People that live where it snows use tire chains, not some sort of "rock the wheels" technique. If you are driving a ford focus in the snow without tire chains, you have bigger things to worry about than the ability to turn traction control off.
I think that it is fair to say that it took the additions between the 110 page and 451 page versions to get enough Republicans on board for passage. If you have doubts about that, I suggest comparing the party platforms with what was added.
In the difference between the first bill and the one that passed, more democrats changed their vote from "no" to "yes" than republicans.
26 republicans changed their votes from "no" to "yes".
32 democrats changed their votes from "no" to "yes".
Populations are declining in a large portion of the world. Japan, Russia, and most of Europe's populations have held steady or declined over recent years. The US would have a negative population growth if it wasn't for imigration.
Poorer nations will undoubtably go through the same population cycle as first world countries have. Once their economic and social situations improve, their populations will level off and perhaps decline.
Take a look at different countries Total Fertility Rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and _territories_by_fertility_rate Any country with a TFR of less than 2.1 is in a state of population decline. There's quite a few of them out there. This is why overpopulation is not the hot issue it was 15 years ago...
1. Sea life is dying faster than it is being replenished
2. The supply is finite
That logic is bulletproof. Except you forgot one little thing (that everyone who makes this same argument always forgets about), and that's the fact that demand is (and almost always is) elastic - not static.
Do the authors of this study believe their own results? Here is an excerpt from a letter that Boris Worm accidently sent to a newspaper:
In a note to colleagues that was mistakenly sent to The Seattle Times, Worm wrote that the projection could act as a "news hook to get people's attention."
I'm not saying that overfishing is not a cause for concern, but the "world is gonna end in 50 years" claims that keep popping up in these studies are getting tiresome, and in the end I think it ends up hurting their cause.
Hey, muslims may be seen as intollerant, but at least they don't go around killing people who convert from Islam to another religion. Now that would be intollerant!
What are you smoking. Linux has more drivers out of the box then Windows does.
Who cares if Linux has more drivers out of the box? I don't mind going to a manufacturer's webpage, downloading the newest driver, and installing it. What I do mind is when the directions to make some device work include the words "and then recompile the kernel with X option selected...".
My Lexmark printer has been out over 3 years, and there are still no Linux drivers available for it.
My sound in Linux has a popping noise that I can't get rid of.
My screen in Linux flickers like crazy when the mouse moves.
I posted about all these problems in the Ubuntu forums, and all of them remain unresolved. I finally gave up and reinstalled Windows where everything just worked. Fanboys that say Linux drivers are not a barrier to desktop adoption are fooling themselves, and hurting the cause.
I honestly think I learned more about muslim culture in 2 posts by temestdata than I have in the last 10 years of reading the NY Times and watchin CNN. Sad.
Yet.
Wow, time to take of your conspiracy hat. Care to shed any evidence that any of this is coming soon (voices in your head don't count)?
Porn will be illegal soon? Yeah, you're right... I have been noticing a severe drop in the number of porn sites recently. Online porn is a $3 billion business, which means it has a lot of clout. There is no way a buisiness that brings in that kind of money will let itself be legislated out of existance (Cigarettes are way more harmfull than Porn, but cig corporations are still making a ton of money).
Nationwide firewall coming soon? Once again, I'd love to see some kind of evidence. Just because you're paraniod doesn't make these little fantasies of yours true.
Wow, and last of all you claim that we will soon be shutting down free speech sites? Let me get this straight... the government is going to pass a law that will allow them to shut down free speach websites. Yeah, I'm sure the supreme court will let that shit fly.
On second thought, you're right. All those things are going to happen very soon. I suggest you barricade yourself in your home, and never come out. Remember to wrap your house in tinfoil first so the spy satallites can't read your thoughts!
You cannot legislate away theft
Are you serious? It is legislation that keeps theft to a minimum. If it were perfectly legal download copyrighted music/video, then what reason would anyone have to pay for it? You say that distributors need to make it easier/cheaper to buy the content than to copy it. This is not possible to do if there is no legislation against sites/programs which allow you to download the material with the click of a mouse. Now I would agree with the conclusion that legislation alone cannot combat theft, but to imply that lawmaking doesn't play a big part of the solution is silly.
I fail to see how they are minimalizing their error here. Especially considering the last sentence in that little tidbit (you know, the one you failed to include in your quote) which says, "Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article". Sounds to me like they are owning up to their mistake.
So does that mean that we can build long chain carbon molecules like, say, gasoline, out of other organic material like, say, chicken shit? 'Cause that's what I'm imagining.
Maybe, but I'm willing to bet that the energy consumed in making such a molecule will be more than the energy derived from burning said molecule. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of synthesizing gasoline.
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Mr Puppy, I'd like to buy your rock.
Try living somewhere with actual snow.
People that live where it snows use tire chains, not some sort of "rock the wheels" technique. If you are driving a ford focus in the snow without tire chains, you have bigger things to worry about than the ability to turn traction control off.
