Everyone growing their own food is bad, not because the Farmer loses his lively hood, but because 50% of the population is dedicated to growing food.
There aren't enough people free to attend school, teach school, learn high tech trades...
The whole earth would devolve down to third world countries. You and I would be digging water wells by hand like in the early part of the 20'th century, because no one is an engineer designing well drilling equipment, and there are no well drilling equipment manufactures, and no we don't have any geologists to locate oil wells to find the oil to run a well drilling equipment manufacturing plant.
This is wrong for GMOs (Genetically modified organisms), like Pluots which are part plum part apricot. However taking a seed from a non-GMO apple and planting that seed is not wrong, as more importantly no one holds a patent on the GMO.
In developed countries, anything you design with pirated software becomes the intellectual property of the company who wrote said pirated software. So go ahead and slave on...
What it means is that the head of security for SB gets a really cool visual toy that serves absolutely no purpose other than to strike said official's ego.
Of course there is the upside that someone gets to sell a toy to a private company...
Which I highly approve of...
Even if it is MS that gets the sale, just that someone got to sell a toy for hyper-inflated prices.
You don't want to use LEDs with DC, because you'll burn them up in a short time. Plus they draw a whole lot of current. They provide good light with about 10% duty cycle at 1kHz.
Most of the things you mention are not Socialism, but instead are shared resources paid with property tax money, and administered by the county. These are shared benefits paid with property tax money usually 2% of property value per year: Fire, Police, EMS (Emergency Medical System) meaning ambulance. Workmans Compensation, Social Security and Unemployment Insurance, are insurance policies administered by the state/federal government. Medicare and Welfare are those are Social programs, usually administered by the County, money is a mix of Federal/State/Local. Emergency Medical care is the grey area where those who pay are paying 3x the true cost for the service they receive (through higher health insurance premiums), because 2/3 of people in the ER are not paying at all. Those 2/3 are the usual messed up drunk pot-smokers who crash their car into a crowd while trying to evade the police for beating their child. Then they cuss out the doctor, threaten the nurse, and file a complaint. I also used to volunteer at a food closet for the needy, many of the recipients (remember the car crashers from above?) drove up in nicer cars than mine. At this closet, there was only one recipient who volunteered at the food closet. I only volunteer for Boy Scouts these days. All the recipients are grateful, and are more likely to grow-up to hold a job, pay their taxes, do volunteer work, and not be spreading drug resistant TB.
It's all fine until the poor drug-addicts that we are working to feed point out you-n-me and says "Those greedy rich bastards aren't paying their fair share". Then the politician looks at you-n-me and says "You rich greedy bastards need to pay your fair share". Then the tax man shows up at your door with a gun...
I'm not interested in electing someone clever. I'm interested in electing someone who really believes in laissez-faire. In the US, the federal government is supposed to maintain the roads & borders. I'm very unhappy that my tax dollars are going to support an industry strangled by union thugs.
The Nobel Jury awarded a peace prize to Fidel Castro. A peace prize for Fidel Castro is like a humanitarian award for Adolf Hitler. Fidel is a Marxist, and the stated goal of Marxists is using violent means to install world-wide Communism. Fidel Castro used military force to keep Cubans prisoner in Cuba, attempting to flee Cuba is punishable by death... how is that different from slavery?
Jimmy Carter was a clown... Not that he intended to be, he set out with good intentions. His fault was that he focused on being a man of peace, bad people used this as leverage against him. Instead of crying to the UN, he should have offered Iran total destruction. The Persian people were supremely embarrassed by the Ayatollah and would have over-thrown him upon an American invasion.
I think in the near future, we are going to see the beginning of Iranian sponsored nuclear catastrophes, and we can follow the trail back to the weakness of "a man of peace".
The fact that Bangladesh has survived 1.5m of sea level rising in 400 years, makes me believe that they will also survive the next 1.5m rise just fine. I believe the people of Bangladesh are quite capable of deciding either to prevent the flooding, or accept it. And more importantly, they certainly don't need us putting our noses into their business. If the people of Bangladesh live in poverty caused by institutionalized corruption, that is not your or my business either.
