To be really contrarian the French could establish their own DNS root server and just connect to that. Problem of course would be that now there would be no link to the old domain names, but they are in English so why would the French care.
US holds dominance over the root servers just because everybody else believes in them.
We could start a betting pool, which is more feasible: free and stable Iraq or free and stable energy from fusion.
Both are long bets. Iraq freedom project will cost US taxpayers in the end propably in excess of 500 billion. Fusion project is spread out more evenly amonst nations and will cost about the same.
Politics is mostly about how to move money from one pocket to another.
I'm nervous about US economy, but the truth is that manufacturing is only small part of doing business now days. Owning the factorys and selling their products is where the money is and US has always been good at that.
As for the game of chicken, individual countries and investors could pull out money one at the time and the market wouldn't go anywhere. So it is not the fear that their transaction causes collapse that keeps them from selling their share of US debt, but that they still believe that current situation is temporary US will pull through.
the law itself is still subject to judicial review
I'm sorry, but if the congress passes and the president signs a law that is obviously unconstitutional then they are undermining the whole system of governing by causing unnecessary tension between branches of government.
About bit over 10 years ago when I had the pleasure of being under 25 I was able to rent cars from small private establishments. The big chains however were quite unyielding. If I remember right I actually paid cash few times for the rental.
I did some coding in 2001 for bunch of guys who were participating in the genome project and they were guestimating about 75k, but I think the number has come down from that to about 40k. Could propably do a web search, but it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The article rises an interesting question though. When do we cross over to the unpatentable? If we keep adding human genes to a mouse for what ever purpose, does the mouse eventually cross that line? I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of patented animals that contain human genes. I don't know if there are any that contain many human genes, but I would imagine that for some purposes that would be desirable. Of course there are about 40k genes in humans (last count I remember) so getting to a significant percentage is a long shot.
Well, it will create a huge problem for us Finns this global warming. We have been counting on the next ice age to produce big enough ice shelf that would push all the baby diapers in our land fills to central europe, thus allowing us to enjoy our pristine nature.
It's one of those moments when you realize that you are living in a Star Trek episode. You know when something goes wrong and then one of the guys (I forget the names) goes like "Captain, I can compensate using *strange word* to modulate *strange word*...".
But these missions cost pretty much nothing compared to manned mission.
Re:Sorry guys, but SS will be there no matter what
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But taking care of elderly is a necessity not an option. I play the market already and I don't need a government program to do that.
Since federal government is in debt it will have to borrow money from the market to make up for the money diverted to private accounts. One could argue that the current surplus that social security is running could be diverted at no cost to private accounts by ignoring that then the budget deficit must be financed some other way. Economy wont be stimulated. Some fund will take your money and lend it to government with 0.01% margin and make a killing.
Other thing to consider is that when the money is in private account, does it mean that when catastrophic illness or financial ruin occurs to for example an enterpreneur, she might lose what ever is on the private SS account? Since it is now part of her personal assets she stands to lose it unlike social security, which is not part of your assets until old age or disability.
I think people seem to think that social security is a pension plan, but the truth is that it is the plan B. Plan A should be savings these should come in form of investments and retirement account, which also can be invested. Often companies have the pension fund invested in themselves, but this can go horribly wrong aka Enron. Many people can't save or lose savings due to unfortunate events.
I'm pretty well covered myself. Got SS and pension saved in both Finland and USA so if one economy collapses I can scrape enough cash for my grits from the other.
Sorry guys, but SS will be there no matter what
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Even if social security will start running out of money in 2018 you will still have old people. If you don't want them starting fires in the subway tunnels you have to take care of them some how. This costs money. Where does government get money? From its hard working citizens. So, up go the taxes, old folks get their meager checks and hopefully productivity will be up enough and economy sound enough that no body has to give up cable TV or settle for 1GB/s internet connection
I think parent post sounds a bit far fetched. Politicians don't have to go looking for corporate chums. When there is money to be made business will find the purse string holders. Usually the story is this: Politician with ties to industry is told what would be helpfull. Good reasons for legislation is given bad reasons are left for public to figure out. Politicians integrity will be held together with little bit of cash in various direct or nondirect ways - be it cup of coffee, trip to Bahamas or contribution to "concerned citizens" group mudslinging the opponent.
