Personally, I can think of only a small handful of countries (Iceland comes to mind) that could make an even remotely plausible claim to having a government truly owned by the workers.
And when I visited, they still complained about the asshat banksters having gotten off easy in the Great Recession.
If you look closely at the Brussels regulatory regime, it's actually more like Californism. It's just that the sacred untouchable 'refugees' are a different ethnicity.
Sightseeing drones are a big problem in fire country, since a lot of wildfire fighting takes place in the air, with aircraft loaded at gross and in turbulence. And coming soon, drones will be involved on the side of firefighters.
If I shoot one picture a minute 365/24, it will take me just under thirteen years to fill up one of these cards. Now that's what I would call a photo trip.
Unfortunately, I would then have to spend 39 years in Lightroom Classic editing this set of pictures. My wife will kill me, especially when she has to sit through the slideshow later.
Yes, even a non-speculative cryptocurrency would be subject to the money supply problem, which is that the amount of any mined-out currency (cost of generating any more is ludicrously high in energy cost, like BTC) stays constant, while the sum of all the things it can be traded for keeps growing. This causes a steady fall in the amount of coin it takes to buy goods, which makes buying and holding the currency itself an irresistible deal. So although a stable crypto could be a viable medium of exchange in the short run, any money supply held constant is subject to rising in price in comparison to what it trades for.
That is why every fiat currency is managed by a central bank that is supposed to monitor economic activity and gradually issue more money as the volume of traded goods increases. In the real world the currencies we buy and hold are determined by investors' perception of how good the judgement of the Federal Reserve is in comparison to, say, the Swiss National Bank.
After all these years the best non-fiat 'currency' is still gold. It is not managed, yet all cultures understand its value and trade it freely, and the amount of it in existence slowly grows through mining at about two to three percent a year. This closely tracks the long-run increase in fungible goods, so although investors use it as a store of value at times when their economies are in trouble, its long-term value remains roughly the same.
If people would stop using Bitcoin as an imaginary digital investment, it would actually make a decent medium of exchange now that mechanisms for securely faster transactions are being developed. A mature cryptocurrency would be one whose value didn't keep fluctuating wildly week by week.
I was never a religious recycler, but I did take the time to sort my garbage into the appropriate bins - at the time, there were three categories.
As a Unitarian, I'm a religious recycler. My town (rural northern AZ) has multiple-stream recycling, but all plastic and metals go into one bin, so an AI would have to classify plastics and separate metallics.
Down in the desert, the city of Phoenix has single-stream recycling, which is currently sorted manually. An AI would have a tougher time doing this classification, but that would save a huge amount of labor and make the operation truly economic.
Phoenix has had several instances over the years of murderers literally throwing away their victims, in the municipal collection. So far as I know, no body sent to the landfill has ever been successfully found. One small advantage of Phoenix' manual-classification recycling system is that when a stupid albeit socially conscious thug throws a victim into a recycling bin, the body has always been found the next day.
My God you are stupid. Guess that is why you get paid 50k per year in SV.
All the sorter would have to do is look for and classify by for the plastic type indicator stamped into the bottom of each container. Not-founds would be binned into an "Other" category that could be just retorted to break down the plastic into component hydrocarbon.
PJ O'Rourke's favored paradigm would be a capitalist market in medicine. What we actually have is an interlocking cartel of medieval guilds which uses the force of law to operate healthcare as a monopoly.
My solution: work around the legal barriers by putting free-market healthcare for the general population on Indian reservations. Put medical buildings and dental centers right next to the casino, which everyone already knows how to find.
Airlines love to blame their efficiency problems on everyone else. Gee, I thought space programs were were supposed to be an insignificant part of the economy. I suppose they were, back in the days when we had to sit around waiting out NASA's endless delays (see adjacent article on the JWST project). So now that private enterprise is upgrading the game, we are to believe that their launches are suddenly an obstacle to the friendly skies of commercial aviation?
Airframe manufacturers have a new generation of large, high efficiency aircraft on offer. So long as airlines would rather cram us into puddle-jumpers on major routes instead of buying the new planes, those crowded skies are their own fault.
