Spain, with its very similar geography, has shown this can be done on budget and (mostly) on time, so long as the project adheres to tested technology, as is the plan. And it's pretty popular. If Spain can do it, surely California can as well. It just takes willing
Previous generations didn't have so many retired people to take care of. And the issue is only getting more unbalanced. The only sustainable solution is to delay the retirement age. Also, now wars are being fought with a professional army and mercenaries, which cost much more than a draft. But you know, drafts are unpopular and would likely make people oppose war.
You know, those foreign nationals who pay taxes in the US may be entitled to receiving a basic service for it. Unless you think there should be first and second class citizens. Most wealthy, civilized countries treat foreigners nicely, and apply most of their rights to every resident. If it's a matter of money, there are ways around it. Spain covers the health care costs of many UK retirees who live on the coast, and right now there is some controversy on why the UK is not paying enough for this service, but (almost) nobody in Spain is suggesting that we withdraw the service; It just needs to be paid for. I think it's a reasonable proposal.
Which politician would want to be known for opposing a law against Nazis? That would be the fastest way to destroy a career. This law is an evolutionary reminder of times past, much like the appendix. It doesn't make sense now, but it won't go away.
Although my place of work is generally full of competent people, my girlfriend's isn't, and while it is frustrating for her, it provides a constant inflow of amusement when I hear her evening updates. The last one involved a girl walking out of the room because she was pissed off at the two other girls working with her. My girlfriend asked her what's wrong, and it went on like:
- Oh, there was too much tentonton. - Uhmm... tentonton? - Yeah, you know, too many girls. - Uhmm... do you mean testosterone? - Yeah, that. - But that's a male hormone. - Whatever, the female one.
Tentonton. And the best is that this is not exceptional.
Well, this is besides the point (the GP didn't say anyone is racist, only that the image doesn't match the target society), but my experience with Poland is short lived and hurtful. It basically involves being beaten at a club by a gang of muscleheads who thought dark haired Spaniards were not good enough to hang around their turf talking to "their" girls. And this wasn't in a rural village, mind you, it was in frigging Warsaw in a touristy park by the river. I know it's anecdotal, but I've heard many similar stories, often coming from other people from East Europe in general and some Polish. It's unfortunate, but racism still subsides.
Intel works in a very long term oriented way. They have to, since the scale of integration of a silicon process is so immensely complex. And those numbers, more than predictions are targets.
By "great schools" I mean that exclusive high school with 80% CEO children, followed by a BA from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard Business School where you network with the elite that move the wires behind the curtains. A huge percentage of people that make it there start pretty high up in the social ladder.
Now head over to the library and look up some books on economics. Food that's bad for you is cheap because there's a high demand for it. That drives down price. If everyone wanted and was buying healthy food the price of food that's bad for you would climb.
I never took a class on economics, but you got your supply and demand twisted. High demand would drive prices up, not down.
Much more unforgiving than what? My understanding is that in England, most of the time if you are born in the "working class", your children will die as part of the "working class". If you look at U.S. statistics, you discover that most of the people in the bottom quarter of wealth in the population ten years ago, aren't in the bottom quarter today.
Wrong. Both US and UK fare pretty poorly when it comes to class mobility, which is something that came to a surprise to me, given how easily the meritocracy meme is thrown around here in the US. My interpretation is that, more often than not, it's the children of the wealthy that get to the great schools where you're prepared for a successful life. Sure, there are fellowships for the poor that manage to perform well in standardized tests, but rich kids who attend great private high schools are much more likely to score high and make it to, say, an Ivy League school. That's what happens when you leave basic societal needs like education and health to the ups and downs of the free market.
My parents grew up in the country, and it was common to have beehives for honey. As I grew up, we kept the country life for weekends and vacation, and did country-like things. Too much sometimes, for my taste. One of my favorites was getting the honey. My brother and I used to take bites off the wax panels, chew the honey and spit the wax out. I would get stomachaches that way, but it was worth it.
Bees don't use the pollen. Plants have evolved to use bees as a breeding channel, by producing pollen that easily sticks to bees' legs. What bees are after is flower nectar, kind of like honey.
The queen doesn't ever leave the nest. It's continuously breeding new bastards. Some of the offspring will become future queens, and those are the ones that migrate. But the chances that you'll stop one of the few that will succeed at forming a colony are slim.
That number could still be higher (my 1997 Saturn SC2 does 35MPG easily and I paid $2700 for it, second hand), but there are other reasons to buy it. Mainly environmental and related to strategic policy, if you care for that. But it's also damn cool to drive a silent car.
Plus you annoy those in your social circle who paid big bucks for their cars and keep pushing you to do the same, even though your crapmobile already runs more efficiently, costs less to maintain and insure and I'm not afraid to scratch in the parking lot.
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Now, ask yourself, who are the people that live on the ocean and lakes?
Spongebob Squarepants?
Spain, with its very similar geography, has shown this can be done on budget and (mostly) on time, so long as the project adheres to tested technology, as is the plan. And it's pretty popular. If Spain can do it, surely California can as well. It just takes willing
Previous generations didn't have so many retired people to take care of. And the issue is only getting more unbalanced. The only sustainable solution is to delay the retirement age. Also, now wars are being fought with a professional army and mercenaries, which cost much more than a draft. But you know, drafts are unpopular and would likely make people oppose war.
