If you're only metric is money, then, yes. Fair trade is (or should be...) equitable, not "fair". Money allows some degree of realization of "equitability", but it is fundamentally just a physical realization, but a very useful abstraction indeed (even if said money is backed/legitimized by gold, umbilical cords, whatever). That most of our currencies these days are fiat currencies doesn't really diminish that role of it in the economy (you know, the abstract realization of "value"), as said money is worth what it is more or less arbitrarily at any given point in time, and we all agree one way or the other on that value. Would a Gold Standard have prevented Italy, Zimbabwe, etc. from printing their ludicrous notes (1 billion lira, 1 billion zimbabwe dollars, etc)? Hmm... probably not.
Compare money exchange to bartering...which is still useful, but doesn't really scale out. I just want to trade something for a loaf of bread. I don't want to have to sing a song or few to get a couple of bags of wheat, then barter something else for my wheat to get milled into flour, then barter my kids out for "services" to get my flour made into bread, etc. But some could do it and do it well (e.g., the coupon-cutters, junk metal collectors, etc.)...
They'd probably do it for the whole Homeland Security apparatus, carve them out some nice little exceptions to the Bill of Rights for the HSA agencies, too, WAY beyond what they do under the PATRIOT ACT, and justifying and protecting Constitutionally what to now would be extralegal actions within the US...
For one, the US creates more diesel as a by-product of its domestic gasoline production than it can consume, despite its refineries being optimized for gasoline production, so it exports the diesel byproduct to Europe. European refineries export gasoline back to the US, for similar reasons.
May not even be to map them. Some of it will be to identify which specific mobile radar sets are where (they probably can identify some radar sets to the specific unit due to signal differences, etc), how long other radars take to come online after the call goes out, how long it took them to move to where they are now compared to the last time, how much other C3 traffic pops up (to identify all the other non-radar transmitters are, aka communications nodes)... There's lots of more behind it than "let's see where all their radar sets are".
Wrong. Shia & Sunni have been at each others' throats for a while. Look at the tension in Saudi Arabia between its Sunni royal family and majority Shia rabble...er, general population. Or Iran arming Hezbollah & Hamas, blowing up fellow Muslims in Lebanon & Gaza Strip to get political power.
Or even Indonesia and Bandeh Aceh, before the Tsunami.
"There is no scarcity of land for landfills"? Of course, not...So can we add that new landfill we "need" in your neighborhood or favorite outdoor recreation area (because, after all, the landfill will bring in more tax dollars or WMX campaign contributions for that land use than recreation or bird watching)?
"Special compostible plastic bags are usually required for recycling compostible material"... yeah, paper bags? And, you've never had a cheap plastic bag burst on you, either?
Too many people know the price of everything these days, and the value of nothing.
Hmm... but DDT still shows up in raptor eggs in the Columbia River basin, where raptor eggs still exhibit egg fragility and other problems associated with DDT. (was a show on OPB recently regarding this...)
I think at least for raptor egg problems and DDT they passed the correlation issue and went to causation a long time ago...
car battery cables are thick because they carry 500+ amps when you're starting your car. None of the other 12V cables in your car are nearly that thick; they're 18-20 gauge wires. Even the wires going to the headlights are pretty reasonable.
Actually, I think that more than a few do, but the current programming tools are actually more or less for those who do it for a living.
BillG was right - give the amateurs a decent enough tool to make THEIR lives more interesting. Granted, it does then frustrate the hell out of the professionals at work when these amateur hacks somehow metastasize off of their original builder's desktop and becomes a business tool, but... the wiser of us then see this as an opportunity to come up with a spec for a "real" application that is much closer to how the people actually doing that work see and do their work...
Nah. While I like microbrewed beers and ales, a Sierra Nevada pale ale tastes about like a Red Hook pale ale which tastes about like a Deschutes Brewery pale ale which... same for porters, stouts, hefeweizens, etc...
Granted, they are all far more enjoyable to drink than BudCoorsMiller or TecateSolCorona dreck.
But I'm amazed every time I drink a different German (or Czech or Belgian) beer or ale. Even amongst the same style of beer or ale, they each taste...unique.
How can the rolling of dice be accurately determined? Just because we know the combinatorial probabilities for the outcomes for any given roll of two dice (or whatever), does not mean a given roll of them can be accurately predetermined (unless they're loaded, but that just skews the probabilities of the results), unless the casinos know something the rest of us don't know about their dice, which would justify the magic numbers in Craps (such as, why is rolling a 7 or 11 craps?).
For the law firms, this is probably to reduce their exposure to any discovery processes they might find themselves in. While they may not retain mail in inboxes for more than 1 month, they're going to have backup tapes from servers for longer than that...
It sucks to go there when you're used to slurping through emails for long, mostly forgotten information you remember is in your email...
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"the Greg Oden Experience"... (sorry, just a bit bemused about how Paul Allen [and his peepz] runs the Portland Trailblazers and Seattle Seahawks...)
