So "double-tapping" targets, resulting in the deaths of civilians helping out and emergency response personnel is just an accident? Also, keep in mind that the US classifies all adult-age males killed in bombings as "enemy combatants" by default, unless proven otherwise. You should read this:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19704981.
Actually, most government-issued currencies do have an intrinsic value of some sort. You need them to pay taxes. So even if people used plenty of other currencies for day-to-day stuff, and even purchasing/selling real estate, etc, you would still need to get a good fraction of your income in the currency of your country so you can pay taxes, or you'll go to jail. Seems like more intrinsic value than bitcoins to me.
Well, you don't need to do the accounting yourself. That's what accountants are for, and a good one is worth his weight in gold because of how much he can save you on his taxes (and because he has liability if he screws up).
One does not need to use a smartphone while driving, it's easy to pull over. While one can definitely pull over and give kids a talking to, sometimes there's not much one can do about them. So ban the easy to avoid and easy to enforce one, it'll still save lives.
But you do keep the jobs in America. And they'll pay taxes, just like anyone else. Keep in mind, this is about visas, not outsourcing or offshoring. The problem is that companies essentially lie when they state that they can't find people in the US that meet the qualifications, but that's a different matter. It's generally a good idea to get well-educated, capable immigrants.
You don't seem to understand how proofs work. Cryptography is very mathematical, and so you can definitely prove that no attacks will work against something, based on a few assumptions. We studied the proofs for RSA in my first-year Algebra class. There, we saw that the _only_ way to break RSA is to find an easy way to carry out prime factorization. All other methods of attack won't work (assuming the random-number generation is done properly, of course, and so forth). If you don't believe me, go look up the proofs. If you have a basic knowledge of algebra, you should be able to follow it, and it's only a few pages.
Indeed. And you don't even need to build experimental reactors without a long track record to reprocess waste -- CANDU reactors can burn just about anything, and they have a stellar track record. The only reason more "waste" isn't being reprocessed in them is because some intermediate products can be used to make nuclear weapons, but getting the stuff out of a live reactor is rather tricky so it's not a real concern.
You also don't understand how many Tbills work. Generally, countries have their foreign reserves in relatively short-term bills (=1 year), since the purpose of the bills isn't to get a good return, but just to hedge their monetary reserves, and they just trade them in for more new ones whenever they expire. So to cash them in, they just demand actual currency instead of more bills.
They did lk,?fine for themselves, making plenty of money. What I'd expect experts in finance to do. Look at it from the point of view of the places that sold crappy mortgage-backed securities: if people will buy turds, might as well be the one selling them. And for the people in the place that bought, they got great short-term gains that led to very high performance-linked bonuses (which were not offset in time, like most stock options are). Yeah, in an ideal world stuff like that wouldn't happen, but realize that most people, deep down, aren't altruistic. They want to make money and perhaps have the time to spend it, not do the right thing. I see bad behavior in people from all walks of life, it's just that you notice those more because they affected more people. But fundamentally, I don't see a huge difference between getting ripped off by contractors, and having my pension tank due to mismanagement. It's just that the finance people had better opportunities to screw people over for money.
So to fix the problem, you just need to attack the short-term mentality that dominates publicly-traded companies. The executives just care about the very volatile stock price since, after all, the stockholders are their bosses and by proxy appoint them. Linking a larger share of compensation to targets in the future can help, but the real problem is how panicky investors are. For that reason, private companies can work better -- and note that VC investors are part of that solution, since while they do care about getting a return, they also can wait a few years and will delay that if they think it'll be worthwhile. By contrast, once a company goes public, they live or die by the stock price.
I hope you realize that Germany invaded Russia in 1941. Americans didn't start fighting in mainland Europe until 1944. Moreover, the German invasion force consisted of over 3 million soldiers, supported by another 500 000 Croatians, Finns, and whatnot, to say nothing of the thousands and thousands of tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Can you imagine what D-Day and whatnot would have looked like if the Germans had most of those troops and gear in defensive positions throughout Europe?
Yeah, but there's downsides to risky gambling like that too. Many families in Europe have been rich, have been running businesses for centuries, and are likely to keep doing so for the foreseeable future. While greater social inertia has its downsides, it does tend to lead to greater stability. Yes, Europe has its problems right now, but I'd bet in 100 years they will still be in good shape, at least countries like Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian ones, while who knows how the USA will be.
Actually, gladiators weren't just poor men. Looking at the things found in Pompeii, such as slogans painted on walls for example, it seems that top gladiators were a bit like movie stars today. Rich women would pay fortunes to sleep with them, they were recognized everywhere, etc., and so some people volunteered to be gladiators, even if they didn't need the money.
