> Also, smarter people "cleverly plan their lives" and have few children at a late age, while dumber people become pregnant as teens and have lots of children. This favours the propagation of genes that result in less clever people.
Don't be so depressive.
Smart people with strong reproductive impulse may find a way to reproduce earlier, while dumber people may have a hard time at gathering enough resources to "build a nest". Also, essentially, if mankind would become dumber through the ages we would never have an accelerating civilization... it's almost as if kids are bound to be smarter than their parents...
(This is unrelated to any individual or organization, being just my own manner of see things -- someone who had children at a quite advanced age, btw).
Unless nests are supplied for by governments. And that is a good thing, in that children should not suffer because of the stupidity of the parents.
So, because the countries are nice in many respects, all of their policies are better than those of other countries?
The accusation was that the government was teh sux0r because of the bureaucracy. My addition was that the government seems to do quite well, despite the bureaucracy/because of the bureaucracy.
It's not bureucracy gone wild, just common citizen doing things
So you're quite happy to live in a world where every time you want to "do things" you have to go scouring through law books and beg the government for permission?
I guess s/he probably is. And since his/her gouvernment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index is considered pretty decent, Kickstarter might rethink some of the terms and conditions. They could be misinterpreted, after all.
One can't have ones cake and eat it. Speed or reliability, there should be more differentiation and more clarity in the specs. I want my backup-disk to be very reliable, I want my boot-disk to be fast. Best performance for both, but different circumstances.
It would mean bridging the phone and the tablet. I hope it's available before mid October, since my wife's birthday. Yes, it'll come out in September, I read that, but availability is a different thing.
Especially the rural area are a bit difficult to service (yes I read part of the article). On the other hand: people that choose to live there, do they nééd fixed-line access?
show me where this has been done in real life. where this is the policy at a school. show me.
It was unwritten rule in my school, when I was admin. It wasn't the policy, but I told the teachers what I was able to and showed chunks of the proxy-logs. All kids were minors and the teachers told them that, in case of angry parents and their children playing innocent, I could cough up the complete webhistory for at least a month. Never had complaints from parents, kids thought it a fair game and teachers knew to behave as well:) Transparency worked.
If high demand and limited supply drives up housing prices you might have to move back in with family or rent a small apartment. You could also move to a location with more available housing.
I am not sure why you think just because it is a little rough for you housing should be cheap.
I'm an adult, living with my wife and kids. I have a full time job, capable of paying rent and mortgage. Moving to a location with more available housing: like telling someone from Cali advising to move to Detroit, plenty of affordable housing, isn't it? Your insinuation that I think my housing should be cheap is pretty silly, I just keep saying that it should be less dependent on scarcity, the market is fixed by developers and builders. More houses are being demolished because of thei age than are being built to replace them. And yes: the Netherlands have a growing population. People just should live longer in their parents' basement, because that's your solution to this situation?? Do you even TRY to understand what I'm writing?? Tell me about YOUR universe, where every day is Bratwurstfestival and your parents love you ever so much.
We use gasoline, so petrol taxes do not impact us. If gasoline becomes that expensive I would laugh at the SUV drivers while I fill up my compact. I paid $10/gallon in Germany so I can afford $8/gallon here.
The housing bubble was caused by people buying houses they could not afford, and banks making liars loans. If people cannot afford the homes, the prices will go back down. Supply and demand sets the price of houses. The market for homes does not care how affordable you think they should be. The costs will be what people pay. Buying a home so expensive that you can barely afford it only serves to drive prices up and make you poor.
So scarcity doesn't affect the prices? People don't have to afford houses? "We'll camp in the streets until the prices go down"? A house is a necessity. There is a demand. There is not enough supply. That drives up the prices. There is lack of affordable housing, that's the 4th time, you might read it.
Renting is not possible in the universe you live in?
Buying a smaller home not an option either?
If you cannot afford your home on 50% of your income get a smaller one or rent.
There is lack of affordable housing. Prices are pretty much over the top. That includes renting, that includes smaller houses. There is considerable lack of affordable housing. Yes of course I could move back with my family paying $800 a month for a 2-bedroom council house. I could afford that. I can afford the house I live in as well, thank you very much. But the prices are inflated, because there is a tremendous lack of affordable housing. I keep repeating that because somehow the message doesn't seem to get abroad. Never heard of the housing bubble? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Suppose the petrol in your country gets higher taxation. Up until it costs 8 dollars the gallon. Can't afford it? Get a bicycle or get a job closer to home. You can afford it? Then it's not a problem in your opinion? Does "affordable" mean, "realistically priced" to you? I'll wash your car for $200, you probably can afford that. But are you willing to pay it?
