About twenty-five years ago, I went on a family trip to London. My wife and I were out with my brother and he wanted to eat at Burger King. Sure, we thought, let's eat at a London Burger King once. Then we found out he wanted to eat there all the time, so we found our own places to eat after that.
The US got out of the Great Depression by breaking windows in a big way.
A very large part of US manufacturing capability went to war materiel that had little or no civilian use. A large number of men were put to work breaking other people's windows, among other things. There was a whole lot of economic activity that served no useful purpose, neither producing capital goods nor anything useful in peacetime.
The economy ran full steam, and didn't stop after the war, since people had money from jobs doing nothing economically useful and could spend it.
I've known that a "two by four" isn't 2"x4" for over fifty years now. I haven't noticed it changing. If you're going into a field without any assistance, there's lots of ways you're going to screw up. If you have some sort of teacher, they'll tell you. If you're using some sort of plan, it will specify "two by fours" and will work just fine with what you get at the lumber yard. If you've got neither a teacher nor a plan, nothing's going to save you.
IIRC, and IANAL, presenting something ostensibly factual as "your opinion" doesn't get you off the libel hook. It's still hard to win a libel suit. Murray would have to show that Oliver's statements were false, and that he had no good reason to think them true, and show some actual harm. This isn't the case in all countries, but the US has unusually strong free speech protections.
If they are "only a comedy show" and it is only Oliver's opinion then Murray does have a case because the commentary is based on an opinion and not fact.
What case would Murray have? If what Oliver said is true, Murray has no case. If Oliver had reason to believe what he said, Murray has no case. US law is not nearly as favorable for slander and libel suits as that of some other countries.
As a straight man, I dislike bro culture and want to see it eliminated in the workspace. I further resent the implication that a group of men working together will naturally turn into assholes.
She claimed, apparently with evidence, that her boss hit on her over company chat on her first day. If you don't trust yourself to avoid doing things like that, get therapy.
Yup. If we've got 100 years to get a self-sustaining colony going off Earth or die, we're doomed, because it isn't going to happen even with a massive worldwide effort.
Most biological systems such as bacteria will grow exponentially provided they have their needs met.
In more advanced societies on Earth, who typically get all their needs and a whole lot of wants met, the birth rate is slightly below replacement level. Humans are not bacteria (unless, I guess, you count by number of cells, in which case humanity is over half bacteria).
You seem to be talking about getting a colony going. Getting a self-sustaining colony going is far harder, since it has to be able, using locally available resources, to replace anything and everything in the colony. As a SWAG, I doubt that 100K people could keep a technological civilization going without assistance.
I'm in favor of space colonization, but it's extremely unlikely to produce a self-sustaining off-Earth colony in the next few centuries.
You seem to have no idea what atheists are like. Aside from religion, there aren't that many differences between people who believe in God and people who don't.
We will likely achieve fusion within 50 years, and have cheap automation driven by weak AI.
Fifty years ago was 1967, and I was around and reading about fusion being practical in another 20 years or so, and strong AI that was going to automate almost all work away long before 50 years. They don't seem to make hopes for the future like they did when I was a kid.
I once assumed a constant population growth rate and the volume of a typical human, and calculated when humanity would be a solid ball expanding through space at greater than the speed of light. Exponential growth is fun.
Life on Earth has survived despite catastrophic meteor strikes for over a billion years, which is a pretty good record. The catastrophic meteor strikes generally happen at intervals of tens of millions of years, which means there's a really small chance that we'll get one in the next thousand years - and we're working on finding and stopping any such strikes that are going to happen.
Alternately, you could react to what GP actually wrote, which is that current demographical analysis and observation shows that the birth rate drops off to slightly under replacement level, given some conditions we're busy creating over the entire planet.
Infinitely more dangerous? I can't breathe either in space or underwater, and will die within not that many minutes in either case. The technology required to go really deep underwater is a lot simpler than the technology required to go into space, assuming that I want to survive both experiences.
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About twenty-five years ago, I went on a family trip to London. My wife and I were out with my brother and he wanted to eat at Burger King. Sure, we thought, let's eat at a London Burger King once. Then we found out he wanted to eat there all the time, so we found our own places to eat after that.
The US got out of the Great Depression by breaking windows in a big way.
