It's at least plausible. With the old Audi 4000 of my father, I got 400 miles out of 10 gallons, but I was never driving faster than 60 mph on that trip.
It is not entrapment. Entrapment means that someone intending to bust you or to arrest you gets you to do things you wouldn't have done otherwise. This is not the case here. 20,000 men were voluntarily starting to chat to that artificial girl, and about 1000 of them were starting to make sexual advances. None of them was begged to talk to her, no one was forced to talk to her, and not a single one was asked to offer cash for sexual favors. In the same way that an open door is no entrapment for theft, an artificial girl just sitting in a chatroom is no entrapment for sexual abuse.
You misspelled Magalhães. Yes. That's his name. Fernão de Magalhães. The Spaniards spelled him Fernando de Magallanes, to mimick the portuguese pronounciation within the spanish orthography, which then got respelled to Magellan in some other European languages.
Rule 1 on the Internet: Don't correct someone else's spelling.
You know that home ownership is inversely proportional to productivity? Labor markets become more and more inflexible, if people are rendered less and less mobile by home ownership. They then tend to stay at a place instead of moving to more productive and thus better paying jobs because they fear the financial loss of the sale of their home.
There is nothing wrong in calling a manifesto a manifesto. I don't know why your very personal understanding of "manifesto" as "somewhat lengthy elaboration of goals" shall in any way overshadow the generally accepted usage of "manifesto" (without the lengthy part).
Snowden's writing is a manifesto. It has all the required elements. So I'll continue calling it such.
Please look up the meaning of the word "manifesto". It's a public declaration of your own goals and intents. Nowhere there is the requirement of at least 1000 words or seven pages or whatever your threshold seems to be.
Incest is unethical because of the risk of inbreeding; a marriage between siblings with no biological children hurts nobody.
With the same argument you could forbid sexual intercourse between a male and a female, where the sum of their ages is above 80 years. The risk of trisomia-21 is quite high in this constellation. Higher than the risk of birth defects due to inbreeding.
The risk of inbreeding was much higher in tribal societies, because they were on the verge of inbreeding anyway because of their small numbers. Today, our parents were choosing each other literally between millions of potential candidates. The genetic diversity between two New Yorkian siblings is often larger than that of two random members of one of the remaining native tribes - the siblings share 25% of their genetic code, native tribes often 40% and more.
Luckily the U.S. stopped the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and South America by installing capitalist dictatorships, which didn't need any of those forces and mass murderings.
So that's what you get, when you talk about an idealized environment: spheric cows in a vacuum.;)
Instead we have to deal with reality. And reality is everything that affects us. We are not spheric cows, and we don't live in a vacuum. And you don't get far in reality by trying to breed milk providing balls.
I don't misinterpret Ayn Rand. I just don't believe into the "great men" myth. There have been big names, for sure. But none of them would have been big all alone. There are no selfmade millionaires. If you look closely, they either had large teams of people at their hands, or a chain of chance played into their hands. James Watt would just have been a quite gifted instrument maker at the University of Glasgow without John Roebuck and Matthew Boulton. And he wouldn't have become an instrument maker in the first place without his father being a teacher of mathematics.
And the big railroad barons of the second half of the 19th century never would have been that big without the U.S. government financing and pre-planning the big railroad tracks and protecting the building sites with the cavalry. So much for Ayn Rand's preposition of Atlas Shrugged. The archetypes of Dagny Taggart were free-riding on government subsidaries.
My standard answer on Atlas Shrugged is the end of Douglas Adams' second Hitchhiker novel (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe), where Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect meet the people from Golgafrincham. Those people are the leftovers when the elite on Golgafrincham turned their planet into an Randian paradise, with the econonomical elite ruling without bounds, and an army of slave like serfs are working for them.
In the end, only the leftovers, the seemingly superfluous, tedious people, involved in regulations, law enforcement and taxing, the people Dent and Prefect met, survive, and are able to found a new civilisation on Earth, while the Randian Golgafrincham dies out due to an infection.
For me, Diablo always looked like Nethack with fancy graphics, and when I first saw Warcraft, I thought: Hey, they used the Dune II engine and replaced the SF artwork with a fantasy one...
As a consequence, I never played Diablo, and I only played one map in Warcraft.
I have some doubts about the field character of Dark Matter. My main concern is that we can't measure it on Earth. We can measure the gravity, despite being very weak, and thus determine the Gravity constant, on Earth. If Dark Matter was some kind of gravity-like or at least gravity-interacting field, why can't we measure it directly on Earth despite its relative strength being about four times that of visible (baryonic) matter? Why does it spare Earth and the whole Solar system? Here, General Relativity describes the whole gravitational interactions we observe, pretty good even if only accounting for visible matter. Why does Dark Matter only appear in our results if we look at galaxy scale? And why is it superseded by Dark Energy, if we go beyond galaxies?
