1. Deliberately mismanage the Democrat-authored 'Obamacare' scheme. 2. Watch it crash and burn. 3. Warn the people that this is what happens when you let socialists steal your money. 4. Use the public outrage to rally votes for repeal.
"First, as GP stated above, the Military has to be a very cohesive bunch. In back line situations you have communal showers and bathrooms with little privacy."
Isn't that the same argument that was once used against mix-race units?
Google is perfectly fine with Ogg - that's why Chrome plays it.
Apple and Microsoft, though, are both in the AAC patent holder's club. They also both have their own proprietary formats which have a role in their long-term business plans (though, in MS case, that's more wishful thinking that they can get WMA back into fashion). Why would they support an open-source competitor to something they profit from?
The result of this mess is that HTML5 audio and video tags all need to reference at least two different files, because there is no single format which all browsers will play.
The human mind isn't too different. It operates on frequency-modulated signals, processed by cells that perform relatively simple operations upon them. The individual operations are easily observed, but the task of going from individual operations to emergent behavior just hits a brick wall: It's too complicated for human understanding.
Not entirely for the worse. IIRC, it ends with the computer systems realising that as their programmed functions are to protect the US and to protect Russia, the most effective way to achieve this aim is to simply seize control of nuclear missiles themselves and declare world peace - backed up by the threat of annihilation for any country that tries to start a war.
It's not a conspiracy - that would imply coordination. It's just a lot of church leaders who, at some point, realise the image of Jesus they have always known is inaccurate - and decided that they should keep it that way.
There's a picture. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XhLtvYh... The BBC commissioned some historians specialised in the period to come up with the most plausible Jesus they could based on the period, ethnic background, social class, dress and grooming styles of the culture, climate, and so on. That's their best guess.
The most interesting part, to me, isn't that picture. It's that people have known for a very long time that Jesus would have looked something like that - and yet every crucifix, every church window, every silly little tract and poster still depicts Jesus as a tall, very European white man with flowing hair. The people responsible for this must known full well that this image is wrong - but they also must know just as well that a short man with olive-brown skin is not going to win any converts or get worshippers through the door.
I read a few strongly republican-leaning websites, often explicitly Christian, and that is actually pretty accurate. I occasionally see them run columns describing how to prepare your soon-to-be-adult child for college, to make sure their faith is strong enough to survive the onslaught of education. They also advertise several books on the subject, with titles like "The Christian's College Survival Guide: Maintaining Spiritual Strength in a Natural World."
The phrase 'armor of God' often appears. The main thrust of the advice isn't actually to avoid education - it's to avoid all those nasty secular students, and build up a group of devout Christian friends who can support each other. Along with the obvious - no sex, no alcohol, no parties, no smoking, no late nights, no clubbing, no rock music, no fun in general.
The general impression one would get from those sites is that college is composed of liberal professors determined to beat any religion and patriotism out of their students, and run by a load of fanatical social justice warriors who will cry 'rape' if you so much as make eye contact and expel you on the spot if you address them by the wrong gender pronoun.
The Russian government is keen on censorship, and even more on showing the people they are 'protected.' There are also some ethical concerns in aiding such a repressive government in gathering information on its citizens that could be used against them.
So here's a better idea for Pornhub: Open up a Tor hidden service.
He has clear rules now saying what he can and cannot use his name for. That's an improvement over having to live with the constant threat of legal action if the new owners decide he broke a rule they invented on the spot.
Extended adolescence is a real effect in modern society, but the causes are easy to see. Educational standards are higher - finishing high school is effectively mandatory, and everyone who can tries to go on to higher education. The cost of living in many places has gone up in recent years (it certainly has in the UK), and job stability is much less than it used to be - you can't buy a house if you are concerned you might lose your job in a few years and be unable to make the mortgage. Marriage age has been shifting later ever since contraception became readily available, as it's now possible to enter a long-term sexual relationship without the inevitability of children.
