Doesn't mean you wouldn't want it, but since it's handled by the government, doesn't that imply an additional overhead/bureaucracy load that would be more efficiently handled through the private sector?
If you have read other posts in this thread you would see that private sector
does not handle earthquake insurance in Calfornia at all, let along more efficiently.
If you seriously don't know what the Byzantine Empire is and how the invasion of it is what caused the Crusades, you really should go away and shut up until you have enough basic knowledge to form an opinion that isn't an utter waste of our time.
However, whatever their public motives were, Crusdares manifested them-self
through raping and pillaging everything in their way including their Christian
"brothers". Search for "The Sack of Constantinople". For example here. This is still a big sore point in relations between Western and Easter (Orthodox) churches. The hypocrisy of these Crusades is unbelievable, for example the infamous forth Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III. How could he claim his innocence with a straight is unknown.
This process will continue, and it is inevitable that the subjects which baffle us today will be hammered out and taught to grade school students eventually
Why is it inevitable? The amount of science papers just keeps increasing and increasing. It seems rather inevitable that some branch
of science will go astray sooner or later based on wrong but too dificult/imposible to verify postulate.
Uh, when you're solving a game, there's no such thing as a move. You consider only board states, not the moves which lead to them, except in determining in which order to evaluate states.
Very interesting. Does any one know if there is a game where next possible state depends on a whole
history of the states of the board? For example, if
in chess Knight on a white square should move like a bishop, along diagonals, but on a black squares like Knight.
So it's not a question of "possibility" but one of evidence. Faith is what you believe in when you don't have evidence. There's ample evidence out there to make a decision if you look at it without being brainwashed from birth.
The problem you touch upon here is that there is a personal experience, which is different from an
experience gained in a course of physical experiment, which relies on repeatability while personal
experience is unique. If you have experience of seeing you future in a great detail there is nothing
you can do to convince that such thing is possible, yet it would be self evident to you.
The other deal is that people would commit suicide all the time.
What it means is that by living very long we would further devalue life. Think about it if someone
is to commit a suicide it means that he does value his life anymore and perhaps lives of other people.
Death is what gives meaning to our lives. If life is to go on indefinitely it would have no meaning
whatsoever.
An egg that is fertilized outside the womb is nothing more than potential life.
I agree. However I think the real question is at which point human spirit and those few cells become bound to each other.
Since science at its current stage unable to answer this question we are left at this point with empty and
heated discussions.
In a competition between Oracle and Microsoft, I honestly don't think SQL Server has any competition (except Sybase maybe, which it apparently is based off of)
Well, let see. Foreign keys with out cascade delete or update, which makes them useless.
Also you cannot emulate them with triggers because all triggers fire up only after update.
No recursive selects. No ability to create new aggregate functions. No dynamic sql.
Transact sql is a nice language indeed, but it just plain lacks features of Oracle's
PL/SQL. I am sure somebody else could write more on why Sybase is no match for Oracle
and in some domains even to PostgreSQL.
ah, but the key is, the total ammount of carbon tons available on the market will gradually be reduced. this treaty isn't about immediate change, it's about slowing down damage, and then gradually undoing the damage.
But you miss the point. And the point is that neither Russia nor China will not actually
abide by this agreement once the day of reckoning will come for them. Right now they
as "developing" countries get more carbon credits than developed countries,
and what they going to do is to sell them. Basically they get money for nothing.
Talk about selling soap bubbles.
Then do you outlaw the tape people will put over the flash?
That's right. Duct tape is the ultimate evil. If we outlaw duct tape think of all
the children(TM) we could potentially save from turning to the Dark Side(TM).
Because each class has one teacher, who needs to keep the class on pace. I can't teach chapter one to some of the class, chapter 3 to others, and chapter 5 to the rest. Explain to me how I would lecture, correct, and give examples on 3 different subjects in 75 minutes. Would I be expected to give a lecture, and help those students who are working on the first assignment at the same time? What about when I'm lecturing and there are also 2 assignments out. It is not possible in a class of 34.
Well, you are right, it is not possible. So, you don't teach to a class of 34 kids. You break it into smaller classes. Let say ten kids in a class.
Shouldn't the "richest" country in the world be able to provide this to its kids. Or, I forgot the corporate tax breaks. I guess eventually we all
will descend into social darwinism.
