I know you are a troll but I will feed you a little...
Cap and Trade IS free market. If it was not, an enterprise would apply for its cap and would not be allowed to do anything to it except to use it or return back what it has not used.
Cap and Trade is also about externalities. As Earth is finite, there is a limit to the crap you can put in it before it comes back / affects someone else. Cap and Trade means that you have to invest in order to keep these emissions low.
If you are so worried about free trade, go press your city hall to allow a dumpster next to your house... after all, the owner of the terrain should be able to do what he wants with his possessions, isn't it?.
That's simply for people who is so dumb (or intentionally plays dumb in order to express his views), that ignores that most things in this complex world are complex enough to have multiple facets.
As you seem to have trouble with that simple idea, let's demonstrate:
World War II and the arms race previous to it caused an increase in military R+D, from which some became latter available for civilian user (from microwaves to civilian jet aircraft, and advances in medicine). Now go and tell who I support the death of millions in WWII.
After the World Trade Center attack, the closing of the USA airspace allowed to research the impact of airplanes in climate. Now go and claim that this post shows that I am an Al-Qaeda militant.
Do not know which are your sources, but the answer is easy: If originally Tokyo was 19.5 feet high over sea level, you only need to wait for another rise of 1 foot...
If you have savings, you usually put these savings (except a chest war for whatever might happen) into lowering to import of the mortgage rather than keeping it saved. The mortgage rates are usually way higher than a savings account/fixed term investment, and way safer than investing in shares and whatever.
So, I do not find odd at all getting an audit if you get in such a situation.
Also, why do you assume that they didn't audit him before fining him?.
Without entering in the argument of "Ham radio is dying (or is it not)", I have a doubt.
I mean, I am pretty sure should have way better antennas than most of ham radio users. If so, what is the need for the ham operators? It is just a way to remind everyone that they have a cool thing in space? As if your neighbour (who usually has no trouble with those things) asks you to put a nail in his living room wall, to hang in it "that pretty Picasso that I have just bought".
Despite the continuous maintenance, or maybe we should say as part of the continuing maintenance, a significant effort is placed on getting the specifications and the implementations to converge — the parts of the specification that are mature and stable are not changed willy nilly. Maintenance means that the days where the specifications are brought down from the mountain and remain forever locked, even if it turns out that all the browsers do something else, or even if it turns out that the specification left some detail out and the browsers all disagree on how to implement it, are gone. Instead, we now make sure to update the specifications to be detailed enough that all the implementations (not just browsers, of course) can do the same thing.
TRANSLATION: As we are incapable of agreeing in an standard, we will wait what becomes a de facto standard en then we will call it "the standard". Way easier, boys.
In practice, implementations all followed the latest specs draft anyway, not the latest snapshots. The problem with following a snapshot is that you end up following something that is known to be wrong. That's obviously not the way to get interoperability! This has in fact been a real problem at the W3C, where mistakes are found and fixed in the editors' drafts of specifications, but implementors who aren't fully engaged in the process go and implement obsolete snapshots instead, including those bugs, without realising the problems, and resulting in differences between the browsers.
TRANSLATION: We hoped that developers would wait for centuries until we sorted our mess out, but, oh surprise!, they didn't wait for us and were following our proposal to close for our comfort. Now that is solved as we can let them lead and do our work in our place, to the benefit of the strongest player...
Probably a critical group from inside Iran won't have the knowledge of how to operate the centrifugues, let alone doing it stealthy and through commands in a virus...
Whoever did this had first hand access to Siemens inner secrets
Also, even in "moderate" groups, I don't think there are many who hate an Iranian A-Bomb. Probably many would be willing to not get it in exchange for better relations/foreign support/avoiding the expenses, but I don't think it is the biggest concern about their government.
Neither of which requires the government to know how much money you have in your bank account. The only time you get flagged for an audit is when someone reports they gave you money and you don't show that money earned on your tax filing. If swiss banks don't report it's hardly an indication of a crime (or reason to leak personal information about others).
False, false, false... the banks must inform the autorities if they see something that might be money laundering or other fraudulent activities... v.g., if you are unemployed but have great transfer of funds, or deposit and retire a lot of money in notes, if you own a fish and chips but deposit more than the wal-mart. Not that the banks are happy about it (profits are profits, even if they come from drug smuglers, kidnappers or other criminal), but they are forced to.
In a swiss bank, you can pay with gold teeth and nobody will ask nor care where did they come from...
