Can you cite a specific left-wing action involved in causing those cities to implode?
I doubt it. You're not interested in causes and effects, nor in the difference between social liberalism, fiscal liberalism or political liberalism. You care about a label you can call "bad" because that magically makes the tribe you belong to "good".
God, I hate tribal politics. Bloody stone age freaks screaming at each other.
Until one if you bloody well reaches civilization, don't waste my time.
You can progress without having an increased surface footprint.
If you were to upgrade US and European rail links, such that travel averaged speeds of 175-225mph, with access to every town and village, you would greatly increase mobility for more of the people.
Rail has a more neutral albedo than tarmac and can be built to superior standards.
American roads are horribly built and getting rid of the Interstates would be massively progressive.
Of course, you need cars. The X-Prize car should be the new minimum standard. 100mph at 100mpg when carrying 2 adults, 2 children and groceries.
Hey, you want progress or not? 2000s standards should be superior to 1960s ones.
Then explsin why underdeveloped societies have longer life expectancies.
Explain why you can transport hundreds more at three times the speed by rail than by road, with no asphalt.
Explain why you can have underground homes and hospitals that have zero footprint on the surface.
But you can't. You cannot explain these facts unless you first accept that what you have is suboptimal. And you cannot accept that without first accepting you can do without individual defective features like asphalt.
You'll find the Blue Zones are remarkably difficult to research over the whole of recorded (3,500 BC to now, excluding 2,200-1,500 BC) history. Even in modern times, although the historical records are there, the people who track records tend to rely on self-reporting. Why, exactly, would some Chinese goatherder, Japanese fisherman or Greek farmer go to the trouble of contacting Guinness Book of World Records?
And you'll also find one of the Blue Zones in the US.
Anyways, if you have a higher than normal percentage of the population living to 100 in generally better health than elsewhere, a higher than normal percentage must live beyond that. Unless you think the Greek islands are haunted by an axe-wielding maniac.
122 is improbable, as the human body is physically incapable of living past 120 unaided. That means all dates given must be +/- up to 2-3 years. Maybe more. Probably more. Records, even today, are notoriously unreliable.
I lived for 5 years in the Appalachians. What do I need to stereotype them for?
Yes, they're inferior, not because they're inbred but because they're bloody insular. Cities are genetically healthier because they have large numbers of foreign people living there, bringing in new genes. More importantly, new genes successful enough for the person to move overseas.
Suicide, murder and sickness all increase where you've a poor diet and little education. And, no, odd as it might seem, neither diet nor education are natural causes.
The middle class is dying. And the bulk of people I've worked for were unhealthy slobs who will die stupidly young.
The air pollution around Portland, OR - home of the middle class, or at least theur books - is replete with heavy metals such as mercury. And restrictions are being lifted. It will get worse.
Is a product of poor education and poor diet. The areas affected suffer both.
Poor genetic health is a factor, with urban communities typically having better genes, but that would be overwhelmed by diet and education.
America's he-man culture and lack of functioning health service (mental health is virtually absent, synthetic opium is handed out like candy by doctors to make up for it) are other major blunders.
And remember this is an average life expectancy, it's different for men and women. Men tend to live shorter lifespans. And it's male lifespans that are falling fastest.
They realized Trump is making things worse. Even Bundy and his son are criticizing Trump now.
Mind you, that's probably not the cause of suicide. Bundy is reporting death threats against him and his family - and he's a folk hero of the alt-right.
If that's what they do to folk heroes, you can imagine what they do to the invisible folk quietly working on farms.
To make a router that couldn't suffer such security failings. There would be a few disadvantages - first, it would be bulkier, second it would be more complex to administer, thirdly you'd face massive opposition because nobody really wants security. If they did, such devices would be the norm.
Anyways, there has been a lot of interest in electrodes close to the brain. You can get much more sensitive, much more accurate, EEG if the electrodes are on the inside of the skull. Of course, MEG may make that redundant.
Brain-Computer Interfaces are an emerging technology but apparently the brain reacts to electrodes. No surprises there, we've known for decades that protein knots are formed around metal contamination in the brain. I'm interested in whether these hydrogels will reduce that problem.
Stock values are according to what stock broker's computers think they can buy at in order to sell for a profit, according to a genetic algorithm nobody understands. Prices have no relationship to what the brokers think the stocks are worth, or what the company itself thinks it is worth. There is a slight negative relationship to what the company is actually doing. Real research and new products are more dangerous than playing it safe.
