Yes, before the introduction of tea and coffe in europe, alcohol was the only efficient way to clean drinking water, however, it was used in small amount (usually only 1-2) so people stayed on a steady 0.2g/l. It was therefore far less dangerous than a night of heavy drinking when someone could easily reach 2g/l.
As a sanction to the Burma junta, french compagnies are frobidden to deal with burman small businesses, but Total has a few large oil drilling contracts there, and some even say that the money from these contracts saved the junta at least once.
I bet this is a general trend (we all remember the iraki embargo in the 90's that resulted in tens of thousands children death by lack of food and medecine and the continuation of Sadam reign), the public intention of the west is to fight against dictatorships, but the action is twisted in a way that actually helps the dictatorships by hurting their population (and give a few billion to large corps in the process).
It might look funny from an external point of view, but when you stack hundreds of people in shelters for days, morale soon becomes a concern as big as logistic. Giving them a way to get independant information and communicate with the rest of the world and their families is a cheap but effective way of reducing the stress of the refugees.
A science probe? Didn't the only goal of that think was to say "See that blipping thing over your head? Next time, we could send a nuke anywhere on the planet"
Book: What are we up to, sweetheart? River: Fixing your Bible. Book: I, um... What? River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics... doesn't make sense. Book: No, no. You - you can't... River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem. Book: Really? River: We'll have to call it "early quantum state phenomenon". Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammals on the same boat.
"What do other animals think or perceive of man in comparison to themselves (more advanced?) such as dolphins"
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
"The very point of it is that it starts with something complex, in fact the most complex things of them all - the creator."
What bothers me the much is why would such a perfect and omnipotent being would desing its best creation with so many flaws? My only explanation other than rationality and atheism would be that God is a shark, the only creature so perfect it didn't have to evolve for ages.
You are exageration (as other already said, there is no amrican black male in Gitmo(yet) and that lady was fined, even if it was for a rather small value), but you are right. Violence from someone you expect to be violent is nothing more than that, to become a message, it has to be shockingly unexpected.
You are probably right, but I think we are talking about two distinct evolutionary steps, yours being the least recent one since it seems to explain the differences between pre-humans and large apes. The one I was refering to is an explanation of the Sapiens as the most intelligent creature ever: faced with conditions (if I remeber well, it was some volcanoes changing a large part of Affrica into a kind of hell for decades) in which even the fastest or strongest ones had little chances of surviving, intelligence, adaptabilty and altruism were winning traits. More than 99% of the populations had died, but the survivors descendants, armed to face anything, quickly took over the world.
I long ago read that the Homo Sapiens arised in an extremely harsh environment that created a strong selective pressure in favor of intelligence and advanced social interactions. But the article says that the researchers focussed on the area where the less evolved pre-humans could have survived easier.
The best solution for the copyright owner, maybe but: -Why can't any weasely person or corp download anything and submit it as their own property. I believe it will be restricted to large media corps to avoid most abuses or else it will become a mess like the patent systems where anyone can submit someone else's product without much checking. -How could an automatic system tell appart illegal use of copyrighted material and legal one such as parody?
No, I think this kind of spying is moraly questionable, but politicaly, it is far from dumb waste of resource, as the targets you use as example are or were influent potential nuisance to the established power.
"But to say "about to" or "soon" is just meaningless to human scales of time."
Until one of those things actually happens nearby making a few minutes the most meaningfull of the live of many people. In that reguard, your examples are good examples for the subject of the article: they are very rare (even potentially unique in the case of time becoming a spacial dimension), but if/when they happen, they do so in a very short timeframe, even compared to human life (a supernova or giant volcano eruption will probably last a few weeks, and might kill you in a couple of seconds if you are too close).
I did that in a school project. The goal was to made a cluedo game with AI oponents. Everyone used an optimal coordinated strategy found on the net that crushed the human player in 5-6 turns (actually, a couple people did, and everyone else copied their programs). My version, using randomly assigned "AI" strategies based on funny interpretations of mental diseases, was the only one that gave a medium human player a fair chance to win. To make a long story short, I spent too much time debugging it and too little working on a nice documentation and I got the worst grade.
the French were notorious for selling their all over the world.
