Because if we don't they can blame any further failures on somebody else.
Even if the blame is dumped squarely on their shoulders, they're not going to end up paying for much of it. 75 million dollars keeps being waved around as a limit, and that's a drop in the ocean of the actual costs/losses involved for others.
Socializing risks, costs and damages at its finest.
While quite elegant, this solution requires power input... So not so great on a bicycle...
Depends on the amount of energy required.
If you can engage the lowest gear with a few watts, then it's simply a matter using a wheel hub dynamo. Such systems are already deployed to power LED lights today.
This means you can't do wheelies, but if we're eliminating the need for gearing, there's nothing wrong with moving the hub to the rear wheel.
And faster cars make it easier for criminals to get away from crime scenes. And cash make it easier for criminals to hide their tracks. And RFID embedded into the underside of the skull at birth would make it easier to track down criminals later in life.
A lot of the technology we have available or will develop in the foreseeable future has the potential to be used in bad ways. That doesn't mean we should stop developing them.
Colleges aren't giving well rounded education, and haven't for 30 years. They are a bastion of leftwing ideologues indoctrinating students; where having an opposing view to the status quo is routinely quashed.
30 years ago was 1980. 1980 to 1988 - Regan (Republican) was president. Republicans 8, Democrats 0 1988 to 1992 - Bush Sr. (Republican) was president. Republicans 12, Democrats 0 1992 to 2000 - Clinton (Democrat) was president. Republicans 12, Democrats 8 2000 to 2008 - Bush Jr (Republican) was president. Republicans 20, Democrats 8 2008 to 2010 - Obama (Democrat) was president. Republicans 20, Democrats 10
Considering the "lead" on the Republican side, I don't see why teaching something that goes against that stream is bad. Obviously it hasn't worked.
But lets go further back and look at it, shall we? How about the last 50 years? 1960 to 2010. Kenedy and Johnson for 8 years of Democrats. Nixon and Ford for 8 years of Republicans Carter for 4 years of Democrats. So now the score is Republicans 28, Democrats 22
1901 through to 2010. 26th to 44th president. 8 of them have been Democrats, 11 have been Republicans. 60 out of 110 years have been under a Republican president.
And the time before that (from the end of the Civil War): 1869 to 1885 (16 years) was under 4 Republican presidents. Then 4 years Democrat 4 years Republican 4 years Democrat 4 years Republican And then we're at 1901 (see above)
140 years, 84 years under Republicans, 56 years under Democrats.
Now obviously in these 140 years the establishment have been hounding Republicans, forcing them underground, preying upon their weaknesses and undermining them in colleges and high schools all over the country. And it's working. It's working beautifully.
Best check under your bed - I hear that's where these liberals and democrats hide, so they can slit your throat in the night, take over your body and quietly indoctrinate your children.
The minimum wage in Denmark is about 16 USD an hour. And a happy meal is probably around 9 USD. Yet somehow McDonald's manages to not only pay more than minimum wage (all employees 18+ start at 18.46 USD), but also have 84 restaurants and 4,000 employees in Denmark (5.5 million inhabitants), and had a revenue of 270 million USD in 2008.
Oh, and at minimum wage, you're looking at around 40% income tax (though you have deductibles). What was your point again? I forgot.
The usual argument is that cracked software is dangerous, because it contains malware of various sorts. Rather difficult to support that argument, when you then go out and ship the same "malware" as a legitimate part of a software release.
Doesn't that one require a key that only supports 1,000 searches per day?
That kind of thing would make Scroogle useless. And since Scroogle has no interest in paying Google for the results, they aren't going to purchase the kind of access they'd like to have.
So while blowing it up would be a spectacularly bad idea, we do need to have a way to deal with dead crap in space.
Massive blocks of aerogel. That'd pick up the small parts that are floating. And use disposable engines or something similar to deorbit the old satellites that cannot do it on their own.
There's no 'punish' about it, if professional gamblers get their fingers burnt it's simply tough shit.
The main difference being that the gamblers are playing with their own money, and if they screw up, they will feel the pain, whereas the investors and bankers get to lose billions of dollars and still get millions of dollars in bonuses. They do well, they get paid, they do badly, they get paid. How will they learn?
