The Conservatives got a majority government (more or less total control of the federal government) with about 39% of the popular vote. Something less than 6 million votes in a country of 33 million people giving them control. That is, less than 20% of the population expressed support the government at the ballot box and gave them the power to do whatever they want. The system in action.
Policy makers should define the problem, not the solution. Let the free market define the solution. That is, tax the fossil fuels and allow people to choose to live closer to work, use public transit, carpool, ride a bike, walk, etc. as their preferred solution.
I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
"Siri, I'm on a jury and a judge has asked me whether a rectangular shaped phone with rounded corners infringes on an Apple patent. What should I answer?"
Kyoto was never about saving the Earth. It was about holding the US back so the rest of the world could catch up economicly.
You're half right. Kyoto was never about saving the Earth. Kyoto was about politicians pretending to care about saving the earth to improve their reelection chances by making promises that would be delivered far enough in the future that those making the promises could not be held accountable.
24. Cannot stream audio from video playback to Bluetooth devices as A2DP profile is not implemented.
Incorrect. WP7.5 implements A2DP. All WP7 phones can stream audio using A2DP. Some older phones do not stream A2DP audio during video playback.
23. No way to stream audio to the majority of car audio systems as the most common Bluetooth rSAP profile is not implemented.
In my experience the majority of car audio systems use A2DP to stream music. rSAP is the remote SIM Access Profile, and I will confess to ignorance as to what SIM access has to do with streaming audio and I am ready to be educated.
I have a fix. Instead of the institutition receiving money up front, it receives a percentage of the students future earnings after graduation.
e.g. College agrees to educate student for 4 years in a degree in X, and student agrees that for the remainder of his life he will pay the college 1% of his gross income. I'm not fixated on the details here (i.e. only count income above poverty level).
The concept is that the college has a financial incentive to educate the student in a manner that will make them a productive member of the economy. Return on investment is a great motivator of economic efficiency.
Legalizing drugs means that nobody will be bribed to look the other way while drugs are being moved. Which removes a huge source of corruption within government, including law enforcement. Which prevents them from conditioned to accepting bribes, such that when a terrorist tries to bribe them they are more likely to turn him in than accept the bribe.
He was rich and powerful. Of course that was 8 years ago and perhaps TSA changed their policies since then to no longer search the rich and powerful. I don't have any more recent examples.
Victims of alcohol are children and the other family members of alcholics.
However, criminalizing the use and possession of alcohol does not make the problem of alcohol abuse go away. It just creates additional problems because now only criminals can possess or use alcohol . So you have a bunch of violence and theft and turf war crossfires. See "Prohibition, USA 1920s".
Physical sports are exciting for a lot of people because there's a lot of fast visual action, people rushing around and crashing into each other, scoring goals, carrying out very visual actions.
I think that 98% of baseball is doing math to calculate an ERA while you are waiting for something exciting to happen on the field. And this is the most popular sport in America.
Even the mainstream media is no longer mainstream. CBS evening news once pulled 15 millions viewers yet now, with a much larger population, it pulls about 5 million.
There are induction loops (metal dectors) buried in the pavement that tell the traffic lights about approaching cars. When my car passes over the loop it is telling the traffic signal at the intersection that I will be arriving within 10 seconds. If there is no cross traffic the light tells me to proceed by changing to green (or remaining green).
5 years ago they could have labeled these billion dollar financial instruments "Collateralized Debt Obligation" (aka CDO, a bundle of worthless subprime mortages) and sold the crap successfully. Same piece of paper crap whether its a fake TBill or CDO, but the latter is completely legal.
Critters that live in the oceans and are killed by increased acidification resulting from CO2 dissolving in seawater would disagree with the assertion that CO2 is not a pollutant.
Electric car investment is clearly necessary. Without the investment, no electric cars.
If you define the problem as "Needs more electric cars" then I agree that with your solution of investing more money in electric cars.
However, if instead you define the problem as "We need to reduce fossil fuel use because fossil fuel use causes global warming, widespread environmental damage, finances terrorism and dictators, and causes money to be wasted on military adventurers overseas" then the solution is to increase taxes on fossil fuels and let the free market determine how best to reduce the consumption (e.g. communities of people living closer to work/shopping, mass transit, bicycling, more fuel efficient vehicles, electric vehicles).
The most disappointing thing about WoW is not that Activision/Blizzard is trying to monetize what they have, it's that after 7 years WoW is still a character progression treadmill just like the MMOs that preceded it. If it was possible to break out of that model then WoW, with its revenues 10 times greater than those of blockbuster MMOs, then WoW would have done it by now.
It's like the quest for a machine to travel back at time: If it were possible to invent one, someone in the future would have done it and brought it back to demo it.
Or interstellar space travel: If it were possible, one of the other planets in the universe would have developed it a billion years ago and have reached Earth by now.
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The Conservatives got a majority government (more or less total control of the federal government) with about 39% of the popular vote. Something less than 6 million votes in a country of 33 million people giving them control. That is, less than 20% of the population expressed support the government at the ballot box and gave them the power to do whatever they want. The system in action.
I see why the Baiji dolphins of that river went extinct. At least they didn't have to suffer through this red mess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiji
Policy makers should define the problem, not the solution. Let the free market define the solution. That is, tax the fossil fuels and allow people to choose to live closer to work, use public transit, carpool, ride a bike, walk, etc. as their preferred solution.
I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.
- Steve Jobs, 2011.
