Glorious Soviet chemical engineering development plant made great plan to produce butter out of shit to once and for all eliminate world hunger, proving superiority of Soviet system for all humankind. Success rate so far is 50%. Spreads well already, taste still slightly off.
With all the startups that border on scams and kickstarter projects that basically are scams, you really wonder why people are afraid of new solutions? For real?
Looking around the web, I could not find anyone pointing towards "grapes from Greenland". Not even climate change deniers dared to try to run that story. The furthest north that we find an attempt to grow grapes is southern England. Grapes, by the way, are a rather poor measurement for how warm it was, simply for the fact that Christianity needs wine (and hence the grapes to make it) for its ceremonies. So even if the chance for success was close to zero or the quality simply atrocious, people would have tried to grow grapes, no matter the cost, the quality or the quantity of the outcome.
Unfortunately I could not find any kind of documents (not even from warming denyers) that talk about anything you post there, maybe you can provide a source?
Soviet Russia created a lot of great jokes. Like the one about the Samovar.
(should be read with original heavy Russian accent) Babushka working long time already in glorious Soviet factory producing samovar, working hard on conveyor putting together piece and piece of samovar. But alas, never had earned enough money for buying samovar. So went to leader from combine and pleaded case. Said "Dear comrade combine leader, I work many years already in glorious Soviet factory for samovar, but never have money for samovar. Could maybe please have money for buying samovar?" Said dear comrade combine leader "But babushka, cannot do that, everyone same people and everyone get same, so cannot give you more money than fellow comrade worker. But babushka, do what everyone does, every day, when going home, you take tiny little piece of samovar with you, and you put together when home, you have samovar too." Said babushka "But dear comrade combine leader, I tried. I really did. I take home little bit of samovar every day, But something I must do wrong. Every time I done putting together, I have not samovar, I have Automat Kalashnikov."
Well, technically, the Soviet "Human first" doesn't count either because he didn't land together with his capsule, which was required for the "first" to count. So yes, that's cheated, too.
I can't help but it feels more like the world is turning into a Monty Python skit, complete with Terry Gilliam's art. I'm honestly waiting for a large, naked foot to stomp me.
The medieval warm period. Really. C'mon. Don't want to go back to the dinosaurs as usual to show just how warm earth can be and still sustain life?
But ok. The MWP. First of all, even during the MWP it wasn't as warm as it is today. It was about 0.2 to 0.4 degrees Celsius warmer than before. Today we're at about 1.0 degrees warmer than it was in the 800s. Second, the MWP was not an uniform climate change as we experience today. It was mostly a localized phenomenon with various areas experiencing warmer periods during different times in those 300ish years.
In other words, there's a reason why even the most harebrained deniers don't use it. Stick with the dinosaurs, back then it was at least warmer than it is today.
Where the Soviets showcase the glorious developments of Russian ingenuity in an international display of new appliances, where they demo a potato peeling machine. Demonstrating it to the politburo, the inventor picks up a potato from a bucket, throws it into the machine and a few seconds of working very quietly later, a peeled potato is thrown out of the machine. An apparatchik is overwhelmed with joy, takes the bucket and dumps it into the machine, which prompts a rustling and a small door opens where an old babushka looks out and cries "Please, not so many, I'm alone this week".
What you have shown is that the cost of education is rising and that pupils of public schools fare poorly in academics
Fortunately for the US, we don't have many government-provided services. What I have shown is those few services the government does provide around here, have demonstrated an explosive cost-growth without any quality-improvement to justify it. Indeed, some would say, the quality has gone down.
Then I guess you have more of a corruption problem than one with municipal services, because it does work in Europe pretty well. Maybe you need to get rid of pork barrel filling politicians that are in the pockets of certain corporations?
Infrastructure-maintenance is deteriorating too — for a particularly striking example, consider the recent repainting of Brooklyn Bridge — which cost more than building the structure did originally.
