i'm talking empty road, based on the width of the road i'll tend to drive at posted speeds. i'm literally comfortable at that speed whereas going faster would make me nervous of the "walls":)
short and long of it. complaint brought and won by brazil over US cotton subsidies in 2004. penalty of 800 million. Decided to go with 150 million a year.
Washington stopped paying during sequester last year. Brazil threatened to go to the WTO again, they settled for one more payment of 300 million.
so by my count that's 1.5 billion ish for an initial fine of 800 million.
in terms of economic damage, 9-11 cost bin laden... what 50 million. the return on his investment is still being paid. that's like 3 orders of magnitude in reaction/overreaction.
never sped, always figured, going 75 in a 65 will maybe shave off 10 minutes... maybe, which is completely negated and them some if i get pulled over, even if i don't end up getting a ticket. also, for some reason i'm under the impression that the closer i can get to 50 the better my fuel mileage will be.
incidentally, when i drive i don't really look at my odometer anymore, i just tend to be extremely comfortable at posted to +5 of posted speeds.
:) you must not believe much then, or have a lotta time on your hands.
I trust, that A) if i had the time, inclination or knowledge, that i could reproduce any experiment that i read about. and that B) people with that inclination and knowledge, but maybe not the time have made sure that the experimental method was spot on because C) scientists are people and people are dicks and tearing down a bad idea is almost as good as having a good one.
this is why i'm ok with believing research papers, but you know, never the interpretation of a journalist. Also, this doesn't hold true for maths, that shit is just insane. and i don't believe a word of it.
this is not a problem with the public, nor with the politics, nor with the author of the report. The public can't delve into every report. the politician is trying win, and the author is doing his job... we pay people to tell us when someone in teh public eye is full of shit... it's called journalism. The first amendment is the most important in the US, and some of its tenants criminally undervalued in our northern neighbor.
fine, i append an "in general" somewhere in my original post. Honestly i don't care where. the point being, yeah, we got an idea of the "hardness" of fire... it just isn't very informative or useful.
i take issue with your definition of "actively"... an old flap of skin in your digestive tract that has all forms of filth and crud in it, which can sometimes kill you... yeah, it's a healthy active organ alright.
also... was repopulating the gut flora after illness really an issue prior to the advent of antibiotics?
i do not believe that there's any choice in your beliefs, only willful rejection of those that you wish to not be true.
I do not choose what i believe, my belief is a construct of what i know, what i am and how i perceive the world. belief is not a choice that one can alter through willpower alone.
I'm more inclined to believe that it is the christian definition of good that has evolved to conform with the universal than the other way around. Old testament to new, moderation inclusion... and less stoning and raping.
new testament to today has seen the end of witch burning, jew-baiting, raping and pillaging, slavery, homophobia, gender equality... and tolerance for atheism. or you know, it's getting there.
I read an interesting thing. There was a small jewish haven in shanghai during World War II. The big problem was that shanghai had fallen under japanese control. When the rabbi in charge of the refugees was brought before the japanese commander in charge of the city's occupation the commander asked him why the germans wanted them so badly. The rabbi simply responded it was because the jews were short and had dark hair. The commander ended up not handing them over to the germans.
is "i'm not a sadist because i'm not sadistic" any less valid than "i'm not a sadist because sadism is evil?"
there is no reason that i shouldn't be a criminal, my life would be less fulfilling if i were, and shorter and more painful... you know, which come to think of it are pretty good reasons... but there's no worldview stopping me.
a confluence of genetic, evolutionary and environmental factors has influenced my worldview to where it is today.
I will follow the golden rule, because I don't like the person I would be if I didn't.
:) I think we probably have a slight over-representation... why entire groups of religious folks shun the devilry of the glowing boxes. I mean, the amish alone.
my point of view has always been "i'm going to throw some money into this future product. I may or may not see any kind of product if I contribute, but i sure as hell won't see a product if i don't." that's when i really want a product to work out. If i'm just "kinda" into it, i'll just wait for them to release and order it then.
they give us food, and periodically shear us to make a profit from our wooly information. This google farm is also a zoo, and people pay to watch us. We're very cute. the farm also has no fences, but you know, this is where they give out free food... so you know, why wouldn't you come to the google farm to eat some nummies? and oh what nummies they are, some of the best nummies in the area... the area that, you know alpacas live.
remember donald sterling and brendan eich? imagine that but 100 fold... now imagine that but forever. The public is judgemental and hypocritical as it is. the first thing that would happen would be a fucking market crash as each fortune 500 would have to do some restructuring to find corporate officers pure as the driven snow...
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i'm talking empty road, based on the width of the road i'll tend to drive at posted speeds. i'm literally comfortable at that speed whereas going faster would make me nervous of the "walls" :)
apparently cotton subsidies.
http://online.wsj.com/articles...
short and long of it. complaint brought and won by brazil over US cotton subsidies in 2004. penalty of 800 million. Decided to go with 150 million a year.
