Being necessary and evil at the same time is not a must.. It can be nice and necessary too.. Problem is that all the politicians most of the time goes the popularity route on all that they vote for, unless they get some sponsoring from some big company, and this is not really what is good in the long run...
That's basically a flaw of democracy. Politicians that do unpopular things don't get re-elected, no matter how badly those unpopular things need to be done. And politicians don't like loosing their jobs any more than anyone else does.
It's worse than that. They identify the foreign workers they want to import, and then taylor the job descriptions so those workers are uniquely qualified for the job.
I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first. Not that I'm holding my breath.
A Swiss genetics company has claimed that up to 70 per cent of British men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, say they have reconstructed the DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh based on a film that was made for the Discovery Channel.
The results showed that 'King Tut' belonged to a genetic profile group, known as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 per cent of all men in Western Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor.
Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 per cent, according to iGENEA.
Actually, a similar system seems to work ok for the Catholic Church, which could be considered as a non-geographically oriented political entity, complete with it's own laws, court system, a voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions. Not shabby, especially when you consider it's lasted for 2000 years, which is longer than any government has.
Lovely. Just what we need, another aggrieved minority. The first thing it'll prolly do is hire a lawyer and sue us for reparations for displacing it's ancestors 30,000 years ago.
Definition of a scientist: A political activist that also wants to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs, and lay inventors.
Question: if you're not eventually going to be sending people into space, what's the justification for a tax-payer funded space program at all? The object of taxing people is to provide things that are useful to the public at large. If the intention isn't that people will eventually be going to live and work in space, or have some other practical human use for it, all you're doing is forcing the tax-payers to subsidize the curiosity of a few scientists and science geeks. Nice idea, but in today's economy pretty tough to justify. I like the space program as much as the next guy, but spending money on things that benefit no one but a select few are luxuries we can no longer afford.
Libertarians believe humans should be free to do whatever we want as long as it does not bring harm to other humans.
Grow up.
My purely anecdotal observation (as an ex-libertarian) is closer to "A libertarian is someone who wants just enough government to prevent the angry mob from giving him exactly what he deserves".
How 'bout it? For the first several years, Slashdot was All Linux All The Time. That's what drew it's original audience. It was one of the best resources on the net for keeping up with every little Linux development.
What icon does Slashdot use for articles about music? An Edison cylinder phonograph, a technology that hasn't been in common use for nearly a century, and is rarely if ever actually seen outside of a museum.
The point is that whether or not an icon representing a function reflects a technology currently in common use has nothing to do with weather people will associate it with a particular function. People who have grown up familiar with "folders" as a metaphor for "directory" or "phonograph" as a metaphor for "music" will associate the icon with the function regardless of whether or not they were ever familiar with the original technology the metaphor was based on.
Headlines and summaries have a finite length; it's a little difficult to express a complex idea in one paragraph. If you're really interested in getting the full story, RTFA.
I will never understand how the political and moneyed classes in the USA managed to convince the working man in that country that unions are the spawn of Satan.
It wasn't hard, particularly when industries which were unionized were industries that ceased to exist in this country. See "steel industry" and "auto industry".
Certainly you'll be sitting pretty if you have a union job. Provided there are any jobs left in your industry to be had. That's why the only unions still around are the public sector unions which aren't subject to market conditions.
I doubt it. From what I can gather from the story the same material and glue that are used for dental work were used. I'm not getting any odd tastes from my crowns.
Now that we know they can survive in extreme environments, what do we do with 'em? I suppose they could dump a few payloads of them on Mars or Venus and wait a few million years while evolution takes it's course....
There's only one obvious reason for a spacecraft company to be secretive. They're involved in a top secret military project.
Well, that or a lack of significant achievements. When you don't have a viable product available there isn't much point in blowing your own horn, is there?
Sure, eventually those gases will escape into space. But that "eventually" is measured in tens of thousands of years. For purposes of terraforming, that's a reasonable life span for an atmosphere. And it leaves you plenty of time to figure out what to do for an encore.
Not necessarily. We have plenty of civilizations on Earth that have barely left a trace, and the oldest of those is only a few thousand years old. If there were civilizations several hundred thousands or millions of years old, chances are pretty good we could miss them, even in our own back yard, let alone on another planet.
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Being necessary and evil at the same time is not a must.. It can be nice and necessary too.. Problem is that all the politicians most of the time goes the popularity route on all that they vote for, unless they get some sponsoring from some big company, and this is not really what is good in the long run...
That's basically a flaw of democracy. Politicians that do unpopular things don't get re-elected, no matter how badly those unpopular things need to be done. And politicians don't like loosing their jobs any more than anyone else does.
Human nature may not have changed. But our society has.
