It's a fact that we sometimes end up adopting US policies, but for something *that* stupid, I think we're safe for a while. Hey, perhaps we can convince the US to ban canadian tourists. That would be good for our economy.
Then it's not useful at all. The mailing list has no way to know if you really whitelisted them. Even if you did, you can say "I don't want this email" using another client. Face it, a whitelist system just won't help.
Oh, whitelists. And I suppose you can tell me who controls the whitelist? A central server for the whole world? Anyone who sets up a mailing list (including spammers themselves)?
"Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected" Under this plan, I could just subscribe to a bunch of mailing lists and get paid (by mailing list admin) for declaring the emails as spam.
but the majority of Americans support the Real-ID act
Oh, that must be why it got included in a completely unrelated bill. The republicans being so humble didn't want to take credit for such a great bill, so they tried to keep it quiet...
I can't link to the actual story because the Groklaw server isn't responding, but I think it's in the "Intimidation" story. Basically, PJ says that she is indeed considering legal action.
I'm not sure it's actually illegal (though it may be) because in some way, the employee is commiting fraud. If I get hired pretending to be a lawyer and I'm not, I don't think I can expect to be paid for the time it took my employer to figure out.
The thing with benchmarks is that when they're made by an organisation you can trust, you don't really have to dig the details (and there are always some details you won't see). If I have to dig through everything, I might as well do the benchmark myself! Now, looking at a benchmark sponsored by Microsoft is like reading a study on climate written by an oil company, a study on health by a tobacco company... or even a Linux-Windows benchmark done by RedHat (although I trust RH a bit more than MS).
The only benchmark by MS which I might trust is one saying Windows is slower and/or worse than Linux. Somehow, I never saw any of those.
The fact that they are not does not mean that the US does not produce as much as it does - in fact, according to Bloomberg.com, the US is the largest manufacturieing economy in the world - manufacturing accounts for 13% of GDP.
The fact that most of what is produced in the US is consumed in the US is important here. It means that it's really the US way of living that is consuming ~25% of the planet resources and creating ~25% of the planet's pollution. If most of the goods were exported, it would at least mean that it's consumers from other countries are really responsible for US pollution (but it's not the case). Going a bit further, you could say that the US is actually using more than 25% of the planet's resources, because part of what is being consumed in the US is accounted for in another country (because of the trade deficit).
4% of what? Regardless, your points simply are not true.
4% of the population consuming 25% of the resources. It's just not sustainable. As China is developing rapidly, there *will* be conflicts, because to reach US level, China itself would need more resources than what the planet has.
Capital is not fleeing the US - with the dollar low, investing in the US is a bargain - remember, buy low, sell high.
Yes, but low and high are relative, and the lower the dollar, the more it costs to import stuff. There is always a tipping point somewhere (don't know where it is), that leads to rampant inflation and a collapse of the economy (it's happened before). The huge trade deficit really doesn't help in that respect.
The Chinese government certainly recognizes that which is why they've artificially held their currency low for years.
I'm not sure that's still the case. The Chinese government is now trying to *slow* down the groth of its economy (they passed laws for that) so it can remain under control.
That ought to explain why it's currently one of fastest growing economy in the world, right? Ever heard of "When China wakes, it will shake the world" (Napoleon Bonaparte), well it still applies, and it's happening.
Indeed, that's the only partially reassuring point. I say partially because peak is probably only temporary, as prospection is going at a fast pace. Also, oil is unfortunately not the only source of energy (also coal, gas,...) and pollution (chemicals of all kinds).
...and consumes 25% of all goods. It's not like the US is really producing goods for other countries (yes, I've heard of exportations), since its commercial balance is negative. The environmental situation is already bad with what the US does (it's not the only country polluting, but the largest at the moment). What's even more scary is the thought of China imitating the US development and reaching the same level of production/pollution as the US _per capita_. That would mean 5 times more pollution than the US and at least twice the *global* amount of pollution. I don't want to see that.
Next: China tops US in fuel consumption. That's when it's going to get really scary (I guess it's already scary that 4% of the world population consumes 25% of the energy).
Not everyone has the same experience, but I recently (~1 year ago) switched from Fedora to Debian and I'm pretty happy. Basically, I found that Debian *unstable* was much more reliable than Fedora Core 2 (release).