The seas have been rising 1.7mm/yr for the last several hundred years. They are up over 3 1/2 meters since the 17th century. Holland still has not flooded, even though they built dykes to dry-out and farm the Zuderzee over 400 years ago. If we can't match 17th century public works with 21 century science and equipment, then we deserve our fate... Those who follow the rantings of a politically motivated activists seeking social justice need to wise up about what social justice really means.
did anyone else get the feeling from the movie that the guy was happy to have someone he could control? That's what it is, I knew there was something very wrong about this. But I could not put my finger on it... and that's what it is... This dude needs someone to control, and a robot lover is just that someone.
faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife That must mean there is a very advanced random behavior generator on-board. Otherwise, it'd be about as much fun as watching a digital clock click off the time.
There is a knee in the curve, if a certain percentage are vaccinated, then the spread of disease is drastically reduced, it seems to me it is ~70% of the population vaccinated pretty much controls the disease.
Of course the 30% not vaccinated are at higher risk. They also increase the risk in those who are vaccinated, and those too young to vaccinate who will be vaccinated later.
Yes a certain percentage die of vaccines, the over-all benefit to society is huge.
The top 10 causes of death in the first part of the 20'th century were diseases we have conquered with vaccines.
Before the vaccine, ~10% of children contracted polio, ~10% of those died of the disease. That's 1% of the population. Many of the 9% that survived, survived with some level of paralysis.
Think about your class size, picture 1% dying of just polio. Now add a few more percent for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (collectively MMR), Whooping cough, Typhoid fever, Yellow fever, valley fever...
And the only control at the time was quarantine. With a positive identification for a communicable disease, the doctor called the health department who put a yellow quarantine sign on your house (required by law).
Kind'of similar to reading the bottle of Dr. Bronners peppermint bio-degradable soap...
OK, I'm old, and it's a 70's thing. The 70's are fun to look back on, burned out hippies sounded a lot like this... But they smelled a whole lot worse.
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Remember, when you gaze into the boron boride crystal, the boron boride crystal gazes back into you.
You have to have electro negativity charge difference > 2 in order to be considered ionic.
Everyone growing their own food is bad, not because the Farmer loses his lively hood, but because 50% of the population is dedicated to growing food.
There aren't enough people free to attend school, teach school, learn high tech trades...
The whole earth would devolve down to third world countries. You and I would be digging water wells by hand like in the early part of the 20'th century, because no one is an engineer designing well drilling equipment, and there are no well drilling equipment manufactures, and no we don't have any geologists to locate oil wells to find the oil to run a well drilling equipment manufacturing plant.
This is wrong for GMOs (Genetically modified organisms), like Pluots which are part plum part apricot. However taking a seed from a non-GMO apple and planting that seed is not wrong, as more importantly no one holds a patent on the GMO.
In developed countries, anything you design with pirated software becomes the intellectual property of the company who wrote said pirated software. So go ahead and slave on...
Soon... "All your base are belong to us".
What it means is that the head of security for SB gets a really cool visual toy that serves absolutely no purpose other than to strike said official's ego.
Of course there is the upside that someone gets to sell a toy to a private company...
Which I highly approve of...
Even if it is MS that gets the sale, just that someone got to sell a toy for hyper-inflated prices.
What if you are ordered to paint red fire alarms beige?
You don't want to use LEDs with DC, because you'll burn them up in a short time. Plus they draw a whole lot of current. They provide good light with about 10% duty cycle at 1kHz.
Most of the things you mention are not Socialism, but instead are shared resources paid with property tax money, and administered by the county.
These are shared benefits paid with property tax money usually 2% of property value per year: Fire, Police, EMS (Emergency Medical System) meaning ambulance.
Workmans Compensation, Social Security and Unemployment Insurance, are insurance policies administered by the state/federal government.
Medicare and Welfare are those are Social programs, usually administered by the County, money is a mix of Federal/State/Local.
Emergency Medical care is the grey area where those who pay are paying 3x the true cost for the service they receive (through higher health insurance premiums), because 2/3 of people in the ER are not paying at all. Those 2/3 are the usual messed up drunk pot-smokers who crash their car into a crowd while trying to evade the police for beating their child. Then they cuss out the doctor, threaten the nurse, and file a complaint.
I also used to volunteer at a food closet for the needy, many of the recipients (remember the car crashers from above?) drove up in nicer cars than mine. At this closet, there was only one recipient who volunteered at the food closet.
I only volunteer for Boy Scouts these days. All the recipients are grateful, and are more likely to grow-up to hold a job, pay their taxes, do volunteer work, and not be spreading drug resistant TB.