32 nm tech didn't exist in phones at one point. Can you patent "usage of higher resolution computer technology in a mobile device"?
"Siri, I'm on a jury and a judge has asked me whether a rectangular shaped phone with rounded corners infringes on an Apple patent. What should I answer?"
Kyoto was never about saving the Earth. It was about holding the US back so the rest of the world could catch up economicly.
You're half right. Kyoto was never about saving the Earth. Kyoto was about politicians pretending to care about saving the earth to improve their reelection chances by making promises that would be delivered far enough in the future that those making the promises could not be held accountable.
When you enter an unrecoverable flat spin to your impending doom, the answer is to eject (ideally with a golden parachute.)
Didn't save Goose tho.
24. Cannot stream audio from video playback to Bluetooth devices as A2DP profile is not implemented.
Incorrect. WP7.5 implements A2DP. All WP7 phones can stream audio using A2DP. Some older phones do not stream A2DP audio during video playback.
23. No way to stream audio to the majority of car audio systems as the most common Bluetooth rSAP profile is not implemented.
In my experience the majority of car audio systems use A2DP to stream music. rSAP is the remote SIM Access Profile, and I will confess to ignorance as to what SIM access has to do with streaming audio and I am ready to be educated.
Half the population has below median intelligence. (Split the odd person in half if needed.)
Those who distinguish between "average" and "median" qualify for inclusion in the upper half. :)
I have a fix. Instead of the institutition receiving money up front, it receives a percentage of the students future earnings after graduation.
e.g. College agrees to educate student for 4 years in a degree in X, and student agrees that for the remainder of his life he will pay the college 1% of his gross income. I'm not fixated on the details here (i.e. only count income above poverty level).
The concept is that the college has a financial incentive to educate the student in a manner that will make them a productive member of the economy. Return on investment is a great motivator of economic efficiency.
What defeated the Soviets was that the "Communist" economic model they used was ineffective at promoting long term economic growth and prosperity.
I believe their economic model was best summarized by a saying of the workers: "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."
Legalizing drugs means that nobody will be bribed to look the other way while drugs are being moved. Which removes a huge source of corruption within government, including law enforcement. Which prevents them from conditioned to accepting bribes, such that when a terrorist tries to bribe them they are more likely to turn him in than accept the bribe.
Ted Kennedy (the US Senator, now deceased) was stopped trying to board a plane in 2004 because his name was on a terror watch list.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-19-kennedy-list_x.htm
He was rich and powerful. Of course that was 8 years ago and perhaps TSA changed their policies since then to no longer search the rich and powerful. I don't have any more recent examples.
Victims of alcohol are children and the other family members of alcholics.
However, criminalizing the use and possession of alcohol does not make the problem of alcohol abuse go away. It just creates additional problems because now only criminals can possess or use alcohol . So you have a bunch of violence and theft and turf war crossfires. See "Prohibition, USA 1920s".
Say what you do.
Do what you say.
The documentation becomes an error check on the code and vice-versa. If the 2 disagree, something needs to be fixed.
Physical sports are exciting for a lot of people because there's a lot of fast visual action, people rushing around and crashing into each other, scoring goals, carrying out very visual actions.
I think that 98% of baseball is doing math to calculate an ERA while you are waiting for something exciting to happen on the field. And this is the most popular sport in America.
Even the mainstream media is no longer mainstream. CBS evening news once pulled 15 millions viewers yet now, with a much larger population, it pulls about 5 million.
Everything is niche. The mainstream is a lie.
There are induction loops (metal dectors) buried in the pavement that tell the traffic lights about approaching cars. When my car passes over the loop it is telling the traffic signal at the intersection that I will be arriving within 10 seconds. If there is no cross traffic the light tells me to proceed by changing to green (or remaining green).
5 years ago they could have labeled these billion dollar financial instruments "Collateralized Debt Obligation" (aka CDO, a bundle of worthless subprime mortages) and sold the crap successfully. Same piece of paper crap whether its a fake TBill or CDO, but the latter is completely legal.
Oh, wait. I see. That explains alot. :)
Critters that live in the oceans and are killed by increased acidification resulting from CO2 dissolving in seawater would disagree with the assertion that CO2 is not a pollutant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
Creating taxes for any other purpose is at best misguided interventionism, and taken to the extreme is nothing but fascism.
Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law
Electric car investment is clearly necessary. Without the investment, no electric cars.
If you define the problem as "Needs more electric cars" then I agree that with your solution of investing more money in electric cars.
However, if instead you define the problem as "We need to reduce fossil fuel use because fossil fuel use causes global warming, widespread environmental damage, finances terrorism and dictators, and causes money to be wasted on military adventurers overseas" then the solution is to increase taxes on fossil fuels and let the free market determine how best to reduce the consumption (e.g. communities of people living closer to work/shopping, mass transit, bicycling, more fuel efficient vehicles, electric vehicles).
The most disappointing thing about WoW is not that Activision/Blizzard is trying to monetize what they have, it's that after 7 years WoW is still a character progression treadmill just like the MMOs that preceded it. If it was possible to break out of that model then WoW, with its revenues 10 times greater than those of blockbuster MMOs, then WoW would have done it by now.
It's like the quest for a machine to travel back at time: If it were possible to invent one, someone in the future would have done it and brought it back to demo it.
Or interstellar space travel: If it were possible, one of the other planets in the universe would have developed it a billion years ago and have reached Earth by now.