We could, of course, find out fairly quickly if they are true or not by at least temporarily lifting the ban on new nuclear plant development and nixing all subsidies on the industry.
We'd also need to remove all subsidies on all forms of energy production, and force the producers to pay for the externalities (such as pollution, and the cost of adapting our infrastructure to global warming). At that point nuclear power starts looking like a bargain.
Logical concepts exist independent of who wrote a paper about them first.
Would you say that Howard discovered Conan the Barbarian, then? Because the concept of Conan was the result of calculations in his brain; in fact, the concept of Conan is part of the structure of reality in the exact same way that matemathical concepts are. As is this message, for that matter.
So, do fictionary characters exist independent of who wrote a book about them first? And does this mean that writing a death scene should be treated as murder?
You would not only have to root the webhost but also break out of the virtual machine to get to the underlying real hardware host and its real IP address.
Which is likely to be a private IP anyway. It's not like another physical machine sufficient to run TOR and sit between the host and the Internet is a huge investment.
Your forks would cave in the first time you hit a bump. That was the reason designers included rake in the first place; no rake or negative rake cannot take road shocks. It puts all the strain where the forks are attached to the steering post.
According to Wikipedia, ther purpose of the rake is to put the ground contact point of the wheel nearer to the steering axis, to reduce the caster effect and make the wheel easier to turn.
Consumption only creates demand in a market sense when someone profits from the production of content and someone is willing to pay something for that.
On most sites with user-generated content the "profit" takes the form of praise from other people, or simply pageviews. This is true on Slashdot (karma/replies), fanfiction.net (pageviews/reviews), DeviantArt (pageviews), Elfwood (pageviews), imageboards (replies) and so on; why wouldn't it be true in pedophile circles?
Humans are social animals and simply contributing to a community is inherently rewarding.
You are ignoring one thing: opportunity cost. If I use my money today to have my house painted, that means that someone needs to come over and paint it. That someone could be out building a new factory instead. By delaying my gratification, I should get more, because not demanding to use the resources I'm entitled to now means that they can instead be put into expanding the infrastructure, leading to there being more resources 30 years from now.
Yes, the next generation will have to work to support me when I retire, but they'll have a lot easier time of doing that if my generation spent our careers building roads and factories rather than baking delicacies for each other. This is why the idea that I'll be able to use my money in 30 years is not only reasonable but also necessary - and in fact, is what investment and (compound) interest are all about.
This idea that there is a large class of people too stupid to make decisions is fallacious.. in fact the idea that a lot of people need government to help them was the fucking problem to begin with. Families that bring home $35K/year know that they cannot afford a fucking $300,000 home. Don't let some twat trying to lay all the blame on the banks tell you differently.
So... people should be responsible for their own actions, unless they're bankers, in which case the responsibility of them granting too many high-risk loans and going bankrupt should be laid on the poor instead?
According to Wikipedia, the maximum distance from Earth's center is at the summit of Chimborazo, 6,384.4 kilometers from center. The lowest is the floor of the Arctic Ocean, 6,352.8 from the center. This makes for a difference of 31.6 kilometers. Dividing this difference with either of these - or any of the various mean radiuses in the linked page - gets a deviation of less than 0.5 percent from a perfect sphere.
Whatever is at work, the actual effect in the real world from naked pictures of a person being published, however old that person in the picture, is to devalue them. Typically by defining them as a sexual object, to the exclusion of other value or just as a person rather than an object.
This idea - that being viewed as a sexual object excludes being viewed as anything else - keeps on coming up. Is it some kind of leftover from puritanism? Yet another example of the Madonn/whore -complex? Or do some people simply project their personal obsessions on others?
Well adjusted people simply recoil in horror intuitively from the idea that someone would publish naked pictures of them. Healthy people have a sense of privacy.
Well-adjusted people react with anger, not horror, at the thought of someone breaching their privacy unwantedly. What you are describing is the behaviour of an abuse victim.
You should see a psychologist, or someone else who can help you develop some empathy.
Given the possibility that you're projecting I brought up above, and confusing well-adjusted people and abuse victims, you might wish to consider your own advice.
Interesting how the current climate change is only getting the negative press, without mentioning that the Sahara is re-vegetating and getting a fair amount of moisture.
Do you have any links? Because Sahara should be getting even wider and drier as global temperatures rise (it was last green in the ice age).
I advise you to think of how all that oil/coal was formed in the first place. Of course the planet is enough to suck out all that CO2, especially if you start sequestering wood in mines and such (much easier and safer than sequestering raw CO2).
Of course in the real world, no corporation pays tax. They either pass the increased costs onto their customers or the reduced income onto their employees in lower wages or layoffs.
I'm a bit unclear on some of the details here. Care to explain how they pass the increased costs onto their customers - I mean, I thought a company already asks whatever price it thinks will maximize income? Which, of course, won't change even if that income is taxed.
And if you tax profit rather than income (or make payroll tax-deductible), there's no layoffs either, because the optimal (for maximum profit) amount of employees won't change.
