Problem is that the bill is 1200 pages long and it was finally published LAST NIGHT . No one knows exactly what is in there. This was written by staffers in closed sessions with no recordings. No one knows who added what. Who honestly thinks that any of the congressmen/women who are debating on this and voting on this at this very minute know what they're getting? They're buying a pig in a poke. And it is probably worse than anyone thinks for our economy, while doing nothing to help the environment. Hell GREENPEACE OPOSSES IT! This is a nasty kickback giving smoke filled backroom produced bill. The only known fact is that Al Gore's company and Nancy Pelosi's companies will make a mint on this legislation.
This shows the lack of seriousness on the part of the democrats. If they really cared about this they would pass a bill that would streamline the bureaucracy for new nuclear plants and subsidize their construction. If they make nuclear electricity cheap enough by cutting its regulatory costs and taxes then natural economics will shift our energy consumption to that. The fact they aren't doing that shows their real intentions--Capping our economy not just our COx emissions.
Where are they going to find the money to bring this to the supreme court?
Wouldn't it be better to actually spend the money on the children in California, rather than pay lawyers
to take this clearly unconstitutional law to the supreme court? What with California's budget woes; you would think they would want to save the money so they don't have to cut as much from education and health care for poor children.
The previous CAFE standard was linked to additional 2000 deaths a year. How many more deaths a year will the new CAFE standard cause?
If it saves 2000 lives a year can't we just release more CO2?
And I want it! I want every mosquito that bites me to die. I want vengeance on those nasty mosquitoes.
Don't keep it only to the third world. I want it now! I want evolution to work to my advantage so that
those vermin evolve to not bite people! Faster please!
Police are civilians. The police the claim otherwise are the bad actors and should be run out of the their forces. It is this non civilian mentality that has police thinking they are at war with those they serve, and acting that way.
In this section we discuss academic use guidelines that have been discussed and proposed, but have never been formally approved.
PROPOSED Academic guidelines from Stanford University are not the Law of this land. Good thing you're not a lawyer. If you were your clients would be suing you for malpractice.
Make everyone learn to ride a motorcycle for a couple years. Not only will they have an abiding respect for speed, the road, and the laws of physics, but they'll pay more attention to whether there are motorcycles on the road with them or not.
The ones that survive at least; however the ones that don't are less likely to kill someone else since they're driving a motorcycle and not a large car. Any downside I'm missing?
You must have missed the fact that the USA is barely at replacement birth rates and that Europe is at a rapidly declining birth rate as is Russia and Japan. China is not at a growing birth rate either. We are no where near the food production limits.
Its funny that you're making the same arguement that Malthus made over 200 years ago. Your argument isn't original. He wasn't right about it why should we think you are?
No its not. The United States barely has a replacement birth rate. No European Country has a replacement birth Rate. Russia and Japan are rapidly aging and soon won't have anybody there. China has a well known program to decrease population. It appears that as countries develop they quit breeding. The problem isn't that there will be to many people; its that there aren't enough people. Note the trend on the population growth rate chart from wikipedia.
When it hits 1.0 thats no growth; when it gets below that means fewer people. The future belongs to those who have children.
Then set it up to do this right before downtime; so its not one cycle but all the cycles that would happen during downtime, but aren't being processed because its downtime, and the server is down/rebooting.
They're a windows/directX shop. When the re-wrote the client's graphics for the "premium" graphics they could have used OpenGL and been cross platform. But they didn't. Now they can't get cross platform. Sucks for them.
It wasn't a hacked account. It was a coup-de-tat. It is part of the intended game mechanics, and thus within the rules.
The reason people don't want to play eve is that it doesn't have a learning curve. It has a learning cliff. This is apparent by the number of people that don't understand that the game is really this big. It isn't just a space ship sim. Its also a massive real time strategy game, with actual people controlling each unit on the field(at the level of the BoB/Goon war). It is also a market game where you can make billions buying and selling stuff. Its a social game where your reputation really matters. The player that did the deed on BoB will never be trusted with any corporate leadership ever again in that game.
One thing to think about. The person who did this was a BoB player. If he was this bored and upset with the situation that BoB was in, then there were many others in BoB that were as well. Pulling the plug in affect shuffled the deck for the players and broke the stalemate. Most of them are actually happy about it and having fun again.
Problem with this is that the most expensive part of the installation is the power inverter system. The panels cost is minor relative to the electronics that tie the dc power from the panels to the AC grid at your house. This is also the piece that tends to die first.
