Because the production of Chine is bought by the US.
The best way not to pollute too much is to produce less, not to produce more efficiently. The best way to produce less is to consume less.
The real problem is that everyone (American and Chinese, and anyone else) dreams of buying a new house, a new car, a new tv, a new overpriced gadget... We really ought to realize that material prosperity doesn't really make people happy.
China dreams of it but still can't afford it at the level of the US. The US are still the most wasteful country in the world.
You really think Malaysia has higher environmental standards than China ? The point is not to boycott China, it is to be responsible when buying something.
the conductor didn't manage to get to the door so you missed your stop ?
What do you mean ? You couldn't go out ? The train did not stop ?
Just curious, because what you describe looks like a travel I have done (2am to 9am, standing) but I didn't see any problem with getting off the train.
Chinese people don't take trains only for New Year you know. All year round, you can see people buying tickets without seat, having to stand in the middle, even for 24 hours or more.
Right now, for example, there are students going to their university at the other end of the country and as they can order tickets before other people (ten days before compared to five), some trains are full before I can buy a ticket for it.
It is nice to have the books in my room, to be able to see them, read a little bit sometimes, look for a quote you know are here, etc. Or reread them completely after some years (yes, I read some books 3+ times). Or take years to finish a book.
Some people might also like to be able to mark them or write on them, but I would never do that.
I also love to give or lend books I have liked, and I thinks it is better to do so with books that are mine;)
Well, we're talking about a low-level driver here. Some things just can't be that simple. A good doc is always extremely useful when you want to understand something, not just use it.
Anyway, I think it is a fun idea. I've always loved well-written documentation, when someone tries to explain a program but also to share his passion, sometimes explaining even things that are not necessary. I am thinking of "The TeXbook" by Knuth or "A User's Guide to the Z-Shell" by Stephenson for example.
The goal of Project Gutenberg is to reproduce books as faithfully as they can. They stick to an out-of-copyright edition and reproduce about everything, including non-trivial errors (with a note explaining there is an error) and formatting, now that they produce HTML versions. At least it is the philosophy now at PGDP, which is the main source of books in PG. Earlier texts were less strict about it.
The ebook produced can then be used by other people if they want to create a new edition with footnotes, corrections, introduction, etc. It is however a very different job, requiring a good knowledge of the period, the country, the author and the book...
"shortage of oil, coal, recession, global warming, polar ice caps melting, energy crysis, superflu and dozen of others we may have even not heard of yet."
I can't imagine how any of these things could wipe out the human specie. It will probably kill some billions people in something like a century (and I mean it, gloomy eh ?), but there will always be habitable places or people surviving the flu.
It may cause a drawback in technology and scientific knowledge, but nothing permanent.
I am a french student and we have very rarely, if any, multiple choices questions (QCM in french) in our exams. When there are some QCM, like in the maths test of the baccalauréat, it counts only as a small part of the final grade and it is very recent. The only QCM-only test I passed was the TOEFL.
Is it that common in the US ? Is it common even outside scientific studies ?
What is the difference between case preserving and case sensitive ? I can't think of any at the filesystem level.
The problem is not to have a cave sensitive filesystem, but to have applications allowing some case insensitive behaviour when it is useful.
For example, my zsh shell has completion semi case insensitive (lowercase letter matches lowercase and uppercase, while uppercase matches only uppercase). I find it very useful.
Here is the line you have to put in your.zshrc file : zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'
The only problem with your solution is to define reckless. It will be at the appreciation of the policemen, so the punishment will depend on the hour of the day, the fact that he was hungry, that his girlfriend dumped him, that his boss told him he was too merciful... It already happens with the current laws but would be far worse with only a vague and undefined law about "reckless" behaviour.
You prefer to have a total faith in the capacity of the policemen to judge if an action is reckless. They are only persons too, so they are not perfect.
I much prefer to have some railings, limiting their freedom, but also protecting people from abuse. That's why laws have to be precise, to reduce the part of interpretation.
If only people could think a little bit by themselves and not act only out of fear of the punishment... Laws like this one would not be necessary.
And you don't think French people intelligent enough to think of that ?
What is used is not the total result of all small towns, but the results of a subset of them, selected to vote like France in general in the previous polls.
The problem is not to know whether it "feels secure", but whether it IS secure or more precisely whether it could be hacked.
Considering the importance of elections and the trust it requires from the citizens to guarantee a democratic system, I don't think online voting is transparent enough. Some people won't trust the result as they do with paper vote, and it is a dire threat to the whole democratic system. The problem is not an actual exploit but the possibility of one, and this possibility is always present, with any computer and any network.
"But the flaw most easily exploited turned out to be around vote secrecy. The electronics are so badly shielded that someone with a radio receiver within a few tens of meters can detect what vote is being made."
In some cases, you don't even need that. During the French elections, some old people unable to complete the different steps were helped by officials, in the polling booth. The vote secrecy is already badly screwed when you arrive at situations like that.
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"10^-18 is rare but that means that if you try 10^18 times, probability favors seeing it once."
And why exactly 10^18 ? You do know the probability to obtain it will not be 1 (not even close ...) after 10^18 try, don't you ?
"La Terreur"
Just move at night ...
The double T of butter, not of brilliant
hum hum, 99% of the population of China is third world ? mostly without electricity ? When have you last been to China ? Just curious ...
Because the production of Chine is bought by the US.
The best way not to pollute too much is to produce less, not to produce more efficiently. The best way to produce less is to consume less.
