Who the fuck has a business grade fax machine that prints? Even your dodgiest multifunction fax / printer will email a received fax as a pdf. Same with standing in front of a fax machine and feeding in the pages. The only reason you would ever do that is if you had to sign a document.
Really? I've never worked in Japan but I have visited it extensively and there are loads and loads of super-stores that carry absolutely everything. I can see this type of protectionism happening in small towns but I would find it surprising in the larger cities.
Also not read TFA, who does, but I wonder if this is per man hour or per employee or per $. The reason I ask is all my Japanese friends work CRAZY long hours and have crap leave entitlements.
Uh huh. I want you to just think that through. You want armed units going to houses, dragging people out and shoving them over the border? And what counts as not wanting to work? Being out of work for 3 months? Being a stay at home parent? What?
Sigh. God you're dumb. How is it that you cannot think more than one step?
Person A wants to work and goes out and gets a job. Something happens, injury, illness, company folds up. Is now unemployed. Has costs they have to meet, kids to feed, bills to pay. Starts off selling down assets. Assets are now gone. Kids still need to be fed, shelter provided. Now what? Injury may prevent them going back into their old line of work, but can't retrain as there is no support. Perhaps can't relocate for work because of family, or perhaps can't afford to because relocating is not free. Person gets desperate. Someone says "you sell this bag of pills and you will earn $5k" guess what, it gets serious thought. Now a productive member of society is now someone who damages society.
Person B, wants to work, goes out and gets a job. Something happens, injury, illness, company folds up. Is now unemployed. Has costs they have to meet, kids to feed, bills to pay. Receives small welfare payment from the government. Is able to feed kids and recover from what ever set back occurred. If it is injury / illness they have time to recover. If it is job changing injury they have time to retrain. If they have to relocate for work they haven't burnt all their assets surviving so they can afford to move. Person gets new job, they start paying taxes again, 3 months later their taxes have exceeded the amount of welfare they received. Society is a better place.
Person A (b). Person doesn't want to work. Is a lowlife. Goes out and joins a gang that is full of people who also don't want to work AND people who are disenfranchised because they fell through the gaps. The gang has a huge number of members and is organised into a significant criminal organisation. Many people are harmed by their actions. Large areas are essentially controlled by these gangs. Ends up in prison after shooting a 7-11 shop keeper. Is one of 570 people sentenced to prison this week.
Person B (b) Person doesn't want to work. Is a lowlife. Goes out and joins a gang that are similar losers to himself. Overall the gang is pretty small and none of them are particularly motivated or intelligent. Motivation is pretty low because all of them receive enough cash to buy their food, booze and cigarettes They run some small scale drug operations, mainly dope and ecstasy. They don't have the critical mass to take over whole suburbs. Ends up in prison when he tries to sell drugs to an under cover cop. Is one of 120 people sentenced to prison this week.
Actually a faster road to the downfall of society is having an ever growing part of your society hating the other part. That over time feels more and more distanced and disenfranchised. That over time attacks the included part of your society, cause increases in wasted expenditure such as security, police forces, incarceration and insurances. That over time causes a net economic drag on your society that far exceeds the cost of the welfare in the first place.
Think of welfare as societies insurance. If you insure your car and your house you should insure your society with welfare.
By definition if the majority want to reinstitute slavery then the democracy will re-introduce slavery. Otherwise it isn't a democracy. It may need to be a super-majority - ie over 75% depending on the constitutional challenges it has to overcome but that doesn't change the fact that a democracy follows the majority.
You are right that games should be enjoyable first and foremost. However games can become more enjoyable if they push the limits of the systems that exist. Using multiple threads for better AI is an obvious example. However very few games do this.
Maybe. But Origin did very well for itself and every time a crysis game came out it got loads and loads of free marketting. I think that some lost sales are probably made up by other sales won.
Actually I really miss the early days of Origin when the games would come out and if your machine was a year old it wouldn't really work. The wing commander series pushed those machines to the limit and I remember messing with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get the games to work without getting a page overflow.
Games should push the limits. And sure that means there will be a decent number of people who can't play their games without buying an upgrade, but I don't have a problem with that.
That said, building a game which is just lazy and poorly coded and saying that it needs 64gb of ram is a different story.
Actually the daily temperature range in Ouarzazate isn't that great The coldest the air temp gets is 5c in January and the max air temp is 35c in July. In any given month the differential doesn't get above about 15C. I don't think the there should be temperature issues outside the norm that this type of installation would see anywhere in the world.
The site also has really really low rainfall - 40mm in a month is a huge month. So there should be limited issues from water and hence water marking on the mirrors.
