My roof is the floor of the people upstairs. I can't install solar!
This is increasingly the situation many people find themselves in, having bought into the urban, high density, live close to everything and take your bicycle to work lifestyle. We will forever be the slaves of the big power utility.
Where's that hipster urban planner with the pony-tail that sold me this line of crap? I want to strangle him.
as every study I've heard of says the exact opposite.
[citation needed]
Studies depend on funding and don't like to rock the politically correct boat of equality. It's interesting that some of the best material available to study the subject is the folklore of various cultures. For example, there is no male* equivalent of Cinderella's evil stepsisters, with warnings about surrepticious activity used to undermine a competitor.
*This is not entirely true. Some linguistic studies have been done to characterize speech differences between genders. Including some recent work with computational linguistics, using things like Twitter as a corpus. When text of a conversation is scrubbed of gender identifying word forms, people (and computers) can identify male vs female conversations by certain things like making negative comments about third parties and other similar topics. At first, the difference appeared to be statistically insignificant. But upon further study, it appears that the populations used for training the semantic tools may have been polluted by not correcting for the Kinsey scale [wikipedia.org]. Once that is done, the aversion of (politically incorrect statement ahead) straight men to cut people down behind their back becomes evident. Its an old generalization that appears to be proven out. If you hear two people discussing something like "the ugly outfit" that someone else is wearing, it is stereotypically women or gay men. Men tend to make a remark directly to the subject's face (sometimes just in fun).
Why not neither. More advanced societies can find some function for the low testosterone members. And so they survive and breed.
In hunter-gatherer societies, everyone needs to go out and kill some game. Once social groups get bigger and economies develop trade, they get more diverse. Someone can stay behind in the village and make furniture or bake bread.
Subjects with high testosterone levels* are socialized to compete for some goal. Subjects with low testosterone levels (women) compete against each other. I don't think you want to live in a society dominated by people always trying to trip each other up while smiling at each other.
I have witnessed such cases.
And I have witnessed the aforementioned behavior. Taken advantage of it on numerous occasions as well. I'd rather deal with someone that confronts me than creeps around behind my back.
always trying to harm other men (domination, "alpha male")
Not really. Read Sex at Dawn. Homo sapiens are more closely related to primate species that don't have definite alpha male societies. Animals (not just primates) that do have such a social model are characterised by smaller testicles/penises and less sexual activity. Humans, chimps and bonobos are more closely related and have more sex and larger sexual organs (in relation to body mass) than gorillas (alpha male groups). I'd say the alpha male social model (or alpha female) is more an indicator of a lack of testosterone.
*Maybe. Its a male behavioral characteristic, modified by social settings. Some women have a certain amount of testosterone as well and I wouldn't be surprised if these are more sucessful in business and other stereotypical male professions.
Your ISP catches you stealing three videos or launching three rockets and you get cut off. Its right there in your Terms Of Service.
Cloud-based, probably wireless command an control systems are pretty esy to rednedr useless by a technologically advanced enemy like Israel. Heck, just fire up a cell phone jammer.
Yes. But voluntary at what level? In some societies, we value individual's rights above those of the collective. Each person makes their own choices. In others, things are done by consensus. What the majority wants, each member goes along with.
It works out to more than a dollar per man, woman, and child in the USA.
Not much in comparison to the entire tax take. But what is it per K-12 student? Or per instructor?
code.org's approach seems to be getting instructors up to speed on the curriculum. That amount of money might be suficient. But then what do we have to buy in terms of hardware, software, books, etc. for each student? $400M probably isn't going to hack it. So once you have the teacher at the head of the classroom and the kids don't have fully onfigured laptops, we will need to come up with more to protect the initial sunk cost.
If Microsoft thinks this means a copy of MVS on every student's desktop, they are having a wet dream the likes of which I can't imagine.
There's big 'C' Communist and little 'c' communist. Those that adhered to the Communist parties platform (the one chaired in the former Soviet Union) were natually under suspicion as being agents of a hostile power. Little 'c' communists by rights should not have fallen into this category. But back in the McCarthy era, they didn't bother to differentiate between the two. And there was the possibility that adherents to the philosophy of little 'c' communism might be turned to do the bidding of the big 'C' party.
Whether little 'c' comunism is worth a shit or not, I'll leave for some other discussion.
But, as telcos love to point out, broadband is NOT phone service. It is not subject to the same regulations. That's why they were able to provide it to some neighborhoods and not others. And price it any way they wanted. And maintain it in whatever crappy manner they wanted.
So now the municipality steps in and says, "We can play that game too." We'll pick and choose where we want to run our fiber.
Oddly enough, the argument that municipalities will end up runnig fiber only to the most lucrative areas undermines the telco's arguments. If the city couldn't get the telco to run fiber there, what chance do they have to get it run to less profitable areas?
IANAA (I Am Not An Astrophysicist) but I was under the impression that black holes have a non-zero Schwarzschild radius (and therefore volume). Together with a finite mass, how does one get infinity for density?
Yes, there are things about warped space that may give odd local answers frome a classical physics perspective. But using the term 'infinie density' seems to be an over simplification that is misleading.
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Fool me twice, shame on me.
My roof is the floor of the people upstairs. I can't install solar!
This is increasingly the situation many people find themselves in, having bought into the urban, high density, live close to everything and take your bicycle to work lifestyle. We will forever be the slaves of the big power utility.
Where's that hipster urban planner with the pony-tail that sold me this line of crap? I want to strangle him.
as every study I've heard of says the exact opposite.
[citation needed]
Studies depend on funding and don't like to rock the politically correct boat of equality. It's interesting that some of the best material available to study the subject is the folklore of various cultures. For example, there is no male* equivalent of Cinderella's evil stepsisters, with warnings about surrepticious activity used to undermine a competitor.
