I've been shooting squirrels on my bird feeder with a BB gun. It causes them enough pain that they make a huge jump and run off fast. Then they come back, and I shoot them again. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Maybe pain will work with monkeys, but it sure doesn't with squirrels.
FWIW, I finally made a physical barrier big and slippery enough to thwart the squirrels.
Bad plan. Diseases are most easily spread through the body fluids of similar species. Eating monkeys is probably what brought us AIDS, unless you believe it came from monkey f**kers.
Kill the damn monkeys, mount their heads on pikes, burn the bodies.
Smart-Power appliances sound good until you consider that each of 50 appliances may be dissipating 5W while in standby. Oops! There goes another 2000 kW-hr per household per year.
He seems to think that Opera is fast. My experience has been that although Opera renders more accurately than Firefox (1.5.0.2), Opera is a lot slower.
It bothers me not a bit for a president of either party finding out who is disloyal to him, because disloyal people are the sort who tend to sell miltary secrets to the enemy or the NYT. Disloyal people hurt the country to advance their personal vendettas.
My experience, although quite limited, has been quite different. Rural police tend to be mellow, city police have an attitude. It probably has to do with the nature of the people they have to deal with (higher density of criminals in the city), their surroundings (the countryside is much prettier), and the nature of their jobs (rural police are less specialized, so boredom is less of a problem). In addition, in a small community, a nasty cop will not be tolerated and will not have a large department of friends to protect him when he does wrong.
Just how would it be too dangerous to put a power plant in a place with high geothermal activity? It's not as if there are going to be concentrated supplies of radioactive materials there, or even tanks of fuel oil or gas. Just steam. And the motion you speak of is quite small; we're not drilling into a lava flow or the earth's core.
It's not so much that Microsoft is doing things right, but a combination of things that make the Microsoft world easier for users.
In the Microsoft world, there are maybe 5 active OSs, or about 15 counting service packs as different OSs. Most Microsoft users have learned not to install free software because so much of it is malicious, so there's less variety. Most non-free software pretty much plays by the rules, doesn't change Microsoft-supplied DLLs, etc.. Most Microsoft users are less adventurous, so they haven't installed hundreds of programs. The net result is an environment that has a fair amount of predictability for the installation of a new program.
In the Linux world, there are many (>100?) distributions, each with many versions, more than 40 kernels (in 2.4 and 2.6, not counting sub-sub-versions, patches, and modules), libraries that need to be updated (sometimes breaking other programs), and inconsistent locations for binaries and libraries. Much software is free and non-malicious, so there's a lot more installed. Sometimes rpm is onerous, so programs are installed via tarballs, which rpm can't track. There's no overriding authority saying "this is how things must be done", and many writers wouldn't pay attention anyway. In short, the environment is much more diverse, so it's much harder to make installations "just work", and in many cases there's no-one paying a salary to make it so.
Earlier today I briefly attended two free concerts. In both cases the price was too high.
Most musicians don't deserve to earn a living as musicians. Some lack ability, some lack taste, most lack the business sense needed to succeed, or the business sense to leave an intensely competitive industry. There are a few tracks where talent and dedication can pay off fairly dependably, but not many people are good enough to be a part of a well known symphony orchestra.
Other art forms also have dependable tracks. There can be only so many Kinkades or Frazettas at a time, but there's lots of room for commercial artists.
Look at a dictionary. Anarchy's primary definition is "absence of government", the second is "lawless confusion and political disorder", and the third is "general disorder". Further, this is how most English speakers understand the word. You are trying to twist it to fit your own political philosophy, and you're not going to get away with it.
Absence of government practically guarantees a great increase of the initiation of force, because a great number of people, mostly young men, are just waiting for an opportunity to steal or vandalize without fear of punishment. They consider government the only likely source of punishment.
Libertarianism, broadly speaking, is a political philosophy based on liberty (freedom of action). It's a good principle, but it is not good as a basis for a political philosophy because it is not fundamental. Anarchism or "individualist anarchism" is a wacky variety of libertarianism that shows just why liberty is not a good basis for a political philosophy, because of the disastrous results.
