It'll be hard for the majority of those working in the creative industries, but we braindead code monkeys, consultants, administrators and documentators create as much content as you do (and coding, conceptual work and finding nasty bugs is creative work), but we write a single bill for it, and are done with it. We don't expect to be paid for the rest of our lives and our heirs for an additional 70 years for it.
"Similar culture"? Just because some of the people in the neighboring countries are of arabian descent too? Syria has additionally to the Arabs Kurds, Cherkessians and Armenians, the president of Syria is neither muslim nor christian (like a percentage of the Palestinians), but Nusairian. Lebanon is half christian, half muslim, and in Lebanon, first several christian militias killed between 1000 and 1500 people in Karantina and then the Kata'ib (drusian militia) with the help from the israeli military police killed between 500 and 3000 palestinians in the both camps Sabra and Shatila. Jordan, where most palestinian refugees live, had several conflicts with Israel about water resources, and wishes nothing more than to get finally rid of the state-within-state refugee camps on its territory. 50% of Jordan's population are descendants from palestinian refugees, with most of them living in the both towns Amman and Zarqa (where more than 90% of the population are palestinian), and in the 10 remaining refugee camps. Basicly this means that native Jordanians and Palestinians never mixed - the native Jordanians own the land, and the Palestinians live in the towns and refugee camps. The only place where palestinians are land owners and are also the majority are - tada! - the West Bank and Transjordan. And this is the territory Israel cuts through with its settlements, some of them legal (on "state owned" land), some of them illegal, but still protected by the Israelian army.
Then you get lots of shady agencies whose whole task it is to be the "owner" of said stock for two weeks, while the "rights to get the stock after two weeks" is changing owner at high frequencies - you have just invented a new kind of derivate, the option to buy stock after a two weeks period.
You are still not groking one of the oldest ideas about toxins.
Let me quote Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493 - 1541):
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." (commonly shortened to "The dose makes the poison.")
Wrong. It says not "allow", it says "make". Thus the States are allowed to accept legal tender as defined by the Federation, but are not allowed to make their own legal tender except for gold and silver coins.
That's a completely different BEST you are talking about than the one I was reading, as the one I remember was claiming that the global warming since the 1950ies was at least 1 degree and genereally agreeing with the statements published by NOAA and other organizations.
You'll find people who claim that their statements and assessments were taken out of context, exaggerated or whatever for non-scientific reasons in about every organization. That doesn't make the organization in question any less scientific, it just shows that humans are humans, and some will feel wronged at any given time.
Technically, the Constitution says something very else:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
It just means that the States are not allowed to introduce their own money by a legal act, except for gold and silver coins. Monetary policy is thus a federal priviledge.
The last time I ever saw a check was in the mid-1990ies, when I won 100 bucks in a game. Cheques are dead here around since about 20 years. Everyone and his dog has a giro account, and money gets transfered from account to account directly.
Code made from scratch, however, is pretty rare in my experience. People lift routines, interfaces, file system calls, all sort of stuff, routinely.
It's true for all sorts of code. It's called in the words of the immortal Bertrand of Chartres "standing on the shoulders of giants". It's what makes us humans so successful: Being able to learn from examples, being able to mimic what worked for others.
There are. If a company is requesting the (temporary) ban on importing or selling a competitor's product, it has to feet the bill if it doesn't prevail in court. Basicly Apple has (from a legal point of view) bought all the potential shipping of the competing product for the time being.
As long as some glaciers are left, the river doesn't run dry. That's exactly the point! The water stops running if the last glacier is molten, and then the river is dry until the next rain.
But the hypsographic curve of the earth shows that a large part of the world's population lives within less than 10 m above sealevel, for instance half of Bangladesh is less than 10 m above sealevel. It's not just surveyors who will know the difference, it's half of Bangladesh's population (about 70 mio of 142 mio inhabitants) who will notice this. What do you think will happen if 70 mio people are looking for a new home? And that's just the people from a single country.
As an example: Glaciers are a very effective retardant for spring floods. Instead of releasing all water that has accumulated during the winter in one big melting season, it melts slowly during the spring, summer and autumn, until the rain freezes again on the glacier and let it grow. Thus the land where the melt water runs through during its course to the sea has a steady flow of water coming during the whole vegetation period.
If glaciers are melting, they are losing their water locking properties. Then all the water accumulated during the winter will melt within a few weeks and thus causing a flood during springtime and later drought during the rest of the year. To overcome this, one would have to build large water reservoirs in the mountain regions to hold back the spring flood and let it slowly flow out again. The needed reservoirs are huge - their size has to be comparable to the lost glaciers. Building and maintaining them will cost billions. Especially in subtropic regions which until now get their water from large rivers coming from glacier covered mountain ranges, large swats of land will fall dry during the summer, while being flooded during the spring, making them effectively unusable for agriculture.
