While Hollywood wants the whole world to obey whatever IP regime benefits the studios most, the EU wants all other countries to "harmonize" with the Union's high tax rates. Switzerland manages industrial prosperity on much lower tax rates, and governs mostly at the cantonal (county) level, which reduces centralized bureaucracy. Brussels has never liked having a safe, stable-for-centuries adjacent country that Europeans can just take a train to and make a suitcase of money disappear.
Switzerland prides itself on an engrained neutrality that allows it to trade freely with every part of the world while avoiding the entangling alliances that have caused so many European wars. This also means staying out of international trade agreements that it feels threaten its freedom. That's why it could be the first organizer of international copyright a century ago with the Berne Convention, while at the same time staying out of the Hollywood cartel.
Before oxygen consumers evolved, plant life led to steadily accumulating O2 in the atmosphere, a concentration eventually reaching 35% in the Carboniferous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... After that, animals came to the rescue and began consuming more oxygen, the percentage ticked down to today's 21%.
No, when photosynthetic plants came into existence and started consuming CO2, their waste product was O2. As it accumulated in the environment it created a "market" for organisms that could inhale O2 and convert it back into CO2.
Math does not describe the universe we inhabit, but all possible universes. We have to search to find which mathematical system accurately describe what we see around us.
I'm sure there is a mathematics that properly describes ecosystems. When we one day find it, the practical implications will be enormous. It will explain why all those activist predictions of species collapse and environmental disaster in response to this or that specified kind of external pressure keep failing to happen. It could tell us more about where else in the universe life could exist. If it uncovers negative climate feedbacks we never know were occurring, it will finally lead to accurate climate models.
Finishing the job on metrication (we did get started, remember, leaving some industries metric and the rest imperial) wouldn't be that difficult. Because the beverage industry was one of the switchers, everyone is now intuitive about volumes in liters, and can think about how easier life would be without the dumpster fire that is imperial volume measure.
For road signs, have the prisoners start making metric stickers to go on existing signs next to - not over - the imperial units, acquainting people with metric distances and load weights. New signs would be metric only. Now the kilometers on your speedometer will start to have everyday meaning.
My last visit was 2014, in Cumbria and Yorkshire. Okay, these counties may be the UK equivalent of Oregon and Tennessee, but despite official metrication the popular culture still seemed to be stuck on imperial.
We're running out of sand because of the silicon required by all the cryptocurrency mining servers being built around the world. Someday a way will be found of grinding them into the aggregate we need.
Crypto disrupts central banks. If there was even a 1% chance it becomes successfull, you would be crazy to ignore it.
When you "disrupt" a central bank, that's when you get Venezuela, Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany. Enjoy your Mad Max future of trying to toss Bitcoin at the feet of a howling mob.
When I visited New Zealand I marveled at how easily the metric system had pervaded everyday life. Although the UK formally switched to metric in 1965, it is still in the process of slowly seeping through popular culture. The general public still travels in miles, quotes Fahrenheit temperatures, and weighs people not even in imperial but in the Neolithic unit that preceded it. In the US, the public attitude is that if some little snowflake somewhere would be offended by switching over, we can't even contemplate doing it.
When I asked the Kiwis how difficult the transition had been, they replied: the government just named a date, there was a certain amount of grousing, but we all just did it out a general sense that the time had come.
So sorry, world, but the financial system will be leaking bank fraud through American mag stripes and signatures for all time to come.
They just defined bytes to be 6 bits. Bytes haven't always been 8 bits. Historically some machines used 9-bit bytes or 36-bit bytes.
Bytes were 6 and later 8 bits. A totally distinct family of 'scientific' machines took 32-bit groupings to be computational 'words' that corresponded to your Fortran variables. Bytes had no status in hardware, and had to be implemented little by little by software that treated words as sets of 4 bytes.
I started in those days too, though I was on a 1410, the byte-oriented business mainframe. In those days your code was all on cards, and every program read its data from one 7-track tape and wrote processed data to another tape. Real-time operations, as opposed to this 'batch' paradigm, lay in the unguessable future.
And when you ran into anyone, you didn't want to be carrying a program card deck.
While cable was a monopoly, with only one cable service in a given area, nobody is forcing you to sign up for streaming services. Cord-cutters subscribe to the two or three streaming services that represent most of their desired content, then complain about the number of services they would have to get to see allthe content they want.
