My Dad, rest his soul, always told me to not place a bet I wasn't guaranteed to win unless I was willing to give the money away in the first place, and don't start a fight I wasn't guaranteed to win unless I was willing to take a beating for whatever the fight was about.
So why do people not have the resonance when it takes 2 hours or more to repair their PC? And why do so many of them, despite obviously not knowing how to repair it themselves (or they wouldn't have asked you), seem to think it should have taken you only 10% of that time?
Cause they watched that facebook movie and they saw where this geeky kid threw together a website in one night that is now "valued at" 26 billion. And he knew the cool "hacking" techniques like wget and URL mangling that allowed him to "break into" Harvard's network. Before that, there was Jurassic Park where a 13 yr old girl "knew Unix", and was able to manipulate the entire island with a 3D mouse.
Hollywood has taught the plebes that computers are easy for the digerati. Don't we all have a password cracker with a GUI front end, including a progress bar that knows how long it will take to crack the password?
People live communally and by mutual consent. Very free to do as they will. Then population begins to increase. Something happens and food becomes more difficult to obtain. It becomes easier to steal from their neighbors.
The people pass the responsibility of protection to men who become warlords, who agree to fight back invaders. In return, they are relieved of the responsibilities of menial everyday chores.
The "protectors" become haughty, and eventually become kings. The people are subdued and enslaved.
At some point, the people get the ideas that the rulers they appointed to protect them are worse than the invaders. The people revolt, and throw out the bastards in order to live communally and by mutual consent...until the next time...
But "coping with the change" isn't what politicians are asking for? They're looking to stop and reverse global warming by instituting austere measures that vest more power in them (how convenient).
Plugging a hole in the boat is all well and good. Determining where the water is coming from and stopping it are a simple engineering exercise. There is valid data that corresponds extremely well to global temperature records that suggests that our temperatures depend upon our position within the arm of the Milky Way galaxy. According to this theory, we've just passed through a minor arm with it's increased cosmic radiation, and are on our way out to a sparser portion of the galaxy. We can expect a drop in future temperatures, if this theory is correct.
Do you have a solution for how to move our solar system to a different part of the galaxy? Will empowering politicians do anything other than enrichen the ruling elite?
But burning of fossil fuels is not the best explanation we have. There are other explanations that provide a better fit with the data.
Of course, those explanations do not lend themselves to a solution that allows politicians to seize more control of the economy, so they won't get much airtime.
Henrik Svensmark is director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI), a part of the Danish National Space Center. He previously headed the sun-climate group at DSRI. He held postdoctoral positions in physics at three other organizations: University of California, Berkeley, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Niels Bohr Institute.
It most certainly is a Republican/Democrat position. The difference is that Republicans who don't understand something dismiss is altogether, while OTOH as the Sokal incident pointed out, some Democrats held too much faith in scientists. I would hope that, in matters of science, politicians have more faith in scientists and in, say, religion.
It would be more correct to say that Democrats put their faith in academics.
The day that engineers can be replaced by computers we shall talk again. Until then, I just advise law-students to choose a new study while they can.
Read "Bridge Over the River Kwai" (did I spell that name correctly?)
The officer sent to blow the bridge up recounts his life as an "engineer". Days spent pouring over calculations that another engineer had already poured over and would be reviewed again by another engineer.
Computers have already replaced most of the engineers.
Which, with hindsight, was naïve to say the least; the actual outcome is "If machines can do 40% of the work, I can lay off 40% of my work force. And then I can pay less to the remaining 60% because there's more competition for jobs!"
But then the competition has to do the same thing, because you're able to drop prices by 30% and still make 10% more in profit. Eventually, the price is whittled down the entire 40% and the consumer now gets your product for nearly half price. If this happens across the economic spectrum, I get laid off but my wife keeps her job. BLAM!! Life goal number one is met! I'm a "kept man".
I don't see where there is an issue. We get to the same goal, just by a different route.
What if a kid is using an anonymous Skype account to call in bomb threats to his school?
What if you're in your workshop one day, happily sandblasting an engine part, when the compressor kicks off and you hear someone yell, "Sir, stay where you are?" You look up to see two policemen. One with a rifle and one with a handgun. Both ready to do serious business. Of course, you can't move because your hands are stuck in those stupid sand-blasting cabinet gloves. And it turns out that a kid was using an anonymous Skype account to report a shootout at your house, using a video game as background noise.
Sounds a little far-fetched to be fictional, 'cause it actually happened. To me. The policeman had to call two other cars that were racing through town at dangerous speeds, and tell them to chill (he used more official sounding language. Same effect.) I did get a chance to show off my cool project...after it was explained that there was no shoot-out.
