My point is this: Cutting our planes' emissions will do nothing but place further financial strains on us, leading to a relative inability to compete with other countries less concerned about the illusory monster of global warming.
Since you're keen on models, do you have a model showing it will be a long term economic disadvantage to cut emissions? The fact is, most changes geared toward reducing global warming involve either 1) increased efficiency or 2) use of alternative, less-polluting energy. Given that fossil fuels are a limited resource, this is something we'll have to do eventually anyway, and we may as well be ahead of the curve.
The difference is that some of these plans (such as synchronized flight patterns) require coordination between ALL the airlines using a particular airline -- thus although it does provide savings, it doesn't give any one airline a competitive advantage, and they don't have a large enough incentive to sit down with the other airlines and hash out a better system.
Seriously, what the fuck is up with that non-binding resolution? Just why do the dems think they were elected? Why did John Kerry lose in 04? Grow some spine and start check and balancing... Congress has the power of the purse, and and it's time to use it. You think there would be a war in Iraq if the US military budget wasn't bigger than the budgets of ALL the other countries in the world combined? When you spend that much, you want to use it.
Whether on a "peacekeeping mission" or making a preemptive strike, the US military has had a presence in foreign countries basically perpetually since WW2.
Slash the military budget to a somewhat reasonable level. That's the only way to stop the US gov from killing so many people.
"chinese mothers are the same as indian mothers, are the same as mexican mothers, are the same as white and black mothers in affluent communities with excellent education"
I'm sorry man, that's complete bullshit. Wake up. People in different culturals and social classes are, well, different. Have you ever spent time in a foreign country? I believe in treating everyone equally, but differences are important too -- a world were all mothers were the same and had exactly the same goals would be pretty boring.
"I have no doubt that Gates will be viewed as a wonderful benefactor of humanity a hundred years from now. Only the historians will remember how many people and companies he mercilessly crushed to create his fortune."
He wil be remembered as a wonderful benefactor precisely because he was a ruthless and effective businessman. Whether you like him or not, he's smart and he knows how to make things work. He will do a lot of good with his money -- a lot more than if it were in the hands of a government or a random charitable organization. He has experience in how to effectively leverage absurd sums of money.
Sorry to break it to you, but Mac OSX makes you pay for updates too. You have to pay for every update -- 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. Each of them costs money. So if you bought OSX or OS 10.1 and you want to update to the latest version of Safari or Firefox -- guess what, you have to shell out some cash because Firefox requires Mac OS X 10.2.x and the secure version of Safari requires 10.3 I think.
Because of this, my girlfriend who has an old Apple powerbook can't surf the web worth shit. So don't think that a for-profit company such as Apple will be the cure to all your M$ woes.
"...in January, propaganda officials finally shut down the section. Before doing so, they called executives from all the major Web sites to a special meeting and warned them not to allow any discussion of the action.
The news spread quickly anyway.
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I'm constantly impressed by the selflessness of Chinese people who risk their job and their freedom for the good of their country.
so, peer ratings are more important than titles...
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"Participants could then browse through a collection of unknown songs by unknown bands... In the social influence group, participants were provided with the same song list, but could also see how many times each song had been downloaded... They also found that as a particular songs' popularity increased, participants selected it more often."
Is this really that surprising? Given a big list of unknown songs, you listen to the ones that other people thought were good. Kind of like reader reviews on Amazon. I would do the same thing.
"The technology is said to be able to translate some 50,000 Japanese words and 25,000 English words."
I'm not surprised this thing was invented in japan -- since japanese only has 5 basic vowel sounds and no consonant clusters, it must be easier for the software to encode.
That, and it makes sense to support the language of the people you are marketing it to.
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Agreed. It's also easy to use.
My point is this: Cutting our planes' emissions will do nothing but place further financial strains on us, leading to a relative inability to compete with other countries less concerned about the illusory monster of global warming.
Since you're keen on models, do you have a model showing it will be a long term economic disadvantage to cut emissions? The fact is, most changes geared toward reducing global warming involve either 1) increased efficiency or 2) use of alternative, less-polluting energy. Given that fossil fuels are a limited resource, this is something we'll have to do eventually anyway, and we may as well be ahead of the curve.
The difference is that some of these plans (such as synchronized flight patterns) require coordination between ALL the airlines using a particular airline -- thus although it does provide savings, it doesn't give any one airline a competitive advantage, and they don't have a large enough incentive to sit down with the other airlines and hash out a better system.
The proof: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/issue/17/27
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Seriously, what the fuck is up with that non-binding resolution? Just why do the dems think they were elected? Why did John Kerry lose in 04? Grow some spine and start check and balancing... Congress has the power of the purse, and and it's time to use it. You think there would be a war in Iraq if the US military budget wasn't bigger than the budgets of ALL the other countries in the world combined? When you spend that much, you want to use it.
Whether on a "peacekeeping mission" or making a preemptive strike, the US military has had a presence in foreign countries basically perpetually since WW2.
Slash the military budget to a somewhat reasonable level. That's the only way to stop the US gov from killing so many people.
"I added a 'back' button - only to find the word I used was a person's back..."
Dos! - French Homer
"chinese mothers are the same as indian mothers, are the same as mexican mothers, are the same as white and black mothers in affluent communities with excellent education"
I'm sorry man, that's complete bullshit. Wake up. People in different culturals and social classes are, well, different. Have you ever spent time in a foreign country? I believe in treating everyone equally, but differences are important too -- a world were all mothers were the same and had exactly the same goals would be pretty boring.
"I have no doubt that Gates will be viewed as a wonderful benefactor of humanity a hundred years from now. Only the historians will remember how many people and companies he mercilessly crushed to create his fortune."
He wil be remembered as a wonderful benefactor precisely because he was a ruthless and effective businessman. Whether you like him or not, he's smart and he knows how to make things work. He will do a lot of good with his money -- a lot more than if it were in the hands of a government or a random charitable organization. He has experience in how to effectively leverage absurd sums of money.
Sorry to break it to you, but Mac OSX makes you pay for updates too. You have to pay for every update -- 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc. Each of them costs money. So if you bought OSX or OS 10.1 and you want to update to the latest version of Safari or Firefox -- guess what, you have to shell out some cash because Firefox requires Mac OS X 10.2.x and the secure version of Safari requires 10.3 I think.
Because of this, my girlfriend who has an old Apple powerbook can't surf the web worth shit. So don't think that a for-profit company such as Apple will be the cure to all your M$ woes.
"...in January, propaganda officials finally shut down the section. Before doing so, they called executives from all the major Web sites to a special meeting and warned them not to allow any discussion of the action.
The news spread quickly anyway. "
I'm constantly impressed by the selflessness of Chinese people who risk their job and their freedom for the good of their country.
"Participants could then browse through a collection of unknown songs by unknown bands... In the social influence group, participants were provided with the same song list, but could also see how many times each song had been downloaded... They also found that as a particular songs' popularity increased, participants selected it more often."
Is this really that surprising? Given a big list of unknown songs, you listen to the ones that other people thought were good. Kind of like reader reviews on Amazon. I would do the same thing.
The Hungarian phrase meaning "Can you direct me to the station?" is translated by the English phrase, "Please fondle my bum."
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"The technology is said to be able to translate some 50,000 Japanese words and 25,000 English words." I'm not surprised this thing was invented in japan -- since japanese only has 5 basic vowel sounds and no consonant clusters, it must be easier for the software to encode. That, and it makes sense to support the language of the people you are marketing it to.