Your idea of proportional justice is just plain silly. Justice means that at a minimum, the wrongdoer should be made to suffer damage equal to the damage he caused which he does not fix. Since a person can only die once, that does set a roof on the punishment he can receive, but not on the punishment he deserves. (Although there are harsher punishments than life imprisonment, such as life at hard labor.)
Some cases are just so obvious and so horrid that no adequate punishment is possible. It's a shame that we're too squeamish to allow obvious torture.
Although your estimate of conservatives and liberals has some validity, most people recognize that the criminals vary. Some law breakers can be rehabilitated, some can't. Some law breakers deliberately press the limits until they're caught, with the intention of never exceeding the limits again. Some criminals are morally weak, some are morally vile. The problem is distinguishing one from the other, and acting accordingly.
The purpose of punishment is not to exact vengeance -- it is to deter crimes and to comfort the victims.
There are many reasons for punishment:
To provide recognizably fair vengeance, so that victims or vigilantes don't provide it themselves, most likely in a very severe manner. To some small extent, governmentally applied vengeance comforts the victims.
To deter crimes by the criminal. Punishment is one way children are civilized. Not all people can be deterred from further crimes by punishment, so this is iffy.
To deter crimes by others. This is also iffy.
To prevent crimes for the duration of incarceration.
Vegetation varies greatly. I've seen figures as high as 10% for high yield plants. Just to guess, a fast growing healthy tree might be 1%, an old hardwood 0.1% or less. Something like a bristlecone pine would be very poor, indeed. Where I live (southern New Hampshire) the growing season is only 5 months, so more than half the year is completely lost.
Freeways are a particularly poor location. Cars kick up dust and mud, and make pollution which deposits itself on the panels. If the Germans salt their roads in the winter, that's really tough on any electronics that aren't sealed.
A typical modern car uses about 10 hp at 50 mph for aero drag and less than that for tire drag plus peripherals; less than 20 hp overall. Your 40 hp estimate is much too high.
Driving an automobile is a right, but it is not a primary right, and in this regard it is much like voting. We don't allow minors to vote or drive. Felons often lose the right to vote, drunk drivers sometimes lose the right to drive.
Driving is not (or at least it should not be) a privilege, a favor granted by rulers to the select. It is a subsidiary of liberty, the right to free action. It is subject to the common sense limitations that drivers don't endanger others or violate their rights, and the limitation that drivers should be competent to drive.
Although government owns most roads and it's a general rule that the owner of property should control its use, the government ownership of roads is a usurpation and thus invalidates this argument.
Today, being on the left means simply being against authoritarianism, and for basic human rights.
That's the funniest thing I've read so far today. Against authoritarianism, like controlling the medical system? For basic human rights, like property rights? The only geuine right that the left seems to want is the right to be self-destructive.
Fascism begins when the efficiency of the Government becomes more important than the Rights of the People.
Please do not make silly statements criticizing only the form of tyranny most hated by you. Fascism is a particular form of tyranny that starts with certain philosophical/political beliefs. Efficiency is only peripherally related to Fascism. Lack of concern about individual rights is characteristic of all forms of tyranny, and all tyrannies consider the ease of the government superior to any consideration of the individual.
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FWIW, I finally made a physical barrier big and slippery enough to thwart the squirrels.
Kill the damn monkeys, mount their heads on pikes, burn the bodies.
Johnny Depp could have been one of the flying monkeys.
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Smart-Power appliances sound good until you consider that each of 50 appliances may be dissipating 5W while in standby. Oops! There goes another 2000 kW-hr per household per year.
He seems to think that Opera is fast. My experience has been that although Opera renders more accurately than Firefox (1.5.0.2), Opera is a lot slower.
Many chips have whole planes dedicated almost entirely to power supply or ground. No new layer required, so no additional capacitance.
It bothers me not a bit for a president of either party finding out who is disloyal to him, because disloyal people are the sort who tend to sell miltary secrets to the enemy or the NYT. Disloyal people hurt the country to advance their personal vendettas.