It might just be that life is more complicated than it used to be.
Any suggestion of raising the voting age would be evaluated by all politicians according to the most critical factor: "How does this effect my party's electoral success?"
As the average age of Republican voters is higher than that of Democrat voters, the Republicans would naturally support such a measure. They don't bother to make it an issue though, because they know it'll never get through.
When I was a teenager, this new thing called 'Napster' had just come out. It was getting massive news coverage, and those of us with internet connections would be online all evening straining our modems to get as much as we could.
Oil may be their chief export, but it's not their only thing of value. They see the writing on the wall, and are already making efforts to diversify - the UAE and Qatar especially are seeking to become major financial centers. There's also potential for expansion in the tourism sector - great weather and a lot of major historical sites through the entire region. The oil boom may be coming to a slow and inevitable end, but there is time to prepare.
Because sensationalist headlines get more reads, and because journalists are usually under tight time constraints that do not allow them to do in-depth study.
Could, but rather not. Sea water is rather corrosive, and it's full of horrid organisms that clog up the machinery. You can use seawater for pumped storage, it just means higher maintenance costs. It's also not usually convenient from a landscape perspective - you need a steep slope for pumped storage, like a good hill or small mountain, which you seldom find in a conveniently coastal location. When you do, it's usually in an area prone to erosion.
Seawater pumped storage has been done experimentally, but all large-scale commercial facilities use freshwater.
Water, unlike electricity, can be stored. Quite easily. You just need a big hole.
It's not that bad an idea. The plants are not labor-intensive, they are just capital-intensive - once the pumps and membranes are in they only need monitoring and occasional replacement, it's almost entirely automated. There's also a convenient correlation: The need for fresh water is greatest in summer when days are long, and especially when cloud cover is low. Exactly the conditions in which solar is most capable. It's also very easy to run the plant at reduced capacity - they are essentially just a simple low-capacity desalinator repeated thousands of times, and each one can be turned off individually on a time scale of seconds.
Don't think of it as a plant running a tiny percentage of the time. Think of it as a plant running at 100% capacity in summer, 80% in spring and autumn and 60% in winter. With exceptions when the sun is good for a few hours to add more water to the tanks (which need not be valley-flooding reservoirs), so it can then be scaled back down again when the clouds return.
Space isn't an issue - the storage doesn't have to be be urban areas. The big problem is upfront cost. Even just the batteries are expensive, and then you have all the management electronics and construction on top of that.
Pumped storage works very well indeed - if you've got the landscape for it. It's very location-sensitive.
Because people make mistakes. Even scientists. It's not enough to simply have proof of a claim - the proof needs to be checked, and rechecked, by multiple people, until enough experts have been convinced by it that you can be confident it contains no hidden errors or false assumptions.
The US did not become involved militarily until after Perl Harbor left them little other option, but they did supply logistical support. That's why Germany spent so much effort on attacking those convoys. Yes, Britain paid, but the supplies would not have gotten through without US government support. Private traders dislike selling to places that result in their ships getting torpedoed.
It's just like any other war: There are plenty of ways in which a non-participant can lend their assistance to one side without having to start shooting. The US sought plausible deniability at the beginning.
Consider the quantity, though. Nuclear produces some really nasty waste, but the volume produced is very small in relation to the energy production. Small enough that 'just bury it' is a viable disposal option, at least once the political problems are finally resolved.
I also just noticed I called them pro-solar, when I intended to say pro-nuclear. They are actually very anti-solar. Along with anti-wind, anti-oil, anti-coal. I've not looked through their whole site, but I imagine there is some anti-hydro in there too.
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I'm wondering if that's the plan.
1. Deliberately mismanage the Democrat-authored 'Obamacare' scheme.
2. Watch it crash and burn.
3. Warn the people that this is what happens when you let socialists steal your money.
4. Use the public outrage to rally votes for repeal.
"First, as GP stated above, the Military has to be a very cohesive bunch. In back line situations you have communal showers and bathrooms with little privacy."
