I disagree. I think teaching children about fictional all powerful beings as if they were real is a form of abuse. This perpetuates a society which can't distinguish between right and wrong, real and imagined, and fosters abuse of the minority (be it communists, pedophiles, African Americans, gypsies, jews, or some other group).
=== There is room for evolution and for creatism (religion). Creationism is the enforcement of a religious belief, and that entails teaching "right from wrong", or the Noah laws. The Noah laws are the ten commandments, without the first three. My own belief is that religion is a social phenomena, and over the centuries, became to be rules. Membership begins with birth, or via conversion.
Evolution is the science of change. It is the application of scientific deduction using artifacts, and study of archilogical digs, of outer space, and of the dinasaurs. Evolution says the world is at least 25 million years old, but religion only goes back to the founding date. Evolution does not tell you how to live with your fellow man, or distinguish right from wrong. I may be wrong about this conjecture. we had observed human psychology, and we have noticed the evolution of this field and others.
Dollar coins at the strip club sounds both dangerous and hilarious.
In most countries, the dollar bill or equivalent has gone the way of the do-do bird.
In Canada, we converted to the dollar coin with a national bird (the Loon picture), so, our dollar bill became the dollar coin or (slang) Loonie.. At the same time we got rid of the two dollar bill and introduced the "doubloon" (double loonie). Its about 15 years that the transition was started and completed.
Vending machines were converted over in a two year period. As you know, most of your vending machines take coins, so mechanically they had to be setup to detect the diameter and weight of the two mentioned coins.
These past two years, Canada adopted plastic bills. Part of the new hundred, and the tweny dollar bills is transparent, with a holigraphic image, and the other part is solid as before. There are braile bumps to distinguish currencies.
The counterfeiters have not succeeded at duplicating the currency. The bills are waterproof, so if you forget them in your clothing, which gets into the wash, there is no problem; they come out clean. These new bills last about 10x to 20x longer than the expensive paper money which, as you know, is easily counterfeited.
Do recall, the USA had the silver dollar and the fifty cent piece. Both are collectors items now.
"Look at Windows 8. Don't like the unterface? tough, there's nothing you can do about it. Now look at Unity. Don't like the interface? Well try these others, there's plenty to choose from."
But I AM a cheapskate. If I really wanted one of these, I'd buy the Windows version and then install Linux on it. Make it dual boot and get the best of both worlds.
Of course, $1,500 is more than I'm willing to spend on a laptop at all anyway.
=== The $50..00 is in my opinion a bargain. The installation is provided with all updates as of the time of manufacture, it has been tested, and it saves you a few hours of twiddling and tuning. I agree that it would have been nicer to have the price on a par with the alternative system, but maybe next year. W8 desktop is not selling, ergo Dell is needing other revenue streams, and Linux is today a great one. Do you suppose that we may even see a Dell Linux, where the link to a Dell website is included in the build.
Come to Montreal and mooch electricity here. For houses with dual energy heating, depending on the outdoor temperature, electricity cost is either 4.2 cents per kw hour or 12.5 cents per kwh (when temp outside is below zero F). Our home, as most residents are only with electric heating. Our costs are 7.5 cents per kwh. Our electricity originates notfrom polluting coal, but from our James Bay water shed. I guess I wish we had solar panels to bring the heating costs down to panel maintenance.
The average costs for for heating and airconditioning a 3 bedroom bungalo (is about $2400). We do use R12 to R15 in the walls and R25-R30 in attics.
Yes, because the U.S. is so evil and corrupt--as opposed to all of Africa, South America, Asia, most of the Middle East, etc. And despite never having had an empire to speak of--like Britain, France, Mongolia, Italy, Iran, etc.--the U.S. is clearly responsible for all the problems in the world. And when it comes to invading other countries, well, clearly no one compares to the U.S.--certainly an enlightened country like Britain would never consider something as brutish as invading 90% of the countries in the world. Only the evil, uncouth U.S. does that!
Yes, the U.S. is the cause of all your problems. You bear absolutely no responsibility for any of your own goddamned messes. It's all those evil Americans' fault.
=== Have you ever lived or toured outside the USA for more than a 10 day trip? Global USA business is corrupt. The fire in Bangladesh is an example where even the suppliers are squeezed for money to the extent that they had to bolt the doors of the factory. So, salaries are $37.00/mo for a seamstress, which is about twenty cents per garment. Oil companies made deals with dictators, or created dictators. American United Fruit company killed farmers who owned the land for generations, in order to amalgamate land into plantations. American business cares only about profits. To hell with the worker.
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK
The typical ignorant American answer of really not knowing anything about the world outside. In this European country (Belgium) we don't have long waiting lines or mediocre care. That is not based on some flag waving argument but multiple studies that come out every year. This is the case for most European countries BTW.
It is funny as Americans tend always to point as greece as THE example of the "socialist" plan going bad. The situation in Greece has nothing to do with healthcare or socialism but with clientelism, fraud, tax evasion (which for American companies is a sport), etc.
In Canada, we do have waiting times. Our medical treatment is on a level with Israel, which I consider the best in the world. The USA has more medically related deaths than any other country.
However our waiting times are based on illness. When you need hospitalization, there is a triage, which says, now, can wait , or when there is time. Now means immediate admission, can wait can be up to two months, and when there is time, can be up to one year. All life threatening treatments are in the "now" category.
