The fact that one can compare the strategy in big business with poker shows clearly why I think we're all better off when this whole banking business is downscaled a bit.
While in the good old days the banking business was simply a place to store and borrow money, it has now become a mess so complicated that nobody really understands it anymore.
It can be interesting to see what happens next... although I also realize that this accident can cause some innocent people to lose their jobs.
I don't see why having fancy (but fake) laser-system-bike-lane would be any good. I have seen people driving around with a thin, flimsy reflector which sticks out 30 centimeters (about 1 ft) from the side of the bike. It won't damage cars if they get hit and also won't cause the biker to fall, because it will just fold backwards... but it does show cars to go around the biker. It's a 2 euro solution for the problem we're dealing with here. It does not require batteries. It can easily be built on any bike. It already exists.
In addition, real bike lanes are worth the money. Great experiments (Denmark, Netherlands) show that this really works. Perhaps there is no space in Manhattan, but on 99.9% of the surface of the earth, a 1 meter wide lane really isn't a big issue.
Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population - mostly in Europe, Britain and the US - to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky. (from main article)
Britain, whether they like it or not, is considered part of Europe.
The British (and also the rest of Europe) wish it were different, but these are the facts.:D
You are right. Your idea should work. However, designers until now have always chosen to have a single hull (which also consists of multiple layers, beams and parts that altogether withstand the pressure).
I am not sure that tin foil is your ideal material, because it should at least be able to keep itself up in a tubular shape, and tin foil isn't able to do that when the tube is the size of a submarine. (In other words: tin foil doesn't need water or a pressure difference across a hull to collapse... it does that happily just in your backyard).
With the little knowledge I have of the American political system (mud fight) I expect that people actually get paid to spam the Obama-website.
I think it's a lovely idea, and while the website won't reach any conclusion, the valuable information is that the Obama administration learns what people find important.
And yes, to quite a large population it is important to legalize the weed. About 1/100 of the entire population of the USA is in prison. That's more than anywhere in the world. And the majority (I believe, I have no reference) is related to marijuana.
Regardless of the fact that the open government is being abused, it will generate useful information, after it has gone through a (manual?) spam filter.
So the Europeans and the US governments say they are firmly convinced of dangerous anthropogenic global warming but they won't spend 15 Bn over 10 years to speed this up?
If fusion could be made to work for 2-3 times the cost of coal electricity massively reducing C02 emissions without massively cutting energy usage would be possible.
The fusion boys should aim for the same energy price as coal power, simply because wind and solar are almost there. Wind energy suffers more from a lack of space to place the turbines at this moment (and in the future possibly from a lack of energy storage)... Solar power is believed to reach normal electricity prices in areas like Spain and Italy in the next few years.
If fusion is 2-3 times more expensive, and no cleaner than solar/wind power - why invest in it?
for 10 billion, you can also construct 10 Gigawatts of wind power... which will eventually (within a few years) pay itself back.
Sorry, but how is this going to affect the always praised market?
If one company has good contacts with the military, then how on earth is a small start-up going to compete for new contracts?
In my humble opinion, the best way to achieve a safe industry is to nationalize it completely... permanently destroy all competition, and assign some big shot military guy as CEO of the company. Especially defense industry only has the government as customer, so why not make it a national (non-profit, and very safe) industry?
And then proceed to claim to the rest of the world that the Soviets had it all wrong:D (sorry - of course it should be the other way around: you should privatize the government instead of nationalizing industry).
I also borrowed a book from a friend, and (although unrelated) I bought him a beer at about the same time as I got the book...
Am I going to jail now?
I believe that all these copyright trolls are trying to get a single payment (one time profit) out of this. Even they would not be so stupid to believe that this will result in a more strict policy and controls on university campus to check the owners of books.
On short and medium distances, trains can still reach their 350 km/h, and you'll be much FASTER than an airplane, because you have no check-in, no baggage handling, and passport controls (if any) are done while you're moving!
That, plus increased leg space, no luggage limitations and more frequent departure times means that possibly the prices go up a bit.
But trains are beaten by airplanes on distances over, say, 600 km... so then the higher price isn't worth it anymore.
Many people don't see all the benefits of trains compared to an airplane.