The thing is, 2 packages, one Atheist marked and one unmarked, were sent to each destination. So if there was a problem somewhere (truck shipment got sent to the wrong place, etc.) you would expect equal numbers of marked and unmarked packages to get lost/be delayed. Why would a sack or something be stuffed with only the atheist and not the unmarked packages? If that happened, then that just shows the USPS treated those packages worse, proving the company's point.
Drunk driving doesn't risk killing 200+ people. Besides, 30 months with possible parole seems fine to me for driving while drunk. Not that hard to call a cab.
So Mythbusters tested every device that could possibly cause interference? The way rules on airplanes work is that stuff is banned by default, unless proven to be safe.
Average income doesn't matter. What matters is what you can buy there with that income. I don't know much about how things are in Estonia, but I can tell you that in Bolivia you can get a live-in maid for under $100 a month, and so forth. So there, you can live like a king for what would be a very low wage in most of Europe or North America. It sounds like it's similar in Estonia.
Isn't Philosophy applied Logic instead? How can you discuss parts of philosophy, such as epistemology, without employing logic in a way that relates it more to the real world? Seems applied to me.
Besides, banks don't generally need to transfer that much money to each other. What they do is at the end of the day/week, they look at how much money other banks owe them (because they paid out on cheques issued by other banks, etc.), tell the other banks that, which do the same, and so they only transfer the difference to each other.
Also, always calculate Ghz/Watt or whatever, as newer processors are more efficient, and new processors can sometimes pay for themselves pretty fast over time due to a lower electricity bill.
The thing is, 10% of all fatal road accidents is still thousands of deaths a year. Thus, if something can be done to reduce that, it might be a worthwhile endeavor, even if it's not the largest element. Metaphor: If you lose your job and need to cut expenses, if you can't really downgrade your residence (in a mortgage, etc.), even though that's probably your biggest expense, it's still worthwhile to stop buying a $4 coffee at Starbucks every day.
Keep in mind that the calculation with the asparagus is probably based on caloric content, and how much energy you expend cycling and replenish eating the asparagus, rather than how much more CO2 you breathe.
That's a very interesting article you've posted. A choice quotation from it:
"Despite assurances the attacks are "surgical", researchers found barely 2 per cent of their victims are known militants"
Also keep in mind that peak solar output matches very closely with peak power consumption from air conditioning, which can take care of that power draw in the warmer climates.
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So "double-tapping" targets, resulting in the deaths of civilians helping out and emergency response personnel is just an accident? Also, keep in mind that the US classifies all adult-age males killed in bombings as "enemy combatants" by default, unless proven otherwise. You should read this:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19704981.
Actually, most government-issued currencies do have an intrinsic value of some sort. You need them to pay taxes. So even if people used plenty of other currencies for day-to-day stuff, and even purchasing/selling real estate, etc, you would still need to get a good fraction of your income in the currency of your country so you can pay taxes, or you'll go to jail. Seems like more intrinsic value than bitcoins to me.
Well, you don't need to do the accounting yourself. That's what accountants are for, and a good one is worth his weight in gold because of how much he can save you on his taxes (and because he has liability if he screws up).
One does not need to use a smartphone while driving, it's easy to pull over. While one can definitely pull over and give kids a talking to, sometimes there's not much one can do about them. So ban the easy to avoid and easy to enforce one, it'll still save lives.
But you do keep the jobs in America. And they'll pay taxes, just like anyone else. Keep in mind, this is about visas, not outsourcing or offshoring. The problem is that companies essentially lie when they state that they can't find people in the US that meet the qualifications, but that's a different matter. It's generally a good idea to get well-educated, capable immigrants.
You don't seem to understand how proofs work. Cryptography is very mathematical, and so you can definitely prove that no attacks will work against something, based on a few assumptions. We studied the proofs for RSA in my first-year Algebra class. There, we saw that the _only_ way to break RSA is to find an easy way to carry out prime factorization. All other methods of attack won't work (assuming the random-number generation is done properly, of course, and so forth). If you don't believe me, go look up the proofs. If you have a basic knowledge of algebra, you should be able to follow it, and it's only a few pages.
A MicroSD slot and USB 3.0 port means that the base amount doesn't really matter much since you can add as much storage as you need.
Indeed. And you don't even need to build experimental reactors without a long track record to reprocess waste -- CANDU reactors can burn just about anything, and they have a stellar track record. The only reason more "waste" isn't being reprocessed in them is because some intermediate products can be used to make nuclear weapons, but getting the stuff out of a live reactor is rather tricky so it's not a real concern.
You also don't understand how many Tbills work. Generally, countries have their foreign reserves in relatively short-term bills (=1 year), since the purpose of the bills isn't to get a good return, but just to hedge their monetary reserves, and they just trade them in for more new ones whenever they expire. So to cash them in, they just demand actual currency instead of more bills.
