His sig is a very handy idiot detector. His posts on many topics confirm it - one of the people Stalin called "useful idiots" prepared to go all the way for The Party - thus going all the way is blatant lies to push a Party policy of nukes.
You are answering a different question - births instead of the number of living children, but even then you seem to have oversimplified. The source I used was from a radio interview on a Science program (I should have written down at the time who it was) but you can see it for yourself via sites like this: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/ And others about child mortality rates. Birth rates minus child mortality rates has been very stable for decades.
Look at the people around you. Attempting to raise eight children to adulthood wasn't that unusual a couple of generations back.
I think you are putting too much stress on heredity instead of environment and whether you know it or not you are pushing a bit of a disturbing and misguided line popular in the 1920s to 1940s. People are people, even if you think they are somehow in a lower class than you that doesn't make them a different subhuman species that is going to outbreed the social class you like. You and all those others "evolved" from ancestors with many children probably two generations or less back, so we already match your suggestion.
sociologist so I can understand his need to pursue valuable activities over the weekend, because he's sure as hell not doing anything of value during the week
As distinct from... office work? Come on AC, how many people here do you think are surgeons or in the fire brigade? Farmers have a right to sneer at most of us for not doing useful work.
because nuclear power, like keeping that fork you're holding out of your eye, is simply too much for the human race to handle
Maybe not the human race but after reading about TEPCO management and the multiple chains of failure at Fukishima I don't think I'd be trusting them with real cutlery. Message for people in power - your idiot nephew is not someone who should be trusted near anything that can cause people serious problems when it fucks up, no matter how much money it keeps in the family. Leave it to the professionals and not the "well-connected".
Have you thought that maybe it's even harder to convince all 7.5+ billion people to stop reproducing?
No, I haven't thought that and I'm a little amazed that you are thinking that since so many were convinced before you were even born. Graph 1.3 is worth a look: https://ourworldindata.org/fer...
I know it was a trendy topic of authors in the 1970s ("Future Shock" etc) but it was already well out of date by then.
It has self corrected. The total number of children in the world is around the same as in the 1960s. The population is increasing because people are living longer and birth rates globally have been in decline since before you were born.
It's been years but I still cannot understand this "spring water" craze. Why that instead of refilling with tap water? One thing to notice is that one if the first players in the still bottled water market was "Evian" - "naive" spelled backwards. How did they convince you to buy the bottled water? How has that become the new normal? How are they taking all of us for suckers?
No. Their new CPUs for multi-socket boards are called "Epyc" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyc) It will be nice to get 128 threads on a two socket board.
Perhaps - but what have done that matched Assange's record? You can't even put up quotes without always resisting the urge to edit them to pretend they make your point for you. Or Ellen Paos, she's a lawyer and HR type so her inclusion is a bit strange here, but at her age had you done as much with your career as she has done with hers to date? If you are going to call those two incompetent are you not insulting yourself and almost the totality of the readership here?
You are the one that called my comment into question and attempted to "correct" the truth with guesswork so why complain and pretend to act so wounded? I didn't attack you just your uninformed "correction" based on gut feeling instead of any of the many news articles, many in the international press, about May's drastic cuts to the police since 2010.
Coal gasification has been tried many times but it cannot pay for itself.
I expect they projected for gas prices that didn't happen. The Saudi oil price war has also had an effect on natural gas prices since oil can be substituted for gas in some situations. It's probably ten years back this was planned so they wouldn't see this coming and probably expected some spike in prices to keep on going forever.
CO2 capture is just as bad.
Here they seem to be sticking a label of capture on a practice of pumping some carbon dioxide down wells to force a bit more gas up. "Greenwashing" an existing practice that isn't going to trap more than token amounts of carbon dioxide - so not impractical just not doing what they pretend it's going to do. All that said it seems a bit strange to turn coal into gas in a place that's sitting near an oilfield where getting gas is pretty well a given - on top of the coal seam gas that's available in the min area as well.
At least it's nowhere near as insane as the projects to produce gas by setting fire to coal in-situ and use the incomplete combustion products. All it would take for those to get out of control is an unexpected path for air to come in from the surface part way through the burn and you've got an unquenchable fire that could burn for years (like some existing underground fires).
Never did he say he wanted to "restore the empire".
He has. Frequently. As an aside he's got Joseph Stalin's library in his office and uses it to impress/scare visitors. When he wants to see what Stalin thought of something he reads the copious notes in the margins of those texts.
