Nah it goes muchhigher than 10%. It seems to depend on the culture/social status of the mother but 30% isn't at all uncommon. To be honest the numbers are such that paternity should really be checked as a matter of routine.
How do you think the private sector's going to recoup their investment? Go on, have a think about it. Do you think it will come from corporate altruism, or perhaps from our pockets? Insightful? There's a difference. The private sector, you can say. Nah, thanks but I don't want it. You are free to make a decision for yourself. With the government, they force you at the point of a gun to hand over your money, no matter how frivolous the spending by the politicians.
The Roman Empire absorbed their conquests and they became romanised citizens of the empire. The British Empire did the same. Then there's the Mongol empire, China etc. The song remains the same.
The bad bit, is the fighting. When that ends, it's business as usual, it doesn't really matter who wins to the average person, it's just a change of leadership.
The premise of the novel is that it's better to have a permanent, eternal and unwinnable war between two opposing forces than it is to join one side, defeat the other side and have a subsequent eternity of peace?
Now if you introduce more money into the system, through farmers and the like, these prices will also rise, making those of us who don't chose to be pathetic cheaters work a lot harder for these items, and causing some people, whether they like it or not, to purchase more gold to buy said items. Thus the vicious cycle continues. And you just described the mechanism by which the rich inevitably become richer and the poor poorer in the real world. Interesting that it's prevalent in online games as well.
Furthermore, please explain how a state-provided - and therefore tax-funded - service could possibly lose any competition when it can be provided for free ? Because it isn't free. It can't be free. There's no such thing as free. Everything requires some resource to accomplish whether it's materials, time, experience and someone always pays.
Is netflix starting a chain of B&M rental outlets to compete with BB? Only if their management are a bunch of shortsighted numpties. What they'll be doing instead is buying up datacenter space worldwide and installing terabytes of fast disk and boatloads of bandwidth.
I predict that BlueRay and HD-DVD won't even make a splash as they sink without trace. ok they may sell some in the US where they have 3rd world levels of bandwidth, but the rest of the world is going to be downloading it's HD movies to HD PVRs... legally or not...
Yeah, but in addition the fanboy's choice of product is validated by persuading others to use the same product. Hence the proselytization. If someone else chooses the same product they must have made the correct choice themselves.
It isn't a case of either fully private or fully social health systems. Both have their problems. Fully private misses the poorest who can't afford it, fully social always has limited funding and waiting lists.
The third way is "Compulsory health insurance". You don't need to run a huge health service, or even manage a state health insurance system. It seems to work in several European countries, (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany) the poorest benefit from the lower premiums which are brought about by the universal coverage. It doesn't prevent the state from providing a healthcare system, neither does it require it to do so.
However, also by definition, we have no idea what the limits of the resources are. Well, I posed two plausible ones. 1: Heat 2: Energy.
One of the reasons animals are the size, shapes and materials they are is because those shapes deal very efficiently with those problems. Show me an AI which consumes less than 100 Watts of energy and costs less than 1 dollar per day and I'll start to believe in "The Singularity".
It's just your standard naive extrapolation of an apparently exponential function. It never actually happens in real life, there's always a physical limit which levels off the function. In this case I suspect heat and particularly, energy production.
The future extinction of the human species cannot affect you if you are already dead: strictly speaking, it should be of no personal concern. You see. We aren't spreading our genes... Our genes are using us to spread themselves... Which actually explains rather a lot about us.
Cos just over the last 10,000 years we've evolved to be able to metabolise cow milk, over the last 100,000 or so we've evolved white skins in cool regions to improve production of vitamin D, our limbs have shortened in proportion to the rest of the body and become more muscular to aid with heat retention etc etc etc etc etc.
And that's all in the blink of an eye... On interstellar and galactic timescales... You're going to have to tell me what a human being is.
People that twist the facts around and inflate the numbers in order to invade/reduce my privacy disgust me. Oh, it's worse than that. They are twisting the facts and inflating the numbers in order to manipulate the government to create laws which will be enforced by criminal courts, by the police and the implicit threat of force which all that carries.