It's all fine until the poor drug-addicts that we are working to feed point out you-n-me and says "Those greedy rich bastards aren't paying their fair share". Then the politician looks at you-n-me and says "You rich greedy bastards need to pay your fair share". Then the tax man shows up at your door with a gun...
I'm not interested in electing someone clever.
I'm interested in electing someone who really believes in laissez-faire.
In the US, the federal government is supposed to maintain the roads & borders.
I'm very unhappy that my tax dollars are going to support an industry strangled by union thugs.
Sorry, Castro was nominated for a Nobel, not awarded http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1225478.stm
Three Afro-Cuban men were executed for "illegal departure" in 2004 http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/americas/04/11/cuba.execution
Yes Cuba does execute political dissidents http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CE7DC123FF931A15752C0A964958260
For the favor of a pint or two of a nice smokey Porter, perhaps, I could think up some nice awards for your excellency...
The Nobel Jury awarded a peace prize to Fidel Castro. A peace prize for Fidel Castro is like a humanitarian award for Adolf Hitler. Fidel is a Marxist, and the stated goal of Marxists is using violent means to install world-wide Communism. Fidel Castro used military force to keep Cubans prisoner in Cuba, attempting to flee Cuba is punishable by death... how is that different from slavery?
Jimmy Carter was a clown... Not that he intended to be, he set out with good intentions. His fault was that he focused on being a man of peace, bad people used this as leverage against him. Instead of crying to the UN, he should have offered Iran total destruction. The Persian people were supremely embarrassed by the Ayatollah and would have over-thrown him upon an American invasion.
I think in the near future, we are going to see the beginning of Iranian sponsored nuclear catastrophes, and we can follow the trail back to the weakness of "a man of peace".
You side with sticking your nose into the business of a sovereign country? Maybe you want to invade them and show them how to live?
The fact that Bangladesh has survived 1.5m of sea level rising in 400 years, makes me believe that they will also survive the next 1.5m rise just fine.
I believe the people of Bangladesh are quite capable of deciding either to prevent the flooding, or accept it. And more importantly, they certainly don't need us putting our noses into their business.
If the people of Bangladesh live in poverty caused by institutionalized corruption, that is not your or my business either.
The seas have been rising 1.7mm/yr for the last several hundred years. They are up over 3 1/2 meters since the 17th century. Holland still has not flooded, even though they built dykes to dry-out and farm the Zuderzee over 400 years ago. If we can't match 17th century public works with 21 century science and equipment, then we deserve our fate...
Those who follow the rantings of a politically motivated activists seeking social justice need to wise up about what social justice really means.
I'm sure it's George Bush's fault...
did anyone else get the feeling from the movie that the guy was happy to have someone he could control?
That's what it is, I knew there was something very wrong about this. But I could not put my finger on it... and that's what it is... This dude needs someone to control, and a robot lover is just that someone.
faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife
That must mean there is a very advanced random behavior generator on-board.
Otherwise, it'd be about as much fun as watching a digital clock click off the time.
That's just soo wrong.
There is a knee in the curve, if a certain percentage are vaccinated, then the spread of disease is drastically reduced, it seems to me it is ~70% of the population vaccinated pretty much controls the disease.
Of course the 30% not vaccinated are at higher risk. They also increase the risk in those who are vaccinated, and those too young to vaccinate who will be vaccinated later.
Yes a certain percentage die of vaccines, the over-all benefit to society is huge.
The top 10 causes of death in the first part of the 20'th century were diseases we have conquered with vaccines.
Before the vaccine, ~10% of children contracted polio, ~10% of those died of the disease. That's 1% of the population. Many of the 9% that survived, survived with some level of paralysis.
Think about your class size, picture 1% dying of just polio. Now add a few more percent for Measles, Mumps, Rubella (collectively MMR), Whooping cough, Typhoid fever, Yellow fever, valley fever...
And the only control at the time was quarantine. With a positive identification for a communicable disease, the doctor called the health department who put a yellow quarantine sign on your house (required by law).
Kind'of similar to reading the bottle of Dr. Bronners peppermint bio-degradable soap...
OK, I'm old, and it's a 70's thing.
The 70's are fun to look back on, burned out hippies sounded a lot like this...
But they smelled a whole lot worse.
I think the wood-peckers did it...
Stole them all, and hid them in nooks, crannies, & holes pecked in wood.