Democracy? Democracy? In no way is democracy or any other particular political system implied or stated as applying to the Rebel Alliance. They were fighting for freedom.
One of many illustrations of this is the Princess Leia quote "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
The pod racers are technologically idiotic. Three loosely coupled units in a race with other such vehicles is below silly, and no amount of hand-waving pseudoscience will ever make it otherwise. The trench attack, on the other hand, could be made to make sense initially (It falls apart eventually when the extended details are examined - if Luke could only attack the exhaust port by entering the trench at a great distance, how could the Millennium Falcon save his bacon by zooming in from directly above?)
Actually constructing something as complex as a pod racer illustrates Anakin's immense engineering ability, especially considering (and this is absurd) that he is a slave. It has nothing to do with "the force".
A lot of what is purchased on credit cards is either small stuff worth only 10 cents on the dollar to a repossessor or something immediately used up, like vacation expenditures. Significant credit card debt might have to go through the courts and end up as attached wages.
Long term statistical studies show that the freer the market, the less the tendency for wealth to be stable in a family. People generally and the rich particularly do a poor job instilling in their offspring the virtues that made them what they are.
It is government that pronounced banks "too big to fail", not reality. And it's government that set up pernicious incentives, and in fact well nigh mandated, that banks act in a destructive manner. Both are to blame.
Rational action involves behaving in accordance with one's understanding of available information. Actors do not become irrational acting on bad information.
Communism relies on altruism
That's the advertising. In practice, communism is a particularly bad flavor of tyranny that relies on force and deception.
Humans are neither [honest nor altruistic], which is why both systems fail without some way to discourage selfishness and lying.
__People are individuals, and range from habitually honest to habitually dishonest.
__Capitalism is weakened, and the people living in it harmed, by dishonesty.
__If the goal of communism were to make the lives of its people better (it's not), it would fail anyway because of built-in contradictions and a misunderstanding of human nature. Communism is inherently irrational.
__Selfishness is acting in accordance with one's rational self interest, and it is a virtue. (Some will try to tell you that selfishness is excessive self-interested action, but that is not possible.) Honesty between people is rational and selfish behavior.
Regulation should not consist of anything beyond punishment of (and where possible prevention of) the act or threat of force or fraud, and restitution where reasonable. Anything else is a violation of individual rights, and the market ceases to be free.
I live in a town with 3 commercial sand pits and another owned by the town. Deposits are typically strip mined about 50 feet down until a few feet above the water table. (Owners are required to replant the land and restore reasonable slopes when done.) There are a variety of grades of sand here. It's barely worth the effort of shoveling the stuff up, and there is no shortage. It looks like about a 50 year supply, and that's without opening new pits. The idea that there's a shortage, or that people would steal sand from here, is quite funny.
Circa 1950, sand dredged for passage of large boats along the New Jersey shore was used to make sand beaches in southwest Connecticut. Dredging ocean floor is not exactly what is wanted, dredging the continental shelf is, particularly where it's useful for navigable waterways.
Natural Resources are things found in nature that can be used. They need not be used, nor need they be capable of being used up. The rocky coast of Maine is a tourist attraction that can be used without (significantly) being used up. The same goes for the Rockies, Lake Superior, et cetera pluribus.
The nicest thing about systemd is that not all distros have it yet. I can't afford the risk of a failed install on my current Fedora, but my next computer will probably be Slackware.
About 1 time out of 50, pulseaudio just doesn't work - no sound - and the system has to be rebooted (although I suppose killing the daemon and starting it again would suffice.)
PulseAudio Multiband EQ runs about 10 minutes and slowly starts distorting more and more severely. it's as if it were building up a DC bias and running up against a limit.
If you make your employer a big pile of money, he's a fool if he doesn't see that you're likely to continue doing things that will make him more piles of money. If he is a fool, you should look for a better employer, armed with the proof that you're worth lots of money.
Here's a summary: For months before the attack, Hillary Clinton refused requests to make the embassy safer. On the day of the attack, Obama said "Take care of it," and probably went to bed. Underlings rejected urgent requests for help and urgent offers of help.
Whether malice or mere incompetence were in effect will probably never be known. Details of how high up the minute-by-minute policy decisions were made are actively hidden.
If the walls are opaque, people with claustrophobia will be puking.
If the walls are transparent, people with agoraphobia or acrophobia will be puking.
If it's actually possible to make a strong enough transparent body, then paint everything except a horizontal stripe just a little taller than existing airliner windows. Liquid crystal panels for dimming might be nice.
Your comprehension skills leave much to be desired. Consider that the non-owner of the house was given preference to occupy the house over the owner. Consider that she wasn't informed of the terms of the restraining order. Consider expensive property damage.
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Democracy? Democracy? In no way is democracy or any other particular political system implied or stated as applying to the Rebel Alliance. They were fighting for freedom.
One of many illustrations of this is the Princess Leia quote "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."
