Honest question: are there 84GB of apps and app data in the windows store environment? One of the complaints with their phone was lack of apps. Is windows rt in the same boat or even worse?
Depressingly, "trickle up" doesn't work all that well either. If people spend their surplus buying foreign made goods, benefit to the overall economy is quite limited.
True to some degree. But you have to admit that 'trickle up' is at least an order of magnitude more effective, given that many goods (and especially services) will always remain local. Most food for example. Food, rent, gas, etc.. And more income for the middle class means nicer houses, which means more local property taxes, which means better funding for schools, etc.. There are all sorts of ways that trickle up is better than trickle down.
You do realize that all of us pay for other people's ER care because those free loaders drive the cost up for all of us right? If we consider it a moral obligation to give ER care to people who are dying, we not choose the cheapest way to pay for those people's healthcare: pay for preventative care (a real healthcare plan) instead of the most expensive healthcare, which is ER care.
Keep letting them merge. Your travel time won't be significantly impacted.
I drive in Portland OR, and while not as dense as Seattle, we do have bumper to bump traffic in rush hour.
Just look at the speed you are going, and imagine how long it takes you to travel a car lengths distance at that speed. Now multiply that by the 100 cars you let get in front of you. It likely adds up to something like 5 extra minutes of travel time.
Unless traffic is moving at like 1 mile per hour, in which case, you are probably safe being really close to the car in front of you:)
Keep letting them merge. Your travel time won't be significantly impacted.
I drive in Portland OR, and while not as dense as Seattle, we do have bumper to bump traffic in rush hour.
Just look at the speed you are going, and imagine how long it takes you to travel a car lengths distance at that speed. Now multiply that by the 100 cars you let get in front of you. It likely adds up to something like 5 extra minutes of travel time.
Unless traffic is moving at like 1 mile per hour, in which case, you are probably safe being really close to the car in front of you:)
How sure are you that you are eating/drinking what you actually want?
From a New York Times article linked above:
An executive at the American Beverage Association has dismissed the plan, saying that “150 years of research finds that people consume what they want.” Actually, the research shows that what people “want” has a lot to do with how choices are framed. In one well-known study, researchers put a bowl of M&M’s on the concierge desk of an apartment building, with a scoop attached and a sign below that said “Eat Your Fill.” On alternating days, the experimenters changed the size of the scoop—from a tablespoon to a quarter-cup scoop, which was four times as big. If people really ate just “what they want,” the amount they ate should have remained roughly the same. But scoop size turned out to matter a lot: people consumed much more when the scoop was big. This suggests that most of us don’t have a fixed idea of how much we want; instead, we look to outside cues—like the size of a package or cup—to instruct us. And since the nineteen-seventies the portion sizes offered by food companies and restaurants have grown significantly larger. In 1974, the biggest drink McDonald’s offered was twenty-one ounces. Today, that’s roughly the size of a “small” drink at Burger King. In effect, the scoops have got bigger, and consumption has risen accordingly.
I keep seeing people point to a specific terrorist and say, "see, he's educated. Must not be education".
But it doesn't work that way. What the parent poster was describing is an educated community. That single educated terrorist likely grew up surrounded by extremism. That extremism is allowed to exist, even thrive, in a largely uneducated population. That means that as that single terrorist is receiving their education, they are filtering it through layers of hatred and misinformation that they grew up with. (and it might even be remote eg, via the internet, if that person is staying tied to wherever they came from)
Basically, most terrorists have been indoctrinated long before they attend college, or likely even high school / middle school.
Of course there are exceptions if you want to find them, but I'd wager a guess that it is a pretty small number of terrorists who grew up in a moderate household, in a moderate community, and who much later in life embraced an extremist philosophy.
And I'd go further than the original poster about the factors involved in fostering extremism. Education is big, but so is opportunity, economy, and exposure to a diversity of view points (which doesn't happen until after education, economy, and opportunities improve).
I would also add that our wars and drone strikes are for sure creating more terrorists, but it is hard to quantify. If we kill 6 terrorists in a village with a drone, and there are 3 kids killed, how many people in surrounding villages, or relatives, have just been pushed from 'somewhat extreme' to 'willing to commit acts of violence against us'? I guess time will tell.
If the evil people couldn't use Islam to be evil they'd use something else.
I agree with you, but yet I still have to concede that it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by using the Quran than it is by using My LIttle Pony episodes.
Apples to Oranges. You should have said "it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by cherry picking from any major religious text" . Quran/Koran, Torah, Bible, etc.. all have violent passages or histories of violent periods.
Why do you think it hasn't kept up? Even if something isn't available within the coldfusion function set, there are there tons of addons like CFC's or custom functions . And if you can't find what you are looking for there, you can always use pure java inside a coldfusion application.