Washington stopped paying during sequester last year. Brazil threatened to go to the WTO again, they settled for one more payment of 300 million.
so by my count that's 1.5 billion ish for an initial fine of 800 million.
in terms of economic damage, 9-11 cost bin laden... what 50 million. the return on his investment is still being paid. that's like 3 orders of magnitude in reaction/overreaction.
never sped, always figured, going 75 in a 65 will maybe shave off 10 minutes... maybe, which is completely negated and them some if i get pulled over, even if i don't end up getting a ticket. also, for some reason i'm under the impression that the closer i can get to 50 the better my fuel mileage will be.
incidentally, when i drive i don't really look at my odometer anymore, i just tend to be extremely comfortable at posted to +5 of posted speeds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
brother pigeon.
lord kelvin is rolling in his grave :)
as long as they are trying to hurt the people trying to hurt me, i'm fine with it.
you really gotta specify male homosapiens? .... or homosapiens for that matter? i take issue with your redundancy.
:) you must not believe much then, or have a lotta time on your hands.
I trust, that A) if i had the time, inclination or knowledge, that i could reproduce any experiment that i read about. and that B) people with that inclination and knowledge, but maybe not the time have made sure that the experimental method was spot on because C) scientists are people and people are dicks and tearing down a bad idea is almost as good as having a good one.
this is why i'm ok with believing research papers, but you know, never the interpretation of a journalist. Also, this doesn't hold true for maths, that shit is just insane. and i don't believe a word of it.
:) he meant to say "sciencing"
this is not a problem with the public, nor with the politics, nor with the author of the report. The public can't delve into every report. the politician is trying win, and the author is doing his job... we pay people to tell us when someone in teh public eye is full of shit... it's called journalism. The first amendment is the most important in the US, and some of its tenants criminally undervalued in our northern neighbor.
:P
fine, i append an "in general" somewhere in my original post. Honestly i don't care where. the point being, yeah, we got an idea of the "hardness" of fire... it just isn't very informative or useful.
i take issue with your definition of "actively"... an old flap of skin in your digestive tract that has all forms of filth and crud in it, which can sometimes kill you... yeah, it's a healthy active organ alright.
also... was repopulating the gut flora after illness really an issue prior to the advent of antibiotics?
i am so made that i cannot belive :)
i do not believe that there's any choice in your beliefs, only willful rejection of those that you wish to not be true.
I do not choose what i believe, my belief is a construct of what i know, what i am and how i perceive the world. belief is not a choice that one can alter through willpower alone.
... are you suggesting that a behavioral phenomenon that presents in multiple experiements would fail?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
we're crappy enough machines that the wrong color can mess up our day. statistics looks at populations and is pretty damn good on that level.
I'm more inclined to believe that it is the christian definition of good that has evolved to conform with the universal than the other way around. Old testament to new, moderation inclusion... and less stoning and raping.
new testament to today has seen the end of witch burning, jew-baiting, raping and pillaging, slavery, homophobia, gender equality... and tolerance for atheism. or you know, it's getting there.
I read an interesting thing. There was a small jewish haven in shanghai during World War II. The big problem was that shanghai had fallen under japanese control. When the rabbi in charge of the refugees was brought before the japanese commander in charge of the city's occupation the commander asked him why the germans wanted them so badly. The rabbi simply responded it was because the jews were short and had dark hair. The commander ended up not handing them over to the germans.
is "i'm not a sadist because i'm not sadistic" any less valid than "i'm not a sadist because sadism is evil?"
there is no reason that i shouldn't be a criminal, my life would be less fulfilling if i were, and shorter and more painful... you know, which come to think of it are pretty good reasons... but there's no worldview stopping me.
a confluence of genetic, evolutionary and environmental factors has influenced my worldview to where it is today.
I will follow the golden rule, because I don't like the person I would be if I didn't.
I am.
:) I think we probably have a slight over-representation... why entire groups of religious folks shun the devilry of the glowing boxes. I mean, the amish alone.
um... doesn't hardness hold an inverse relationship with density? and fire being pretty damn... not dense, would make its hardness pretty not.
how hard is ice? how hard is ice cream? how hard is melty ice cream? how hard is water? how hard is water vapor? and you've got the continuum.
just because you've never asked the question before, and the answer is stupid and pointless, doesn't mean it makes no sense.
:) if i had mod points sir, you'd be getting them.
my point of view has always been "i'm going to throw some money into this future product. I may or may not see any kind of product if I contribute, but i sure as hell won't see a product if i don't." that's when i really want a product to work out. If i'm just "kinda" into it, i'll just wait for them to release and order it then.
yeah, that 2 order of magnitude correction did a lot :)
i think we are the resource.
too avoid the obvious metaphor, we're alpacas.
on the google farm.
they give us food, and periodically shear us to make a profit from our wooly information. This google farm is also a zoo, and people pay to watch us. We're very cute. the farm also has no fences, but you know, this is where they give out free food... so you know, why wouldn't you come to the google farm to eat some nummies? and oh what nummies they are, some of the best nummies in the area... the area that, you know alpacas live.
hah, the optic nerve is SO last gen. my I.queue directly stimulates my visual and aural cortices.
remember donald sterling and brendan eich? imagine that but 100 fold... now imagine that but forever. The public is judgemental and hypocritical as it is. the first thing that would happen would be a fucking market crash as each fortune 500 would have to do some restructuring to find corporate officers pure as the driven snow...