Might this decision open the door for some of them to surreptitiously access the open net?
Seems like having a device which gives away your location to a brutally repressive regime, and using said device to access things that would get you and your extended family thrown into starvation camps might not be a good idea.
On the other hand, I have no idea what I'd do if I were a North Korean. Maybe look up the best way to make suicide look like an accident so your surviving relatives don't get thrown into those starvation camps for the crime of being related to someone who dishonored the country by killing himself?
Because it's not that simple. The free market chooses the cheapest route, but that ignores externalized costs. Externalized costs which are still costs to the rest of us. Right now, that cheapest route is coal, and those externalized costs are very high.
If they raise taxes to implement whatever clean energy you prefer, but prevent climate change, a lot more people will come out ahead on that transaction than lose out. The only reason we're not already doing it is that the few would-be-losers are being astonishingly selfish and short-sighted.
If this is the end of the civilized world, as some are fearmongering it, why was Obama out on a golf vacation instead of working on the budget? Does this show how seriously he takes it?
Work on? What work is there to be done on it? More sitting in a room with Boehner et al with everyones arms folded glaring at each other? Suggesting a few more times that they cut each other's pet projects? Suggest again that taxes be raised, and say again "no! We took a sacred blood oath to Norquist!"
There's no work to be done besides convincing the other that they're not going to cave. Going on vacation might be the best way to show republicans he's not budging. Though it seems like terrible PR to me. But what do I know?
The Budget, and budgets that depend on the budgets, and people's budgets that depend on the budgets that depend on the Budget... not all of that scales down efficiently or evenly. If you simply and immediately tighten your belt to where it was when you were thinner, your fat doesn't simply evaporate as you wish it would, Instead, it just constricts organs you wish to continue functioning. And it hurts a lot. Which is why no one does it that way. Your midsection is relatively simple and inconsequential compared to the national budget. It's going to crimp valuable programs and research, and it's not going to clean up waste or programs that need to be cut. The politicians are going to protect their pork projects, the military industrial complex is obviously not going to scale back. Instead, biomedical research will slow down, regulatory agencies will lose even more teeth (and they won't grow back either), hospitals will raise their prices again, colleges will raise tuition and put even more students further in debt. And there will be other bad effects too which you won't like.
Biologist here. Cuts to grants are already being made, since the adults can't put all their plans on hold until they can be sure the children are going to do the right thing. This dance IS damaging research already. Research jobs ARE being lost.
Both may be driving up healthcare costs? I don't know much about healthcare, and I'm sure there are many experts with strong opinions on the subject who would say "No, THIS THING is what's driving up costs of healthcare," (the liability and lawyers contribution seems like a convincing one) but seems like pointless medical costs and a push for overpriced surgical robots that aren't better could increase costs.
It is like those holding the reins want to create terrorists, must not be enough already to justify the defence spending we already have - good for MIC business
Bankers get a lot of hate (and rightfully so) for stealing from the public. But at least they're efficient about stealing and it doesn't involve international murder^H^H^H^H^ collateral damage. I'd much rather the MIC just takes the money and pocket it directly rather than leading us into wars in order to get a fraction of the money.
He's not even bothering to say "It's to protect the children" or "Economy!"? Just straight up "Gotta limit free speech" and assume everyone is already on board?
The voters are pretty gullible. It doesn't take great salesmanship to get this through, you're just being lazy dude.
Seems to me like that describes most states. Which is why I can't fathom why anyone would want states to have more power. THESE are the type of people who would get more power. At least with the federal government, there's any level of public scrutiny. With state and local governments, no one is paying any attention.
If people started being careful with who they voted for at the state level, I'd say sure, states rights.
He IS brilliant. The fact that he is now insane (if he wasn't before) doesn't change the fact that he made one of the most useful machines since the microscope for biological research. He can deny global warming and HIV causing AIDS all he wants, doesn't change how big PCR is. Same with Watson. Some of the most brilliant stars in any field are the most eccentric. Sometimes their success causes them to veer even further into crazyland.
Come on, even if there are any place that requires PC language by law, there are much bigger abuses of your freedom that make "land of the free" a joke already. Don't imply that we've lost our freedom because some people get their undies in a knot because they don't like the term "indian" anymore.
You must have exceptionally smart cops where you live if you think they'd understand what OP was talking about. If I called cops with this problem any place I've lived, I suspect I'd be transferred about three times before someone would ask "Son, are you talking about the child porn?" and would just hang up when I said no.
