You can build them from wood and stone, sure. But you can't get power from them without smelting metals, and you can't do that without fossil fuels. Without metal tools, building a wind or water mill will be... difficult,
If we are starting over from scratch, then we won't have the tools to make the tools to build things to harness renewable energy. We won't be able to make steel without burning charcoal or coke, which are fossil fuels. Without steel, we're stuck.
So, no fossil fuels limits metallurgy to what you can melt with a wood burning furnace. And if what the poster means by "fossil fuels" is actually any carbon producing energy source, wood is out too.
"Our experience is [piracy] leads to more penetration, more paying subs, more health for HBO, less reliance on having to do paid advertising If you go around the world, I think you're right, Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world. Well, you know, that's better than an Emmy."
If that view was more widespread, we wouldn't have to deal with DRM that only interferes with paying users.
And extend it from terrestrial broadcasts to satellite and internet radio? Never did understand why the recording industry gets to charge some people to advertise their product.
That's definitely a major factor, but tone deafness isn't a problem with recognizing a sound, rather a variation in the pitch of a recognized sound. The morpheme "su" is common in many languages, as are it's two component phonemes. Recognizing and reproducing it isn't a problem, but distinguishing between it's three tonal forms is simply not possible for the tone-deaf.
Constructing languages is nice as a hobby, but don't expect anyone to use them.
If you really want to though, don't bother including features from non-Indo-European families. China and parts of SE Asia speak tonal-analytic languages that are so fundamentally different from the rest of the world that you can't mix features. Afro-Asiatic languages (including Arabic and Hebrew) contain sounds not present in any others, whereas Polynesian languages have very, very few (12 letter alphabets).
Yes, but Mandarin (and Cantonese) are analytic tonal languages. Radically different at the most basic level, such languages are unique to China and SE Asia. Not only are they incredibly difficult for speakers of other languages to learn, 4-17% of the rest of the world is tone deaf and can't learn them.
Spanish, English and Hindi are Indo-European languages so transitioning between them is considerably easier than languages from other families.
It's possible, but it seems unlikely. For one, it seems a little too clever for the government to put into play, and nigh impossible to keep quiet. If there's an industry leakier than the government, it's entertainment.
Stricter dress codes for sure. That goth chick in the lab would never be allowed to come in to work like that. Nor should someone dress like that in a lab.
And Federal law enforcement officers do not wear t-shirts into the office. Not even expensive and fashionable ones.
Criminal Minds is perhaps the worst for that. I sure as hell hope that the real FBI doesn't hack medical records or sealed court documents with such frequency. Not one of their arrests would, in reality, result in anything other than the case being thrown out and everyone involved losing their job.
It's not a big deal with the shows that make no pretense of authenticity, but these are shows that pretend to be serious, and so fail to live up to their own standards.
I wonder how many dropped out when they discovered they wouldn't be carrying a gun, interrogating or arresting suspects, and would instead be spending 8+ hours a day staring at fibers through a microscope.
Horrible argument. It makes people aware of things that don't actually exist, and promotes falsehoods about that which does. You don't make people aware of things with misinformation and flashy camera tricks.
Among those who consume this nonsense, all it promotes is false beliefs about the criminal justice system and forensic science. Then they get on a jury and make the prosecutor's job even harder.
This is part of how the system works. I don't like Comcast or what they're planning to do with the merger, but they are well within their rights to promote their interests. That they can do so while you promote your own competing interest means the system is working.
Put another way, that Comcast is allowed to do what it does means the government is running properly.
So? People support politicians that share their positions, that's neither new nor bad. And there is no such thing as "the people's interests". There are over 300 million often conflicting individual interests, plus collective interests of various groups (Sierra Club, NRA, Unions, Businesses, etc.), through which individuals express a subset of their interests in unison.
Interests are a complex subject. If you work for Comcast (or own stock in it), they're promoting your interests with what they're doing, even though you might also have an interest in keeping the marketplace competitive. The system through which we balance all of these often contradicting interests is called Politics.
