Re:Bad economics and incorrect facts.
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A lack of refineries makes their input product (crude oil) more expensive? Shouldn't a lack of demand drive down the price of a supplied good?
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Fewer refineries affects supply, not demand.
Re:It's worse than that
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Right now we need to aim at plug-in hybrids, so that our cars aren't totally dependent on petroleum for energy.
Speaking of which, are the batteries in Priuses just too small to make plugging them in practical? I work ~5 miles from home, and it would be great to have a car I rarely need to fuel, just plug in.
From the article itself: Mozambique -- Just about every method of detecting land mines has a drawback. Metal detectors cannot tell a mine from a tenpenny nail. Armored bulldozers work well only on level ground. Mine-sniffing dogs get bored, and if they make mistakes, they get blown up.
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The armored bulldozers also do a number on anything else on that area of ground, and require a fair amount of logistical support (they're heavy and use lots of fuel.)
And note that these are Gambian rats. Even our rats are being outsourced!
Re:Negative Consequences?
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Even though i'm excited about the prospect of curing cancer, this type of technology scares me. What is out there stopping people from modifying these little computers to kill say.... white blood cells?
The fact that bullets, poison, etc., are a hell of a lot cheaper? It seems we have plenty of ways to kill people, and adding the potential for a few more isn't that big an issue.
I disagree. Rainy night weather is when you want these the most, as reflections distort your perception of everything else. I love road with cat's-eyes under those conditions. (And I wear glasses too.)
So let me get this straight...BayStar has bought up RBC's investment in SCO and wants SCO to get out of every other business it's in and focus on it's pending lawsuits? Doesn't that strike anybody as odd?
No, because Baystar's largest investor is owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and their eighth largest investor is Microsoft. This should surprise no one.
Also note the efforts being expended on getting sunken trees out of riverbeds from long-ago logging efforts, as the current trees aren't nearly as good for some uses as trees that have been sunk in a river for nearly 100 years.
You might get away with calling the man himself culturally a product of the 'Anglosphere', but to credit any of the above countries -- conceptual abastractions -- with his invention is collectivist nonsense.
I think the meaningful issue, though, is whether a particular cultural/political entity encourages such innovation. Did AGB go to publicly funded schools? Did the patent laws encourage him, and did they help him get venture capital? If so, the society can take some degree of credit for creating an environment where he could invent what he did.
Consider that the anti-software-patent sentiment on/. is because an overly permissive patent system discourages innovation and enterprise rather than encouraging it.
This seems a bit of historical revisionism, since in 1616 the Inquisition ruled Copernican (non-Earth-centered universe) theory completely false as part of the trial of Galileo, and convicted him as a heretic for believing in it.
the more alarming thing is that secularist revisionists have twisted history so as to claim that the Crusades were unprovoked. they were a reaction to the unprovoked maurading accross north africa (burning the library of alexandria), spain, and half of france.
The accusation that Caliph Omar ordered the destruction of the Library is widely acknowledged as a fabrication.
The Battle of Poitiers, generally assumed to have stopped the spread of Islam throughout Europe, was in 732. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, 363 years later.
The Turks weren't particularly benevolent, warring with the Byzantines in the 11th century, and the Crusades were at least somewhat inspired by that, but your claims at justification are pure hooey.
Even porn from the store isn't 100% certified legal.
This includes the Penthouse issue with pictures of Vanessa Williams that led to her resignation as Miss America. The centerfold was then 16-year-old Traci Lords and thus it is illegal to own or sell an unaltered copy.
No, but there is a Ceti Alpha V in "The Wrath of Khan" and possibly TOS's "Space Seed;" it's the planet where Kirk marooned Khan. I intentionally confused it to bring out the Trekkers, yeah, that's it!
Yeah, never mind the fact that I routinely have to carry a large amount of stuff that can't get wet.
Minivans typically have more interior room than all but the largest SUVs. If you're towing a large trailer, a Suburban or the like is often justified, but typically SUVs are built with overly heavy components designed for physical use and abuse they'll never encounter. Most of the Hummers I see are unladen and driven by a single commuter.
Models change so rapidly these days you probably couldn't find the ones I have. But google "region free DVD' and you'll find various pages that list models with region hacks of various types.
