2. I think it admirable that the Russians are not merely throwing their stuff away but at least show the willingness to keep it up there and try to reuse it. Even if this fails in the end, they will learn a lot from the attempt. And too many of us are conditioned not to maintain and repair things, but throw them away when they break (or even when they're simply not in style anymore) and buy new.
Well, in my case most of my attempts to repair my broken goods are thwarted by the manufacturer, who has designed things so that you have to break them even more to get at the parts that failed and screwed them together with various obscure propriatary screw heads that you can't find driver bits for. It makes me want to burn down their headquarters whenever I encounter that shit.
The real problem is that your book is 10 years old and costs 51 bucks on amazon. Cut the price in half and see what happens. Otherwise people are going to look for something more up to date. At the very least, it is probably time for a new edition.
"Almost all experts agree that the primary reasons [for the obesity epidemic] are increased consumption of larger quantities of high calorie foods, snacks and sugar sweetened beverages... and lack of physical activity"
So wait...you're trying to tell me that the first law of thermodynamics is true? Lies!
The invocation of thermodynamics in relation to diet and weight gain generally ignores the physical reality that digestion is an extremely complex system and isn't as simple as calories->fat. Misplaced faith in our understanding of these things (and in nutrition science in general) has driven a lot of horribly unhealthy eating advice over the decades. Only two decades ago they were telling elementary school students to eat lots of white bread and pasta every day, and to this day they lump fruits and vegetables into the same category. It's only in the last few years that we've even begun to get a glimmer of understanding of the role of intestinal gut bacteria in the process of digestion in any meaningful way. I guess, though, its easier to just shout "thermodynamics" and walk away.
Got a letter from my company's health insurance yesterday.
"Health care premiums will increase as a direct result of the State Legislature approving the Governor's proposed increases in taxes, fees and assessments on your health benefits on February 4, as part of his Deficit Reduction Plan."
And the award for coolest anecdote of the month goes to...
If it were me, I'd have put that thing in a box and shipped it to Congress as a special gift. Everyone in congress simultaneously projectile vomiting? Nothing in the history of humanity would ever be funnier.
The "Fault" in Yucca is a joke. Nearly every place in the USA has a fault near it in some way. The "Fault" at Yucca is just another anti-industrial age strawman cooked up by a bunch of environmentalists. I ran Yucca mountain through the same earthquake simulations used by insurance companies all over the world, and the premiums were pretty damned low.
You might enjoy a listen to Nassim Taleb. His Black Swan concept seems to have a direct bearing on your argument.
I'm guessing you're refering to Black Sheep, which should be on the top of everyone's netflix queue, but I think this situation more merits a call to William "Rack Hanson" Shattner.
You're all wrong, and you'll know how wrong you are when the swine flu zombies use fissile material stolen from these powerplants to tunnnel up from under the ground into your house and eat your faces off.
If all the other women in the village think the woman is a whore and put their money where their mouth is by actually throwing rocks at her, who am I to tell them they're wrong? I don't live there, I just read propaganda written by parasites...
Do you not believe in peoples right to govern themselves?
Moral relativism, just as repungnant today as it was when it was first born. Certain things are simply wrong, regardless of cultural context. Murdering people for showing the wrong bit of skin or daring to walk around in public without a male family member is wrong, period. The fact that you can't see this means you're either lying to troll or you're a psychopath and should probably be put down like a rabid animal before you have a chance to hurt anyone again.
Thank you for expressing my opinion on the matter so clearly. Now I can just link people to your post when they ask how I feel about my time in school.
BTW, "laissez-faire" is not the same as anarchy. It just refers to the government staying out of the economy.
Which is basically the same thing, since the economy is a means of quantifying power, and without the check of government power on monetary power you have rule of steel instead of rule of law.
All persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor. We call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose any legal requirements forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a "Balanced Budget Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes.
Just a sample, really. You read the whole thing and it becomes pretty clear that public roads are completely antithetical to the LP's platform. In the view of the party, such things are better left to private businesses, completely unregulated by the government.
Of course, the LP also advocates for the right to corporate monopolies. I'm sure that mixing roads, lack of government regulations, and monopolies would lead to some kind of paradise, right?