The main issue will be microfine dust and how they handle that in the bearings.
We stick people in it. People are full of bacteria. Some of that bacteria can be bad for you if it ends up in the wrong place. At which point did any of this become surprising? I kinda want to slap the researchers on the back of the head...
Hacksaw blades make fantastic bases for shivs. But they are also very useful for making other things. They hold up very well to multiple types to use and are relatively easy to conceal.
Don't make the assumption that the contraband is for escaping.
I'm guessing you meant 2011 instead of 2001. There have been bombings in 2003, 2007 and 2011. So yes they do have a terrorism problem but it is less that what has occurred in the US or the UK for example.
Sorry this is just plain wrong. Have a look at the bull shark for example, one of the 3 most likely sharks to bite a human. They are basically blind bottom feeders that use the bump and bite method of attack. They are common as hell in the Brisbane River and there are plenty of reports of people being bitten then released.
You seem to have thrown all sharks into the apex predator open water category of the great white and that simply isn't right.
As for successful shark attacks leaving no evidence this is also patently wrong. Humans are big even relative to large sharks and unless you get a pack there will be parts of the body left to be found later.
I usually body board and where I am unless you were wearing goggles you can't see that far under water due to the sand and stuff being thrown up by the waves. Max 5 meters.
The closest I have ever come is sitting with a group when a decent sized fin has passed right through the middle of us. Don't know how big it was, but it wasn't a little one. We were out of there straight away.
As for them coming in to shore I have only ever seen the big ones come in chasing schools of fish. It looked very similar to this - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
Huh? Morocco is pretty safe. Sure its got issues but they are relatively minor and I doubt you would see infrastructure like this being damaged by bombs. I'd suggest if it was built in the US there would be a higher risk of rednecks shooting the mirrors for shits and giggles.
But the builder of the sea wall will never see those profits. Because the profits are spread across the wider community, unless it is built by the government. There will never be a private entity that will build that sea wall.
It is in an environment which will be naturally tough on the system. While capex is crazy high it will be interesting to see how it stacks up cost wise over a 50 year life span. It may be the as we get better at building these sytems and production infrastructure scales that this type of plant could deliver a decent cost per watt.
If you want to hear awful have a listen to 2 koalas fighting...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Skip it to about half way through and you will get the demon possession noises...
I live out on acreage and have a eucalyptus reserve running through my property. I hear this every night during spring (ie now)
I disagree with the premise of your argument. Just because something is unprofitable does not mean that it should not be built. Also the corollary to that is just because something is profitable doesn't mean it should be built.
For example, a sea wall will never be profitable to the builder. It may or may not prevent property damage in the future but the builder of that sea wall will never ever see those returns. There is no realistic possibility of collecting the funds from the nearby residents, because you are asking them to fund a multi-generational asset which they would only see partial returns on.
Rail is another example. Rail is something that should be considered as part of a wider transport network. If I build rail here, will it reduce load on a road network there? If it does what are the overall economic benefits of that piece of infrastructure? Does that economic benefit exceed the cost of the railway? Note that this is significantly different from "is this railway line profitable?". In fact there are many many many economic arguments for building transport networks that are loss leaders.
If you want to have a look at a non transport equivalent, consider Android the OS. Google develops Android and releases it open source to the market. Loads and loads and loads of people have built devices based on something google did, and not paid a cent to Google. Now Google makes a bucket load of cash from the play store but the actual Android OS is a total cost centre. Google has decided that building Android is better for their wider economy than not building it, despite it not directly making them money. Think about rail the same way, if I build a rail line, does my wider economy benefit?
The market that allowed the rail barons to exist, no longer exists. Land was cheap, labour was cheap, and there was a captive market. Also most of those projects were given government support in some way, be it low interest loans or land grants.
Also, shark attacks on humans are usually a mistake by the shark. They are either bull sharks, which just bite anything they run into, or they are tiger sharks that are munching through a school of bait fish and a human is in the way.
At least our possums are way cuter than yours (assuming you're a yank of course). Possums are meant to be cute and fluffy. Not what ever the fuck happened to create an opossum!!!
I've never found then scary when under the water. But when you are in the surf and all you can see is a fin I have found it down right terrifying. I think it is because you can't see the whole animal. So your mind turns it into something bigger than Jaws. On top of that when you are underwater you can follow their movements, where as on the surface all you see is the fin when it breaks the surface and with any kind of waves it's when they are close. So your mind gets to run amok creating the worst possible scenario.
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Don't forget the creation of jobs which are higher skilled to maintain, install and program the robots.
