If I was in a higher position of power in a nation whose leader just openly provoked the US by destroying a city, I'd be quite open to the idea of destroying any records that could implicate me, then creating a coup that would hand over those responsible for the attack.
Anyone who had dirt on me would either be equally guilty and part of the coup, or killed resisting arrest.
Potential rivals would also be killed resisting arrest.
Perhaps this can somehow be used to demonstrate that nuclear waste can be safely disposed of in the ocean floor? There have been serious proposals for disposing of waste in holes drilled hundreds of feet beneath the seabed in especially deep water.
You don't need to drill -- just find soft seafloor and shape the waste to imbed itself into the ground.
The major technical problem is that a few decades down the road, you might want to reuse the waste. Sea floor retrieval is slightly more problematic.
Because far too often at least one of the parties doesn't really want to be there. And is 'consenting' to something out of financial desperation/outright fear.
If they had a "normal" job, they'd show up because work is full of ponies and roses.
As opposed to people who show up to work because they fear their financial desperation if they didn't make money.
That myth really needs to die, once and for all.
You've phrased it one layer of indirection more than the standard claim (it takes more energy to make them than they will produce over the useful lifetime), but they reduce to the same concept (since virtually all of the CO2 "produced" during manufacture comes from the energy input).
A trivial economic proof should demonstrate this fact - The payback period for wind or solar runs around 10 years on average (a lot less in ideal climates, somewhat more in suboptimal ones).
1. A portable solar-powered charger isn't the same as a solar-powered house that is continually generating power when the sun is out and able to sell excess power back to the grid.
2. Part of my local power is nuclear. Very low CO2 emissions.
My music player tends to die at the end of long tours. This isn't so much of a problem if I'm staying at a place with electricity at night, but next year I'm planning a multiday camping tour and my music player isn't going to last past 8-9 hours.:(
Been trying to figure out what I want to use to recharge it. I was thinking about a small solar cell on the rack of my bike.
Considering we've had temperature shifts in the recent geological past without losing the majority of species, I suspect that habitat loss and not global warming is the main drive behind the amount of endangered species and the drop in populations.
Its not rocket science. Reduce the range of a species and the population through human interaction, and any change to the environment -- dry seasons, cold winter, flooding, epidemics, pollution, etc, and there's a better chance of wiping out the remaining survivors.
No, Windows is not a virus. Here's what viruses do:
They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too.
Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences:Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
I'm not going to put up with your lies about Windows.
Windows does not install quickly. It involves a cycle of reboots, updates, and hunting down drivers and applications.
I'm another slashdotter with no sense of smell. Didn't realize it until late in my teens. I thought that changes in humidty and other factors were what people meant by "smell".
I hear you on the deodorant issue. I have no idea if I have bad BO or not, or if I stepped in dog crap, or if the leftovers in my fridge went bad or not.
While I understand your humor, there are a few limiting factors about using X10 -- very little bandwidth and the inability to see the other "leg" of the house voltage -- which means that in a typical home in the US, half the outlets can't communicate with the other half*. X10 is also limited to 256 devices.
Supposedly, there are also reliability problems with the protocol, but I've never noticed them.
I use X10 at home for a few purposes, and it works well for what I need it to do (switching on/off lights and speakers), but it isn't made for an "internet of devices".
Does anyone care about the idiotic differences between churches? For I don't. It's more about power than philosophy if you ask me.
I care about the difference. I'd like to see more liberal churches who believe in progressive causes and the sanctity of human life, equal rights regardless of gender and sexual orientation, and the plight of the less fortunate. Perhaps you don't care about these issues, but I do.
But I think that all attempts to explain the differences between different churches, and to point out there are different religions, have been lost on you. I don't know what has colored your perception of Christianity (perhaps some conservative radicals and public figures such as Fred Phelps), but it seems you are unwilling to examine your own assumptions about what religion is or is not.
The Laffer curve specifically refers to reducing people's incentive for additional income by decreasing the effective amount of income they receive.
An absurd example would be to tax income at about $200k/year at 100%. Nobody would bother making more than $200k/year since they wouldn't make any additional money.
However, a government can decrease taxes, increase spending, and increase revenue without the mechanism of the Laffer curve. Consider a government that goes into debt to build a interstate highway system that takes 0 days to complete. The transportation system contributes to the growth of the economy, thus increasing the amount of taxable income/assets and therefore increasing the amount of tax revenue, even though the total tax rate has decreased.
It is similar to higher education -- putting one's self into debt in hopes of increased future income.