I think that it is fair to say that it took the additions between the 110 page and 451 page versions to get enough Republicans on board for passage. If you have doubts about that, I suggest comparing the party platforms with what was added.
In the difference between the first bill and the one that passed, more democrats changed their vote from "no" to "yes" than republicans.
26 republicans changed their votes from "no" to "yes". 32 democrats changed their votes from "no" to "yes".
The article said that it took the Earth 2000 years to thaw - not that it thawed 2000 years ago.
Populations are declining in a large portion of the world. Japan, Russia, and most of Europe's populations have held steady or declined over recent years. The US would have a negative population growth if it wasn't for imigration.
d _territories_by_fertility_rate
Poorer nations will undoubtably go through the same population cycle as first world countries have. Once their economic and social situations improve, their populations will level off and perhaps decline.
Take a look at different countries Total Fertility Rate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_an
Any country with a TFR of less than 2.1 is in a state of population decline. There's quite a few of them out there. This is why overpopulation is not the hot issue it was 15 years ago...
2. The supply is finite
That logic is bulletproof. Except you forgot one little thing (that everyone who makes this same argument always forgets about), and that's the fact that demand is (and almost always is) elastic - not static.
Do the authors of this study believe their own results? Here is an excerpt from a letter that Boris Worm accidently sent to a newspaper:
(taken from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2
I'm not saying that overfishing is not a cause for concern, but the "world is gonna end in 50 years" claims that keep popping up in these studies are getting tiresome, and in the end I think it ends up hurting their cause.
Hey, muslims may be seen as intollerant, but at least they don't go around killing people who convert from Islam to another religion. Now that would be intollerant!
What are you smoking. Linux has more drivers out of the box then Windows does.
Who cares if Linux has more drivers out of the box? I don't mind going to a manufacturer's webpage, downloading the newest driver, and installing it. What I do mind is when the directions to make some device work include the words "and then recompile the kernel with X option selected...".
My Lexmark printer has been out over 3 years, and there are still no Linux drivers available for it.
My sound in Linux has a popping noise that I can't get rid of.
My screen in Linux flickers like crazy when the mouse moves.
I posted about all these problems in the Ubuntu forums, and all of them remain unresolved. I finally gave up and reinstalled Windows where everything just worked. Fanboys that say Linux drivers are not a barrier to desktop adoption are fooling themselves, and hurting the cause.
I honestly think I learned more about muslim culture in 2 posts by temestdata than I have in the last 10 years of reading the NY Times and watchin CNN. Sad.
Yet.
Wow, time to take of your conspiracy hat. Care to shed any evidence that any of this is coming soon (voices in your head don't count)?
Porn will be illegal soon? Yeah, you're right... I have been noticing a severe drop in the number of porn sites recently. Online porn is a $3 billion business, which means it has a lot of clout. There is no way a buisiness that brings in that kind of money will let itself be legislated out of existance (Cigarettes are way more harmfull than Porn, but cig corporations are still making a ton of money).
Nationwide firewall coming soon? Once again, I'd love to see some kind of evidence. Just because you're paraniod doesn't make these little fantasies of yours true.
Wow, and last of all you claim that we will soon be shutting down free speech sites? Let me get this straight... the government is going to pass a law that will allow them to shut down free speach websites. Yeah, I'm sure the supreme court will let that shit fly.
On second thought, you're right. All those things are going to happen very soon. I suggest you barricade yourself in your home, and never come out. Remember to wrap your house in tinfoil first so the spy satallites can't read your thoughts!
So you really want that Viagra/Valtrex/Cialis/Levitra ad to always be showing up when your new girlfriend is watching TV with you? I would think not.
As opposed to now when we dont have any Viagra/Valtrex/Cialis/Levitra ads?
That code doesn't even compile, let alone work.
You cannot legislate away theft
Are you serious? It is legislation that keeps theft to a minimum. If it were perfectly legal download copyrighted music/video, then what reason would anyone have to pay for it? You say that distributors need to make it easier/cheaper to buy the content than to copy it. This is not possible to do if there is no legislation against sites/programs which allow you to download the material with the click of a mouse. Now I would agree with the conclusion that legislation alone cannot combat theft, but to imply that lawmaking doesn't play a big part of the solution is silly.
Maybe you could see how many times certain C faux pas exist. Things like the use of gets(), fflush(stdin), void main(), etc.
I fail to see how they are minimalizing their error here. Especially considering the last sentence in that little tidbit (you know, the one you failed to include in your quote) which says, "Mr. Prendergast's affiliation with Microsoft should have been stated clearly in the article". Sounds to me like they are owning up to their mistake.
So does that mean that we can build long chain carbon molecules like, say, gasoline, out of other organic material like, say, chicken shit? 'Cause that's what I'm imagining.
Maybe, but I'm willing to bet that the energy consumed in making such a molecule will be more than the energy derived from burning said molecule. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of synthesizing gasoline.