For a fair solution, require all nations to have the same carbon output per capita. That will of course mean the developing world can keep building and Americans will be reduced to poverty.
Or we could give up on fairness and use the current system.
The "deal with it" strategy is quite well-researched. It costs ~100 times more than cutting emissions, leaves billions of people at risk even with the expenditure, and also almost certainly will cause numerous wars with unpredictably bad outcomes. How do you prepare for a global economic depression and general war and misery? You don't, you just live with it when it happens. So we may as well keep trying to talk people out of causing it, even if it's a hopeless task as it probably is.
It's not possible in the middle of a desert. It is possible on the edge of the desert, and is a common tactic to preventing the Sahara from encroaching further into non-desert.
As someone who actually uses Skype for Linux, I can say definitively that it's a torture device meant to make Linux users experience excruciatingly unpleasant interfaces, Windows ME stability, Windows Vista levels of bugs, and pointless slowness for what is actually no more than a frame around a website. The Skype for Linux from before MS bought it was a far better, more feature-full and reliable product... since the MS purchase it has only been progressively sabotaged. The several years it went without an update were nice, but ever since updates resumed it gets more painful in each release.
There are maybe 100 stars within a 15 light year radius, and the chance that any of them happen to have intelligent life right at this moment is very slim.
That depends on how long intelligent life typically lasts on a planet (as well as how often it evolves in the first place). Maybe it's typical for intelligent life to last billions of years. We don't know enough to say if it's likely or unlikely. The fact that we're a young species tells us nothing.
The satellite (which is geostationary) covers all of Europe, the middle east and north Africa. That gives us an idea of Luxembourg's future territorial ambitions.
if so, how could California have possibly done what they just did.
States purposely break the law all the time. It's going to the courts, where the states who are breaking the law will try to argue that the law they're breaking is an invalid law for whatever reasons. The courts will most likely uphold the FCC decision in this case and overturn the CA, NY and MT laws as I don't really see a good legal argument for them. The federal government surely has a right to prevent states from passing regulations that would complicate interstate commerce, I'd think, though I hope I'm wrong.
Ah but you've proved his point -- since so many more Californians are wealthy than before, a record number of wealthy Californians are doing all sorts of things including breathing and leaving the state.
Mississipians, meanwhile, have one of the lowest migration rates of any state (source map). This is a resounding popular endorsement of Mississippi government, everyone loves the state so much they refuse to leave! I mean, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with Mississippians being too poor to move and Californians being rich enough to go wherever the heck they feel like and retire to a poor state with a consequentially lower cost of living.
Heh. Not only is there no deficit, California has a $6,100,000,000 surplus for this year and projected $19,300,000,000 saved surplus. (source)
California also has the wealthiest people in the USA by far, which I'll grant you technically means more of them "flee" CA than anywhere else, because to leave you have to exist.
There's plenty of blame to go around. Bush and Ike deserve criticism for starting wars, but their successors equally deserve criticism for committing the nation to a course of perpetual unending war because they were too chicken to acknowledge the unwinnable situation and risk being called a chicken.
I'll only believe someone a politician who claims not to be less interventionist if they promise to cut the military budget. In the USA, the only argument is over how much to raise it by, with each party competing to promise a bigger raise, and Trump promising the bigliest of all. You don't expand the most bloated military in the history of the planet without coming up with uses for it.
"We would have won if those meddling kids didn't expose our lies"
Actually, it's "we would have won if those meddling kids had exposed our opponent's lies evenly with ours." There's no doubt the GOP does plenty of unsavory things that would come out if you dumped their server contents, but the leak selectively left them alone.
I don't excuse the democrats for anything, they dug their own grave, but they are correct that they would've won if they'd had the company they deserved in the grave. Because apparently nothing will convince Americans to vote for a third party.
Adults don't think treason or confrontation with Russia or anything resulting from the whole situation is FUN. In fact, calling a national disaster fun because it humiliates a political party you dislike is the sort of thing Trump does. You're just another symptom of the same juvenile insanity Trump suffers from.
Are you aware that the UK is a different country from the US? Seems not. Just to let you know, the UK has always had significantly less protection for freedom of hate speech. The westboro baptist church wouldn't last a minute in the UK, but they're safe in the USA.
