That's right. In reality, if the Indians had traveled to Europe and then returned home, they'd probably have had many of the same problems. The decimated populations were a sad result of contact, not of one group exploiting another.
Now, I won't argue that the Europeans didn't exploit native Americans... but that wasn't what decimated their population. And the use of 'decimation' is funny. It literally means 'killing one man in ten', but in this context, it left one man in ten alive.
In the USA, it's politically correct to believe that global warming is a hoax - but if it isn't, it's not caused by people
Oh, please, that's nuts. You think that corporations spend millions of dollars advertising how green they are because they're struggling against political correctness? You think that schools spend hours our of every week teaching kids about climate change and green lifestyles because the teachers are struggling against political correctness? You're making a losing argument, an obviously losing argument.
What you're really doing is betting that the Earth has some as-yet-unknown magic trick to make it all vanish.
Well, since CO2 has been much higher in the Earth's past, we know there are potential mechanisms in place that can fix it. We just don't know exactly what, since climate is a chaotic system and our models all suck.
Runaway inflation? What planet are you on? Inflation has been quite low for YEARS now. The only significant price increases have been in fuel and food, both of which are commodities with little labor input.
Food and fuel have highly inflated, and they are major portions of most people's budgets. The fact that they are rather arbitrarily excluded from official inflation statistics do not make their true effect on inflation any less.
And... labor is a primary expense in food production. Not so with energy, true.
So do I. I'm a crazed far-right Republican, but Wyden is a remarkably sensible Democrat, and the type that can get people to cross party lines to vote for him.
He knows what he's talking about when it comes to technology, and is usually on the correct side on issues such as copyright, privacy, security, etc.
His views on economics are painfully wrong, though.
I would be so happy if Firefox reverted back to stealing from Opera, instead of stealing from Chrome. I used to use Opera back in the day, but happily switched over to Firefox somewhere in the 1.x period. Now, FF is driving me back to Opera.
It doesn't scroll right, either. If your window doesn't hold it all vertically, no scroll bars appear. At least in Firefox. You have to increase your browser size to see it all.
How much of the design of your rockets come from trial and error, and how much from more formal principles of rocketry? Or, in other words, how much of the planning comes from deliberate application of physics, ballistics, etc., and how much from past experience?
By being a man? Seriously, if you chose to conform to society's little unwritten rules about being married and having kids at 25, instead of doing what you want, you deserve to be henpecked.
You are tragically confused. Marriage and having kids does not get in the way of being a man; quite often, it's part of the path to being a man. You seem to think that having a family means you're henpecked and emasculated, but that's very clearly not true. You're only focusing on the pathological cases, and ignoring the healthy relationships.
Legally more serious, the 18+ year olds who still live with parents.
How does that matter? They're still entitled to nothing. Their parents could even not allow internet in their room. Being over 18 doesn't mean you get to flaunt the rules of the people that you are leeching off of, unless you're prepared to stop leeching off them.
The camera has a fundamental effect on how you play the game, hence it's a gameplay element. If you took Doom and shifted the camera to an overhead view, it may still be a great shooter, but the gameplay would be very different.
In other words, replacing a working functional device with an energy saving device rarely saves any energy.
Sorry, but I think that already exists, as 'The Prius Fallacy'. The total energy savings of a new, energy-efficient car never justify getting rid of an already-existing, working car.
Social Security and Medicare are on the chopping block because there's no way to get close to balancing the budget without making serious cuts in those programs (AND defense). It's not ideology, it's just math. Look at the numbers.
Conversely, the budget could be balanced by cutting those three things, and leaving everything else completely untouched.
Imagine if the local Walmart started charging you a fee for the merchandise, then a 3% "regulartory recovery fee" for having to install stormwater management so the neighboring property didn't flood, plus a 4% "federal corporate tax" fee, and a 6% "Local Property Tax recovery fee". It's a cost of doing business and gets built into the price of the goods.
Why is that bad? We're paying for Walmart's property tax anyway, so why not make it clear where the money is going?
