(provided backlash from Muslims and Catholics regarding the use of contraceptives by women isn't too severe.)
You know that for instance the Islamic Republic of Iran has one of the lowest reproduction rates in the world? It was different just 25 years ago, but currently it's at a rate of around 1.7 births per woman (according to the World Bank 2010), nearly on par with most catholic countries in Europe (Austria: 1.4, Italy: 1.4, Poland: 1.4, Portugal 1.3, Spain: 1.4) and lower than the predominantly protestant countries (The Netherlands: 1.8, Finland: 1.9, Norway: 1.9, UK: 1.9, Sweden: 2.0).
It seems that we have to readjust our perception of which countries have which fertility rates...
You can read the icelandic sagas, and in the Grnlendinga saga (Bjarni Herjolfsson's voyage), they explicitely describe Greenland to be covered with even larger glaciers than Iceland.
It's not the world, which becomes greener, it's the North. If at the same time the equator regions become aride, coastal areas sink under the sea and deserts are growing, then we get a huge migration from the equator to the northern regions. It's up to you to decide if that's good.
90% of all violent perpetrators ate carbohydrates the day before their killing spree.
And 95% of all violent perpetrators consume caffeine at least once per week.
99% have been moving on public roads recently.
Actually, before Windows 95, there was already so much Internet, that MSN (which was introduced at the same time and launched as a dial up network for Windows users) never gained any relevant marketshare, and AOL acquired the failing CompuServe. Not to mention eWorld... (anyone remembers Apple's network?).
I don't know of anything that gets less convenient if measured in metric units. Care to name an example?
Imperial units are just superfluous. They fulfill no need metric units can't fill too.
Your argument basicly is "a measurement system is fine if you are used to it".
The same arguments can be said for metric units, and they are also true. I can double, triple and quadruple metric units the same way than imperial units. I know that my body temperature should be somewhere between 36 C and 37 C, and that I have to drive carefully if the temperature falls below zero.
There are exactly zero arguments for imperial units if you are not used to them. There is no reason to learn them now if you grew up with metric units. You don't gain anything (beside talking points) by knowing imperial units additionally to the metric ones.
Yes you can, as long as you don't violate other rights. You are not allowed to put something on other people's property, not even if you claim it being "speech".
And public ground is public, that means it belongs to every citizen, and putting something there without consent violates everyone's rights. But voting for the putting of a religious symbol in a public place would make it a law, and this violates the Constitution.
The problem is that the shareholders of said companies have to agree to a restructuring in another country. And then they will vote on the executive's pay in the same session.
Not only that, the key word here is "the fittest". And the fittest might be the strongest or the most, but it doesn't necessarily is. It just means the one who fits best its chosen ecological niche. If the niche prefers someone strong and dominant, then and only then "the fittest" means someone strong and dominant. But for instance, in a species, whose predators are in general much larger and stronger, being strong and dominant means just to stick out and be a prime target for the predators. An example are fish stock, which are heavily fished, and which now show a tendency to early maturation, higher reproduction rate and smaller sizes for grownups.
Other cases are parasites and pests, where being too strong and too dominant might be killing of the own host prematurely and thus diminishing your chance to spread to other hosts in time. Many diseases were killing off people very soon, when they came first into a new population, but within time, grew more and more weak, like the Syphilis.
For species which rely on cooperation and forming of close-knit groups, being strong and dominant might just mean that there is no group for you to fit in. Then you are the literal "lone wolf", prone to an early death and no chance to reproduce. For some lone wolfs, accepting a human group as ersatz wolfpack might be just have been the right way to survive.
Yes, but for me typing with both thumbs, it makes sense to have the keyboard span the whole screen, otherwise the keys would be unnecessary small. A keyboard for me doesn't have the limit of a thumb's length, it can have the double width.
1) and 3) are ok with me, but for 2) I beg to differ.
I use the virtual keyboard always with both thumbs, holding the phone in both hands. I am not an one-hand-typer, typing with only one hand (or one finger) feels uncomfortable to me. This would effectively double the maximum screensize for me, compared with one-thumb-typers.
On the other hand, I am lefthanded anyway, so any scheme that expects the user to hold the phone in the right hand is flawed for me.
The problem with code signing is the idea, that there is always one party doing the coding and another party doing the running of the code, and that they are always different. It turns the operator of a computer strictly in the consumer position without a chance to leave it again, because neither self written code nor modified code will be signed. If we allow selfsigning of code, we are back at the situation of being allowed to run every code, and we are back to the spreadfest of malware.
The main problem is that even code for simple tasks is utterly complex and mainly unreadable for most of us - either because we don't even have the ability, not being coders, or not the capability, because we have better things to do than reading each and every byte of code we are running.
Open Source has its advantage, because there, the signed part is not only runnable code, but source code. Thus we still have the advantage of signed code (proof of origin), but without the disadvantages (we can run modified or selfwritten code without hassle). And the process of executing non signed code is transparent to us and very in the open, because we do the process of installing, modifying and and executing unsigned code, when we are actually know we are installing, modifying and executing code.
There is quite a difference between developing a process in a lab and making it industrially available.
With your argument, the news about the ENIAC being functional in 1946 was no news, because Alan Turing developed the model of the Universal Machine already in 1936.
Nuh-uh, I don't live in a community you stupid American.
According to TFA, this makes you exceptionally close to the typical American, who have been shown to be the group of humans most likely to view themselves outside a culture or community.
