When the French finally hit rock bottom and had nothing to lose...they sat and quietly died, mostly not living to see the revolt their great-grandchildren pulled off.
The difference between a castle and a hut is much less than the difference between a 1%er's mansion(s and yachts) and a regular house, or especially an apartment which the tenant pays to use at negligible expense to the owner who has already sunk most of the costs involved.
Of course you could argue that inequality under feudalism was infinite since the lords and kings were technically the rightful owners of everything, but that would be falling for capitalism's illusion of choice, a powerful framework for shifting blame to victims in almost any circumstance.
No, he's serious and I agree with him. Capitalism had its run and it was better than feudalism,* but the system is finally breaking and it's time to move on. It's allowed a small percentage of the population to hoard the fruits of everyone's labor. It's inelegant and inherently unstable. We can do better.
*Although it migh have produced even greater inequality and left us with even less leisure time
I thought the same thing...seriously. NASA usually delivers good bang for the buck, and this is the best way to fund efforts for the common good in our cyberpunk dystopia.
Tilt them near-vertical for the winter, to the point that snow doesn't stay on them. Lost generation from the non-optimal angle should be less than that from snow buildup. Antarctic bases use solar extensively for PV and water heating so it's clearly usable in the winter.
There's a difference? I don't think a subset of Americans (as in "Estadounidense") is enough to offset the average, no matter how special they think they are.
"Got it right?" Both created some temporary, unsustainable benefit but left disastrous consequences that we're still experiencing today. They're the people who cooked the goose that laid the golden eggs, and you're saying "Mmm mmm that goose sure was tasty! Cooking it was the right thing to do!"
No, Thatcher and Reagan got it the most wrong of all. Not as wrong as Mao, but incredibly wrong by Western standards.
Put them on building rooves. If dirt builds up on the anti-stick coatings they all come with that work so well that they're practically maintenance-free, spray them with a garden hose a couple times a year. Snow naturally falls off of tilted surfaces once it builds up to a certain level. Bam, problems solved.
You understand that for a significant portion of the global population, coal == electricity, right?
LOLWUT?
No, I've researched this. Coal is used heavily in the US midwest and some areas in China. Everywhere else, it makes up a small to nonexistent fraction of the electrical supply. And outside of those very coal-heavy areas in the US and China, driving an electric car is far cleaner.
The kind of disaster that happens when you change the weather patterns over a highly populated planet with established, fixed human settlements that don't handle change well. Wars and unrest over land and resources.
If we were nomadic and there were far less of us you might have a point, but did you consider that there could be some other differences between a planet inhabited by dinosaurs that were mostly dumber than our housepets and never learned to use a single tool, and one inhabited by modern forest-clearing humans?
A lot of 1%ers have begun to notice this in the past few years - even Eric Schmidt now, although he still has his head far up his ass about any possible solutions.
Good answer. "Settled" isn't a good word because it implies the end of a process that results in the end of all motion or change. "Well-established" or "well-proven" are more accurate terms but sound like severe understatements in some cases...
Haha yeah right, this story brought them lots of page views and reminded people that Newsweek is still in business, she'll likely get a bonus! Journalism is a thing for the history books at this point. Capitalism killed it. It wasn't as profitable as running what used to be called a "gossip rag."
A great quote I remember (paraphrasing), it was from some university professor, in an article on what Jesus may have really looked like: "Many Americans would be nervous to fly on a plane with Jesus."
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Yeah if Obama had bombed Syria, the war wouldn't have been over until hundreds had been killed!
Hey, they almost accidentally the whole thing once before...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why Flamebait? The French spent 4 generations in abject poverty before they revolted. Fact.
The rich earned 25% more in 2013 than 2012. Can you imagine if middle-class workers took home 25% more pay one year over another instead?
1. Bring in more cheap foreign labor
2. Profit!
3. ???
4. Reduced inequality. For reals you guys, I promise.
The French took it for only so long.
