We get the same thing around London, and I've a friend in Russia who report the same effect around Moscow. It's probably a factor for all large cities: Their economic power generates vast numbers of jobs in a small area, but also raises property values to the point that only the exceptionally wealthy can afford to live there, and this inevitably leads to the creation of a commuter belt. London has good rail connections, but even so it's commonplace for people working in the city to endure a two hour commute each way.
But remember that about half of the voters in the US are going to vote Democrat no matter what, and about half will vote Republican no matter what. That means even the craziest candidate is still in with a shot at winning, simply because he'll have the might of a major political party behind him - and now the infighting is over everyone who supports the party can agree that having a Republican nutjob in office is still better than letting a Democrat win.
I'm expecting the Russian media to start claiming the hack was orchestrated by the CIA as part of a plot to undermine Russian culture, weaken their economy and make it easier to monitor their communications.
At this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if they were right.
On one hand, there is clear scientific evidence showing a diet very high in fats and sugars is unhealthy.
On the other, there's several hundred million years of evolution screaming in your brain to cram down all the calories you can, because you don't know when the next meal will be available and the hard winter times are coming.
While individuals can sometimes resist their instincts, it's very difficult to do so, and this can be seen at a population level. If it were easy, abstinence-only programs would work.
There's always the option that has been available throughout all points in history: 3. Turn to begging or crime. Pick pockets, rob houses, maybe try prostitution. It's better than starving.
There's always a period of explosive population growth. Mortality rate fall first with the introduction of modern infrastructure and healthcare, but the culture of breed-fast-die-young remains in effect. It takes a full generation for that to change and the firth rate to fall as well, and in the interval between a country can increase in population greatly.
Nice idea, but you hit the South Korea problem: Lots of graduates and nowhere near enough jobs for them all, so a lot of them end up in low-skill jobs anyway. Then it just gets worse: Completing university is a proof of commitment, life management skills and at least a reasonable level of education, which means even for shelf-stacking positions employers will choose a graduate over a non-graduate for the same pay. That means non-graduates are unemployable, and thus everyone is compelled to complete higher education if they are to have any hope of a job at all, even if it means incurring severe debt.
It might make for a better-educated population, but not a wealthier one.
"Population growth is determined solely by the amount of resources available to a species."
And predation, disease, factors like that. None of which applies to humans, because they have invented culture - that means they don't have to play by the same rules. They even went so far as finding ways to mate without reproducing.
The UBI is a response to a feared future where there just aren't enough jobs to go around due to increasing automation. Fast food places are already introducing automated ordering systems so they don't need to hire cashiers, and just think how many drivers will be put out of work once self-driving vehicles are introduced on a large scale. If there aren't enough jobs, then some people by necessity will have to sit around doing fuck-all. The options are either to shame them with welfare payments and demands that they go apply for some jobs along with the thousand other candidates, or not pay them and see them forced into crime to keep food on the table, or try some sort of universal basic income scheme.
Economics took a turn which the luddites did not anticipate. They thought that greatly increasing the productivity of an individual worker would allow the demand for labor to be satisfied with a fraction of the number of workers. Instead the increased productivity lead to a decline in the price of goods that greatly increased consumption - it lead to the consumer age, where many people lived lives that would be the envy of any pre-industrial king. The mass purchasing of wanted-but-not-needed tat fueled the new economy.
There's no assurance it would happen again: People can only want so much stuff. The environmental consequences of a society where everything is disposable are also quite bad enough as things are.
He would be if his girlfriend sent him a naked selfie.
Here in the UK, the police acknowledge that possession of such an image is a serious crime, and records it as such, but will always conclude that prosecution is not in the public interest.
I'll give you a hint: It usually involves the name of a paper, or an article, or an expert, or an organisation. A name of some kind. Claiming that you know of some evidence but won't actually say what it is really isn't a citation.
It's also poor academic form to deliberately withhold information on your source in order to prevent another person from criticising it. It's actually quite suspicious - I only have your word that the events you described ever happened at all. For all I know, you might be making the whole thing up.
Please feel free to provide some citations. Links ideally, as not everyone here has journal access.