Unfortunately I cannot read the article about the Brooklyn Bridge, but it would be interesting to find out why painting it is so expensive. You know, there's generally a reason for something, so what could it be? Maybe safety regulations that actually require gear where the workers would actually be more likely to survive working on it? I honestly don't know, and you didn't provide a reason so all I can do is speculate.
When you managed to convince me
Given that, 11 years ago, when Municipal WiFi has become an obvious disaster, you personally continued to defend it — much to the acclaim of your fellow Statists — I do not expect you to ever be convinced. "Municipal Fiber" is just another go at that same harebrained idea and, of course, you are going to defend it after it flops too...
You really went back 10 years of my posts? Are you stalking me? There are days where I actually reach the limit of postings I'm allowed to make, please don't tell me you read them all.
I can't help but feel a tiny bit flattered... in a weird, creeped-out way...
But back to the point. You might have noticed that some time has passed in the meantime. The amount of people who use the internet went up. The internet is no longer a playground for early adopters and tech geeks, old grannies and very tech-illiterate people now spend many hours every day on it, mostly using social media platforms or communication and discussion tools. Anyone under 25 pretty much can't even live anymore without it. The "digital natives" are growing up and they have come of (voting) age in the meantime. This isn't 2007 anymore where the "I cannot live without it" people are under the voting age and can't affect jack shit, the internet has pretty much become what TV used to be: The must-have convenience toy in our life.
You think people would have voted for municipal cable access 20 years ago? I am pretty sure they would have.
I think I found a way to get the required pressure easily. The density displayed in some postings here should be sufficient to create the pressure by mere gravitational force.
Do you really need evidence, that government-provided "services" cost too much and are of poor quality?
Yes. If you make a claim, you should be able to back it up. Even if it's clear and evident, or if you think it should be. For the longest time we thought it should go without saying that heavier things fall faster. Guess what, they don't.
This is interesting. Why is that the case? How do private schools in the US fare? How do schools outside the US compare, especially in countries that also have a public school system?
What you have shown is that the cost of education is rising and that pupils of public schools fare poorly in academics. The latter is easy to explain, everyone who can at least remotely afford it will try to get their kids into a private school. What's left is the, how to put it nicely, less qualified student material of parents that don't give a shit. That has less to do with private vs. public but more with a perceived (or even real) quality of education of different school systems. You will experience the same even in school systems that offer public education in varying schools at high-school levels, as is the case in many European countries, where you have schools for vocational training (which are generally regarded as inferior) and schools that prepare for university studies (which everyone who gives a shit about their kids try to cram their kids into).
Where do you think you'll find the "bad" students who slack, don't show up and generally don't care about their academic progress? A school where you have kids of parents that don't give a shit about their kids or a school where helicopter parents stuff their offspring?
I now expect you to apologize for the condescending tone and, as a penance, challenge dgatwood below for evidence of his claims...
When you managed to convince me, you'll receive an apology. Until then, I expect you to provide more than single-point statistics that can be interpreted away by a statistics student in the first semester.
The main problem remains the various manufacturers, loading the device with crapware you can neither uninstall nor disable that is even worse in their privacy invasion than Google ever could be. If you want to create a privacy protection law, force manufacturers to clearly state in no uncertain terms what shit they latch onto the system that you can't remove without rooting the device and effectively throw anything resembling warranty into the toilet.
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Glorious Soviet chemical engineering development plant made great plan to produce butter out of shit to once and for all eliminate world hunger, proving superiority of Soviet system for all humankind. Success rate so far is 50%. Spreads well already, taste still slightly off.
There are not only two years on record, so the second hottest isn't really the coolest...
But ... but that costs money! Way more money than the power for my AC!
And I'm gonna move out of this house in 5-10 years anyway, either because I'm moving away or because I'm only running out the clock in America's Wang.
With all the startups that border on scams and kickstarter projects that basically are scams, you really wonder why people are afraid of new solutions? For real?
Erh... no.
