People will live where there are economic opportunities, and state lines, where there is a steep gradient in the price or availability of certain items or services due to different state laws, provide those opportunities. The boundaries of Minnesota are pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but moving them will not remove the incentives for liquor stores open on Sundays on the Wisconsin side and fireworks stalls on the South Dakota side (I believe the laws may have changed since I left, but the principle is the same).
I discussed this with my wife the other day, after she'd been watching the Fashion Channel. The audience for catwalk fashion shows is buyers (mostly commercial) of clothing, and that audience is dominated by thin women and gay men. Whatever the models on the catwalk look like, it doesn't tell you anything about contemporary tastes of heterosexual men.
He compared the watch on the heath with a rock. Paley was no geologist, and didn't have any idea that you could actually inspect the structure of the rock, and get a very good idea of how long it had been there, how recently and how many times it has been buried, subducted, uplifted and exposed.
Rocks are beautiful and intricate. They're every bit as designed as life.
Like they've done it on the new Orewa-Puhoi toll road north of Auckland:
* don't allow credit cards; * don't allow any form of payment except cash at the toll booths; * don't put in enough toll booths; * make the toll booths hard to get to; * make it hard to get back onto the motorway from the tollbooth; * don't allow texting your licence plate number to a short code phone number (this is a particularly egregious omission in a country with more cellphones than people); * put up far too many signs explaining how to pay, but don't *actually* say which forms of payment are accepted where; * don't allow people to use their own bank's website to transfer money to you, but insist on them giving you their bank details, and promise to keep it secure.
For bonus points, spend 1.2 million dollars on a bridge connecting two dirt roads on private land, and put a gate at both ends.
I've been asked by two retailers to reduce the amount reported by the point of sale software I was writing. One of them tried to tell me that because he owned the business it wasn't illegal. I told him that I'd just finished writing an enforcement system for Customs and Excise and would he like me to have them contact him to explain the situation?
North Island: human population 3,148,400, land area 113,729 km South Island: human population 991,100, land area 150,416 km Tasmania: human population 489,600, land area 68,401 km
Then I'll tell you. You should say nothing, and you should think that you're not going to change your opinions of a country based on an obscurely-sourced, month-old story on Slashdot.
You could also compare Harry and Frodo. Both of them are given an object of enormous power (the Ring, Riddle's horcrux & powers), and are prepared to die to destroy that object to save the rest of the world.
You'd need to put about 250,000 people per day into space just to keep Earth's population stable. What sort of habitat and what sort of society have you got up there that can accept an influx of 90 million people per year?
Not that I don't think it's important, but the scale of the population problem is such that it's not going to be solved by emigration even if we had a working space elevator now. And, of course, it gets exponentially worse every day until we solve it.
Disclaimer: I have two children and have been surgically prevented from having more.
Studies of this kind are often skewed by the presence of recovering alcoholics, who have poor health due to previous overindulgence but who don't drink at all.
I'm going to continue to cite the Australian study of some years ago that concluded it was safe for men to drink 56 units per week. Not because it's necessarily true, but because that's how much I drink.
Moved here a year ago after 10 years in Minnesota. Definitely a better place. Unless you like things like customer service, or a choice of more than one of each type of product.
Which government would that be? Because the government where I am apparently has a ton of secret data that proves the Earth is *not* warming up, and is providing incentives to car manufacturers to build trucks and SUVs instead of cars.
People have been asking me that question since I put the second 20MB drive in my PC-AT. I still don't have a good answer, but I do have this platitude:
No matter how big your disk drive is, someone somewhere is currently designing something that will not fit on it.
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People will live where there are economic opportunities, and state lines, where there is a steep gradient in the price or availability of certain items or services due to different state laws, provide those opportunities.
The boundaries of Minnesota are pretty much in the middle of nowhere, but moving them will not remove the incentives for liquor stores open on Sundays on the Wisconsin side and fireworks stalls on the South Dakota side (I believe the laws may have changed since I left, but the principle is the same).
I discussed this with my wife the other day, after she'd been watching the Fashion Channel. The audience for catwalk fashion shows is buyers (mostly commercial) of clothing, and that audience is dominated by thin women and gay men. Whatever the models on the catwalk look like, it doesn't tell you anything about contemporary tastes of heterosexual men.
Argentinian soccerbots with hands.