12% of the population file share? I can't believe that the number would be so small. It's more likely to be well above 50%. In fact, everybody I know (except myself) who has a computer (and that's practically 100% of the population) has illegal mp3/movies on the computer... and didn't we all make some illegal CD's when cd-burners were new? Didn't we make cassettes even before that?
I agree that if you're trying to fight a large minority, or even a majority of the population, and you have to get every individual, you're fighting a lost battle.
Tolerate and decriminalize mp3 sharing NOW!
I share my newspaper with my friends every day... am I a criminal?
Isn't it easier to list those websites where people are NOT allowed to be anonymous?
If I were in the Virginia govt., I would block all internet, tv, radio, phone. You'll feel much safer if you don't know what's happening in the evil outside world.
How is space weather relevant, given that there's completely nothing you can do about it? It's not like putting tape on your windows will help keep your electrical grid from frying.
1. We can make a plan for when this happens. 2. We can build back-ups for the very essential infrastructure. 3. We can even attempt to protect our equipment and avoid the catastrophic failure.
4. And I can go by bike to work, and do my work with pen and paper, and communicate results by ordinary mail. I'm sure it's very peaceful and relaxing.:)
What do you mean "we can't do anything about it"?
All it takes to keep the water running is a system that we have had for over a century. The water system in the 1960's was perhaps not as good as we have now, but it worked... and it sure as hell wasn't going to get fried because of some solar flares. Get a large tank full of diesel to keep the pumps running, and you're done.
We should not fear that Warner Bros is ending the R-rated movies. We should fear the fact that one single company has such massive influence that we even bother talking about this.
Although some campaigns are indeed very simple, and give you a chance to screw up, I also found campaigns where even when playing "easy" some of the levels were quite hard, and unforgiving. It is not nice if within a campaign some levels are much, much harder than the rest. However, those were all in user made campaigns which I downloaded... and I guess that the game itself should not be blamed. The only suggestion I have to the guys making Wesnoth is to include a brief description of the add-on in the ingame add-on download thingy, so that I know if it's a hard/easy campaign. (btw, Compliments for having such a download feature in the first place).
And also, I agree that there should be an easier mode (but not a cheat mode - no need to be invincible - just make it really easy) - for those who just enjoy mindless clicking and winning. Call it the "wussy"-level, even easier than "easy". After a day of hard work, sometimes I just want to click around and experience the whole thing without actually trying it more than twice (ok, three times at most). But I can understand if people disagree with such approach. After all, it also took me a lot of attempts before I got Mario to free the princess for the first time.:-)
I've played it for a while now, and yesterday my Ubuntu decided (by itself, merely asking me for a password) that it was time to upgrade Wesnoth:) *clicks, waits, doubleclicks, smiles, plays all night*
I really enjoy the campaigns... and I have yet to try online gaming.
I only got over my Wesnoth addiction a few weeks ago, and now I've been thrown right back. Does open source also mean that they'll continue to improve it? Because my social life really doesn't need that;)
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The fact that one can compare the strategy in big business with poker shows clearly why I think we're all better off when this whole banking business is downscaled a bit.
While in the good old days the banking business was simply a place to store and borrow money, it has now become a mess so complicated that nobody really understands it anymore.
It can be interesting to see what happens next... although I also realize that this accident can cause some innocent people to lose their jobs.
The secret service builds a datacenter and announces that in mainstream media?
It will be a very large data center.
It will be important.
It will be secret.
And it will be located at Utah's Camp Williams.
That's very amicable to other secret services. Saves them some searching. :D
I don't see why having fancy (but fake) laser-system-bike-lane would be any good. I have seen people driving around with a thin, flimsy reflector which sticks out 30 centimeters (about 1 ft) from the side of the bike. It won't damage cars if they get hit and also won't cause the biker to fall, because it will just fold backwards... but it does show cars to go around the biker. It's a 2 euro solution for the problem we're dealing with here. It does not require batteries. It can easily be built on any bike. It already exists.
In addition, real bike lanes are worth the money. Great experiments (Denmark, Netherlands) show that this really works. Perhaps there is no space in Manhattan, but on 99.9% of the surface of the earth, a 1 meter wide lane really isn't a big issue.