All of them have software single point of failure problems that will cause them to crash in an unpredictable place.Triton and the Global Hawk will, at least, crash in a pre-planned, surveyed spot.
Hmm... billion dollars for crashing into a planned spot you say. Northrop may be interested in my paper airplane design...
Are we sure someone DIDN'T already nuke North Korea? From everything I've seen or heard about that country, you'd be better off living in the Fallout universe than North Korea.
Maybe if our military leaders had hats that were as big as that guy's hat, we wouldn't be lagging so far behind North Korea in air superiority. And democracy. I mean, we don't even have "Democratic" in our country name!
No, I was responding to MarioMax's question. We were discussing paper vs plastic. Practically no one reuses paper OR plastic, so re-use isn't a factor to consider between the two. I'm saying paper isn't worth considering since it's not any better than plastic (again, assuming that mariomax isn't talking about reusing).
I disagree that the games went downhill. The idiot part comes in that gamers were doing so much business with gamestop in the first place. Used games make sense in theory. When enough gamers though are willing to throw away their old games and then buy used ones at nearly full price though, that screws the rest of us over though. Gamestop found a way to leech off of the game industry through a specific subset of consumers. The rest of us couldn't demand a fair balance as gamestop was making money hand over fist with the idiot segment. The industry got jealous of gamestop's profits and screwed everyone over.
Alright, I'll bite. They aren't attacking science or the scientific method here, they're attacking the specific methods used here and the conclusions.
An article signed by 18 academics in Current Anthropology accuses the researchers of 'bad science'—'something false and undesirable' based on 'weak data and methods' that 'can become a justification for reactionary policy.' The paper attacks everything from its sources of population data to its methods for measuring genetic diversity,
If you missed that part of the summary, you might try leaving the fertile crescent and seeing if it makes sense afterward.
This one won't either. The people you seem to have disdain for have moved onto modern warfare or battlefield. And I'm not sure how they could be worse than the people who already play MMOs anyway.
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Might this decision open the door for some of them to surreptitiously access the open net?
Seems like having a device which gives away your location to a brutally repressive regime, and using said device to access things that would get you and your extended family thrown into starvation camps might not be a good idea.
On the other hand, I have no idea what I'd do if I were a North Korean. Maybe look up the best way to make suicide look like an accident so your surviving relatives don't get thrown into those starvation camps for the crime of being related to someone who dishonored the country by killing himself?
Because it's not that simple. The free market chooses the cheapest route, but that ignores externalized costs. Externalized costs which are still costs to the rest of us. Right now, that cheapest route is coal, and those externalized costs are very high.
If they raise taxes to implement whatever clean energy you prefer, but prevent climate change, a lot more people will come out ahead on that transaction than lose out. The only reason we're not already doing it is that the few would-be-losers are being astonishingly selfish and short-sighted.
If this is the end of the civilized world, as some are fearmongering it, why was Obama out on a golf vacation instead of working on the budget? Does this show how seriously he takes it?
Work on? What work is there to be done on it? More sitting in a room with Boehner et al with everyones arms folded glaring at each other? Suggesting a few more times that they cut each other's pet projects? Suggest again that taxes be raised, and say again "no! We took a sacred blood oath to Norquist!"
There's no work to be done besides convincing the other that they're not going to cave. Going on vacation might be the best way to show republicans he's not budging. Though it seems like terrible PR to me. But what do I know?
The Budget, and budgets that depend on the budgets, and people's budgets that depend on the budgets that depend on the Budget... not all of that scales down efficiently or evenly. If you simply and immediately tighten your belt to where it was when you were thinner, your fat doesn't simply evaporate as you wish it would, Instead, it just constricts organs you wish to continue functioning. And it hurts a lot. Which is why no one does it that way. Your midsection is relatively simple and inconsequential compared to the national budget. It's going to crimp valuable programs and research, and it's not going to clean up waste or programs that need to be cut. The politicians are going to protect their pork projects, the military industrial complex is obviously not going to scale back. Instead, biomedical research will slow down, regulatory agencies will lose even more teeth (and they won't grow back either), hospitals will raise their prices again, colleges will raise tuition and put even more students further in debt. And there will be other bad effects too which you won't like.
Biologist here. Cuts to grants are already being made, since the adults can't put all their plans on hold until they can be sure the children are going to do the right thing. This dance IS damaging research already. Research jobs ARE being lost.
Both may be driving up healthcare costs? I don't know much about healthcare, and I'm sure there are many experts with strong opinions on the subject who would say "No, THIS THING is what's driving up costs of healthcare," (the liability and lawyers contribution seems like a convincing one) but seems like pointless medical costs and a push for overpriced surgical robots that aren't better could increase costs.