When government wants money from corporations it should take it through legislations. When companies contribute to parties of public officials they expect a return with interest.
Contributing to inauguration of President is just a way of buying access to both President and rest of the politicians. I'm sure you get a nice front row seat with big enough check and next time you call the secretary at the other end will connect your call and leave others on hold.
Corporate lobbying of politicians should be watched with vigour. Being a corrupt civil servant/politician is propably second oldest profession and always serves general public badly.
Are there many references in bible for whimsical God or are there other stories of God making pranks for the purpose of them being funny? I have read bible once or twice, but never thought it from that aspect.
I don't think the translations are the cause of concentration of fundamentalist thinking. Humans have evolved to disregard need for clear understanding of nature and go with what we "know". We accept dogma very easily. Hell, I have no idea what equations string theory is based on, but I believe that those guys are onto something.
Fundamentalism feeds from two sources. First what I mentioned: disregard for actual understanding and need for easy solutions.
Second source is the need to belong. Watch a bunch of sports fans supporting their team. The group forms around the somewhat (ok completely) absurd idea that supporting same team or sport should somehow unite bunch of complete strangers.
Creationism is perfect "sport" in this aspect. It actually reduces the amount of information that is needed to comprehend where did we come from and also brings you into comfortable group of like minded thinkers. Additionally, belief in creationism has very little negative impact on your everyday life. Only in some circles do people think you are bit off your rocker, in others it actually is a proof of faith and considered a positive thing.
Well that would again guide us wrong about the meaning of the word "theory". Perhaps the sticker could say "The existence of God can't be made into theory"?
Don't be silly. There are no creatures in between evolutionary states. What ever you mean by that? There are creatures with small differences within every population (just look at you fellow humans). Put bunch of them into different environments wait couple of thousand years and surprise they have evolved into different looking bunches in general. Wait a million years or more and they have evolved into different species.
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I read yesterday from Finnish newspaper (Helsingin Sanomat) that NASA has some sort of gluegun to fix spots that are missing tiles
Well, what did you think they did with that super computer after they were done simulating the whole universe.
To be really contrarian the French could establish their own DNS root server and just connect to that. Problem of course would be that now there would be no link to the old domain names, but they are in English so why would the French care.
US holds dominance over the root servers just because everybody else believes in them.
Both are long bets. Iraq freedom project will cost US taxpayers in the end propably in excess of 500 billion. Fusion project is spread out more evenly amonst nations and will cost about the same.
Politics is mostly about how to move money from one pocket to another.
I'm nervous about US economy, but the truth is that manufacturing is only small part of doing business now days. Owning the factorys and selling their products is where the money is and US has always been good at that. As for the game of chicken, individual countries and investors could pull out money one at the time and the market wouldn't go anywhere. So it is not the fear that their transaction causes collapse that keeps them from selling their share of US debt, but that they still believe that current situation is temporary US will pull through.
the law itself is still subject to judicial review I'm sorry, but if the congress passes and the president signs a law that is obviously unconstitutional then they are undermining the whole system of governing by causing unnecessary tension between branches of government.
Thats how my Nokia 9500 Communicator gets when I don't pay my phone bill
About bit over 10 years ago when I had the pleasure of being under 25 I was able to rent cars from small private establishments. The big chains however were quite unyielding. If I remember right I actually paid cash few times for the rental.
I did some coding in 2001 for bunch of guys who were participating in the genome project and they were guestimating about 75k, but I think the number has come down from that to about 40k. Could propably do a web search, but it wouldn't make much of a difference.
