I'm not generally opposed to Socialism, Social Democracy or Capitalism for that matter, in fact I'm basically a Social Democrat. However, the situation in Venezuela can be blamed completely on the incompetence and corruption of the Chavez regime and the even greater incompetence and corruption of the Maduro regime.
What we really need is a way to make all that money worthless that's been accumulated by The Rich
Inflation is the answer to that, but "The Rich" have been keeping it artificially low.
Inflation is how you pay for UBI. You just print the money and hand it out. Any money which the wealthy people have stashed is devalued. This encourages investment.
"Model Y is capable in rain, snow, mud and off-road." Off road? Sure, if pulling into your drive is off road. For that wilderness adventure, you can drive on your lawn.
While I agree with you on every level on this point, every automaker talks the same crap about their tall sedans and wagons, er I mean crossovers. They're just talking about dirt driveways, and grass lawns. With that said, EVs tend to have exemplary traction control, which is handy in those scenarios.
"I like that the corporations are motivated to keep the pies coming. " Oh? What IS their motivation, did you ever stop and think about that? It varies - considerably. The original authors' motivations no longer apply.
Commercial entities have contributed a lot of code where it served their interests, and due to the licensing, we get to use that code for our own purposes, regardless of their motivations. I think that's pretty cool.
In a way, it's sad. And in other ways, it's great. I'd like to see the authors get more of the pie, but I like that the corporations are motivated to keep the pies coming.
Lowering CO2 emissions has just been declared meaningless (or nearly so). If enough warming to melt arctic (and presumably antarctic) ice is "inevitable", then restricting CO2 emissions hardly matters.
Only if we give up. If we decided to come up with some scheme for forced cooling, then we'd still want CO2 reduction, so as not to be making the problem worse while trying to make it better. Also, the more CO2 there is in the air, the worse the air gets for mammals. We're mammals. It still matters.
The problem with making steam or splitting water is the minerals and gunk in the water eventually foul the solar panels.
This problem is simply solved by using solar water distillers. However, that requires more space. The whole idea of trying to make all-in-one solar panels which produce water is dumb. Some things are best centralized, and water is one of them. Power is best served with a mix of centralized and decentralized resources.
At my tech-heavy uni, we always used to laugh at the dumbed-down math options in the non-STEM faculties. [...] As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority.
1) White isn't a race 2) Race is a fiction, it's a dumbing-down of genetics
Rich people stay rich because they have rich habits and skills.
They stay rich because most other rich people want to help people like them, and don't want to help people who aren't like them. Ironically, Bill Gates' father was generally considered to be an all-around nice guy.
To be fair, most anti-vaxxers are incredibly unsuccessful... we hear about the rich ones, but we mostly hear from the poor ones, as there are hordes of them.
Now, it is true that Bill Gates had some decent programming skills, and it is also true that I am a better programmer than he ever was, and I am still not as rich as him. But they are measuring the wrong thing: Gates didn't get rich because of his programming skills, he got rich because of his business skills
His father was a well-connected lawyer, and his mother was chair of the United Way (at which time she rubbed elbows with the CEO of IBM) and also on the board of the First Interstate Bank of Washington. He got rich because he had skills, and he was well-connected. He got those skills in the first place because of who his parents were, and because of the opportunities presented by that parentage. If you want to tell the whole story, it's best to start at the beginning. Let's also not forget that Microsoft, under Bill Gates, was found to have abused its position in the marketplace in pretty much every possible way, and was let off with a handslap by John Ashcroft, under George Bush. They often say that behind every great fortune there is a great crime, and Bill Gates is a career criminal.
California has tried twice to modernize its vehicle registration system from the sixties, and failed twice, and thrown away tens of millions of dollars in the process.
What's needed is competence, and you can't just buy that.
because IQ is largely influenced by genes, and genes are not spread equally between races.
There's no such thing as races, racists' misguided ideas to the contrary, and there's no a finite number of "good" genes to be allocated amongst humanity.
The adsorbents are usually zeolites. They are reusable forever and ever amen. Membranes could last a very long time if not contaminated. But catalysts...
On the D7 -> D8 migrations, more often than not the D7 site has JUST enough customization/hacking done outside the "Drupal way" of doing things to go from a 100% successful migration to a 98% correct in the DB but be a complete, "WTF, Where's my content?", mess that can require an in-depth understanding of D8 to debug.
My website customization is done literally 100% the Drupal way. My theme is customized only for cosmetics. Everything else was done in views, etc. Yet the migration still resulted in a site that did not show body copy. I'm deeply disappointed, and probably will just go to Backdrop. There's some time between now and the deadline, though, so maybe they'll get migrate working correctly. I'm not going to hold my breath, though.
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Used to play D&D. Can vouch for the truth of this statement.
I met the first woman I had sex with in a gaming session. Your problem wasn't D&D.
I'm not generally opposed to Socialism, Social Democracy or Capitalism for that matter, in fact I'm basically a Social Democrat. However, the situation in Venezuela can be blamed completely on the incompetence and corruption of the Chavez regime and the even greater incompetence and corruption of the Maduro regime.
http://cepr.net/publications/op-eds-columns/the-united-states-hand-in-undermining-democracy-in-venezuela
http://time.com/5512005/venezu...
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/22...
etc.
What we really need is a way to make all that money worthless that's been accumulated by The Rich
Inflation is the answer to that, but "The Rich" have been keeping it artificially low.
