If you seriously wanted citations, you wouldn't be a Wikidick about it. It's like running into a room with a dead goat under your arm and asking for directions. This isn't Wikipedia, and Wikipedian asshattery isn't going to get you into the Cabal, because there isn't one on/..
CO2 is a lagging indicator of global warming, not a catalyst for it. It takes 300 - 1,200 years for CO2 concentrations to rise after an increase in global temperature. This is a scientifically intriguing discovery, but it's more likely of interest to human spaceflight, not saving the world.
In 2007, the average US single family home was 2,330 square feet. It would be nice to see a home of the future that isn't of a size current day mansion. I'd love a huge house, but realistically, very few of us can truly afford one.
What happens to the status of the number when someone discontinues usage of the telephone number, say by moving or canceling your service and moving to VoIP? IF the number is then at some point reassigned to another person, does that number remain on the Do-Not-Call list? If it does, is that legitimate, as an individual can only vouch for their own phone numbers, and not that of a third-party?
Explains why people feel "lost" or like "something is missing" without their cell phone, laptop, what have you. I feel slightly off if I'm out, and I don't have my PDA and cell; yes, I still don't have a smartphone.
"Still, many enterprise-class Wi-Fi vendors claim to deliver full 802.11n capabilities without enterprise customers having to touch their power infrastructures. So what gives?"
Unless you're running at near maximum electrical load, a few extra watts is not going to set transformers afire and melt power lines. If you were in Cuba, with its infamously collapsing electrical grid, I could see this happening, but there are no enterprises in Cuba to begin with, so it's not a relevant scenario.
It also might help that most enterprises' employees are at their desks, not wandering around on the WiFi network.
"Or, more precisely, if we all wanted to do science, then since the world needs only a few Merlins per 1000 ordinary knights of the Round Table, most of us would be doomed to a lifetime of unhappiness.
Don't be too proud of your occupation, science is not some magical field that only a select few can understand and apply, and very few, if any, scientists are actually indispensable.
"We should expect a student to test poorly in all fields except the one or two where he's destined to excel..."
Well, if you've taught science, maybe you can explain why we should expect a majority to do worse than average? I may not be a masochist, but I'm fairly certain that's an unlikely proposition. Once upon a time, we at least would pretend that a well rounded individual was the proper goal of the liberal arts...
What cash? Our banking system is insolvent, and we have petro-tyrannies bailing out our major banking firms. We're about to enter a serious recession, and all the Federal government can think of is to come up with "stimulus" packages that empirically do nothing positive, and are probably harmful.
"It may well be evidence that in the United States the best are better able to rise to the top, to find their natural level of achievement, whereas in other places considerations of social class, restrictive groupthink education, or cultural barriers to personal ambition and radical innovation tend to keep the best from ever showing their stuff and emerging above the sea of average folk."
It appears that you're supporting my conclusion with supplementary speculative evidence from a slightly different angle.
China is a rapidly growing competitor in research, are new "freedoms" there responsible for this? The USSR had a massive research infrastructure, was that due to freedom of any kind beyond the government having the idea that technological advancement is a good thing?
This doesn't invalidate my statement. I never said that other nations couldn't increase their output of R&D, only that ours are conceivably more productive per researcher. The USSR wasn't exactly on the forefront of technological innovation. As you may recall, they had to steal our stuff, make copies, and slap their own badges on it.
"As for your second statement, centralization isn't the issue with education, the fact that a huge number of highschool students are coming out of american schools largely uneducated is."
You're missing the positive correlation between centralization and a decline in the quality of the output; in this case, students.
Captain America isn't exactly an icon that an anti-statist would use to support their arguments. Wrong side.
"For example, US schools continue to lag behind internationally in science and math education. On the other hand, the US is the largest, single, R&D-performing nation in the world pumping some $340 billion into future-related technologies. The US also leads the world in patent development."
Perhaps our freedoms, which while not spectacular, vastly outclass the rest of the world, allow our best and brightest to vastly outperform the best and brightest of more nations? If this is the case, the last thing we would want is to further centralize education into a mighty fist of the State.
Well, yes, ok, we're insolvent and bankrupt, but we're still reproducing, and demographics are destiny. Solution: end the Federal Reserve. Likely "solution" attempted: more inflation and empirically failed "stimulus" packages.
I didn't realize the US was somehow responsible for Europeans failing to reproduce, and voluntarily inundating themselves with those hostile to both the indigenous peoples, and their culture. Perhaps your mindset is telling of the self-emasculation that leads to such problems?
I live in the United States, and I realize that compound inflation rather deflates the return of compound interest. Or any return on savings, for that matter. If you really want to get a grip on real inflation, dig around for the estimated monetary inflation rate of the M3. The Fed conveniently decided to stop publishing that a few years ago, just before they started going nuts with it.
According to the Federal Reserve's quite conservative figures, a 2007 dollar is only worth.47 cents in 1982 dollars. If we took 53% of everything you had right this moment, all at once, would you feel anything? If you're implying that a subjective increase in the price points of food, fuel and general services is inflation, no, you don't know what it is.
Beginning of an inflation cycle? Did you miss the explosion of the M3? The fact that the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value since 1913, or that it's been well more than halved since 1982? Do you even know what inflation is?
Old timers bankrupt the company, and never get their pensions, or if they get them, get them at greatly reduced rates, and they have to suck at the teat of government via the PBGC, eating up tax dollars to make up for their greed and stupidity. Kids get 401(k)s, which they own, and can invest it, and by providing capital, allow publicly traded companies to expand and create additional jobs, without adding to the crushing tax burden upon the minority productive class. Which is better to you?
