Too many previous slave owners and their descendants still lives and have say in politics. It was serious error by US population not to charge them with crimes and let them keep the wealth acquired by using slave labor.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
According to the 1850 census, there were 347,525 slave owners in the United States out of a free population of nearly 20,000,000. Many of those were killed, and those that lived have few descendants relative to the total population today. There are probably 10 times as many descendants of slaves as there are descendants of slave owners.
And much of their wealth wasn't preserved. Much of it was in the form of slaves, which were freed and the rest of their wealth was mostly destroyed during the war. Union troops were ordered to destroy as much as they could. Even collective wealth like the libraries of public universities were burned.
You might want to get out in the real world a bit more. Religion is often what you're born with.
I'm not sure I'm willing to give thoughtless people a pass.
But suppose I grant that you're right. It still doesn't change things much because skin color doesn't matter much at all while a belief system does matter.
The rightness or wrongness of judging has nothing to do with whether or not the object of our judgement is responsible or not. We shouldn't judge based on skin color because skin color is mostly irrelevant. But the religious belief that infidels (like me) should be killed is very relevant to me, and I don't give a damn if one was born into that belief system or chose it. I judge it as wrong and dangerous.
Sounds to me like closing a loophole more than instituting a new tax. I realize that is a matter of interpretation, but the idea that google, apple, etc are "really" in Bermuda etc. is such a hoax in the first place.
The idea that they're ANY place is a "hoax". If anything, these firms exist only as a collection of habits, customs, and rules -- as abstractions in the minds of the owners and employees. Even as owners and employees change, the firm can continue to exist as the firm's culture is transferred from employee to employee or shareholder to shareholder.
Engelbart lived at a time when bureaucracy and inflexible institutions ruled. To get anywhere one had to jump through hoops constantly and appeal to those few authorities that controlled the purse strings.
Today there are many points of accumulated capital that one can appeal to for assistance and funding. Forty years ago there was just the government or a few old giant corporations.
Base 12 is incredibly convenient for breaking up one thing into several parts in many ways. A dozen divided in half gives six each. Into thirds gives 4 each. Into fourths gives 3 each. Into sixths gives 2 each.
Easy.
But anyway, even duodecimal is somewhat easier than decimal, too.
You still don't understand that money can't be majicked out of thin air and be worth something?
Suppose I mine gold and hold it in a vault. I "magic" a piece of paper out of thin air that promises that gold to the holder on presentation of the paper.
That paper is worth something or not worth something depending on whether or not there is faith in the fairy story that the gold will actually be provided when the paper is presented.
It is after all just a piece of paper. How does anyone know they'll actually get the gold if they show up with the paper?
Okay. So WE all know it was just $0.05 after the fact, but put yourself in the place of the cop. Someone has a 1+ ton electrical machine plugged into an outlet. Just how much energy is being taken? Without knowing the power, the cop has no idea.
To the cop or average person, the electrical cord is analogous to a siphon.
Anyone caught siphoning gas from a government car into their own car is going to be arrested. This looks like the same thing to the cop.
And as the wind power increases as the cube of the wind speed, a level 5 can do substantially more damage than a level 4.
I think force is a better measure of strength since many structures fail at some threshold amount of force which varies as the square of wind speed. A wall might withstand the force of a 120 mph wind but fail at 130 mph or a shed might handle a 70 mph wind but fail at 80 mph. The amount of damage then varies with the number of structures vulnerable to the maximum force applied to them by the force of the wind.
Power might be useful in a situation where structures fail after being subjected to forces for some length of time, but most structures don't behave this way. A home for instance usually has a single threshold: the speed of the wind required to rip the roof off. And steel structures are safe below a threshold as the steel will return to its original shape after deflection, but be permanently distorted after being forced beyond its yield strength.
I'd get rid of the the integer scale all together and use something like Category=(Windspeed^2)/(67^2). This roughly fits the old scale, but gives a better measure of relative strength, IMO. A category 2 is twice as strong as a category 1. A category 4 is twice as strong as a category 2, etc.
It's nice to see that the author didn't buy into the myth that it's friction which causes the increase in temperature as a fast moving body move through the atmosphere.
"As this main mass plummeted through our atmosphere at a speed of 20 kilometers per second â" dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet â" the huge pressure it generated compressed the air in front of it, heating it up."
That kind of journalistic competency it worth noting.
Wrong. Doctor can refuse to take Medicare patients. Historically 10% have refused to do so. Recently this has increased to 13% and its still increasing.
