Ok, here's what you do: introduce a fucking licence fee for all the other broadcasters, compulsory with the threat of prison, so it's a level playing field. Don't want to? Didn't think so.
It's GCHQ's job not only to gather intelligence (SIGINT) but also to protect the UK from cyber spying. Given that most of this is coming from China, I'd be a little more circumspect if I were you.
In the early 1990's I read a couple of books by Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In these books Penrose speculated about something called Ordered Water, present in the microtubules of the cytoskeleton of neurons in the brain - possibly forming some kind of Bose-Einstein Condensate. Is this a similar kind of thing?
Except burning carbon today is good for our economies (it's cheap energy, now) and subsequent technological improvement may in the end be a net positive globally over a century or two. It's really impossible to say what the opportunity cost of not using it is. One can imagine various scenarios. Nobody's going to study it of course because it's not very politically correct and in the current climate (no pun intended), it's very hard to get positive stories published, let alone agencies to fund the research.
I'm not sure I agree with your examples here. Our security services aren't too bad and have uncovered and thwarted quite a few attempted terrorist attacks. I put this down to our long experience of terrorism in Northern Ireland (and Irish Republican terrorism on the mainland). But again you need to look at the list of Islamist terrorist attacks that grows longer month by month. You can throw out some examples but if you want to look at numbers worldwide, the story is completely different. It's quite disingenuous to argue Islamists terrorism is on a par with white supremacist terrorism. It isn't by a long shot, as the statistics show.
And if just 1% of white people are nutjob violent white supremacists, that's 10 million of them
Do you see the issue with your argument? Here's the thing: There's a supply and demand problem with nutjob violent white supremacists. They're always brought up in debates like this but the supply of them is just not big enough to satisfy it. Your response is typical of course, as is being in denial about the problem in general.
If we're going to abuse statistics, it's worth pointing out that if only 1% of Muslims support Jihadists, that's still a good 10 million people. Ten million. The results are clear enough. In fact support for these ideas when polled (by Pew, for example) are far higher than 1%.
That's what's it's for, yes. The problem is it's going to be very tempting indeed to use it for other things, gradually expanding its scope. There aren't really any checks and balances to prevent that are there, as it's all secret by definition and the voters aren't party to it.
In that case we'd better put all Muslims into solitary too because the prison system is one of the main sources of radicalisation in Western countries. If it's good for Brevik it should be a general rule.
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Ok, here's what you do: introduce a fucking licence fee for all the other broadcasters, compulsory with the threat of prison, so it's a level playing field. Don't want to? Didn't think so.
It's called the tyranny of the discontinuous mind. Apparently economic benefits never outweigh environmental costs.
Spot on.
It's GCHQ's job not only to gather intelligence (SIGINT) but also to protect the UK from cyber spying. Given that most of this is coming from China, I'd be a little more circumspect if I were you.
First thing I do when I install a 10 box is get rid of that crap. Or rather hide it, probably can't get rid of it.
It's interesting you mention the EU. Dyson has repeatedly talked about how the regulations are fixed, designed to make his competitors look better than they are compared to his products. This is basically how the EU works - it's a protectionist racket for French and German companies.
I have short hair but use my hair dryer to dry my body after a shower. Towels are damp, obviously.
"not made here" syndrome. I've got 2 Dyson products and they're both great.
Probably the most naïve comment I've ever read on Slashdot.
In the early 1990's I read a couple of books by Roger Penrose, The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind. In these books Penrose speculated about something called Ordered Water, present in the microtubules of the cytoskeleton of neurons in the brain - possibly forming some kind of Bose-Einstein Condensate. Is this a similar kind of thing?
Isn't the Sahara greening?
Except burning carbon today is good for our economies (it's cheap energy, now) and subsequent technological improvement may in the end be a net positive globally over a century or two. It's really impossible to say what the opportunity cost of not using it is. One can imagine various scenarios. Nobody's going to study it of course because it's not very politically correct and in the current climate (no pun intended), it's very hard to get positive stories published, let alone agencies to fund the research.
It's just the way things work these days. Rent seeking is 30% of the global economy.
I'm not sure I agree with your examples here. Our security services aren't too bad and have uncovered and thwarted quite a few attempted terrorist attacks. I put this down to our long experience of terrorism in Northern Ireland (and Irish Republican terrorism on the mainland). But again you need to look at the list of Islamist terrorist attacks that grows longer month by month. You can throw out some examples but if you want to look at numbers worldwide, the story is completely different. It's quite disingenuous to argue Islamists terrorism is on a par with white supremacist terrorism. It isn't by a long shot, as the statistics show.
Do you see the issue with your argument? Here's the thing: There's a supply and demand problem with nutjob violent white supremacists. They're always brought up in debates like this but the supply of them is just not big enough to satisfy it. Your response is typical of course, as is being in denial about the problem in general.
If we're going to abuse statistics, it's worth pointing out that if only 1% of Muslims support Jihadists, that's still a good 10 million people. Ten million. The results are clear enough. In fact support for these ideas when polled (by Pew, for example) are far higher than 1%.
And when was "liberal arts" actually liberal? I mean in the classical sense. It's current incarnation is far from liberal, quite the opposite in fact.
Pretty soon North Korea will have a boat capable of reaching Japan (depending on the winds and tides).
The more difficult the content is made to access, the more motivated people will be to copy and share it illegally. Fair enough.
That's what's it's for, yes. The problem is it's going to be very tempting indeed to use it for other things, gradually expanding its scope. There aren't really any checks and balances to prevent that are there, as it's all secret by definition and the voters aren't party to it.
So why is it the murder rate in the US decreasing as more States lose the death penalty?
In that case we'd better put all Muslims into solitary too because the prison system is one of the main sources of radicalisation in Western countries. If it's good for Brevik it should be a general rule.
But you just asserted that it's a deterrent. Are you now suggesting crime and punishment are not correlated?
If that were true the countries with the harshest punishments would have the lowest crime.
Putting them in prison is removing them permanently.