The environment is screwed because of countries, particularly in Asia, Africa, and South America that have rapidly growing populations, but their economies are screwed. If India or China could attain American economic levels, their environmental impact would vastly decrease. The solution to poor environments is rich economies which will limit the major environmental problems such as massive wood and (unfiltered) coal burning, slash and burn agriculture, over-fishing and hunting, inefficient internal combustion engines, raw waste dumping, etc.
If everywhere were as rich as the USA, even though it would vastly increase the total amount of energy and land use, the negative impact would be less.
Brasil may "practically" run on ethanol, but in actuality, they run (to a limited and decreasing degree) on pure gasoline. Brasil would potentially like to be a market for producers ethanol additives to gasoline, and they've got a good case with sugar cane giving higher yeilds for ethanol production than corn. In short, they want to sell more sugar, though it's really an unsustainable crop; but hey, they've got lots of jungle to cut down and burn still.
I think ethanol from sugar-cane is a good idea. Most ethanol in use today is used in the USA. And it's for air quality (smog reduction) reasons, not to preserve oil. Ethanol is more expensive than oil, but 10-15% ethanol in gasoline helps reduce visible exhaust gases (smog.)
So the hardware is expensive and it costs a lot for the maps.
So it looks like the software isn't the problem. You might get them to open source it. It's like thinking you'd get free movies if you open source DVD player software. You still have to create the content and have the hardware to play it. It doesn't make cameras and crew any cheaper.
Why would we surrender liberty and nationalal superiority in favor of a global unity of oppresion and poverty? Maiming yourself as a sign of solidarity with the crippled does not help their lot or yours.
Except that America doesn't have a king. Any one of us can, without forcing others to become our vassals, obtain a kingly lifestyle with a bit of hard work and a bit of luck. And millions of us do. Even more of us are happy to live a more modest but still comfortable life, with the freedom to believe and act as we choose. And that is something to be proud of.
We do know that the rate of birth defects among the children born to survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings is the same as that of the general Japanese population.
Those of us who care about the truth are thankful that the Axis didn't win. Because if it did, the History of World War 2 would be all lies, instead of the truth which we have thanks to the Allied victory. It took another 50 years for Russians to learn the truth, still.
You're right. America could have surrendered to Japan instead. But unfortunately the Human psyche was less evolved then, so surrending after so many costly victories was not a political option.
Strangely a glaring exception from that list is the United States of America -- everywhere in the world they've invaded. Even the Indian tribes who fought against the USA most visciously, killing civilians indiscriminantly are still around.
Actually the German "Zones" were never intended to be separate countries. It was just a dividing line on the map to say which section would be occupied and policed by which Allied country. The Soviet Union annexed their zone of influence and the remainder became West Germany.
They did. They dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and waited 3 days. The Japanese refused to surrender, believing that America didn't have more A-bombs. Then Nagasaki was bombed.
The point is that Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Brotherhood, Ansar al Islam, Abbu Sayif, Jama Islamia, Talibans, Baathists, Iraqi insurgents, Sadrites, Wahabis, the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Syria, and a great many more Muslims do not love their own children. And they would rather see Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, and other Muslims dead than see their children live.
Bah, it used to be you needed to learn to talk, wash yourself, and get a personality, because the only naked women you'd see were IRL. This was after clubbing them and dragging them back to the cave by their hair was outlawed.
I worry too. If you have people that assume other people are irrational, they will not act in a predictable manner, i.e., rationally. The leftists in the US and Europe have such an incorrect view of the American mainstream that their decisions are based on a severely distorted perception of reality. Thus they have become unpredictable.
Ahmadinejad is calculating for power within his own country. He was a figurehead that used the spotlight to gain popularity in the Arab world and is brokering it into power. Completely rational. His calculation that the west is too divided to stop him may be wrong.
Hussein gambled that America wouldn't go it alone and bought off UN Security Council (and bureaucracy) members in the hope that they would keep America leashed. He funded terrorists and Islamists to gain popularity in the Mideast after his defeat in Kuwait destroyed his prestige.
Chavez is angling for support of Leftists, whether they be Chinese or American Democrats who he believes will soon be in power in order for him to get a blessing (or blind eye, or at least a stalemate) so that he can spread his Bolivaran "revolution" to create client states in South America. He is seemingly only interested in prestige and money, but few are satisfied with the side affects of real power long.
Look at Bill Gates. Long politically inactive, content to be "the richest man in the world", he has, through an amazing deal with the US government secured 60 billion dollars tax free to do with as he wants. George Soros' machinations were a real wake up call for Gates about the potential influence of money, and his disillusionment with the government after the antitrust case against Microsoft have softed his conscience.
