The editorial (pro- Net Doublecharge, anti-Neutrality) is by "Timothy B. Lee". The Web was invented by Tim Berners Lee, who strongly advocates Net Neutrality.
This editorial is obviously an astroturf fraud. That the NY Times is publishing on its once mighty Op-Ed page.
Every American should be thinking about how much corporate mass media has to gain by promoting these corporate kleptocracy thinktanks which wear the political figleafs of making up Intelligent Design fairytales as they go along. Because they're running the show. Into the ground. With us gagged in the trunk.
Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable. Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table...
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel. There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist. Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed. John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day! Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, And Hobbes was fond of his Dram. And René Descartes was a drunken fart: "I drink, therefore I am." Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
Affirmative Action has in fact made the lives of many minorities right, despite continuing discrimination against them. AA moved beyond philosophy to results. You wouldn't recognize the American workforce before AA.
Unfortunately for that theory, there were lots of other Spanish and other European areas at least as poor as Extremadura. But none of them produced the number of conquerors as Extremadura. And those conquerors brought back unprecedented wealth to Extremadura, and all of Spain. It's mostly gone now.
War probably is bad to base one's economy on: live by the sword, die by the sword.
Spain's economy was ruined by victory, failing to grow any other wealth than that stolen from its colonies. There's more to learn from Spain's decline than just the dangers of war. There's also the danger of getting what you wish for.
You've really got to get a better sarcasm detector. Or perhaps you do believe that these cops needed to arrest and interrogate these kids to protect them from falling out of a tree?
Extremadura is the region of Spain from which most of Spain's global conquerors launched, starting a half-millennium ago. While that "pioneer" legacy does make it natural to lead in the brave new world of OSS, it's worth considering that its primary legacy from its past colonial leadership is extreme poverty.
I prefer putting the solar panels on the Moon, too. Far side, then through an L-point waystation. Beaming down to Earth at maybe 10KW:m^2, rather than the Sun's 1KW. That seems the safest, including keeping the power array from Death Star intensity.
If this new process can harness the energy of the "spent" fuel in a short time before it's really dead, then launch costs really could drop to that level. Use nukes to power the construction of the Lunar Solar station, then solar power to launch and finish the waste.
Thank you, Officer Obie. I'm sorry you were abused as a child, but that doesn't mean the rest of the kids should get dragged through the system just to break them like you were. For "damaging a public tree". Give me a break.
Those 5-7 cents include the full costs of fuel, plant operation/construction and waste disposal. Every single step is subsidized by the people through the government. And when they occasionally do fail, the costs are enormous. And the costs of storing the fuel securely for their extremely long lifetime are open-ended.
All it would take for that 5-7 cents to exceed the 10 cents of other power would be a 30-50% increase in accounted costs. The subsidies and future costs well exceed even that. Not to mention the costs of serious disasters that can't be accounted in money. That makes nukes a loser.
The sickle-cell genetics that allow a single gene, expressing a single protein, lacking in collapsed red blood cells, are far from the complexity in behavior. Certainly the complexity of behavior claimed by racists. This example is the kind of talk-the-talk, can't walk-the-walk argument from genetic ignorance that racists favor. Because so many people have learned only the buzzwords that they can't see through the BS.
"Eugenics" isn't a theory. It can't be "disproven". It's a political pseudoscience.
Affirmative Action is indeed racism, as its own name implies. It doesn't pretend to ignore race. Instead it engages the racist preferences and denials in their own terms. By looking at the results of recruiting practices, rather than the gamed mechanics.
I see racism all the time. And it's easy to see your yearning for "legitimate racism" in your comment. Those KKK "vocal extremists" numbered in the many thousands when they wore robes. When they burned houses and bombed churches, murdered children. Now that they don't wear the robes, they've got even more power without their repellent image. Your downplaying them, your naive attempt to shock by calling Affirmative Action "racist", all show you're new to the game of coy racism. Give it up now. Before you cheat yourself of the equal opportunity to know, work and play with people without regard to the persistent fictions perpetuated as "racism". You're young enough to quit. And old enough to know better. Give yourself the chance to live life with just humans, rather than letting the racists who set you up steal away the people who make life worth living.
