they wanted to help people, but there also seems to a ton of bad apples within the police force, regardless of country. Of course police violence can't entirely be blamed on the officers, the politicians and the higher-ups set the policies that enable such bad behavior. I think Norway and the UK have the right idea - don't allow officers to carry around guns in their everyday work, I think this simple measure could deter some of the people attracted to the profession for its monopoly on legal violence.
I'm not an electrical engineer, but isn't pretty much everything but superconductors essentially resistors in the sense that they have resistance? For instance wood obviously has a very high resistance, thus why it's not very conductive to carrying electricity.. How would you calculate power where there is zero resistance though? Using Ohm's law, power becomes undefined at that point, and even if resistance in superconductors only approaches zero, would that mean power approaches infinity?
Well, I guess I've got you beat. You're running a 70's operating system with added pretty colors, I'm running an early 90's operating system with pretty colors added on top.;) Though to be fair, parts of the userspace was first developed in the 80's...
You sound like the "lesser students" are carrying some sort of disease. Suffice it to say that I don't want to live in your ideal society where everyone is segregated based on perceived ability. What's the point of your segregational policy? Like I said, the kids who go to other schools don't do any better than they did before, the only difference is that the poorly performing kids are doing worse. It's simple really, if teachers have classes full of underperforming kids, they have to help everyone in the class, they simply can't. If they have a mixed class however, the teacher only has to help some of the kids extensively, and the well performing kids can help their friends understand the problems. Your post reeks of social Darwinism.
It would be interesting to know how the test was carried out though. If it's through a phone survey, I can certainly see a large percentage of that being due to other factors such as stress, kids running around, etc. Has anyone carried out the test on natural born Americans in the same conditions that immigrants take the test?
I rather like the direct democracy model, but voting directly on taxes is stupid. I would much rather have a system where you can vote on the issues, but not directly on the funding. Each bill would have a cost associated with it, i.e. "Do you want to reduce class sizes by on average 5 pupils? This would increase your tax rate by 0.5%" or "Do you want to increase class sizes by on average 5 pupils? This would decrease you tax rate by 0.5%", and if a service becomes more expensive: "Do you want to retain current class sizes? Doing so would increase tax rate by 0.1%, otherwise each class would have an average of 2 more pupils", and so on.
We have "vouchers" in Sweden in the form that anyone can send their kids to any school, private or public, free of charge. The only thing it has brought us is segregating the kids who do well into separate schools from everyone else. The kids who performed well didn't perform any better (though the private schools like to inflate grades in order to look more attractive to parents) and the kids who did poorly now perform worse than they did before.
The way to improve schools IMHO is to reduce class sizes to 10-15 kids so that teachers have time to help every kid who needs help, but that costs money...
Interesting, I found the official "naturalization self test" and tried 15 questions, I got 14 correct. I briefly lived in New York for 6 months about 7 years ago and I'm a sporadic follower of US politics, but I can't believe my score could be better than the average American. I found some of the questions and answers rather simplistic though.
Oh and I can guarantee that Linux wouldn't be the success it is today without the GPL. If it was BSD, all the companies that use Linux would be free to keep their modifications proprietary. IBM would have kept their modifications to themselves, only distributed on their servers, HP would do the same, etc. That would mean a lot of duplication of work, Linux would not have gained even remotely the same popularity.
So don't use GPL software and stop bitching. If someone published software under the GPL, they clearly meant for anyone modifying the software to release their modifications, they didn't intend for someone to come along and steal their code for a proprietary application. If you don't want to release your modifications, you're free to use proprietary software, BSD software or contact the copyright owners and request a special license.
Probably aren't many security guards patrolling boiler rooms of residential buildings. Luckily, we generally use district heating in apartment buildings over here and that includes mine so no need to worry about that.
I don't know about nothing - apart from the obvious humane perspective, if retiree's get proper care, young "productive" members of society will have to take less time off to care for their elder relatives when they're sick.
