I'll correct the gpp by saying the world should be run at a lower rate than full capacity. 1/10 seems fine, it's a matter of sustainability.
"back in the day when the population was much smaller", there were "such things as war (over land), famine, pollution", because the world was being run at full capacity.
Technology caused a capacity increase. Humanity could have controlled this and lived better in a world of greater abundance, but people are so that when they can make kids, they do.
There's two ways to handle a capacity increase : limitless growth (which is offsetting the problem until capacity is reached), and sustainable growth, i.e. control your instinctive urge, and never reach full capacity.
"enlightened" Europe would have to outlaw a lot of South Park episodes because they would offend the sensibilities of some group, typically homosexuals
No risk for South Park as the ones they make fun of is Americans and that makes it OK. By the way you should see the SP episode (Death Camp of Tolerance IIRC) where all the town is praising Mr Garrisson's difference (being gay) while refusing to see him as the pervert he really is.
within 30 years - we will probably have way more efficient space travels as even commercial space tourism has started to kick in as well.
There is no way a rocket could be as efficient as an elevator.
Basically to get a payload to orbit, the energy needed with an elevator is (mass of payload + mass of container)*height gain. With economy of scales, the second term tends to be neglectible. With an electric engine, efficiency is close to 100%
With a rocket, most of the energy is used propelling the propellant that you have to carry with you.
Oh sure you can, but then the terminating party owes the terminated party money, typically the amount of salary equivalent to the legal period. And the legal period is longer (about twice as long) in case of getting fired than in case of quitting.
Define "clean fuel". Isn't the cure (global warming) worse than the disease (chemical pollution) in hindsight?
Wouldn't it be possible to add a "clean" (chemically neutral) additive to fuel that would counter the effects of global warming ?
Also, if such an additive existed and were used, it would mitigate direct solar power in order to mitigate global temperature. Would this impact be very nefast to our food source (i.e. photosynthesis) or only minimal ?
Define "clean fuel". Isn't the cure (global warming) worse than the disease (chemical pollution)?
Wouldn't it be possible to add a "clean" (chemically neutral) additive to fuel that would counter the effects of global warming ?
Also, if such an additive existed and were used, it would mitigate direct solar power in order to mitigate global temperature. Would this impact be very nefast to our food source (i.e. photosynthesis) or only minimal ?
Not forgetting, ommitting..com makes sense for corporations in a global economy..org makes sense for non-profit world organization..net makes sense as a meta domain on a network of networks. cctlds make sense to provide localized info..edu should arguably be available to any UN country's education system. As it is now they actually mean ".edu.us"..mil and.gov should become.mil.us;.gov.us, there is nothing more national than defense or government..mobi,.aero,.pro,.museum make no sense at all (they might be suitable SLD). Why no.energy,.auto,.biz and.info are redundant racket. The latter is actually doubly redundant, everything is info on the Internet.
Also IMHO, I don't believe second or further level domains should be used for visible (customer facing) internet addresses. gandalf.appmath.ctu.ac.za may be fine for some local purposes, but don't forget people have to type them. If a domain is to be popular, it should have a short name on a SLD.
This is more problematic for.co.uk domains. This must account for about 95% of.uk domains. Why the f*** not just use.uk ? In the current situation, either the.co.uk DNS is handled by the.uk DNS server (then why bother indeed), either it is handled by a separate.co.uk DNS server (2 serial points of failure not including the root servers and the third level DNS, way to go!)
This doesn't change a thing to the fact that.info and.biz has no necessity further than racketing trademark holders who have to "defend and enforce" their trademarks.
Consider how many people 100 million dollars could employ.
You don't need cash to hire and employ someone, only to have the person bring more money (or unquantifiable benefit) in than they cost.
In the industry, no job exists in the form of "Oh yes, he's a nice guy and I had this 50k a year at hand so I hired him". It's a case of positive business case.
It's elementary knowledge. Yet if you want to play Yorkshiremen, you have to underbid the parent post. There is no provision on chronology that I know of. In fact in the original Yorkshiremen sketch, all the anecdotes are set at the same time, as they are all remembering the same foregone past.
Misnamed one ? Back in the days we were happy to have names. Most of the wars had monosyllabic names, and we were happy. These kids nowadays don't know how easy they have it.
Nowadays,if you can afford the onshore patent lawyer who will file a patent for your brilliant idea, you can definitely afford Indians to code it for you.
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I'll correct the gpp by saying the world should be run at a lower rate than full capacity. 1/10 seems fine, it's a matter of sustainability.
