In a world where cars (or some other technology that performed the same functions) didn't already exist, demand for them would be great enough to overcome any safety concerns.
In a world where something similar already existed, there would be no need for cars anyway.
The problem in America isn't the average American, it is the average American politician cowtows to the cries of a very few pussies
Right, because the one innate characteristic of a pussy is his/her disproportionate political influence. When the Pussy Lobby says "jump", politicians ask "how high?"
One person can yell "think of the children!!!" and a law gets passed, and the rest of us are simply taken for a ride. The problem is political.
The rest of us get the politicians we vote for. If we consistently vote out politicians who do not overreact because "think of the children!" makes us afraid to support them, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
My motivation for busting America's balls. I hope it get's it head out of its ass.
The result: America learns very quickly to ignore your obnoxious ranting. You are not America's dad, and America does not have to straighten up and be the country you want it to be. Your approval, or lack thereof, isn't relevant.
So the fat-cats will be able to take their mistresses on a vacation where they can be pretty sure their wife won't find them.
That market will last about 6 months, until the novelty wears off, and word gets around that zero-g is bloody uncomfortable. Even once the vomiting/motion-sickness phase wears off, you spend the rest of your 'vacation' with a bloated head, feeling like you have a minor head cold. And I suspect the much-anticipated space sex will turn out to be more comical than erotic.
Now Thomas is going to the Halting-Problem-Buster trick, by getting a copy of this program and ruling the opposite of whatever it predicts he's going to do.
I used to work for "Big Solar" (well, the third-largest PV maker on the planet).
Since you worked for a PV maker, you are surely aware that modern solar panels recouped the energy expended in their creation in two to four years, making the next 18-23 of their service life 100% energy-positive.
Or to put it another way, for every unit of energy spent making a solar panel, we get 5 units of energy back. That's a win.
Taxing the poor and giving it to rich corporations to indefinitely "research" anything with a "Green" label on it will NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
So what course of action do you recommend? Just give up, save some insignificant amount of money by stopping all climate and energy research, and stoically await our doom?
If we ended the Federal Breeding Subsidy in the U.S., we could reduce our carbon footprint as a species in very short order. Even better: $1k per child tax ($200 federal, $800 state). Would help pay for schools too.
You are so not going to make the cut as a Republican candidate.;^)
Wouldn't upping living standards worsen the problem?
Well, the trick would be to increase living standards without increasing pollution. Presumably it's possible to do that with a bit of cleverness (increased efficiency) and the right energy sources (renewables, nuclear, fusion if we can get it).
Ask a bunch of people if they would be willing to receive a billion dollar now, in exchange to blowing up the Earth 200 years in the future, you would be surprised how many of them would say yes. That is the problem with the human race.
If you want a really stark illustration of the problem, ask any parent how many endangered species they would be willing to see go extinct if it would mean sparing the life of just one of their children. (and now multiple that by the number of parents in the world).
Tell you what - take a tour of what used to be the USSR some time... the vast majority of the ecological damage there
True, but irrelevant. Capitalism and Soviet-style communism both fail to take externalities (such as environmental damage) into account. The failure of the latter doesn't negate the failure of the former.
I know my kid is not carrying weapons or explosives. I don't need some Goverment Groper to feel them up to tell me that.
You know that about your kid. Do you know that about my kid? Or are you just assuming that nobody would be evil enough to use their kid as a suicide bomber? (Because if so, that's a bad assumption to make)
There is practically a zero chance that any child (or adult, for that matter) is a terrorist, and they all know whether they're terrorists, so Government Gropers just piss off the 99.9999999% who aren't.
The point is, if you leave a hole open, sooner or later people will exploit that hole.
Actually, there were a lot of antiwar-demonstrations against Bush and I don't recall anybody calling him a "war hero". (Can you cite a source for that outrageous claim?)
Chris Matthews: "We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."
Obama didn't even want to get involved for the whole first month of the rebellion.