If you look, you see that geeks tend to want efficient use of resources. Sometimes this means a government run program. Sometimes private. Sometimes a hybrid. Thats why it is so hard to pin us down. We disagree on a lot of the details on any given subject, which is where you see a lot of the argument here, but generally from what I've seen a vast majority (90%+) of slashdot folks want resources used efficiently while preserving individual liberty as much as is reasonable.
With the usual caveats about who defines efficiency and reasonableness.
Yes, but the banks are subsidized and guaranteed to make those loans in the first place. That money is "unfairly taxed" from the citizens on this country. You think the bank makes any money on the $22k they loaned me at 2.6% fixed interest for 20 years? I can't very well call myself a Libertarian and accept that kind of aid at the same time, now can I?
Honestly, you can't call yourself a Libertarian and drive on roads at the same time. At least, not and also be intellectually honest. Not to mention all the indirect things people benefit from. Pretty much all of the traditional ideologies fall apart in modern civilization, though, because they are all extremely limited models that tend to ignore large parts of the system that makes up civilization, or to underestimate the size and complexity of the system.
As far as I can tell, so far everyone is doing it wrong.
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2. I think it admirable that the Russians are not merely throwing their stuff away but at least show the willingness to keep it up there and try to reuse it. Even if this fails in the end, they will learn a lot from the attempt. And too many of us are conditioned not to maintain and repair things, but throw them away when they break (or even when they're simply not in style anymore) and buy new.
Well, in my case most of my attempts to repair my broken goods are thwarted by the manufacturer, who has designed things so that you have to break them even more to get at the parts that failed and screwed them together with various obscure propriatary screw heads that you can't find driver bits for. It makes me want to burn down their headquarters whenever I encounter that shit.
The real problem is that your book is 10 years old and costs 51 bucks on amazon. Cut the price in half and see what happens. Otherwise people are going to look for something more up to date. At the very least, it is probably time for a new edition.
"Almost all experts agree that the primary reasons [for the obesity epidemic] are increased consumption of larger quantities of high calorie foods, snacks and sugar sweetened beverages... and lack of physical activity"
So wait...you're trying to tell me that the first law of thermodynamics is true? Lies!
The invocation of thermodynamics in relation to diet and weight gain generally ignores the physical reality that digestion is an extremely complex system and isn't as simple as calories->fat. Misplaced faith in our understanding of these things (and in nutrition science in general) has driven a lot of horribly unhealthy eating advice over the decades. Only two decades ago they were telling elementary school students to eat lots of white bread and pasta every day, and to this day they lump fruits and vegetables into the same category. It's only in the last few years that we've even begun to get a glimmer of understanding of the role of intestinal gut bacteria in the process of digestion in any meaningful way. I guess, though, its easier to just shout "thermodynamics" and walk away.
Got a letter from my company's health insurance yesterday.
"Health care premiums will increase as a direct result of the State Legislature approving the Governor's proposed increases in taxes, fees and assessments on your health benefits on February 4, as part of his Deficit Reduction Plan."
So they're taxing both ends.
Not the most credibile source though.
And the award for coolest anecdote of the month goes to...
If it were me, I'd have put that thing in a box and shipped it to Congress as a special gift. Everyone in congress simultaneously projectile vomiting? Nothing in the history of humanity would ever be funnier.
Depends, some of those banks these days are looking like fully owned subsidiaries of the US Govt.
Actually, now that I think of, it's probably the other way around.
In this case, reasonable is ultimately parsed by the appelate courts, which you will likely interface with through case law.
The "Fault" in Yucca is a joke. Nearly every place in the USA has a fault near it in some way. The "Fault" at Yucca is just another anti-industrial age strawman cooked up by a bunch of environmentalists. I ran Yucca mountain through the same earthquake simulations used by insurance companies all over the world, and the premiums were pretty damned low.
You might enjoy a listen to Nassim Taleb. His Black Swan concept seems to have a direct bearing on your argument.
According to IRS statistics, the bottom 40% of Americans have no income tax liability. They pay no federal taxes. Zip, zero, nada.
I see what you did there. But how does telling a blatant lie help advance your cause? All it does is undermine your credibility.
I'm guessing you're refering to Black Sheep, which should be on the top of everyone's netflix queue, but I think this situation more merits a call to William "Rack Hanson" Shattner.