I didn't see anything about this compatibility layer in the article, but I guess it would be similar to the OSX version, if the OSX version is slower than the windows version on the same hardware then likely it would be on Linux as well. As far as I could tell from the article though, they don't use wine, so if they do use some sort of compatibility layer I would assume (without knowing much about graphics programming) they probably have a wrapper to map direct3d calls to opengl in the source. In that case I would guess that it wouldn't be slower than windows for any reasons related to the game itself at least, but perhaps due to drivers.
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Why is this modded troll? You'd have to be blind solely blame Greece in this debacle and it's quite obvious who has benefited from the Greek crisis.
Knowing the European Parliament, some minor symbolic thing will be changed, it will be hailed by bought off parliamentarians as a major victory, and it will be passed. No attention will be paid to parliamentarians who stand by their principles, usually from parties dismissed as "radical" and "extreme" by mainstream media.
Maybe banning or at least regulating HFCS would be a better approach, it's apparently a large contributor to obesity.. But if cup sizes are as large as I've read in this thread (i.e. medium at almost 1 liter, not even large is even remotely that big over here and medium is 0.4 liters, the only place you can get around one liter intended for drinking and not pouring that I know of is in movie theaters) perhaps drink sizes need to be regulated as well.
So medium is almost a liter? That sounds extremely excessive, not even large is that big here. The extra large sizes you can get at the movie theater are probably around a liter, but that's just way too much for one person during a 90 minute movie IMO, maybe they're intended for sharing. Medium is usually 0.4 liters, or 13.5 US fluid ounces.
The Nolan chart is also way too simplistic to describe political ideologies though. It is quite obviously biased due to its "libertarian"/anarcho-capitalist origins. For instance, one axes is supposed to indicate "economic freedom", but it doesn't specify freedom for whom. Anarcho-capitalists would of course argue that it's freedom for everyone to do what they wish economically whereas socialists would argue (correctly, IMO) that only the wealthy are "free" to do as they wish, with the rest stuck in wage slavery in servitude to capitalists with little choice in the matter. To me, economic freedom is for everyone to take part in the ownership and control of the means of production. Economic freedom restricted to an elite is no freedom at all, just as freedom of speech restricted to a small group is no freedom at all.
You have a very simplistic view of politics. I suggest you go read a book, or perhaps many books, but you can start with these Wikipedia articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism
It may be going to far, but maybe police officers should also have some sort of marker installed that can tell a scanner whether a certain person is a police officer, it would really help identify police instigators at protests. Of course it would be detrimental to legitimate undercover work but maybe they could get a special permission to disable it which would be public record after a certain time period has passed.
I came across this about a week ago: http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/11/more-than-half-of-police-officers-voted-for-neo-nazi-party/
It says that half of the Greek police force voted for the neo-nazis. I realize that this is only one datapoint and it's in Greece specifically, but I think it's an international phenomenon that I have long suspected: the people who are attracted to the policing profession tend to have somewhat fascistoid tendencies. I'm sure there are some great cops out there who became a cop because they wanted to help people, but there also seems to a ton of bad apples within the police force, regardless of country. Of course police violence can't entirely be blamed on the officers, the politicians and the higher-ups set the policies that enable such bad behavior. I think Norway and the UK have the right idea - don't allow officers to carry around guns in their everyday work, I think this simple measure could deter some of the people attracted to the profession for its monopoly on legal violence.
If the pharmaceutical is the result of publicly funded medical research, there should be no patent at all...
I'm not an electrical engineer, but isn't pretty much everything but superconductors essentially resistors in the sense that they have resistance? For instance wood obviously has a very high resistance, thus why it's not very conductive to carrying electricity.. How would you calculate power where there is zero resistance though? Using Ohm's law, power becomes undefined at that point, and even if resistance in superconductors only approaches zero, would that mean power approaches infinity?