Is our medicare mediocre? Well, if you were in dialysis, will it be provided for years? And will the drugs in the hospital be free while admitted. In my province, if I have not group insurance for drugs, I am required to take the government plan. Its not expensive. Prescription filling fees are a maximum of $30/mo. Drugs are at 80% coverage until my annual cost is $1200, after which it is free, except for the filling fee as mentioned.
Yes, medicare in Canada is universal, I believe that you would sing a different song if you were age 55 and lost your job. Would you be able to get medical insurance? And at what cost?
You need to read into the numbers to find out why you are wrong. There are two main problems with USA life expectancy numbers:
1) The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. With the US saving so many premature and all of them counting when they die from being so premature it lowers the US numbers. Also death counting is different, US counts all people who die on its soil for other countries they don't count non-citizens. === Not a significant amount of premees to make a difference. What is a few thousand in a population in excess of 340 million?
2) To many foreigner who were born in poorer countries. The countries you have listed and other with higher life expectancy have one thing in common fewer percentage of people who were born outside of that country or were born in poor countries.
If you look at the immigrants, they actually have more longevity than Americans. They are not McDonalds or Krispie Cream children. Many are closer to the poverty line and restaurant food costs will subtract from the savings for university for their kids.
Look at charts to see life expectancy from ages 5,25,50,75 and that listing changes.
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
Is it possible that MS will not be providing updates for 12 months at a time, and that the annual updates are what one would expect during the course of a year. In other words, no new software for 12 months, no improvements to existing software, but they will do bugfixes.
This is the OEM business model. Razor-thin manufacturing hardware margins mean that there's a HUGE department that does nothing but inbound deals for software product placement - this is how they get profitability. Don't expect much change. Even with a premium PC line, they won't turn down these dollars thrust upon them from Symantec, and the online-game-of-the-week. Be sure, all of this is instrumented with web-bugs and behavior-tracking galore.
Using a Windows machine will always be like this: Trapped face-up, under the urinal in Steve Ballmer's personal piss-dungeon.
There is no razor thin problem. The problem is that whil bank interest pays less than 2%, corps want at least 50% net profit. Before global economy, a company that made a net of 15% was doing extremely well. A company that made net 5% was doing better than ok.
We have been brainwashed to paying $6.00 for a $2.00 item. The extra profit is to finance expansion of new brick stores. You are paying for the next Big Box store, rather than that store having a reasonable mortgage and having it cover those costs from store profits.
The guys that sell the current vaccines, sure. Their competitors, not so much. Permanent cures are good business because they're high-value products. You can charge a lot for them, you can get a lot of people to buy them, you can get the state to mandate them, you can get the state to pay for them, etc. The current flu vaccines aren't some endless gravy train -- they require a lot of work every year to actually get out the door and people (and governments) get pissy when you're late on delivery. A develop-once vaccine that's you can almost guarantee a sale of to each new person born is nice business, especially if it lets you screw your competitor out of yearly flu vaccine sales.
The pharma industry isn't some monolithic ideal conspiracy. They have joint goals, but they're also made up of competing entities.
If your claim was true, we wouldn't see companies continuing to sell vaccines and develop new vaccines that provide cures to diseases. But we do.
It was to check the Soviets, but the stupidest thing America did afterwards was pull all it's funding and foreign aid from the country, and ensure that a few decades of impoverished rule by the Taliban would eventually lead to the rise of the new terrorist cells which carried out the attacks on the twin towers.
Pretending the US can pursue isolationist policies after being highly interventionist, and expect to be left alone, is ridiculous. Doubly so when your entire economy depends on the price of oil, and which in turn depends on global supply regardless of your interest in other countries or not. Suddenly withdrawing security and support is not a consequence free action. You take a bunch of people you're making promises to, or who are depending on you, and throw them to the wolves. That breeds resentment - the next generation, their children, grow up hearing their parents lament about how you can't trust Americans, grow up seeing American drones and helicopters bombing middle eastern countries (and with no education system, are very pliable as to ideas on why that's happening), and sure enough, two decades later when they're in their 20's, you get a brand new terrorist cell filled with young people utterly convinced America needs to be taught a lesson of some sort.
=== If you do not mind, download the latest US government financial statements for 2010 or 2011. Here is what you will see.
The the interest on the outstanding debt exceeds the amount of revenue possible from collecting taxes. That is right. Forget about the military, Congress and the whole federal government and the revenue from taxes will not pay the interest of the USA debt to the citizens. So, is the government is going to have to wipe out its obligation to pay off the debt? Will it be that if you bought bonds, well too bad, it's charity and you will not get your money back.
Exactly, which makes me think these chips are gonna turn out to be their replacement for the Atom. After all the Atom was soldered and nobody cared right? but if they think they can force the lucrative server market to spend many thousands of dollars on a board with soldered CPUs, so if you need to boost performanje later you have to just throw the whole thing on the garbage heap and start over? Think again, it would give AMD the biggest Xmas prezzie because nobody is spending that kind of money for a soldered chip.
But is anybody else looking at "the future" and thinking its gonna be a giant black box assraping corporate circle jerk? They are trying to force us onto platforms that aren't suitable for purpose like the tablets, simply because they can make a mint with lock in and appstores, and now trying to make everything a locked down mess hardware wise, so your only choice will be to throw away and buy more.
And where the fuck is antitrust in all this? Hello EU, they will be wiping out a half a dozen companies to capture the market for themselves, just as they did with IGP by slitting nvidia's throat, and I know we here in America lost control to the corps but you have generally frowned on this kind of shit, so WTF?