That's what they are doing with the experiment. They know that there is a difference between the observed gravitation inside the galaxy and the expected gravitation from the visible matter. They know a lot of properties the missing matter has not: it doesn't interact with anything else than gravitation. Thus it does not interact for instance with the electromagnetic force, it is thus electrically neutral. It has no magnetic spin. It does not absorb photons. It does not interact with visible matter except by gravitational force.
This experiment tries to find some other interactions, but none so far were detected.
There's nothing particularly radical about that. The underlying philosophy of libertarianism is one such that all incorrect decisions come from a lack of freedom(usually caused by the government).
I would call such a statement extremely radical. Basicly it exculpates every individual and blames all his incapabilities, errors, misdeeds and outright crimes to a lack of freedom caused by the government. It's pretty close to a marxist viewpoint, which states, that in social production, individuals are forced into objective relationships independent of their free will.
You are prepared only for the disasters you expect, and the expectations are different for each region. There is no point to prepare for a blizzard near the equator, and there is no point to prepare for avalanches in Louisiana. The Southeast is better prepared for strong storms, because they have historically happened several times in the Southeast. I guess, the disaster relief plan for a complete freezing of the Mississippi mouth for several months is not very good either - it doesn't happen very often, and the flooding that might happen because of the impounded water has never been experienced before. Japan has a long tradition of building earthquake save buildings and does routine earthquake relief exercises, but I don't think you find the same amount of earthquake preparedness in Chicago.
Chastizing people for being not prepared for something that no one in that region in the last 150 years has experienced is just being a smartass.
When I was working in the 1990ies in the Rhine-Main-Regio in Germany (with Frankfurt am Main as the main city and an urban area of about 2.3 mio people), telcos were busy digging up streets and foot-walks to put additional fiber into the ground. The data center I was working in, had uplinks from three different providers, Deutsche Telekom, MCI Worldcom (yes, they existed at the time) and Arcor.
About every larger municipality in Germany has at least the local utility also offering internet access, beside the large german-wide providers like Deutsche Telekom and Kabel Deutschland.
I don't understand why in the U.S., such local diversity seems to be not possible.
If the Bundestag wants him as a witness (and now even the Minister of the Interior agrees that Edward Snowden's information was correct while the U.S. government outright lied to hime), they might even grant him asylum or give at least a warrant of safe conduct.
I'm just wondering how Premier Minister Cameron will spin this. His last public statements were all about "journalists that publish the Snowden papers aid the enemy", and suddenly he's on the receiving end of a big cluestick from his allies in the EU, who might even award Edward Snowden and the Guardian with high honours. Some german MPs were already suggesting to call Edward Snowden as a witness into the Parliament. And then James Cameron has a lot of weaseling to do to somehow play down the role of his own secret services.
If you had read TFA, you would have noticed that the robot car operates more safely than humans in the highway infrastructure that is in place today. We don't need to redesign today's infrastructure, if we switch over to autonomous cars.
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It's at least plausible. With the old Audi 4000 of my father, I got 400 miles out of 10 gallons, but I was never driving faster than 60 mph on that trip.
It is not entrapment. Entrapment means that someone intending to bust you or to arrest you gets you to do things you wouldn't have done otherwise. This is not the case here. 20,000 men were voluntarily starting to chat to that artificial girl, and about 1000 of them were starting to make sexual advances. None of them was begged to talk to her, no one was forced to talk to her, and not a single one was asked to offer cash for sexual favors. In the same way that an open door is no entrapment for theft, an artificial girl just sitting in a chatroom is no entrapment for sexual abuse.
Rule 1 on the Internet: Don't correct someone else's spelling.
You know that home ownership is inversely proportional to productivity? Labor markets become more and more inflexible, if people are rendered less and less mobile by home ownership. They then tend to stay at a place instead of moving to more productive and thus better paying jobs because they fear the financial loss of the sale of their home.
Because you can maintain a low helium pressure more easily as a high vacuum.
Snowden's writing is a manifesto. It has all the required elements. So I'll continue calling it such.
Please look up the meaning of the word "manifesto". It's a public declaration of your own goals and intents. Nowhere there is the requirement of at least 1000 words or seven pages or whatever your threshold seems to be.
Incest is unethical because of the risk of inbreeding; a marriage between siblings with no biological children hurts nobody.