FOAD. Argue issues and dispense with the personal attacks.
Deficit spending is what most Democrats want to do to grow a stagnant economy.
What 'most Democrats want to do' does not concern me. Seems to me I remember a Contract with America just 10 years ago touting the advantages of a balanced budget. Amazing how much the Republicans -- other than McCain -- have changed.
Look, there's no difference economically (except the actual interest rate) between me doing a lot of borrowing on my credit card, and the government doing it for me by cutting taxes and borrowing to make up the difference. In the end, I'll have to pay it back. Only difference is, if I didn't get much advantage from the latest tax cuts, I may end up having to pay for more debt than I've gotten in tax cuts.
BTW, if you can't even spell "Reagan", it really makes the attempted air of smug superiority look *really* stupid.
You obviously are confusing national debt and deficit spending.
You get the national debt *via* deficit spending. Are you imagining some strange world where you get the latter without the former? We *are* indisputably paying interest on national debt accumulated mostly in the 80's and early 90's.
Do you know anything about economics? A weak dollar doesn't affect you unless you buy something FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY!
Yes, I know something about economics, most especially that we've had a trade deficit for a long time. Which means we buy more goods from foreign countries than they buy of ours. So when you buy Chilean grapes, Saudi oil, etc. with a weaker dollar, you're paying a higher price than you would. Now, it may also lead to higher sales of our exports. But it's certainly not an unmitigated good to have a weak dollar, it harms as much as it helps. You claimed otherwise.
We don't buy many foreign goods? What does the back of your monitor say? Your shirt tag? How much of your car was made in the U.S.? We buy a *lot* of foreign goods; we don't spend that much on bread.
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A lack of refineries makes their input product (crude oil) more expensive? Shouldn't a lack of demand drive down the price of a supplied good?
Que?
Fewer refineries affects supply, not demand.
Right now we need to aim at plug-in hybrids, so that our cars aren't totally dependent on petroleum for energy.
Speaking of which, are the batteries in Priuses just too small to make plugging them in practical? I work ~5 miles from home, and it would be great to have a car I rarely need to fuel, just plug in.
From the article itself:
Mozambique -- Just about every method of detecting land mines has a drawback. Metal detectors cannot tell a mine from a tenpenny nail. Armored bulldozers work well only on level ground. Mine-sniffing dogs get bored, and if they make mistakes, they get blown up.
----
The armored bulldozers also do a number on anything else on that area of ground, and require a fair amount of logistical support (they're heavy and use lots of fuel.)
And note that these are Gambian rats. Even our rats are being outsourced!
Even though i'm excited about the prospect of curing cancer, this type of technology scares me. What is out there stopping people from modifying these little computers to kill say.... white blood cells?
The fact that bullets, poison, etc., are a hell of a lot cheaper? It seems we have plenty of ways to kill people, and adding the potential for a few more isn't that big an issue.
You didn't actually think that you'd get to retire by 70, now did you?
Heck, I figured I'd be outsourced long before then, anyway...
I disagree. Rainy night weather is when you want these the most, as reflections distort your perception of everything else. I love road with cat's-eyes under those conditions. (And I wear glasses too.)
Then - Wham! - someone uses it to control society.
I really don't think you can blame George Michael and Andrew Ridgely for this...
Windmill "safe"
* No random slaugher of birds
Not true. (Link is a google cache of a converted PDF.)
So let me get this straight...BayStar has bought up RBC's investment in SCO and wants SCO to get out of every other business it's in and focus on it's pending lawsuits? Doesn't that strike anybody as odd?
No, because Baystar's largest investor is owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and their eighth largest investor is Microsoft. This should surprise no one.
Also note the efforts being expended on getting sunken trees out of riverbeds from long-ago logging efforts, as the current trees aren't nearly as good for some uses as trees that have been sunk in a river for nearly 100 years.
You might get away with calling the man himself culturally a product of the 'Anglosphere', but to credit any of the above countries -- conceptual abastractions -- with his invention is collectivist nonsense.
/. is because an overly permissive patent system discourages innovation and enterprise rather than encouraging it.
