If they start conjuring up half-brained ideas I should be able to do the same.
Plant massive amounts of apple trees in apple orchards. The trees will absorb the CO2 and produce apples. Then force kids at highschools to eat apples instead of unhealthy crap and it will help to reduce the obesity problem!
Sure, this plan is flawed and won't work in practice but it stops EBIL GLOBAL WARMING and that's good enough for me.
1. The CO2 would be released into the air again 2. I really doubt that if this plan is implemented on a massive scale(which is the only way it would be remotely useful) there would be enough demand from the carb-soda industry for the product
"I can't see how a monarchy can be democratic. The monarch has ultimate power and so the people do not."
Honestly, did you even do basic research on various types of monarchies in the world? No? Didn't think so.
There are vast differences between types of monarchies just as there are vast different differences between republics. For example, here's a list of 3 republics: -the US - North Korea - Iran
They are ALL republics(look it up if you don't believe me) yet they ALL have vastly different types of goverment. If you would compare them, they would be put in three totally different categories yet they are ALL republics.
In the same way there are different types of monarchies with three examples:
- Saudi-Arabia - The Netherlands - Sweden
These types of monarchies are again vastly different. 1 is an absolute monarchy, 2 are democracies. 2 out of 3 have the monarch as head of goverment yet all 3 have the monarch as head of state. If you do some further research about the topic you will notice that pretty much all sates are different in the way they function and that the words "republic" and "monarchy" can have vastly different meanings in different parts of the world.
The same question would be: What if you are a painter and you paint only for a niche of the market? You make less money. But if you love the art, that's where your hart lies and that's what will make you happy.
Sure, you can go commercial and make more money, but that would probably negatively affect your happiness so you will have to choose and possible compromise.
"refuse to commit atrocities when ordered to do so"
robots follow their programming. Wwhen they get the command to commit atrocities, they will do so without any hesitation, because machines do not hesitate.
and didn't specify whom to make immortal. SCO was the receiver of that power and we have to live with the consequences of that wish. Fact: You can't kill SCO.
"There are no "western" and "non-western" democracies. There are just democracies, and tyrannies."
There are no shades of gray, just black and white.
"If a western democracy overthrew my nation's government, I'd assume that it was a national democracy acting in its own interests. A reasonable response to that is to establish your own national democracy which will act in your interests."
How are you supposed to do that if the enemy has just overthrown your nation's goverment? The Iranian people did act in their self-interest and helped a goverment to do what was the goal, eliminate US(and other nation's) interference in their private affairs and rightly so. The fact that you make a democracy sound like all-curing snake oil is what causes the rift in understanding between the west and the east. We need to stop treating western concepts like snake oil and maybe the world will become a better place.
I find this saying utter bullshit. I grew up among teachers and I hear complaints all the time about either stupid students or students with absolutely no manners.
As an Math undergrad I must say that all my teachers have a deep understanding of the things they are trying to teach me. Unfortunately, some teachers have problems relaying that information to me in a way that I can understand it and that's the major difficulty with teaching.
And yes, I have had some morons who didn't understand what they were teaching in high school. But there are rotten apples in every profession and I personally sickened by the negative attitude towards teachers around here.
Every computer that needs to access the internet directly needs to have its MAC-adress registered. If something goes wrong, you can trace it back to the MAC-address account. It isn't foolproof(think MAC-spoofing) but there is little more security on our networks(mobile computers need to log in with student accounts).
"Are you saying that 1TB of space should be enough for anyone?
No, but let's be a bit realistic, here. 1 TB is enough space for some 100 hours of DVD-quality video. 1 PB is 100,000 hours of DVD video. If current trends continue, we're fast approaching the point where we really *can* store ALL movies ever produced on a single backpack HDD. "
You already can store every movie in the world as long as you don't mind the quality. We still can't store all movies in the world in HD-quality. If we offer a huge storage place people will come up with ways to fill it. That's always been the case and it probably will always be the case.
Yeah, I'd love to be locked-up and tortured if that would mean I would recieve food of shitty quality, a computer(which I have) and phone access(which I have).
These people have been kidnapped and now you want to see work from them? The fact that your post is modded insightful is one of the reasons why the rest of the world hates the US.
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Don't be silly! Functionalizing is a perfectly cromulent word.
"In the absence of an external interfering force (e. g., army of the Soviet Union), the fate of a nation is determined by its people. Period. "
No country operates in a vaccuum. Period.
If they start conjuring up half-brained ideas I should be able to do the same.
Plant massive amounts of apple trees in apple orchards. The trees will absorb the CO2 and produce apples. Then force kids at highschools to eat apples instead of unhealthy crap and it will help to reduce the obesity problem!
Sure, this plan is flawed and won't work in practice but it stops EBIL GLOBAL WARMING and that's good enough for me.
