you mean open borders for the oil we get from the middle east
You will not get a lot of argument from me that the west has a large degree of culpability for the current probelms in Syria and Iraq but I have never understood the assertion that our primary motivation was oil. If all we cared about was oil we would have continued to support the despots that provided stability. Assad and Hussein were much better for business. Our actions while foolish cannot be attributed to greed. But it might be that I haven't thought this through as well as you. If you have an arugment to make I'm open to changing my mind.
So balance that out with some incentives to lure talent and research to the UK. The EU will never have the political will to get its act together and the UK similarly will not have the will to deal with the migrant crisis that will continue as long as they maintain open borders.
I would say the response from the US to such an action will depend entirely on the administration in charge. Hillary? Any Republican? True. Obama? I am not confident that he would not see a nuclear retaliation as overkill.
I'm not a Trump fan but a civil vs criminal matter wouldn't really be considered comparable. Besides, based on what I've seen so far he'd probably find a way to turn it into a positive -more free publicity.
Well I'm not going to get into our conduct in the middle east but our navy does essentially enable the modern world, enforcing maritime law and safe trade on the oceans. Of course I suppose that enables the consumer culture and oursourcing of labor and manufacturing.. but that is another argument.
I'm a pretty stalwart libertarian/republican type but it seems very likely to me that such a basic income will need to be implemented in the future. Say every citizen gets 1200 credit/mo or somesuch. Hmm maybe we can lace the food you can buy with basic income credits with some sort of birth control so that mostly it is only the elite and the poor that take some initiative that bear children... that way we don't sidetrack our evolutionary progress with a bunch of lazy masses breeding all the time.
The last 100 years have certainly seen quite a bit of change. I'm not sure I can imagine what 2116 would look like and I wouldn't even consider that to be a long time. 200 years? How could you not be optimisic about where we can be?
It is easy to come up with reasons why something is difficult to do or to complain about the sacrifices (even in lives) involved. but that doesn't make it impossible. Are we Americans or American'ts?:)
It seems the radiation might be managable: "Astronauts could endure a long-term, roundtrip Mars mission without receiving a worryingly high radiation dose.... A mission consisting of a 180-day outbound cruise, a 600-day stay on Mars and another 180-day flight back to Earth would expose an astronaut to a total radiation dose of about 1.1 sieverts (units of radiation) - See more at: http://www.space.com/18753-mar..."
That is a valid point but gravity is lower as well. You'd only need the abilty to move 38% the weight you would on earth right? It wouldn't be glamorous work but given a winch and a few men...
Project Loon's main thrust has always seemed to be broadband in areas without real infrastrucure. While I'm sure they might like to test some stuff in the US, realistically they would likely be better off with a big rollout in Africa from a PR perspective which would also give them plenty of data for when/if they decided for a US or Europe rollout.
If you fiddle with the parts of a radio (say the antenna) that changes the quality of the signal and what it picks up. That doesn't mean the music you are listening to originates in the radio.
This is basically just working with legos or blocks and being able to do simple conditions. Collaboration on something like this seems like a healthy exercise for young kids. Probably better than a lot of the rote learning they are stuck with typically in school. IMO we need more of this type of activity along with classic logic and rhetoric exercises.
Guns are a convenient tool for suicide and I don't think safety classes would help that. The numbers are misleading on accidental vs suicide since authorities may tell families that someone may have "accidently" discharged the weapon in order to spare their feelings.
Biggest downside of the Raspberry Pi zero in my opinion is that you can get a C.H.I.P. board instead at $9 that includes 4GB onboard storage in addition to an SD card slot, open hardware and a onboard battery charger.
The USA is unquestionably at least partly responsible for ISIS. We should have nipped Syria in the bud, not allowed Iraq to fall etc. so yes this administration does bear quite a bit of responsiblity. You could argue of course that the root problem was a destabilation of the region due to the Iraq war and that would be at least partially accurate but Iraq fell to ISIS and Syria fell into chaos because this current administration was unwilling to commit boots on the ground to ensure stabilty in the region. A region that we had at least partial responsiblity for destabilzing in the first place. We knew Iraq was unstable but we pulled out against the recommendation of our generals in order to fulfil campaign promises. Our weakness nourished this "islamic state" and allowed it to grow.
Nah. Siri is integrated with apple music so they have a bucket of inquiries that have this as the response if user does not have subscription. "Play this song" or whatever other instruction a user might give. This is most likely just a matter of this particular inquiry being included in that default response to that condition in their profile. Likely unintentional but just as likely because it's apple to stay that way because they don't tend to change stuff like that based on user feedback.
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you mean open borders for the oil we get from the middle east
You will not get a lot of argument from me that the west has a large degree of culpability for the current probelms in Syria and Iraq but I have never understood the assertion that our primary motivation was oil. If all we cared about was oil we would have continued to support the despots that provided stability. Assad and Hussein were much better for business. Our actions while foolish cannot be attributed to greed. But it might be that I haven't thought this through as well as you. If you have an arugment to make I'm open to changing my mind.
