and are you sure they are soldiers? maybe they were just sympathetic and got packed away in the dead of night. Of course you'd never know, since utile now they were held with no reason given.
Yahthugle the Un-finding One can do ONLY evil, and will rule the world from his fiery thrown of inefficient servers, wreaking madness upon the world with his Pop-ups and bad search results.
I can't remember the name, but there is a rule based on this.
It goes along the lines that the Earth seem like it was tailor made for us, but that is only because if it wasn't we wouldn't be hear to think that.
If any of those countless natural variables were changed than we'd be dead and a new life form might be thinking about how the universe was made for them.
I do commute on a motorcycle and know several other people who do, and there are a few holes in your example:
Consumption is far lower, I can get up to 60 mpg on my bike, combined with the fact that trips are substantially shorter and stress from traffic non existent, and the fact that initial purchasing cost, maintenance, and insurance are also far less.
I live in southern California so weather isn't much of an issue, but if you're wearing proper gear, than you'd be covered in waterproof material from your head to your toes and you just peel it of when you get in, snow is impossible though.
It is pretty damn safe, a lot safer than it is made out to be. The only accidents that will happen are driver error, or someone running a red light or other unpredictable random shit and even some of that can be avoided by riding on the shoulder. In the few cases where that happens than yes, you are in more danger, but I don't see people walking around in body armor for when that stray bullet hits them.
Unless your commuting to work with your 2 kids, a wife and a bag full of groceries, I don't see why this is a problem, most family people use their bike to get to their office 20+ miles away and have a family car for when it rains or to go shopping.
Why do they need to put it on the ISS any way? Isn't there another side to the planet that we could work on? Or is it just easier to go to space than try and do science in China?
I wasn't sure from TFA whether this was actual 3D W/ Parallax or just head tracking.
If this can actually simulate parallax and depth with a decent refresh rate and color depth, it would be really cool. You could make fake windows that would actually look real, and about a hundred other aesthetic displays. I could make one in the shape of a portal displaying a fake room, and it would look real! so cool!
Poor Peoples jobs are the esiest. Ever work construction? Sure it's labor intensive, but any slack-jawed retard can work that job. Ever write an 1200 word feature article and get it published in an actual magazine? that's hard. Poor people are mentally lazy, especially in a country where near anyone can get loans and go to the University of Pheonix and pull them selves up. It requires mental work, where as diging holes is about as easy as not caring.
Look at the pay scale for construction profesions, refriguration guys at the top, day laborers at the bottom, they both do the same amount of manual work, one just needs you to be smarter.
efficiency does not require freedom so much as coercion and a clear chain of command, like in the military. Army's are not efficient at all, from what little I have seen living near an air force base, SO much is wasted for no reason. The military chain of command is effective at achieving a goal, but it is not efficient.
Authoritarian systems are not efficient for all party's involved, the worker who is being forced to make shoes is being shafted, as is the soldier, which is why they make the shoe for so cheap, and can take a pill box. Its not efficient over all, only at one end goal. The USSR did this all the time, using the fact that they made more X than America as proof they were more effective, while in reality the average Russian was about 1.5-2 times less productive than Americans. Which showed in their standard of living.
You may think economic efficiency is a silly goal in itself, but to several billion people world wide it doesn't seem to be, including the guy in your example. Economic efficiency means a higher standard of living. Your poet friend is exercising economic freedom efficiently, he gets to maximize his own profits, and do what he feels is most effective. The market says he would be most effective at dish washing and they offer a cash premium to change, if the amount of money offered was higher than the satisfaction of being a poet he would change jobs. Free People live their lives according to their own wishes, those wishes, mostly, are for a higher standard of living, which is usually gained by being more efficient.
And it's not Capitalist, it's a wonderful halfway point called fascist.
From TFA: "Remember how we've always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state"
Free markets require the freedom to chose without coercion in order to be efficient for everyone involved. China does not have a free market. The transactions are not efficient for the low man on the totem pole, namely the worker. China is fascist, and the country is a giant form of monopoly that has huge profit margins by manipulating the labor supply and the rights afforded to individuals to drive down costs. Just because China is having huge profits does not mean they are more efficient.
