evince is a bit slow when rendering images embedded in pdf; adobe acrobat is a bit faster, though when reading books from gallica.bnf.fr (first large library to put public domain books on the net) , I wonder how come it took as much time to render the next page in 1999 on a 486 as it takes now on a amd64...
oh, UN will just talk, then donate some money to whoever is left in charge at the end...
Found this piece that says it all and better than I can:
"all those little Napoleons -- whether they are named Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia or Saakashvili -- who instead of freeing their citizens from the Stalinist Soviet Union have created mini-empires within illogically imposed borders and played out their delusions of grandeur using the blood of their own people."
why is nobody mentioning that "Georgia", "North Ossetia", "South Ossetia", "Chechnia" were just administrative districts of Soviet Union, with as much ethnic/national relevance as Vermont has in US ? Then in 1991 Eltsin and his pals split Soviet Union between themselves, and how you have lots of 'sovereign nations' with no legitimacy but what they can acquire and hold by force of arms.
Nobody asked the civilians over whose heads the "Georgians" and "South Ossetians" are shooting at each other whether they want to belong to one state, to another or to none of the above.
Indeed, it must have been the cleaning crews that went around and microwaved all life. Greenies are so melodramatic... "devoid of life", "devastated", "oil company shill" etc. I think greenies are oil company shills since most of their requests (wind turbines etc.) end up using more energy than will ever help produce.
Yeah, if all that you sell is that particular product, it is stupid to punch anyone who dares to send you customers. What if: you're running a cinema and somebody sets a popcorn and soda shop in front of your door, and thusly brings in customers, but your customers pay only the ticket and don't buy *your* popcorn and soda ?
Ryanair have a bloody portal selling from flights to insurance to hotel rooms to... hookers, or whatever the ladies in bathing suits stand for -- could not make it out, the blinking ads in primary colors blinded me.
Vietnam was a disaster for those supporting the North Vietnamese (Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, China). We spent a fuckload of resources there that we had use for at home.Getting control of South Vietnam was a pyrrhic victory for the Communist camp.
You lost Vietnam, but you won the war. Learn to live with it: it might be difficult for the American psyche to accept that even wars that are not exactly just can be won, but sometimes you'll have to get to that.
he looks like my kind of guy... Can we have him ? If he's unemployed now, where do I get his CV ? This year we got to replace a dumb prime minister that thinks placating the syndicates (like trade union, only a bit more on the [economic] crime side) with increases of "minimum wage" and getting buddy-buddy with the local RIA* will help him not lose the elections. This Howard guy kept his cool even against mob pressure, he should be a good alternative.
How do you power it ? From the grid, I guess. As for prices, it should be about 0.50$ per cubic meter, which is half what I pay for water drawn from a river (end-user price), so there should be some margin left for the company doing the desalinization without rising the prices too much.
I should apologize, though... I was making a pun about people losing electrolytes (salt etc.) by living in a hot climate and not drinking enough water to replace them...
did't you get into EU by the same time ? I remember our own electricity prices jumping by the time we got into talks about joining... the argument was that we "had an unfair advantage" because of low electricity prices... to bad a minimum of 30% (up to 60% in good years) of that electricity was from hydro and some 12% from a nuke, which are rather less expensive than what those that complained about our unfair advantage used (gas and coal).
explanation, probably have none, but answer, yes: send some accountants to audit the guys doing the averaging... round here it's the fourth cold summer in a row.
So, you're interested in the age bracket where there is a surplus of women ? I mean: 60+...
Also, the so called demographic "decline" is just couples choosing to have children later... wait for this to stabilize then talk about demographic decline.
No, that charcoal briquette would have prevented no death, since it made the same amount of smoke, except not so ugly and obvious. That lady should have invented "the stove" instead of "corn stalk charcoal".
What is despicable about the "for the poor" shows on TED is that they suppose there should "technology for the poor", and it's the same as saying "let them eat cake".
"smoke-induced lung infections" ? How can smoke induce infections ? Like dirty socks in an empty cupboard can induce mice ?
"other infrastructure that help countries to trade." -- those countries do not need to be helped to trade: those countries need to be allowed to trade.
"Many of the "inventions" on TED are for improved health standards, like small, cheap refrigeration units for transporting vaccines or cheap, robust, portable, recyclable water purifiers." -- you missed my point completely: "quality standards" and "sanitary regulations" are used as pretexts to prevent those in dirty-ugly-places-no-one-cares-about from selling on your market: both US and EU use those pretexts copiously, sometimes against each other, sometimes against neighboring countries and all the time against those that can not afford retaliate.