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(provided backlash from Muslims and Catholics regarding the use of contraceptives by women isn't too severe.)
You know that for instance the Islamic Republic of Iran has one of the lowest reproduction rates in the world? It was different just 25 years ago, but currently it's at a rate of around 1.7 births per woman (according to the World Bank 2010), nearly on par with most catholic countries in Europe (Austria: 1.4, Italy: 1.4, Poland: 1.4, Portugal 1.3, Spain: 1.4) and lower than the predominantly protestant countries (The Netherlands: 1.8, Finland: 1.9, Norway: 1.9, UK: 1.9, Sweden: 2.0). It seems that we have to readjust our perception of which countries have which fertility rates...
You can read the icelandic sagas, and in the Grnlendinga saga (Bjarni Herjolfsson's voyage), they explicitely describe Greenland to be covered with even larger glaciers than Iceland.
It's not the world, which becomes greener, it's the North. If at the same time the equator regions become aride, coastal areas sink under the sea and deserts are growing, then we get a huge migration from the equator to the northern regions. It's up to you to decide if that's good.
90% of all violent perpetrators ate carbohydrates the day before their killing spree. And 95% of all violent perpetrators consume caffeine at least once per week. 99% have been moving on public roads recently.
Because students are underage and can't protest the selling of their data. Selling the data of people who are not able to consent is illegal.
Actually, before Windows 95, there was already so much Internet, that MSN (which was introduced at the same time and launched as a dial up network for Windows users) never gained any relevant marketshare, and AOL acquired the failing CompuServe. Not to mention eWorld... (anyone remembers Apple's network?).
I don't know of anything that gets less convenient if measured in metric units. Care to name an example? Imperial units are just superfluous. They fulfill no need metric units can't fill too.
Your argument basicly is "a measurement system is fine if you are used to it". The same arguments can be said for metric units, and they are also true. I can double, triple and quadruple metric units the same way than imperial units. I know that my body temperature should be somewhere between 36 C and 37 C, and that I have to drive carefully if the temperature falls below zero. There are exactly zero arguments for imperial units if you are not used to them. There is no reason to learn them now if you grew up with metric units. You don't gain anything (beside talking points) by knowing imperial units additionally to the metric ones.
And public ground is public, that means it belongs to every citizen, and putting something there without consent violates everyone's rights. But voting for the putting of a religious symbol in a public place would make it a law, and this violates the Constitution.
And this has to do with libertarianism exactly how?
Pointing out, where the private property begins.
If it uses the IP (Internet Protocol), then it's probably an internet.
They probably use HSDPA cables.
The problem is that the shareholders of said companies have to agree to a restructuring in another country. And then they will vote on the executive's pay in the same session.
Other cases are parasites and pests, where being too strong and too dominant might be killing of the own host prematurely and thus diminishing your chance to spread to other hosts in time. Many diseases were killing off people very soon, when they came first into a new population, but within time, grew more and more weak, like the Syphilis.
For species which rely on cooperation and forming of close-knit groups, being strong and dominant might just mean that there is no group for you to fit in. Then you are the literal "lone wolf", prone to an early death and no chance to reproduce. For some lone wolfs, accepting a human group as ersatz wolfpack might be just have been the right way to survive.
Yes, but for me typing with both thumbs, it makes sense to have the keyboard span the whole screen, otherwise the keys would be unnecessary small. A keyboard for me doesn't have the limit of a thumb's length, it can have the double width.
I use the virtual keyboard always with both thumbs, holding the phone in both hands. I am not an one-hand-typer, typing with only one hand (or one finger) feels uncomfortable to me. This would effectively double the maximum screensize for me, compared with one-thumb-typers.
On the other hand, I am lefthanded anyway, so any scheme that expects the user to hold the phone in the right hand is flawed for me.
The problem with code signing is the idea, that there is always one party doing the coding and another party doing the running of the code, and that they are always different. It turns the operator of a computer strictly in the consumer position without a chance to leave it again, because neither self written code nor modified code will be signed. If we allow selfsigning of code, we are back at the situation of being allowed to run every code, and we are back to the spreadfest of malware. The main problem is that even code for simple tasks is utterly complex and mainly unreadable for most of us - either because we don't even have the ability, not being coders, or not the capability, because we have better things to do than reading each and every byte of code we are running. Open Source has its advantage, because there, the signed part is not only runnable code, but source code. Thus we still have the advantage of signed code (proof of origin), but without the disadvantages (we can run modified or selfwritten code without hassle). And the process of executing non signed code is transparent to us and very in the open, because we do the process of installing, modifying and and executing unsigned code, when we are actually know we are installing, modifying and executing code.
Yes, Americans are a bad study object, if you want to draw broad conclusions from your studies which make bold statements also about non-Americans.
There is quite a difference between developing a process in a lab and making it industrially available. With your argument, the news about the ENIAC being functional in 1946 was no news, because Alan Turing developed the model of the Universal Machine already in 1936.
It really has nothing to do with Americans being inherently bad study subjects.
It really has.
It has a lot of words about how the Americans often are located far at one side of the bell curve and very seldom "just average humans".
Nuh-uh, I don't live in a community you stupid American.
According to TFA, this makes you exceptionally close to the typical American, who have been shown to be the group of humans most likely to view themselves outside a culture or community.
But this is old news. Or as Alfred Adler observed: "It's easier to fight for your principles than to live by them."
Or North Ireland 20 years ago.
Pst! Don't let facts confuse the ideology of a hardboiled anti-leftist.