The Volkswagen Beetle is an original design of Ferdinand Porsche. Yes, that guy Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche, whose engineering company was called Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche G.m.b.H., and which later turned into the Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft or Porsche AG for short. The Porsche AG at first was building performance versions of the VW Beetle with newly shaped car bodies and improved engines, which were called Projekt 356 or Porsche 356.
There have been similar attempts in other legislations, which all failed, because somehow the people who elected the current legislation for some reason wanted it to be that way, and they were still the majority. So I doubt, 20,000 voters will make a difference even in New Hampshire. If they want to vote for something too different, there will always be 20,000 others voting against.
We will see how this works out, but I remain doubtful.
When you data gets mined by the FBI (and in theory also by the NSA), you have means of bringing that to court. Europeans not being citizens of the U.S. didn't even have this, as their privacy is not protected by the U.S. constitution. This was the main argument why the European Court ruled that the Safe Harbour Agreement does not provide sufficient protection to E.U. citizens and thus is invalid.
Does not necessarily work that way. I have some systems to support whose administration website uses Java 1.4 (luckily the last of the Java 1.3 ones was scrapped lately). So I have to keep some VMs ready if I have to do something there because no one will ever invest in updating the management frontend. Those machines were deployed somewhen in the 1990ies, and they are still humming along, no immediate pressure for the actual operator of them to replace them with anything more recent, as none of the newer features is important to him.
Also do not forget, that "non-predictability" can be a good model for something. Quantum physics has some effects that are "random", like tunneling. Calling them "random" basically means "we do not know how they work, but they seem to follow a certain statistical model".
And here lies the problem with your simple solution: "proper portions". What is a proper portion seems to vary from person to person, even if they have the same exercise regime. And there are many factors involved in determining what the the proper portions are, from your gut bacteria to the expression of several genes.
As the experiment of Mark Haub has shown (the famous Twinkie diet), even a very loop sided diet taken for several months can be ok and actually improve your health if you take care of what "proper portions" are.
The christian churches never proclaimed officially that the Earth was flat. Only some quite obscure mysticists from the 3th and 4th century AD did, but they never got much attention. To most people, it didn't matter what size or shape the Earth had, as they never moved around very much, and for those, who did, they knew the Earth was round, and the more astute ones even knew the estimated size. Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal in the first half of the 15th century, organized many explorative expeditions around Africa and the Atlantic, which then mounted in a quite correct map of the coasts of Africa, the discovery of Madeira and the Azores, and during the time of Columbus, the discovery of the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese of the 15th century definitely knew decades before Columbus that the Earth is round, and that its circumfence is about 26,000 mls. And there was no religious dogma hindering them to state so.
The difference is that the British Enigma program was active just for a few years, short enough for the conspiracy to survive. After that, the daily importance of the program was nil, as there were no new messages to decode. There was no one actively working on the Enigma program anymore, no new people to bring in, all others being retired and working on new projects. It was a thing of the past, and it is much easier to keep the mouth shut about something that does not influence your daily life anymore.
It's quite different if you are working in an ongoing conspiracy and have to lie about your daily life and invent new cover up stories all the time. Once it's a thing of the past, all the questions were already asked once, and sufficient answers were found, and you just keep reiterating them.
Not one single life will be lost to climate change.
That's like saying that knifes never kill people, it's the failure of vital organs after reduced oxygen and nutrition reaching them due to the lowered transport capacity of the blood system, which kills people.
Actually, there is a difference between occupying a territory and annecting it. And Israel makes sure that it never fully defines which of which it actually does. Because if they are just occupying, any settlements built after the occupation would be illegal. If they are annecting, then any person living in the annected territory would be entitled to full citizen rights. Israel is dancing a fine line between annecting and occupying, the settlements are somehow built on land which belongs to Erez Israel since ages, while the towns and villages of the palestinians are just occupied.
It's often just a question of creation vs. evolution. Why does some development go into one direction instead of another one? Is there some conspiracy going on, or is it just a natural course of events in which the circumstances define the most likely behaviour of the acting persons?
For instance, is there some cabal going on to lower wages, reduce workforce and erode the middle class? Is a company leader required to appear before a secret board of conspirators where he has to sign in blood his commitment to the goals of the conspiracy? Or is it just that companies which don't lower wages and reduce workforce will be bought by the competing companies which do, and which then reduce the workforce and lower the wages for the remaining employes?
We like to see someone being responsible for our (perceived or real) misery, and thus we often try to find someone who intentionally acted against our interest to put us there. And if we can't find them, or if the persons we find are not the ones we suspected, we like to explain the difference between our expectations and the perceived reality with a conspiracy which has the goal and the means to taint our perception. In general, this is a healthy way of looking at things. There are real conspiracies going on all the time (and be it just the conspiracy of our friends organizing a surprise party for our birthday). And our perception is easily misled. But there is always Ockham's Razor: If we have to invent more and more entities to maintain our conspiracy theory to explain the course of events, there has to be a point when we have to accept that our theory might not be the best possible explanation. In most cases, the course of events really was about the way it got reported, and most omissions, false reports and misleading statements are just innocuous human errors.