"back in the day when the population was much smaller", there were "such things as war (over land), famine, pollution", because the world was being run at full capacity.
Technology caused a capacity increase. Humanity could have controlled this and lived better in a world of greater abundance, but people are so that when they can make kids, they do.
There's two ways to handle a capacity increase : limitless growth (which is offsetting the problem until capacity is reached), and sustainable growth, i.e. control your instinctive urge, and never reach full capacity.
Provided physical machines implement the virtual hardware environment, they ARE virtual machines.
386sx ? You kids were spoiled. Back in the days, I only had a 346, ans no fancy schmancy sx to it no siree !
Does this mean the Wii will cost $249 + $699 in license fees ?
OMG ! There is a paper telling my name and address ! I'm being repressed ! Come and see the violence in the system !
Does this mean we may expect a reunion album ?
Yes, but does IT require you to put a controlling rod in your anus ?
didn't you read Dan Brown ? Any encryption can be broken given an NSA computer
Oh sure you can, but then the terminating party owes the terminated party money, typically the amount of salary equivalent to the legal period. And the legal period is longer (about twice as long) in case of getting fired than in case of quitting.
In Europe, employees quitting have to serve six weeks notice; in the US typically two weeks.
Typically also you want to start the new job on the beginning of the next month. 18th September makes this impossible.
At least if it were on the 29th of september it would make senses as the prequit time is generally counted from the 1st of the month after the notice.
Is she your ex because she liked the fag street boys?
Define "clean fuel". Isn't the cure (global warming) worse than the disease (chemical pollution) in hindsight?
Wouldn't it be possible to add a "clean" (chemically neutral) additive to fuel that would counter the effects of global warming ?
Also, if such an additive existed and were used, it would mitigate direct solar power in order to mitigate global temperature. Would this impact be very nefast to our food source (i.e. photosynthesis) or only minimal ?
Define "clean fuel". Isn't the cure (global warming) worse than the disease (chemical pollution)? Wouldn't it be possible to add a "clean" (chemically neutral) additive to fuel that would counter the effects of global warming ? Also, if such an additive existed and were used, it would mitigate direct solar power in order to mitigate global temperature. Would this impact be very nefast to our food source (i.e. photosynthesis) or only minimal ?
Not forgetting, ommitting. .com makes sense for corporations in a global economy. .org makes sense for non-profit world organization. .net makes sense as a meta domain on a network of networks. cctlds make sense to provide localized info. .edu should arguably be available to any UN country's education system. As it is now they actually mean ".edu.us". .mil and .gov should become .mil.us; .gov.us, there is nothing more national than defense or government. .mobi, .aero, .pro, .museum make no sense at all (they might be suitable SLD). Why no .energy, .auto, .biz and .info are redundant racket. The latter is actually doubly redundant, everything is info on the Internet.
.co.uk domains. This must account for about 95% of .uk domains. Why the f*** not just use .uk ? In the current situation, either the .co.uk DNS is handled by the .uk DNS server (then why bother indeed), either it is handled by a separate .co.uk DNS server (2 serial points of failure not including the root servers and the third level DNS, way to go!)
Also IMHO, I don't believe second or further level domains should be used for visible (customer facing) internet addresses. gandalf.appmath.ctu.ac.za may be fine for some local purposes, but don't forget people have to type them. If a domain is to be popular, it should have a short name on a SLD.
This is more problematic for
This doesn't change a thing to the fact that .info and .biz has no necessity further than racketing trademark holders who have to "defend and enforce" their trademarks.
In the industry, no job exists in the form of "Oh yes, he's a nice guy and I had this 50k a year at hand so I hired him". It's a case of positive business case.
It's elementary knowledge. Yet if you want to play Yorkshiremen, you have to underbid the parent post. There is no provision on chronology that I know of. In fact in the original Yorkshiremen sketch, all the anecdotes are set at the same time, as they are all remembering the same foregone past. Misnamed one ? Back in the days we were happy to have names. Most of the wars had monosyllabic names, and we were happy. These kids nowadays don't know how easy they have it.
Great war ? You spoiled kid. Back in my day we only had a Cold War. Those were the days...
trebleclef ? Back in the days we only had pythagorean tuning, and we were happy. You kids had it way too easy.
...I'll believe it when I see it.
Nowadays,if you can afford the onshore patent lawyer who will file a patent for your brilliant idea, you can definitely afford Indians to code it for you.
You fail to account for the solar energy absorbed by the plants