Why? Those manufacturers who say they have no GMO in their product are not shy about lying to the dwindling number of people who believe it makes a difference.
BTW : The problem with your "consumer" argument is that it only works in the absence of other consumers with differing opinions. For example I think a non-allergenic peanut would be very popular with manufacturers and consumers.
I would vote for Bernie over Trump but Trump over Hillary,
...because it's your democratic right to choose personality over policy? Seriously, Hilary and Bernie both have a voting record stretching back decades, the two records are virtually indistinguishable. If you prefer Bernie the logic would dictate you put Trump last.
Disclaimer: Aussie with no dog in the POTUS fight. Also I don't know anything about Nickelback other than the name and that it is currently "uncool" to like them but I do like the rockstar song, I suspect all the hate directed at them is also a personality thing that's unrelated to how well they actually perform.
Alfred Hitchcock was known as the "master of suspense" precisely because he avoided chopping the scene to pieces with a million different camera angles.
There wasn't a net win globally; the third-worlder isn't all that much better off than before, and may actually be much worse off
When I was a growing up I was watching news stories about mass famines in china, in the intervening 4-5 decades China has dragged more people above the poverty line than the rest of the world combined. It is now the 2nd largest economy in the world. Also, despite the lies your nostalgia tells you, the standard of living in the west is a lot higher than it was in the 60's.
I couldn't begin to put a price on avoiding ads until you tell me what kind of ad you're talking about.
Exactly, I don't have an ideological hatred of advertising but it certainly pisses me off when someone interrupts what I am doing to shove toenail fungus in my face. Here in Oz we have the ABC, it's a public broadcaster very similar to the BBC, there are no ads just promos for their own shows and the promos only appear between shows. Watching a show like Graham Norton on the ABC is a pure joy, but as soon as it becomes popular the commercial stations will buy the rights and completely fuck the show by cutting people off mid-sentence every 10min to sell you toothpaste and tampons.
Without ads a good talk show draws you into the conversation, it almost feels like you're sitting on the couch with them. Inserting the ads spoils the spell, ironically just as it starts to take hold. The show deteriorates into something like a series of disjointed youtube clips, the magic has been ruined. I return to the ABC and await the next brief period of TV entertainment that occurs between when a show is new, and when it's popular.
Somehow I never seemed to hear anyone complain about "Apple," though—probably because, despite being a dictionary word, it has nothing inherent to do with its subject matter.
"Baseload" is defined as the lowest point on the demand curve over a fixed time period, it would be meaningful to this discussion if there was a city somewhere on this planet that had a flat demand curve. Such a city does not exist so "baseload" generators must store electricity in giant batteries called hydroelectric dams. When the batteries are still not enough to meet peak demands they have to fire up the gas turbines. There is absolutely no logical/technical reason why renewables cannot use the same infrastructure to match the supply and demand curves.
Agree, the title is misleading but so is every 20yr economic forecast I've ever seen.
Yep. Microsoft's money comes from corporate licenses/partnerships, the programs you listed, plus exchange, msdn accounts. Since my mega-corp employer pays for a full msdn account for devs I can have all that stuff on my home pc too. Most large corporates do this and call it SOE (Standard Operating Environment). There are plenty of *nix variants and open source in the backroom, eg: KVM is popular right now. However a basic fact of business is that if you're a subcontractor/supplier to a mega-corp, you will need at least one of the major windows applications. That may or may not make sense, but as a small-med business owner you can't ignore it and stay in business.
There simply is not enough land for the number of trees required, even if you covered every square inch of the planet in trees you still would not have half the number of trees you need.
The original Luddites rejected cotton mills to protect an antiquated and inefficient industry, modern Luddites reject renewables and/or GMO's to protect equally antiquated and inefficient industries.
I'm in the 56 group, arcade Pong was also my first video game (circa 1970). I picked up PC gaming with Sopwith, Buck Rogers, Doom, etc.
My wife is in the same group, her first game was internet bridge, after a very long while I convinced here to try World of Tanks, she was hooked in the first hour.
Today's understanding of the universe will probably be ridiculed in the future and get compared to when everyone accepted that the world was flat or that the Sun orbited the Earth.
There is no conclusion or hypothesis involved here, someone estimated the rate of the expansion of the universe, somebody else refined that estimate, that sort of experiment never ends since you can always look for ways to improve your measurement methods.. The FACT that the universe is expanding is not a hypothesis, it's an observation.
Nice. They sound like the type of people who put the "lord" into landlord. These tin-pot dictators need to be reminded their business only exists because society tolerates it.
Disclaimer: I have nothing against landlords in general, in fact I used to be one and will become one again next year.
Isn't it more like they *disproved* the hypothesis....[snip]....As a non-mathematician - do I understand this correctly?
Yes and no, terms such as "proof" are often used in a casual way. Science doesn't offer proof or truth, it offers evidence. Maths doesn't have hypotheses, it has conjectures and truth. This is because Maths is an axiomatic system, the universe is not an axiomatic system therefore Science doesn't have axioms, it has assumptions. A properly formed mathematical conjecture (or statement) is "proven" by demonstrating it is true or false by the axioms of the system.
Having said that, the conjecture was in indeed "disproven" by the discovery of a counter example.:)
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Put a label on it
Why? Those manufacturers who say they have no GMO in their product are not shy about lying to the dwindling number of people who believe it makes a difference.
BTW : The problem with your "consumer" argument is that it only works in the absence of other consumers with differing opinions. For example I think a non-allergenic peanut would be very popular with manufacturers and consumers.