Well, you are free to hang out with anyone you want to but maybe it's time to return the corporation to its roots, when the purpose of a corporation wasn't "maximize profit for the shareholders regardless of legal or ethical implications" but rather to provide a product or service that would be beneficial to the community.
uh? The purpose of a corporation (unless it explicitly stated another one) has always been to "maximize profits". In fact they were setup because at some time, it was found that the capital needed to profit the most from economies of scale was more than any single individual was willing to risk.
I am not particularly fond of capitalism, but I'm ok with the "maximize profit for the shareholders". What I ask for is:
If YOU break the law working for the corporation, YOU pay the bill/serve the time. Even if you are the CEO, the fines and lawyer expenses are not going to be paid by the shareholders (who, in the whole part, do not know what is happening).
If the chain of command imposes rules/objectives that cannot be reallistically meet (like driving from coast to coast of the USA with the due rest and without breaking speed limits in 24 hours), then they are held liable, TOO.
Additionally, but less related to the issue, other controls to avoid board members and big shareholders to profit from small shareholders (company owned stock does not count in votings, heavy control in board salaries and bonuses, and other..)
That won't stop social differences, but it might be a mean to avoid making them bigger every year...
In other regulated industries I've actually seen "turn the clock back" responses to regulation - where ancient practices that are grandfathered in get preferred to modern practices that are actually better, but which become more expensive to implement due to the presence of the regulation. In this way regulation can actually harm those it purports to benefit. Unfortunately, it usually is still better than the alternative.
I work in an ensemble of hospitals for cronical patients, that is barely getting into the information age. My experience is that in these last cases regulation is not harming advance, but just reveals the nasty truth behind "the paper way": inadequate communication (that is supplemented through informal channels), inefficiences, and so on. One of the first fruits of the process of defining our clinical record system is that our directors found out how did really work some of the areas under their "supervision" (and believe me, they are not huge hospitals). During the process, it was discovered that in a bussiness with 1200 workers, about 70 medical/nursing scales where used. And almost every service had its own forms, reports (much of the data was shared, of course).
Also, let's face it, input devices are still a bit cumbersome, when compared with the old pen and paper. And yes, pen and paper are prone to errors, but in a cronical hospital they sheldom are fatal/noticed. And if they are noticed, doctors have lots of experience covering their asses and sacrificing underlings (in fact it is easier when there is no electronical record).
And, after all, changes are hard and even in the best of worlds it needs some extra effort from people that maybe do not see the need for it.
So, in my opinion, most of the failures are not from the regulations itself but from all the dirt that is under the carpet when you try to apply them. I am not saying that some of the regulations could not have been better thought out, but from my experience they are not the real cause of lack of innovation.
Been there, done that... only that mine was a RAID 1 (maybe 10).
My only defense is that I was the recently hired software developer charged with being sysadmin because everybody else in the dept. didn't want to be. Now I am far more experienced (and by that I mean both that I know a lot more, and that I know to ask for support contracts for everything and call a contractor as soon as anything I do not know about is happening).
On the plus side, this mistake was the final coup de grace to a project that was agonizing and could have swamped us a lot longer, if this had not happened.
I find it amusing so many people comparing crossing through a praire with interplanetary travel... and don't forget how many people died crossing those praires.
I think this applies only to lasers with intent to permanently blind. If it just forces the enemy to not look/aim at you but without injuring them, I think it should be in the same group as smoke screen, flash bangs and other "less lethal" weapons. Also maybe this would allow this laser to be mounted on mercant ships without violating international laws.
While the defense could attempt to justify the glycol (and other poissons) search, it is a lot more difficult when there are also searches about dieing (this is how it is written?) electrocuted.
After spending two months trying to keep up to date with the latest developments in Java Enterprise, I can say you that brain damage comes from eclipse, not the other way around (well, at least in my case, do not know about those red hat/oracle guys).
I do not know how it works in the states, but in Spain if the test is positive you can ask for a retest in ten minutes, and if it still is positive, a blood test (but if it is positive, too, you have to pay the cost of the blood test in addition to the other penalties, so you better ask it only when you suspect it is really the breathalyzer mistake).
People should be able to choose the vehicle they want to keep their family safe.
While it is unavoidable that the larger, more powerful SUVs will be too expensive for some people, what I condemn is any move by the _state_ to price people out of the SUV market based on relatively trivial matters such as CO2 emissions.
Rich people will still be able to buy, tax and insure their SUVs, while poorer people will be more likely to be limited to smaller, weaker cars that will come off worse in a crash.
Then I want to be able to put a turret with a couple of machine guns, connected to a sensor that detects when a SUV approachs with its owner more concerned about cellphone/makeup/kids/whatever that about traffic (because if he gets in a crash, I will get the worse part of it).