We can find other companies that will do what VeriSign does without violating our First Amendment right to free speech.
That shouldn't be hard, seeing how VeriSign only operates a few database machines. That said, VeriSign doesn't violate the First Amendment, seeing how that only prevents the government from limiting your free speech; as it turns out, that's one Hell of a loophole.
FWD is just fine in snow. All you have to do is remember is that the wheels are pulling in the direction the steering wheel is turned to, rather than the direction the car is facing.
Frankly, I'd rather see LaTeX as a language extension. That way, you could have the page itself specify if it's to be paginated or scrolled, and if paginated how those pages should be constructed. The syntax already exists, the parser is nearly bullet-proof (more than could be said of most browsers) and those who actually want such a format (ie: people writing books, papers, etc) are likely the ones who already know the LaTeX language.
The problem with this is... Web is not paper. You are not printing out A4s, you are rendering to my display. I always want everything in a single scrolled page with no margins. If I see something that's broken into 20+ pages, I'll just close the browser window/tab.
Content and presentation both matter, but the user should always be the final arbiter in representation.
Anything and everything to motivate them. Coddling children doesn't do them any favors.
It gives them a few years of peace and happiness to look back to before the endless and pointless treadmill race begins.
Also, constant embarrassment over something you can't change (no, most people can't be in top 5%, no matter how motivated they are) teaches learned helplessness, which is the exact opposite of what you presumably wanted.
We're protecting these kids from "humiliation" but it's better to embarass them a bit then to let them fail their way into life where they'll get smacked really hard, no?
If you want to keep people from being "smacked really hard", then stop the erosion of the middle class, so it'll be possible to have a decent quality of life without being one of the top 5%, rather than make the cutthroat competition to be there start even earlier.
*) So far "sometimes" is "always". If you want to claim that this time is different, there would need to be a substantial burden of proof on your part.
There's a selection bias here: if it were different - if we'd failed to get said technical developments in time - we would not be here now. Most cultures didn't, and disappeared. As for a particular example, look at the history of the norse settlers in Greenland; that's a culture that failed to adapt their technology to changing conditions and died out to the last man. For an example of man-made ecological disaster wiping out a civilization, look at Eastern Island.
Basically, every one of your ancestors managed to breed before dying, but that doesn't mean that all of us necessarily will. As for evidence that this time will be different, just look at the economic chaos that strikes every time oil prices hike. Now imagine that the price tends towards infinity; what do you think will happen?
I'm convinced most Slashdotters have never read a single economics, history, religious, or philosophy book of any practical relevance, let alone a technical reference.
It's not that you can't come up with any better argument than that to defend your own views on said subjects that's the saddest thing here. No, the saddest thing is that you realized even yourself what a pathethic argument that was well enough to post anonymously, yet still felt compelled to post it.
I think there is something we don't know about. If they really got "official" version, then I am expecting that many heads in German federal government will fall.
Yeah. A country that was mentored by both Hitler and Stalin really has no excuse for incompetence in this area.
Well, that's marginally better than the copyright wars that reigned here not so long ago... or the global warming debate... or... what was before that? I forget.
Religion, specifically Intelligent Design. Which typically degenerated into a poo-flinging contest even faster than those two since neither side knew neither theology nor science (or at least the people who made the most noise didn't).
My theory is that these topics get posted cyclically to keep people from getting bored. It's not unlike crop rotation, with technical articles being the equivalent of letting the field lay fallow so it may regain its strength for the next round of pageview trolling topics.
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We'd also need to remove all subsidies on all forms of energy production, and force the producers to pay for the externalities (such as pollution, and the cost of adapting our infrastructure to global warming). At that point nuclear power starts looking like a bargain.
Would you say that Howard discovered Conan the Barbarian, then? Because the concept of Conan was the result of calculations in his brain; in fact, the concept of Conan is part of the structure of reality in the exact same way that matemathical concepts are. As is this message, for that matter.
So, do fictionary characters exist independent of who wrote a book about them first? And does this mean that writing a death scene should be treated as murder?
Which is likely to be a private IP anyway. It's not like another physical machine sufficient to run TOR and sit between the host and the Internet is a huge investment.
According to Wikipedia, ther purpose of the rake is to put the ground contact point of the wheel nearer to the steering axis, to reduce the caster effect and make the wheel easier to turn.
On most sites with user-generated content the "profit" takes the form of praise from other people, or simply pageviews. This is true on Slashdot (karma/replies), fanfiction.net (pageviews/reviews), DeviantArt (pageviews), Elfwood (pageviews), imageboards (replies) and so on; why wouldn't it be true in pedophile circles?
Humans are social animals and simply contributing to a community is inherently rewarding.
You are ignoring one thing: opportunity cost. If I use my money today to have my house painted, that means that someone needs to come over and paint it. That someone could be out building a new factory instead. By delaying my gratification, I should get more, because not demanding to use the resources I'm entitled to now means that they can instead be put into expanding the infrastructure, leading to there being more resources 30 years from now.
