Did you not read TFA? The point was that it takes about 2 generations for political and historical lessons to be forgotten or discarded as irrelevant. For periods shorter than that, influential people can see a Jesse Jackson and say "rabble rouser", they can see George Soros and say "rich man bent on universal destruction", and be understood by enough people to prevent the troublemakers from gaining traction.
Silicon, with tiny amounts of dopants like aluminum and phosphorus. Running out of raw materials is not a serious concern. The lifetime of well-made photocells properly used and protected from the weather is several decades.
Serious problems include, but are not limited to, energy payback time, financial payback time, maintenance, energy storage for times of low light. Suburban roof installations are a safety concern, due to risk of falling.
Repeated testing and individualized teaching based partly on those tests is a better approach. Forbidding testing until age 10 is a guarantee of wasted time for those capable of exceeding the norm before then.
If you're literally doing update/upgrade, you're taking the riskier approach. The way with the best chance of actually working is to do a complete new install, adjust settings to your liking (you kept records of what you did last time, right?), and then struggle with porting over stuff from F14 not available under F17. If you have the room, setting up for dual boot of F14/F17 gives the best chance of having everything work.
Wide frequency range need not be expensive, particularly if you're willing to listen at moderate volume and/or use fairly good headphones.
Furthermore, many among those who can hear the extreme highs (above, say, 20 kHz) don't consider that extreme pleasant or "musical". There's not a lot of value to extreme lows either: a moment of 20 Hz is just "thud". It may shake your body if it's loud, but that's more of a special effect than music.
"Money hoarding" is going on right now because many rich people understand that they're living in a kleptocracy, and are reasonably afraid to risk their reserves. When the government does not act as the enemy of business, a rich person who does not invest in businesses is a fool, because the return on investment beats banks by a large factor.
Do you think that rich people employ richer people to mow their lawns? Do they mow their own? No? Then trickle down is true.
Secondly, lets say you continued to operate this way until you lost the house and car, wouldn't it be nice to know that you could just walk down to the benefits office and file for benefits.
There are two fundamentally different paths available here. The one you appear to approve of has a businessman working until he fails, all the while supporting a government leech, and when his business finally fails begging that leech for a minuscule fraction of what was stolen from him. In the alternate path the businessman doesn't fail because he has the money that would have been extorted from him by the government, and the would-be leech has to find honest employment.
To directly answer your question, NO it wouldn't be nice, when the full context is understood.
Re Adam Smith, you fail reading comprehension. The passage you cite recommends a tax on rents. The surface effect of that would fall more heavily on the owners of rental property, but that is not progressive, it is linear. But here, Adam Smith fails economics: as many modern economists recognize, taxes on business (which includes rental) are inevitably passed on to the consumer.
Long term, it is extraordinarily difficult to construct and increase taxes that do not hurt everybody except those whose goal is government power or the destruction of human pleasure and success. Taxation drains productive and creative activity, slowing the advance of mankind and reducing the net wealth of everyone. Government activity is usually non-productive, and even when it is productive it is inefficient. More taxation means more government, hence more people are removed from productive activity or engage in inefficient activity. And thereby those who might be doing something worthwhile for themselves and mankind are subverted.
There is a checkpoint on Interstate 5 north of San Diego that is active about 25% of the time (based on my experience.) Innocent-looking people are waved through, but anyone judged suspicious is pulled over for further questioning. People not satisfying the questioning are held in a building with barred windows. I've seen people running away, in a failed escape attempt.
Furthermore, at the border people entering the US are examined more carefully. Having papers ready is a reasonable precaution. (Nobody even watches when you leave.)
The response to "If you've done nothing wrong, what do you have to hide?" is "Nothing. I have no reason to believe you will not damage my property," because, in fact, searches almost always result in damage (however slight) to the searched person's property.
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Did you not read TFA? The point was that it takes about 2 generations for political and historical lessons to be forgotten or discarded as irrelevant. For periods shorter than that, influential people can see a Jesse Jackson and say "rabble rouser", they can see George Soros and say "rich man bent on universal destruction", and be understood by enough people to prevent the troublemakers from gaining traction.
In 1870 we were still reeling from the Civil War, much more dramatically than any consequences of the War of 1812. And in 1920 WWI was recent history.
Completely irrelevant.