It is like those holding the reins want to create terrorists, must not be enough already to justify the defence spending we already have - good for MIC business
Bankers get a lot of hate (and rightfully so) for stealing from the public. But at least they're efficient about stealing and it doesn't involve international murder^H^H^H^H^ collateral damage. I'd much rather the MIC just takes the money and pocket it directly rather than leading us into wars in order to get a fraction of the money.
He's not even bothering to say "It's to protect the children" or "Economy!"? Just straight up "Gotta limit free speech" and assume everyone is already on board?
The voters are pretty gullible. It doesn't take great salesmanship to get this through, you're just being lazy dude.
Seems to me like that describes most states. Which is why I can't fathom why anyone would want states to have more power. THESE are the type of people who would get more power. At least with the federal government, there's any level of public scrutiny. With state and local governments, no one is paying any attention.
If people started being careful with who they voted for at the state level, I'd say sure, states rights.
Oooh ooh, do Samsung, Nintendo, and AOL now!!!!
He IS brilliant. The fact that he is now insane (if he wasn't before) doesn't change the fact that he made one of the most useful machines since the microscope for biological research. He can deny global warming and HIV causing AIDS all he wants, doesn't change how big PCR is. Same with Watson. Some of the most brilliant stars in any field are the most eccentric. Sometimes their success causes them to veer even further into crazyland.
Welcome to the land of the free :-)
Come on, even if there are any place that requires PC language by law, there are much bigger abuses of your freedom that make "land of the free" a joke already. Don't imply that we've lost our freedom because some people get their undies in a knot because they don't like the term "indian" anymore.
A provider could get a device+addon combination certified, however.
Something tells me this will cost users a large monthly fee despite the testing being a one-time cost...
They'll just laugh at your little WiFi problem.
You must have exceptionally smart cops where you live if you think they'd understand what OP was talking about. If I called cops with this problem any place I've lived, I suspect I'd be transferred about three times before someone would ask "Son, are you talking about the child porn?" and would just hang up when I said no.
All of them have software single point of failure problems that will cause them to crash in an unpredictable place.Triton and the Global Hawk will, at least, crash in a pre-planned, surveyed spot.
Hmm... billion dollars for crashing into a planned spot you say. Northrop may be interested in my paper airplane design...
Japan is rightfully part of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's World. Dear Leader allows them to think they're independent, that's all.
Are we sure someone DIDN'T already nuke North Korea? From everything I've seen or heard about that country, you'd be better off living in the Fallout universe than North Korea.
Maybe if our military leaders had hats that were as big as that guy's hat, we wouldn't be lagging so far behind North Korea in air superiority. And democracy. I mean, we don't even have "Democratic" in our country name!
Any radioactivity detected must have been from some dirty westerner farting.
No, I was responding to MarioMax's question. We were discussing paper vs plastic. Practically no one reuses paper OR plastic, so re-use isn't a factor to consider between the two. I'm saying paper isn't worth considering since it's not any better than plastic (again, assuming that mariomax isn't talking about reusing).
Well, either way, paper vs plastic doesn't appear to make much of a difference in terms of climate change. Both are worse than reusable bags.
I think so: you mean "I HATE NEW THINGS AND LOVE COMPLAINING AND BEING AN ELITIST ABOUT MY OPERATING SYSTEM!!!!!"
That about sum it up? Really, that's about all I got from your post. Reminds me of people who talk about "true americans."
I disagree that the games went downhill. The idiot part comes in that gamers were doing so much business with gamestop in the first place. Used games make sense in theory. When enough gamers though are willing to throw away their old games and then buy used ones at nearly full price though, that screws the rest of us over though. Gamestop found a way to leech off of the game industry through a specific subset of consumers. The rest of us couldn't demand a fair balance as gamestop was making money hand over fist with the idiot segment. The industry got jealous of gamestop's profits and screwed everyone over.
An article signed by 18 academics in Current Anthropology accuses the researchers of 'bad science'—'something false and undesirable' based on 'weak data and methods' that 'can become a justification for reactionary policy.' The paper attacks everything from its sources of population data to its methods for measuring genetic diversity,
If you missed that part of the summary, you might try leaving the fertile crescent and seeing if it makes sense afterward.
This one won't either. The people you seem to have disdain for have moved onto modern warfare or battlefield. And I'm not sure how they could be worse than the people who already play MMOs anyway.