1) By definition, there is a finite supply of non-renewable energy. 2) And we use tons of it. 3) And for the good of humanity you want the price to be HIGH
Reasons you want the price to be high for fossil fuels:
1) Conversation of the resource. Airplanes must use fossil fuels the way they are designed now. Cars = no. You can have electric cars. 2) When the price of fossil fuels is low, they get wasted. Your neighbor who drives alone and isn't a farmer buying a huge truck is NOT how non-renewable energy should be used. 3) Complacency about alternative energy because the price of gas is low isn't a positive.
I am sure there are a lot of "lefty partisans" who are enjoying this because they dislike Big Oil -- and to that extent, it more proves that it isn't about results with partisans, it is about their "team". If the price of oil drops like a rock, there is a bit of financial relief but what really happens is consumption sky-rockets.
Add to you list: Give up explaining your first post, trust in others to correctly determine your point knowing the noisier, less bright ones respond the most.
Balance. Intelligence is knowing when to give up and go back to the drawing board.
Without persistence, intelligence is an unfulfilled and wasted gift. Without intelligence, persistence is an exercise in futility. Which is why less intelligent people depend on social feedback to make decisions.
It's not hard.
Psychologists relearning what has been known for centuries. Someone didn't read their own textbooks...
Establish a policy that you deport the families of perpetrators of terror attacks.
It is hard to celebrate the idea of being a martyr is you know your family is going be living back in squalor of the 3rd world as a consequence of what you've done.
It isn't hard, just attach a fair and meaningful stigma and mean business about it. You can't be toothless about it like France has a history of doing; doing nothing and looking the other way does not solve problem. And France has historically done nothing with these problems and to nobody's surprise they keep happening again and again.
There is another computer that triples the bet every time it loses and leaves when it wins and says something about knowing when to walk away.
And then there is the computer that deals the cards and takes 4% of the pot every round, muttering "House always wins".
The third computer that can beat it keeps giving it complimentary alcoholic beverages until it gets a buffer overrun.
The fourth computer doesn't "believe in no win situations" and reprograms the computer to lose, but then Spock finds out and he gets kicked out of the Academy.
"nothing to do with Android and everything to do with the agreements between cellphone manufacturers and carriers."
Apple has agreements with carriers and none of them come with crapware as far as I know.
How is it that Android's failure to protect the users from phone carriers where Apple *does* protect the user from carriers from installing crapwares a positive?
It isn't quite black and white.
With Apple, you may have limits to ADDITIONS you can make for installing, but with the typical Android experience you lose the right to SUBTRACT apps on your device. And those unwanted crapware apps the phone carrier forces on you --- we live in age of "tracking and invasion of privacy" and "you are the product" --- I don't know what they are doing (hopefully nothing, but I have no freedom to remove them and have to hope.).
Where is the source code to this EFF app? I don't see it. This means they are not adhering. And not just in that way.
They can't complain about Apple, then NOT release a Windows phone app and not release a Blackberry app and then do an Android app and then NOT release the source code to that and then complain about Apple.
I am as big of a fan of the EFF as the next guy, but it is pointless to single out Apple's walled garden when most of the Android mobile carriers install crapware you can't uninstall.
I don't see the statically normal US Android experience giving me any control over my device when I can't even uninstall the crapware.
Some will post back saying some generic mindless stupid things (rooting, "get an independent Android phone, etc.) but that is missing the point --- the overwhelming majority of the Android users have forced uninstallable crapware --- which even the
evil" Windows experience doesn't have.That isn't freedom and arguably less than the typical Apple experience.
Some people get sidetracked by the religious aspect, but that isn't what is really going on. Europe gets bullied easily (Russia for instance) and they encourage it by their behavior and reactions. Muslim extremists sense this weakness and exploit it. Expect more censorship and fear.
France has had many of these types of events in the last year. There will be more.
"The education system sucks (on average), the people don't care about science (on average)"
Science doesn't get done by people caring about science. Your mom or dad caring, or your friends caring or not caring doesn't matter. The guy on the news talking about or not talking about science doesn't matter.
I think you must subscribe to the spontaneous combustion idea of science, where caring or not caring just makes things happen. This also means you really don't know what science is --- except what someone in the media tells you it is.
Hard work by a few with experience in their respective fields and funding make things happen.
"America was never a strong 'Science' country."