I think the meaningful issue, though, is whether a particular cultural/political entity encourages such innovation. Did AGB go to publicly funded schools? Did the patent laws encourage him, and did they help him get venture capital? If so, the society can take some degree of credit for creating an environment where he could invent what he did.
Consider that the anti-software-patent sentiment on
This seems a bit of historical revisionism, since in 1616 the Inquisition ruled Copernican (non-Earth-centered universe) theory completely false as part of the trial of Galileo, and convicted him as a heretic for believing in it.
the more alarming thing is that secularist revisionists have twisted history so as to claim that the Crusades were unprovoked. they were a reaction to the unprovoked maurading accross north africa (burning the library of alexandria), spain, and half of france.
The accusation that Caliph Omar ordered the destruction of the Library is widely acknowledged as a fabrication.
The Battle of Poitiers, generally assumed to have stopped the spread of Islam throughout Europe, was in 732. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, 363 years later.
The Turks weren't particularly benevolent, warring with the Byzantines in the 11th century, and the Crusades were at least somewhat inspired by that, but your claims at justification are pure hooey.
The prototypical example of this is the poor beleagered buggy whip industry, which has been devastated by those newfangled automobiles.
Is there a technical reason they don't use diesel engines in these hybrids?
Even porn from the store isn't 100% certified legal.
This includes the Penthouse issue with pictures of Vanessa Williams that led to her resignation as Miss America. The centerfold was then 16-year-old Traci Lords and thus it is illegal to own or sell an unaltered copy.
There is no Alpha Ceti V
No, but there is a Ceti Alpha V in "The Wrath of Khan" and possibly TOS's "Space Seed;" it's the planet where Kirk marooned Khan. I intentionally confused it to bring out the Trekkers, yeah, that's it!
It seems to be
Star-name Letter
Clearly someone hasn't been watching enough Star Trek. "This is Alpha Ceti V!"
I'd happily be a donor.
Yeah, never mind the fact that I routinely have to carry a large amount of stuff that can't get wet.
Minivans typically have more interior room than all but the largest SUVs. If you're towing a large trailer, a Suburban or the like is often justified, but typically SUVs are built with overly heavy components designed for physical use and abuse they'll never encounter. Most of the Hummers I see are unladen and driven by a single commuter.
Apple doesn't bundle the base stations with their hardware.
There isn't a bundle discount, but it's among the options in the configuration screen for just about every system they sell.
Bell's Observation: No matter how facetious you are, someone will take you seriously.
Models change so rapidly these days you probably couldn't find the ones I have. But google "region free DVD' and you'll find various pages that list models with region hacks of various types.
Are you nuts???
FOAD. Argue issues and dispense with the personal attacks.
Deficit spending is what most Democrats want to do to grow a stagnant economy.
What 'most Democrats want to do' does not concern me. Seems to me I remember a Contract with America just 10 years ago touting the advantages of a balanced budget. Amazing how much the Republicans -- other than McCain -- have changed.
Look, there's no difference economically (except the actual interest rate) between me doing a lot of borrowing on my credit card, and the government doing it for me by cutting taxes and borrowing to make up the difference. In the end, I'll have to pay it back. Only difference is, if I didn't get much advantage from the latest tax cuts, I may end up having to pay for more debt than I've gotten in tax cuts.
BTW, if you can't even spell "Reagan", it really makes the attempted air of smug superiority look *really* stupid.
You obviously are confusing national debt and deficit spending.
You get the national debt *via* deficit spending. Are you imagining some strange world where you get the latter without the former? We *are* indisputably paying interest on national debt accumulated mostly in the 80's and early 90's.
Do you know anything about economics? A weak dollar doesn't affect you unless you buy something FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY!
Yes, I know something about economics, most especially that we've had a trade deficit for a long time. Which means we buy more goods from foreign countries than they buy of ours. So when you buy Chilean grapes, Saudi oil, etc. with a weaker dollar, you're paying a higher price than you would. Now, it may also lead to higher sales of our exports. But it's certainly not an unmitigated good to have a weak dollar, it harms as much as it helps. You claimed otherwise.
We don't buy many foreign goods? What does the back of your monitor say? Your shirt tag? How much of your car was made in the U.S.? We buy a *lot* of foreign goods; we don't spend that much on bread.