Having liberties not violated requires more than the laws being in place, it requires that the government live by them. Haven't been paying much attention to the news lately, have you? (IRS, Benghazi) Hey Obama, do you know what the penalty for treason is?
Having liberties not violated requires more than the laws being in place, it requires that the government live by them. Haven't been paying much attention to the news lately, have you? (IRS, Benghazi) Hey Obama, do you know what the penalty for treason is?
It's funny you throw out benghazi, the current fox witch hunt, and nnot the more alarming development, the AP's two month subpoena.
Also, I don't think you know what treason is, or you're just dumb enough to think that the government playing with peoples taxes (remember, there is NO evidence of a cover-up..... yet) justifies the execution of our commander in chief.
You're the kind of cynical asshole that instead of offering constructive ways of fixing things runs around pontificating about how fucked we are. Grow up, even with every scandal going on x5, people would still be clamoring at our front door for entry to our country.
Politics makes nuclear fission expensive, not the technology. The technology is well understood, the fuel is abundant and inexpensive. The problem is that 1) the industry is so over-regulated due to public fear of catastrophe that the plants have 3+ layers of safety and redundancy at every level which is expensive and 2) the fear of terrorists obtaining weapons-grade nuclear material is considered to be high enough that we throw away a LOT of energy rich fuel to avoid getting in the situation where that fuel can be used to make a bomb.
There are three layers of security because the whole thing is under high pressure - people should be scared. Purifying uranium costs more than gold.
Now if you were talking about thorium reactors, I would agree. They operate at higher temperatures at room pressure. Since it's liquid fuel, it can be added as needed, thorium is also quite abundant. Passive safety measures and the ability to burn nuclear waste makes it quite appealing. China is using our research to build them as we speak.
It's no fusion, but the technology was available decades ago, and it has only gotten cheaper.
If you don't get caught, then surely you haven't technically broken any law (until you get caught and found guilty).
I'm sorry, what? If I shoot you in the face I have broken a law, even if no one knows.The fact that I'm arrested just means everyone knows I've broken the law against shooting people in the face.
INB4 wikipedia is full of propaganda. Then correct them. Controversial articles are easy to spot.
If it's 19th to 21th century, it's someone regurgitating modern propaganda.
Dig deeper, make your own mind.
You can't "dig deeper" when all you have is a collection of propaganda workers and their parrots, all trying to out-shout each other while trying to keep the impression of legitimacy.
Then enlighten us about your preferred consumption method of modern history.
For intelligent people with good reading comprehension wikipedia works for cementing knowledge that is not debatable, and much is bland facts (eva braun and hitler killed themselves where and when, who was the last Plantagenet King, and various lists).
When I was in college I took an Analysis of Algorithms course as part of my CS degree. The textbook was $100-something and it was on it's 16th edition or so. Several weeks into the semester, my copy of the book was accidentally destroyed. Searching for a used copy online, I found one of the first several editions for about $10. I took a chance that no that much changed. Aside from the pages yellowing with age, I never found any differences to the current edition. The current edition actually had a few minor typos that the earlier edition that I had didn't have.
New editions in cutting edge fields make sense, but in such things "basic" botany or biology , not much has changed in the last long while. Some professors understand this and let you buy older editions, sometimes they tell you that you could fail the class without the newest edition.
Well for many textbooks the cost difference can be 95% between 1-2 editions, I'd recommend buying the half.com copy for $10, and compare it to the new one, sometimes every sentence and page#s match. First time you save $100+ dollars.
(I mean, $76Bn, do you really need that much money?)
I would buy a bunch of 747s and run them between major international airports around the world - with no one on them. It would be an kinetic art project about unsustainability.
Note: Mr. Gates is worth about 2.1 times more than the endowment of the school he dropped out of (Harvard).
I think him and Warren Buffet are doing it more slowly. Non profits are required to spend a certain part of their endowment yearly - by holding on to it and investing it and donating a trickle (a billion dollar trickle... he made several billion in one year just from having money) which could last indefinitely. I think they pledged to give much more upon their death.
I wonder why they don't set up some kind of non-profit investment group where all proceeds yearly would then fund a charity. One big donation could do $70 billion of good once, or $3-7 billion dollars of good yearly, forever..
I have to agree. I can't for the life of me understand why people are so against what Bill Gates did, has done and will do. I would have done exactly the same at the time.
Your cynicism is bullshit. Go to a real police state where they won't let you leave, you're insulting those people that can't leave. There is also only state press. The US has a state press... NPR, besides that it is free. A massive violation of press freedom is something to watch, rand closely, yet it is not the same as not being able to say what you want.