It is a two way street. When liberal wins some important election all conservative radios scream how stupid and wicked are the voters. Though nobody accuses them of 'conservative elitism'. The point is that this country becoming more and more divided and people from two opposing groups don't want to deal with each other anymore.
because as we all well know, a correlation implies causation
Normally it does not of course. However in this case subject and object of the experiment
are the same (society), which skews such simple models. In other words, correlation itself does not
mean causation, but published and widely disseminated correlation creates new causation and in the
end correlation may be equivalent to causation.
Okay, this is Slashdot, where I continually hope that people would understand that correlation does not mean causation.
I tend to disagree here with people who say that it is a humorous coincidence and nothing else.
What it have to understand here is that the society is not a simple collection of
random people with well defined averages, variables and parameters and thus application
of statistics to it are often of very dubious quality. It is important to keep in mind
that there is a strong positive feedback in a system. Thus somebody claiming that astrology
or some other events like ranking of football teams warrant election of some candidate, may
actually affect the election independently of how "scientifically" founded these predictions
are. In the end what important is that often such correlations do work and astrology, for
example, can easily influence and predict certain societal changes if strong enough positive
feedback is present. This fly in a face of an idea that society is akin to an ideal gas,
i.e. that given same initial conditions it will behave in the same way. That is of
course is not true because state of society ( a complex system ) very much depends on its
history as well as on set of parameters at each given moment. So, at the end predictions
based which football team won what may not be so stupid.
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Dear British people, there is a way to escape your oppressive government. Go here. for more information. Your rights are well guarded in that land.
Doesn't mean you wouldn't want it, but since it's handled by the government, doesn't that imply an additional overhead/bureaucracy load that would be more efficiently handled through the private sector?
If you have read other posts in this thread you would see that private sector does not handle earthquake insurance in Calfornia at all, let along more efficiently.
2001 is the best film in the history of cinema.
Try watching Solaris by Tarkovsky first, which is much better than Oddessy 2001, although both of them are far from the best.
If you seriously don't know what the Byzantine Empire is and how the invasion of it is what caused the Crusades, you really should go away and shut up until you have enough basic knowledge to form an opinion that isn't an utter waste of our time.
However, whatever their public motives were, Crusdares manifested them-self through raping and pillaging everything in their way including their Christian "brothers". Search for "The Sack of Constantinople". For example here. This is still a big sore point in relations between Western and Easter (Orthodox) churches. The hypocrisy of these Crusades is unbelievable, for example the infamous forth Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III. How could he claim his innocence with a straight is unknown.
If America's health care system is so great, then how come no one else wants to touch it with a 12 meter pole?
Because 12 meter pole is too short?
grammatical errors like dangling prepositions?
:)
My inability to use proper grammer nor spalling is not in quastion here.
Personally, I'll be happy when the ESA gets Darwin up ;)
:)
However they do have grammatical errors right on this very page you gave us link to.
there is no such thing as 'belief' and people who have 'faith' are tottering old fools!
:)
Is that what you believe in?
This process will continue, and it is inevitable that the subjects which baffle us today will be hammered out and taught to grade school students eventually
Why is it inevitable? The amount of science papers just keeps increasing and increasing. It seems rather inevitable that some branch of science will go astray sooner or later based on wrong but too dificult/imposible to verify postulate.
Uh, when you're solving a game, there's no such thing as a move. You consider only board states, not the moves which lead to them, except in determining in which order to evaluate states.
Very interesting. Does any one know if there is a game where next possible state depends on a whole history of the states of the board? For example, if in chess Knight on a white square should move like a bishop, along diagonals, but on a black squares like Knight.
So it's not a question of "possibility" but one of evidence. Faith is what you believe in when you don't have evidence. There's ample evidence out there to make a decision if you look at it without being brainwashed from birth.
The problem you touch upon here is that there is a personal experience, which is different from an experience gained in a course of physical experiment, which relies on repeatability while personal experience is unique. If you have experience of seeing you future in a great detail there is nothing you can do to convince that such thing is possible, yet it would be self evident to you.
If God meant us to be idiots, we wouldn't have been given brains.
From here it does not look like he gave us any.
Does this make sense?
No. If you were to spend some time thinking about it you would see it too.