Unfortunately solar currently is just not viable for most places in North America. What I want is a nuclear plant in my back yard.
Try this one out Guard stops the interview of the Amtrak spokesman who says that photography at the station is okay: http://boingboing.net/2008/06/02/security-interrupts.html
Until they fire and prosecute the security morons for these events they will continue with egg on their faces.
The ironic thing is that the Puritans had absolutely no problem with women breastfeeding their children in public. I don't think that its a "Puritan society" that views the human body as generally filthy. I think the influence on our current culture leading to this view, is actually Victorian.
Godwin's law comes from an interesting phenomena. The Nazi regime is the only touchstone that the politically correct, moral relativist will admit is wrong/evil. Every other moral choice is a depends. Therefore if someone is arguing that an action is wrong/evil they have to compare it to Hitler and Nazism. That is the only common moral agreement with the moral relativist. Godwin got upset with the constant comparison to Hitler, and came up with his rule to try to stop that. He was right that every little action that one disagrees with does not rise to the level of Nazi Genocide. However he missed what the cause of the constant argument comparison was.
My personal take on it is that consciousness is the brain constantly considering a myriad of possibilities, trying to determine their outcome/impact, in an effort to shape future events in a desirable way...
Define "desirable way" outside of the consciousness. Surely a large part of the consciousness is willing what is desirable for that individual? Its quit possible that even if we were to develop a sufficiently powerful computational system to model actions/results, it would not be conscious, merely because it would not have an independent free will. How do you give free will to the system? That is the hard question of consciousness.
The problem is that people who will give up their liberty at the drop of the hat. These people believe against all evidence that criminals and irresponsible people are honest enough and responsible enough to follow the laws. These laws only enslave those law abiding hobbyists. Johnny methlab doesn't care about the laws against creating meth. Why do you think he'll care about the laws against getting the chemicals to make meth?
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Problem is that the bill is 1200 pages long and it was finally published LAST NIGHT . No one knows exactly what is in there. This was written by staffers in closed sessions with no recordings. No one knows who added what. Who honestly thinks that any of the congressmen/women who are debating on this and voting on this at this very minute know what they're getting? They're buying a pig in a poke. And it is probably worse than anyone thinks for our economy, while doing nothing to help the environment. Hell GREENPEACE OPOSSES IT! This is a nasty kickback giving smoke filled backroom produced bill. The only known fact is that Al Gore's company and Nancy Pelosi's companies will make a mint on this legislation.
The United States can consume 25% of the worlds resources because they produce MORE than 25% of the worlds goods and services.
This shows the lack of seriousness on the part of the democrats. If they really cared about this they would pass a bill that would streamline the bureaucracy for new nuclear plants and subsidize their construction. If they make nuclear electricity cheap enough by cutting its regulatory costs and taxes then natural economics will shift our energy consumption to that. The fact they aren't doing that shows their real intentions--Capping our economy not just our COx emissions.
Where are they going to find the money to bring this to the supreme court?
Wouldn't it be better to actually spend the money on the children in California, rather than pay lawyers to take this clearly unconstitutional law to the supreme court? What with California's budget woes; you would think they would want to save the money so they don't have to cut as much from education and health care for poor children.
The previous CAFE standard was linked to additional 2000 deaths a year. How many more deaths a year will the new CAFE standard cause? If it saves 2000 lives a year can't we just release more CO2?
And I want it! I want every mosquito that bites me to die. I want vengeance on those nasty mosquitoes. Don't keep it only to the third world. I want it now! I want evolution to work to my advantage so that those vermin evolve to not bite people! Faster please!
Police are civilians. The police the claim otherwise are the bad actors and should be run out of the their forces. It is this non civilian mentality that has police thinking they are at war with those they serve, and acting that way.
In this section we discuss academic use guidelines that have been discussed and proposed, but have never been formally approved.
PROPOSED Academic guidelines from Stanford University are not the Law of this land. Good thing you're not a lawyer. If you were your clients would be suing you for malpractice.
I still have my soul, IANAL, etc...
It is when the energy that went into the producing the 28w is large enough to overcome the savings over the life of the bulb.
It was frozen to the tank anyway. was dead before the launch from hypothermia.
Make everyone learn to ride a motorcycle for a couple years. Not only will they have an abiding respect for speed, the road, and the laws of physics, but they'll pay more attention to whether there are motorcycles on the road with them or not.
