The argument is over the green card lottery, Republicans want to end it, the Democrats do not. About 5.5% of all Green Cards are issued based on the lottery. Both Democrats and Republicans want to issue the 55,000 visas, which are targeted at lowering wages of college graduates. So this gridlock is, for the time being, good for most readers of this site.
What's the matter, it is just the wealthy engaging in the free market for government and investing in legislators. They are just putting their money to where it is the best return.
One reason engineers are enginerds is that they demand a logical consistency to their own idiolectic understanding of the map between presentation and reality. Which means they complain about things like faux-leather look, and not about things like random zoom that can't be easily undone, ribbon clutter and other actual usability problems which are now endemic in iOS and MacOS. About 2007 was the best user interface, and the slide to touch tablet, done badly, reminds me that we are in a period like the early days of the web where people are too focused on metaphor, and not enough on user flow.
The bamboo assertion hasn't been proven, but there is work to test it. For example see West and Louys " Differentiating bamboo from stone tool cut marks in the zoo-archaeological record, with a discussion on the use of bamboo knives"
Incorrrect. Iran is from Arya, but it is from the proto-Indo-Persian, which means compatriot, noble, or singer. Ireland is from the proto-Indo piewe meaning fertile or fat. Different roots, though both Indo words, not the same Indo word.
First to the outright factual error: wood and stone tools are used by our near primate relatives, so wood as tools as nothing to say about human origins. Zero. By the time their are humans, stone tools are in the toolkit.
Second to the appeal to "absence of evidence is evidence" fallacy: one doesn't have to find anything from the point of origin to start to find where it is, in a manner similar to triangulation. Each find presents data, and when a rate of change can be established, the origin point, if there is a single point of origin, is in the area of the greatest synchonic diversity. Human beings came from Africa, in all probability, because that is where the greatest original diversity is, both in the case of early, or pre-modern humans, and in languages, and phonetics. The farther from there, the more diversity is lost. This is confirmed by multiple forms of analysis.
Third, there is an irrational inconsistency "We don't dig where humans use wood tools..." We do in fact excavate human settlements where wood was the primary form of physical culture. All the time.
I'm not going to speculate where the mod points came from, it's a mystery.
Not quite correct, there is an optimal distance. Too close and the population exhibits low genetic diversity and a tendency to genetic diseases, it takes a great deal of divergence, much more than is present in modern Humans, before there are fertility problems.
Not oddly enough, there are some zealots in India today who try and push an "out of India" hypothesis, complete with torturing available linguistic and genetic data. One thing people need to realize is that there is little correlation between language spread and genetics. For example, most of the people in the UK are not mostly Teutonic in their genetics, nor are the Indo-European speakers in India as a population mainly from the Aryan diffusion. Millions of English speakers today are not of European extraction at all, and the various strands of Indo-European acquired non-Indo vocabularies, for example for hydroculture, from groups that had technologies they did not. The original romantic period notion was that language and biological evolution were linked, this turns out, like the pheno-type/genotype relationship that the earlier species classifications systems relied upon, is demonstrably false. Language and population can become related over time, but they don't diffuse the same ways. Mapping the descent of language families over, for example, X, or Y, haplotype maps does not yield particularly good fits except where there were a small number of human migrations. e.g. the Americas.
The core argument for single origin is the loss of diversity as one radiates away from the origin area. Part of the problem with this argument is that addition of diversity at very low rates is statistically indistinguishable from ordinary rates of mutation. What is apparent now is that the out of Africa population swept up other groups of genus homo but at such small rates of mixing that the statistical change was small, even though there were several identifiable EPT in the mix. We are still "out of Africa" but not the result of an isolated population that merely radiated out.
It's also easier to name the punk in the white SUV that slammed into your car and drove away, drive by banking collapses have many more hands at the wheel.
Is that everyone is strictly liable for everything. My car, parked in a garage, was hit while I was parked. The other driver just left, now I am left holding the deductible, and the insurance surcharge. In effect, this is going to cost me at least 1200 USD unless I can convince my insurance company –who would be the beneficiary of that 1200 dollars – to waive liability. But since no one saw, and there were no cameras, there's only forensic proof that I wasn't at fault. Which means having my solicitor argue in court, which costs money as well.
However, if I had had a camera in my car recording everything, I would have had pictures of the person who did it, and they would be responsible for all of that. Hence, the victim of a crime, and a hit and run is a crime, has a very good reason for wanting a police state. They forget the little things they did to others, and remember only their own distress that someone robbed them of their property. As long as Americans, and I am specifically talking about the US here, are criminals, there is going to be a continual clamoring for more security, as long as everyone is personally responsible for everything. Every so often someone will find some deep pockets to go after, which leads to one of those silly sounding law suits –which sometimes are silly, but are often not as facile as their caricature.
So that's the reality, as long as people who are taking every precaution get screwed by the wild westers out there, they will demand more protection, more security, and hence, fewer rights for all. Because real liberty comes with the price of responsibility, and Americans have long since decided they just don't want the responsibility, and would, instead, rather steal from each other.
As for me, while this loss is annoying, it doesn't seem to me to be a good argument for more spy cams. But I'm not most people, having visited some unfree countries, where there is little crime, because the criminals are all wearing nice blue and green uniforms, and carrying automatic weapons.
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The argument is over the green card lottery, Republicans want to end it, the Democrats do not. About 5.5% of all Green Cards are issued based on the lottery. Both Democrats and Republicans want to issue the 55,000 visas, which are targeted at lowering wages of college graduates. So this gridlock is, for the time being, good for most readers of this site.
You've just described profit push inflation.
