How do you prosecute people for not forseeing a double-whammy overcoming triple redundancy?
Japan is known for both earthquakes and tsunami, I hardly think the event was unanticipated. They merely decided that a lower level of protection was cheaper and they'd probably be long gone from that organization before any negative events occurred. Hurrah for focusing on quarterly profits over safety!
You could call the police and lodge a complaint like a civilized person instead grabbing your gun and shooting randomly at everything that you don't like.
Yes, and I'm sure they'll get right on that. His reaction was overkill but his expectation of privacy was reasonable.
If you have 10 parties for example, then you're going to have about five of them form a coalition government to dominate the other five which is generally how the parliamentary system works.
Basically what I've seen in the few live examples we have is that yes, there are power blocs, but they tend to shift more and it's easier for new factions to emerge. Additionally, some voting systems push towards the center rather than the extremes, ranked voting for example tends to produce "consensus" candidates more often than first past the post. *shrug* There is no perfect system, but I think some are better than what we have now.
We have two parties for the same reason that there were two sides in WW2. The only way to get more parties is to lower the stakes of power such that people feel comfortable to stand on principle.
I would argue it's more of an artifact of a first past the post voting system. Third parties act as spoilers and thus end up merging with one of the two dominant ones instead.
Well, he's guilty of crimes that are usually punished by jail time. In this case I think what he deserves is a pardon and a presidential medal of freedom.
People work with people they hate, doing jobs they hate, wasting away their life, etc. because they need money and there's no other way for 99.9% of people to make a living in Obama's America. Slave away, slaves.
Wait, how does that have anything to do with Obama? Capitalism, sure, but Obama? Are you telling me it was happy fun land where no one ever did anything they didn't like for a paycheck when prior presidents were in office?
Logging in to 500 servers and making a small settings change using a text editor is simple, but not very productive. Setting up then using a configuration management system to script an update to do the same task is more complex but a lot less total work. Productive != Simple.
The only thing a carbon tax is going to lead to is massive graft and pork projects (see Solyndra)
If it's a tax that reduces some behavior we don't like then that's still a net win. Generally when you tax something you get less of it. Forcing the re-internalization of externalized costs is a legitimate function of government.
It all depends on the power imbalance. If one side is vastly more powerful and they prioritize their own interests heavily then obviously it's not going to go well for the weaker side.
Not from where I'm sitting. Instead, the complexity goes up every year as they keep trying to do more with less. I'm fine with that as means I get paid more since they still need someone who understands how it all works.
If it's of comparable intelligence to us and it doesn't somehow enter a singularity via self-upgrade then the likely outcomes are much like our relations with any other group with their own interests, some positive some negative.
On the other hand if it quickly outstrips us in intellect, then the relationship will more likely be like that of ours with ants, indifference combined with local eradication where there is conflict of interest.
Can you honestly tell me that you believe that having the US government nationalize Microsoft would somehow make ANYTHING better?
No, and I think it would be a terrible move. The government is horrible at things like that. I was merely refuting your Government = Evil but Corporations = Awesome implication.
Yes, we all know that corporations are a pure as driven snow, have absolutely no influence over any individual and don't abuse their position in any way.
There are many kinds of power, not all of them come from the barrel of a gun.
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His analysis of the problems with capitalism was actually pretty good, it's his solutions that were pretty much universally bad.
Because labor has less bargaining power than in the past?
How do you prosecute people for not forseeing a double-whammy overcoming triple redundancy?
Japan is known for both earthquakes and tsunami, I hardly think the event was unanticipated. They merely decided that a lower level of protection was cheaper and they'd probably be long gone from that organization before any negative events occurred. Hurrah for focusing on quarterly profits over safety!
Or more likely "desire of proving".
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You could call the police and lodge a complaint like a civilized person instead grabbing your gun and shooting randomly at everything that you don't like.
Yes, and I'm sure they'll get right on that. His reaction was overkill but his expectation of privacy was reasonable.
Heh, that's a good point, I think they've basically said no to everything.
If you have 10 parties for example, then you're going to have about five of them form a coalition government to dominate the other five which is generally how the parliamentary system works.
Basically what I've seen in the few live examples we have is that yes, there are power blocs, but they tend to shift more and it's easier for new factions to emerge. Additionally, some voting systems push towards the center rather than the extremes, ranked voting for example tends to produce "consensus" candidates more often than first past the post. *shrug* There is no perfect system, but I think some are better than what we have now.
We have two parties for the same reason that there were two sides in WW2. The only way to get more parties is to lower the stakes of power such that people feel comfortable to stand on principle.
I would argue it's more of an artifact of a first past the post voting system. Third parties act as spoilers and thus end up merging with one of the two dominant ones instead.
Snowden definitely deserves jail time.
Well, he's guilty of crimes that are usually punished by jail time. In this case I think what he deserves is a pardon and a presidential medal of freedom.
No need to have a rotating ring, just design the station as a ring or cylinder and then rotate the whole thing.
Heh, that's pretty funny.
People work with people they hate, doing jobs they hate, wasting away their life, etc. because they need money and there's no other way for 99.9% of people to make a living in Obama's America. Slave away, slaves.
Wait, how does that have anything to do with Obama? Capitalism, sure, but Obama? Are you telling me it was happy fun land where no one ever did anything they didn't like for a paycheck when prior presidents were in office?
Paper tape readers for program loading.
Flat file database with a COBOL front end.
Although temperature does equal energy, energy doesn't necessarily equal temperature. Energy can be stored in other ways that just heat.
Logging in to 500 servers and making a small settings change using a text editor is simple, but not very productive. Setting up then using a configuration management system to script an update to do the same task is more complex but a lot less total work. Productive != Simple.
The only thing a carbon tax is going to lead to is massive graft and pork projects (see Solyndra)
If it's a tax that reduces some behavior we don't like then that's still a net win. Generally when you tax something you get less of it. Forcing the re-internalization of externalized costs is a legitimate function of government.
You do realize the system is made up of more than just gas?
It's more productive, that's not the same thing as simpler.
It all depends on the power imbalance. If one side is vastly more powerful and they prioritize their own interests heavily then obviously it's not going to go well for the weaker side.
Things are getting much simpler.
Not from where I'm sitting. Instead, the complexity goes up every year as they keep trying to do more with less. I'm fine with that as means I get paid more since they still need someone who understands how it all works.
If it's of comparable intelligence to us and it doesn't somehow enter a singularity via self-upgrade then the likely outcomes are much like our relations with any other group with their own interests, some positive some negative.
On the other hand if it quickly outstrips us in intellect, then the relationship will more likely be like that of ours with ants, indifference combined with local eradication where there is conflict of interest.
Can you honestly tell me that you believe that having the US government nationalize Microsoft would somehow make ANYTHING better?
No, and I think it would be a terrible move. The government is horrible at things like that. I was merely refuting your Government = Evil but Corporations = Awesome implication.
Meh, too skinny for my taste. Six from Tripping the Rift is more my style.
Yes, we all know that corporations are a pure as driven snow, have absolutely no influence over any individual and don't abuse their position in any way.
There are many kinds of power, not all of them come from the barrel of a gun.