As for me this is all the more reason to continue buying AMD, as all my games play fine, I went from a single to a dual to a quad on my last board and on this one I can go up to the latest 8 cores if I want (although those $100 6 core Phenoms are nice enough for me) and most importantly I'm not having to throw the whole damned thing out if I need more speed down the road. if this kind of bullshit had been in place I'd be on my fifth board now instead of my second, and when you figure in how much higher the boards would be if you were stuck with whatever CPU they soldered in? NOT a smart buy. I have a feeling the big board companies like AsusRock and Gigabyte will be pushing AMD, not like they've got a choice as Intel would be doing to them what they did to Nvidia.
But I have no desire to get stuck on some locked down ARM wannabe playing Angry Birds, I want AAA gaming, I want to be able to transcode, I want to be able to build up my system as time goes on, and if this is true that just means Intel won't be coming near any of my computers, the loss of choice won't be worth the increased IPC.
==== one advantage of so doing would be reliability. A chip soldered is more likely to be connected with non-intermittent contact possibilities. It would mean that the graphics adapter motherboard and bios will come from one and only one supplier. (Why stop at the cpu, you can solder in the ddr3 memory or graphics adapter. Save a few sockets, save a whole load of different drivers, move towards prevention of interposing a signal catching device between the cpu and the motherboard.
This choice could open the market to 128 bit cpus, or even 256 bit ones, with many new faster instructions.
AMD will be there for us, if we need compiling or computational power.
Here is what I in Canada read about the problem. Hamas has in it's charter, the complete elimination of Israel as a country, and the complete elimination of any other religion. Israel is the only non-Arab country in the continent.
Israel is the only non-Arab country in the continent because they expelled most of the non-Jews then only allowed Jews to "return." Then they spent 20 years trying to colonize even more land, including Gaza, before Hamas was created. Of course, you neglect the fact that the Hamas charter says "Hamas is a humane movement, which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it, or stand in its way in order to disturb its moves or to frustrate its efforts. Under the shadow of Islam it is possible for the members of the three religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism to coexist in safety and security" and only focus on the quote from the Koran about talking Jew-hating trees that they use as part of their justification of their struggle against their oppressors (which happen to be Jews.)
Hamas has poverty, and not enough monies received trickle down to build the infrastructure such as good roads, schools, universities. Therefore, hatred is mis-directed at the west, which is represented by Israel.
Their hatred is quite rightly directed at Israel which destroys their roads, schools, and universities. Gaza has been blockaded since 1967, no foreign boats have arrived except half a dozen Viva Palestina flotillas and Israel controls all land crossings. Gaza can't export anything and a third of all of their farmland is a no-mans-land where Israeli soldiers shoot anyone on site, including little kids. Gaza is mired in poverty because Israel wants the people there to go away as Gaza is a key part of their vision of "Greater Israel." Just read the Likud charter and see what they've been doing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza for the past 45 years.
Hamas knows that Judea-Christian morals do not allow for bombing innocent people. So they put rocket launchers into private homes, into hospitals and mosques. Rarely is there a weapon store where there is no Hamas population.
Not bombing civilian infrastructure is not just a good idea, it's the law. Yet that hardly stops Israel from bombing their power plants, water treatment plants, sewage plants, flour mills, chicken farms, schools, police stations, mosques, and regular homes. We're supposed to believe that Hamas is hiding in sewage ponds and chicken coops. It's all just a continuation of Israel's plan to Judaize and annex the land. When you deny people the ability to make or import food, leading to serious malnutrition and stunting, while trying to steal their land, there is no other conclusion to reach than it is a deliberate plan of genocide.
Israel is an open society. It has been a leader in medicine, science, tolerance, etc. It too has it's intolerances. All who aligned with Israel profited immensely.
You should give us a pass on the ethnic cleansing because we invented the cherry tomato!
The story I get is the following. Following the creation of Israel in 1948, they were going to be attacked by Nassar of Egypt and the other surounding countries. These countries advised the Arab citizenry to leave, because they expected to wipe out Israel. Once Israel was wiped out, they could return.
The Israelis at the time went door to door, pleading with their neighbours to stay. But fear was instilled in those who left so, they left. They were advised that if Israel won, they would not be let back in, as those who left would have no papers (passports, birth certificates, etc.) Many non-Jews remained. They were citizens, recognized as such and initially exempt from the army. Arabs fighting Ar
Here is what I in Canada read about the problem. Hamas has in it's charter, the complete elimination of Israel as a country, and the complete elimination of any other religion. Israel is the only non-Arab country in the continent.
Hamas has poverty, and not enough monies received trickle down to build the infrastructure such as good roads, schools, universities. Therefore, hatred is mis-directed at the west, which is represented by Israel.
Hamas knows that Judea-Christian morals do not allow for bombing innocent people. So they put rocket launchers into private homes, into hospitals and mosques. Rarely is there a weapon store where there is no Hamas population. Now Israel and the USA and others are starting to make weapons without compassion. An incoming missile will hit by the anti-missile rocket, but there will be a second rocket that is directed by the analyzed trajectory and a bomb will be dropped at the calculated origin. Send a missile, and run, as an incoming bomb will be arriving almost immediately.
We also know that they use cellphones to allow the launch from a distance. For that I feel sorry for the innocent victims. Hatrid has been taught since children were 3 years old (search youtube videos). Hatrid will survive with them until they die at an old age. The next generation will have half hatred, and perhaps the one after that, none.
