I don't know, I think it is pretty likely that religion has its roots in the stories told by medicine men and big men, and I bet they often bent those stories in ways that benefited themselves.
Part of the joy of the inefficiency is that people don't have to listen to everybody about everything. People in Maine may be happy that they do not have to ask the people of Texas when they build a road, or whatever.
And then there is the argument that those aren't accessible resources, but they are certainly available, and it isn't that big a deal to get the data together and run queries against it, and you can at least view the county and land survey boundaries here:
I don't think it is really a problem that is worth heaping onto businesses, but I think you are probably overstating the difficulties, especially when you figure that a few intermediaries can do most of the work and sell it as a service, rather than each business doing all the mussing about themselves (cheapo businesses could even have a "You are requesting shipping to an out of state address. There is a $1 surcharge in order to purchase the information required to calculate the sales tax on this transaction." disclaimer or whatever).
If, all of the sudden, there were tens of thousands of customers in the sales-tax-database (or lookup...) market, I doubt that prices would stay at $10,000.
If you are going to follow that line of reasoning, it is obviously the Constitution that is the sham, courts can actually put you in jail and levy your wages and such.
The more fun argument is that if the growth is unavoidable, there isn't any reason to worry about how we will sustain it, so it doesn't matter how long the uranium will last.
Incomplete is probably a better word than flawed, the context is comparing the speed boost of going from a spinning disk to a SSD or a couple of SSDs in a RAID setup and the copying example is just a case in my usage where there really isn't any difference between the two.
As you pointed out in your other reply, I was wrong about the benefits of the RAID setup, but I still have trouble looking at it from anything other than a cost/benefit perspective (where, again, for me, the 10 seconds that the RAID saves costs about the same amount as the presumably much larger amount of time that simply switching to an SSD would save).
We obviously have different views of the costs, as you own a mid-level SSD setup and I don't own one at all.
They might exploit it as part of their fuel cycle, but it isn't going to get them active (If I understand correctly, some of the Pu-239 in commercial reactors is undergoing fission, so in that sense, they are also using U-238).
iPhoto apparently has at least rudimentary support for iptc data now (so keywords, captions). I don't use it, but I do recall seeing something where someone was peeved that their tags didn't end up as keywords, so it isn't shocking that it got fixed.
Fission, you do not particularly understand it (the energy we get from plutonium is every bit the same happy accident as the energy we get from uranium, it is not something that was previously stored).
Well, if plutonium is man made, then it seems sort of likely that we already know the alchemy involved. And in fact, we do, when uranium-238 is struck by a neutron, it often converts to plutonium-239 (uranium-238 is the most abundant form of uranium, a form that isn't actually useful to drive a reactor) .
So we can take the roughly 99% of uranium that is not currently useful as fuel and convert some of it into plutonium. Saying they will run out at the same time is silly.
Well, it isn't really all that quantifiable (especially without the time frame), but it isn't a key part of what I was saying, I would have been better off putting "Let's say, for instance, some information in your brain happens to degrade in the following manner:".
The point is that it isn't likely that any damage entropy does to information could simply be reversed (things like cellular damage would probably be more reversible, as some sort of template could be employed).
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It depends on how efficiently the 40 watts are delivered. For instance, touching a hot light bulb generally isn't particularly pleasant.
Make sure you keep it clean.
Imagine a world where people motivated themselves with reason.
I don't know, 'the people' in my state are vaguely anti-casino, but they would shit their pants if you took away the state lottery.
I don't know, I think it is pretty likely that religion has its roots in the stories told by medicine men and big men, and I bet they often bent those stories in ways that benefited themselves.
Are you in a manic phase?
The good news is that Google is a giant, soulless corporation, not a slightly greasy, overweight man who is out to get you.
Part of the joy of the inefficiency is that people don't have to listen to everybody about everything. People in Maine may be happy that they do not have to ask the people of Texas when they build a road, or whatever.
Lat/long:
http://www.batchgeocode.com/
County and Township:
http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/countyp.html
http://nationalatlas.gov/mld/plss00p.html
There is also city information, but I probably wouldn't rely on it as much as the county and Township data:
http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html?openChapters=%2Cchpref#chpref
And then there is the argument that those aren't accessible resources, but they are certainly available, and it isn't that big a deal to get the data together and run queries against it, and you can at least view the county and land survey boundaries here:
http://nationalatlas.gov/natlas/Natlasstart.asp
I don't think it is really a problem that is worth heaping onto businesses, but I think you are probably overstating the difficulties, especially when you figure that a few intermediaries can do most of the work and sell it as a service, rather than each business doing all the mussing about themselves (cheapo businesses could even have a "You are requesting shipping to an out of state address. There is a $1 surcharge in order to purchase the information required to calculate the sales tax on this transaction." disclaimer or whatever).
If, all of the sudden, there were tens of thousands of customers in the sales-tax-database (or lookup...) market, I doubt that prices would stay at $10,000.
If you are going to follow that line of reasoning, it is obviously the Constitution that is the sham, courts can actually put you in jail and levy your wages and such.
The more fun argument is that if the growth is unavoidable, there isn't any reason to worry about how we will sustain it, so it doesn't matter how long the uranium will last.
When it comes to security, the trade off is always between money and security.
Just spray your mine field with explosives residue after you finish laying it down.
That tooth bacteria is probably fighting its way through a very cautious public safety apparatus.
"by humans" is at least sort of implied there.
Incomplete is probably a better word than flawed, the context is comparing the speed boost of going from a spinning disk to a SSD or a couple of SSDs in a RAID setup and the copying example is just a case in my usage where there really isn't any difference between the two.
As you pointed out in your other reply, I was wrong about the benefits of the RAID setup, but I still have trouble looking at it from anything other than a cost/benefit perspective (where, again, for me, the 10 seconds that the RAID saves costs about the same amount as the presumably much larger amount of time that simply switching to an SSD would save).
We obviously have different views of the costs, as you own a mid-level SSD setup and I don't own one at all.
They might exploit it as part of their fuel cycle, but it isn't going to get them active (If I understand correctly, some of the Pu-239 in commercial reactors is undergoing fission, so in that sense, they are also using U-238).
iPhoto apparently has at least rudimentary support for iptc data now (so keywords, captions). I don't use it, but I do recall seeing something where someone was peeved that their tags didn't end up as keywords, so it isn't shocking that it got fixed.
Also, human power utilization is less than 0.02% of insolation (yes, 1/5000).
That's like blaming the butcher when a restaurant under-cooks your chicken.
Certainly, KDE used poor meat handling practices.
Fission, you do not particularly understand it (the energy we get from plutonium is every bit the same happy accident as the energy we get from uranium, it is not something that was previously stored).
Well, if plutonium is man made, then it seems sort of likely that we already know the alchemy involved. And in fact, we do, when uranium-238 is struck by a neutron, it often converts to plutonium-239 (uranium-238 is the most abundant form of uranium, a form that isn't actually useful to drive a reactor) .
So we can take the roughly 99% of uranium that is not currently useful as fuel and convert some of it into plutonium. Saying they will run out at the same time is silly.
Well, it isn't really all that quantifiable (especially without the time frame), but it isn't a key part of what I was saying, I would have been better off putting "Let's say, for instance, some information in your brain happens to degrade in the following manner:".
The point is that it isn't likely that any damage entropy does to information could simply be reversed (things like cellular damage would probably be more reversible, as some sort of template could be employed).
Well, if they get the tech right, probably only a few thousand calories per day.