So... if a non-traded company has a large number of employees, large revenue, makes semi-products and reinvests most of its surplus into expanding its production lines... it has no impact on the economy?
Or let's look at it another way - how many companies in the US are traded companies? How many people do they employ? I don't know the numbers, but I'm fairly certain you'll find that it's about 50% or so.
And while these companies may not have much if any impact on what goes on in the stock market, I'm pretty sure they are VERY important to the economy. To the extent that removing them from the economy will CRASH that economy...
Are you allowed to just go through the security check point naked instead?
I mean - if it's okay for some fucker in a secluded room to stare at my naked body, why isn't it okay for the rest of the passengers to see that I'm not carrying any kind of weapons or explosives?
All things considered, it must be rather reassuring that it's the case...
And obviously you would be completely fine with having your property stolen by US citizens and having your wife assaulted by US citizens, right?
It really doesn't matter who does the deed - you'll be traumatized no matter what. It's just a lot easier to point at the "evil" "immigrants", who might just be citizens. Just like it's easier to point at the "evil middle eastern Muslim" for being a terrorist, than it is to point at Timmothy McVeigh, who just happens to look like you and me. Or how about Joseph Stack? 53, white (excuse me, Caucasian), software engineer, wore glasses, grew up in Philadelphia, even played bass in a band.
Should we stop every single white guy between 25 and 55, check their papers, ask for their intentions etc., just because they happen to fit that particular profile?
Okay, those are terrorist and unlikely to target regular people.
How about these people. How many of them look like regular white people? How many of them would be stopped for looking 'suspicious'?
What this shows is that road workers should be allowed to carry firearms and shoot any motorists who venture too close or go too fast.
I mean - 422 deaths in a 7 year period is 60 a year. That's more lethal than the police, and quite a lot of people seem all too eager to trot out the "dangerous work" and "never know who's trying to kill you for doing your job" arguments.
Alternatively - how about lining the road with speed-triggered mines? Drive too fast across one and the mine will stop you dead in your tracks.
You know the guy on camera had nothing to do with the attempted attack, right? He was just some innocent bystander taking his shirt off on a hot day, caught on camera, and thereafter imbroiled in an investigation which was wasting police time and inflaming the public as the actual terrorist almost got away?
Hey, look on the bright side! If the actual culprit had gotten away, they would have nailed Mr. shirt for obstructing a police investigation - something that wouldn't have been possible without the video that led to the police being interested in him.
Some times you people are entirely too pessimistic to see the silver lining...
When a major spill happens people like to point and say, "Oh - they have no plan!", like there's some freaking awesome magic plan wand the oil companies could wave over the situation.
Well, obviously something on this scale (pipe snapping just above the sea floor) isn't something you can plan for.
But it took me about 4 minutes to think up a solution to this kind of problem, and I'm rather surprised the oil industry isn't using something like it. It's not a solution that will fix the current problem, because that's a done deal, just one that could/should mean that in a similar situation you get a minimal spillage.
Essentially, you make each segment of an oil pipe work like a vein. The built in valves stop blood from running backwards. Build something like that into each pipe segment, but use hydraulic pressure to keep the valves open. Kill the pressure and massive springs or something similar will force each valve closed. And added pressure from the well itself will just push it more closed. It is possible that it won't be 100% sealed, but it would certainly be better than the current situation.
It has the added benefit of making it easy to shut off a well from above (just kill the hydraulic pressure), which should make oil rig fires more manageable (cut off the fuel supply), and it should work no matter where the pipe snaps.
And since I'm not even in the oil business or have any kind of mechanical engineering degree, it shouldn't even be patentable, so while it will make the pipes a little more expensive, it can be made by any manufacturer without having to licence the technology.
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Even if the blame is dumped squarely on their shoulders, they're not going to end up paying for much of it. 75 million dollars keeps being waved around as a limit, and that's a drop in the ocean of the actual costs/losses involved for others.
Socializing risks, costs and damages at its finest.
