Lemme guess, you are a European, the biggest mass murderers in history(whom have yet to really apologize for it in any meaningful way by the way). Yeah, real "peacenicks" there.
Wow, you just showed that you have 0 idea what you are talking about in the first 2 sentences. You do realize that despite the "made in China" label, most of what is in your Apple computer is actually produced outside of China right? The Japanese produce the batteries and a lot of the parts for the SSDs(and to a certain extent the HDs), the Koreans make the screens, the Germans make a lot of the plastic that goes into the machine, the Americans make the software and fab the chips. The Chinese simply assemble the thing. They have done analysis on what countries get what part of your iPhone and China is pretty much on the bottom of the list.
You are missing a crucial fact, the only reason the Chinese Communist Party remains in power is that they are the ones keeping the economy running and people employed. You put a bump in that and the chances for a major revolution, civil war, etc in China skyrocket.
And the Chinese economy would collapse as the $1.4 trillion of US debt that China currently holds would quickly become worthless. Sort of like ripping off the nose to spite the face.
There is sort of a chicken and egg thing going on, but they do tend to feed into each other. The huge religious revival in the United States occurred just as the factories were starting to close en masse. This is not a coincidence, people lives literally turned from a certainty of relative comfort and ease in exchange for a bit of hard work into a massive pile of uncertainty. To counteract the uncertainty they turned to those who promised certainty, ie the church. The rich noticed this trend and immediately set out to use it to their own advantage. To make sure the people they were fucking over didn't rise up against them, they cajoled the Republican party into adopting a lot of the hard core religious beliefs(the ones who are "certain" about everything) and combine them with pro-rich policies. That way you could actually convince people to vote against their own economic interests.
No, it's not, you are totally ignoring what I am saying. There is nothing technologically spectacular about what they are doing, they are just willing to make all sorts of operational changes to achieve a higher average speed. I'm sure I can build a really, really fast train out in the middle of the desert that can achieve amazing average speeds, but it really doesn't prove jack shit other than I'm willing to waste a lot of money building a train solely for the purposes of bragging rights. Average speed is a secondary consideration AFTER operational concerns such as location, safety, and noise are taken into consideration. China just chucked all these just so they could win the pissing contest. Nothing more, nothing less.
Um, not if the train doesn't actually stop anywhere people want to go. Not if the train makes cities unsafe and noisy. China was trying to make this whole thing out to be a huge technological achievement, but it's really just them shitting on their populace to try to win a pissing contest. Thats it.
This is just more proof the the Chinese government built this just to win a pissing contest. First of all note that they are saying "fastest", but it's really just the fastest AVERAGE speed. The reason they chose average to compare themselves with the TGV and whatnot is that they can jack up the average speed merely by changing operational parameters. The TGV is forced to, by law, slow down when near cities. This is done out of both noise and safety concerns. If the French government didn't mind shitting all over it's citizens like the CCP does, then it would have the fastest average speed. Chinas government is more than willing to sacrifice its citizens lives and health just to inflate their own egos.
Did you ever stop for a moment and think that maybe people are willing to pay a huge amount of money for some info and pictures of hot, hot fly on fly action? Worth every penny.
One of the differences between China and Japan is how much of a cut the American CEO got(gets). The big mistake Japan made was pushing to cut out the American CEO by introducing their own brands and basically cutting out the middle man and selling direct. This pissed off the American managers who are the ones that really pull the strings, and Reagan reacted to save his financial backers. China was able to observe that trend and thus far has seemed to avoid the mistakes Japan made. Even though the deficit with China is much greater than the deficit with Japan was in the 80s(in both absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP) the anti-China pushback is but a fraction of the anti-Japan pushback in the 80s. Again, the difference is the CEOs. When the CEOs simply rebrand Chinese products and sell them in the USA, they get to keep a cut. If the Chinese company were to sell under their own brand, the CEO would see nothing and make sure that the politicians he bought and paid for knew that fact.
Think about it for a second, how many Chinese brands can you name off the top of your head? I can only name two, Haier and Lenovo. Now think of how many Japanese brands you can name off the top of your head? Nintendo, Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Honda, Toyota, Mazda etc. See any differences?