The article rises an interesting question though. When do we cross over to the unpatentable? If we keep adding human genes to a mouse for what ever purpose, does the mouse eventually cross that line? I'm pretty sure that there are a lot of patented animals that contain human genes. I don't know if there are any that contain many human genes, but I would imagine that for some purposes that would be desirable. Of course there are about 40k genes in humans (last count I remember) so getting to a significant percentage is a long shot.
I'm joking Germany, we recycle honest
We have some areas in the north where it went under -40F every winter. We are planning on replacing reindeer with kangaroos.
Wow, I was thinking of the Captain Kirk, Spock and those guys. I must be getting old.
It's one of those moments when you realize that you are living in a Star Trek episode. You know when something goes wrong and then one of the guys (I forget the names) goes like "Captain, I can compensate using *strange word* to modulate *strange word* ...".
But these missions cost pretty much nothing compared to manned mission.
Since federal government is in debt it will have to borrow money from the market to make up for the money diverted to private accounts. One could argue that the current surplus that social security is running could be diverted at no cost to private accounts by ignoring that then the budget deficit must be financed some other way. Economy wont be stimulated. Some fund will take your money and lend it to government with 0.01% margin and make a killing.
Other thing to consider is that when the money is in private account, does it mean that when catastrophic illness or financial ruin occurs to for example an enterpreneur, she might lose what ever is on the private SS account? Since it is now part of her personal assets she stands to lose it unlike social security, which is not part of your assets until old age or disability.
I think people seem to think that social security is a pension plan, but the truth is that it is the plan B. Plan A should be savings these should come in form of investments and retirement account, which also can be invested. Often companies have the pension fund invested in themselves, but this can go horribly wrong aka Enron. Many people can't save or lose savings due to unfortunate events.
I'm pretty well covered myself. Got SS and pension saved in both Finland and USA so if one economy collapses I can scrape enough cash for my grits from the other.
Even if social security will start running out of money in 2018 you will still have old people. If you don't want them starting fires in the subway tunnels you have to take care of them some how. This costs money. Where does government get money? From its hard working citizens. So, up go the taxes, old folks get their meager checks and hopefully productivity will be up enough and economy sound enough that no body has to give up cable TV or settle for 1GB/s internet connection
When government wants money from corporations it should take it through legislations. When companies contribute to parties of public officials they expect a return with interest.
Contributing to inauguration of President is just a way of buying access to both President and rest of the politicians. I'm sure you get a nice front row seat with big enough check and next time you call the secretary at the other end will connect your call and leave others on hold.
Corporate lobbying of politicians should be watched with vigour. Being a corrupt civil servant/politician is propably second oldest profession and always serves general public badly.
Yeah, there is a guy in Colorado that can help them setup that sort of thing. Maybe control the lights on the landing craft.
Are there many references in bible for whimsical God or are there other stories of God making pranks for the purpose of them being funny? I have read bible once or twice, but never thought it from that aspect.
I'm happy for you. Rest of us can get the same kicks from /..
(sorry, don't mean to mock your beliefs)
Fundamentalism feeds from two sources. First what I mentioned: disregard for actual understanding and need for easy solutions. Second source is the need to belong. Watch a bunch of sports fans supporting their team. The group forms around the somewhat (ok completely) absurd idea that supporting same team or sport should somehow unite bunch of complete strangers.
Creationism is perfect "sport" in this aspect. It actually reduces the amount of information that is needed to comprehend where did we come from and also brings you into comfortable group of like minded thinkers. Additionally, belief in creationism has very little negative impact on your everyday life. Only in some circles do people think you are bit off your rocker, in others it actually is a proof of faith and considered a positive thing.
Well that would again guide us wrong about the meaning of the word "theory". Perhaps the sticker could say "The existence of God can't be made into theory"?
Don't be silly. There are no creatures in between evolutionary states. What ever you mean by that? There are creatures with small differences within every population (just look at you fellow humans). Put bunch of them into different environments wait couple of thousand years and surprise they have evolved into different looking bunches in general. Wait a million years or more and they have evolved into different species.
Besides it is obvious that humans are close relatives of monkeys. Want proof? Go visit nearest playground. (tired of making sensible arguments)