Personally, I feel that warrants in these cases were valid.
You obviously mean that his indoctrination is lacking.
The poor most definitely derive the most benefit from a stable society. The rich can still hole up in their castles. It is always the poor that are raped and pillaged by the rampaging barbarians.
I don't know why people in the US seem to think that Columbus thought the world was flat, but ask most people on the street and that's what they'll tell you.
Because they are taught that from the time they are in grade school?
So, there should be no fairness in the tax code. If a man works and saves his entire life, it is in my interest to take it from him on his death and spend it as I see fit, as opposed to letting him hand it out as he has decided (through a will)? Politically, the only thing I should "support" is whatever I can grab out of the public coffers.
Welcome to our current fiscal crisis where the government takes half our pay, and yet plans to spend twice as much as the take in, all the while claiming that a fractional percentage is a "deep cut". This country is doomed.
I hear this crap repeated and it is just that: Crap. Things last plenty long. Cars, one of the examples used, are a wonderful example. As machining gets higher precision cars last longer and longer and longer. They even need less maintenance. That "Change your oil every 3000 miles," stuff? Gone on new vehicles.
Careful there, hoss. Read your owner's manual again. Congress mandated a 6,000 mile oil change. Low-and-behold the manufacturers produced 6,000 mile oil change cars. They had larger sumps, and the 6,000 mile oil change does not apply to cars used for "severe duty". How is "severe duty" defined? Basically, using the vehicle (that is hyperbole, but not by much at all).
Cars have gotten better in many way, but they have also gotten cheaper in many ways (flimsy plastic crap all over the place).
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My Dad, rest his soul, always told me to not place a bet I wasn't guaranteed to win unless I was willing to give the money away in the first place, and don't start a fight I wasn't guaranteed to win unless I was willing to take a beating for whatever the fight was about.
Are you saying robots are dumber than strippers??
Pffft! Now one would be foolish enough to say that!
So why do people not have the resonance when it takes 2 hours or more to repair their PC? And why do so many of them, despite obviously not knowing how to repair it themselves (or they wouldn't have asked you), seem to think it should have taken you only 10% of that time?
Cause they watched that facebook movie and they saw where this geeky kid threw together a website in one night that is now "valued at" 26 billion. And he knew the cool "hacking" techniques like wget and URL mangling that allowed him to "break into" Harvard's network. Before that, there was Jurassic Park where a 13 yr old girl "knew Unix", and was able to manipulate the entire island with a 3D mouse.
Hollywood has taught the plebes that computers are easy for the digerati. Don't we all have a password cracker with a GUI front end, including a progress bar that knows how long it will take to crack the password?
Sex happens because we have hormones and chemicals and stuff in our brains
And because the guy has a nice car or other trappings of money. But I'm sure you just left that out for the sake of brevity.
People live communally and by mutual consent. Very free to do as they will. Then population begins to increase. Something happens and food becomes more difficult to obtain. It becomes easier to steal from their neighbors.
The people pass the responsibility of protection to men who become warlords, who agree to fight back invaders. In return, they are relieved of the responsibilities of menial everyday chores.
The "protectors" become haughty, and eventually become kings. The people are subdued and enslaved.
At some point, the people get the ideas that the rulers they appointed to protect them are worse than the invaders. The people revolt, and throw out the bastards in order to live communally and by mutual consent...until the next time...
The wise man is so 1980's. Today, the saying is:
"Don't call a man a fool, sell him a sub-prime loan."
But "coping with the change" isn't what politicians are asking for? They're looking to stop and reverse global warming by instituting austere measures that vest more power in them (how convenient).
Plugging a hole in the boat is all well and good. Determining where the water is coming from and stopping it are a simple engineering exercise. There is valid data that corresponds extremely well to global temperature records that suggests that our temperatures depend upon our position within the arm of the Milky Way galaxy. According to this theory, we've just passed through a minor arm with it's increased cosmic radiation, and are on our way out to a sparser portion of the galaxy. We can expect a drop in future temperatures, if this theory is correct.
Do you have a solution for how to move our solar system to a different part of the galaxy? Will empowering politicians do anything other than enrichen the ruling elite?
But burning of fossil fuels is not the best explanation we have. There are other explanations that provide a better fit with the data.
Of course, those explanations do not lend themselves to a solution that allows politicians to seize more control of the economy, so they won't get much airtime.