As content providers realize this (watch for online surveys and use complaint feedback contact opportunities that may be available) we will see more opportunities for a la carte trials of additional content. Many sites already offer 30-day trials and other temporary offers. Make use of these, cancel at the end of the offer and tell them why you made that decision. Some sort of multi-site subscription to individually chosen specific sets of shows will emerge.
If your argument is that there is some fictional place where everyone will just get along and everyone will be at the same "place" in society, then you need look no further then communism.
If people just 'got along' and everyone were 'at the same place' under Communism, then why did it require such a blisteringly high level of coercion?
Free flow of books.. sure... as long as you are living in former British colony. When somebody wants to buy ebook from Amazon in English... Amazon says...sorry you are not allowed to purchase this book.
Solar and wind generators are rated by the maximum capacity of the source. These 'nameplate' values add up fast for factory-built technologies, but what happens when that solar panel spends most of its time sitting under a white, drizzling British sky?
...dams are quite predictable and steady at large scale. Geothermal is super steady.
Unfortunately, promoters of renewables exclude hydro and geothermal from their advertising because in most countries they have historically opposed dams and geothermal. Of course, they sneak the big generation figures from those sources back in when they want to brag about their percentage of renewable generation in their country because those baseload sources dwarf what wind and solar can produce.
That would be a small increment of convenience in not having to change clocks, but permanent DST would put California permanently out of sync with surrounding Pacific Time states. Same old problem juggling airline schedules and phone calls out of state to the east, and with the rest of the world.
Are you old enough to remember that national nightmare, the Carter administration? In that time of hostage humiliation and skyrocketing fuel prices, we enacted nationwide year-round DST as a fuel saving measure. It was about as popular as its companion 55-mile speed limit, and was quickly abandoned. Having year-round DST in one state would be even harder to manage, because of the interfaces with surrounding states.
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A "disreputable source" is one you disagree with, and do not consider as being part of the sainted Media.
While Hollywood wants the whole world to obey whatever IP regime benefits the studios most, the EU wants all other countries to "harmonize" with the Union's high tax rates. Switzerland manages industrial prosperity on much lower tax rates, and governs mostly at the cantonal (county) level, which reduces centralized bureaucracy. Brussels has never liked having a safe, stable-for-centuries adjacent country that Europeans can just take a train to and make a suitcase of money disappear.
Switzerland prides itself on an engrained neutrality that allows it to trade freely with every part of the world while avoiding the entangling alliances that have caused so many European wars. This also means staying out of international trade agreements that it feels threaten its freedom. That's why it could be the first organizer of international copyright a century ago with the Berne Convention, while at the same time staying out of the Hollywood cartel.
Before oxygen consumers evolved, plant life led to steadily accumulating O2 in the atmosphere, a concentration eventually reaching 35% in the Carboniferous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
After that, animals came to the rescue and began consuming more oxygen, the percentage ticked down to today's 21%.
No, when photosynthetic plants came into existence and started consuming CO2, their waste product was O2. As it accumulated in the environment it created a "market" for organisms that could inhale O2 and convert it back into CO2.
Math does not describe the universe we inhabit, but all possible universes. We have to search to find which mathematical system accurately describe what we see around us.
I'm sure there is a mathematics that properly describes ecosystems. When we one day find it, the practical implications will be enormous. It will explain why all those activist predictions of species collapse and environmental disaster in response to this or that specified kind of external pressure keep failing to happen. It could tell us more about where else in the universe life could exist. If it uncovers negative climate feedbacks we never know were occurring, it will finally lead to accurate climate models.
Finishing the job on metrication (we did get started, remember, leaving some industries metric and the rest imperial) wouldn't be that difficult. Because the beverage industry was one of the switchers, everyone is now intuitive about volumes in liters, and can think about how easier life would be without the dumpster fire that is imperial volume measure.
For road signs, have the prisoners start making metric stickers to go on existing signs next to - not over - the imperial units, acquainting people with metric distances and load weights. New signs would be metric only. Now the kilometers on your speedometer will start to have everyday meaning.
My last visit was 2014, in Cumbria and Yorkshire. Okay, these counties may be the UK equivalent of Oregon and Tennessee, but despite official metrication the popular culture still seemed to be stuck on imperial.
We're running out of sand because of the silicon required by all the cryptocurrency mining servers being built around the world. Someday a way will be found of grinding them into the aggregate we need.
Crypto disrupts central banks. If there was even a 1% chance it becomes successfull, you would be crazy to ignore it.
