premise that evolution had an objective goal, and that we could inpret that goal and hasten things along through selective breeding of humans.
You have it backwards. Evolution favors the "fittest" - In our society that means the people who have the most children: e.g. the uneducated, the religious conservatives. Eugenics is about using selective breeding to fight against evolution. But not in the way you might think. People are not farm animals. Eugenics just means providing the right economic incentives, for example free childcare for working parents. Encourage good parents to have more children, and troubled young people to delay parenthood until they get their crap together. Provide better employment opportunities for young women, so a single mothers benefit looks less attractive as a means of support. It certainly does not need some panel deciding who may or may not have children.
The 80%: "oh, you mean that thingamajig my friend / neighbour / youtube-video-instructions did to my internet connection so I could watch US-Netflix / pirate movies / porn ?"
Is this a peculiarly American problem? I don't think I've ever had a robo-call in my life in Australia, unless you count the ones that connect you to a call-centre operator a second or two after you answer. SMS spam, yes. Plenty of charities begging, some sales calls that got past the "do not call" register, and the occasional overseas scam call. But always human, never a recording.
Do any counties other than the US - oh, and presumably Canada, have this problem?
That's truly awful, but I'm talking about tourists. And outside of minority inner-city gangs, the homicide rate in the US is not much worse than other developed countries. Gun violence is something that tourists should be aware of in places like Orlando or New Orleans, but the traffic and smog in China are bigger killers. Take precautions, and enjoy your vacation.
Also the chances of getting shot at while taking in the views are next to zero in china compared to the USA.
Chances of getting shot in the US are similar to getting eaten by a shark in Australia. remote. You should be much more worried about getting killed on the road, especially in 3rd world countries, including China.
Why not just xray all competitors bikes airport style?
Because its too late to look for drugs, and there are much easier ways to find motors. A metal detector or magnetic sensor (such as in smartphones) will do the job. And thermal cameras can do it quickly from a distance. If you see an anomaly, you put an endoscope camera down the tubes.
That works until the cheats get a ceramic compressed-air powered motor in there.
How does the exercising of this power represent the "circumventing" of the law when our most supreme law specifically grants him this power?
It violates a basic principle of modern democracy, the separation of powers - Legislative, Executive, and Judicial . In the US, the president inherited the power of Veto and Pardon from the King. Royal pardon in the UK is now very rarely used. It would go against the Rule of Law.
This is a bit like setting booby traps in your home to nail burglars:
Two big differences: booby traps often get unintended targets. the drones or gas here would happen only after a human verifies they are real pirates on board, and not just stowaways. Secondly, the law for piracy on the high seas has always been very different to burglary. You don't hang burglars. But lethal force against pirates is fine by me. Its not like you can sent the village constable around to question them.
There are plenty of jokes about RS232, but Apple was even more non-standard with ADB and its predecessor. USB solved the problem eventually. Also got rid of the 3.5" floppies that could not be read on non-Apple floppy drives and vice versa. Apple even had their own network protocol, before adopting TCP/IP. The company changed a lot when Jobs returned.
Its not the money. Apple is sticking with their history. Trying to play "what would Steve do?". Was it the first iMac ? Apple removed the non-standard serial ports, and the non-standard floppy drive. All replaced with standard USB ports. ADB was good riddance, but floppy sorely missed as USB flash drives were still expensive. Apple did it anyway. They wanted to stand out. Removing the optical drive from laptops is a no-brainer due to weight. Ethernet was not removed before fast wifi was ubiquitous.
Replacing the 3.5mm socket with a non-standard port is more of a worry. Will mean multiple cables and dongles needed for many years. Not a huge problem, but not much of a benefit either. Unlike RS232, the 3.5mm audio socket "just works". There is good reason why it has outlived all those other ports. And Apple, please stop obsessively making devices thinner until the engineers have improved battery life dramatically.
but other family members who have them say they're actually quite expensive to feed,
Are they unfamiliar with the "chicken feed" idiom? The feed is cheap by the 20kg sacks. Chickens are efficient in converting feed to eggs. But factory eggs are so cheap, the dollar savings are small compared to the effort and other benefits.
Outside the cities, much of the country is dirt poor. If the government will not allow aid distribution, Gates should do a covert air-drop to impoverished villages. However, to reduce the environmental risks of yet another introduced species escaping and going feral, a native American fowl could be dropped instead. I suggest turkeys.
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premise that evolution had an objective goal, and that we could inpret that goal and hasten things along through selective breeding of humans.
You have it backwards. Evolution favors the "fittest" - In our society that means the people who have the most children: e.g. the uneducated, the religious conservatives.
Eugenics is about using selective breeding to fight against evolution. But not in the way you might think. People are not farm animals.
Eugenics just means providing the right economic incentives, for example free childcare for working parents. Encourage good parents to have more children, and troubled young people to delay parenthood until they get their crap together.
Provide better employment opportunities for young women, so a single mothers benefit looks less attractive as a means of support.
It certainly does not need some panel deciding who may or may not have children.
Yes.
The other 99%: "what's a proxy?"
The 80%: "oh, you mean that thingamajig my friend / neighbour / youtube-video-instructions did to my internet connection so I could watch US-Netflix / pirate movies / porn ?"
