A global electric grid with 50% power loss would work fine given that the power is generated cheaply enough at the source. It's the global electric grid part that's the problem. We don't even really have a national electric grid in the USA.
Failing because you bet on the wrong tech? Fine. But faking tech demos to dupe investors? Go to jail. One of the stupidities of blind worship of capitalism is that capitalism only works if everybody has access to accurate information.
Ah, because there's no chance the change in healthcare has caused the decrease, right?
Before the change, I hadn't been to a doctor in 20 years because I couldn't afford it, then this year I was able to go in for treatment. Let's hear your theory for how being able to see a doctor has killed people. Are doctors that incompetent? Is it all the legalized euthanasia from those death panels? Are Cuban doctors way better than American doctors since Cubans live longer being able to see them?
Sure. One easy thing we can do is abolish ambulances and have the sick and injured find the cheapest uber fare to the most competitive hospital within 100 miles.
If you don't think less health coverage will mean lower life expectancy, I'd love to hear your logic. Do Cubans live longer than Americans purely because of the healing properties of their cigars?
Why should I spend $25-$50 to watch something on a small screen when I can watch it on a giant screen with luxury seating for $5 (Tuesday special)? You don't have to buy the food, it is possible to eat before you arrive.
Cars don't use GPS to tell where obstacles in the road are. Same goes for telling where the edge of the road is, I'm sure. Most cliffs will have a guardrail as an additional obstacle for it to detect, too.
I remember the shovel-ready infrastructure jobs. I remember tons of road construction with signs saying it was being done with stimulus funds. Frankly it just annoyed me though because re-paving roads doesn't give you the kind of long term benefits that other investments could. Invest in technology, science/medical research or education and it'll keep paying off for decades... invest in repaving a road and you'll just have to do it again in a few years (and it's not like they did the worst roads, they did the more popular roads that were decent already).
You really can't most places. If you're dealing with a shopkeeper who owns the shop and pay him enough extra to be worth the trouble of exchanging, maybe (offering $10 for a purchase worth $5 isn't going to cut it though, he's not going through the hassle for $5). If you're dealing with a cashier who has no decision making power, like you are 99% of the time, then the cashier simply cannot accept your foreign money. Nor can a bus driver. Nor can a vending machine.
I see this as similar to laws against holocaust denial, which incidentally is also illegal in France. This ISIS fan was actively demonstrating sympathy for ISIS terrorism (his defense is laughable, the password and wallpaper and behavior changes aren't mere curiosity), just as holocaust deniers are typically taken to be demonstrating sympathy for Nazi terrorism. I don't approve of either law as restrictions on freedom of thought and speech, but I don't think this is a slippery slope, because it's nothing fundamentally new.
When the CEO takes a political position that alienates a significant fraction of employees, that's bad for business. If Mozilla was afraid of losing GLBT workers, it had to act to ensure no employees would think that the company was trying to break up their marriages.
To put that in perspective the GDP of Iraq is $156Billion in 2016 dollars and Iraq has the 56th largest economy in the world. Making a rotating version of the ISS would undoubtedly be even more expensive with current technology.
To put that perspective in perspective, the Iraq war cost $1.7 trillion -- an order of magnitude more than the ISS, so probably enough to try a lot of interesting designs.
The transit time to Mars is less than the time numerous astronauts have spent on the ISS, so it's not really a relevant problem to interplanetary travel. Especially since it's not fatal, like some of the other problems are.
For an interstellar probe, where the journey could take thousands of years, this would be the only power source capable of maintaining any instruments throughout the whole flight. Of course upon reaching the destination it'd have to activate some different sort of non-degrading higher-power source to send a sufficiently-strong radio signal back to Earth.
She flat out stated she intended to nominate political activists and get cases heard for the express purpose of over turning past rulings. The court is supposed to be an arbitrator between Congress and the President, not an arm of the President.
Roe v. Wade is a past ruling affecting the lives of millions of Americans in very dramatic ways, far more so than any other ruling, you know. Clinton wasn't the one promising to overturn it.
So "democracy" and "freedom" like the way the CIA freed central and south america throughout the 20th century. That was lovely and sure isn't having any lasting negative effects today.
President Clinton removed Gitmo's landmines due to international pressure, but Castro kept his in place (they're still there as far as I know).
Seriously? It's easy for the world's biggest military that knows they won't be attacked to remove mines from another country. It's absurd that you would even dare to claim it's "hostility" for a small island nation to decline to lower its defenses against a superpower that has a large military force on Cuban land and has already tried to invade and has also made countless assassination attempts and tried to fund insurrections and done everything imaginably possible to harass you for 60 years... after basically owning and abusing your people for decades before that?
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A global electric grid with 50% power loss would work fine given that the power is generated cheaply enough at the source. It's the global electric grid part that's the problem. We don't even really have a national electric grid in the USA.
