Refusing only Muslim ads but not those of other religions would be analogous to refusing ads with black actors. Categorically refusing religious ads would be like refusing any ads that promote racial identities, which is fair.
The Falcon 1 reached orbit with 1/9 the engines of the Falcon 9, and isn't useful as a first stage because the weight changes so much when you have more stages/cargo/engines. So New Shepherd being considerably less powerful than Falcon 1 could never be a first stage. Maybe it could be a second stage.
The consequences in common are that the power goes out. Couldn't we have guessed that already? Perhaps the important discovery is that it'll mean a vacation day?
Most people want to live where their family and friends are, where they've lived their whole life and know their way around and feel comfortable and secure and don't have to start from scratch. Almost nothing will move them. People who like to move around, while increasingly common, are still the exception rather than the rule.
Fresno is hardly what I'd call livable. High crime, ugly and flat, hundreds of miles from anything interesting. If you're going inland in CA, Folsom would be a better choice (pretty and pleasant but not too expensive, has Intel etc and an easy commute to Sacramento for more options).
Local terrorism in Iraq/Syria and the region is very effective, as terrorism feeds extremism. It can destabilize the government and help create the kind of power vacuum that inevitably leads to the most brutal group (presumably the terrorists) being the only ones capable of maintaining discipline and restoring order. In a situation like Iraq or Syria, moderates have the majority behind them but their fractured nature makes them inadequate once a civil war has turned to many-sided brutality -- moderates just aren't good enough at brutality to win at that game, and their soldiers hear the brutal stories and run away from their posts in fear.
Without 9/11 there would probably be no Islamic State, so clearly they can accomplish a lot with remote terrorism as well. It can draw a country into helping destabilize a region where the terrorists can take advantage of the chaos. It's also always useful to make your enemy panic and devote their resources to trying to defend against the indefensible. And if IS can make enough panicked westerners blame and shun Muslims, the shunned outcasts become much easier to recruit.
New borders along ethnic lines would make a lot of sense, but probably lead to a lot of unpleasant ethnic cleansing in mixed towns along the borders which nobody really has the stomach for (see the disintegration of yugoslavia). Though at this point probably nothing can be more brutal than the status quo.
Besides the most popular search engine, the most popular phone and tablet operating system, the most popular web browser, the most popular online office suite, the most popular maps service, and the most popular email service, and a few dozen other products that serve a niche well but don't dominate their market, what has google ever succeeded at?
Supporting increasingly brutal dictatorship in Iran in fear that the democratic government of 1953 could have communist leanings was what caused theocracy there.
You can't unify people who have only one thing in common: they hate Assad. While the Kurds are organized, they'd never be accepted by the Arab majority and in fact they were the least interested in fighting Assad.
The real killer for adoption is going to be the couple minutes you have to spend punching in a destination before you get going. We are so used to just getting in and going where we want that such delays will be very frustrating for short trips.
People already spend a couple minutes punching in a destination on their phone / gps to get directions. Add a "send to my car" button on the phone, problem solved. Frequent destinations can be saved as favorites and assigned a number or letter to start in one keypress.
Google has an obvious interest in promoting the growth of its potential workforce, and they feel there's an opportunity to do that by getting more girls coding. Is there anything wrong with that?
The mass of everything else in the solar system doesn't approach the mass of the sun. Interstellar planets could never have enough mass to account for dark matter, which is supposed to be 73% of the universe by mass.
With $12K/yr you could live in a one bedroom apartment in Sacramento, California. Not luxury, but beats a tornado magnet. Certainly couldn't do it with kids though, correct.
Finland already offers equivalent benefits, so it's just the structure of how it's paid that's being changed. If you want to live on the dole in Finland, you already can and you get the same amount, there's just a little more paperwork.
In the case of benefits, people are in fact disincentivized from working because their welfare checks are reduced by the amount they work -- it's like having to work for free. Basic income fixes this problem because it's not an income-based benefit, a poor person can get a minimum wage job and not lose anything.
It has already worked. Not perfectly, and it'll continue to fail in various ways, but the international pressure has prevented a lot of countries from considering it worth the risk.
I enjoyed Enlightenment's experimetalness in 1999. But at a glance I don't see a lot of improvements in the past 16 years. Other than terminology, what've they been innovating lately?
If you actually saw a game where the announcer said 'the game starts at 7', chances are it was a LOCAL broadcast, and the time of course refers to LOCAL time. On national broadcasts they ALWAYS give at least 2 times (usually Eastern and Pacific). Nobody (expect you, apparently) has any difficulty understanding what they mean.
A lot of us have occasional trouble with it, even though we work it out most of the time. I missed one playoff game this year because I kept hearing that it was starting at 4 and forgot to subtract 3 to work out that it'd be at 1 my time.
The Earth's rotation is neither steady nor predictable. Over time it's slowing down, and events such as large earthquakes can cause unexpected changes. At any rate, keeping the length of a second precise as it is is extremely important to science. If you change the second, you also change the nanosecond etc.
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Refusing only Muslim ads but not those of other religions would be analogous to refusing ads with black actors. Categorically refusing religious ads would be like refusing any ads that promote racial identities, which is fair.