They've re-phrased piracy from a civil, rights infringement problem which would require them to prosecute themselves and bear the costs, to a criminal issue with costs carried by the taxpayer. It's one of the dangers of government, when it has infinite cash to spend, there's little stopping government getting bigger and bigger, acquiring citizen's freedoms as it panders to more and more of the special interest groups.
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Largely solves the redistricting problem.
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Nah it goes much higher than 10%. It seems to depend on the culture/social status of the mother but 30% isn't at all uncommon. To be honest the numbers are such that paternity should really be checked as a matter of routine.
Why? Well from 5% to 20% of children are not fathered by the people who think they did, depending on social stratum.
It'll open up a second family tree, your geneological tree as opposed to your familial tree.
I'm sure there are many poor and homeless in Australia. Then there are the schools, hospitals etc etc. Or, they could just not spend the money at all.
Those rabid capitalist CEOs? They work for little old ladies.
The Roman Empire absorbed their conquests and they became romanised citizens of the empire. The British Empire did the same. Then there's the Mongol empire, China etc. The song remains the same.
The bad bit, is the fighting. When that ends, it's business as usual, it doesn't really matter who wins to the average person, it's just a change of leadership.
Now we don't have to encrypt our emails!
The premise of the novel is that it's better to have a permanent, eternal and unwinnable war between two opposing forces than it is to join one side, defeat the other side and have a subsequent eternity of peace?
I predict that BlueRay and HD-DVD won't even make a splash as they sink without trace. ok they may sell some in the US where they have 3rd world levels of bandwidth, but the rest of the world is going to be downloading it's HD movies to HD PVRs... legally or not...
"How to close the door after the horse has bolted." By the BlockBuster management
The future ain't DVD, of any format. The future be network distributed content, no matter what the US film industry wants you to think.
Yeah, but in addition the fanboy's choice of product is validated by persuading others to use the same product. Hence the proselytization. If someone else chooses the same product they must have made the correct choice themselves.
Oh Yeah... Linux rocks.
It isn't a case of either fully private or fully social health systems. Both have their problems. Fully private misses the poorest who can't afford it, fully social always has limited funding and waiting lists.
The third way is "Compulsory health insurance". You don't need to run a huge health service, or even manage a state health insurance system. It seems to work in several European countries, (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany) the poorest benefit from the lower premiums which are brought about by the universal coverage. It doesn't prevent the state from providing a healthcare system, neither does it require it to do so.
You're thinking American. Think Bangladeshi or similar.
One of the reasons animals are the size, shapes and materials they are is because those shapes deal very efficiently with those problems. Show me an AI which consumes less than 100 Watts of energy and costs less than 1 dollar per day and I'll start to believe in "The Singularity".
Is why aren't the amendments debated and voted on separately? It's completely bizarre that they are just stuck on like used chewing gum.
It's just your standard naive extrapolation of an apparently exponential function. It never actually happens in real life, there's always a physical limit which levels off the function. In this case I suspect heat and particularly, energy production.
Then there's the fact that people are cheaper.
http://www.slate.com/id/1918
Ask the average person in the street how a car works and they'll tell you they put petrol in it, turn the key and it goes.
Cos just over the last 10,000 years we've evolved to be able to metabolise cow milk, over the last 100,000 or so we've evolved white skins in cool regions to improve production of vitamin D, our limbs have shortened in proportion to the rest of the body and become more muscular to aid with heat retention etc etc etc etc etc.
And that's all in the blink of an eye... On interstellar and galactic timescales... You're going to have to tell me what a human being is.
They've re-phrased piracy from a civil, rights infringement problem which would require them to prosecute themselves and bear the costs, to a criminal issue with costs carried by the taxpayer. It's one of the dangers of government, when it has infinite cash to spend, there's little stopping government getting bigger and bigger, acquiring citizen's freedoms as it panders to more and more of the special interest groups.