And I'm giving up vacations, cars, and retirement savings to do that,
Here in Australia, I did the maths and find it better to spend the extra money buying (or renting) a house in the area of a good public school, than to pay fees for private schools. Hopefully I still can still get it all back for retirement by selling the house, if the market doesn't crash. Does that approach work in the US?
Please do tell. How many deaths from uranium mining? Preferably for power, not weapons, and not from the days before nuclear power existed.
To be fair, open-cut mining of coal is relatively safe. But as it must be on a far greater scale than uranium mining, it is still far more dangerous per unit of energy produced.
Germany could easily phase out Nuclear power in the next decade without much problems.
Unless you consider tens of megatons of increased carbon emissions per annum a problem. Or coal-mining accidents. A single accident in 1962 in Saarland caused more deaths than the entire global history of Nuclear Power.
Half a million no-connection tones? If it is anything like some US or Australian Networks, subscriber numbers don't mean they have a network capable of serving that many people.
I wonder when a Formula 1 championship will be organized for electric cars only
They'd have to eliminate the battery weight to get best speed. Maybe run live rails along the track surface. And some sort of groove between the rails to guide the cars so they stay in contact with the power rails. It could work.
Since 2003. They really did not publicise that in the US? It means Osama won, sadly. Sure, the Arabs are mostly still in poverty, under oppressive regimes supported by the US, but he achieved his goal.
Collateral damage and intentionally targeting civilians are definitely not the same thing.
No, but when the US chose to invade Iraq (on a trumped-up excuse) it knew it would kill thousands of civilians, and has killed far more indirectly. I'm not sure the survivors and wounded appreciate the subtle distinction.
How much gas tax (per gallon) would be needed to cover highway maintenance, two wars, pollution, climate change, oil spills, and terrorist attacks that come from oil dependency?
Exactly how do you plan on powering electric long distance OTR semi-tractors?
Overhead wires on the main highways, and batteries for start & end of journey. Overhead wires worked fine for the trolley-buses before GM bought and destroyed them. Or more sensibly for non-perishables, truck drops container at rail depot, another collects it close to destination. The current system would be wonderful if we had an infinite supply of cheap oil, and no greenhouse problems, but we don't.
I'm talking about contorted words from the media & politicians etc. e.g. the terrorists always "hate" the US, when "angry" might be a more accurate word. You can fault Osama's ethics, but not his logic. 9/11 got the US out of Saudi, and into Afghanistan where they are heading for the same financial fate as the Soviet Union. Osama succeeded beyond his dreams. That would justify the civilian casualties to them. Collateral Damage, as the Americans say.
I don't really see the point of a show trial in this case.... done everything he could to kill as many as possible,
Agreed a show trial would be pointless, but you are swallowing the propaganda a bit there. Osama had concrete aims, such as expelling US troops from Saudi Arabia. He was callous to the deaths, but hardly killing for its own sake. If body count was all that mattered, they could have killed far, far more.
You also hear how they "want to destroy America". What nonsense, as if Osama could have been so deluded.
They aren't competent to do what they are doing, and we're not safe as long as they are making these mistakes.
That is why Wkileaks works with mainstream media before releasing to the general public. Oh... you were referring to the organisations that authored the documents?
That is confusing. Here we have 3G UTMS which uses CDMA technology, compared to 2G GSM which was TDMA, hence the annoying interference with radios. Parent probably means CDMA2000, which is just one implementation.
This one feature has saved me hundreds of dollars on hotel rip-off WiFi prices.
You never thought of using your phone as a Bluetooth or USB modem before? (or IrDA or RS232 before that.) Wifi is nice in that you can share it more easily.
I don't think he was trying to be funny. For a long time I've known that IQ "is the thing that IQ tests measure". Nothing more, nothing less.
It sounds as if you are saying IQ has no predictive value to any other measurable outcomes or attributes, but that is clearly not the case. You might say that IQ is defined as measurable aspects of intelligence, or even measurable abilities that correlate with one another, and are relatively fixed over time.
Newton had no idea what mass was or how gravity worked, but he could measure it and make accurate predictions from it. Would you have scoffed at him and said "scales measure mass and no more or less"?
Care to indicate a case where a US citizen has been denied his right to trial by jury,
Every day it happens. In the US, plea-bargaining has taken that right by making it very expensive. Even people convinced of their own innocence are intimidated into a plea bargain. The "right to a speedy trial" has become something of a joke too. The mere threat of remand until trial is often enough to get a guilty plea, even when the evidence does not stand up.
doing well at most IQ tests is skewed by being familiar with Western standardised testing
And yet NE Asians (China, Japan, Korea) score highly, even from an early age before exposure to other testing. The "cultural bias" claim has little merit.
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And I'm giving up vacations, cars, and retirement savings to do that,
Here in Australia, I did the maths and find it better to spend the extra money buying (or renting) a house in the area of a good public school, than to pay fees for private schools. Hopefully I still can still get it all back for retirement by selling the house, if the market doesn't crash.
Does that approach work in the US?
This looks like a conversation the poster made up to be funny.
A paraphrasing of a classic movie scene.
See http://www.google.com/search?q=spinal+tap+eleven
Isn't it a bit soon? We've been waiting 23 years for version 12 of X windows.
These made up conversations are never funny.
Sorry ... what is the reference there?