Boiling the test down to a single number is sort of useless because that number will depend heavily on how they weight the individual sections that make up the test. For instance, in my case I was born with a moderate to severe motor skill deficiency(depending on how you measure it). I did insanely well on all the sections that didn't require a lot of motor skills, but absolutely bombed the puzzle section because of said motor skill deficiency. Ultimately I got a 128, which was 2 points shy of "gifted", but had they changed the weights of the sections it could have swung by a very large margin either way. They should at least break down the section scores, even if they still want to give you a single number as the "result" of the test.
The real root of the problem is that it's really hard to ethically gather information on how deadly a flu strain is. The swine flu actually had a relatively low fatality rate(from 'kipedia):The virus is currently less lethal than previous pandemic strains and kills about 0.01â"0.03% of those infected; the 1918 influenza was about one hundred times more lethal and had a case fatality rate of 2â"3%
However, when the strain first it killed a large number of young people in Mexico. As it turns out those people probably had other conditions that caused their death, the flu probably just exacerbated them.
So when the flu first hit a lot of people warned that it could be incredibly lethal based on the very small amount of data they had at the time, and thus people panicked. However the panic didn't really seem to die down as more data came in.....
Which of course raises an ethical question, at what point should you warn people about a pandemic? You wait for enough data to roll in and it may be too late, you work off too little data, and you get unnecessary panic.
I hated that in the uk some restaurants put the tip right on your bill. I went to an Indian restaurant and made sure to tell the waiter no green onions, and of course my dish comes out and is covered with the things. I wasn't going to tip him but the bastard put the tip right on the bill. I guess technically I didn't have to pay it, but I just didn't have the energy to fight that fight.... Now I live in a country where absolutely no tipping is practiced, it's bliss.
Not to mention song lyrics, I mean you ever hear a song sung with the word "kilometer"? Thats 4 syllables vs. one, and an unwieldy 4 syllables at that.
Is this really dropbox or Amazon that is behind this policy? While people rant and rave about dropbox, in the end it's really just a fancy front end onto Amazon's S3 service. Your data is actually stored on Amazon's servers and my guess is that it's ultimately Amazon that dictates policies such as this.
Pbbfft... Name me one thing, ONE, that is better than RC cars. Go ahead, I can wait. Now don't you think powering such inventions should be humanity's sole purpose on this planet?
First and foremost most of the damage was not actually done by the earthquake itself, most of the fatalities, and the cause of the Fukushima incident was the tsunami, not the earthquake. And even assuming "civilized" means "heavily populated", it still ignores that whole Indian Ocean tsunami that occurred in a heavily populated area.
Actually the fact that the earthquake occurred so close to the shore probably SAVED lives in the end. In the Indian ocean quake, most of the affected areas never actually felt the quake, all they saw was the water receding then a giant wave. Most had no chance to escape. At least in Japan the fact that the quake was so powerful gave an unmistakable warning to the people living near the coast to get to high ground. The closeness of the earthquake to the shore probably ended up saving, not costing, lives.
So which department does the stupid ass "War on Drugs" fall under? You know, spending massive amounts of money(and wasting fuel and polluting the environment) flying around in helicopters burning naturally occurring plants, throwing people in jail(which costs about $50k/year/head and prevents them from contributing to society) etc etc etc.
As a tax payer, I'm pissed at this stupid ass "war". You want to reduce spending and increase revenues? Legalize and tax marijuana.
We already have the technology necessary to prevent world hunger, it's called birth control. Are there any charities I can fund that aim to distribute birth control to poor countries? Because I would give money to that cause
Better nutrition, especially during early childhood, is probably a bigger factor. Studies have shown that kids who go hungry in the first 5 or so years of life tend to score markedly below those that do not.
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Lemme guess, you are a European, the biggest mass murderers in history(whom have yet to really apologize for it in any meaningful way by the way). Yeah, real "peacenicks" there.
