Ratified treaties have direct no legal effect for national bodies until they are transferred into state law. They are not allowed to violate the constitution of a country. However, if you sign a treaty and ratify a treaty it is a legal international law document and your fine country has to comply to the rules, which includes making laws or changing laws in a way to satisfy the treaty. This is however not possible, if the treaty violates the constitution, as that thing supersedes all laws.
Obviously Texas law is in conflict with that treaty. And if Texas and the US do not want to look like a horde of split tongue people, they have to fix it. If not, the OSCE will send and publish a protest note, which will summarize like "How dare you!". Ah yes, and the rest of the world will call the US a Banana Republic. However, that makes not much difference from now, as the rest of the world expects that the US fails to have fair elections.
Legacy systems ran for a long time (normally). That's why you get the job. The shit has to be ported to a new platform, features have to be added etc. Legacy systems are long lived or long living systems, therefore a lot of people laid their hands on it, which results in crossover styles in programming which results in bad code. Therefore:
* The older the code base, the worse the code
* The higher number of transitions (migrations/feature changes) of a code base, the worse the code
* The less real documentation exists, the worse the code
* The worse the programming language, the worse the code
C,C++,Perl,Fortran 77, Cobol, Fortran 4, PL/1, Assembler => bad, worse, unmaintainable, even more unmaintainable, are you kidding me, we hit mars period, it talks back and WTF.
So you can conclude a formula from that: (1/code_age)*(1/(transition_counts+1))*documentation_quality*programming_language where documentation quality is defined as 0 no or bad documentation and 1 perfect documentation and programming language is defined as WTF/assembler=0 and C=0.5 (Languages such as Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Java, C# get higher marks).
A value 0 zero indicates great mess, while 1 indicates nothing to worry about. While most legacy systems are implement in the range between bad and WTF, you will never get more than 0.5 out of it. As documentation is even in new projects not really existent. They produce a lot of paper, but there is nothing in it. So you can say you get not more than 0.5 for documentation quality. As most projects are more than 10 years old, you get 0.1 for age and at least 2 transitions so 0.25. So my best value would be 0.5*0.5*0.1*0.25 = 0.00625 or the quality is below 1%. You normally get an F (or 5/6) if you are below 50%. So it is easy to conclude:
All legacy systems suck. Ah and yes, and you should get used to it.
The problem with D/C is not the efficienty (I assumed that too), it is hard to transform from one voltage to another. The thing with the 80% comes from the following scenario. Our present energy mix is primarily based on fossil fuels. They will run out and the burn products modify our climate. Therefore, we have to replace them. Electricity is around 1/3 of our energy usage, the rest is directly linked to fossil fuels. We will not be able to built enough nuclear plants to produce all our energy. As, we would run in a resource shortage on Uranium and other reactor types are not necessarily feasible. To replace all fossil fuel with renewable energy is not possible over night.
The above mentioned scenario implies that we stop use fossil fuel and as a replacement we use renewable energy. However, at a mid range time horizon that can only cover about 20% of our energy usage of today.
So it is more a "What are the alternatives?"-question. In Germany, they insulated approx. 20% of their homes, driven by rising oil and gas prices, as well as laws on emissions and efficiency of heating systems. They assume that they can half the energy consumption of houses in the next 10 years.
In the long run, we have to come to a more energy efficient way of live (in Western countries). And from my point of view it is either an utopia or dystopia, which awaits the next generation. Depends on what we do.
Bicycles use pizza or any other food as primary energy source. To produce motion you need a human to convert food to motion. But that works very well where I am from;-)
If they are efficient or could become efficient, then go for it. However, as many other pointed out here, the synthesis of oil from CO2 and water is quite ineffective. To produce H2 or methane is also inefficient, but more efficient than the oil thing from the article.
IMHO it is not helpful to search for methods, which falsely imply that we can go on like we did in the past. We have to reduce our energy consumption by 80% to get rid of the fossil oil problem. And we need to distribute energy, but we have more efficient ways to do it than use artificial generated oil. For example, we could use DC lines for long distance electricity transportation.
Maybe you should build a grid in the USA. Your current grid looks like one from a third world country. And you should stop thinking in a single source of energy system, which is appropriate for a grid with few big plants. The future is decentralized energy production and consumption. You have to combine wind, solar power, photo voltaic, water power, pumped-storage hydropower plant, compressed air reservoir plants, the many consumers, and a grid in between, which is able to handle energy flowing through it in various directions.
