"If you set the legal precendent that you can sue in one country about something you were forced to do according to the laws of another country, chaos would ensue."
I disagree.
The "I was just following order" argument is not a good reason and damn sure isn't a legal defense. This is the standard defense in almost every war crimes trial. Those courts don't go for it, U.S. civil courts shouldn't either.
Corporation are driven by a desire for profit, they will do any and everything within the limits of the law to achieve that goal, and that is fine and good. Generating wealth is what they are created to do. The government of a country has an obligation to hold a company to a legal and ethical standard. Western government have an obligation to hold companies that operate in their nations to these standards even when the company is operating in a foreign state. Especially one like China.
The Chinese government is not going to change their ways just because we buy cheap lead-laced consumer crap from them. They will be much more likely to alter their policies if big corporation tell them "no we can't do that because we will be exposed to civil litigation in another country where we do business." The rule of law only has meaning if the government of a country has to live by it also. The government of a country is only valid if it has to live by the rule of law. It is time that the government of China began to learn these lesson. Holding Yahoo responsible for their action in civil courts in the West is a good starting point.
The resin in the tree is used to make turpentine. The stuff will never rot and it was used to build ships in the past because of that, but the resin makes it more flammable than other types of pine. This is what is used to make starter kindling for fireplaces.
"During most of the middle ages, for example, agricultural production was about 2 to 7 grains harvested for every 1 grain planted, which is piss-poor. They had a unit of surface for how much land is needed for a peasant family to subsist on, and support 1/5 of a knight, the "hide". It was 60 to 120 old acres, or 15 to 30 modern acres, or 6 to 12 hectares, depending on fertility. You needed that freaking much land just to feed a family and pay 1/5 of one knight's fee."
As the parent points out open field farming in the middle-ages in England and France was extremely inefficient. The labor dues owed to the lord of the manor by a family working a 30 acre tenancy was 3 full days of labor per week. This was on top of the rent they paid and they also had to work their own fields. A typical manor had a large pool of labor to draw upon - far more than it needed during most of the year. This kept the price of labor very low and peasants very poor.
The big factor that changed things was the Black Death. The plague outbreaks in the 1300's changed the economic landscape. The size of the labor pool dropped dramatically. The people that survived became much more prosperous, because there was a lot more land to work per person. Workers were paid higher wages, even though laws intended to keep wages low were put into place pretty much universally.
The growing prosperity of peasant families after the plague wasn't caused by rich people becoming peasants, it was caused by a smaller population density in the rural areas. The trend gets accentuated by demand for wool in the coming centuries and the 'discovery' that fencing of fields makes them much easier to manage and more productive. By the 1500's grain yields on enclosed acreage was much higher than it had been in the 1200s on open fields, even though the climate was worse.
If there is one single factor that leads to the industrial revolution it's the plague outbreaks that start in the 1340s. Even though it happens hundreds of years before the industrial revolution, its the plague that causes the break down of the old economic system that had been in place in much of Europe since the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Many of the solar systems that have been discovered have large gas giants so close to the host star that small planets (like Earth) in the habital zones would be kicked from the system. Jupiter is in the just the right orbit to limit the number of large asteroid and comet strikes that happen on our world. Stars much larger than Sol have short lifespans (relative to Sol) and smaller stars tend to be variables and generate flares that would kill Earth life on planets close enough to the star to maintain life.
Suitable stars with suitable planets for the development of intelligent life maybe very very rare.
If a civilization has solved the technical problems involved in interstellar space travel, they have no need for planets. They may not even want to get very far down into a star's gravity well.
Are the abstraction heuristics beyond further synergy? Can Idiomatic Representations still be Frameworked into Generic Self-Similarities? Is the bullshit stinking so bad that even the middle management is shying away from the cows?
Where are the example applications built with your modeling system? Without an example it's difficult to see how it will be used to solve problems more sophisticated than sounding an alarm when a certain stimuli is received. How are the components built-up into systems that can deal with complex problems without increasing signal pathway complexity to the breaking point?
Second of all, hardware fails all the time. Not only does it fail physically, it fails logically, it comes in over-budget and late. It is poorly documented and doesn't meet requirements - this happens all the time. When it happens you fix it with software. I make my living fixing hardware problems in software. One of the primary factors leading to increased complexity in software are the work-arounds that have to be made in software for bad hardware.