Really? No contrary information at all? I would say that you are being just a mite to selective in what you choose to look at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Svensmark
Henrik Svensmark is director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space Research Institute (DSRI), a part of the Danish National Space Center. He previously headed the sun-climate group at DSRI. He held postdoctoral positions in physics at three other organizations: University of California, Berkeley, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, and the Niels Bohr Institute.
It most certainly is a Republican/Democrat position. The difference is that Republicans who don't understand something dismiss is altogether, while OTOH as the Sokal incident pointed out, some Democrats held too much faith in scientists. I would hope that, in matters of science, politicians have more faith in scientists and in, say, religion.
It would be more correct to say that Democrats put their faith in academics.
Claiming that it isn't equivalent to actual murder is also an emotional argument.
The day that engineers can be replaced by computers we shall talk again. Until then, I just advise law-students to choose a new study while they can.
Read "Bridge Over the River Kwai" (did I spell that name correctly?)
The officer sent to blow the bridge up recounts his life as an "engineer". Days spent pouring over calculations that another engineer had already poured over and would be reviewed again by another engineer.
Computers have already replaced most of the engineers.
Which, with hindsight, was naïve to say the least; the actual outcome is "If machines can do 40% of the work, I can lay off 40% of my work force. And then I can pay less to the remaining 60% because there's more competition for jobs!"
But then the competition has to do the same thing, because you're able to drop prices by 30% and still make 10% more in profit. Eventually, the price is whittled down the entire 40% and the consumer now gets your product for nearly half price. If this happens across the economic spectrum, I get laid off but my wife keeps her job. BLAM!! Life goal number one is met! I'm a "kept man".
I don't see where there is an issue. We get to the same goal, just by a different route.
What if a kid is using an anonymous Skype account to call in bomb threats to his school?
What if you're in your workshop one day, happily sandblasting an engine part, when the compressor kicks off and you hear someone yell, "Sir, stay where you are?" You look up to see two policemen. One with a rifle and one with a handgun. Both ready to do serious business. Of course, you can't move because your hands are stuck in those stupid sand-blasting cabinet gloves. And it turns out that a kid was using an anonymous Skype account to report a shootout at your house, using a video game as background noise.
Sounds a little far-fetched to be fictional, 'cause it actually happened. To me. The policeman had to call two other cars that were racing through town at dangerous speeds, and tell them to chill (he used more official sounding language. Same effect.) I did get a chance to show off my cool project...after it was explained that there was no shoot-out.
Personally, I feel that warrants in these cases were valid.
You obviously mean that his indoctrination is lacking.
The poor most definitely derive the most benefit from a stable society. The rich can still hole up in their castles. It is always the poor that are raped and pillaged by the rampaging barbarians.
Why do you assume that the people that want to control everything you do gravitate to only one power center?
I don't know why people in the US seem to think that Columbus thought the world was flat, but ask most people on the street and that's what they'll tell you.
Because they are taught that from the time they are in grade school?
However, this figure doesn't account for the large demographic who buys used so maybe that duration would prove to be much higher?
Well, it would have until Obama came around with his Cash for Clunkers program.
So, there should be no fairness in the tax code. If a man works and saves his entire life, it is in my interest to take it from him on his death and spend it as I see fit, as opposed to letting him hand it out as he has decided (through a will)? Politically, the only thing I should "support" is whatever I can grab out of the public coffers.
Welcome to our current fiscal crisis where the government takes half our pay, and yet plans to spend twice as much as the take in, all the while claiming that a fractional percentage is a "deep cut". This country is doomed.
Its a flipping car, just like its a flipping phone
Ummh, no. It is a "flip" phone, you friggin' luddite.
(Also proudly sporting a flip phone. 8*)
I hear this crap repeated and it is just that: Crap. Things last plenty long. Cars, one of the examples used, are a wonderful example. As machining gets higher precision cars last longer and longer and longer. They even need less maintenance. That "Change your oil every 3000 miles," stuff? Gone on new vehicles.
Careful there, hoss. Read your owner's manual again. Congress mandated a 6,000 mile oil change. Low-and-behold the manufacturers produced 6,000 mile oil change cars. They had larger sumps, and the 6,000 mile oil change does not apply to cars used for "severe duty". How is "severe duty" defined? Basically, using the vehicle (that is hyperbole, but not by much at all).
Cars have gotten better in many way, but they have also gotten cheaper in many ways (flimsy plastic crap all over the place).
Tell that to Svensmark. He couldn't even get his studies published.
So sayeth the Book of Jandersen?
More on Svensmark and how his theories have been unfairly resisted by the Warmist.
http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/8608