Israel is an open society. It has been a leader in medicine, science, tolerance, etc. It too has it's intolerances. All who aligned with Israel profited immensely.
What bullshit... I'm an Israeli citizen and I oppose Hamas in every possible way (they frickin' shot rockets at me and my family just a week ago!)
But terminating their officials' Twitter accounts will do nothing to help the cause. The only effect will be that they'll start communicating in other channels - which will make it more difficult to spy on their future intentions.
If you really want to do something against Hamas in Twitter - don't follow them!
(BTW, the captcha "i" looks like an 8)
=== I must agree with the author of this posting. Even though Facebook and Twitter are American made, the clientèle are worldwide. If you start selecting who can be a user and who can post, you cause factions to go underground. This way, you are able to follow the Israeli two sides views in the conflicts. People need a way to post their frustrations and appreciations and comments and views about any topic that is not profane.
You can also play the "launch all the missiles for the hell of it" card. Which is what's happening - these devices are on convergent evolutions and they're arguing over the current tiny ideas instead of the next big ones. Good reference though.
--- what pisses me off is that the lawsuites between Apple and Samsung are raising the prices of the items I would have considered purchasing. We just bought a Lenova tablet at a great deal price. It was 1/3 less than the equivalent Samsung or at the price that Samsung had to sell it at, if there was no lawsuits.
A pretty sensationalist summary of what can only be charitably described as an article, which itself is long on innuendo but short on actual, you know, "facts".
All that can really be said is that they raided the guys house and among other things took the childâ(TM)s laptop. There is no evidence in this story that the child was the primary suspect or even a suspect at all.
The most that can really be said is the 600 euro fine (and the non-disclosure agreement) is absurd for what the alleged crime is.
Woah, slow down... Why pull the "racist" card? Isn't that precisely what genetics is about? I'm not a racist but I think they might have a valid point. Our ancestors with dark skin weren't the result of breeding with Neanderthals, but the light skinned folks were. So, hmm, I don't know if you'd say blacks were closer to being apes, but whites are more likely to carry Neanderthal genes as well as homsapien genes. That probably means they're further from apes if you measure "distance" by genetic differentiation. If you count that merging as a node in the graph, that's one more node further, no? Not that it matters much, I'm sure there's been sufficient cross breeding that you'd have a hard time finding anyone alive without Neanderthal genes.
Is racism is a Christian thing? It was said that Moses's wife was a refined black woman. Orthodox Jews discriminate by religion, not by skin color or complexion. If you want to be one of them, a Jew, you have to prove sincerity and study. Moses's wife gave him excellent advice as every wonderful wife does for her lifelong partner. A single gene it is, and that gene has how many different variations.
Yes, but people generally equate ballistic missiles with ICBMs.
The ones that the Iron Dome is made to work against are relatively short range. I did some research on this after discussing it with some other people. They can basically intercept unguided missiles which cross into Israeli airspace, with a total flight of 3 km to 30 km.
The primary missile it's used to intercept are pretty primitive. Think along the same lines as the kind most readers here would have built out of cardboard from an Estes kit. They use fairly primitive solid fuel, a payload of common or improvised explosives, fins to make it fly sort of straight, and not much else.
Thousands have been launched towards Israel. Dozens have been hurt.
It could work against any number of threats, but I would guess it is best at something with a fairly horizontal trajectory. If it were to intercept something like an ICBM, I would guess the resulting blast would still have the effect the attacker desired.
=== This was the first generation Iron Dome protection system. Surely you must realize that there will be more advanced systems, ones managed my faster counter missiles and ones that are bang-bang missiles. The bang-bang means that the missiles are tandem. The first one goes after the rocket, and immediately behind it is a second one to follow the trajectory and head for the launch site. What a wonderful proof of concept that Israel provided their enemies and friends.
After all, why take time and energy creating better products when you can just set your lawyers on the competition.
These startups must me punished for their hubris.
On another front. The patent for Viagra in Canada was invalidated. You could have heard the sobbing. The result is that Viagra is going to drop from $49.95 per package to $37.00 per package. And the patent holder, after trying all litigation, failed. In their Canadian patent, they failed to mention the active ingredient. Ergo, all of the ingredients were inadmissable. I am not sure about pharmaceutical patents, but this invalidation means that the genetic pharamceuticals will sell viagra at the identical quantity for $15/less per package. Woowww hooow.
In railway and subway systems, the third rail is electrically zoned into sections. For example, for safety and other reasons, in the area at the platforms, there is no power until a train rolls in. When the last car is out of the zone, power is disconnected. In the open, no power is applied either, and that is to protect small rodents, deer, and stupid humans.
Yes, because everyone knows that global plant coverage is increasing at an enormous rate and will continue to do so as the global population expands.[/sarcasm] All the plant growth of a decade wouldn't soak up the CO2 from a single year of our emissions, not to mention the fact that in 100 years when those plants die they'll release all that CO2 right back into the atmosphere.
=== The world has to stop burning fossil fuels and find other means of generating clean electricity. Windfarms, solar panels, water. Add to that R40 insulation in homes in the south, to cut down on electrical consumption for air-conditioners, and heating.
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I disagree. I think teaching children about fictional all powerful beings as if they were real is a form of abuse. This perpetuates a society which can't distinguish between right and wrong, real and imagined, and fosters abuse of the minority (be it communists, pedophiles, African Americans, gypsies, jews, or some other group).