After all, I should be able to chose the vehicle I want to keep my family (and myself, don't forget about myself) safe.
I sincerely doubt that the OIA, the CIA, the Mossad and the like will evaluate the success or failure of Stuxnet based on what anyone posts in Slashdot, or some journalist post (unless he is recognized to have expertise in the field and/or good contacts). So the ones understimating Iran would be, at the very maximum, the general public (and now we know/have confirmation from wikileaks how little are we informed/taken in account by our governments)...
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I know you are a troll but I will feed you a little...
Cap and Trade IS free market. If it was not, an enterprise would apply for its cap and would not be allowed to do anything to it except to use it or return back what it has not used.
Cap and Trade is also about externalities. As Earth is finite, there is a limit to the crap you can put in it before it comes back / affects someone else. Cap and Trade means that you have to invest in order to keep these emissions low.
If you are so worried about free trade, go press your city hall to allow a dumpster next to your house... after all, the owner of the terrain should be able to do what he wants with his possessions, isn't it?.
That's simply for people who is so dumb (or intentionally plays dumb in order to express his views), that ignores that most things in this complex world are complex enough to have multiple facets.
As you seem to have trouble with that simple idea, let's demonstrate:
Need more examples?
Do not know which are your sources, but the answer is easy: If originally Tokyo was 19.5 feet high over sea level, you only need to wait for another rise of 1 foot...
If you have savings, you usually put these savings (except a chest war for whatever might happen) into lowering to import of the mortgage rather than keeping it saved. The mortgage rates are usually way higher than a savings account/fixed term investment, and way safer than investing in shares and whatever.
So, I do not find odd at all getting an audit if you get in such a situation.
Also, why do you assume that they didn't audit him before fining him?.
Without entering in the argument of "Ham radio is dying (or is it not)", I have a doubt.
I mean, I am pretty sure should have way better antennas than most of ham radio users. If so, what is the need for the ham operators? It is just a way to remind everyone that they have a cool thing in space? As if your neighbour (who usually has no trouble with those things) asks you to put a nail in his living room wall, to hang in it "that pretty Picasso that I have just bought".
From the page
TRANSLATION: As we are incapable of agreeing in an standard, we will wait what becomes a de facto standard en then we will call it "the standard". Way easier, boys.
TRANSLATION: We hoped that developers would wait for centuries until we sorted our mess out, but, oh surprise!, they didn't wait for us and were following our proposal to close for our comfort. Now that is solved as we can let them lead and do our work in our place, to the benefit of the strongest player...
Probably a critical group from inside Iran won't have the knowledge of how to operate the centrifugues, let alone doing it stealthy and through commands in a virus...
Whoever did this had first hand access to Siemens inner secrets
Also, even in "moderate" groups, I don't think there are many who hate an Iranian A-Bomb. Probably many would be willing to not get it in exchange for better relations/foreign support/avoiding the expenses, but I don't think it is the biggest concern about their government.
Neither of which requires the government to know how much money you have in your bank account. The only time you get flagged for an audit is when someone reports they gave you money and you don't show that money earned on your tax filing. If swiss banks don't report it's hardly an indication of a crime (or reason to leak personal information about others).
False, false, false... the banks must inform the autorities if they see something that might be money laundering or other fraudulent activities... v.g., if you are unemployed but have great transfer of funds, or deposit and retire a lot of money in notes, if you own a fish and chips but deposit more than the wal-mart. Not that the banks are happy about it (profits are profits, even if they come from drug smuglers, kidnappers or other criminal), but they are forced to.
In a swiss bank, you can pay with gold teeth and nobody will ask nor care where did they come from...
Well, you are free to hang out with anyone you want to but maybe it's time to return the corporation to its roots, when the purpose of a corporation wasn't "maximize profit for the shareholders regardless of legal or ethical implications" but rather to provide a product or service that would be beneficial to the community.
uh? The purpose of a corporation (unless it explicitly stated another one) has always been to "maximize profits". In fact they were setup because at some time, it was found that the capital needed to profit the most from economies of scale was more than any single individual was willing to risk.
I am not particularly fond of capitalism, but I'm ok with the "maximize profit for the shareholders". What I ask for is:
That won't stop social differences, but it might be a mean to avoid making them bigger every year...
In other regulated industries I've actually seen "turn the clock back" responses to regulation - where ancient practices that are grandfathered in get preferred to modern practices that are actually better, but which become more expensive to implement due to the presence of the regulation. In this way regulation can actually harm those it purports to benefit. Unfortunately, it usually is still better than the alternative.
