Perhaps have a national sales tax instead of corporate taxes. Tracking the flow of money in international corporations is very difficult. If we had a sales tax, it wouldn't matter where their headquarters is.
Patents for outsourcing and hiding profits, mostly.
Washington DC has prior-art claims on that.
Seriously, though, most these patents are probably BS. The "must be non-obvious" clause seems almost completely ignored these days. They should error on the side of rejection for obviousness, not the other way around.
No, it won't kill enough to make a significant genetic change. It will just make the rich richer and some regular folks dead. The 99% are the sacrificial lambs.
Get real. Almost all politicians are slimy. You don't get anywhere in politics being honest. I'm not condoning it, only saying that it's part of our existing system for good or bad.
discussing the practice of performing lobotomies on people with mood and behavior disorders
You are confusing practitioner judgement with science. If somebody had said, "I have solid scientific evidence that lobotomies work", THEN it may be comparable.
Psychiatry is not comparable because when patients are very sick, judgement calls often have to be made. If you wait for solid science before doing anything, then the patient stays very sick. Nobody claimed they had solid scientific evidence for many of the practices that didn't work or didn't work well enough in hindsight. You are cherry-picking those that didn't work well from those that did.
Economics, also a soft science, is in a similar boat. There are lots of variables, making it difficult to isolate definitive patterns. But, economic decisions still need to be bade in practice. Thus, best guesses from experienced analysts are used. Doing nothing is also a choice based on a guess.
Software engineering also has that. We don't scientifically know the best methodology. But because software has to be written, educated guesses are made about how to organize teams and software. Should we not write ANY software and/or have zero discipline or guidelines until a methodology is scientifically proven? Use assembler for everything until scientific proof comes out saying high-level languages are "better"?
theory of AGW does not provide a basis for making useful predictions about the future, but we should implement economically crippling regulations in order to prevent unknown bad things
That's like arguing since we can't predict exactly how throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery will affect it, we should continue to throw wrenches.
And there's no evidence prevention cripples the economy. Using "broken window theory", it may result in us having slightly less stuff, but not less jobs. We are merely spending the same labor on prevention instead of on widgets.
Can you explain to me how the ribbon wastes a lot of space?
Your Word doesn't look like my Word. Sure, one can make the Ribbon a drop-down menu(s), but then it's just a glorified drop-down menu, not a ribbon (as I interpret the term). If I wanted a pop-down docked dialog box, I wouldn't do that way anyhow.
People wouldn't be able to instantly use other people's office installs if they did that.
Why should they? Most log in to their OWN account. Preferences are typically per-user, not per-machine. You shouldn't share your account.
I like customization of my visible options, and the uniformity of tool-bars enables that. I can hide crap I rarely use.
Ribbon sections just look like multiple line toolbars
Your example takes up the space of 3 tool bars. In many apps only one line of tool-bar is needed, if you have customization to trim out stuff you rarely use.
(It would be nice to set the max number of tool-bars as a user preference. Overflow would produce scroll buttons on the right and/or left. If you get overflow often, you can increase the max number of allowed tool-bars.)
Arizona politicians are going to have massive egg on their faces if somebody gets seriously hurt or killed from the experiments.
The regulation-vs-risk debate is rather involved and complicated, but politically they are taking a big gamble.
They would be better off leveling with voters. Example:
"Arizona is willing to accept some risk to advance our economy and the entrepreneurial spirit of Arizona. We are sons of pioneers; exploration and its risks are part of who we are."
the main problem with the church of AGW is not that the science is questionable, although there is always a responsibility to be rationally skeptical of any claims, but that the solutions are not scientific. Rather, the "solutions" are always cached in socialist propaganda.
Decisions themselves are not science and cannot be science. Science cannot say one should do X instead of do Y; at best it can only tell you the consequences of doing X or doing Y.
As far as which side has the most "propaganda", well, that's a long and messy topic.
Also note there are idiots who spew stupidity on both sides of the argument. Thus, pointing out specific cases of stupidity of one side doesn't tell us anything about the aggregate. It's generally not useful information. At best it's one sample point when thousands are needed before a statistically useful statement can be made.
I don't claim there is zero bias. There is always bias when humans are involved.
But to claim that the vast majority of climatologists are biased in the same way is an extreme claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
I'll ignore the other scientific topics mentioned because the devil is usually in the details and it would probably take another long thread to address properly. We have enough pandora boxes opened already.
To get a perspective, anybody want to do the math on the following?:
Take the RTG power supply used on the New Horizons probe, attach an EM drive about the size of those used in successful tests, and add a very simple one-way transmitter capable of detection from Earth out to say 100 times the distance of Pluto. (Perhaps use capacitors to spike a periodic transmission pulse in order to get a strong but simple signal.)
Based on the lab test thrusts, what kind of speeds are we looking at with such a test probe?
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Cacti don't vote, or do they?
Corporations and cacti are people, I guess.
Perhaps have a national sales tax instead of corporate taxes. Tracking the flow of money in international corporations is very difficult. If we had a sales tax, it wouldn't matter where their headquarters is.