Yes, the next generation will have to work to support me when I retire, but they'll have a lot easier time of doing that if my generation spent our careers building roads and factories rather than baking delicacies for each other. This is why the idea that I'll be able to use my money in 30 years is not only reasonable but also necessary - and in fact, is what investment and (compound) interest are all about.
So... people should be responsible for their own actions, unless they're bankers, in which case the responsibility of them granting too many high-risk loans and going bankrupt should be laid on the poor instead?
According to Wikipedia, the maximum distance from Earth's center is at the summit of Chimborazo, 6,384.4 kilometers from center. The lowest is the floor of the Arctic Ocean, 6,352.8 from the center. This makes for a difference of 31.6 kilometers. Dividing this difference with either of these - or any of the various mean radiuses in the linked page - gets a deviation of less than 0.5 percent from a perfect sphere.
In other words, Earth is very much a sphere.
This idea - that being viewed as a sexual object excludes being viewed as anything else - keeps on coming up. Is it some kind of leftover from puritanism? Yet another example of the Madonn/whore -complex? Or do some people simply project their personal obsessions on others?
Well-adjusted people react with anger, not horror, at the thought of someone breaching their privacy unwantedly. What you are describing is the behaviour of an abuse victim.
Given the possibility that you're projecting I brought up above, and confusing well-adjusted people and abuse victims, you might wish to consider your own advice.
Interesting how the current climate change is only getting the negative press, without mentioning that the Sahara is re-vegetating and getting a fair amount of moisture.
Do you have any links? Because Sahara should be getting even wider and drier as global temperatures rise (it was last green in the ice age).
I advise you to think of how all that oil/coal was formed in the first place. Of course the planet is enough to suck out all that CO2, especially if you start sequestering wood in mines and such (much easier and safer than sequestering raw CO2).
I'm a bit unclear on some of the details here. Care to explain how they pass the increased costs onto their customers - I mean, I thought a company already asks whatever price it thinks will maximize income? Which, of course, won't change even if that income is taxed.
And if you tax profit rather than income (or make payroll tax-deductible), there's no layoffs either, because the optimal (for maximum profit) amount of employees won't change.
More importantly, it's evasion when you do it, but avoidance when your corporate overlords do.
That shouldn't be hard, seeing how VeriSign only operates a few database machines. That said, VeriSign doesn't violate the First Amendment, seeing how that only prevents the government from limiting your free speech; as it turns out, that's one Hell of a loophole.
FWD is just fine in snow. All you have to do is remember is that the wheels are pulling in the direction the steering wheel is turned to, rather than the direction the car is facing.
The problem with this is... Web is not paper. You are not printing out A4s, you are rendering to my display. I always want everything in a single scrolled page with no margins. If I see something that's broken into 20+ pages, I'll just close the browser window/tab.
Content and presentation both matter, but the user should always be the final arbiter in representation.
It gives them a few years of peace and happiness to look back to before the endless and pointless treadmill race begins.
Also, constant embarrassment over something you can't change (no, most people can't be in top 5%, no matter how motivated they are) teaches learned helplessness, which is the exact opposite of what you presumably wanted.
If you want to keep people from being "smacked really hard", then stop the erosion of the middle class, so it'll be possible to have a decent quality of life without being one of the top 5%, rather than make the cutthroat competition to be there start even earlier.
It's almost as crazy as suggesting that constitutional democracies were more free than unlimited dictatorships.
There's a selection bias here: if it were different - if we'd failed to get said technical developments in time - we would not be here now. Most cultures didn't, and disappeared. As for a particular example, look at the history of the norse settlers in Greenland; that's a culture that failed to adapt their technology to changing conditions and died out to the last man. For an example of man-made ecological disaster wiping out a civilization, look at Eastern Island.
Basically, every one of your ancestors managed to breed before dying, but that doesn't mean that all of us necessarily will. As for evidence that this time will be different, just look at the economic chaos that strikes every time oil prices hike. Now imagine that the price tends towards infinity; what do you think will happen?
A trusthworthy source, that.
It's not that you can't come up with any better argument than that to defend your own views on said subjects that's the saddest thing here. No, the saddest thing is that you realized even yourself what a pathethic argument that was well enough to post anonymously, yet still felt compelled to post it.
I cry for you, mr. AC. ;..(
Yeah. A country that was mentored by both Hitler and Stalin really has no excuse for incompetence in this area.
Religion, specifically Intelligent Design. Which typically degenerated into a poo-flinging contest even faster than those two since neither side knew neither theology nor science (or at least the people who made the most noise didn't).
My theory is that these topics get posted cyclically to keep people from getting bored. It's not unlike crop rotation, with technical articles being the equivalent of letting the field lay fallow so it may regain its strength for the next round of pageview trolling topics.
Jobs, Gates, Stallman. It was the GNU project that made the free userland that made a free kernel useful.