There are many major technology areas missing from this list. For example where the heck are you going to get the copper for the windmill and power supplies? There is no mining and refining chain. And I guess this civilization isn't going to be long on medical treatment or drugs. There is no chemistry for drugs, no way to make X-Rays, no cryo for MRI superconducting magnets, etc.
The windmill looks nice but for that to work you need something to baseload the grid. And how do you make concrete from that collection of equipment?
You've got a way to make printed circuit boards, but the components that go on them? Nope.
Why do politicians always write in exemptions for themselves when it comes to legislation banning telemarketing? Do any of you twits realize how annoying incessant Robocalls are?
It seems to me that the only realistic need for this would be in case of alien invasion, which means that the government denial of the ET/UFO petitions is clearly a bald face lie.
Public high school STEM courses are a fricken joke. My High School physics teacher knew less physics than I picked up reading some basic books by George Gamow etc.
When I hit college physics those books paid off big time. The prof I had was in a whole 'nuther league than what I had in high school. To give you an idea eventually he was awarded a Nobel Prize for developing the maths behind CT scans.
The fact of the matter is that if you think you are going for a career in STEM you had better be doing some outside beefing up in addition to your AP courses. High School STEM courses put you at the mercy of teachers who do not have adequate background to prepare people who want to specialize in that area.
Anyone notice the games with content availability that go on with streaming Netflix? It's far worse than the few losses on content that have occurred with DRM.
As a result I only buy physical media (CDs, DVD, BD) or unencumbered digital files like MP3 or FLAC, or rent physical disks.
The idea of paying for a streaming service that you hardly know day to day what is going to be available is for the birds.
Nobody is claiming the process of science has to always follow a completely idealized form for it to be successful. It is not in human nature for impediments like faith and politics and building one's empire to not play a part.
However at the end of the day the process works because the truth becomes the building blocks of the future of science. Failed theories fall by the wayside because they are not successful in providing a platform for future progress. Yes it's messy and full of errors and side path and politics and irrational behavior. But that's because human beings do science, not because science requires these side trips.
Ultimately faith plays no part in the progress of science because the erroneous faith based decisions are eventually replaced by decisions based on what actually works to explain the universe and to provide a foundation to build further understanding.
We don't have a very good track record regarding the use of science to modify ecological systems?
I don't know about that. There are plenty of success stories including the world wide response to the depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs, the use of fishing limits to prevent extinction of many species of fish and so on.
Yes, religions are something that people created. A massive set of mutually incompatible often warring belief sets that all proclaim they are the one true one.
Christianity is one of those religions.
Certainly not more than one of these views can be correct. And there is no logical way to choose one. So people tend to adhere to the one that is prevalent in their culture. Not because they have support for their belief in observable phenomena, but because they were told from birth to have faith.
Now if there was ANY case of a successful supernatural explanation of anything in the natural world perhaps you might have an argument as to the existence of God. But there isn't. And that includes the spooky stuff in quantum mechanics that really only seems spooky as the result of people trying to apply their daily experience to a world far removed from the reality they are accustomed too.
Lots of times in the past people have felt that they have needed to invoke God to explain some natural phenomena. Newton did it to explain the stability of the orbits of the planets. Of course Newton was wrong as he didn't have the ideas of relativity to help him understand what was actually going on. It is very important for people to learn to reject such flawed faith based thinking as the impediment to progress that it truly is. The proven way to progress and understanding of the world is through science, not faith.
Ultimately believe in the action of God in our universe always falls into conflict with the naturalistic explanations of natural phenomena that science provides. Ultimately you have to decide if you are going to be a rational human being and accept a naturalistic world view or if you are going to rely on blind faith and superstition as a way of ordering your life.
At least as science advances the choice is becoming more and more clear. Hopefully as time goes on more people will realize what truth really is.
Outsourcing is never risk free. Belgians are going to pay for the construction, maintenance, closure, and remediation expenses embedded in the power costs, plus profit plus be dependent on someone for energy who will definitely put their own needs first.
If we were looking at a future glut in energy you might be ok. But that isn't really what the predictions are.
Closing down old plants and building something better is a great idea. Why not do that instead?
I went through something like this a couple of years ago when my father passed away. He had online accounts, bills and so on. In most cases you are stuck. Banks are very fussy about executorship and won't help until you get it. And if you access an account after the death date you can get into trouble, so be careful.
You may be able to get some accounts frozen by sending the death certificate. Banks are generally ok about that.
As far as the auctions, try calling the customer service line of the auction. I am sure that you are not the first that this has happened to.
In most cases whoever ends up as executor will have to write letters to people that were paid stuff that was not appropriate like insurance after your fathers death.
There are some things that will go on for a very long time afterwards. Like political junk mail.
Remember that you are not personally responsible for the debts. The estate is.
You are an idiot if you place any credence in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, which has a proven track record of distorting such interviews. At the very least a transcript is absolutely required when dealing with such publications.
The creativity and inventiveness is usually applied to the problem of how to fleece those who are not in a position to effectively prevent the fleecing.
Every other industrialized nation on this planet has some form of socialized medicine. They also pay far less than we do for health care. 1/2 or less.
