Right now the U.S. can barely afford to maintain the infrastructure it already has, much less add the kind of construction and maintenance you would need to add high speed rail across long distances. I hate to say it, but we're kind of stuck with what we've got.
I read somewhere that there were plans for a high speed bus service using existing roads.
The principle is that the main way that we detect microbial life is by culturing it. Take a sample, swipe some on agar on a petri dish, see what cultures grow. Take sample of culture, DNA test/examine under microscope etc, document and catalog. For added versatility try culturing with variations of medium, temperature etc.
Unfortunately it might be that the majority of microbial life on Earth does not grow on the kind of cultures that we prepare for these experiments and the most effective way to detect the existance of such life is by DNA analysis such as this paper documents. Otherwise we might never know that they exist; you can't just stick a soil sample under a microscope and go "by jingo I see a type of microbe that has surely never been documented!"
a) Humans do not generally live on top of their rubbish dumps
I've been in rural China. While they don't live literally on top of their rubbish dumps, they just open the front door and throw rubbish into the street where it forms a big pile down the road. Very colorful, very stinky, very huge.
I'm glad some people recognise that advertising manipulates mental states to induce them to make poor decisions. This is why Democracy is, ultimately, a failure; its vulnerable to the same kind of manipulation that advertising uses. Democracy is trivially subverted.
This is China - in 2004, they didn't have a high-speed rail network worth the name. In 2010, they had approximately 10,000km built. If they want it next year, they'll get it alright
Its 2011 now. Does the USA, in this year, have a high-speed rail network?
I heard there was a plan for a high-speed bus network:
Noted, I haven't had much time to investigate this, because I feel like I've RAPED my FB friends. (I'm ACTIVELY working on this w/ my most paranoid friends first.)
Without "grammar snobs," language wouldn't exist as more than a series of grunts.
I think you just described the English language.
Learning other languages has taught me how disorganised and chaotic English is, especially the spelling but including the grammar.
When my ESL friends worry about their mistakes in English I say: "Its ok, you can't possibly butcher English any worse than its native speakers already do."
However, having been to China on numerous occasions, and having had opportunities to talk to some of those hundreds of millions of peasant that still litter the countryside
Hah, they seem to 'litter' their own villages more than the actual countryside itself! The Chinese village streets are trash-heaps.
(I know what you mean though and your comment is cogent; I'm just making an aside remark about the squalor and filthy conditions that the Chinese peasantry create for themselves).
Since Debian routinely goes 'Stable' with show-stopping bugs on many packages and since 'Testing' is the only version of Debian in which you can expect bugs to actually get fixed... its the only way to run Debian really.
Me, I've been a Debian sysadmin for 10 years and am heartily sick of it. I'm not running Testing in production environments and I want to see bugs get fixed even if it is in 'Stable', not have to deal with the Debian 'philosophy' on non-security related bugs that basically means sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling "LALALALALAICANNOTHEARYOULALALALALA"
Sure, USA is still manufacturing, but it's basically insignificant at this point and also it's misleading, since it's not manufacturing all components, it assembles most of what it produces from components brought from abroad using tools brought from abroad.
But USA manufactures the worlds finest buggy whips! (or their modern equivalents...)
Manufacturing 'buggy whips' from imported components... I like the analogy there.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
LOL and GBS thought that he was taking the piss of Nietzsche! Yet this is actually so true.
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Right now the U.S. can barely afford to maintain the infrastructure it already has, much less add the kind of construction and maintenance you would need to add high speed rail across long distances. I hate to say it, but we're kind of stuck with what we've got.
I read somewhere that there were plans for a high speed bus service using existing roads.
Gone. Turns out, aliens are VERY tasty!
Reminds me of when I used to play 'X-Com' aka "UFO: Enemy Unknown"
You'd do missions and kill lots of aliens, capture technology etc. At the end of a mission you'd also end up with lots of alien corpses.
The alien guns etc you could use. Pretty much the only think the corpses were good for was selling for cash. I wondered where all these corpses went.
Then it occured to me; ask no questions, eat no fast food...
Its not about detecting non-DNA life.
The principle is that the main way that we detect microbial life is by culturing it. Take a sample, swipe some on agar on a petri dish, see what cultures grow. Take sample of culture, DNA test/examine under microscope etc, document and catalog. For added versatility try culturing with variations of medium, temperature etc.
Unfortunately it might be that the majority of microbial life on Earth does not grow on the kind of cultures that we prepare for these experiments and the most effective way to detect the existance of such life is by DNA analysis such as this paper documents. Otherwise we might never know that they exist; you can't just stick a soil sample under a microscope and go "by jingo I see a type of microbe that has surely never been documented!"
a) Humans do not generally live on top of their rubbish dumps
I've been in rural China. While they don't live literally on top of their rubbish dumps, they just open the front door and throw rubbish into the street where it forms a big pile down the road. Very colorful, very stinky, very huge.
