Accountability is not only identifying voters, it is giving the ability for citizen to check that the counting of the ballots is fair. Electronic votes of any sort (in person voting machines included) fail this step. The "machine" makes all counting, without any possible supervision from citizen, as only experts can assert that the machine works as intended (and only to some extent, as the catastrophic history of voting machine asserts with an abysmal accuracy overall compared to paper ballots).
The fact that ballots cannot be verified by citizen leads to suspicion of fraud. Suspicion of fraud (or believable claim of frauds taking place), even when no fraud happen, is a major threat to democracy and civil stability. Civil war usually start from tormented election results where all parties claim to have won, because the election process is such a joke that this is just as believable that the party that won 80% of the (rigged) ballots have in fact lost. Accountability of results solves that uncertainty and associated civil war risk, and it requires the possibility for Joe Average to check by himself with his own eyes that his local ballot is not rigged, knowing that many Joe Average are doing the same in every district.
The german prototype is in the process of decommission. It has been found that the pebbles abrasion is much quicker than initially thought and designed for. The decommissioning process is going to be horrible, because everything in the "vessel" is strongly contaminated (much worse than it was designed for). It is also considered that the ending in operation saved the reactor from a severe incident/accident, as radioactive dust had been accumulating to the point of forming close to critical masses at random places in the reactor, which would have undergone unexpected and unplanned fission if the reactor had operated longer. The germans have been very unhappy with the results of the experiments, and had no plans to pursue further the pebble bed design, even before they decided to drop nuclear altogether.
Except that warehouse is not designed to operate for 40 years without a chance to ever retrofit newer design to it. The upfront cost of a warehouse is low, if it turns out not to fit regulations anymore, you destroy it and rebuild one. It can be upgraded rather easily. A nuclear plant decommission is a nightmare (and an expensive one). It doesn't make any economical sense to build a 10 year nuclear plant that will be decommissioned and replaced by a better one, because of upfront cost. It is --extremely-- difficult to change most parts of a reactor, and impossible to replace the main vessel.
Not only the British and Japs, the French and USSR operated some at some point too. Most breeder design use sodium as the coolant. An inconsequential coolant leak result in a catastrophic inextinguishable sodium chemical fire. It has happened in all the breeder facilities and rocketed the cost out of control (and made security of the installation questionable), leading to their closure.
Yes, such a law exist in europe. You have a right to access files that corporations make on you and to amend them (amending for precisions, or deletion).
I struggle to believe that anyone is harmed by these pictures, and to my mind it falls into the same category as banning cartoons of underage acts - no children were harmed in the process of producing an animation,
While I tend to agree with that statement, that as long as no child is harmed during the making, the picture/depiction itself should not unleash law furor, these kids are real kids. Being seen on a website for the obvious purpose of being jerking on material may have very real consequences to them, their life, or psychological balance; even though nobody harmed them during the making of the pictures. Children have stricter control on their image than adults, for good reasons. Pedophilia or not, it is fair that these children and their tutors retain control of the way their image is used, and I guess nobody agreed to be a porn material on reddit.
This is exactly my belief too. Actually, I think it is possible for a smart child to succeed in any school, as long as she doesn't get distracted into drugs, gregarious violence and loss of self esteem (I do not mean by that the BS about children should have choice on everything, I mean that at some point when you have been underachieving, you get an attitude that promotes further failing).
Hence, I choose a school with privileged background kids. I understand that better results are partly statistical artifact, but I want to benefit from these artifacts.
to kill about 5k military, the iraqis insurgents have seen a close to 100k casualties on "their" side (it is more complex, as insurgent probably are responsible for a fair share of the civilian casualties). http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Anyway, even factoring in the factor, it is clear that insurgent are sustaining severe casualties to inflict minor damage to the organized military.
The Rafale design that is being sold to India is not a cheap, old design. It is top notch, supercedes the f16 and f18, but also is a lot more expensive, usually (altough the specials of this particular deal may change the pricepoin, it has usually been uncompetitive plane in export market, because of its price). While de f35 is a more advanced superiority fighter, it is a farcry from a multirole aircraft. If Dassault could make a good pricepoint (or offered technology transfers that equates to a lot of savings in R&D for the buyer, which seems to be what the deal is), the Rafale is indeed the logical choice.
You know how much it costs to file H1B, do you? I mean including lawyer fees and everything. You also understand that the personnel you train at your expense on your processes, is going to leave you as soon as 5 years from now, not because they dislike the company, but because their visa will expire without a remedy. It is stringently difficult to get a job on H1 status, because you end up costing more than a citizen, all in all factored in.
