What I find odd is the currency based on sterling silver is falling in relation to a soft backed currency based on 'confidence'. Seems like someone is gaming the system. But I am not an economist so what do I know..
You seem to have taken in the two distinct phrases 'sterling silver' and 'pound sterling' and developed a new myth from it. The original currency was once based on silver coins, but that was not necessarily the currency itself. The currency was formally put on the gold standard during the Napoleonic wars, and came off it in the 20th century.
They can already do that, and you can do it to them. The value of whatever you have will then fall. But the fact that people and businesses can do it is what (for instance) causes currency and stock market fluctuations.
Arctic ice is floating and hence, unlike glacial and continental ice it has a limited range of total thickness - you can look it up. It probably varies less than the carbon footprint range of US families of four. This average family was chosen as a crude comparator, and you should take it as such.
You will also see that many towns or cities are shown on the map that appear to have lower pollution (yellow) than the surrounding region (orange or red). For instance in northern Thailand and Burma, southern India, northern China. I suspect this means that they actually have measuring points in those cities which showed relatively low pollution, but they used their model for the surrounding area, even though the model appears to be faulty from the available measurements.
The EFF's chief technologist revealed that he doesn't run an anti-virus program, partly because he's using Linux, and partly because he feels anti-virus software creates a false sense of security. ("I don't like to get complacent and rely on it in any way...")
He's quite right. We lull ourselves into a false sense of security all the time. I try to avoid it, complacency is a killer.
I drive at night without any lights on, because then if I'm in an accident it will probably be my fault. This keeps me wide awake and aware of all possible hazards.
During the day this doesn't work of course. Hence I have to drive in bare feet, so if there is an accident I'm not going to get very far trying to run away.
And didn't the US steal a lot of German rocket and other technology after WW2? Did Wernher Von Braun have his government's permission to share the material he had (all right, don't answer that!)
These things are not actually getting easier, the countries doing them are (usually) getting more capable. The first Soviet human flight was in a small craft less than 3 tonnes, the US one not much different, because they wanted to be first and were willing to take risks. The Chinese by contrast almost half century later had no reason to take any similar risks; they would have only looked stupid if something went wrong. Hence they used a much larger and more sophisticated craft that had been tested carefully before, and in these terms it could be considered the most successful of the 'first' space flights.
But I'm sure the North Koreans might take silly risks though.
And the Chinese space programme was started after the first Sputnik launch in the 50's and was solidly in place in the early 60's; it just didn't enter general consciousness in the west until their first satellite. The first stages of the Indian programme were also in place in the early 60s and it was established fully by the end of the 60s as the Chinese successes became clear.
What is the 'parameter space' that they were searching? Is it an accepted term in physics?
I'd expect to find nothing in my parameter space except for variables (and a number of logical and conceptual errors).
It matters because it shows that the writer is thinking entirely from his / her perspective. Assuming that the writer is American, it suggests that they see emigrants from other countries only as immigrants into theirs, (and if they're not American, similar attitudes exist in most other countries). It shows no consideration for the viewpoint of the subject which is North Korea and North Koreans. It thus makes the argument poor, weak, and downright irritating to those who try to see both sides.
Another idea for a weapons system - more pay for the top brass.
You could justify it in the same way that in many / most companies, senior management claims that higher pay and bonuses for directors motivates them to make more profit. Could you depend on a general who does not get at least, say, twenty times as much as the ordinary airman?
Well, if you really want to try hard enough to reduce the keyboard, you can get everything down to two characters. That's usually 1 and 0, but you would have a lot of choice.
I hope you also appreciate the huge effort that English speakers have to make to be able to become literate with those few characters. The 26 letters were designed for Latin. Almost all modern European languages have a more complex sound system, and English more so than most, coupled with a whole collection of contradictory spelling rules inherited from French, Latin, Greek, et.c.. The result is an effort put into literacy that is only comparable with Chinese and its ideograms. In fact, many English words are comparable to ideograms in having little relation to the letters that go into them.
You miss the point; why should one country prescribe how foreigners name it, especially to this detail? It is natural for speakers of English and other western European languages to speak of 'the Ukraine', and the equivalent in German, et.c.. Since you say that 'Republic of the Sudan' is the official name of that country (I really don't know, and I wasn't referring to official names anyway), does then the Ukrainian government use an invented article when translating the 'Republic of the Sudan' into Ukrainian? How will the Filipino ambassador find his country described in Ukrainian government documents?
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Who knows more about the name of Ukraine, some random English speaker on the internet or the Ukrainians? - well, actually the random English speaker knows the name of the country in English as well as any random Ukrainian.
