Unless, given that the Earth is a dynamic system, we manage to perturb it to such an extent we cause a runaway greenhouse effect such as Venus. Would you like your fries cooked on the sidewalk or just wave them through the air a bit?
Oh, and the increased CO2 in the atmosphere is changing the acidity of the oceans which is helping to destroy biodiversity there. And the oceans are the base of the food chain. It probably wasn't a big problem during the young Earth or when the dinosaurs still roamed, but now that there are billions of people, we rather care about it a bit more. And to listen to the fishermen, the topical and subtropical fish have been moving north and south. Maybe they are just tired of their environment and are moving for a change of scenery, yes?
The worlds oceans had been rising, then due to increased rainfall over Australia they dropped (Australia outback is sort of like a saucer so the water didn't (yet) make its way back to the ocean). Now that the rainfall pattern has returned to its norm in the last two years, the oceans have continued their rise at a somewhat faster clip.
Yes, let's let the insurance companies run health care. Prior condition? Sorry, you're SOL because here at Medical Decision Are Us, we only insure healthy people. Get a really costly disease? Sorry, we only cover you until you die or we've spent $100,000, which ever comes first, we aren't particular.
I'm not convinced government run health care is better, but I think it is clear that insurance company run health care is failing. Something must change. And the Affordable Care Act is government run health care light, the insurance companies still exist. And we still spend more per capita on health care than other Western countries. And yes we do have the best health care money can provide, and if you don't have the money...well...it's still the best health care money can provide, it just won't be provided to you.
So, you want to spend 5 Trillion of U.S. dollars. Considering the entire economy is about 16-18 Trillion and the entire federal budget is about 3.8 Trillion, I'm guessing that's going to put quite a dent in things.
And the U.S. just announced they might have a cure for malaria. There's the AIDS program in Africa started by that war monger G. W. Bush. There's all the other medical science done by the U.S.
Now, about these evil sociopaths in charge. St. Obama is a sociopath?
Oh BTW, since you didn't get the memo, the Islamo-Fascists have declared war against most of the West and regularly go on pogroms to kill Christians, Ba'Hai's, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. and even, get this, other Muslims. And as soon as they get Syria's chemical weapons, and they will sooner or later, you will still be blinkered into thinking all the World's troubles are the fault the U.S. Those wonderful secular parties of the Mid-East the Baathists, they were inspired by Hitler. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was elevated to GruppenFuehrer before the war ended and was busy bundling up Jews for the concentration camps by the end of the war. The Baathists were formed from his buddies. The evil that men do tends to live on and on, even when the U.S. has nothing to do with it.
I don't believe the British would have walked away from the Falklands. For one thing, about 99.8% of the inhabitants voted in a 2013 referendum to remain British subjects. However, there are only about 3,140 (according to 2008 figures) of them, the sheep are considering an insurrection claiming that they are more numerous and hence should control the Islands fate. The Falklanders claim not to be worried as sheep have no index fingers for rifle triggers and the humans have all the shears. They are also big on fishing.
As a bunch, Falklanders earn about $55,400 per capita per year circa 2002. That puts them at the top 10% of the world's pop. Apparently, sheep fishing and fish farming are lucrative enterprises. They'd have to be considering there's not squat to do there.
Why? What would a x86 tablet do that (a) isn't already done by an iPad or Android device, or (b) has ability to run software no one want to run on a pad in the first place?
MS also has their past screwups to overcome. Consumers looking to buy a pad of some sort see MS and think Windows Hell all over their shiny new tablet. If they had Macs, they'll expect a similar experience on their iPads, and that's pretty much what they get. At least with Android there is the promise that the demons of Software Hell will give them a pass.
Why would anyone pay MS for their OS for pads? They can have Android for free, or they are Apple and don't need it. MS is trying the only trick they know how, tie everything to winders by hook or by crook, and they aren't too particular about which one either.
Actually, the position Clinton left the banks in directly contributed to the housing bubble...he pushed through repeal of Glass-Steagal. And the economy doing so well under Clinton, the internet bubble inflated the economy to produce that great economy (and the spending for y2k helped too). And the stock market started to crash when it looked like Kerry was going to beat Bush in the spring of 1980. So you cannot even blame that on Bush.
