The problem is not just with drivers, but also with cyclists many who that act like pedestrians when they want to and as vehicles when they want to (whichever is faster).
Africa doesn't need robots for its kids. It needs highways, and trucks, and rails, and trains, it needs stable electrical power, it needs industrial water treatment networks. Starting in its coastal cities, and building into the interior. That's how China got where it is today: infrastructure.
First off, why should Africa build highways? China and India built the classical western-style consumption oriented infrastructure... in the 90s and today, lots of places and roads empty -- and peak oil is looming. Railroad (which they have) is good but the car may be hammer in a time when a screwdriver is needed.
And second, just because a nation/continent hasn't solve all of it's problems doesn't mean it should make a full-stop until everyone is caught up. Poverty is still a problem in the US, but somehow I doubt we'd be better off if we never had NASA, or work on transistor and later microchip. With so many people, we can concentrate on more than 1 problem at a time, and sometimes, solving some in a seemingly unrelated domain will open solutions in another one.
Sorry, I don't see myself as saying I need fewer money in the future... and money can definitely be counted. Well, as much as the tests in your parent's post.
It seems to me that "all new content-delivery technology should be presumed illegal unless and until it is approved by Congress" is both breaking the freedom of speech and due process.
Just because Congress did something doesn't mean it was Constitutional.
I wonder how true that is. Not that this is his brain nor that he revolutionized physics. I just wonder if THIS is the brain that did it.
You see, London has a strenuous test for Taxi drivers. Their streets are not like New York, where many are numbered in sequential order and relatively easy to learn. London has 25,000 roads, with no real rhyme or reason, and perspective taxi drivers - to get licensed - needs to memorize them and takes several years. The test is called the Knowlege, iirc, and it takes an average of a dozen attempt to pass: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/08/acquiring-the-knowledge-changes-the-brains-of-london-cab-drivers/
This is Einsteins brain after, what, 40 some years after his best achievement? Is it the same brain anymore? Wouldn't it be like poking at the Schwarzenegger's remains whenever he dies to see what makes a bodybuilder at his peak? Just something to ponder.
Baumgartner and his team had originally hoped to attempt the record jump in 2010, but they were delayed by a legal challenge that claimed the idea of the dive was suggested to Red Bull by California promoter Daniel Hogan. That lawsuit has been settled out of court, and the mission is moving forward.
God, we really built an entitlement society. People now think that a concept farts out of their brain, that it must be a) unique and b) theirs for all eternity. Now it seems the old adage of "Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration" should be changed to "Genius: one percent inspiration. Sue the suckers who put in the 99 percent perspiration."
Electric is almost 100% efficient at the point of output, for an electrical heating device, and even normal incandescent lightbulbs are around 90% efficient at heating, the other 10% being light energy.... but electrical in general is the least efficient and most expensive heating method compared to oil/natural gas/etc.
It's because you're burning fuel, usually coal, going many steps to transform it into electricity, to transport it along lines with resistive losses, to transform voltages, etc whereas with fuel right at your house, you burn it, it heats either the air direct (venting system) or water that heats the environment (radiant systems).
Also, dedicated heating systems are only on when you need them. Something like lightbulbs, you have the heating effect when you don't want it too (summer) and have to crank the AC up to counteract the heat it gives off - so you're burning more energy than you need to two times over.
Well Romney types were in before the neocons. The Rockefeller republicans have been around a while although Romney's foreign policy is all neo.
But just vote libertarian. Some people see it as a throw away vote, but Perot's performance in the 90s actually got both sides talking economically and probably played a big part in getting the budget balanced towards the end of the 90s (unified budget, not actual). Unfortunately, it also made both parties come together and collude and make rules to disenfranchise the 3rd parties and their voters even more.
Oh my god. If I have to read one more BS Apple story like this on the internet, I'm going to go nuts.
Are you being forced to read the story? Is there a gun to your head if you don't click and just pass over the title?
Apple lovers must be stopped. They're driving ad revenue and hits to all these *retarded* articles. They keep writing them because people keep clicking on them. STOP IT people!
Says the person adding yet another comment to the story, thus making it seem more interesting than it is from a # of comments perspective:)
It's fun watching nerds rage irrationally and taking it personally instead of ignoring it.