That is not that complicated. Don't use cars to burn the precious resource. Walk, cycle or use public transportation instead. The latter can be run on electricity from renewable sources. And the first two run on pizza and stuff. Do not heat your home with oil. You insulation. Good designed homes are able to produce more energy than they consume. True you cannot build these houses for the same price, like those shacks normally built in the USA and Canada. A outside wall should be 40-50 cm think and it requires insulation. with good insulation and modern windows, you can even throw out that air conditioner, which uses so much electricity.
It depends on what you want to do. You could either program in (larger) teams and write specialized software for companies and organizations, then you should learn Java and maybe C#, as larger systems are written in these languages today. If you want to work for smaller web-shops, advertisement companies etc. learn ruby on rails or python and HTML5 technology stuff like (SVG, JavaScript etc.) or Flash. With your knowledge in Assembler you might be good for a job in embedded software. I mean real embedded software not that iOS or Android stuff. Embedded systems is a growing market, as in cars, trains, planes and all sort of other machinery more and more computer like systems do the control job.
In 15 years, you will wake up, because the same old lousy noisy bastard of alarm clock, which terrorized you for decades, will go off. If you are lucky it is not one of those mechanical devices and you got a "radio alarm" which provides the best songs of the 80,90,2000,2010,and of today. You will get up after the same pillow fight with the device you have every morning and go to the shower, there will by a faucet mixing thing in it (just like today, which is already 10 or 20 years old) after some fiddling around the water is just perfect and you wash yourself.
Afterwards you will use a towel and try to get dressed. Still not that easy without a coffee. Then you get your regular breakfast (if there is time, or as you overslept again, you get an apple or something). You walk out, lock the door (when you are in the US, apply all locking) and walk to the busstop. You bik was stolen yesterday and it will be a rainy day, so you commute by public transport. If your boss would not be such a nutt sucker you could work from home, but well...
The bus is filled with noisy advertisements for all sorts of crap you cannot pay for, or you do not want, and strangely, they advertising for the winter holidays again, it was just August, how should you know what you do for winter. If you have a job and if you get a day of or two. Still work is better, than living from social support money and have nothing to do (beside doing some coding if you like, only a nerd option).
Arriving at work, after switching once, you greet Sam who guards the entrance of you work place, eating a donut or bagel crossover stuff. You still cannot believe how somebody can put marmalade on a cheeseburger. In the good old days a cheeseburger was just a cheeseburger and you had not to answer twenty questions just about the topping. Still you feel hunger, because the apple was not that good and far from filling.
You consider to use the stairs, but on the other hand you are too sleepy and too hungry so you take the elevator....
Limited resources is not a communism thing. It is a natural thing. If you live in a not so water rich region (like CA) and waste water like hell, then you will get in trouble when a) the population grows, b) the amount of usable water is reduced or c) on a per person basis people try to waste more water. You can only eat the cake once. You know.
That will not work. The US military is already overstretched. And the US has at least to compete with China who owns it. Therefore, the force plan will not work. To have peace by controlling everyone is never a stable situation. It is better to interact with equals, but I guess western countries are not willing to learn that lesson, even if it worked in Europe now for quite some time.
You cannot reach energy independence and still burn oil at greater rates. You have to:
* Insulate your homes
* Install better heating systems
* Install renewable energy collectors
* Use a more efficient way of public transport
* increase the average population density to reduce travel distances
* Decentralize offices so the average way from home to work is reduced
* Switch to a less energy intensive food production system
* And for the rest where you still need cars, use European or Japanese cars, which are much more fuel efficient
If you do all this you could reduce energy dependence. If you can convert from oil to electricity as energy source for public transportation, then you might read energy independence.
And it does not matter who you elect, it matters what your country does.
Honestly, I am 41 and I have not seen a real new technology. However, you need to adapt to new frameworks and development environments. In the 1990ies you need to learn XML, nowadays teh new animal is model-driven whatsoever and domain specific languages.
