Not all millionaires are driven by the same thing. Some actually like what they're doing and know that they can do it better than anyone else. They don't want to stop doing it because they're having fun and/or know if they pass on the job to someone else it'll be screwed up. Others are driven by a work ethic or a sense of responsibility.
It's an unjustified insult to claim that a millionaire attempting to do more is motivated by the same thing as a video game player.
There are a lot of factors that influence population growth rates, even when adequate food and shelter are assured.
Children are a major burden to people in the middle class who wish that their children will be at least as well off, so they have to balance quantity versus quality for family size. The rich don't have this restriction. The poor (in the US) have perverse governmental incentives in this regard, leading some of them to have many children who are poorly raised and who also become poor. The USA, Europe, Japan, S. Korea, and to a lesser extent China have a middle class acting this way.
China has a government policy limiting children.
Some religions or sects have policies that promote large families.
Some people like big families and pass on this quality to their children. In the absence of other factors, over the long term these people can be expected to numerically dominate the populace.
In short, it's difficult to make a good estimate on long term population trends. Nobody knows what factors are going to be dominant in 100 years.
Pregnancy is not exactly a pleasant situation. If everything is free, the sort of person willing to receive everything without doing a lick of work, is the sort of person who will accept lifelong birth control to avoid the inconvenience of a few months of discomfort.
And what do you do when everyone wants to live on the beach?
Option 1: Get an apartment in a highrise on an existing shore.
Option 2: Get together with a bunch of friends and buy some land around a depression in the landscape. Build dwellings around the depression. Fill the depression with water. For extra points, dump some sand along the edge of the water.
Some people are pickier than others. If you're happy with posters of poker playing dogs, are you going to insist that everyone else who wants artwork be limited to those same posters? Will you enforce by law that nobody be allowed to buy unique artwork of Michelangelo quality? If you're happy in a hovel, will you insist that everyone else live in nothing bigger than a hovel? Will you prohibit someone from building, with his own hands, a mansion? Will you take it from him when he does?
Generally speaking, when a person has a lot of nice stuff, it's because he's done a great quantity of valuable work and traded that work for stuff. If you take the stuff away from him or prevent him from acquiring it, you perpetrate two evils: he won't provide society with the great work because you've removed his incentive, and you've stolen from him.
If you think that "a more equal civilization" is a good thing, you are a destroyer. The only thing humans can be truly equal in is death.
You underestimate just how corrupt some people are. There are those who enjoy destruction, there are those who enjoy killing, there are those who enjoy making other people suffer. A dedicated destructive person can break much more than hundreds of people can make, and if robots do all production, the only difference will be the destructive person will have more to destroy.
The notion that you can only receive if you contribute is a notion rather mired in scarcity thinking.
No. It is based on the concepts of justice and personal worth. You only deserve to receive if you contribute. Otherwise, you are a waste of protoplasm, an abandonment of human potential.
In what sort of situation are we supposed to get all of the mineral resources for such a society in a manner in which everyone will be happy?
Remove liberals / leftists.
Those people seek things to complain about. Solve all their problems and they won't be happy, they'll seek something new to complain about and someone to blame for their unhappiness. Whether this unhappiness is an inherent personality flaw or faked from a malicious desire to abuse other people has not yet been discovered.
You've touched on a big advantage of back-to-back seating: it will be impossible to recline because the back of the seat already touches the back of another seat. No more will you have to spend a flight looking at the top of the head of the ahole who reclined into your lap.
Theology can be the study of one religion to the exclusion of others, whereas Religious Studies is more likely to be the study of a great many religions.
Technically, speed or "fast" is measured as quantity / time. If 5.0e9 operations used to take 5.0 seconds and now takes 1.0 second, it's 5 times as fast, just as 50 mph is 5 times as fast as 10 mph.
There is nothing in TFA about breaking (to enter). An abandoned warehouse most likely has already had all its windows broken out by vandals, and if there are any "homeless" people in the neighborhood they've already broken the locks so they can get in at night for shelter. So: trespass (if it's posted), illegal entry, and petty theft (if the building is not truly abandoned).
Part of the caution the police should be using is starting with interviewing the kid. They acted foolishly.
The pinball machine innards I've seen use a pendulum-ring arrangement for a tilt switch, which allows adjustable sensitivity and 2-axis operation, also acceleration sensing.
Many, perhaps most, businesses don't own the buildings they operate out of. Most "abandoned" warehouses are going to have owners who'll claim they're just waiting for a new tenant - at least until they get tired of paying taxes and the government seizes the property.
just what is it, that we, supposedly, "didn't know"?
Molecular biology is extremely complex, and we have barely scratched the surface on all the mechanisms when things are going right. When things go wrong, the complexity is much greater. To improve health and extend life, these mechanisms must be understood and acted on.
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Since, as a general rule, big government can't make the average person better off and indeed damages them, expect the same thing with regard to lifespan. Indeed, this is the theme of "Logan's Run".
An extreme case is the genetic disease progeria, which causes very rapid aging and early death. It seems reasonable that there are other genetic defects that speed aging to a lesser degree.
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Not all millionaires are driven by the same thing. Some actually like what they're doing and know that they can do it better than anyone else. They don't want to stop doing it because they're having fun and/or know if they pass on the job to someone else it'll be screwed up. Others are driven by a work ethic or a sense of responsibility.
