Mosquitoes are not pollinators. They can and do harm us and often they're not native to the areas where they are biting us. Besides, we're not talking about eradicating them from their whole range, just killing the ones near us/our crops.
Interesting, thanks. I'm sure you're correct that feet will be dragged over reforms even with drastic unemployment and inequality. It may end up being settled over the barrel of guns.
No, I agree with rich0, it must be a level playing field, China gets to do things much cheaper than developed nations, so tariffs can be applied for their poor worker conditions and pollution. We are not willing to do what they do, so they shouldn't reap the benefits of cheap and dirty production. We should also carbon tax the hell out of their products as they get here on terribly polluting ships. Yes prices may rise, but at least more people would have decent jobs.
I agree about the credit, but more needs to be done on the supply side as well. We have insanely high house prices/rents, and they wonder why personal debt is so high and savings are low?! WTF?
Not everyone wants to or can start their own business. Real mode average wages have declined sharply since the 1980s. The system would work better if the wage/cost of living curves were more like they were in the 50s and 60s. Ultimately a civilized society is about benefiting society as a whole, not the 1%. We've been in places where 1% have everything, the fucking dark ages! Or you can see it in shithole countries around the world today where the rich live in luxury walled compounds. I don't want to go there! I don't want to live there. People will stand up eventually if the 1% wont share more evenly, they're setting up the system to only benefit themselves.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand his idea at all. More H1Bs will increase the income problem. You'll have more people being paid less and fewer local people employed. I'd do the reverse, make H1Bs be paid the same with the same conditions as locals....
This. They want workers to take crap hours, conditions and pay. When local workers wont do it, they import from overseas and they can treat them even worse. I have no problem with importing workers if really needed. If they got rid of the H1Bs' poor pay and conditions and made it that the imports got normal local pay and conditions, then the "shortage" would magically disappear as they only like H1Bs as they're cheap and disposable.
This all assumes that animals are fed in feedlots etc. If the animals were free ranging pasture animals eating grass, not grains etc, their water use would be vastly less. Oh, the "export" of water through alfalfa would be minimal as they dry it before use/shipping so you're only exporting carbon, not water.
Chicken Pox is usually not really harmful, just not very pleasant, however there is a significant risk of developing shingles later in life and that is a truly nasty condition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
I had my children vaccinated against Chicken Pox before it was free (Australia has a large pharmaceutical benefits system) as I watched older family members suffer with singles.
They should pay you MORE than they charge, they're getting power basically for nothing, no fuel, no maintenance. For storage, what about a big underground flywheel? Spin it up with extra renewable power/cheap grid power and sell it back during peak time with a smart inverter. You get lower bills/a credit and they get load balancing as you're providing power locally where it's needed.
Maybe, but an alternate view is that people could do what they want to do, I'd grow gardens and fruit and nut orchards if I could......But I have to work in IT to make a living instead. I'd much rather grow stuff, show others how to grow stuff and give away the produce.
This. We've already been there, take a look at 18th century society! Bleep me, it's scary, the prisons were major profit centres with horrendous conditions and the staff could make extra by charging for extra luxuries like food. The female prisoners could make extra by servicing the popular prison tours..... Why do we want to go back to that? The top 10% seem to think it was a golden age.
+1. Powershell is quirky. It is prettty excruciatingly slow. There are bugs. But it really is pretty neat, and nothing similar exists in the Unix world as yet. If you need to admin Windows boxes, you'd definitely be well advised to learn powershell.
WTF? quirky, painfully slow and buggy are the best they can do? I'm very glad nothing similar exists in the unix world, I'm sure good concepts could be adapted, but this sounds pretty pathetic.
I think incomes will plummet in the middleman area, but I think the artists will get more. I will always buy from the artist directly if I can. If I can't, I bet they get more per song from iTunes than from a CD. Maybe they need to setup a donation box on artists sites, I would give them money directly if I could and they can't sell me the song because of exclusive agreements. I'd just download it from TPB and give them a donation.
Yet. I think that they will be forced to change their business model, I don't think that their current attempts to prevent piracy will accomplish much. Some people are willing to pay those prices, but this proportion is shrinking and with the growth of expanding markets such as China and India, where there is not a strong history of IP and purchasing through legitimate channels, then I think it'll be a case of change or die. It will take years, but they will not be able to regain control. The music industry hated iTunes, but it is a better model and it has won. The movie industry hates change, the iTunes model works, but thanks to their policies TPB model works event better and it's free!
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Mosquitoes are not pollinators. They can and do harm us and often they're not native to the areas where they are biting us. Besides, we're not talking about eradicating them from their whole range, just killing the ones near us/our crops.
Just kill both sexes of the species we'd like to eliminate! Exterminate! There's no reason to be selective.
Interesting, thanks. I'm sure you're correct that feet will be dragged over reforms even with drastic unemployment and inequality. It may end up being settled over the barrel of guns.