"were" is the real keyword in the sentence. Dasault Aviation sold a lot of Mirages to many countries, but they already have real difficulties selling their new Rafale to the french navy and air force, preventing them to factor in large scale economy and giving them little credibility to export it.
I like the joke, but your logic is wrong the same way cocaine users feel they get a boost: the cocaine slows down their brains so they get the excitement of seeing everything going faster without understanding it's everything but them. An old republican has seen many thing changing since he was a young man, it's just that he doesn't like them.
I already read about that (typically, a mamal will live 1-2 billion heart beats in natural habitat, possibly 50% more with proper dietetic and medical care. A human being living in a developped country can expect to reach 3.5 billion heartbeats).
Concerning the correlation to brain size (or the body mass), I would say that it works only within mamals, cold-blooded species usually having a slower heartbeat and living longer (a 50g salamander can live as long as a 3kg cat and some turtles, while under 100kg, are known to outlive even the whales).
More important point, the fact that a power supply can give a clean 5V when tested by a multimeter or an oscilloscope doesn't necessarily mean it won't drop when it will be connected to a machine drawing lots of A out of every outlet.
I see several flaws in your post: 1- Buying a thing you need at a reasonable (yet non-nul) price is not being idiot (throwing away good 5$ cable to buy similar ones instead is, but you reduce the number of vicxtims drastically). 2- As a store owner, someone first have to buy or built the cable, have it delivered to his store, put on shelf and cashed, so don't expect him to make more than 0.5$ of profit on a 5$ cable. Now, on a 7000$, you of course have to invest some more before the sale, but the ROI is much bigger on each sell. 3- People who buy 5$ cables will tend to keep them until they are dead (in that case, it is more probably the death of the owner rather than the one of the cable). OTOH, people who buy 7000$ cables will come back to your shop as soon as their banker will allow them to buy more elite audio equipment to match the quality level of those cables.
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Yes, before the introduction of tea and coffe in europe, alcohol was the only efficient way to clean drinking water, however, it was used in small amount (usually only 1-2) so people stayed on a steady 0.2g/l. It was therefore far less dangerous than a night of heavy drinking when someone could easily reach 2g/l.
As a sanction to the Burma junta, french compagnies are frobidden to deal with burman small businesses, but Total has a few large oil drilling contracts there, and some even say that the money from these contracts saved the junta at least once.
I bet this is a general trend (we all remember the iraki embargo in the 90's that resulted in tens of thousands children death by lack of food and medecine and the continuation of Sadam reign), the public intention of the west is to fight against dictatorships, but the action is twisted in a way that actually helps the dictatorships by hurting their population (and give a few billion to large corps in the process).
It might look funny from an external point of view, but when you stack hundreds of people in shelters for days, morale soon becomes a concern as big as logistic. Giving them a way to get independant information and communicate with the rest of the world and their families is a cheap but effective way of reducing the stress of the refugees.
A science probe? Didn't the only goal of that think was to say "See that blipping thing over your head? Next time, we could send a nuke anywhere on the planet"
That's still a far better deal than what most artists get.
From Firefly (Jaynestown)
Book: What are we up to, sweetheart?
River: Fixing your Bible.
Book: I, um... What?
River: Bible's broken. Contradictions, false logistics... doesn't make sense.
Book: No, no. You - you can't...
River: So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem.
Book: Really?
River: We'll have to call it "early quantum state phenomenon". Only way to fit 5,000 species of mammals on the same boat.
"What do other animals think or perceive of man in comparison to themselves (more advanced?) such as dolphins"
on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
"The very point of it is that it starts with something complex, in fact the most complex things of them all - the creator."
What bothers me the much is why would such a perfect and omnipotent being would desing its best creation with so many flaws? My only explanation other than rationality and atheism would be that God is a shark, the only creature so perfect it didn't have to evolve for ages.
Neither is natural evolution. For example, bipedal motion could be more efficient with the knee mounted backward.
You are exageration (as other already said, there is no amrican black male in Gitmo(yet) and that lady was fined, even if it was for a rather small value), but you are right. Violence from someone you expect to be violent is nothing more than that, to become a message, it has to be shockingly unexpected.
You are probably right, but I think we are talking about two distinct evolutionary steps, yours being the least recent one since it seems to explain the differences between pre-humans and large apes.