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There is room for evolution and for creatism (religion). Creationism is the enforcement of a religious belief, and that entails teaching "right from wrong", or the Noah laws. The Noah laws are the ten commandments, without the first three.
My own belief is that religion is a social phenomena, and over the centuries, became to be rules. Membership begins with birth, or via conversion.
Evolution is the science of change. It is the application of scientific deduction using artifacts, and study of archilogical digs, of outer space, and of the dinasaurs. Evolution says the world is at least 25 million years old, but religion only goes back to the founding date. Evolution does not tell you how to live with your fellow man, or distinguish right from wrong. I may be wrong about this conjecture. we had observed human psychology, and we have noticed the evolution of this field and others.
Dollar coins at the strip club sounds both dangerous and hilarious.
In most countries, the dollar bill or equivalent has gone the way of the do-do bird.
In Canada, we converted to the dollar coin with a national bird (the Loon picture), so, our dollar bill became the dollar coin or (slang) Loonie.. At the same time we got rid of the two dollar bill and introduced the "doubloon" (double loonie).
Its about 15 years that the transition was started and completed.
Vending machines were converted over in a two year period.
As you know, most of your vending machines take coins, so mechanically they had to be setup to detect the diameter and weight of the two mentioned coins.
These past two years, Canada adopted plastic bills. Part of the new hundred, and the tweny dollar bills is transparent, with a holigraphic image, and the other part is solid as before. There are braile bumps to distinguish currencies.
The counterfeiters have not succeeded at duplicating the currency. The bills are waterproof, so if you forget them in your clothing, which gets into the wash, there is no problem; they come out clean. These new bills last about 10x to 20x longer than the expensive paper money which, as you know, is easily counterfeited.
Do recall, the USA had the silver dollar and the fifty cent piece. Both are collectors items now.
Actually, it's a perfect example.
"Look at Windows 8. Don't like the unterface? tough, there's nothing you can do about it.
Now look at Unity. Don't like the interface? Well try these others, there's plenty to choose from."
Ditto for Fedora18 and for Mint.14
But I AM a cheapskate. If I really wanted one of these, I'd buy the Windows version and then install Linux on it. Make it dual boot and get the best of both worlds.
Of course, $1,500 is more than I'm willing to spend on a laptop at all anyway.
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The $50..00 is in my opinion a bargain. The installation is provided with all updates as of the time of manufacture, it has been tested, and it saves you a few hours of twiddling and tuning. I agree that it would have been nicer to have the price on a par with the alternative system, but maybe next year. W8 desktop is not selling, ergo Dell is needing other revenue streams, and Linux is today a great one. Do you suppose that we may even see a Dell Linux, where the link to a Dell website is included in the build.
Dear Mooch
Come to Montreal and mooch electricity here. For houses with dual energy heating, depending on the outdoor temperature, electricity cost is either 4.2 cents per kw hour or 12.5 cents per kwh (when temp outside is below zero F).
Our home, as most residents are only with electric heating. Our costs are 7.5 cents per kwh. Our electricity originates notfrom polluting coal, but from our James Bay water shed. I guess I wish we had solar panels to bring the heating costs down to panel maintenance.
The average costs for for heating and airconditioning a 3 bedroom bungalo (is about $2400). We do use R12 to R15 in the walls and R25-R30 in attics.
Yes, because the U.S. is so evil and corrupt--as opposed to all of Africa, South America, Asia, most of the Middle East, etc. And despite never having had an empire to speak of--like Britain, France, Mongolia, Italy, Iran, etc.--the U.S. is clearly responsible for all the problems in the world. And when it comes to invading other countries, well, clearly no one compares to the U.S.--certainly an enlightened country like Britain would never consider something as brutish as invading 90% of the countries in the world. Only the evil, uncouth U.S. does that!
Yes, the U.S. is the cause of all your problems. You bear absolutely no responsibility for any of your own goddamned messes. It's all those evil Americans' fault.
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Have you ever lived or toured outside the USA for more than a 10 day trip? Global USA business is corrupt. The fire in Bangladesh is an example where even the suppliers are squeezed for money to the extent that they had to bolt the doors of the factory. So, salaries are $37.00/mo for a seamstress, which is about twenty cents per garment.
Oil companies made deals with dictators, or created dictators. American United Fruit company killed farmers who owned the land for generations, in order to amalgamate land into plantations.
American business cares only about profits. To hell with the worker.
The best example of an American is Rush Limbaugh.
The only thing universal healthcare brought you was waiting lines and mediocre care if you're in any country but norway/sweden/denmark and maybe the UK
The typical ignorant American answer of really not knowing anything about the world outside. In this European country (Belgium) we don't have long waiting lines or mediocre care. That is not based on some flag waving argument but multiple studies that come out every year. This is the case for most European countries BTW.
It is funny as Americans tend always to point as greece as THE example of the "socialist" plan going bad. The situation in Greece has nothing to do with healthcare or socialism but with clientelism, fraud, tax evasion (which for American companies is a sport), etc.
In Canada, we do have waiting times. Our medical treatment is on a level with Israel, which I consider the best in the world. The USA has more medically related deaths than any other country.
However our waiting times are based on illness. When you need hospitalization, there is a triage, which says, now, can wait , or when there is time. Now means immediate admission, can wait can be up to two months, and when there is time, can be up to one year. All life threatening treatments are in the "now" category.