The real problem is that everyone (American and Chinese, and anyone else) dreams of buying a new house, a new car, a new tv, a new overpriced gadget ... We really ought to realize that material prosperity doesn't really make people happy.
China dreams of it but still can't afford it at the level of the US. The US are still the most wasteful country in the world.
You really think Malaysia has higher environmental standards than China ? The point is not to boycott China, it is to be responsible when buying something.
the conductor didn't manage to get to the door so you missed your stop ?
What do you mean ? You couldn't go out ? The train did not stop ?
Just curious, because what you describe looks like a travel I have done (2am to 9am, standing) but I didn't see any problem with getting off the train.
Chinese people don't take trains only for New Year you know. All year round, you can see people buying tickets without seat, having to stand in the middle, even for 24 hours or more.
Right now, for example, there are students going to their university at the other end of the country and as they can order tickets before other people (ten days before compared to five), some trains are full before I can buy a ticket for it.
As usual, wikipedia knows of some : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)
Fuck the planet. After we're done raping this rock for every resource, we'll move on to the next one.
Could you please be more specific about which one ? Or maybe how we could get there ? Or even specify who you include in this "we" ?
I fear we will only have this rock for a long long time.
It is nice to have the books in my room, to be able to see them, read a little bit sometimes, look for a quote you know are here, etc. Or reread them completely after some years (yes, I read some books 3+ times). Or take years to finish a book.
;)
Some people might also like to be able to mark them or write on them, but I would never do that.
I also love to give or lend books I have liked, and I thinks it is better to do so with books that are mine
You may as well say "scientists who believe in a theory are morons". Hint : the keyword here is "believe".
Except those that don't, of course.
Well, we're talking about a low-level driver here. Some things just can't be that simple. A good doc is always extremely useful when you want to understand something, not just use it.
Anyway, I think it is a fun idea. I've always loved well-written documentation, when someone tries to explain a program but also to share his passion, sometimes explaining even things that are not necessary. I am thinking of "The TeXbook" by Knuth or "A User's Guide to the Z-Shell" by Stephenson for example.
The goal of Project Gutenberg is to reproduce books as faithfully as they can. They stick to an out-of-copyright edition and reproduce about everything, including non-trivial errors (with a note explaining there is an error) and formatting, now that they produce HTML versions. At least it is the philosophy now at PGDP, which is the main source of books in PG. Earlier texts were less strict about it.
The ebook produced can then be used by other people if they want to create a new edition with footnotes, corrections, introduction, etc. It is however a very different job, requiring a good knowledge of the period, the country, the author and the book
"shortage of oil, coal, recession, global warming, polar ice caps melting, energy crysis, superflu and dozen of others we may have even not heard of yet."
I can't imagine how any of these things could wipe out the human specie. It will probably kill some billions people in something like a century (and I mean it, gloomy eh ?), but there will always be habitable places or people surviving the flu.
It may cause a drawback in technology and scientific knowledge, but nothing permanent.
I think the whip is the most primitive device breaking the sound barrier. It dates back quite a bit ...
I am a french student and we have very rarely, if any, multiple choices questions (QCM in french) in our exams. When there are some QCM, like in the maths test of the baccalauréat, it counts only as a small part of the final grade and it is very recent. The only QCM-only test I passed was the TOEFL.
Is it that common in the US ? Is it common even outside scientific studies ?
What is the difference between case preserving and case sensitive ? I can't think of any at the filesystem level.
.zshrc file : zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Z}'
The problem is not to have a cave sensitive filesystem, but to have applications allowing some case insensitive behaviour when it is useful.
For example, my zsh shell has completion semi case insensitive (lowercase letter matches lowercase and uppercase, while uppercase matches only uppercase). I find it very useful.
Here is the line you have to put in your
The only problem with your solution is to define reckless. It will be at the appreciation of the policemen, so the punishment will depend on the hour of the day, the fact that he was hungry, that his girlfriend dumped him, that his boss told him he was too merciful ... It already happens with the current laws but would be far worse with only a vague and undefined law about "reckless" behaviour.
... Laws like this one would not be necessary.
You prefer to have a total faith in the capacity of the policemen to judge if an action is reckless. They are only persons too, so they are not perfect.
I much prefer to have some railings, limiting their freedom, but also protecting people from abuse. That's why laws have to be precise, to reduce the part of interpretation.
If only people could think a little bit by themselves and not act only out of fear of the punishment
And you don't think French people intelligent enough to think of that ?
What is used is not the total result of all small towns, but the results of a subset of them, selected to vote like France in general in the previous polls.
The problem is not to know whether it "feels secure", but whether it IS secure or more precisely whether it could be hacked.
Considering the importance of elections and the trust it requires from the citizens to guarantee a democratic system, I don't think online voting is transparent enough. Some people won't trust the result as they do with paper vote, and it is a dire threat to the whole democratic system. The problem is not an actual exploit but the possibility of one, and this possibility is always present, with any computer and any network.
"But the flaw most easily exploited turned out to be around vote secrecy. The electronics are so badly shielded that someone with a radio receiver within a few tens of meters can detect what vote is being made."
In some cases, you don't even need that. During the French elections, some old people unable to complete the different steps were helped by officials, in the polling booth. The vote secrecy is already badly screwed when you arrive at situations like that.
Informative ? Funny maybe, depending on your taste in dubious references, but I didn't see any kind of information in it ...