The poor are not people spending $20K on cars. And as a poor person driving a cheap 1998 car, it actually gets over 30 MPG. The bad fuel economy is middle class and wealthy people buying giant SUVs and pickups.
Well, I never noticed anything change with google talk because it still works with all the different linux messengers. Quite different from skype, which I have to let run separately and have KDE's instant messaging remote control it through the API which I gather will stop working next month.
He probably noticed that the opposing party now controls the executive branch. As soon as the other party controls the executive branch, each party naturally changes its stance on whether whether letting the executive branch abuse its power is a good thing.
NASA can turn a profit too. All they need to do is start an impact avoidance program where they charge everyone a set fee to take steps to avoid crashing any space vehicles into their building on de-orbiting. Likewise the NSA can sell your info for profit on the black market, the military can rob banks in occupied countries, the forest service can chop down all their trees for lumber, and so on -- government becomes profitable, taxes disappear, everyone is happy.
No reasonable person can debate that it is illegal assassination, and that it's terrorism intended to scare scientists away from any nuclear work. Whether you approve of the illegal terrorism or not is a separate issue. There are no doubt times when terrorism could be justified, though I don't think this is one of them.
You could even argue that by killing a few scientists they are preventing a full scale war which would kill many more people. This, and Stuxnet are probably the reasons why there has been no war yet.
The only thing that would ensure no wars with Iran is Iran having a nuclear bomb. Same reason there's no chance of war with North Korea.
What kind of ridiculously idiotic question is that? Of course they're terrorists. The issue is your implicit belief that if any part of the government of a country commits a terrorist act it becomes no longer terrorism when you commit terrorist acts against other people employed by that government.
How are you going to get better teachers in a country where 85% of the population grew up as second class citizens on reservations with little education just 20 years ago? It's going to take a few generations at least.
No, it is that the people don't care. Look at the polls. Talk to random people. The majority either like spying or don't care. If a large majority were angry about it like slashdoters, you can bet it'd make a difference.
The USA has just as strong of an anti-spying stance as Japan demonstrated here: we refuse requests by the security services of other countries to spy on our infrastructure too.
You only hook up the number of spaces that are likely to be needed concurrently with reasonable frequency. At the moment, one space per lot is enough -- and in fact that's what I've seen in action, just one space. When electric cars become more popular, expand to the space next to it.
Does it need to be about global warming? What about the more immediate, every day problems of gas vehicles? I for one don't enjoy having to breathe in those awful fumes whether I'm trying to run the car a/c or just out for a walk. Car fumes kill quality of life and also quantity of life with the damage they can do to your lungs. And then there's the extreme noise pollution which makes it impossible to walk comfortably down busy streets unless they have really low speed limits -- electric cars would be much quieter.
You're not reducing the capacity of a parking lot when you hook up spaces at places people already go. I've noticed libraries with electric car charging parking spots -- most people stay inside a while, so good spot. Grocery stores or all kinds of stores would be an obvious spot. It doesn't have to provide a full charge in the time people are shopping either, it just has to be a simple routine that tops off the battery in the course of normal activity.
As far as long distance highway trips, existing highway rest areas would be an obvious spot.
Outside of young adults with sports cars, few people like to drive. Most drivers, myself included, would love to never need to drive again. In fact, some people even suffer public transit because of their dislike of driving (or inability to drive).
A bigger problem for autonomous vehicles may be price. When can they do it all for $1000 on a low end car?
The job of environmental groups is to never be happy, and that's fine. Let them present their best case against everything. Somebody needs to. When their best case isn't good enough, as here, then of course you go ahead with the project despite them. Certainly don't ignore them though.
Ironically, probably the best argument for the death penalty is the extra appeals available when you're on death row. An innocent person has a much better chance of being exonerated from death row than from a life sentence. If I'm innocent, I'd rather be sentenced to death so that my case gets a lot more scrutiny instead of having my case file lost in a closet for the rest of my life.
It's worth noting that the numbers would come out differently in Texas, though. Here in California the death penalty process takes 20 years and lots of appeals. A quicker and less just system is a lot cheaper.
Badness isn't the criteria. There's no point in spying on Robert Mugabe. You spy on the powerful and wealthy countries like Germany that you can profit by stealing info from.
Look again at the language you're replying to. It says "will not", which is a clear promise not to do it again. Not a particularly believable promise, but more believable than if they outright lied by denying that it ever happened.
Perhaps drivers have little to do with low rates of adoption, but they -- specifically graphics drivers -- are 99% of my frustrations as a linux user (it's not just when there is no driver or getting the proprietary driver installed, it's little random bugs like the whole OS freezing on maximizing a konsole window that happen to be due to graphics driver bugs). I couldn't care less whether it draws more people to desktop linux as long as it makes my life easier.
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I did miss that. Ouch.
The poor are not people spending $20K on cars. And as a poor person driving a cheap 1998 car, it actually gets over 30 MPG. The bad fuel economy is middle class and wealthy people buying giant SUVs and pickups.
Well if you're working the Chinese 16 hour day it doesn't really matter.