The system is not irreparably broken, with enough will it can be changed. You've already lost with your bullshit attitude so either shoot yourself, tie yourself up because the interrogators are on their way, or suck it up and point out what can be done to fix things, or prevent them from getting worse; and despite your baseless whining, things can get A LOT FUCKING WORSE.
I don't think they break down cellulose, rather the stuff living in their gut flora does the job. Termites can't even digest cellulose, and rely on some single cell stomach creatures to do the work.
Would most people be better off undiagnosed? When it comes to mental "illness", often the only (or at least the best) treatments are behavioral therapy, in which the "illness" is trained away.
You know not what you speak of. I'm not a doctor and know you're wrong. CBT does not work with untreated schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and can make them worse.
I guess it's my turn to do remedial science for the resident conservatives. The carbon in the CO2 that you or I breathe out comes from the food we eat. That carbon is balanced by the CO2 that was removed from the atmosphere when this food was grown or raised, probably within the last year or so. When plants grow, where do you think the carbon comes from? It's not the soil - it's from CO2 drawn out of the atmosphere. Now, when we burn fossil fuels like coal or oil, that carbon had been buried for hundreds of millions of years. Or, if you're a conservative, maybe 6,000 years when God put it there. Either way, that means that when you burn it, it's not offset by CO2 that was removed from the atmosphere any time recently. So, CO2 levels rise. Sorry if I have to talk to you like you're babies, but maybe if you'd get your heads out of the butts of Fox News and the like I wouldn't have to.
It does not come from the food you eat, but as a process of cellular metabolism which is fueled by food.
What you said is too stupid to be insightful, and I don't quite consider myself conservative.
Hell, I'll settle for a party that has an internally consistent platform, instead of one demanding small government while paying billions of dollars to track down and house people for "feeling good". Moderation be damned, I want non-hypocrites so at least I know where I really stand.
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Having liberties not violated requires more than the laws being in place, it requires that the government live by them. Haven't been paying much attention to the news lately, have you? (IRS, Benghazi) Hey Obama, do you know what the penalty for treason is?
Having liberties not violated requires more than the laws being in place, it requires that the government live by them. Haven't been paying much attention to the news lately, have you? (IRS, Benghazi) Hey Obama, do you know what the penalty for treason is?
It's funny you throw out benghazi, the current fox witch hunt, and nnot the more alarming development, the AP's two month subpoena.
Also, I don't think you know what treason is, or you're just dumb enough to think that the government playing with peoples taxes (remember, there is NO evidence of a cover-up..... yet) justifies the execution of our commander in chief.
You're the kind of cynical asshole that instead of offering constructive ways of fixing things runs around pontificating about how fucked we are. Grow up, even with every scandal going on x5, people would still be clamoring at our front door for entry to our country.
Politics makes nuclear fission expensive, not the technology. The technology is well understood, the fuel is abundant and inexpensive. The problem is that 1) the industry is so over-regulated due to public fear of catastrophe that the plants have 3+ layers of safety and redundancy at every level which is expensive and 2) the fear of terrorists obtaining weapons-grade nuclear material is considered to be high enough that we throw away a LOT of energy rich fuel to avoid getting in the situation where that fuel can be used to make a bomb.
There are three layers of security because the whole thing is under high pressure - people should be scared. Purifying uranium costs more than gold.
Now if you were talking about thorium reactors, I would agree. They operate at higher temperatures at room pressure. Since it's liquid fuel, it can be added as needed, thorium is also quite abundant. Passive safety measures and the ability to burn nuclear waste makes it quite appealing. China is using our research to build them as we speak.
It's no fusion, but the technology was available decades ago, and it has only gotten cheaper.
If you don't get caught, then surely you haven't technically broken any law (until you get caught and found guilty).
I'm sorry, what? If I shoot you in the face I have broken a law, even if no one knows.The fact that I'm arrested just means everyone knows I've broken the law against shooting people in the face.
INB4 wikipedia is full of propaganda. Then correct them. Controversial articles are easy to spot.
If it's 19th to 21th century, it's someone regurgitating modern propaganda.
Dig deeper, make your own mind.
You can't "dig deeper" when all you have is a collection of propaganda workers and their parrots, all trying to out-shout each other while trying to keep the impression of legitimacy.
Then enlighten us about your preferred consumption method of modern history.
For intelligent people with good reading comprehension wikipedia works for cementing knowledge that is not debatable, and much is bland facts (eva braun and hitler killed themselves where and when, who was the last Plantagenet King, and various lists).
When I was in college I took an Analysis of Algorithms course as part of my CS degree. The textbook was $100-something and it was on it's 16th edition or so. Several weeks into the semester, my copy of the book was accidentally destroyed. Searching for a used copy online, I found one of the first several editions for about $10. I took a chance that no that much changed. Aside from the pages yellowing with age, I never found any differences to the current edition. The current edition actually had a few minor typos that the earlier edition that I had didn't have.
