In my mind "non-profit" and "charity" are two different things. The red cross is a well run charity that minimises admin costs, it deserves support for it's selfless work. The Catholic church is a religious organisation that spends some portion of it's income on charitable work, the Heartland institute is a partisan for-hire lobbyist agency that pumps money back into it's self-serving propoganda machine. All three have the same non-profit status.
We don't need to encourage political and religious organisations to lobby the government anymore than we need to pay old people to write to their congressman. The money would be much better spent creating an independent, well educated, public service capable of "speaking truth to power".
I agree. The main problem with modern capitalism is that a particular economic activity does not have to make sense, nor does it have to contribute to the growth/maintenance of civilization, it just has to make a profit. OTOH the phrases "make sense" and "civilization" are both subjective terms.
Bitcoins are just an obvious example. Here in Australia we ship millions of tons of bauxite several thousand km's from a mine bathed in sub-tropical desert sunshine all year round to the southern end, and turn it into aluminium. We spent billions on port infrastructure to do so. Why? - Because the southern state's government build a brown coal generator specifically for the smelter and sold the electricity to the smelter for virtually zero profit. It beggars belief that it was (supposedly) more "economical" to do this than it was to build a solar smelter right next to the "fly in, fly out" mine located in the middle of the fucking desert.
To the right wing nutters that may misinterpret the above, I'm not advocating we throw away capitalism. I agree that no matter what the game is, people will adapt to the rules of the game guided by self interest, but without rules there is no game. We need to step back and rethink the rules in light of the object of the game.
Hindsight is always 20/20, you made a decision based on a risk judgement because nobody can predict the future, we all have to wait for it to happen. Also what did you do with the money you didn't put into mining, I doubt you hide it under the mattress?
Instead they add this thing called "creamer" for which I have no idea how it relates to a cow.
I'm an Aussie, many moons ago I was in a bar in Amsterdam talking to a Dutch guy and a bloke from Chicago. The American asked "What's wrong with the milk over here, it goes off after 3-4 days in the fridge?", the dutchman and I nearly died laughing.
You are correct, the quack was probably correct too but erecting a giant fence to keep immigrants out won't protect anyone. TB is rampant around the globe and it's worse in places that do not have effective health care for all, such as the US and Russia. The US in particular has the medical and economic capacity to wipe out TB within it's own borders, it CHOOSES not to.
Pro tip: Xenophobia is not an attractive personality trait, people would hate you less if you displayed some empathy towards those less fortunate than yourself. Also a sarcasm tag doesn't negate your own name calling.
There was an outbreak of whooping cough in Australia a couple of years ago, my immunised ex-wife caught a dose. Turned out it was a new strain of whooping cough the vaccination is still effective but not as effective as it was for the old strain. If the US vaccination rates haven't changed recently then I would put my money on it being the new Aussie strain.
Agree, I use python almost daily but I've never felt the need to use it for multithreading. Speed is not what Python is about, it's about fast prototyping and integration work, for example automating build scripts. It's very easy to learn, particularly if you have a C/Lisp background.
I can see why a regional amazon store is a something you would want. However I liked google news better when it didn't automatically redirect you to a regional site, if I wanted old-fashioned parochial news I would go to an Aussie newspaper. I'm much more interested in the other half of the truth that local papers fail to provide because it might upset their sponsors or political benefactors.
That bit intrigued me too, I know carbon comes in different isotopes and that CO2 from FF burning has an isotopic signature. The age of the carbon is what makes FF burning identifiable, I'm not sure why carbon from trees should be any different to carbon from seaweed.
His failure was attempting to negotiate with the far right nutjobs when he had the numbers and the mandate to put the boot in and do what he was elected to do. In his defense, he pissed away his political capital dealing with a real financial black hole, not an imaginary one like we currently have here in Australia.
The real question that should be asked is why are political think tanks granted charity status in the first place? They are often simply a front for monied self interest, pushing self interest through political propaganda is what they are all about. Regardless of whether I agree of disagree with their propaganda, I don't see why they should get a tax break just for disseminating it?
That's a good point. An avatar is not a reflection of yourself, it's an escape from yourself, The person controlling the avatar is playing the role of god in a different universe, which is why I think games like the sims were/are enormously popular. OTOH the type of feedback they are talking about has been shown to be useful in modifying "aberrant behaviour" in a clinical setting, such as anger/stress management, etc.
To summarise, adding this kind of equipment to a video game for entertainment is like adding flyscreens to a submarine for health reasons, they may "work" but that's hardly the point.
Random server kicks and reboots.
500ms ping times
overrun with cheats
sucks your credit card dry
clogs your email with spam
installs malware
rapes your sister.
encrypts your hard drive and swallows the key.