Inflation is how you pay for UBI. You just print the money and hand it out. Any money which the wealthy people have stashed is devalued. This encourages investment.
I just have no words to convey the level of dumb.
She has words and you don't, but she's the dumb one? Nice logic there, champ.
I will deeply respect the first environmentalist I meet who tells me he's switched to taking cold showers to Save The Planet(tm).
Is that the only metric you'll accept, or is it okay with you if they switched to solar to heat their water?
And were those interests your own also, coolguy?
Mostly not. I worked for IBM for a little while, but at a time before they had contributed much open source.
"Model Y is capable in rain, snow, mud and off-road."
Off road? Sure, if pulling into your drive is off road. For that wilderness adventure, you can drive on your lawn.
While I agree with you on every level on this point, every automaker talks the same crap about their tall sedans and wagons, er I mean crossovers. They're just talking about dirt driveways, and grass lawns. With that said, EVs tend to have exemplary traction control, which is handy in those scenarios.
"I like that the corporations are motivated to keep the pies coming. " Oh? What IS their motivation, did you ever stop and think about that? It varies - considerably. The original authors' motivations no longer apply.
Commercial entities have contributed a lot of code where it served their interests, and due to the licensing, we get to use that code for our own purposes, regardless of their motivations. I think that's pretty cool.
In a way, it's sad. And in other ways, it's great. I'd like to see the authors get more of the pie, but I like that the corporations are motivated to keep the pies coming.
Lowering CO2 emissions has just been declared meaningless (or nearly so). If enough warming to melt arctic (and presumably antarctic) ice is "inevitable", then restricting CO2 emissions hardly matters.
Only if we give up. If we decided to come up with some scheme for forced cooling, then we'd still want CO2 reduction, so as not to be making the problem worse while trying to make it better. Also, the more CO2 there is in the air, the worse the air gets for mammals. We're mammals. It still matters.
The problem with making steam or splitting water is the minerals and gunk in the water eventually foul the solar panels.
This problem is simply solved by using solar water distillers. However, that requires more space. The whole idea of trying to make all-in-one solar panels which produce water is dumb. Some things are best centralized, and water is one of them. Power is best served with a mix of centralized and decentralized resources.
At my tech-heavy uni, we always used to laugh at the dumbed-down math options in the non-STEM faculties. [...] As of July 2016, White Americans are the racial majority.
1) White isn't a race
2) Race is a fiction, it's a dumbing-down of genetics
Who's laughing?
P.S. Hispanic isn't a race, either
Rich people stay rich because they have rich habits and skills.
They stay rich because most other rich people want to help people like them, and don't want to help people who aren't like them. Ironically, Bill Gates' father was generally considered to be an all-around nice guy.
To be fair, most anti-vaxxers are incredibly unsuccessful... we hear about the rich ones, but we mostly hear from the poor ones, as there are hordes of them.
And fucking morons like you would disbelieve a truth because of the messenger.
Wolf! Wolf!
Now, it is true that Bill Gates had some decent programming skills, and it is also true that I am a better programmer than he ever was, and I am still not as rich as him. But they are measuring the wrong thing: Gates didn't get rich because of his programming skills, he got rich because of his business skills
His father was a well-connected lawyer, and his mother was chair of the United Way (at which time she rubbed elbows with the CEO of IBM) and also on the board of the First Interstate Bank of Washington. He got rich because he had skills, and he was well-connected. He got those skills in the first place because of who his parents were, and because of the opportunities presented by that parentage. If you want to tell the whole story, it's best to start at the beginning. Let's also not forget that Microsoft, under Bill Gates, was found to have abused its position in the marketplace in pretty much every possible way, and was let off with a handslap by John Ashcroft, under George Bush. They often say that behind every great fortune there is a great crime, and Bill Gates is a career criminal.
What will these tools actually do, and how will they be better than just using some website?
How do you think I do many were caught?
If AI wrote your comment, it clearly needs more work
California has tried twice to modernize its vehicle registration system from the sixties, and failed twice, and thrown away tens of millions of dollars in the process.
What's needed is competence, and you can't just buy that.
because IQ is largely influenced by genes, and genes are not spread equally between races.
There's no such thing as races, racists' misguided ideas to the contrary, and there's no a finite number of "good" genes to be allocated amongst humanity.
The adsorbents are usually zeolites. They are reusable forever and ever amen. Membranes could last a very long time if not contaminated. But catalysts...
Maybe they'll put the AI in charge of admissions.
On the D7 -> D8 migrations, more often than not the D7 site has JUST enough customization/hacking done outside the "Drupal way" of doing things to go from a 100% successful migration to a 98% correct in the DB but be a complete, "WTF, Where's my content?", mess that can require an in-depth understanding of D8 to debug.
My website customization is done literally 100% the Drupal way. My theme is customized only for cosmetics. Everything else was done in views, etc. Yet the migration still resulted in a site that did not show body copy. I'm deeply disappointed, and probably will just go to Backdrop. There's some time between now and the deadline, though, so maybe they'll get migrate working correctly. I'm not going to hold my breath, though.
Please explain how deleting your Facebook account prevents you from being a victim of revenge porn. Oh, it doesn't? zzzzz
Don't let people take pictures/video of you while nekkid or while performing sex acts.
It actually works...
You've never heard of hidden cameras?