Apparently, not yet - NAACP tweets:
"BREAKING: Zimmerman acquitted on all charges.We will update you as we work to pursue civil rights charges against Zimmerman through the DOJ."
NAACP Is 'Outraged And Heartbroken,' And Will Pursue 'Civil Rights Charges' Against George Zimmerman
C'mon - you didn't seriously think Zimmerman was going to walk unscathed, did you?
It's worse than that. They identify the foreign workers they want to import, and then taylor the job descriptions so those workers are uniquely qualified for the job.
This is as relevant now as it was when it was made.
I expect there will be no relief in sight until Americans start electing politicians that put the interests of Americans first. Not that I'm holding my breath.
Offered for your consideration.
Actually, a similar system seems to work ok for the Catholic Church, which could be considered as a non-geographically oriented political entity, complete with it's own laws, court system, a voluntary constituency which also funds it's operations voluntarily through their own contributions. Not shabby, especially when you consider it's lasted for 2000 years, which is longer than any government has.
Lovely. Just what we need, another aggrieved minority. The first thing it'll prolly do is hire a lawyer and sue us for reparations for displacing it's ancestors 30,000 years ago.
Definition of a scientist: A political activist that also wants to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs, and lay inventors.
Question: if you're not eventually going to be sending people into space, what's the justification for a tax-payer funded space program at all? The object of taxing people is to provide things that are useful to the public at large. If the intention isn't that people will eventually be going to live and work in space, or have some other practical human use for it, all you're doing is forcing the tax-payers to subsidize the curiosity of a few scientists and science geeks. Nice idea, but in today's economy pretty tough to justify. I like the space program as much as the next guy, but spending money on things that benefit no one but a select few are luxuries we can no longer afford.
Libertarians believe humans should be free to do whatever we want as long as it does not bring harm to other humans.
Grow up.
My purely anecdotal observation (as an ex-libertarian) is closer to "A libertarian is someone who wants just enough government to prevent the angry mob from giving him exactly what he deserves".
But when scientists from the University of Sydney went to the area, they found only the blue ocean of the Coral Sea.
April Fools!
Climate change! Is there nothing it can't do?
Is there anything it can't do?
How 'bout it? For the first several years, Slashdot was All Linux All The Time. That's what drew it's original audience. It was one of the best resources on the net for keeping up with every little Linux development.
What icon does Slashdot use for articles about music? An Edison cylinder phonograph, a technology that hasn't been in common use for nearly a century, and is rarely if ever actually seen outside of a museum.
The point is that whether or not an icon representing a function reflects a technology currently in common use has nothing to do with weather people will associate it with a particular function. People who have grown up familiar with "folders" as a metaphor for "directory" or "phonograph" as a metaphor for "music" will associate the icon with the function regardless of whether or not they were ever familiar with the original technology the metaphor was based on.
Youll also note we dont have a "hooliganism" law.
No. Here if you pull a stunt offending somebody's religion, you get this.
The AG, Cuccinelli, is conspiring with extremest political groups to suppress scientific research.
Indeed? Who's the one trying to have his working letters suppressed? I don't think it's the AG...
Headlines and summaries have a finite length; it's a little difficult to express a complex idea in one paragraph. If you're really interested in getting the full story, RTFA.
I will never understand how the political and moneyed classes in the USA managed to convince the working man in that country that unions are the spawn of Satan.
It wasn't hard, particularly when industries which were unionized were industries that ceased to exist in this country. See "steel industry" and "auto industry".
Certainly you'll be sitting pretty if you have a union job. Provided there are any jobs left in your industry to be had. That's why the only unions still around are the public sector unions which aren't subject to market conditions.
I doubt it. From what I can gather from the story the same material and glue that are used for dental work were used. I'm not getting any odd tastes from my crowns.
Now that we know they can survive in extreme environments, what do we do with 'em? I suppose they could dump a few payloads of them on Mars or Venus and wait a few million years while evolution takes it's course....
There's only one obvious reason for a spacecraft company to be secretive. They're involved in a top secret military project.
Well, that or a lack of significant achievements. When you don't have a viable product available there isn't much point in blowing your own horn, is there?
Or a large one, that appears to have a lot of the desirable materials that Mars lacks.
Now we just need some genius to figure out how to get it to Mars.
Sure, eventually those gases will escape into space. But that "eventually" is measured in tens of thousands of years. For purposes of terraforming, that's a reasonable life span for an atmosphere. And it leaves you plenty of time to figure out what to do for an encore.
Not necessarily. We have plenty of civilizations on Earth that have barely left a trace, and the oldest of those is only a few thousand years old. If there were civilizations several hundred thousands or millions of years old, chances are pretty good we could miss them, even in our own back yard, let alone on another planet.