Can someone convince me that in the absence of a specific invitation by the legitimate Syrian government, which is the case this time, this [US] action cannot be defined as aggression?
How do you know there was not an invitation?
Syria will not publicly invite the US; nor will the US publicly agree to help the Syrian government. But behind closed doors they work things out. Same as the drone strikes in Pakistan, protested by the government but they continue.
Here's a serious question. What is the point of launching a few people off into deep space if the Earth has been destroyed? It won't help the people left behind., and the Universe will get along just fine without humans.
Electric cars would work if you have a short commute and a garage where you can charge overnight/every night. But they won't work if the commute is too long or you don't have a convenient place to charge or you commute using public transportation. Plus you will need a second car or use rentals for pretty much anything besides the daily commute. That really limits the market.
But they didn't outright buy your company. They got an exclusive license on the product by promising to sell enough copies to make you rich. Then they released their own knockoff of the product (on which they didn't pay you any royalties) and you went out of business. Embrace - extend - extinguish.
That was the politically correct but baseless agenda pushed by some people. All real research over the years has shown that protecting their turf is an innate behavior, same as many other animals.
It makes sense, IMO - agriculture meant that this particular group became dominant and thus contributed disproportionately more to the gene pool in a relatively short time.
That's one possibility. Another is that raiding parties captured and raped their women. That worked pretty well for Genghis Khan.
Why populate those areas? If you don't want population control you will need to warehouse people as efficiently as possible.
Manufacturing can be done in highly concentrated locations (China is showing us how). Agriculture doesn't require very many people anymore, same with mining and forestry. Cities are the only way to deal with hoards of people.
Plus you're still just kicking the can down the road a few decades. Eleven billion? What happens when that doubles in another few decades, then doubles again? It can't go on forever.
Your own personal definition of beer is that it can only contain those ingredients. Other people have other definitions. Hops are a relatively recent addition to the recipe
If they have to word the claim to actually claim something innovative instead of just a way of implementing a solution to a requirement that anyone can come up with they're in trouble.
It's sugar, just absorbed faster because it's already fructose and glucose. Table sugar (sucrose) has to be digested to break it down into fructose and glucose.
It would work intermittently, like wind and solar, so you still need a full size backup generator. Then you have to wonder if the double cost is worth it.
75% of the subjects had S. aureus in their sinuses, 51% had non-livestock associated penicillin resistant SA (MRSA), 46% had livestock associated MRSA. But the sample size is so small (22 people) the study doesn't prove much beyond the fact that once colonized by S. aureus you tend to stay colonized.
Asimov's "Law" is just a story by a fiction writer. In the real world we already have robots that counter threats (electronic countermeasures, anti-missile defenses, etc). There's no ethics involved, just a working algorithm.
Stuff that's made in China and sold at Walmart would be taxed differently? I'll believe it when I see Chinese manufacturers paying the US 35% tax rate.
There are any number of non-technical jobs for non-technical people. Market research, sales, maybe project management, etc. But in general you hire accountants to do accounting, lawyers for legal services, and techs for technical work.
Bottom line though, is that people who write columns for places like Fast Company and Dice have to write something, so they make stuff up.
The RFP has to state what the contract award will be based on. It can't say "We require this, but if you toss in other stuff we didn't think of we'll give you extra points".
They can reject a bid when they think the bidder didn't understand what they were proposing ("A rocket to the Moon? Sure we can have that to you next week").
They'll also assume the incumbent is lower risk, especially if the other bidder is a newcomer with no track record ("Better with the Devil you know than the Devil you don't know").
investors had been scared away by the idea that working with government might be a tortuous slog, but Bouganim says that he saw that behind that red tape lay a market that could be worth in the neighborhood of $500 billion a year...he's motivated in part by the desire to help make sure that that governments in his adopted country are using the best, most appropriate technologies they can as they go about serving their citizens. "And what better way to have an impact," he says, "than capitalism?"
In other words, he wants to invest in companies that sell technology to the government. Seems reasonable, but certainly not revolutionary.
Science fiction writers make up all kinds of stuff and expect their readers to suspend reality, that's the way the game is played. But to make real progress in science or engineering your ideas and decisions have to be based on reality.
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Can someone convince me that in the absence of a specific invitation by the legitimate Syrian government, which is the case this time, this [US] action cannot be defined as aggression?
How do you know there was not an invitation?