I want respectable academic research organisations, please. Political pressure groups or anyone working for a pressure group will be rejected out of hand.
They should eliminate cats. They carry toxoplasma gondii, a rather nasty parasite that easily infects humans and does bad things to the brain. Subtle bad things, usually too slight to notice, but enough to have influence on a population level - infection is a risk factor for suicide.
"blocking the dissemination would prevent most kiddie porn from ever existing"
I keep hearing this, but I've not seen any evidence to support it. It depends on the motivation - how much is produced primarily for profit? And how much because the abuser just feels the need to abuse a child, and the filming is just a bonus? Because blocking dissemination isn't going to do anything for the latter class.
It's even possible that dissemination could reduce the abuse of children, by giving would-be abusers an alternative way to sate their desires. Possible, but very difficult to find out because it's an area that's next-to-impossible to research. Test subjects aren't going to volunteer, and any sort of active study would never get ethical approval.
It's the new firewire, really. It's faster and lower-overhead than USB - but it's also a lot more expensive, and very few users have a call for more than USB3 can provide, so thunderbolt remains a very niche connection.
That's going to take pricy hardware and a lot of power, and it's really unsuited for anyone who works in content production and needs artefact-free display.
I've only ever plugged two things into my Mac pro expansion slot: An eSATA interface card (which worked perfectly) and an infiniband adaptor (Which was not detected by any OS). Based on that record, I wouldn't buy any PCI-e expansion for a mac pro without checking the returns policy, just in case.
Presumably so that anyone who hasn't upgraded to Windows 10 will have a good reason to do so if they don't want their software crashing upon encountering long filenames.
Moore's law cannot continue for another thirteen iterations for a very simple practical reason: It's difficult to make parts smaller than one atom. Atomic spacing for silicon is 0.5nM - that's the absolute, all-you're-getting limit even if every engineering problem is solved.
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We get the same thing around London, and I've a friend in Russia who report the same effect around Moscow. It's probably a factor for all large cities: Their economic power generates vast numbers of jobs in a small area, but also raises property values to the point that only the exceptionally wealthy can afford to live there, and this inevitably leads to the creation of a commuter belt. London has good rail connections, but even so it's commonplace for people working in the city to endure a two hour commute each way.
But remember that about half of the voters in the US are going to vote Democrat no matter what, and about half will vote Republican no matter what. That means even the craziest candidate is still in with a shot at winning, simply because he'll have the might of a major political party behind him - and now the infighting is over everyone who supports the party can agree that having a Republican nutjob in office is still better than letting a Democrat win.
What is there to investigate? They have no legal obligation to be unbiased, or even truthful.
I'm expecting the Russian media to start claiming the hack was orchestrated by the CIA as part of a plot to undermine Russian culture, weaken their economy and make it easier to monitor their communications.
At this point, I wouldn't be too surprised if they were right.
On one hand, there is clear scientific evidence showing a diet very high in fats and sugars is unhealthy.
On the other, there's several hundred million years of evolution screaming in your brain to cram down all the calories you can, because you don't know when the next meal will be available and the hard winter times are coming.
While individuals can sometimes resist their instincts, it's very difficult to do so, and this can be seen at a population level. If it were easy, abstinence-only programs would work.
There's always the option that has been available throughout all points in history:
3. Turn to begging or crime. Pick pockets, rob houses, maybe try prostitution. It's better than starving.
Jesus will provide!
There's always a period of explosive population growth. Mortality rate fall first with the introduction of modern infrastructure and healthcare, but the culture of breed-fast-die-young remains in effect. It takes a full generation for that to change and the firth rate to fall as well, and in the interval between a country can increase in population greatly.
Nice idea, but you hit the South Korea problem: Lots of graduates and nowhere near enough jobs for them all, so a lot of them end up in low-skill jobs anyway. Then it just gets worse: Completing university is a proof of commitment, life management skills and at least a reasonable level of education, which means even for shelf-stacking positions employers will choose a graduate over a non-graduate for the same pay. That means non-graduates are unemployable, and thus everyone is compelled to complete higher education if they are to have any hope of a job at all, even if it means incurring severe debt.
It might make for a better-educated population, but not a wealthier one.
