Changing policy should be easy. Just determine what sites CEOs like to visit. Disable IE support on that sites and IT departments will have to support alternate browsers.
Selective quoting doesn't help, either. The paragraph in quesion goes on:
but since the impact of a change in inequality on economic growth is quite small, it is difficult to be sure from our estimates whether the bottom 90% will really be better off or not."
You're probably right, but the money saved won't go to waste. It will probably materialize as an extra $1/hour for some lucky engineers or managers, or extra health benefits. That's one of the advantages of competition over government - the constant pressure to reduce costs and thereby inprove efficiency which benefits not just that company, but also society as a whole.
Despite these harmful agricultural innovations, the weather in 1958 was very favourable and the harvest promised to be good. Unfortunately, the amount of labour diverted to steel production and construction projects meant that much of the harvest was left to rot uncollected in some areas. This problem was exacerbated by a devastating locust swarm, which was caused when their natural predators were killed en masse as part of the Great Sparrow Campaign. Although actual harvests were reduced, local officials, under tremendous pressure from central authorities to report record harvests in response to the new innovations, competed with each other to announce increasingly exaggerated results. These were used as a basis for determining the amount of grain to be taken by the State to supply the towns and cities, and to export. This left barely enough for the peasants, and in some areas, starvation set in. During 1958â"1960 China continued to be a substantial net exporter of grain, despite the widespread famine experienced in the countryside, as Mao sought to maintain face and convince the outside world of the success of his plans.
The reasons for the famine are a subject of scholarly and political debate. Some historians theorize that the famine was an unintended consequence of the economic problems associated with radical economic changes implemented during the period of Soviet industrialization. Others claim that the Soviet policies that caused the famine were engineered attack on Ukrainian nationalism. They even go further and suggest that may fall under the legal definition of genocide.
So it's unclear if rapid collectivization, in combination with bad weather and peasants resistance, caused that famine.
I agree that really bad government decisions were a cause in both cases, but I can't see how it can be attributed to collective farming.
Gotta be something wrong with your machine then.. since it runs just fine on my Sempron 3500 laptop with a GeForce Go 6150, 1.5 gigs of ram, ff 3.0.13, ubuntu jaunty.
Because Chlorophyll absorbs in the blue and red part of the spectrum, the plants appear blue. If it would absorb in the green part of the spectrum, they would appear violet.
Well, I don't know what they actually do, but i would look for a dip in the spectrum of the planet's albedo were the spectrum of the nearest star has a maximum.
The Oxygen Qt theme is really ugly. I use QtCurve. It's not only a Qt theme, Gtk+ and kwin is supported, as well. Gives a unified look across Gtk+ and Qt applications. Recommended.:)
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As Microsoft will be one of the foremost implementers of HTML5
Prove me wrong, but weren't other browser vendors already faster in implementing support for HTML5?
Changing policy should be easy. Just determine what sites CEOs like to visit. Disable IE support on that sites and IT departments will have to support alternate browsers.
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
I don't see what's supposed to be arbitrary about section and aside. They add structure and accessibility.
I doubt that something like LCARS would be possible in an economy ruled by IP laws. Because, what's a CARS without an L?
but since the impact of a change in inequality on economic growth is quite small, it is difficult to be sure from our estimates whether the bottom 90% will really be better off or not."
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/06/30/trickle-down-economics-fails-to-deliver-as-promised/
Adobe? What about Amaya's XML/XHTML editing feature?
You're probably right, but the money saved won't go to waste. It will probably materialize as an extra $1/hour for some lucky engineers or managers, or extra health benefits. That's one of the advantages of competition over government - the constant pressure to reduce costs and thereby inprove efficiency which benefits not just that company, but also society as a whole.
Dream on, little one.
Despite these harmful agricultural innovations, the weather in 1958 was very favourable and the harvest promised to be good. Unfortunately, the amount of labour diverted to steel production and construction projects meant that much of the harvest was left to rot uncollected in some areas. This problem was exacerbated by a devastating locust swarm, which was caused when their natural predators were killed en masse as part of the Great Sparrow Campaign. Although actual harvests were reduced, local officials, under tremendous pressure from central authorities to report record harvests in response to the new innovations, competed with each other to announce increasingly exaggerated results. These were used as a basis for determining the amount of grain to be taken by the State to supply the towns and cities, and to export. This left barely enough for the peasants, and in some areas, starvation set in. During 1958â"1960 China continued to be a substantial net exporter of grain, despite the widespread famine experienced in the countryside, as Mao sought to maintain face and convince the outside world of the success of his plans.
In short: SNAFU.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor
The reasons for the famine are a subject of scholarly and political debate. Some historians theorize that the famine was an unintended consequence of the economic problems associated with radical economic changes implemented during the period of Soviet industrialization. Others claim that the Soviet policies that caused the famine were engineered attack on Ukrainian nationalism. They even go further and suggest that may fall under the legal definition of genocide.
So it's unclear if rapid collectivization, in combination with bad weather and peasants resistance, caused that famine.
I agree that really bad government decisions were a cause in both cases, but I can't see how it can be attributed to collective farming.
I get the exact opposite experience here. Konqueror 4.3.0 gives me an awful slideshow, FF 3.5 is still slow and maxes out my CPU. This is awful.
My FF3.5 needs almost 30s. I find that interesting as well. Although Konqueror "only" needs ~11.5s.
It's slow here, too. Maxes out my CPU easily. And i can't see the fucking point of this demo. Only colored circles moving around fast.
Have you turned Javascript on?
Gotta be something wrong with your machine then.. since it runs just fine on my Sempron 3500 laptop with a GeForce Go 6150, 1.5 gigs of ram, ff 3.0.13, ubuntu jaunty.
Yeah, right.
Famines in China and Russia were caused by the government imposing collectivisation.
Interesting. Do you have any prove for that?
Because Chlorophyll absorbs in the blue and red part of the spectrum, the plants appear blue. If it would absorb in the green part of the spectrum, they would appear violet.
Still wrong. It should be: NASA LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Minshara class planet in the solar system. ;)
Well, I don't know what they actually do, but i would look for a dip in the spectrum of the planet's albedo were the spectrum of the nearest star has a maximum.
With a beowulf cluster of ~ 1 000 000 000 tape spoolers?
s/experimental/unstable/
What about using the preview button?
Wow. I have to slow it down to at least 60% of it's speed to understand it. Nice skill. :)
The Oxygen Qt theme is really ugly. I use QtCurve. It's not only a Qt theme, Gtk+ and kwin is supported, as well. Gives a unified look across Gtk+ and Qt applications. Recommended. :)
Yes. Debian. KDE 4.3.0 already hit experimental today.
And my guess is, this scares the shit out of large media conglomerates and politicians. So they want to shut it down.