The average quality and length of life continues to increase rapidly. It's just shifting to China, a, curiously, economically freer zone.
Rhetoric decries it, e'en as actual measurements show it an incalculable boon to the common man you all claim to love.
I am prepared for a downmod by meme defense activation units, in support of their virtual plague organism (a data set whose existence is a disease, i.e. a chronic condition that has a measurable degradation on this average quality and length of life it porports, fraudulently, to be in defense of.)
The general corrolation between economic freedom, a central subset of general libertarian (small L) concepts, and advancing plentitude is well-established.
The best an honest leftist can claim is riding on this untamed and unparalleled wealth and advancement engine to take off the rough edges.
However, the traditional leftist tenet, that government should be in charge of everything throuch central planning has, by the exact same human history, been found massively lagging comparatively, at best (old China, USSR), and murderously retrograde at worst (North Korea).
No national politician in the US even goes near that anymore, for fear of, correctly, being thought a fool. They sing the praises of freedom, including economic freedom, which new China is proving yet again.
I remember when MS started protecting system files, denying permission for you to delete them. Viruses found ways to put that to work for them, increasing their rooting ability rather than decreasing it. You could even track down its files and the OS would forbid you from deleting it. Or killing its process.
Nah, don't worry about it. Concern for species is irrelevant. Before you are dead we will have resurrected recently dead species like dodo and mammoths and teeny horses. We will be able to resurrect frozen neanderthals if we have some.
And before your kids are dead, we will have complete life DNA simulation built into computers.
I don't see how this thwarts government spying. A catalog must be online somewhere, and anything the government is interested in, well, bonus, set up a cam opposite and write down whoever visits. Hell, it makes foreign spying even easier -- just another tourist visiting your country.
Rest assured, America! The multiple multi-billion-dollar data centers are still running, gathering all your facebook and phone calls, and the new ones under construction are still pouring cement today.
Nothing to worry about. Focus attention on Boy Scouts not being able to climb the Statue of Liberty and other deliberately-placed irritant memes those in power expect you to outrage over, like the good little programmable cogs you are.
Isn't this only useful if people produce hydrogen without burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to make hydrogen from water?
Either renewable biomass burning, or some other electricity generation, or some other method of hydrogen extraction magically not dependent on electricity?
Perhaps it would be better, if just for old-school pollution, I guess.
No one is claiming he has a "right" to enter the US. Quite a few of us are wondering what is happening to our land of the free, however. This guy was coming to attend an academic conference.
One wonders where the Constitution specifically allows political parties to deny entrance to invited guests purely for speech reasons. Probably the same part of the Constitution that grants the government the power to search citizens' papers witbout permission as you enter.
Let these be lessons of wisdom at how quickly freedom would evaporate inside the country were it not for the Amendments. All done "for The People".
Old people? Those late-nite ads for the new-style bidding web sites ate scams directed at young people. They are mathematically indistinguishible from gambling and should be treated as such.
Pay a dollar to bump up the price by 1 penny? Oop, someone else bumped it up another penny. You still lose your dollar. Guess who keeps all the dollars?
Gas had to get over $4 a gallon to make ethanol even remotely competitive, which would pull in productions of scale. Except $4 isn't all that much as far as economic disruption feared by gloom and doomers would suggest.
Shortage is an economic concept, and needs to be understood in that context. It can be treated as more or less synonymous with cost, higher is less supply, lower is more. There's a little more to it than that, especially boundary cases, but for mass-produced things like oil and gas, it's intensely accurate.
This needs to lower price to get into competitive range. As it will be pulling carbon out of the air, rather than re-introducing long-buried carbon, it will be much better and environmentally neutral -- burn to your heart's content.
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I remember my mom telling me when I was a little kid 40 years ago that Einstein's brain had twice as many convolutions in it as a normal human.
The average quality and length of life continues to increase rapidly. It's just shifting to China, a, curiously, economically freer zone.
Rhetoric decries it, e'en as actual measurements show it an incalculable boon to the common man you all claim to love.
I am prepared for a downmod by meme defense activation units, in support of their virtual plague organism (a data set whose existence is a disease, i.e. a chronic condition that has a measurable degradation on this average quality and length of life it porports, fraudulently, to be in defense of.)
It was more like televising a play, so they wanted to have repeat performances they could get paid for.
So, unions, pro:
- Reduced hours
- Increased pay
- Longer vacations
- Safer conditions
- Earlier retirement
Cons:
- Lost a bunch of Doctor Whos due to greed
THEY STILL FUCKING OWE US!!! >:-(
70 years after Doctor Who dies is a long fucking time from now :(
I wonder if this is
**spoiler mebbe**
based on the short story that ends with a kid looking up and saying, "Look, Daddy! A shooting star!" "Make a wish!, Billy!"
