The argument is that what WalMart is doing is immoral - not necessarily illegal.
as to minimum wage, depending on where one lives, especially on the local rent levels, a minimum wage does not guarentee a decent living standard. In Toronto, for example, about 1/3 of the people using food banks are actually employed, presumably at or above minimum wage.
"Actually, that's exactly how the world works"
yes, it is. the question is, do we accept this as an appropriate thing, or do we do something to change it. you seem happy enough to accept that there are poor people - i am not.
"Here's the secret. If you have some ambition for a better job, go out and start looking while you hold your current job"
you are assuming that there are other or better jobs out there. one of the complaints against WalMart is that it is (nearly) the sole employer in many communities. the unemployment rate in all industrialized countries is above zero. perhaps you are trained enough to find an alternate job easily - many people are not.
but why do you limit yourself to this binary choice? why can't you imagine that it's possible to have a good, satisfying and well paind job? because that would imply that the owners of WalMart would not be so obscenely rich?
Unfortunately, burial is not a viable solution - there is no depository that is safe from leeching or other geological effects over the lifetime of the radioisotopes. I belive that the waste masses in the tons.
The problems with groundwater are I think the most serious at Yucca - and that's in the middle of a desert...
The only reason that any nuclear power generation is near economical is that the cost of clean up is neglected or picked up by the government. Currently, we don't even know how to safely store the isotopes with huge half lives (see for example the Yucca Mountain debate..)
well, these space probes certainly do not have steam turbines. they have "photo cells" that work in the IR range, so that the heat released by the fission reaction is directly converted to current.
of course, the trick to industrial use of Silicon in making chips etc. is the proper doping of the silicon. subsituting few ppm Si with an element that has fever valence eletrons produces an excess of holes, which conduct electricity (p-doped Si). the opposite makes for electron rich (n-doped) Si. the conductivities of these materials is much higher than pure Si.
thanks for the analysis. i also want to add that, eventhough INAF (farmer), i think cows' digestive system is pretty inefficient - so much of the hay might actually be returning 'unprocessed'
The purpose of the mission is to flight-test technologies. for the ESA web site,
"SMART-1 is the first of a series of 'Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology' designed to test key technologies for future spacecraft. It is Europe's first mission to the Moon. Among the new technologies to be tested is the solar-electric propulsion which will power the spacecraft to its target. SMART-1 will help solve such questions as how the Moon came into being and whether there is water there."
So efficiency in getting scientific results is not a priority here...
I don't think Boeing worried at all about the Russian programme. The Russians were not about the buy Boeing planes, nor were about to sell SST to American carriers for the NY-LA route. Boeing's only worry was the English/French Concorde concertium (sp?).
It is felt that the SST movement (i.e. concorde) was derailed by the american plane maker (i.e. Boeing) which got enough lawmakers to say that the concorde could not fly over the USA (i.e NY to LA) because of the sonic boom.
if a SST can go supersonic without the boom, then development of new craft could take place, because new markets could open up...
The problem with the single crystal of silicon method, a few years ago, was that there were all these lattice vacany defects cropping up. The formation of such point vacancies is so entropically favoured that I don't think they can ever eliminate them...
"Technicaly we did use a chemical warefare agent in Vietnam and it was agent CS, or tear gas(it smells a bit peppery) and CS replaced CN which smelled like appleblossoms, the same stuff that the police and anti-war protestors used to play volleyball with back home."
I'm not sure about it back then, but this is currently against the Geneva convention. Use of all chemical agents in battlefield conditions is against the convention, for fear of "escalation": The use of non-lethal chemicals (e.g. tear gas) will eventually lead to the use of lethal agents.
Actually, computers do not produce random numbers at all. They can only provide pseudorandom numbers. These are outputs of algorithms, but any sequence of such numbers is hard to predict unless you know the algorithm and a seed number used to generate the first number in the series.
There are also things like cosmic rays, which do come from outer space, but are produced in extreme events post-big-bang, such as novae, collapsars etc.