Twenty years ago, the Green lobby tried to stop the development of astronomy in Arizona, first with a fake endangered species argument and then with a fake native claims argument: https://link.springer.com/chap...
At the time, they claimed that Hawaii was a better location for ground-based telescopes than Arizona because the University of Hawaii owned an astronomy reserve on the summit of Mauna Kea, which was well supported by both the international science community and by the local economy. What happened, as we know now, was that as soon as the Greens lost in Arizona they immediately transferred their anti-science campaign to Hawaii, where they have been trying to oust UH from its deeded astronomy reserve and prevent the newest generation of telescopes from being built. They again ginned up a fake native claims argument, as in Arizona.
Their "go to Hawaii..." argument they tried in Arizona has now become "Send the telescopes to space..." When we have a space-based economy that will support scientific infrastructure on that scale, we will gladly do that. In the meantime, we need to finish our current generation of ground-based telescopes.
Mr. Trump, you have a bulletproof Supreme Court now. Send tanks up Mauna Kea, if that's what it will take, to get the keel laid for Thirty Meter Telescope.
The brief description is vague about the actual size of the payload, but if it can be sent up as a supply-rocket mission to operate in station with the ISS (not ON the ISS, because of the need for cryogenic conditions and to avoid the possibility of getting their freezer back with nothing in it but a handwritten note saying "Sorry! I got hungry and used Bose-Einstein concentrate on my sorbet - Feodor") for an extended period of time.
Run this way, the experiment would not be bound by the tight time constraint of a suborbital flight, could be serviced in flight as necessary by spacewalks, and returned to earth independently.
Isn't Tor supposed to be still uncrackable? And if not, can't the resistance use the Telegram app, which so far has held up against the Iranian religious police?
Let's assume that this is true of the original wet biology that arises from each planet's primordial soup. Some subset of these lifeforms survives the early planetary filters to become stable technological civilizations that have curiosity beyond their immediate environment and at the same time can build silicon-based systems of increasing complexity, leading to artificial intelligence. My question is what happens when that silicon becomes a self-aware lifeform in its own right?
Our search for extraterrestrial life, such as it is, has been on the assumption that "as we know it" means carbon-based. But because right here and now we are in the early stages of a transition from carbon-based to silicon-based on Earth, what does this imply for other intelligent species?
Is this kind of change inevitable as soon as a civilization can accomplish it, and what does it mean for the possibility of communication? It could be that digitized silicon lifeforms produced by any given 'wet biology' will become good at concealing its own existence in the same way that good encryption is indistinguishable from noise.
Do YOU even know what you mean by that? Or is it just something you heard Alex Jones say and so you thought it must be true?
Here is a good example. This woman is so toxically vicious that Democrats are trying to stuff her back into her cage like a rabid pit bull: https://www.realclearpolitics....
I have always liked all seafood (yes, even uni), but about ten years ago, with no warning, I developed an allergy to mussels. Could this have come from some random insect bite?
You would have a point if the crackdown were just on the "huckster row" that fan cons have. If someone sells T-shirts or figures with copyrighted characters, these should be licensed. But references to the characters in impromptu stage plays, fan fiction and festival themes should be fair use. These are free advertising for the franchise.
I would like to see some franchise fan base plan regional flash mob events where people come out in costume and openly defy the whole initiative to deny fair use to fans. Organize them using Telegram, the encrypted social media app that activists use to arrange demonstrations in places like Iran, so that Hollywood's lawyers can't identify any high-level person to send their C&D letters to.
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Personally, I can think of only a small handful of countries (Iceland comes to mind) that could make an even remotely plausible claim to having a government truly owned by the workers.
And when I visited, they still complained about the asshat banksters having gotten off easy in the Great Recession.
Bye bye communism.
If you look closely at the Brussels regulatory regime, it's actually more like Californism. It's just that the sacred untouchable 'refugees' are a different ethnicity.