You really need to become less sensitive about a western European naming convention which is not used in Ukrainian. When people say 'the Ukraine', they are not saying the country is now 'the borderlands of Russia' or the 'borderlands of the principality of Rus', or whatever it was originally. No one worries about the southeast Asian country being often referred to in English as 'the Philippines', or about the country south of Egypt being sometimes called 'the Sudan'. Numerous other non-country uses exist for various non English names across the world, including 'the Levant' (the east) of the Mediterranean coast, the Deccan (the south) of India, the Pampas (the plains) of Argentina, et.c.. It is just a recognition that the user knows the original meaning of the name, it is perfectly normal and correct in English.
It's not clear who the actual hosts are, but I'm guessing from the report that they are Americans, of diverse origin. If the people 'of African descent' (for instance) are actually Americans of African descent, with the long contact with the majority European population, can we be sure they are not partly European? The caption for the map says '... distributed around the world'. I know it is a first investigation, but they apparently haven't investigated across the world.
To be pedantic - the government of Delhi is planning to impose this rule on the whole city of 21million which is Delhi, not only on the part of it that is New Delhi.
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries....."
That is the recent, European and American history of the fruit, and what they 'discovered' in west Africa was that Africans were already cultivating it. Bananas had been discovered and used by others a whole long time before that. As can be seen in any wider treatment of the subject.
If I remember the sequence of events correctly, what became known as the 'Win95 GUI' was first released and seen as an optional update / add on to WinNT3.1. Then Win95 was released, and after that NT4 in which it was the only option. So actually the original release was in the NT series.
So? You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set? Higher levels of skill, talent, and perseverance than earning a PhD, and/or making a discovery, advancing science? More than it take to create and play a hit song or write a best selling book? But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.
Lots of things are tough. Doing the right thing is one of the them.
Yes, this is what I suspect the result will be. That birds will be killed indiscrimately whenever and wherever the military / security situation deteriorates. Even in normal times I can see this happening over key locations, over tense borders, et.c.. Birds that keep to small territories will be less affected, those that migrate or have large ranges might be in increased danger of extinction.
Yes, I did read the summary. Then I also read the stories referenced there. You're implying that there was no lobbying by the US, while the articles clearly states that there was lobbying both from the US industry association and the US government, as well as from some European businesses. There is also mention of pressure from Canada and Brazil, but funnily enough it lists the US first.
I'd expect that large European chemical manufacturers would also be against restrictions on chemicals. But you are implying that they are the prime lobbyists. Where is the evidence that AmCham were not the primary lobbyists?
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What I find odd is the currency based on sterling silver is falling in relation to a soft backed currency based on 'confidence'. Seems like someone is gaming the system. But I am not an economist so what do I know..
You seem to have taken in the two distinct phrases 'sterling silver' and 'pound sterling' and developed a new myth from it. The original currency was once based on silver coins, but that was not necessarily the currency itself. The currency was formally put on the gold standard during the Napoleonic wars, and came off it in the 20th century.
They can already do that, and you can do it to them. The value of whatever you have will then fall. But the fact that people and businesses can do it is what (for instance) causes currency and stock market fluctuations.
Did you write the above post in some kind of programming language? Because it certainly does not seem to be English.
and many others, even if maybe they miss out what seems to be this scheme's USP, adding solar power to it.
Arctic ice is floating and hence, unlike glacial and continental ice it has a limited range of total thickness - you can look it up. It probably varies less than the carbon footprint range of US families of four. This average family was chosen as a crude comparator, and you should take it as such.
You will also see that many towns or cities are shown on the map that appear to have lower pollution (yellow) than the surrounding region (orange or red). For instance in northern Thailand and Burma, southern India, northern China. I suspect this means that they actually have measuring points in those cities which showed relatively low pollution, but they used their model for the surrounding area, even though the model appears to be faulty from the available measurements.
The EFF's chief technologist revealed that he doesn't run an anti-virus program, partly because he's using Linux, and partly because he feels anti-virus software creates a false sense of security. ("I don't like to get complacent and rely on it in any way...")
He's quite right. We lull ourselves into a false sense of security all the time. I try to avoid it, complacency is a killer.
I drive at night without any lights on, because then if I'm in an accident it will probably be my fault. This keeps me wide awake and aware of all possible hazards.
During the day this doesn't work of course. Hence I have to drive in bare feet, so if there is an accident I'm not going to get very far trying to run away.
And didn't the US steal a lot of German rocket and other technology after WW2? Did Wernher Von Braun have his government's permission to share the material he had (all right, don't answer that!)
These things are not actually getting easier, the countries doing them are (usually) getting more capable. The first Soviet human flight was in a small craft less than 3 tonnes, the US one not much different, because they wanted to be first and were willing to take risks. The Chinese by contrast almost half century later had no reason to take any similar risks; they would have only looked stupid if something went wrong. Hence they used a much larger and more sophisticated craft that had been tested carefully before, and in these terms it could be considered the most successful of the 'first' space flights.