Saudi Arabia may technically be a wealthy country, but the vast majority of its people live in poverty.
For instance, if I request a contact info about Osama bin Laden then there are chances that I am Al-Qaeda member and should be checked.
Nah, you're probably just a medium.
Well, I never noticed anything change with google talk because it still works with all the different linux messengers. Quite different from skype, which I have to let run separately and have KDE's instant messaging remote control it through the API which I gather will stop working next month.
He probably noticed that the opposing party now controls the executive branch. As soon as the other party controls the executive branch, each party naturally changes its stance on whether whether letting the executive branch abuse its power is a good thing.
NASA can turn a profit too. All they need to do is start an impact avoidance program where they charge everyone a set fee to take steps to avoid crashing any space vehicles into their building on de-orbiting. Likewise the NSA can sell your info for profit on the black market, the military can rob banks in occupied countries, the forest service can chop down all their trees for lumber, and so on -- government becomes profitable, taxes disappear, everyone is happy.
No reasonable person can debate that it is illegal assassination, and that it's terrorism intended to scare scientists away from any nuclear work. Whether you approve of the illegal terrorism or not is a separate issue. There are no doubt times when terrorism could be justified, though I don't think this is one of them.
You could even argue that by killing a few scientists they are preventing a full scale war which would kill many more people. This, and Stuxnet are probably the reasons why there has been no war yet.
The only thing that would ensure no wars with Iran is Iran having a nuclear bomb. Same reason there's no chance of war with North Korea.
In your opinion, should the Iranian agents that blew up in AMIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_Bombing [wikipedia.org] be considered heroes or terrorists?
What kind of ridiculously idiotic question is that? Of course they're terrorists. The issue is your implicit belief that if any part of the government of a country commits a terrorist act it becomes no longer terrorism when you commit terrorist acts against other people employed by that government.
What you do is you change the law so that what they're doing is illegal. Nothing else will make a difference anyway.
How are you going to get better teachers in a country where 85% of the population grew up as second class citizens on reservations with little education just 20 years ago? It's going to take a few generations at least.
No, it is that the people don't care. Look at the polls. Talk to random people. The majority either like spying or don't care. If a large majority were angry about it like slashdoters, you can bet it'd make a difference.
The USA has just as strong of an anti-spying stance as Japan demonstrated here: we refuse requests by the security services of other countries to spy on our infrastructure too.
You only hook up the number of spaces that are likely to be needed concurrently with reasonable frequency. At the moment, one space per lot is enough -- and in fact that's what I've seen in action, just one space. When electric cars become more popular, expand to the space next to it.
Does it need to be about global warming? What about the more immediate, every day problems of gas vehicles? I for one don't enjoy having to breathe in those awful fumes whether I'm trying to run the car a/c or just out for a walk. Car fumes kill quality of life and also quantity of life with the damage they can do to your lungs. And then there's the extreme noise pollution which makes it impossible to walk comfortably down busy streets unless they have really low speed limits -- electric cars would be much quieter.
You're not reducing the capacity of a parking lot when you hook up spaces at places people already go. I've noticed libraries with electric car charging parking spots -- most people stay inside a while, so good spot. Grocery stores or all kinds of stores would be an obvious spot. It doesn't have to provide a full charge in the time people are shopping either, it just has to be a simple routine that tops off the battery in the course of normal activity.
As far as long distance highway trips, existing highway rest areas would be an obvious spot.
Outside of young adults with sports cars, few people like to drive. Most drivers, myself included, would love to never need to drive again. In fact, some people even suffer public transit because of their dislike of driving (or inability to drive).
A bigger problem for autonomous vehicles may be price. When can they do it all for $1000 on a low end car?
The many pristine forests and gentle grasslands of Greenland will never be the same.
The job of environmental groups is to never be happy, and that's fine. Let them present their best case against everything. Somebody needs to. When their best case isn't good enough, as here, then of course you go ahead with the project despite them. Certainly don't ignore them though.
Didn't your mother ever teach you not to judge a book by the cover?
Ironically, probably the best argument for the death penalty is the extra appeals available when you're on death row. An innocent person has a much better chance of being exonerated from death row than from a life sentence. If I'm innocent, I'd rather be sentenced to death so that my case gets a lot more scrutiny instead of having my case file lost in a closet for the rest of my life.
It's worth noting that the numbers would come out differently in Texas, though. Here in California the death penalty process takes 20 years and lots of appeals. A quicker and less just system is a lot cheaper.
Badness isn't the criteria. There's no point in spying on Robert Mugabe. You spy on the powerful and wealthy countries like Germany that you can profit by stealing info from.
Look again at the language you're replying to. It says "will not", which is a clear promise not to do it again. Not a particularly believable promise, but more believable than if they outright lied by denying that it ever happened.
Perhaps drivers have little to do with low rates of adoption, but they -- specifically graphics drivers -- are 99% of my frustrations as a linux user (it's not just when there is no driver or getting the proprietary driver installed, it's little random bugs like the whole OS freezing on maximizing a konsole window that happen to be due to graphics driver bugs). I couldn't care less whether it draws more people to desktop linux as long as it makes my life easier.