Do we know for a fact that Obama was intentionally lying about the attackers, or could this just be a case of crossed communication wires?
I never understood the supposed motive to lie in the first place. What is so detrimental to the President about our embassy being attacked by a rogue militia?
Dyson assumed that all alien civilizations are stupid enough to believe in infinite growth, much like humanity.
It also assumes that there aren't any energy advancements that are so far out of our understanding right now that they wouldn't seem like magic if we possessed them. Our assumptions are limited by our current understanding. In the next thousand years we could see all kinds of advancements that render building a Dyson sphere completely unnecessary.
Just to counter-balance the point that we might have enormous energy production advancements, we might also have tremendous energy requirements if we make breakthroughs in things like warp drives, opening wormholes, etc..
It is counterproductive to promote electric vehicles in regions where electricity is primarily produced from lignite, coal or even heavy oil combustion.
How can it possibly be counterproductive to get everyone, even in coal areas, using EVs? It means that the second that coal plant changes for the better, or is replaced at some point in the future, every car along with it improves instantly. If the cars were still combustion, it would take a decade or more for those cars to cycle out of production.
it's pretty much driven by their emotional 'feelings' (whatever those are)
No idea to what percent of women this applies, but I've been told by a couple past girlfriends that because of society's harsh message to women about weight and appearance, 'the meal' gets imbued with a bunch of complex psychological layers. The result of that is that 'the meal' becomes a special event, rather than just a way to cure hunger.
And like any special event (going to a wedding, some holiday, etc..) you tend to think more about it. You want it to be closer to perfect than an ordinary event.
The real problem is that I'm an adult and I can decide for myself whether or not I will wear a helmet. The government doesn't need to make this decision for me.
As long as you can prove you either have enough money or health insurance to cover the costs of a major head injury. I'd rather not pay for your freedom via indirect price increases in healthcare because of your free trip to the emergency room.
Freedom is generally good, but it requires some tempering when your freedom affects my freedom.
Here's a fun one for "ask a mason" or "ask Woz about masonry". The requirement for belief in a supreme deity or whatever is a simplification of the long form and the long form seems to boil down to if I believe in physics and some philosophy I technically can fit. Analysis? Most opinions are probably going to reflect the responders biases more than being real analysis, but its something I've considered occasionally.
When I was in college, out of curiosity, I once walked into a Masonic temple. I had read some history and pseudo-history (conspiracy) books about Free Masons and wanted to see what a real Mason would say about it. The guy I met inside was very talkative. The feeling I got was that this was how pretty much all new members become Masons. Someone gets curious, walks in, and joins.
At any rate, after talking for a long time, I brought up the God issue. He pointed to the Masonic compass symbol on the floor and said something along the lines of, "God and Geometry are one and the same". I haven't read much about Masons since then. I came away with the feeling that they were basically a club that valued intelligence, bettering one's self, and held science in high esteem.
If you can't find up to date docs and examples on the main site, you have to turn to the horrors of google for your answer. And then you have to wade through years of outdated blog posts showing non-working example after example before you find one that partially works to do what you are trying to do.
At this point I'm assuming that various devs are getting kickbacks from contractors who specialize in installing and configuring their software to keep the docs and examples messed up. Either that, or a large portion of devs secretly delight in thinking about the thousands of people wasting their time trying to make outdated examples work.
I think a more interesting question would be, have terrorism attempts increased post 9/11, or are those FBI headlines you provided pretty much as it has always been? In other words, if terrorist attempts have not dramatically increased post 9/11, then there is no justification for the doubling of our defense budget, nor is there any justification for an open ended, no ends in sight, war on terror.
If you do any cursory study of our legal system, you'll find that many things are subjective. "Reasonable doubt", "Reckless behavior", etc... that is the reason we have judges and juries.
Life isn't black and white. And what is reasonable one century may not be reasonable the next century. That is just how the world works.
I know that in an ideal world, everyone would be allowed to say anything they want, but in the practical world, some types of speech in some situations causes more harm than the harm of removing a person's right to that speech.
That is one of the larger issues. America is a young food culture, we don't value food, nor have many traditional recipes (except in some intense cultural centers, like New Orleans, etc..). We don't place as much emphasis on cooking from scratch.
I remember in college that Freshmen were offered a 'cooking away from home' class of some sort, because the majority of them had no idea how to make even simple meals.
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One plant has tremendous advantages though: http://gigaom.com/cleantech/15-algae-startups-bringing-pond-scum-to-fuel-tanks/
Massive batteries are coming soon: http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/25/liquid-metal-battery-startup-mits-don-sadoway-gets-15million-boost-investments-khosla-ventures-bill-gates-total/
Honest question: are there 84GB of apps and app data in the windows store environment? One of the complaints with their phone was lack of apps. Is windows rt in the same boat or even worse?
