It is the southern most Atlantic coastal part of Canada though, right (launching to the east is even more important - it's the reason you want to be near the equator after all)
The parts of Canada that are further south would involve launching over the US.
Or do they have some colonies near the equator to turn into space ports?
Remember that the CPI calculation got changed so not include the very things that people spend their money on and go up in price - which makes sense since there are a bunch of things indexed to the CPI numbers so it's in the interests of those who calculate them to keep them low.
You could read the study and find out, they talk about it a lot.
""" Putting the pieces together, the long story is approximately as follows. From 1972 to 1992, violent crime rose 83%: increasing lead exposure produced a 28-91% increase, the growth of prisons produced a 35% decrease, and a remaining 24-87% increase remains unexplained. From 1992 to 2002, violent crime dropped 34%: declining lead exposure produced a 56% decrease, legalized abortion produced a 29% decrease, other factors produced a 23% decrease, and a remaining 74% increase remains unexplained. Thus, the current results imply that lead exposure was likely an important factor in both the rise and the decline of violent crime in the last 30 years. At the same time, the recent history of violent crime is not fully understood: a sustained rise in crime of about 3-5% annually remains unexplained. """
It's poker, it's not played against the house. Online poker has much lower rakes than physical casinos and hence there's more money left for the winning players.
For the entire map, there are 144 "raid on an innocent" cases, and 41 "death of an innocent" cases. Discounting New York where everyone knows that police will kick down your door for no reason and hence makes allowances it becomes 118 and 38, or 24% of those innocent raids result in deaths. Of course some "raid on an innocent" situations are in other categories so that over counts - if a police officer was wounded or killed by the innocent person defending themselves, for example.
A great example of New York's finest:
""" On June 5, 1997, police carry out a no-knock raid based on information from an anonymous informant in the East New York area of Brooklyn. The warrant instructs them to raid a gray door marked "2M." Finding no such door, they instead break down a red door marked "2L," terrorizing Sandra Soto and her two children. They find no drugs. """
By definition they have said "no ILLEGAL immigrants" since it's the legislative body and the fact that they are called "ILLEGAL" means that body has declared them to be. Assuming you are using the term "illegal" in the normal manner.
If they ever managed to get enough votes to get a seat - and the Australian Senate has quite low requirements due to it being a multi-seat proportional system but they'd be better of running for state government, in the NSW Upper House for example you only need 4.55% to get quota for a seat. They're more restricted on the preference deals they can make than other parties - the only thing they can offer is to swap preferences they can't make policy tweaks obviously - so they have basically no hope.
However, if you expected them to win a seat you would be better off voting for someone else, since then you get two dips - one for the person you vote for, and a second one if they win a seat since you can still use their online voting thing even if you didn't vote for them (and with secret ballots that's essential anyway). Making it so that people are better off voting for someone else is not a good way to win elections...
Of course they could also have just setup a licensing system for online casinos in the US, so that US gamblers would play there - and the US would get it's tax revenue.
But of course the existing casino's would then be annoyed and they made all those donations...
One justification they could have is that infrastructure gets more people to hear their message and hence more people to convert. I would suspect that the salvation of an eternal soul ranks higher than keeping a single mother fed for an extra day - in the religious scheme of things anyway.
Another would be that it's investing, that infrastructure attracts more people some of whom join and start bringing in more income to the church through donations, volunteer work, whatever. So sure they could spend that dollar on that single mother now or they could spend it on infrastructure and generate hopefully more than one dollar of additional future income to spend on that single mother. Of course at some point you have to stop investing and start spending on the actual goals, but I'm sure that can wait for the next generation (maybe two...)
Because the fact that blood at a murder scene matches the doner's DNA, doesn't mean the doner was there - the guy who got the stem cells could have been. So it's not "incontrovertable",not that it ever was anyway...
Using your logic, it should be illegal to make a replica of Michelangelo's david and sell it for profit? even scale replicas? what about scale replicas of the statue of liberty? it should be illegal to copy Bartholdi's work on that too shouldn't it?
If the copyright on those artworks hadn't expired then doing that would be a violation of copyright and hence "illegal". But since they have you obviously can.
You can't legally photograph all the pages of a novel and distribute a PDF of it. You can't legally film a movie showing in the cinema with your hand held camera. You can't legally paint a copy of a photograph. If said book, movie and photograph are still copyrighted and you don't have permission from the copyright holders (or manage to squeeze into some form of fair use...)
Just where do you get "political speech" from in :
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The UN doesn't exist to stop massacres in Africa and Asia (or Europe/America/Australia), or to stop dictators from killing their people. It exists to try and stop the big powers from getting into another huge war, by providing a diplomatic channel which hopefully won't be closed in protest to whatever it was this week. The rest is just feel good crap that is just there for show.
