When taxpayers move from one country to another to lower their taxes, EU countries keep asking for what they call "harmonization." By this they mean that all EU countries should increase their tax rates to match the highest tax rate. On the eve of Brexit, Germany is now making this argument for the whole world.
I have a better idea: let's all tax Germany for the increasing amount of carbon it is now emitting.
Anyway, Annan should have used a blockchain based smart contract [wikipedia.org] to implement the wager. Then it would have auto-paid, with no ability to welch.
Perhaps we need a new word for this problem. Instead of welshing on bets, it would now be called russianing.
Make excessive overtime illegal (or enforce existing laws). If you miss a deadline the scheduling manager is at fault.
Better still, form a un- oops, I mean an Engineers Association - to collectively bargain as is workers' rights under long-established law. Management seems to be building crunch time into the regular schedule here, rather than leading an occasional sprint to finish a project that has been delated by unusual circumstances.
Is Internet penetration slowing in the parts of the world where building the infrastructure to remaining large populations is the most difficult, because of either physical remoteness or social chaos, or is the problem getting to the most remote people in the developed world?
If you are operating off-grid in the Sierra Nevada, getting Internet service at a reasonable price will be no easier than joining the electrical grid. You can put up some solar panels for cheap basic power, but if your only chance at getting Internet is an Iridium subscription, you might opt to wait for Project Loon.
The whole argument "Just producing $TECHNOLOGY_I_DON'T_LIKE already involves large amounts of carbon" is another fake static argument based on the amount of carbon released by industrial processes (mining trucks, say) and materials (concrete) at the time the argument is made. By playing with nations of origin and production numbers, it is possible to make any technology look like a bad choice based on carbon emitted during manufacture. By cherry-picking nations and processes, you could make the same argument against PV cells.
In the real world, a steady effort to reduce carbon throughout industry means that production carbon numbers will shrink over time as carbon is wrung out of the economy. The mining trucks will at some point be electric and powered by a local dam, diesel-chugging ships from Filthystan might be replaced by trains bringing product from some cleaner place, snd so on.
In the age of global warming, wasting resources should not be tolerated.
At any given time when you propose Project X, there is always some public expenditure that can be deemed more important than your own.
This is the primary reason why speculative and edgy projects not directly related to $HIGHEST_PRIORITY_PROJECT should be privately funded. Taking a project private makes the whole stupid 'priorities' argument go away.
Even if you want to cheap out on printing, you're better off buying a monochrome laser and sending the occasional photo print order to Snapfish when needed. Even if you need color, color lasers have now come down dramatically in price.
Bonus: toner cartridges don't dry out, so if you don't print every day you no longer need to waste most of your liquid ink running the Deep Clean utility to unclog the heads.
Given CRISPR tech, I can see how this might actually be made to work. We modify the human reproductive system to add crowding as a negative input parameter, such that the more people there are, the more sex it would take to "mine" each new baby. There would not only set an automatic limit on the expansion of the population, but it would be exponentially romantic and would actually reduce the incidence of rioting as time went on.
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but glass is bad for the environment
No it isn’t. Broken glass looks ugly until it erodes into pebbles, but it’s inert silica that has no effect on adjacent biology.
That's exactly why cryptocurrency nutters will jump on this.
...getting banned on Youtube left and right.
Mostly right, apparently.
I'm sure there's a whole bunch of aboriginals just waiting for you to cry on their shoulders.
Aboriginals who, after the Muslims get through treating them as they do Yazidis and Chaldeans, will be wanting the Aussies back again.
My own formula: two days of strenuous hiking every week.
They can go pound sand
Actually Germany pounds lignite.
When taxpayers move from one country to another to lower their taxes, EU countries keep asking for what they call "harmonization." By this they mean that all EU countries should increase their tax rates to match the highest tax rate. On the eve of Brexit, Germany is now making this argument for the whole world.
I have a better idea: let's all tax Germany for the increasing amount of carbon it is now emitting.