Is our medicare mediocre? Well, if you were in dialysis, will it be provided for years? And will the drugs in the hospital be free while admitted. In my province, if I have not group insurance for drugs, I am required to take the government plan. Its not expensive.
Prescription filling fees are a maximum of $30/mo. Drugs are at 80% coverage until my annual cost is $1200, after which it is free, except for the filling fee as mentioned.
Yes, medicare in Canada is universal, I believe that you would sing a different song if you were age 55 and lost your job. Would you be able to get medical insurance? And at what cost?
You need to read into the numbers to find out why you are wrong. There are two main problems with USA life expectancy numbers:
1) The US starts the clock one a breath is made by the child. Other European countries use weight, length, and some other factors to determine when life starts. With the US saving so many premature and all of them counting when they die from being so premature it lowers the US numbers. Also death counting is different, US counts all people who die on its soil for other countries they don't count non-citizens.
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Not a significant amount of premees to make a difference. What is a few thousand in a population in excess of 340 million?
2) To many foreigner who were born in poorer countries. The countries you have listed and other with higher life expectancy have one thing in common fewer percentage of people who were born outside of that country or were born in poor countries.
If you look at the immigrants, they actually have more longevity than Americans. They are not McDonalds or Krispie Cream children. Many are closer to the poverty line and restaurant food costs will subtract from the savings for university for their kids.
Look at charts to see life expectancy from ages 5,25,50,75 and that listing changes.
It would be better if they could get one good one to work well and stuck with that but I suppose it is more about sucking as much blood as possible out of the punters...
Is it possible that MS will not be providing updates for 12 months at a time, and that the annual updates are what one would expect during the course of a year. In other words, no new software for 12 months, no improvements to existing software, but they will do bugfixes.
You are not paying for stores - or any other significant re-investment in the business.
You are paying for the 500:1 differential ratio of CEO salary and compensation from the average employee.
Just as bad. I am in the 99% who pay for the 1%. There are those in the 1% who complain they are paying for the 0.1%
This is the OEM business model. Razor-thin manufacturing hardware margins mean that there's a HUGE department that does nothing but inbound deals for software product placement - this is how they get profitability. Don't expect much change. Even with a premium PC line, they won't turn down these dollars thrust upon them from Symantec, and the online-game-of-the-week. Be sure, all of this is instrumented with web-bugs and behavior-tracking galore.
Using a Windows machine will always be like this: Trapped face-up, under the urinal in Steve Ballmer's personal piss-dungeon.
There is no razor thin problem. The problem is that whil bank interest pays less than 2%, corps want at least 50% net profit.
Before global economy, a company that made a net of 15% was doing extremely well. A company that made net 5% was doing better than ok.
We have been brainwashed to paying $6.00 for a $2.00 item. The extra profit is to finance expansion of new brick stores. You are paying for the next Big Box store, rather than that store having a reasonable mortgage and having it cover those costs from store profits.
I guess I am in dreamworld.
The guys that sell the current vaccines, sure. Their competitors, not so much. Permanent cures are good business because they're high-value products. You can charge a lot for them, you can get a lot of people to buy them, you can get the state to mandate them, you can get the state to pay for them, etc. The current flu vaccines aren't some endless gravy train -- they require a lot of work every year to actually get out the door and people (and governments) get pissy when you're late on delivery. A develop-once vaccine that's you can almost guarantee a sale of to each new person born is nice business, especially if it lets you screw your competitor out of yearly flu vaccine sales.
The pharma industry isn't some monolithic ideal conspiracy. They have joint goals, but they're also made up of competing entities.
If your claim was true, we wouldn't see companies continuing to sell vaccines and develop new vaccines that provide cures to diseases. But we do.
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bring on the placebo
Why were you in Afgahnistan during the Cold War?
It was to check the Soviets, but the stupidest thing America did afterwards was pull all it's funding and foreign aid from the country, and ensure that a few decades of impoverished rule by the Taliban would eventually lead to the rise of the new terrorist cells which carried out the attacks on the twin towers.
Pretending the US can pursue isolationist policies after being highly interventionist, and expect to be left alone, is ridiculous. Doubly so when your entire economy depends on the price of oil, and which in turn depends on global supply regardless of your interest in other countries or not. Suddenly withdrawing security and support is not a consequence free action. You take a bunch of people you're making promises to, or who are depending on you, and throw them to the wolves. That breeds resentment - the next generation, their children, grow up hearing their parents lament about how you can't trust Americans, grow up seeing American drones and helicopters bombing middle eastern countries (and with no education system, are very pliable as to ideas on why that's happening), and sure enough, two decades later when they're in their 20's, you get a brand new terrorist cell filled with young people utterly convinced America needs to be taught a lesson of some sort.
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If you do not mind, download the latest US government financial statements for 2010 or 2011. Here is what you will see.
The the interest on the outstanding debt exceeds the amount of revenue possible from collecting taxes. That is right. Forget about the military, Congress and the whole federal government and the revenue from taxes will not pay the interest of the USA debt to the citizens. So, is the government is going to have to wipe out its obligation to pay off the debt? Will it be that if you bought bonds, well too bad, it's charity and you will not get your money back.
Exactly, which makes me think these chips are gonna turn out to be their replacement for the Atom. After all the Atom was soldered and nobody cared right? but if they think they can force the lucrative server market to spend many thousands of dollars on a board with soldered CPUs, so if you need to boost performanje later you have to just throw the whole thing on the garbage heap and start over? Think again, it would give AMD the biggest Xmas prezzie because nobody is spending that kind of money for a soldered chip.
