Having money for the sake of having money really isn't any fun. The only reason people work for money is to have it to SPEND on things they want or like to do.
Planning to own a home? To retire? To have kids? To be able to deal with the unexpected?
Unfortunately, the facts are highly secret. However, the fact that those facts are secret (warrantless wiretaps, indefinite detention, gag-order search warrants, secret unaccountable no-fly lists) is extremely disturbing, because I have yet to hear a plausible scenario under which those things are necessary that is congruent with the rule of law under our constitution.
To answer your question directly, however, right now they are going after the Muslims (if the story of Jose Padilla doesn't outrage you, you need to have another look) and the poor (dismantling welfare/public health/education/affordable housing/manufacturing base, and building jails to handle the results).
If a smallpox vaccine is cheap, why hasn't it been administered to all healthy adults that have little to no risks?
Because except for weaponized stocks in the US and former USSR, Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the planet as of 1979. Vaccination proved to be a remarkably effective tool against smallpox.
Similarly, polio, rubella, and a host of other crippling childhood illnesses have been reduced from feared epidemics to medical curiosities within a single human lifetime.
Now, you're right that not every disease has a vaccine, and that not every vaccine, especially flu, is as effective as the one that wiped out smallpox. However, the solution you propose (education, indigenous development of medical technology) is much easier when your civil society doesn't have to bear the burden of caring for those laid low by illness. A truly effective Malaria vaccine, for example, would go a long way towards helping countries in malarial regions stand on their own two feet.
Now, as far as vaccine dissemination in America, that can be chalked up to the general collapse of our public health system, and because vaccination is the sort of widespread social good that market forces don't handle very effectively. But in no way does that mean vaccinations aren't a win for societies.
And vaccines also only really need to be developed once. Producing them is a much easier task, if the local government has the resources to do so and is willing to prioritize the health of its citizens over paying a foreign drug company.
What if I gave them an education and they either figured out ways to earn money to outsource it or figured out how to develop vaccines themselves
Have you noticed that western universities and medical schools seem to admit a lot of students from third-world countries? Have you noticed that we live in a global and interdependent society, where technology, talent, goods, services, and information disseminate fairly freely?
The same way pinball, a jigsaw puzzle, or a stairmaster is.
how mine sweeper is two player
The same way Mastermind is.
please explain to me how a set of code which tells it to react exactly how it does became a person, hence making it two player.
I think that games, especially simple ones, make particularly poor Turing tests. Wanna play Tic-Tac-Toe against an unseen opponent and tell me if it's human or not?
That was talking about how the moviewould have taken months to render if they hadn't redesigned their rendering pipeline. Also, it's horseshit, since the complicated shots (e.g. Hell) were done by established VFX houses. And even more horseshit since they could have bought more render nodes or used an outside service as well. In other places, Trey and Matt have compared rendering South Park with Maya to using a bulldozer to build a sandcastle. They turn out the shots for an episode in days, which is why they're able to have extremely topical stuff in new episodes (e.g. Saddam in his spider hole airing just 3 days after he was captured).
Not that animation in general isn't hard or time-consuming, or that the animators who work on South Park aren't talented, but South Park is fast and cheap to produce.
The implicit trust placed by many in cashier's checks makes them a tempting target for fraud. See Scam #2 in this list, for example. I agree that it's infuriating, though.
Fission reactors will always produce harmful waste, but we have been able to deal with that in the past quite effectively.
Ah, yes - beautiful Hanford, WA... once the site of horrendous numbers of leaking tanks of 60 year-old high-level waste, and now a family vacation spot for all [sorts of new strains of bizarre radiation-loving bacteria].
3 Mile Island, I think. The problem there was that their instruments were lying to them due to several failures interacting. Also, if a coal plant blows sky high, you have a mess to clean up, rather than generations of cancer and a large swath of uninhabitable land, so I don't think any claim of greater safety is supportable with the stakes so much higher.