They did lk,?fine for themselves, making plenty of money. What I'd expect experts in finance to do. Look at it from the point of view of the places that sold crappy mortgage-backed securities: if people will buy turds, might as well be the one selling them. And for the people in the place that bought, they got great short-term gains that led to very high performance-linked bonuses (which were not offset in time, like most stock options are). Yeah, in an ideal world stuff like that wouldn't happen, but realize that most people, deep down, aren't altruistic. They want to make money and perhaps have the time to spend it, not do the right thing. I see bad behavior in people from all walks of life, it's just that you notice those more because they affected more people. But fundamentally, I don't see a huge difference between getting ripped off by contractors, and having my pension tank due to mismanagement. It's just that the finance people had better opportunities to screw people over for money. So to fix the problem, you just need to attack the short-term mentality that dominates publicly-traded companies. The executives just care about the very volatile stock price since, after all, the stockholders are their bosses and by proxy appoint them. Linking a larger share of compensation to targets in the future can help, but the real problem is how panicky investors are. For that reason, private companies can work better -- and note that VC investors are part of that solution, since while they do care about getting a return, they also can wait a few years and will delay that if they think it'll be worthwhile. By contrast, once a company goes public, they live or die by the stock price.
I hope you realize that Germany invaded Russia in 1941. Americans didn't start fighting in mainland Europe until 1944. Moreover, the German invasion force consisted of over 3 million soldiers, supported by another 500 000 Croatians, Finns, and whatnot, to say nothing of the thousands and thousands of tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Can you imagine what D-Day and whatnot would have looked like if the Germans had most of those troops and gear in defensive positions throughout Europe?
The editorial staff selects the papers that will be published, not just edits what will be published.
Yeah, but there's downsides to risky gambling like that too. Many families in Europe have been rich, have been running businesses for centuries, and are likely to keep doing so for the foreseeable future. While greater social inertia has its downsides, it does tend to lead to greater stability. Yes, Europe has its problems right now, but I'd bet in 100 years they will still be in good shape, at least countries like Germany, Switzerland, and the Scandinavian ones, while who knows how the USA will be.
Actually, gladiators weren't just poor men. Looking at the things found in Pompeii, such as slogans painted on walls for example, it seems that top gladiators were a bit like movie stars today. Rich women would pay fortunes to sleep with them, they were recognized everywhere, etc., and so some people volunteered to be gladiators, even if they didn't need the money.
The thing is, 2 packages, one Atheist marked and one unmarked, were sent to each destination. So if there was a problem somewhere (truck shipment got sent to the wrong place, etc.) you would expect equal numbers of marked and unmarked packages to get lost/be delayed. Why would a sack or something be stuffed with only the atheist and not the unmarked packages? If that happened, then that just shows the USPS treated those packages worse, proving the company's point.
Drunk driving doesn't risk killing 200+ people. Besides, 30 months with possible parole seems fine to me for driving while drunk. Not that hard to call a cab.
So Mythbusters tested every device that could possibly cause interference? The way rules on airplanes work is that stuff is banned by default, unless proven to be safe.
Average income doesn't matter. What matters is what you can buy there with that income. I don't know much about how things are in Estonia, but I can tell you that in Bolivia you can get a live-in maid for under $100 a month, and so forth. So there, you can live like a king for what would be a very low wage in most of Europe or North America. It sounds like it's similar in Estonia.
Isn't Philosophy applied Logic instead? How can you discuss parts of philosophy, such as epistemology, without employing logic in a way that relates it more to the real world? Seems applied to me.
Besides, banks don't generally need to transfer that much money to each other. What they do is at the end of the day/week, they look at how much money other banks owe them (because they paid out on cheques issued by other banks, etc.), tell the other banks that, which do the same, and so they only transfer the difference to each other.
Also, always calculate Ghz/Watt or whatever, as newer processors are more efficient, and new processors can sometimes pay for themselves pretty fast over time due to a lower electricity bill.
The thing is, 10% of all fatal road accidents is still thousands of deaths a year. Thus, if something can be done to reduce that, it might be a worthwhile endeavor, even if it's not the largest element. Metaphor: If you lose your job and need to cut expenses, if you can't really downgrade your residence (in a mortgage, etc.), even though that's probably your biggest expense, it's still worthwhile to stop buying a $4 coffee at Starbucks every day.
Keep in mind that the calculation with the asparagus is probably based on caloric content, and how much energy you expend cycling and replenish eating the asparagus, rather than how much more CO2 you breathe.
That's a very interesting article you've posted. A choice quotation from it: "Despite assurances the attacks are "surgical", researchers found barely 2 per cent of their victims are known militants"
Also keep in mind that peak solar output matches very closely with peak power consumption from air conditioning, which can take care of that power draw in the warmer climates.