IANAL, but the legal yardstick is if the result is foreseealbe. The DD knows (or should and ignorance is not an excuse) that by DD it is possible to kill someone through negligence. Just like if I drop bricks off a tall building. I am not setting out to kill someone, I just want to drop a brick onto the sidewalk 100 feet below. Just because I don't bother to reason hard enough to think that I might end up killing someone does not mean that in a court of law I should not be tried as if I were acting in a way that any reasonable person would assume could result in someone dying. That is, not a first degree murder, but certainly reckless endangerment, agrivated homicide, or even second degree murder.
If you drive drunk, you might as well be setting out to accidentally kill someone through gross incompetence.
Why is the assumption that population must grow considered valid? One could posit that if it does, and given c as a limit, then yes, logically the population will collapse, but perhaps back to a point of stability. Given enough time any civ could become self aware enough to know that population should be held (through cooperation, rather than oppression of course) steady at some optimal number or range. It is this sustainable civilization that is then capable of surviving long enough to deveop technologies that allow it to explore the vast reaches of the universe. I think we can agree that there is no way humans will ever reach this kind of collective enlightenment . . .
Hmmm, I'm trying to get this to jive with what I observe here (in the high desert) when at night, with no cloud cover, in May when the air temp is 40-45 degrees F, and the water in my dogs dish freezes because it gives it's heat up, radiating to the emptiness above. So, it seems that all that is required is a simple shade structure to keep the cryo parts from seeing the sun. Design aslo would demand that no heat reflections get to it, but still, I think this would be easy, que no?
what do you think . . .
Ok, let's limit the infrastructure to sewer, water, and roads. If I buy a big old piece of land, then I, the owner, must pay to get sewer, water, and build my driveway. The gov't doesn't pay for these, though it requires that I have them (fire codes, building codes etc).
Now a developer comes in and buys the same acreage, and plans on building 10 McMansions. Why should he be any different than me?
I live in a sprawl city where bond issues have paid for infrastructure extensions in the past. I don't think public funds should be used to make land more profitable for private interests.
Metal Halide has the highest (best) efficacy (lumens/watt) of all of the bulb types (something like 100-110). If they can be made with quiet ballasts, and so that the warm up time is shortened they could be the best solution in terms of energy. I don't know about the toxicity of the materials at the end of life . . .
I wrote some software for a trader . . . he had taken a bunch of local bartenders (in a small CO ski town) and taught them a system (based on arbitrage trading), and for a while they all did very well. So, take the bartender out, and put a computer in its place. As long as the window is open, the system will work. As the window closes, you find a new system ("algorithm"). The tricky part, IMHO, is having a seat on the market, otherwise you cant trade efficiently enough to make the small margins add up.
I also know some technicians who did very well . . . technicians do nothing but bet that a past trend will repeat itself. Despite your conjecture that they should not, they in fact do very often.
Uhhh, that's not proof. It might be begging the question.
Of course you can't prove it. But it is worth noting that just because that is the way it has always been does not mean that it can't also happen some other way. We are using military might in situations that don't call for it (Iraq), at the expense of situations that do call for it (getting to Osama). Previous posts give plenty of reasons why torture is innefective at yielding good intel, as well as other interrogation methods that do yield good intel.
Don't limit yourself to accepting as possible only that which you have seen or heard about.
Hah, the middle button on home works . . . just tried it. But, I have firefox set up so that my "home" is really a group of 4 pages (slashdot is not one of them). So 4 new tabs opened. This is a little bit annoying . . . I would suggest something like an original page set for opening, but the home would only be tied to one of them (or even a different page altogether). It makes little sense, ie functionality lost, for the home to be tied to multiple pages.
IIRC Richard Feynman wrote about doing this (picking ants up and moving them, cleaning the scent trail, etc.) in his book "Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman", and claimed success at ridding ants in his kitchen.
yes he is . . . but not from the economic only standpoint that the computer algorithms demand. Looking at even recent Kasparov games shows that he does not play the economy equation the way computers do. This is why he (and the other human) chess players are infinitely interesting to watch, while the computer, while nearly unbeatable, is also very boring.
Ok good . . . I was hoping you'd bring up the crime rates (alleged crime rates). I have done a lot of research into this, and having lived in neighborhoods that had "high" crime rates can say that these are false indications. I never had any problems in these neighborhoods, and in fact, have noticed that people in the good areas (like the ones you mentioned) actually show more property damage (dollar figures) due to crime than in the bad areas. I would respectfully suggest that you are a victim of the real estate propaganda machine.
As for square footage, I was looking at real estate prices on a dollar per square foot rate (normalized to area you might say). Small houses can be made bigger for less money than the rate at which you buy . . . if you pay $50 per square foot for a house (a pretty low rate, not found in the areas we have discussed) you will be able to expand it for $30 per square foot. If you pay $150 per square foot, you will still be able to expand for $30 per square foot. Don't be a pawn to the development industry!