Little googling revealed that bacteria could actually do it.
Bacterial cement
However bacteria need nutrient (urine base btw) to do it. It may happens simple concrete could actually be cheaper.
Finally, we can put America's habit of pissing all over poor countries to use!
Same as the trucks that transport the lawnmowers to the field.
You're all wrong, and you'll know how wrong you are when the swine flu zombies use fissile material stolen from these powerplants to tunnnel up from under the ground into your house and eat your faces off.
Maybe people realized that it wouldn't be as cool as they thought when they are phasoring 50 Centarian rats for their pelts.
50 Centarian rats? Are those like rapping space rats?
so a woman who shows a sliver of skin is a whore?
i sincerely hope that you die in a fire
If all the other women in the village think the woman is a whore and put their money where their mouth is by actually throwing rocks at her, who am I to tell them they're wrong? I don't live there, I just read propaganda written by parasites...
Do you not believe in peoples right to govern themselves?
Moral relativism, just as repungnant today as it was when it was first born. Certain things are simply wrong, regardless of cultural context. Murdering people for showing the wrong bit of skin or daring to walk around in public without a male family member is wrong, period. The fact that you can't see this means you're either lying to troll or you're a psychopath and should probably be put down like a rabid animal before you have a chance to hurt anyone again.
Thank you for expressing my opinion on the matter so clearly. Now I can just link people to your post when they ask how I feel about my time in school.
BTW, "laissez-faire" is not the same as anarchy. It just refers to the government staying out of the economy.
Which is basically the same thing, since the economy is a means of quantifying power, and without the check of government power on monetary power you have rule of steel instead of rule of law.
So from global warming we can actually expect colder winters at the poles.
Truly this is a theory that cannot be disproven.
Not really, you just don't understand it. You probably could if you cared to though.
Typical of a religionist to miss the point: the evidence will trend toward pointing out facts.
But... but... didn't you READ!? It has bad KERNING!
Still, I personally think using Comic Sans is perfectly cromulent.
From the libertarian party platform:
2.4 Government Finance and Spending
All persons are entitled to keep the fruits of their labor. We call for the repeal of the income tax, the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service and all federal programs and services not required under the U.S. Constitution. We oppose any legal requirements forcing employers to serve as tax collectors. Government should not incur debt, which burdens future generations without their consent. We support the passage of a "Balanced Budget Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, provided that the budget is balanced exclusively by cutting expenditures, and not by raising taxes.
Just a sample, really. You read the whole thing and it becomes pretty clear that public roads are completely antithetical to the LP's platform. In the view of the party, such things are better left to private businesses, completely unregulated by the government.
Of course, the LP also advocates for the right to corporate monopolies. I'm sure that mixing roads, lack of government regulations, and monopolies would lead to some kind of paradise, right?
Or, you know, maybe they could have waited for the fucking release date?
This is the voice of America: "Me, me, me! Now, now, now!" Makes you proud, doesn't it?
Not just the voice of America. Thats the voice of humanity.
If you look, you see that geeks tend to want efficient use of resources. Sometimes this means a government run program. Sometimes private. Sometimes a hybrid. Thats why it is so hard to pin us down. We disagree on a lot of the details on any given subject, which is where you see a lot of the argument here, but generally from what I've seen a vast majority (90%+) of slashdot folks want resources used efficiently while preserving individual liberty as much as is reasonable.
With the usual caveats about who defines efficiency and reasonableness.
Yes, but the banks are subsidized and guaranteed to make those loans in the first place. That money is "unfairly taxed" from the citizens on this country. You think the bank makes any money on the $22k they loaned me at 2.6% fixed interest for 20 years? I can't very well call myself a Libertarian and accept that kind of aid at the same time, now can I?
Honestly, you can't call yourself a Libertarian and drive on roads at the same time. At least, not and also be intellectually honest. Not to mention all the indirect things people benefit from. Pretty much all of the traditional ideologies fall apart in modern civilization, though, because they are all extremely limited models that tend to ignore large parts of the system that makes up civilization, or to underestimate the size and complexity of the system.
As far as I can tell, so far everyone is doing it wrong.
Well, possession of the gavel is 9/10ths of the law. As fucked up as that is.