Looking around the web, I could not find anyone pointing towards "grapes from Greenland". Not even climate change deniers dared to try to run that story. The furthest north that we find an attempt to grow grapes is southern England. Grapes, by the way, are a rather poor measurement for how warm it was, simply for the fact that Christianity needs wine (and hence the grapes to make it) for its ceremonies. So even if the chance for success was close to zero or the quality simply atrocious, people would have tried to grow grapes, no matter the cost, the quality or the quantity of the outcome.
Unfortunately I could not find any kind of documents (not even from warming denyers) that talk about anything you post there, maybe you can provide a source?
Soviet Russia created a lot of great jokes. Like the one about the Samovar.
(should be read with original heavy Russian accent)
Babushka working long time already in glorious Soviet factory producing samovar, working hard on conveyor putting together piece and piece of samovar. But alas, never had earned enough money for buying samovar. So went to leader from combine and pleaded case. Said "Dear comrade combine leader, I work many years already in glorious Soviet factory for samovar, but never have money for samovar. Could maybe please have money for buying samovar?" Said dear comrade combine leader "But babushka, cannot do that, everyone same people and everyone get same, so cannot give you more money than fellow comrade worker. But babushka, do what everyone does, every day, when going home, you take tiny little piece of samovar with you, and you put together when home, you have samovar too." Said babushka "But dear comrade combine leader, I tried. I really did. I take home little bit of samovar every day, But something I must do wrong. Every time I done putting together, I have not samovar, I have Automat Kalashnikov."
And ... him being a six foot penis makes sense?
Damn furries.
Oh. Really?
Umm.. you think I could get away claiming I didn't know? *hides gun behind back*
Well, technically, the Soviet "Human first" doesn't count either because he didn't land together with his capsule, which was required for the "first" to count. So yes, that's cheated, too.
I can't help but it feels more like the world is turning into a Monty Python skit, complete with Terry Gilliam's art. I'm honestly waiting for a large, naked foot to stomp me.
Poe's Law. It's not just for religion anymore.
So what's to worry, it's colder than it was before. See? It's not getting warmer, it's getting colder!
(And yes, this is sarcasm. It's actually pretty sad that it is necessary to explicitly say so...)
The medieval warm period. Really. C'mon. Don't want to go back to the dinosaurs as usual to show just how warm earth can be and still sustain life?
But ok. The MWP. First of all, even during the MWP it wasn't as warm as it is today. It was about 0.2 to 0.4 degrees Celsius warmer than before. Today we're at about 1.0 degrees warmer than it was in the 800s. Second, the MWP was not an uniform climate change as we experience today. It was mostly a localized phenomenon with various areas experiencing warmer periods during different times in those 300ish years.
In other words, there's a reason why even the most harebrained deniers don't use it. Stick with the dinosaurs, back then it was at least warmer than it is today.
Where the Soviets showcase the glorious developments of Russian ingenuity in an international display of new appliances, where they demo a potato peeling machine. Demonstrating it to the politburo, the inventor picks up a potato from a bucket, throws it into the machine and a few seconds of working very quietly later, a peeled potato is thrown out of the machine. An apparatchik is overwhelmed with joy, takes the bucket and dumps it into the machine, which prompts a rustling and a small door opens where an old babushka looks out and cries "Please, not so many, I'm alone this week".
Fortunately for the US, we don't have many government-provided services. What I have shown is those few services the government does provide around here, have demonstrated an explosive cost-growth without any quality-improvement to justify it. Indeed, some would say, the quality has gone down.
Then I guess you have more of a corruption problem than one with municipal services, because it does work in Europe pretty well. Maybe you need to get rid of pork barrel filling politicians that are in the pockets of certain corporations?
Infrastructure-maintenance is deteriorating too — for a particularly striking example, consider the recent repainting of Brooklyn Bridge — which cost more than building the structure did originally.