Depressingly, "trickle up" doesn't work all that well either. If people spend their surplus buying foreign made goods, benefit to the overall economy is quite limited.
True to some degree. But you have to admit that 'trickle up' is at least an order of magnitude more effective, given that many goods (and especially services) will always remain local. Most food for example. Food, rent, gas, etc.. And more income for the middle class means nicer houses, which means more local property taxes, which means better funding for schools, etc.. There are all sorts of ways that trickle up is better than trickle down.
You do realize that all of us pay for other people's ER care because those free loaders drive the cost up for all of us right? If we consider it a moral obligation to give ER care to people who are dying, we not choose the cheapest way to pay for those people's healthcare: pay for preventative care (a real healthcare plan) instead of the most expensive healthcare, which is ER care.
Keep letting them merge. Your travel time won't be significantly impacted.
I drive in Portland OR, and while not as dense as Seattle, we do have bumper to bump traffic in rush hour.
Just look at the speed you are going, and imagine how long it takes you to travel a car lengths distance at that speed. Now multiply that by the 100 cars you let get in front of you. It likely adds up to something like 5 extra minutes of travel time.
Unless traffic is moving at like 1 mile per hour, in which case, you are probably safe being really close to the car in front of you:)
http://trafficwaves.org/
Keep letting them merge. Your travel time won't be significantly impacted.
I drive in Portland OR, and while not as dense as Seattle, we do have bumper to bump traffic in rush hour.
Just look at the speed you are going, and imagine how long it takes you to travel a car lengths distance at that speed. Now multiply that by the 100 cars you let get in front of you. It likely adds up to something like 5 extra minutes of travel time.
Unless traffic is moving at like 1 mile per hour, in which case, you are probably safe being really close to the car in front of you:)
The Libya assault was a coordinated rogue militia attack, yes. But there were violent protests in several other countries over the video.
How sure are you that you are eating/drinking what you actually want?
From a New York Times article linked above:
An executive at the American Beverage Association has dismissed the plan, saying that “150 years of research finds that people consume what they want.” Actually, the research shows that what people “want” has a lot to do with how choices are framed. In one well-known study, researchers put a bowl of M&M’s on the concierge desk of an apartment building, with a scoop attached and a sign below that said “Eat Your Fill.” On alternating days, the experimenters changed the size of the scoop—from a tablespoon to a quarter-cup scoop, which was four times as big. If people really ate just “what they want,” the amount they ate should have remained roughly the same. But scoop size turned out to matter a lot: people consumed much more when the scoop was big. This suggests that most of us don’t have a fixed idea of how much we want; instead, we look to outside cues—like the size of a package or cup—to instruct us. And since the nineteen-seventies the portion sizes offered by food companies and restaurants have grown significantly larger. In 1974, the biggest drink McDonald’s offered was twenty-one ounces. Today, that’s roughly the size of a “small” drink at Burger King. In effect, the scoops have got bigger, and consumption has risen accordingly.
I keep seeing people point to a specific terrorist and say, "see, he's educated. Must not be education".
But it doesn't work that way. What the parent poster was describing is an educated community. That single educated terrorist likely grew up surrounded by extremism. That extremism is allowed to exist, even thrive, in a largely uneducated population. That means that as that single terrorist is receiving their education, they are filtering it through layers of hatred and misinformation that they grew up with. (and it might even be remote eg, via the internet, if that person is staying tied to wherever they came from)
Basically, most terrorists have been indoctrinated long before they attend college, or likely even high school / middle school.
Of course there are exceptions if you want to find them, but I'd wager a guess that it is a pretty small number of terrorists who grew up in a moderate household, in a moderate community, and who much later in life embraced an extremist philosophy.
And I'd go further than the original poster about the factors involved in fostering extremism. Education is big, but so is opportunity, economy, and exposure to a diversity of view points (which doesn't happen until after education, economy, and opportunities improve).
I would also add that our wars and drone strikes are for sure creating more terrorists, but it is hard to quantify. If we kill 6 terrorists in a village with a drone, and there are 3 kids killed, how many people in surrounding villages, or relatives, have just been pushed from 'somewhat extreme' to 'willing to commit acts of violence against us'? I guess time will tell.
If the evil people couldn't use Islam to be evil they'd use something else.
I agree with you, but yet I still have to concede that it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by using the Quran than it is by using My LIttle Pony episodes.
Apples to Oranges. You should have said "it is a lot easier for evil people to manipulate people into doing evil by cherry picking from any major religious text" . Quran/Koran, Torah, Bible, etc.. all have violent passages or histories of violent periods.
Why do you think it hasn't kept up? Even if something isn't available within the coldfusion function set, there are there tons of addons like CFC's or custom functions . And if you can't find what you are looking for there, you can always use pure java inside a coldfusion application.