My experience, although quite limited, has been quite different. Rural police tend to be mellow, city police have an attitude. It probably has to do with the nature of the people they have to deal with (higher density of criminals in the city), their surroundings (the countryside is much prettier), and the nature of their jobs (rural police are less specialized, so boredom is less of a problem). In addition, in a small community, a nasty cop will not be tolerated and will not have a large department of friends to protect him when he does wrong.
As you are a good scientist, by 55 degrees I realize you mean 55 degrees Kelvin.
Just how would it be too dangerous to put a power plant in a place with high geothermal activity? It's not as if there are going to be concentrated supplies of radioactive materials there, or even tanks of fuel oil or gas. Just steam. And the motion you speak of is quite small; we're not drilling into a lava flow or the earth's core.
In the Microsoft world, there are maybe 5 active OSs, or about 15 counting service packs as different OSs. Most Microsoft users have learned not to install free software because so much of it is malicious, so there's less variety. Most non-free software pretty much plays by the rules, doesn't change Microsoft-supplied DLLs, etc.. Most Microsoft users are less adventurous, so they haven't installed hundreds of programs. The net result is an environment that has a fair amount of predictability for the installation of a new program.
In the Linux world, there are many (>100?) distributions, each with many versions, more than 40 kernels (in 2.4 and 2.6, not counting sub-sub-versions, patches, and modules), libraries that need to be updated (sometimes breaking other programs), and inconsistent locations for binaries and libraries. Much software is free and non-malicious, so there's a lot more installed. Sometimes rpm is onerous, so programs are installed via tarballs, which rpm can't track. There's no overriding authority saying "this is how things must be done", and many writers wouldn't pay attention anyway. In short, the environment is much more diverse, so it's much harder to make installations "just work", and in many cases there's no-one paying a salary to make it so.
Most musicians don't deserve to earn a living as musicians. Some lack ability, some lack taste, most lack the business sense needed to succeed, or the business sense to leave an intensely competitive industry. There are a few tracks where talent and dedication can pay off fairly dependably, but not many people are good enough to be a part of a well known symphony orchestra.
Other art forms also have dependable tracks. There can be only so many Kinkades or Frazettas at a time, but there's lots of room for commercial artists.
Absence of government practically guarantees a great increase of the initiation of force, because a great number of people, mostly young men, are just waiting for an opportunity to steal or vandalize without fear of punishment. They consider government the only likely source of punishment.
Libertarianism, broadly speaking, is a political philosophy based on liberty (freedom of action). It's a good principle, but it is not good as a basis for a political philosophy because it is not fundamental. Anarchism or "individualist anarchism" is a wacky variety of libertarianism that shows just why liberty is not a good basis for a political philosophy, because of the disastrous results.
Some cases are just so obvious and so horrid that no adequate punishment is possible. It's a shame that we're too squeamish to allow obvious torture.
Although your estimate of conservatives and liberals has some validity, most people recognize that the criminals vary. Some law breakers can be rehabilitated, some can't. Some law breakers deliberately press the limits until they're caught, with the intention of never exceeding the limits again. Some criminals are morally weak, some are morally vile. The problem is distinguishing one from the other, and acting accordingly.
Vegetation varies greatly. I've seen figures as high as 10% for high yield plants. Just to guess, a fast growing healthy tree might be 1%, an old hardwood 0.1% or less. Something like a bristlecone pine would be very poor, indeed. Where I live (southern New Hampshire) the growing season is only 5 months, so more than half the year is completely lost.
Freeways are a particularly poor location. Cars kick up dust and mud, and make pollution which deposits itself on the panels. If the Germans salt their roads in the winter, that's really tough on any electronics that aren't sealed.
A typical modern car uses about 10 hp at 50 mph for aero drag and less than that for tire drag plus peripherals; less than 20 hp overall. Your 40 hp estimate is much too high.
Driving is not (or at least it should not be) a privilege, a favor granted by rulers to the select. It is a subsidiary of liberty, the right to free action. It is subject to the common sense limitations that drivers don't endanger others or violate their rights, and the limitation that drivers should be competent to drive.
Although government owns most roads and it's a general rule that the owner of property should control its use, the government ownership of roads is a usurpation and thus invalidates this argument.
That the Supreme Court has decided something doesn't make it true.