Subsiding a good, with public money, will artificially inflate the demand.
And it will shift the burden of the cost from the consumers of the good to the taxpayers.
In Italy, for example, when the drugs were given free of charge (with only the prescriptions of the SSN doctor) the drugs prescribed and selled were much more than now. Many people, mainly elders, lobbied their doctor for prescriptions they don't need, and after they stashed the drugs without using them.
When copayment was introduced, the volume of selled drugs fall falled sharply.
A socialized medical system is focused in saving the few very ill (at first), later it focus on saving on costs (because costs runaway). They near never pay for dental igiene and other low costs, low priority cures. But, growing evidences show that dental igienes and like reduce the rates of severe ills (heart problems and so on)).
In Italy, for the socialized medicine, the helthcare don't cover dental care (apart for dental extractions and other big issues). The parliaments, a few year ago, refused to discuss about to paying for dental prothesys for the elders.
Socialized medicine cure the political needs, not the patients needs.
We know when the first tasering happened. Looking at the video published, we can hear the policeman Say "Stand up" repeatly. Around 1:20 seconds the student start screaming "abuse of power" etc. They policeman continue to tell him "Stand up". Around 1:35 seconds a couple of policemen grab him to lift him and take him away. Then at 1:38 you can see him jump (as he want resist and try to free from the hold and kick someone). Then you can hear the sound of the taser.
The problem, IMHO, is the policeman asked too many time before forcing him to leave and when tasering the student they used a too low power. After the tasering he was able to scream again immediatly. They probably don't go use the "stun & paralyze" power, but with the "run" power of the taser. But this is useful only with people "needing" to be redirected, not actively attacking or resisting.
Do you know that shiite can marry for a predeterminated time? Something like a night or so. Add to the fact that the bride will receive money from the husband before they marry.
Mohammed invented this so widows could earn a living.
I'm sure they don't call AQiI (al Qaeda in Iraq) "al Qaeda". The iraqi word for them is "takfiri terrorists". The soldires will call the "enemies", "targets", and so on.
People like to complain about Berlusconi or Bush, but the current Presidente del Consiglio in Italy (Romano Prodi) is way too a wacko than Berlusconi. A jellyfish could show more backbone then Prodi.
Do you would like to have a President that receive messages from a via a séance and a Ouija board from the deads?
On April 2, 1978, Prodi and other members of the faculty of the University of Bologna passed on a tip about a safe house where Aldo Moro, the former Prime Minister kidnapped by the Red Brigades, was detained. Bizarrely, Prodi claimed he had been given the tip by the founders of the Christian Democratic Party, contacted from beyond the grave via a séance and a Ouija board. While Prodi thought the word Gradoli referred to a town on the outskirts of Rome, it likely referred to the Roman address of a BR safehouse, located at via Gradoli 96. Later, other Italian members of the European Commission claimed that Prodi had invented this story to conceal the real source of the tip, which they believed to have originated in the Italian extraparliamentary left. [1]
If 5 Km is not enought, 10 Km will be enought or 50 Km. Then you take a ferry boat or a railway to the terminal. And the planes will need to stay in the right path or they will be warned and destroyed. And advances in direct energy weapons will do the reaction light fast (THEL anyone?) And being in the middle on nothing will make easy to control the airplane arriving and departing.
Carbon nanotubes burn well in air, as graphite or diamonds. The problem is about how much surface is available to burn (air/carbon surface).
The first cable deploied could be severed from a plane (if it is able to locate it ad hit it, because a tape not larger than a VHS tape is not an easy target). But, the damage could destroy no more than 20 Km of the cable (the lower end), no air not fire. The cable is long 36.000 Km, so dropping down other 20 Km is not a problem if the GEO counterweight have a tiny rocket engine and a few hundred KMs of spare cable.
After the first cable is deployed, it first job will be to reinforce itself and place in GEO other cables. So, if one is severed in any way, the others will be able to repair or replace it.
It is not really in favor of good articles "per se". But good articles are a resource that the people is available to protect and restore (the "single click"). It is in their interest to do so. Bad articles are not a resource for the people, so they have no interest in protect or restore them. No even the people that write them. This is because articles like "Quartz", "Iron", "Mars", tend to grow in usefulness and contributors collaborate with ease.
The real problem is with articles about controversial topics like "G.W.Bush", "Cindy Sheenan", "Islam", etc. Where people is not able to agree to a common definition of a "good article", because what is good for a part is bad for another.