The other deal is that people would commit suicide all the time.
What it means is that by living very long we would further devalue life. Think about it if someone is to commit a suicide it means that he does value his life anymore and perhaps lives of other people. Death is what gives meaning to our lives. If life is to go on indefinitely it would have no meaning whatsoever.
60 or 70 years of income gives a pretty sound basis for a 900 year retirement just as much so as for a 20 year retirement.
How? Please explain!!!
An egg that is fertilized outside the womb is nothing more than potential life.
I agree. However I think the real question is at which point human spirit and those few cells become bound to each other. Since science at its current stage unable to answer this question we are left at this point with empty and heated discussions.
In a competition between Oracle and Microsoft, I honestly don't think SQL Server has any competition (except Sybase maybe, which it apparently is based off of)
Well, let see. Foreign keys with out cascade delete or update, which makes them useless. Also you cannot emulate them with triggers because all triggers fire up only after update. No recursive selects. No ability to create new aggregate functions. No dynamic sql. Transact sql is a nice language indeed, but it just plain lacks features of Oracle's PL/SQL. I am sure somebody else could write more on why Sybase is no match for Oracle and in some domains even to PostgreSQL.
ah, but the key is, the total ammount of carbon tons available on the market will gradually be reduced. this treaty isn't about immediate change, it's about slowing down damage, and then gradually undoing the damage.
But you miss the point. And the point is that neither Russia nor China will not actually abide by this agreement once the day of reckoning will come for them. Right now they as "developing" countries get more carbon credits than developed countries, and what they going to do is to sell them. Basically they get money for nothing. Talk about selling soap bubbles.
Then do you outlaw the tape people will put over the flash?
That's right. Duct tape is the ultimate evil. If we outlaw duct tape think of all the children(TM) we could potentially save from turning to the Dark Side(TM).
Because each class has one teacher, who needs to keep the class on pace. I can't teach chapter one to some of the class, chapter 3 to others, and chapter 5 to the rest. Explain to me how I would lecture, correct, and give examples on 3 different subjects in 75 minutes. Would I be expected to give a lecture, and help those students who are working on the first assignment at the same time? What about when I'm lecturing and there are also 2 assignments out. It is not possible in a class of 34.
Well, you are right, it is not possible. So, you don't teach to a class of 34 kids. You break it into smaller classes. Let say ten kids in a class. Shouldn't the "richest" country in the world be able to provide this to its kids. Or, I forgot the corporate tax breaks. I guess eventually we all will descend into social darwinism.
Thus we see liberal elitism at its finest.
It is a two way street. When liberal wins some important election all conservative radios scream how stupid and wicked are the voters. Though nobody accuses them of 'conservative elitism'. The point is that this country becoming more and more divided and people from two opposing groups don't want to deal with each other anymore.
So far China's ahead, but Rutan got a man in space twice in 2 weeks on a USD 25M budget. Now that's impressive even if it was just sub-orbital.
No, it is not impressive. Putting man on the orbit is much much much more difficult than any sub-orbital flight.
because as we all well know, a correlation implies causation
Normally it does not of course. However in this case subject and object of the experiment are the same (society), which skews such simple models. In other words, correlation itself does not mean causation, but published and widely disseminated correlation creates new causation and in the end correlation may be equivalent to causation.
Okay, this is Slashdot, where I continually hope that people would understand that correlation does not mean causation.
I tend to disagree here with people who say that it is a humorous coincidence and nothing else. What it have to understand here is that the society is not a simple collection of random people with well defined averages, variables and parameters and thus application of statistics to it are often of very dubious quality. It is important to keep in mind that there is a strong positive feedback in a system. Thus somebody claiming that astrology or some other events like ranking of football teams warrant election of some candidate, may actually affect the election independently of how "scientifically" founded these predictions are. In the end what important is that often such correlations do work and astrology, for example, can easily influence and predict certain societal changes if strong enough positive feedback is present. This fly in a face of an idea that society is akin to an ideal gas, i.e. that given same initial conditions it will behave in the same way. That is of course is not true because state of society ( a complex system ) very much depends on its history as well as on set of parameters at each given moment. So, at the end predictions based which football team won what may not be so stupid.
Hurry. Lets outlaw the lasers.