That's actually incorrect. Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbondioxide, and grass feeding animals release large amounts of methane. So yes, animal farming contributes to global warming, converting forests into grasslands contributes to global warming.
For instance, to describe how the real numbers are somehow "complete" and contain not only algebraically calculable numbers but also transcendent numbers, there were different ideas floating around, which lead different mathematicians to invent different approaches to describe this "completeness". We have Bolzano's and Weierstrass' approach (bounded sequences and convergent sub-sequences), we have Cauchy-sequences and we have Dedekind cuts. All three were not discovered, but invented to describe real numbers as a super-set of the rational and algebraic numbers. It was later discovered that all three approaches are equivalent, e.g. if you use one approach as axiom, you can fairly easily prove the other two.
Slime Mold is more interesting as during their development there are moments when the whole slime mold is a single cell, but with thousands of nuclei, which stretches the concept of a cell to its boundaries.
Your picture of the Middle Age does not really matches reality. In the Middle Age, taxes were only one way to provide for the state. Most aristocrats were indeed free from taxes, but instead they had to provide troups to their liege lord, and fight themselves in the seigneur's battles. Pawns on the other hand seldom had to serve in the army. When Henry the Fowler, the first german King, laid the foundations to many forts in today's central Germany, he commanded a troup of nine men to each fort, with one being the castellan, whose task was it to organize the building and the defense of the fort, and the other eight to work for him and provide the resources.
A real taxation system needs a monetary system as a base, where most goods and services are freely available for payment. But Middle Age Europe didn't have such a system,. and most goods and services were exchanged directly without money coming into play, or had to be provided due to contracts and duties.
You know, after paying about 35% of all income taxes in the US, you'd think the top 1% would try to get that changed. I could give a dozen other examples, like corporate regulation, anti-trust laws, etc.
As those 1% also own 35% of all wealth, this seems normal to me.
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I never listened to the White Album, how should I know? Any famous songs on it?
It'll be hard for the majority of those working in the creative industries, but we braindead code monkeys, consultants, administrators and documentators create as much content as you do (and coding, conceptual work and finding nasty bugs is creative work), but we write a single bill for it, and are done with it. We don't expect to be paid for the rest of our lives and our heirs for an additional 70 years for it.
"Similar culture"? Just because some of the people in the neighboring countries are of arabian descent too?
Syria has additionally to the Arabs Kurds, Cherkessians and Armenians, the president of Syria is neither muslim nor christian (like a percentage of the Palestinians), but Nusairian. Lebanon is half christian, half muslim, and in Lebanon, first several christian militias killed between 1000 and 1500 people in Karantina and then the Kata'ib (drusian militia) with the help from the israeli military police killed between 500 and 3000 palestinians in the both camps Sabra and Shatila. Jordan, where most palestinian refugees live, had several conflicts with Israel about water resources, and wishes nothing more than to get finally rid of the state-within-state refugee camps on its territory. 50% of Jordan's population are descendants from palestinian refugees, with most of them living in the both towns Amman and Zarqa (where more than 90% of the population are palestinian), and in the 10 remaining refugee camps. Basicly this means that native Jordanians and Palestinians never mixed - the native Jordanians own the land, and the Palestinians live in the towns and refugee camps.
The only place where palestinians are land owners and are also the majority are - tada! - the West Bank and Transjordan. And this is the territory Israel cuts through with its settlements, some of them legal (on "state owned" land), some of them illegal, but still protected by the Israelian army.
Then you get lots of shady agencies whose whole task it is to be the "owner" of said stock for two weeks, while the "rights to get the stock after two weeks" is changing owner at high frequencies - you have just invented a new kind of derivate, the option to buy stock after a two weeks period.
Then ... fuck them.
In a prison?
You are still not groking one of the oldest ideas about toxins.
Let me quote Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus of Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493 - 1541):
"All things are poison, and nothing is without poison; only the dose permits something not to be poisonous." (commonly shortened to "The dose makes the poison.")
Scientist: A political activist that also tries to take credit for advances actually developed by engineers, entrepreneurs and lay inventors.
Political Activist: a person who really believes that calling other people names somehow changes reality.
"Aristocracy" means just that: Government of the Best, from greek: (aristos) = the best and (kratein) = govern.
Wrong. It says not "allow", it says "make". Thus the States are allowed to accept legal tender as defined by the Federation, but are not allowed to make their own legal tender except for gold and silver coins.
That's a completely different BEST you are talking about than the one I was reading, as the one I remember was claiming that the global warming since the 1950ies was at least 1 degree and genereally agreeing with the statements published by NOAA and other organizations.
Just to check: We are talking about the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project, right?