But is anybody else looking at "the future" and thinking its gonna be a giant black box assraping corporate circle jerk? They are trying to force us onto platforms that aren't suitable for purpose like the tablets, simply because they can make a mint with lock in and appstores, and now trying to make everything a locked down mess hardware wise, so your only choice will be to throw away and buy more.
And where the fuck is antitrust in all this? Hello EU, they will be wiping out a half a dozen companies to capture the market for themselves, just as they did with IGP by slitting nvidia's throat, and I know we here in America lost control to the corps but you have generally frowned on this kind of shit, so WTF?
As for me this is all the more reason to continue buying AMD, as all my games play fine, I went from a single to a dual to a quad on my last board and on this one I can go up to the latest 8 cores if I want (although those $100 6 core Phenoms are nice enough for me) and most importantly I'm not having to throw the whole damned thing out if I need more speed down the road. if this kind of bullshit had been in place I'd be on my fifth board now instead of my second, and when you figure in how much higher the boards would be if you were stuck with whatever CPU they soldered in? NOT a smart buy. I have a feeling the big board companies like AsusRock and Gigabyte will be pushing AMD, not like they've got a choice as Intel would be doing to them what they did to Nvidia.
But I have no desire to get stuck on some locked down ARM wannabe playing Angry Birds, I want AAA gaming, I want to be able to transcode, I want to be able to build up my system as time goes on, and if this is true that just means Intel won't be coming near any of my computers, the loss of choice won't be worth the increased IPC.
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one advantage of so doing would be reliability. A chip soldered is more likely to be connected with non-intermittent contact possibilities. It would mean that the graphics adapter motherboard and bios will come from one and only one supplier. (Why stop at the cpu, you can solder in the ddr3 memory or graphics adapter.
Save a few sockets, save a whole load of different drivers, move towards prevention of interposing a signal catching device between the cpu and the motherboard.
This choice could open the market to 128 bit cpus, or even 256 bit ones, with many new faster instructions.
AMD will be there for us, if we need compiling or computational power.
Israel is the only non-Arab country in the continent because they expelled most of the non-Jews then only allowed Jews to "return." Then they spent 20 years trying to colonize even more land, including Gaza, before Hamas was created. Of course, you neglect the fact that the Hamas charter says "Hamas is a humane movement, which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it, or stand in its way in order to disturb its moves or to frustrate its efforts. Under the shadow of Islam it is possible for the members of the three religions: Islam, Christianity and Judaism to coexist in safety and security" and only focus on the quote from the Koran about talking Jew-hating trees that they use as part of their justification of their struggle against their oppressors (which happen to be Jews.)
Their hatred is quite rightly directed at Israel which destroys their roads, schools, and universities. Gaza has been blockaded since 1967, no foreign boats have arrived except half a dozen Viva Palestina flotillas and Israel controls all land crossings. Gaza can't export anything and a third of all of their farmland is a no-mans-land where Israeli soldiers shoot anyone on site, including little kids. Gaza is mired in poverty because Israel wants the people there to go away as Gaza is a key part of their vision of "Greater Israel." Just read the Likud charter and see what they've been doing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza for the past 45 years.
Not bombing civilian infrastructure is not just a good idea, it's the law. Yet that hardly stops Israel from bombing their power plants, water treatment plants, sewage plants, flour mills, chicken farms, schools, police stations, mosques, and regular homes. We're supposed to believe that Hamas is hiding in sewage ponds and chicken coops. It's all just a continuation of Israel's plan to Judaize and annex the land. When you deny people the ability to make or import food, leading to serious malnutrition and stunting, while trying to steal their land, there is no other conclusion to reach than it is a deliberate plan of genocide.
You should give us a pass on the ethnic cleansing because we invented the cherry tomato!
The story I get is the following. Following the creation of Israel in 1948, they were going to be attacked by Nassar of Egypt and the other surounding countries. These countries advised the Arab citizenry to leave, because they expected to wipe out Israel. Once Israel was wiped out, they could return.
The Israelis at the time went door to door, pleading with their neighbours to stay. But fear was instilled in those who left so, they left. They were advised that if Israel won, they would not be let back in, as those who left would have no papers (passports, birth certificates, etc.) Many non-Jews remained. They were citizens, recognized as such and initially exempt from the army. Arabs fighting Ar
Here is what I in Canada read about the problem. Hamas has in it's charter, the complete elimination of Israel as a country, and the complete elimination of any other religion. Israel is the only non-Arab country in the continent.
Hamas has poverty, and not enough monies received trickle down to build the infrastructure such as good roads, schools, universities. Therefore, hatred is mis-directed at the west, which is represented by Israel.
Hamas knows that Judea-Christian morals do not allow for bombing innocent people. So they put rocket launchers into private homes, into hospitals and mosques. Rarely is there a weapon store where there is no Hamas population.
Now Israel and the USA and others are starting to make weapons without compassion. An incoming missile will hit by the anti-missile rocket, but there will be a second rocket that is directed by the analyzed trajectory and a bomb will be dropped at the calculated origin. Send a missile, and run, as an incoming bomb will be arriving almost immediately.
We also know that they use cellphones to allow the launch from a distance. For that I feel sorry for the innocent victims. Hatrid has been taught since children were 3 years old (search youtube videos). Hatrid will survive with them until they die at an old age. The next generation will have half hatred, and perhaps the one after that, none.