Well, I guess I've got you beat. You're running a 70's operating system with added pretty colors, I'm running an early 90's operating system with pretty colors added on top. ;)
Though to be fair, parts of the userspace was first developed in the 80's...
You sound like the "lesser students" are carrying some sort of disease. Suffice it to say that I don't want to live in your ideal society where everyone is segregated based on perceived ability. What's the point of your segregational policy? Like I said, the kids who go to other schools don't do any better than they did before, the only difference is that the poorly performing kids are doing worse. It's simple really, if teachers have classes full of underperforming kids, they have to help everyone in the class, they simply can't. If they have a mixed class however, the teacher only has to help some of the kids extensively, and the well performing kids can help their friends understand the problems. Your post reeks of social Darwinism.
It would be interesting to know how the test was carried out though. If it's through a phone survey, I can certainly see a large percentage of that being due to other factors such as stress, kids running around, etc. Has anyone carried out the test on natural born Americans in the same conditions that immigrants take the test?
She was from Hawaii, but maybe they have something similar..
I rather like the direct democracy model, but voting directly on taxes is stupid. I would much rather have a system where you can vote on the issues, but not directly on the funding. Each bill would have a cost associated with it, i.e. "Do you want to reduce class sizes by on average 5 pupils? This would increase your tax rate by 0.5%" or "Do you want to increase class sizes by on average 5 pupils? This would decrease you tax rate by 0.5%", and if a service becomes more expensive: "Do you want to retain current class sizes? Doing so would increase tax rate by 0.1%, otherwise each class would have an average of 2 more pupils", and so on.
We have "vouchers" in Sweden in the form that anyone can send their kids to any school, private or public, free of charge. The only thing it has brought us is segregating the kids who do well into separate schools from everyone else. The kids who performed well didn't perform any better (though the private schools like to inflate grades in order to look more attractive to parents) and the kids who did poorly now perform worse than they did before.
The way to improve schools IMHO is to reduce class sizes to 10-15 kids so that teachers have time to help every kid who needs help, but that costs money...
But then I once met a recent American High School graduate while backpacking in Europe who believed "Independent" was a US political party...
Interesting, I found the official "naturalization self test" and tried 15 questions, I got 14 correct. I briefly lived in New York for 6 months about 7 years ago and I'm a sporadic follower of US politics, but I can't believe my score could be better than the average American. I found some of the questions and answers rather simplistic though.
Oh and I can guarantee that Linux wouldn't be the success it is today without the GPL. If it was BSD, all the companies that use Linux would be free to keep their modifications proprietary. IBM would have kept their modifications to themselves, only distributed on their servers, HP would do the same, etc. That would mean a lot of duplication of work, Linux would not have gained even remotely the same popularity.
So don't use GPL software and stop bitching. If someone published software under the GPL, they clearly meant for anyone modifying the software to release their modifications, they didn't intend for someone to come along and steal their code for a proprietary application. If you don't want to release your modifications, you're free to use proprietary software, BSD software or contact the copyright owners and request a special license.
Probably aren't many security guards patrolling boiler rooms of residential buildings. Luckily, we generally use district heating in apartment buildings over here and that includes mine so no need to worry about that.
He offers you some advice on how to check if the problem lies in the X server (or hardware) or Gnome and you call him a troll?
I don't know about nothing - apart from the obvious humane perspective, if retiree's get proper care, young "productive" members of society will have to take less time off to care for their elder relatives when they're sick.
I didn't see anything about this compatibility layer in the article, but I guess it would be similar to the OSX version, if the OSX version is slower than the windows version on the same hardware then likely it would be on Linux as well. As far as I could tell from the article though, they don't use wine, so if they do use some sort of compatibility layer I would assume (without knowing much about graphics programming) they probably have a wrapper to map direct3d calls to opengl in the source. In that case I would guess that it wouldn't be slower than windows for any reasons related to the game itself at least, but perhaps due to drivers.
oops, "better reviewer themselves" is supposed to be "better writer themselves"