'Right' is a concept that is only meaningful to describe a relationship between an individual an government, because gov't is a system, not an individual.
I don't think this is accurate. You have the right to speak, and I don't have the right to stop you. I just have the right to not assist you in any way, or allow you to use my property to execute that right. This is true in individual transactions, even when there is no government involved.
In a broader sense, I completely agree with your comments. The only way somebody could think they have a right to internet access is if they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what rights are. Or, in modern terms, they're substituting "Claim Rights" for "Liberty Rights", which is a way of destroying the basis of rights.
Physics allows for a clown to be in my basement, but that doesn't mean there IS a clown in my basement. Because some interpretations of general relativity allow for the possibility of faster-than-light particles does not, any any sense, mean that they exist. Right now, that is purely speculation with no evidence.
But the neutrinos would follow the curved space, just like light would. The curved line in warped space-time IS the shortest distance.
Perhaps what they're saying is that the computed distance isn't taking the warp into effect, basically treating space-time as flat in the presence of the Earth. This would cause the distance to be underestimated, making the velocity of the neutrinos appear higher?
I thought they said they took gravitational factors into account, though.
If it can be shown that HP shipped android, even accidentally, then they need to provide the source on request.
Hmm. I don't think this is quite right; they also have the option to stop offering the product. Since it's not a product they offer, that shouldn't be a problem.
I think that C# and the.net platform will continue to grow at Java's expense over the next five years or so. Programmers can do things in.net on their own desktop, personal projects and so on; when they move into industry, they will prefer to use a language they are familiar with.
This isn't a preference for C# over Java; they are nearly identical in power, capabilities, and speed. But Java has become irrelevant on the desktop, and that may cause them to eventually lose the server..
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That's right. In reality, if the Indians had traveled to Europe and then returned home, they'd probably have had many of the same problems. The decimated populations were a sad result of contact, not of one group exploiting another.
Now, I won't argue that the Europeans didn't exploit native Americans... but that wasn't what decimated their population. And the use of 'decimation' is funny. It literally means 'killing one man in ten', but in this context, it left one man in ten alive.
I once read a paper that argued that global warming would cause poison oak to proliferate, making woods less pleasant for mankind.
In the USA, it's politically correct to believe that global warming is a hoax - but if it isn't, it's not caused by people
Oh, please, that's nuts. You think that corporations spend millions of dollars advertising how green they are because they're struggling against political correctness? You think that schools spend hours our of every week teaching kids about climate change and green lifestyles because the teachers are struggling against political correctness? You're making a losing argument, an obviously losing argument.
What you're really doing is betting that the Earth has some as-yet-unknown magic trick to make it all vanish.
Well, since CO2 has been much higher in the Earth's past, we know there are potential mechanisms in place that can fix it. We just don't know exactly what, since climate is a chaotic system and our models all suck.
Runaway inflation? What planet are you on? Inflation has been quite low for YEARS now. The only significant price increases have been in fuel and food, both of which are commodities with little labor input.
Food and fuel have highly inflated, and they are major portions of most people's budgets. The fact that they are rather arbitrarily excluded from official inflation statistics do not make their true effect on inflation any less.
And... labor is a primary expense in food production. Not so with energy, true.
Why would you say that "it ignores" this, when it so clearly states it as true?
They can't read.
So do I. I'm a crazed far-right Republican, but Wyden is a remarkably sensible Democrat, and the type that can get people to cross party lines to vote for him.
He knows what he's talking about when it comes to technology, and is usually on the correct side on issues such as copyright, privacy, security, etc.
His views on economics are painfully wrong, though.
I would be so happy if Firefox reverted back to stealing from Opera, instead of stealing from Chrome. I used to use Opera back in the day, but happily switched over to Firefox somewhere in the 1.x period. Now, FF is driving me back to Opera.
It doesn't scroll right, either. If your window doesn't hold it all vertically, no scroll bars appear. At least in Firefox. You have to increase your browser size to see it all.