What Bush did was not puncture the housing bubble (and neither did the Fed. Reserve under Greenspan). Bush also didn't raise taxes to fund the wars and he pushed through ill-advised tax cuts instead of using the surpluses to pay off the debt. Bush also relaxed regulations on banks further and more or less failed in oversight. Bush also relaxed SEC enforcement over Wall Street which also helped cause the housing mess.
Actually, the Korean War was a legacy of the Japanese who controlled Korea. They split the pop. between those who worked with the Japanese and those who were opposed. The Communist ideology was implanted by Russia. There were some Koreans who fought against the Japanese in China, but not enough to matter.
Just a bit of background, Mao left Chiang to fight the Japanese pretty much by himself figuring that Japan would lose against the U.S, and Russia. He figured his group of weenies would be the ones left standing, and he was correct.
Science generally progresses. Yeah, I know, who would think science has gotten better in 30-40 years. Here's you long ago: science says sickness is caused by bad humors and evil spirits 30-40 years ago. Now you claim it is caused by small living and semi-living things I cannot see; so you've only got 30-40 years to explain the sudden reversal in terms of human behavior.
So your argument is that (1) we're fucked, (2) accept it, and (3) don't buy land in Florida. I thought people like you went the way of the dodo with the onset of the Enlightenment. Maybe you've heard of it, it was big news 3-4 hundred years ago. It was in all the major newspapers, and yet you still missed the memo.
Hmmm....a computer scientist, I see. Happens at step 1, if it happens at step n implies it happens at step n + 1, it will happen for all n.
That makes about as much sense as proving baldness. If a man is bald with 1 hair, and if being bald at n hairs implies he'll still be bald at n + 1, then all men are bald.
The trick, you see, is that your mathematical model is not an accurate model of the earth. You neglect a lot of stupid people doing a lot of stupid things such that when a whole lot of people do the same stupid thing, then the effect can be quite non-linear.
Errr... the dino's farted out about 65 million years ago. My guess is their farts would have dissipated by 5 millions years ago seeing as methane has about a net lifetime of 8.4 years in the atmosphere.
Don't let science blind you, just continue to use whatever you are using.
Adapting fast enough is one problem. There is another problem. Suppose that the previous warming was not caused by CO2 but something else. Regardless of whether CO2 is causing our warming, the massive amount of CO2 we have pumped into the atmosphere is changing the ph of the ocean. The ocean is at the bottom of the food change, if we fuck that up, we're truly fucked. The ph is already screwing up the coral reefs.
Ichan won't reform anything he touches. He's only interested in counting his winnings. He doesn't understand any of the companies he gets involved with except as a bean counter. Ichan would drive MS over the cliff faster...and I won't cry for MS if he did, but he cannot save anything.
I'd like to see Ballmer in ads for testosterone supplements. "Do you suffer lack of energy, not ready when She is? Have we got a product for you: Ape-er-one!!" (quick cut to the monkey dance).
GE has no single vision either, yet they do okay. MS's problem is that it defines itself by destroying competition, not competing with them. Hence its products are limp. MS doesn't care, they figure to screw their competition out of the marketplace and then their limp noodles will necessarily be bought. This strategy also makes it possible to attack a lot of markets simultaneously, because they never have to concentrate on a few and make good products for them.
And it isn't Ballmer's fault, it is Bill's fault. He designed the blind octopus that is MS. Were it not for their received monopoly and their cutthroat tactics before other companies cottoned on to their tactics, they'd have been toast long ago. In a way, they forced the only competition they couldn't beat to arise just out of evolution, i.e., FOSS.
It depends upon how their architecture is licensed. ARM sells a licenses and then licenses on steroids. The latter allow you much latitude in how you design your SoC. Intel so far has an "I know best" attitude. The other problem for Intel is their chips are too expensive. To fight on price means their profit margins shrink and that makes chasing ARM less of profitable proposition. On the other hand, Intel might feel their future is threatened by ARM so much that they must go after ARM.
Intel, like Microsoft, defines themselves in killing the opposition, not competing with it. It is a mindset that is not easily given up.
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Unless, given that the Earth is a dynamic system, we manage to perturb it to such an extent we cause a runaway greenhouse effect such as Venus. Would you like your fries cooked on the sidewalk or just wave them through the air a bit?