"Population growth is determined solely by the amount of resources available to a species."
And predation, disease, factors like that. None of which applies to humans, because they have invented culture - that means they don't have to play by the same rules. They even went so far as finding ways to mate without reproducing.
That's the idea.
The UBI is a response to a feared future where there just aren't enough jobs to go around due to increasing automation. Fast food places are already introducing automated ordering systems so they don't need to hire cashiers, and just think how many drivers will be put out of work once self-driving vehicles are introduced on a large scale. If there aren't enough jobs, then some people by necessity will have to sit around doing fuck-all. The options are either to shame them with welfare payments and demands that they go apply for some jobs along with the thousand other candidates, or not pay them and see them forced into crime to keep food on the table, or try some sort of universal basic income scheme.
Economics took a turn which the luddites did not anticipate. They thought that greatly increasing the productivity of an individual worker would allow the demand for labor to be satisfied with a fraction of the number of workers. Instead the increased productivity lead to a decline in the price of goods that greatly increased consumption - it lead to the consumer age, where many people lived lives that would be the envy of any pre-industrial king. The mass purchasing of wanted-but-not-needed tat fueled the new economy.
There's no assurance it would happen again: People can only want so much stuff. The environmental consequences of a society where everything is disposable are also quite bad enough as things are.
A lot of social revolutions that are now acknowledged to be great advancements in society had their roots in direct illegal actions.
Would Rosa Parks have sat in the front of the bus without supporters calling on her to violate the law?
He would be if his girlfriend sent him a naked selfie.
Here in the UK, the police acknowledge that possession of such an image is a serious crime, and records it as such, but will always conclude that prosecution is not in the public interest.
Here's an example case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3...
Do you know what 'citation' actually means?
I'll give you a hint: It usually involves the name of a paper, or an article, or an expert, or an organisation. A name of some kind. Claiming that you know of some evidence but won't actually say what it is really isn't a citation.
It's also poor academic form to deliberately withhold information on your source in order to prevent another person from criticising it. It's actually quite suspicious - I only have your word that the events you described ever happened at all. For all I know, you might be making the whole thing up.
Please feel free to provide some citations. Links ideally, as not everyone here has journal access.
I want respectable academic research organisations, please. Political pressure groups or anyone working for a pressure group will be rejected out of hand.
They should eliminate cats. They carry toxoplasma gondii, a rather nasty parasite that easily infects humans and does bad things to the brain. Subtle bad things, usually too slight to notice, but enough to have influence on a population level - infection is a risk factor for suicide.
"blocking the dissemination would prevent most kiddie porn from ever existing"
I keep hearing this, but I've not seen any evidence to support it. It depends on the motivation - how much is produced primarily for profit? And how much because the abuser just feels the need to abuse a child, and the filming is just a bonus? Because blocking dissemination isn't going to do anything for the latter class.
It's even possible that dissemination could reduce the abuse of children, by giving would-be abusers an alternative way to sate their desires. Possible, but very difficult to find out because it's an area that's next-to-impossible to research. Test subjects aren't going to volunteer, and any sort of active study would never get ethical approval.
It's the new firewire, really. It's faster and lower-overhead than USB - but it's also a lot more expensive, and very few users have a call for more than USB3 can provide, so thunderbolt remains a very niche connection.
That's going to take pricy hardware and a lot of power, and it's really unsuited for anyone who works in content production and needs artefact-free display.
I've only ever plugged two things into my Mac pro expansion slot: An eSATA interface card (which worked perfectly) and an infiniband adaptor (Which was not detected by any OS). Based on that record, I wouldn't buy any PCI-e expansion for a mac pro without checking the returns policy, just in case.
But then you have to upgrade your display every time a new codec comes out, or have a player capable of real-time transcoding.
Presumably so that anyone who hasn't upgraded to Windows 10 will have a good reason to do so if they don't want their software crashing upon encountering long filenames.
nm, not nM. Hard to remember all these units!
Moore's law cannot continue for another thirteen iterations for a very simple practical reason: It's difficult to make parts smaller than one atom. Atomic spacing for silicon is 0.5nM - that's the absolute, all-you're-getting limit even if every engineering problem is solved.