Because the vandals and the errors are corrected with less hassle. The termodinamics of Wikipedia is in favor of good articles, not bad articles. This because you keep all the changes to an article, so you are able to return to any previous state with a click. Without the history feature this would not be possible.
With proportional systems you have coalitions. With coalitions you have political programs that are wroten around the minimum common ground. Usually, the minimum common ground is "take the taxpayer money and use it for yourself and your cronies, electors". And if you say this is like this in US, you don't know how it is in other countries (Italy, France, and so on - let aside the Third World).
Election Systems are intended for more than enabling all tiny minorities to elect someone. They must be able to govern without be blackmailed from any group that hold a vote or two needed to continue to govern. Would you like to have people elected directly from the Arian Nation, Communist Party (two or three flavours), indian parties, latino parties, italian parties, muslim parties (shiite and sunnite), and so on? This is what you will obtain with a proportional electoral law.
The problem with academia is that academicians are nowaday self-selecting.
Many depend more on their peers and not on their real works, so they prefer to satisfy their peers than to do something creative or productive.
> If muslims in Amsterdam are beating up queers in Amsterdam, > I'd expect the police in Amsterdam to arrest them, > and the courts in Amsterdam to deport them.
This explain much. Assumptions based on what you don't know. The government and the politicians don't want problems with muslims, so they order the police to look another way. Many government are depending on extreme-left wing parties votes to live. Many muslims have citizenship, so they can not be deported. So, commons, law abiding citizens are living between a rock and an hard place. Do you think, from their perspective, is stupid to go and vote for the extreme right parties? Good are who do good for me. The others are not good.
> How about the freedom not to live in fear of starving to death?
You can not have it, if the state can take away from you yord food to give it to others.
> Or the freedom to not live in fear of being homeless?
You can not have it, if the state can take away your home to give to someone with more need of it, or could stuff someone else in your home to "optimize" the home use.
This is what happen in socialist nations, when you are lucky.
When you are unlucky, the state simply stole from you and give to the burocrats, politicians, and their pals.
Captain America is not an Original Avenger.
original Avengers are:
Thor, Ant-man, Wasp, Iron Man, Hulk.
Cap was added around n 5 when they finded him frozen in the artci sea.
I must deny your first statement.
Copyright exist because you have the open-ended right to copy anything everytime you like.
Copyright exist only to limit your natural rights in favor to creatives.
These limits exist as an incentive for the creatives to create more, so more would be available to the people to freely copy after the end of the copyright.
190 Mcalories is not equal to 190 Kg of water heated of 100 degree Celsius.
This because water change status @0C and @100C (this will change with different pressure).
The heat needed to change status (liquid to gaseous is around 300 cal/gram.
100 Kg of water will not arrive to 190C, but will boil down.
If we start with 100 Kg @ 20C (liquid) and will end with around 60 Kg liquid 40 gaseous @ 100C.
If the emergency pod is filled with enought water, and the water is enable to exit when the pressure is strong enought you can maintain the temperature of the water inside around 100 with ease.
The problem are:
1) A heat shield that resist the reenter
2) Shield for enought time (few minutes) the crew from the boilig water heat
3) Expel the boiling water after this.
This could be done easier if the water is partially frozen (but this need a fast way to spread the heat in the water to let water to change state fast; carbon nanotube anyone???)
Actually, the pysic of the Moon Elevators is totally different from the physic of the Earth/Mars elevators:
Moon rotation is too slow, so the elevator will don't work, you need to rach and go farter the Lagrange points from the Moon surface. Would be better use rotavator/theter systems or EM mass launcer.
The Mars Elevator is possible with the current tecnology (Kevlar is enought to build it) and it would be smaller than the Earth elevator.
Look for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
MlDonkey is not "superior".
Shareaza is, for now, the only application that support multiple network swarming downloads.
It can swarm the same file from multiple network.
All the other are able only to swarm a file from a network only.
Why do you say this? Have you been to China, asked anyone there what they think? Of course China is oppressive, and of course its views don't fall in line with those of the US. But that doesn't necessarily mean people would instantly overthrow it given the chance.
Look at the history: tyrants will be overthrow as fast as they are and appear weak. No one love them, so no one will defend them. They only work for themselves, then usually they breed selfish people. Then selfish people will overtrow them as fast as they can or will stop support them as fast as they can not give suppor or privileges.
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Nobody know about the new MRI based lie detectors?
o n-biw112204.php
They are scientifically validated (polygraph are not) to be able to catch 90%+ liers when they lie.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-11/rs
So, if we destroy this bastion, will freedom be free. Bastions are bad, "bring down the wall"!!!