If Chavez believes his propoganda, he might try to invade Columbia after securing Peru and Ecuador, or if Mexican democracy (a shaky institution at best) fails.
Lenin never believed is propoganda, but his thirst for power was unquenchable. Stalin, unfortunately may have really believed in Communism, and thus divorced from reality, made it into hell, much like the French Committee for Public Saftey.
That's what you've got to watch for. People who have divorced themselves from reality because their ego won't let them believe they could ever be wrong.
Bin Laden was an egotist. He may not have even known much about the Islamists he was funding. He just wanted a photo op on Jazeera and hear his name mentioned on CNN. But his followers really were ruthless psychopaths.
Hitler was a psychopath, but he didn't have the stomach for the violence of his followers. He cultivated psychopaths and more importantly, efficiency.
What do the opinions of the editorial staff of unnamed periodicals have to do with demonstrating facts? Is your stance that certain unidentified editors and or publishers are infallible judges of truth. Why don't you name those individuals so that we could worship them? What a ridiculous superstition grips your medieval mind!
100,000,000 computers
running
8760 (3*365*8) hours over three years
saving
40,000,000,000 Kilowatt/hours
means that each computer will burn 21.9 kilowatts less, right?
Is this realistic?
Che Guevara was a college dropout whose father supported his bohemian lifestyle until he became a sadistic murderer. And he was probably a homosexual, so there.
But Che Guevera was everything Castro wanted him to be, and more. A talented tactician, a brutal thug, a mass murderer, a loyal follower, and a model for artwork on fine trinkets, tshirts, and drug paraphanelia. Too bad The Great Satan doesn't respect Cuban copyright laws.
You know there are protocols that can communicate with a windows box? ODBC does well, and JDBC well enough. TCP/IP can do in a pinch and CORBA will do in a poke. Even WS* can get your info off it, if not in time.
MySQL has always been fast, and PostgreSQL had a goal of being good. Maybe it got there, but MySQL has done 2 of 3 for years and PostgresSQL isn't scalable or stable yet.
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The environment is screwed because of countries, particularly in Asia, Africa, and South America that have rapidly growing populations, but their economies are screwed. If India or China could attain American economic levels, their environmental impact would vastly decrease. The solution to poor environments is rich economies which will limit the major environmental problems such as massive wood and (unfiltered) coal burning, slash and burn agriculture, over-fishing and hunting, inefficient internal combustion engines, raw waste dumping, etc.
If everywhere were as rich as the USA, even though it would vastly increase the total amount of energy and land use, the negative impact would be less.
Brasil may "practically" run on ethanol, but in actuality, they run (to a limited and decreasing degree) on pure gasoline. Brasil would potentially like to be a market for producers ethanol additives to gasoline, and they've got a good case with sugar cane giving higher yeilds for ethanol production than corn. In short, they want to sell more sugar, though it's really an unsustainable crop; but hey, they've got lots of jungle to cut down and burn still. I think ethanol from sugar-cane is a good idea. Most ethanol in use today is used in the USA. And it's for air quality (smog reduction) reasons, not to preserve oil. Ethanol is more expensive than oil, but 10-15% ethanol in gasoline helps reduce visible exhaust gases (smog.)
So the hardware is expensive and it costs a lot for the maps. So it looks like the software isn't the problem. You might get them to open source it. It's like thinking you'd get free movies if you open source DVD player software. You still have to create the content and have the hardware to play it. It doesn't make cameras and crew any cheaper.
Why would we surrender liberty and nationalal superiority in favor of a global unity of oppresion and poverty? Maiming yourself as a sign of solidarity with the crippled does not help their lot or yours.
Except that America doesn't have a king. Any one of us can, without forcing others to become our vassals, obtain a kingly lifestyle with a bit of hard work and a bit of luck. And millions of us do. Even more of us are happy to live a more modest but still comfortable life, with the freedom to believe and act as we choose. And that is something to be proud of.
Pessimists tend to be right more often than optimists. I want people who get things right working for me.
We do know that the rate of birth defects among the children born to survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings is the same as that of the general Japanese population.
Those of us who care about the truth are thankful that the Axis didn't win. Because if it did, the History of World War 2 would be all lies, instead of the truth which we have thanks to the Allied victory. It took another 50 years for Russians to learn the truth, still.
You're right. America could have surrendered to Japan instead. But unfortunately the Human psyche was less evolved then, so surrending after so many costly victories was not a political option.
Was the government of the United States right about communism?