And sometimes that means one has to go with the flow, paying through the nose for an overpriced house. Especially in one of the most dense populated countries of the world.
No, what I am saying is if you can afford X(mortgage)-Y(tax credit for interest paid) then you should be able to afford X.
If you cannot afford a reduction in your income of less than 10%, you cannot afford the home you are in.
The prices of the houses increased because sellers KNEW that buyers had more to spend because of the tax refund. That's part of the air in the housing bubble.
At the end of the book, the protagonist is standing outside the window of the woman he loves, in the snow, utterly broke, and it can be inferred that he freezes to death ala the little match girl. Verne was pretty spot on considering he was predicting 100 years in the future, but the depressing ending was just too sad. This was his last novel, and wasn't published until the 1990s.
I have it. Despite the miserable character (hardly possible to sympathise with for me) and the blatant adoration Verne shows towards his heroes (his editor makes several remarks in the side-notes), the end was very cold.
Imagine putting a sign on your front lawn. A month later you bring it inside your house. Since the sign was public, does that mean the police no longer need a warrant? If twitter loses this appeal, the answer to that question will be no. It is essentially saying anything made public can never be made private. Now, if someone took pictures of that sign on your lawn, that's another matter. So a snapshot of a public site would be fair game. So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
You can't unsay what you have said. If you scream at someone "I'm gonna kill you", it will be used against you.
French people are people that have a French passport. So citizenship and ethnicity, yes, but ancestry or culture, no. There is the distinction of "culturally French", meaning needing little time to adjust to French society, for instance coming from the former colonies or the French-speaking part of Belgium.
[QUOTE]USAGE In recent years, the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-century anthropologists and physiologists has led to the use of the word race itself becoming problematic. Although still used in general contexts (: race relations,: racial equality), it is now often replaced by other words that are less emotionally charged, such as people(s) or community.[QUOTE]
And as to quote the Argentinian wife of the Dutch Royal heir: "There is no such thing as a Dutch/French/Argentinian identity."
There is however an Arabic street culture that goes way beyond simply being sociable and quickly become harassment, usually harassment of women. France has this problem worse than most European countries because they took Arabic immigrants in large groups and confined them in ghettos.
Of course it has nothing to do with the French colonies in Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire It also has nothing to do that, perhaps, the immigrants prefer to be among their own and created their own ghettos, like the Jews did in larger cities early in the 20th century. Ever seen Arabs applying their own sociable culture upon gay men in a largely tolerant city? Fun to watch, really. Also amusing how my wife is a whore in their eyes because she hardly ever covers her head or face.
I would disagree. You're citing testosterone driven, aggressive behavior which knows no geographic or ethnic bounds. Violence is the choice of idiots.
Sorry, couldn't find the cynicism-tag. But since a lot of US-ians find it pretty reasonable for, for instance, US nuclear vessels roaming around the world to employ the rights of the US, I thought it appropriate.
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
Wat?
What I said was that if the US (Or Russia or China or France or the UK) was at war with someone and for whatever reason it was strategically important for them to bring nuclear weapons in to a "nuclear free zone", they would do so in a heartbeat.
The same goes for passing through the sovereign territory of a non-hostile non-allied nation.
And nobody is actually surprised about that, that's the most worrying part.
If the US (Or any nation of sufficient military strength) was at war and it was strategically important for them to pass through an area (water or otherwise) that belonged to a non-hostile sovereign state, they would go straight through, sovereignty be damned.
If it is all out war diplomacy takes a back seat to strategy.
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
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> Also, smarter people "cleverly plan their lives" and have few children at a late age, while dumber people become pregnant as teens and have lots of children. This favours the propagation of genes that result in less clever people.
Don't be so depressive.
Smart people with strong reproductive impulse may find a way to reproduce earlier, while dumber people may have a hard time at gathering enough resources to "build a nest". Also, essentially, if mankind would become dumber through the ages we would never have an accelerating civilization... it's almost as if kids are bound to be smarter than their parents...