Bring it down, Separation wall are bad! /Moonbat mode off
Subsiding a good, with public money, will artificially inflate the demand. And it will shift the burden of the cost from the consumers of the good to the taxpayers. In Italy, for example, when the drugs were given free of charge (with only the prescriptions of the SSN doctor) the drugs prescribed and selled were much more than now. Many people, mainly elders, lobbied their doctor for prescriptions they don't need, and after they stashed the drugs without using them. When copayment was introduced, the volume of selled drugs fall falled sharply.
A socialized medical system is focused in saving the few very ill (at first), later it focus on saving on costs (because costs runaway).
They near never pay for dental igiene and other low costs, low priority cures.
But, growing evidences show that dental igienes and like reduce the rates of severe ills (heart problems and so on)).
In Italy, for the socialized medicine, the helthcare don't cover dental care (apart for dental extractions and other big issues). The parliaments, a few year ago, refused to discuss about to paying for dental prothesys for the elders.
Socialized medicine cure the political needs, not the patients needs.
We know when the first tasering happened.
Looking at the video published, we can hear the policeman Say "Stand up" repeatly.
Around 1:20 seconds the student start screaming "abuse of power" etc.
They policeman continue to tell him "Stand up".
Around 1:35 seconds a couple of policemen grab him to lift him and take him away.
Then at 1:38 you can see him jump (as he want resist and try to free from the hold and kick someone).
Then you can hear the sound of the taser.
The problem, IMHO, is the policeman asked too many time before forcing him to leave and when tasering the student they used a too low power. After the tasering he was able to scream again immediatly. They probably don't go use the "stun & paralyze" power, but with the "run" power of the taser. But this is useful only with people "needing" to be redirected, not actively attacking or resisting.
Do you know that shiite can marry for a predeterminated time?
Something like a night or so.
Add to the fact that the bride will receive money from the husband before they marry.
Mohammed invented this so widows could earn a living.
Interested people can Google for more infos.
I'm sure they don't call AQiI (al Qaeda in Iraq) "al Qaeda".
The iraqi word for them is "takfiri terrorists".
The soldires will call the "enemies", "targets", and so on.
People like to complain about Berlusconi or Bush, but the current Presidente del Consiglio in Italy (Romano Prodi) is way too a wacko than Berlusconi. A jellyfish could show more backbone then Prodi.
Do you would like to have a President that receive messages from a via a séance and a Ouija board from the deads?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romano_Prodi
From wikipedia
On April 2, 1978, Prodi and other members of the faculty of the University of Bologna passed on a tip about a safe house where Aldo Moro, the former Prime Minister kidnapped by the Red Brigades, was detained. Bizarrely, Prodi claimed he had been given the tip by the founders of the Christian Democratic Party, contacted from beyond the grave via a séance and a Ouija board. While Prodi thought the word Gradoli referred to a town on the outskirts of Rome, it likely referred to the Roman address of a BR safehouse, located at via Gradoli 96. Later, other Italian members of the European Commission claimed that Prodi had invented this story to conceal the real source of the tip, which they believed to have originated in the Italian extraparliamentary left. [1]
If 5 Km is not enought, 10 Km will be enought or 50 Km.
Then you take a ferry boat or a railway to the terminal.
And the planes will need to stay in the right path or they will be warned and destroyed.
And advances in direct energy weapons will do the reaction light fast (THEL anyone?)
And being in the middle on nothing will make easy to control the airplane arriving and departing.
Carbon nanotubes burn well in air, as graphite or diamonds.
The problem is about how much surface is available to burn (air/carbon surface).
The first cable deploied could be severed from a plane (if it is able to locate it ad hit it, because a tape not larger than a VHS tape is not an easy target).
But, the damage could destroy no more than 20 Km of the cable (the lower end), no air not fire.
The cable is long 36.000 Km, so dropping down other 20 Km is not a problem if the GEO counterweight have a tiny rocket engine and a few hundred KMs of spare cable.
After the first cable is deployed, it first job will be to reinforce itself and place in GEO other cables. So, if one is severed in any way, the others will be able to repair or replace it.
It is not really in favor of good articles "per se".
But good articles are a resource that the people is available to protect and restore (the "single click"). It is in their interest to do so.
Bad articles are not a resource for the people, so they have no interest in protect or restore them. No even the people that write them.
This is because articles like "Quartz", "Iron", "Mars", tend to grow in usefulness and contributors collaborate with ease.
The real problem is with articles about controversial topics like "G.W.Bush", "Cindy Sheenan", "Islam", etc.