It doesn't matter if the guys with the big guns mess with the little countries. Or the little countries mess with each other. As long the big guns don't get used on each other all is well. Of course as with all bureaucracies it does a whole lot more, but that's all unimportant side issues.
The world hasn't been turned into a nuclear wasteland so so far so good for the UN.
"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind..." the rest is minor nuisance stuff (stuff like genocide in Africa, human rights abuses by everyone, etc) that simply doesn't matter in comparison with turning the planet into radioactive frozen ball.
Surely you can have a one way data path from the control system to the "business" network. It means the "business" network only gets the data it is given and can't make real time queries, and if some data it doesn't have is required the control system will need to be updated to send that too.
There's no need to plug in an ethernet connection (and the associated exposed network stack), a serial cable on which the data is sent (which does not read commands) should do.
Of course it's a hassle and more costly than just plugging in an ethernet cable. For a power plant that seems worthwhile though... they can make a very big boom... and going offline is very costly to the surrounding people/businesses/farm animals.
Except that a third party company could buy generic CD drives and convert them. I doubt the conversion process would cost 30k euro, if the people who made this one can do it then it can probably be done with standard equipment possibly mostly by manual human work (if demand it so low).
More likely reasons:
* The lab machine is more accurate and more importantly calibrated and tested to be so. * The lab machine passed a bunch of standards to be approved for use on something a generic CD drive isn't. * The lab machine does a bunch of other stuff that the generic CD drive doesn't - using different wavelengths, etc
It could also simply be that no one noticed you could meet a subset of the requirements for the lab machine with a much cheaper design, and hence no one did so. Of course there may be patent issues that mean no one will do so now anyway...
Now, contrast this with New York City-- the fact that there's no rail connection between the airports and downtown comes across as pretty ghetto and low-rent.
I wonder how I managed to get from JFK to downtown Manhattan by train a few years ago...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/oct/29/tvnews.internationalnews
It's not unheard of...
It's already so high as to be meaningless, it will outlast mechanical failure of a traditional hard drive for example.
It is the southern most Atlantic coastal part of Canada though, right (launching to the east is even more important - it's the reason you want to be near the equator after all)
The parts of Canada that are further south would involve launching over the US.
Or do they have some colonies near the equator to turn into space ports?
So you compare it with inflation.
Remember that the CPI calculation got changed so not include the very things that people spend their money on and go up in price - which makes sense since there are a bunch of things indexed to the CPI numbers so it's in the interests of those who calculate them to keep them low.
http://www.shadowstats.com/ or for the even more pessimistic formula: http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-cpi.gif
You could read the study and find out, they talk about it a lot.
"""
Putting the pieces together, the long story is approximately as follows. From 1972 to
1992, violent crime rose 83%: increasing lead exposure produced a 28-91% increase, the growth
of prisons produced a 35% decrease, and a remaining 24-87% increase remains unexplained.
From 1992 to 2002, violent crime dropped 34%: declining lead exposure produced a 56%
decrease, legalized abortion produced a 29% decrease, other factors produced a 23% decrease, and
a remaining 74% increase remains unexplained. Thus, the current results imply that lead exposure
was likely an important factor in both the rise and the decline of violent crime in the last 30 years.
At the same time, the recent history of violent crime is not fully understood: a sustained rise in
crime of about 3-5% annually remains unexplained.
"""
It's poker, it's not played against the house. Online poker has much lower rakes than physical casinos and hence there's more money left for the winning players.
For the entire map, there are 144 "raid on an innocent" cases, and 41 "death of an innocent" cases. Discounting New York where everyone knows that police will kick down your door for no reason and hence makes allowances it becomes 118 and 38, or 24% of those innocent raids result in deaths. Of course some "raid on an innocent" situations are in other categories so that over counts - if a police officer was wounded or killed by the innocent person defending themselves, for example.
A great example of New York's finest:
"""
On June 5, 1997, police carry out a no-knock raid based on information from an anonymous informant in the East New York area of Brooklyn. The warrant instructs them to raid a gray door marked "2M." Finding no such door, they instead break down a red door marked "2L," terrorizing Sandra Soto and her two children. They find no drugs.
"""
Because no one has ever been killed in a SWAT raid before. Certainly never an innocent person.
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
By definition they have said "no ILLEGAL immigrants" since it's the legislative body and the fact that they are called "ILLEGAL" means that body has declared them to be. Assuming you are using the term "illegal" in the normal manner.
If they ever managed to get enough votes to get a seat - and the Australian Senate has quite low requirements due to it being a multi-seat proportional system but they'd be better of running for state government, in the NSW Upper House for example you only need 4.55% to get quota for a seat. They're more restricted on the preference deals they can make than other parties - the only thing they can offer is to swap preferences they can't make policy tweaks obviously - so they have basically no hope.