True, but with the preemptive attack doctrice Bush Jr. put in place, "they might be going to do it" is.
Depends on the amount of energy required.
If you can engage the lowest gear with a few watts, then it's simply a matter using a wheel hub dynamo. Such systems are already deployed to power LED lights today.
This means you can't do wheelies, but if we're eliminating the need for gearing, there's nothing wrong with moving the hub to the rear wheel.
You think that's bad? Imagine what happens when the powers that be find out, that about 49% of the population have the tools needed to rape women?
And faster cars make it easier for criminals to get away from crime scenes.
And cash make it easier for criminals to hide their tracks.
And RFID embedded into the underside of the skull at birth would make it easier to track down criminals later in life.
A lot of the technology we have available or will develop in the foreseeable future has the potential to be used in bad ways. That doesn't mean we should stop developing them.
30 years ago was 1980.
1980 to 1988 - Regan (Republican) was president. Republicans 8, Democrats 0
1988 to 1992 - Bush Sr. (Republican) was president. Republicans 12, Democrats 0
1992 to 2000 - Clinton (Democrat) was president. Republicans 12, Democrats 8
2000 to 2008 - Bush Jr (Republican) was president. Republicans 20, Democrats 8
2008 to 2010 - Obama (Democrat) was president. Republicans 20, Democrats 10
Considering the "lead" on the Republican side, I don't see why teaching something that goes against that stream is bad. Obviously it hasn't worked.
But lets go further back and look at it, shall we? How about the last 50 years?
1960 to 2010.
Kenedy and Johnson for 8 years of Democrats.
Nixon and Ford for 8 years of Republicans
Carter for 4 years of Democrats.
So now the score is Republicans 28, Democrats 22
1901 through to 2010. 26th to 44th president.
8 of them have been Democrats, 11 have been Republicans.
60 out of 110 years have been under a Republican president.
And the time before that (from the end of the Civil War):
1869 to 1885 (16 years) was under 4 Republican presidents.
Then 4 years Democrat
4 years Republican
4 years Democrat
4 years Republican
And then we're at 1901 (see above)
140 years, 84 years under Republicans, 56 years under Democrats.
Now obviously in these 140 years the establishment have been hounding Republicans, forcing them underground, preying upon their weaknesses and undermining them in colleges and high schools all over the country. And it's working. It's working beautifully.
Best check under your bed - I hear that's where these liberals and democrats hide, so they can slit your throat in the night, take over your body and quietly indoctrinate your children.
Wait ... how can political science not have any kind of class on statistics?
The minimum wage in Denmark is about 16 USD an hour. And a happy meal is probably around 9 USD. Yet somehow McDonald's manages to not only pay more than minimum wage (all employees 18+ start at 18.46 USD), but also have 84 restaurants and 4,000 employees in Denmark (5.5 million inhabitants), and had a revenue of 270 million USD in 2008.
Oh, and at minimum wage, you're looking at around 40% income tax (though you have deductibles). What was your point again? I forgot.
And Watchmen isn't all that funny, even though probably half or more of the population would call it a comic book, simply because it's using drawings.
But humour me - what would you term XKCD then?
Web-drawing? Web-strip (but there are no strippers, sadly, and strip is termed from comic-strip)? Web-doodling? Web-log?
The usual argument is that cracked software is dangerous, because it contains malware of various sorts. Rather difficult to support that argument, when you then go out and ship the same "malware" as a legitimate part of a software release.
So ... every single one of Bernie Madoff's professional investors should face the music?
They should have known that 10+% RoI year after year is impossible, and the money they got were in fact stolen from other investors.
Doesn't that one require a key that only supports 1,000 searches per day?
That kind of thing would make Scroogle useless. And since Scroogle has no interest in paying Google for the results, they aren't going to purchase the kind of access they'd like to have.
Sure ... except it's a 4.6 centimeter cube, not a 4.6 meter cube. Not worth stealing if you're Lex Luthor
Massive blocks of aerogel. That'd pick up the small parts that are floating. And use disposable engines or something similar to deorbit the old satellites that cannot do it on their own.