I wonder how that will work out? Seriously, since at least a century, we often had the best and brightest immigrants and I wonder how much that is skewing results? Something that MAY NOT continue. Especially if our fortunes go down, or our IP laws appear too restrictive.
Perhaps it's too early to measure China, or they suffer from too rigid a school system, or like Japan, their language is cumbersome it takes up a significant portion of schooling to just learn it, or as the one Ted Talks suggest - normal schools built on the factory model kill creativity, and so the asian ones must be doing that to an even greater degree.
But at least, like the fast food model, they ensure a minimum standard coming out. But that is public school's entire downfall. One size fits all. The person who wants to become the next doctor or scientific researcher is forced to do the same basic schooling as the person who just wants to fix cars until a ridiculously high grade.
I'm pretty sure by age 12, you can pretty much tell who the academic stars will be, who is mediocre and who the lazy slobs are. But that's 6th grade and still 3-4 more years are wasted on keeping everyone more or less the same. I'm pretty sure gymnastic teams or iceskating coaches need that long to spot who will be the talent and who will be the also ran.
But this is more than spotting stars in order to nurture them. Not everyone who does bad in school does bad in life. But the answer for them isn't always perpetually more years of school. We bought into the hype that formal education is the answer to everything that HR departments are requiring degrees for every little job and totally ignoring education outside the classroom that may be much better suited for training towards the work at hand. (I.e. the German model of apprenticeships).
But that doesn't mean anybody can be the next John Carmack, Leonardo Da Vinci, or Michael Phelps.
Even if we reduce it to the nonphysical work and remove the naturally talented aspect, there is the simple matter of time and drive -- which few people have.
Yes, it is insane to pay those who are teaching the children well. Much more sane to pay lobbyists a few million a year to make sure the teachers have no say in legislation.
How do you know a teacher is underpaid and overworked? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Idk how it is your area, but in my state, property owners pay for the bulk of the funding of the schools. My parents have their own house and a rental house, and to pay the property and much larger school tax bill on the rental property alone, they need to collect slightly over 3 months rent a year before they see a penny of revenue. It is not unusual for the school to demand and be handed 10-12 increases in budget each year. Just sustainable over the long term...
Our teachers get paid more than they do, starting at around $40k and going up as much as $120, depending on tenure and degrees - the attainment of higher ones past bachelor's, which once hired, is also paid for. They get a pension after 20-25 years. They get the caddilac of health plans for their entire families. They get a host of sick and vacation days during the year, those days roll over into the next year and so on, and any left over at the end of their career are paid out in full. They have the summers off (mostly) and often attend a conference somewhere which is usually a 1-2 hour a day work excuse in order to go someplace nice paid for by the taxpayer. Oh, and unheard of job security. There's nothing quite so cushy in the private sector for low level employees.
The professors in the local community college, in the same county, get much less than the HS teachers do.
HOWEVER, I realize this is mostly taking place in the richer suburbs of America and is not everyplace. I'll grant that. But even with all that, our kids aren't doing extraordinary.
In the words of Comptroller General David M. Walker, Healthcare and Education is where America spends way more than 1st world country, often 2x as much, for worse results and with no outcome testing of any type.
The real Islamic people are not bothered by words, because their education level is higher than the fifth grade. If anything should be learned from this it is that education is key to maturity.
Heh, is this like Palin's "real America."
Here's a clue, all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were college educated.
Perhaps the Islamists not bothered by mere words are the ones who, regardless of education, don't take that religion so seriously. Because any cursory reading of the Quran has it repeated to you how all apostates are evil and doomed forever by Allah, and that lying and killing them is no big deal.
Just because an idea wasn't implemented before doesn't mean it should be patentable.
Tabs in browsers weren't implemented for a long time. Imagine the slowdown in the industry if it was.
I fail to see the benefit to society for patenting input methods. They'll come regardless of patents. Just with patents, the competition won't be able to incorporate the successes that society agrees upon is a good idea.
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The problem is not just with drivers, but also with cyclists many who that act like pedestrians when they want to and as vehicles when they want to (whichever is faster).
Uh oh, now you done it! Intellectual property infringement! Call in the lawyers!!!
It could have been digg/reddit long ago though, before those even came about, but the site rested on it's ass.
