There is a good argument to be made that WWII was caused by the entry of the US into WWI. Without the US in WWI, that war would have ended in a stalemate. No disastrous punishment of Germany, no cause for the development of Nazism, etc..
Welcome to the world of overgeneralization based on the new standard of truth, wikipedia. Will Rogers would be so proud.
I'm afraid of air? Air differs from me. I'm afraid of puppies? They differ from me.
A more accurate statement would be a substantial portion of people are wary of significant novelty. But that wouldn't fit your pop-psychology agenda, would it?
I agree with your point, however you are assuming that all destructive people are rational. Some people build better bombs because they like to blow things up. There are people who would destroy a whole country to advance their ideology, and there's one such person currently occupying the office of president of the United States of America.
Even if the manufacturer takes the risk, the final decision lies with the test pilot, who must be informed of the added risk. The dilemma disappears when his freedom is recognized.
Most proposed "ethical dilemmas" are bogus: hypothetical situations caused by some unlikely blunder, artificially restricted solutions that when lifted, the dilemma disappears. Life does present a few difficult choices, but it's nothing like the morass fantasized by proposers of "ethical dilemmas."
Most ethical choices are routine, and coincide with long term self interest. Be honest, provide full value for pay, etc.. Not inviting questionable activities usually avoids dodgy choices being forced on you.
Right now, viewers have to pay separate extra amounts for HBO bundles, Showtime bundles, sports bundles, etc.. Making a finer division would surely make the per-channel rate higher; but those who want many could pay for them, and those with narrow tastes would be treated more reasonably. This is strictly a case of "The customer be damned, we'll do what we want to." Well screw you, Viacom, and DirecTV too.
Nickelodeon is overflowing with ads. If they can't make barrels of money without having to charge for their channels, they're grossly incompetent.
The frame of reference is the place on earth against which the train is applying force (or equivalently, the place on earth applying force to the train). You are not free, in energy calculations, to take multiple arbitrary frames of reference and use them to calculate the whole system energy, without performing a number of messy transformations. Which you did not perform.
Most of health care expense is late-life, often just the last few weeks in a hospital's ICU. Figure $200,000 for two weeks before dying as a not unusual situation. Very little of that is drugs. It's very expensive tests using very expensive machines, very expensive very highly skilled labor, and 100% minimum hospital markup to compensate for deadbeats and lawsuits and screwups. Prescription requirements are an affront to common sense, but they're not 80+% of health care demand measured in dollars.
Oh, for goodness sake. If the "track" shifts "four inches to the right all of a sudden" it doesn't mean the train has to. The train is magnetically suspended above the roadbed, and it has tens of miles - tens of seconds - to adjust by those 4 inches.
Yes, Intel did bad and illegal stuff. The P4 generation was inferior due to the twin blunders of netburst and RAMBUS. However, Intel maintained its process advantage, and AMD sold all the chips it could make (so that even if Intel hadn't used illegal and immoral techniques, there wouldn't have been much of a change in the results.) When Intel reversed its architectural blunders, AMD couldn't even match Intel's architecture, let alone make up for its process technology lag.
The semiconductor industry is littered with the corpses of companies that thought they were better than Intel, and were wrong..
The cause of this modern outbreak is the deliberate Democrat refusal to protect the borders. Diseased people come into the country and spread their sickness.
Florida is heavily dependent on tourist money, and any government there is going to hide a dangerous disease outbreak. That Republicans are responsible for hiding it is shameful, but you're deceiving yourself if you think Democrats wouldn't hide it also.
In order to maximize mental flexibility, the keyboard should be remapped with each login. The keycaps should all be blank (cutting production cost), forcing the user to discover and memorize each new layout by experiment.
With three or more lanes in each direction, it is very difficult to stay in the imaginary lanes. As a result, with three or more imaginary lanes, cautious drivers will tend to form wider-than-intended lanes, 2 instead of three or three instead of four, unless traffic is very slow. In effect, lane markings allow narrower roads; and it's a lot cheaper to paint markings than construct wider roads.
Hey, ignoramus. It's possible to pay for medical care without insurance. I do it. Rush Limbaugh does it.
Insurance companies make a lot of money, as is their right. But they are middlemen using their customer's money for their overhead, and that increases prices compared to customer-pays. If the government takes over insurance/health care, the incentive against waste disappears. Either cost increases, quality declines, or some are denied service; there is no other possible outcome.
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It's worth noting that even in Asimov's Foundation "trilogy", psychohistory is trumped by the Great Man Theory.
There is a good argument to be made that WWII was caused by the entry of the US into WWI. Without the US in WWI, that war would have ended in a stalemate. No disastrous punishment of Germany, no cause for the development of Nazism, etc..
XUL is the minion of Gozer. Gozer will be pissed if Mozilla drops XUL. They're taking a big risk here. Is their supernatural insurance paid up?
Welcome to the world of overgeneralization based on the new standard of truth, wikipedia. Will Rogers would be so proud.