What does that even mean? Where did all the machines and cell phone towers and paved roads and fields of corn come from?
I am outraged because fairness means our $SLICE of the $PIE should be what it was in $YEAR, because my $ARBITRARY $NUMBERS I decided are the $ONE_TRUE_WAY_OF_MEASURING_FAIRNESS.
It would be nice to have a base of the moon, but it is difficult to know why we need or what we would do with it and getting there and back is dangerous. And going to Mars would be nice, but it has no useful atmosphere and the Martian soil is toxic.
Amazon works in a cut-throat market and it took them over a decade before they made a profit. They don't have exclusivity, if they don't have the lowest price and shipping then they lose the sale. Amazon.com has contributed to general improvements of availability, price, shipping costs and time and ability to find and quality compare on the internet.
Keep on hating products and services you don't have to use. But you probably do use them, and if you are a hypocrite.
But we live in an age of hypocrites and haters and self-entitled child-people, so its all good!
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By definition, no communication using a 3rd party as an intermediary has ever been totally secure.
It is much better that this attitude is established by the government in public, rather than our government lying and doing it anyway.
If you want secure communication, don't use a 3rd party.
1) By definition, there is a finite supply of non-renewable energy.
2) And we use tons of it.
3) And for the good of humanity you want the price to be HIGH
Reasons you want the price to be high for fossil fuels:
1) Conversation of the resource. Airplanes must use fossil fuels the way they are designed now. Cars = no. You can have electric cars.
2) When the price of fossil fuels is low, they get wasted. Your neighbor who drives alone and isn't a farmer buying a huge truck is NOT how non-renewable energy should be used.
3) Complacency about alternative energy because the price of gas is low isn't a positive.
I am sure there are a lot of "lefty partisans" who are enjoying this because they dislike Big Oil -- and to that extent, it more proves that it isn't about results with partisans, it is about their "team". If the price of oil drops like a rock, there is a bit of financial relief but what really happens is consumption sky-rockets.
And I don't know if he is commenting on events in the news.
Or perhaps he is commenting on a movie he saw.
He clearly has quite an imagination. He should be a writer!
You could have played it cool and acted like it displayed right and anyone who said differently was using a odd browser settings.
Now you can't say "Looks right on my screen!"
Add to you list: Give up explaining your first post, trust in others to correctly determine your point knowing the noisier, less bright ones respond the most.
Billionaire: I want to live for 200 years?
Scientist: Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Billionaire: The good news.
Scientist: [censored to preserve timeline]. But on the plus side you'll have a great night-time view including a spectacular view of Uranus!
Billionaire: Ah, well that's rather acceptable. So what's the bad news?
Scientist: (Pointing to the jar) You know what I said about the view?
Billionaire: Of course, yes?
Scientist: I wasn't referring to any planets.
"Dictionary nerds": Spend their time arguing and fumbling over word definitions where no real vagueness exists.
Great job!
Balance. Intelligence is knowing when to give up and go back to the drawing board.
...
Without persistence, intelligence is an unfulfilled and wasted gift. Without intelligence, persistence is an exercise in futility. Which is why less intelligent people depend on social feedback to make decisions.
It's not hard.
Psychologists relearning what has been known for centuries. Someone didn't read their own textbooks
If there is any money to be made in "unused" storage space, the LAST people who could economically offer space for the lowest cost is a consumer.
No cutting edge cost management, no benefits of scalabiliy.
And who would want to rely on a average consumer's potentially virus infested, unsecure storage space.
And people who responded to this as if it even could be a serious suggestion didn't think, should be socially reprimanded for being gullible.
Establish a policy that you deport the families of perpetrators of terror attacks.
It is hard to celebrate the idea of being a martyr is you know your family is going be living back in squalor of the 3rd world as a consequence of what you've done.
It isn't hard, just attach a fair and meaningful stigma and mean business about it. You can't be toothless about it like France has a history of doing; doing nothing and looking the other way does not solve problem. And France has historically done nothing with these problems and to nobody's surprise they keep happening again and again.
There is another computer that triples the bet every time it loses and leaves when it wins and says something about knowing when to walk away.
And then there is the computer that deals the cards and takes 4% of the pot every round, muttering "House always wins".
The third computer that can beat it keeps giving it complimentary alcoholic beverages until it gets a buffer overrun.
