Get real. People below the federal poverty line pay federal income taxes. I've been there. It's right there in your IRS tax table too if you read it. We also don't get health coverage unless we're down to practically zero savings (and that's hardly a help since ERs had to take people without insurance anyway for decades). In fact, I'm ineligible for any health insurance subsidies because I don't make enough money -- an individual has to make at least around $16K/yr to get subsidies, below that the only option is medicare which will not pay for anything until you lose all your savings.
There is divide between broadband and dialup still, however. Video is impractical on dialup and even browsing the modern internet is painful enough that it would impair learning. Perhaps that's the divide we should be focused on, instead of the divide between the have-lots and the have-even-mores.
Any driverless car, including the ones already in service, obviously has to be able to read road signs and look for obstacles. You don't need some phone system. You just need to put up a sign or a barricade.
This is true, but hopefully the companies making android phones eventually notice the lack of repeat sales and connect the dots and start offering updates. Okay, that may be unrealistically optimistic.
Somebody has to feed the lab mouse to the lab snake, which will cause obvious torture to the mouse. I wouldn't be able to do it, but I don't object to it.
You're contradicting yourself. The planet has been through many extremes of warming and cooling, sometimes to the point where the arctic would feel tropical and sometimes near-global glaciation. So, obviously the planet is not very good at preventing extremes by itself.
I don't see anything NKesque in central africa. Maybe Mobutu back in the day, but not now. Just run of the mill dictators and run of the mill slaughters. Perhaps if the Lord's resistance army ever took over a whole nation.
An officially atheist (as opposed to simply secular) government is by definition suppressing religion. It's hardly a surprise to find that they're "predisposed to suppressing religion" when they set in law that people should not be religious. This suggests nothing at all bad about atheism. It suggests simply that imposing a belief on the country -- whether it's belief in a particular religion or in atheism -- is a means of control used by oppressive regimes.
I don't think I've ever seen the US media refer to Iranian officials as henchmen. Henchmen tends to imply a personality cult where the henchmen are devoted to the leader and not to the rule of law... as in North Korea.
The ISS may have been a special case since it was designed to be built in modules which each country can make a module. I grant that NASA and the ESA have collaborated well on occasion and hope they will again. I can't see 3 or more space agencies at once collaborating effectively very often though.
The problem with pooling resources if you have to pool bureaucrats and sources in the process. If you think it's bad for NASA having to build parts in various congressional districts to create jobs and being subject to the whims of each new congress, try adding 5 more countries worth of complication and your project will likely drown in red tape no matter how much money you throw at it.
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Here's a list of countries without armed forces -- they do not appear to be getting attacked often.
Congrats on being rich. My desktop (purchased in late 2012) is incapable of playing 480p video without dropping frames.
the lowest tier plan is FREE and 5mb/s is a decent speed.
When I'm paying comcast $50/mo for 6mb/s, this is almost enough to make me move to Kansas City.
Get real. People below the federal poverty line pay federal income taxes. I've been there. It's right there in your IRS tax table too if you read it. We also don't get health coverage unless we're down to practically zero savings (and that's hardly a help since ERs had to take people without insurance anyway for decades). In fact, I'm ineligible for any health insurance subsidies because I don't make enough money -- an individual has to make at least around $16K/yr to get subsidies, below that the only option is medicare which will not pay for anything until you lose all your savings.
There is divide between broadband and dialup still, however. Video is impractical on dialup and even browsing the modern internet is painful enough that it would impair learning. Perhaps that's the divide we should be focused on, instead of the divide between the have-lots and the have-even-mores.
Any driverless car, including the ones already in service, obviously has to be able to read road signs and look for obstacles. You don't need some phone system. You just need to put up a sign or a barricade.
Doesn't it mean to reduce to one tenth of the previous value (meaning this would be double decimation), not to reduce by a mere tenth?
Patents are only 20 years now -- if the renewal used to be another 13 years for 26 total, does that mean patent terms have been shortened?
This is true, but hopefully the companies making android phones eventually notice the lack of repeat sales and connect the dots and start offering updates. Okay, that may be unrealistically optimistic.
Don't forget the African settlers. But discoveries, like inventions, don't really mean anything on their own until someone popularizes them.
Obviously the ability was lost when BeOS died, and they've now invented a way to do it without BeOS.
When the earth gets too hot, the extreme plant growth leads to the rise of giant animals like dinosaurs. We don't want to be eaten by dinosaurs.
Somebody has to feed the lab mouse to the lab snake, which will cause obvious torture to the mouse. I wouldn't be able to do it, but I don't object to it.
Not if it's one of the many shows Comcast owns, which Netflix pays them when you watch.
You're contradicting yourself. The planet has been through many extremes of warming and cooling, sometimes to the point where the arctic would feel tropical and sometimes near-global glaciation. So, obviously the planet is not very good at preventing extremes by itself.
To save a mouse from torture is to subject a starving snake to torture. Nature is unpleasant.
If welfare offered everyone a basic standard of living, as in Scandinavia, that could remove the incentive to have kids for money.
I don't see anything NKesque in central africa. Maybe Mobutu back in the day, but not now. Just run of the mill dictators and run of the mill slaughters. Perhaps if the Lord's resistance army ever took over a whole nation.
An officially atheist (as opposed to simply secular) government is by definition suppressing religion. It's hardly a surprise to find that they're "predisposed to suppressing religion" when they set in law that people should not be religious. This suggests nothing at all bad about atheism. It suggests simply that imposing a belief on the country -- whether it's belief in a particular religion or in atheism -- is a means of control used by oppressive regimes.
I see, all those Chinese troops in the Korean War went there to watch and ensure non-intervention. Same as in Vietnam.
I don't think I've ever seen the US media refer to Iranian officials as henchmen. Henchmen tends to imply a personality cult where the henchmen are devoted to the leader and not to the rule of law... as in North Korea.
The ISS may have been a special case since it was designed to be built in modules which each country can make a module. I grant that NASA and the ESA have collaborated well on occasion and hope they will again. I can't see 3 or more space agencies at once collaborating effectively very often though.
The problem for Red Flag Linux is that the chinese market prefers Windows XP.
The problem with pooling resources if you have to pool bureaucrats and sources in the process. If you think it's bad for NASA having to build parts in various congressional districts to create jobs and being subject to the whims of each new congress, try adding 5 more countries worth of complication and your project will likely drown in red tape no matter how much money you throw at it.
It's quite possible Venus gained a moon from an impact as well, but the orbit decayed.