It makes sense in desertic area. The water that you capture from your roof is water that doesn't go to the watershed, and is dearly missing for people living downstream. Water is a common, not your property, it is logical that when it is scarce, it is regulated to prevent abuse.
German residents are safe. Unlike UK, most european countries are still sovereign nations, and not a dominion of the US, and refuse to extradite their citizens.
And I would advocate that for mere historical value, this speech should be public domain. It is so influential of the time period that it has lost any right to privacy. Any value of quotation is in the historical value, it is indeed fair use.
I do not see exactly why political speech can or should be protected by copyright. I see only a legacy of issues with politicians sending DMCA on people using excerpts of their speech they do not want to be seen anymore (because they said something stupid or racist, or whatever). Political speech is very public by nature, and must not be protected by copyright for the sake of democracy.
This is indeed the proof that animal testing is necessary. It is goddamn expensive. Nobody does it for fun, or out of sheer cruelty. It costs money, and would be avoided if possible, for simple economical reasons.
Stupid personal story: my wife once bought a cosmetic that touted not being tested on animals. She got a severe rash using it... She now buys the one that are indeed tested on animals instead of customers.
I'm all for believing you, but when you make a controversial statement, illustrate with some citations to let the reader make his mind by reading your source material. I am interested in your statement, but I can't take it without further analysis.
As a consumer, I do not want to buy dangerous toys to my children. I am happy that everything that is sold as a toy is safe and tested so. If I feel like having my kids use dangerous apparatus for enjoyment, I prefer knowing that I am doing so, rather than having to weight the potential dangers of any and every "toy" on the market. Many toys are obviously dangerous (like the reviled Jarts), some are not as obviously wrong (think of lead painted toys, TNT capable chemistry set, etc. that look just like a safe entertainement, but are not).
I'd propose that as a solution, if it didn't had a variety of ethical and moral issues. Birth control is less obviously wrong, so I'd rather propose that option instead (still, it has some ethical challenges).
Thanks for your polite and thoughtful answer though.
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Accountability is not only identifying voters, it is giving the ability for citizen to check that the counting of the ballots is fair. Electronic votes of any sort (in person voting machines included) fail this step. The "machine" makes all counting, without any possible supervision from citizen, as only experts can assert that the machine works as intended (and only to some extent, as the catastrophic history of voting machine asserts with an abysmal accuracy overall compared to paper ballots).
The fact that ballots cannot be verified by citizen leads to suspicion of fraud. Suspicion of fraud (or believable claim of frauds taking place), even when no fraud happen, is a major threat to democracy and civil stability. Civil war usually start from tormented election results where all parties claim to have won, because the election process is such a joke that this is just as believable that the party that won 80% of the (rigged) ballots have in fact lost. Accountability of results solves that uncertainty and associated civil war risk, and it requires the possibility for Joe Average to check by himself with his own eyes that his local ballot is not rigged, knowing that many Joe Average are doing the same in every district.
The german prototype is in the process of decommission. It has been found that the pebbles abrasion is much quicker than initially thought and designed for. The decommissioning process is going to be horrible, because everything in the "vessel" is strongly contaminated (much worse than it was designed for). It is also considered that the ending in operation saved the reactor from a severe incident/accident, as radioactive dust had been accumulating to the point of forming close to critical masses at random places in the reactor, which would have undergone unexpected and unplanned fission if the reactor had operated longer. The germans have been very unhappy with the results of the experiments, and had no plans to pursue further the pebble bed design, even before they decided to drop nuclear altogether.
Except that warehouse is not designed to operate for 40 years without a chance to ever retrofit newer design to it. The upfront cost of a warehouse is low, if it turns out not to fit regulations anymore, you destroy it and rebuild one. It can be upgraded rather easily. A nuclear plant decommission is a nightmare (and an expensive one). It doesn't make any economical sense to build a 10 year nuclear plant that will be decommissioned and replaced by a better one, because of upfront cost. It is --extremely-- difficult to change most parts of a reactor, and impossible to replace the main vessel.
Aside from lawful accountability, what type of personal accountability are you referring to. Hitmen, mob rage ?
Not only the British and Japs, the French and USSR operated some at some point too. Most breeder design use sodium as the coolant. An inconsequential coolant leak result in a catastrophic inextinguishable sodium chemical fire. It has happened in all the breeder facilities and rocketed the cost out of control (and made security of the installation questionable), leading to their closure.
That doesn't change the fact that you need some coolant loop, even if the primary is liquid metal/salt.
Yes, such a law exist in europe. You have a right to access files that corporations make on you and to amend them (amending for precisions, or deletion).
