My required math as an undergrad was four calculus courses. I aced them all, but as it turns out, this was almost completely worthless. I haven't used calcuseless even once since then.
Lying is an important job skill for people in power. Either people are born with the aptitude, they learn it, or they are at a disadvantage to good liars at acquiring and holding power.
Really, the business plan that worked for most.com businesses and still do, is get bought out.
You'll want to do an IPO before you get bought out. If you've got the right business concept to get caught up in a market craze, you can print your own money. E.g., have a Green-Tech startup in a few years. You'll have your IPO buy-out money before Wall Street figures out that Green Tech doesn't work.
Regulation of the free markets is a necessary activity.
Indeed, but the parent was talking about subsidization, not regulation. Subsidization is handing out money for nothing to non-profitable enterprises; regulation is imposing conditions on your operations that cost you money. Economically, they are opposites.
Perhaps because an ounce of prevent is worth a pound of cure? It's funny how that mindset is ignored when it comes to the climate.
The problem with AGW is that we are being asked to choose between a half-ton of prevention and a pound of cure. And the half-ton has practically zero chance of working.
All of Microsoft's settlements to date have included Microsoft paying large sums of money so that the other company can make use of its patents. Is that any different here? Hey, Microsoft, if you want to throw $10-million my way, I will gladly license all of your bogus Linux patents.
Is "Two And A Half Men" broadcast in the UK? One of the main characters is a chiropractor and most of the other characters say libelous things about his profession. Where are the lawsuits over this?
Reminds me of a news story that came out when Robert Goddard was testing his early liquid-fuel rockets. He told an ass-hat reporter that rockets like his would one day reach the moon and the headline the next day after an unsuccessful test was "Goddard misses moon by only 250,000 miles".
Opera suffers from a kind of hubris, though: they don't realize that the audience who will listen to them is smaller than they need to generate sufficient public outrage
Maybe Opera's Plan-A is to sue Apple for $billions for anti-trust violations. Making $millions at the app store might just be the undesirable Plan-B.
I merely pointed out that this work is extraordinarily important and requires way more scrutiny than boring science because the stakes are so high. I was also commenting on the bizarre social-engineering experiment that was intended to make us reduce our CO2 emissions. Surely you're not defending that. Cutting CO2 is a notion that is doomed to fail. If anything, our CO2 emissions will grow exponentially throughout this century, not being reduced by 80% from 1990 levels. The more sensible approach would be to counter-act the AGW with engineering. This approach can actually work in reality and has a price tag about 1/1000th that of the CO2-reduction approach. Also, transferring large amounts of money to corrupt third-world dictatorships could have some negative repercussions on civilization as well as the environment. Do climate scientists even publish papers on these subjects? You certainly have a hair trigger.
Here is my scientific model for proving AGW. You can examine all you want, but I guarantee it contains no programming errors. Run it as many times and with as many different data sets as you want. Suck on that, AGW deniers!
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If you declare war against the people who are trying to make you rich, you suffer the consequences.
My required math as an undergrad was four calculus courses. I aced them all, but as it turns out, this was almost completely worthless. I haven't used calcuseless even once since then.
Lying is an important job skill for people in power. Either people are born with the aptitude, they learn it, or they are at a disadvantage to good liars at acquiring and holding power.
When and where will these episodes be airing in Canada? Teletoon?
Wish I had mod points today.
Hope the passengers don't mind getting blowed up by terrorists.
You'll want to do an IPO before you get bought out. If you've got the right business concept to get caught up in a market craze, you can print your own money. E.g., have a Green-Tech startup in a few years. You'll have your IPO buy-out money before Wall Street figures out that Green Tech doesn't work.
Keep in mind that the coming Green-Tech stock bubble will be a lot like the dot-com one. Make sure you bail out at the right time.
You mean like "God wants you to stay a cripple." Gee, God, why did you invent stem cells?
Don't forget how many trillions in debt you are.
ObFuturama: "Each pound of [dark matter] weighs more than 10,000 pounds".
But they shouldn't be subsidized. That's just wasteful pork-barrel corruption.
Indeed, but the parent was talking about subsidization, not regulation. Subsidization is handing out money for nothing to non-profitable enterprises; regulation is imposing conditions on your operations that cost you money. Economically, they are opposites.
Tinpot dictator does something stupid. Story at 11.
It seems like VLIW is a bit like nuclear fusion -- in ten years, people will still be talking about how its practical realization is ten years away.
The problem with AGW is that we are being asked to choose between a half-ton of prevention and a pound of cure. And the half-ton has practically zero chance of working.
Hello. I am a time traveler. Be not afraid. I come from the past and I travel into the future at a rate of one second per second.
All of Microsoft's settlements to date have included Microsoft paying large sums of money so that the other company can make use of its patents. Is that any different here? Hey, Microsoft, if you want to throw $10-million my way, I will gladly license all of your bogus Linux patents.
Is "Two And A Half Men" broadcast in the UK? One of the main characters is a chiropractor and most of the other characters say libelous things about his profession. Where are the lawsuits over this?
Reminds me of a news story that came out when Robert Goddard was testing his early liquid-fuel rockets. He told an ass-hat reporter that rockets like his would one day reach the moon and the headline the next day after an unsuccessful test was "Goddard misses moon by only 250,000 miles".
You're not allowed to cherry-pick either. The 'G' in AGW means "global". You need to consider results for the globe as a whole.
And if these historical geniuses had lived today, they would almost certainly be atheists.
Maybe Opera's Plan-A is to sue Apple for $billions for anti-trust violations. Making $millions at the app store might just be the undesirable Plan-B.
I merely pointed out that this work is extraordinarily important and requires way more scrutiny than boring science because the stakes are so high. I was also commenting on the bizarre social-engineering experiment that was intended to make us reduce our CO2 emissions. Surely you're not defending that. Cutting CO2 is a notion that is doomed to fail. If anything, our CO2 emissions will grow exponentially throughout this century, not being reduced by 80% from 1990 levels. The more sensible approach would be to counter-act the AGW with engineering. This approach can actually work in reality and has a price tag about 1/1000th that of the CO2-reduction approach. Also, transferring large amounts of money to corrupt third-world dictatorships could have some negative repercussions on civilization as well as the environment. Do climate scientists even publish papers on these subjects? You certainly have a hair trigger.
print f(1, 2);
f (a, b):
print $b + $b;
Here is my scientific model for proving AGW. You can examine all you want, but I guarantee it contains no programming errors. Run it as many times and with as many different data sets as you want. Suck on that, AGW deniers!
10 PRINT "AGW IS CONFIRMED"
20 END