The Nordic states are doing pretty well, and they all have universal socialised healthcare. The Netherlands claims it has privatised healthcare, and the best service in the world, but in fact 75%+ of the cost is transparently covered by the taxpayer, and poor people do get free healthcare.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
From the wikipedia article in your link: "Sir Francis Galton, a nineteenth-century intellectual, is recognized as one of the first behavioural geneticists... Galton is often credited as the pioneer of eugenics. Subsequently, Adolf Hitler is believed to have been motivated by Galton's work in enacting the Final Solution during World War II".
About as effectively argued as the other AC who seems to think that societies are just another form of plumage.
You don't need to press "genetics" buttons to influence personalities. In fact its debatable whether genetics has much influence on the collection of social behaviours we call a personality at all to even begin to start talking about things like this. Screening out clearly defined hereditary diseases, yes. Enhancing lifespans, great. Trying to change personalities? Well lets just say this guy is clearly not a Professor of either genetics or psychotherapy.
So, on the balance of things, yes, Mars has a better astronomical weather than Earth, but not by much. And in contrast to the moon, where you can see the stars even during the day, on Mars you only see a reddish haze.
This is all largely academic until someone actually takes a photo of the Martian sky at night.
Having 100 times less atmosphere than Earth is, for many purposes, still pretty damn dense.
No, its not. Its completely useless for any purpose needing an atmosphere I can imagine.
Aha! Never misunderestimate Science. My first thought upon hearing about this for example, was "I hope they included an antimatter mass production facility in close orbit around the sun there, we shouldn't need to wall off too much of it to be zipping around the solar system in jig time".
Store data in DNA, then figure out a way for our brains to interpret it as knowledge. Imagine being born with the combined understanding of all of the major fields of science, history, languages, crafts, trades, from day one.
So yes, while it is 160-times thinner, that's still pretty thick
Eh that wasn't actually meant to be snarky, I don't see any practical reasons for people to settle Mars. Venus, maybe. Speaking of thick, 160 times thinner than earth's atmosphere is vacuum as far as earth based life is concerned.
The atmosphere is so thin it's basically vacuum, so the view of the stars should be pretty good. If we could engineer cottonwood trees that thrive in vacuum, high radiation, temperatures as low as -150 celcius, and no water, we'd be good there too. Of course then we'd have to engineer humans that didn't suffer bone decalcification due to the low gravity...
The UK has a very long history of violent repression and total disregard for human rights. The only reason it has improved is because its power to abuse has been greatly reduced.
Indeed, as the Mau Mau uprising showed. Concentration camps after world war 2, for example. I wouldn't read that through if you plan on eating today, by the way.
There is something peculiarly chilling about the way colonial officials behaved, most notoriously but not only in Kenya, within a decade of the liberation of the [Nazi] concentration camps and the return of thousands of emaciated British prisoners of war from the Pacific. One courageous judge in Nairobi explicitly drew the parallel: Kenya's Belsen, he called one camp
The only catch is you need to pluck out a physical eye in order to get the upgrade. No catch at all for blind people I guess, but maybe I want cyborg eyes too! Perhaps I could just get one done, like Warden Dios, that guy rocked harder than heavy metal.
Every language has its ups and downs. Javascript has the advantage that it bears some similarities to non-scripting languages and will produce instant results without getting too heavily into theory.
Likewise, but while a laudable intiative, its important to keep track of the whole process. A lot of that e-waste, maybe even the majority, gets smuggled out and dumped into developing countries where villagers burn the stuff in their fields to get what they can out of it.
The lack of a physical keyboard reduces the utility of tablets and phones to commuter toys for me. Trying to replace perfectly functioning physical main vehicle operation controls with touchscreens reduces that vehicle to a deathtrap.
This is so technomage. I bet it has significant security implications though, imagine if your lawn or trees in a forest could be used as a tripwire system. Could it be detected, up close or at a distance?
A high ranking politician has to be able to weigh those things dispassionately, calculate the loss to society as a whole
Here's your weak link - a sociopath is only interested in calculating the loss to the sociopath. Nobody's arguing that good leadership doesn't mean hard decisions, instead they are arguing that a group of people who are very able to get into leadership positions make for piss poor leaders.
Bingo. The size matters not at all, its the screen that makes the difference. I like Pearl technology, but the contrast still isn't as good as paper in less than optimal light conditions. When they improve that, I'll sell all of my books.
Its getting more and more obvious though. When a government is no longer working for the people, the people will change it one way or the other, this is the lesson of history. I sometimes wonder how these guys got into power in the first place with such a poor understanding of cause and effect in politics.
Which god is he talking about, is what I want to know. I mean does he want us to start hitting people with hammers, praying for the undead lord to return from another dimension to cleanse the world of unbelievers with fire, start talking to our ancestors through their severed heads, raise Cthulhu from his watery grave, or what?
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The Nordic states are doing pretty well, and they all have universal socialised healthcare. The Netherlands claims it has privatised healthcare, and the best service in the world, but in fact 75%+ of the cost is transparently covered by the taxpayer, and poor people do get free healthcare.
It is one of those kind of "author reminiscing about flying in a time when he would never have been able to afford to do so" stories.