The only actual power loss is by the photons emitted by your monitor when its in use, which is likely less than 1% of the energy used
Actually, I would say much less than 1%, because the great majority of photos will be absorbed by a wall (or ceiling/floor) and transform in heat. The only energy you lose is by photons going through the windows and you already have that loss (in the infrared band) for electric heaters anyway.
This sounds so much like Colin Powell at the UN: "OK, so on this satellite image, you see the Italians *not* talking to the Americans about the rescue. Now, on this other still image, you see the vehicle speeding at X km/h."
*not* as described as Ms. Communista
I suppose you can explain how the fact that she wrote for a communist paper has anything to do with what happened.
unfortunate in that it was an agent killed, rather than the person being rescued.
Perhaps it's comments like that that made some Italian people think she may have actually been targeted?
I'm not saying I know what happen here, just that you can't expect to know the truth from the US government. Just assume she was indeed targeted, do you really think Bush would say "Oh, sorry, we missed her"?
As for the official "we shot because they didn't stop" explanation. Don't you think it's this kind of behaviour that makes the US soldiers hated in Iraq. How many innocent civilians did they kill that way. For each of them, there's many very angry relatives, some of which will be tempted to join the Zarkaoui (sp?) camp.
Excuse me, are you somehow deeply involved in this that you know exactly what happened? As far as I know, it's just the Americans saying it's not their fault as everyone would expect. As for the truth, it will probably never be known unless one of the parties admit to an error.
Is it just me or it would seem that the reporter got something wrong in the story. I thought the only way to get a speed of light in the area of 120 km/h was through very cold temperature and Bose-Einstein condensate. Perhaps they meant the transmission if limited to 120 kbps or something?
No, that's just a first step. They're working on PoW (Power over Wifi) at the moment:-D
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Well, assuming you can put an unlimited amount of storage in the drive bay, you should have to pay an infinite amount to the music industry. It just sounds fair. After all, you'd be able to steal *billions* of $ worth of music!
I think you missed my point. It's interesting because it's another way to do fusion, that maybe (of maybe not) will evolve into something useful. It may just end there, but at least it's another change we have of getting fusion power in the future.
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It's a fact that we sometimes end up adopting US policies, but for something *that* stupid, I think we're safe for a while. Hey, perhaps we can convince the US to ban canadian tourists. That would be good for our economy.
As a Canadian, I am very very pleased with the idea of more bright people coming here to study.
Then it's not useful at all. The mailing list has no way to know if you really whitelisted them. Even if you did, you can say "I don't want this email" using another client. Face it, a whitelist system just won't help.
Oh, whitelists. And I suppose you can tell me who controls the whitelist? A central server for the whole world? Anyone who sets up a mailing list (including spammers themselves)?
Most importantly, you forgot:
"Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected"
Under this plan, I could just subscribe to a bunch of mailing lists and get paid (by mailing list admin) for declaring the emails as spam.
but the majority of Americans support the Real-ID act
Oh, that must be why it got included in a completely unrelated bill. The republicans being so humble didn't want to take credit for such a great bill, so they tried to keep it quiet...
I can't link to the actual story because the Groklaw server isn't responding, but I think it's in the "Intimidation" story. Basically, PJ says that she is indeed considering legal action.
I'm not sure it's actually illegal (though it may be) because in some way, the employee is commiting fraud. If I get hired pretending to be a lawyer and I'm not, I don't think I can expect to be paid for the time it took my employer to figure out.
The thing with benchmarks is that when they're made by an organisation you can trust, you don't really have to dig the details (and there are always some details you won't see). If I have to dig through everything, I might as well do the benchmark myself! Now, looking at a benchmark sponsored by Microsoft is like reading a study on climate written by an oil company, a study on health by a tobacco company... or even a Linux-Windows benchmark done by RedHat (although I trust RH a bit more than MS).
The only benchmark by MS which I might trust is one saying Windows is slower and/or worse than Linux. Somehow, I never saw any of those.
The fact that they are not does not mean that the US does not produce as much as it does - in fact, according to Bloomberg.com, the US is the largest manufacturieing economy in the world - manufacturing accounts for 13% of GDP.
The fact that most of what is produced in the US is consumed in the US is important here. It means that it's really the US way of living that is consuming ~25% of the planet resources and creating ~25% of the planet's pollution.
If most of the goods were exported, it would at least mean that it's consumers from other countries are really responsible for US pollution (but it's not the case). Going a bit further, you could say that the US is actually using more than 25% of the planet's resources, because part of what is being consumed in the US is accounted for in another country (because of the trade deficit).
