That, and it didn't help that their "sold only in a Third World hellhole" N9 phone, which ran Meego Harmattan, has a better sales record than the Windows Phones that were "meant for the First World markets".
This is where the safety net makes sense: from the beginning, a social contract is made with those who take risks so that if their ideas succeed, they support those whose ideas didn't pan out. More people would accept this arrangement, and more good ideas would be tried. Other ideas will fail, and our society will benefit from the experience.
Which explains why "socialist" European countries have higher social mobility than the US.
But some people don't try. They don't want to try. If given a choice between a free shack and a nice home they can work to afford, they will choose the shack. How do we get them to contribute something positive to society, and to take the risks that the safety net is intended to promote?
You don't. Just don't worry about it. They don't cost very much.
Efficient systems are brittle. When building a society efficiency is not the goal.
National Security How can we ensure the nation's security without nuclear weapons testing? Maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile as a deterrent against foreign aggression has been a mainstay of national policy since the end of World War II. No new nuclear weapons are currently being built, however, and the existing weapons cannot be tested under a nuclear testing moratorium established by President George H.W. Bush in 1992. To ensure the continuing reliability of the nuclear stockpile, Lawrence Livermore and other national laboratories are developing sophisticated supercomputer simulations to determine the effects of aging on nuclear weapons components as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship Program. NIF will be able to provide data for those simulations by replicating the conditions that exist inside a thermonuclear weapon. In addition, the Photon Science & Applications program is developing a number of innovative technologies for homeland security and national defense.
They then go on to claim that
By demonstrating the ability to attain fusion ignition in the laboratory, NIF will lay the groundwork for future decisions about fusion's long-term potential as a safe, virtually unlimited energy source.
but that is a byproduct, not what the NIF is designed for.
The NIF is financed out of the bomb making budget. You appear not to know that.
"The Dutch famine of 1944, known as the Hongerwinter ("Hunger winter") in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the German-occupied part of the Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces above the great rivers, during the winter of 1944-1945, near the end of World War II. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas to punish the reluctance of the Dutch to aid the Nazi war effort. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived because of soup kitchens. About 22,000 died because of the famine.[1][2] Most vulnerable according to the death reports were elderly men.[3]"
COMPARE the figures. Granted, Holland was a LOT smaller and the figures are far more accurate but still, when your regime incurs a worse death ratio then the Germans, the most evil country on earth, you are NOT nice people. And your actions won't be affected by the loss of food imports.
Pah the Germans were such wimps.
In 1943 the British managed to let somewhere between 1.5 and 4 million people starve to death in Bengal (out of a population of 60.3 million ).
Solar, wind and electric cars led to more efficient batteries which led to UAVs.
Huh? Why does a UAV need more efficient batteries? The Predator has a 4 stroke Rotax ICE engine. The Reaper has a turboprop. Neither of 'em run on batteries.
Using the results from formal economic models, the Review estimates that if we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more.
In contrast, the costs of action – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change – can be limited to around 1% of global GDP each year.
Damn right. I'm reading some of these stories on here and I can't believe how bad it is in some companies. Every year I get 20 vacation days, 5 flex days (to be used for vacation/dentist/sick/child sick days) days and 15 sick days (that can only be used when you are sick).
Even in your case I don't understand this limit on the number of "sick days". What happens if you are sick for more than 20 days in a year? You tell the virus/bacteria/broken spine/cancer - "Hey, I need to go to work today"?
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slashdot karma is an excellent indicator of groupthink.
really, it's true, and it's a major problem here. sorry to be a downer.
So, in the interests of full disclosure, what's yours?
(Mine is excelent - so is my sockpupets).
You don't actualy know what a "smartphone" is, do you?
That, and it didn't help that their "sold only in a Third World hellhole" N9 phone, which ran Meego Harmattan, has a better sales record than the Windows Phones that were "meant for the First World markets".
Danemark is a "third world helhole"?
Interesting.
Less than 15% usage according to http://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ws-nginx/all/all, but creeping up on IIS and serving more high-usage sites.
(w3techs.com gives Apache 64% of websites rather than 55% from netcraft).
Amazingly low figure.
I guess it translates as "45% of web servers are slow and prone to crash, or insanely overdimensioned".
You idiot.
Where the fuck do you think OSHA came from?
Not if the rich have drones dropping bombs on you
Skynet was a cover story.
This is where the safety net makes sense: from the beginning, a social contract is made with those who take risks so that if their ideas succeed, they support those whose ideas didn't pan out. More people would accept this arrangement, and more good ideas would be tried. Other ideas will fail, and our society will benefit from the experience.
Which explains why "socialist" European countries have higher social mobility than the US.
But some people don't try. They don't want to try. If given a choice between a free shack and a nice home they can work to afford, they will choose the shack. How do we get them to contribute something positive to society, and to take the risks that the safety net is intended to promote?
You don't. Just don't worry about it. They don't cost very much.