... and given the debacles in Iraq and (to a lesser extent) Afghanistan, who could blame him? But when he discovered a way to accomplish his/our goals without spending a trillion dollars and getting Americans mired down and/or killed, he took it. Seems like smart policy to me.
it could be replaced by nuclear, solar, wind, hamsters on wheels, and all that other green jazz.
I look forward to the day we can all start complaining about how patents to would-be miracle inventions are being bought up and squirreled away by Big Hamster.
Well, many of it's activities are just for show, like airport pat-downs of children and the elderly or confiscating medicines if they're in liquid form.
Because nobody would ever smuggle weapons or explosives onto an aircraft by hiding them inside a child's clothing? Not even if they knew that children got a guaranteed free pass around screening at the airport, and therefore their chances of successfully getting contraband onto an airplane that way would be very high?
C is only particularly dangerous when inexperienced developers just jump in and start writing code without having more experienced developers review what they wrote.
In other words, C is only particularly dangerous most of the time.:^P
With fuck-ups like this or this it seems people WILL have to memorize a set of actions, except this set of actions is not printed out on a reference sheet, but found out by trial and error.
I think you're missing a key point.... Apple collects "fuck ups" like those and fixes them as they encounter them. So in short order (depending on how many engineers Apple has assigned to examining and correcting bad responses) any common problems will go away.
And coal mining incidents, while they don't have massive environmental impacts, per se
Many would argue that coal mining has massive environmental impacts even when all is proceeding as intended. (So, to the extent that a coal mining 'incident' results in the temporary or permanent shutdown of mining operations at the mine, it will likely have a positive environmental impact!)
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They'd, though, rather demand a government check for doing nothing.
Citation badly needed.
But a Ford Pinto doesn't catch fire when it's sitting in an empty lot 3 weeks after it gets rear ended.
If it has sufficient insurance, it might.
There's no way a car could be invented today.
In a world where cars (or some other technology that performed the same functions) didn't already exist, demand for them would be great enough to overcome any safety concerns.
In a world where something similar already existed, there would be no need for cars anyway.
The problem in America isn't the average American, it is the average American politician cowtows to the cries of a very few pussies
Right, because the one innate characteristic of a pussy is his/her disproportionate political influence. When the Pussy Lobby says "jump", politicians ask "how high?"
One person can yell "think of the children!!!" and a law gets passed, and the rest of us are simply taken for a ride. The problem is political.
The rest of us get the politicians we vote for. If we consistently vote out politicians who do not overreact because "think of the children!" makes us afraid to support them, then we have nobody to blame but ourselves.
I look at all your republican candidates (except Romney) and think you guys are just plain crazy.
If Romney hasn't taken a position you dislike yet, just wait a while. Pretty soon he'll have collected the whole set.
My motivation for busting America's balls. I hope it get's it head out of its ass.
The result: America learns very quickly to ignore your obnoxious ranting. You are not America's dad, and America does not have to straighten up and be the country you want it to be. Your approval, or lack thereof, isn't relevant.
So the fat-cats will be able to take their mistresses on a vacation where they can be pretty sure their wife won't find them.
That market will last about 6 months, until the novelty wears off, and word gets around that zero-g is bloody uncomfortable. Even once the vomiting/motion-sickness phase wears off, you spend the rest of your 'vacation' with a bloated head, feeling like you have a minor head cold. And I suspect the much-anticipated space sex will turn out to be more comical than erotic.
Now Thomas is going to the Halting-Problem-Buster trick, by getting a copy of this program and ruling the opposite of whatever it predicts he's going to do.
Not enough ham-fisted christian proselytizing.
I never figured out how cavemen could be Christians. The name of the strip stands for Before Christ, for chrissake.
I used to work for "Big Solar" (well, the third-largest PV maker on the planet).
Since you worked for a PV maker, you are surely aware that modern solar panels recouped the energy expended in their creation in two to four years, making the next 18-23 of their service life 100% energy-positive.
Or to put it another way, for every unit of energy spent making a solar panel, we get 5 units of energy back. That's a win.
