Stop in vitro fertilization and medical treatment for everything except accidents too, then. After all, if you get a heart attack and we help you, we're just encouraging people with genes that provide medical risk factors to continue. In fact, we should probably take out your kids.
Depression is an illness, not a choice, and you're arguing letting people die from a disease where it's possibly preventable.
I said solar power plants, not solar photovoltaic power plants. If your 'fuel source' becomes solar panels, it's not exactly renewable. There's a 300+ MW solar power towers in the Mojave desert for example. It uses heliostats, not solar panels.
Well, at least the pollution they caused wasn't being ejected into city centers where people would immediately breathe it in, but instead at a centralized location where big bucks could be spent to achieve big gains of pollution reduction.
The main benefit of electric vehicles is the ability to move to an electricity-based society, at which point the problem that would remain is getting clean electricity. Filling a desert with solar power plants would probably do it.
Why? If they threaten to let you go, keep drinking water and don't go to the bathroom. When they fire you for pissing at your desk, I'd bet you have a good case in court. Provided you didn't drink excessive amounts of water.
That is a silly assumption, that terrorists aren't thinkers.
The suicide guys? Yeah, they're the ones who can be persuaded that dying is worth it. But 'terrorist' by now encompasses such a large group, there are going to be plenty of people capable of planning a complex attack.
One guy with a few drones remotely piloted on a common frequency, say 433MHz, carrying pipe bombs onto school playgrounds cannot easily be stopped. Where this same guy with an AK47 can be stopped with a single bullet.
That depends on your point of view. From the point of view of the unemployment administration, yes. The program works.
From my point of view, it was pleasant as well. I was looking, but not very aggressively. Partly because my previous salary was good enough that I could get by on 70% of it (standard unemployment in the Netherlands). I'd had plenty of rejections without even a meet-up. Being approached by multiple employers meant I had choice, more confidence, and eventually a great job.
I have said it before and I'll say it again: I'm amazed noone has taken a consumer-grade self-built multicopter, put a pound of plastic explosive on it, and flown it into or next to an important building from a mile away.
Building a quadcopter or such capable of carrying a lethal payload and flying it FPV takes about $250-300.
Having been on unemployment here in the Netherlands, I can say this: Waiting for people who haven't been looking for work to look for work is not going to... uhm... work. If you want people to get work, you need to have a bridge between employers and the jobless. I am very employable, but despise searching for jobs.
What worked for me was a newsletter from the unemployment agency to potential employers, listing candidates looking for work. The 'recruiters' knew my strengths and weaknesses, and could use that to advantage. Importantly, employers started calling me, instead of the other way around. Had a few meet-ups, still got turned down by a few, turned one down myself, and accepted another. So now I'm gainfully employed and posting on Slashdot.
Mind you, I wasn't even remotely in danger of being homeless, especially with the Netherlands' good unemployment system, and when that runs out welfare. If I were homeless, I'd not be employable, which would make forcing me to look for a job fruitless.
No I'm not. Kids tend to play, during summer vacation. I'm assuming they'll still do that.
Kids playing is one of the better educational activities, as it involves self-organization, goal-setting, and is self-rewarding. Teaches personal skills that schools don't.
I don't think everyone agrees that students need more of their shitty education. Honestly, if you can't teach it in ten months, you can't teach it in eleven months either. Poor educational results are a thing of standards, not lack of time.
Despite possibly being a remnant of an agrarian past, you have to look at what's more useful. As countries that favor creative thinkers over merely competent automatons, education during summer vacation may be more effective than a month of extra school.
Mind you, sitting at home playing PS4 is a terrible way to spend summer vacation. Travel, organizing and playing real-world games, exploring, hell, building a trebuchet or something, these are all educational, and can't really be done in school.
Right. I feel the same way. I can't stand those naggling ninnies who insist that juggling chainsaws near infants is 'too much risk'. </sarcasm>
The acceptable level of risk will decrease with increased knowledge and technology. Accept it, because it's going to happen. Luckily, eventually we'll be dead and new generations can enjoy their cotton wool cars.