I'm afraid of air? Air differs from me. I'm afraid of puppies? They differ from me.
A more accurate statement would be a substantial portion of people are wary of significant novelty . But that wouldn't fit your pop-psychology agenda, would it?
He's 42. That's more than "approaching" middle age. Furthermore, it's the answer.
"Attempting to be objective" automatically rules out deliberate falsification. Mistakes are allowed. Imperfection is allowed. Malice is not.
ESL people know better than that. You must be a native ignoramus.
mpg is "miles per gallon", and under certain fixed circumstances is a measure of efficiency. It is in no way a measure of power.
Chunnel. Ferries.
I agree with your point, however you are assuming that all destructive people are rational. Some people build better bombs because they like to blow things up. There are people who would destroy a whole country to advance their ideology, and there's one such person currently occupying the office of president of the United States of America.
Is this an author from the planet Varn? Or does he claim to have invented a yellowish coating?
Even if the manufacturer takes the risk, the final decision lies with the test pilot, who must be informed of the added risk. The dilemma disappears when his freedom is recognized.
Most proposed "ethical dilemmas" are bogus: hypothetical situations caused by some unlikely blunder, artificially restricted solutions that when lifted, the dilemma disappears. Life does present a few difficult choices, but it's nothing like the morass fantasized by proposers of "ethical dilemmas."
Most ethical choices are routine, and coincide with long term self interest. Be honest, provide full value for pay, etc.. Not inviting questionable activities usually avoids dodgy choices being forced on you.
Right now, viewers have to pay separate extra amounts for HBO bundles, Showtime bundles, sports bundles, etc.. Making a finer division would surely make the per-channel rate higher; but those who want many could pay for them, and those with narrow tastes would be treated more reasonably. This is strictly a case of "The customer be damned, we'll do what we want to." Well screw you, Viacom, and DirecTV too.
Nickelodeon is overflowing with ads. If they can't make barrels of money without having to charge for their channels, they're grossly incompetent.
The frame of reference is the place on earth against which the train is applying force (or equivalently, the place on earth applying force to the train). You are not free, in energy calculations, to take multiple arbitrary frames of reference and use them to calculate the whole system energy, without performing a number of messy transformations. Which you did not perform.
The exterior pressure loading issue was handled over a century ago, or we wouldn't have the numerous tunnels under the Hudson and the East River.
Most of health care expense is late-life, often just the last few weeks in a hospital's ICU. Figure $200,000 for two weeks before dying as a not unusual situation. Very little of that is drugs. It's very expensive tests using very expensive machines, very expensive very highly skilled labor, and 100% minimum hospital markup to compensate for deadbeats and lawsuits and screwups. Prescription requirements are an affront to common sense, but they're not 80+% of health care demand measured in dollars.
I'd say you can't possibly be that stupid, but you obviously can. I'll translate what you said into a different realm:
Oh, for goodness sake. If the "track" shifts "four inches to the right all of a sudden" it doesn't mean the train has to. The train is magnetically suspended above the roadbed, and it has tens of miles - tens of seconds - to adjust by those 4 inches.
Yes, Intel did bad and illegal stuff. The P4 generation was inferior due to the twin blunders of netburst and RAMBUS. However, Intel maintained its process advantage, and AMD sold all the chips it could make (so that even if Intel hadn't used illegal and immoral techniques, there wouldn't have been much of a change in the results.) When Intel reversed its architectural blunders, AMD couldn't even match Intel's architecture, let alone make up for its process technology lag.
The semiconductor industry is littered with the corpses of companies that thought they were better than Intel, and were wrong..
The cause of this modern outbreak is the deliberate Democrat refusal to protect the borders. Diseased people come into the country and spread their sickness.
Florida is heavily dependent on tourist money, and any government there is going to hide a dangerous disease outbreak. That Republicans are responsible for hiding it is shameful, but you're deceiving yourself if you think Democrats wouldn't hide it also.
In order to maximize mental flexibility, the keyboard should be remapped with each login. The keycaps should all be blank (cutting production cost), forcing the user to discover and memorize each new layout by experiment.
With three or more lanes in each direction, it is very difficult to stay in the imaginary lanes. As a result, with three or more imaginary lanes, cautious drivers will tend to form wider-than-intended lanes, 2 instead of three or three instead of four, unless traffic is very slow. In effect, lane markings allow narrower roads; and it's a lot cheaper to paint markings than construct wider roads.
That's called a failure of imagination. Theirs and yours.
Hey, ignoramus. It's possible to pay for medical care without insurance. I do it. Rush Limbaugh does it.
Insurance companies make a lot of money, as is their right. But they are middlemen using their customer's money for their overhead, and that increases prices compared to customer-pays. If the government takes over insurance/health care, the incentive against waste disappears. Either cost increases, quality declines, or some are denied service; there is no other possible outcome.
The United States of America is now a tyranny. We are looking at the world-wide end of freedom within the lifetimes of most people now living.