Blame the English language for not having gender-free pronouns. This is standard usage of the language, because it's just too cumbersome to say "you know what he or she looks like and where he or she is hiding...." Some writing styles push that the author should use his or her own gender's pronoun for a generic person, but this is just equal opportunity wrongness, rather than being any more right.
Why doesn't the government simply get the major United States ISPs to redirect to a special warning site? That way, it would work for anyone not using Facebook.
It would become redshifted and dimmed. Eventually, it would be too dim to see. If it is a radio transmission, the transmission will slow down to a near halt. If it is a tablet, it would be flattened and distorted.
Hah, if it were that easy to achieve fusion ignition, then we'd all be running our cars on Mr. Fusions. At the National Ignition Facility, they use a 192 beam laser with 1 MJ power, fired synchronously on a small cryogenically layered deuterium/tritium capsule to achieve ignition. It's a huge lab with a large budget that probably exceeds the truck driver's bank account. Also, tritium is probably a bit harder to come by than enriched uranium, since it pretty much has to be bred in reactors.
Seems like a pretty stupid investment to me. When we run out of IP4 addresses, then we'll just move to IP6. The IP4 addresses will become worthless obsolete abstract allocations. That's what happens when you try to hoard a completely artificial resource.
How do you figure they could license the patents? It's most probably legally impossible unless they write new browsers from scratch and then pay from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software. The ball isn't in the hand of the OSS people here.
Google already licensed the patents. It was included in Chrome up till version 8. They took it out to promote their company-owned WebM.
So in otherwords, they wrote a new browser from scratch and paid from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software?
But language evolves. Words mean what a lot of people mean when they say them. If that doesn't agree with the dictionary, then the dictionary needs updating. I don't look forward to the future of English, where statements like "your a looser" are standard grammar, but I'll just be one of the grouchety old folks who speak archaic English.
We no longer live in a world of infinite resources in which we can just leave everyone to their own devices. Libertarian ethics make perfect sense on ringworld. This isn't ringworld.
Life isn't fair. If you are a soldier, and you are ordered to do terrible things, you are pretty much fucked whether or not you follow orders. Justice doesn't exist in a strictly hierarchical autocratic system.
At the end of the day, only absolute power usage matters; efficiency doesn't. Incandescents will put out much less light when run at low power, but human eyes are pretty good at operating at fairly low light levels for most tasks. You lose efficiency but you save power. Maybe you occasionally need the full brightness, so you don't want to replace your bulb with a tiny one.
I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand. They are living in a nanny state. Where I live, you can't sell alcohol after 2am. Same thing. The government is just placating a bunch of morally panicked mothers.
That's because neocons don't want anyone to be reporting the truth (or even another view) of what's going on over there. They want a media that they control. No videos of people angry at the US. No pictures of bodies of soldiers. No pictures of collateral damage. Just pictures of happy Iraqis pulling down statues of Saddam.
The article linked in the summary is completely worthless. Here is the real article, in two parts: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.045 Hopefully, you have some university access or something. Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials, Energy Policy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 December 2010, ISSN 0301-4215, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V2W-51TXP82-2/2/de5d9bb816ee92da3bfef3f8ecd54b1d) Abstract: Climate change, pollution, and energy insecurity are among the greatest problems of our time. Addressing them requires major changes in our energy infrastructure. Here, we analyze the feasibility of providing worldwide energy for all purposes (electric power, transportation, heating/cooling, etc.) from wind, water, and sunlight (WWS). In Part I, we discuss WWS energy system characteristics, current and future energy demand, availability of WWS resources, numbers of WWS devices, and area and material requirements. In Part II, we address variability, economics, and policy of WWS energy. We estimate that ~3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, ~49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, ~40,000 300 MW solar PV power plants, ~1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, ~5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, ~270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, ~720,000 0.75 MW wave devices, and ~490,000 1 MW tidal turbines can power a 2030 WWS world that uses electricity and electrolytic hydrogen for all purposes. Such a WWS infrastructure reduces world power demand by 30% and requires only ~0.41% and ~0.59% more of the world's land for footprint and spacing, respectively. We suggest producing all new energy with WWS by 2030 and replacing the pre-existing energy by 2050. Barriers to the plan are primarily social and political, not technological or economic. The energy cost in a WWS world should be similar to that today.
Of course it's your fault. But the sun won't net you a criminally negligent manslaughter charge because it can come out from behind an occlusion and suddenly blind you. Criminal negligence is determined relative to some standard of society for what is reasonable to do. And I think most judges and juries will agree that using facebook is criminally negligent, but being suddenly blinded by the sun isn't.
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Can someone point me to a credible report which documents Kim Jong Il's mental health?
Blame the English language for not having gender-free pronouns. This is standard usage of the language, because it's just too cumbersome to say "you know what he or she looks like and where he or she is hiding...." Some writing styles push that the author should use his or her own gender's pronoun for a generic person, but this is just equal opportunity wrongness, rather than being any more right.
Yeah, but I bet they didn't make you sign a pledge not to commit suicide.
I just 'liked' you
nuff said
If they wanted to change the motif, instead of calling it Modern Warfare X3, they could just call it, "World of Modern Warfare"
Great point, M. backward-looking critic.