The fourth computer doesn't "believe in no win situations" and reprograms the computer to lose, but then Spock finds out and he gets kicked out of the Academy.
Nintendo started as a card company. Nokia started as a paper company.
Blackberry could get into the hogs trading market.
Not as fancy as selling phones, but I've heard as an industry it really brings home the bacon.
;-0
"nothing to do with Android and everything to do with the agreements between cellphone manufacturers and carriers."
Apple has agreements with carriers and none of them come with crapware as far as I know.
How is it that Android's failure to protect the users from phone carriers where Apple *does* protect the user from carriers from installing crapwares a positive?
It isn't quite black and white.
With Apple, you may have limits to ADDITIONS you can make for installing, but with the typical Android experience you lose the right to SUBTRACT apps on your device. And those unwanted crapware apps the phone carrier forces on you --- we live in age of "tracking and invasion of privacy" and "you are the product" --- I don't know what they are doing (hopefully nothing, but I have no freedom to remove them and have to hope.).
If you see my point.
Where is the source code to this EFF app? I don't see it. This means they are not adhering. And not just in that way.
They can't complain about Apple, then NOT release a Windows phone app and not release a Blackberry app and then do an Android app and then NOT release the source code to that and then complain about Apple.
I am as big of a fan of the EFF as the next guy, but it is pointless to single out Apple's walled garden when most of the Android mobile carriers install crapware you can't uninstall.
I don't see the statically normal US Android experience giving me any control over my device when I can't even uninstall the crapware.
Some will post back saying some generic mindless stupid things (rooting, "get an independent Android phone, etc.) but that is missing the point --- the overwhelming majority of the Android users have forced uninstallable crapware --- which even the evil" Windows experience doesn't have. That isn't freedom and arguably less than the typical Apple experience.
Europe gets bullied easily. I didn't draw any comparisons. You can if you like, but it has no bearing on the statement.
Comparisons don't change that Europeans get bullied easily.
" I don't see this turning out well for Islam one way or another"
France is old people and young Muslims. They will be a Caliphate soon enough.
Some people get sidetracked by the religious aspect, but that isn't what is really going on. Europe gets bullied easily (Russia for instance) and they encourage it by their behavior and reactions. Muslim extremists sense this weakness and exploit it. Expect more censorship and fear.
France has had many of these types of events in the last year. There will be more.
Go read Socrates and Plato complaining about anti-intellectualism.
And file it in the same drawer as "Kids these days can't (INSERT)" and "The World is going to hell".
Anti-intellectualism isn't new. The Hebrews had a word for it: envy. I think they wrote about it on their stone tablets.
"The education system sucks (on average), the people don't care about science (on average)"
Science doesn't get done by people caring about science. Your mom or dad caring, or your friends caring or not caring doesn't matter. The guy on the news talking about or not talking about science doesn't matter.
I think you must subscribe to the spontaneous combustion idea of science, where caring or not caring just makes things happen. This also means you really don't know what science is --- except what someone in the media tells you it is.
Hard work by a few with experience in their respective fields and funding make things happen.
"America was never a strong 'Science' country."
What does that even mean? Where did all the machines and cell phone towers and paved roads and fields of corn come from?
I am outraged because fairness means our $SLICE of the $PIE should be what it was in $YEAR, because my $ARBITRARY $NUMBERS I decided are the $ONE_TRUE_WAY_OF_MEASURING_FAIRNESS.
It would be nice to have a base of the moon, but it is difficult to know why we need or what we would do with it and getting there and back is dangerous. And going to Mars would be nice, but it has no useful atmosphere and the Martian soil is toxic.
Drone to fly falling people a parachute,
drone to fly "man on fire" a bucket of water
and thirsty guy in desert a beverage.
Sony can clean up their search results in Europe by (ab)using the "Right To Be Forgotten".
You would make a great Walmart employee.
Amazon works in a cut-throat market and it took them over a decade before they made a profit. They don't have exclusivity, if they don't have the lowest price and shipping then they lose the sale. Amazon.com has contributed to general improvements of availability, price, shipping costs and time and ability to find and quality compare on the internet.
Keep on hating products and services you don't have to use. But you probably do use them, and if you are a hypocrite.
But we live in an age of hypocrites and haters and self-entitled child-people, so its all good!
Keep on hating things, dude!