The ability to learn does not decrease that much over the years. The real problem is to get started. The first weeks hurt. The rest is not a problem if you stay determined. However, modern software development requires much more people skills, as you always work in groups and you have to be able to communicate with people which lack any people skills. So if you have problems in group work, then gettraining courses in that area. The computer programming skills are easily adopted to new frameworks and languages, as they are all more or less the same. They use OOP and work with a set of patterns, like inversion of control, factories, meta-models and aspects. As a CS person, you can adopt all your knowledge easily or you failed to study the subject. If you are a self-trained person, then this will be much harder, as you do not have learned all these concepts and methods, which make it easy to learn and train yourself in a new framework and technology. In that case: Get one. I thought I was a good programmer, when I entered University, but the boost in the first 1/2 year was enourmous. It was like using a candle all these years and now I had an flood light.
It can be created (sort of) by fusion or fission. However, the matter + energy are fixed. So you can convert mass to energy causing to be more energy in the unsivers and less matter. However, energy cannot be destroyed or created as such, it is converted to or from matter.
Because it is totally insane to build such thing. It is much more reasonable to build collectors for sunlight based on earth. There is plenty of energy available based on that technology, which will fuel us for the next million years. Beside that, building a Dyson sphere in the right size so that we could live on the inside must be almost as big as Earth orbit. The sphere surface size is approx. 281176811992656000 km even if the collector would require only a millimeter think foil to be useful, you must provide 2811768119926.56 km of material. Total Earth volume is 1083002572572 km. So you need 2.6 Earth size planets to build it. Considering that we required quite some time to dig up some parts of the upper km of our planet (ca. 100 years), I assume it is completely impossible with present technology to even try to do it.
All Nerds do that, they dress the same every day. The variations happen due to insufficient specification of what is what. Therefore T-Shirt may have different colors. Top nerds fixed that issue.
Consequently this makes Obama a Nerd as well. And Romney is most likely the opposite of that.
From an Iranian point of view, there is no bacon shortage. And most likely all other primarily Muslim-countries will agree. Therefore, there is only a 6/7 global shortage in pork. And I guess, that these prices will not rise in China or the EU, which would lead to an African-American-pork shortage (oh yes and Japan and Australia). So in the end there will be a US-pork shortage. And that is a good thing, as US citizens (like their EU counterparts) eat too much meat (which includes pork), which is a bad diet and ruining the planet.
There are some prinicpals for real good documentation. My list my not be complete (so do not hessitate to add points), but as a starter:
* Documentation should explain why someting is not how. The how is part of the source code and its inline commentary. Example:
While the interface FileAccess may have the followin form: public interface FileAccess {
public void open(String filename, FileOptions options);
public byte buffer[] read(int size, int records);
public void write (byte buffer[]);
public void seek (int position);
public void close(); }
There should also be a note that, you only can read/write if the FileOptions object set the flag for read/write. Furthermore, the language the interfaces speaks is: (open,(read,write,seek)*,close)* so read before open is an error. This is the documentation of the interface on code level. However, the documentation why it is, is missing. While it might be obvious what a file access interface does (because you know or think you know the domain of FileAccess), it is still required to describe the why and the domain as such.
* Documentation (especially design documentation) should be written before coding. Documentation written by coders after they completed their work, normally just describes what it does, and the context, domain and the why is missing. If you do not know what to write in the documentation, you are not through with solving the puzzle you try to implement.
* Fix documentation after the implementation. Humans tend to forget something, which they find out writing the code. Add that stuff to the documentation.
* Your documentation should start with a requirement or a feature of a requirement and be traceable to your code fragment.
* Documentation should state which concepts are used. For example: if you use a factory, call it a factory, tell in the documentation why you used a factory and what domain it belongs to.
* Do not bloat your documentation with bla bla, in many cases a bullet list is much more helpful than two or more paragraphs of continuous text.
Being triggered by conditioning through experience has nothing to do with free will. Do not confuse impulse with free will.
Second, your idea would lead to high rates of children suicides, as these logos are everywhere. Especially large cities would be uninhabited (if parents are included) or at least the kids would be all gone and the US would die out in one generation. I guess there are some people in the Middle East who find that idea quite tempting.
The best thing would be a restriction on advertising. And the truth about the food. Also the conditioning for fast food happens already at the time of breast feeding, when mothers eat fast food, it ends up in the milk and therefor in the baby. So if mothers eat wrong the kids eat wrong. The trigger with the logo is added to that later.
You obviously didn't read the study or read the linked articles. They used 120 brands, the journalist picked some out of them. Most likely on the basis of a personal preference. And yes for a good study you also have to add logos, which fall in the category "should not produce a response", otherwise you cannot argue that the response to McDonald's is not a normal reaction to recognizing logos.