Not that I mind, given the commentary there is low grade and lots of noise... but still.
Aside a few tweaks, this place kinda the same since 1999. No ambition whatsoever.
First off, why should Africa build highways? China and India built the classical western-style consumption oriented infrastructure... in the 90s and today, lots of places and roads empty -- and peak oil is looming. Railroad (which they have) is good but the car may be hammer in a time when a screwdriver is needed.
And second, just because a nation/continent hasn't solve all of it's problems doesn't mean it should make a full-stop until everyone is caught up. Poverty is still a problem in the US, but somehow I doubt we'd be better off if we never had NASA, or work on transistor and later microchip. With so many people, we can concentrate on more than 1 problem at a time, and sometimes, solving some in a seemingly unrelated domain will open solutions in another one.
Yeah, you're correct.
However, the rule is relatively new and I don't think it's a very good one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_vs._less#Historical_usage
For instance, you can use "more" with either case. Seems to me a rule for a rules sake and something no one on the street really does.
If it can be counted?
Sorry, I don't see myself as saying I need fewer money in the future... and money can definitely be counted. Well, as much as the tests in your parent's post.
It seems to me that "all new content-delivery technology should be presumed illegal unless and until it is approved by Congress" is both breaking the freedom of speech and due process.
Just because Congress did something doesn't mean it was Constitutional.
I was being sarcastic.
I wonder how true that is. Not that this is his brain nor that he revolutionized physics. I just wonder if THIS is the brain that did it.
You see, London has a strenuous test for Taxi drivers. Their streets are not like New York, where many are numbered in sequential order and relatively easy to learn. London has 25,000 roads, with no real rhyme or reason, and perspective taxi drivers - to get licensed - needs to memorize them and takes several years. The test is called the Knowlege, iirc, and it takes an average of a dozen attempt to pass:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/12/08/acquiring-the-knowledge-changes-the-brains-of-london-cab-drivers/
The hippocampus of these drivers is substantially larger and stay so throughout their working life. But it shrinks back down after retirement:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/About-us/75th-anniversary/WTVM052023.htm
This is Einsteins brain after, what, 40 some years after his best achievement? Is it the same brain anymore? Wouldn't it be like poking at the Schwarzenegger's remains whenever he dies to see what makes a bodybuilder at his peak? Just something to ponder.
I had no clue in Romney's tone or anything else he was joking.
What's sad is at the end of the story:
God, we really built an entitlement society. People now think that a concept farts out of their brain, that it must be a) unique and b) theirs for all eternity. Now it seems the old adage of "Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration" should be changed to "Genius: one percent inspiration. Sue the suckers who put in the 99 percent perspiration."
Electric is almost 100% efficient at the point of output, for an electrical heating device, and even normal incandescent lightbulbs are around 90% efficient at heating, the other 10% being light energy.... but electrical in general is the least efficient and most expensive heating method compared to oil/natural gas/etc.
It's because you're burning fuel, usually coal, going many steps to transform it into electricity, to transport it along lines with resistive losses, to transform voltages, etc whereas with fuel right at your house, you burn it, it heats either the air direct (venting system) or water that heats the environment (radiant systems).
Also, dedicated heating systems are only on when you need them. Something like lightbulbs, you have the heating effect when you don't want it too (summer) and have to crank the AC up to counteract the heat it gives off - so you're burning more energy than you need to two times over.
Is this close enough?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
Nixon actually started the EPA.
Well Romney types were in before the neocons. The Rockefeller republicans have been around a while although Romney's foreign policy is all neo.
But just vote libertarian. Some people see it as a throw away vote, but Perot's performance in the 90s actually got both sides talking economically and probably played a big part in getting the budget balanced towards the end of the 90s (unified budget, not actual). Unfortunately, it also made both parties come together and collude and make rules to disenfranchise the 3rd parties and their voters even more.
While I don't doubt it, it would seem to be a commodity with global appeal so they should be able to get out of it eventually...
Are you being forced to read the story? Is there a gun to your head if you don't click and just pass over the title?
Says the person adding yet another comment to the story, thus making it seem more interesting than it is from a # of comments perspective:)
It's fun watching nerds rage irrationally and taking it personally instead of ignoring it.