A lot of people will go on about the horrible violation to civil liberties all of these things China does are, but no one ever talks about the horrible damage these things do to the economic well being of the country.
China IS going to undergo serious reform or revolution. It won't be possible to maintain any level of efficiency without the proper rule of law or a Meritocracy. China WILL become more efficient once more people start demanding a larger share, and the only way they can do this is through greater representation and markets, markets that need informed consumers who are not being forced to act against their best interests.
All successful revolutions have come from the middle to upper class capitalists who are feed up with kings and lords ruling by mandate cutting into their bottom line. China is no different.
From TFA "With political unrest on the rise across China, the government hopes to use the surveillance shield to identify and counteract dissent before it explodes into a mass movement"
If someone is dissenting that means there is something that needs to be changed. That is the best example of why china, like the USSR, will hit a standard of living wall. Efficiency requires freedom.
3)It will cost a shit-ton of money and probably not work, requiring huge wads of cash for staff, R&D, Install, replacement and repair. Adding yet another cost to already high air fares, all while making flying less enjoyable, which could also hurt ridership.
Seriously, just give pilots guns. Save BILLIONS of dollars.
thats the funny part of the free-rider problem(especially apt name in this case) that libertarians always miss, acuratly adressing positive externalities. If you make a mass transit system that lots of people use than people who commute could still benifit in lowerd gas costs and reduced traffic, even if they never payed a dime. Libertarians would say that the positive externalitys wern't worth the cost. while Enviromentalists would probable argue otherwise.
This all ties into the whole Public good vs. Private good debate.
Some times mass transit systems can actually increase revenue by lowering prices. The real question is capacity, prices are used as a rationing tool, raise the price to keep people off in accord with capacity, I think mass transit systems should lower prices and try to maximize ridership.
Well there's a lot to be said for quality vs. quantity. Advanced is a relative, better resource utilization could be considered advanced. And if it does what you need cheaper than the rest that could be considered advanced.
It's like evolution, the strongest doesn't always beat the one that can lay eggs faster and eats less food.
All you old farts going on about how 95 blows chunks are missing the big picture, Windows 95 was so far removed from 3.1 from a usability standpoint that it made PC's what they are to millions.
When my parents threw out their dos disk-boot comp and brought home a packerd-bell with 95 it was a new world. AOL, and computers, were like a whole new branch of literacy. Things like Encarta were just boondoggling. I can see why this would be a high point to Gates, to me it was a high point, when comps. were like like exploring a forest full of unknowns.
Wow Immanent collapse in 24 months from Oct. 30, 2006, we only have 5 months left!
and another from November 21 , 2007 is about to happen, wow!
I didn't know market meltdowns behaved like icebergs.
"If it's well managed it will only be a slow-down, if it's not well-managed it could be a recession"
A market situation 2 years ago if left alone would now be destroying the world! no shit! If only there was a Federal organization to manage the lending market and money supply! And if only our government could do something to help stimulate the economy, Alas we are slain!
People on the fringe always say this crap: THE MEDIA IS BIASED! (because they don't cover our crazy view point). I'm sure you think that RGDP and CPI are bogus, but why? because Alex Jones's predicted apocalypse hasn't happened yet so the powers that be are obviously lying? Or maybe things aren't as bad as the fringe want you to believe. Alex Jones is a televangelist who hand picks his stats and his predictions are nothing more than fantasy infotainment, His idea of how government works applies more to civIV than real life. I have a millions stats from everywhere to back me up, of course they're all lies from the Fed
virtually anyone with an internet connection can DO WHAT DISNEY DOES!
No they can't, I've watched a few independent internet made movies and they are shit.
Movie studios produce a product. They spend a hell of a lot of money to produce these products. Say what you will about the quality of the movies, the American public seems to think they're doing a great job. They tell them they're doing a great job by seeing their movies, which hands them money to have them keep doing a great job.
Copyright manages the right to copy, Copyright law says you don't have a right to copy. Laws tend to exist counter to human nature, in a way that (should) be better for society. We have laws saying you can't take what is owned by another in meatspace. If I grow food it is so I can go sell it for profit, if someone comes and steals all my food and gives it away and I make no money I will stop, and everyone is worse off. But, first I will try to get the government to outlaw theft. Studios make movies so they can make a profit. File sharing is theft because it deprives the studios of profit by giving away THEIR product.
