The poorest most underdeveloped countries will increase their carbon outputs the most unless they skip coal. Even if you buy into letting them do it today you are just setting them up to have replace that infrastructure later. If those countries have coal reserves the let them sell them to nations that already coal plants and use the money to buy cleaner technologies.
This is funny. Amazon is the 21st century Sears! Back in the early to mid 1900s you could buy anything from Sears including houses! http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1915-1920.htm Sears decided to move away from "catalog" sales in the 70s-90s. Really too bad since they could have been Amazon instead of Amazon.
Amazon is just the 21st century version of Sears and Roebucks. You talk about the dangers but miss out on the benefits. How many stores are using Amazon for their fulfillment? As far as bookstores go Amazon is killed Boarders but then Boarders and B&N killed the mom and pop book store. But Amazon has allowed many authors to self publish ebooks for a much lower price than they could back in the day. When I was a kid and wanted to buy a model airplane or a book, or music I was limited to what the local stores had. I was lucky in the model department but books and music where really limited. Sorry but Amazon is doing well because it offers a service that people really like.
Take a look at Les Misérables. The film is goes south very quickly at the end. After Jean Valjean becomes wealthy why did he become mayor? He was still a wanted man after all. That was a stupid risk to take. Why after escaping and saving Cosette why did he still stay in France? He seemed to have access to much wealth so why not go to Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, or Canada? I mean how stupid was this man? Simple... It would have made for a terrible story. Most if not all the "errors" in Gravity were to make a good story.
Well probably the first step would be to create a rosetta stone for them. Encrypt something that will probably be around for for a very long time in multiple languages. I would suggest three religious texts the bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita. Follow those by various texts on language, science, math, and history. Next I would document all the data formats used in the rest of the data. Then I would include things like all the patents and so forth. Then store copies of all the data in lots of places. Places like monasteries, castles, forts, national parks, the dry valleys of Antarctica, the tops of the highest non-volcanic mountains of each continent, the Atacama Desert, the great pyramids, several of the Mesoamerican pyramids, Stonehenge, and finally Ísafjörður and Neskaupstaður Iceland. The last two are near the mid atlantic ridge but not near active volcanoes. With the seabed spreading at the mid atlantic ridge that land should be around the longest. Maybe it should be an ongoing project. Every 100 years each of the data stores gets updated.
Actually it is based on the assumption that anyone that works hard enough to gain the level of power that grants access to nuclear weapons loves themselves and their power more than anything else. Which probably an extremely good bet.
I agree but it is not going to happen. 1. The kernel developers hate closed source drivers and sees this as a way to discourge them. 2. They believe that not having a binary interface improves security. 3. They believe the myth that if you just provide the interface that the community will write the drivers. Of course what happens is the closed source drivers just write an FOSS stub that they use to provide a binary interface to the closed source drivers. As to number 3 I call it a myth because it is. AMD has released the docs to their gpus and guess who is doing most of the work on the AMD drivers? AMD.
It will just reduce the amount of times people go into windows. For now their will always bet hat one one game or application you must have that runs only on Windows.
Probably should be most detailed map released to the public. The Military of both the US and Russia/USSR have been working on maps of gravitational variations for decades.
Sure there is. If a kid that at one time made a gun from a pop tart kills someone the administrator that didn't punish him will be blamed for missing the warning signs. If he suspends or puts a normal kid in jail for playing nothing bad will happen to the administrator. Punishment for under reaction no punishment for overreacting means that it is only logical to overreact.
You are not getting me. I am telling how things are. Did not read this? "Again it is the safe thing for the school administration to do. It is not the right thing, good thing, or effective thing" It is the safe thing to keep from getting his butt handed to him. Until people make it not the safe thing to do like getting his butt fired for putting a 15 year old in jail for breaking no law I see then it will keep happening.
Nope not an administrator or teacher I have nothing to do with the school system at all. Parents are responsible for their kids. And since school administrators are getting kids arrest for playing video games and for "shooting" fellow students with a gun made out of a pop tart I would say your statement about them nodding and doing nothing is far from 100% factual.
I do not condone any action. You are saying it is caused by bullying which is a bad thing. I am saying that putting the blame on harassment for mass murder is just as dumb as blaming any other external cause. It is scapegoating. The more direct blame is on the parents. Why did they not know their own child's mental state and the acquiring of weapons. Of course they will not blame the parents because they lost their child. Why not blame the school as whole for allowing the bullying. Well that does happen but the results are busting kids for shooting people with pop tart guns. Zero-thought policies. "If you abuse someone long enough and trap them sufficiently in their situation, they will crack up every time." And that is the parents failing to provide the love, support, and safe environment for their child. Their home and family should be the escape for them. If a child is suffering that much it is the parents that need to go and move them to a new school or make sure they get the help developing the coping skills they need. Bullies are terrible it should not be allowed but bullies are also children and they show a failure on their parents side of the equation to not teach compassion and discipline to their children. In the end it all comes down to the parents or lack of them.
