No. This was Obama and his party making a promise, not the American people. Otherwise Congress would have passed it as a treaty.
That's it. Nothing more, nothng less.
You're almost there. When it didn't work, we finally figured that out and we quit dancing to make it rain. So we don't dance for rain anymore. The machine would still be dancing.
Most mass extinction events end up with fewer large animals surviving, including those long before people arrived. See Lilliput effect. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_effect)
The point of the article in the summary is that people are driving this extinction event, but I'd be cautious about making that correlation too casually. We're also living in the only time in biological history when one species was trying to preserve the others.
You can't get there from here. You're dealing with humans. Most of them just like to fight. That's why you can cite so many good examples of it. Just think of it as original sin.
That's a fair question. What would keep me from using an iPad to write a novel? Certainly not processor power, and certainly not lack of software, because you're absolutely right, the iPad has those covered. You're also correct that you'd have to attach a proper keyboard. The small screen is a consideration, but I've managed in the past with a 14" monitor, so I wouldn't really complain about that either. So an iPad with the right peripherals would give me the technology I'd need.
But it's not about the technology. It's the setting. Wordsworth said you get poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth) Now, I don't write poetry. But the basic process works the same way, even for my plain old humble science fiction and fantasy. Inspiration comes wherever and whenever it will, but when I sit down to work it into something worth reading, I need a place as close to a sensory deprivation tank as I can get. A desktop ties me to the same monotonous desk in the same monotonous room, so the environment fades into the background and I can work. There's no temptation to take the gear on the road and write in the park or by the river or wherever.
I think it would take more discipline than I have to work on an iPad and not be tempted to think I could get things done anywhere. I'd have to nail it to my desk. But if I did, I'd give you the point. It's not the technology's fault.
In a world where there are no content creators, only consumers, sure. And maybe they hope for such a world. I've yet to write a book on my phone, though.
Good point. Seems like during WWII, the Germans always had better tech than we had. Not that we should play it that way deliberately, but other factors do weigh in the equation. Ever read Arthur Clarke's short story, "Superiority"?
You can find all sorts of paperbacks in used book stores with cigarette ads and what not stuck in the middle of the book. If anything like patronage ever becomes a force in publishing, I'd bet that's the way it will happen. With ebooks, the advertising possibilities are horrifying.
Wood already works for "carbon fixation" and you can make things with it that people will actually keep. My mother has some "fixated carbon" in the living room over 100 years old. Just grow a tree and make a desk.
Why use a simple, cheap solution when you can pay so much more for a complicated and less-effective one? The eco-industrial complex can't charge you as much for just growing a tree.
This could be great. My first SW radio was their HR-10B ham band receiver. It stayed alive from 1970 through 2008. If they put out a good general communications receiver, I'd be first in line. I don't suppose we'll see any more of the old crinkly green paint finishes, though, alas.
I work for a Federal agency that shut down during the week-long snow-out around DC during the blizzards in 2010. I was able to work remote, though things were rather quiet, because most folks couldn't. Now, a year and a half on, they want everyone to have remote access in case it happens again.
The funny thing is that they still are a little old-fashioned about routine telecommute, even with Congress pressuring them to get it going.
If Gödel's incompleteness theorems hold, then science might well be based on faith all the way up, whether you think you understand it or not.
And one thing more: FTFA: "If creationism could pass as science, then schools could teach it–creationism according to fundamentalist Christianity–uncritically as a fact they way they teach science."
If schools are teaching science uncritically, then they aren't teaching science.
No, that just tells us how far your great-grandfather had come. Don't think of it in terms of how far "we" have made it. Not everybody is going to make it.
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No. This was Obama and his party making a promise, not the American people. Otherwise Congress would have passed it as a treaty. That's it. Nothing more, nothng less.
You're almost there. When it didn't work, we finally figured that out and we quit dancing to make it rain. So we don't dance for rain anymore. The machine would still be dancing.
Most mass extinction events end up with fewer large animals surviving, including those long before people arrived. See Lilliput effect. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilliput_effect) The point of the article in the summary is that people are driving this extinction event, but I'd be cautious about making that correlation too casually. We're also living in the only time in biological history when one species was trying to preserve the others.
You can't get there from here. You're dealing with humans. Most of them just like to fight. That's why you can cite so many good examples of it. Just think of it as original sin.
That's a fair question. What would keep me from using an iPad to write a novel? Certainly not processor power, and certainly not lack of software, because you're absolutely right, the iPad has those covered. You're also correct that you'd have to attach a proper keyboard. The small screen is a consideration, but I've managed in the past with a 14" monitor, so I wouldn't really complain about that either. So an iPad with the right peripherals would give me the technology I'd need.
But it's not about the technology. It's the setting. Wordsworth said you get poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth) Now, I don't write poetry. But the basic process works the same way, even for my plain old humble science fiction and fantasy. Inspiration comes wherever and whenever it will, but when I sit down to work it into something worth reading, I need a place as close to a sensory deprivation tank as I can get. A desktop ties me to the same monotonous desk in the same monotonous room, so the environment fades into the background and I can work. There's no temptation to take the gear on the road and write in the park or by the river or wherever.
I think it would take more discipline than I have to work on an iPad and not be tempted to think I could get things done anywhere. I'd have to nail it to my desk. But if I did, I'd give you the point. It's not the technology's fault.
In a world where there are no content creators, only consumers, sure. And maybe they hope for such a world. I've yet to write a book on my phone, though.
Good point. Seems like during WWII, the Germans always had better tech than we had. Not that we should play it that way deliberately, but other factors do weigh in the equation. Ever read Arthur Clarke's short story, "Superiority"?
Yeah, but it could save you the cost of developing it for yourself. It's a long way from a wikipedia article on a reactor to a floor plan.
And expect the variety of writing made available, both stories and styles, to go way up. Did we really need gatekeepers? We're about to find out.
You can find all sorts of paperbacks in used book stores with cigarette ads and what not stuck in the middle of the book. If anything like patronage ever becomes a force in publishing, I'd bet that's the way it will happen. With ebooks, the advertising possibilities are horrifying.
Wood already works for "carbon fixation" and you can make things with it that people will actually keep. My mother has some "fixated carbon" in the living room over 100 years old. Just grow a tree and make a desk.
Why use a simple, cheap solution when you can pay so much more for a complicated and less-effective one? The eco-industrial complex can't charge you as much for just growing a tree.
This could be great. My first SW radio was their HR-10B ham band receiver. It stayed alive from 1970 through 2008. If they put out a good general communications receiver, I'd be first in line. I don't suppose we'll see any more of the old crinkly green paint finishes, though, alas.
Maybe this tells us more about that so-called test for religious experience than it tells us about Apple.
I work for a Federal agency that shut down during the week-long snow-out around DC during the blizzards in 2010. I was able to work remote, though things were rather quiet, because most folks couldn't. Now, a year and a half on, they want everyone to have remote access in case it happens again. The funny thing is that they still are a little old-fashioned about routine telecommute, even with Congress pressuring them to get it going.
If Gödel's incompleteness theorems hold, then science might well be based on faith all the way up, whether you think you understand it or not. And one thing more: FTFA: "If creationism could pass as science, then schools could teach it–creationism according to fundamentalist Christianity–uncritically as a fact they way they teach science." If schools are teaching science uncritically, then they aren't teaching science.
No, that just tells us how far your great-grandfather had come. Don't think of it in terms of how far "we" have made it. Not everybody is going to make it.