It seems to me that social gullibilty has nothing to do with detection of a lie - instead it stems from the belief of an assertion with no critical evaluation. Critical analysis over unquestioning belief is a much maligned concept in most education systems.
Our children are being indoctrinated from a very early age to believe what authority figures (parents, teachers, the tv, etc.) tell them. Should we be surprised when a concept ingrained for 10+ years during the most formative childhood years translates to an easily misled populace?
Do not believe anyone. Do not believe politicians, scientists, priests, your parents, the police, and please don't believe the mass media.
If you want anything legible you will need a highly focused source - lots of light is easy, a highly collimated focused light source is hard. I agree with you in principle and was going to suggest a laser trace style "projection".
Stick your hand flat out the window of a moving car then angle your finger tips up. The increased pressure on the palm of your hand will force your hand up.
Angle the finger tips down and the increased pressure on the top of your hand forces your hand down.
You are basically just converting some of the forward force provided by your propulsion system into a vertical component.
Well I purposefully selected an older example to highlight that this is not a new issue, and I still believe that many aspects of that paper are relevant to the issue at hand (note: the attached quote was straight from a biblio reference, not specifically selected).
I am not trying to defend the current bi-tri-multi-lateral agreements or there efficacy in the current WTO environment. I was responding to unfounded all-encompassing statements like "Globalization is the future and history has shown that over the long-run, it's always beneficial to everyone." - This is fairly obviously false as it implies a sum-gain that is relatively equally distributed amongst all parties.
Uni of Queensland has a tunnel network underneath it's central buildings aswell. I am told that it was originally designed to be used by the army in emergencies, but I can't find any record of that (although I believe this is a picture of the tunnel construction).
After a few years mapping what entrances were visible, we found a grate that had been left open, so those of us who dared went for a jaunt.
They must have had silent alarms aswell (I saw the sensors) so I knew we wouldn't have long. The group split in two and went opposite directions (the central tunnel is a large ring circumnavigating the great court). A couple of security guards came noisily blundering along the tunnel towards my girlfriend and I, but then they heard they other group and took off after them, not noticing us lurking in the shadows of an alcove.
The other group made it to a service entrance before the guards caught up, and we scurried back out the original grate. All in all a fun day at Uni.
Note for law enforcement: This is an ENTIRELY FICTIONAL account of something that NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
Ok I think I have managed to tone down my initial response ("WTF, R U ON CRACK!") to something moderately civil.:)
"Globalization is the future and history has shown that over the long-run, it's always beneficial to everyone." - Playing fields are never level, markets are never free, and the ref is always biased.
"As money flows into poor countries through trade..." - If money flows into... this is not a given.
The FTA is all about corporations, not people. Call me strange (or just idealistic), but I believe the governments obligation is to the citizens foremost (those who actually elect them), and not the corporations (who buy the decisions they want).
I would recommend reading a few of the dissertations upon FTAs:
Helleiner, Gerald. 1993. The Political Economy of North American Free Trade. New York and Montreal: St. Martin's Press and McGill-Queen's.
Gerry Helleiner [Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, and a Canadian development economist actively involved with economic development policy in Latin America and Africa for many years] is fairly critical about Mexico and NAFTA. He argues that NAFTA implies "Mexican policy disarmament" [p.46], and that Mexico [a small country] would do better to bargain multilaterally through the GATT process than through bilateral bargaining over US-Mexico free trade given the asymmetric relationship between the US and Mexico. The impacts of Mexico joining NAFTA or a US-Mexico FTA on Mexico's relationships with Latin America are also seen as problematic. (My emphasis). There are many other examples of the larger economic power (ahem) flexing it's muscle to force issues to the detriment of the FTA partners.
The Age has an article on the report compiled by the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research (NIEIR) for the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.
To summarise:
A federal government commissioned study of the agreement, which found it would boost the Australian economy by more than $6 billion a year, was out of touch with reality.
The deal could cost Australia around $52 billion within two decades, largely due to Australian governments surrendering their control of key policy decisions. This would be most felt in knowledge-based industries, with American companies likely to overwhelm their small Australian opposition, wipe out competition, withdraw domestic investment and take profits offshore.
The study also put a cost to the proposed changes in copyright laws in Australia, that will extend copyright protection by 20 years, in line with the US. The NIEIR found this change would benefit the Disney Corporation, which has pushed the copyright extension in the US, at a $450 million cost to the Australian public.
Changes in the copyright, pharmaceutical and knowledge-based areas, and restrictions on the ability of Australian governments to act in the country's best interests, all meant the deal was not in the national interest.
It found the average loss of jobs would be around 57,000, but in a worst-case scenario, it could rise to 195,000.
Well ok, but I can't find any evidence to support this hypothesis.
"In the Mediterranean the evaporation of water from the surface is so great that the incoming fresh water from the rivers which empty into the Med will not keep it filled, and as a result salt water from the Atlantic Ocean flows in through the Straits of Gibraltar to keep the Mediterranean level with the Atlantic Ocean. By evaporation this salt water is concentrated in the Med, just like in salt ponds such as are at the south end of the San Francisco Bay (and in many other places in the world) . Thus the water of the Mediterranean is more salty, and hence more dense, than the Atlantic Ocean water. Also the Mediterranean water is warmer, due to the heating by the sun. The Atlantic Ocean water is cooled by the circulation of the Gulf Stream from the cold Arctic region." - Old Meddies Research.
So the Med doesn't receive enough FRESH water to sustain the evaporative loss, hence the Atlantic is the supplement. Sure there have been cyclical evaporation/refill events in the past, but the last refill is 4.5 Million years ago as you noted. If it is still filling now, that is a pretty slow flowrate...