I wonder how that will work out? Seriously, since at least a century, we often had the best and brightest immigrants and I wonder how much that is skewing results? Something that MAY NOT continue. Especially if our fortunes go down, or our IP laws appear too restrictive.
Perhaps it's too early to measure China, or they suffer from too rigid a school system, or like Japan, their language is cumbersome it takes up a significant portion of schooling to just learn it, or as the one Ted Talks suggest - normal schools built on the factory model kill creativity, and so the asian ones must be doing that to an even greater degree.
But at least, like the fast food model, they ensure a minimum standard coming out. But that is public school's entire downfall. One size fits all. The person who wants to become the next doctor or scientific researcher is forced to do the same basic schooling as the person who just wants to fix cars until a ridiculously high grade.
I'm pretty sure by age 12, you can pretty much tell who the academic stars will be, who is mediocre and who the lazy slobs are. But that's 6th grade and still 3-4 more years are wasted on keeping everyone more or less the same. I'm pretty sure gymnastic teams or iceskating coaches need that long to spot who will be the talent and who will be the also ran.
But this is more than spotting stars in order to nurture them. Not everyone who does bad in school does bad in life. But the answer for them isn't always perpetually more years of school. We bought into the hype that formal education is the answer to everything that HR departments are requiring degrees for every little job and totally ignoring education outside the classroom that may be much better suited for training towards the work at hand. (I.e. the German model of apprenticeships).
Just like anybody can learn to draw. Or to swim.
But that doesn't mean anybody can be the next John Carmack, Leonardo Da Vinci, or Michael Phelps.
Even if we reduce it to the nonphysical work and remove the naturally talented aspect, there is the simple matter of time and drive -- which few people have.
Idiotic nonsense.
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html
How do you know a teacher is underpaid and overworked? Don't worry, they'll tell you.
Idk how it is your area, but in my state, property owners pay for the bulk of the funding of the schools. My parents have their own house and a rental house, and to pay the property and much larger school tax bill on the rental property alone, they need to collect slightly over 3 months rent a year before they see a penny of revenue. It is not unusual for the school to demand and be handed 10-12 increases in budget each year. Just sustainable over the long term...
Our teachers get paid more than they do, starting at around $40k and going up as much as $120, depending on tenure and degrees - the attainment of higher ones past bachelor's, which once hired, is also paid for. They get a pension after 20-25 years. They get the caddilac of health plans for their entire families. They get a host of sick and vacation days during the year, those days roll over into the next year and so on, and any left over at the end of their career are paid out in full. They have the summers off (mostly) and often attend a conference somewhere which is usually a 1-2 hour a day work excuse in order to go someplace nice paid for by the taxpayer. Oh, and unheard of job security. There's nothing quite so cushy in the private sector for low level employees.
The professors in the local community college, in the same county, get much less than the HS teachers do.
HOWEVER, I realize this is mostly taking place in the richer suburbs of America and is not everyplace. I'll grant that. But even with all that, our kids aren't doing extraordinary.
In the words of Comptroller General David M. Walker, Healthcare and Education is where America spends way more than 1st world country, often 2x as much, for worse results and with no outcome testing of any type.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcWrdM-a_Uo
and say they want a 30% increase over 2. They are already some of the best paid urban teachers in the whole country. Insane.
http://reason.com/reasontv/2012/09/15/the-deep-logic-of-the-chicago-teachers-s
Don't want to be held accountable, even opposing Obama's merit-based suggestions in favor of tenure, etc.
I'll say what I always said: it's about the children, alright, about using the children.
I like how you criticize the "hate speech" aka any film critical of Muhammed more than you do the actual murderers.
Heh, is this like Palin's "real America."
Here's a clue, all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers were college educated.
Perhaps the Islamists not bothered by mere words are the ones who, regardless of education, don't take that religion so seriously. Because any cursory reading of the Quran has it repeated to you how all apostates are evil and doomed forever by Allah, and that lying and killing them is no big deal.
Just because an idea wasn't implemented before doesn't mean it should be patentable.
Tabs in browsers weren't implemented for a long time. Imagine the slowdown in the industry if it was.
I fail to see the benefit to society for patenting input methods. They'll come regardless of patents. Just with patents, the competition won't be able to incorporate the successes that society agrees upon is a good idea.