Isn't that the same argument that was once used against mix-race units?
Yes. It's a conflict of interest problem.
Google is perfectly fine with Ogg - that's why Chrome plays it.
Apple and Microsoft, though, are both in the AAC patent holder's club. They also both have their own proprietary formats which have a role in their long-term business plans (though, in MS case, that's more wishful thinking that they can get WMA back into fashion). Why would they support an open-source competitor to something they profit from?
The result of this mess is that HTML5 audio and video tags all need to reference at least two different files, because there is no single format which all browsers will play.
It might be possible one day to make a copy 'close enough' that it is, for practical purposes, a second you.
That day is a long way off though. Existing technology isn't even close.
The human mind isn't too different. It operates on frequency-modulated signals, processed by cells that perform relatively simple operations upon them. The individual operations are easily observed, but the task of going from individual operations to emergent behavior just hits a brick wall: It's too complicated for human understanding.
Not entirely for the worse. IIRC, it ends with the computer systems realising that as their programmed functions are to protect the US and to protect Russia, the most effective way to achieve this aim is to simply seize control of nuclear missiles themselves and declare world peace - backed up by the threat of annihilation for any country that tries to start a war.
It's not a conspiracy - that would imply coordination. It's just a lot of church leaders who, at some point, realise the image of Jesus they have always known is inaccurate - and decided that they should keep it that way.
There's a picture.
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XhLtvYh...
The BBC commissioned some historians specialised in the period to come up with the most plausible Jesus they could based on the period, ethnic background, social class, dress and grooming styles of the culture, climate, and so on. That's their best guess.
The most interesting part, to me, isn't that picture. It's that people have known for a very long time that Jesus would have looked something like that - and yet every crucifix, every church window, every silly little tract and poster still depicts Jesus as a tall, very European white man with flowing hair. The people responsible for this must known full well that this image is wrong - but they also must know just as well that a short man with olive-brown skin is not going to win any converts or get worshippers through the door.
I read a few strongly republican-leaning websites, often explicitly Christian, and that is actually pretty accurate. I occasionally see them run columns describing how to prepare your soon-to-be-adult child for college, to make sure their faith is strong enough to survive the onslaught of education. They also advertise several books on the subject, with titles like "The Christian's College Survival Guide: Maintaining Spiritual Strength in a Natural World."
The phrase 'armor of God' often appears. The main thrust of the advice isn't actually to avoid education - it's to avoid all those nasty secular students, and build up a group of devout Christian friends who can support each other. Along with the obvious - no sex, no alcohol, no parties, no smoking, no late nights, no clubbing, no rock music, no fun in general.
The general impression one would get from those sites is that college is composed of liberal professors determined to beat any religion and patriotism out of their students, and run by a load of fanatical social justice warriors who will cry 'rape' if you so much as make eye contact and expel you on the spot if you address them by the wrong gender pronoun.
The Russian government is keen on censorship, and even more on showing the people they are 'protected.' There are also some ethical concerns in aiding such a repressive government in gathering information on its citizens that could be used against them.
So here's a better idea for Pornhub: Open up a Tor hidden service.
You either know your plastics, or got lucky. Gasoline melts through a lot of plastics.
You can make neat plastic sculptures that way. Dissolve the right plastic in gasoline, sculpt it into things, let the gas evaporate out.
Perhaps a case of doing the right thing for the wrong reasons.
He has clear rules now saying what he can and cannot use his name for. That's an improvement over having to live with the constant threat of legal action if the new owners decide he broke a rule they invented on the spot.
Extended adolescence is a real effect in modern society, but the causes are easy to see. Educational standards are higher - finishing high school is effectively mandatory, and everyone who can tries to go on to higher education. The cost of living in many places has gone up in recent years (it certainly has in the UK), and job stability is much less than it used to be - you can't buy a house if you are concerned you might lose your job in a few years and be unable to make the mortgage. Marriage age has been shifting later ever since contraception became readily available, as it's now possible to enter a long-term sexual relationship without the inevitability of children.