Personally, I'm expecting someone to strap a half kilo of C4 to one and FPV it into an embassy to be the cause of the regulation. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Populists only seek votes in countries where voting is standard. If you're an autocratic despot, you can be a populist in order to not be lynched by an angry mob.
Switzerland survives because its main export is untraceable (sort-of) banking. Ireland is still close to being financially untenable. Not exactly worthy models to emulate. No one is served by a race to the bottom.
And this amendment to international agreements would force countries to lower their corporate taxes to actually be desirable to companies that want to do business within it. This has as consequences that corporate tax income will remain mostly constant, since the lower taxes will be paid by more corporations, while every non-multinational company will basically be getting a tax break, thus stimulating your own nation's economy at the level where it'll do some good: The local level.
The countries it'll hurt are, for example, my own. The Netherlands isn't tax-less, but we do have corporate tax laws which make us suitable for tax avoidance.
In addition to Germany's near strict-liability laws, which mean a driver is virtually always at fault in case of accidents with non-drivers, I'd like to point out the following: - Most of Germany's road system is non-Autobahn. People are used to driving with restrictions. And are going to be nervously looking about to slam into them with a 100+kph speed difference. - If you drive faster than the recommended maximum (130-140kph) and there's an accident, regardless of who caused it, your insurance company will try to blame you to at least some degree. - They drive regular cars, with regular 5 speed gearboxes, for the most part.
That all means Germans tend, as a rule, to not go much faster than normal highway speeds, and yet pay attention more than on other roads.
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Prisoners are also still citizens, and judges can take away their constitutional rights just fine.
Stop in vitro fertilization and medical treatment for everything except accidents too, then. After all, if you get a heart attack and we help you, we're just encouraging people with genes that provide medical risk factors to continue. In fact, we should probably take out your kids.
Depression is an illness, not a choice, and you're arguing letting people die from a disease where it's possibly preventable.
I fail to see it as anything other than blue and gold (well, brown/yellow that might be called gold)
I said solar power plants, not solar photovoltaic power plants. If your 'fuel source' becomes solar panels, it's not exactly renewable. There's a 300+ MW solar power towers in the Mojave desert for example. It uses heliostats, not solar panels.
Well, at least the pollution they caused wasn't being ejected into city centers where people would immediately breathe it in, but instead at a centralized location where big bucks could be spent to achieve big gains of pollution reduction.
The main benefit of electric vehicles is the ability to move to an electricity-based society, at which point the problem that would remain is getting clean electricity. Filling a desert with solar power plants would probably do it.
You're saying that correlation is a leading cause of causation?
Interestingly, you're a bit right:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1...
10 grams of eggplant equated to ingesting the same amount of nicotine you would absorb by being in a room with low amounts of smoke. Weird.
Of course, unless you like to snort eggplant, it's not going to do jack to the cilia in your lungs.
Why? If they threaten to let you go, keep drinking water and don't go to the bathroom. When they fire you for pissing at your desk, I'd bet you have a good case in court. Provided you didn't drink excessive amounts of water.
This image should three MRI's, of three individuals. Two triathletes, one old, and a sedentary old man. Can't really argue with this.
http://www.swiss-miss.com/wp-c...
That is a silly assumption, that terrorists aren't thinkers.
The suicide guys? Yeah, they're the ones who can be persuaded that dying is worth it. But 'terrorist' by now encompasses such a large group, there are going to be plenty of people capable of planning a complex attack.
One guy with a few drones remotely piloted on a common frequency, say 433MHz, carrying pipe bombs onto school playgrounds cannot easily be stopped. Where this same guy with an AK47 can be stopped with a single bullet.
That depends on your point of view. From the point of view of the unemployment administration, yes. The program works.
From my point of view, it was pleasant as well. I was looking, but not very aggressively. Partly because my previous salary was good enough that I could get by on 70% of it (standard unemployment in the Netherlands). I'd had plenty of rejections without even a meet-up. Being approached by multiple employers meant I had choice, more confidence, and eventually a great job.