It's an unjustified insult to claim that a millionaire attempting to do more is motivated by the same thing as a video game player.
There are a lot of factors that influence population growth rates, even when adequate food and shelter are assured.
Children are a major burden to people in the middle class who wish that their children will be at least as well off, so they have to balance quantity versus quality for family size. The rich don't have this restriction. The poor (in the US) have perverse governmental incentives in this regard, leading some of them to have many children who are poorly raised and who also become poor. The USA, Europe, Japan, S. Korea, and to a lesser extent China have a middle class acting this way.
China has a government policy limiting children.
Some religions or sects have policies that promote large families.
Some people like big families and pass on this quality to their children. In the absence of other factors, over the long term these people can be expected to numerically dominate the populace.
In short, it's difficult to make a good estimate on long term population trends. Nobody knows what factors are going to be dominant in 100 years.
Pregnancy is not exactly a pleasant situation. If everything is free, the sort of person willing to receive everything without doing a lick of work, is the sort of person who will accept lifelong birth control to avoid the inconvenience of a few months of discomfort.
Option 1: Get an apartment in a highrise on an existing shore.
Option 2: Get together with a bunch of friends and buy some land around a depression in the landscape. Build dwellings around the depression. Fill the depression with water. For extra points, dump some sand along the edge of the water.
Option 3: Read Larry Niven's "Bordered in Black".
Please explain, using the status concept, people who buy stolen artwork that can never be shown lest they lose it.
Some people are pickier than others. If you're happy with posters of poker playing dogs, are you going to insist that everyone else who wants artwork be limited to those same posters? Will you enforce by law that nobody be allowed to buy unique artwork of Michelangelo quality? If you're happy in a hovel, will you insist that everyone else live in nothing bigger than a hovel? Will you prohibit someone from building, with his own hands, a mansion? Will you take it from him when he does?
Generally speaking, when a person has a lot of nice stuff, it's because he's done a great quantity of valuable work and traded that work for stuff. If you take the stuff away from him or prevent him from acquiring it, you perpetrate two evils: he won't provide society with the great work because you've removed his incentive, and you've stolen from him.
If you think that "a more equal civilization" is a good thing, you are a destroyer. The only thing humans can be truly equal in is death.
You underestimate just how corrupt some people are. There are those who enjoy destruction, there are those who enjoy killing, there are those who enjoy making other people suffer. A dedicated destructive person can break much more than hundreds of people can make, and if robots do all production, the only difference will be the destructive person will have more to destroy.
No. It is based on the concepts of justice and personal worth. You only deserve to receive if you contribute. Otherwise, you are a waste of protoplasm, an abandonment of human potential.
Remove liberals / leftists.
Those people seek things to complain about. Solve all their problems and they won't be happy, they'll seek something new to complain about and someone to blame for their unhappiness. Whether this unhappiness is an inherent personality flaw or faked from a malicious desire to abuse other people has not yet been discovered.
The word you are looking for is "complement". A crew "compliment" is a very supportive crew.
Some people have a deep aversion to traveling backwards.
On seats without a meal tray falling down from the seat in front of you, it pops up out of the armrest.
Just like a tube hotel.
You've touched on a big advantage of back-to-back seating: it will be impossible to recline because the back of the seat already touches the back of another seat. No more will you have to spend a flight looking at the top of the head of the ahole who reclined into your lap.
Theology can be the study of one religion to the exclusion of others, whereas Religious Studies is more likely to be the study of a great many religions.
Technically, speed or "fast" is measured as quantity / time. If 5.0e9 operations used to take 5.0 seconds and now takes 1.0 second, it's 5 times as fast, just as 50 mph is 5 times as fast as 10 mph.
LEO? Low Earth Orbit?
Of course, a bomb-maker is going to have lights on his bomb and put it in a highly visible location,
Idiot.
What part of the word "abandoned" do you not understand?
There is nothing in TFA about breaking (to enter). An abandoned warehouse most likely has already had all its windows broken out by vandals, and if there are any "homeless" people in the neighborhood they've already broken the locks so they can get in at night for shelter. So: trespass (if it's posted), illegal entry, and petty theft (if the building is not truly abandoned).
Part of the caution the police should be using is starting with interviewing the kid. They acted foolishly.
The pinball machine innards I've seen use a pendulum-ring arrangement for a tilt switch, which allows adjustable sensitivity and 2-axis operation, also acceleration sensing.
Mercury thermometers aren't common any more. Just pay $5 for a mercury tilt switch and be done with it.
Many, perhaps most, businesses don't own the buildings they operate out of. Most "abandoned" warehouses are going to have owners who'll claim they're just waiting for a new tenant - at least until they get tired of paying taxes and the government seizes the property.
9. Low dielectric constant. No need to slow down signals.
Molecular biology is extremely complex, and we have barely scratched the surface on all the mechanisms when things are going right. When things go wrong, the complexity is much greater. To improve health and extend life, these mechanisms must be understood and acted on.
..
Since, as a general rule, big government can't make the average person better off and indeed damages them, expect the same thing with regard to lifespan. Indeed, this is the theme of "Logan's Run".
An extreme case is the genetic disease progeria, which causes very rapid aging and early death. It seems reasonable that there are other genetic defects that speed aging to a lesser degree.