(This is unrelated to any individual or organization, being just my own manner of see things -- someone who had children at a quite advanced age, btw).
Unless nests are supplied for by governments. And that is a good thing, in that children should not suffer because of the stupidity of the parents.
Have Google check and filter _everything_ because of this ruling.
You're loaning them to the needy. Doing good can be nerdy too.
So, because the countries are nice in many respects, all of their policies are better than those of other countries?
The accusation was that the government was teh sux0r because of the bureaucracy. My addition was that the government seems to do quite well, despite the bureaucracy/because of the bureaucracy.
I hope that answered your question.
It's not bureucracy gone wild, just common citizen doing things
So you're quite happy to live in a world where every time you want to "do things" you have to go scouring through law books and beg the government for permission?
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/14/world-happiest-countries-lifestyle-realestate-gallup-table.html
I guess s/he probably is. And since his/her gouvernment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index is considered pretty decent, Kickstarter might rethink some of the terms and conditions. They could be misinterpreted, after all.
One can't have ones cake and eat it. Speed or reliability, there should be more differentiation and more clarity in the specs. I want my backup-disk to be very reliable, I want my boot-disk to be fast. Best performance for both, but different circumstances.
If only he had gotten as much attention as the media now tend to spend on famous trash, the world would be a much better place.
It would mean bridging the phone and the tablet. I hope it's available before mid October, since my wife's birthday. Yes, it'll come out in September, I read that, but availability is a different thing.
Especially the rural area are a bit difficult to service (yes I read part of the article). On the other hand: people that choose to live there, do they nééd fixed-line access?
show me where this has been done in real life.
where this is the policy at a school.
show me.
It was unwritten rule in my school, when I was admin. It wasn't the policy, but I told the teachers what I was able to and showed chunks of the proxy-logs. All kids were minors and the teachers told them that, in case of angry parents and their children playing innocent, I could cough up the complete webhistory for at least a month. :)
Never had complaints from parents, kids thought it a fair game and teachers knew to behave as well
Transparency worked.
If high demand and limited supply drives up housing prices you might have to move back in with family or rent a small apartment. You could also move to a location with more available housing.
I am not sure why you think just because it is a little rough for you housing should be cheap.
I'm an adult, living with my wife and kids. I have a full time job, capable of paying rent and mortgage. Moving to a location with more available housing: like telling someone from Cali advising to move to Detroit, plenty of affordable housing, isn't it?
Your insinuation that I think my housing should be cheap is pretty silly, I just keep saying that it should be less dependent on scarcity, the market is fixed by developers and builders. More houses are being demolished because of thei age than are being built to replace them. And yes: the Netherlands have a growing population. People just should live longer in their parents' basement, because that's your solution to this situation?? Do you even TRY to understand what I'm writing?? Tell me about YOUR universe, where every day is Bratwurstfestival and your parents love you ever so much.
We use gasoline, so petrol taxes do not impact us. If gasoline becomes that expensive I would laugh at the SUV drivers while I fill up my compact. I paid $10/gallon in Germany so I can afford $8/gallon here.
The housing bubble was caused by people buying houses they could not afford, and banks making liars loans. If people cannot afford the homes, the prices will go back down. Supply and demand sets the price of houses. The market for homes does not care how affordable you think they should be. The costs will be what people pay. Buying a home so expensive that you can barely afford it only serves to drive prices up and make you poor.
So scarcity doesn't affect the prices? People don't have to afford houses? "We'll camp in the streets until the prices go down"? A house is a necessity. There is a demand. There is not enough supply. That drives up the prices.
There is lack of affordable housing, that's the 4th time, you might read it.
Renting is not possible in the universe you live in?
Buying a smaller home not an option either?
If you cannot afford your home on 50% of your income get a smaller one or rent.
There is lack of affordable housing. Prices are pretty much over the top. That includes renting, that includes smaller houses. There is considerable lack of affordable housing. Yes of course I could move back with my family paying $800 a month for a 2-bedroom council house. I could afford that. I can afford the house I live in as well, thank you very much. But the prices are inflated, because there is a tremendous lack of affordable housing. I keep repeating that because somehow the message doesn't seem to get abroad. Never heard of the housing bubble? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
Suppose the petrol in your country gets higher taxation. Up until it costs 8 dollars the gallon. Can't afford it? Get a bicycle or get a job closer to home. You can afford it? Then it's not a problem in your opinion? Does "affordable" mean, "realistically priced" to you? I'll wash your car for $200, you probably can afford that. But are you willing to pay it?