The pod racers are technologically idiotic. Three loosely coupled units in a race with other such vehicles is below silly, and no amount of hand-waving pseudoscience will ever make it otherwise. The trench attack, on the other hand, could be made to make sense initially (It falls apart eventually when the extended details are examined - if Luke could only attack the exhaust port by entering the trench at a great distance, how could the Millennium Falcon save his bacon by zooming in from directly above?)
Actually constructing something as complex as a pod racer illustrates Anakin's immense engineering ability, especially considering (and this is absurd) that he is a slave. It has nothing to do with "the force".
Heratic? A worshipper of the goddess Hera?
Heating oil fed, circulating hot air systems are available. I live in a house with such a system.
A lot of what is purchased on credit cards is either small stuff worth only 10 cents on the dollar to a repossessor or something immediately used up, like vacation expenditures. Significant credit card debt might have to go through the courts and end up as attached wages.
I have ideas. They are my intellectual property. I'll make damn sure you never benefit from any of it.
Long term statistical studies show that the freer the market, the less the tendency for wealth to be stable in a family. People generally and the rich particularly do a poor job instilling in their offspring the virtues that made them what they are.
Socialism is simply communism watered down and veiled. They share the same underpinnings.
It is government that pronounced banks "too big to fail", not reality. And it's government that set up pernicious incentives, and in fact well nigh mandated, that banks act in a destructive manner. Both are to blame.
You must feel good lying.
Rand heavily emphasized that emotions are not tools of cognition, and that rational action is right.
Rational action involves behaving in accordance with one's understanding of available information. Actors do not become irrational acting on bad information.
That's the advertising. In practice, communism is a particularly bad flavor of tyranny that relies on force and deception.
__People are individuals, and range from habitually honest to habitually dishonest.
__Capitalism is weakened, and the people living in it harmed, by dishonesty.
__If the goal of communism were to make the lives of its people better (it's not), it would fail anyway because of built-in contradictions and a misunderstanding of human nature. Communism is inherently irrational.
__Selfishness is acting in accordance with one's rational self interest, and it is a virtue . (Some will try to tell you that selfishness is excessive self-interested action, but that is not possible.) Honesty between people is rational and selfish behavior.
The requirement for "perfect information" is a straw man created by people attempting to tear down capitalism. "Perfect information" is impossible.
Regulation should not consist of anything beyond punishment of (and where possible prevention of) the act or threat of force or fraud, and restitution where reasonable. Anything else is a violation of individual rights, and the market ceases to be free.
I live in a town with 3 commercial sand pits and another owned by the town. Deposits are typically strip mined about 50 feet down until a few feet above the water table. (Owners are required to replant the land and restore reasonable slopes when done.) There are a variety of grades of sand here. It's barely worth the effort of shoveling the stuff up, and there is no shortage. It looks like about a 50 year supply, and that's without opening new pits. The idea that there's a shortage, or that people would steal sand from here, is quite funny.
See that cow over there? I know it's not pasteurized, but... Better wear a helmet, you wouldn't want to be kicked in the head.
Circa 1950, sand dredged for passage of large boats along the New Jersey shore was used to make sand beaches in southwest Connecticut. Dredging ocean floor is not exactly what is wanted, dredging the continental shelf is, particularly where it's useful for navigable waterways.
There are two I can think of: Obama and Biden.
Natural Resources are things found in nature that can be used. They need not be used, nor need they be capable of being used up. The rocky coast of Maine is a tourist attraction that can be used without (significantly) being used up. The same goes for the Rockies, Lake Superior, et cetera pluribus.
Idiot
The nicest thing about systemd is that not all distros have it yet. I can't afford the risk of a failed install on my current Fedora, but my next computer will probably be Slackware.
About 1 time out of 50, pulseaudio just doesn't work - no sound - and the system has to be rebooted (although I suppose killing the daemon and starting it again would suffice.)
PulseAudio Multiband EQ runs about 10 minutes and slowly starts distorting more and more severely. it's as if it were building up a DC bias and running up against a limit.
If you make your employer a big pile of money, he's a fool if he doesn't see that you're likely to continue doing things that will make him more piles of money. If he is a fool, you should look for a better employer, armed with the proof that you're worth lots of money.
Here's a summary: For months before the attack, Hillary Clinton refused requests to make the embassy safer. On the day of the attack, Obama said "Take care of it," and probably went to bed. Underlings rejected urgent requests for help and urgent offers of help.
Whether malice or mere incompetence were in effect will probably never be known. Details of how high up the minute-by-minute policy decisions were made are actively hidden.
If the walls are opaque, people with claustrophobia will be puking.
If the walls are transparent, people with agoraphobia or acrophobia will be puking.
If it's actually possible to make a strong enough transparent body, then paint everything except a horizontal stripe just a little taller than existing airliner windows. Liquid crystal panels for dimming might be nice.
Your comprehension skills leave much to be desired. Consider that the non-owner of the house was given preference to occupy the house over the owner. Consider that she wasn't informed of the terms of the restraining order. Consider expensive property damage.