New editions in cutting edge fields make sense, but in such things "basic" botany or biology , not much has changed in the last long while. Some professors understand this and let you buy older editions, sometimes they tell you that you could fail the class without the newest edition.
Well for many textbooks the cost difference can be 95% between 1-2 editions, I'd recommend buying the half.com copy for $10, and compare it to the new one, sometimes every sentence and page#s match. First time you save $100+ dollars.
His morals may be fucked but his tears taste like honey..
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.
Just a 2.6 pflop computer.
I meant a non-profit group controlled by them.
(I mean, $76Bn, do you really need that much money?)
I would buy a bunch of 747s and run them between major international airports around the world - with no one on them. It would be an kinetic art project about unsustainability.
Note: Mr. Gates is worth about 2.1 times more than the endowment of the school he dropped out of (Harvard).
and he STILL has enough to be the richest?
Maybe he should give away some more.
I think him and Warren Buffet are doing it more slowly. Non profits are required to spend a certain part of their endowment yearly - by holding on to it and investing it and donating a trickle (a billion dollar trickle... he made several billion in one year just from having money) which could last indefinitely. I think they pledged to give much more upon their death.
I wonder why they don't set up some kind of non-profit investment group where all proceeds yearly would then fund a charity. One big donation could do $70 billion of good once, or $3-7 billion dollars of good yearly, forever..
I have to agree. I can't for the life of me understand why people are so against what Bill Gates did, has done and will do. I would have done exactly the same at the time.
Bill?
If you are one of the 20% of healthy adults who struggle with basic arithmetic
Wow, I never realized the majority of people struggle with this.
Amazon's only youtube app for kindle is a viewer/dowloader, haven't seen Google complaining. Though you can sideload the YouTube one.
Your cynicism is bullshit. Go to a real police state where they won't let you leave, you're insulting those people that can't leave. There is also only state press. The US has a state press... NPR, besides that it is free. A massive violation of press freedom is something to watch, rand closely, yet it is not the same as not being able to say what you want.
The system is not irreparably broken, with enough will it can be changed. You've already lost with your bullshit attitude so either shoot yourself, tie yourself up because the interrogators are on their way, or suck it up and point out what can be done to fix things, or prevent them from getting worse; and despite your baseless whining, things can get A LOT FUCKING WORSE.
Was offered escargot at a not too fancy steak place, it's in most nicer supermarkets canned. This is in Texas.
I'll eat roasted insects before some of that stuff you mentioned.
I don't think they break down cellulose, rather the stuff living in their gut flora does the job. Termites can't even digest cellulose, and rely on some single cell stomach creatures to do the work.
This is not necessarily all bad, since rich people may be less corruptible, since they don't need the money.
Uh, what?
My kindle is color... do they mean color e-ink?
The summary says psychiatrist when it is clearly the: British Psychological Society's.
Funny most people in here are whining about big pharma and psychiatry. There is another field which in most states cannot prescribe drugs.
Would most people be better off undiagnosed? When it comes to mental "illness", often the only (or at least the best) treatments are behavioral therapy, in which the "illness" is trained away.
You know not what you speak of. I'm not a doctor and know you're wrong. CBT does not work with untreated schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and can make them worse.
I guess it's my turn to do remedial science for the resident conservatives.
The carbon in the CO2 that you or I breathe out comes from the food we eat. That carbon is balanced by the CO2 that was removed from the atmosphere when this food was grown or raised, probably within the last year or so. When plants grow, where do you think the carbon comes from? It's not the soil - it's from CO2 drawn out of the atmosphere. Now, when we burn fossil fuels like coal or oil, that carbon had been buried for hundreds of millions of years. Or, if you're a conservative, maybe 6,000 years when God put it there. Either way, that means that when you burn it, it's not offset by CO2 that was removed from the atmosphere any time recently. So, CO2 levels rise.
Sorry if I have to talk to you like you're babies, but maybe if you'd get your heads out of the butts of Fox News and the like I wouldn't have to.
It does not come from the food you eat, but as a process of cellular metabolism which is fueled by food.
What you said is too stupid to be insightful, and I don't quite consider myself conservative.
Tell that to Ghengis Khan or Alexander (remember that Persian empire that stretched from India to Mesopotamia).
The good the men do is oft interred with their bones, but the evil that men do lives on.
Hell, if you're a Republican (I am) and believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure (I do)
Jesus, you people can't get anything right! ;-)
Hell, I'll settle for a party that has an internally consistent platform, instead of one demanding small government while paying billions of dollars to track down and house people for "feeling good". Moderation be damned, I want non-hypocrites so at least I know where I really stand.
What you're looking for is not a US politician.