Being homeless is not much of an option.
And sometimes that means one has to go with the flow, paying through the nose for an overpriced house. Especially in one of the most dense populated countries of the world.
No, what I am saying is if you can afford X(mortgage)-Y(tax credit for interest paid) then you should be able to afford X.
If you cannot afford a reduction in your income of less than 10%, you cannot afford the home you are in.
The prices of the houses increased because sellers KNEW that buyers had more to spend because of the tax refund. That's part of the air in the housing bubble.
At the end of the book, the protagonist is standing outside the window of the woman he loves, in the snow, utterly broke, and it can be inferred that he freezes to death ala the little match girl. Verne was pretty spot on considering he was predicting 100 years in the future, but the depressing ending was just too sad. This was his last novel, and wasn't published until the 1990s.
I have it. Despite the miserable character (hardly possible to sympathise with for me) and the blatant adoration Verne shows towards his heroes (his editor makes several remarks in the side-notes), the end was very cold.
Imagine putting a sign on your front lawn. A month later you bring it inside your house. Since the sign was public, does that mean the police no longer need a warrant? If twitter loses this appeal, the answer to that question will be no. It is essentially saying anything made public can never be made private. Now, if someone took pictures of that sign on your lawn, that's another matter. So a snapshot of a public site would be fair game. So much so, I wonder if the police monitor tweets and store potentially interesting ones?
You can't unsay what you have said. If you scream at someone "I'm gonna kill you", it will be used against you.
French people are people that have a French passport. So citizenship and ethnicity, yes, but ancestry or culture, no. There is the distinction of "culturally French", meaning needing little time to adjust to French society, for instance coming from the former colonies or the French-speaking part of Belgium.
[QUOTE]USAGE In recent years, the associations of race with the ideologies and theories that grew out of the work of 19th-century anthropologists and physiologists has led to the use of the word race itself becoming problematic. Although still used in general contexts (: race relations,: racial equality), it is now often replaced by other words that are less emotionally charged, such as people(s) or community.[QUOTE]
And as to quote the Argentinian wife of the Dutch Royal heir: "There is no such thing as a Dutch/French/Argentinian identity."
There is however an Arabic street culture that goes way beyond simply being sociable and quickly become harassment, usually harassment of women. France has this problem worse than most European countries because they took Arabic immigrants in large groups and confined them in ghettos.
Of course it has nothing to do with the French colonies in Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonial_empire
It also has nothing to do that, perhaps, the immigrants prefer to be among their own and created their own ghettos, like the Jews did in larger cities early in the 20th century. Ever seen Arabs applying their own sociable culture upon gay men in a largely tolerant city? Fun to watch, really. Also amusing how my wife is a whore in their eyes because she hardly ever covers her head or face.
I would disagree. You're citing testosterone driven, aggressive behavior which knows no geographic or ethnic bounds. Violence is the choice of idiots.
Sorry, couldn't find the cynicism-tag. But since a lot of US-ians find it pretty reasonable for, for instance, US nuclear vessels roaming around the world to employ the rights of the US, I thought it appropriate.
In what way isn't 'French' a race?
Most ways. In what way ís 'French' a race?
Probably for the same reason no one takes a baseball bat to rows of French wines in liquor stores. Violence (and arson) solves nothing.
You should examine your motives if you believe arson is a solution.
You do realise that the audience is US-centric? Violence IS the solution, fcuk yeah!
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
Wat?
What I said was that if the US (Or Russia or China or France or the UK) was at war with someone and for whatever reason it was strategically important for them to bring nuclear weapons in to a "nuclear free zone", they would do so in a heartbeat.
The same goes for passing through the sovereign territory of a non-hostile non-allied nation.
And nobody is actually surprised about that, that's the most worrying part.
If the US (Or any nation of sufficient military strength) was at war and it was strategically important for them to pass through an area (water or otherwise) that belonged to a non-hostile sovereign state, they would go straight through, sovereignty be damned.
If it is all out war diplomacy takes a back seat to strategy.
Funny then how US nukes somehow aren't able to pass OVER an area. Almost sounds like it's more about occupying foreign territory than attacking it.
'86. In '03 they already had adjusted insurance policies.