We know where the water went on Mars, it was split by UV radiation and the Hydrogen was blown off into space, pretty much the same as what happened on Venus but Mars lacks the gravity to retain a big pile of CO2. The water that was already under the crust has stayed there and will definitely be in liquid form where the ground pressure it just right for that to occur.
It's said the English channel was cut by an ice dam burst, the rubble found when they dug the channel tunnel pretty much confirms it. However just because science has found evidence of massive floods does not add an ounce of weight to the bibical claims about Noah. It's like claiming the fact rock and roll started in the 50's proves Elvis is an alien. The moral of the Noah story and indeed most biblical stories is that blind obiedience to the dictates of power is a virtue.
The guy reminds me of Henry Ford who (against all prevailing business wisdom) famously instituted a 40hr week at his factories only to see productivity skyrocket. Forceful, erratic, unapologetic, and willing to act "out of the box" rather than just think about it, that can be dangerous in a CEO, but it's mandatory if you want to want to build something like Ford from the bottom up.
It's a legal term that means don't be a liar or a cheat. I'm not sure how one could use someone else's patent in bad faith when they have been given explicit permission to use it. A good example of bad faith is a climate denier or the company that sponsors them, they know the facts but are employed to lie about them in a convincing manner.
There's an infamous case here in Australia where a popular far-right columnist (Andrew Bolt) was convicted of racial vilification. He fought it on the right to express an opinion and lost, the judge convicted him on the "good faith" clause and told him he does not have the right to knowingly publish lies about an individual's racial heritage for the purposes of political propaganda. The plaintiff could have won a libel suit but chose a rare racial vilification suit to make a legal and moral point.
The current (hard right) government attempted to change the law soon after coming to power, arguing it was anti-free-speech, however they seem to have dropped that idea since polls showed 80+% of voter's want to keep the "good faith" clause and the attorney general was widely ridiculed for his claim that people have a "right to be bigots".
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In my mind "non-profit" and "charity" are two different things. The red cross is a well run charity that minimises admin costs, it deserves support for it's selfless work. The Catholic church is a religious organisation that spends some portion of it's income on charitable work, the Heartland institute is a partisan for-hire lobbyist agency that pumps money back into it's self-serving propoganda machine. All three have the same non-profit status.
We don't need to encourage political and religious organisations to lobby the government anymore than we need to pay old people to write to their congressman. The money would be much better spent creating an independent, well educated, public service capable of "speaking truth to power".
their society is sort of, barely, working for catch-up. if they ever get to the point where they are innovative leaders
China has dragged more people out of abject poverty in the last 30yrs than the rest of the planet put together.
uh, yeah, i've taught quite a few dumbfuck asians (mainland Chinese, no less) at an ivy league university.
Why anyone would allow an arrogant racist fuck like you to tutor asian kids is beyond me, I call bullshit on that one.
Yep, they survived multiple population crashes for a million years.
Three sixes - I see what u did there!
I agree. The main problem with modern capitalism is that a particular economic activity does not have to make sense, nor does it have to contribute to the growth/maintenance of civilization, it just has to make a profit. OTOH the phrases "make sense" and "civilization" are both subjective terms.
Bitcoins are just an obvious example. Here in Australia we ship millions of tons of bauxite several thousand km's from a mine bathed in sub-tropical desert sunshine all year round to the southern end, and turn it into aluminium. We spent billions on port infrastructure to do so. Why? - Because the southern state's government build a brown coal generator specifically for the smelter and sold the electricity to the smelter for virtually zero profit. It beggars belief that it was (supposedly) more "economical" to do this than it was to build a solar smelter right next to the "fly in, fly out" mine located in the middle of the fucking desert.
To the right wing nutters that may misinterpret the above, I'm not advocating we throw away capitalism. I agree that no matter what the game is, people will adapt to the rules of the game guided by self interest, but without rules there is no game. We need to step back and rethink the rules in light of the object of the game.
your only backup is relying on parties to "play fair".
Yes, I always found it odd that libertarians and the flower power people don't get along with each other.
millions of dollars I could have made
Hindsight is always 20/20, you made a decision based on a risk judgement because nobody can predict the future, we all have to wait for it to happen. Also what did you do with the money you didn't put into mining, I doubt you hide it under the mattress?
He didn't say $10, he said $10k, you missed the 'k', HAHAHAHAHAH AHHAHAH HAHAHAH HAHAH AHHAHAHAHA.....cough...splutter...wheeze.
Instead they add this thing called "creamer" for which I have no idea how it relates to a cow.
I'm an Aussie, many moons ago I was in a bar in Amsterdam talking to a Dutch guy and a bloke from Chicago. The American asked "What's wrong with the milk over here, it goes off after 3-4 days in the fridge?", the dutchman and I nearly died laughing.