"Face facts: right now, in Iraq the US is fighting a war against the agents of Iran."
and the agents of Saudi Arabia. The situation in the middle east is complex in the extreme and further complicated by the oil. The whole region is very likely to be radioactive wasteland before a decade has gone by - indeed it may be unavoidable.
That's a good reason for all nations to start breaking their dependence on oil.
When asked whether his own e-mail had been compromised, Gates responded, 'I don't do e-mail. I'm a very low-tech person.'"
What can you say about that quote... I wonder if the guy even knows how anything more complicated than a hammer works. I really seems that none of the politicians or bureaucrats in the U.S. government have the slightest clue about the technological nature of the real world.
The state of commercial and public radio is so bad that anything will be an improvement. Hell I think I will setup my own transmitter and broadcast some decent music on FM several hours per week.
The author assumes that we have to colonize planets to spread out through the galaxy, most people, even scientists assume that. It's wrong - in fact it makes no sense once you accept the realities of space travel. To travel to another star or terraform another planet requires that people be able to live sustainably in space. Once we can do that, there is no good reason to return to a planet.
You have to get rid of energy to descend to the planets surface. Any resource there that is needed can probably be found in orbit around the star or grown/manufactured in space for less cost and energy expenditure. For people used to living in space, travelling to a planet's surface would be like us diving to the hydro-thermal vents at the bottom of sea. It's an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
Once you can live outside of a planet's gravity well, there is not going to be any reason to go back. We have accept that space is not something we have to cross to get to another place to live, but that it will be the next place to live.
"Maybe someone will come up with a foolproof radar and AA missile combo or a stealth missile platform that can be maneuvered close enough to a carrier group to sink most of it."
That's called a submarine. The new diesel-electric subs are very quiet and capable of operating in "blue" water. They are affordable for smaller countries like Iran.
Notice how many of the countries with large surface areas lie close to or above the 60th parallel. Which makes sense - the internet is a great activity for when the weather suck.
Of all of the HS Internet or cable TV providers I have had over the years, Time Warner was worst - by a substantial margin. The Internet connection would be down 24 hours every week and the UI on the set top boxes were so laggy that the remote control was unusable. It would take 2 or 3 minutes for the cable box to register a button push on the remote.
When the hardware detects a problem it signals the software. The software knows the location of the problematic code by checking a "last executed branch" register. A dynamic optimizer(software) then re-orders the code in that region and caches it to be used in future passes through that section.
The trick will be getting the dynamic optimizer light-weight enough that it doesn't induce performance hits in and of itself. Also, as an above poster noted, re-ordering code on the fly is fraught with peril. It seems this could have application in general purpose laptops, cellphones, and other non-safety critical gadgets. There should definitely be a bit in the machine control register to switch off the optimizer.
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The "I was just following order" argument is not a good reason and damn sure isn't a legal defense. This is the standard defense in almost every war crimes trial. Those courts don't go for it, U.S. civil courts shouldn't either.
Corporation are driven by a desire for profit, they will do any and everything within the limits of the law to achieve that goal, and that is fine and good. Generating wealth is what they are created to do. The government of a country has an obligation to hold a company to a legal and ethical standard. Western government have an obligation to hold companies that operate in their nations to these standards even when the company is operating in a foreign state. Especially one like China.
The Chinese government is not going to change their ways just because we buy cheap lead-laced consumer crap from them. They will be much more likely to alter their policies if big corporation tell them "no we can't do that because we will be exposed to civil litigation in another country where we do business." The rule of law only has meaning if the government of a country has to live by it also. The government of a country is only valid if it has to live by the rule of law. It is time that the government of China began to learn these lesson. Holding Yahoo responsible for their action in civil courts in the West is a good starting point.
visit him often.
The resin in the tree is used to make turpentine. The stuff will never rot and it was used to build ships in the past because of that, but the resin makes it more flammable than other types of pine. This is what is used to make starter kindling for fireplaces.
As the parent points out open field farming in the middle-ages in England and France was extremely inefficient. The labor dues owed to the lord of the manor by a family working a 30 acre tenancy was 3 full days of labor per week. This was on top of the rent they paid and they also had to work their own fields. A typical manor had a large pool of labor to draw upon - far more than it needed during most of the year. This kept the price of labor very low and peasants very poor.