Unfortunately I cannot read the article about the Brooklyn Bridge, but it would be interesting to find out why painting it is so expensive. You know, there's generally a reason for something, so what could it be? Maybe safety regulations that actually require gear where the workers would actually be more likely to survive working on it? I honestly don't know, and you didn't provide a reason so all I can do is speculate.
Given that, 11 years ago, when Municipal WiFi has become an obvious disaster, you personally continued to defend it — much to the acclaim of your fellow Statists — I do not expect you to ever be convinced. "Municipal Fiber" is just another go at that same harebrained idea and, of course, you are going to defend it after it flops too...
You really went back 10 years of my posts? Are you stalking me? There are days where I actually reach the limit of postings I'm allowed to make, please don't tell me you read them all.
I can't help but feel a tiny bit flattered ... in a weird, creeped-out way...
But back to the point. You might have noticed that some time has passed in the meantime. The amount of people who use the internet went up. The internet is no longer a playground for early adopters and tech geeks, old grannies and very tech-illiterate people now spend many hours every day on it, mostly using social media platforms or communication and discussion tools. Anyone under 25 pretty much can't even live anymore without it. The "digital natives" are growing up and they have come of (voting) age in the meantime. This isn't 2007 anymore where the "I cannot live without it" people are under the voting age and can't affect jack shit, the internet has pretty much become what TV used to be: The must-have convenience toy in our life.
You think people would have voted for municipal cable access 20 years ago? I am pretty sure they would have.
I think I found a way to get the required pressure easily. The density displayed in some postings here should be sufficient to create the pressure by mere gravitational force.
Allow me to provide an example (or rather, a study), since you asked in our discussion above. Here you go.
Do you really need evidence, that government-provided "services" cost too much and are of poor quality?
Yes. If you make a claim, you should be able to back it up. Even if it's clear and evident, or if you think it should be. For the longest time we thought it should go without saying that heavier things fall faster. Guess what, they don't.
Let's start with public schools, for example. Per-pupil costs have quadrupled since the 1960ies (inflation-adjusted), while 2/3rds of 8th graders still aren't be considered proficient in reading .
This is interesting. Why is that the case? How do private schools in the US fare? How do schools outside the US compare, especially in countries that also have a public school system?
What you have shown is that the cost of education is rising and that pupils of public schools fare poorly in academics. The latter is easy to explain, everyone who can at least remotely afford it will try to get their kids into a private school. What's left is the, how to put it nicely, less qualified student material of parents that don't give a shit. That has less to do with private vs. public but more with a perceived (or even real) quality of education of different school systems. You will experience the same even in school systems that offer public education in varying schools at high-school levels, as is the case in many European countries, where you have schools for vocational training (which are generally regarded as inferior) and schools that prepare for university studies (which everyone who gives a shit about their kids try to cram their kids into).
Where do you think you'll find the "bad" students who slack, don't show up and generally don't care about their academic progress? A school where you have kids of parents that don't give a shit about their kids or a school where helicopter parents stuff their offspring?
I now expect you to apologize for the condescending tone and, as a penance, challenge dgatwood below for evidence of his claims...
When you managed to convince me, you'll receive an apology. Until then, I expect you to provide more than single-point statistics that can be interpreted away by a statistics student in the first semester.
There are 2 possibilities.
1. You're trolling.
2. You consider yourself a citizen of the world and hence that's your area.
Them simply lying to the house judiciary committee without even thinking twice, or me knowing that they'll get away with it.
The main problem remains the various manufacturers, loading the device with crapware you can neither uninstall nor disable that is even worse in their privacy invasion than Google ever could be. If you want to create a privacy protection law, force manufacturers to clearly state in no uncertain terms what shit they latch onto the system that you can't remove without rooting the device and effectively throw anything resembling warranty into the toilet.
Out of curiosity, how many ISPs are in your area?
I'm old... old enough to remember Facebook when it was just a student directory. It started small and it'll end small!
How is this even possible? Where I'm from, the judge would simply tell them to "fuck off" and wipe the file off his table.