And Russia doesn't have quite so many homonyms, which require alternate spellings in order to distinguish them in writing. Hence the 'c' being used to represent two different sounds from time to time....
A majority of Americans also believe in a deity that will hook them up with a winning lottery ticket if they just pray hard enough.
And He will, too!
How hard do you have to pray to get a winning ticket? Well, pray harder every week till you get that winning ticket. Then you'll know how hard you have to pray to do it....
I've done a cursory glance at the two links provided, and I don't see how giving everyone a $2K a month check will be paid for?
Hmmm...
$2K per month per family of four. 330M people. So we're talking around $2T per year cost for such a program.
So, for 2014, we have $2.475T mandatory spending (for which read: SS/Medicare/Medicaid/WIC/all those other programs that give money to people not covered elsewhere).
Seems to me that $2T is less than $2.4+T. So that's something that could be financed entirely by eliminating all the existing programs and replacing them with a check to everyone, no questions asked.
And that's ignoring the legion of bureaucrats we could stop paying salaries to so that they can determine whether any particular person is eligible for free Federal money, since everyone will be eligible by definition.
If this basic income is enough to feed, clothe, and house a person, then there will be no incentive for people to take jobs that traditionally pay a lower wage, since basic income will enough to take care of basic needs that 99% of a person's income went towards anyways when they were working such jobs.
Nah, the extra income is still extra income. It'll allow you to go a bit beyond "feed, clothe, house" and into other things. Like maybe a vacation now and then.
But face it, if the low-end jobs can be automated away, let them be automated away. If they can't, then employers will have to make them worthwhile for someone who doesn't really NEED a job. Which'll make them nicer jobs in general.
It should be noted that Little Boy didn't actually use compression to achieve fission. It was a gun type bomb (the only one ever built - and it was built not because it was a good design but because it was the EASY design - enough so that they didn't even bother to do a test).
Fat Man, of course, set the pattern for all subsequent nuclear weapons. And it did use compression....
Also, parents can help convince you that you want to learn.
Note that the easiest ways parents can convince you to want to learn is to want to learn themselves.
Just as the best way to ensure your kid sees reading as anything other than a chore is for you to read for pleasure regularly (for which read: pretty much whenever opportunity allows).
No, it leaves interpretation of the Constitution in the hands of the Supreme Court.
No, actually it doesn't. That's a power the Supremes took on themselves back in the nineteenth century. Because someone had to do it, and the Constitution didn't actually specify who that someone was.
Note that (from what I've read), the assumption was that a Constitutional Convention would fix little interpretation issues that the normal Amendment process couldn't deal with.
Note also that letting the Supremes do it keeps the Constitution to manageable lengths - I'd hate to have a 2000 page Constitution.
One would assume anything of importance from the NSA be included as well.
Bad assumption.
First, Federal agencies aren't known for cooperating with one another by default.
Second, the FBI come from Law Enforcement, the NSA's roots are Military. Military and Law Enforcement don't cooperate without a gun to their head (oddly enough, that's why there IS a CIA and NSA - Hoover's FBI wouldn't cooperate willingly with Army/Navy/etc intelligence agencies (and don't get me started on how the Army/Navy/Air Force intel shops don't talk to each other without a gun to their collective heads))....
Umm, there weren't 350K Japanese civilians killed by both atom bombs combined, much less just at Hiroshima. The UPPER estimates for both bombings combined were less than a quarter million.
A password manager usually has a comments block to be filled in by the user.
Insert the "secret question" and its (made up) answer into the comment block. Then you don't have to bother to remember them, and there's basically no way to guess them, since they have no bearing on reality - "what was your first pet's name? Ford Prefect"....
researchers plan to give subsistence hunters camera equipped GPS units, and have them âoemark and photograph environmental disturbances influencing their access to subsistence resources for one calendar year.â
I'm really interested in seeing what kinds of things subsistence hunters find.
when trotted out as GDP per capita at PPP and used as a comparator between countries. It tells you nothing about the income distribution within a country -- a slave plantation, for example, would have a pretty decent income per capita. Median income per capita would be a far more meaningful statistic in so many ways.
Even better, median income per capita, mean income per capita, standard deviations for both. There's not really a good excuse for using just the one number - not like it takes a lot of extra bits to provide the other numbers (which, collectively, provide a pretty good picture).
So, presumably we can't tell whether any particular black hole is artificial either?
Shame, artificial black holes look like such a wonderful way for an advanced (for really advanced values of advanced) civilization to get both power and waste disposal taken care of....
I agree completely that fashion recycles itself, so wearing clothes the father would have worn in high school or college will probably work reasonably well for this purpose....
What you do is buy a set of clothes that an average 21 year old would wear. Then, you set the newborn on the clothes. Every year you take the clothes out and do a picture. Up through the time they can actually wear them.
By which time no 21 year-old would be caught dead wearing that stuff.
Better to take a picture of them in front of your car every year....
How do you go about convincing China, India and Africa to stop having so many kids?
China has a negative population growth rate now.
India's population growth rate is slightly positive, but decreasing steadily. They should be negative growth in another decade or three.
Africa is a whole 'nuther issue. Of course, what Europe, North America, China, and India have in common is increasing standard of living. - maybe that would work for Africa too....
You have to also balance the thousands of square miles of radioactive wasteland that currently exist
Which "thousands of square miles of radioactive wasteland" would that be?
That certainly doesn't describe the area around Chernobyl, which is basically forest like it's always been, with a few people plus a large amount of the usual wildlife.
Fukushima? Nope, no radioactive wasteland there either.