Depriving them of profits by making a better product is not theft because you are not using THEIR product even if you give it away.
Car(motorcycle) analogy: I drive a motorcycle, it is very easy for me to sneak into the toll lane and not get caught, plus the penalty's are really low, so I do, a lot. The toll lane was built by a company who seeks out roads to build and profit because the government can't do it as efficiently, after 12 years the toll roads are supposed to become public roads but they got the law changed. Lot's of people see this as a great idea and start doing it en-mass depriving the Toll roads of revenue while using their service, eventually the Toll Roads Association of America tries suing people but that doesn't pan out so well, so they are now trying to get traffic law changed so that if you sneak in you can be arrested.
If motorcyclists get their way, than the TRAA doesn't build or maintain anymore toll roads, unless they opt for "roads management" and build a wall so no more sneaking, and uncomfortable driving for anyone who pays the toll.
I am not trying to argue that the MPAA or this law is right, I'm just saying people who think all copyright should be outlawed are wrong.
A day labour can trench about 50 ft. an hour by hand, which would be about 4 days, which would be about 800 dollars, check trencher rental prices. It will take another 3 days for laying the pipe and back filling which would probably cost you $600, less if you now how to pull wire(easy). PVC conduit is about $10 per 10 ft. so that would be about $1500. Odds and ends aside (insuriance j-boxes, fish-tape, you could probalby get it done for about 4k. That does not count the cost of data cable ($2 ft. plus sounds likely) and tech parts, and if you hired a Contractor they would want a cut too. In the end the utilitys companys 10k estimate doesn't seem to far off for a hardware install. You should just get a wave guide.
true, and the barrier of entry into mass destruction could be lower, but it seems we'd have that same problem with a hidden Terrorist cell who stole a nuke, and M.A.D. doesn't work against crazies on earth either.
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It didn't show up the first time so I reposted it. Now the internet is going to think I'm a douche.
woo-hoo, Those detainees are going to be partying like it's 1679.
woo-hoo I bet those detainees are going to party like it's 1679.
and are you sure they are soldiers? maybe they were just sympathetic and got packed away in the dead of night. Of course you'd never know, since utile now they were held with no reason given.
Yahthugle the Un-finding One can do ONLY evil, and will rule the world from his fiery thrown of inefficient servers, wreaking madness upon the world with his Pop-ups and bad search results.
Yahgle? Which Lovecraft monster is that?
I don't get how a government can even try to 'standardize' anything.
I can't remember the name, but there is a rule based on this.
It goes along the lines that the Earth seem like it was tailor made for us, but that is only because if it wasn't we wouldn't be hear to think that.
If any of those countless natural variables were changed than we'd be dead and a new life form might be thinking about how the universe was made for them.
I do commute on a motorcycle and know several other people who do, and there are a few holes in your example:
Consumption is far lower, I can get up to 60 mpg on my bike, combined with the fact that trips are substantially shorter and stress from traffic non existent, and the fact that initial purchasing cost, maintenance, and insurance are also far less.
I live in southern California so weather isn't much of an issue, but if you're wearing proper gear, than you'd be covered in waterproof material from your head to your toes and you just peel it of when you get in, snow is impossible though.
It is pretty damn safe, a lot safer than it is made out to be. The only accidents that will happen are driver error, or someone running a red light or other unpredictable random shit and even some of that can be avoided by riding on the shoulder. In the few cases where that happens than yes, you are in more danger, but I don't see people walking around in body armor for when that stray bullet hits them.
Unless your commuting to work with your 2 kids, a wife and a bag full of groceries, I don't see why this is a problem, most family people use their bike to get to their office 20+ miles away and have a family car for when it rains or to go shopping.
Why do they need to put it on the ISS any way? Isn't there another side to the planet that we could work on? Or is it just easier to go to space than try and do science in China?
I wasn't sure from TFA whether this was actual 3D W/ Parallax or just head tracking.