And if you don't like the idea of using commercial software, there are a bunch of open source coldfusion servers now.
Do we know for a fact that Obama was intentionally lying about the attackers, or could this just be a case of crossed communication wires?
I never understood the supposed motive to lie in the first place. What is so detrimental to the President about our embassy being attacked by a rogue militia?
Dyson assumed that all alien civilizations are stupid enough to believe in infinite growth, much like humanity.
It also assumes that there aren't any energy advancements that are so far out of our understanding right now that they wouldn't seem like magic if we possessed them. Our assumptions are limited by our current understanding. In the next thousand years we could see all kinds of advancements that render building a Dyson sphere completely unnecessary.
Just to counter-balance the point that we might have enormous energy production advancements, we might also have tremendous energy requirements if we make breakthroughs in things like warp drives, opening wormholes, etc..
It is counterproductive to promote electric vehicles in regions where electricity is primarily produced from lignite, coal or even heavy oil combustion.
How can it possibly be counterproductive to get everyone, even in coal areas, using EVs? It means that the second that coal plant changes for the better, or is replaced at some point in the future, every car along with it improves instantly. If the cars were still combustion, it would take a decade or more for those cars to cycle out of production.
it's pretty much driven by their emotional 'feelings' (whatever those are)
No idea to what percent of women this applies, but I've been told by a couple past girlfriends that because of society's harsh message to women about weight and appearance, 'the meal' gets imbued with a bunch of complex psychological layers. The result of that is that 'the meal' becomes a special event, rather than just a way to cure hunger.
And like any special event (going to a wedding, some holiday, etc..) you tend to think more about it. You want it to be closer to perfect than an ordinary event.
That is my biggest concern, that the film adaption is going to be written with a disney tone in order to appeal to 13 year old kids.
I prefer Armor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor_%28novel%29
Some cities, like mine, are trying: bike specific traffic lights
The real problem is that I'm an adult and I can decide for myself whether or not I will wear a helmet. The government doesn't need to make this decision for me.
As long as you can prove you either have enough money or health insurance to cover the costs of a major head injury. I'd rather not pay for your freedom via indirect price increases in healthcare because of your free trip to the emergency room.
Freedom is generally good, but it requires some tempering when your freedom affects my freedom.
Here's a fun one for "ask a mason" or "ask Woz about masonry". The requirement for belief in a supreme deity or whatever is a simplification of the long form and the long form seems to boil down to if I believe in physics and some philosophy I technically can fit. Analysis? Most opinions are probably going to reflect the responders biases more than being real analysis, but its something I've considered occasionally.
When I was in college, out of curiosity, I once walked into a Masonic temple. I had read some history and pseudo-history (conspiracy) books about Free Masons and wanted to see what a real Mason would say about it. The guy I met inside was very talkative. The feeling I got was that this was how pretty much all new members become Masons. Someone gets curious, walks in, and joins.
At any rate, after talking for a long time, I brought up the God issue. He pointed to the Masonic compass symbol on the floor and said something along the lines of, "God and Geometry are one and the same". I haven't read much about Masons since then. I came away with the feeling that they were basically a club that valued intelligence, bettering one's self, and held science in high esteem.
I'd mod you to infinity if I could.
If you can't find up to date docs and examples on the main site, you have to turn to the horrors of google for your answer. And then you have to wade through years of outdated blog posts showing non-working example after example before you find one that partially works to do what you are trying to do.
At this point I'm assuming that various devs are getting kickbacks from contractors who specialize in installing and configuring their software to keep the docs and examples messed up. Either that, or a large portion of devs secretly delight in thinking about the thousands of people wasting their time trying to make outdated examples work.
I think a more interesting question would be, have terrorism attempts increased post 9/11, or are those FBI headlines you provided pretty much as it has always been? In other words, if terrorist attempts have not dramatically increased post 9/11, then there is no justification for the doubling of our defense budget, nor is there any justification for an open ended, no ends in sight, war on terror.
If you do any cursory study of our legal system, you'll find that many things are subjective. "Reasonable doubt", "Reckless behavior", etc... that is the reason we have judges and juries.
Life isn't black and white. And what is reasonable one century may not be reasonable the next century. That is just how the world works.
I know that in an ideal world, everyone would be allowed to say anything they want, but in the practical world, some types of speech in some situations causes more harm than the harm of removing a person's right to that speech.
That is one of the larger issues. America is a young food culture, we don't value food, nor have many traditional recipes (except in some intense cultural centers, like New Orleans, etc..). We don't place as much emphasis on cooking from scratch.
I remember in college that Freshmen were offered a 'cooking away from home' class of some sort, because the majority of them had no idea how to make even simple meals.