If they allow you to download what you purchase (which another commenter said they do -- I've never used itunes so I wouldn't know), that's not a rental, it's a clear outright purchase. That you have a limited period of time in which to download it doesn't change that fact. If you buy something online and have it shipped to store and then you wait 3 years to pick it up it may not still be available, either.
Space Force plans to expand the space elevator concept into a space wall. It'll enclose the USA and provide cheap access to orbital weapons platforms at the same time. (The outward-facing sides of the wall will be covered in oil to make sure they're slippery enough to not be climbable by foreign space agencies / drug smugglers.)
It's like asking a millionaire to keep his yard sanitary, even though the homeless guy by the river doesn't. When Europe was impoverished and industrializing it polluted a lot more too.
Also, a significant fraction of the pollution in the developing world is from the manufacture of products for developed world consumption -- and so altering consumption can still change the market incentives and help that problem.
However a good start might be to require countries receiving foreign aid to demonstrate advances in sanitation and pollution control and hold them to it.
Presently, unfortunately, the USA does the exact opposite: we deny foreign aid to any organization connected to abortions.
There is no pile of garbage twice the size of Texas. There's an area twice the size of Texas that has a relatively high concentration of garbage, but if you're swimming in the middle of it odds are you can't spot a single piece of garbage at any given time. The actual mass of the great pacific garbage patch, according to the article, is a mere 87,000 tons.
Anyway, the proposal was I believe about 60 booms. The first one is just the test. All unpowered, carried by natural currents, which isn't so bad when you realize that garbage is also unpowered so will generally go to the same places.
The bigger problems are that this isn't addressing the source rivers and it's only skimming the surface of an ocean that's miles deep.
There's no point in working on cleaning up the plastics already in the deep ocean until we've addressed the much simpler and much bigger problem of the new plastics flow. If we expend great resources to solve the harder problem and clean up the whole ocean before we've stopped the new flow, the problem we solved will be right back where it was in a few years.
If you're going to ship the iceberg by chunks, you might as well just send a ship full of fresh water from the much-closer tropics. Either way, I suspect desalinization is more economical.
the labor force participation rate crashed in the recession and hasn't even recovered to it's carter-era level since then
Indeed, the baby boomers who took early retirement in 2008 have not flocked back to the workplace. Many of them are in their 70s. To get them participating in the workplace again you're going to need to completely gut social security and medicare. I know, they're working on that.
Those rare earth materials are present in the USA. Trump is hard at work ripping up environmental regulations so that we can enjoy strip mining throughout America.
New Skype removed many of the features of classic Skype (at least on Linux it sure did), but there were still a few features left. Now we're going to remove the rest of the features, and just for fun we're going to call the removal of features a feature!
A quick google says about 2/3 of a taxi fare is kept by the driver. Reducing taxi fares by 2/3 still leaves them way, way, way more expensive than owning a simple used economy car.
We are still so far from self driving that it should be called a better cruise control.
Waymo has fully autonomous vehicles driving in Phoenix with no human drivers, which although buggy and reluctant to turn left have not caused massive carnage. Set a vehicle on cruise control with nobody in it and see how long it goes before there's an accident.
Which is why the full-autonomy test is in Phoenix in the first place, whereas they keep human backup drivers in the car when they test at Tahoe. Solve one problem at a time.
Reality check: the villagers were of course notified far in advance and offered 12,000-22,000 yuan cash or new housing as compensation. Many feel it wasn't fair compensation, and no doubt it wasn't for some since the payouts apparently didn't account for differing property values, but so it goes.
If you're paying a monthly subscription for your bank account, that's your perplexing choice. There are tons of credit unions who'll pay you interest every month to open a free checking account.
Presumably jd was referencing Google's experimental Fuscia OS, which may or may not ever actually replace Android (but they hope it does). Fuscia has a non-Linux (but still open source) kernel called Zircon: https://fuchsia.googlesource.c...
I ran Windows '95 on a machine with 8 MB RAM for many years. No problems. It didn't even crash much, probably because it didn't have internet or much else complicated to do.
Red Hat Linux 6, on the other hand, was unable to run a GUI due to the lack of RAM on that machine.
Remember Iraq having nukular weapons, ready to strike in under 4 hours? Remember "Alkaida operating out of Baghdad"?
Nope, because Bush wasn't crazy enough to use lies that obviously silly (plus there's no way America would've been willing to go to war with a country that could inflict serious damage back). WMDs was the chant, because they thought Iraq might still have the chemical weapons the USA sold them.
The theory is simple. All poor people are drunkards, which is why they can't get a decent job. To help them out, we should remove all taxes on alcohol and instead tax organic cruelty-free foods which rich people tend to buy.
This theory brought to you by the same people who keep America's gas taxes lower than anywhere in the civilized world so that the lower classes can afford to live further from their jobs and enjoy longer commutes and help keep the oil flowing and the planet warming.