You are just a damn flamebait, who does not like, that corporate practices in marketing are contra productive for society. Honestly, get over it. The neo-liberal concept is just an ideology just like communism, socialism or any other economic concept. They are artificial and all use oversimplification when it comes to humans, the environment or model processes. As a modern human, you should know that there are limits to all of those concepts and they should not be overstretched. Especially they should not be turned into an ideology, where everything that sheds negative light on your idea is bad and must be fought. It is you ideology which has the problem, not your study.
If we would not waste that much money to kick each others butts, we would have solved all problems on Earth decades ago. However, we rather hate each other, lie to each other, steal from each other, produce films to annoy the other, get annoyed by totally unimportant media production from other people just because we have some problem understanding their culture or giving a damn about it. Well, the list could easily be enlarged, but I think you get the point.
In short: Humans are morons. They suck big time.
Therefore, they will not achieve your space flight goal the next 1 billion years. Nor will they end one of those numerous other problems. Unless, we really stop whining about space travel and how bad we all are, and start fixing it.
For example, when we have an issue, because our economy is not sustainable, then look what you can change instead of pointing finger. If you think we are too violent, try to fix it (BTW selling guns is not going to help). If you find, there is too less dialog with the people int China, Sudan, Libya etc. well try to fix it. When you cannot do it alone, which is most likely the case, then cooperate with other people.
After WWII in Europe the hatred between countries was at an all time high. the whole war was only possible, because other nations haven been presented as evil. Especially Nazi-Germany used that mechanism. To solve that issue, many visiting programs where initiated, so people, especially you people, where able to meet. Nowadays these tensions are much lower to non existent, between let say Germany and France. The problems are still bigger with East-European countries.
So if you are afraid of China: Meet them. Meet the people. And, yes the same applies to Arabian countries.
Nope. She is just promoting her book and her new promotion company. She had to something like this, because otherwise no one in Germany would have noticed that she "wrote" a book. All the tree-killing would have been a waste of time without that promotion;-)
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Ratified treaties have direct no legal effect for national bodies until they are transferred into state law. They are not allowed to violate the constitution of a country. However, if you sign a treaty and ratify a treaty it is a legal international law document and your fine country has to comply to the rules, which includes making laws or changing laws in a way to satisfy the treaty. This is however not possible, if the treaty violates the constitution, as that thing supersedes all laws.
Obviously Texas law is in conflict with that treaty. And if Texas and the US do not want to look like a horde of split tongue people, they have to fix it. If not, the OSCE will send and publish a protest note, which will summarize like "How dare you!". Ah yes, and the rest of the world will call the US a Banana Republic. However, that makes not much difference from now, as the rest of the world expects that the US fails to have fair elections.
Legacy systems ran for a long time (normally). That's why you get the job. The shit has to be ported to a new platform, features have to be added etc. Legacy systems are long lived or long living systems, therefore a lot of people laid their hands on it, which results in crossover styles in programming which results in bad code. Therefore:
* The older the code base, the worse the code
* The higher number of transitions (migrations/feature changes) of a code base, the worse the code
* The less real documentation exists, the worse the code
* The worse the programming language, the worse the code
C,C++,Perl,Fortran 77, Cobol, Fortran 4, PL/1, Assembler => bad, worse, unmaintainable, even more unmaintainable, are you kidding me, we hit mars period, it talks back and WTF.
So you can conclude a formula from that: (1/code_age)*(1/(transition_counts+1))*documentation_quality*programming_language where documentation quality is defined as 0 no or bad documentation and 1 perfect documentation and programming language is defined as WTF/assembler=0 and C=0.5 (Languages such as Erlang, Haskell, Scala, Java, C# get higher marks).
A value 0 zero indicates great mess, while 1 indicates nothing to worry about. While most legacy systems are implement in the range between bad and WTF, you will never get more than 0.5 out of it. As documentation is even in new projects not really existent. They produce a lot of paper, but there is nothing in it. So you can say you get not more than 0.5 for documentation quality. As most projects are more than 10 years old, you get 0.1 for age and at least 2 transitions so 0.25. So my best value would be 0.5*0.5*0.1*0.25 = 0.00625 or the quality is below 1%. You normally get an F (or 5/6) if you are below 50%. So it is easy to conclude:
All legacy systems suck. Ah and yes, and you should get used to it.