I struggle to believe that anyone is harmed by these pictures, and to my mind it falls into the same category as banning cartoons of underage acts - no children were harmed in the process of producing an animation,
While I tend to agree with that statement, that as long as no child is harmed during the making, the picture/depiction itself should not unleash law furor, these kids are real kids. Being seen on a website for the obvious purpose of being jerking on material may have very real consequences to them, their life, or psychological balance; even though nobody harmed them during the making of the pictures. Children have stricter control on their image than adults, for good reasons. Pedophilia or not, it is fair that these children and their tutors retain control of the way their image is used, and I guess nobody agreed to be a porn material on reddit.
Conversely mosaic window positioning from windows 7 needs to be stolen in mac and linux.
This is exactly my belief too. Actually, I think it is possible for a smart child to succeed in any school, as long as she doesn't get distracted into drugs, gregarious violence and loss of self esteem (I do not mean by that the BS about children should have choice on everything, I mean that at some point when you have been underachieving, you get an attitude that promotes further failing).
Hence, I choose a school with privileged background kids. I understand that better results are partly statistical artifact, but I want to benefit from these artifacts.
to kill about 5k military, the iraqis insurgents have seen a close to 100k casualties on "their" side (it is more complex, as insurgent probably are responsible for a fair share of the civilian casualties). http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Anyway, even factoring in the factor, it is clear that insurgent are sustaining severe casualties to inflict minor damage to the organized military.
The Rafale design that is being sold to India is not a cheap, old design. It is top notch, supercedes the f16 and f18, but also is a lot more expensive, usually (altough the specials of this particular deal may change the pricepoin, it has usually been uncompetitive plane in export market, because of its price). While de f35 is a more advanced superiority fighter, it is a farcry from a multirole aircraft. If Dassault could make a good pricepoint (or offered technology transfers that equates to a lot of savings in R&D for the buyer, which seems to be what the deal is), the Rafale is indeed the logical choice.
Sentences are usually not cumulative in european law. But I don't know about the specifics of Netherland.
Does it make sense to call rockets a "fleet", when they are just a single use disposable vehicle ?
You know how much it costs to file H1B, do you? I mean including lawyer fees and everything. You also understand that the personnel you train at your expense on your processes, is going to leave you as soon as 5 years from now, not because they dislike the company, but because their visa will expire without a remedy. It is stringently difficult to get a job on H1 status, because you end up costing more than a citizen, all in all factored in.
It makes sense in desertic area. The water that you capture from your roof is water that doesn't go to the watershed, and is dearly missing for people living downstream. Water is a common, not your property, it is logical that when it is scarce, it is regulated to prevent abuse.
German residents are safe. Unlike UK, most european countries are still sovereign nations, and not a dominion of the US, and refuse to extradite their citizens.
He was referring to the banksters that operate in wallstreet. But white collar crime is always silent and overlooked.
And I would advocate that for mere historical value, this speech should be public domain. It is so influential of the time period that it has lost any right to privacy. Any value of quotation is in the historical value, it is indeed fair use.
I do not see exactly why political speech can or should be protected by copyright. I see only a legacy of issues with politicians sending DMCA on people using excerpts of their speech they do not want to be seen anymore (because they said something stupid or racist, or whatever). Political speech is very public by nature, and must not be protected by copyright for the sake of democracy.
This is indeed the proof that animal testing is necessary. It is goddamn expensive. Nobody does it for fun, or out of sheer cruelty. It costs money, and would be avoided if possible, for simple economical reasons.
Stupid personal story: my wife once bought a cosmetic that touted not being tested on animals. She got a severe rash using it... She now buys the one that are indeed tested on animals instead of customers.
"Which is why I don't think it will happen. Blockading a major international waterway is a short route to Iran being pummeled"
Obviously true. Therefore, this is all fearmongering.
I'm all for believing you, but when you make a controversial statement, illustrate with some citations to let the reader make his mind by reading your source material. I am interested in your statement, but I can't take it without further analysis.
As a consumer, I do not want to buy dangerous toys to my children. I am happy that everything that is sold as a toy is safe and tested so. If I feel like having my kids use dangerous apparatus for enjoyment, I prefer knowing that I am doing so, rather than having to weight the potential dangers of any and every "toy" on the market. Many toys are obviously dangerous (like the reviled Jarts), some are not as obviously wrong (think of lead painted toys, TNT capable chemistry set, etc. that look just like a safe entertainement, but are not).
I'd propose that as a solution, if it didn't had a variety of ethical and moral issues. Birth control is less obviously wrong, so I'd rather propose that option instead (still, it has some ethical challenges).
Thanks for your polite and thoughtful answer though.