You'll find people who claim that their statements and assessments were taken out of context, exaggerated or whatever for non-scientific reasons in about every organization. That doesn't make the organization in question any less scientific, it just shows that humans are humans, and some will feel wronged at any given time.
Of course there was a crime committed: grievous bodily harm.
Technically, the Constitution says something very else:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
It just means that the States are not allowed to introduce their own money by a legal act, except for gold and silver coins. Monetary policy is thus a federal priviledge.
In which business?
The last time I ever saw a check was in the mid-1990ies, when I won 100 bucks in a game. Cheques are dead here around since about 20 years. Everyone and his dog has a giro account, and money gets transfered from account to account directly.
Why referring only to GPL code?
Code made from scratch, however, is pretty rare in my experience. People lift routines, interfaces, file system calls, all sort of stuff, routinely.
It's true for all sorts of code. It's called in the words of the immortal Bertrand of Chartres "standing on the shoulders of giants". It's what makes us humans so successful: Being able to learn from examples, being able to mimic what worked for others.
There are. If a company is requesting the (temporary) ban on importing or selling a competitor's product, it has to feet the bill if it doesn't prevail in court. Basicly Apple has (from a legal point of view) bought all the potential shipping of the competing product for the time being.
As long as some glaciers are left, the river doesn't run dry. That's exactly the point! The water stops running if the last glacier is molten, and then the river is dry until the next rain.
But the hypsographic curve of the earth shows that a large part of the world's population lives within less than 10 m above sealevel, for instance half of Bangladesh is less than 10 m above sealevel. It's not just surveyors who will know the difference, it's half of Bangladesh's population (about 70 mio of 142 mio inhabitants) who will notice this.
What do you think will happen if 70 mio people are looking for a new home? And that's just the people from a single country.
As an example: Glaciers are a very effective retardant for spring floods. Instead of releasing all water that has accumulated during the winter in one big melting season, it melts slowly during the spring, summer and autumn, until the rain freezes again on the glacier and let it grow.
Thus the land where the melt water runs through during its course to the sea has a steady flow of water coming during the whole vegetation period.
If glaciers are melting, they are losing their water locking properties. Then all the water accumulated during the winter will melt within a few weeks and thus causing a flood during springtime and later drought during the rest of the year. To overcome this, one would have to build large water reservoirs in the mountain regions to hold back the spring flood and let it slowly flow out again. The needed reservoirs are huge - their size has to be comparable to the lost glaciers. Building and maintaining them will cost billions. Especially in subtropic regions which until now get their water from large rivers coming from glacier covered mountain ranges, large swats of land will fall dry during the summer, while being flooded during the spring, making them effectively unusable for agriculture.
That's actually incorrect. Methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than carbondioxide, and grass feeding animals release large amounts of methane. So yes, animal farming contributes to global warming, converting forests into grasslands contributes to global warming.
You can also invent mathematics.
For instance, to describe how the real numbers are somehow "complete" and contain not only algebraically calculable numbers but also transcendent numbers, there were different ideas floating around, which lead different mathematicians to invent different approaches to describe this "completeness". We have Bolzano's and Weierstrass' approach (bounded sequences and convergent sub-sequences), we have Cauchy-sequences and we have Dedekind cuts. All three were not discovered, but invented to describe real numbers as a super-set of the rational and algebraic numbers. It was later discovered that all three approaches are equivalent, e.g. if you use one approach as axiom, you can fairly easily prove the other two.
For some reason I find it entertaining that the sentence with the french words removed sounds quite surrealistic:
"For some I find it slightly that the one word in that that between and english is a word".
Slime Mold is more interesting as during their development there are moments when the whole slime mold is a single cell, but with thousands of nuclei, which stretches the concept of a cell to its boundaries.
Your picture of the Middle Age does not really matches reality. In the Middle Age, taxes were only one way to provide for the state. Most aristocrats were indeed free from taxes, but instead they had to provide troups to their liege lord, and fight themselves in the seigneur's battles. Pawns on the other hand seldom had to serve in the army. When Henry the Fowler, the first german King, laid the foundations to many forts in today's central Germany, he commanded a troup of nine men to each fort, with one being the castellan, whose task was it to organize the building and the defense of the fort, and the other eight to work for him and provide the resources.
A real taxation system needs a monetary system as a base, where most goods and services are freely available for payment. But Middle Age Europe didn't have such a system,. and most goods and services were exchanged directly without money coming into play, or had to be provided due to contracts and duties.
You know, after paying about 35% of all income taxes in the US, you'd think the top 1% would try to get that changed. I could give a dozen other examples, like corporate regulation, anti-trust laws, etc.
As those 1% also own 35% of all wealth, this seems normal to me.