They are not adults, but xenophobic troglodytes who don't bother to verify catchy but wrong claims by blowhard politicians.
"and that damned magnetic field made my hair go funny."
depends which side breeds faster
Washington DC has prior-art claims on that.
Seriously, though, most these patents are probably BS. The "must be non-obvious" clause seems almost completely ignored these days. They should error on the side of rejection for obviousness, not the other way around.
I meant verbal mistakes, at this point.
I indeed admit, he *is* the greatest show on Earth. This experiment is highly entertaining. It's like Myth Busters + Gallagher + Barney Fife + Nuk es.
Let's just hope the audience survives.
Brexit, Trump, Cubs winning, EM-Drive; anything's possible. Maybe the Spherical Cow Engine will power future interstellar ships.
"Captain, I'm giving you all the milk she has. I cannot milk any faster ... we're gonna blow!"
No, it won't kill enough to make a significant genetic change. It will just make the rich richer and some regular folks dead. The 99% are the sacrificial lambs.
Get real. Almost all politicians are slimy. You don't get anywhere in politics being honest. I'm not condoning it, only saying that it's part of our existing system for good or bad.
You are confusing practitioner judgement with science. If somebody had said, "I have solid scientific evidence that lobotomies work", THEN it may be comparable.
Psychiatry is not comparable because when patients are very sick, judgement calls often have to be made. If you wait for solid science before doing anything, then the patient stays very sick. Nobody claimed they had solid scientific evidence for many of the practices that didn't work or didn't work well enough in hindsight. You are cherry-picking those that didn't work well from those that did.
Economics, also a soft science, is in a similar boat. There are lots of variables, making it difficult to isolate definitive patterns. But, economic decisions still need to be bade in practice. Thus, best guesses from experienced analysts are used. Doing nothing is also a choice based on a guess.
Software engineering also has that. We don't scientifically know the best methodology. But because software has to be written, educated guesses are made about how to organize teams and software. Should we not write ANY software and/or have zero discipline or guidelines until a methodology is scientifically proven? Use assembler for everything until scientific proof comes out saying high-level languages are "better"?
In the Trump Era you don't admit to mistakes.
That's redundant.
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That's like arguing since we can't predict exactly how throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery will affect it, we should continue to throw wrenches.
And there's no evidence prevention cripples the economy. Using "broken window theory", it may result in us having slightly less stuff, but not less jobs. We are merely spending the same labor on prevention instead of on widgets.
Please, let's focus on climate.
But, they didn't actually say that. Instead, they trash California for "over-regulation" with little or no mention of the downsides.
Your Word doesn't look like my Word. Sure, one can make the Ribbon a drop-down menu(s), but then it's just a glorified drop-down menu, not a ribbon (as I interpret the term). If I wanted a pop-down docked dialog box, I wouldn't do that way anyhow.
Why should they? Most log in to their OWN account. Preferences are typically per-user, not per-machine. You shouldn't share your account.
I like customization of my visible options, and the uniformity of tool-bars enables that. I can hide crap I rarely use.
Your example takes up the space of 3 tool bars. In many apps only one line of tool-bar is needed, if you have customization to trim out stuff you rarely use.
(It would be nice to set the max number of tool-bars as a user preference. Overflow would produce scroll buttons on the right and/or left. If you get overflow often, you can increase the max number of allowed tool-bars.)
Or become one as a result
Arizona politicians are going to have massive egg on their faces if somebody gets seriously hurt or killed from the experiments.
The regulation-vs-risk debate is rather involved and complicated, but politically they are taking a big gamble.
They would be better off leveling with voters. Example:
"Arizona is willing to accept some risk to advance our economy and the entrepreneurial spirit of Arizona. We are sons of pioneers; exploration and its risks are part of who we are."
No, it's more like an entrance gate. If you board up the gate, you cannot enter and get neither ads NOR content.
Uh, you sure about that?
Can you name a reasonable sample of individuals this has happened to?
Decisions themselves are not science and cannot be science. Science cannot say one should do X instead of do Y; at best it can only tell you the consequences of doing X or doing Y.
As far as which side has the most "propaganda", well, that's a long and messy topic.
Also note there are idiots who spew stupidity on both sides of the argument. Thus, pointing out specific cases of stupidity of one side doesn't tell us anything about the aggregate. It's generally not useful information. At best it's one sample point when thousands are needed before a statistically useful statement can be made.
I don't claim there is zero bias. There is always bias when humans are involved.
But to claim that the vast majority of climatologists are biased in the same way is an extreme claim that requires extraordinary evidence.
I'll ignore the other scientific topics mentioned because the devil is usually in the details and it would probably take another long thread to address properly. We have enough pandora boxes opened already.
To get a perspective, anybody want to do the math on the following?:
Take the RTG power supply used on the New Horizons probe, attach an EM drive about the size of those used in successful tests, and add a very simple one-way transmitter capable of detection from Earth out to say 100 times the distance of Pluto. (Perhaps use capacitors to spike a periodic transmission pulse in order to get a strong but simple signal.)
Based on the lab test thrusts, what kind of speeds are we looking at with such a test probe?