Who the fuck has a business grade fax machine that prints? Even your dodgiest multifunction fax / printer will email a received fax as a pdf. Same with standing in front of a fax machine and feeding in the pages. The only reason you would ever do that is if you had to sign a document.
Really? I've never worked in Japan but I have visited it extensively and there are loads and loads of super-stores that carry absolutely everything. I can see this type of protectionism happening in small towns but I would find it surprising in the larger cities.
Also not read TFA, who does, but I wonder if this is per man hour or per employee or per $. The reason I ask is all my Japanese friends work CRAZY long hours and have crap leave entitlements.
Uh huh. I want you to just think that through. You want armed units going to houses, dragging people out and shoving them over the border? And what counts as not wanting to work? Being out of work for 3 months? Being a stay at home parent? What?
Sigh. God you're dumb. How is it that you cannot think more than one step?
Person A wants to work and goes out and gets a job. Something happens, injury, illness, company folds up. Is now unemployed. Has costs they have to meet, kids to feed, bills to pay. Starts off selling down assets. Assets are now gone. Kids still need to be fed, shelter provided. Now what? Injury may prevent them going back into their old line of work, but can't retrain as there is no support. Perhaps can't relocate for work because of family, or perhaps can't afford to because relocating is not free. Person gets desperate. Someone says "you sell this bag of pills and you will earn $5k" guess what, it gets serious thought. Now a productive member of society is now someone who damages society.
Person B, wants to work, goes out and gets a job. Something happens, injury, illness, company folds up. Is now unemployed. Has costs they have to meet, kids to feed, bills to pay. Receives small welfare payment from the government. Is able to feed kids and recover from what ever set back occurred. If it is injury / illness they have time to recover. If it is job changing injury they have time to retrain. If they have to relocate for work they haven't burnt all their assets surviving so they can afford to move. Person gets new job, they start paying taxes again, 3 months later their taxes have exceeded the amount of welfare they received. Society is a better place.
Person A (b). Person doesn't want to work. Is a lowlife. Goes out and joins a gang that is full of people who also don't want to work AND people who are disenfranchised because they fell through the gaps. The gang has a huge number of members and is organised into a significant criminal organisation. Many people are harmed by their actions. Large areas are essentially controlled by these gangs. Ends up in prison after shooting a 7-11 shop keeper. Is one of 570 people sentenced to prison this week.
Person B (b) Person doesn't want to work. Is a lowlife. Goes out and joins a gang that are similar losers to himself. Overall the gang is pretty small and none of them are particularly motivated or intelligent. Motivation is pretty low because all of them receive enough cash to buy their food, booze and cigarettes They run some small scale drug operations, mainly dope and ecstasy. They don't have the critical mass to take over whole suburbs. Ends up in prison when he tries to sell drugs to an under cover cop. Is one of 120 people sentenced to prison this week.
Actually a faster road to the downfall of society is having an ever growing part of your society hating the other part. That over time feels more and more distanced and disenfranchised. That over time attacks the included part of your society, cause increases in wasted expenditure such as security, police forces, incarceration and insurances. That over time causes a net economic drag on your society that far exceeds the cost of the welfare in the first place.
Think of welfare as societies insurance. If you insure your car and your house you should insure your society with welfare.
By definition if the majority want to reinstitute slavery then the democracy will re-introduce slavery. Otherwise it isn't a democracy. It may need to be a super-majority - ie over 75% depending on the constitutional challenges it has to overcome but that doesn't change the fact that a democracy follows the majority.
You are right that games should be enjoyable first and foremost. However games can become more enjoyable if they push the limits of the systems that exist. Using multiple threads for better AI is an obvious example. However very few games do this.
Maybe. But Origin did very well for itself and every time a crysis game came out it got loads and loads of free marketting. I think that some lost sales are probably made up by other sales won.
Actually I really miss the early days of Origin when the games would come out and if your machine was a year old it wouldn't really work. The wing commander series pushed those machines to the limit and I remember messing with autoexec.bat and config.sys to get the games to work without getting a page overflow.
Games should push the limits. And sure that means there will be a decent number of people who can't play their games without buying an upgrade, but I don't have a problem with that.
That said, building a game which is just lazy and poorly coded and saying that it needs 64gb of ram is a different story.
Actually the daily temperature range in Ouarzazate isn't that great The coldest the air temp gets is 5c in January and the max air temp is 35c in July. In any given month the differential doesn't get above about 15C. I don't think the there should be temperature issues outside the norm that this type of installation would see anywhere in the world.
The site also has really really low rainfall - 40mm in a month is a huge month. So there should be limited issues from water and hence water marking on the mirrors.
The main issue will be microfine dust and how they handle that in the bearings.