Closest I can come to finding a "radioactive wasteland" on Earth today are coal-ash heaps outside coal plants. Pretty much nothing grows,and the solid radioisotopes make it as close to a "radioactive wasteland" as you'll find on Earth today....
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Funny. Slightly.
At half a gee acceleration, it'll take about 8 minutes to reach cruising speed. It'll probably take longer to slow down, say 25 minutes....
And Russia doesn't have quite so many homonyms, which require alternate spellings in order to distinguish them in writing. Hence the 'c' being used to represent two different sounds from time to time....
And He will, too!
How hard do you have to pray to get a winning ticket? Well, pray harder every week till you get that winning ticket. Then you'll know how hard you have to pray to do it....
And you can prove their motivations in a court of law, I take it?
Okay, I'll bite - how?
So, if WE get rid of our nukes, that'll ensure that North Korea never uses a nuke? Interesting theory. Got any evidence it'll work?
Hmmm...
$2K per month per family of four. 330M people. So we're talking around $2T per year cost for such a program.
So, for 2014, we have $2.475T mandatory spending (for which read: SS/Medicare/Medicaid/WIC/all those other programs that give money to people not covered elsewhere).
Seems to me that $2T is less than $2.4+T. So that's something that could be financed entirely by eliminating all the existing programs and replacing them with a check to everyone, no questions asked.
And that's ignoring the legion of bureaucrats we could stop paying salaries to so that they can determine whether any particular person is eligible for free Federal money, since everyone will be eligible by definition.
Nah, the extra income is still extra income. It'll allow you to go a bit beyond "feed, clothe, house" and into other things. Like maybe a vacation now and then.
But face it, if the low-end jobs can be automated away, let them be automated away. If they can't, then employers will have to make them worthwhile for someone who doesn't really NEED a job. Which'll make them nicer jobs in general.
Luckily, Dragon will be flying a bit sooner.
It should be noted that Little Boy didn't actually use compression to achieve fission. It was a gun type bomb (the only one ever built - and it was built not because it was a good design but because it was the EASY design - enough so that they didn't even bother to do a test).
Fat Man, of course, set the pattern for all subsequent nuclear weapons. And it did use compression....
Which is probably why OP used the phrase "that states so in their terms of service" when mentioning paid services....
Note that the easiest ways parents can convince you to want to learn is to want to learn themselves.
Just as the best way to ensure your kid sees reading as anything other than a chore is for you to read for pleasure regularly (for which read: pretty much whenever opportunity allows).
No, actually it doesn't. That's a power the Supremes took on themselves back in the nineteenth century. Because someone had to do it, and the Constitution didn't actually specify who that someone was.
Note that (from what I've read), the assumption was that a Constitutional Convention would fix little interpretation issues that the normal Amendment process couldn't deal with.
Note also that letting the Supremes do it keeps the Constitution to manageable lengths - I'd hate to have a 2000 page Constitution.
Bad assumption.
First, Federal agencies aren't known for cooperating with one another by default.
Second, the FBI come from Law Enforcement, the NSA's roots are Military. Military and Law Enforcement don't cooperate without a gun to their head (oddly enough, that's why there IS a CIA and NSA - Hoover's FBI wouldn't cooperate willingly with Army/Navy/etc intelligence agencies (and don't get me started on how the Army/Navy/Air Force intel shops don't talk to each other without a gun to their collective heads))....
Umm, there weren't 350K Japanese civilians killed by both atom bombs combined, much less just at Hiroshima. The UPPER estimates for both bombings combined were less than a quarter million.
A password manager usually has a comments block to be filled in by the user.
Insert the "secret question" and its (made up) answer into the comment block. Then you don't have to bother to remember them, and there's basically no way to guess them, since they have no bearing on reality - "what was your first pet's name? Ford Prefect"....
Can you say "selfie"? Sure you can....
Even better, median income per capita, mean income per capita, standard deviations for both. There's not really a good excuse for using just the one number - not like it takes a lot of extra bits to provide the other numbers (which, collectively, provide a pretty good picture).
So, presumably we can't tell whether any particular black hole is artificial either?
Shame, artificial black holes look like such a wonderful way for an advanced (for really advanced values of advanced) civilization to get both power and waste disposal taken care of....
I agree completely that fashion recycles itself, so wearing clothes the father would have worn in high school or college will probably work reasonably well for this purpose....
By which time no 21 year-old would be caught dead wearing that stuff.
Better to take a picture of them in front of your car every year....
In this case, the word is "most"...
So, who wants to bet that in future the overwhelming majority of uses will, purely coincidentally, not fall into the area covered by "most"?
Three teratrees on Earth...
That would mean that trees average about 25 feet (8m) apart over the entire land area of the planet.
I think their definition of "tree" might include things a bit smaller than my definition of "tree"....
Rule One: ANYTHING said by a beautiful woman is fascinating....
China has a negative population growth rate now.
India's population growth rate is slightly positive, but decreasing steadily. They should be negative growth in another decade or three.
Africa is a whole 'nuther issue. Of course, what Europe, North America, China, and India have in common is increasing standard of living. - maybe that would work for Africa too....
Which "thousands of square miles of radioactive wasteland" would that be?
That certainly doesn't describe the area around Chernobyl, which is basically forest like it's always been, with a few people plus a large amount of the usual wildlife.
Fukushima? Nope, no radioactive wasteland there either.
Closest I can come to finding a "radioactive wasteland" on Earth today are coal-ash heaps outside coal plants. Pretty much nothing grows,and the solid radioisotopes make it as close to a "radioactive wasteland" as you'll find on Earth today....