I'm glad some people recognise that advertising manipulates mental states to induce them to make poor decisions. This is why Democracy is, ultimately, a failure; its vulnerable to the same kind of manipulation that advertising uses. Democracy is trivially subverted.
That would also work really well for crowd control!
Reminds me of the Harkonnen 'burners' from the Dune prequels.
This is China - in 2004, they didn't have a high-speed rail network worth the name. In 2010, they had approximately 10,000km built. If they want it next year, they'll get it alright
Its 2011 now. Does the USA, in this year, have a high-speed rail network?
I heard there was a plan for a high-speed bus network:
http://www.theonion.com/video/obama-replaces-costly-highspeed-rail-plan-with-hig,18473/
Case in point: Malaysia and South Korea teaching the West how to deal with piracy.
My condolences, thats one sucky organisation!
Is the fact that Facebook have the right to make commercial use of anything posted on Facebook not enough of a deterrent?
Ie any company information posted on Facebook, regardless of privacy settings, is now effectively Facebook IP.
Noted, I haven't had much time to investigate this, because I feel like I've RAPED my FB friends. (I'm ACTIVELY working on this w/ my most paranoid friends first.)
Oh your most paranoid friends on FB?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron
Without "grammar snobs," language wouldn't exist as more than a series of grunts.
I think you just described the English language.
Learning other languages has taught me how disorganised and chaotic English is, especially the spelling but including the grammar.
When my ESL friends worry about their mistakes in English I say: "Its ok, you can't possibly butcher English any worse than its native speakers already do."
What to change this? Ostracize anyone who files a bogus lawsuit. Get tort reform on the political agenda. Loser pays and anti-slap laws are needed.
But thats not going to happen unless the former lawyers, ie the politicians, agree to it. Never Going To Happen.
It's a much bigger clusterfuck than just shooting all the lawyers will fix.
No, I agree.
One would need to shoot all the lawyers, all the former lawyers, all the student lawyers, all the law lecturers.
In addition one would want to shoot anyone who does business with lawyers, people who owe money to lawyers and people who lawyers owe money to.
The "Keyser Söze" solution.
Yep, fascinating insights into cognitive dissonance. Very cool. Thanks for the links.
Which 'way of life' is "*THE* American" one?
The top 2% of the American population that control 90% of the wealth?
Or the bottom 50% who have zero assets?
This whole thing is hilarious.
Its almost as if one can see a prequel of Snowcrash playing out in real life!
Franchise America will be here soon :) Cognitive dissonance can, in others, be highly entertaining.
1. I have an idea for perpetual energy!
2. It involves MAGNETS!!!!
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!!!1111
However, having been to China on numerous occasions, and having had opportunities to talk to some of those hundreds of millions of peasant that still litter the countryside
Hah, they seem to 'litter' their own villages more than the actual countryside itself! The Chinese village streets are trash-heaps.
(I know what you mean though and your comment is cogent; I'm just making an aside remark about the squalor and filthy conditions that the Chinese peasantry create for themselves).
Theater within theater.
Ah but leaving is, as I understand it, an offense under law?
So you can't just 'follow their rules or leave'.
In a vacuum nukes produce hard xrays not blast.
The blast effect from nukes comes from detonation of the atmosphere around them.
Since Debian routinely goes 'Stable' with show-stopping bugs on many packages and since 'Testing' is the only version of Debian in which you can expect bugs to actually get fixed... its the only way to run Debian really.
Me, I've been a Debian sysadmin for 10 years and am heartily sick of it. I'm not running Testing in production environments and I want to see bugs get fixed even if it is in 'Stable', not have to deal with the Debian 'philosophy' on non-security related bugs that basically means sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling "LALALALALAICANNOTHEARYOULALALALALA"
Sure, USA is still manufacturing, but it's basically insignificant at this point and also it's misleading, since it's not manufacturing all components, it assembles most of what it produces from components brought from abroad using tools brought from abroad.
But USA manufactures the worlds finest buggy whips! (or their modern equivalents...)
Manufacturing 'buggy whips' from imported components... I like the analogy there.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)
LOL and GBS thought that he was taking the piss of Nietzsche! Yet this is actually so true.
Can't we just cooperate with everyone?
"What are you? Some kind of communist?????"
The world works like this: nothing in, yields nothing out and garbage in, yields garbage out.
Unless its a TiVo, in which case you put Trash in and get Video out!
(disclaimer; I don't own a Tivo).