What's the matter, it is just the wealthy engaging in the free market for government and investing in legislators. They are just putting their money to where it is the best return.
The purpose of targeted advertising isn't to sell you something, it is to stop you seeing alternatives.
"Waste cycles by drawing trending 3D junk." Eudora, not entirely gone, and not entirely forgotten.
One reason engineers are enginerds is that they demand a logical consistency to their own idiolectic understanding of the map between presentation and reality. Which means they complain about things like faux-leather look, and not about things like random zoom that can't be easily undone, ribbon clutter and other actual usability problems which are now endemic in iOS and MacOS. About 2007 was the best user interface, and the slide to touch tablet, done badly, reminds me that we are in a period like the early days of the web where people are too focused on metaphor, and not enough on user flow.
The bamboo assertion hasn't been proven, but there is work to test it. For example see West and Louys " Differentiating bamboo from stone tool cut marks in the zoo-archaeological record, with a discussion on the use of bamboo knives"
Incorrrect. Iran is from Arya, but it is from the proto-Indo-Persian, which means compatriot, noble, or singer. Ireland is from the proto-Indo piewe meaning fertile or fat. Different roots, though both Indo words, not the same Indo word.
First to the outright factual error: wood and stone tools are used by our near primate relatives, so wood as tools as nothing to say about human origins. Zero. By the time their are humans, stone tools are in the toolkit.
Second to the appeal to "absence of evidence is evidence" fallacy: one doesn't have to find anything from the point of origin to start to find where it is, in a manner similar to triangulation. Each find presents data, and when a rate of change can be established, the origin point, if there is a single point of origin, is in the area of the greatest synchonic diversity. Human beings came from Africa, in all probability, because that is where the greatest original diversity is, both in the case of early, or pre-modern humans, and in languages, and phonetics. The farther from there, the more diversity is lost. This is confirmed by multiple forms of analysis.
Third, there is an irrational inconsistency "We don't dig where humans use wood tools..." We do in fact excavate human settlements where wood was the primary form of physical culture. All the time.
I'm not going to speculate where the mod points came from, it's a mystery.
Not quite correct, there is an optimal distance. Too close and the population exhibits low genetic diversity and a tendency to genetic diseases, it takes a great deal of divergence, much more than is present in modern Humans, before there are fertility problems.
That kind of theory strongly correlates to racism, particularly if framed in persecutionist ways. If anything ev-bio leans right, not left.
Not oddly enough, there are some zealots in India today who try and push an "out of India" hypothesis, complete with torturing available linguistic and genetic data. One thing people need to realize is that there is little correlation between language spread and genetics. For example, most of the people in the UK are not mostly Teutonic in their genetics, nor are the Indo-European speakers in India as a population mainly from the Aryan diffusion. Millions of English speakers today are not of European extraction at all, and the various strands of Indo-European acquired non-Indo vocabularies, for example for hydroculture, from groups that had technologies they did not. The original romantic period notion was that language and biological evolution were linked, this turns out, like the pheno-type/genotype relationship that the earlier species classifications systems relied upon, is demonstrably false. Language and population can become related over time, but they don't diffuse the same ways. Mapping the descent of language families over, for example, X, or Y, haplotype maps does not yield particularly good fits except where there were a small number of human migrations. e.g. the Americas.
All humans are slaves until they learn to free their minds.
The core argument for single origin is the loss of diversity as one radiates away from the origin area. Part of the problem with this argument is that addition of diversity at very low rates is statistically indistinguishable from ordinary rates of mutation. What is apparent now is that the out of Africa population swept up other groups of genus homo but at such small rates of mixing that the statistical change was small, even though there were several identifiable EPT in the mix. We are still "out of Africa" but not the result of an isolated population that merely radiated out.
If there were no free riders and ultimatum maximizers, we wouldn't need mandatory insurance. But there are.
It's also easier to name the punk in the white SUV that slammed into your car and drove away, drive by banking collapses have many more hands at the wheel.
However, if I had had a camera in my car recording everything, I would have had pictures of the person who did it, and they would be responsible for all of that. Hence, the victim of a crime, and a hit and run is a crime, has a very good reason for wanting a police state. They forget the little things they did to others, and remember only their own distress that someone robbed them of their property. As long as Americans, and I am specifically talking about the US here, are criminals, there is going to be a continual clamoring for more security, as long as everyone is personally responsible for everything. Every so often someone will find some deep pockets to go after, which leads to one of those silly sounding law suits –which sometimes are silly, but are often not as facile as their caricature.
So that's the reality, as long as people who are taking every precaution get screwed by the wild westers out there, they will demand more protection, more security, and hence, fewer rights for all. Because real liberty comes with the price of responsibility, and Americans have long since decided they just don't want the responsibility, and would, instead, rather steal from each other.
As for me, while this loss is annoying, it doesn't seem to me to be a good argument for more spy cams. But I'm not most people, having visited some unfree countries, where there is little crime, because the criminals are all wearing nice blue and green uniforms, and carrying automatic weapons.
Stands for Institution Peculiar.
Please send me your resume for a need at our direct client in Cordonwe IA, $45/Hour all inclusive corp to corp.
It's not like it is COM code from excel to MS word in with MFC and VB.
Then maybe removing the barbed wire from the HR department is a good idea.
I think I am going to start looking for jobs by telling them to send me a week's pay upfront, so I can really get a feel for working for them.
This would be a good deal for someone collecting unemployment who wants to polish up their Ruby on Rails skills.
For example, smoking less is harm reduction, but it isn't as good as stopping smoking.
A free market has far more requirements that mere absence of government.