I guess as long as The Met can claim that it was the politicians and the politicians can blame the Met
With the greatest possible respect (ie. I'm sure despite the utterly clueless comment above you are quite good at something) there has been a deliberate policy of drastic funding cuts in policing over the last few years so it's extremely obvious that the Minister was the one responsible and not some convenient blame deflection. May was PROUD of her cuts.
The only problem (not the posters problem - recruiters problem) is thinking they should be for everyone. I know an electrical engineer who got there via a trade and apprenticeship route. It's a difficult and time consuming way to do it but perfectly valid. I'm writing that despite the bias on the issue I've gained by working at a University for a few years some time back.
called managing your resources. Or maybe "scare the government into giving us more money than we need cuz look how outdated we are". Either way, the folks in charge need to be fired and the entire culture changed.
Fired? The person who wouldn't give them a budget to upgrade is Prime Minister now. It was a deliberate "austerity" policy.
If it was only him it would be just one of a few choices of sound system and init systems with nobody bitching about having his ideas on what linux should be forced upon them. We can't blame him especially for his early stuff - RedHat management have plenty of options about who they can have running their projects - it appears he impressed them with his "vision" of not being content with just an init system like the upstart people were doing, but an entire takeover of linux and a change to an MS style environment (as you can read on his blog). Without RedHat he's just a guy with ambition who would have to "play well with others" - with RedHat he can act as he has acted. For example, the "if you want gnome you need to have systemd" deal could never have happened without RedHat behind him. It's one of the reasons I migrated a lot of stuff to FreeBSD (I haven't seen linux crash so much as it has with recent distros - not even in 1995 on the bleeding edge) including now a couple of desktop systems and a laptop.
It seems insane that the Royal Navy & BAE systems couldn't figure this out themselves. This has the smell of a kickback based sales agreement to me. Almost any other operating system is a better choice simply because they are smaller attack targets than any version of Windows.
When your adversaries are other nations security by obscurity is especially inoperative.
Security by installing a system designed to be secure is the idea - there are many. Even MS had one with WinCE that is far more up to date than WinXP.
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His sig is a very handy idiot detector.
His posts on many topics confirm it - one of the people Stalin called "useful idiots" prepared to go all the way for The Party - thus going all the way is blatant lies to push a Party policy of nukes.
Wow - undergrad social science study on Slashdot!
Amazing what a boost from PR money does.
Kind of a pity they didn't run this past a chemist or toxicologist of some kind before splashing it all over the internet.
Those countries still have very high child mortality rates, especially for the very young.
You are answering a different question - births instead of the number of living children, but even then you seem to have oversimplified.
The source I used was from a radio interview on a Science program (I should have written down at the time who it was) but you can see it for yourself via sites like this:
https://ourworldindata.org/fertility/
And others about child mortality rates.
Birth rates minus child mortality rates has been very stable for decades.
Look at the people around you. Attempting to raise eight children to adulthood wasn't that unusual a couple of generations back.
I think you are putting too much stress on heredity instead of environment and whether you know it or not you are pushing a bit of a disturbing and misguided line popular in the 1920s to 1940s.
People are people, even if you think they are somehow in a lower class than you that doesn't make them a different subhuman species that is going to outbreed the social class you like. You and all those others "evolved" from ancestors with many children probably two generations or less back, so we already match your suggestion.
As distinct from ... office work?
Come on AC, how many people here do you think are surgeons or in the fire brigade? Farmers have a right to sneer at most of us for not doing useful work.
Maybe not the human race but after reading about TEPCO management and the multiple chains of failure at Fukishima I don't think I'd be trusting them with real cutlery. Message for people in power - your idiot nephew is not someone who should be trusted near anything that can cause people serious problems when it fucks up, no matter how much money it keeps in the family. Leave it to the professionals and not the "well-connected".
No, I haven't thought that and I'm a little amazed that you are thinking that since so many were convinced before you were even born.
Graph 1.3 is worth a look:
https://ourworldindata.org/fer...
I know it was a trendy topic of authors in the 1970s ("Future Shock" etc) but it was already well out of date by then.
It has self corrected.
The total number of children in the world is around the same as in the 1960s. The population is increasing because people are living longer and birth rates globally have been in decline since before you were born.
It's been years but I still cannot understand this "spring water" craze. Why that instead of refilling with tap water?