We live in a world where people are no longer capable of recognizing well-marketed scams. Hence this, and the president-elect.
Failing because you bet on the wrong tech? Fine. But faking tech demos to dupe investors? Go to jail. One of the stupidities of blind worship of capitalism is that capitalism only works if everybody has access to accurate information.
Before the change, I hadn't been to a doctor in 20 years because I couldn't afford it, then this year I was able to go in for treatment. Let's hear your theory for how being able to see a doctor has killed people. Are doctors that incompetent? Is it all the legalized euthanasia from those death panels? Are Cuban doctors way better than American doctors since Cubans live longer being able to see them?
The problem with that theory is that it's based on an obvious lie. The poverty rate has dropped dramatically the last few years after peaking in 2010.
Sure. One easy thing we can do is abolish ambulances and have the sick and injured find the cheapest uber fare to the most competitive hospital within 100 miles.
If you don't think less health coverage will mean lower life expectancy, I'd love to hear your logic. Do Cubans live longer than Americans purely because of the healing properties of their cigars?
Why should I spend $25-$50 to watch something on a small screen when I can watch it on a giant screen with luxury seating for $5 (Tuesday special)? You don't have to buy the food, it is possible to eat before you arrive.
Cars don't use GPS to tell where obstacles in the road are. Same goes for telling where the edge of the road is, I'm sure. Most cliffs will have a guardrail as an additional obstacle for it to detect, too.
I remember the shovel-ready infrastructure jobs. I remember tons of road construction with signs saying it was being done with stimulus funds. Frankly it just annoyed me though because re-paving roads doesn't give you the kind of long term benefits that other investments could. Invest in technology, science/medical research or education and it'll keep paying off for decades... invest in repaving a road and you'll just have to do it again in a few years (and it's not like they did the worst roads, they did the more popular roads that were decent already).
You'll be crying when piracy forces them to start cutting movie budgets below $100,000,000. There's no way those could ever be entertaining.
If Netflix were intelligent, they'd see the DVD service as an important negotiating ploy to keep their licensing costs reasonable.
I choose 6 Mbps because it's the cheapest plan and I don't care about high definition.
You really can't most places. If you're dealing with a shopkeeper who owns the shop and pay him enough extra to be worth the trouble of exchanging, maybe (offering $10 for a purchase worth $5 isn't going to cut it though, he's not going through the hassle for $5). If you're dealing with a cashier who has no decision making power, like you are 99% of the time, then the cashier simply cannot accept your foreign money. Nor can a bus driver. Nor can a vending machine.
I see this as similar to laws against holocaust denial, which incidentally is also illegal in France. This ISIS fan was actively demonstrating sympathy for ISIS terrorism (his defense is laughable, the password and wallpaper and behavior changes aren't mere curiosity), just as holocaust deniers are typically taken to be demonstrating sympathy for Nazi terrorism. I don't approve of either law as restrictions on freedom of thought and speech, but I don't think this is a slippery slope, because it's nothing fundamentally new.
When the CEO takes a political position that alienates a significant fraction of employees, that's bad for business. If Mozilla was afraid of losing GLBT workers, it had to act to ensure no employees would think that the company was trying to break up their marriages.
To put that perspective in perspective, the Iraq war cost $1.7 trillion -- an order of magnitude more than the ISS, so probably enough to try a lot of interesting designs.
The transit time to Mars is less than the time numerous astronauts have spent on the ISS, so it's not really a relevant problem to interplanetary travel. Especially since it's not fatal, like some of the other problems are.
Or perhaps every 5000 miles in orbit, though that would be several times an hour.
What possible nuclear disaster could kill more than the tens of thousands of people coal pollution is killing every single year?.
For an interstellar probe, where the journey could take thousands of years, this would be the only power source capable of maintaining any instruments throughout the whole flight. Of course upon reaching the destination it'd have to activate some different sort of non-degrading higher-power source to send a sufficiently-strong radio signal back to Earth.
Roe v. Wade is a past ruling affecting the lives of millions of Americans in very dramatic ways, far more so than any other ruling, you know. Clinton wasn't the one promising to overturn it.
So "democracy" and "freedom" like the way the CIA freed central and south america throughout the 20th century. That was lovely and sure isn't having any lasting negative effects today.
Seriously? It's easy for the world's biggest military that knows they won't be attacked to remove mines from another country. It's absurd that you would even dare to claim it's "hostility" for a small island nation to decline to lower its defenses against a superpower that has a large military force on Cuban land and has already tried to invade and has also made countless assassination attempts and tried to fund insurrections and done everything imaginably possible to harass you for 60 years... after basically owning and abusing your people for decades before that?
Smartphones that don't have GPS are also a thing. None of my smartphones have ever had GPS.