You're a nazi clown. The Wikipedia entry you're citing for the nonsense that "German" is a race has only an "external link" to "race (historical definitions)" at the very end of the article. In other words, you're so demented in your committment to one of the 20th Century's worst bad ideas that you see documentation that you're wrong as proof that you're right.
So the rest of your nazi gibberish isn't worth reading, as you pretend to be expert in "race", when all you are is a garden variety racist.
There's nothing "maybe" about your racism. Classing broad related groups of people as races, then ascribing innate behavioral traits to them, is by definition racist, regardless of the "considerations" that wound your denial complex.
What's sad about people like you is that you can't even blame your parents for your stupidity. It's all your own fault, regardless of which continent your ancestors live for the last couple-few thousand years. Even sadder is that evolution has allowed your traits to survive, either out of genetic irrelevance or some kind of species need for self-destruction that we've long ago outgrown.
This development is encouraging, though of course not immediately useful. Because storing radioactive masses in even more metallic mass down near 0K for a century or more sounds like it consumes a vast amount of energy. Maybe more energy than the fuel produces while it's useful in reactors. Add the cost of building, securing and maintaining the nuke plant and its "detox" coolers, and nuke power still looks like a loser.
But there's scientific hope for better engineering that could change that. The extra energy more quickly removed from the spent fuel in this process could possibly be harnessed. That would mean that nuclear fuel not only is made safe in manageable durations, like less than a century, but more of its potential energy is available right away, or during the lifetime of its "soft landing". The combination of greater efficiency and closed-ended management does transform at least that part of nuclear's currently unacceptable cost basis.
As long as we're redesigning these reactions, we should do it all in space. There's plenty of microtemperatures out there; microgravity can make operations more energy efficient; security is less fuzzy; accidents have less exposure to vulnerable facilities, ecosystems and organisisms. It's still risky and expensive transporting fuel out of Earth's gravity well, but that's a lot more addressable by failsafe engineering than terrestrial proliferation.
Anonymous racist Coward, you are the one who's so dangerously close to racism that you're jumping at an imaginary change to indulge it.
"German" is not a race, no matter how nazi your brain.
The whole notion of distinct "races" is contrived. Even skin colors aren't that neat, which is what we usually reduce "race" to. Our species family tree is very interwoven, and overall differences are superficial.
Besides, "brain capacity" doesn't equate to "nuclear engineering". It's an academic tradition, or some cultural archetype, or a coincidence, or a misperception on my part through the American media lens of history.
"Stupid" isn't a race, either, as racists like you across the world prove every day. Talk about "mountain of evidence" - that's what your racist talk generates for the "universal stupidity" theory.
How do these Germans know so much about the atomic nucleus? Did Neils Bohr leave them a working model or something? The German contribution to nuclear physics seems really disproprtionate to their actual population. Is there something unusually German about the model they committed us all to when they kicked off the science in the 1800s?
"World Ends Saturday - Read about it in expanded Sunday coverage!"
After the NY Times spent years pimping every Bush "immediate threat", like Iraq, moving papers and policy on their fearmongering, they finally start to tell people that "it's not the end of the world". Except now they're downplaying the real risks, like climate catastrophes, refugee disasters, Constitutional crises.
It's impossible to get info exactly right in life, so there's a tightwalk between paranoia and denial. The NY Times pulls off the acrobatic feat of falling over both sides of the tightrope, without a net.
Google is worth $117B, just like McCurry's boss AT&T. He won't be swapping his phonebill for Google's. But I bet he'd still rather pay his $0 Google bill than his phonebill, even if it's from AT&T.
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The editorial (pro- Net Doublecharge, anti-Neutrality) is by "Timothy B. Lee". The Web was invented by Tim Berners Lee, who strongly advocates Net Neutrality.
This editorial is obviously an astroturf fraud. That the NY Times is publishing on its once mighty Op-Ed page.
Every American should be thinking about how much corporate mass media has to gain by promoting these corporate kleptocracy thinktanks which wear the political figleafs of making up Intelligent Design fairytales as they go along. Because they're running the show. Into the ground. With us gagged in the trunk.