The ones that survive at least; however the ones that don't are less likely to kill someone else since they're driving a motorcycle and not a large car. Any downside I'm missing?
You must have missed the fact that the USA is barely at replacement birth rates and that Europe is at a rapidly declining birth rate as is Russia and Japan. China is not at a growing birth rate either. We are no where near the food production limits.
Its funny that you're making the same arguement that Malthus made over 200 years ago. Your argument isn't original. He wasn't right about it why should we think you are?
No its not. The United States barely has a replacement birth rate. No European Country has a replacement birth Rate. Russia and Japan are rapidly aging and soon won't have anybody there. China has a well known program to decrease population. It appears that as countries develop they quit breeding. The problem isn't that there will be to many people; its that there aren't enough people. Note the trend on the population growth rate chart from wikipedia. When it hits 1.0 thats no growth; when it gets below that means fewer people. The future belongs to those who have children.
Malthus! Is that you? What makes you think you'll be right this time?
Nah; PETA's too busy burning crosses at the westminster dog show in their white robes and hoods
Then set it up to do this right before downtime; so its not one cycle but all the cycles that would happen during downtime, but aren't being processed because its downtime, and the server is down/rebooting.
They went with cedega so that they could outsource support to them. They didn't want to/weren't able to do the support themselves.
They're a windows/directX shop. When the re-wrote the client's graphics for the "premium" graphics they could have used OpenGL and been cross platform. But they didn't. Now they can't get cross platform. Sucks for them.
It wasn't a hacked account. It was a coup-de-tat. It is part of the intended game mechanics, and thus within the rules.
The reason people don't want to play eve is that it doesn't have a learning curve. It has a learning cliff. This is apparent by the number of people that don't understand that the game is really this big. It isn't just a space ship sim. Its also a massive real time strategy game, with actual people controlling each unit on the field(at the level of the BoB/Goon war). It is also a market game where you can make billions buying and selling stuff. Its a social game where your reputation really matters. The player that did the deed on BoB will never be trusted with any corporate leadership ever again in that game.
One thing to think about. The person who did this was a BoB player. If he was this bored and upset with the situation that BoB was in, then there were many others in BoB that were as well. Pulling the plug in affect shuffled the deck for the players and broke the stalemate. Most of them are actually happy about it and having fun again.
Problem with this is that the most expensive part of the installation is the power inverter system. The panels cost is minor relative to the electronics that tie the dc power from the panels to the AC grid at your house. This is also the piece that tends to die first. Unfortunately solar currently is just not viable for most places in North America. What I want is a nuclear plant in my back yard.
Try this one out Guard stops the interview of the Amtrak spokesman who says that photography at the station is okay: http://boingboing.net/2008/06/02/security-interrupts.html Until they fire and prosecute the security morons for these events they will continue with egg on their faces.
The ironic thing is that the Puritans had absolutely no problem with women breastfeeding their children in public. I don't think that its a "Puritan society" that views the human body as generally filthy. I think the influence on our current culture leading to this view, is actually Victorian.
Godwin's law comes from an interesting phenomena. The Nazi regime is the only touchstone that the politically correct, moral relativist will admit is wrong/evil. Every other moral choice is a depends. Therefore if someone is arguing that an action is wrong/evil they have to compare it to Hitler and Nazism. That is the only common moral agreement with the moral relativist. Godwin got upset with the constant comparison to Hitler, and came up with his rule to try to stop that. He was right that every little action that one disagrees with does not rise to the level of Nazi Genocide. However he missed what the cause of the constant argument comparison was.
My personal take on it is that consciousness is the brain constantly considering a myriad of possibilities, trying to determine their outcome/impact, in an effort to shape future events in a desirable way...
Define "desirable way" outside of the consciousness. Surely a large part of the consciousness is willing what is desirable for that individual? Its quit possible that even if we were to develop a sufficiently powerful computational system to model actions/results, it would not be conscious, merely because it would not have an independent free will. How do you give free will to the system? That is the hard question of consciousness.
The problem is that people who will give up their liberty at the drop of the hat. These people believe against all evidence that criminals and irresponsible people are honest enough and responsible enough to follow the laws. These laws only enslave those law abiding hobbyists. Johnny methlab doesn't care about the laws against creating meth. Why do you think he'll care about the laws against getting the chemicals to make meth?