Erdogan was elected with a very very slim margin and he knows the country is split in the middle. The cities are highly educated and well off and in favour of a secular state and against totalitarianism. The countryside, Erdogan's base, is less educated, more conservative and more religious, and this is the group he's been pandering to the whole time. This is why he's slowly dismantling the secular basis of the state and inching it closer to a theocracy, which is for example why they made a law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in schools. His goal is obviously to ensure that his base stays ignorant so he can continue to enjoy their support. [...] So yeah, the country with 2nd largest army in NATO after the US and previously the largest muslim majority secular state is slowly turning into a totalitarian islamist theocracy and the attitude of the entire West is mostly 'oh well, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, can't be helped'.
Remind you of someone in the west, a conservative who panders to his base of uneducated religious fanatics and tries to sabotage education and science and the separation of church and state? Someone who stokes ethnic tensions for his own ends, and whips his believers into a state of constant terror of internal and external enemies? Erdogan is a role model who the president of the USA has learned a lot from.
KDE developers like to release broken software for a year or two after each major release (KDE 4, Plasma 5), but at least it's not intentionally broken, they just fail to update it to work with their new frameworks. And they lose features, but again only because the features aren't compatible with their latest idea and they'll eventually re-implement most (but not all)... they don't remove features purposely in the name of being user-friendly like GNOME developers.
Basically: KDE devs are incompetent, whereas GNOME devs are actively malicious.
There were other payloads on that test flight. Electron can launch ~500 lbs for that $5M, that's $10K for 1 lb. It probably weighs less than 1 lb, so the most you can theoretically say is being wasted is a few thousand dollars. But in reality they had nobody else who wanted that tiny portion of payload space so it was free.
The car is not going into orbit around Mars. It's going into a solar orbit that doesn't go anywhere at all near Mars, but extends beyond the orbit of Mars.
A company with a market cap like Tesla's couldn't run out of money if they ran around frantically torching cash all night. All they have to do is sell a little equity when they need to.
Although I agree there will be research stations, Antarctica is indeed warmer. Those record warm +20C days on Mars are high temperatures only slightly warmer than Antarctica's record highs, but the nights are incredibly colder. That's because the thin atmosphere allows heat to escape far more easily than on Earth. In fact, Mars' atmosphere is so thin that while it's +20C at your feet it's well below freezing at your head.
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For a fair solution, require all nations to have the same carbon output per capita. That will of course mean the developing world can keep building and Americans will be reduced to poverty.
Or we could give up on fairness and use the current system.
The "deal with it" strategy is quite well-researched. It costs ~100 times more than cutting emissions, leaves billions of people at risk even with the expenditure, and also almost certainly will cause numerous wars with unpredictably bad outcomes. How do you prepare for a global economic depression and general war and misery? You don't, you just live with it when it happens. So we may as well keep trying to talk people out of causing it, even if it's a hopeless task as it probably is.
It's not possible in the middle of a desert. It is possible on the edge of the desert, and is a common tactic to preventing the Sahara from encroaching further into non-desert.
As someone who actually uses Skype for Linux, I can say definitively that it's a torture device meant to make Linux users experience excruciatingly unpleasant interfaces, Windows ME stability, Windows Vista levels of bugs, and pointless slowness for what is actually no more than a frame around a website. The Skype for Linux from before MS bought it was a far better, more feature-full and reliable product... since the MS purchase it has only been progressively sabotaged. The several years it went without an update were nice, but ever since updates resumed it gets more painful in each release.
That depends on how long intelligent life typically lasts on a planet (as well as how often it evolves in the first place). Maybe it's typical for intelligent life to last billions of years. We don't know enough to say if it's likely or unlikely. The fact that we're a young species tells us nothing.
The satellite (which is geostationary) covers all of Europe, the middle east and north Africa. That gives us an idea of Luxembourg's future territorial ambitions.
States purposely break the law all the time. It's going to the courts, where the states who are breaking the law will try to argue that the law they're breaking is an invalid law for whatever reasons. The courts will most likely uphold the FCC decision in this case and overturn the CA, NY and MT laws as I don't really see a good legal argument for them. The federal government surely has a right to prevent states from passing regulations that would complicate interstate commerce, I'd think, though I hope I'm wrong.
A $5B rainy day fund? That's smaller than California's rainy day fund, so certainly nothing to be proud of, even if it still existed.