To give a perspective on the situation, consider Canada. The US government pays the same per capita over its entire population for the health care it funds - Medicare Medicaid etc as the Canadian government. What is the difference? The Canadian payment covers it's ENTIRE population, the US payment a much smaller fraction.
It is absolutely ridiculous that we are paying via our taxes per capita the same as nations that receive universal care and the majority of us get bupkiss for it because of the runaway costs of our private system.
Yes, let's look at Japan. As you say they get along fine with a 200% of GDP national debt.
Except the Japanese worker has a 15% savings rate that he cheerfully buys 0% interest government bonds with. So the debt is owned by the Japanese people who get paid nothing to carry it. It is exactly the same as if the US were to add an additional 15% income tax for which they would issue you a certificate for every year. This certificate would bear no interest and would be redeemable never.
Ananda Chakrabarty developed a microorganism that actual feeds on PCBs by simple selection in his lab some 40 years ago.
We have weeds that have evolved resistance to glyphosate in the wild. That is a much more impressive adaptation because glyphosate interferes with the production of key amino acids by plants.
Life on earth has been adapting and evolving to its environment for billions of years. Why would anyone think it would stop?
It's not a libel. There is fundamentally no basis to believe that reducing tax rates when the marginal tax rate is below 50% will result in an increase in revenues. It's voodoo economics.
In addition there is no evidence that such tax reductions have in fact increased revenues. All revenue increases post such tax reductions are explainable by secular economic growth.
How do you explain the fact that the largest increase came under George W Bush when much of the time there was an all-Republican administration?
Also this analysis plays dumb regarding the issue of the President having a big influence in what is in the budget bill. The tax cut and defense spending that caused the deficits under Reagan were proposals by Reagan that were passed by congress.
In addition the numbers here are rather biased - they are percentages of the current debt which reduce the impact of the early deficit spending disproportionally because of the growth in the economy. During Reagan's administration the total amount of the federal debt tripled.
The of course this analysis doesn't extend further into the past because why? Because everything before Reagan was insignificant by comparison.
It's time to realize that the start of this problem was the debt expansion triggered by Reagan's voodoo economics.
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There are many major technology areas missing from this list. For example where the heck are you going to get the copper for the windmill and power supplies? There is no mining and refining chain. And I guess this civilization isn't going to be long on medical treatment or drugs. There is no chemistry for drugs, no way to make X-Rays, no cryo for MRI superconducting magnets, etc.
The windmill looks nice but for that to work you need something to baseload the grid. And how do you make concrete from that collection of equipment?
You've got a way to make printed circuit boards, but the components that go on them? Nope.
Why do politicians always write in exemptions for themselves when it comes to legislation banning telemarketing? Do any of you twits realize how annoying incessant Robocalls are?
It seems to me that the only realistic need for this would be in case of alien invasion, which means that the government denial of the ET/UFO petitions is clearly a bald face lie.
Criticizing a meme as being banal is a banal in itself.
Go visit the blog of the co-researcher. She made claims that the Mail misquoted her.
Nope, the secular growth rate has never been shown to be dependent on tax rate.
Public high school STEM courses are a fricken joke. My High School physics teacher knew less physics than I picked up reading some basic books by George Gamow etc.
When I hit college physics those books paid off big time. The prof I had was in a whole 'nuther league than what I had in high school. To give you an idea eventually he was awarded a Nobel Prize for developing the maths behind CT scans.
The fact of the matter is that if you think you are going for a career in STEM you had better be doing some outside beefing up in addition to your AP courses. High School STEM courses put you at the mercy of teachers who do not have adequate background to prepare people who want to specialize in that area.
Anyone notice the games with content availability that go on with streaming Netflix? It's far worse than the few losses on content that have occurred with DRM.
As a result I only buy physical media (CDs, DVD, BD) or unencumbered digital files like MP3 or FLAC, or rent physical disks.
The idea of paying for a streaming service that you hardly know day to day what is going to be available is for the birds.
Nobody is claiming the process of science has to always follow a completely idealized form for it to be successful. It is not in human nature for impediments like faith and politics and building one's empire to not play a part.
However at the end of the day the process works because the truth becomes the building blocks of the future of science. Failed theories fall by the wayside because they are not successful in providing a platform for future progress. Yes it's messy and full of errors and side path and politics and irrational behavior. But that's because human beings do science, not because science requires these side trips.
Ultimately faith plays no part in the progress of science because the erroneous faith based decisions are eventually replaced by decisions based on what actually works to explain the universe and to provide a foundation to build further understanding.
We don't have a very good track record regarding the use of science to modify ecological systems?
I don't know about that. There are plenty of success stories including the world wide response to the depletion of the ozone layer by CFCs, the use of fishing limits to prevent extinction of many species of fish and so on.
Yes, religions are something that people created. A massive set of mutually incompatible often warring belief sets that all proclaim they are the one true one.
Christianity is one of those religions.
Certainly not more than one of these views can be correct. And there is no logical way to choose one. So people tend to adhere to the one that is prevalent in their culture. Not because they have support for their belief in observable phenomena, but because they were told from birth to have faith.