When you "disrupt" a central bank, that's when you get Venezuela, Zimbabwe or Weimar Germany. Enjoy your Mad Max future of trying to toss Bitcoin at the feet of a howling mob.
"Yelp for Humans" will lead to....
In a dating app, we wouldn't call it Yelp, but Moan.
When I visited New Zealand I marveled at how easily the metric system had pervaded everyday life. Although the UK formally switched to metric in 1965, it is still in the process of slowly seeping through popular culture. The general public still travels in miles, quotes Fahrenheit temperatures, and weighs people not even in imperial but in the Neolithic unit that preceded it. In the US, the public attitude is that if some little snowflake somewhere would be offended by switching over, we can't even contemplate doing it.
When I asked the Kiwis how difficult the transition had been, they replied: the government just named a date, there was a certain amount of grousing, but we all just did it out a general sense that the time had come.
So sorry, world, but the financial system will be leaking bank fraud through American mag stripes and signatures for all time to come.
Hypenosis! Now that's a word that ought to exist.
If Bobby Fischer were alive today, which post would Trump appoint him to?
They just defined bytes to be 6 bits. Bytes haven't always been 8 bits. Historically some machines used 9-bit bytes or 36-bit bytes.
Bytes were 6 and later 8 bits. A totally distinct family of 'scientific' machines took 32-bit groupings to be computational 'words' that corresponded to your Fortran variables. Bytes had no status in hardware, and had to be implemented little by little by software that treated words as sets of 4 bytes.
I started in those days too, though I was on a 1410, the byte-oriented business mainframe. In those days your code was all on cards, and every program read its data from one 7-track tape and wrote processed data to another tape. Real-time operations, as opposed to this 'batch' paradigm, lay in the unguessable future.
And when you ran into anyone, you didn't want to be carrying a program card deck.
Hey, fuck you buddy, why the hell are you blaming Crete for this shit?
Was this your high school?
https://www.niche.com/k12/cret...
While cable was a monopoly, with only one cable service in a given area, nobody is forcing you to sign up for streaming services. Cord-cutters subscribe to the two or three streaming services that represent most of their desired content, then complain about the number of services they would have to get to see allthe content they want.
As content providers realize this (watch for online surveys and use complaint feedback contact opportunities that may be available) we will see more opportunities for a la carte trials of additional content. Many sites already offer 30-day trials and other temporary offers. Make use of these, cancel at the end of the offer and tell them why you made that decision. Some sort of multi-site subscription to individually chosen specific sets of shows will emerge.
If your argument is that there is some fictional place where everyone will just get along and everyone will be at the same "place" in society, then you need look no further then communism.
If people just 'got along' and everyone were 'at the same place' under Communism, then why did it require such a blisteringly high level of coercion?
Probably because my upgrade path was Win7 -> Win8 -> Win10 -> Win10 Pro.
Mine was Win 95 -> Win XP -> Win Vista -> OS X. Haven't looked back since.
Free flow of books .. sure ... as long as you are living in former British colony. ... Amazon says ...sorry you are not allowed to purchase this book.
When somebody wants to buy ebook from Amazon in English
That's when you fire up your VPN.
Solar and wind generators are rated by the maximum capacity of the source. These 'nameplate' values add up fast for factory-built technologies, but what happens when that solar panel spends most of its time sitting under a white, drizzling British sky?
...dams are quite predictable and steady at large scale. Geothermal is super steady.
Unfortunately, promoters of renewables exclude hydro and geothermal from their advertising because in most countries they have historically opposed dams and geothermal. Of course, they sneak the big generation figures from those sources back in when they want to brag about their percentage of renewable generation in their country because those baseload sources dwarf what wind and solar can produce.
That would be a small increment of convenience in not having to change clocks, but permanent DST would put California permanently out of sync with surrounding Pacific Time states. Same old problem juggling airline schedules and phone calls out of state to the east, and with the rest of the world.
Are you old enough to remember that national nightmare, the Carter administration? In that time of hostage humiliation and skyrocketing fuel prices, we enacted nationwide year-round DST as a fuel saving measure. It was about as popular as its companion 55-mile speed limit, and was quickly abandoned. Having year-round DST in one state would be even harder to manage, because of the interfaces with surrounding states.
Actually, FDR went to great lengths to conceal his disability and never let the press show him in a wheelchair.
Give em back to Mexico.
As opposed to California, which is already there.
No, he said "cow" shit.
And in Texas, all those cows have 'homes."