There is a reason why Apple has a virtual office in the Island of Jersey rather then its Headquarters.They are exploiting loopholes in the U.S tax code and International treaties that allow it to pretend that is doing billions in business in a island of 100,000 where it has no employees.
The loopholes can be closed if there was political will but of course politicians want their campaign contributions.
Speaking of going down the toilet like Greece, what do you think a GOP corporate/super wealthy tax cut that will add $1.414 trillion to the deficit by 2027 is going to do? Remember kids, deficits only matter when talking about Social Programs
Mind telling me how you are accessing the internet. In most of the U.S your only viable choice for access is dealing with the Cable corporation operating in your area. Sure you can opt out of dealing with them by cutting off your own access but you could also opt out of government by moving to the Bush.
The earliest claimed fossilized lifeforms on earth are as old as old as 4.28 billion years old. it suggests an almost instantaneous emergence of life after oceans formed 4.4 billion years ago. Obviously Europa doesn't have the same conditions as early earth but perhaps the Abiogenesis is simply slower instead of impossible under those conditions and Europa has had plenty of time. We just don't know
My point is that while I don't doubt the fossil-fuel industries great lobbying power, I do doubt that they would have so easily prevailed had it not been for the negative public opinion of Nuclear power.
Because of Chernobyl, Three mile Island, Fukushima, and arguably the worst blow to the image of Nuclear power; The fictional movie "The China Syndrome," there is little public support for Nuclear power despite the threat of Global climate change. Germany is shutting down all of its plants, China has frozen new plant approvals and even in France, once the showcase for the industry, nuclear power generation is set to drop to 50 percent by 2025
Why don't you just deport all of the Muslim immigrants back to their homelands instead of taking away more freedom in the name of tolerance?
Because that is what this is all about?
Sorry buddy, Abdul just cannot bring himself to become a good German. He insists on acting like he's still back in the Middle East and resents that the kafir has a higher standard of living than he does, so you understand that in the name of Tolerance and Inclusion, we must impose highly onerous surveillance policies on you. I mean you're not a bigot right? You wouldn't want us to just say "wouldn't the path of least resistance and harm to German society and culture be to send Abdul back" now would you?
France derives 76.3% of its electricity from 58 Nuclear Power plants. About 17% of France's electricity is from recycled nuclear fuel. The mostly state owned French Utility giant EDF is heavily involved in research and development of nuclear power plants. Care to explain why they haven't bother with Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor's. Could it be that it is not the silver bullet you make it to be?
At that point there was no other way to regain regulatory authority
We don't WANT the internet "regulated" by the FCC under Title II as Title II comes with a boatload of additional regulations, like CALEA compliance.
Yes we do!
Let them fight it out in the courts one case at a time under FTC general trade rules and regulations.
I prefer my taxes be put to better use then paying lawyers in unecesssary lawsuits
Allow the markets to decide.
That assumes competition. Unfortunately there is no competition. DSL is far too slow to be real competition. Most of the U.S doesn't have a serious alternative to the cable company franchised in their town
This is simply a government attempt to control what you can see and read and who can say what on the internet along with gaining the ability to legally mandate the ability for LEAs/TLAs to spy on whoever they wish without an individual warrant.
It's government tyranny writ large.
You are either ignorant or in favor of authoritarianism when it supports "your side".
Strat
Wrong! This was the FCC using its authority given to it by law, to prevent Corporations from abusing their power to the detriment of a service you are paying for
It is easy to tell by the directions of the cast shadows, that 3 pin-point light sources were strategically placed on specific objects pointing in different directions. There would be no point in doing this other then to intentionally try and confuse a human's visual system
The FCC first tried to take a softer approach and the original "net neutrality rules" were adopted in 2005 without reclassification.
In 2007, the commission ruled that Comcast improperly discriminated and attempted to hand it a slap on the wrist.
Comcast sued and the courts agreed that the FCC had no authority to regulate ISP's under their current designation as "providers of "information"
At that point there was no other way to regain regulatory authority short of reclassifying ISP's under Title II.
Comcast again sued but the Supreme Court agreed that the FCC had the authority to reclassify and it even went as far as suggesting that the original classification had been wrong in the first place
Actually we are the fools for allowing 1% of the world’s population own 50% of its total wealth.
These people literally can't throw money away fast enough to make a dent in their wealth
Well this is exciting. The results considerably narrows the parameter space for nearby astronomical sources that can account for the PAMELA positron anomaly. It also puts new constrains on theoretical models for proposed dark-matter candidates. Of course it is still entirely possible that all that comes out of this is the discovery of a nearby pulsar
The GOP corporate tax cut doesn't seem to think that's a problem. Just borough another Trillion.