Oh, and the increased CO2 in the atmosphere is changing the acidity of the oceans which is helping to destroy biodiversity there. And the oceans are the base of the food chain. It probably wasn't a big problem during the young Earth or when the dinosaurs still roamed, but now that there are billions of people, we rather care about it a bit more. And to listen to the fishermen, the topical and subtropical fish have been moving north and south. Maybe they are just tired of their environment and are moving for a change of scenery, yes?
The worlds oceans had been rising, then due to increased rainfall over Australia they dropped (Australia outback is sort of like a saucer so the water didn't (yet) make its way back to the ocean). Now that the rainfall pattern has returned to its norm in the last two years, the oceans have continued their rise at a somewhat faster clip.
Time, it makes a difference.
Yes, let's let the insurance companies run health care. Prior condition? Sorry, you're SOL because here at Medical Decision Are Us, we only insure healthy people. Get a really costly disease? Sorry, we only cover you until you die or we've spent $100,000, which ever comes first, we aren't particular.
I'm not convinced government run health care is better, but I think it is clear that insurance company run health care is failing. Something must change. And the Affordable Care Act is government run health care light, the insurance companies still exist. And we still spend more per capita on health care than other Western countries. And yes we do have the best health care money can provide, and if you don't have the money...well...it's still the best health care money can provide, it just won't be provided to you.
So, you want to spend 5 Trillion of U.S. dollars. Considering the entire economy is about 16-18 Trillion and the entire federal budget is about 3.8 Trillion, I'm guessing that's going to put quite a dent in things.
And the U.S. just announced they might have a cure for malaria. There's the AIDS program in Africa started by that war monger G. W. Bush. There's all the other medical science done by the U.S.
Now, about these evil sociopaths in charge. St. Obama is a sociopath?
Oh BTW, since you didn't get the memo, the Islamo-Fascists have declared war against most of the West and regularly go on pogroms to kill Christians, Ba'Hai's, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. and even, get this, other Muslims. And as soon as they get Syria's chemical weapons, and they will sooner or later, you will still be blinkered into thinking all the World's troubles are the fault the U.S. Those wonderful secular parties of the Mid-East the Baathists, they were inspired by Hitler. The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was elevated to GruppenFuehrer before the war ended and was busy bundling up Jews for the concentration camps by the end of the war. The Baathists were formed from his buddies. The evil that men do tends to live on and on, even when the U.S. has nothing to do with it.
I don't believe the British would have walked away from the Falklands. For one thing, about 99.8% of the inhabitants voted in a 2013 referendum to remain British subjects. However, there are only about 3,140 (according to 2008 figures) of them, the sheep are considering an insurrection claiming that they are more numerous and hence should control the Islands fate. The Falklanders claim not to be worried as sheep have no index fingers for rifle triggers and the humans have all the shears. They are also big on fishing.
As a bunch, Falklanders earn about $55,400 per capita per year circa 2002. That puts them at the top 10% of the world's pop. Apparently, sheep fishing and fish farming are lucrative enterprises. They'd have to be considering there's not squat to do there.
Why? What would a x86 tablet do that (a) isn't already done by an iPad or Android device, or (b) has ability to run software no one want to run on a pad in the first place?
MS also has their past screwups to overcome. Consumers looking to buy a pad of some sort see MS and think Windows Hell all over their shiny new tablet. If they had Macs, they'll expect a similar experience on their iPads, and that's pretty much what they get. At least with Android there is the promise that the demons of Software Hell will give them a pass.
Why would anyone pay MS for their OS for pads? They can have Android for free, or they are Apple and don't need it. MS is trying the only trick they know how, tie everything to winders by hook or by crook, and they aren't too particular about which one either.
Actually, the position Clinton left the banks in directly contributed to the housing bubble...he pushed through repeal of Glass-Steagal. And the economy doing so well under Clinton, the internet bubble inflated the economy to produce that great economy (and the spending for y2k helped too). And the stock market started to crash when it looked like Kerry was going to beat Bush in the spring of 1980. So you cannot even blame that on Bush.
What Bush did was not puncture the housing bubble (and neither did the Fed. Reserve under Greenspan). Bush also didn't raise taxes to fund the wars and he pushed through ill-advised tax cuts instead of using the surpluses to pay off the debt. Bush also relaxed regulations on banks further and more or less failed in oversight. Bush also relaxed SEC enforcement over Wall Street which also helped cause the housing mess.