I don't know what else about it they're trying to keep secret about it. The precise details of how they do it? Does it matter?
It's got to come down to whether they do it by telling the cell companies to turn everything off, or if they have kill-switches in the towers. I'm not sure it really matters at this point.
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You can build them from wood and stone, sure. But you can't get power from them without smelting metals, and you can't do that without fossil fuels. Without metal tools, building a wind or water mill will be... difficult,
Too true. You can't smelt without fossil fuels.
So, no fossil fuels limits metallurgy to what you can melt with a wood burning furnace. And if what the poster means by "fossil fuels" is actually any carbon producing energy source, wood is out too.
"Our experience is [piracy] leads to more penetration, more paying subs, more health for HBO, less reliance on having to do paid advertising If you go around the world, I think you're right, Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world. Well, you know, that's better than an Emmy."
If that view was more widespread, we wouldn't have to deal with DRM that only interferes with paying users.
And extend it from terrestrial broadcasts to satellite and internet radio? Never did understand why the recording industry gets to charge some people to advertise their product.
That's definitely a major factor, but tone deafness isn't a problem with recognizing a sound, rather a variation in the pitch of a recognized sound. The morpheme "su" is common in many languages, as are it's two component phonemes. Recognizing and reproducing it isn't a problem, but distinguishing between it's three tonal forms is simply not possible for the tone-deaf.
Considering how unhappy China was with Google for dropping the CA, you might be right.
The Southwest is known for spicy, bean laden foods. There's your methane NASA.
You're probably right, though American media exports have a powerful normative effect.
If you really want to though, don't bother including features from non-Indo-European families. China and parts of SE Asia speak tonal-analytic languages that are so fundamentally different from the rest of the world that you can't mix features. Afro-Asiatic languages (including Arabic and Hebrew) contain sounds not present in any others, whereas Polynesian languages have very, very few (12 letter alphabets).
Spanish, English and Hindi are Indo-European languages so transitioning between them is considerably easier than languages from other families.
Oh, and the intel agencies do have Entertainment Industry Liaisons. https://www.cia.gov/offices-of...
The NSA/CSS equivalent doesn't have a page I can find (not that I looked very hard), just an email address.
Even more than '5'
That and "getting off".
If so, nobody asked the prosecutors. They hate how "informed" people think they are because of these shows. Apparently its a problem with juries.
And Federal law enforcement officers do not wear t-shirts into the office. Not even expensive and fashionable ones.
It's not a big deal with the shows that make no pretense of authenticity, but these are shows that pretend to be serious, and so fail to live up to their own standards.
Should we also point out that the "investigative police work" is performed by... The Police! Not lab techs. Not even really really good lab techs.
I wonder how many dropped out when they discovered they wouldn't be carrying a gun, interrogating or arresting suspects, and would instead be spending 8+ hours a day staring at fibers through a microscope.
Among those who consume this nonsense, all it promotes is false beliefs about the criminal justice system and forensic science. Then they get on a jury and make the prosecutor's job even harder.
Why should that be the case? There are lobbyists throwing money around Washington to promote just about every possible point of view, including yours.
This is part of how the system works. I don't like Comcast or what they're planning to do with the merger, but they are well within their rights to promote their interests. That they can do so while you promote your own competing interest means the system is working.
Put another way, that Comcast is allowed to do what it does means the government is running properly.
Interests are a complex subject. If you work for Comcast (or own stock in it), they're promoting your interests with what they're doing, even though you might also have an interest in keeping the marketplace competitive. The system through which we balance all of these often contradicting interests is called Politics.
Spend a bunch of money, maybe it works, maybe it doesn't, but either way you learn a lot.
It's got to come down to whether they do it by telling the cell companies to turn everything off, or if they have kill-switches in the towers. I'm not sure it really matters at this point.