The one I was refering to is an explanation of the Sapiens as the most intelligent creature ever: faced with conditions (if I remeber well, it was some volcanoes changing a large part of Affrica into a kind of hell for decades) in which even the fastest or strongest ones had little chances of surviving, intelligence, adaptabilty and altruism were winning traits. More than 99% of the populations had died, but the survivors descendants, armed to face anything, quickly took over the world.
I long ago read that the Homo Sapiens arised in an extremely harsh environment that created a strong selective pressure in favor of intelligence and advanced social interactions. But the article says that the researchers focussed on the area where the less evolved pre-humans could have survived easier.
"in the same way we teach people how to avoid clinical infection", you mean, with little to no succes?
The best solution for the copyright owner, maybe but:
-Why can't any weasely person or corp download anything and submit it as their own property. I believe it will be restricted to large media corps to avoid most abuses or else it will become a mess like the patent systems where anyone can submit someone else's product without much checking.
-How could an automatic system tell appart illegal use of copyrighted material and legal one such as parody?
No, I think this kind of spying is moraly questionable, but politicaly, it is far from dumb waste of resource, as the targets you use as example are or were influent potential nuisance to the established power.
"But to say "about to" or "soon" is just meaningless to human scales of time."
Until one of those things actually happens nearby making a few minutes the most meaningfull of the live of many people. In that reguard, your examples are good examples for the subject of the article: they are very rare (even potentially unique in the case of time becoming a spacial dimension), but if/when they happen, they do so in a very short timeframe, even compared to human life (a supernova or giant volcano eruption will probably last a few weeks, and might kill you in a couple of seconds if you are too close).
I didn't have the *.biz yet, thanks for the tip.
Not really a need, but a *.asia will look just fine in my host file.
I did that in a school project. The goal was to made a cluedo game with AI oponents. Everyone used an optimal coordinated strategy found on the net that crushed the human player in 5-6 turns (actually, a couple people did, and everyone else copied their programs). My version, using randomly assigned "AI" strategies based on funny interpretations of mental diseases, was the only one that gave a medium human player a fair chance to win.
To make a long story short, I spent too much time debugging it and too little working on a nice documentation and I got the worst grade.
the French were notorious for selling their all over the world.
"were" is the real keyword in the sentence. Dasault Aviation sold a lot of Mirages to many countries, but they already have real difficulties selling their new Rafale to the french navy and air force, preventing them to factor in large scale economy and giving them little credibility to export it.
I like the joke, but your logic is wrong the same way cocaine users feel they get a boost: the cocaine slows down their brains so they get the excitement of seeing everything going faster without understanding it's everything but them.
An old republican has seen many thing changing since he was a young man, it's just that he doesn't like them.
I already read about that (typically, a mamal will live 1-2 billion heart beats in natural habitat, possibly 50% more with proper dietetic and medical care. A human being living in a developped country can expect to reach 3.5 billion heartbeats).
Concerning the correlation to brain size (or the body mass), I would say that it works only within mamals, cold-blooded species usually having a slower heartbeat and living longer (a 50g salamander can live as long as a 3kg cat and some turtles, while under 100kg, are known to outlive even the whales).
More important point, the fact that a power supply can give a clean 5V when tested by a multimeter or an oscilloscope doesn't necessarily mean it won't drop when it will be connected to a machine drawing lots of A out of every outlet.
Antway, they could already sue you for illegaly derivating your nickname from a copyrighted work.
Oh wait, I need a new account too...
I see several flaws in your post:
1- Buying a thing you need at a reasonable (yet non-nul) price is not being idiot (throwing away good 5$ cable to buy similar ones instead is, but you reduce the number of vicxtims drastically).
2- As a store owner, someone first have to buy or built the cable, have it delivered to his store, put on shelf and cashed, so don't expect him to make more than 0.5$ of profit on a 5$ cable. Now, on a 7000$, you of course have to invest some more before the sale, but the ROI is much bigger on each sell.
3- People who buy 5$ cables will tend to keep them until they are dead (in that case, it is more probably the death of the owner rather than the one of the cable). OTOH, people who buy 7000$ cables will come back to your shop as soon as their banker will allow them to buy more elite audio equipment to match the quality level of those cables.