I currently have a static IP address, for no particularly good reason. If the relevant agencies got off their backsides and created a proper market in IPv4 addresses I could sell this static address to someone that actually needs it. I'd be better off, and so would he. And I think this is, eventually, what will happen, once it realy becoems clear that no-one wants IPv6 and that a different approach to solving the problem is required.
Hmm. I used to work in high care food production, which essentially means spending your working day acting as if you were in an operating theatre. You washed your hands twenty times a day or more and dosed them with alcohol. If you touched your face or a non-food contact surface, you washed them again. During the time I spent there, I didn't come down with a single cough, cold, runny nose, sore throat, anything. We also had incredibly low sickness rates in general.
In hospitals, staph infections are more serious than they are in the outside world, due to the patient already having some reason to be in hospital. Hence, infections are treated with antibiotics (or the patient is already takign them for something else), hence the rise of MRSA. And the position of the UK is exaggerated - if you need them, you'll get them. If you've got a cold, go home.
The situation is worst in places where people are kept poor for structural reasons. Get to work on eliminating poverty, and pretty soon you will see people wanting secure property rights - which can only really be guaranteed in the long term through a solid bill of rights and a healthy dose of democracy. It is a very slow turning wheel, but if you let economics do its work, it's pretty unstoppable.
Once, when I was a kid, I grabbed onto the back of a lorry to get a lift across town. Only, the driver turned out to be a bit of a loony and didn't slow down enough for it to be safe to jump before he got out. Being that close to motorway is...exciting...
OPEC used to have significant influence over the price of oil, but they no longer do, for two reasons. One is that OPEC members cheat, rampantly, and produce over quota in order to get as much cash through the door as possible. The second is that oil supplies are now much more diverse and there are massive sources of oil outside OPEC which are viable at increased oil prices - so if OPEC jack the price, they shoot themselves in the foot in the long run. Lastly, the world is a very different place politically from what it was when OPEC began.
He means the equivalent "value" to that person, in terms of just how much pain you would feel handing over that amount of money. The Big Mac index is a simplified version of how this (purchasing power parity) is measured.
There is no God, and humanity arose and has achieved all it has done through blind chance, which is fairly remarkable. As for morals, well, construction of moral systems is a subject slightly larger than a/. posting. There are several different starting points for constructing moral systems. In addition, there is strong scientific evidence that we actually have a built in moral system, which is slightly different again. I tend to favour Utilitarianism leavened with a large dose of common sense, but the exercise of constructing your own morals from scratch is probably a more valuable exercise than explaining any particular system.
As for the purpose of life? If the Universe had a point of view, it might say we are machines for maximising entropy. That's true whether or not there is a god, though. Your purpose may come from your moral system: in which case, do whatever it drives you towards. Otherwise, enjoy yourself.
Not exactly. Atheists (most of us) premise their disbelief on evidence and probability. I look around, and I see that most of the things God is claimed to have done are in fact the result of natural processes. I therefore come up with the hypothesis that there is no god and that the gaps in my knowledge will be explained by science at a later date. So far, so good. I also believe that somewhere out in the asteroid belt, there is a small china teapot floating about. This belief is rather less justifiable.
He checked the record of the man that was going to be living with his son and ex-wife. He didn't go looking up the addresses of young single women who lived alone, for goodness' sake. He did it back in a time where accessing records in this kind of way was a cultural norm - and still is, in many places. Equating this with child molestation is just ridiculous.
In the UK, BT is replacing the trunk network with a TCP/IP network. The only bit that will still be a phone as we recognise them will be between the exchange and your house. No doubt that will pretty soon be replaced as well.
Jesus, what a ridiculous piece of racist bullshit that link was. The reason it hasn't happened is because the response would be effective, as opposed to ever more ridiculous cavity searches. The terrorists are just about smart enough to realise that they are better off making us throw away our water on planes than actual, sensible police work being carried out against them.
Is a lot of this a consequence of how easy the American driving licence is to obtain? From a UK perspective, I have seen a couple of very frustrated Americans here over the years attempting to pass our driving test and get used to our roads, and it is a very different kettle of fish for them. I'm not going to wildly claim that the UK has better drivers, but there does seem to be an ingrained respect for what traffic can do to you compared to the US.
While the information is no doubt analysed in that sense, I think it has simpler purposes...one, to limit the number of users during early stage development, and two, to market the exclusivity of the product. How would you compare a job application from a gmail address as opposed to a hotmail address?
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I currently have a static IP address, for no particularly good reason. If the relevant agencies got off their backsides and created a proper market in IPv4 addresses I could sell this static address to someone that actually needs it. I'd be better off, and so would he. And I think this is, eventually, what will happen, once it realy becoems clear that no-one wants IPv6 and that a different approach to solving the problem is required.