4% of what? Regardless, your points simply are not true.
4% of the population consuming 25% of the resources. It's just not sustainable. As China is developing rapidly, there *will* be conflicts, because to reach US level, China itself would need more resources than what the planet has.
Capital is not fleeing the US - with the dollar low, investing in the US is a bargain - remember, buy low, sell high.
Yes, but low and high are relative, and the lower the dollar, the more it costs to import stuff. There is always a tipping point somewhere (don't know where it is), that leads to rampant inflation and a collapse of the economy (it's happened before). The huge trade deficit really doesn't help in that respect.
The Chinese government certainly recognizes that which is why they've artificially held their currency low for years.
I'm not sure that's still the case. The Chinese government is now trying to *slow* down the groth of its economy (they passed laws for that) so it can remain under control.
That ought to explain why it's currently one of fastest growing economy in the world, right? Ever heard of "When China wakes, it will shake the world" (Napoleon Bonaparte), well it still applies, and it's happening.
Indeed, that's the only partially reassuring point. I say partially because peak is probably only temporary, as prospection is going at a fast pace. Also, oil is unfortunately not the only source of energy (also coal, gas, ...) and pollution (chemicals of all kinds).
...and consumes 25% of all goods. It's not like the US is really producing goods for other countries (yes, I've heard of exportations), since its commercial balance is negative. The environmental situation is already bad with what the US does (it's not the only country polluting, but the largest at the moment). What's even more scary is the thought of China imitating the US development and reaching the same level of production/pollution as the US _per capita_. That would mean 5 times more pollution than the US and at least twice the *global* amount of pollution. I don't want to see that.
Next: China tops US in fuel consumption. That's when it's going to get really scary (I guess it's already scary that 4% of the world population consumes 25% of the energy).
Not everyone has the same experience, but I recently (~1 year ago) switched from Fedora to Debian and I'm pretty happy. Basically, I found that Debian *unstable* was much more reliable than Fedora Core 2 (release).
Yup. 30 mW for a 300W system... That's a huge 0.01% loss :-(
The only actual power loss is by the photons emitted by your monitor when its in use, which is likely less than 1% of the energy used
Actually, I would say much less than 1%, because the great majority of photos will be absorbed by a wall (or ceiling/floor) and transform in heat. The only energy you lose is by photons going through the windows and you already have that loss (in the infrared band) for electric heaters anyway.
OK, I see. If it's not in the report, it didn't happen. The same way that there were lots of WMDs in Iraq because the report said so?
This sounds so much like Colin Powell at the UN: "OK, so on this satellite image, you see the Italians *not* talking to the Americans about the rescue. Now, on this other still image, you see the vehicle speeding at X km/h."
*not* as described as Ms. Communista
I suppose you can explain how the fact that she wrote for a communist paper has anything to do with what happened.
unfortunate in that it was an agent killed, rather than the person being rescued.
Perhaps it's comments like that that made some Italian people think she may have actually been targeted?
I'm not saying I know what happen here, just that you can't expect to know the truth from the US government. Just assume she was indeed targeted, do you really think Bush would say "Oh, sorry, we missed her"?
As for the official "we shot because they didn't stop" explanation. Don't you think it's this kind of behaviour that makes the US soldiers hated in Iraq. How many innocent civilians did they kill that way. For each of them, there's many very angry relatives, some of which will be tempted to join the Zarkaoui (sp?) camp.
Excuse me, are you somehow deeply involved in this that you know exactly what happened? As far as I know, it's just the Americans saying it's not their fault as everyone would expect. As for the truth, it will probably never be known unless one of the parties admit to an error.
Is it just me or it would seem that the reporter got something wrong in the story. I thought the only way to get a speed of light in the area of 120 km/h was through very cold temperature and Bose-Einstein condensate. Perhaps they meant the transmission if limited to 120 kbps or something?
No, that's just a first step. They're working on PoW (Power over Wifi) at the moment :-D
Well, assuming you can put an unlimited amount of storage in the drive bay, you should have to pay an infinite amount to the music industry. It just sounds fair. After all, you'd be able to steal *billions* of $ worth of music!
I personally wouldn't mind getting a 54,000 RPM drive. It will sure be *way* faster than my current 5,400 RPM drive ;-)
I think you missed my point. It's interesting because it's another way to do fusion, that maybe (of maybe not) will evolve into something useful. It may just end there, but at least it's another change we have of getting fusion power in the future.