The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet.
The primary failed premise is the reliance on calories. Paper contains a lot of calories, but unless you are a cow, you cannot get fat by eating a lot of paper
But most people who have tried it have fought their way through one chapter before coming to the conclusion that it's a load of unintelligible, over-engineered, pretentious crap
As someone who gave a try to Drupal, I would mod you up 'informative".
This thing is fine if you want to do a community website. If you are looking to customize it for something else, you will suffer. And you will never upgrade because you fear everything will colapse. We now use SPIP with much more satisfaction.
It's trivial to find reports of Correa screwing with journalists. A $40 million fine for demanding the president be arrested for crimes against humanity?
That story was related to the failed coup in 2010. I am not sure what would happen to a media supporting a coup in the USA or another western country
but Reporters Without Borders has quite a file on Correa:
Would you have another source than Reporters Without Borders? They are known to be harsh on countries that USA dislike, and to remain silent for whatever can happen in for USA allies and for USA itself. We know Reporters Without Borders reported plain lies for Venezuela, for instance. For more information, google +RSF +USAID
That does not mean Reporters Without Borders says lies about Correa, that just means we need another source that confirms what they report.
Fusion. Technologically, we have enough engineers and scientists in the world to make it a world-scale Apollo type endeavour and get Fusion to market by 2020-2030.... if we wanted to. But honestly, the economy doesn't want to. Not until it runs out of whatever is cheaper.
If the market does not want it, the states can do it. The market is unable to cope with most of potential economic growth because it is not priced. You noticed Apollo was not drived by the market, did you?
We are now ready for the next step I have been awaiting for years: cross-platform worms that can jump bacck and forth between Windows PC and mobiles, using WiFi and bluetooth. That will be delightful.
Quantum communication is supposed to be secure because you cannot read the message without altering it, and you get detected.
Now if I understand the article well, we can take one photon and make two entangled photons carrying the same information, and altering one of the two photons does not alter the other one. If we have multiple quantum routers, how can a receiver know that one of them was not a man in the middle that intercepted the message?
But what you are proposing dooms the shark to die a slow miserable death due to the load of nasty diseases you carry in your mouth as a member of diseased lecherous species, homo sapiens.
But are sharks susceptible to theses human viruses?
The root of all the trouble is the fact that we no longer seem to understand that the private sector has to lead. Government funds come from taxes and if you crush the private sector through taxation and regulation tax revenue dives. (Google "Laffer curve" if you need an explanation).
The curve does not discard the idea of raising taxes. It just raises the question of where we are on the curve today. If we are left from the peak, then increasing taxes will help
History has shown that high taxes on the rich do NOT harm the economy.
True, but we need to restore the inability to move money abroad in order to avoid taxes. Money movement has been regulated in the past and this is not a detail
Have a read of Manna, by Marshall Brain ( How Stuff Works founder). It predicts workers being managed by computers, then extrapolates the results. The results aren't pretty.
I just finished reading it. Nice dysopitan/utopian narrative, but there is a major point that was overlooked in my opinion.
This story shows us a future USA where all work is done by robots. Rich people get insanely rich, and poor people are all unemployed and are forced to stay in welfare centers that look like prison. The missing point is that such an economy would probably collapse if it tried to remain a capitalist economy.
With 99% of the population depending on welfare, then the market is almost destroyed. The riches cannot make profit anymore, as nobody can purchase anything. Making money by selling products abroad is not an option since other countries will also use robots, and therefore have a zero labor cost one cannot complete with. On the other hand, riches face taxes that are required to support the welfare system. Eventually they will move abroad to pay less taxes, making nation state to compete on lower taxes and lesser welfare. Once welfare system tends to zero, we have either the poor being exterminated, or we have them starting a revolution to break out of capitalism.
Now I wonder if the system can sustain itself with the poor being eradicated. Will the riches collaborate, or will they fight each other in order to make profit? If they do, then we recreate poor and we start over until there is only one rich person remaining. At that point the market does not exist anymore and capitalism destroyed itself.
Hold on so what this article is saying is that once again the free market is taking care of us where the government has failed miserably?
Yes, but there are some tricks in order to achieve that goal, as it is not that easy to curb reality that far. For instance, it is reported that we use more alternative energy than expected. That is fine, but as we consume more energy overall, does this reduce the greenhouse gas emissions?
OTOH, having a myriad of account is an incitation to have weak passwords, or to reuse the same ones. With SSO, the service operator never sees your master password. This is a huge security benefit. Note that it also imply that a security breach at a service provider cannot compromise your password.
And this assume you use passwords. Another benefit of SSO is that you only have to improve the identity provider (the site where you login) to use other authentications than passwords
By bringing middle classes to developing nations. People who don't have to have litters to ensure that one child survives have one or two children, below the replacement rate. People who have careers and money to spend and cultural activities to take part in don't spend so much time screwing. And when they do, they realize that having extra children will prevent them from enjoying those luxuries.
And if people have a retirement system, they do not need to have a lot of children to take care of them in their old years.
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Actually on rethinking it, the primary failed premise is listening to the "experts".
I would say the problem is that experts either do not base their claims on science, or are just relays of big corporations PR
The primary failed premise of our dietary system is the 2000 calorie diet.
The primary failed premise is the reliance on calories. Paper contains a lot of calories, but unless you are a cow, you cannot get fat by eating a lot of paper
But I do not have anything interesting to tell :-/
But most people who have tried it have fought their way through one chapter before coming to the conclusion that it's a load of unintelligible, over-engineered, pretentious crap
As someone who gave a try to Drupal, I would mod you up 'informative".
This thing is fine if you want to do a community website. If you are looking to customize it for something else, you will suffer. And you will never upgrade because you fear everything will colapse. We now use SPIP with much more satisfaction.