Two objections:
1. The CO2 would be released into the air again
2. I really doubt that if this plan is implemented on a massive scale(which is the only way it would be remotely useful) there would be enough demand from the carb-soda industry for the product
"I can't see how a monarchy can be democratic. The monarch has ultimate power and so the people do not."
Honestly, did you even do basic research on various types of monarchies in the world?
No?
Didn't think so.
There are vast differences between types of monarchies just as there are vast different differences between republics.
For example, here's a list of 3 republics:
-the US
- North Korea
- Iran
They are ALL republics(look it up if you don't believe me) yet they ALL have vastly different types of goverment. If you would compare them, they would be put in three totally different categories yet they are ALL republics.
In the same way there are different types of monarchies with three examples:
- Saudi-Arabia
- The Netherlands
- Sweden
These types of monarchies are again vastly different. 1 is an absolute monarchy, 2 are democracies. 2 out of 3 have the monarch as head of goverment yet all 3 have the monarch as head of state. If you do some further research about the topic you will notice that pretty much all sates are different in the way they function and that the words "republic" and "monarchy" can have vastly different meanings in different parts of the world.
But don't let me stop your bashing, please.
"If that gets "insightful" moderation, I just want everybody to know that water is wet. (Or is that informative?)"
Yes (and this is funny)
The same question would be: What if you are a painter and you paint only for a niche of the market? You make less money. But if you love the art, that's where your hart lies and that's what will make you happy.
Sure, you can go commercial and make more money, but that would probably negatively affect your happiness so you will have to choose and possible compromise.
"refuse to commit atrocities when ordered to do so"
robots follow their programming. Wwhen they get the command to commit atrocities, they will do so without any hesitation, because machines do not hesitate.
and didn't specify whom to make immortal. SCO was the receiver of that power and we have to live with the consequences of that wish. Fact: You can't kill SCO.
"The only way to truly stop a pandemic is to stop all travel into your borders unless you have a 100% fullproof system."
Madagascar has that system.
They are using explosives to write NASA in the moon for all people to see. You won't succeed where Chairface failed!
Don't forget :
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"There are no "western" and "non-western" democracies. There are just democracies, and tyrannies."
There are no shades of gray, just black and white.
"If a western democracy overthrew my nation's government, I'd assume that it was a national democracy acting in its own interests. A reasonable response to that is to establish your own national democracy which will act in your interests."
How are you supposed to do that if the enemy has just overthrown your nation's goverment? The Iranian people did act in their self-interest and helped a goverment to do what was the goal, eliminate US(and other nation's) interference in their private affairs and rightly so. The fact that you make a democracy sound like all-curing snake oil is what causes the rift in understanding between the west and the east. We need to stop treating western concepts like snake oil and maybe the world will become a better place.
I find this saying utter bullshit. I grew up among teachers and I hear complaints all the time about either stupid students or students with absolutely no manners.
As an Math undergrad I must say that all my teachers have a deep understanding of the things they are trying to teach me. Unfortunately, some teachers have problems relaying that information to me in a way that I can understand it and that's the major difficulty with teaching.
And yes, I have had some morons who didn't understand what they were teaching in high school. But there are rotten apples in every profession and I personally sickened by the negative attitude towards teachers around here.
Store it on a single FAT32 partition and hope for the best. Only meant for people with guts or really really nice bosses.
"If I ever start a dictatorship, first thing I do, is get everybody voting electronically."
If I ever start a dictatorship, the first thing I do, is abolish voting alltogether and start a massive propaganda campaign. But that's just me.
Every computer that needs to access the internet directly needs to have its MAC-adress registered. If something goes wrong, you can trace it back to the MAC-address account. It isn't foolproof(think MAC-spoofing) but there is little more security on our networks(mobile computers need to log in with student accounts).
"Are you saying that 1TB of space should be enough for anyone?
No, but let's be a bit realistic, here. 1 TB is enough space for some 100 hours of DVD-quality video. 1 PB is 100,000 hours of DVD video. If current trends continue, we're fast approaching the point where we really *can* store ALL movies ever produced on a single backpack HDD. "
You already can store every movie in the world as long as you don't mind the quality. We still can't store all movies in the world in HD-quality. If we offer a huge storage place people will come up with ways to fill it. That's always been the case and it probably will always be the case.
Is like the most fuel-efficient Hummer. Who cares about it?
Yeah, I'd love to be locked-up and tortured if that would mean I would recieve food of shitty quality, a computer(which I have) and phone access(which I have).
These people have been kidnapped and now you want to see work from them? The fact that your post is modded insightful is one of the reasons why the rest of the world hates the US.
How do you know if a country does or does not have SECRET prisons?
Solution: Make stupidity the third dimension. That way driving in 3 dimensions would be easy!
"Can someone mod those lawyers up?"
Something I would never expect to see here on /.
Furthermore, it's modded 4 Insightful.
I'm staring at my window now, waiting for a pig fly-by.
Well, if you make a piece of Bach sound awful, you know you have failed in your task.
'...is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?'
And I'm all out of the desktop in particular.