Reducing the tax rate can free up capital for investment. I'm not sure that this falls under the definition of the Laffer curve or not (my impression of it is that Laffer was referring to individuals seeking additional income, not freeing capital for investment, but I could be wrong).
PS: None of the above should be taken as an endorsement or criticism of any political party. I'm a geek, I like to point out technical trivia. Tax rates, the size of the economy, and total tax revenue is part of that.
PPS: It is possible for a government to increase its deficit each year and still keep its ratio of debt-to-GDP stable, assuming its economy grows by a certain amount each year.
He just showed them why it is not such a good idea to put a religious person at the head of a science organisation.
What does being religious have to do with it?
Or are you confusing one branch of one religion with all religions?
Why don't you expand your horizons and hunt down a good liberal place of worship in your neighborhood? If you want a place to start, I'd suggest looking for Unitarian Universalists, assuming you are outside of the Northeast (where UUs seem to average as being more traditional). Go to a service and see if you can find one of the UU atheists (not a contradiction in terms) to tell you why religion, atheism, and science can mix.
Yes, there are a lot of intolerant religious theologies out there. There's also a lot of asshole sports fan, a lot of self-rightous geeks, and a lot of scumbag politicians. That doesn't mean that all members of those respective groups are the same though.
Maybe that's why republicans think you can cut taxes and increase spending and everything will work out okay.
Just to be a dick about it:p I would like to point out that it is possible to reduce the tax rate and increase spending and still reduce the deficit.
It is also possible to increase taxes and reduce spending and increase the deficit.
Government revenues are dependent on the tax rate(s) as well was the size of the economy. A growing economy makes it possible to decrease taxes,
increase spending, and still see a reduction in the deficit. A shrinking economy makes it possible to increase taxes, decrease spending, and still
see an increase in the deficit.
If government is a large part of the economy, reducing spending can, according to some theories, cause the economy to shrink, further reducing tax
revenue, and in the case of a government trying to keep its budget balanced, cause the government to spend even less, creating a downward spiral.
Searching republican "false flag" robocalls brings up hundreds of good hits on it.
Here's the first hit describing a series of MORE THAN 20 harrassing calls, pretending to be from the Democratic candidate. The Republicans act like jackasses making harrassing robocalls, trying to trick people into thinking the Democrat is the evil jackass, so that people will get annoyed and vote Republican.
Republicans have done it countless times across the country. Here's the Slashot story on it. It cites it happening in 53 Congressional districts in 2006. So these false flag tactics are a common Republican ploy. The only problem with the original post is that it said "Republicans did this about 10 years ago". Republicans still do it. I hardly expect them to stop just for the 2008 election.
If you, or anyone you know, gets annoying robocalls "from Democrats", they are likely from Republicans. They also like to run bogus phone "polls". They will ask wildly biased questions like "Candidate X voted against a law to protect children from pedophiles, does this make you more or less likely to vote for candidate X?" Where of course candidate "X" is the democratic candidate. By inserting "facts" about their opponent into "questions", they make it sound like innocent neutral information from an innocent neutral source, to hide the fact that they are actually wildly biased and distorted accusations being flung by a Republican smear campaign.
There's not one unified Republican body, nor one unified Democratic body. Nor are misdeeds limited to one political party.
To imply otherwise polarizes the population and does a disservice to constructive dialog between people.
Incidentally, why does it necessarily have to be one party attacking another party? It could be a faction of the party attacking another faction. For example, I keep a random collection of RSS feeds going, and in one of those feeds, someone who is quite unhappy with the outcome of her party's primary is prone to repeat any negative accusation she can find about her party's presidential candidate. Assuming that she believes her candidate has a chance in 2012, she has incentive to torpedo the 2008 candidate's run.
Ninja Gaiden. If it were mentioned in the Bible, the passage would be, "And then God said, '**** THIS GAME,' and promptly threw his controller across the room."
Odd. I remember the game being named '7th Saga'. It was an RPG.
It could have inspired an entire generation of RPG designers with some of its innovative ideas if the game wasn't so horribly unbalanced that it was an exercise in frustration and patience.
For example, a dungeon's creatures could be easily dispatched, while the dungeon's boss would totally own you. Or there's the nice passage early on where the one chest has a creature hidden inside of it that will destroy your low level party. Fell for that twice, since the first time I thought it had to be a bad fluke of the random number generator. Nope, it is the same creature every time. The same very powerful creature.
Or what about the other PC options that you didn't select who become NPCs and go after the same objectives as you. If they manage to take over one of the early dungeons, a popular walkthrough has the best advice: Start a new game. It will take less time than the necessary leveling required to beat the NPC.
