War is usually a stupid idea; in order for a war to happen, at least one (and usually both, or all) sides must act against their long-term self-interest. This fact has never kept us from fighting them
Agreed, and no form of government has been successful at preventing them. I live on the border of NH and VT. VT considers our no-sales-tax policy a form of trade war.:)
Confederation, however appealing in may sound in principle, doesn't seem to work very well in practice.
There were problems with the Articles of Confederation (State-controlled money chief among them), but that doesn't indict the concept of Confederation. We know this because a variation of it worked for a very long time in Ancient Greece. Nobody thinks the trade wars would have lasted in the long-term (because it's a stupid idea).
I think EU is essentially in the cross-roads of three alternative paths:...
2. Turn in to a Federation, subordinating national parliaments to one Federal Parliament in Brussels.... I feel like the second path is the only feasible way to proceed.
Hi. American here. We tried this in 1789. It leads to massive corruption. The correct answer is a set of Republics, representing no more than a quarter million people each, or a small number of square miles, in the case of a City-State. Ancient Greece had this figured out and was relatively stable for a couple thousand years. Free trade among the Republics should be insisted upon by the populous.
Also, insist on the separation of Money and State. Politically-driven money makes for bad money and bad politics.
there have been many deficiencies with the balance in the intermediary stages
That's part of the plan. No group can survive with a single fiat currency and disparate systems of government.
The next step is for the French and Germans to say, "goddamnnit, we're sick of bailing out these losers. If this is to continue, there has to be some rules set up for everybody to abide by."
Bingo (does that translate across the pond?) Game, Set, Match, perhaps.
The Science News story has some words of caution of equating this 'hole' to the Antarctic hole:
Geir Braathen, senior scientific officer with the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, concurs that âoescientists have not agreed on any threshold ozone loss, like 250 or 260 Dobson units [for a hole].â Still, this atmospheric chemist cautions, âoeI would be careful about calling the Arctic depletion an ozone holeâ because it might lead people to think it's comparable to what emerges in the Antarctic. And it isnâ(TM)t.
Antarctica's hole recurs annually, whereas mega-thinning in Arctic ozone is novel. Antarcticaâ(TM)s ozone also thins at some point to zero in a band many kilometers high. At no altitude has Arctic ozone ever fallen to zero â" even in 2011. Finally, Braathen points out, the aerial expanse and depth of the Antarctic hole greatly dwarfs the Arctic region that experienced substantial thinning earlier this year.
âoeGoing into this Arctic spring, many of us â" myself included â" really thought this might be the year that we would see a real Arctic ozone hole,â observed Susan Solomon, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, at the recent American Chemical Society meeting in Denver. "But in the end," she says, "I think itâ(TM)s fair to say that we didnâ(TM)t.â
It may be a matter of semantics, she concedes, but there was a rapid resupply of ozone from outside the Arctic vortex (that swirling wall of winds in the stratosphere that largely corrals a patch of atmosphere, rendering it vulnerable to ozone-destroying chemical reactions). Such a resupply does not occur in the Antarctic vortex, she notes; and that's what permits its stratospheric ozone concentrations to plummet to zero over a several-kilometer height.
So, although the new paper clearly demonstrates that at some altitudes Arctic ozone was efficiently destroyed, Solomon says, âoeI wouldnâ(TM)t call this an ozone hole.â
(sorry, Slashdot still protects us against dangerous quotation marks)
Incidentally, there is no "right to revolt" in the Constitution. The concept is covered in the Declaration of Independence which, while culturally and politically significant, holds no legal weight.
The United States are governed supremely by the US Constitution, then subordinately by the State Constitutions, then subordinately by Federal Law, then State Law.
Because the linux drivers are no good on this. I've got a 3650 with Fedora 15, and most of the stuff works under linux 3.0 but the video on my display is shifted up and left for no good reason and tinkering with modelines didn't move the picture at all. I'm still using the CPU but I put my nVidia card back in so I could use my display.
State governments can do little but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
You might be surprised. Introduced bills that have a chance of passing this season include free commerce between residents and in-state gun makers, free commerce between residents and in-state doctors and drug (or alternate) healthcare providers (this means drug treatments the FDA hasn't approved). Also introduced will be felony charges for TSA agents committing crimes, though it probably won't survive an override from the governor. NCLB will probably be nullified this year (Real ID was). Some of these bills have been introduced by FSP-member reps. There's a good-sized liberty contingent in the House, and a fair one in the Senate. Eventually secession may be on the table. Certainly not yet - they need more practice with nullification first.
A while back, Google bought out a research company that was in stealth mode making chips. All we really know is that the founder of the company did a bunch of work in routed microprocessors.