We stick people in it. People are full of bacteria. Some of that bacteria can be bad for you if it ends up in the wrong place. At which point did any of this become surprising? I kinda want to slap the researchers on the back of the head...
Hacksaw blades make fantastic bases for shivs. But they are also very useful for making other things. They hold up very well to multiple types to use and are relatively easy to conceal.
Don't make the assumption that the contraband is for escaping.
I'm guessing you meant 2011 instead of 2001. There have been bombings in 2003, 2007 and 2011. So yes they do have a terrorism problem but it is less that what has occurred in the US or the UK for example.
As for your friend, my condolences.
Sorry this is just plain wrong. Have a look at the bull shark for example, one of the 3 most likely sharks to bite a human. They are basically blind bottom feeders that use the bump and bite method of attack. They are common as hell in the Brisbane River and there are plenty of reports of people being bitten then released.
You seem to have thrown all sharks into the apex predator open water category of the great white and that simply isn't right.
As for successful shark attacks leaving no evidence this is also patently wrong. Humans are big even relative to large sharks and unless you get a pack there will be parts of the body left to be found later.
I usually body board and where I am unless you were wearing goggles you can't see that far under water due to the sand and stuff being thrown up by the waves. Max 5 meters.
The closest I have ever come is sitting with a group when a decent sized fin has passed right through the middle of us. Don't know how big it was, but it wasn't a little one. We were out of there straight away.
As for them coming in to shore I have only ever seen the big ones come in chasing schools of fish. It looked very similar to this - https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
I live near the Sunshine Coast in Australia.
Huh? Morocco is pretty safe. Sure its got issues but they are relatively minor and I doubt you would see infrastructure like this being damaged by bombs. I'd suggest if it was built in the US there would be a higher risk of rednecks shooting the mirrors for shits and giggles.
But the builder of the sea wall will never see those profits. Because the profits are spread across the wider community, unless it is built by the government. There will never be a private entity that will build that sea wall.
It is in an environment which will be naturally tough on the system. While capex is crazy high it will be interesting to see how it stacks up cost wise over a 50 year life span. It may be the as we get better at building these sytems and production infrastructure scales that this type of plant could deliver a decent cost per watt.
If you want to hear awful have a listen to 2 koalas fighting...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Skip it to about half way through and you will get the demon possession noises...
I live out on acreage and have a eucalyptus reserve running through my property. I hear this every night during spring (ie now)
I disagree with the premise of your argument. Just because something is unprofitable does not mean that it should not be built. Also the corollary to that is just because something is profitable doesn't mean it should be built.
For example, a sea wall will never be profitable to the builder. It may or may not prevent property damage in the future but the builder of that sea wall will never ever see those returns. There is no realistic possibility of collecting the funds from the nearby residents, because you are asking them to fund a multi-generational asset which they would only see partial returns on.
Rail is another example. Rail is something that should be considered as part of a wider transport network. If I build rail here, will it reduce load on a road network there? If it does what are the overall economic benefits of that piece of infrastructure? Does that economic benefit exceed the cost of the railway? Note that this is significantly different from "is this railway line profitable?". In fact there are many many many economic arguments for building transport networks that are loss leaders.
If you want to have a look at a non transport equivalent, consider Android the OS. Google develops Android and releases it open source to the market. Loads and loads and loads of people have built devices based on something google did, and not paid a cent to Google. Now Google makes a bucket load of cash from the play store but the actual Android OS is a total cost centre. Google has decided that building Android is better for their wider economy than not building it, despite it not directly making them money. Think about rail the same way, if I build a rail line, does my wider economy benefit?
The market that allowed the rail barons to exist, no longer exists. Land was cheap, labour was cheap, and there was a captive market. Also most of those projects were given government support in some way, be it low interest loans or land grants.
Also, shark attacks on humans are usually a mistake by the shark. They are either bull sharks, which just bite anything they run into, or they are tiger sharks that are munching through a school of bait fish and a human is in the way.
At least our possums are way cuter than yours (assuming you're a yank of course). Possums are meant to be cute and fluffy. Not what ever the fuck happened to create an opossum!!!
I've never found then scary when under the water. But when you are in the surf and all you can see is a fin I have found it down right terrifying. I think it is because you can't see the whole animal. So your mind turns it into something bigger than Jaws. On top of that when you are underwater you can follow their movements, where as on the surface all you see is the fin when it breaks the surface and with any kind of waves it's when they are close. So your mind gets to run amok creating the worst possible scenario.
Don't forget the red-backs in the toilets. And the huntsmen that roam the bedrooms carrying necrotizing fasciitis.
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