Israel is an open society. It has been a leader in medicine, science, tolerance, etc. It too has it's intolerances. All who aligned with Israel profited immensely.
What bullshit...
I'm an Israeli citizen and I oppose Hamas in every possible way (they frickin' shot rockets at me and my family just a week ago!)
But terminating their officials' Twitter accounts will do nothing to help the cause.
The only effect will be that they'll start communicating in other channels - which will make it more difficult to spy on their future intentions.
If you really want to do something against Hamas in Twitter - don't follow them!
(BTW, the captcha "i" looks like an 8)
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I must agree with the author of this posting. Even though Facebook and Twitter are American made, the clientèle are worldwide. If you start selecting who can be a user and who can post, you cause factions to go underground. This way, you are able to follow the Israeli two sides views in the conflicts. People need a way to post their frustrations and appreciations and comments and views about any topic that is not profane.
You can also play the "launch all the missiles for the hell of it" card. Which is what's happening - these devices are on convergent evolutions and they're arguing over the current tiny ideas instead of the next big ones. Good reference though.
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what pisses me off is that the lawsuites between Apple and Samsung are raising the prices of the items I would have considered purchasing. We just bought a Lenova tablet at a great deal price. It was 1/3 less than the equivalent Samsung or at the price that Samsung had to sell it at, if there was no lawsuits.
A pretty sensationalist summary of what can only be charitably described as an article, which itself is long on innuendo but short on actual, you know, "facts".
All that can really be said is that they raided the guys house and among other things took the childâ(TM)s laptop. There is no evidence in this story that the child was the primary suspect or even a suspect at all.
The most that can really be said is the 600 euro fine (and the non-disclosure agreement) is absurd for what the alleged crime is.
Why the non-disclosure?
Lets see what classic will mean :)
Is it a reaction to Cinnamon or Mate (Linux Mint), which offers an alternative to G3. ?
yeah, blacks
No. Racists
Woah, slow down... Why pull the "racist" card? Isn't that precisely what genetics is about? I'm not a racist but I think they might have a valid point. Our ancestors with dark skin weren't the result of breeding with Neanderthals, but the light skinned folks were. So, hmm, I don't know if you'd say blacks were closer to being apes, but whites are more likely to carry Neanderthal genes as well as homsapien genes. That probably means they're further from apes if you measure "distance" by genetic differentiation. If you count that merging as a node in the graph, that's one more node further, no? Not that it matters much, I'm sure there's been sufficient cross breeding that you'd have a hard time finding anyone alive without Neanderthal genes.
Is racism is a Christian thing? It was said that Moses's wife was a refined black woman. Orthodox Jews discriminate by religion, not by skin color or complexion. If you want to be one of them, a Jew, you have to prove sincerity and study. Moses's wife gave him excellent advice as every wonderful wife does for her lifelong partner. A single gene it is, and that gene has how many different variations.
Yes, but people generally equate ballistic missiles with ICBMs.
The ones that the Iron Dome is made to work against are relatively short range. I did some research on this after discussing it with some other people. They can basically intercept unguided missiles which cross into Israeli airspace, with a total flight of 3 km to 30 km.
The primary missile it's used to intercept are pretty primitive. Think along the same lines as the kind most readers here would have built out of cardboard from an Estes kit. They use fairly primitive solid fuel, a payload of common or improvised explosives, fins to make it fly sort of straight, and not much else.
Thousands have been launched towards Israel. Dozens have been hurt.
It could work against any number of threats, but I would guess it is best at something with a fairly horizontal trajectory. If it were to intercept something like an ICBM, I would guess the resulting blast would still have the effect the attacker desired.
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This was the first generation Iron Dome protection system. Surely you must realize that there will be more advanced systems, ones managed my faster counter missiles and ones that are bang-bang missiles. The bang-bang means that the missiles are tandem. The first one goes after the rocket, and immediately behind it is a second one to follow the trajectory and head for the launch site.
What a wonderful proof of concept that Israel provided their enemies and friends.
After all, why take time and energy creating better products when you can just set your lawyers on the competition.
These startups must me punished for their hubris.
On another front. The patent for Viagra in Canada was invalidated. You could have heard the sobbing. The result is that Viagra is going to drop from $49.95 per package to $37.00 per package. And the patent holder, after trying all litigation, failed. In their Canadian patent, they failed to mention the active ingredient. Ergo, all of the ingredients were inadmissable. I am not sure about pharmaceutical patents, but this invalidation means that the genetic pharamceuticals will sell viagra at the identical quantity for $15/less per package. Woowww hooow.
In railway and subway systems, the third rail is electrically zoned into sections. For example, for safety and other reasons, in the area at the platforms, there is no power until a train rolls in. When the last car is out of the zone, power is disconnected.
In the open, no power is applied either, and that is to protect small rodents, deer, and stupid humans.
Yes, because everyone knows that global plant coverage is increasing at an enormous rate and will continue to do so as the global population expands.[/sarcasm] All the plant growth of a decade wouldn't soak up the CO2 from a single year of our emissions, not to mention the fact that in 100 years when those plants die they'll release all that CO2 right back into the atmosphere.
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The world has to stop burning fossil fuels and find other means of generating clean electricity. Windfarms, solar panels, water. Add to that R40 insulation in homes in the south, to cut down on electrical consumption for air-conditioners, and heating.