That's not to say pebble bed reactors aren't a lot safer than current nuclear plants, but that's also because a traditional PWR reactor is a scaled-up submarine design that's totally inappropriate for large-scale power generation. GE really pooched the future with its design and marketing decisions back in the 50's.
Also, I'm given to understand that one major problem with safer reactor designs (like CANDU and breeder reactors) is that they are able to easily produce weapons-grade fissionables, although I'm not sure if that applies to pebble bed.
According to the folks on Groklaw, WP 5.1 is still in widespread use in law offices, as its file format doesn't leave traces of previous document revisions, and several court cases have turned on things inadvertently being revealed through MS Office documents sent to the opposition.
Well, we _are_ occupying Mexico, that was the somewhat facetious point. But what are the Israelis occupying? It used to be Jordan and Egypt, and before that, British Palestine, and before that, Ottoman Palestine. Israel tried to give Gaza back to Egypt in the Sinai withdrawal, and Egypt wouldn't take it (Al Qaeda's ideology of attacking the 'enemy from afar' evolved in response to Egypt's treatment of radical Islamists). Jordan occupying half of Jerusalem was/is a non-starter given the way they treated the religious sites and fired at civilians from the walls.
Israel would love to get out of Gaza and most of the West Bank, and went so far as to offer exactly that to Arafat, but the security considerations of allowing an unrestricted airport and seaport to a Palestinian state in Gaza/the West Bank are nothing short of nightmarish, especially when the stated platform of the ruling Palestinian party is to kill every Israeli jew. It's difficult to grok just how small an area of land is being fought over from over here.
The arab countries' decision to strand the refugees from the '48 war (yet expel the jews from their soil and expropriate their land in the 50's) started all this. The arabs that didn't flee Israel proper in '48 and their decendents are full Israeli citizens today.
The real killer is weapon switching in FPSes. It's a real stetch to map enough keys for that, since the shift button affects everything. Guess it would be less of an issue if you're used to using the wheel to switch, although the wheel on the n52 blows.
And it's easier to be nice to your immediate neighbors when they haven't been in a state of declared war for 50 years, and when they don't cynically use refugees from a conflict 35 years ago as pawns.
Well, there's a hell of a lot more attempts, too. If migrant mexican workers started suicide bombing in Texas and lobbing home-built sugar-burning rockets over the border, I think we'd be a bit less able to deal with it than the Israelis currently are.
And the 9/11 hijackers would never have been able to enter an El Al cockpit.
Yes, it is. Distribution doesn't mean internal use, any more than an organization needs to grant reproduction rights to itself for copyrighted works it creates. The corporation is a person, remember?
I just can't wait until HD content becomes standard enough that producers stop leaning on the 'boost saturation' button. The grass in HD footbal games is so bright you can barely stand to look at it. We get it, you can have bright reds and greens now - please stop.
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Planning to own a home? To retire? To have kids? To be able to deal with the unexpected?
To answer your question directly, however, right now they are going after the Muslims (if the story of Jose Padilla doesn't outrage you, you need to have another look) and the poor (dismantling welfare/public health/education/affordable housing/manufacturing base, and building jails to handle the results).
Because except for weaponized stocks in the US and former USSR, Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the planet as of 1979. Vaccination proved to be a remarkably effective tool against smallpox.
Similarly, polio, rubella, and a host of other crippling childhood illnesses have been reduced from feared epidemics to medical curiosities within a single human lifetime.
Now, you're right that not every disease has a vaccine, and that not every vaccine, especially flu, is as effective as the one that wiped out smallpox. However, the solution you propose (education, indigenous development of medical technology) is much easier when your civil society doesn't have to bear the burden of caring for those laid low by illness. A truly effective Malaria vaccine, for example, would go a long way towards helping countries in malarial regions stand on their own two feet.
Now, as far as vaccine dissemination in America, that can be chalked up to the general collapse of our public health system, and because vaccination is the sort of widespread social good that market forces don't handle very effectively. But in no way does that mean vaccinations aren't a win for societies.