You are correct, the quack was probably correct too but erecting a giant fence to keep immigrants out won't protect anyone. TB is rampant around the globe and it's worse in places that do not have effective health care for all, such as the US and Russia. The US in particular has the medical and economic capacity to wipe out TB within it's own borders, it CHOOSES not to.
Pro tip: Xenophobia is not an attractive personality trait, people would hate you less if you displayed some empathy towards those less fortunate than yourself. Also a sarcasm tag doesn't negate your own name calling.
There was an outbreak of whooping cough in Australia a couple of years ago, my immunised ex-wife caught a dose. Turned out it was a new strain of whooping cough the vaccination is still effective but not as effective as it was for the old strain. If the US vaccination rates haven't changed recently then I would put my money on it being the new Aussie strain.
Agree, I use python almost daily but I've never felt the need to use it for multithreading. Speed is not what Python is about, it's about fast prototyping and integration work, for example automating build scripts. It's very easy to learn, particularly if you have a C/Lisp background.
I can see why a regional amazon store is a something you would want. However I liked google news better when it didn't automatically redirect you to a regional site, if I wanted old-fashioned parochial news I would go to an Aussie newspaper. I'm much more interested in the other half of the truth that local papers fail to provide because it might upset their sponsors or political benefactors.
That bit intrigued me too, I know carbon comes in different isotopes and that CO2 from FF burning has an isotopic signature. The age of the carbon is what makes FF burning identifiable, I'm not sure why carbon from trees should be any different to carbon from seaweed.
Putin doesn't need Dell's "help" either, just watch his eyebrows hit the ceiling when the Dell CEO offers it. Eyebrow event occurs ~1:00.
His failure was attempting to negotiate with the far right nutjobs when he had the numbers and the mandate to put the boot in and do what he was elected to do. In his defense, he pissed away his political capital dealing with a real financial black hole, not an imaginary one like we currently have here in Australia.
The real question that should be asked is why are political think tanks granted charity status in the first place? They are often simply a front for monied self interest, pushing self interest through political propaganda is what they are all about. Regardless of whether I agree of disagree with their propaganda, I don't see why they should get a tax break just for disseminating it?
That's a good point. An avatar is not a reflection of yourself, it's an escape from yourself, The person controlling the avatar is playing the role of god in a different universe, which is why I think games like the sims were/are enormously popular. OTOH the type of feedback they are talking about has been shown to be useful in modifying "aberrant behaviour" in a clinical setting, such as anger/stress management, etc.
To summarise, adding this kind of equipment to a video game for entertainment is like adding flyscreens to a submarine for health reasons, they may "work" but that's hardly the point.
Random server kicks and reboots.
500ms ping times
overrun with cheats
sucks your credit card dry
clogs your email with spam
installs malware
rapes your sister.
encrypts your hard drive and swallows the key.
They had no choice but to use sharper images, Apple holds the patent on round corners.
We know where the water went on Mars, it was split by UV radiation and the Hydrogen was blown off into space, pretty much the same as what happened on Venus but Mars lacks the gravity to retain a big pile of CO2. The water that was already under the crust has stayed there and will definitely be in liquid form where the ground pressure it just right for that to occur.
It's said the English channel was cut by an ice dam burst, the rubble found when they dug the channel tunnel pretty much confirms it. However just because science has found evidence of massive floods does not add an ounce of weight to the bibical claims about Noah. It's like claiming the fact rock and roll started in the 50's proves Elvis is an alien. The moral of the Noah story and indeed most biblical stories is that blind obiedience to the dictates of power is a virtue.
The guy reminds me of Henry Ford who (against all prevailing business wisdom) famously instituted a 40hr week at his factories only to see productivity skyrocket. Forceful, erratic, unapologetic, and willing to act "out of the box" rather than just think about it, that can be dangerous in a CEO, but it's mandatory if you want to want to build something like Ford from the bottom up.
It's a legal term that means don't be a liar or a cheat. I'm not sure how one could use someone else's patent in bad faith when they have been given explicit permission to use it. A good example of bad faith is a climate denier or the company that sponsors them, they know the facts but are employed to lie about them in a convincing manner.
There's an infamous case here in Australia where a popular far-right columnist (Andrew Bolt) was convicted of racial vilification. He fought it on the right to express an opinion and lost, the judge convicted him on the "good faith" clause and told him he does not have the right to knowingly publish lies about an individual's racial heritage for the purposes of political propaganda. The plaintiff could have won a libel suit but chose a rare racial vilification suit to make a legal and moral point.
The current (hard right) government attempted to change the law soon after coming to power, arguing it was anti-free-speech, however they seem to have dropped that idea since polls showed 80+% of voter's want to keep the "good faith" clause and the attorney general was widely ridiculed for his claim that people have a "right to be bigots".