But a doctor can't refuse to pay Medicare taxes. So how does a doctor get back that money from the government to complete the flow-of-money circle?
The answer for most doctors is that they much treat Medicare patients for below cost. After that they start to make money on everyone else.
Those doctors that refuse to treat Medicare patients still somehow have to get back the Medicare taxes they paid. This can happen if they treat a disproportionate number of workers that benefit from Medicare spending. And this explains why most doctors that refuse to accept Medicare paradoxically live in areas that disproportionately receive Medicare.
But only if that skepticism is also applied to one's own ideas.
Vanity makes it easy to be skeptical of others' theories but it's leaving open the possibility that one's own theories could be mistaken that makes one a scientist.
They punish someone with the legal process, knowing they can't convict, but sending a message to anyone with a 3D printer that 3D printer owners can expect trouble from the state.
It took the government months to levy a 12 million dollar fine while the invisible hand of the free market gave a dumb corporation a 400 million dollar bitch slap in less than a hour.
That car looks pretty cool and sounds (no sound?) cool too. The guy finally turned at a side street and pushed the pedal a bit. This thing sure seems to have torque.
That's the great thing about electric motors: max torque is at zero Km/h.
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We just try to discover them.
Anyone can do it if they ask reality the right questions (experiments).
Otherwise they'll be driving down the center of the road!
And in effect surrendered to the Chinese who were supporting the Viet Cong and forcing communism on the entire country.
There were probably times during the war when Chinese soldiers were fighting directly with US troops.
The streets used to be common areas where young and old people met, spoke out, argued, or just passed one another saying "good morning".
Now they're dominated by cars.
There's about 1.53 million more square km of ice than what is usual.
Too many previous slave owners and their descendants still lives and have say in politics. It was serious error by US population not to charge them with crimes and let them keep the wealth acquired by using slave labor.
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.
According to the 1850 census, there were 347,525 slave owners in the United States out of a free population of nearly 20,000,000. Many of those were killed, and those that lived have few descendants relative to the total population today. There are probably 10 times as many descendants of slaves as there are descendants of slave owners.
And much of their wealth wasn't preserved. Much of it was in the form of slaves, which were freed and the rest of their wealth was mostly destroyed during the war. Union troops were ordered to destroy as much as they could. Even collective wealth like the libraries of public universities were burned.
I'm not sure I'm willing to give thoughtless people a pass.
But suppose I grant that you're right. It still doesn't change things much because skin color doesn't matter much at all while a belief system does matter.
The rightness or wrongness of judging has nothing to do with whether or not the object of our judgement is responsible or not. We shouldn't judge based on skin color because skin color is mostly irrelevant. But the religious belief that infidels (like me) should be killed is very relevant to me, and I don't give a damn if one was born into that belief system or chose it. I judge it as wrong and dangerous.
Ah, yes, the not so thinly veiled stupidity that confuses race and religion.
Religion is a personal choice, you moron. At least it should be.
We use them as CPUs because we don't suffer from that cognitive bias known as functional fixedness.
The idea that they're ANY place is a "hoax". If anything, these firms exist only as a collection of habits, customs, and rules -- as abstractions in the minds of the owners and employees. Even as owners and employees change, the firm can continue to exist as the firm's culture is transferred from employee to employee or shareholder to shareholder.
Engelbart lived at a time when bureaucracy and inflexible institutions ruled. To get anywhere one had to jump through hoops constantly and appeal to those few authorities that controlled the purse strings.
Today there are many points of accumulated capital that one can appeal to for assistance and funding. Forty years ago there was just the government or a few old giant corporations.
Naive little American, how's your minimum wage that just keeps shrinking and shrinking working out for your economy?
It's falling in lockstep with the shrinking skills of the average high school graduate. Thanks for asking.
Decimals have nothing to do with it.
Base 12 is incredibly convenient for breaking up one thing into several parts in many ways. A dozen divided in half gives six each. Into thirds gives 4 each. Into fourths gives 3 each. Into sixths gives 2 each.
Easy.
But anyway, even duodecimal is somewhat easier than decimal, too.
Base 10
1/2 = 0.5
1/3 = 0.3333...
1/4 = 0.25
1/5 = 0.2
1/6 = 0.1666...
1/7 = 0.142857...
1/8 = 0.125
1/9 = 0.1111...
Base 12 (using A for 10 and B for 11)
1/2 = 0.6
1/3 = 0.4
1/4 = 0.3
1/5 = 0.2497...
1/6 = 0.2
1/7 = 0.186...