Anyway, Annan should have used a blockchain based smart contract [wikipedia.org] to implement the wager. Then it would have auto-paid, with no ability to welch.
Perhaps we need a new word for this problem. Instead of welshing on bets, it would now be called russianing.
You don't think that being forced to work 80+ hours a week as a software developer could have negative effects on someones health?
No it doesn't, because as soon as you become old enough for long hours to start affecting your health, you get canned.
Make excessive overtime illegal (or enforce existing laws). If you miss a deadline the scheduling manager is at fault.
Better still, form a un- oops, I mean an Engineers Association - to collectively bargain as is workers' rights under long-established law. Management seems to be building crunch time into the regular schedule here, rather than leading an occasional sprint to finish a project that has been delated by unusual circumstances.
http://orange-is-the-new-black...
Then how will we get our cheap junk?
Amazon will 3D print its own blockchain-based postal system.
Is Internet penetration slowing in the parts of the world where building the infrastructure to remaining large populations is the most difficult, because of either physical remoteness or social chaos, or is the problem getting to the most remote people in the developed world?
If you are operating off-grid in the Sierra Nevada, getting Internet service at a reasonable price will be no easier than joining the electrical grid. You can put up some solar panels for cheap basic power, but if your only chance at getting Internet is an Iridium subscription, you might opt to wait for Project Loon.
Michael Moore is losing pounds because he hasn't had a hit movie in a while, that's all. This has no connection with global wa--
Oh, wait!
with 4D printing the volume extends into another dimension so it doesn't take up much space in your pocket
4D printing: 3D printing that takes time.
The whole argument "Just producing $TECHNOLOGY_I_DON'T_LIKE already involves large amounts of carbon" is another fake static argument based on the amount of carbon released by industrial processes (mining trucks, say) and materials (concrete) at the time the argument is made. By playing with nations of origin and production numbers, it is possible to make any technology look like a bad choice based on carbon emitted during manufacture. By cherry-picking nations and processes, you could make the same argument against PV cells.
In the real world, a steady effort to reduce carbon throughout industry means that production carbon numbers will shrink over time as carbon is wrung out of the economy. The mining trucks will at some point be electric and powered by a local dam, diesel-chugging ships from Filthystan might be replaced by trains bringing product from some cleaner place, snd so on.
“Thermonuclear war not quite as imminent as it used to be” is still a long way from “reuniting Korea.”
You’re repeating old fake news. Bush never said that.
Protip: the first place you go surfing shouldn't be Portugal.
In the age of global warming, wasting resources should not be tolerated.
At any given time when you propose Project X, there is always some public expenditure that can be deemed more important than your own.
This is the primary reason why speculative and edgy projects not directly related to $HIGHEST_PRIORITY_PROJECT should be privately funded. Taking a project private makes the whole stupid 'priorities' argument go away.
Real, much more secure electronic signature protocols exist with no need to print out documents, sign them, and scan them back in again.
All we have to do is wait a few hundred years for the legal system to recognize the stupidity of doing it the old way.
Should be using toner and laser printers.
Even if you want to cheap out on printing, you're better off buying a monochrome laser and sending the occasional photo print order to Snapfish when needed. Even if you need color, color lasers have now come down dramatically in price.
Bonus: toner cartridges don't dry out, so if you don't print every day you no longer need to waste most of your liquid ink running the Deep Clean utility to unclog the heads.
And the aliens would pay for the Dyson sphere.
Given CRISPR tech, I can see how this might actually be made to work. We modify the human reproductive system to add crowding as a negative input parameter, such that the more people there are, the more sex it would take to "mine" each new baby. There would not only set an automatic limit on the expansion of the population, but it would be exponentially romantic and would actually reduce the incidence of rioting as time went on.
population of a trillion would mean an area the size of Montana for every individual. That's ridiculous. Nobody needs that much space.
Finally, somewhere to pile all my Amazon boxes.