The original idea behind the "70 years after the death of the Author" was that the author during his lifetime should have full control over his work, and it shouldn't pay to kill the author to have the work enter the public domain prematurely.
There is one issue here though: H1-B visa were thought to be available only for companies that couldn't fill the open positions with domestic workers. In this case, it is alleged, neither the positions were open, nor was Disney unable to fill it with domestic workers.
There are many ways to save money. Some of them are illegal. The lawsuit claims that this was one of the illegal ways to save money. (Disney could also have saved the money if they just didn't pay the workers at all, let the debt pile up and shot everyone trying to go to the courts to demand the money. Also this is deemed illegal for some reason.)
Children learn by imitation. You have to give an example to children, so they learn from you, even if the example is how to look for something interesting to do. Just sit there and wait until the children pick something up themselves is a recipe for disaster. All your children will learn is how to passively sit there and wait until something happens.
And that's exactly the point of the FCC regulation. Because rural areas currently can't get 4 mbs, and ISPs won't upgrade their networks without any incentive, it was proposed to give subsidies, so those areas also get upgraded.
And the six senators seem to want to hand out those subsidies without the necessity for the ISPs to upgrade their networks first.
Freedom of speech does not only mean that you have the right to say what you want, it also means that you have the right to listen to what you want. And in the same way that you can't be forced to say what you don't want to say, you also can't be forced to listen to what you don't want to hear.
Freedom of speech means that no one has any right to your attention. And that means that you have the right to tell everyone to shut the fuck up if he tries to get your attention nevertheless.
If that happens, you still could do those transactions, if enough controlling nodes agree. And that's the point. A single rogue node or even a large group of nodes can't manipulate the blockchain, you need a certain amount of nodes to agree, and it's just a decision of design, how high the number of nodes has to be. You could even design a blockchain with 5x9 (99.999) agreement.
If for instance you have a court decision that the wallet is rightfully yours, you could get all transaction nodes agree to perform those transaction, gaining control over your wallet even if you lost your private key (and then transfer the contents into a new wallet you still own the private key).
No, it's not statistic dressing. Guns (and other weapons) are primarily used to settle conflicts, not to protect. Sometimes protection is a secondary effect of settling a conflict, and some of the conflicts really might be about who owns what, but their numbers pale in comparison to more emotional conflicts including conflicts with yourself, which escalate and then get settled by the use of a weapon.
Bullets as such are. But there is no way to make sure they hit the right people. More than 60% of all gun inflicted deaths in the U.S. are gun owners killing themselves, about 30% are people killing an acquaintance or a family member. Only 10% of all deadly bullets kill someone not directly related to you.
Basicly gun ownership is a protection system with a 90% false positive rate.
You didn't see this system anywhere. You are thinking of Welfare and Public Health, which is a quite different kettle of fish. And even then, Germany still has a budget surplus, no cracking visible. All you see is a lot of people being scared because they fear the system might be cracking at some time in the future. Same issue with Sweden. After the big reconstruction of the Folketheime in the 1990ies, Sweden is very stable from a financial point of view. You just have the Svenksa Demokraterna painting a bleak picture of the future. But there is quite a difference between a perceived danger and immediate danger.
But the conditionless basic income is quite different from welfare. Everyone is entitled to it, from the billionaire down to the welfare queen, from the hard working middle class family to the guy to lazy to get a job. A system like this has never attempted before.
You will pay for them nonetheless. Either you pay them directly, or your pay burglar alarms, private guards, the police, courts and prisons necessary to keep them away from plundering you. As it seems, especially the court and prison system can get quite expensive, much more expensive than just handing out a basic income to everyone. What you save in welfare, you have to spent several times in protection.
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The Volkswagen Beetle is an original design of Ferdinand Porsche. Yes, that guy Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche, whose engineering company was called Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche G.m.b.H., and which later turned into the Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft or Porsche AG for short. The Porsche AG at first was building performance versions of the VW Beetle with newly shaped car bodies and improved engines, which were called Projekt 356 or Porsche 356.
We will see how this works out, but I remain doubtful.
You could always go and dig the trench to lay fiber from your home to whatever internet node you want to be connected to.
When you data gets mined by the FBI (and in theory also by the NSA), you have means of bringing that to court. Europeans not being citizens of the U.S. didn't even have this, as their privacy is not protected by the U.S. constitution. This was the main argument why the European Court ruled that the Safe Harbour Agreement does not provide sufficient protection to E.U. citizens and thus is invalid.
Great Britain being one of the two other countries mentioned in the parent.
Does not necessarily work that way. I have some systems to support whose administration website uses Java 1.4 (luckily the last of the Java 1.3 ones was scrapped lately). So I have to keep some VMs ready if I have to do something there because no one will ever invest in updating the management frontend. Those machines were deployed somewhen in the 1990ies, and they are still humming along, no immediate pressure for the actual operator of them to replace them with anything more recent, as none of the newer features is important to him.
Also do not forget, that "non-predictability" can be a good model for something. Quantum physics has some effects that are "random", like tunneling. Calling them "random" basically means "we do not know how they work, but they seem to follow a certain statistical model".