I cited the Wikipedia for its poverty status. "Poorest in Spain" is an extreme, in any case. But where do you get your "70%" figure?
"The Philosophers' Drinking Song" by Monty Python:
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Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stuart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And René Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.
Affirmative Action has in fact made the lives of many minorities right, despite continuing discrimination against them. AA moved beyond philosophy to results. You wouldn't recognize the American workforce before AA.
My joke about Bohr referred to a model he maybe left, apparently to Germans. Bohr could have been Eskimo for the purposes of the joke.
Unfortunately for that theory, there were lots of other Spanish and other European areas at least as poor as Extremadura. But none of them produced the number of conquerors as Extremadura. And those conquerors brought back unprecedented wealth to Extremadura, and all of Spain. It's mostly gone now.
War probably is bad to base one's economy on: live by the sword, die by the sword.
Spain's economy was ruined by victory, failing to grow any other wealth than that stolen from its colonies. There's more to learn from Spain's decline than just the dangers of war. There's also the danger of getting what you wish for.
You've really got to get a better sarcasm detector. Or perhaps you do believe that these cops needed to arrest and interrogate these kids to protect them from falling out of a tree?
Extremadura is the region of Spain from which most of Spain's global conquerors launched, starting a half-millennium ago. While that "pioneer" legacy does make it natural to lead in the brave new world of OSS, it's worth considering that its primary legacy from its past colonial leadership is extreme poverty.
Ever since mobile phones started to vibrate, the gender gap has been more filled.
I've always wanted to watch Monty Python's German season (after they were cancelled in the UK for a while) in the original language. C'mon, babelfish!
I prefer putting the solar panels on the Moon, too. Far side, then through an L-point waystation. Beaming down to Earth at maybe 10KW:m^2, rather than the Sun's 1KW. That seems the safest, including keeping the power array from Death Star intensity.
If this new process can harness the energy of the "spent" fuel in a short time before it's really dead, then launch costs really could drop to that level. Use nukes to power the construction of the Lunar Solar station, then solar power to launch and finish the waste.
Thank you, Officer Obie. I'm sorry you were abused as a child, but that doesn't mean the rest of the kids should get dragged through the system just to break them like you were. For "damaging a public tree". Give me a break.
Ah, but there are many cold objects in space for heat sinks. Another good project for the Moon, despite the extra gravity.
Those 5-7 cents include the full costs of fuel, plant operation/construction and waste disposal. Every single step is subsidized by the people through the government. And when they occasionally do fail, the costs are enormous. And the costs of storing the fuel securely for their extremely long lifetime are open-ended.
All it would take for that 5-7 cents to exceed the 10 cents of other power would be a 30-50% increase in accounted costs. The subsidies and future costs well exceed even that. Not to mention the costs of serious disasters that can't be accounted in money. That makes nukes a loser.
The sickle-cell genetics that allow a single gene, expressing a single protein, lacking in collapsed red blood cells, are far from the complexity in behavior. Certainly the complexity of behavior claimed by racists. This example is the kind of talk-the-talk, can't walk-the-walk argument from genetic ignorance that racists favor. Because so many people have learned only the buzzwords that they can't see through the BS.
"Eugenics" isn't a theory. It can't be "disproven". It's a political pseudoscience.
Affirmative Action is indeed racism, as its own name implies. It doesn't pretend to ignore race. Instead it engages the racist preferences and denials in their own terms. By looking at the results of recruiting practices, rather than the gamed mechanics.
I see racism all the time. And it's easy to see your yearning for "legitimate racism" in your comment. Those KKK "vocal extremists" numbered in the many thousands when they wore robes. When they burned houses and bombed churches, murdered children. Now that they don't wear the robes, they've got even more power without their repellent image. Your downplaying them, your naive attempt to shock by calling Affirmative Action "racist", all show you're new to the game of coy racism. Give it up now. Before you cheat yourself of the equal opportunity to know, work and play with people without regard to the persistent fictions perpetuated as "racism". You're young enough to quit. And old enough to know better. Give yourself the chance to live life with just humans, rather than letting the racists who set you up steal away the people who make life worth living.