With the same argument you could forbid sexual intercourse between a male and a female, where the sum of their ages is above 80 years. The risk of trisomia-21 is quite high in this constellation. Higher than the risk of birth defects due to inbreeding.
The risk of inbreeding was much higher in tribal societies, because they were on the verge of inbreeding anyway because of their small numbers. Today, our parents were choosing each other literally between millions of potential candidates. The genetic diversity between two New Yorkian siblings is often larger than that of two random members of one of the remaining native tribes - the siblings share 25% of their genetic code, native tribes often 40% and more.
Luckily the U.S. stopped the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia and South America by installing capitalist dictatorships, which didn't need any of those forces and mass murderings.
Instead we have to deal with reality. And reality is everything that affects us. We are not spheric cows, and we don't live in a vacuum. And you don't get far in reality by trying to breed milk providing balls.
And the big railroad barons of the second half of the 19th century never would have been that big without the U.S. government financing and pre-planning the big railroad tracks and protecting the building sites with the cavalry. So much for Ayn Rand's preposition of Atlas Shrugged. The archetypes of Dagny Taggart were free-riding on government subsidaries.
In the end, only the leftovers, the seemingly superfluous, tedious people, involved in regulations, law enforcement and taxing, the people Dent and Prefect met, survive, and are able to found a new civilisation on Earth, while the Randian Golgafrincham dies out due to an infection.
As a consequence, I never played Diablo, and I only played one map in Warcraft.
I have some doubts about the field character of Dark Matter. My main concern is that we can't measure it on Earth. We can measure the gravity, despite being very weak, and thus determine the Gravity constant, on Earth. If Dark Matter was some kind of gravity-like or at least gravity-interacting field, why can't we measure it directly on Earth despite its relative strength being about four times that of visible (baryonic) matter? Why does it spare Earth and the whole Solar system? Here, General Relativity describes the whole gravitational interactions we observe, pretty good even if only accounting for visible matter. Why does Dark Matter only appear in our results if we look at galaxy scale? And why is it superseded by Dark Energy, if we go beyond galaxies?
Or to compare him with another sitcom actor: Mayim Bialik, despite playing a neurologist in a sitcom, has an actual PhD in neurology.
This experiment tries to find some other interactions, but none so far were detected.
Are you sure, it's the decimal point and not some weird imperial duodecimal one?
There's nothing particularly radical about that. The underlying philosophy of libertarianism is one such that all incorrect decisions come from a lack of freedom(usually caused by the government).
I would call such a statement extremely radical. Basicly it exculpates every individual and blames all his incapabilities, errors, misdeeds and outright crimes to a lack of freedom caused by the government. It's pretty close to a marxist viewpoint, which states, that in social production, individuals are forced into objective relationships independent of their free will.
You are prepared only for the disasters you expect, and the expectations are different for each region. There is no point to prepare for a blizzard near the equator, and there is no point to prepare for avalanches in Louisiana. The Southeast is better prepared for strong storms, because they have historically happened several times in the Southeast. I guess, the disaster relief plan for a complete freezing of the Mississippi mouth for several months is not very good either - it doesn't happen very often, and the flooding that might happen because of the impounded water has never been experienced before. Japan has a long tradition of building earthquake save buildings and does routine earthquake relief exercises, but I don't think you find the same amount of earthquake preparedness in Chicago.
Chastizing people for being not prepared for something that no one in that region in the last 150 years has experienced is just being a smartass.
About every larger municipality in Germany has at least the local utility also offering internet access, beside the large german-wide providers like Deutsche Telekom and Kabel Deutschland.
I don't understand why in the U.S., such local diversity seems to be not possible.
Then NYC, Los Angeles or Dallas/Fort Worth should be offering cheap internet access from several dozen providers, right? Given their density...
Sorry. David Cameron of course.
If the Bundestag wants him as a witness (and now even the Minister of the Interior agrees that Edward Snowden's information was correct while the U.S. government outright lied to hime), they might even grant him asylum or give at least a warrant of safe conduct.
I'm just wondering how Premier Minister Cameron will spin this. His last public statements were all about "journalists that publish the Snowden papers aid the enemy", and suddenly he's on the receiving end of a big cluestick from his allies in the EU, who might even award Edward Snowden and the Guardian with high honours. Some german MPs were already suggesting to call Edward Snowden as a witness into the Parliament. And then James Cameron has a lot of weaseling to do to somehow play down the role of his own secret services.
If you had read TFA, you would have noticed that the robot car operates more safely than humans in the highway infrastructure that is in place today. We don't need to redesign today's infrastructure, if we switch over to autonomous cars.