IIRC the porn industry is pro xxx because it makes their sites easier to find. The arguments above seem to believe that these porn sites would rather fly below the radar or somehow remain not attached to the porn industry or otherwise obfuscated. From observing the current porn industry in non web based application (like video stores and magazines) there is very little trouble . . . the back room of the video shop, the store without windows, the magazines with opaque plastic hiding the covers, etc. Sure there are some problems, but current laws and arbitration handle these outliers. The only difference is that a web site is not regional, so these occasional battles would happen at a different level of jurisdiction.
On the other hand, when arguing for regulation of xxx is would be utterly specious to say that the xxx domain would do anything to eliminate child pornography . . . they are completely separate issues, but for some reason everytime the xxx issue comes up so does the child porn problem.
This is either elitism or ignorance. I have friends and family who as couples must both work to keep food on the table and shelter over their heads. Not everyone has the same opportunities and not always due to their own inaction, laziness, or lack of bootstraps. Or perhaps you're just trolling and i've just been yanked out of the stream.
From taxes. Not fuel taxes. But since the money comes from the same place and goes to the same place then really its a hidden fuel tax, but one paid by everyone, ie one that you can't opt out of because you choose not to use the fuel.
I'm over generalizing I guess, but back east (DC) 20K is pretty typical and more is common. By planning I mean planning carreer and home so that no reliance on the car is needed. I live in a sprawling SW city, with little public transportation and still don't need a car. DC had great public transportation, but anyone outside the city still relied on car for at least a bit of the commute. "Our" planning in that communities are planned around the assumption that you will use a car to do things like shop for groceries. So I'm talking less about needing to go far distances to do daily life kinds of things. When I am too lazy to walk I ride my bicycle. This is possible in many places, but is not plausible for very many people unless they care to make sacrifices. With better planning, less sacrifice would be needed even without transit.
This rings of elitism. Something found across the political spectrum. When we start wanting to develop solutions that are good for everybody perhaps we'll start getting somewhere. In the meantime you have your wish . . . you don't have to live in your polution. But other people do.
Essentially you are pointing to our own poor planning practices. I drive 500 miles a year, and see it as a result of my own good planning around a set of choices that I made. I say that we have collective poor planning because it is very challenging to do it my way, while to do it the typical way is quite easy. We have planned in a reliance on cars and driving 20-30K miles a year is typical. This is either insanity or blind arrogance. Perhaps both.
Why does this (parent) get troll when GP gets +5 insightful. "Troll" asks a very good question. If GP did, it would be interesting to find out where. I did, for 2 semesters and dropped out b/c for me it was a waste of time, but from a pedagogical standpoint the program was very good. Concentration on understanding group behaviour, team building over heirarchy, sustainable business practices vs shortsighted bottom line optimization, etc. In my experience the big company suffers from too many entrenched good ol boys who are not anxious to be displaced by younger business types who want to bring a more creative team environment to the job. Mod parent up . . .
Please define socialist in this context. Does it mean that everyone has access to health care? Or that health care is equally bad for everyone? I see the word bandied about (mostly as a derogatory flame) but feel that it is a) misused, and b) misunderstood. So I am curious about your usage, not trying to start a flame war . . .
I always thought that the compressions alone would cause some air exchange in the lungs, minute perhaps, but probably enough to sustain an unconcious person for several minutes without worrying about any kind of oxygen depravation. When I meditate I suspend breathing, and notice that if I do so without bearing down or cutting off the air flow it seems like the air exchange continues without any muscular action. Of course after a few minutes I have to breathe normally again. But this convinces me too that simply compressing someones chest will cause a breathing action.
Where is the "free market capitalism" in the energy market in the US? Free market means no govt subsidies: a market that is separate from govt. No money from, no influence over. I agree that the politics on both sides (all sides maybe?) are all guilty of the same thing. But is there any hope for free market to actually happen? Cynically I think not.
Maybe you're not familiar with the concept, but the cameras come with slots where you can put these little cards in. Now the thing is, the cards let you store the pictures that you take onto them. Kinda like film. M Kay?
Note the above is meant as sarcasm, but really, digital film, get it?
Ok, I know its not geek correct, but really, don't take anything. Digital camera, ok, with lots of extra film, and a gps. But taking a lot of other stuff will only hold you down. Id bring my sketch book and a pen. I travelled in Europe for 3 months on such, and never missed gadgetry (but I tend not to have it anyway . . . just got a cell phone a few months ago, after 15 years of not having one . . . wow have they changed). Enjoy the world around you while you are travelling. There are always internet cafes, and hostels usually have connectivity too. Make arrangements for storage space accessible through the "tubes" and you can back up your pics as you go.
I have enjoyed the torture of getting Linux to work on frankenbox, but I don't have the time really to get the hardware working correctly anymore. So the last computer i got was a power book running tiger I think . . . this because I could not live with another windows machine, and XP annoyed the @&(* out of me. I could care less about the distro . . . as another poster pointed out, once in the desktop environment they all work the same (for me, it took me a while to find sudo though). So is it too hard to ask for a linux box that has the video/audio/memory/storage configuration, working, out of the box, modifiable with the apt-get or other package installation for the user tweaks?