These children have nothing to hide. They should not be afraid of DNA tests, or being interviewed by police.
Besides, what if they got hurt falling out of that tree? The police are here to help.
You're a nazi clown. The Wikipedia entry you're citing for the nonsense that "German" is a race has only an "external link" to "race (historical definitions)" at the very end of the article. In other words, you're so demented in your committment to one of the 20th Century's worst bad ideas that you see documentation that you're wrong as proof that you're right.
So the rest of your nazi gibberish isn't worth reading, as you pretend to be expert in "race", when all you are is a garden variety racist.
There's nothing "maybe" about your racism. Classing broad related groups of people as races, then ascribing innate behavioral traits to them, is by definition racist, regardless of the "considerations" that wound your denial complex.
What's sad about people like you is that you can't even blame your parents for your stupidity. It's all your own fault, regardless of which continent your ancestors live for the last couple-few thousand years. Even sadder is that evolution has allowed your traits to survive, either out of genetic irrelevance or some kind of species need for self-destruction that we've long ago outgrown.
Anonymous nazi Coward.
This development is encouraging, though of course not immediately useful. Because storing radioactive masses in even more metallic mass down near 0K for a century or more sounds like it consumes a vast amount of energy. Maybe more energy than the fuel produces while it's useful in reactors. Add the cost of building, securing and maintaining the nuke plant and its "detox" coolers, and nuke power still looks like a loser.
But there's scientific hope for better engineering that could change that. The extra energy more quickly removed from the spent fuel in this process could possibly be harnessed. That would mean that nuclear fuel not only is made safe in manageable durations, like less than a century, but more of its potential energy is available right away, or during the lifetime of its "soft landing". The combination of greater efficiency and closed-ended management does transform at least that part of nuclear's currently unacceptable cost basis.
As long as we're redesigning these reactions, we should do it all in space. There's plenty of microtemperatures out there; microgravity can make operations more energy efficient; security is less fuzzy; accidents have less exposure to vulnerable facilities, ecosystems and organisisms. It's still risky and expensive transporting fuel out of Earth's gravity well, but that's a lot more addressable by failsafe engineering than terrestrial proliferation.
Excellent! Now, please explain the German genius for "comedy" ;).
"Here"? Where, the US? You're not asserting that the US has no working nuclear reactors, are you?
Or are you posting from Iran?
Anonymous racist Coward, you are the one who's so dangerously close to racism that you're jumping at an imaginary change to indulge it.
"German" is not a race, no matter how nazi your brain.
The whole notion of distinct "races" is contrived. Even skin colors aren't that neat, which is what we usually reduce "race" to. Our species family tree is very interwoven, and overall differences are superficial.
Besides, "brain capacity" doesn't equate to "nuclear engineering". It's an academic tradition, or some cultural archetype, or a coincidence, or a misperception on my part through the American media lens of history.
"Stupid" isn't a race, either, as racists like you across the world prove every day. Talk about "mountain of evidence" - that's what your racist talk generates for the "universal stupidity" theory.
How do these Germans know so much about the atomic nucleus? Did Neils Bohr leave them a working model or something? The German contribution to nuclear physics seems really disproprtionate to their actual population. Is there something unusually German about the model they committed us all to when they kicked off the science in the 1800s?
"World Ends Saturday - Read about it in expanded Sunday coverage!"
After the NY Times spent years pimping every Bush "immediate threat", like Iraq, moving papers and policy on their fearmongering, they finally start to tell people that "it's not the end of the world". Except now they're downplaying the real risks, like climate catastrophes, refugee disasters, Constitutional crises.
It's impossible to get info exactly right in life, so there's a tightwalk between paranoia and denial. The NY Times pulls off the acrobatic feat of falling over both sides of the tightrope, without a net.
Google is worth $117B, just like McCurry's boss AT&T. He won't be swapping his phonebill for Google's. But I bet he'd still rather pay his $0 Google bill than his phonebill, even if it's from AT&T.