How do you even know the kid is "troubled". Okay all teens are troubled to some extent or another that is what being a teenager is all about. How is this any different than cops and robbers or the backstab game. Again it is the safe thing for the school administration to do. It is not the right thing, good thing, or effective thing but if this kid ever did snap and kill himself or kill someone else and it came out that a parent reported this and the school administration did nothing they would be hung out to dry by the press, media, parents, and probably the courts. Unil parents start being parents and taking some responsibility and people learn that 20 20 hindsight is nothing but a witch hunt to lay blame then nothing will change. Just watch for this phrase, "all the warning signs where there".
I want them to start suspending girls for playing with dolls and playing house. Clearly this will lead to teenage pregnancy. 100% of the girls that pregnant under the age of 18 have played with dolls or knew someone that did!
"And I'd say that 99% of the school shootings are due to people being harassed" 100% of school shootings are due to a nutcase with a gun. Sorry but no matter how bullied you are or what names you are called that does not give you the right to shoot up a school. Lots of people including most of the people that probably post on slashdot where bullied at one time or another and did not shoot up a school.
Well can you blame them. What is the first thing that happens when kid does something wrong. "WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SEE THESE CLEAR WARNING SIGNS!" This kid played first person shooters, read gun magazines, and didn't get along with the popular kids! Just like millions of other people....
Just like in the old days they used to say, "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". No school administrator ever got in trouble for putting a kid in jail as a potential danger. Man I am glad they didn't have first person shooters when I was in school. I know for a fact that at least one of my friends if not myself would have made a map of the school. Of course that person and everyone that played that map would go to jail for planning a terrorist attack.
And the parents will not stop it because it is always better to throw another persons kid in jail to protect your own.
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The poorest most underdeveloped countries will increase their carbon outputs the most unless they skip coal. Even if you buy into letting them do it today you are just setting them up to have replace that infrastructure later. If those countries have coal reserves the let them sell them to nations that already coal plants and use the money to buy cleaner technologies.
No need for explosives. A large slug of metal maybe 200kg moving at high speed is all you need is all you need. Maybe even a large chunk of ice...
Sorry my bad. It was late. But the correct term would actually be translate note encode since it would not be a one to one conversion.
This is funny. Amazon is the 21st century Sears! Back in the early to mid 1900s you could buy anything from Sears including houses! http://www.searsarchives.com/homes/1915-1920.htm
Sears decided to move away from "catalog" sales in the 70s-90s. Really too bad since they could have been Amazon instead of Amazon.
Amazon is just the 21st century version of Sears and Roebucks. You talk about the dangers but miss out on the benefits. How many stores are using Amazon for their fulfillment? As far as bookstores go Amazon is killed Boarders but then Boarders and B&N killed the mom and pop book store. But Amazon has allowed many authors to self publish ebooks for a much lower price than they could back in the day. When I was a kid and wanted to buy a model airplane or a book, or music I was limited to what the local stores had. I was lucky in the model department but books and music where really limited. Sorry but Amazon is doing well because it offers a service that people really like.
Take a look at Les Misérables. The film is goes south very quickly at the end.
After Jean Valjean becomes wealthy why did he become mayor? He was still a wanted man after all. That was a stupid risk to take.
Why after escaping and saving Cosette why did he still stay in France? He seemed to have access to much wealth so why not go to Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, or Canada? I mean how stupid was this man?
Simple... It would have made for a terrible story.
Most if not all the "errors" in Gravity were to make a good story.
Well probably the first step would be to create a rosetta stone for them. Encrypt something that will probably be around for for a very long time in multiple languages. I would suggest three religious texts the bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita.
Follow those by various texts on language, science, math, and history.
Next I would document all the data formats used in the rest of the data.
Then I would include things like all the patents and so forth.
Then store copies of all the data in lots of places. Places like monasteries, castles, forts, national parks, the dry valleys of Antarctica, the tops of the highest non-volcanic mountains of each continent, the Atacama Desert, the great pyramids, several of the Mesoamerican pyramids, Stonehenge, and finally Ísafjörður and Neskaupstaður Iceland. The last two are near the mid atlantic ridge but not near active volcanoes. With the seabed spreading at the mid atlantic ridge that land should be around the longest. Maybe it should be an ongoing project. Every 100 years each of the data stores gets updated.
Actually it is based on the assumption that anyone that works hard enough to gain the level of power that grants access to nuclear weapons loves themselves and their power more than anything else. Which probably an extremely good bet.
Pretty much. The simple rule is this. If you have secrets than you can not be trusted to keep the nations secrets.
I agree but it is not going to happen.