Next thing you know, they'll be asking your place and nature of employment when opening financial accounts, trying to monitor all communications, and placing incompetent Gestapo in the airports.
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If you seriously wanted citations, you wouldn't be a Wikidick about it. It's like running into a room with a dead goat under your arm and asking for directions. This isn't Wikipedia, and Wikipedian asshattery isn't going to get you into the Cabal, because there isn't one on /..
CO2 is a lagging indicator of global warming, not a catalyst for it. It takes 300 - 1,200 years for CO2 concentrations to rise after an increase in global temperature. This is a scientifically intriguing discovery, but it's more likely of interest to human spaceflight, not saving the world.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5525283 is the closest I can find offhand. New single family homes in 1950 were an average of 983 square feet, while in 1970 they were an average of 1,500 square feet.
In 2007, the average US single family home was 2,330 square feet. It would be nice to see a home of the future that isn't of a size current day mansion. I'd love a huge house, but realistically, very few of us can truly afford one.
What happens to the status of the number when someone discontinues usage of the telephone number, say by moving or canceling your service and moving to VoIP? IF the number is then at some point reassigned to another person, does that number remain on the Do-Not-Call list? If it does, is that legitimate, as an individual can only vouch for their own phone numbers, and not that of a third-party?
Nonsense. It is: Me>everyone else.
They aren't going to be cooking eye watering curry in cramped space vehicles and stations, are they?
Explains why people feel "lost" or like "something is missing" without their cell phone, laptop, what have you. I feel slightly off if I'm out, and I don't have my PDA and cell; yes, I still don't have a smartphone.
...can you remove it from your bookshelf without sending all of the other books aflame, and causing the shelf itself to collapse into shavings?
Unless you're running at near maximum electrical load, a few extra watts is not going to set transformers afire and melt power lines. If you were in Cuba, with its infamously collapsing electrical grid, I could see this happening, but there are no enterprises in Cuba to begin with, so it's not a relevant scenario.
It also might help that most enterprises' employees are at their desks, not wandering around on the WiFi network.
Don't be too proud of your occupation, science is not some magical field that only a select few can understand and apply, and very few, if any, scientists are actually indispensable.
"We should expect a student to test poorly in all fields except the one or two where he's destined to excel..."
Well, if you've taught science, maybe you can explain why we should expect a majority to do worse than average? I may not be a masochist, but I'm fairly certain that's an unlikely proposition. Once upon a time, we at least would pretend that a well rounded individual was the proper goal of the liberal arts...
What cash? Our banking system is insolvent, and we have petro-tyrannies bailing out our major banking firms. We're about to enter a serious recession, and all the Federal government can think of is to come up with "stimulus" packages that empirically do nothing positive, and are probably harmful.
It appears that you're supporting my conclusion with supplementary speculative evidence from a slightly different angle.
This doesn't invalidate my statement. I never said that other nations couldn't increase their output of R&D, only that ours are conceivably more productive per researcher. The USSR wasn't exactly on the forefront of technological innovation. As you may recall, they had to steal our stuff, make copies, and slap their own badges on it.
"As for your second statement, centralization isn't the issue with education, the fact that a huge number of highschool students are coming out of american schools largely uneducated is."
You're missing the positive correlation between centralization and a decline in the quality of the output; in this case, students.
Captain America isn't exactly an icon that an anti-statist would use to support their arguments. Wrong side.
Not enough; I want a cricket phaser.
Perhaps our freedoms, which while not spectacular, vastly outclass the rest of the world, allow our best and brightest to vastly outperform the best and brightest of more nations? If this is the case, the last thing we would want is to further centralize education into a mighty fist of the State.
Well, yes, ok, we're insolvent and bankrupt, but we're still reproducing, and demographics are destiny. Solution: end the Federal Reserve. Likely "solution" attempted: more inflation and empirically failed "stimulus" packages.
I didn't realize the US was somehow responsible for Europeans failing to reproduce, and voluntarily inundating themselves with those hostile to both the indigenous peoples, and their culture. Perhaps your mindset is telling of the self-emasculation that leads to such problems?
At least the US isn't willfully self-destructing like Europe...yet...
I live in the United States, and I realize that compound inflation rather deflates the return of compound interest. Or any return on savings, for that matter. If you really want to get a grip on real inflation, dig around for the estimated monetary inflation rate of the M3. The Fed conveniently decided to stop publishing that a few years ago, just before they started going nuts with it.
According to the Federal Reserve's quite conservative figures, a 2007 dollar is only worth .47 cents in 1982 dollars. If we took 53% of everything you had right this moment, all at once, would you feel anything? If you're implying that a subjective increase in the price points of food, fuel and general services is inflation, no, you don't know what it is.
Beginning of an inflation cycle? Did you miss the explosion of the M3? The fact that the dollar has lost more than 96% of its value since 1913, or that it's been well more than halved since 1982? Do you even know what inflation is?
Old timers bankrupt the company, and never get their pensions, or if they get them, get them at greatly reduced rates, and they have to suck at the teat of government via the PBGC, eating up tax dollars to make up for their greed and stupidity. Kids get 401(k)s, which they own, and can invest it, and by providing capital, allow publicly traded companies to expand and create additional jobs, without adding to the crushing tax burden upon the minority productive class. Which is better to you?
Only Canada. All the people were eaten by the polar bears. So if you're dealing with a Canadian, remember, it's not a human. It's a bear.
Next thing you know, they'll be asking your place and nature of employment when opening financial accounts, trying to monitor all communications, and placing incompetent Gestapo in the airports.