But beer is not free-as-in-freedom either in Palestine. Unless you mean alcohol-free beer. Or find a Christian village.
Please do tell. How many deaths from uranium mining?
Preferably for power, not weapons, and not from the days before nuclear power existed.
To be fair, open-cut mining of coal is relatively safe. But as it must be on a far greater scale than uranium mining, it is still far more dangerous per unit of energy produced.
Germany could easily phase out Nuclear power in the next
decade without much problems.
Unless you consider tens of megatons of increased carbon emissions per annum a problem.
Or coal-mining accidents. A single accident in 1962 in Saarland caused more deaths than the entire global history of Nuclear Power.
But Germany will solve these problems in similar head-in-the-sand fashion by closing its remaining underground coal mines:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,463172,00.html
They will do just what the anti-nuclear Germans have done: buy electricity from countries like France. Just don't ask how they generated it.
Half a million no-connection tones?
If it is anything like some US or Australian Networks, subscriber numbers don't mean they have a network capable of serving that many people.
(I'm looking at you, Vodafone.)
I wonder when a Formula 1 championship will be organized for electric cars only
They'd have to eliminate the battery weight to get best speed. Maybe run live rails along the track surface.
And some sort of groove between the rails to guide the cars so they stay in contact with the power rails. It could work.
Since when are we out of Saudi?
Since 2003. They really did not publicise that in the US? It means Osama won, sadly.
Sure, the Arabs are mostly still in poverty, under oppressive regimes supported by the US, but he achieved his goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_withdrawal_from_Saudi_Arabia
Collateral damage and intentionally targeting civilians are definitely not the same thing.
No, but when the US chose to invade Iraq (on a trumped-up excuse) it knew it would kill thousands of civilians, and has killed far more indirectly. I'm not sure the survivors and wounded appreciate the subtle distinction.
How much gas tax (per gallon) would be needed to cover highway maintenance, two wars, pollution, climate change, oil spills, and terrorist attacks that come from oil dependency?
Exactly how do you plan on powering electric long distance OTR semi-tractors?
Overhead wires on the main highways, and batteries for start & end of journey. Overhead wires worked fine for the trolley-buses before GM bought and destroyed them.
Or more sensibly for non-perishables, truck drops container at rail depot, another collects it close to destination.
The current system would be wonderful if we had an infinite supply of cheap oil, and no greenhouse problems, but we don't.
I'm talking about contorted words from the media & politicians etc.
e.g. the terrorists always "hate" the US, when "angry" might be a more accurate word.
You can fault Osama's ethics, but not his logic. 9/11 got the US out of Saudi, and into Afghanistan where they are heading for the same financial fate as the Soviet Union. Osama succeeded beyond his dreams. That would justify the civilian casualties to them. Collateral Damage, as the Americans say.
Anyway, congratulations on catching the bastard!
I don't really see the point of a show trial in this case. ... done everything he could to kill as many as possible,
Agreed a show trial would be pointless, but you are swallowing the propaganda a bit there. Osama had concrete aims, such as expelling US troops from Saudi Arabia. He was callous to the deaths, but hardly killing for its own sake. If body count was all that mattered, they could have killed far, far more.
You also hear how they "want to destroy America". What nonsense, as if Osama could have been so deluded.
They aren't competent to do what they are doing, and we're not safe as long as they are making these mistakes.
That is why Wkileaks works with mainstream media before releasing to the general public. ... you were referring to the organisations that authored the documents?
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CDMA phones don't use sim cards.
That is confusing. Here we have 3G UTMS which uses CDMA technology, compared to 2G GSM which was TDMA, hence the annoying interference with radios.
Parent probably means CDMA2000, which is just one implementation.
This one feature has saved me hundreds of dollars on hotel rip-off WiFi prices.
You never thought of using your phone as a Bluetooth or USB modem before? (or IrDA or RS232 before that.)
Wifi is nice in that you can share it more easily.
an offense for you to collect your own rain and water your garden with it.
Please tell me you are talking about damming a creek on your farm, not collecting runoff from the house gutters.
The official line from Fox News is that there's a new Cold War brewing
The official line from Fox is we have always had a cold war with Eastasia.
or they could just be trying to increase clicks and ad-revenue by inserting iSomething into every tech article, no matter how remotely (ir)relevant.
I don't think he was trying to be funny. For a long time I've known that IQ "is the thing that IQ tests measure". Nothing more, nothing less.
It sounds as if you are saying IQ has no predictive value to any other measurable outcomes or attributes, but that is clearly not the case.
You might say that IQ is defined as measurable aspects of intelligence, or even measurable abilities that correlate with one another, and are relatively fixed over time.
Newton had no idea what mass was or how gravity worked, but he could measure it and make accurate predictions from it. Would you have scoffed at him and said "scales measure mass and no more or less"?
Care to indicate a case where a US citizen has been denied his right to trial by jury,
Every day it happens. In the US, plea-bargaining has taken that right by making it very expensive. Even people convinced of their own innocence are intimidated into a plea bargain. The "right to a speedy trial" has become something of a joke too. The mere threat of remand until trial is often enough to get a guilty plea, even when the evidence does not stand up.
Afghanistan. A country so amazingly primitive, they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
doing well at most IQ tests is skewed by being familiar with Western standardised testing
And yet NE Asians (China, Japan, Korea) score highly, even from an early age before exposure to other testing. The "cultural bias" claim has little merit.