1. The kernel developers hate closed source drivers and sees this as a way to discourge them.
2. They believe that not having a binary interface improves security.
3. They believe the myth that if you just provide the interface that the community will write the drivers.
Of course what happens is the closed source drivers just write an FOSS stub that they use to provide a binary interface to the closed source drivers.
As to number 3 I call it a myth because it is. AMD has released the docs to their gpus and guess who is doing most of the work on the AMD drivers? AMD.
It will just reduce the amount of times people go into windows. For now their will always bet hat one one game or application you must have that runs only on Windows.
Probably should be most detailed map released to the public. The Military of both the US and Russia/USSR have been working on maps of gravitational variations for decades.
I think they are just making this crap up to mess with us at this point.
Sure there is.
If a kid that at one time made a gun from a pop tart kills someone the administrator that didn't punish him will be blamed for missing the warning signs.
If he suspends or puts a normal kid in jail for playing nothing bad will happen to the administrator.
Punishment for under reaction no punishment for overreacting means that it is only logical to overreact.
You are not getting me. I am telling how things are. Did not read this? "Again it is the safe thing for the school administration to do. It is not the right thing, good thing, or effective thing"
It is the safe thing to keep from getting his butt handed to him. Until people make it not the safe thing to do like getting his butt fired for putting a 15 year old in jail for breaking no law I see then it will keep happening.
Nope not an administrator or teacher I have nothing to do with the school system at all. Parents are responsible for their kids. And since school administrators are getting kids arrest for playing video games and for "shooting" fellow students with a gun made out of a pop tart I would say your statement about them nodding and doing nothing is far from 100% factual.
Kids still come home. Anyone that expects a school to care as much about their child or do as much for their child as they do is a fool.
I do not condone any action. You are saying it is caused by bullying which is a bad thing. I am saying that putting the blame on harassment for mass murder is just as dumb as blaming any other external cause. It is scapegoating.
The more direct blame is on the parents. Why did they not know their own child's mental state and the acquiring of weapons. Of course they will not blame the parents because they lost their child.
Why not blame the school as whole for allowing the bullying. Well that does happen but the results are busting kids for shooting people with pop tart guns. Zero-thought policies.
"If you abuse someone long enough and trap them sufficiently in their situation, they will crack up every time."
And that is the parents failing to provide the love, support, and safe environment for their child. Their home and family should be the escape for them. If a child is suffering that much it is the parents that need to go and move them to a new school or make sure they get the help developing the coping skills they need.
Bullies are terrible it should not be allowed but bullies are also children and they show a failure on their parents side of the equation to not teach compassion and discipline to their children.
In the end it all comes down to the parents or lack of them.
How do you even know the kid is "troubled". Okay all teens are troubled to some extent or another that is what being a teenager is all about.
How is this any different than cops and robbers or the backstab game.
Again it is the safe thing for the school administration to do. It is not the right thing, good thing, or effective thing but if this kid ever did snap and kill himself or kill someone else and it came out that a parent reported this and the school administration did nothing they would be hung out to dry by the press, media, parents, and probably the courts. Unil parents start being parents and taking some responsibility and people learn that 20 20 hindsight is nothing but a witch hunt to lay blame then nothing will change.
Just watch for this phrase, "all the warning signs where there".
Misdirected blame. The school is the one pressing charges.
It looks more and more like the war on boys.
http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/19/school-has-become-too-hostile-to-boys/
I want them to start suspending girls for playing with dolls and playing house. Clearly this will lead to teenage pregnancy. 100% of the girls that pregnant under the age of 18 have played with dolls or knew someone that did!
Umm that is illegal now as well. The using your finger to shoot someone is. Well at least shooting them with a pop-tart.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/18/student-suspended-for-pop-tart-gun_n_2903500.html
"And I'd say that 99% of the school shootings are due to people being harassed"
100% of school shootings are due to a nutcase with a gun. Sorry but no matter how bullied you are or what names you are called that does not give you the right to shoot up a school. Lots of people including most of the people that probably post on slashdot where bullied at one time or another and did not shoot up a school.
Well can you blame them. What is the first thing that happens when kid does something wrong.
"WHY DIDN'T ANYONE SEE THESE CLEAR WARNING SIGNS!" This kid played first person shooters, read gun magazines, and didn't get along with the popular kids! Just like millions of other people....
Just like in the old days they used to say, "no one ever got fired for buying IBM". No school administrator ever got in trouble for putting a kid in jail as a potential danger. Man I am glad they didn't have first person shooters when I was in school. I know for a fact that at least one of my friends if not myself would have made a map of the school. Of course that person and everyone that played that map would go to jail for planning a terrorist attack.
And the parents will not stop it because it is always better to throw another persons kid in jail to protect your own.
You never will and frankly none of us really want it. The results of perfect signals security could be a terrible thing.