Now if there was ANY case of a successful supernatural explanation of anything in the natural world perhaps you might have an argument as to the existence of God. But there isn't. And that includes the spooky stuff in quantum mechanics that really only seems spooky as the result of people trying to apply their daily experience to a world far removed from the reality they are accustomed too.
Lots of times in the past people have felt that they have needed to invoke God to explain some natural phenomena. Newton did it to explain the stability of the orbits of the planets. Of course Newton was wrong as he didn't have the ideas of relativity to help him understand what was actually going on. It is very important for people to learn to reject such flawed faith based thinking as the impediment to progress that it truly is. The proven way to progress and understanding of the world is through science, not faith.
Ultimately believe in the action of God in our universe always falls into conflict with the naturalistic explanations of natural phenomena that science provides. Ultimately you have to decide if you are going to be a rational human being and accept a naturalistic world view or if you are going to rely on blind faith and superstition as a way of ordering your life.
At least as science advances the choice is becoming more and more clear. Hopefully as time goes on more people will realize what truth really is.
Outsourcing is never risk free. Belgians are going to pay for the construction, maintenance, closure, and remediation expenses embedded in the power costs, plus profit plus be dependent on someone for energy who will definitely put their own needs first.
If we were looking at a future glut in energy you might be ok. But that isn't really what the predictions are.
Closing down old plants and building something better is a great idea. Why not do that instead?
I went through something like this a couple of years ago when my father passed away. He had online accounts, bills and so on. In most cases you are stuck. Banks are very fussy about executorship and won't help until you get it. And if you access an account after the death date you can get into trouble, so be careful.
You may be able to get some accounts frozen by sending the death certificate. Banks are generally ok about that.
As far as the auctions, try calling the customer service line of the auction. I am sure that you are not the first that this has happened to.
In most cases whoever ends up as executor will have to write letters to people that were paid stuff that was not appropriate like insurance after your fathers death.
There are some things that will go on for a very long time afterwards. Like political junk mail.
Remember that you are not personally responsible for the debts. The estate is.
HSA flavor Rice Krispies coming to a store near you!
Seriously it's not whether or not they cross breed but what the stability of the cross breed is. Usually these crosses are not competitive.
You are an idiot if you place any credence in an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, which has a proven track record of distorting such interviews. At the very least a transcript is absolutely required when dealing with such publications.
Old people fucking works if there is Viagra involved.
You lose all credibility the instant you link to the Daily Mail.
The creativity and inventiveness is usually applied to the problem of how to fleece those who are not in a position to effectively prevent the fleecing.
Every other industrialized nation on this planet has some form of socialized medicine. They also pay far less than we do for health care. 1/2 or less.
To give a perspective on the situation, consider Canada. The US government pays the same per capita over its entire population for the health care it funds - Medicare Medicaid etc as the Canadian government. What is the difference? The Canadian payment covers it's ENTIRE population, the US payment a much smaller fraction.
It is absolutely ridiculous that we are paying via our taxes per capita the same as nations that receive universal care and the majority of us get bupkiss for it because of the runaway costs of our private system.
Yes, let's look at Japan. As you say they get along fine with a 200% of GDP national debt.
Except the Japanese worker has a 15% savings rate that he cheerfully buys 0% interest government bonds with. So the debt is owned by the Japanese people who get paid nothing to carry it. It is exactly the same as if the US were to add an additional 15% income tax for which they would issue you a certificate for every year. This certificate would bear no interest and would be redeemable never.
I am sure you would like that system.
Ananda Chakrabarty developed a microorganism that actual feeds on PCBs by simple selection in his lab some 40 years ago.
We have weeds that have evolved resistance to glyphosate in the wild. That is a much more impressive adaptation because glyphosate interferes with the production of key amino acids by plants.
Life on earth has been adapting and evolving to its environment for billions of years. Why would anyone think it would stop?
It's not a libel. There is fundamentally no basis to believe that reducing tax rates when the marginal tax rate is below 50% will result in an increase in revenues. It's voodoo economics.
In addition there is no evidence that such tax reductions have in fact increased revenues. All revenue increases post such tax reductions are explainable by secular economic growth.
How do you explain the fact that the largest increase came under George W Bush when much of the time there was an all-Republican administration?
Also this analysis plays dumb regarding the issue of the President having a big influence in what is in the budget bill. The tax cut and defense spending that caused the deficits under Reagan were proposals by Reagan that were passed by congress.
In addition the numbers here are rather biased - they are percentages of the current debt which reduce the impact of the early deficit spending disproportionally because of the growth in the economy. During Reagan's administration the total amount of the federal debt tripled.
The of course this analysis doesn't extend further into the past because why? Because everything before Reagan was insignificant by comparison.
It's time to realize that the start of this problem was the debt expansion triggered by Reagan's voodoo economics.
You may not like the argument, but it is the legal basis for airport searches.
LOL. What are you going to do? Sue individual automobile drivers? Yeah that will work.
No, you volunteer to be searched when you walk up to the boarding gate. If you don't want to be searched, stay out of the airport.