The game had some nifty ideas, but the balance issues were horrible.
I'm trying to figure that out myself. Another poster also mentioned the yearly maintainance was $600,000, or $120k per toilet.
What's the cost of renting out a small storefront, installing a restroom or two, and paying a janitor to rotate between two or three sites to clean the rooms during the busiest hours of the day/night?
Could it perhaps be that the infestation of Earth with this parasitic species called "humans" is bad for everything else?
I'd say that the infestation of Earth with the "parasitic" cyanobacteria 2.5 billion years ago was bad for almost everything else. By poisoning the atmosphere with a deadly chemical (oxygen) that they carelessly released as a byproduct of their energy system, they killed off most of the dominant life on earth.:p
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If I was in a higher position of power in a nation whose leader just openly provoked the US by destroying a city, I'd be quite open to the idea of destroying any records that could implicate me, then creating a coup that would hand over those responsible for the attack.
Anyone who had dirt on me would either be equally guilty and part of the coup, or killed resisting arrest.
Potential rivals would also be killed resisting arrest.
Woopsie, s is on the wrong side.
Now if it had an unconventional English plural, it might be longer.
This inspired me to negate the regex to find the longest word I could type with my right hand.
Gulliver's Travels FTW! And that's the singular form, if it has a conventional English plural, its 10 characters long.
You don't need to drill -- just find soft seafloor and shape the waste to imbed itself into the ground.
The major technical problem is that a few decades down the road, you might want to reuse the waste. Sea floor retrieval is slightly more problematic.
If they had a "normal" job, they'd show up because work is full of ponies and roses.
As opposed to people who show up to work because they fear their financial desperation if they didn't make money.
1. A portable solar-powered charger isn't the same as a solar-powered house that is continually generating power when the sun is out and able to sell excess power back to the grid.
2. Part of my local power is nuclear. Very low CO2 emissions.
Another cyclist here.
My music player tends to die at the end of long tours. This isn't so much of a problem if I'm staying at a place with electricity at night, but next year I'm planning a multiday camping tour and my music player isn't going to last past 8-9 hours. :(
Been trying to figure out what I want to use to recharge it. I was thinking about a small solar cell on the rack of my bike.
How many parties in the EU run the elections? Is there one transnational body, or does each member state run the election for members of that state?
Considering we've had temperature shifts in the recent geological past without losing the majority of species, I suspect that habitat loss and not global warming is the main drive behind the amount of endangered species and the drop in populations.
Its not rocket science. Reduce the range of a species and the population through human interaction, and any change to the environment -- dry seasons, cold winter, flooding, epidemics, pollution, etc, and there's a better chance of wiping out the remaining survivors.
I would like to see a national debt/GDP clock.
While the size of debt matters, the proportion of debt to the economy matters more, IMO.
Although this is purely anecdotal, when I switched over to veganism, I had to cut my hair more often.
I figured that I might have been deficient in a vitamin or mineral before that was necessary for hair growth.
It doesn't make me cool, hip and edgy?
I'm not going to put up with your lies about Windows.
Windows does not install quickly. It involves a cycle of reboots, updates, and hunting down drivers and applications.
I'm another slashdotter with no sense of smell. Didn't realize it until late in my teens. I thought that changes in humidty and other factors were what people meant by "smell".
I hear you on the deodorant issue. I have no idea if I have bad BO or not, or if I stepped in dog crap, or if the leftovers in my fridge went bad or not.
I wouldn't mind a replacement nose.
While I understand your humor, there are a few limiting factors about using X10 -- very little bandwidth and the inability to see the other "leg" of the house voltage -- which means that in a typical home in the US, half the outlets can't communicate with the other half*. X10 is also limited to 256 devices.
Supposedly, there are also reliability problems with the protocol, but I've never noticed them.
I use X10 at home for a few purposes, and it works well for what I need it to do (switching on/off lights and speakers), but it isn't made for an "internet of devices".
PS: X10 + heyu (x10 linux software) computer + wireless transceiver + lirc (linux infrared remote software) + universal remote == lazy geek goodness. :p
* There are devices that rectify this.
I care about the difference. I'd like to see more liberal churches who believe in progressive causes and the sanctity of human life, equal rights regardless of gender and sexual orientation, and the plight of the less fortunate. Perhaps you don't care about these issues, but I do.
But I think that all attempts to explain the differences between different churches, and to point out there are different religions, have been lost on you. I don't know what has colored your perception of Christianity (perhaps some conservative radicals and public figures such as Fred Phelps), but it seems you are unwilling to examine your own assumptions about what religion is or is not.
So it goes.