Google has a very strong reason to be interested in work per watt (and area). If searches run much better on custom ARM-ish network-ish chip clusters, we'll never notice. Intel might.
Anyway, their guys though the approach was good enough for an acquisition.
Start a "The Scientific Party" and let the democratic process do it's work. If there's a demand for such thing, it will be.
If you just have simple plurality voting, the system will naturally crowd out all but two parties. A preference system, ideally a Condorcet method, is needed for many competing parties to survive.
Mozilla announced they were actively working on separating the browser into multiple processes back in Summer '09
It seems to have stalled at Phase II within a year. Or nobody updates the Wiki.
and have already delivered some of the first fruits of that project to us in the form of of out-of-process plugins (OOPP).
Yeah, which was great in Firefox 3.6 (I stopped using nspluginwrapper which also solved the same problem) but even Electrolysis only aims to give each tab's content its own process, not to multi-thread Firefox's UI (itself in another process). I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong on that, of course.
I don't care where people are going for dinner, or bragging about the vacation they're on
You do realize that's like "I can watch news on TV and I've got a stash of Playboys so I canceled my Internet connection," right? People do use Facebook for dumb things, but it's also a heck of a networking tool.
Last I checked [pricewatch.com] you can get a DVD-RW for $19.98 and go Blu-ray for $10 more.
Wow, I see +$20, but yeah, that's worth it for my next drive purchase.
Is ripping all sorted out on linux at this point? I buy plenty of DVD's, but put them into storage once the data is safely on seekable storage. Might be time to step up to BluRay.
Now, I suppose I'll have to RTFA to find out which CEOs or mid-level executives are going to prison in addition to the fine. I mean, 15 felony charges, there's gotta be a list of names, right?
CEO's and executives are disposable. What absolutely must not happen is that the corporation be held liable (i.e. corporate charter suspension). That corporations are afforded the benefits of personhood but never* incur the risks (jail time, execution) is evidence enough that the government is a corporatocracy.
* I did once see a restaurant with a sign in the window noticing that it was shut down under order of the Sheriff's department for employing illegal dishwashers. Too small to pay to play, I guess.
I often turn my phone off. Longer battery life, fewer interruptions. However, when I need to make a call, I'd rather have my phone on as quickly as possible.
But, nobody turns their phone off - it takes too long to boot. Oh, wait.
A quick boot is a great feature for people who use their phones as a tool for making only outbound calls, not for people who receive inbound calls on their phone
TFTFY
And, believe me, despite what you see on the streets these days, there are people whose lives haven't been totally dominated by their phones.
Slashdot Mirror
First the News of the World, and now this.
Gosh, I didn't think they had it in them to shoot Rupert Murdoch into the sun.
War is usually a stupid idea; in order for a war to happen, at least one (and usually both, or all) sides must act against their long-term self-interest. This fact has never kept us from fighting them
Agreed, and no form of government has been successful at preventing them. I live on the border of NH and VT. VT considers our no-sales-tax policy a form of trade war. :)
Awesome - now I get it. Thanks!
Confederation, however appealing in may sound in principle, doesn't seem to work very well in practice.
There were problems with the Articles of Confederation (State-controlled money chief among them), but that doesn't indict the concept of Confederation. We know this because a variation of it worked for a very long time in Ancient Greece. Nobody thinks the trade wars would have lasted in the long-term (because it's a stupid idea).
I think EU is essentially in the cross-roads of three alternative paths: ... ...
2. Turn in to a Federation, subordinating national parliaments to one Federal Parliament in Brussels.
I feel like the second path is the only feasible way to proceed.
Hi. American here. We tried this in 1789. It leads to massive corruption. The correct answer is a set of Republics, representing no more than a quarter million people each, or a small number of square miles, in the case of a City-State. Ancient Greece had this figured out and was relatively stable for a couple thousand years. Free trade among the Republics should be insisted upon by the populous.
Also, insist on the separation of Money and State. Politically-driven money makes for bad money and bad politics.
Learn from our mistakes, don't repeat them.
there have been many deficiencies with the balance in the intermediary stages
That's part of the plan. No group can survive with a single fiat currency and disparate systems of government.
The next step is for the French and Germans to say, "goddamnnit, we're sick of bailing out these losers. If this is to continue, there has to be some rules set up for everybody to abide by."
Bingo (does that translate across the pond?) Game, Set, Match, perhaps.
The Science News story has some words of caution of equating this 'hole' to the Antarctic hole:
(sorry, Slashdot still protects us against dangerous quotation marks)
I think that's in Windows 8 and they're calling it an 'App Store'.
No word yet on how many reboots it'll take to install an app.