The big factor that changed things was the Black Death. The plague outbreaks in the 1300's changed the economic landscape. The size of the labor pool dropped dramatically. The people that survived became much more prosperous, because there was a lot more land to work per person. Workers were paid higher wages, even though laws intended to keep wages low were put into place pretty much universally.
The growing prosperity of peasant families after the plague wasn't caused by rich people becoming peasants, it was caused by a smaller population density in the rural areas. The trend gets accentuated by demand for wool in the coming centuries and the 'discovery' that fencing of fields makes them much easier to manage and more productive. By the 1500's grain yields on enclosed acreage was much higher than it had been in the 1200s on open fields, even though the climate was worse.
If there is one single factor that leads to the industrial revolution it's the plague outbreaks that start in the 1340s. Even though it happens hundreds of years before the industrial revolution, its the plague that causes the break down of the old economic system that had been in place in much of Europe since the end of the Western Roman Empire.
Suitable stars with suitable planets for the development of intelligent life maybe very very rare.
If a civilization has solved the technical problems involved in interstellar space travel, they have no need for planets. They may not even want to get very far down into a star's gravity well.
Yohoho and a bottle of rum!
Are the abstraction heuristics beyond further synergy? Can Idiomatic Representations still be Frameworked into Generic Self-Similarities? Is the bullshit stinking so bad that even the middle management is shying away from the cows?
and has parallel execution units also.
Second of all, hardware fails all the time. Not only does it fail physically, it fails logically, it comes in over-budget and late. It is poorly documented and doesn't meet requirements - this happens all the time. When it happens you fix it with software. I make my living fixing hardware problems in software. One of the primary factors leading to increased complexity in software are the work-arounds that have to be made in software for bad hardware.
and the agents of Saudi Arabia. The situation in the middle east is complex in the extreme and further complicated by the oil. The whole region is very likely to be radioactive wasteland before a decade has gone by - indeed it may be unavoidable.
That's a good reason for all nations to start breaking their dependence on oil.
Very well said, that is exactly the reason it failed. I wish I had mod points.
A really cheap way to lift stuff to 100,000 Km orbit does render nuclear weapons, IBMs and missile defense obsolete.
What can you say about that quote... I wonder if the guy even knows how anything more complicated than a hammer works. I really seems that none of the politicians or bureaucrats in the U.S. government have the slightest clue about the technological nature of the real world.
and use the space for a Britney Spears update.
Anarchy just isn't what it used to be. I guess it's more politically correct now.
The state of commercial and public radio is so bad that anything will be an improvement. Hell I think I will setup my own transmitter and broadcast some decent music on FM several hours per week.
You have to get rid of energy to descend to the planets surface. Any resource there that is needed can probably be found in orbit around the star or grown/manufactured in space for less cost and energy expenditure. For people used to living in space, travelling to a planet's surface would be like us diving to the hydro-thermal vents at the bottom of sea. It's an interesting place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
Once you can live outside of a planet's gravity well, there is not going to be any reason to go back. We have accept that space is not something we have to cross to get to another place to live, but that it will be the next place to live.
That's called a submarine. The new diesel-electric subs are very quiet and capable of operating in "blue" water. They are affordable for smaller countries like Iran.
Notice how many of the countries with large surface areas lie close to or above the 60th parallel. Which makes sense - the internet is a great activity for when the weather suck.
Of all of the HS Internet or cable TV providers I have had over the years, Time Warner was worst - by a substantial margin. The Internet connection would be down 24 hours every week and the UI on the set top boxes were so laggy that the remote control was unusable. It would take 2 or 3 minutes for the cable box to register a button push on the remote.
Phantasmagoria was one of the most original and memorable games I ever played, and yes it's disturbing.
When the hardware detects a problem it signals the software. The software knows the location of the problematic code by checking a "last executed branch" register. A dynamic optimizer(software) then re-orders the code in that region and caches it to be used in future passes through that section.
The trick will be getting the dynamic optimizer light-weight enough that it doesn't induce performance hits in and of itself. Also, as an above poster noted, re-ordering code on the fly is fraught with peril. It seems this could have application in general purpose laptops, cellphones, and other non-safety critical gadgets. There should definitely be a bit in the machine control register to switch off the optimizer.
yeah... we call that embedded software engineering at my company.
Yes she was really put together well, but when it comes to women don't underestimate the value of good packaging.