Although brokers are often thought of as investors, they invest nothing in the companies they buy shares of. They're just buying and selling shares. None of that money is seen by the company itself, unless the company itself sells shares it holds in reserve. Directors selling shares can become rich, but that money doesn't go into the company. Company finances and director finances are kept seperate.
So what this means is that a computer has decided Microsoft shares will go up in value by enough to make day trading in Microsoft shares highly profitable.
Fred Hoyle talked of geoengineering in A for Andromeda, back in the 1950s, a bit more potent than the sort being discussed these days.
Carl Sagan's Contact discussed self-describing engineering schematics. You need know nothing but mathematics. Self-describing data formats exist, but not to that degree.
Terry Nation discussed automatically self-healing systems. Perhaps some form of Von Neumann Universal Constructor. Only Zen knows for sure.
He also described the Tarriel Cell, a revolutionary new way to perform computations, complete with SPECTRE bug. Shows he was ahead of his time. However, the Tarriel Cell seems to be a highly advanced Quantum Computing device that is compact and portable.
The sonic screwdriver may take a little longer.
Regeneration, however, is very doable. You just need to have nanobots in each cell that have the turbo codes for each gene in the DNA, Reed-Solomon codes for each codon and Universal Constructor blueprints on how to build a cell. Then, no matter what happens, the cell can be reconstructed from scratch without inhibiting the cell's own ability to restructure itself.
If code is designed correctly, there would be no learning curve at all. A given module would be covered by a specification and a comprehensive test system.
But it isn't. The learning curve exists because you have to dig for answers.
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Depends on the agriculture.
There's no evidence of any significant environmental impact from agriculture specifically until about 3,500 BC.
So it's not agriculture, it's scale and density. Small scale, low density agriculture won't alter the soil, the albedo or the local climate.
The question is, what can you scale these up to?
By definition, liberals do not believe that. You must choose, either they're not a liberal or they do not believe what you claim.
But, then, this cult of alternative facts means you probably think you really can make words mean what you like.
Those are demonstrations of what, exactly?
Can you cite a specific left-wing action involved in causing those cities to implode?
I doubt it. You're not interested in causes and effects, nor in the difference between social liberalism, fiscal liberalism or political liberalism. You care about a label you can call "bad" because that magically makes the tribe you belong to "good".
God, I hate tribal politics. Bloody stone age freaks screaming at each other.
Until one if you bloody well reaches civilization, don't waste my time.
You can progress without having an increased surface footprint.
If you were to upgrade US and European rail links, such that travel averaged speeds of 175-225mph, with access to every town and village, you would greatly increase mobility for more of the people.
Rail has a more neutral albedo than tarmac and can be built to superior standards.
American roads are horribly built and getting rid of the Interstates would be massively progressive.
Of course, you need cars. The X-Prize car should be the new minimum standard. 100mph at 100mpg when carrying 2 adults, 2 children and groceries.
Hey, you want progress or not? 2000s standards should be superior to 1960s ones.
Then explsin why underdeveloped societies have longer life expectancies.
Explain why you can transport hundreds more at three times the speed by rail than by road, with no asphalt.
Explain why you can have underground homes and hospitals that have zero footprint on the surface.
But you can't. You cannot explain these facts unless you first accept that what you have is suboptimal. And you cannot accept that without first accepting you can do without individual defective features like asphalt.
Socialists have been destroyed... By republicans, mostly through dirty tricks, murder, drugs, pollution and degeneracy.
The Republicans cannot create, they can only destroy, as pointed out by Tolkein and others.
There's this thing called a battery. You may have heard of it.
You'll find the Blue Zones are remarkably difficult to research over the whole of recorded (3,500 BC to now, excluding 2,200-1,500 BC) history. Even in modern times, although the historical records are there, the people who track records tend to rely on self-reporting. Why, exactly, would some Chinese goatherder, Japanese fisherman or Greek farmer go to the trouble of contacting Guinness Book of World Records?
And you'll also find one of the Blue Zones in the US.
Anyways, if you have a higher than normal percentage of the population living to 100 in generally better health than elsewhere, a higher than normal percentage must live beyond that. Unless you think the Greek islands are haunted by an axe-wielding maniac.
122 is improbable, as the human body is physically incapable of living past 120 unaided. That means all dates given must be +/- up to 2-3 years. Maybe more. Probably more. Records, even today, are notoriously unreliable.
And one of the aforementioned Blue Zones is... guess what? In the U.S..
My point stands. Or sits. Or does yoga. Whatever it takes to convince people to look at the whole.
I lived for 5 years in the Appalachians. What do I need to stereotype them for?