While this may be true some places, it is not in the cities that I have lived in. I have found real estate prices to actually be higher in suburbia (DC for a good example), along with the things you mention, driving the cost of living to at least 50% more than the cost of living in a city. Probably this is a moving target, as now the real estate in the DC neighborhoods in which I lived are much higher than they were 10 years ago, and I don't know what the suburban prices have done (except that they have also surely gone up too).
Distance to grocery store: 3 miles
Distance to work: 27 miles
So why not live in a community that is close to both work and things like grocery stores, restraunts, and other entertainment centers? Then you could walk everywhere . . . like in a city perhpas?
The problem is that "suburbs" are really poorly designed and planned, and that in general Americans are not thinking when they buy there. The developers get off with a boat load of money, and the local population is left with a huge problem to maintain (pollution, sprawling infrastructure, relying on automobiles to do anything).
uh lets see, almost $1900 for a P42.8GHz, 512MB, 30GB HD, 17"Flat Panel. It really is like Apple. It appears like this is with the cheapo on board video,sound,networking. So, I get $600 worth of hardware (ok, that might be low, let's say $800) and a free OS, and they get $1100 net income. I think I found a business model I like! Actually though, I will still recommend this to my Dad, rather than have him go to Dell . . .
More durable? I have a computer still with the new fangled floppy drive (3.5). They are more reliable than the slightly older 5.25" disks, but not than CD. I have CDs that are scratched quite noticeably, and my computers have no problem reading them. But, like you, I was carrying my resume around on floppy disk, and experienced failures quite regularly. I took to carrying three disks around, each with the same info on it. On the day that all three failed I gave up and started using my USB keychain drive. I've never had a problem with it.
It is of course a matter of personal preference, but in my experience floppy's are in reliability terms, one step above zips.
As some people mentioned on the dot, it has partly to do with finances, sales and Trolltech's business model. Another point is the fact that Windows is a closed source Operating System. There is no community for Free Software development under Windows. The situation is very different from Linux, as you know. On Windows development usually happens as shareware or commercial software and we don't see that community evolving into producing Free Software.
This is a bit backwards. Right now if you use Visual Studio (and any windows library) you are suposudly prevented by the EULA from creating GPL'd code. So, in the windows world, if there were a good alternative that allowed for GPL code creation/distribution I think it would be used.
Not really losing those benefits. The economy of scale would be seen in the dropping price of PV cells, micro-hydro is quite affordable, and there are many passive heating technologies that can be home made providing solar hot air for mid day heating. If you think that you are reaping the benefits of economy of scale by relying on the coal and oil industries then I think you are mistaken. We are now paying more for energy than we can afford if you take into account the true cost, including environmental impact and infrastructure maintenance.
Local small scale public utilities actually offer the best in terms of economy of scale when handled in a not-for-profit way. There are many towns and cities in the US who are successfully implementing this model, and as the price for solar, wind and other alternative power generation technologies drop I am betting that we will see more of it.
Really, do some hard critical research into what is going on in the energy world. Don't simply sit back and critizize through name calling and meaningless buzzword-ology.
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IANAL, but the legal yardstick is if the result is foreseealbe. The DD knows (or should and ignorance is not an excuse) that by DD it is possible to kill someone through negligence. Just like if I drop bricks off a tall building. I am not setting out to kill someone, I just want to drop a brick onto the sidewalk 100 feet below. Just because I don't bother to reason hard enough to think that I might end up killing someone does not mean that in a court of law I should not be tried as if I were acting in a way that any reasonable person would assume could result in someone dying. That is, not a first degree murder, but certainly reckless endangerment, agrivated homicide, or even second degree murder. If you drive drunk, you might as well be setting out to accidentally kill someone through gross incompetence.
Why is the assumption that population must grow considered valid? One could posit that if it does, and given c as a limit, then yes, logically the population will collapse, but perhaps back to a point of stability. Given enough time any civ could become self aware enough to know that population should be held (through cooperation, rather than oppression of course) steady at some optimal number or range. It is this sustainable civilization that is then capable of surviving long enough to deveop technologies that allow it to explore the vast reaches of the universe. I think we can agree that there is no way humans will ever reach this kind of collective enlightenment . . .
Hmmm, I'm trying to get this to jive with what I observe here (in the high desert) when at night, with no cloud cover, in May when the air temp is 40-45 degrees F, and the water in my dogs dish freezes because it gives it's heat up, radiating to the emptiness above. So, it seems that all that is required is a simple shade structure to keep the cryo parts from seeing the sun. Design aslo would demand that no heat reflections get to it, but still, I think this would be easy, que no? what do you think . . .
In the US you get a tax break for buying a Hummer. So it is a bit backwards there still.