1/8 = 0.16
1/9 = 0.14
I heard that the Sea of Tranquility is now the South China Sea of Tranquility.
Is Islam a race now?
Suppose I mine gold and hold it in a vault. I "magic" a piece of paper out of thin air that promises that gold to the holder on presentation of the paper.
That paper is worth something or not worth something depending on whether or not there is faith in the fairy story that the gold will actually be provided when the paper is presented.
It is after all just a piece of paper. How does anyone know they'll actually get the gold if they show up with the paper?
Okay. So WE all know it was just $0.05 after the fact, but put yourself in the place of the cop. Someone has a 1+ ton electrical machine plugged into an outlet. Just how much energy is being taken? Without knowing the power, the cop has no idea.
To the cop or average person, the electrical cord is analogous to a siphon.
Anyone caught siphoning gas from a government car into their own car is going to be arrested. This looks like the same thing to the cop.
I think force is a better measure of strength since many structures fail at some threshold amount of force which varies as the square of wind speed. A wall might withstand the force of a 120 mph wind but fail at 130 mph or a shed might handle a 70 mph wind but fail at 80 mph. The amount of damage then varies with the number of structures vulnerable to the maximum force applied to them by the force of the wind.
Power might be useful in a situation where structures fail after being subjected to forces for some length of time, but most structures don't behave this way. A home for instance usually has a single threshold: the speed of the wind required to rip the roof off. And steel structures are safe below a threshold as the steel will return to its original shape after deflection, but be permanently distorted after being forced beyond its yield strength.
I'd get rid of the the integer scale all together and use something like Category=(Windspeed^2)/(67^2). This roughly fits the old scale, but gives a better measure of relative strength, IMO. A category 2 is twice as strong as a category 1. A category 4 is twice as strong as a category 2, etc.
New scale:
74 1.219870795
76 1.286700824
78 1.355312987
80 1.425707284
82 1.497883716
84 1.571842281
86 1.647582981
88 1.725105814
90 1.804410782
92 1.885497884
94 1.96836712
96 2.05301849
98 2.139451994
100 2.227667632
102 2.317665404
104 2.409445311
106 2.503007351
108 2.598351526
110 2.695477835
112 2.794386278
114 2.895076855
116 2.997549566
118 3.101804411
120 3.20784139
122 3.315660503
124 3.425261751
126 3.536645133
128 3.649810648
130 3.764758298
132 3.881488082
134 4
136 4.120294052
138 4.242370238
140 4.366228559
142 4.491869013
144 4.619291602
146 4.748496324
148 4.879483181
150 5.012252172
152 5.146803297
154 5.283136556
156 5.421251949
158 5.561149476
160 5.702829138
162 5.846290933
164 5.991534863
166 6.138560927
168 6.287369125
170 6.437959456
172 6.590331922
174 6.744486523
176 6.900423257
It's nice to see that the author didn't buy into the myth that it's friction which causes the increase in temperature as a fast moving body move through the atmosphere.
"As this main mass plummeted through our atmosphere at a speed of 20 kilometers per second â" dozens of times faster than a rifle bullet â" the huge pressure it generated compressed the air in front of it, heating it up."
That kind of journalistic competency it worth noting.
Wrong. Doctor can refuse to take Medicare patients. Historically 10% have refused to do so. Recently this has increased to 13% and its still increasing.
But a doctor can't refuse to pay Medicare taxes. So how does a doctor get back that money from the government to complete the flow-of-money circle?
The answer for most doctors is that they much treat Medicare patients for below cost. After that they start to make money on everyone else.
Those doctors that refuse to treat Medicare patients still somehow have to get back the Medicare taxes they paid. This can happen if they treat a disproportionate number of workers that benefit from Medicare spending. And this explains why most doctors that refuse to accept Medicare paradoxically live in areas that disproportionately receive Medicare.
But only if that skepticism is also applied to one's own ideas.
Vanity makes it easy to be skeptical of others' theories but it's leaving open the possibility that one's own theories could be mistaken that makes one a scientist.
They punish someone with the legal process, knowing they can't convict, but sending a message to anyone with a 3D printer that 3D printer owners can expect trouble from the state.
It's not just congress. A company is 50% less likely to be prosecuted by the Justice Department if they make a donation to the DNC.
There's no contradiction.
It took the government months to levy a 12 million dollar fine while the invisible hand of the free market gave a dumb corporation a 400 million dollar bitch slap in less than a hour.
Now that's efficiency!
That's the great thing about electric motors: max torque is at zero Km/h.