The problem is not so much that the US and EU subsidize their farmers as it is that they (plus WB, IMF, etc.) demand that the developing/3rd world don't.
On one hand, IMF and WB are quite right to demand that countries asking for loans should not subsidize agriculture, since the other sectors have to pay for the subsidies and become less competitive. On the other hand, "subsidies" are a bit more than 'low interest loans', 'guaranteed prices' etc.: there are also "export compensations" or "export refunds", which in some circumstances and less polite circles are called "dumping". Yet, if you're a good country and played nicely with the bigger kids, WTO might allow you to use these methods of promoting export, otherwise you better ready your tariffs, if you dare, or shut down the industry that is "dumped" upon and forget about it.
Your father still has an income from farming. I think he is lucky. Some people I know were not, and now work as guestarbeiters some place west of here.
Many of TED's attendees are top of their field. Not all of them might be likeable people, but I'd say very few of them are at a "junior-high-school-dropout housewife" level.
I guess you are right about that, but the last show I watched and the one that put me off completely was about teaching some poor dark skinned schmucks from someplace dirty how to make charcoal out of corn stalks instead of burning cow dung, and everybody was getting woozy about helping the poor and the ingenuity of the solution etc., never thinking that those "poor helpless people" were feeding their cows with the corn stalks in the first place (quite a bit of sugar in the core of the stalk, you know, even if it's dried), so in fact they got more use of their farming residues than they would have gotten by making charcoal out of it. It was like a reversed "Borat" moment, with the nice lady showing them, in earnest, how to make the briquettes etc., and the local guys going through the moves and being exceedingly polite about it.
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evince is a bit slow when rendering images embedded in pdf; adobe acrobat is a bit faster, though when reading books from gallica.bnf.fr (first large library to put public domain books on the net) , I wonder how come it took as much time to render the next page in 1999 on a 486 as it takes now on a amd64 ...
oh, UN will just talk, then donate some money to whoever is left in charge at the end ...
Found this piece that says it all and better than I can:
"all those little Napoleons -- whether they are named Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, former Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia or Saakashvili -- who instead of freeing their citizens from the Stalinist Soviet Union have created mini-empires within illogically imposed borders and played out their delusions of grandeur using the blood of their own people."
from http://www.moscowtimes.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=369737
-1, Malthusian
national as in "ethnic" ... some use those words as if they are synonyms
I mean, nobody with the authority to do that, like UN ... or was the referendum you talk about organized/recognized by UN ?
why is nobody mentioning that "Georgia", "North Ossetia", "South Ossetia", "Chechnia" were just administrative districts of Soviet Union, with as much ethnic/national relevance as Vermont has in US ? Then in 1991 Eltsin and his pals split Soviet Union between themselves, and how you have lots of 'sovereign nations' with no legitimacy but what they can acquire and hold by force of arms.
Nobody asked the civilians over whose heads the "Georgians" and "South Ossetians" are shooting at each other whether they want to belong to one state, to another or to none of the above.
and synthetic lubricants are made from ... ? If I remember right, the synthetic lubricants are still soaps made of carbohydrates with long molecules ...
Large areas are still devoid of life.
Indeed, it must have been the cleaning crews that went around and microwaved all life. Greenies are so melodramatic ... "devoid of life", "devastated", "oil company shill" etc. I think greenies are oil company shills since most of their requests (wind turbines etc.) end up using more energy than will ever help produce.
if
Vast swaths of the Western US need to get covered with wind farms.
, how are you going to
not spend another penny aiding and abetting the Petroleum industry
and lubricate those wing turbines ?
Yeah, if all that you sell is that particular product, it is stupid to punch anyone who dares to send you customers. What if: you're running a cinema and somebody sets a popcorn and soda shop in front of your door, and thusly brings in customers, but your customers pay only the ticket and don't buy *your* popcorn and soda ?
Ryanair have a bloody portal selling from flights to insurance to hotel rooms to ... hookers, or whatever the ladies in bathing suits stand for -- could not make it out, the blinking ads in primary colors blinded me.
probably just painted the sidewalk with white paint ... titanium dioxide based, too ...
you should not have signed that ... now you will be checked for guns every time you enter the office building.
What about the lifespan of the Creator ? Isn't it unfair to have His copyright expire while He is still alive ?
At least He is a person, not a corporation ... even if it seems there are quite a few corporations competing to be His legal mandatories on Earth.
Now that NOAA got religion, I'm waiting for reactions from the other monotheistic Churches.
Vietnam was merely unpleasant for US.
