One the problem with "clean" coal is the radioactive waste. For the amount of energy produced, coal created more radioactive waste then nuclear. The difference is it is mixed in with tons and tons of chemically toxic ash, so there is no way of ever disposing of it safely. For nuclear energy the waste is conveniently concentrated and small enough it can be disposed of safely in stable rock.
Perhaps if we mixed the waste from our reactors with coal ash, people won't be so worried about it.
It seems to me that Google supports Mozilla to get it's search at the default for Firefox and to make Google the default search for as many people as possible. The fact that they are making their own browser doesn't effect this.
The only reason Google would stop supporting Mozilla is if Firefox where to have a dramatic loss in market share to some other browser, not necessarily Chrome.
The trouble is that Apple doesn't sell an upgradable machine unless you get a Mac Pro, which is CAN$2900 and up. If you want a modest Macintosh computer you have no easily upgradable options.
No Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1948 because, "there was no suitable living candidate". It's generally believed that Mahatma Gandhi would have got it if he had not been assassinated on January 30, 1948.
I'm pretty sure taxes are, in part, a social program. That's why the rich are supposed to pay a higher rate then the poor, but get the same (or fewer) services. It's part of the transfer from the rich to the poor to keep the division between them from getting worse then it already is.
Large private businesses are probably at least as inefficient as government. It's just that large private businesses don't have access to information laws, publicly broadcast broad meetings and relatively detailed budgets published and teams of reporters and opposition parties searching through all that looking for any sign of misspent money, no matter how insignificant compared to the total operation of government.
Circuit City owned all the Radio Shacks in Canada for years before they changed the name. Best Buy owns the Radio Shack trade mark, but was content to let Circuit City use it in Canada until the moved in with their Future Shop take over. Then Circuit City was forced to change the names of all the Radio Shacks to The Source: by Circuit City. Best Buy even tried starting up new Canadian Radio Shack chain, but they didn't last long.
I understand The Source in Canada is doing okay. It will likely be sold off and become The Source: by someone else.
Your second example is a fallacious. You should examine Person A's evidence that smoking doesn't cause cancer. If it is not valid, it should show up in the evidence, irrespective of the source.
The only time it would be valid is if you are unable to evaluate the evidence, such as national security reason.
We should try to find ways to deal with the misbehavior anonymity can cause, without removing it, as removing it often not effective and cause other problems. The moderation system on slashdot works fairly well. I wish it was used more widely.
Complaining about someone being anonymous to discredit them is an ad hominem attack. Hiding their identity doesn't make their argument any worse and revealing it doesn't make it any better.
Hiding their identity only make people more honest and allows their foolish beliefs to be addressed and discredited, which may not have been possible otherwise.
I didn't mean it is always the case that dumb people lose money and smart people make money. The reason I mentioned it is because, for once, it actually happened. The people dumb people who blindly trust what they see lost and the smart people who think for themselves won.
Yes, but I don't think the main responsibility is with Google. Google can make mistakes. It's all the other news organizations and stock selling software should be blindly following Google's news bot.
A lot of dumb people probably lost a lot of money, while a lot of smart people probably made a lot of money over this.
The Apple II had colour. I believe it was one of the first home computers to support it. At the time Apple's logo was a rainbow coloured apple to emphasize this.
A good professional programmer should be able pick up a new imperative language well enough to get started in a few days. It is almost certainly take longer to learn about the application area then it will take to learn a new programming language.
If Kanye West is a good profession song writer, he should be able to write a decent country music song in a few days, too.
I've been an scrutineer in several Canadian elections where we use paper ballots with no computers.
Dropping extra votes in the box could be done in a Canadian election, but it would be detected at the end of the day when the number of votes are compared to the number of voters and the number of ballots handed out. If there was a problem on a wide scale, it would be known, and presumably the election rerun.
Many of the procedures in a Canadian election are about detecting fraud which is somewhat easier and less disruptive then preventing fraud.
It may be deep down people hate capitalism. They would never admit it because they are always told capitalism is the best and all the problems with other systems.
When something new comes along, their first instinct is not that how much you get should be based on how much money you have. That's why people don't like real money trading in online games and want internet site to be equally accessible, no matter how much money they have.
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One the problem with "clean" coal is the radioactive waste. For the amount of energy produced, coal created more radioactive waste then nuclear. The difference is it is mixed in with tons and tons of chemically toxic ash, so there is no way of ever disposing of it safely. For nuclear energy the waste is conveniently concentrated and small enough it can be disposed of safely in stable rock.
Perhaps if we mixed the waste from our reactors with coal ash, people won't be so worried about it.
What's going to happen when the reality of America's dependence fossil fuels meets the reality of climate change?