Taxing the poor and giving it to rich corporations to indefinitely "research" anything with a "Green" label on it will NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
So what course of action do you recommend? Just give up, save some insignificant amount of money by stopping all climate and energy research, and stoically await our doom?
If we ended the Federal Breeding Subsidy in the U.S., we could reduce our carbon footprint as a species in very short order. Even better: $1k per child tax ($200 federal, $800 state). Would help pay for schools too.
You are so not going to make the cut as a Republican candidate. ;^)
Wouldn't upping living standards worsen the problem?
Well, the trick would be to increase living standards without increasing pollution. Presumably it's possible to do that with a bit of cleverness (increased efficiency) and the right energy sources (renewables, nuclear, fusion if we can get it).
Ask a bunch of people if they would be willing to receive a billion dollar now, in exchange to blowing up the Earth 200 years in the future, you would be surprised how many of them would say yes. That is the problem with the human race.
If you want a really stark illustration of the problem, ask any parent how many endangered species they would be willing to see go extinct if it would mean sparing the life of just one of their children. (and now multiple that by the number of parents in the world).
Tell you what - take a tour of what used to be the USSR some time... the vast majority of the ecological damage there
True, but irrelevant. Capitalism and Soviet-style communism both fail to take externalities (such as environmental damage) into account. The failure of the latter doesn't negate the failure of the former.
I know my kid is not carrying weapons or explosives. I don't need some Goverment Groper to feel them up to tell me that.
You know that about your kid. Do you know that about my kid? Or are you just assuming that nobody would be evil enough to use their kid as a suicide bomber? (Because if so, that's a bad assumption to make)
There is practically a zero chance that any child (or adult, for that matter) is a terrorist, and they all know whether they're terrorists, so Government Gropers just piss off the 99.9999999% who aren't.
The point is, if you leave a hole open, sooner or later people will exploit that hole.
Actually, there were a lot of antiwar-demonstrations against Bush and I don't recall anybody calling him a "war hero". (Can you cite a source for that outrageous claim?)
here you go.
Chris Matthews: "We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."
Obama didn't even want to get involved for the whole first month of the rebellion.
... and given the debacles in Iraq and (to a lesser extent) Afghanistan, who could blame him? But when he discovered a way to accomplish his/our goals without spending a trillion dollars and getting Americans mired down and/or killed, he took it. Seems like smart policy to me.
it could be replaced by nuclear, solar, wind, hamsters on wheels, and all that other green jazz.
I look forward to the day we can all start complaining about how patents to would-be miracle inventions are being bought up and squirreled away by Big Hamster.
Well, many of it's activities are just for show, like airport pat-downs of children and the elderly or confiscating medicines if they're in liquid form.
Because nobody would ever smuggle weapons or explosives onto an aircraft by hiding them inside a child's clothing? Not even if they knew that children got a guaranteed free pass around screening at the airport, and therefore their chances of successfully getting contraband onto an airplane that way would be very high?
C is only particularly dangerous when inexperienced developers just jump in and start writing code without having more experienced developers review what they wrote.
In other words, C is only particularly dangerous most of the time. :^P
With fuck-ups like this or this it seems people WILL have to memorize a set of actions, except this set of actions is not printed out on a reference sheet, but found out by trial and error.
I think you're missing a key point.... Apple collects "fuck ups" like those and fixes them as they encounter them. So in short order (depending on how many engineers Apple has assigned to examining and correcting bad responses) any common problems will go away.
No, they both killed exactly the same number, and were subjected to equally just and reliable process...
Give them both time, the century is still young...
To me They did a fantastic job and are proof that Nuclear energy is safe.
I'm going to hazard a guess that you don't live in Japan. Maybe you should ask the Japanese if they agree with your assessment or not?
And coal mining incidents, while they don't have massive environmental impacts, per se
Many would argue that coal mining has massive environmental impacts even when all is proceeding as intended. (So, to the extent that a coal mining 'incident' results in the temporary or permanent shutdown of mining operations at the mine, it will likely have a positive environmental impact!)