Well, yes, but so what? That's just a name. They really did explain the communism part if you read anything to government put out. If you just go by the name the Nazis were socialists too, and the North Koreans are democrats.
Actually, the average Chinese guy is far wealthier today than he was before economic liberalization. It's come at a cost to the environment in China, to be sure, but that's sort of the natural progression developing countries go through. There used to be rivers in the US that would actually burn, and even as late as the mid '60s when you got up to go to work in Pittsburgh there would be a layer of coal dust on your car.
The older Chinese people still remember when the government ran everything. That's when 30 million of them starved to death.
There was not enough opportunity for voices that speak to a smaller audience. Now many of these places are looking to reach some people — not all the people. That's opened up a tremendous opportunity for women and other people that have been left out of the conversation.
This kind of statement reminds me of Catholic church every Sunday as a child. You don't really believe it, you don't think about it, but you know you're just supposed to mumble these words when you get to this point in the ceremony. How in the world could anyone believe women have been "left out of the conversation"? Does this man actually own a television?
In a legal sense, women seem to have no agency. A male teacher sleeps with one of his 12 year old students gets decades of hard time. A woman? Four months probation. Because patriarchy.
Those "free lunch, in-house gym, and dry cleaning" benefits aren't really benefits. They're an attempt to take away any excuse you have for leaving the office. It's not surprising people who work really long hours aren't happy with their jobs.
I spend more time looking for something to watch on Netflix than I do watching Netflix
I dropped it when I came to that realization. Every few years I sign up again to watch the content they've accumulated in the intervening time, after which I drop it again.
Which is why the studios are spreading money around in Washington. If they get the laws they want torrenting will be so dangerous it won't be worth doing. They're playing the long game.
Civil and Criminal courts are two very different arenas. "Standing" in criminal court really isn't a thing.
Standing rules prevent random people from tying up the courts suing over things that don't affect them. They're really a necessary part of the system that most people don't think about. Non-newsworthy lawsuits are rejected all the time for lack of standing.
Of course, lawsuits that really should be going forward (like this one or the appeal by CA voters over Prop 8) are sometimes rejected on standing grounds when the courts just don't want to deal with the issue.
I'm not sure if this kind of transnational market can ever be properly regulated, since that would involve changing the idea of what constitutes sovereignty in every single country.
That's not unique to carbon offset schemes, either. Even if you went with a straight carbon tax governments would find ways to subsidize critical industries so the tax didn't actually reduce carbon emissions.
I once had an HVAC guy tell me it's pretty common for people in that business to install unconnected thermostats in buildings where people complain about the temperature. Then the complaints stop.
The problem is cost. Fusion will probably never be cheaper than solar or wind alone, but it may very well be cheaper than solar or wind backed by storage.
I don't see how you get from there to pointing at a specific spot. What angle the mirror needs to be relative to the sun is going to depend on exactly where it is relative to the tower.
I've always wondered if this could be done with GPS. If you know where you are and where the tower is, you can figure out what angle the mirror should be to point at the tower. That would get you close enough for some kind of autocalibration if you put the right kind of sensors on the tower and had a link to the mirror controller.
Besides flight 4 and 19, the only thing on your list that's at all meaningful is the fire on flight 7, and even then... a success is a success. The fact that you can have problems like engine-outs and still make it to orbit is a point in favor of the design.
Every time they've had an engine out on H-2, the flight is over. This is the third iteration for that rocket family, and the first two both had failures.
The few top end of the corporations are earning more and more so they get to lobby and _donate_ money to government policymakers disturbing basic democracy.
This already happens, though, and the reason is large media outlets are owned by the same corporations with undue influence on governments. So the media is only "on their asses" when they do something the corporations don't like, or are at least indifferent to.
The idea of basic income means different things for different people around here, but AFAICT the idea is not to give people more money.
The assumption is you'll have pretty much the same number of people working that you have today. But people respond to incentives. It may be the number of people working will go down, which would ultimately mean a tax increase to cover the difference.
Looking at that list it's pretty clear in only a handful of cases the task for which the agency was created went away with the agency. Anyone who's worked for the government realizes bureaucracies like to rename things.
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Well, yes, but so what? That's just a name. They really did explain the communism part if you read anything to government put out. If you just go by the name the Nazis were socialists too, and the North Koreans are democrats.