How much of the design of your rockets come from trial and error, and how much from more formal principles of rocketry? Or, in other words, how much of the planning comes from deliberate application of physics, ballistics, etc., and how much from past experience?
By being a man? Seriously, if you chose to conform to society's little unwritten rules about being married and having kids at 25, instead of doing what you want, you deserve to be henpecked.
You are tragically confused. Marriage and having kids does not get in the way of being a man; quite often, it's part of the path to being a man. You seem to think that having a family means you're henpecked and emasculated, but that's very clearly not true. You're only focusing on the pathological cases, and ignoring the healthy relationships.
I think mathematics.com did too, once. I'm at work so I can't test what it currently does.
Legally more serious, the 18+ year olds who still live with parents.
How does that matter? They're still entitled to nothing. Their parents could even not allow internet in their room. Being over 18 doesn't mean you get to flaunt the rules of the people that you are leeching off of, unless you're prepared to stop leeching off them.
The camera has a fundamental effect on how you play the game, hence it's a gameplay element. If you took Doom and shifted the camera to an overhead view, it may still be a great shooter, but the gameplay would be very different.
In other words, replacing a working functional device with an energy saving device rarely saves any energy.
Sorry, but I think that already exists, as 'The Prius Fallacy'. The total energy savings of a new, energy-efficient car never justify getting rid of an already-existing, working car.
I think the next time I see the argument "keep government out of business" I will ask what their position is on subsidies to business is.
They'll typically be against the subsidies, as well. Why do you think this is an interesting question?
Social Security and Medicare are on the chopping block because there's no way to get close to balancing the budget without making serious cuts in those programs (AND defense). It's not ideology, it's just math. Look at the numbers.
Conversely, the budget could be balanced by cutting those three things, and leaving everything else completely untouched.
Yes, the North, where we're open-minded and non-bigoted... not like those terrible Southerners.
Imagine if the local Walmart started charging you a fee for the merchandise, then a 3% "regulartory recovery fee" for having to install stormwater management so the neighboring property didn't flood, plus a 4% "federal corporate tax" fee, and a 6% "Local Property Tax recovery fee". It's a cost of doing business and gets built into the price of the goods.
Why is that bad? We're paying for Walmart's property tax anyway, so why not make it clear where the money is going?
'Right' is a concept that is only meaningful to describe a relationship between an individual an government, because gov't is a system, not an individual.
I don't think this is accurate. You have the right to speak, and I don't have the right to stop you. I just have the right to not assist you in any way, or allow you to use my property to execute that right. This is true in individual transactions, even when there is no government involved.
In a broader sense, I completely agree with your comments. The only way somebody could think they have a right to internet access is if they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what rights are. Or, in modern terms, they're substituting "Claim Rights" for "Liberty Rights", which is a way of destroying the basis of rights.
Physics allows for a clown to be in my basement, but that doesn't mean there IS a clown in my basement. Because some interpretations of general relativity allow for the possibility of faster-than-light particles does not, any any sense, mean that they exist. Right now, that is purely speculation with no evidence.
(Well, no evidence until OPERA.)
But the neutrinos would follow the curved space, just like light would. The curved line in warped space-time IS the shortest distance.
Perhaps what they're saying is that the computed distance isn't taking the warp into effect, basically treating space-time as flat in the presence of the Earth. This would cause the distance to be underestimated, making the velocity of the neutrinos appear higher?
I thought they said they took gravitational factors into account, though.
If it can be shown that HP shipped android, even accidentally, then they need to provide the source on request.
Hmm. I don't think this is quite right; they also have the option to stop offering the product. Since it's not a product they offer, that shouldn't be a problem.
Well, Android really isn't. It's running a similar VM for a compatible language.
I think that C# and the .net platform will continue to grow at Java's expense over the next five years or so. Programmers can do things in .net on their own desktop, personal projects and so on; when they move into industry, they will prefer to use a language they are familiar with.
This isn't a preference for C# over Java; they are nearly identical in power, capabilities, and speed. But Java has become irrelevant on the desktop, and that may cause them to eventually lose the server..