And vaccines also only really need to be developed once. Producing them is a much easier task, if the local government has the resources to do so and is willing to prioritize the health of its citizens over paying a foreign drug company.
What if I gave them an education and they either figured out ways to earn money to outsource it or figured out how to develop vaccines themselves
Have you noticed that western universities and medical schools seem to admit a lot of students from third-world countries? Have you noticed that we live in a global and interdependent society, where technology, talent, goods, services, and information disseminate fairly freely?
The same way pinball, a jigsaw puzzle, or a stairmaster is.
how mine sweeper is two player
The same way Mastermind is.
please explain to me how a set of code which tells it to react exactly how it does became a person, hence making it two player.
I think that games, especially simple ones, make particularly poor Turing tests. Wanna play Tic-Tac-Toe against an unseen opponent and tell me if it's human or not?
Que?
Or hire them for some consulting work and ask for a W9.
Not that animation in general isn't hard or time-consuming, or that the animators who work on South Park aren't talented, but South Park is fast and cheap to produce.
Yeah, I always see big business coming down on the side of increased regulation.
The implicit trust placed by many in cashier's checks makes them a tempting target for fraud. See Scam #2 in this list, for example. I agree that it's infuriating, though.
True, but when I get in a car, my great-grandchildren are perfectly safe (not counting global warming).
Ah, yes - beautiful Hanford, WA... once the site of horrendous numbers of leaking tanks of 60 year-old high-level waste, and now a family vacation spot for all [sorts of new strains of bizarre radiation-loving bacteria].
That's not to say pebble bed reactors aren't a lot safer than current nuclear plants, but that's also because a traditional PWR reactor is a scaled-up submarine design that's totally inappropriate for large-scale power generation. GE really pooched the future with its design and marketing decisions back in the 50's.
Also, I'm given to understand that one major problem with safer reactor designs (like CANDU and breeder reactors) is that they are able to easily produce weapons-grade fissionables, although I'm not sure if that applies to pebble bed.
According to the folks on Groklaw, WP 5.1 is still in widespread use in law offices, as its file format doesn't leave traces of previous document revisions, and several court cases have turned on things inadvertently being revealed through MS Office documents sent to the opposition.
Israel would love to get out of Gaza and most of the West Bank, and went so far as to offer exactly that to Arafat, but the security considerations of allowing an unrestricted airport and seaport to a Palestinian state in Gaza/the West Bank are nothing short of nightmarish, especially when the stated platform of the ruling Palestinian party is to kill every Israeli jew. It's difficult to grok just how small an area of land is being fought over from over here.
The arab countries' decision to strand the refugees from the '48 war (yet expel the jews from their soil and expropriate their land in the 50's) started all this. The arabs that didn't flee Israel proper in '48 and their decendents are full Israeli citizens today.
Yes, because at a certain point you no longer have one society, but two.
The real killer is weapon switching in FPSes. It's a real stetch to map enough keys for that, since the shift button affects everything. Guess it would be less of an issue if you're used to using the wheel to switch, although the wheel on the n52 blows.
Funny, I thought we were.
And it's easier to be nice to your immediate neighbors when they haven't been in a state of declared war for 50 years, and when they don't cynically use refugees from a conflict 35 years ago as pawns.
Gangbang gramma! Bananarama!
And the 9/11 hijackers would never have been able to enter an El Al cockpit.
torrent here. (90 MB DiVX)
The stuff in antibacterial soap is itself an antibiotic, and now you know.
Two words: Promissory Estoppel.
Yes, it is. Distribution doesn't mean internal use, any more than an organization needs to grant reproduction rights to itself for copyrighted works it creates. The corporation is a person, remember?
Within an organization != distribution. The GPL FAQ is quite clear on that.
I just can't wait until HD content becomes standard enough that producers stop leaning on the 'boost saturation' button. The grass in HD footbal games is so bright you can barely stand to look at it. We get it, you can have bright reds and greens now - please stop.