So balance that out with some incentives to lure talent and research to the UK. The EU will never have the political will to get its act together and the UK similarly will not have the will to deal with the migrant crisis that will continue as long as they maintain open borders.
The endgame is pretty simple. NK isn't playing to win they are playing for stalemate. That is the only survival option for the regime.
I would say the response from the US to such an action will depend entirely on the administration in charge. Hillary? Any Republican? True. Obama? I am not confident that he would not see a nuclear retaliation as overkill.
I'm not a Trump fan but a civil vs criminal matter wouldn't really be considered comparable. Besides, based on what I've seen so far he'd probably find a way to turn it into a positive -more free publicity.
Hmm I wonder what the latency is for the average human surgeon. There must be a value at which a robot arm can be considered comparable.
Well I'm not going to get into our conduct in the middle east but our navy does essentially enable the modern world, enforcing maritime law and safe trade on the oceans. Of course I suppose that enables the consumer culture and oursourcing of labor and manufacturing.. but that is another argument.
I'm a pretty stalwart libertarian/republican type but it seems very likely to me that such a basic income will need to be implemented in the future. Say every citizen gets 1200 credit /mo or somesuch. Hmm maybe we can lace the food you can buy with basic income credits with some sort of birth control so that mostly it is only the elite and the poor that take some initiative that bear children... that way we don't sidetrack our evolutionary progress with a bunch of lazy masses breeding all the time.
We'll all just be social media stars in the future and our earnings will be tied directly to our number of likes and followers.
The last 100 years have certainly seen quite a bit of change. I'm not sure I can imagine what 2116 would look like and I wouldn't even consider that to be a long time. 200 years? How could you not be optimisic about where we can be?
If this project wont lead to a generation of creepy bioluminescent children then I'm at a loss as to why it should be funded.
If I can cram more cores in a tighter space with less heat and power consumption then I'll call that a performance boost. Bring on the 24 core i5s :)
It seems the radiation might be managable: "Astronauts could endure a long-term, roundtrip Mars mission without receiving a worryingly high radiation dose.... A mission consisting of a 180-day outbound cruise, a 600-day stay on Mars and another 180-day flight back to Earth would expose an astronaut to a total radiation dose of about 1.1 sieverts (units of radiation) - See more at: http://www.space.com/18753-mar..."
That is a valid point but gravity is lower as well. You'd only need the abilty to move 38% the weight you would on earth right? It wouldn't be glamorous work but given a winch and a few men...
Do it the old fashioned way. Drill holes, fill the holes with small charge, blast. Move forward and repeat. No reason it couldn't work.
Project Loon's main thrust has always seemed to be broadband in areas without real infrastrucure. While I'm sure they might like to test some stuff in the US, realistically they would likely be better off with a big rollout in Africa from a PR perspective which would also give them plenty of data for when/if they decided for a US or Europe rollout.
If you fiddle with the parts of a radio (say the antenna) that changes the quality of the signal and what it picks up. That doesn't mean the music you are listening to originates in the radio.
Someone should host a publically accessable website that geolocates law enforcement officers in those cities to test their convictions on this issue.
This is basically just working with legos or blocks and being able to do simple conditions. Collaboration on something like this seems like a healthy exercise for young kids. Probably better than a lot of the rote learning they are stuck with typically in school. IMO we need more of this type of activity along with classic logic and rhetoric exercises.
Guns are a convenient tool for suicide and I don't think safety classes would help that. The numbers are misleading on accidental vs suicide since authorities may tell families that someone may have "accidently" discharged the weapon in order to spare their feelings.
Though perhaps not the very best source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
Biggest downside of the Raspberry Pi zero in my opinion is that you can get a C.H.I.P. board instead at $9 that includes 4GB onboard storage in addition to an SD card slot, open hardware and a onboard battery charger.
I've tried but I cannot respect this guy. Seems that everything he does drips of condescension.
The USA is unquestionably at least partly responsible for ISIS. We should have nipped Syria in the bud, not allowed Iraq to fall etc. so yes this administration does bear quite a bit of responsiblity. You could argue of course that the root problem was a destabilation of the region due to the Iraq war and that would be at least partially accurate but Iraq fell to ISIS and Syria fell into chaos because this current administration was unwilling to commit boots on the ground to ensure stabilty in the region. A region that we had at least partial responsiblity for destabilzing in the first place. We knew Iraq was unstable but we pulled out against the recommendation of our generals in order to fulfil campaign promises. Our weakness nourished this "islamic state" and allowed it to grow.
Nah. Siri is integrated with apple music so they have a bucket of inquiries that have this as the response if user does not have subscription. "Play this song" or whatever other instruction a user might give. This is most likely just a matter of this particular inquiry being included in that default response to that condition in their profile. Likely unintentional but just as likely because it's apple to stay that way because they don't tend to change stuff like that based on user feedback.