One of the reasons I loved PCs over MACs in the 80s was that PCs were more "tweakable" than the bannana jr, which seemed like an appliance. It's interesting that now Linux is that option, but it is so tweakable it is unusable for casual, even unix savvy, users.
I was confused by this thread, yes it is . . . no it isn't, much like the humans causing global warming debate. The link you provided proved very, very helpful. Thank you.
Sounds like he is proposing using a laser to punch a hole in a rocket. Why so impossible? Not sure about the ballistic prediction ("drop on the country who shot it" or something), depends on a lot of other stuff where it all comes down.
The "I think its probably just a natural cycle" is specious at best. Based on what evidence? The evidence suggests that while there was a natural cycle of carbon, where we are now is unprecidented, very outside of the natural cycle. I do think it is reasonable to think that taking carbon that has been sequestered for millions of years and spewing it into a very tiny volume of atmosphere (relative to the volume of the earth) can change its makeup, and I have done enough (though limited) work in a lab to know that the concept of a "tipping point" is well established (think titration). Notice that I use subjective quallifiers too, but I then explain (or at least allude to it) the evidence that I am looking at.
I have yet to see the anti anthropogenic arguments couched in any way that is meant to clarify, create a dialog, inspire critical analysis, or otherwise lend to the body of knowledge. This causes frustration, which leads to the reactions you note, and it is purposeful.
If you carefully laid out an argument as to why the earth is round, backed up with observations that suggested that it could very well be round and met with remarks of "I think its probably flat" I think you might feel a bit frustrated because that ends the dialog. If however the remark was "I think its probably flat because . . . " and then heard a list of reasons based in similiar kinds of observation it might lead to a conversation which would enlighten both.
Randomly because houses are not oriented to the sun, rather to the infrastructure (roads) which are mostly arbitrary. Denver as a counterexample has its roads oriented so that they melt, ie get sun, in the winter. This grid is actually a NE-SW based, or the NS grid rotated 45 degrees. But most places in the US, have some kind of arbitrary infrastructure grid set up. The result is that our buildings do not pay attention to the solar condition, and usually end up being far less thermally efficient for it. It's an interesting design question . . . why should the house face the road?
To me all that daylight at 4am (ok, a bit of an exageration) in the summertime is wasted. But light at 9pm? Not wasted . . . that means outdoor activity like bike rides after work, especially earlier in the spring when it would be getting dark at 6:30 instead of 7:30. I think that it is this sense that keeps it alive, rather than the Big Brother type of control you imply.
I guess I think that the people should have the power, the government should represent them, and the corporations should be free to swindle as much out of the people as they can . . . but only to the extent that they have NO influence over government. To me that is liberal.
Government = people, for, by and of
A small matter is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are the legal documents. The Declaration of Independance is an opinion piece, rhetoric, propaganda . . . agreed to by many, but more of a vision statement than binding law. Sorry if this is pedantic, but I recently bumpped into this again and always find it interesting.
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IIRC the porn industry is pro xxx because it makes their sites easier to find. The arguments above seem to believe that these porn sites would rather fly below the radar or somehow remain not attached to the porn industry or otherwise obfuscated. From observing the current porn industry in non web based application (like video stores and magazines) there is very little trouble . . . the back room of the video shop, the store without windows, the magazines with opaque plastic hiding the covers, etc. Sure there are some problems, but current laws and arbitration handle these outliers. The only difference is that a web site is not regional, so these occasional battles would happen at a different level of jurisdiction.
On the other hand, when arguing for regulation of xxx is would be utterly specious to say that the xxx domain would do anything to eliminate child pornography . . . they are completely separate issues, but for some reason everytime the xxx issue comes up so does the child porn problem.
This is either elitism or ignorance. I have friends and family who as couples must both work to keep food on the table and shelter over their heads. Not everyone has the same opportunities and not always due to their own inaction, laziness, or lack of bootstraps. Or perhaps you're just trolling and i've just been yanked out of the stream.
From taxes. Not fuel taxes. But since the money comes from the same place and goes to the same place then really its a hidden fuel tax, but one paid by everyone, ie one that you can't opt out of because you choose not to use the fuel.
Eh yourself. Where do you think the money for that subsidy comes from?
I'm over generalizing I guess, but back east (DC) 20K is pretty typical and more is common. By planning I mean planning carreer and home so that no reliance on the car is needed. I live in a sprawling SW city, with little public transportation and still don't need a car. DC had great public transportation, but anyone outside the city still relied on car for at least a bit of the commute. "Our" planning in that communities are planned around the assumption that you will use a car to do things like shop for groceries. So I'm talking less about needing to go far distances to do daily life kinds of things. When I am too lazy to walk I ride my bicycle. This is possible in many places, but is not plausible for very many people unless they care to make sacrifices. With better planning, less sacrifice would be needed even without transit.