Shall we start a massive database to track down all goods worldwide so that the producers can get a share whenever it changes hands?
I bet that would be fun.
I accidentally left my newspaper in the bus this morning. Somebody else might have picked it up. Are they going to arrest me now?
This is about the motion of our star relative to the disk.
OCIADBTRTFA (Of course I also didn't bother to read the f**king article), but what the hell has the Discworld to do with this???
What if the Great A'tuin would change course? Huh? We wouldn't even know, because we're not ON the f**king Discworld. It's fiction.
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Studies or the truth don't matter.
What matters is the amount of people and money spent on lobbying.
(Politicians: representatives of lobbyists - this word originates from "Polis" which means "great gathering of lobbyists" in ancient Greek).
Sad but true.
Wii binge drinking? Wii pint lifting?
Bagpipe Hero?
Or was the plan to play Wii Cricket (probably already exists?)?
Also cool with new motion sensors: Ministry of Funny Walks - the game.
Yep, good idea. Small balls of lead flying around at supersonic speeds never hurt an airplane!
How long until a bullet comes down and punctures a fuel tank?
Light pollution has caused one-fifth of the world's population - mostly in Europe, Britain and the US - to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky. (from main article)
Britain, whether they like it or not, is considered part of Europe.
The British (and also the rest of Europe) wish it were different, but these are the facts. :D
You are right. Your idea should work. However, designers until now have always chosen to have a single hull (which also consists of multiple layers, beams and parts that altogether withstand the pressure).
I am not sure that tin foil is your ideal material, because it should at least be able to keep itself up in a tubular shape, and tin foil isn't able to do that when the tube is the size of a submarine. (In other words: tin foil doesn't need water or a pressure difference across a hull to collapse... it does that happily just in your backyard).
Also, the submarine might get a bit bulky.
With the little knowledge I have of the American political system (mud fight) I expect that people actually get paid to spam the Obama-website.
I think it's a lovely idea, and while the website won't reach any conclusion, the valuable information is that the Obama administration learns what people find important.
And yes, to quite a large population it is important to legalize the weed. About 1/100 of the entire population of the USA is in prison. That's more than anywhere in the world. And the majority (I believe, I have no reference) is related to marijuana.
Regardless of the fact that the open government is being abused, it will generate useful information, after it has gone through a (manual?) spam filter.
So the Europeans and the US governments say they are firmly convinced of dangerous anthropogenic global warming but they won't spend 15 Bn over 10 years to speed this up?
If fusion could be made to work for 2-3 times the cost of coal electricity massively reducing C02 emissions without massively cutting energy usage would be possible.
The fusion boys should aim for the same energy price as coal power, simply because wind and solar are almost there. Wind energy suffers more from a lack of space to place the turbines at this moment (and in the future possibly from a lack of energy storage)... Solar power is believed to reach normal electricity prices in areas like Spain and Italy in the next few years.
If fusion is 2-3 times more expensive, and no cleaner than solar/wind power - why invest in it?
for 10 billion, you can also construct 10 Gigawatts of wind power... which will eventually (within a few years) pay itself back.
Sorry, but how is this going to affect the always praised market?
If one company has good contacts with the military, then how on earth is a small start-up going to compete for new contracts?
In my humble opinion, the best way to achieve a safe industry is to nationalize it completely... permanently destroy all competition, and assign some big shot military guy as CEO of the company. Especially defense industry only has the government as customer, so why not make it a national (non-profit, and very safe) industry?
And then proceed to claim to the rest of the world that the Soviets had it all wrong :D
(sorry - of course it should be the other way around: you should privatize the government instead of nationalizing industry).
I wonder if they'll adopt the same strategy in other countries?
I certainly haven't seen any advertisements yet about "Tele2 - the company that brings small bills and big privacy".
Am I going to be arrested now?
I also borrowed a book from a friend, and (although unrelated) I bought him a beer at about the same time as I got the book...
Am I going to jail now?
I believe that all these copyright trolls are trying to get a single payment (one time profit) out of this. Even they would not be so stupid to believe that this will result in a more strict policy and controls on university campus to check the owners of books.