The Laffer curve specifically refers to reducing people's incentive for additional income by decreasing the effective amount of income they receive.
An absurd example would be to tax income at about $200k/year at 100%. Nobody would bother making more than $200k/year since they wouldn't make any additional money.
However, a government can decrease taxes, increase spending, and increase revenue without the mechanism of the Laffer curve. Consider a government that goes into debt to build a interstate highway system that takes 0 days to complete. The transportation system contributes to the growth of the economy, thus increasing the amount of taxable income/assets and therefore increasing the amount of tax revenue, even though the total tax rate has decreased.
It is similar to higher education -- putting one's self into debt in hopes of increased future income.
Reducing the tax rate can free up capital for investment. I'm not sure that this falls under the definition of the Laffer curve or not (my impression of it is that Laffer was referring to individuals seeking additional income, not freeing capital for investment, but I could be wrong).
PS: None of the above should be taken as an endorsement or criticism of any political party. I'm a geek, I like to point out technical trivia. Tax rates, the size of the economy, and total tax revenue is part of that.
PPS: It is possible for a government to increase its deficit each year and still keep its ratio of debt-to-GDP stable, assuming its economy grows by a certain amount each year.
What does being religious have to do with it?
Or are you confusing one branch of one religion with all religions?
Why don't you expand your horizons and hunt down a good liberal place of worship in your neighborhood? If you want a place to start, I'd suggest looking for Unitarian Universalists, assuming you are outside of the Northeast (where UUs seem to average as being more traditional). Go to a service and see if you can find one of the UU atheists (not a contradiction in terms) to tell you why religion, atheism, and science can mix.
Yes, there are a lot of intolerant religious theologies out there. There's also a lot of asshole sports fan, a lot of self-rightous geeks, and a lot of scumbag politicians. That doesn't mean that all members of those respective groups are the same though.
Just to be a dick about it :p I would like to point out that it is possible to reduce the tax rate and increase spending and still reduce the deficit.
It is also possible to increase taxes and reduce spending and increase the deficit.
Government revenues are dependent on the tax rate(s) as well was the size of the economy. A growing economy makes it possible to decrease taxes, increase spending, and still see a reduction in the deficit. A shrinking economy makes it possible to increase taxes, decrease spending, and still see an increase in the deficit.
If government is a large part of the economy, reducing spending can, according to some theories, cause the economy to shrink, further reducing tax revenue, and in the case of a government trying to keep its budget balanced, cause the government to spend even less, creating a downward spiral.
The more you know. :p
That would be Michigan that has an Upper Peninsula, not Minnesota.
There is a Finland, Minnesota. It's north of Duluth.
There's not one unified Republican body, nor one unified Democratic body. Nor are misdeeds limited to one political party.
To imply otherwise polarizes the population and does a disservice to constructive dialog between people.
Incidentally, why does it necessarily have to be one party attacking another party? It could be a faction of the party attacking another faction. For example, I keep a random collection of RSS feeds going, and in one of those feeds, someone who is quite unhappy with the outcome of her party's primary is prone to repeat any negative accusation she can find about her party's presidential candidate. Assuming that she believes her candidate has a chance in 2012, she has incentive to torpedo the 2008 candidate's run.
Odd. I remember the game being named '7th Saga'. It was an RPG.
It could have inspired an entire generation of RPG designers with some of its innovative ideas if the game wasn't so horribly unbalanced that it was an exercise in frustration and patience.
For example, a dungeon's creatures could be easily dispatched, while the dungeon's boss would totally own you. Or there's the nice passage early on where the one chest has a creature hidden inside of it that will destroy your low level party. Fell for that twice, since the first time I thought it had to be a bad fluke of the random number generator. Nope, it is the same creature every time. The same very powerful creature.
Or what about the other PC options that you didn't select who become NPCs and go after the same objectives as you. If they manage to take over one of the early dungeons, a popular walkthrough has the best advice: Start a new game. It will take less time than the necessary leveling required to beat the NPC.
The game had some nifty ideas, but the balance issues were horrible.
I'm trying to figure that out myself. Another poster also mentioned the yearly maintainance was $600,000, or $120k per toilet.
What's the cost of renting out a small storefront, installing a restroom or two, and paying a janitor to rotate between two or three sites to clean the rooms during the busiest hours of the day/night?
Anaerobic lifeforms.
I'd say that the infestation of Earth with the "parasitic" cyanobacteria 2.5 billion years ago was bad for almost everything else. By poisoning the atmosphere with a deadly chemical (oxygen) that they carelessly released as a byproduct of their energy system, they killed off most of the dominant life on earth. :p