What you are referring to is the idea of hidden variables. But it seems that there are no hidden variables in Quantum Theory. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, God appearently really plays dice.
As the experiment of Mark Haub has shown (the famous Twinkie diet), even a very loop sided diet taken for several months can be ok and actually improve your health if you take care of what "proper portions" are.
The christian churches never proclaimed officially that the Earth was flat. Only some quite obscure mysticists from the 3th and 4th century AD did, but they never got much attention. To most people, it didn't matter what size or shape the Earth had, as they never moved around very much, and for those, who did, they knew the Earth was round, and the more astute ones even knew the estimated size. Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal in the first half of the 15th century, organized many explorative expeditions around Africa and the Atlantic, which then mounted in a quite correct map of the coasts of Africa, the discovery of Madeira and the Azores, and during the time of Columbus, the discovery of the sea route to India around the Cape of Good Hope. The Portuguese of the 15th century definitely knew decades before Columbus that the Earth is round, and that its circumfence is about 26,000 mls. And there was no religious dogma hindering them to state so.
It's quite different if you are working in an ongoing conspiracy and have to lie about your daily life and invent new cover up stories all the time. Once it's a thing of the past, all the questions were already asked once, and sufficient answers were found, and you just keep reiterating them.
Not one single life will be lost to climate change.
That's like saying that knifes never kill people, it's the failure of vital organs after reduced oxygen and nutrition reaching them due to the lowered transport capacity of the blood system, which kills people.
Actually, there is a difference between occupying a territory and annecting it. And Israel makes sure that it never fully defines which of which it actually does. Because if they are just occupying, any settlements built after the occupation would be illegal. If they are annecting, then any person living in the annected territory would be entitled to full citizen rights. Israel is dancing a fine line between annecting and occupying, the settlements are somehow built on land which belongs to Erez Israel since ages, while the towns and villages of the palestinians are just occupied.
For instance, is there some cabal going on to lower wages, reduce workforce and erode the middle class? Is a company leader required to appear before a secret board of conspirators where he has to sign in blood his commitment to the goals of the conspiracy? Or is it just that companies which don't lower wages and reduce workforce will be bought by the competing companies which do, and which then reduce the workforce and lower the wages for the remaining employes?
We like to see someone being responsible for our (perceived or real) misery, and thus we often try to find someone who intentionally acted against our interest to put us there. And if we can't find them, or if the persons we find are not the ones we suspected, we like to explain the difference between our expectations and the perceived reality with a conspiracy which has the goal and the means to taint our perception. In general, this is a healthy way of looking at things. There are real conspiracies going on all the time (and be it just the conspiracy of our friends organizing a surprise party for our birthday). And our perception is easily misled. But there is always Ockham's Razor: If we have to invent more and more entities to maintain our conspiracy theory to explain the course of events, there has to be a point when we have to accept that our theory might not be the best possible explanation. In most cases, the course of events really was about the way it got reported, and most omissions, false reports and misleading statements are just innocuous human errors.
There is still some difference between negligence and offense. (I like the sound of this sentence).
That's exactly what that lawsuit is about: Disney conspiring to use the H1-B visa system against the rules.
The original idea behind the "70 years after the death of the Author" was that the author during his lifetime should have full control over his work, and it shouldn't pay to kill the author to have the work enter the public domain prematurely.
There are many ways to save money. Some of them are illegal. The lawsuit claims that this was one of the illegal ways to save money. (Disney could also have saved the money if they just didn't pay the workers at all, let the debt pile up and shot everyone trying to go to the courts to demand the money. Also this is deemed illegal for some reason.)
Children learn by imitation. You have to give an example to children, so they learn from you, even if the example is how to look for something interesting to do. Just sit there and wait until the children pick something up themselves is a recipe for disaster. All your children will learn is how to passively sit there and wait until something happens.
And the six senators seem to want to hand out those subsidies without the necessity for the ISPs to upgrade their networks first.
Freedom of speech means that no one has any right to your attention. And that means that you have the right to tell everyone to shut the fuck up if he tries to get your attention nevertheless.
If for instance you have a court decision that the wallet is rightfully yours, you could get all transaction nodes agree to perform those transaction, gaining control over your wallet even if you lost your private key (and then transfer the contents into a new wallet you still own the private key).
No, it's not statistic dressing. Guns (and other weapons) are primarily used to settle conflicts, not to protect. Sometimes protection is a secondary effect of settling a conflict, and some of the conflicts really might be about who owns what, but their numbers pale in comparison to more emotional conflicts including conflicts with yourself, which escalate and then get settled by the use of a weapon.
Basicly gun ownership is a protection system with a 90% false positive rate.
But the conditionless basic income is quite different from welfare. Everyone is entitled to it, from the billionaire down to the welfare queen, from the hard working middle class family to the guy to lazy to get a job. A system like this has never attempted before.
You will pay for them nonetheless. Either you pay them directly, or your pay burglar alarms, private guards, the police, courts and prisons necessary to keep them away from plundering you. As it seems, especially the court and prison system can get quite expensive, much more expensive than just handing out a basic income to everyone. What you save in welfare, you have to spent several times in protection.