Really ? All that inter-species sex in TOS, and they are worried about a gay character? Or even an inter-racial kiss?
The church tries to attract people by offering free wifi? What next?
If offering free bread and booze every Sunday did not work, I don't know what will.
Is this a peculiarly American problem? I don't think I've ever had a robo-call in my life in Australia, unless you count the ones that connect you to a call-centre operator a second or two after you answer. SMS spam, yes. Plenty of charities begging, some sales calls that got past the "do not call" register, and the occasional overseas scam call. But always human, never a recording.
Do any counties other than the US - oh, and presumably Canada, have this problem?
Brisbane seceded. Did you not hear about the BREXIT ?
And the surviving dinosaurs are definitely warm blooded.
Decimated means to kill 1 in 10. What words mean is important.
What a travesty! Ironically, it begs the question, why are we disinterested?
I got accused of having a low ID once because its "only" six digits. It made me feel old. How do you guys feel?
Annual number of gun deaths is us = ~12,000
That's truly awful, but I'm talking about tourists. And outside of minority inner-city gangs, the homicide rate in the US is not much worse than other developed countries. Gun violence is something that tourists should be aware of in places like Orlando or New Orleans, but the traffic and smog in China are bigger killers.
Take precautions, and enjoy your vacation.
Also the chances of getting shot at while taking in the views are next to zero in china compared to the USA.
Chances of getting shot in the US are similar to getting eaten by a shark in Australia. remote.
You should be much more worried about getting killed on the road, especially in 3rd world countries, including China.
Has any other sport ever been associated so much with cheating as cycling? It really is getting ridiculous.
Plenty of sports have endemic drug-use, though they don't make as much noise about being clean, and maybe its not cheating if everyone does it.
Why not just xray all competitors bikes airport style?
Because its too late to look for drugs, and there are much easier ways to find motors.
A metal detector or magnetic sensor (such as in smartphones) will do the job.
And thermal cameras can do it quickly from a distance.
If you see an anomaly, you put an endoscope camera down the tubes.
That works until the cheats get a ceramic compressed-air powered motor in there.
We have someone running for (and leading) president who did worse than what Nixon resigned over.
Just the one?
How does the exercising of this power represent the "circumventing" of the law when our most supreme law specifically grants him this power?
It violates a basic principle of modern democracy, the separation of powers - Legislative, Executive, and Judicial .
In the US, the president inherited the power of Veto and Pardon from the King. Royal pardon in the UK is now very rarely used. It would go against the Rule of Law.
This is a bit like setting booby traps in your home to nail burglars:
Two big differences: booby traps often get unintended targets. the drones or gas here would happen only after a human verifies they are real pirates on board, and not just stowaways. Secondly, the law for piracy on the high seas has always been very different to burglary. You don't hang burglars. But lethal force against pirates is fine by me. Its not like you can sent the village constable around to question them.
It's a freaking space relay when finished it will fire a beam of energy into space to carry Jobs essence back to his homeworld.
So a giant plasma beam aimed at Syria? Maybe not such a bad idea.
I reckon Scotland will be leaving the UK soon and might join the EU as a sovereign state later on.
They may wish to, but other EU members would veto any attempt, as it would create a precedent for their own secessionist groups, e.g. the Basque.
"non-standard serial ports"
That's a joke right?
There are plenty of jokes about RS232, but Apple was even more non-standard with ADB and its predecessor.
USB solved the problem eventually. Also got rid of the 3.5" floppies that could not be read on non-Apple floppy drives and vice versa.
Apple even had their own network protocol, before adopting TCP/IP. The company changed a lot when Jobs returned.
Its not the money. Apple is sticking with their history. Trying to play "what would Steve do?".
Was it the first iMac ? Apple removed the non-standard serial ports, and the non-standard floppy drive. All replaced with standard USB ports.
ADB was good riddance, but floppy sorely missed as USB flash drives were still expensive. Apple did it anyway. They wanted to stand out.
Removing the optical drive from laptops is a no-brainer due to weight. Ethernet was not removed before fast wifi was ubiquitous.
Replacing the 3.5mm socket with a non-standard port is more of a worry. Will mean multiple cables and dongles needed for many years.
Not a huge problem, but not much of a benefit either. Unlike RS232, the 3.5mm audio socket "just works". There is good reason why it has outlived all those other ports.
And Apple, please stop obsessively making devices thinner until the engineers have improved battery life dramatically.
but other family members who have them say they're actually quite expensive to feed,
Are they unfamiliar with the "chicken feed" idiom? The feed is cheap by the 20kg sacks. Chickens are efficient in converting feed to eggs.
But factory eggs are so cheap, the dollar savings are small compared to the effort and other benefits.
Outside the cities, much of the country is dirt poor. If the government will not allow aid distribution, Gates should do a covert air-drop to impoverished villages.
However, to reduce the environmental risks of yet another introduced species escaping and going feral, a native American fowl could be dropped instead. I suggest turkeys.
USA and American Samoa.
in Belgium. We have three official languages.
Dutch, French, and ? ... Arabic?
Have you been to the Southern border? I'm guessing not.
Yes, seen fenced sections, and even swum across the unguarded creek that is the Rio Grande. Don't worry: Drumpf will build the giant ice wall.