The problem with D/C is not the efficienty (I assumed that too), it is hard to transform from one voltage to another. The thing with the 80% comes from the following scenario. Our present energy mix is primarily based on fossil fuels. They will run out and the burn products modify our climate. Therefore, we have to replace them. Electricity is around 1/3 of our energy usage, the rest is directly linked to fossil fuels. We will not be able to built enough nuclear plants to produce all our energy. As, we would run in a resource shortage on Uranium and other reactor types are not necessarily feasible. To replace all fossil fuel with renewable energy is not possible over night.
The above mentioned scenario implies that we stop use fossil fuel and as a replacement we use renewable energy. However, at a mid range time horizon that can only cover about 20% of our energy usage of today.
So it is more a "What are the alternatives?"-question. In Germany, they insulated approx. 20% of their homes, driven by rising oil and gas prices, as well as laws on emissions and efficiency of heating systems. They assume that they can half the energy consumption of houses in the next 10 years.
In the long run, we have to come to a more energy efficient way of live (in Western countries). And from my point of view it is either an utopia or dystopia, which awaits the next generation. Depends on what we do.
Bicycles use pizza or any other food as primary energy source. To produce motion you need a human to convert food to motion. But that works very well where I am from ;-)
If they are efficient or could become efficient, then go for it. However, as many other pointed out here, the synthesis of oil from CO2 and water is quite ineffective. To produce H2 or methane is also inefficient, but more efficient than the oil thing from the article.
IMHO it is not helpful to search for methods, which falsely imply that we can go on like we did in the past. We have to reduce our energy consumption by 80% to get rid of the fossil oil problem. And we need to distribute energy, but we have more efficient ways to do it than use artificial generated oil. For example, we could use DC lines for long distance electricity transportation.
Maybe you should build a grid in the USA. Your current grid looks like one from a third world country. And you should stop thinking in a single source of energy system, which is appropriate for a grid with few big plants. The future is decentralized energy production and consumption. You have to combine wind, solar power, photo voltaic, water power, pumped-storage hydropower plant, compressed air reservoir plants, the many consumers, and a grid in between, which is able to handle energy flowing through it in various directions.
That is not that complicated. Don't use cars to burn the precious resource. Walk, cycle or use public transportation instead. The latter can be run on electricity from renewable sources. And the first two run on pizza and stuff. Do not heat your home with oil. You insulation. Good designed homes are able to produce more energy than they consume. True you cannot build these houses for the same price, like those shacks normally built in the USA and Canada. A outside wall should be 40-50 cm think and it requires insulation. with good insulation and modern windows, you can even throw out that air conditioner, which uses so much electricity.
It depends on what you want to do. You could either program in (larger) teams and write specialized software for companies and organizations, then you should learn Java and maybe C#, as larger systems are written in these languages today. If you want to work for smaller web-shops, advertisement companies etc. learn ruby on rails or python and HTML5 technology stuff like (SVG, JavaScript etc.) or Flash. With your knowledge in Assembler you might be good for a job in embedded software. I mean real embedded software not that iOS or Android stuff. Embedded systems is a growing market, as in cars, trains, planes and all sort of other machinery more and more computer like systems do the control job.
If you want to work alone, then you in trouble.
In 15 years, you will wake up, because the same old lousy noisy bastard of alarm clock, which terrorized you for decades, will go off. If you are lucky it is not one of those mechanical devices and you got a "radio alarm" which provides the best songs of the 80,90,2000,2010,and of today. You will get up after the same pillow fight with the device you have every morning and go to the shower, there will by a faucet mixing thing in it (just like today, which is already 10 or 20 years old) after some fiddling around the water is just perfect and you wash yourself.
Afterwards you will use a towel and try to get dressed. Still not that easy without a coffee. Then you get your regular breakfast (if there is time, or as you overslept again, you get an apple or something). You walk out, lock the door (when you are in the US, apply all locking) and walk to the busstop. You bik was stolen yesterday and it will be a rainy day, so you commute by public transport. If your boss would not be such a nutt sucker you could work from home, but well...
The bus is filled with noisy advertisements for all sorts of crap you cannot pay for, or you do not want, and strangely, they advertising for the winter holidays again, it was just August, how should you know what you do for winter. If you have a job and if you get a day of or two. Still work is better, than living from social support money and have nothing to do (beside doing some coding if you like, only a nerd option).