Wow, you just showed that you have 0 idea what you are talking about in the first 2 sentences. You do realize that despite the "made in China" label, most of what is in your Apple computer is actually produced outside of China right? The Japanese produce the batteries and a lot of the parts for the SSDs(and to a certain extent the HDs), the Koreans make the screens, the Germans make a lot of the plastic that goes into the machine, the Americans make the software and fab the chips. The Chinese simply assemble the thing. They have done analysis on what countries get what part of your iPhone and China is pretty much on the bottom of the list.
You are missing a crucial fact, the only reason the Chinese Communist Party remains in power is that they are the ones keeping the economy running and people employed. You put a bump in that and the chances for a major revolution, civil war, etc in China skyrocket.
And the Chinese economy would collapse as the $1.4 trillion of US debt that China currently holds would quickly become worthless. Sort of like ripping off the nose to spite the face.
There is sort of a chicken and egg thing going on, but they do tend to feed into each other. The huge religious revival in the United States occurred just as the factories were starting to close en masse. This is not a coincidence, people lives literally turned from a certainty of relative comfort and ease in exchange for a bit of hard work into a massive pile of uncertainty. To counteract the uncertainty they turned to those who promised certainty, ie the church. The rich noticed this trend and immediately set out to use it to their own advantage. To make sure the people they were fucking over didn't rise up against them, they cajoled the Republican party into adopting a lot of the hard core religious beliefs(the ones who are "certain" about everything) and combine them with pro-rich policies. That way you could actually convince people to vote against their own economic interests.
Well, we have the dummy plug, and SEELE is sending us the 5th children so I think everything is going to be A OK!
No, it's not, you are totally ignoring what I am saying. There is nothing technologically spectacular about what they are doing, they are just willing to make all sorts of operational changes to achieve a higher average speed. I'm sure I can build a really, really fast train out in the middle of the desert that can achieve amazing average speeds, but it really doesn't prove jack shit other than I'm willing to waste a lot of money building a train solely for the purposes of bragging rights. Average speed is a secondary consideration AFTER operational concerns such as location, safety, and noise are taken into consideration. China just chucked all these just so they could win the pissing contest. Nothing more, nothing less.
They just gave Oracle a new slogan for Java, "Write once, pwn everywhere!"
Um, not if the train doesn't actually stop anywhere people want to go. Not if the train makes cities unsafe and noisy. China was trying to make this whole thing out to be a huge technological achievement, but it's really just them shitting on their populace to try to win a pissing contest. Thats it.
This is just more proof the the Chinese government built this just to win a pissing contest. First of all note that they are saying "fastest", but it's really just the fastest AVERAGE speed. The reason they chose average to compare themselves with the TGV and whatnot is that they can jack up the average speed merely by changing operational parameters. The TGV is forced to, by law, slow down when near cities. This is done out of both noise and safety concerns. If the French government didn't mind shitting all over it's citizens like the CCP does, then it would have the fastest average speed. Chinas government is more than willing to sacrifice its citizens lives and health just to inflate their own egos.
Did you ever stop for a moment and think that maybe people are willing to pay a huge amount of money for some info and pictures of hot, hot fly on fly action? Worth every penny.
One of the differences between China and Japan is how much of a cut the American CEO got(gets). The big mistake Japan made was pushing to cut out the American CEO by introducing their own brands and basically cutting out the middle man and selling direct. This pissed off the American managers who are the ones that really pull the strings, and Reagan reacted to save his financial backers. China was able to observe that trend and thus far has seemed to avoid the mistakes Japan made. Even though the deficit with China is much greater than the deficit with Japan was in the 80s(in both absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP) the anti-China pushback is but a fraction of the anti-Japan pushback in the 80s. Again, the difference is the CEOs. When the CEOs simply rebrand Chinese products and sell them in the USA, they get to keep a cut. If the Chinese company were to sell under their own brand, the CEO would see nothing and make sure that the politicians he bought and paid for knew that fact.
Think about it for a second, how many Chinese brands can you name off the top of your head? I can only name two, Haier and Lenovo. Now think of how many Japanese brands you can name off the top of your head? Nintendo, Sony, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Honda, Toyota, Mazda etc. See any differences?