If you read the Meddies article it refers to the outflow of seawater from the mediterranean as well. Surely this would not occur if the Med was lower than the Atlantic.
I bought a Draytek 2600G - 54Mbps wireless, hardware accelerated 3DES PPTP/IPSEC VPN client/server/passthru (with lots of connections, not the usual conditions that you can only have 2 unless you buy the next model up), USB print server, rate limiting of switch ports, force vpn over wlan, and a quite interactive firmware development process.
It seems the regional offices are less than helpful in some countries, but the australian site is exemplary.
What's rising? The sealevel? Is the land subsiding?
The Mediterranean Sea is still a connected sea - the Straits of Gibraltar aren't THAT narrow - so it can hardly fill from the surrounding water sources (sealevel rises aside).
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Our children are being indoctrinated from a very early age to believe what authority figures (parents, teachers, the tv, etc.) tell them. Should we be surprised when a concept ingrained for 10+ years during the most formative childhood years translates to an easily misled populace?
Do not believe anyone. Do not believe politicians, scientists, priests, your parents, the police, and please don't believe the mass media.
Teach your children to think, not believe.
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The light wattage/lumens/candela/luminous flux (choose your favourite) required would be enormous.
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Spitting image of Bilbo when naked... at least I think that counts as naked. He is one hairy man.
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Stick your hand flat out the window of a moving car then angle your finger tips up. The increased pressure on the palm of your hand will force your hand up.
Angle the finger tips down and the increased pressure on the top of your hand forces your hand down.
You are basically just converting some of the forward force provided by your propulsion system into a vertical component.
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"I used to be a communist, then I was an aethiest, now I'm just a pessimist." -- Lloyd Walters
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Wow - My life summed up in a sentence...
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I am not trying to defend the current bi-tri-multi-lateral agreements or there efficacy in the current WTO environment. I was responding to unfounded all-encompassing statements like "Globalization is the future and history has shown that over the long-run, it's always beneficial to everyone." - This is fairly obviously false as it implies a sum-gain that is relatively equally distributed amongst all parties.
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After a few years mapping what entrances were visible, we found a grate that had been left open, so those of us who dared went for a jaunt.
They must have had silent alarms aswell (I saw the sensors) so I knew we wouldn't have long. The group split in two and went opposite directions (the central tunnel is a large ring circumnavigating the great court). A couple of security guards came noisily blundering along the tunnel towards my girlfriend and I, but then they heard they other group and took off after them, not noticing us lurking in the shadows of an alcove.
The other group made it to a service entrance before the guards caught up, and we scurried back out the original grate. All in all a fun day at Uni.
Note for law enforcement: This is an ENTIRELY FICTIONAL account of something that NEVER ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
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"Globalization is the future and history has shown that over the long-run, it's always beneficial to everyone." - Playing fields are never level, markets are never free, and the ref is always biased.
"As money flows into poor countries through trade..." - If money flows into... this is not a given.
The FTA is all about corporations, not people. Call me strange (or just idealistic), but I believe the governments obligation is to the citizens foremost (those who actually elect them), and not the corporations (who buy the decisions they want).
I would recommend reading a few of the dissertations upon FTAs:
Helleiner, Gerald. 1993. The Political Economy of North American Free Trade. New York and Montreal: St. Martin's Press and McGill-Queen's.
Gerry Helleiner [Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto, and a Canadian development economist actively involved with economic development policy in Latin America and Africa for many years] is fairly critical about Mexico and NAFTA. He argues that NAFTA implies "Mexican policy disarmament" [p.46], and that Mexico [a small country] would do better to bargain multilaterally through the GATT process than through bilateral bargaining over US-Mexico free trade given the asymmetric relationship between the US and Mexico. The impacts of Mexico joining NAFTA or a US-Mexico FTA on Mexico's relationships with Latin America are also seen as problematic. (My emphasis). There are many other examples of the larger economic power (ahem) flexing it's muscle to force issues to the detriment of the FTA partners.
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Besides, I never said I didn't think it was beautiful, I just said it fucked with my head. A lot like my wife really...
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Well that just sounds wonderfull...
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No offense to anyone, I am speaking musically, not symbolically.
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"In the Mediterranean the evaporation of water from the surface is so great that the incoming fresh water from the rivers which empty into the Med will not keep it filled, and as a result salt water from the Atlantic Ocean flows in through the Straits of Gibraltar to keep the Mediterranean level with the Atlantic Ocean. By evaporation this salt water is concentrated in the Med, just like in salt ponds such as are at the south end of the San Francisco Bay (and in many other places in the world) . Thus the water of the Mediterranean is more salty, and hence more dense, than the Atlantic Ocean water. Also the Mediterranean water is warmer, due to the heating by the sun. The Atlantic Ocean water is cooled by the circulation of the Gulf Stream from the cold Arctic region." - Old Meddies Research.
So the Med doesn't receive enough FRESH water to sustain the evaporative loss, hence the Atlantic is the supplement. Sure there have been cyclical evaporation/refill events in the past, but the last refill is 4.5 Million years ago as you noted. If it is still filling now, that is a pretty slow flowrate...
If you read the Meddies article it refers to the outflow of seawater from the mediterranean as well. Surely this would not occur if the Med was lower than the Atlantic.
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It seems the regional offices are less than helpful in some countries, but the australian site is exemplary.
Anyone had any bad experiences with them?
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The Mediterranean Sea is still a connected sea - the Straits of Gibraltar aren't THAT narrow - so it can hardly fill from the surrounding water sources (sealevel rises aside).
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