On short and medium distances, trains can still reach their 350 km/h, and you'll be much FASTER than an airplane, because you have no check-in, no baggage handling, and passport controls (if any) are done while you're moving!
That, plus increased leg space, no luggage limitations and more frequent departure times means that possibly the prices go up a bit.
But trains are beaten by airplanes on distances over, say, 600 km... so then the higher price isn't worth it anymore.
Many people don't see all the benefits of trains compared to an airplane.
12% of the population file share? I can't believe that the number would be so small. It's more likely to be well above 50%. In fact, everybody I know (except myself) who has a computer (and that's practically 100% of the population) has illegal mp3/movies on the computer... and didn't we all make some illegal CD's when cd-burners were new? Didn't we make cassettes even before that?
I agree that if you're trying to fight a large minority, or even a majority of the population, and you have to get every individual, you're fighting a lost battle.
Tolerate and decriminalize mp3 sharing NOW!
I share my newspaper with my friends every day... am I a criminal?
Do you think we can pass responsibilities to our occupants?
Since bacteria outnumber us ten to one, do you think they see us as oppressors, since our bodies don't seem to be a functioning democracy?
Are the bacteria responsible for our preemptive strikes on the cookie jars and other resources found in the kitchen?
"Boss, I can't come to work, my bacteria are on strike".
"Don't touch me, I'm a protected ecosystem!"
Isn't it easier to list those websites where people are NOT allowed to be anonymous?
If I were in the Virginia govt., I would block all internet, tv, radio, phone. You'll feel much safer if you don't know what's happening in the evil outside world.
I usually wear medieval armour. Not only does that work as efficient as tinfoil, it's also very fashionable.
How is space weather relevant, given that there's completely nothing you can do about it? It's not like putting tape on your windows will help keep your electrical grid from frying.
1. We can make a plan for when this happens.
2. We can build back-ups for the very essential infrastructure.
3. We can even attempt to protect our equipment and avoid the catastrophic failure.
4. And I can go by bike to work, and do my work with pen and paper, and communicate results by ordinary mail. I'm sure it's very peaceful and relaxing. :)
What do you mean "we can't do anything about it"?
All it takes to keep the water running is a system that we have had for over a century. The water system in the 1960's was perhaps not as good as we have now, but it worked... and it sure as hell wasn't going to get fried because of some solar flares. Get a large tank full of diesel to keep the pumps running, and you're done.
We should not fear that Warner Bros is ending the R-rated movies. We should fear the fact that one single company has such massive influence that we even bother talking about this.
I would actually agree with that.
Although some campaigns are indeed very simple, and give you a chance to screw up, I also found campaigns where even when playing "easy" some of the levels were quite hard, and unforgiving. It is not nice if within a campaign some levels are much, much harder than the rest. However, those were all in user made campaigns which I downloaded... and I guess that the game itself should not be blamed. The only suggestion I have to the guys making Wesnoth is to include a brief description of the add-on in the ingame add-on download thingy, so that I know if it's a hard/easy campaign. (btw, Compliments for having such a download feature in the first place).
And also, I agree that there should be an easier mode (but not a cheat mode - no need to be invincible - just make it really easy) - for those who just enjoy mindless clicking and winning. Call it the "wussy"-level, even easier than "easy". :-)
After a day of hard work, sometimes I just want to click around and experience the whole thing without actually trying it more than twice (ok, three times at most). But I can understand if people disagree with such approach. After all, it also took me a lot of attempts before I got Mario to free the princess for the first time.
I love this game. :)
I've played it for a while now, and yesterday my Ubuntu decided (by itself, merely asking me for a password) that it was time to upgrade Wesnoth :)
*clicks, waits, doubleclicks, smiles, plays all night*
I really enjoy the campaigns... and I have yet to try online gaming.
I only got over my Wesnoth addiction a few weeks ago, and now I've been thrown right back. ;)
Does open source also mean that they'll continue to improve it? Because my social life really doesn't need that
This whole market thingy seems to work.
There is competition driven innovation, and a number of large companies are fighting for the market share.
I like it... although I doubt that my Ubuntu will run IE8, so I guess I won't use IE8 too much - perhaps I'll check it in Wine ;)