TFA says:
Is GPS satellite distribution not uniform-on-average across the globe? Sombody can 'splains?
Incidentally, there is no "right to revolt" in the Constitution. The concept is covered in the Declaration of Independence which, while culturally and politically significant, holds no legal weight.
The United States are governed supremely by the US Constitution, then subordinately by the State Constitutions, then subordinately by Federal Law, then State Law.
Several State Constitutions specifically codify the right of revolution.
Because the linux drivers are no good on this. I've got a 3650 with Fedora 15, and most of the stuff works under linux 3.0 but the video on my display is shifted up and left for no good reason and tinkering with modelines didn't move the picture at all. I'm still using the CPU but I put my nVidia card back in so I could use my display.
State governments can do little but rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.
You might be surprised. Introduced bills that have a chance of passing this season include free commerce between residents and in-state gun makers, free commerce between residents and in-state doctors and drug (or alternate) healthcare providers (this means drug treatments the FDA hasn't approved). Also introduced will be felony charges for TSA agents committing crimes, though it probably won't survive an override from the governor. NCLB will probably be nullified this year (Real ID was). Some of these bills have been introduced by FSP-member reps. There's a good-sized liberty contingent in the House, and a fair one in the Senate. Eventually secession may be on the table. Certainly not yet - they need more practice with nullification first.
A while back, Google bought out a research company that was in stealth mode making chips. All we really know is that the founder of the company did a bunch of work in routed microprocessors.
Google has a very strong reason to be interested in work per watt (and area). If searches run much better on custom ARM-ish network-ish chip clusters, we'll never notice. Intel might.
Anyway, their guys though the approach was good enough for an acquisition.
C'mon in, the water's warm (OK, more like 'chilly').
Start a "The Scientific Party" and let the democratic process do it's work. If there's a demand for such thing, it will be.
If you just have simple plurality voting, the system will naturally crowd out all but two parties. A preference system, ideally a Condorcet method, is needed for many competing parties to survive.
Yeah, there's science on that.
Only statist liberals call them ""pirates"".
Right, and all Americans are crack dealers.
Interesting, thanks for the reply.
Mozilla announced they were actively working on separating the browser into multiple processes back in Summer '09
It seems to have stalled at Phase II within a year. Or nobody updates the Wiki.
and have already delivered some of the first fruits of that project to us in the form of of out-of-process plugins (OOPP).
Yeah, which was great in Firefox 3.6 (I stopped using nspluginwrapper which also solved the same problem) but even Electrolysis only aims to give each tab's content its own process, not to multi-thread Firefox's UI (itself in another process). I'd be thrilled to be proven wrong on that, of course.
I think Bob Cesca's animation is what you were looking for.
I don't care where people are going for dinner, or bragging about the vacation they're on
You do realize that's like "I can watch news on TV and I've got a stash of Playboys so I canceled my Internet connection," right? People do use Facebook for dumb things, but it's also a heck of a networking tool.
Last I checked [pricewatch.com] you can get a DVD-RW for $19.98 and go Blu-ray for $10 more.
Wow, I see +$20, but yeah, that's worth it for my next drive purchase.
Is ripping all sorted out on linux at this point? I buy plenty of DVD's, but put them into storage once the data is safely on seekable storage. Might be time to step up to BluRay.
Now, I suppose I'll have to RTFA to find out which CEOs or mid-level executives are going to prison in addition to the fine. I mean, 15 felony charges, there's gotta be a list of names, right?
CEO's and executives are disposable. What absolutely must not happen is that the corporation be held liable (i.e. corporate charter suspension). That corporations are afforded the benefits of personhood but never* incur the risks (jail time, execution) is evidence enough that the government is a corporatocracy.
* I did once see a restaurant with a sign in the window noticing that it was shut down under order of the Sheriff's department for employing illegal dishwashers. Too small to pay to play, I guess.
Sounds good to me. Hope you don't want to own any stock in those companies, because as an owner you will be liable for its losses.
Imagine that - incurring both the risks and rewards. It's almost like ... being an owner!
Oh, right, government exists to socialize the losses for corporation owners, I forgot.
I often turn my phone off. Longer battery life, fewer interruptions. However, when I need to make a call, I'd rather have my phone on as quickly as possible.
But, nobody turns their phone off - it takes too long to boot. Oh, wait.
A quick boot is a great feature for people who use their phones as a tool for making only outbound calls, not for people who receive inbound calls on their phone
TFTFY
And, believe me, despite what you see on the streets these days, there are people whose lives haven't been totally dominated by their phones.
Amen to that.
I wonder if Microsoft has Nokia's hands tied?
They do if Nokia has no other options ... negotiating 101.