Boiling the test down to a single number is sort of useless because that number will depend heavily on how they weight the individual sections that make up the test. For instance, in my case I was born with a moderate to severe motor skill deficiency(depending on how you measure it). I did insanely well on all the sections that didn't require a lot of motor skills, but absolutely bombed the puzzle section because of said motor skill deficiency. Ultimately I got a 128, which was 2 points shy of "gifted", but had they changed the weights of the sections it could have swung by a very large margin either way. They should at least break down the section scores, even if they still want to give you a single number as the "result" of the test.
The real root of the problem is that it's really hard to ethically gather information on how deadly a flu strain is. The swine flu actually had a relatively low fatality rate(from 'kipedia):The virus is currently less lethal than previous pandemic strains and kills about 0.01â"0.03% of those infected; the 1918 influenza was about one hundred times more lethal and had a case fatality rate of 2â"3%
However, when the strain first it killed a large number of young people in Mexico. As it turns out those people probably had other conditions that caused their death, the flu probably just exacerbated them.
So when the flu first hit a lot of people warned that it could be incredibly lethal based on the very small amount of data they had at the time, and thus people panicked. However the panic didn't really seem to die down as more data came in.....
Which of course raises an ethical question, at what point should you warn people about a pandemic? You wait for enough data to roll in and it may be too late, you work off too little data, and you get unnecessary panic.
I hated that in the uk some restaurants put the tip right on your bill. I went to an Indian restaurant and made sure to tell the waiter no green onions, and of course my dish comes out and is covered with the things. I wasn't going to tip him but the bastard put the tip right on the bill. I guess technically I didn't have to pay it, but I just didn't have the energy to fight that fight.... Now I live in a country where absolutely no tipping is practiced, it's bliss.
Not to mention song lyrics, I mean you ever hear a song sung with the word "kilometer"? Thats 4 syllables vs. one, and an unwieldy 4 syllables at that.
We already have robots that can play football
While hardly anyone sends info via letters anymore, I bet a bunch of teenage amateur meth manufacturers are getting ideas for new drugs.
Is this really dropbox or Amazon that is behind this policy? While people rant and rave about dropbox, in the end it's really just a fancy front end onto Amazon's S3 service. Your data is actually stored on Amazon's servers and my guess is that it's ultimately Amazon that dictates policies such as this.
Pbbfft... Name me one thing, ONE, that is better than RC cars. Go ahead, I can wait. Now don't you think powering such inventions should be humanity's sole purpose on this planet?
Thought so.
First and foremost most of the damage was not actually done by the earthquake itself, most of the fatalities, and the cause of the Fukushima incident was the tsunami, not the earthquake. And even assuming "civilized" means "heavily populated", it still ignores that whole Indian Ocean tsunami that occurred in a heavily populated area.
Actually the fact that the earthquake occurred so close to the shore probably SAVED lives in the end. In the Indian ocean quake, most of the affected areas never actually felt the quake, all they saw was the water receding then a giant wave. Most had no chance to escape. At least in Japan the fact that the quake was so powerful gave an unmistakable warning to the people living near the coast to get to high ground. The closeness of the earthquake to the shore probably ended up saving, not costing, lives.
So which department does the stupid ass "War on Drugs" fall under? You know, spending massive amounts of money(and wasting fuel and polluting the environment) flying around in helicopters burning naturally occurring plants, throwing people in jail(which costs about $50k/year/head and prevents them from contributing to society) etc etc etc.
As a tax payer, I'm pissed at this stupid ass "war". You want to reduce spending and increase revenues? Legalize and tax marijuana.
Not to be pedantic, but Yuri didn't actually do anything. Vostok 1 was fully automatic from lift-off to bail out.
Well, he didn't shit his space suit(probably, I don't know if the Soviets released any records on that one). So that's gotta be worth SOMETHING.
We already have the technology necessary to prevent world hunger, it's called birth control. Are there any charities I can fund that aim to distribute birth control to poor countries? Because I would give money to that cause
Better nutrition, especially during early childhood, is probably a bigger factor. Studies have shown that kids who go hungry in the first 5 or so years of life tend to score markedly below those that do not.