An Inconvenient Country?
Without the Romans what would the golden arches look like?
Ok, let's limit the infrastructure to sewer, water, and roads. If I buy a big old piece of land, then I, the owner, must pay to get sewer, water, and build my driveway. The gov't doesn't pay for these, though it requires that I have them (fire codes, building codes etc). Now a developer comes in and buys the same acreage, and plans on building 10 McMansions. Why should he be any different than me? I live in a sprawl city where bond issues have paid for infrastructure extensions in the past. I don't think public funds should be used to make land more profitable for private interests.
Metal Halide has the highest (best) efficacy (lumens/watt) of all of the bulb types (something like 100-110). If they can be made with quiet ballasts, and so that the warm up time is shortened they could be the best solution in terms of energy. I don't know about the toxicity of the materials at the end of life . . .
Cool. What's it about?
I wrote some software for a trader . . . he had taken a bunch of local bartenders (in a small CO ski town) and taught them a system (based on arbitrage trading), and for a while they all did very well. So, take the bartender out, and put a computer in its place. As long as the window is open, the system will work. As the window closes, you find a new system ("algorithm"). The tricky part, IMHO, is having a seat on the market, otherwise you cant trade efficiently enough to make the small margins add up. I also know some technicians who did very well . . . technicians do nothing but bet that a past trend will repeat itself. Despite your conjecture that they should not, they in fact do very often.
I looked it up. It's true. No, it wasn't wiki, it wasn't even a book. It was my gut.
Uhhh, that's not proof. It might be begging the question. Of course you can't prove it. But it is worth noting that just because that is the way it has always been does not mean that it can't also happen some other way. We are using military might in situations that don't call for it (Iraq), at the expense of situations that do call for it (getting to Osama). Previous posts give plenty of reasons why torture is innefective at yielding good intel, as well as other interrogation methods that do yield good intel. Don't limit yourself to accepting as possible only that which you have seen or heard about.
Hah, the middle button on home works . . . just tried it. But, I have firefox set up so that my "home" is really a group of 4 pages (slashdot is not one of them). So 4 new tabs opened. This is a little bit annoying . . . I would suggest something like an original page set for opening, but the home would only be tied to one of them (or even a different page altogether). It makes little sense, ie functionality lost, for the home to be tied to multiple pages.
IIRC Richard Feynman wrote about doing this (picking ants up and moving them, cleaning the scent trail, etc.) in his book "Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman", and claimed success at ridding ants in his kitchen.
yes he is . . . but not from the economic only standpoint that the computer algorithms demand. Looking at even recent Kasparov games shows that he does not play the economy equation the way computers do. This is why he (and the other human) chess players are infinitely interesting to watch, while the computer, while nearly unbeatable, is also very boring.
Beautiful!
As for square footage, I was looking at real estate prices on a dollar per square foot rate (normalized to area you might say). Small houses can be made bigger for less money than the rate at which you buy . . . if you pay $50 per square foot for a house (a pretty low rate, not found in the areas we have discussed) you will be able to expand it for $30 per square foot. If you pay $150 per square foot, you will still be able to expand for $30 per square foot. Don't be a pawn to the development industry!
While this may be true some places, it is not in the cities that I have lived in. I have found real estate prices to actually be higher in suburbia (DC for a good example), along with the things you mention, driving the cost of living to at least 50% more than the cost of living in a city. Probably this is a moving target, as now the real estate in the DC neighborhoods in which I lived are much higher than they were 10 years ago, and I don't know what the suburban prices have done (except that they have also surely gone up too).
So why not live in a community that is close to both work and things like grocery stores, restraunts, and other entertainment centers? Then you could walk everywhere . . . like in a city perhpas?
The problem is that "suburbs" are really poorly designed and planned, and that in general Americans are not thinking when they buy there. The developers get off with a boat load of money, and the local population is left with a huge problem to maintain (pollution, sprawling infrastructure, relying on automobiles to do anything).
ROFLMAO
uh lets see, almost $1900 for a P42.8GHz, 512MB, 30GB HD, 17"Flat Panel. It really is like Apple. It appears like this is with the cheapo on board video,sound,networking. So, I get $600 worth of hardware (ok, that might be low, let's say $800) and a free OS, and they get $1100 net income. I think I found a business model I like! Actually though, I will still recommend this to my Dad, rather than have him go to Dell . . .
It is of course a matter of personal preference, but in my experience floppy's are in reliability terms, one step above zips.
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Local small scale public utilities actually offer the best in terms of economy of scale when handled in a not-for-profit way. There are many towns and cities in the US who are successfully implementing this model, and as the price for solar, wind and other alternative power generation technologies drop I am betting that we will see more of it.
Really, do some hard critical research into what is going on in the energy world. Don't simply sit back and critizize through name calling and meaningless buzzword-ology.