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I would vote for Bernie over Trump but Trump over Hillary,
...because it's your democratic right to choose personality over policy? Seriously, Hilary and Bernie both have a voting record stretching back decades, the two records are virtually indistinguishable. If you prefer Bernie the logic would dictate you put Trump last.
Disclaimer: Aussie with no dog in the POTUS fight. Also I don't know anything about Nickelback other than the name and that it is currently "uncool" to like them but I do like the rockstar song, I suspect all the hate directed at them is also a personality thing that's unrelated to how well they actually perform.
Ordinary vinegar is more toxic than round-up.
Alfred Hitchcock was known as the "master of suspense" precisely because he avoided chopping the scene to pieces with a million different camera angles.
There wasn't a net win globally; the third-worlder isn't all that much better off than before, and may actually be much worse off
When I was a growing up I was watching news stories about mass famines in china, in the intervening 4-5 decades China has dragged more people above the poverty line than the rest of the world combined. It is now the 2nd largest economy in the world. Also, despite the lies your nostalgia tells you, the standard of living in the west is a lot higher than it was in the 60's.
They won't buy you a car but they're eager to sell you one on dubious credit terms..
I couldn't begin to put a price on avoiding ads until you tell me what kind of ad you're talking about.
Exactly, I don't have an ideological hatred of advertising but it certainly pisses me off when someone interrupts what I am doing to shove toenail fungus in my face. Here in Oz we have the ABC, it's a public broadcaster very similar to the BBC, there are no ads just promos for their own shows and the promos only appear between shows. Watching a show like Graham Norton on the ABC is a pure joy, but as soon as it becomes popular the commercial stations will buy the rights and completely fuck the show by cutting people off mid-sentence every 10min to sell you toothpaste and tampons.
Without ads a good talk show draws you into the conversation, it almost feels like you're sitting on the couch with them. Inserting the ads spoils the spell, ironically just as it starts to take hold. The show deteriorates into something like a series of disjointed youtube clips, the magic has been ruined. I return to the ABC and await the next brief period of TV entertainment that occurs between when a show is new, and when it's popular.
What if the business entity is in fact a group of business entities?
Somehow I never seemed to hear anyone complain about "Apple," though—probably because, despite being a dictionary word, it has nothing inherent to do with its subject matter.
Ever heard of Apple records?
Gas and solar isn't baseload, but coal is....
"Baseload" is defined as the lowest point on the demand curve over a fixed time period, it would be meaningful to this discussion if there was a city somewhere on this planet that had a flat demand curve. Such a city does not exist so "baseload" generators must store electricity in giant batteries called hydroelectric dams. When the batteries are still not enough to meet peak demands they have to fire up the gas turbines. There is absolutely no logical/technical reason why renewables cannot use the same infrastructure to match the supply and demand curves.
Agree, the title is misleading but so is every 20yr economic forecast I've ever seen.
what to do about it
Tax the fuckers at the same rate they did in the 1950's.
Yep. Microsoft's money comes from corporate licenses/partnerships, the programs you listed, plus exchange, msdn accounts. Since my mega-corp employer pays for a full msdn account for devs I can have all that stuff on my home pc too. Most large corporates do this and call it SOE (Standard Operating Environment). There are plenty of *nix variants and open source in the backroom, eg: KVM is popular right now. However a basic fact of business is that if you're a subcontractor/supplier to a mega-corp, you will need at least one of the major windows applications. That may or may not make sense, but as a small-med business owner you can't ignore it and stay in business.
What happens if you cut down the trees, waterlog them, band them in lead, and drop them in the Marianas trench?
Lead becomes a precious metal and we start strip mining the trench.
There simply is not enough land for the number of trees required, even if you covered every square inch of the planet in trees you still would not have half the number of trees you need.
The comments are worse than the articles.
I always found it odd that the dirtiest jobs pay the least money.
The original Luddites rejected cotton mills to protect an antiquated and inefficient industry, modern Luddites reject renewables and/or GMO's to protect equally antiquated and inefficient industries.
I'm in the 56 group, arcade Pong was also my first video game (circa 1970). I picked up PC gaming with Sopwith, Buck Rogers, Doom, etc.
My wife is in the same group, her first game was internet bridge, after a very long while I convinced here to try World of Tanks, she was hooked in the first hour.
If you're trying to remember the words you are doing it wrong, remember the story that gave you the words.
Today's understanding of the universe will probably be ridiculed in the future and get compared to when everyone accepted that the world was flat or that the Sun orbited the Earth.
The relativity of wrong - Issac Asimov's reply to that old canard.
There is no conclusion or hypothesis involved here, someone estimated the rate of the expansion of the universe, somebody else refined that estimate, that sort of experiment never ends since you can always look for ways to improve your measurement methods.. The FACT that the universe is expanding is not a hypothesis, it's an observation.
"bastion of freedom" - Oxymoron spotted.
Nice. They sound like the type of people who put the "lord" into landlord. These tin-pot dictators need to be reminded their business only exists because society tolerates it.
Disclaimer: I have nothing against landlords in general, in fact I used to be one and will become one again next year.
Isn't it more like they *disproved* the hypothesis....[snip]....As a non-mathematician - do I understand this correctly?
Yes and no, terms such as "proof" are often used in a casual way. Science doesn't offer proof or truth, it offers evidence. Maths doesn't have hypotheses, it has conjectures and truth. This is because Maths is an axiomatic system, the universe is not an axiomatic system therefore Science doesn't have axioms, it has assumptions. A properly formed mathematical conjecture (or statement) is "proven" by demonstrating it is true or false by the axioms of the system.
:)
Having said that, the conjecture was in indeed "disproven" by the discovery of a counter example.