When the French finally hit rock bottom and had nothing to lose...they sat and quietly died, mostly not living to see the revolt their great-grandchildren pulled off.
Try more science, less Braveheart:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/1...
The difference between a castle and a hut is much less than the difference between a 1%er's mansion(s and yachts) and a regular house, or especially an apartment which the tenant pays to use at negligible expense to the owner who has already sunk most of the costs involved.
Of course you could argue that inequality under feudalism was infinite since the lords and kings were technically the rightful owners of everything, but that would be falling for capitalism's illusion of choice, a powerful framework for shifting blame to victims in almost any circumstance.
No, he's serious and I agree with him. Capitalism had its run and it was better than feudalism,* but the system is finally breaking and it's time to move on. It's allowed a small percentage of the population to hoard the fruits of everyone's labor. It's inelegant and inherently unstable. We can do better.
*Although it migh have produced even greater inequality and left us with even less leisure time
Hahaha the 1%ers' killbots won't spare you for this.
I thought the same thing...seriously. NASA usually delivers good bang for the buck, and this is the best way to fund efforts for the common good in our cyberpunk dystopia.
Rain cleans the panels. You can't be talking about snow because enough of that falls to bury any fixed structure.
Tilt them near-vertical for the winter, to the point that snow doesn't stay on them. Lost generation from the non-optimal angle should be less than that from snow buildup. Antarctic bases use solar extensively for PV and water heating so it's clearly usable in the winter.
There's a difference? I don't think a subset of Americans (as in "Estadounidense") is enough to offset the average, no matter how special they think they are.
"Got it right?" Both created some temporary, unsustainable benefit but left disastrous consequences that we're still experiencing today. They're the people who cooked the goose that laid the golden eggs, and you're saying "Mmm mmm that goose sure was tasty! Cooking it was the right thing to do!"
No, Thatcher and Reagan got it the most wrong of all. Not as wrong as Mao, but incredibly wrong by Western standards.
Put them on building rooves. If dirt builds up on the anti-stick coatings they all come with that work so well that they're practically maintenance-free, spray them with a garden hose a couple times a year. Snow naturally falls off of tilted surfaces once it builds up to a certain level. Bam, problems solved.
You understand that for a significant portion of the global population, coal == electricity, right?
LOLWUT?
No, I've researched this. Coal is used heavily in the US midwest and some areas in China. Everywhere else, it makes up a small to nonexistent fraction of the electrical supply. And outside of those very coal-heavy areas in the US and China, driving an electric car is far cleaner.
Riding a technologically backwards bicycle *and* not going anywhere? Oh that's even more ironic! They'll love it!
The kind of disaster that happens when you change the weather patterns over a highly populated planet with established, fixed human settlements that don't handle change well. Wars and unrest over land and resources.
If we were nomadic and there were far less of us you might have a point, but did you consider that there could be some other differences between a planet inhabited by dinosaurs that were mostly dumber than our housepets and never learned to use a single tool, and one inhabited by modern forest-clearing humans?
Yes
A lot of 1%ers have begun to notice this in the past few years - even Eric Schmidt now, although he still has his head far up his ass about any possible solutions.
Good answer. "Settled" isn't a good word because it implies the end of a process that results in the end of all motion or change. "Well-established" or "well-proven" are more accurate terms but sound like severe understatements in some cases...
It's nothing compared to the comic strip in TFA 8-(
Came here to post this (although I don't see anything wrong with a new game of the same style).
The visuals in this video remind me of the visualizations in the GiTS series.
Anyone who likes this might also like Retrovirus, a Descent-like game in a Tron-like world...it has LAN co-op and is sold DRM-free BTW.
Haha yeah right, this story brought them lots of page views and reminded people that Newsweek is still in business, she'll likely get a bonus! Journalism is a thing for the history books at this point. Capitalism killed it. It wasn't as profitable as running what used to be called a "gossip rag."
A great quote I remember (paraphrasing), it was from some university professor, in an article on what Jesus may have really looked like: "Many Americans would be nervous to fly on a plane with Jesus."