You know, those foreign nationals who pay taxes in the US may be entitled to receiving a basic service for it. Unless you think there should be first and second class citizens. Most wealthy, civilized countries treat foreigners nicely, and apply most of their rights to every resident. If it's a matter of money, there are ways around it. Spain covers the health care costs of many UK retirees who live on the coast, and right now there is some controversy on why the UK is not paying enough for this service, but (almost) nobody in Spain is suggesting that we withdraw the service; It just needs to be paid for. I think it's a reasonable proposal.
Which politician would want to be known for opposing a law against Nazis? That would be the fastest way to destroy a career. This law is an evolutionary reminder of times past, much like the appendix. It doesn't make sense now, but it won't go away.
Don't eat the yellow moon rock!
Of course, the fact that this particular case of censorship stems from the allied (US et al.) occupation is not relevant here.
Although my place of work is generally full of competent people, my girlfriend's isn't, and while it is frustrating for her, it provides a constant inflow of amusement when I hear her evening updates. The last one involved a girl walking out of the room because she was pissed off at the two other girls working with her. My girlfriend asked her what's wrong, and it went on like:
- Oh, there was too much tentonton.
- Uhmm... tentonton?
- Yeah, you know, too many girls.
- Uhmm... do you mean testosterone?
- Yeah, that.
- But that's a male hormone.
- Whatever, the female one.
Tentonton. And the best is that this is not exceptional.
Great job slashdotting my email, dammit.
So much for handing your email over to Google because it's more reliable than hosting locally...
You successfully misspelled "seceding".
Well, this is besides the point (the GP didn't say anyone is racist, only that the image doesn't match the target society), but my experience with Poland is short lived and hurtful. It basically involves being beaten at a club by a gang of muscleheads who thought dark haired Spaniards were not good enough to hang around their turf talking to "their" girls. And this wasn't in a rural village, mind you, it was in frigging Warsaw in a touristy park by the river. I know it's anecdotal, but I've heard many similar stories, often coming from other people from East Europe in general and some Polish. It's unfortunate, but racism still subsides.
Intel works in a very long term oriented way. They have to, since the scale of integration of a silicon process is so immensely complex. And those numbers, more than predictions are targets.
Or the Spaniards, who use a sort of apostrophe, still called "coma".
By "great schools" I mean that exclusive high school with 80% CEO children, followed by a BA from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard Business School where you network with the elite that move the wires behind the curtains. A huge percentage of people that make it there start pretty high up in the social ladder.
Now head over to the library and look up some books on economics. Food that's bad for you is cheap because there's a high demand for it. That drives down price. If everyone wanted and was buying healthy food the price of food that's bad for you would climb.
I never took a class on economics, but you got your supply and demand twisted. High demand would drive prices up, not down.
Much more unforgiving than what? My understanding is that in England, most of the time if you are born in the "working class", your children will die as part of the "working class". If you look at U.S. statistics, you discover that most of the people in the bottom quarter of wealth in the population ten years ago, aren't in the bottom quarter today.
Wrong. Both US and UK fare pretty poorly when it comes to class mobility, which is something that came to a surprise to me, given how easily the meritocracy meme is thrown around here in the US. My interpretation is that, more often than not, it's the children of the wealthy that get to the great schools where you're prepared for a successful life. Sure, there are fellowships for the poor that manage to perform well in standardized tests, but rich kids who attend great private high schools are much more likely to score high and make it to, say, an Ivy League school. That's what happens when you leave basic societal needs like education and health to the ups and downs of the free market.
It's been tested on spiders, with surprising results.
My parents grew up in the country, and it was common to have beehives for honey. As I grew up, we kept the country life for weekends and vacation, and did country-like things. Too much sometimes, for my taste. One of my favorites was getting the honey. My brother and I used to take bites off the wax panels, chew the honey and spit the wax out. I would get stomachaches that way, but it was worth it.
Bees don't use the pollen. Plants have evolved to use bees as a breeding channel, by producing pollen that easily sticks to bees' legs. What bees are after is flower nectar, kind of like honey.
The queen doesn't ever leave the nest. It's continuously breeding new bastards. Some of the offspring will become future queens, and those are the ones that migrate. But the chances that you'll stop one of the few that will succeed at forming a colony are slim.
That number could still be higher (my 1997 Saturn SC2 does 35MPG easily and I paid $2700 for it, second hand), but there are other reasons to buy it. Mainly environmental and related to strategic policy, if you care for that. But it's also damn cool to drive a silent car.
Plus you annoy those in your social circle who paid big bucks for their cars and keep pushing you to do the same, even though your crapmobile already runs more efficiently, costs less to maintain and insure and I'm not afraid to scratch in the parking lot.
There's a Spanish startup, Forware, that develops FPGA development tools and has a growing user community. Not sure about the conditions, though.
More than a "Firefox standard", it seems to me that this is an extension. I'm all for it, but let's call things by their name.