One thing to notice is that one if the first players in the still bottled water market was "Evian" - "naive" spelled backwards.
How did they convince you to buy the bottled water? How has that become the new normal? How are they taking all of us for suckers?
No.
Their new CPUs for multi-socket boards are called "Epyc" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyc)
It will be nice to get 128 threads on a two socket board.
Look at how many "libertarians" (especially Koch and similar) behave on employment issues (as one example) and you'll see no difference.
Perhaps - but what have done that matched Assange's record? You can't even put up quotes without always resisting the urge to edit them to pretend they make your point for you. Or Ellen Paos, she's a lawyer and HR type so her inclusion is a bit strange here, but at her age had you done as much with your career as she has done with hers to date? If you are going to call those two incompetent are you not insulting yourself and almost the totality of the readership here?
You are the one that called my comment into question and attempted to "correct" the truth with guesswork so why complain and pretend to act so wounded?
I didn't attack you just your uninformed "correction" based on gut feeling instead of any of the many news articles, many in the international press, about May's drastic cuts to the police since 2010.
I expect they projected for gas prices that didn't happen. The Saudi oil price war has also had an effect on natural gas prices since oil can be substituted for gas in some situations. It's probably ten years back this was planned so they wouldn't see this coming and probably expected some spike in prices to keep on going forever.
Here they seem to be sticking a label of capture on a practice of pumping some carbon dioxide down wells to force a bit more gas up. "Greenwashing" an existing practice that isn't going to trap more than token amounts of carbon dioxide - so not impractical just not doing what they pretend it's going to do.
All that said it seems a bit strange to turn coal into gas in a place that's sitting near an oilfield where getting gas is pretty well a given - on top of the coal seam gas that's available in the min area as well.
At least it's nowhere near as insane as the projects to produce gas by setting fire to coal in-situ and use the incomplete combustion products. All it would take for those to get out of control is an unexpected path for air to come in from the surface part way through the burn and you've got an unquenchable fire that could burn for years (like some existing underground fires).
Microsoft reinvented groups - the hard way.
They used to own Xenix, there's no legal issues in the way of them learning from the examples of others.
He has. Frequently.
As an aside he's got Joseph Stalin's library in his office and uses it to impress/scare visitors. When he wants to see what Stalin thought of something he reads the copious notes in the margins of those texts.
With the greatest possible respect (ie. I'm sure despite the utterly clueless comment above you are quite good at something) there has been a deliberate policy of drastic funding cuts in policing over the last few years so it's extremely obvious that the Minister was the one responsible and not some convenient blame deflection. May was PROUD of her cuts.
Maybe because he's said that himself many times, especially when campaigning for election.
The only problem (not the posters problem - recruiters problem) is thinking they should be for everyone.
I know an electrical engineer who got there via a trade and apprenticeship route. It's a difficult and time consuming way to do it but perfectly valid. I'm writing that despite the bias on the issue I've gained by working at a University for a few years some time back.
Fired? The person who wouldn't give them a budget to upgrade is Prime Minister now.
It was a deliberate "austerity" policy.
Yes, I realised two seconds after I posted that I could have just truncated it all - my mistake.
If it was only him it would be just one of a few choices of sound system and init systems with nobody bitching about having his ideas on what linux should be forced upon them.
We can't blame him especially for his early stuff - RedHat management have plenty of options about who they can have running their projects - it appears he impressed them with his "vision" of not being content with just an init system like the upstart people were doing, but an entire takeover of linux and a change to an MS style environment (as you can read on his blog). Without RedHat he's just a guy with ambition who would have to "play well with others" - with RedHat he can act as he has acted. For example, the "if you want gnome you need to have systemd" deal could never have happened without RedHat behind him.
It's one of the reasons I migrated a lot of stuff to FreeBSD (I haven't seen linux crash so much as it has with recent distros - not even in 1995 on the bleeding edge) including now a couple of desktop systems and a laptop.
Not so bad when you still have the vestiges of an entire industry devoted to building offshore platforms nearby.
It seems insane that the Royal Navy & BAE systems couldn't figure this out themselves. This has the smell of a kickback based sales agreement to me. Almost any other operating system is a better choice simply because they are smaller attack targets than any version of Windows.
When your adversaries are other nations security by obscurity is especially inoperative.
Security by installing a system designed to be secure is the idea - there are many. Even MS had one with WinCE that is far more up to date than WinXP.