If you're only metric is money, then, yes. Fair trade is (or should be...) equitable, not "fair". Money allows some degree of realization of "equitability", but it is fundamentally just a physical realization, but a very useful abstraction indeed (even if said money is backed/legitimized by gold, umbilical cords, whatever). That most of our currencies these days are fiat currencies doesn't really diminish that role of it in the economy (you know, the abstract realization of "value"), as said money is worth what it is more or less arbitrarily at any given point in time, and we all agree one way or the other on that value. Would a Gold Standard have prevented Italy, Zimbabwe, etc. from printing their ludicrous notes (1 billion lira, 1 billion zimbabwe dollars, etc)? Hmm... probably not.
Compare money exchange to bartering...which is still useful, but doesn't really scale out. I just want to trade something for a loaf of bread. I don't want to have to sing a song or few to get a couple of bags of wheat, then barter something else for my wheat to get milled into flour, then barter my kids out for "services" to get my flour made into bread, etc. But some could do it and do it well (e.g., the coupon-cutters, junk metal collectors, etc.)...
They'd probably do it for the whole Homeland Security apparatus, carve them out some nice little exceptions to the Bill of Rights for the HSA agencies, too, WAY beyond what they do under the PATRIOT ACT, and justifying and protecting Constitutionally what to now would be extralegal actions within the US...
Nail the executives and the Board members.
It's pretty easy, though, to argue the 2nd case is also just mere opinion as well.
And there's no stopping what one politician or politician-wannabe can say about another, either, as that's just "politics".
Except it's HP that has the corner on that business model.
UFC is moving to Discovery Science since it ended it's run on Versus!
And you thought Discovery Networks couldn't screw up yet another topical channel.
For one, the US creates more diesel as a by-product of its domestic gasoline production than it can consume, despite its refineries being optimized for gasoline production, so it exports the diesel byproduct to Europe. European refineries export gasoline back to the US, for similar reasons.
depends on the cost of the munition (B-2, F-22...)
May not even be to map them. Some of it will be to identify which specific mobile radar sets are where (they probably can identify some radar sets to the specific unit due to signal differences, etc), how long other radars take to come online after the call goes out, how long it took them to move to where they are now compared to the last time, how much other C3 traffic pops up (to identify all the other non-radar transmitters are, aka communications nodes)... There's lots of more behind it than "let's see where all their radar sets are".
Wrong. Shia & Sunni have been at each others' throats for a while. Look at the tension in Saudi Arabia between its Sunni royal family and majority Shia rabble...er, general population. Or Iran arming Hezbollah & Hamas, blowing up fellow Muslims in Lebanon & Gaza Strip to get political power.
Or even Indonesia and Bandeh Aceh, before the Tsunami.
Actually, the "new" AT&T acts like the old SBC did in the day.
banana peels (and pineapple skins and tops and...) and sink garbage disposals do not play together well.
"There is no scarcity of land for landfills"? Of course, not...So can we add that new landfill we "need" in your neighborhood or favorite outdoor recreation area (because, after all, the landfill will bring in more tax dollars or WMX campaign contributions for that land use than recreation or bird watching)?
"Special compostible plastic bags are usually required for recycling compostible material"... yeah, paper bags? And, you've never had a cheap plastic bag burst on you, either?
Too many people know the price of everything these days, and the value of nothing.
Hmm... but DDT still shows up in raptor eggs in the Columbia River basin, where raptor eggs still exhibit egg fragility and other problems associated with DDT. (was a show on OPB recently regarding this...)
I think at least for raptor egg problems and DDT they passed the correlation issue and went to causation a long time ago...
car battery cables are thick because they carry 500+ amps when you're starting your car. None of the other 12V cables in your car are nearly that thick; they're 18-20 gauge wires. Even the wires going to the headlights are pretty reasonable.
Actually, I think that more than a few do, but the current programming tools are actually more or less for those who do it for a living.
BillG was right - give the amateurs a decent enough tool to make THEIR lives more interesting. Granted, it does then frustrate the hell out of the professionals at work when these amateur hacks somehow metastasize off of their original builder's desktop and becomes a business tool, but... the wiser of us then see this as an opportunity to come up with a spec for a "real" application that is much closer to how the people actually doing that work see and do their work...
or he/she is "overqualified". Don't forget that one, either.
Nah.
While I like microbrewed beers and ales, a Sierra Nevada pale ale tastes about like a Red Hook pale ale which tastes about like a Deschutes Brewery pale ale which... same for porters, stouts, hefeweizens, etc...
Granted, they are all far more enjoyable to drink than BudCoorsMiller or TecateSolCorona dreck.
But I'm amazed every time I drink a different German (or Czech or Belgian) beer or ale. Even amongst the same style of beer or ale, they each taste...unique.
I think you meant "hardback prices" for eBooks...
good luck measuring them in a consumer-grade device.
How can the rolling of dice be accurately determined? Just because we know the combinatorial probabilities for the outcomes for any given roll of two dice (or whatever), does not mean a given roll of them can be accurately predetermined (unless they're loaded, but that just skews the probabilities of the results), unless the casinos know something the rest of us don't know about their dice, which would justify the magic numbers in Craps (such as, why is rolling a 7 or 11 craps?).
Range(A:A) == the whole 1st column on the worksheet.
Methinks the real intent of this is just a tax dodge.
For the law firms, this is probably to reduce their exposure to any discovery processes they might find themselves in. While they may not retain mail in inboxes for more than 1 month, they're going to have backup tapes from servers for longer than that...
It sucks to go there when you're used to slurping through emails for long, mostly forgotten information you remember is in your email...