Ebook readers aren't great for PDFs, but they are leagues ahead of tablets for reading textbooks. I'd leave it another couple of years until ebooks really get all the wrinkles ironed out, then get an ebook reader. I have a nook and I can store tens of thousands of quality books in there at less than the weight of a paperback.
If Amazon adopts Facebook, or Facebook adopts Amazon, then you have a real competitor.
From the wikipedia article in your link: "Sir Francis Galton, a nineteenth-century intellectual, is recognized as one of the first behavioural geneticists... Galton is often credited as the pioneer of eugenics. Subsequently, Adolf Hitler is believed to have been motivated by Galton's work in enacting the Final Solution during World War II".
About as effectively argued as the other AC who seems to think that societies are just another form of plumage.
You don't need to press "genetics" buttons to influence personalities. In fact its debatable whether genetics has much influence on the collection of social behaviours we call a personality at all to even begin to start talking about things like this. Screening out clearly defined hereditary diseases, yes. Enhancing lifespans, great. Trying to change personalities? Well lets just say this guy is clearly not a Professor of either genetics or psychotherapy.
So, on the balance of things, yes, Mars has a better astronomical weather than Earth, but not by much. And in contrast to the moon, where you can see the stars even during the day, on Mars you only see a reddish haze.
This is all largely academic until someone actually takes a photo of the Martian sky at night.
Having 100 times less atmosphere than Earth is, for many purposes, still pretty damn dense.
No, its not. Its completely useless for any purpose needing an atmosphere I can imagine.
Aha! Never misunderestimate Science. My first thought upon hearing about this for example, was "I hope they included an antimatter mass production facility in close orbit around the sun there, we shouldn't need to wall off too much of it to be zipping around the solar system in jig time".
Store data in DNA, then figure out a way for our brains to interpret it as knowledge. Imagine being born with the combined understanding of all of the major fields of science, history, languages, crafts, trades, from day one.
So yes, while it is 160-times thinner, that's still pretty thick
Eh that wasn't actually meant to be snarky, I don't see any practical reasons for people to settle Mars. Venus, maybe. Speaking of thick, 160 times thinner than earth's atmosphere is vacuum as far as earth based life is concerned.
The atmosphere is so thin it's basically vacuum, so the view of the stars should be pretty good. If we could engineer cottonwood trees that thrive in vacuum, high radiation, temperatures as low as -150 celcius, and no water, we'd be good there too. Of course then we'd have to engineer humans that didn't suffer bone decalcification due to the low gravity...
The UK has a very long history of violent repression and total disregard for human rights. The only reason it has improved is because its power to abuse has been greatly reduced.
Indeed, as the Mau Mau uprising showed. Concentration camps after world war 2, for example. I wouldn't read that through if you plan on eating today, by the way.
There is something peculiarly chilling about the way colonial officials behaved, most notoriously but not only in Kenya, within a decade of the liberation of the [Nazi] concentration camps and the return of thousands of emaciated British prisoners of war from the Pacific. One courageous judge in Nairobi explicitly drew the parallel: Kenya's Belsen, he called one camp
The only catch is you need to pluck out a physical eye in order to get the upgrade. No catch at all for blind people I guess, but maybe I want cyborg eyes too! Perhaps I could just get one done, like Warden Dios, that guy rocked harder than heavy metal.
Every language has its ups and downs. Javascript has the advantage that it bears some similarities to non-scripting languages and will produce instant results without getting too heavily into theory.
Poland has been one of the more enthusiastic new EU members.
Likewise, but while a laudable intiative, its important to keep track of the whole process. A lot of that e-waste, maybe even the majority, gets smuggled out and dumped into developing countries where villagers burn the stuff in their fields to get what they can out of it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/science/earth/27waste.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/electronic-waste-developing-world
The lack of a physical keyboard reduces the utility of tablets and phones to commuter toys for me. Trying to replace perfectly functioning physical main vehicle operation controls with touchscreens reduces that vehicle to a deathtrap.
This is so technomage. I bet it has significant security implications though, imagine if your lawn or trees in a forest could be used as a tripwire system. Could it be detected, up close or at a distance?
True, such a system would work, if it could be enforced.
A high ranking politician has to be able to weigh those things dispassionately, calculate the loss to society as a whole
Here's your weak link - a sociopath is only interested in calculating the loss to the sociopath. Nobody's arguing that good leadership doesn't mean hard decisions, instead they are arguing that a group of people who are very able to get into leadership positions make for piss poor leaders.
Is that you, Clawring Crabe?
Good thinking, I'll do that.
Bingo. The size matters not at all, its the screen that makes the difference. I like Pearl technology, but the contrast still isn't as good as paper in less than optimal light conditions. When they improve that, I'll sell all of my books.
Its getting more and more obvious though. When a government is no longer working for the people, the people will change it one way or the other, this is the lesson of history. I sometimes wonder how these guys got into power in the first place with such a poor understanding of cause and effect in politics.
Which god is he talking about, is what I want to know. I mean does he want us to start hitting people with hammers, praying for the undead lord to return from another dimension to cleanse the world of unbelievers with fire, start talking to our ancestors through their severed heads, raise Cthulhu from his watery grave, or what?