Sightseeing drones are a big problem in fire country, since a lot of wildfire fighting takes place in the air, with aircraft loaded at gross and in turbulence. And coming soon, drones will be involved on the side of firefighters.
If I shoot one picture a minute 365/24, it will take me just under thirteen years to fill up one of these cards. Now that's what I would call a photo trip.
Unfortunately, I would then have to spend 39 years in Lightroom Classic editing this set of pictures. My wife will kill me, especially when she has to sit through the slideshow later.
Yes, even a non-speculative cryptocurrency would be subject to the money supply problem, which is that the amount of any mined-out currency (cost of generating any more is ludicrously high in energy cost, like BTC) stays constant, while the sum of all the things it can be traded for keeps growing. This causes a steady fall in the amount of coin it takes to buy goods, which makes buying and holding the currency itself an irresistible deal. So although a stable crypto could be a viable medium of exchange in the short run, any money supply held constant is subject to rising in price in comparison to what it trades for.
That is why every fiat currency is managed by a central bank that is supposed to monitor economic activity and gradually issue more money as the volume of traded goods increases. In the real world the currencies we buy and hold are determined by investors' perception of how good the judgement of the Federal Reserve is in comparison to, say, the Swiss National Bank.
After all these years the best non-fiat 'currency' is still gold. It is not managed, yet all cultures understand its value and trade it freely, and the amount of it in existence slowly grows through mining at about two to three percent a year. This closely tracks the long-run increase in fungible goods, so although investors use it as a store of value at times when their economies are in trouble, its long-term value remains roughly the same.
If people would stop using Bitcoin as an imaginary digital investment, it would actually make a decent medium of exchange now that mechanisms for securely faster transactions are being developed. A mature cryptocurrency would be one whose value didn't keep fluctuating wildly week by week.
I was never a religious recycler, but I did take the time to sort my garbage into the appropriate bins - at the time, there were three categories.
As a Unitarian, I'm a religious recycler. My town (rural northern AZ) has multiple-stream recycling, but all plastic and metals go into one bin, so an AI would have to classify plastics and separate metallics.
Down in the desert, the city of Phoenix has single-stream recycling, which is currently sorted manually. An AI would have a tougher time doing this classification, but that would save a huge amount of labor and make the operation truly economic.
Phoenix has had several instances over the years of murderers literally throwing away their victims, in the municipal collection. So far as I know, no body sent to the landfill has ever been successfully found. One small advantage of Phoenix' manual-classification recycling system is that when a stupid albeit socially conscious thug throws a victim into a recycling bin, the body has always been found the next day.
My God you are stupid. Guess that is why you get paid 50k per year in SV.
All the sorter would have to do is look for and classify by for the plastic type indicator stamped into the bottom of each container. Not-founds would be binned into an "Other" category that could be just retorted to break down the plastic into component hydrocarbon.
PJ O'Rourke's favored paradigm would be a capitalist market in medicine. What we actually have is an interlocking cartel of medieval guilds which uses the force of law to operate healthcare as a monopoly.
My solution: work around the legal barriers by putting free-market healthcare for the general population on Indian reservations. Put medical buildings and dental centers right next to the casino, which everyone already knows how to find.
Duct-tape an AR-15 onto it, spray on a camo paint job, and call it a SPACE FORCE unmanned recon ship. Funding guaranteed!
The good news would be that a military JWST would be up and running in no time. The bad news is that it would now cost $100 billion.
Airlines love to blame their efficiency problems on everyone else. Gee, I thought space programs were were supposed to be an insignificant part of the economy. I suppose they were, back in the days when we had to sit around waiting out NASA's endless delays (see adjacent article on the JWST project). So now that private enterprise is upgrading the game, we are to believe that their launches are suddenly an obstacle to the friendly skies of commercial aviation?
Airframe manufacturers have a new generation of large, high efficiency aircraft on offer. So long as airlines would rather cram us into puddle-jumpers on major routes instead of buying the new planes, those crowded skies are their own fault.
Twenty years ago, the Green lobby tried to stop the development of astronomy in Arizona, first with a fake endangered species argument and then with a fake native claims argument:
https://link.springer.com/chap...