A very large part of US manufacturing capability went to war materiel that had little or no civilian use. A large number of men were put to work breaking other people's windows, among other things. There was a whole lot of economic activity that served no useful purpose, neither producing capital goods nor anything useful in peacetime.
The economy ran full steam, and didn't stop after the war, since people had money from jobs doing nothing economically useful and could spend it.
My feet are 12" long, so my shoes have to be some longer.
(Also, my outstretched fingertips are a fathom apart. Behold the image of Charlemagne!)
I've known that a "two by four" isn't 2"x4" for over fifty years now. I haven't noticed it changing. If you're going into a field without any assistance, there's lots of ways you're going to screw up. If you have some sort of teacher, they'll tell you. If you're using some sort of plan, it will specify "two by fours" and will work just fine with what you get at the lumber yard. If you've got neither a teacher nor a plan, nothing's going to save you.
I think one reason may be that they sound stupid. A kibblebyte? A maybebyte? A gibberish byte?
The leftists I know realize that coal is used in things other than electricity generation, and that it will take a long time to get rid of it.
If you tell outright lies about someone, and said lies hurt that someone, you can lose big in the US also.
IIRC, and IANAL, presenting something ostensibly factual as "your opinion" doesn't get you off the libel hook. It's still hard to win a libel suit. Murray would have to show that Oliver's statements were false, and that he had no good reason to think them true, and show some actual harm. This isn't the case in all countries, but the US has unusually strong free speech protections.
What case would Murray have? If what Oliver said is true, Murray has no case. If Oliver had reason to believe what he said, Murray has no case. US law is not nearly as favorable for slander and libel suits as that of some other countries.
I had one without drugs. I really don't recommend that. If your instructions don't include someone to drive you home, don't go.
In one study, people who watched The Daily Show were overall better-informed than people who watched news channels.
As a straight man, I dislike bro culture and want to see it eliminated in the workspace. I further resent the implication that a group of men working together will naturally turn into assholes.
She claimed, apparently with evidence, that her boss hit on her over company chat on her first day. If you don't trust yourself to avoid doing things like that, get therapy.
The theory behind free trade is that it increases wealth for all economies involved. It says nothing about who gets what.
Yup. If we've got 100 years to get a self-sustaining colony going off Earth or die, we're doomed, because it isn't going to happen even with a massive worldwide effort.
In more advanced societies on Earth, who typically get all their needs and a whole lot of wants met, the birth rate is slightly below replacement level. Humans are not bacteria (unless, I guess, you count by number of cells, in which case humanity is over half bacteria).
You seem to be talking about getting a colony going. Getting a self-sustaining colony going is far harder, since it has to be able, using locally available resources, to replace anything and everything in the colony. As a SWAG, I doubt that 100K people could keep a technological civilization going without assistance.
I'm in favor of space colonization, but it's extremely unlikely to produce a self-sustaining off-Earth colony in the next few centuries.
You seem to have no idea what atheists are like. Aside from religion, there aren't that many differences between people who believe in God and people who don't.
Fifty years ago was 1967, and I was around and reading about fusion being practical in another 20 years or so, and strong AI that was going to automate almost all work away long before 50 years. They don't seem to make hopes for the future like they did when I was a kid.
I once assumed a constant population growth rate and the volume of a typical human, and calculated when humanity would be a solid ball expanding through space at greater than the speed of light. Exponential growth is fun.
We haven't destroyed any planets. Not yet anyway, and we'd need some major tech advances to get the ability to destroy one.
Life on Earth has survived despite catastrophic meteor strikes for over a billion years, which is a pretty good record. The catastrophic meteor strikes generally happen at intervals of tens of millions of years, which means there's a really small chance that we'll get one in the next thousand years - and we're working on finding and stopping any such strikes that are going to happen.
Alternately, you could react to what GP actually wrote, which is that current demographical analysis and observation shows that the birth rate drops off to slightly under replacement level, given some conditions we're busy creating over the entire planet.
Damn, how do you get a job like that?
(For the bulk of Slashdot readers, a "concubine" is a person you get to have "sex" with without legal formalities.)
Infinitely more dangerous? I can't breathe either in space or underwater, and will die within not that many minutes in either case. The technology required to go really deep underwater is a lot simpler than the technology required to go into space, assuming that I want to survive both experiences.