Efficient systems are brittle. When building a society efficiency is not the goal.
Standards of worker treatment are now laws
Yes, laws enacted after much lobyying by unions.
How long do you think those laws will remain on the books without unions?
How long does a butterfly last in a nuclear fireball?
Good riddance to unions!
Yes because the return of serfdom is a good thing.
Insightful? Christ, people, we've had fusion bombs for sixty years; that's what a "hydrogen bomb" is. The comment is crackheaded, not insightful.
From https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/
National Security
How can we ensure the nation's security without nuclear weapons testing? Maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile as a deterrent against foreign aggression has been a mainstay of national policy since the end of World War II. No new nuclear weapons are currently being built, however, and the existing weapons cannot be tested under a nuclear testing moratorium established by President George H.W. Bush in 1992. To ensure the continuing reliability of the nuclear stockpile, Lawrence Livermore and other national laboratories are developing sophisticated supercomputer simulations to determine the effects of aging on nuclear weapons components as part of the National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship Program. NIF will be able to provide data for those simulations by replicating the conditions that exist inside a thermonuclear weapon. In addition, the Photon Science & Applications program is developing a number of innovative technologies for homeland security and national defense.
They then go on to claim that
By demonstrating the ability to attain fusion ignition in the laboratory, NIF will lay the groundwork for future decisions about fusion's long-term potential as a safe, virtually unlimited energy source.
but that is a byproduct, not what the NIF is designed for.
The NIF is financed out of the bomb making budget. You appear not to know that.
Amusing that my comment is currently:
30% Troll
20% Overrated
10% Flamebait
"The Dutch famine of 1944, known as the Hongerwinter ("Hunger winter") in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the German-occupied part of the Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces above the great rivers, during the winter of 1944-1945, near the end of World War II. A German blockade cut off food and fuel shipments from farm areas to punish the reluctance of the Dutch to aid the Nazi war effort. Some 4.5 million were affected and survived because of soup kitchens. About 22,000 died because of the famine.[1][2] Most vulnerable according to the death reports were elderly men.[3]"
COMPARE the figures. Granted, Holland was a LOT smaller and the figures are far more accurate but still, when your regime incurs a worse death ratio then the Germans, the most evil country on earth, you are NOT nice people. And your actions won't be affected by the loss of food imports.
Pah the Germans were such wimps.
In 1943 the British managed to let somewhere between 1.5 and 4 million people starve to death in Bengal (out of a population of 60.3 million ).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943
Solar, wind and electric cars led to more efficient batteries which led to UAVs.
Huh? Why does a UAV need more efficient batteries? The Predator has a 4 stroke Rotax ICE engine. The Reaper has a turboprop. Neither of 'em run on batteries.
what lie? the lab and government make no secret work done there in both fields, controlled fusion and thermonuclear bomb research.
I didn't mean the government was lying, I meant that gbrumfiel (like many NIF fanboys) was lying. He said:
Those hoping to laser their way out of the energy crisis will have to wait a little longer.
Anyone waiting for the NIF to help us out the "energy crisis" will wait for hell to freeze over.
It is not about fusion power.
It is about bombs.
Just like US elections, the majority voted to take money from the successful minority and have it given to themselves.
Mod parent funny!
Fantastic. You've found a 106 page paper that says a 4 degree rise would be bad.
But nowhere says "doing enough to slow that by 2 degrees could consume almost our entire GDP".
So the citation for your alarmist claim is still needed.
Another source claims:
Using the results from formal economic models, the Review estimates that if we don’t act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. If a wider range of risks and impacts is taken into account, the estimates of damage could rise to 20% of GDP or more.
In contrast, the costs of action – reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change – can be limited to around 1% of global GDP each year.
many of the models say we are on course for a 4+ degree rise, and doing enough to slow that by 2 degrees could consume almost our entire GDP!
[ citation fucking needed ]
Amazing, the idiot rs79 makes an almost funny joke. But even then it's wrong.
Just kind of funny that because Global Warming requires us to adopt many far-left solutions,
Yet another demonstation that you are insane (as if we needed one).
Damn right. I'm reading some of these stories on here and I can't believe how bad it is in some companies. Every year I get 20 vacation days, 5 flex days (to be used for vacation/dentist/sick/child sick days) days and 15 sick days (that can only be used when you are sick).
Even in your case I don't understand this limit on the number of "sick days". What happens if you are sick for more than 20 days in a year? You tell the virus/bacteria/broken spine/cancer - "Hey, I need to go to work today"?
When I use a word it means what I say it means, nothing more, nothing less.
And I have little sympathy for a company that chooses to put a data center in a flood plane
That's "floodplain" or "flood plain".
OSHA?
What about their Insurance company.
"You did what!"
Truth is that missing work sucks. If you can't find someone to cover for you while you are sick, you risk losing your job.
Please imagine a larger world. You can if you try.
This is not universaly the case.