Hmm. I used to work in high care food production, which essentially means spending your working day acting as if you were in an operating theatre. You washed your hands twenty times a day or more and dosed them with alcohol. If you touched your face or a non-food contact surface, you washed them again. During the time I spent there, I didn't come down with a single cough, cold, runny nose, sore throat, anything. We also had incredibly low sickness rates in general.
Whoosh ;)
In hospitals, staph infections are more serious than they are in the outside world, due to the patient already having some reason to be in hospital. Hence, infections are treated with antibiotics (or the patient is already takign them for something else), hence the rise of MRSA. And the position of the UK is exaggerated - if you need them, you'll get them. If you've got a cold, go home.
The situation is worst in places where people are kept poor for structural reasons. Get to work on eliminating poverty, and pretty soon you will see people wanting secure property rights - which can only really be guaranteed in the long term through a solid bill of rights and a healthy dose of democracy. It is a very slow turning wheel, but if you let economics do its work, it's pretty unstoppable.
Once, when I was a kid, I grabbed onto the back of a lorry to get a lift across town. Only, the driver turned out to be a bit of a loony and didn't slow down enough for it to be safe to jump before he got out. Being that close to motorway is...exciting...
OPEC used to have significant influence over the price of oil, but they no longer do, for two reasons. One is that OPEC members cheat, rampantly, and produce over quota in order to get as much cash through the door as possible. The second is that oil supplies are now much more diverse and there are massive sources of oil outside OPEC which are viable at increased oil prices - so if OPEC jack the price, they shoot themselves in the foot in the long run. Lastly, the world is a very different place politically from what it was when OPEC began.
He means the equivalent "value" to that person, in terms of just how much pain you would feel handing over that amount of money. The Big Mac index is a simplified version of how this (purchasing power parity) is measured.
As for the purpose of life? If the Universe had a point of view, it might say we are machines for maximising entropy. That's true whether or not there is a god, though. Your purpose may come from your moral system: in which case, do whatever it drives you towards. Otherwise, enjoy yourself.
Not exactly. Atheists (most of us) premise their disbelief on evidence and probability. I look around, and I see that most of the things God is claimed to have done are in fact the result of natural processes. I therefore come up with the hypothesis that there is no god and that the gaps in my knowledge will be explained by science at a later date. So far, so good. I also believe that somewhere out in the asteroid belt, there is a small china teapot floating about. This belief is rather less justifiable.
He checked the record of the man that was going to be living with his son and ex-wife. He didn't go looking up the addresses of young single women who lived alone, for goodness' sake. He did it back in a time where accessing records in this kind of way was a cultural norm - and still is, in many places. Equating this with child molestation is just ridiculous.
I think the opposite. I'd rather have someone who knows pulling this kind of thing can bite you in the ass.
Not to mention she pays four or five times more in tax than she receives back from the government.
Arguing for a voter test on the grounds that otherwise someone you don't like may be elected is a very good argument against your case.
No. Freedom includes the freedom to be ignorant.
The real point of democracy is not choosing your government, it's about having the power to dismiss the last one.
We used to. In Aberdeenshire, anyone speaking a really strong Doric will still pronounce it exactly as written (and any other kword, like knife).
In the UK, BT is replacing the trunk network with a TCP/IP network. The only bit that will still be a phone as we recognise them will be between the exchange and your house. No doubt that will pretty soon be replaced as well.
Take a trip through Ben Gurion some time. Effective dispersal and crowd management requires effort, but it is a solved problem.
Jesus, what a ridiculous piece of racist bullshit that link was. The reason it hasn't happened is because the response would be effective, as opposed to ever more ridiculous cavity searches. The terrorists are just about smart enough to realise that they are better off making us throw away our water on planes than actual, sensible police work being carried out against them.
even on top of the taxes they pay, is probably less per capita than Americans pay.
Have a look at this graphic. Interesting.
Is a lot of this a consequence of how easy the American driving licence is to obtain? From a UK perspective, I have seen a couple of very frustrated Americans here over the years attempting to pass our driving test and get used to our roads, and it is a very different kettle of fish for them. I'm not going to wildly claim that the UK has better drivers, but there does seem to be an ingrained respect for what traffic can do to you compared to the US.
While the information is no doubt analysed in that sense, I think it has simpler purposes...one, to limit the number of users during early stage development, and two, to market the exclusivity of the product. How would you compare a job application from a gmail address as opposed to a hotmail address?
On the other hand, Slashdot has been using it for years!
Area of Moscow: ~1000 sq km. Area of Russia: ~17m sq km. Practical effects of moving precipitation in 0.006% of Russia's surface area: zero.