I got my car on ebay. There are lots of non-dealer options at fair prices.
The Falcon 1 reached orbit with 1/9 the engines of the Falcon 9, and isn't useful as a first stage because the weight changes so much when you have more stages/cargo/engines. So New Shepherd being considerably less powerful than Falcon 1 could never be a first stage. Maybe it could be a second stage.
The consequences in common are that the power goes out. Couldn't we have guessed that already? Perhaps the important discovery is that it'll mean a vacation day?
Most people want to live where their family and friends are, where they've lived their whole life and know their way around and feel comfortable and secure and don't have to start from scratch. Almost nothing will move them. People who like to move around, while increasingly common, are still the exception rather than the rule.
Fresno is hardly what I'd call livable. High crime, ugly and flat, hundreds of miles from anything interesting. If you're going inland in CA, Folsom would be a better choice (pretty and pleasant but not too expensive, has Intel etc and an easy commute to Sacramento for more options).
Local terrorism in Iraq/Syria and the region is very effective, as terrorism feeds extremism. It can destabilize the government and help create the kind of power vacuum that inevitably leads to the most brutal group (presumably the terrorists) being the only ones capable of maintaining discipline and restoring order. In a situation like Iraq or Syria, moderates have the majority behind them but their fractured nature makes them inadequate once a civil war has turned to many-sided brutality -- moderates just aren't good enough at brutality to win at that game, and their soldiers hear the brutal stories and run away from their posts in fear.
Without 9/11 there would probably be no Islamic State, so clearly they can accomplish a lot with remote terrorism as well. It can draw a country into helping destabilize a region where the terrorists can take advantage of the chaos. It's also always useful to make your enemy panic and devote their resources to trying to defend against the indefensible. And if IS can make enough panicked westerners blame and shun Muslims, the shunned outcasts become much easier to recruit.
New borders along ethnic lines would make a lot of sense, but probably lead to a lot of unpleasant ethnic cleansing in mixed towns along the borders which nobody really has the stomach for (see the disintegration of yugoslavia). Though at this point probably nothing can be more brutal than the status quo.
Besides the most popular search engine, the most popular phone and tablet operating system, the most popular web browser, the most popular online office suite, the most popular maps service, and the most popular email service, and a few dozen other products that serve a niche well but don't dominate their market, what has google ever succeeded at?
Supporting increasingly brutal dictatorship in Iran in fear that the democratic government of 1953 could have communist leanings was what caused theocracy there.
You can't unify people who have only one thing in common: they hate Assad. While the Kurds are organized, they'd never be accepted by the Arab majority and in fact they were the least interested in fighting Assad.
The real killer for adoption is going to be the couple minutes you have to spend punching in a destination before you get going. We are so used to just getting in and going where we want that such delays will be very frustrating for short trips.
People already spend a couple minutes punching in a destination on their phone / gps to get directions. Add a "send to my car" button on the phone, problem solved. Frequent destinations can be saved as favorites and assigned a number or letter to start in one keypress.
Google has an obvious interest in promoting the growth of its potential workforce, and they feel there's an opportunity to do that by getting more girls coding. Is there anything wrong with that?
The mass of everything else in the solar system doesn't approach the mass of the sun. Interstellar planets could never have enough mass to account for dark matter, which is supposed to be 73% of the universe by mass.
I had a $600 rent in a decent suburb (Carmichael) with most utilities covered. That wasn't even a subsidized low-income place.
With $12K/yr you could live in a one bedroom apartment in Sacramento, California. Not luxury, but beats a tornado magnet. Certainly couldn't do it with kids though, correct.
Finland already offers equivalent benefits, so it's just the structure of how it's paid that's being changed. If you want to live on the dole in Finland, you already can and you get the same amount, there's just a little more paperwork.
$400 a year pays for about a nanometer of farm land. Not going to grow much food on that.
In the case of benefits, people are in fact disincentivized from working because their welfare checks are reduced by the amount they work -- it's like having to work for free. Basic income fixes this problem because it's not an income-based benefit, a poor person can get a minimum wage job and not lose anything.
It has already worked. Not perfectly, and it'll continue to fail in various ways, but the international pressure has prevented a lot of countries from considering it worth the risk.
I enjoyed Enlightenment's experimetalness in 1999. But at a glance I don't see a lot of improvements in the past 16 years. Other than terminology, what've they been innovating lately?
If you actually saw a game where the announcer said 'the game starts at 7', chances are it was a LOCAL broadcast, and the time of course refers to LOCAL time. On national broadcasts they ALWAYS give at least 2 times (usually Eastern and Pacific). Nobody (expect you, apparently) has any difficulty understanding what they mean.
A lot of us have occasional trouble with it, even though we work it out most of the time. I missed one playoff game this year because I kept hearing that it was starting at 4 and forgot to subtract 3 to work out that it'd be at 1 my time.
The Earth's rotation is neither steady nor predictable. Over time it's slowing down, and events such as large earthquakes can cause unexpected changes. At any rate, keeping the length of a second precise as it is is extremely important to science. If you change the second, you also change the nanosecond etc.
There were essentially hundreds (thousands?) of time zones which we compressed into a little over two dozen.