Arriving at work, after switching once, you greet Sam who guards the entrance of you work place, eating a donut or bagel crossover stuff. You still cannot believe how somebody can put marmalade on a cheeseburger. In the good old days a cheeseburger was just a cheeseburger and you had not to answer twenty questions just about the topping. Still you feel hunger, because the apple was not that good and far from filling.
You consider to use the stairs, but on the other hand you are too sleepy and too hungry so you take the elevator. ...
Limited resources is not a communism thing. It is a natural thing. If you live in a not so water rich region (like CA) and waste water like hell, then you will get in trouble when a) the population grows, b) the amount of usable water is reduced or c) on a per person basis people try to waste more water. You can only eat the cake once. You know.
That will not work. The US military is already overstretched. And the US has at least to compete with China who owns it. Therefore, the force plan will not work. To have peace by controlling everyone is never a stable situation. It is better to interact with equals, but I guess western countries are not willing to learn that lesson, even if it worked in Europe now for quite some time.
You cannot reach energy independence and still burn oil at greater rates. You have to:
* Insulate your homes
* Install better heating systems
* Install renewable energy collectors
* Use a more efficient way of public transport
* increase the average population density to reduce travel distances
* Decentralize offices so the average way from home to work is reduced
* Switch to a less energy intensive food production system
* And for the rest where you still need cars, use European or Japanese cars, which are much more fuel efficient
If you do all this you could reduce energy dependence. If you can convert from oil to electricity as energy source for public transportation, then you might read energy independence.
And it does not matter who you elect, it matters what your country does.
Honestly, I am 41 and I have not seen a real new technology. However, you need to adapt to new frameworks and development environments. In the 1990ies you need to learn XML, nowadays teh new animal is model-driven whatsoever and domain specific languages.
The ability to learn does not decrease that much over the years. The real problem is to get started. The first weeks hurt. The rest is not a problem if you stay determined. However, modern software development requires much more people skills, as you always work in groups and you have to be able to communicate with people which lack any people skills. So if you have problems in group work, then gettraining courses in that area. The computer programming skills are easily adopted to new frameworks and languages, as they are all more or less the same. They use OOP and work with a set of patterns, like inversion of control, factories, meta-models and aspects. As a CS person, you can adopt all your knowledge easily or you failed to study the subject. If you are a self-trained person, then this will be much harder, as you do not have learned all these concepts and methods, which make it easy to learn and train yourself in a new framework and technology. In that case: Get one. I thought I was a good programmer, when I entered University, but the boost in the first 1/2 year was enourmous. It was like using a candle all these years and now I had an flood light.
It can be created (sort of) by fusion or fission. However, the matter + energy are fixed. So you can convert mass to energy causing to be more energy in the unsivers and less matter. However, energy cannot be destroyed or created as such, it is converted to or from matter.
Because it is totally insane to build such thing. It is much more reasonable to build collectors for sunlight based on earth. There is plenty of energy available based on that technology, which will fuel us for the next million years. Beside that, building a Dyson sphere in the right size so that we could live on the inside must be almost as big as Earth orbit. The sphere surface size is approx. 281176811992656000 km even if the collector would require only a millimeter think foil to be useful, you must provide 2811768119926.56 km of material. Total Earth volume is 1083002572572 km. So you need 2.6 Earth size planets to build it. Considering that we required quite some time to dig up some parts of the upper km of our planet (ca. 100 years), I assume it is completely impossible with present technology to even try to do it.
All Nerds do that, they dress the same every day. The variations happen due to insufficient specification of what is what. Therefore T-Shirt may have different colors. Top nerds fixed that issue.
Consequently this makes Obama a Nerd as well. And Romney is most likely the opposite of that.
From an Iranian point of view, there is no bacon shortage. And most likely all other primarily Muslim-countries will agree. Therefore, there is only a 6/7 global shortage in pork. And I guess, that these prices will not rise in China or the EU, which would lead to an African-American-pork shortage (oh yes and Japan and Australia). So in the end there will be a US-pork shortage. And that is a good thing, as US citizens (like their EU counterparts) eat too much meat (which includes pork), which is a bad diet and ruining the planet.
As you know, the "finer" the sausage, the less meat is in it.