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If they allow you to download what you purchase (which another commenter said they do -- I've never used itunes so I wouldn't know), that's not a rental, it's a clear outright purchase. That you have a limited period of time in which to download it doesn't change that fact. If you buy something online and have it shipped to store and then you wait 3 years to pick it up it may not still be available, either.
Obviously there were hundreds of people involved in the first rocket landing, and no one person clearly more praiseworthy for it than the others.
Capitalism is fine, for the private sector. Running a government agency as if it were a business, on the other hand, is insane.
Space Force plans to expand the space elevator concept into a space wall. It'll enclose the USA and provide cheap access to orbital weapons platforms at the same time. (The outward-facing sides of the wall will be covered in oil to make sure they're slippery enough to not be climbable by foreign space agencies / drug smugglers.)
It's like asking a millionaire to keep his yard sanitary, even though the homeless guy by the river doesn't. When Europe was impoverished and industrializing it polluted a lot more too.
Also, a significant fraction of the pollution in the developing world is from the manufacture of products for developed world consumption -- and so altering consumption can still change the market incentives and help that problem.
Presently, unfortunately, the USA does the exact opposite: we deny foreign aid to any organization connected to abortions.
There is no pile of garbage twice the size of Texas. There's an area twice the size of Texas that has a relatively high concentration of garbage, but if you're swimming in the middle of it odds are you can't spot a single piece of garbage at any given time. The actual mass of the great pacific garbage patch, according to the article, is a mere 87,000 tons.
Anyway, the proposal was I believe about 60 booms. The first one is just the test. All unpowered, carried by natural currents, which isn't so bad when you realize that garbage is also unpowered so will generally go to the same places.
The bigger problems are that this isn't addressing the source rivers and it's only skimming the surface of an ocean that's miles deep.
There's no point in working on cleaning up the plastics already in the deep ocean until we've addressed the much simpler and much bigger problem of the new plastics flow. If we expend great resources to solve the harder problem and clean up the whole ocean before we've stopped the new flow, the problem we solved will be right back where it was in a few years.
If you're going to ship the iceberg by chunks, you might as well just send a ship full of fresh water from the much-closer tropics. Either way, I suspect desalinization is more economical.
Indeed, the baby boomers who took early retirement in 2008 have not flocked back to the workplace. Many of them are in their 70s. To get them participating in the workplace again you're going to need to completely gut social security and medicare. I know, they're working on that.
Those rare earth materials are present in the USA. Trump is hard at work ripping up environmental regulations so that we can enjoy strip mining throughout America.
Voters approve of their own congressional representatives much more than they approve of anyone else being allowed representation.
New Skype removed many of the features of classic Skype (at least on Linux it sure did), but there were still a few features left. Now we're going to remove the rest of the features, and just for fun we're going to call the removal of features a feature!
Where are you getting your information. Waymo handles emergency vehicles and at least claims to handle rain and fog.
A quick google says about 2/3 of a taxi fare is kept by the driver. Reducing taxi fares by 2/3 still leaves them way, way, way more expensive than owning a simple used economy car.
Waymo has fully autonomous vehicles driving in Phoenix with no human drivers, which although buggy and reluctant to turn left have not caused massive carnage. Set a vehicle on cruise control with nobody in it and see how long it goes before there's an accident.
Which is why the full-autonomy test is in Phoenix in the first place, whereas they keep human backup drivers in the car when they test at Tahoe. Solve one problem at a time.
Reality check: the villagers were of course notified far in advance and offered 12,000-22,000 yuan cash or new housing as compensation. Many feel it wasn't fair compensation, and no doubt it wasn't for some since the payouts apparently didn't account for differing property values, but so it goes.
If you're paying a monthly subscription for your bank account, that's your perplexing choice. There are tons of credit unions who'll pay you interest every month to open a free checking account.
If you read the page you linked, it says 15.01% is Android and the other 1.35% is all desktop and laptop Linuxes.
Presumably jd was referencing Google's experimental Fuscia OS, which may or may not ever actually replace Android (but they hope it does). Fuscia has a non-Linux (but still open source) kernel called Zircon: https://fuchsia.googlesource.c...
I ran Windows '95 on a machine with 8 MB RAM for many years. No problems. It didn't even crash much, probably because it didn't have internet or much else complicated to do.
Red Hat Linux 6, on the other hand, was unable to run a GUI due to the lack of RAM on that machine.
Nope, because Bush wasn't crazy enough to use lies that obviously silly (plus there's no way America would've been willing to go to war with a country that could inflict serious damage back). WMDs was the chant, because they thought Iraq might still have the chemical weapons the USA sold them.
The theory is simple. All poor people are drunkards, which is why they can't get a decent job. To help them out, we should remove all taxes on alcohol and instead tax organic cruelty-free foods which rich people tend to buy.
This theory brought to you by the same people who keep America's gas taxes lower than anywhere in the civilized world so that the lower classes can afford to live further from their jobs and enjoy longer commutes and help keep the oil flowing and the planet warming.
Mike Pence is an intelligent man. His problem is that he's a religious nut with reprehensible values. I'd rather have a Dan Quayle.