The general corrolation between economic freedom, a central subset of general libertarian (small L) concepts, and advancing plentitude is well-established.
The best an honest leftist can claim is riding on this untamed and unparalleled wealth and advancement engine to take off the rough edges.
However, the traditional leftist tenet, that government should be in charge of everything throuch central planning has, by the exact same human history, been found massively lagging comparatively, at best (old China, USSR), and murderously retrograde at worst (North Korea).
No national politician in the US even goes near that anymore, for fear of, correctly, being thought a fool. They sing the praises of freedom, including economic freedom, which new China is proving yet again.
Finally! Now nerds can design the perfect baby they have no chance of planting in a chick's belly.
I remember when MS started protecting system files, denying permission for you to delete them. Viruses found ways to put that to work for them, increasing their rooting ability rather than decreasing it. You could even track down its files and the OS would forbid you from deleting it. Or killing its process.
They can take my Coleco Adam when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers! I'm still waiting for Tunnels & Trolls to come out.
Nah, don't worry about it. Concern for species is irrelevant. Before you are dead we will have resurrected recently dead species like dodo and mammoths and teeny horses. We will be able to resurrect frozen neanderthals if we have some.
And before your kids are dead, we will have complete life DNA simulation built into computers.
All worries are silly in a historical context.
And the point of demanding the key instead of acceptng being fed just that user's data was that that user was a distraction from the real target.
How about we pass a law her brothers can copyright a foot up his ass?
For some reason it doesn't surprise me that a guy who wrote a book about LSD and self-discovery knows all about how to develop home nude photographs.
Doc: Bye, Marty! Yaaa hoooo! It worked! It worked! I sent him out of the solar system!
Marty McVoyager in a different shirt runs up behind him: Doc! I'm back.
Doc: Guuuuuuuuuhhhhhh!!!!!
Marty: I'm back. I'm back from interstellar space!
Doc: Great Scott! It must be the interstellar flux transit event capacitor!
I don't see how this thwarts government spying. A catalog must be online somewhere, and anything the government is interested in, well, bonus, set up a cam opposite and write down whoever visits. Hell, it makes foreign spying even easier -- just another tourist visiting your country.
Rest assured, America! The multiple multi-billion-dollar data centers are still running, gathering all your facebook and phone calls, and the new ones under construction are still pouring cement today.
Nothing to worry about. Focus attention on Boy Scouts not being able to climb the Statue of Liberty and other deliberately-placed irritant memes those in power expect you to outrage over, like the good little programmable cogs you are.
Isn't this only useful if people produce hydrogen without burning fossil fuels to generate electricity to make hydrogen from water?
Either renewable biomass burning, or some other electricity generation, or some other method of hydrogen extraction magically not dependent on electricity?
Perhaps it would be better, if just for old-school pollution, I guess.
One wonders where the Constitution specifically allows political parties to deny entrance to invited guests purely for speech reasons. Probably the same part of the Constitution that grants the government the power to search citizens' papers witbout permission as you enter.
Let these be lessons of wisdom at how quickly freedom would evaporate inside the country were it not for the Amendments. All done "for The People".
(slam!)
"Mom! Mom!!! Mr. Johnson tried to get me to touch his Tootsie Roll! He told me I just hadda touch the last third of it!"
Old people? Those late-nite ads for the new-style bidding web sites ate scams directed at young people. They are mathematically indistinguishible from gambling and should be treated as such.
Pay a dollar to bump up the price by 1 penny? Oop, someone else bumped it up another penny. You still lose your dollar. Guess who keeps all the dollars?
Weiner Grotto is even funnier.
Gas had to get over $4 a gallon to make ethanol even remotely competitive, which would pull in productions of scale. Except $4 isn't all that much as far as economic disruption feared by gloom and doomers would suggest.
Shortage is an economic concept, and needs to be understood in that context. It can be treated as more or less synonymous with cost, higher is less supply, lower is more. There's a little more to it than that, especially boundary cases, but for mass-produced things like oil and gas, it's intensely accurate.
This needs to lower price to get into competitive range. As it will be pulling carbon out of the air, rather than re-introducing long-buried carbon, it will be much better and environmentally neutral -- burn to your heart's content.
"A democracy fails once plebes figure out they can vote themselves bread and circises" has been sround for 2000 years.
Mikael Blomkbist: Here's your new school iPad, Lisbeth. It has blocks so you can't get to facebook and stuff.
Lisbeth Salander: (Looks at him with disgust) Please.
It also has some kind of blower to blow the melting stuff out of the way.