I am a BSD professional, you insensitive clod.
I played a lot with it on my own while being student. That was enough to become an expert that employers could spot as being worth recruiting
It's trivial to find reports of Correa screwing with journalists. A $40 million fine for demanding the president be arrested for crimes against humanity?
That story was related to the failed coup in 2010. I am not sure what would happen to a media supporting a coup in the USA or another western country
but Reporters Without Borders has quite a file on Correa:
Would you have another source than Reporters Without Borders? They are known to be harsh on countries that USA dislike, and to remain silent for whatever can happen in for USA allies and for USA itself. We know Reporters Without Borders reported plain lies for Venezuela, for instance. For more information, google +RSF +USAID
That does not mean Reporters Without Borders says lies about Correa, that just means we need another source that confirms what they report.
Ecuador (which opposes freedom of information)
What is the source for this assertion?
Fusion. Technologically, we have enough engineers and scientists in the world to make it a world-scale Apollo type endeavour and get Fusion to market by 2020-2030.... if we wanted to. But honestly, the economy doesn't want to. Not until it runs out of whatever is cheaper.
If the market does not want it, the states can do it. The market is unable to cope with most of potential economic growth because it is not priced. You noticed Apollo was not drived by the market, did you?
Companies know there are legal risks, and they also want good relations with the communities they are in.
Thie is where PR comes in. For instance one could say that fracking is good because it lowers CO2 emissions. Hey, wait....
The one strategy that GNOME has never tried is asking users what they want. Instead, the project has preferred to rely on usability theory
What is the theory they are using? Are there document about it? Perhaps their UI will make more sense if we are explained the rationale behind it.
We are now ready for the next step I have been awaiting for years: cross-platform worms that can jump bacck and forth between Windows PC and mobiles, using WiFi and bluetooth. That will be delightful.
The value of "real" money itself is only a convenient fiction.
At least it buys you your daily meals, that is not fictive
And that's the end of the story because the Washington Post won't let me read the rest.
It seems there is a bug. I was able to get the other pages by requesting the ready-to-print version
Quantum communication is supposed to be secure because you cannot read the message without altering it, and you get detected.
Now if I understand the article well, we can take one photon and make two entangled photons carrying the same information, and altering one of the two photons does not alter the other one. If we have multiple quantum routers, how can a receiver know that one of them was not a man in the middle that intercepted the message?
But what you are proposing dooms the shark to die a slow miserable death due to the load of nasty diseases you carry in your mouth as a member of diseased lecherous species, homo sapiens.
But are sharks susceptible to theses human viruses?
The root of all the trouble is the fact that we no longer seem to understand that the private sector has to lead. Government funds come from taxes and if you crush the private sector through taxation and regulation tax revenue dives. (Google "Laffer curve" if you need an explanation).
The curve does not discard the idea of raising taxes. It just raises the question of where we are on the curve today. If we are left from the peak, then increasing taxes will help
History has shown that high taxes on the rich do NOT harm the economy.
True, but we need to restore the inability to move money abroad in order to avoid taxes. Money movement has been regulated in the past and this is not a detail
Have a read of Manna, by Marshall Brain ( How Stuff Works founder). It predicts workers being managed by computers, then extrapolates the results. The results aren't pretty.
I just finished reading it. Nice dysopitan/utopian narrative, but there is a major point that was overlooked in my opinion.
This story shows us a future USA where all work is done by robots. Rich people get insanely rich, and poor people are all unemployed and are forced to stay in welfare centers that look like prison. The missing point is that such an economy would probably collapse if it tried to remain a capitalist economy.
With 99% of the population depending on welfare, then the market is almost destroyed. The riches cannot make profit anymore, as nobody can purchase anything. Making money by selling products abroad is not an option since other countries will also use robots, and therefore have a zero labor cost one cannot complete with. On the other hand, riches face taxes that are required to support the welfare system. Eventually they will move abroad to pay less taxes, making nation state to compete on lower taxes and lesser welfare. Once welfare system tends to zero, we have either the poor being exterminated, or we have them starting a revolution to break out of capitalism.
Now I wonder if the system can sustain itself with the poor being eradicated. Will the riches collaborate, or will they fight each other in order to make profit? If they do, then we recreate poor and we start over until there is only one rich person remaining. At that point the market does not exist anymore and capitalism destroyed itself.
My concerns are not the original designs, or the engineers. It's the cheap profit seeking idiots who attempt to cut corners while running them.
Yes, market invisible hand gets really scary when it touches nucelar power
Please mod parent up, it is insightful.
Hold on so what this article is saying is that once again the free market is taking care of us where the government has failed miserably?
Yes, but there are some tricks in order to achieve that goal, as it is not that easy to curb reality that far. For instance, it is reported that we use more alternative energy than expected. That is fine, but as we consume more energy overall, does this reduce the greenhouse gas emissions?
Not to mention the tracking/privacy issues.
You can run your own identity provider so that you are the only one able to spy on yourself
Single breach of security.
OTOH, having a myriad of account is an incitation to have weak passwords, or to reuse the same ones. With SSO, the service operator never sees your master password. This is a huge security benefit. Note that it also imply that a security breach at a service provider cannot compromise your password.
And this assume you use passwords. Another benefit of SSO is that you only have to improve the identity provider (the site where you login) to use other authentications than passwords
By bringing middle classes to developing nations. People who don't have to have litters to ensure that one child survives have one or two children, below the replacement rate. People who have careers and money to spend and cultural activities to take part in don't spend so much time screwing. And when they do, they realize that having extra children will prevent them from enjoying those luxuries.
And if people have a retirement system, they do not need to have a lot of children to take care of them in their old years.