It might just be that life is more complicated than it used to be.
Any suggestion of raising the voting age would be evaluated by all politicians according to the most critical factor: "How does this effect my party's electoral success?"
As the average age of Republican voters is higher than that of Democrat voters, the Republicans would naturally support such a measure. They don't bother to make it an issue though, because they know it'll never get through.
When I was a teenager, this new thing called 'Napster' had just come out. It was getting massive news coverage, and those of us with internet connections would be online all evening straining our modems to get as much as we could.
Oil may be their chief export, but it's not their only thing of value. They see the writing on the wall, and are already making efforts to diversify - the UAE and Qatar especially are seeking to become major financial centers. There's also potential for expansion in the tourism sector - great weather and a lot of major historical sites through the entire region. The oil boom may be coming to a slow and inevitable end, but there is time to prepare.
Because sensationalist headlines get more reads, and because journalists are usually under tight time constraints that do not allow them to do in-depth study.
Could, but rather not. Sea water is rather corrosive, and it's full of horrid organisms that clog up the machinery. You can use seawater for pumped storage, it just means higher maintenance costs. It's also not usually convenient from a landscape perspective - you need a steep slope for pumped storage, like a good hill or small mountain, which you seldom find in a conveniently coastal location. When you do, it's usually in an area prone to erosion.
Seawater pumped storage has been done experimentally, but all large-scale commercial facilities use freshwater.
If power costs could actually go negative, someone would be building the world's largest heating element as a way to get rid of it.
Water, unlike electricity, can be stored. Quite easily. You just need a big hole.
It's not that bad an idea. The plants are not labor-intensive, they are just capital-intensive - once the pumps and membranes are in they only need monitoring and occasional replacement, it's almost entirely automated. There's also a convenient correlation: The need for fresh water is greatest in summer when days are long, and especially when cloud cover is low. Exactly the conditions in which solar is most capable. It's also very easy to run the plant at reduced capacity - they are essentially just a simple low-capacity desalinator repeated thousands of times, and each one can be turned off individually on a time scale of seconds.
Don't think of it as a plant running a tiny percentage of the time. Think of it as a plant running at 100% capacity in summer, 80% in spring and autumn and 60% in winter. With exceptions when the sun is good for a few hours to add more water to the tanks (which need not be valley-flooding reservoirs), so it can then be scaled back down again when the clouds return.
Space isn't an issue - the storage doesn't have to be be urban areas. The big problem is upfront cost. Even just the batteries are expensive, and then you have all the management electronics and construction on top of that.
Pumped storage works very well indeed - if you've got the landscape for it. It's very location-sensitive.
Because people make mistakes. Even scientists. It's not enough to simply have proof of a claim - the proof needs to be checked, and rechecked, by multiple people, until enough experts have been convinced by it that you can be confident it contains no hidden errors or false assumptions.
The US did not become involved militarily until after Perl Harbor left them little other option, but they did supply logistical support. That's why Germany spent so much effort on attacking those convoys. Yes, Britain paid, but the supplies would not have gotten through without US government support. Private traders dislike selling to places that result in their ships getting torpedoed.
It's just like any other war: There are plenty of ways in which a non-participant can lend their assistance to one side without having to start shooting. The US sought plausible deniability at the beginning.
Consider the quantity, though. Nuclear produces some really nasty waste, but the volume produced is very small in relation to the energy production. Small enough that 'just bury it' is a viable disposal option, at least once the political problems are finally resolved.
I also just noticed I called them pro-solar, when I intended to say pro-nuclear. They are actually very anti-solar. Along with anti-wind, anti-oil, anti-coal. I've not looked through their whole site, but I imagine there is some anti-hydro in there too.