Where people is not able to agree to a common definition of a "good article", because what is good for a part is bad for another.
Because the vandals and the errors are corrected with less hassle.
The termodinamics of Wikipedia is in favor of good articles, not bad articles.
This because you keep all the changes to an article, so you are able to return to any previous state with a click.
Without the history feature this would not be possible.
With proportional systems you have coalitions.
With coalitions you have political programs that are wroten around the minimum common ground.
Usually, the minimum common ground is "take the taxpayer money and use it for yourself and your cronies, electors".
And if you say this is like this in US, you don't know how it is in other countries (Italy, France, and so on - let aside the Third World).
Election Systems are intended for more than enabling all tiny minorities to elect someone.
They must be able to govern without be blackmailed from any group that hold a vote or two needed to continue to govern.
Would you like to have people elected directly from the Arian Nation, Communist Party (two or three flavours), indian parties, latino parties, italian parties, muslim parties (shiite and sunnite), and so on? This is what you will obtain with a proportional electoral law.
The problem with academia is that academicians are nowaday self-selecting. Many depend more on their peers and not on their real works, so they prefer to satisfy their peers than to do something creative or productive.
"Need" is mother of "Invention".
> If muslims in Amsterdam are beating up queers in Amsterdam,
> I'd expect the police in Amsterdam to arrest them,
> and the courts in Amsterdam to deport them.
This explain much.
Assumptions based on what you don't know.
The government and the politicians don't want problems with muslims, so they order the police to look another way.
Many government are depending on extreme-left wing parties votes to live.
Many muslims have citizenship, so they can not be deported.
So, commons, law abiding citizens are living between a rock and an hard place.
Do you think, from their perspective, is stupid to go and vote for the extreme right parties?
Good are who do good for me.
The others are not good.
> How about the freedom not to live in fear of starving to death? You can not have it, if the state can take away from you yord food to give it to others. > Or the freedom to not live in fear of being homeless? You can not have it, if the state can take away your home to give to someone with more need of it, or could stuff someone else in your home to "optimize" the home use. This is what happen in socialist nations, when you are lucky. When you are unlucky, the state simply stole from you and give to the burocrats, politicians, and their pals.
Captain America is not an Original Avenger. original Avengers are: Thor, Ant-man, Wasp, Iron Man, Hulk. Cap was added around n 5 when they finded him frozen in the artci sea.
I must deny your first statement. Copyright exist because you have the open-ended right to copy anything everytime you like. Copyright exist only to limit your natural rights in favor to creatives. These limits exist as an incentive for the creatives to create more, so more would be available to the people to freely copy after the end of the copyright.
190 Mcalories is not equal to 190 Kg of water heated of 100 degree Celsius. This because water change status @0C and @100C (this will change with different pressure). The heat needed to change status (liquid to gaseous is around 300 cal/gram. 100 Kg of water will not arrive to 190C, but will boil down. If we start with 100 Kg @ 20C (liquid) and will end with around 60 Kg liquid 40 gaseous @ 100C. If the emergency pod is filled with enought water, and the water is enable to exit when the pressure is strong enought you can maintain the temperature of the water inside around 100 with ease. The problem are: 1) A heat shield that resist the reenter 2) Shield for enought time (few minutes) the crew from the boilig water heat 3) Expel the boiling water after this. This could be done easier if the water is partially frozen (but this need a fast way to spread the heat in the water to let water to change state fast; carbon nanotube anyone???)
OpenOffice distributions (not only the Linux port).
Actually, the pysic of the Moon Elevators is totally different from the physic of the Earth/Mars elevators: Moon rotation is too slow, so the elevator will don't work, you need to rach and go farter the Lagrange points from the Moon surface. Would be better use rotavator/theter systems or EM mass launcer. The Mars Elevator is possible with the current tecnology (Kevlar is enought to build it) and it would be smaller than the Earth elevator. Look for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
MlDonkey is not "superior". Shareaza is, for now, the only application that support multiple network swarming downloads. It can swarm the same file from multiple network. All the other are able only to swarm a file from a network only.
Why do you say this? Have you been to China, asked anyone there what they think? Of course China is oppressive, and of course its views don't fall in line with those of the US. But that doesn't necessarily mean people would instantly overthrow it given the chance.
Look at the history:
tyrants will be overthrow as fast as they are and appear weak.
No one love them, so no one will defend them.
They only work for themselves, then usually they breed selfish people.
Then selfish people will overtrow them as fast as they can or will stop support them as fast as they can not give suppor or privileges.