The main difference being that the gamblers are playing with their own money, and if they screw up, they will feel the pain, whereas the investors and bankers get to lose billions of dollars and still get millions of dollars in bonuses. They do well, they get paid, they do badly, they get paid. How will they learn?
So ... if a non-traded company has a large number of employees, large revenue, makes semi-products and reinvests most of its surplus into expanding its production lines ... it has no impact on the economy?
Or let's look at it another way - how many companies in the US are traded companies? How many people do they employ? I don't know the numbers, but I'm fairly certain you'll find that it's about 50% or so.
And while these companies may not have much if any impact on what goes on in the stock market, I'm pretty sure they are VERY important to the economy. To the extent that removing them from the economy will CRASH that economy ...
So what you're saying is that all GW store owners are suffering from battered wife syndrome?
Are you allowed to just go through the security check point naked instead?
I mean - if it's okay for some fucker in a secluded room to stare at my naked body, why isn't it okay for the rest of the passengers to see that I'm not carrying any kind of weapons or explosives?
All things considered, it must be rather reassuring that it's the case ...
And obviously you would be completely fine with having your property stolen by US citizens and having your wife assaulted by US citizens, right?
It really doesn't matter who does the deed - you'll be traumatized no matter what. It's just a lot easier to point at the "evil" "immigrants", who might just be citizens. Just like it's easier to point at the "evil middle eastern Muslim" for being a terrorist, than it is to point at Timmothy McVeigh, who just happens to look like you and me. Or how about Joseph Stack? 53, white (excuse me, Caucasian), software engineer, wore glasses, grew up in Philadelphia, even played bass in a band.
Should we stop every single white guy between 25 and 55, check their papers, ask for their intentions etc., just because they happen to fit that particular profile?
Okay, those are terrorist and unlikely to target regular people.
How about these people. How many of them look like regular white people? How many of them would be stopped for looking 'suspicious'?
What this shows is that road workers should be allowed to carry firearms and shoot any motorists who venture too close or go too fast.
I mean - 422 deaths in a 7 year period is 60 a year. That's more lethal than the police, and quite a lot of people seem all too eager to trot out the "dangerous work" and "never know who's trying to kill you for doing your job" arguments.
Alternatively - how about lining the road with speed-triggered mines? Drive too fast across one and the mine will stop you dead in your tracks.
You know the guy on camera had nothing to do with the attempted attack, right? He was just some innocent bystander taking his shirt off on a hot day, caught on camera, and thereafter imbroiled in an investigation which was wasting police time and inflaming the public as the actual terrorist almost got away?
Hey, look on the bright side! If the actual culprit had gotten away, they would have nailed Mr. shirt for obstructing a police investigation - something that wouldn't have been possible without the video that led to the police being interested in him.
Some times you people are entirely too pessimistic to see the silver lining ...
Their HTML5 section isn't. When I use that, I just get a bunch of empty frames that I suppose are meant to be pages full of text.
Hey ... it worked for Chernobyl
Well, obviously something on this scale (pipe snapping just above the sea floor) isn't something you can plan for.
But it took me about 4 minutes to think up a solution to this kind of problem, and I'm rather surprised the oil industry isn't using something like it. It's not a solution that will fix the current problem, because that's a done deal, just one that could/should mean that in a similar situation you get a minimal spillage.
Essentially, you make each segment of an oil pipe work like a vein. The built in valves stop blood from running backwards. Build something like that into each pipe segment, but use hydraulic pressure to keep the valves open. Kill the pressure and massive springs or something similar will force each valve closed. And added pressure from the well itself will just push it more closed. It is possible that it won't be 100% sealed, but it would certainly be better than the current situation.
It has the added benefit of making it easy to shut off a well from above (just kill the hydraulic pressure), which should make oil rig fires more manageable (cut off the fuel supply), and it should work no matter where the pipe snaps.
And since I'm not even in the oil business or have any kind of mechanical engineering degree, it shouldn't even be patentable, so while it will make the pipes a little more expensive, it can be made by any manufacturer without having to licence the technology.
I like your thinking, but I'm not sure that nuking the well from orbit will fix anything ...