Yes, they're inferior, not because they're inbred but because they're bloody insular. Cities are genetically healthier because they have large numbers of foreign people living there, bringing in new genes. More importantly, new genes successful enough for the person to move overseas.
Suicide, murder and sickness all increase where you've a poor diet and little education. And, no, odd as it might seem, neither diet nor education are natural causes.
Well, yes, globally.
Regionally, there are communities where it's abnormal to not live to 100 and a fair few reach 110-120. In better shape than most people are at age 60.
We need a better understanding of what their lifestyle does to their body.
The middle class is dying. And the bulk of people I've worked for were unhealthy slobs who will die stupidly young.
The air pollution around Portland, OR - home of the middle class, or at least theur books - is replete with heavy metals such as mercury. And restrictions are being lifted. It will get worse.
Is a product of poor education and poor diet. The areas affected suffer both.
Poor genetic health is a factor, with urban communities typically having better genes, but that would be overwhelmed by diet and education.
America's he-man culture and lack of functioning health service (mental health is virtually absent, synthetic opium is handed out like candy by doctors to make up for it) are other major blunders.
And remember this is an average life expectancy, it's different for men and women. Men tend to live shorter lifespans. And it's male lifespans that are falling fastest.
They realized Trump is making things worse. Even Bundy and his son are criticizing Trump now.
Mind you, that's probably not the cause of suicide. Bundy is reporting death threats against him and his family - and he's a folk hero of the alt-right.
If that's what they do to folk heroes, you can imagine what they do to the invisible folk quietly working on farms.
To make a router that couldn't suffer such security failings. There would be a few disadvantages - first, it would be bulkier, second it would be more complex to administer, thirdly you'd face massive opposition because nobody really wants security. If they did, such devices would be the norm.
Except that they have never successfully prevented any attacks. A congressional enquiry got the NSA to admit a 100% failure rate.
Very Whovian.
Anyways, there has been a lot of interest in electrodes close to the brain. You can get much more sensitive, much more accurate, EEG if the electrodes are on the inside of the skull. Of course, MEG may make that redundant.
Brain-Computer Interfaces are an emerging technology but apparently the brain reacts to electrodes. No surprises there, we've known for decades that protein knots are formed around metal contamination in the brain. I'm interested in whether these hydrogels will reduce that problem.
I'd ask you to define, but since you didn't read my post to begin with, there's not much point.
Then I have to say that I have enormous respect for those large corporations with a startup/small company mindset.
Stock values are according to what stock broker's computers think they can buy at in order to sell for a profit, according to a genetic algorithm nobody understands. Prices have no relationship to what the brokers think the stocks are worth, or what the company itself thinks it is worth. There is a slight negative relationship to what the company is actually doing. Real research and new products are more dangerous than playing it safe.
Although brokers are often thought of as investors, they invest nothing in the companies they buy shares of. They're just buying and selling shares. None of that money is seen by the company itself, unless the company itself sells shares it holds in reserve. Directors selling shares can become rich, but that money doesn't go into the company. Company finances and director finances are kept seperate.
So what this means is that a computer has decided Microsoft shares will go up in value by enough to make day trading in Microsoft shares highly profitable.
+Oh, that's already been done.
Fred Hoyle talked of geoengineering in A for Andromeda, back in the 1950s, a bit more potent than the sort being discussed these days.
Carl Sagan's Contact discussed self-describing engineering schematics. You need know nothing but mathematics. Self-describing data formats exist, but not to that degree.
Terry Nation discussed automatically self-healing systems. Perhaps some form of Von Neumann Universal Constructor. Only Zen knows for sure.
He also described the Tarriel Cell, a revolutionary new way to perform computations, complete with SPECTRE bug. Shows he was ahead of his time. However, the Tarriel Cell seems to be a highly advanced Quantum Computing device that is compact and portable.
The sonic screwdriver may take a little longer.
Regeneration, however, is very doable. You just need to have nanobots in each cell that have the turbo codes for each gene in the DNA, Reed-Solomon codes for each codon and Universal Constructor blueprints on how to build a cell. Then, no matter what happens, the cell can be reconstructed from scratch without inhibiting the cell's own ability to restructure itself.
You interface with the outside world. That interface conveys many things, but unless you suffer brain damage, it cannot convey negative ability.
If what is meant is lower efficacy, that's different. Efficacy is always reduced with context switches.
What doesn't kill you has as much chance of making you weaker. Sun Tzu.
If code is designed correctly, there would be no learning curve at all. A given module would be covered by a specification and a comprehensive test system.
But it isn't. The learning curve exists because you have to dig for answers.