This grudge is now 23 years old. Hopefully it will be moving out on its own once it's done with grad school.
He compared the watch on the heath with a rock. Paley was no geologist, and didn't have any idea that you could actually inspect the structure of the rock, and get a very good idea of how long it had been there, how recently and how many times it has been buried, subducted, uplifted and exposed.
Rocks are beautiful and intricate. They're every bit as designed as life.
Like they've done it on the new Orewa-Puhoi toll road north of Auckland:
* don't allow credit cards;
* don't allow any form of payment except cash at the toll booths;
* don't put in enough toll booths;
* make the toll booths hard to get to;
* make it hard to get back onto the motorway from the tollbooth;
* don't allow texting your licence plate number to a short code phone number (this is a particularly egregious omission in a country with more cellphones than people);
* put up far too many signs explaining how to pay, but don't *actually* say which forms of payment are accepted where;
* don't allow people to use their own bank's website to transfer money to you, but insist on them giving you their bank details, and promise to keep it secure.
For bonus points, spend 1.2 million dollars on a bridge connecting two dirt roads on private land, and put a gate at both ends.
OK, when did it become funny to put the contents of my cookie in TFA?
Oh, and I am not responsible for the CSS on the sites I develop for my employer. Don't blame me for the dark blue text on a medium blue background.
I've been asked by two retailers to reduce the amount reported by the point of sale software I was writing. One of them tried to tell me that because he owned the business it wasn't illegal. I told him that I'd just finished writing an enforcement system for Customs and Excise and would he like me to have them contact him to explain the situation?
Mr. Yorkshire Bank Plc Are Fascist Bastards was able to get a judge to order Yorkshire Bank to issue him a cheque payable to his full name.
Seconded.
http://www.stewartandriddell.co.uk/edge/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge_Chronicles
Mortal Engines/Hungry Cities
http://www.mortalengines.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Engines
All highly recommended by my 11/12 year-old proto-geek.
Yes, but he had a hammer. Someone probably shouted "drop the hammer!" and that's what the policeman did.
And if we do, we should be at least two states.
North Island: human population 3,148,400, land area 113,729 km
South Island: human population 991,100, land area 150,416 km
Tasmania: human population 489,600, land area 68,401 km
Then I'll tell you. You should say nothing, and you should think that you're not going to change your opinions of a country based on an obscurely-sourced, month-old story on Slashdot.
So how come they couldn't get the diadem of Ravenclaw by asking Luna to pull it out of the hat. Much easier than crawling around the junk room.
You could also compare Harry and Frodo. Both of them are given an object of enormous power (the Ring, Riddle's horcrux & powers), and are prepared to die to destroy that object to save the rest of the world.
The main difference between project managers and project sluts is that only one of them is happy if you finish early.
You'd need to put about 250,000 people per day into space just to keep Earth's population stable. What sort of habitat and what sort of society have you got up there that can accept an influx of 90 million people per year?
Not that I don't think it's important, but the scale of the population problem is such that it's not going to be solved by emigration even if we had a working space elevator now. And, of course, it gets exponentially worse every day until we solve it.
Disclaimer: I have two children and have been surgically prevented from having more.
Studies of this kind are often skewed by the presence of recovering alcoholics, who have poor health due to previous overindulgence but who don't drink at all.
I'm going to continue to cite the Australian study of some years ago that concluded it was safe for men to drink 56 units per week. Not because it's necessarily true, but because that's how much I drink.
hell.co.nz
I don't know if they have international expansion plans.
Moved here a year ago after 10 years in Minnesota. Definitely a better place. Unless you like things like customer service, or a choice of more than one of each type of product.
Or disposable income.
But apart from that it's bloody fantastic.
It's a reality show. Each week, one star gets voted into the black hole.
You know that if we could do this, we would.
Which government would that be? Because the government where I am apparently has a ton of secret data that proves the Earth is *not* warming up, and is providing incentives to car manufacturers to build trucks and SUVs instead of cars.
Ctrl-C
Ctrl-T
Ctrl-V
Apparently I know a lot of people too lazy to put hrefs around their URLs, because I use this a lot.
I'll be a kiwi in 15 days. Does that count?
Now I just need to get some mod points...
People have been asking me that question since I put the second 20MB drive in my PC-AT. I still don't have a good answer, but I do have this platitude:
No matter how big your disk drive is, someone somewhere is currently designing something that will not fit on it.