Why doesn't the government simply get the major United States ISPs to redirect to a special warning site? That way, it would work for anyone not using Facebook.
It would become redshifted and dimmed. Eventually, it would be too dim to see. If it is a radio transmission, the transmission will slow down to a near halt. If it is a tablet, it would be flattened and distorted.
Hah, if it were that easy to achieve fusion ignition, then we'd all be running our cars on Mr. Fusions. At the National Ignition Facility, they use a 192 beam laser with 1 MJ power, fired synchronously on a small cryogenically layered deuterium/tritium capsule to achieve ignition. It's a huge lab with a large budget that probably exceeds the truck driver's bank account. Also, tritium is probably a bit harder to come by than enriched uranium, since it pretty much has to be bred in reactors.
Seems like a pretty stupid investment to me. When we run out of IP4 addresses, then we'll just move to IP6. The IP4 addresses will become worthless obsolete abstract allocations. That's what happens when you try to hoard a completely artificial resource.
I imagine a "cure for religion" app would be allowed, but someone go make it and find out.
In other words, when it breaks, there's no way to fix it. And it looks like it will shatter the first time it crashes into something.
Start doing ALM with metal or carbon and I'll be impressed.
Will this help me get root privileges on my sexy neighbor?
How do you figure they could license the patents? It's most probably legally impossible unless they write new browsers from scratch and then pay from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software. The ball isn't in the hand of the OSS people here.
Google already licensed the patents. It was included in Chrome up till version 8. They took it out to promote their company-owned WebM.
So in otherwords, they wrote a new browser from scratch and paid from their own pockets for everyone downloading their software?
But language evolves. Words mean what a lot of people mean when they say them. If that doesn't agree with the dictionary, then the dictionary needs updating. I don't look forward to the future of English, where statements like "your a looser" are standard grammar, but I'll just be one of the grouchety old folks who speak archaic English.
We no longer live in a world of infinite resources in which we can just leave everyone to their own devices. Libertarian ethics make perfect sense on ringworld. This isn't ringworld.
Define "actual damage". If speech wasn't damaging, then there'd be no point in speaking at all. We can all just sing praises to each other.
Life isn't fair. If you are a soldier, and you are ordered to do terrible things, you are pretty much fucked whether or not you follow orders. Justice doesn't exist in a strictly hierarchical autocratic system.
Well, that only makes me want to dig more.
At the end of the day, only absolute power usage matters; efficiency doesn't. Incandescents will put out much less light when run at low power, but human eyes are pretty good at operating at fairly low light levels for most tasks. You lose efficiency but you save power. Maybe you occasionally need the full brightness, so you don't want to replace your bulb with a tiny one.
I'm not sure why this is so hard to understand. They are living in a nanny state. Where I live, you can't sell alcohol after 2am. Same thing. The government is just placating a bunch of morally panicked mothers.
That's because neocons don't want anyone to be reporting the truth (or even another view) of what's going on over there. They want a media that they control. No videos of people angry at the US. No pictures of bodies of soldiers. No pictures of collateral damage. Just pictures of happy Iraqis pulling down statues of Saddam.
The article linked in the summary is completely worthless. Here is the real article, in two parts:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.045
Hopefully, you have some university access or something.
Mark Z. Jacobson, Mark A. Delucchi, Providing all global energy with wind, water, and solar power, Part I: Technologies, energy resources, quantities and areas of infrastructure, and materials, Energy Policy, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 December 2010, ISSN 0301-4215, DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.11.040.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V2W-51TXP82-2/2/de5d9bb816ee92da3bfef3f8ecd54b1d)
Abstract:
Climate change, pollution, and energy insecurity are among the greatest problems of our time. Addressing them requires major changes in our energy infrastructure. Here, we analyze the feasibility of providing worldwide energy for all purposes (electric power, transportation, heating/cooling, etc.) from wind, water, and sunlight (WWS). In Part I, we discuss WWS energy system characteristics, current and future energy demand, availability of WWS resources, numbers of WWS devices, and area and material requirements. In Part II, we address variability, economics, and policy of WWS energy. We estimate that ~3,800,000 5 MW wind turbines, ~49,000 300 MW concentrated solar plants, ~40,000 300 MW solar PV power plants, ~1.7 billion 3 kW rooftop PV systems, ~5350 100 MW geothermal power plants, ~270 new 1300 MW hydroelectric power plants, ~720,000 0.75 MW wave devices, and ~490,000 1 MW tidal turbines can power a 2030 WWS world that uses electricity and electrolytic hydrogen for all purposes. Such a WWS infrastructure reduces world power demand by 30% and requires only ~0.41% and ~0.59% more of the world's land for footprint and spacing, respectively. We suggest producing all new energy with WWS by 2030 and replacing the pre-existing energy by 2050. Barriers to the plan are primarily social and political, not technological or economic. The energy cost in a WWS world should be similar to that today.
Of course it's your fault. But the sun won't net you a criminally negligent manslaughter charge because it can come out from behind an occlusion and suddenly blind you. Criminal negligence is determined relative to some standard of society for what is reasonable to do. And I think most judges and juries will agree that using facebook is criminally negligent, but being suddenly blinded by the sun isn't.