Thank you very much for a well thought out answer that is also polite and not dismissive of others' arguments. It's only through open discussion that we can change any of the places in which we live in, and that process requires both openness and politeness. Thanks again.
You (anonymous) coward. Take the easy way out and snuff out your little life eh? How about sticking around and trying to make wherever a better place to live?
"In fact, you could say that it is that inquisitive attitude that is the reason we (as a human race) are so successful."
Are you ignorant, arrogant, or trying to raise my ire? There are billions of hungry people, powerful nations bully weaker ones, and it's highly likely that we are seriously damaging the ecosystem of the whole PLANET.
In the original Mac GUI, the pulldown menus were labelled "File" and "Edit" and "Help", and there was an apple. None of them were as long as "Bookmarks" - compared to the old GUI, that's a newcomer.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with calling typefaces fonts - i'm just saying that the coming of the computer has changed word usage that goes back to the 1600s (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which gives the definition of font as "A complete set or assortment of type of a particular face and size." Which clearly refers to movable type)
It's interesting that you make the typeface/font distinction. In the days of of typsetting, font meant a particular instance of a typeface. So, 10pt Ariel bold was a font. When computers with GUIs came along, font come to mean typeface. I personally think this is because the word font is shorter, and the early Macs were short of screen real estate. (Please, if anyone knows better, let me know).
Actually, in Islam, there are no holy things, per se. When Muslems make their pilgrimage to Mecca, they revolve around the Kaaba (sorry about english spellings, not sure about them), which cotains the remains of the idols that were smashed up when Islam became powerful enough.
Mohammed's face was/is not depicted so that only Allah is worshiped, not his prophet. (learned something from the Christians?)
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The argument is that what WalMart is doing is immoral - not necessarily illegal.
as to minimum wage, depending on where one lives, especially on the local rent levels, a minimum wage does not guarentee a decent living standard. In Toronto, for example, about 1/3 of the people using food banks are actually employed, presumably at or above minimum wage.
"Actually, that's exactly how the world works"
yes, it is. the question is, do we accept this as an appropriate thing, or do we do something to change it. you seem happy enough to accept that there are poor people - i am not.
"Here's the secret. If you have some ambition for a better job, go out and start looking while you hold your current job"
you are assuming that there are other or better jobs out there. one of the complaints against WalMart is that it is (nearly) the sole employer in many communities. the unemployment rate in all industrialized countries is above zero. perhaps you are trained enough to find an alternate job easily - many people are not.
but why do you limit yourself to this binary choice? why can't you imagine that it's possible to have a good, satisfying and well paind job? because that would imply that the owners of WalMart would not be so obscenely rich?
Unfortunately, burial is not a viable solution - there is no depository that is safe from leeching or other geological effects over the lifetime of the radioisotopes. I belive that the waste masses in the tons.
The problems with groundwater are I think the most serious at Yucca - and that's in the middle of a desert...
Antarctica has been divided up since about the end of the 50s:
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http://www.secretsoftheice.org/explore/treaty.h
each country has a weird pizza like slice or claim...
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/maps/political/
The only reason that any nuclear power generation is near economical is that the cost of clean up is neglected or picked up by the government. Currently, we don't even know how to safely store the isotopes with huge half lives (see for example the Yucca Mountain debate..)
well, these space probes certainly do not have steam turbines. they have "photo cells" that work in the IR range, so that the heat released by the fission reaction is directly converted to current.
of course, the trick to industrial use of Silicon in making chips etc. is the proper doping of the silicon. subsituting few ppm Si with an element that has fever valence eletrons produces an excess of holes, which conduct electricity (p-doped Si). the opposite makes for electron rich (n-doped) Si. the conductivities of these materials is much higher than pure Si.
thanks for the analysis. i also want to add that, eventhough INAF (farmer), i think cows' digestive system is pretty inefficient - so much of the hay might actually be returning 'unprocessed'
The purpose of the mission is to flight-test technologies. for the ESA web site,
"SMART-1 is the first of a series of 'Small Missions for Advanced Research in Technology' designed to test key technologies for future spacecraft. It is Europe's first mission to the Moon. Among the new technologies to be tested is the solar-electric propulsion which will power the spacecraft to its target. SMART-1 will help solve such questions as how the Moon came into being and whether there is water there."
