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Loads of horseshit in there, sounds like a report coming from a neocon think tank.
"Better to be poor in a rich country than in a poor one" ? OK, take the example of health care : 15% of the US population has no access to health care. Meanwhile, in a number of european countries, universal health care is provided to the poorest fringe of population, although those states are reportedly "poorer" than the US. And they can afford it because the health industry is under control : pharmaceutical industries are not spending obscene amounts of money in advertising, for instance, and public hospitals are not under pressure to generate a 15% ROI. Mind you, I'll choose the latter option over the former any time.
Hmmm, it would be interesting to compare the annual amount of damage and/or financial losses due to bad driving on the one hand, and poor computer security on the other hand. I'm pretty sure that some day these figures will match, if the latter hasn't already topped the former.
As an American I think we'd have a better program if the school system wasn't controlled by the government.
Actually, private schools have no incentive to select pupils on the basis of academic excellence. Having the parents pay the tuition fees is enough.
With such an education system, you end up with some student who should have dropped out from school/university a long time ago, finally getting a crappy MBA somewhere at a crummy university because his dad owns part of an oil firm. And this guy may even end up winning the best elections money can buy, and drag his country into an oil-related quagmire in the Middle-East. But I digress.
So basically, I think that whether public or private, the school system needs to be efficient at culling the students in order to maintain a decent academic level, and also give a better chance for poorer students to get in. A tougher selection means more opportunities for smart students, whether rich or poor.
or a would-be economist, or some satirist trying to impersonate one. The reasoning in this article is so simplistic that it boggles my mind. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon among very influential economists close to power or in the highest institutions; it exemplifies the average reasoning among right-wing economists where man is supposed to serve the economy, not the other way round. Such flawed ideas, coming from the World Bank, the US Treasury or the International Monetary Fund (take a look at what Nobel award Joe Stiglitz says about them) have already been the cause of thousands of deaths, with economic havoc in developing countries (Argentina anyone ?) due to their stupid advice.
Therefore, I would suggest frying a bunch of those simple-minded economists first. The world would be better off without their brain-dead advice, and millions of lives (not to mention huge funds) would be spared in the process.
Oh, yeah, all of them, sure. Like this British guy who got captured by the Talibans while traveling across Afghanistan and was then deported to Guantanamo before he could say anything ?
And I'm not even mentioning people who were told on to the US forces by their neighbours under false pretenses, just to get the reward for it.
Listen buddy, even thugs and criminals have a right to a trial. At the very least, the innocent must be let out of this place.
And they got their process from Nazi Germany. The 3rd Reich was under embargo from the beginning of the war and did not have oil resources of its own. It succeeded in producing enough liquid fuel from coal to fuel all of its army till late 44, when the Russians invaded the coalfields in Poland.
Given the current prices for raw oil, it won't be long till the threshold of profitability is reached for this use of coal.
Then the dollar will go through the floor, the American economy will collapse [...]
and the multinational corporations will go bankrupt ? and the lobbying firms in Brussels and in DC will go laying off their consultants ? I love the idea of meeting a bedraggled-looking former lobbying consultant, in a dirty shirt and a worn-out suit, out in the street with a "Will lobby for food" sign, but this is only wishfull thinking, I'm afraid...
But I love that idea anyway:-) I would feel no sympathy for those parasites of democracy...
Right, but only if you have the monopoly on car manufacturing. Otherwise Joe Sixpack, who's not as stupid with cars as he is with 'puters, will buy his car from another firm next time.
If you don't have a monopoly and don't want to ruin your reputation, you might like to spend a few millon bucks recalling those cars and changing the design, after all. At least Joe Sixpack will be grateful you did.
looking at nothing but the BIOS info
Dude, if you're looking at the BIOS info you're still lucky. A trojan such as CIH, a.k.a. Chernobyl wipes out both the first 1MB on your HD and your BIOS chip. Turns your $5000 Windows server into a huge paperweight.
I suppose that if that kind of worm hasn't been around for a while, it's mainly because serious blackhat hackers prefer the infected computer alive with a backdoor than just plain dead. Very useful for installing spam relays.
History doesn't give the satisfactory answers to the questions that theology is trying to answer.
Sure, but I'm actually more concerned with people having it the other way around : using theology to find answers to the questions that history, sociology, psychology, physics and other sciences are trying to answer. It would be a good thing to mention that theology in turn does not provide a satisfactory answer to those questions.
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Create a portable breathing device that filters the atmosphere.
Have people pay for the service (subscription for beathing clean air), not for the device !
If the people fail to renew their subscription, remotely lock up the device, just like for stolen mobile phones. They'll find one way or another to pay when they begin to stifle...
Profit !!!
After all, it already worked for water. Why not do it with air ?
Naaah, that's not the way to go.
1. Pollute the atmosphere as much as you can.
2. Create a portable breathing device that filters the atmosphere.
3. Have people pay for the service (subscription for beathing clean air), not the device !
4. If the people fail to renew their subscription, lock up the device. They'll find one way or another to pay when they begin to stifle...
5. Profit !!!
After all, it already worked for water. Why not do it with air ?
"Biodiesel is domestically produced and has a fossil energy ratio of 3.3 to 1, which means that
its fossil energy inputs are similar to those of
petroleum."
The whole document (and the site) make a very intersting read.
No offense, but don't you think that a document bragging about the environmental merits of cement and concrete deserves a little suspicion, especially when it is written by the Portland Cement Association ?
A guy belonging to such an association is certainly not going to blurt out that the cement-producing industry releases a huge amount of greenhouse-gases into the atmosphere and wastes a considerable amount of energy in their industrial process.