Actually, the average Chinese guy is far wealthier today than he was before economic liberalization. It's come at a cost to the environment in China, to be sure, but that's sort of the natural progression developing countries go through. There used to be rivers in the US that would actually burn, and even as late as the mid '60s when you got up to go to work in Pittsburgh there would be a layer of coal dust on your car.
The older Chinese people still remember when the government ran everything. That's when 30 million of them starved to death.
That's only a tiny part of it. Public enthusiasm for CO2 reduction wilts pretty quickly when the public is asked to make sacrifices.
Which is exactly what the linked article says.
Yep. Excitement over this sort of thing is based on a false assumption - that drug targets are the expensive part. They're not.
This kind of statement reminds me of Catholic church every Sunday as a child. You don't really believe it, you don't think about it, but you know you're just supposed to mumble these words when you get to this point in the ceremony. How in the world could anyone believe women have been "left out of the conversation"? Does this man actually own a television?
In a legal sense, women seem to have no agency. A male teacher sleeps with one of his 12 year old students gets decades of hard time. A woman? Four months probation. Because patriarchy.
Those "free lunch, in-house gym, and dry cleaning" benefits aren't really benefits. They're an attempt to take away any excuse you have for leaving the office. It's not surprising people who work really long hours aren't happy with their jobs.
Seems like a lot of extra work. I wonder if they lifted the AV code from someone else.
I dropped it when I came to that realization. Every few years I sign up again to watch the content they've accumulated in the intervening time, after which I drop it again.
Which is why the studios are spreading money around in Washington. If they get the laws they want torrenting will be so dangerous it won't be worth doing. They're playing the long game.
He's simply using his own personal definition of "Republican", which for him is "Any person or situation I don't like".
Civil and Criminal courts are two very different arenas. "Standing" in criminal court really isn't a thing.
Standing rules prevent random people from tying up the courts suing over things that don't affect them. They're really a necessary part of the system that most people don't think about. Non-newsworthy lawsuits are rejected all the time for lack of standing.
Of course, lawsuits that really should be going forward (like this one or the appeal by CA voters over Prop 8) are sometimes rejected on standing grounds when the courts just don't want to deal with the issue.
I'm not sure if this kind of transnational market can ever be properly regulated, since that would involve changing the idea of what constitutes sovereignty in every single country.
That's not unique to carbon offset schemes, either. Even if you went with a straight carbon tax governments would find ways to subsidize critical industries so the tax didn't actually reduce carbon emissions.
I once had an HVAC guy tell me it's pretty common for people in that business to install unconnected thermostats in buildings where people complain about the temperature. Then the complaints stop.
The problem is cost. Fusion will probably never be cheaper than solar or wind alone, but it may very well be cheaper than solar or wind backed by storage.
I don't see how you get from there to pointing at a specific spot. What angle the mirror needs to be relative to the sun is going to depend on exactly where it is relative to the tower.
I've always wondered if this could be done with GPS. If you know where you are and where the tower is, you can figure out what angle the mirror should be to point at the tower. That would get you close enough for some kind of autocalibration if you put the right kind of sensors on the tower and had a link to the mirror controller.
We'll just have De Beers run the mining operation. Platinum Group will always be scarce no matter how much is mined.
No, it's not inconvenient at all. The constitution was changed to make slavery unconstitutional, and was not changed in any area relating to firearms.
Besides flight 4 and 19, the only thing on your list that's at all meaningful is the fire on flight 7, and even then... a success is a success. The fact that you can have problems like engine-outs and still make it to orbit is a point in favor of the design.
Every time they've had an engine out on H-2, the flight is over. This is the third iteration for that rocket family, and the first two both had failures.
They really could have come up with a better name. This one makes it sound like something you'd really like to avoid.
This already happens, though, and the reason is large media outlets are owned by the same corporations with undue influence on governments. So the media is only "on their asses" when they do something the corporations don't like, or are at least indifferent to.
The assumption is you'll have pretty much the same number of people working that you have today. But people respond to incentives. It may be the number of people working will go down, which would ultimately mean a tax increase to cover the difference.
Looking at that list it's pretty clear in only a handful of cases the task for which the agency was created went away with the agency. Anyone who's worked for the government realizes bureaucracies like to rename things.