At the time, they claimed that Hawaii was a better location for ground-based telescopes than Arizona because the University of Hawaii owned an astronomy reserve on the summit of Mauna Kea, which was well supported by both the international science community and by the local economy. What happened, as we know now, was that as soon as the Greens lost in Arizona they immediately transferred their anti-science campaign to Hawaii, where they have been trying to oust UH from its deeded astronomy reserve and prevent the newest generation of telescopes from being built. They again ginned up a fake native claims argument, as in Arizona.
Their "go to Hawaii..." argument they tried in Arizona has now become "Send the telescopes to space..." When we have a space-based economy that will support scientific infrastructure on that scale, we will gladly do that. In the meantime, we need to finish our current generation of ground-based telescopes.
Mr. Trump, you have a bulletproof Supreme Court now. Send tanks up Mauna Kea, if that's what it will take, to get the keel laid for Thirty Meter Telescope.
We have to warn Fort Charles that this is coming!
I wouldn't even start to consider applying the Fermi Paradox until we have thoroughly explored our own solar system.
The brief description is vague about the actual size of the payload, but if it can be sent up as a supply-rocket mission to operate in station with the ISS (not ON the ISS, because of the need for cryogenic conditions and to avoid the possibility of getting their freezer back with nothing in it but a handwritten note saying "Sorry! I got hungry and used Bose-Einstein concentrate on my sorbet - Feodor") for an extended period of time.
Run this way, the experiment would not be bound by the tight time constraint of a suborbital flight, could be serviced in flight as necessary by spacewalks, and returned to earth independently.
Isn't Tor supposed to be still uncrackable? And if not, can't the resistance use the Telegram app, which so far has held up against the Iranian religious police?
Let's assume that this is true of the original wet biology that arises from each planet's primordial soup. Some subset of these lifeforms survives the early planetary filters to become stable technological civilizations that have curiosity beyond their immediate environment and at the same time can build silicon-based systems of increasing complexity, leading to artificial intelligence. My question is what happens when that silicon becomes a self-aware lifeform in its own right?
Our search for extraterrestrial life, such as it is, has been on the assumption that "as we know it" means carbon-based. But because right here and now we are in the early stages of a transition from carbon-based to silicon-based on Earth, what does this imply for other intelligent species?
Is this kind of change inevitable as soon as a civilization can accomplish it, and what does it mean for the possibility of communication? It could be that digitized silicon lifeforms produced by any given 'wet biology' will become good at concealing its own existence in the same way that good encryption is indistinguishable from noise.
You know, the ones that colleges use to try a man who has sex or who favors a wrongthink hypothesis or is found to have a Republican relative?
I know there's a running joke that Apple is 5 years behind the curve, but Jesus Christ.
This is actually the configuration I've been waiting for. Earbud type devices won't stay in my old hairy ears.
Do YOU even know what you mean by that? Or is it just something you heard Alex Jones say and so you thought it must be true?
Here is a good example. This woman is so toxically vicious that Democrats are trying to stuff her back into her cage like a rabid pit bull:
https://www.realclearpolitics....
I have always liked all seafood (yes, even uni), but about ten years ago, with no warning, I developed an allergy to mussels. Could this have come from some random insect bite?
There's an old joke: "Why do the British drink warm beer? Because they keep it in Lucas refrigerators."
Must be why they have been losing workers to layoffs and shutting down factories.
No, that's because their Boomer fan base is dying off.
You would have a point if the crackdown were just on the "huckster row" that fan cons have. If someone sells T-shirts or figures with copyrighted characters, these should be licensed. But references to the characters in impromptu stage plays, fan fiction and festival themes should be fair use. These are free advertising for the franchise.
I would like to see some franchise fan base plan regional flash mob events where people come out in costume and openly defy the whole initiative to deny fair use to fans. Organize them using Telegram, the encrypted social media app that activists use to arrange demonstrations in places like Iran, so that Hollywood's lawyers can't identify any high-level person to send their C&D letters to.