No, I agree with rich0, it must be a level playing field, China gets to do things much cheaper than developed nations, so tariffs can be applied for their poor worker conditions and pollution. We are not willing to do what they do, so they shouldn't reap the benefits of cheap and dirty production. We should also carbon tax the hell out of their products as they get here on terribly polluting ships. Yes prices may rise, but at least more people would have decent jobs.
I agree about the credit, but more needs to be done on the supply side as well. We have insanely high house prices/rents, and they wonder why personal debt is so high and savings are low?! WTF?
Not everyone wants to or can start their own business. Real mode average wages have declined sharply since the 1980s. The system would work better if the wage/cost of living curves were more like they were in the 50s and 60s. Ultimately a civilized society is about benefiting society as a whole, not the 1%. We've been in places where 1% have everything, the fucking dark ages! Or you can see it in shithole countries around the world today where the rich live in luxury walled compounds. I don't want to go there! I don't want to live there. People will stand up eventually if the 1% wont share more evenly, they're setting up the system to only benefit themselves.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand his idea at all. More H1Bs will increase the income problem. You'll have more people being paid less and fewer local people employed. I'd do the reverse, make H1Bs be paid the same with the same conditions as locals....
I'm ashamed to be Australian today. These idiots don't represent most Australians. I'll have to contact my local member of parliament.
This. They want workers to take crap hours, conditions and pay. When local workers wont do it, they import from overseas and they can treat them even worse. I have no problem with importing workers if really needed. If they got rid of the H1Bs' poor pay and conditions and made it that the imports got normal local pay and conditions, then the "shortage" would magically disappear as they only like H1Bs as they're cheap and disposable.
This all assumes that animals are fed in feedlots etc. If the animals were free ranging pasture animals eating grass, not grains etc, their water use would be vastly less. Oh, the "export" of water through alfalfa would be minimal as they dry it before use/shipping so you're only exporting carbon, not water.
Chicken Pox is usually not really harmful, just not very pleasant, however there is a significant risk of developing shingles later in life and that is a truly nasty condition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... I had my children vaccinated against Chicken Pox before it was free (Australia has a large pharmaceutical benefits system) as I watched older family members suffer with singles.
My biggest gripe is the new outlook, I have personally seen problems with basic emailing on five machines!
I'll second this, the new office is buggy and I find it a pain to use.
I understood that the Masai drink cattle milk (and blood), how's their digestion?
This. I had 7 of 8 SSDs fail suddenly within four months. The RA process was a PITA and slow..... Not good PR at all.
Er, Australia is a continent. It's the smallest continent and the largest island.
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Yes but that's not good either, we need a dedicated Science minister, not an appendix to industry.
They should pay you MORE than they charge, they're getting power basically for nothing, no fuel, no maintenance. For storage, what about a big underground flywheel? Spin it up with extra renewable power/cheap grid power and sell it back during peak time with a smart inverter. You get lower bills/a credit and they get load balancing as you're providing power locally where it's needed.
Maybe, but an alternate view is that people could do what they want to do, I'd grow gardens and fruit and nut orchards if I could......But I have to work in IT to make a living instead. I'd much rather grow stuff, show others how to grow stuff and give away the produce.
This. We've already been there, take a look at 18th century society! Bleep me, it's scary, the prisons were major profit centres with horrendous conditions and the staff could make extra by charging for extra luxuries like food. The female prisoners could make extra by servicing the popular prison tours..... Why do we want to go back to that? The top 10% seem to think it was a golden age.
I was thinking Ellerium 115 from Xcom
+1. Powershell is quirky. It is prettty excruciatingly slow. There are bugs. But it really is pretty neat, and nothing similar exists in the Unix world as yet. If you need to admin Windows boxes, you'd definitely be well advised to learn powershell. WTF? quirky, painfully slow and buggy are the best they can do? I'm very glad nothing similar exists in the unix world, I'm sure good concepts could be adapted, but this sounds pretty pathetic.
I think incomes will plummet in the middleman area, but I think the artists will get more. I will always buy from the artist directly if I can. If I can't, I bet they get more per song from iTunes than from a CD. Maybe they need to setup a donation box on artists sites, I would give them money directly if I could and they can't sell me the song because of exclusive agreements. I'd just download it from TPB and give them a donation.
Yet. I think that they will be forced to change their business model, I don't think that their current attempts to prevent piracy will accomplish much. Some people are willing to pay those prices, but this proportion is shrinking and with the growth of expanding markets such as China and India, where there is not a strong history of IP and purchasing through legitimate channels, then I think it'll be a case of change or die. It will take years, but they will not be able to regain control. The music industry hated iTunes, but it is a better model and it has won. The movie industry hates change, the iTunes model works, but thanks to their policies TPB model works event better and it's free!