This rings of elitism. Something found across the political spectrum. When we start wanting to develop solutions that are good for everybody perhaps we'll start getting somewhere. In the meantime you have your wish . . . you don't have to live in your polution. But other people do.
Essentially you are pointing to our own poor planning practices. I drive 500 miles a year, and see it as a result of my own good planning around a set of choices that I made. I say that we have collective poor planning because it is very challenging to do it my way, while to do it the typical way is quite easy. We have planned in a reliance on cars and driving 20-30K miles a year is typical. This is either insanity or blind arrogance. Perhaps both.
Unsubsidized energy is more freedom than the subsidized fuel that USians face.
Why does this (parent) get troll when GP gets +5 insightful. "Troll" asks a very good question. If GP did, it would be interesting to find out where. I did, for 2 semesters and dropped out b/c for me it was a waste of time, but from a pedagogical standpoint the program was very good. Concentration on understanding group behaviour, team building over heirarchy, sustainable business practices vs shortsighted bottom line optimization, etc. In my experience the big company suffers from too many entrenched good ol boys who are not anxious to be displaced by younger business types who want to bring a more creative team environment to the job. Mod parent up . . .
Please define socialist in this context. Does it mean that everyone has access to health care? Or that health care is equally bad for everyone? I see the word bandied about (mostly as a derogatory flame) but feel that it is a) misused, and b) misunderstood. So I am curious about your usage, not trying to start a flame war . . .
I always thought that the compressions alone would cause some air exchange in the lungs, minute perhaps, but probably enough to sustain an unconcious person for several minutes without worrying about any kind of oxygen depravation. When I meditate I suspend breathing, and notice that if I do so without bearing down or cutting off the air flow it seems like the air exchange continues without any muscular action. Of course after a few minutes I have to breathe normally again. But this convinces me too that simply compressing someones chest will cause a breathing action.
Where is the "free market capitalism" in the energy market in the US? Free market means no govt subsidies: a market that is separate from govt. No money from, no influence over. I agree that the politics on both sides (all sides maybe?) are all guilty of the same thing. But is there any hope for free market to actually happen? Cynically I think not.
Note the above is meant as sarcasm, but really, digital film, get it?
Ok, I know its not geek correct, but really, don't take anything. Digital camera, ok, with lots of extra film, and a gps. But taking a lot of other stuff will only hold you down. Id bring my sketch book and a pen. I travelled in Europe for 3 months on such, and never missed gadgetry (but I tend not to have it anyway . . . just got a cell phone a few months ago, after 15 years of not having one . . . wow have they changed). Enjoy the world around you while you are travelling. There are always internet cafes, and hostels usually have connectivity too. Make arrangements for storage space accessible through the "tubes" and you can back up your pics as you go.
One of the reasons I loved PCs over MACs in the 80s was that PCs were more "tweakable" than the bannana jr, which seemed like an appliance. It's interesting that now Linux is that option, but it is so tweakable it is unusable for casual, even unix savvy, users.
I was confused by this thread, yes it is . . . no it isn't, much like the humans causing global warming debate. The link you provided proved very, very helpful. Thank you.
I think you missed my point. Perhaps it needs sharpening
Maybe I read it wrong . . . I assumed parent was talking about the ABL (something I worked on for a number of years).
Sounds like he is proposing using a laser to punch a hole in a rocket. Why so impossible? Not sure about the ballistic prediction ("drop on the country who shot it" or something), depends on a lot of other stuff where it all comes down.
I have yet to see the anti anthropogenic arguments couched in any way that is meant to clarify, create a dialog, inspire critical analysis, or otherwise lend to the body of knowledge. This causes frustration, which leads to the reactions you note, and it is purposeful.
If you carefully laid out an argument as to why the earth is round, backed up with observations that suggested that it could very well be round and met with remarks of "I think its probably flat" I think you might feel a bit frustrated because that ends the dialog. If however the remark was "I think its probably flat because . . . " and then heard a list of reasons based in similiar kinds of observation it might lead to a conversation which would enlighten both.
BTW, buildings account for 50% of energy usage in the US, most of that being in the maintenance associated with HVAC&R, check out the following for more detail: http://www.architecture2030.org/open_letter/index. html
To me all that daylight at 4am (ok, a bit of an exageration) in the summertime is wasted. But light at 9pm? Not wasted . . . that means outdoor activity like bike rides after work, especially earlier in the spring when it would be getting dark at 6:30 instead of 7:30. I think that it is this sense that keeps it alive, rather than the Big Brother type of control you imply.
I guess I think that the people should have the power, the government should represent them, and the corporations should be free to swindle as much out of the people as they can . . . but only to the extent that they have NO influence over government. To me that is liberal. Government = people, for, by and of
A small matter is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are the legal documents. The Declaration of Independance is an opinion piece, rhetoric, propaganda . . . agreed to by many, but more of a vision statement than binding law. Sorry if this is pedantic, but I recently bumpped into this again and always find it interesting.
If only there were some kind of universal connection that could be controlled with software and therefore flexible . . .