If this can actually simulate parallax and depth with a decent refresh rate and color depth, it would be really cool. You could make fake windows that would actually look real, and about a hundred other aesthetic displays. I could make one in the shape of a portal displaying a fake room, and it would look real! so cool!
Poor Peoples jobs are the esiest. Ever work construction? Sure it's labor intensive, but any slack-jawed retard can work that job. Ever write an 1200 word feature article and get it published in an actual magazine? that's hard. Poor people are mentally lazy, especially in a country where near anyone can get loans and go to the University of Pheonix and pull them selves up. It requires mental work, where as diging holes is about as easy as not caring.
Look at the pay scale for construction profesions, refriguration guys at the top, day laborers at the bottom, they both do the same amount of manual work, one just needs you to be smarter.
Google docs is actually very useful if you're working on computers that don't have word processors, such as library catalog computers.
Authoritarian systems are not efficient for all party's involved, the worker who is being forced to make shoes is being shafted, as is the soldier, which is why they make the shoe for so cheap, and can take a pill box. Its not efficient over all, only at one end goal. The USSR did this all the time, using the fact that they made more X than America as proof they were more effective, while in reality the average Russian was about 1.5-2 times less productive than Americans. Which showed in their standard of living.
You may think economic efficiency is a silly goal in itself, but to several billion people world wide it doesn't seem to be, including the guy in your example. Economic efficiency means a higher standard of living. Your poet friend is exercising economic freedom efficiently, he gets to maximize his own profits, and do what he feels is most effective. The market says he would be most effective at dish washing and they offer a cash premium to change, if the amount of money offered was higher than the satisfaction of being a poet he would change jobs. Free People live their lives according to their own wishes, those wishes, mostly, are for a higher standard of living, which is usually gained by being more efficient.
And it's not Capitalist, it's a wonderful halfway point called fascist.
From TFA: "Remember how we've always been told that free markets and free people go hand in hand? That was a lie. It turns out that the most efficient delivery system for capitalism is actually a communist-style police state"
Free markets require the freedom to chose without coercion in order to be efficient for everyone involved. China does not have a free market. The transactions are not efficient for the low man on the totem pole, namely the worker. China is fascist, and the country is a giant form of monopoly that has huge profit margins by manipulating the labor supply and the rights afforded to individuals to drive down costs. Just because China is having huge profits does not mean they are more efficient.
A lot of people will go on about the horrible violation to civil liberties all of these things China does are, but no one ever talks about the horrible damage these things do to the economic well being of the country.
China IS going to undergo serious reform or revolution. It won't be possible to maintain any level of efficiency without the proper rule of law or a Meritocracy. China WILL become more efficient once more people start demanding a larger share, and the only way they can do this is through greater representation and markets, markets that need informed consumers who are not being forced to act against their best interests.
All successful revolutions have come from the middle to upper class capitalists who are feed up with kings and lords ruling by mandate cutting into their bottom line. China is no different.
From TFA "With political unrest on the rise across China, the government hopes to use the surveillance shield to identify and counteract dissent before it explodes into a mass movement"
If someone is dissenting that means there is something that needs to be changed. That is the best example of why china, like the USSR, will hit a standard of living wall. Efficiency requires freedom.
3)It will cost a shit-ton of money and probably not work, requiring huge wads of cash for staff, R&D, Install, replacement and repair. Adding yet another cost to already high air fares, all while making flying less enjoyable, which could also hurt ridership.
Seriously, just give pilots guns. Save BILLIONS of dollars.
thats the funny part of the free-rider problem(especially apt name in this case) that libertarians always miss, acuratly adressing positive externalities. If you make a mass transit system that lots of people use than people who commute could still benifit in lowerd gas costs and reduced traffic, even if they never payed a dime. Libertarians would say that the positive externalitys wern't worth the cost. while Enviromentalists would probable argue otherwise.
This all ties into the whole Public good vs. Private good debate.
Some times mass transit systems can actually increase revenue by lowering prices. The real question is capacity, prices are used as a rationing tool, raise the price to keep people off in accord with capacity, I think mass transit systems should lower prices and try to maximize ridership.
Well there's a lot to be said for quality vs. quantity. Advanced is a relative, better resource utilization could be considered advanced. And if it does what you need cheaper than the rest that could be considered advanced.