Bearden's comment about Minato's motor are quite enlightening indeed. He explains that the motor quite obeys the elementary principles of energy conservation and thermodynamics, and that its efficiency is indeed less than 100%.
Even though it appears that the (electrical) energy input by the operator into the motor is less than the generated power at the output, the classical electromagnetic theory neglects the possible flow of energy from the outside when considering the static magnetic potential. The author compares it to measuring the efficiency of an electrical circuit containing a photovoltaic generator, without taking into account the energy brought by light.
A very interesting read anyway, thanks for pointing that out.
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No. But at least I know she's still alive :-)
I suggest calling Mexico "Silicon carne", for a change ;-)
Wait, you mean a Beowulf herd of those.... never mind.
Loads of horseshit in there, sounds like a report coming from a neocon think tank.
"Better to be poor in a rich country than in a poor one" ? OK, take the example of health care : 15% of the US population has no access to health care. Meanwhile, in a number of european countries, universal health care is provided to the poorest fringe of population, although those states are reportedly "poorer" than the US. And they can afford it because the health industry is under control : pharmaceutical industries are not spending obscene amounts of money in advertising, for instance, and public hospitals are not under pressure to generate a 15% ROI. Mind you, I'll choose the latter option over the former any time.
Hmmm, it would be interesting to compare the annual amount of damage and/or financial losses due to bad driving on the one hand, and poor computer security on the other hand. I'm pretty sure that some day these figures will match, if the latter hasn't already topped the former.
With such an education system, you end up with some student who should have dropped out from school/university a long time ago, finally getting a crappy MBA somewhere at a crummy university because his dad owns part of an oil firm. And this guy may even end up winning the best elections money can buy, and drag his country into an oil-related quagmire in the Middle-East. But I digress.
So basically, I think that whether public or private, the school system needs to be efficient at culling the students in order to maintain a decent academic level, and also give a better chance for poorer students to get in. A tougher selection means more opportunities for smart students, whether rich or poor.
Therefore, I would suggest frying a bunch of those simple-minded economists first. The world would be better off without their brain-dead advice, and millions of lives (not to mention huge funds) would be spared in the process.
Oh, yeah, all of them, sure. Like this British guy who got captured by the Talibans while traveling across Afghanistan and was then deported to Guantanamo before he could say anything ?
And I'm not even mentioning people who were told on to the US forces by their neighbours under false pretenses, just to get the reward for it.
Listen buddy, even thugs and criminals have a right to a trial. At the very least, the innocent must be let out of this place.
Given the current prices for raw oil, it won't be long till the threshold of profitability is reached for this use of coal.
and the multinational corporations will go bankrupt ? and the lobbying firms in Brussels and in DC will go laying off their consultants ? I love the idea of meeting a bedraggled-looking former lobbying consultant, in a dirty shirt and a worn-out suit, out in the street with a "Will lobby for food" sign, but this is only wishfull thinking, I'm afraid...
But I love that idea anyway :-) I would feel no sympathy for those parasites of democracy...
Aliens becoming Jews ? Well, why not...
Er, would you care to tell me what part of the body of an alien woud be the closest thing to a foreskin ? Just out of interest... ;-)
Midori Linux - the world class general purpose embedded OS core (developed by Mr. Linux, the father of Linux)
Oh well. At least they attempted somehow to credit the developer...
If you don't have a monopoly and don't want to ruin your reputation, you might like to spend a few millon bucks recalling those cars and changing the design, after all. At least Joe Sixpack will be grateful you did.
I suppose that if that kind of worm hasn't been around for a while, it's mainly because serious blackhat hackers prefer the infected computer alive with a backdoor than just plain dead. Very useful for installing spam relays.
Sure, but I'm actually more concerned with people having it the other way around : using theology to find answers to the questions that history, sociology, psychology, physics and other sciences are trying to answer. It would be a good thing to mention that theology in turn does not provide a satisfactory answer to those questions.
Radioactive dating ? Bah, humbug.
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- Pollute the atmosphere as much as you can.
- Create a portable breathing device that filters the atmosphere.
- Have people pay for the service (subscription for beathing clean air), not for the device !
- If the people fail to renew their subscription, remotely lock up the device, just like for stolen mobile phones. They'll find one way or another to pay when they begin to stifle...
- Profit !!!
After all, it already worked for water. Why not do it with air ?Naaah, that's not the way to go. 1. Pollute the atmosphere as much as you can. 2. Create a portable breathing device that filters the atmosphere. 3. Have people pay for the service (subscription for beathing clean air), not the device ! 4. If the people fail to renew their subscription, lock up the device. They'll find one way or another to pay when they begin to stifle... 5. Profit !!! After all, it already worked for water. Why not do it with air ?
There is a comparison table (PDF format) stating the following:
"Biodiesel is domestically produced and has a fossil energy ratio of 3.3 to 1, which means that its fossil energy inputs are similar to those of petroleum."
The whole document (and the site) make a very intersting read.
A guy belonging to such an association is certainly not going to blurt out that the cement-producing industry releases a huge amount of greenhouse-gases into the atmosphere and wastes a considerable amount of energy in their industrial process.
Even though it appears that the (electrical) energy input by the operator into the motor is less than the generated power at the output, the classical electromagnetic theory neglects the possible flow of energy from the outside when considering the static magnetic potential. The author compares it to measuring the efficiency of an electrical circuit containing a photovoltaic generator, without taking into account the energy brought by light.
A very interesting read anyway, thanks for pointing that out.
No, he thought you were referring to the animals (ducks) and did not exactly understand what they had to do with thermodynamics.
You mean 840k for Amiga-formatted paper. PC-formatted paper would only reach 720k (1.44MB double-sided).
Oh, wait...