So efficiency in getting scientific results is not a priority here...
I don't think Boeing worried at all about the Russian programme. The Russians were not about the buy Boeing planes, nor were about to sell SST to American carriers for the NY-LA route. Boeing's only worry was the English/French Concorde concertium (sp?).
It is felt that the SST movement (i.e. concorde) was derailed by the american plane maker (i.e. Boeing) which got enough lawmakers to say that the concorde could not fly over the USA (i.e NY to LA) because of the sonic boom.
if a SST can go supersonic without the boom, then development of new craft could take place, because new markets could open up...
Get your head out of your ass and get a clue.
The problem with the single crystal of silicon method, a few years ago, was that there were all these lattice vacany defects cropping up. The formation of such point vacancies is so entropically favoured that I don't think they can ever eliminate them...
If you read Feynmen's writing, and what's been written about him, you will see that he was quite special, in how he thought and behaved.
Just to point out, not most people can do what he can - for example, win the Nobel prize.
"Technicaly we did use a chemical warefare agent in Vietnam and it was agent CS, or tear gas(it smells a bit peppery) and CS replaced CN which smelled like appleblossoms, the same stuff that the police and anti-war protestors used to play volleyball with back home."
I'm not sure about it back then, but this is currently against the Geneva convention. Use of all chemical agents in battlefield conditions is against the convention, for fear of "escalation": The use of non-lethal chemicals (e.g. tear gas) will eventually lead to the use of lethal agents.
Actually, computers do not produce random numbers at all. They can only provide pseudorandom numbers. These are outputs of algorithms, but any sequence of such numbers is hard to predict unless you know the algorithm and a seed number used to generate the first number in the series.
There are also things like cosmic rays, which do come from outer space, but are produced in extreme events post-big-bang, such as novae, collapsars etc.
Thank you very much for a well thought out answer that is also polite and not dismissive of others' arguments. It's only through open discussion that we can change any of the places in which we live in, and that process requires both openness and politeness. Thanks again.
You (anonymous) coward. Take the easy way out and snuff out your little life eh? How about sticking around and trying to make wherever a better place to live?
"In fact, you could say that it is that inquisitive attitude that is the reason we (as a human race) are so successful."
Are you ignorant, arrogant, or trying to raise my ire? There are billions of hungry people, powerful nations bully weaker ones, and it's highly likely that we are seriously damaging the ecosystem of the whole PLANET.
How in the world does this make us successful?
In the original Mac GUI, the pulldown menus were labelled "File" and "Edit" and "Help", and there was an apple. None of them were as long as "Bookmarks" - compared to the old GUI, that's a newcomer.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with calling typefaces fonts - i'm just saying that the coming of the computer has changed word usage that goes back to the 1600s (according to the Oxford English Dictionary, which gives the definition of font as "A complete set or assortment of type of a particular face and size." Which clearly refers to movable type)
It's interesting that you make the typeface/font distinction. In the days of of typsetting, font meant a particular instance of a typeface. So, 10pt Ariel bold was a font. When computers with GUIs came along, font come to mean typeface. I personally think this is because the word font is shorter, and the early Macs were short of screen real estate. (Please, if anyone knows better, let me know).
From what i've read, the original was to include "equality", but did not, since blacks and women were not considered equal at the time.
It's interesting to see that times have changed to include God, but not equality.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm just curious why you chose this version of the pledge as your sig.
Here is the original Pledge of Allegiance:
"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"
Where did you get your extra bits?
Actually, in Islam, there are no holy things, per se. When Muslems make their pilgrimage to Mecca, they revolve around the Kaaba (sorry about english spellings, not sure about them), which cotains the remains of the idols that were smashed up when Islam became powerful enough.
Mohammed's face was/is not depicted so that only Allah is worshiped, not his prophet. (learned something from the Christians?)