However, if you expected them to win a seat you would be better off voting for someone else, since then you get two dips - one for the person you vote for, and a second one if they win a seat since you can still use their online voting thing even if you didn't vote for them (and with secret ballots that's essential anyway). Making it so that people are better off voting for someone else is not a good way to win elections...
The rain ends up in the lakes and seas hence filling them, just like the water version does on earth.
Of course they could also have just setup a licensing system for online casinos in the US, so that US gamblers would play there - and the US would get it's tax revenue.
But of course the existing casino's would then be annoyed and they made all those donations...
They succeeded only in proving that feeble people, when given power, tend to abuse it
all people.
Feeble people just need to be given less power in order to start abusing it...
Depends on how you look at the world I guess...
One justification they could have is that infrastructure gets more people to hear their message and hence more people to convert. I would suspect that the salvation of an eternal soul ranks higher than keeping a single mother fed for an extra day - in the religious scheme of things anyway.
Another would be that it's investing, that infrastructure attracts more people some of whom join and start bringing in more income to the church through donations, volunteer work, whatever. So sure they could spend that dollar on that single mother now or they could spend it on infrastructure and generate hopefully more than one dollar of additional future income to spend on that single mother. Of course at some point you have to stop investing and start spending on the actual goals, but I'm sure that can wait for the next generation (maybe two...)
Obviously you seek out the things that have the most money first...
There's also the question of what "strong" means. High tensile strength but low compressive strength does not a good support beam make.
Because the fact that blood at a murder scene matches the doner's DNA, doesn't mean the doner was there - the guy who got the stem cells could have been. So it's not "incontrovertable",not that it ever was anyway...
Crap!
We used to play 500 during our maths classes in high school, guess that dates me to "the olden days"...
Using your logic, it should be illegal to make a replica of Michelangelo's david and sell it for profit? even scale replicas?
what about scale replicas of the statue of liberty? it should be illegal to copy Bartholdi's work on that too shouldn't it?
If the copyright on those artworks hadn't expired then doing that would be a violation of copyright and hence "illegal". But since they have you obviously can.
You can't legally photograph all the pages of a novel and distribute a PDF of it. You can't legally film a movie showing in the cinema with your hand held camera. You can't legally paint a copy of a photograph. If said book, movie and photograph are still copyrighted and you don't have permission from the copyright holders (or manage to squeeze into some form of fair use...)
Just where do you get "political speech" from in :
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The UN doesn't exist to stop massacres in Africa and Asia (or Europe/America/Australia), or to stop dictators from killing their people. It exists to try and stop the big powers from getting into another huge war, by providing a diplomatic channel which hopefully won't be closed in protest to whatever it was this week. The rest is just feel good crap that is just there for show.
It doesn't matter if the guys with the big guns mess with the little countries. Or the little countries mess with each other. As long the big guns don't get used on each other all is well. Of course as with all bureaucracies it does a whole lot more, but that's all unimportant side issues.
The world hasn't been turned into a nuclear wasteland so so far so good for the UN.
"WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind..." the rest is minor nuisance stuff (stuff like genocide in Africa, human rights abuses by everyone, etc) that simply doesn't matter in comparison with turning the planet into radioactive frozen ball.
Yes. And toothpaste doesn't cure cancer, so we should ditch it and teeth brushing altogether?
Surely you can have a one way data path from the control system to the "business" network. It means the "business" network only gets the data it is given and can't make real time queries, and if some data it doesn't have is required the control system will need to be updated to send that too.
There's no need to plug in an ethernet connection (and the associated exposed network stack), a serial cable on which the data is sent (which does not read commands) should do.
Of course it's a hassle and more costly than just plugging in an ethernet cable. For a power plant that seems worthwhile though... they can make a very big boom... and going offline is very costly to the surrounding people/businesses/farm animals.
Except that a third party company could buy generic CD drives and convert them. I doubt the conversion process would cost 30k euro, if the people who made this one can do it then it can probably be done with standard equipment possibly mostly by manual human work (if demand it so low).
More likely reasons:
* The lab machine is more accurate and more importantly calibrated and tested to be so.
* The lab machine passed a bunch of standards to be approved for use on something a generic CD drive isn't.
* The lab machine does a bunch of other stuff that the generic CD drive doesn't - using different wavelengths, etc
It could also simply be that no one noticed you could meet a subset of the requirements for the lab machine with a much cheaper design, and hence no one did so. Of course there may be patent issues that mean no one will do so now anyway...
Now, contrast this with New York City-- the fact that there's no rail connection between the airports and downtown comes across as pretty ghetto and low-rent.
I wonder how I managed to get from JFK to downtown Manhattan by train a few years ago...
And lawyers.