On a unit energy base, taking into account taxes paid? I doubt it. Reliable, honest citation please.
Silicon, with tiny amounts of dopants like aluminum and phosphorus. Running out of raw materials is not a serious concern. The lifetime of well-made photocells properly used and protected from the weather is several decades.
Serious problems include, but are not limited to, energy payback time, financial payback time, maintenance, energy storage for times of low light. Suburban roof installations are a safety concern, due to risk of falling.
Repeated testing and individualized teaching based partly on those tests is a better approach. Forbidding testing until age 10 is a guarantee of wasted time for those capable of exceeding the norm before then.
Specie means coin. "Species" is both singular and plural, referring to groups or categories of living things.
If you're literally doing update/upgrade, you're taking the riskier approach. The way with the best chance of actually working is to do a complete new install, adjust settings to your liking (you kept records of what you did last time, right?), and then struggle with porting over stuff from F14 not available under F17. If you have the room, setting up for dual boot of F14/F17 gives the best chance of having everything work.
Obscure naming is not limited to OSS software or minor players. Or perhaps "Dracula" and "Diva" are inherently related to integrated circuit design.
How can that clown be taken seriously on any subject?
Wide frequency range need not be expensive, particularly if you're willing to listen at moderate volume and/or use fairly good headphones.
Furthermore, many among those who can hear the extreme highs (above, say, 20 kHz) don't consider that extreme pleasant or "musical". There's not a lot of value to extreme lows either: a moment of 20 Hz is just "thud". It may shake your body if it's loud, but that's more of a special effect than music.
Rock/pop stations were compressing all the dynamics out by the late 1960s, if not earlier.
The screen is too large if it takes so long to run to the other end that I forget what I'm looking for.
Disneyland has been using wireless charging on the Toontown Trolley for twenty years.
But what does the winner get?
T.A.N.J.
"Money hoarding" is going on right now because many rich people understand that they're living in a kleptocracy, and are reasonably afraid to risk their reserves. When the government does not act as the enemy of business, a rich person who does not invest in businesses is a fool, because the return on investment beats banks by a large factor.
Do you think that rich people employ richer people to mow their lawns? Do they mow their own? No? Then trickle down is true.
Wasting money is one way people become poor and/or stay that way. If you're paying $2 per meal, you're wasting money.
Never heard of living off your savings, have you? People in retirement do it all the time.
There are two fundamentally different paths available here. The one you appear to approve of has a businessman working until he fails, all the while supporting a government leech, and when his business finally fails begging that leech for a minuscule fraction of what was stolen from him. In the alternate path the businessman doesn't fail because he has the money that would have been extorted from him by the government, and the would-be leech has to find honest employment.
To directly answer your question, NO it wouldn't be nice, when the full context is understood.
Re Adam Smith, you fail reading comprehension. The passage you cite recommends a tax on rents. The surface effect of that would fall more heavily on the owners of rental property, but that is not progressive, it is linear. But here, Adam Smith fails economics: as many modern economists recognize, taxes on business (which includes rental) are inevitably passed on to the consumer.
Long term, it is extraordinarily difficult to construct and increase taxes that do not hurt everybody except those whose goal is government power or the destruction of human pleasure and success. Taxation drains productive and creative activity, slowing the advance of mankind and reducing the net wealth of everyone. Government activity is usually non-productive, and even when it is productive it is inefficient. More taxation means more government, hence more people are removed from productive activity or engage in inefficient activity. And thereby those who might be doing something worthwhile for themselves and mankind are subverted.
It's also used to get out of jury service.
Wake up. Fascism is already here, and its face is Barack Obama.
There is a checkpoint on Interstate 5 north of San Diego that is active about 25% of the time (based on my experience.) Innocent-looking people are waved through, but anyone judged suspicious is pulled over for further questioning. People not satisfying the questioning are held in a building with barred windows. I've seen people running away, in a failed escape attempt.
Furthermore, at the border people entering the US are examined more carefully. Having papers ready is a reasonable precaution. (Nobody even watches when you leave.)
The response to "If you've done nothing wrong, what do you have to hide?" is "Nothing. I have no reason to believe you will not damage my property," because, in fact, searches almost always result in damage (however slight) to the searched person's property.
So "Candy" had no relation to "Candide"?