At any rate, Texas is solvent only for the same reason as Qatar and Saudi Arabia -- by oil exploitation and environmental damage, not governing skill.
Ah but you've proved his point -- since so many more Californians are wealthy than before, a record number of wealthy Californians are doing all sorts of things including breathing and leaving the state.
Mississipians, meanwhile, have one of the lowest migration rates of any state (source map). This is a resounding popular endorsement of Mississippi government, everyone loves the state so much they refuse to leave! I mean, it couldn't possibly have anything to do with Mississippians being too poor to move and Californians being rich enough to go wherever the heck they feel like and retire to a poor state with a consequentially lower cost of living.
Heh. Not only is there no deficit, California has a $6,100,000,000 surplus for this year and projected $19,300,000,000 saved surplus. (source)
California also has the wealthiest people in the USA by far, which I'll grant you technically means more of them "flee" CA than anywhere else, because to leave you have to exist.
There's plenty of blame to go around. Bush and Ike deserve criticism for starting wars, but their successors equally deserve criticism for committing the nation to a course of perpetual unending war because they were too chicken to acknowledge the unwinnable situation and risk being called a chicken.
I'll only believe someone a politician who claims not to be less interventionist if they promise to cut the military budget. In the USA, the only argument is over how much to raise it by, with each party competing to promise a bigger raise, and Trump promising the bigliest of all. You don't expand the most bloated military in the history of the planet without coming up with uses for it.
Are you kidding? There are more libertarians on slashdot than there are libertarian voters in the country on election day.
Actually, it's "we would have won if those meddling kids had exposed our opponent's lies evenly with ours." There's no doubt the GOP does plenty of unsavory things that would come out if you dumped their server contents, but the leak selectively left them alone.
I don't excuse the democrats for anything, they dug their own grave, but they are correct that they would've won if they'd had the company they deserved in the grave. Because apparently nothing will convince Americans to vote for a third party.
Adults don't think treason or confrontation with Russia or anything resulting from the whole situation is FUN. In fact, calling a national disaster fun because it humiliates a political party you dislike is the sort of thing Trump does. You're just another symptom of the same juvenile insanity Trump suffers from.
Are you aware that the UK is a different country from the US? Seems not. Just to let you know, the UK has always had significantly less protection for freedom of hate speech. The westboro baptist church wouldn't last a minute in the UK, but they're safe in the USA.
Remind you of someone in the west, a conservative who panders to his base of uneducated religious fanatics and tries to sabotage education and science and the separation of church and state? Someone who stokes ethnic tensions for his own ends, and whips his believers into a state of constant terror of internal and external enemies? Erdogan is a role model who the president of the USA has learned a lot from.
KDE developers like to release broken software for a year or two after each major release (KDE 4, Plasma 5), but at least it's not intentionally broken, they just fail to update it to work with their new frameworks. And they lose features, but again only because the features aren't compatible with their latest idea and they'll eventually re-implement most (but not all)... they don't remove features purposely in the name of being user-friendly like GNOME developers.
Basically: KDE devs are incompetent, whereas GNOME devs are actively malicious.
There were other payloads on that test flight. Electron can launch ~500 lbs for that $5M, that's $10K for 1 lb. It probably weighs less than 1 lb, so the most you can theoretically say is being wasted is a few thousand dollars. But in reality they had nobody else who wanted that tiny portion of payload space so it was free.
The car is not going into orbit around Mars. It's going into a solar orbit that doesn't go anywhere at all near Mars, but extends beyond the orbit of Mars.
How exactly can pieces gain additional velocity via impact? Every collision I've seen to date has slowed the colliding objects.
Perhaps Rocket Lab can pacify the astronomer critics by proposing a mission to obliterate the moon.
A company with a market cap like Tesla's couldn't run out of money if they ran around frantically torching cash all night. All they have to do is sell a little equity when they need to.
The final questions make it clear that it's attempting to determine which personality types are most willing to visit or work in space.
Although I agree there will be research stations, Antarctica is indeed warmer. Those record warm +20C days on Mars are high temperatures only slightly warmer than Antarctica's record highs, but the nights are incredibly colder. That's because the thin atmosphere allows heat to escape far more easily than on Earth. In fact, Mars' atmosphere is so thin that while it's +20C at your feet it's well below freezing at your head.