*This is not entirely true. Some linguistic studies have been done to characterize speech differences between genders. Including some recent work with computational linguistics, using things like Twitter as a corpus. When text of a conversation is scrubbed of gender identifying word forms, people (and computers) can identify male vs female conversations by certain things like making negative comments about third parties and other similar topics. At first, the difference appeared to be statistically insignificant. But upon further study, it appears that the populations used for training the semantic tools may have been polluted by not correcting for the Kinsey scale [wikipedia.org]. Once that is done, the aversion of (politically incorrect statement ahead) straight men to cut people down behind their back becomes evident. Its an old generalization that appears to be proven out. If you hear two people discussing something like "the ugly outfit" that someone else is wearing, it is stereotypically women or gay men. Men tend to make a remark directly to the subject's face (sometimes just in fun).
I can't wait for the illegals to start hitting all the northern states
They are here. They work their asses off for low wages and don't cause much trouble (compared to rednecks).
Access to cheap construction labor?
I guessed it was a software development site to be anchored 12.1 miles off shore and staffed with Indians, Chinese and whatnot. No H1-B visas needed.
But you could be right.
Why not the opposite?
Why not neither. More advanced societies can find some function for the low testosterone members. And so they survive and breed.
In hunter-gatherer societies, everyone needs to go out and kill some game. Once social groups get bigger and economies develop trade, they get more diverse. Someone can stay behind in the village and make furniture or bake bread.
Subjects with high testosterone levels* are socialized to compete for some goal. Subjects with low testosterone levels (women) compete against each other. I don't think you want to live in a society dominated by people always trying to trip each other up while smiling at each other.
I have witnessed such cases.
And I have witnessed the aforementioned behavior. Taken advantage of it on numerous occasions as well. I'd rather deal with someone that confronts me than creeps around behind my back.
always trying to harm other men (domination, "alpha male")
Not really. Read Sex at Dawn. Homo sapiens are more closely related to primate species that don't have definite alpha male societies. Animals (not just primates) that do have such a social model are characterised by smaller testicles/penises and less sexual activity. Humans, chimps and bonobos are more closely related and have more sex and larger sexual organs (in relation to body mass) than gorillas (alpha male groups). I'd say the alpha male social model (or alpha female) is more an indicator of a lack of testosterone.
*Maybe. Its a male behavioral characteristic, modified by social settings. Some women have a certain amount of testosterone as well and I wouldn't be surprised if these are more sucessful in business and other stereotypical male professions.
Your ISP catches you stealing three videos or launching three rockets and you get cut off. Its right there in your Terms Of Service.
Cloud-based, probably wireless command an control systems are pretty esy to rednedr useless by a technologically advanced enemy like Israel. Heck, just fire up a cell phone jammer.
aren't social contracts supposed to be voluntary?
Yes. But voluntary at what level? In some societies, we value individual's rights above those of the collective. Each person makes their own choices. In others, things are done by consensus. What the majority wants, each member goes along with.
It works out to more than a dollar per man, woman, and child in the USA.
Not much in comparison to the entire tax take. But what is it per K-12 student? Or per instructor?
code.org's approach seems to be getting instructors up to speed on the curriculum. That amount of money might be suficient. But then what do we have to buy in terms of hardware, software, books, etc. for each student? $400M probably isn't going to hack it. So once you have the teacher at the head of the classroom and the kids don't have fully onfigured laptops, we will need to come up with more to protect the initial sunk cost.
If Microsoft thinks this means a copy of MVS on every student's desktop, they are having a wet dream the likes of which I can't imagine.
Because he'd have to hang his ball sack on the steering wheel to keep it cool.
They have most of the lines closed so they can back people up and watch who is starting to break out in a cold sweat.
Which is why most of the bad guys fly first/business class. Faster through the lines. Less chance of being observed.
There's big 'C' Communist and little 'c' communist. Those that adhered to the Communist parties platform (the one chaired in the former Soviet Union) were natually under suspicion as being agents of a hostile power. Little 'c' communists by rights should not have fallen into this category. But back in the McCarthy era, they didn't bother to differentiate between the two. And there was the possibility that adherents to the philosophy of little 'c' communism might be turned to do the bidding of the big 'C' party.
Whether little 'c' comunism is worth a shit or not, I'll leave for some other discussion.
Imagine a nuclear 747.
OK
Agree or disagree is one thing. Trust is orthoganal to that. Whatever these people have to say, their word is worthless to me.
But, as telcos love to point out, broadband is NOT phone service. It is not subject to the same regulations. That's why they were able to provide it to some neighborhoods and not others. And price it any way they wanted. And maintain it in whatever crappy manner they wanted.
So now the municipality steps in and says, "We can play that game too." We'll pick and choose where we want to run our fiber.
Oddly enough, the argument that municipalities will end up runnig fiber only to the most lucrative areas undermines the telco's arguments. If the city couldn't get the telco to run fiber there, what chance do they have to get it run to less profitable areas?
IANAA (I Am Not An Astrophysicist) but I was under the impression that black holes have a non-zero Schwarzschild radius (and therefore volume). Together with a finite mass, how does one get infinity for density?
Yes, there are things about warped space that may give odd local answers frome a classical physics perspective. But using the term 'infinie density' seems to be an over simplification that is misleading.
The best keyboard is sturdy enough to kill a man with. And then use to write his obituary afterwards.
pay Canadian companies to produce a world-class, well-designed and actually useful aircraft
We could sell you some Bomarcs instead. Our foreign curtomers will buy what we tell them to. So price and performance aren't issues (to us).