There are some prinicpals for real good documentation. My list my not be complete (so do not hessitate to add points), but as a starter:
* Documentation should explain why someting is not how. The how is part of the source code and its inline commentary. Example:
While the interface FileAccess may have the followin form:
public interface FileAccess {
public void open(String filename, FileOptions options);
public byte buffer[] read(int size, int records);
public void write (byte buffer[]);
public void seek (int position);
public void close();
}
There should also be a note that, you only can read/write if the FileOptions object set the flag for read/write. Furthermore, the language the interfaces speaks is: (open,(read,write,seek)*,close)* so read before open is an error. This is the documentation of the interface on code level. However, the documentation why it is, is missing. While it might be obvious what a file access interface does (because you know or think you know the domain of FileAccess), it is still required to describe the why and the domain as such.
* Documentation (especially design documentation) should be written before coding. Documentation written by coders after they completed their work, normally just describes what it does, and the context, domain and the why is missing. If you do not know what to write in the documentation, you are not through with solving the puzzle you try to implement.
* Fix documentation after the implementation. Humans tend to forget something, which they find out writing the code. Add that stuff to the documentation.
* Your documentation should start with a requirement or a feature of a requirement and be traceable to your code fragment.
* Documentation should state which concepts are used. For example: if you use a factory, call it a factory, tell in the documentation why you used a factory and what domain it belongs to.
* Do not bloat your documentation with bla bla, in many cases a bullet list is much more helpful than two or more paragraphs of continuous text.
Being triggered by conditioning through experience has nothing to do with free will. Do not confuse impulse with free will.
Second, your idea would lead to high rates of children suicides, as these logos are everywhere. Especially large cities would be uninhabited (if parents are included) or at least the kids would be all gone and the US would die out in one generation. I guess there are some people in the Middle East who find that idea quite tempting.
The best thing would be a restriction on advertising. And the truth about the food. Also the conditioning for fast food happens already at the time of breast feeding, when mothers eat fast food, it ends up in the milk and therefor in the baby. So if mothers eat wrong the kids eat wrong. The trigger with the logo is added to that later.
You obviously didn't read the study or read the linked articles. They used 120 brands, the journalist picked some out of them. Most likely on the basis of a personal preference. And yes for a good study you also have to add logos, which fall in the category "should not produce a response", otherwise you cannot argue that the response to McDonald's is not a normal reaction to recognizing logos.
You are just a damn flamebait, who does not like, that corporate practices in marketing are contra productive for society. Honestly, get over it. The neo-liberal concept is just an ideology just like communism, socialism or any other economic concept. They are artificial and all use oversimplification when it comes to humans, the environment or model processes. As a modern human, you should know that there are limits to all of those concepts and they should not be overstretched. Especially they should not be turned into an ideology, where everything that sheds negative light on your idea is bad and must be fought. It is you ideology which has the problem, not your study.
I bet we can achive a sustainable energy supply without fusion or fission.
If we would not waste that much money to kick each others butts, we would have solved all problems on Earth decades ago. However, we rather hate each other, lie to each other, steal from each other, produce films to annoy the other, get annoyed by totally unimportant media production from other people just because we have some problem understanding their culture or giving a damn about it. Well, the list could easily be enlarged, but I think you get the point.
In short: Humans are morons. They suck big time.
Therefore, they will not achieve your space flight goal the next 1 billion years. Nor will they end one of those numerous other problems. Unless, we really stop whining about space travel and how bad we all are, and start fixing it.
For example, when we have an issue, because our economy is not sustainable, then look what you can change instead of pointing finger. If you think we are too violent, try to fix it (BTW selling guns is not going to help). If you find, there is too less dialog with the people int China, Sudan, Libya etc. well try to fix it. When you cannot do it alone, which is most likely the case, then cooperate with other people.
After WWII in Europe the hatred between countries was at an all time high. the whole war was only possible, because other nations haven been presented as evil. Especially Nazi-Germany used that mechanism. To solve that issue, many visiting programs where initiated, so people, especially you people, where able to meet. Nowadays these tensions are much lower to non existent, between let say Germany and France. The problems are still bigger with East-European countries.
So if you are afraid of China: Meet them. Meet the people. And, yes the same applies to Arabian countries.
Nope. She is just promoting her book and her new promotion company. She had to something like this, because otherwise no one in Germany would have noticed that she "wrote" a book. All the tree-killing would have been a waste of time without that promotion ;-)