Remember kids, budget deficits only matter when the Dems are in charge
Because space is mostly vacuum heat-exchange does not happen the way that it does in a atom-filled environment such as earth. A unheated object will get colder and colder slowly because of black-body radiation but as it does the radiation emitted becomes less and less which means that it takes a very long time to cool down and even the small amount of heat generated by the plutonium radioactive decay is enough to keep the craft well above CMB temperature
encryption solves the easiest way to identify and block torrent traffic but there are many ways to attack the network and its users. One way is to start blocking trackers and supernodes. This will not stop all traffic but just as when the original Pirate Bay tracker was taken offline, sharing will get fragmented and slower. . another is to scour the internet for the top 10000 torrents, get all the ip's originating from within their network. From there you could do things like analyze what encrypted torrent traffic looks like or even simple throttle these ip's. This are just 2 attack avenues that quickly came to my head, a security researcher would come up with much more inventive solutions, I'm sure
When you are talking about regular commodities like copper or sugar, the price is mostly a function of supply vs demand ( I say mostly because the Wall Street "innovation" called the futures markets has introduced some degree of speculation in the price). This is not the case for precious metals. Gold, silver, platinum are wildly used as investment instruments, in fact most people with holdings in gold never actually see that gold, its price respectively is highly speculative. You wouldn't see major moves in the price of copper unless you hear of a major mine closing or some other major news but with Gold often the most predictable indicator is its typically inverse relation with the equity markets (stock indexes).
In that respect the one major feature that Bitcoin and Gold share is that the price is highly speculative. What remains to be seen is if cryptocurrencies will have the staying power as investment instruments as precious metals, or will they go the way of sea shell currency
Those were predictions of absolute worst case scenarios. Few scientists took them seriously but of course the media would rather report on unlikely sensational worst case scenarios rather then the slow burning disaster that most mainstream models predict
I find it rather odd that he and his lawyers are trying to sue on behalf of a group of more then 100 people when he is the only one to have come forward with allegations
Either Global climate change is a big enough worry to warrant the possibility of a local disaster such as Fukushima, or it is not. There is little chance of holding warming to 2 degrees if you significantly lower the %11 of world wide electricity being produced by nuclear reactors. In-fact most grid engineers will tell you, we should be doing the exact opposite and increasing nuclear generation capacity
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Speaking of going down the toilet like Greece, what do you think a GOP corporate/super wealthy tax cut that will add $1.414 trillion to the deficit by 2027 is going to do? Remember kids, deficits only matter when talking about Social Programs
Mind telling me how you are accessing the internet. In most of the U.S your only viable choice for access is dealing with the Cable corporation operating in your area. Sure you can opt out of dealing with them by cutting off your own access but you could also opt out of government by moving to the Bush.
The earliest claimed fossilized lifeforms on earth are as old as old as 4.28 billion years old. it suggests an almost instantaneous emergence of life after oceans formed 4.4 billion years ago. Obviously Europa doesn't have the same conditions as early earth but perhaps the Abiogenesis is simply slower instead of impossible under those conditions and Europa has had plenty of time. We just don't know
Because of Chernobyl, Three mile Island, Fukushima, and arguably the worst blow to the image of Nuclear power; The fictional movie "The China Syndrome," there is little public support for Nuclear power despite the threat of Global climate change. Germany is shutting down all of its plants, China has frozen new plant approvals and even in France, once the showcase for the industry, nuclear power generation is set to drop to 50 percent by 2025
Why don't you just deport all of the Muslim immigrants back to their homelands instead of taking away more freedom in the name of tolerance?
Because that is what this is all about?
Sorry buddy, Abdul just cannot bring himself to become a good German. He insists on acting like he's still back in the Middle East and resents that the kafir has a higher standard of living than he does, so you understand that in the name of Tolerance and Inclusion, we must impose highly onerous surveillance policies on you. I mean you're not a bigot right? You wouldn't want us to just say "wouldn't the path of least resistance and harm to German society and culture be to send Abdul back" now would you?
Abdul? I though Jacob was the evil one in Germany
France derives 76.3% of its electricity from 58 Nuclear Power plants. About 17% of France's electricity is from recycled nuclear fuel. The mostly state owned French Utility giant EDF is heavily involved in research and development of nuclear power plants. Care to explain why they haven't bother with Fast Neutron Nuclear Reactor's. Could it be that it is not the silver bullet you make it to be?
At that point there was no other way to regain regulatory authority
We don't WANT the internet "regulated" by the FCC under Title II as Title II comes with a boatload of additional regulations, like CALEA compliance.