It's like evolution, the strongest doesn't always beat the one that can lay eggs faster and eats less food.
All you old farts going on about how 95 blows chunks are missing the big picture, Windows 95 was so far removed from 3.1 from a usability standpoint that it made PC's what they are to millions.
When my parents threw out their dos disk-boot comp and brought home a packerd-bell with 95 it was a new world. AOL, and computers, were like a whole new branch of literacy. Things like Encarta were just boondoggling. I can see why this would be a high point to Gates, to me it was a high point, when comps. were like like exploring a forest full of unknowns.
Wow Immanent collapse in 24 months from Oct. 30, 2006, we only have 5 months left! and another from November 21 , 2007 is about to happen, wow! I didn't know market meltdowns behaved like icebergs. "If it's well managed it will only be a slow-down, if it's not well-managed it could be a recession" A market situation 2 years ago if left alone would now be destroying the world! no shit! If only there was a Federal organization to manage the lending market and money supply! And if only our government could do something to help stimulate the economy, Alas we are slain!
People on the fringe always say this crap: THE MEDIA IS BIASED! (because they don't cover our crazy view point). I'm sure you think that RGDP and CPI are bogus, but why? because Alex Jones's predicted apocalypse hasn't happened yet so the powers that be are obviously lying? Or maybe things aren't as bad as the fringe want you to believe. Alex Jones is a televangelist who hand picks his stats and his predictions are nothing more than fantasy infotainment, His idea of how government works applies more to civIV than real life. I have a millions stats from everywhere to back me up, of course they're all lies from the Fed
No they can't, I've watched a few independent internet made movies and they are shit.
Movie studios produce a product. They spend a hell of a lot of money to produce these products. Say what you will about the quality of the movies, the American public seems to think they're doing a great job. They tell them they're doing a great job by seeing their movies, which hands them money to have them keep doing a great job.
Copyright manages the right to copy, Copyright law says you don't have a right to copy. Laws tend to exist counter to human nature, in a way that (should) be better for society. We have laws saying you can't take what is owned by another in meatspace. If I grow food it is so I can go sell it for profit, if someone comes and steals all my food and gives it away and I make no money I will stop, and everyone is worse off. But, first I will try to get the government to outlaw theft. Studios make movies so they can make a profit. File sharing is theft because it deprives the studios of profit by giving away THEIR product. Depriving them of profits by making a better product is not theft because you are not using THEIR product even if you give it away.
Car(motorcycle) analogy: I drive a motorcycle, it is very easy for me to sneak into the toll lane and not get caught, plus the penalty's are really low, so I do, a lot. The toll lane was built by a company who seeks out roads to build and profit because the government can't do it as efficiently, after 12 years the toll roads are supposed to become public roads but they got the law changed. Lot's of people see this as a great idea and start doing it en-mass depriving the Toll roads of revenue while using their service, eventually the Toll Roads Association of America tries suing people but that doesn't pan out so well, so they are now trying to get traffic law changed so that if you sneak in you can be arrested.
If motorcyclists get their way, than the TRAA doesn't build or maintain anymore toll roads, unless they opt for "roads management" and build a wall so no more sneaking, and uncomfortable driving for anyone who pays the toll.
I am not trying to argue that the MPAA or this law is right, I'm just saying people who think all copyright should be outlawed are wrong.
A day labour can trench about 50 ft. an hour by hand, which would be about 4 days, which would be about 800 dollars, check trencher rental prices. It will take another 3 days for laying the pipe and back filling which would probably cost you $600, less if you now how to pull wire(easy). PVC conduit is about $10 per 10 ft. so that would be about $1500. Odds and ends aside (insuriance j-boxes, fish-tape, you could probalby get it done for about 4k. That does not count the cost of data cable ($2 ft. plus sounds likely) and tech parts, and if you hired a Contractor they would want a cut too. In the end the utilitys companys 10k estimate doesn't seem to far off for a hardware install. You should just get a wave guide.
true, and the barrier of entry into mass destruction could be lower, but it seems we'd have that same problem with a hidden Terrorist cell who stole a nuke, and M.A.D. doesn't work against crazies on earth either.