I work in an ensemble of hospitals for cronical patients, that is barely getting into the information age. My experience is that in these last cases regulation is not harming advance, but just reveals the nasty truth behind "the paper way": inadequate communication (that is supplemented through informal channels), inefficiences, and so on. One of the first fruits of the process of defining our clinical record system is that our directors found out how did really work some of the areas under their "supervision" (and believe me, they are not huge hospitals). During the process, it was discovered that in a bussiness with 1200 workers, about 70 medical/nursing scales where used. And almost every service had its own forms, reports (much of the data was shared, of course).
Also, let's face it, input devices are still a bit cumbersome, when compared with the old pen and paper. And yes, pen and paper are prone to errors, but in a cronical hospital they sheldom are fatal/noticed. And if they are noticed, doctors have lots of experience covering their asses and sacrificing underlings (in fact it is easier when there is no electronical record).
And, after all, changes are hard and even in the best of worlds it needs some extra effort from people that maybe do not see the need for it.
So, in my opinion, most of the failures are not from the regulations itself but from all the dirt that is under the carpet when you try to apply them. I am not saying that some of the regulations could not have been better thought out, but from my experience they are not the real cause of lack of innovation.
Been there, done that... only that mine was a RAID 1 (maybe 10).
My only defense is that I was the recently hired software developer charged with being sysadmin because everybody else in the dept. didn't want to be. Now I am far more experienced (and by that I mean both that I know a lot more, and that I know to ask for support contracts for everything and call a contractor as soon as anything I do not know about is happening).
On the plus side, this mistake was the final coup de grace to a project that was agonizing and could have swamped us a lot longer, if this had not happened.
Or the bottom of the ocean...
I find it amusing so many people comparing crossing through a praire with interplanetary travel... and don't forget how many people died crossing those praires.
My boss has got twins and he clearly states his relief when his holidays are over and can go back to work... With three it must be more of the same...
I think this applies only to lasers with intent to permanently blind. If it just forces the enemy to not look/aim at you but without injuring them, I think it should be in the same group as smoke screen, flash bangs and other "less lethal" weapons. Also maybe this would allow this laser to be mounted on mercant ships without violating international laws.
Do you really think there isn't such database yet? And that the Government can't do one untill you get that certificate?
How stupid do you and the government think we are?
I know it was a retorical question, but I am so tempted with answering it...
So, if control tower send me to runway 27/36, can I assume there are curves ahead? :-P
While the defense could attempt to justify the glycol (and other poissons) search, it is a lot more difficult when there are also searches about dieing (this is how it is written?) electrocuted.
Brain Damage flowing into Eclipse?
After spending two months trying to keep up to date with the latest developments in Java Enterprise, I can say you that brain damage comes from eclipse, not the other way around (well, at least in my case, do not know about those red hat/oracle guys).
Yeah, those things just happen (twice to me last week...)
I do not know how it works in the states, but in Spain if the test is positive you can ask for a retest in ten minutes, and if it still is positive, a blood test (but if it is positive, too, you have to pay the cost of the blood test in addition to the other penalties, so you better ask it only when you suspect it is really the breathalyzer mistake).
QED, or were you being sarcastic?
Using is not the same that driving
I mean, after having them spend a couple of months:
only the most brave, geeky, girlfriend-less boys will be ready to join us....
That is some people's view. I don't agree.
People should be able to choose the vehicle they want to keep their family safe.
While it is unavoidable that the larger, more powerful SUVs will be too expensive for some people, what I condemn is any move by the _state_ to price people out of the SUV market based on relatively trivial matters such as CO2 emissions.
Rich people will still be able to buy, tax and insure their SUVs, while poorer people will be more likely to be limited to smaller, weaker cars that will come off worse in a crash.
Then I want to be able to put a turret with a couple of machine guns, connected to a sensor that detects when a SUV approachs with its owner more concerned about cellphone/makeup/kids/whatever that about traffic (because if he gets in a crash, I will get the worse part of it).
After all, I should be able to chose the vehicle I want to keep my family (and myself, don't forget about myself) safe.
I sincerely doubt that the OIA, the CIA, the Mossad and the like will evaluate the success or failure of Stuxnet based on what anyone posts in Slashdot, or some journalist post (unless he is recognized to have expertise in the field and/or good contacts). So the ones understimating Iran would be, at the very maximum, the general public (and now we know/have confirmation from wikileaks how little are we informed/taken in account by our governments)...