Yes we do!
Let them fight it out in the courts one case at a time under FTC general trade rules and regulations.
I prefer my taxes be put to better use then paying lawyers in unecesssary lawsuits
Allow the markets to decide.
That assumes competition. Unfortunately there is no competition. DSL is far too slow to be real competition. Most of the U.S doesn't have a serious alternative to the cable company franchised in their town
This is simply a government attempt to control what you can see and read and who can say what on the internet along with gaining the ability to legally mandate the ability for LEAs/TLAs to spy on whoever they wish without an individual warrant.
It's government tyranny writ large.
You are either ignorant or in favor of authoritarianism when it supports "your side".
Strat
Wrong! This was the FCC using its authority given to it by law, to prevent Corporations from abusing their power to the detriment of a service you are paying for
It is easy to tell by the directions of the cast shadows, that 3 pin-point light sources were strategically placed on specific objects pointing in different directions. There would be no point in doing this other then to intentionally try and confuse a human's visual system
Your timeline is severely limited
Your position fails
"A fool and their money" "One born every minute"
Actually we are the fools for allowing 1% of the world’s population own 50% of its total wealth. These people literally can't throw money away fast enough to make a dent in their wealth
Outperforming humans in tasks specifically designed to disadvantage humans by employing well known optical illusions doesn't sound all that impressive
" Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention,"
Like cash?
Well the Border patrol still hasn't figured out how to train its dogs to sniff out large quantities of bitcoins (unlike cash)
Well this is exciting. The results considerably narrows the parameter space for nearby astronomical sources that can account for the PAMELA positron anomaly. It also puts new constrains on theoretical models for proposed dark-matter candidates. Of course it is still entirely possible that all that comes out of this is the discovery of a nearby pulsar
The GOP corporate tax cut doesn't seem to think that's a problem. Just borough another Trillion. Remember kids, budget deficits only matter when the Dems are in charge
The problem of how to squander the hundreds of millions being poured into blockchain startups by VC's that mostly don't even understand what it is
Because space is mostly vacuum heat-exchange does not happen the way that it does in a atom-filled environment such as earth. A unheated object will get colder and colder slowly because of black-body radiation but as it does the radiation emitted becomes less and less which means that it takes a very long time to cool down and even the small amount of heat generated by the plutonium radioactive decay is enough to keep the craft well above CMB temperature
but once it reaches $10G, I fully expect Donald Trump to take credit for it
encryption solves the easiest way to identify and block torrent traffic but there are many ways to attack the network and its users. One way is to start blocking trackers and supernodes. This will not stop all traffic but just as when the original Pirate Bay tracker was taken offline, sharing will get fragmented and slower. . another is to scour the internet for the top 10000 torrents, get all the ip's originating from within their network. From there you could do things like analyze what encrypted torrent traffic looks like or even simple throttle these ip's. This are just 2 attack avenues that quickly came to my head, a security researcher would come up with much more inventive solutions, I'm sure
When you are talking about regular commodities like copper or sugar, the price is mostly a function of supply vs demand ( I say mostly because the Wall Street "innovation" called the futures markets has introduced some degree of speculation in the price). This is not the case for precious metals. Gold, silver, platinum are wildly used as investment instruments, in fact most people with holdings in gold never actually see that gold, its price respectively is highly speculative. You wouldn't see major moves in the price of copper unless you hear of a major mine closing or some other major news but with Gold often the most predictable indicator is its typically inverse relation with the equity markets (stock indexes). In that respect the one major feature that Bitcoin and Gold share is that the price is highly speculative. What remains to be seen is if cryptocurrencies will have the staying power as investment instruments as precious metals, or will they go the way of sea shell currency
Those were predictions of absolute worst case scenarios. Few scientists took them seriously but of course the media would rather report on unlikely sensational worst case scenarios rather then the slow burning disaster that most mainstream models predict
Expect Billions to flow from the deep pockets of the likes of Boeing and Lockheed Martin to the K street lobbying machine
I find it rather odd that he and his lawyers are trying to sue on behalf of a group of more then 100 people when he is the only one to have come forward with allegations
Either Global climate change is a big enough worry to warrant the possibility of a local disaster such as Fukushima, or it is not. There is little chance of holding warming to 2 degrees if you significantly lower the %11 of world wide electricity being produced by nuclear reactors. In-fact most grid engineers will tell you, we should be doing the exact opposite and increasing nuclear generation capacity
Yep risking rolling over a bus full of people to avoid a fender-bender is exactly what a panicked human driver might have done
This is NOT a usable source of energy. The quarks are so short-lived that a sustained reaction is impossible