But I'm sure the North Koreans might take silly risks though.
And the Chinese space programme was started after the first Sputnik launch in the 50's and was solidly in place in the early 60's; it just didn't enter general consciousness in the west until their first satellite. The first stages of the Indian programme were also in place in the early 60s and it was established fully by the end of the 60s as the Chinese successes became clear.
What is the 'parameter space' that they were searching? Is it an accepted term in physics? I'd expect to find nothing in my parameter space except for variables (and a number of logical and conceptual errors).
It matters because it shows that the writer is thinking entirely from his / her perspective. Assuming that the writer is American, it suggests that they see emigrants from other countries only as immigrants into theirs, (and if they're not American, similar attitudes exist in most other countries). It shows no consideration for the viewpoint of the subject which is North Korea and North Koreans. It thus makes the argument poor, weak, and downright irritating to those who try to see both sides.
You could justify it in the same way that in many / most companies, senior management claims that higher pay and bonuses for directors motivates them to make more profit. Could you depend on a general who does not get at least, say, twenty times as much as the ordinary airman?
Well, if you really want to try hard enough to reduce the keyboard, you can get everything down to two characters. That's usually 1 and 0, but you would have a lot of choice.
I hope you also appreciate the huge effort that English speakers have to make to be able to become literate with those few characters. The 26 letters were designed for Latin. Almost all modern European languages have a more complex sound system, and English more so than most, coupled with a whole collection of contradictory spelling rules inherited from French, Latin, Greek, et.c.. The result is an effort put into literacy that is only comparable with Chinese and its ideograms. In fact, many English words are comparable to ideograms in having little relation to the letters that go into them.
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Who knows more about the name of Ukraine, some random English speaker on the internet or the Ukrainians? - well, actually the random English speaker knows the name of the country in English as well as any random Ukrainian.
You really need to become less sensitive about a western European naming convention which is not used in Ukrainian. When people say 'the Ukraine', they are not saying the country is now 'the borderlands of Russia' or the 'borderlands of the principality of Rus', or whatever it was originally. No one worries about the southeast Asian country being often referred to in English as 'the Philippines', or about the country south of Egypt being sometimes called 'the Sudan'. Numerous other non-country uses exist for various non English names across the world, including 'the Levant' (the east) of the Mediterranean coast, the Deccan (the south) of India, the Pampas (the plains) of Argentina, et.c.. It is just a recognition that the user knows the original meaning of the name, it is perfectly normal and correct in English.
It's not clear who the actual hosts are, but I'm guessing from the report that they are Americans, of diverse origin. If the people 'of African descent' (for instance) are actually Americans of African descent, with the long contact with the majority European population, can we be sure they are not partly European? The caption for the map says '... distributed around the world'. I know it is a first investigation, but they apparently haven't investigated across the world.
To be pedantic - the government of Delhi is planning to impose this rule on the whole city of 21million which is Delhi, not only on the part of it that is New Delhi.
"Bananas were discovered by the Portuguese on the Atlantic coast of Africa. They cultivated the fruit on the Canary Islands. From there it was introduced to the Americas by Spanish missionaries. ...."
That is the recent, European and American history of the fruit, and what they 'discovered' in west Africa was that Africans were already cultivating it. Bananas had been discovered and used by others a whole long time before that. As can be seen in any wider treatment of the subject.
If I remember the sequence of events correctly, what became known as the 'Win95 GUI' was first released and seen as an optional update / add on to WinNT3.1. Then Win95 was released, and after that NT4 in which it was the only option. So actually the original release was in the NT series.
So? You think running a successful business takes some kind of extra special skill set? Higher levels of skill, talent, and perseverance than earning a PhD, and/or making a discovery, advancing science? More than it take to create and play a hit song or write a best selling book? But it seems more and more that the most important things successful businesspeople have are connections, and the skills and willingness to finesse the legal system to bribe the powerful and cheat the most vulnerable.
Lots of things are tough. Doing the right thing is one of the them.
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Yes, this is what I suspect the result will be. That birds will be killed indiscrimately whenever and wherever the military / security situation deteriorates. Even in normal times I can see this happening over key locations, over tense borders, et.c.. Birds that keep to small territories will be less affected, those that migrate or have large ranges might be in increased danger of extinction.
Yes, I did read the summary. Then I also read the stories referenced there. You're implying that there was no lobbying by the US, while the articles clearly states that there was lobbying both from the US industry association and the US government, as well as from some European businesses. There is also mention of pressure from Canada and Brazil, but funnily enough it lists the US first.
I'd expect that large European chemical manufacturers would also be against restrictions on chemicals. But you are implying that they are the prime lobbyists. Where is the evidence that AmCham were not the primary lobbyists?
Quite right for the government. It is better to make the polluter remove pollutants than accept them in the system and process them.