The article says that they use special motherboards that require 12V only, which is what the batteries put out. No conversion needed.
It seems to me that Google supports Mozilla to get it's search at the default for Firefox and to make Google the default search for as many people as possible. The fact that they are making their own browser doesn't effect this.
The only reason Google would stop supporting Mozilla is if Firefox where to have a dramatic loss in market share to some other browser, not necessarily Chrome.
The trouble is that Apple doesn't sell an upgradable machine unless you get a Mac Pro, which is CAN$2900 and up. If you want a modest Macintosh computer you have no easily upgradable options.
No Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1948 because, "there was no suitable living candidate". It's generally believed that Mahatma Gandhi would have got it if he had not been assassinated on January 30, 1948.
I'm pretty sure taxes are, in part, a social program. That's why the rich are supposed to pay a higher rate then the poor, but get the same (or fewer) services. It's part of the transfer from the rich to the poor to keep the division between them from getting worse then it already is.
Large private businesses are probably at least as inefficient as government. It's just that large private businesses don't have access to information laws, publicly broadcast broad meetings and relatively detailed budgets published and teams of reporters and opposition parties searching through all that looking for any sign of misspent money, no matter how insignificant compared to the total operation of government.
I thought the Thinkpad was named after IBM decades old corporate slogan, which is THINK.
Circuit City owned all the Radio Shacks in Canada for years before they changed the name. Best Buy owns the Radio Shack trade mark, but was content to let Circuit City use it in Canada until the moved in with their Future Shop take over. Then Circuit City was forced to change the names of all the Radio Shacks to The Source: by Circuit City. Best Buy even tried starting up new Canadian Radio Shack chain, but they didn't last long.
I understand The Source in Canada is doing okay. It will likely be sold off and become The Source: by someone else.
It seems to be that cost of printing planting these signs are much higher then the cost of a domain name, so it's no big deal to them.
Ironically, the original purpose of patent was to get them published to help others learn new techniques and ideas and expand on them.
Your second example is a fallacious. You should examine Person A's evidence that smoking doesn't cause cancer. If it is not valid, it should show up in the evidence, irrespective of the source.
The only time it would be valid is if you are unable to evaluate the evidence, such as national security reason.
We should try to find ways to deal with the misbehavior anonymity can cause, without removing it, as removing it often not effective and cause other problems. The moderation system on slashdot works fairly well. I wish it was used more widely.
Complaining about someone being anonymous to discredit them is an ad hominem attack. Hiding their identity doesn't make their argument any worse and revealing it doesn't make it any better.
Hiding their identity only make people more honest and allows their foolish beliefs to be addressed and discredited, which may not have been possible otherwise.
I remember seeing some recently at Active Surplus Electronics, the legendary Toronto electronics store.
I didn't mean it is always the case that dumb people lose money and smart people make money. The reason I mentioned it is because, for once, it actually happened. The people dumb people who blindly trust what they see lost and the smart people who think for themselves won.
Yes, but I don't think the main responsibility is with Google. Google can make mistakes. It's all the other news organizations and stock selling software should be blindly following Google's news bot.
A lot of dumb people probably lost a lot of money, while a lot of smart people probably made a lot of money over this.
The technical term is "Luggable".
The Apple II had colour. I believe it was one of the first home computers to support it. At the time Apple's logo was a rainbow coloured apple to emphasize this.
A good professional programmer should be able pick up a new imperative language well enough to get started in a few days. It is almost certainly take longer to learn about the application area then it will take to learn a new programming language.
If Kanye West is a good profession song writer, he should be able to write a decent country music song in a few days, too.
I've been an scrutineer in several Canadian elections where we use paper ballots with no computers.
Dropping extra votes in the box could be done in a Canadian election, but it would be detected at the end of the day when the number of votes are compared to the number of voters and the number of ballots handed out. If there was a problem on a wide scale, it would be known, and presumably the election rerun.
Many of the procedures in a Canadian election are about detecting fraud which is somewhat easier and less disruptive then preventing fraud.
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"A better question is why should force be used to coerce the rest of us into paying the otherwise higher premiums that that person would have to pay?"
Answer: Because that person was born with a genetic disorder that is absolutely out of their control.
Capitalism can only work for things when people have a choice to buy a good or not. That's why it doesn't work in general for health care.
It's almost as if, over time, a system of beliefs evolves until it is ideally suited to survive in it's hosts (the human mind).
It may be deep down people hate capitalism. They would never admit it because they are always told capitalism is the best and all the problems with other systems.
When something new comes along, their first instinct is not that how much you get should be based on how much money you have. That's why people don't like real money trading in online games and want internet site to be equally accessible, no matter how much money they have.