Yes, let's bring the modern "vine ripened" tomato into this discussion. That's about the most synthetic tasting blob of nylon.
Actually, the Korean War was a legacy of the Japanese who controlled Korea. They split the pop. between those who worked with the Japanese and those who were opposed. The Communist ideology was implanted by Russia. There were some Koreans who fought against the Japanese in China, but not enough to matter.
Just a bit of background, Mao left Chiang to fight the Japanese pretty much by himself figuring that Japan would lose against the U.S, and Russia. He figured his group of weenies would be the ones left standing, and he was correct.
Science generally progresses. Yeah, I know, who would think science has gotten better in 30-40 years. Here's you long ago: science says sickness is caused by bad humors and evil spirits 30-40 years ago. Now you claim it is caused by small living and semi-living things I cannot see; so you've only got 30-40 years to explain the sudden reversal in terms of human behavior.
That's some deep reasoning you have there.
So your argument is that (1) we're fucked, (2) accept it, and (3) don't buy land in Florida. I thought people like you went the way of the dodo with the onset of the Enlightenment. Maybe you've heard of it, it was big news 3-4 hundred years ago. It was in all the major newspapers, and yet you still missed the memo.
Hmmm....a computer scientist, I see. Happens at step 1, if it happens at step n implies it happens at step n + 1, it will happen for all n.
That makes about as much sense as proving baldness. If a man is bald with 1 hair, and if being bald at n hairs implies he'll still be bald at n + 1, then all men are bald.
The trick, you see, is that your mathematical model is not an accurate model of the earth. You neglect a lot of stupid people doing a lot of stupid things such that when a whole lot of people do the same stupid thing, then the effect can be quite non-linear.
Errr... the dino's farted out about 65 million years ago. My guess is their farts would have dissipated by 5 millions years ago seeing as methane has about a net lifetime of 8.4 years in the atmosphere.
Don't let science blind you, just continue to use whatever you are using.
Adapting fast enough is one problem. There is another problem. Suppose that the previous warming was not caused by CO2 but something else. Regardless of whether CO2 is causing our warming, the massive amount of CO2 we have pumped into the atmosphere is changing the ph of the ocean. The ocean is at the bottom of the food change, if we fuck that up, we're truly fucked. The ph is already screwing up the coral reefs.
The IRS needs them when they go after accountants. An accountant cornered with his MS software and a sharp pencil is a vicious beast.
Ichan won't reform anything he touches. He's only interested in counting his winnings. He doesn't understand any of the companies he gets involved with except as a bean counter. Ichan would drive MS over the cliff faster...and I won't cry for MS if he did, but he cannot save anything.
I'd like to see Ballmer in ads for testosterone supplements. "Do you suffer lack of energy, not ready when She is? Have we got a product for you: Ape-er-one!!" (quick cut to the monkey dance).
GE has no single vision either, yet they do okay. MS's problem is that it defines itself by destroying competition, not competing with them. Hence its products are limp. MS doesn't care, they figure to screw their competition out of the marketplace and then their limp noodles will necessarily be bought. This strategy also makes it possible to attack a lot of markets simultaneously, because they never have to concentrate on a few and make good products for them.
And it isn't Ballmer's fault, it is Bill's fault. He designed the blind octopus that is MS. Were it not for their received monopoly and their cutthroat tactics before other companies cottoned on to their tactics, they'd have been toast long ago. In a way, they forced the only competition they couldn't beat to arise just out of evolution, i.e., FOSS.
Bill built Microsoft's sluggishness, it is his fault. Ballmer is just an uninspired fall guy.
As long as there are MBAs and military brass, there will be Office. They have no other way of expressing their alleged thoughts.
It depends upon how their architecture is licensed. ARM sells a licenses and then licenses on steroids. The latter allow you much latitude in how you design your SoC. Intel so far has an "I know best" attitude. The other problem for Intel is their chips are too expensive. To fight on price means their profit margins shrink and that makes chasing ARM less of profitable proposition. On the other hand, Intel might feel their future is threatened by ARM so much that they must go after ARM.
Intel, like Microsoft, defines themselves in killing the opposition, not competing with it. It is a mindset that is not easily given up.
Gee, someone with now powers of abstraction, how do you live?