I have said it before and I'll say it again: I'm amazed noone has taken a consumer-grade self-built multicopter, put a pound of plastic explosive on it, and flown it into or next to an important building from a mile away.
Building a quadcopter or such capable of carrying a lethal payload and flying it FPV takes about $250-300.
Having been on unemployment here in the Netherlands, I can say this: Waiting for people who haven't been looking for work to look for work is not going to... uhm... work. If you want people to get work, you need to have a bridge between employers and the jobless. I am very employable, but despise searching for jobs.
What worked for me was a newsletter from the unemployment agency to potential employers, listing candidates looking for work. The 'recruiters' knew my strengths and weaknesses, and could use that to advantage. Importantly, employers started calling me, instead of the other way around. Had a few meet-ups, still got turned down by a few, turned one down myself, and accepted another. So now I'm gainfully employed and posting on Slashdot.
Mind you, I wasn't even remotely in danger of being homeless, especially with the Netherlands' good unemployment system, and when that runs out welfare. If I were homeless, I'd not be employable, which would make forcing me to look for a job fruitless.
I doubt that stone age man spoke fluent American like that.
No I'm not. Kids tend to play, during summer vacation. I'm assuming they'll still do that.
Kids playing is one of the better educational activities, as it involves self-organization, goal-setting, and is self-rewarding. Teaches personal skills that schools don't.
I don't think everyone agrees that students need more of their shitty education. Honestly, if you can't teach it in ten months, you can't teach it in eleven months either. Poor educational results are a thing of standards, not lack of time.
Despite possibly being a remnant of an agrarian past, you have to look at what's more useful. As countries that favor creative thinkers over merely competent automatons, education during summer vacation may be more effective than a month of extra school.
Mind you, sitting at home playing PS4 is a terrible way to spend summer vacation. Travel, organizing and playing real-world games, exploring, hell, building a trebuchet or something, these are all educational, and can't really be done in school.
Three orders of magnitude less than the millions spent on this house.
Right. I feel the same way. I can't stand those naggling ninnies who insist that juggling chainsaws near infants is 'too much risk'.
</sarcasm>
The acceptable level of risk will decrease with increased knowledge and technology. Accept it, because it's going to happen. Luckily, eventually we'll be dead and new generations can enjoy their cotton wool cars.
Personally, I'm expecting someone to strap a half kilo of C4 to one and FPV it into an embassy to be the cause of the regulation. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Populists only seek votes in countries where voting is standard. If you're an autocratic despot, you can be a populist in order to not be lynched by an angry mob.
I... well, yes. Having read up to get ahead of my stereotypes, I have to concede you are correct, on pretty much all counts. Thanks for the rebuttal.
Switzerland survives because its main export is untraceable (sort-of) banking. Ireland is still close to being financially untenable. Not exactly worthy models to emulate. No one is served by a race to the bottom.
And this amendment to international agreements would force countries to lower their corporate taxes to actually be desirable to companies that want to do business within it. This has as consequences that corporate tax income will remain mostly constant, since the lower taxes will be paid by more corporations, while every non-multinational company will basically be getting a tax break, thus stimulating your own nation's economy at the level where it'll do some good: The local level.
The countries it'll hurt are, for example, my own. The Netherlands isn't tax-less, but we do have corporate tax laws which make us suitable for tax avoidance.
Well, you certainly bumped up the IQ in this thread.
In addition to Germany's near strict-liability laws, which mean a driver is virtually always at fault in case of accidents with non-drivers, I'd like to point out the following:
- Most of Germany's road system is non-Autobahn. People are used to driving with restrictions. And are going to be nervously looking about to slam into them with a 100+kph speed difference.
- If you drive faster than the recommended maximum (130-140kph) and there's an accident, regardless of who caused it, your insurance company will try to blame you to at least some degree.
- They drive regular cars, with regular 5 speed gearboxes, for the most part.
That all means Germans tend, as a rule, to not go much faster than normal highway speeds, and yet pay attention more than on other roads.