Vietnam was a disaster for those supporting the North Vietnamese (Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, China). We spent a fuckload of resources there that we had use for at home.Getting control of South Vietnam was a pyrrhic victory for the Communist camp.
You lost Vietnam, but you won the war. Learn to live with it: it might be difficult for the American psyche to accept that even wars that are not exactly just can be won, but sometimes you'll have to get to that.
I think those who sell bottled water/soft drinks will manage to keep the city alive for a while. Anyway, how many people in Sydney drink tap water ?
he looks like my kind of guy ... Can we have him ? If he's unemployed now, where do I get his CV ? This year we got to replace a dumb prime minister that thinks placating the syndicates (like trade union, only a bit more on the [economic] crime side) with increases of "minimum wage" and getting buddy-buddy with the local RIA* will help him not lose the elections. This Howard guy kept his cool even against mob pressure, he should be a good alternative.
How do you power it ? From the grid, I guess. As for prices, it should be about 0.50$ per cubic meter, which is half what I pay for water drawn from a river (end-user price), so there should be some margin left for the company doing the desalinization without rising the prices too much.
I should apologize, though ... I was making a pun about people losing electrolytes (salt etc.) by living in a hot climate and not drinking enough water to replace them ...
I can't even image what would happen to a metropolis of several million with no water.
Desalinization might happen
did't you get into EU by the same time ? I remember our own electricity prices jumping by the time we got into talks about joining ... the argument was that we "had an unfair advantage" because of low electricity prices ... to bad a minimum of 30% (up to 60% in good years) of that electricity was from hydro and some 12% from a nuke, which are rather less expensive than what those that complained about our unfair advantage used (gas and coal).
explanation, probably have none, but answer, yes: send some accountants to audit the guys doing the averaging ... round here it's the fourth cold summer in a row.
Yeah, I know, weather is not climate etc.
On the other hand, Russians have surplus of women
So, you're interested in the age bracket where there is a surplus of women ? I mean: 60+ ...
Also, the so called demographic "decline" is just couples choosing to have children later ... wait for this to stabilize then talk about demographic decline.
1990s called and want their Russia back.
No, that charcoal briquette would have prevented no death, since it made the same amount of smoke, except not so ugly and obvious. That lady should have invented "the stove" instead of "corn stalk charcoal".
What is despicable about the "for the poor" shows on TED is that they suppose there should "technology for the poor", and it's the same as saying "let them eat cake".
"smoke-induced lung infections" ? How can smoke induce infections ? Like dirty socks in an empty cupboard can induce mice ?
"other infrastructure that help countries to trade." -- those countries do not need to be helped to trade: those countries need to be allowed to trade.
"Many of the "inventions" on TED are for improved health standards, like small, cheap refrigeration units for transporting vaccines or cheap, robust, portable, recyclable water purifiers." -- you missed my point completely: "quality standards" and "sanitary regulations" are used as pretexts to prevent those in dirty-ugly-places-no-one-cares-about from selling on your market: both US and EU use those pretexts copiously, sometimes against each other, sometimes against neighboring countries and all the time against those that can not afford retaliate.
The problem is not so much that the US and EU subsidize their farmers as it is that they (plus WB, IMF, etc.) demand that the developing/3rd world don't.
On one hand, IMF and WB are quite right to demand that countries asking for loans should not subsidize agriculture, since the other sectors have to pay for the subsidies and become less competitive. On the other hand, "subsidies" are a bit more than 'low interest loans', 'guaranteed prices' etc.: there are also "export compensations" or "export refunds", which in some circumstances and less polite circles are called "dumping". Yet, if you're a good country and played nicely with the bigger kids, WTO might allow you to use these methods of promoting export, otherwise you better ready your tariffs, if you dare, or shut down the industry that is "dumped" upon and forget about it.
Your father still has an income from farming. I think he is lucky. Some people I know were not, and now work as guestarbeiters some place west of here.
Many of TED's attendees are top of their field. Not all of them might be likeable people, but I'd say very few of them are at a "junior-high-school-dropout housewife" level.
I guess you are right about that, but the last show I watched and the one that put me off completely was about teaching some poor dark skinned schmucks from someplace dirty how to make charcoal out of corn stalks instead of burning cow dung, and everybody was getting woozy about helping the poor and the ingenuity of the solution etc., never thinking that those "poor helpless people" were feeding their cows with the corn stalks in the first place (quite a bit of sugar in the core of the stalk, you know, even if it's dried), so in fact they got more use of their farming residues than they would have gotten by making charcoal out of it. It was like a reversed "Borat" moment, with the nice lady showing them, in earnest, how to make the briquettes etc., and the local guys going through the moves and being exceedingly polite about it.