Syria will not publicly invite the US; nor will the US publicly agree to help the Syrian government. But behind closed doors they work things out. Same as the drone strikes in Pakistan, protested by the government but they continue.
If they're trying for a geocentric orbit around Mars they're going to have problems. I suspect an areocentric orbit is the goal.
Here's a serious question. What is the point of launching a few people off into deep space if the Earth has been destroyed? It won't help the people left behind., and the Universe will get along just fine without humans.
As far as he knows, his program is secure.
Electric cars would work if you have a short commute and a garage where you can charge overnight/every night. But they won't work if the commute is too long or you don't have a convenient place to charge or you commute using public transportation. Plus you will need a second car or use rentals for pretty much anything besides the daily commute. That really limits the market.
Someone didn't do their job.
But it really isn't a surprise those responsible are now in CYA and finger pointing mode.
But they didn't outright buy your company. They got an exclusive license on the product by promising to sell enough copies to make you rich. Then they released their own knockoff of the product (on which they didn't pay you any royalties) and you went out of business. Embrace - extend - extinguish.
That was the politically correct but baseless agenda pushed by some people. All real research over the years has shown that protecting their turf is an innate behavior, same as many other animals.
That happened once during Christmas. But most of the time they fired machine guns at each other.
It makes sense, IMO - agriculture meant that this particular group became dominant and thus contributed disproportionately more to the gene pool in a relatively short time.
That's one possibility. Another is that raiding parties captured and raped their women. That worked pretty well for Genghis Khan.
Why populate those areas? If you don't want population control you will need to warehouse people as efficiently as possible.
Manufacturing can be done in highly concentrated locations (China is showing us how). Agriculture doesn't require very many people anymore, same with mining and forestry. Cities are the only way to deal with hoards of people.
Plus you're still just kicking the can down the road a few decades. Eleven billion? What happens when that doubles in another few decades, then doubles again? It can't go on forever.
Your own personal definition of beer is that it can only contain those ingredients. Other people have other definitions. Hops are a relatively recent addition to the recipe
If they have to word the claim to actually claim something innovative instead of just a way of implementing a solution to a requirement that anyone can come up with they're in trouble.
It's sugar, just absorbed faster because it's already fructose and glucose. Table sugar (sucrose) has to be digested to break it down into fructose and glucose.
Same with car rental rates. You will usually see a huge "entertainment tax" as part of the price in cities.
Urban USA has similar speeds. We're talking about service in rural areas.
It would work intermittently, like wind and solar, so you still need a full size backup generator. Then you have to wonder if the double cost is worth it.
75% of the subjects had S. aureus in their sinuses, 51% had non-livestock associated penicillin resistant SA (MRSA), 46% had livestock associated MRSA. But the sample size is so small (22 people) the study doesn't prove much beyond the fact that once colonized by S. aureus you tend to stay colonized.
Asimov's "Law" is just a story by a fiction writer. In the real world we already have robots that counter threats (electronic countermeasures, anti-missile defenses, etc). There's no ethics involved, just a working algorithm.
Stuff that's made in China and sold at Walmart would be taxed differently? I'll believe it when I see Chinese manufacturers paying the US 35% tax rate.
You don't buy anything from companies that advertise on Google?
There are any number of non-technical jobs for non-technical people. Market research, sales, maybe project management, etc. But in general you hire accountants to do accounting, lawyers for legal services, and techs for technical work.
Bottom line though, is that people who write columns for places like Fast Company and Dice have to write something, so they make stuff up.
The RFP has to state what the contract award will be based on. It can't say "We require this, but if you toss in other stuff we didn't think of we'll give you extra points".
They can reject a bid when they think the bidder didn't understand what they were proposing ("A rocket to the Moon? Sure we can have that to you next week").
They'll also assume the incumbent is lower risk, especially if the other bidder is a newcomer with no track record ("Better with the Devil you know than the Devil you don't know").
investors had been scared away by the idea that working with government might be a tortuous slog, but Bouganim says that he saw that behind that red tape lay a market that could be worth in the neighborhood of $500 billion a year...he's motivated in part by the desire to help make sure that that governments in his adopted country are using the best, most appropriate technologies they can as they go about serving their citizens. "And what better way to have an impact," he says, "than capitalism?"
In other words, he wants to invest in companies that sell technology to the government. Seems reasonable, but certainly not revolutionary.
Science fiction writers make up all kinds of stuff and expect their readers to suspend reality, that's the way the game is played. But to make real progress in science or engineering your ideas and decisions have to be based on reality.