Strangely a glaring exception from that list is the United States of America -- everywhere in the world they've invaded. Even the Indian tribes who fought against the USA most visciously, killing civilians indiscriminantly are still around.
Actually the German "Zones" were never intended to be separate countries. It was just a dividing line on the map to say which section would be occupied and policed by which Allied country. The Soviet Union annexed their zone of influence and the remainder became West Germany.
They did. They dropped a bomb on Hiroshima and waited 3 days. The Japanese refused to surrender, believing that America didn't have more A-bombs. Then Nagasaki was bombed.
The point is that Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Brotherhood, Ansar al Islam, Abbu Sayif, Jama Islamia, Talibans, Baathists, Iraqi insurgents, Sadrites, Wahabis, the leaders of North Korea, Iran, Syria, and a great many more Muslims do not love their own children. And they would rather see Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, and other Muslims dead than see their children live.
What's to save us from the Islamists, should they get nukes?
Bah, it used to be you needed to learn to talk, wash yourself, and get a personality, because the only naked women you'd see were IRL. This was after clubbing them and dragging them back to the cave by their hair was outlawed.
So the Dem's haven't changed their playbook since LBJ? Anything to take your mind off a guilty conscience. Fear works best.
I worry too. If you have people that assume other people are irrational, they will not act in a predictable manner, i.e., rationally. The leftists in the US and Europe have such an incorrect view of the American mainstream that their decisions are based on a severely distorted perception of reality. Thus they have become unpredictable.
Ahmadinejad is calculating for power within his own country. He was a figurehead that used the spotlight to gain popularity in the Arab world and is brokering it into power. Completely rational. His calculation that the west is too divided to stop him may be wrong.
Hussein gambled that America wouldn't go it alone and bought off UN Security Council (and bureaucracy) members in the hope that they would keep America leashed. He funded terrorists and Islamists to gain popularity in the Mideast after his defeat in Kuwait destroyed his prestige.
Chavez is angling for support of Leftists, whether they be Chinese or American Democrats who he believes will soon be in power in order for him to get a blessing (or blind eye, or at least a stalemate) so that he can spread his Bolivaran "revolution" to create client states in South America. He is seemingly only interested in prestige and money, but few are satisfied with the side affects of real power long.
Look at Bill Gates. Long politically inactive, content to be "the richest man in the world", he has, through an amazing deal with the US government secured 60 billion dollars tax free to do with as he wants. George Soros' machinations were a real wake up call for Gates about the potential influence of money, and his disillusionment with the government after the antitrust case against Microsoft have softed his conscience.
If Chavez believes his propoganda, he might try to invade Columbia after securing Peru and Ecuador, or if Mexican democracy (a shaky institution at best) fails.
Lenin never believed is propoganda, but his thirst for power was unquenchable. Stalin, unfortunately may have really believed in Communism, and thus divorced from reality, made it into hell, much like the French Committee for Public Saftey.
That's what you've got to watch for. People who have divorced themselves from reality because their ego won't let them believe they could ever be wrong.
Bin Laden was an egotist. He may not have even known much about the Islamists he was funding. He just wanted a photo op on Jazeera and hear his name mentioned on CNN. But his followers really were ruthless psychopaths.
Hitler was a psychopath, but he didn't have the stomach for the violence of his followers. He cultivated psychopaths and more importantly, efficiency.
What do the opinions of the editorial staff of unnamed periodicals have to do with demonstrating facts? Is your stance that certain unidentified editors and or publishers are infallible judges of truth. Why don't you name those individuals so that we could worship them? What a ridiculous superstition grips your medieval mind!
100,000,000 computers running 8760 (3*365*8) hours over three years saving 40,000,000,000 Kilowatt/hours means that each computer will burn 21.9 kilowatts less, right? Is this realistic?
Che Guevara was a college dropout whose father supported his bohemian lifestyle until he became a sadistic murderer. And he was probably a homosexual, so there.
But Che Guevera was everything Castro wanted him to be, and more. A talented tactician, a brutal thug, a mass murderer, a loyal follower, and a model for artwork on fine trinkets, tshirts, and drug paraphanelia. Too bad The Great Satan doesn't respect Cuban copyright laws.
I'm sure one of their most significant expense is debt from the purchase of the company for it's brand.
You know there are protocols that can communicate with a windows box? ODBC does well, and JDBC well enough. TCP/IP can do in a pinch and CORBA will do in a poke. Even WS* can get your info off it, if not in time.
MySQL has always been fast, and PostgreSQL had a goal of being good. Maybe it got there, but MySQL has done 2 of 3 for years and PostgresSQL isn't scalable or stable yet.