US has Guantanamo, and a couple of similar smaller camps all around the world (Romania for example). Counting all together, how much do you think we're falling behind that million? (And what if we add the wrongfully imprisoned into private penitentiaries by a broken plea-bargain justice system, are we getting close yet?...)
No, you're not getting anywhere near close. There are currently about 55 people imprisoned in Guantanamo, captured under very different circumstances. The number of wrongfully imprisoned in China is probably also higher, considering they have a 99.9% conviction rate.
Don't talk to me about "Freedom of speech" while you have people like Assange bullied and prosecuted for what they said.
Again, no sense of proportions. You have Assange, I raise you one million Chinese Uyghurs being incarcerated in "re-education camps" in China for their religious beliefs.
So no, the US are definitely no more allies of Europe than China is.
You have no sense of proportion. China lives by completely different rules. They have no respect for freedom of speech or democracy, quite the opposite, and they don't care if other countries do. The US has its flaws, but I'll take a flawed democracy over an oppressing dictatorship any day.
And beyond ecinomics... well, if you're European, it's not like China is out to burn your home, rape your wife, kill your dog. They're on a different hemisphere for chrissake, there's noting to gain for them from indaving another, regardless of whether that's Europe or US. (FWIW, the only country that has a habit of doing that post-WW2, regularly, is the US.)
No, maybe they'll just destroy all your infrastructure that's connected to the internet, including telecommuncations, power supply, and everything else that's needed in a modern society. Japan's being in a different hemisphere didn't stop them from starting an all out war with the US. If the western countries tries to do the right thing and stop China from taking areas from smaller countries in Asia then a war is not an impossibility. I assume you know that China is already doing that by creating artificial islands with military bases.
Because OnePlus is one of the brands with the best support from https://lineageos.org/. I think the question is why would anyone use the original firmware?
Pretty much all youths these days have excessive screen time already, depression can't increase it much more. Just like with smoking, there comes a time when most people understand that we can't rationalize away the evidence with the usual "correlation does not equal causation" any longer.
and I'm guessing we're not going to do a damn thing about it because a good chunk of us can't bear the thought of somebody having a nice things in life and not working relentlessly to get it. It comes down to an antiquated concept of 'fairness'.
What it comes down to is if you really want to pay twice the price for banking services just so that bankers can keep their highly paid jobs. I do banking in both Norway and Spain, and it is significantly more expensive in Spain, where they still have a lot of physical banks everywhere. The difference between the deposit rate and borrowing rate is about 1.5 percentage points in Norway and 2.5 percentage points in Spain. In addition the Spanish banks charges all kinds of fees for banking operations, while there are almost no fees in Norwegian banks. It's actually much cheaper for me to send money from a Norwegian bank to a Spanish bank than between two Spanish banks, unless the sum is very small.
People confuse crowdfunding with pre-ordering. In crowdfunding you sponsor someone's attempt to achieve something, because you want it to happen. Perks are just an additional incentive. Sometimes a perk happens to be a product, but it's still a perk for your sponsorship, not something you bought or pre-ordered.
If that's what it was marketed as then it would be ok, but in these cases it was not. It's a preorder when they ask for exactly $1500 and promise you a helmet in return. In reality it is an investment with no upside (you only get your money back in the form of a product if it succeeds) and a huge downside.
Eventually pretty much the only options will be to buy into the IoT shit or live in a cottage in the woods. These days you can't even play solitaire on Windows without being online and logged in to an Xbox account. This will spread everywhere.
At least for the questions "Why would you want to do that in the first place?" and "why don't you look at X poorly written documentation page" I agree. Often users have problems that they are trying to solve in a bad way, or it's difficult to know what they don't understand about the documentation. Adding some more context will frequently get you an answer. Calling those who bother to read your question and write an answer unhelpful or worse will not.
Also: where's the "click to run HTML5 video", please?
Even more importantly, where's the click to start downloading HTML5 video? Most HTML5 video can be stopped from playing automatically but it will still start downloading, and drain the quota on a metered connection in no time.
I've come to the conclusion that the best long term charity is Amnesty International. Sure, feeding the hungry saves more people in the short run, but I believe that democracy and freedom of speech is the only way to stop hunger and famine to return to the same areas again and again.
No, he got it because Torbjorn Jagland really likes being in the spotlight. Unfortunately he's not very good at politics, so he practically got kicked out of the important spots in the Labor party when they lost big after a period with him as prime minister. Getting the most powerful man in the world to visit Norway was an excellent alternative way to get attention. The way he sucked up to Obama in the Norwegian news media was just sickening to watch.
Greenland isn't melting. The icesheet is ablating. Just because its average temp during the summer is 3C above "normal" (whatever that is) does not mean that the average temp is not 20-30C below freezing.
You are clearly just making your "facts" up. We know for certain that the ice is melting because of simple observable things like rivers and ice sliding into the ocean. The average temperature is well above 0 most places on Greenland during the summer months. If the temperature is on average 3C higher than normal, even more ice will melt during those months.
One of the best reasoned papers on this was penned by Burt Rutan, If you are only a casual follower of AGW I challenge you to read this and see things from one of the disbelievers points of view.
I agree this presentation works best if you don't spend too much time reading up on the science, because if you did you'd know how bad his arguments really are. They are fairly generic, and among the worst and most easily countered generic arguments the denialist camp has to offer. A google search for "generic denialist arguments" would be enough. Despite what denialist want to believe, proper scientists knows about these things and account for them.
It's not the temperature change itself that can stop the Gulf stream, but a large flood of fresh water from melting glaciers. Especially if the water piles up in large dams (much larger than the ones we've seen in Iceland) that burst suddenly, it will change the salinity level a lot in a short time.
Who's going to pay for the production and distribution of all this easily available food? I doubt those who pay for it now will, considering you're going to give it to somebody else. Also, the people in charge in these countries are a product of their society. They're corrupt because the whole society is corrupt. Take away one and another just as corrupt person will replace him.
Of course, the fishing will end when there is no more fish to catch. Unfortunately, when this has happened in more local areas the stock has taken 20-40 years to recover, or not recovered at all (like some species of whale). In the mean time we will have to stop eating fish completely, which most likely means overtaxing other resources even more.
Wooho, aren't you clever. If you want to make fun of my misspellings, at least have the courtesy to misspell it the same way.
Anyway, it's not an arbitrary low number, it's a number that's always lower than whatever number you can come up with, making it impossible to reach, and thus infinitely low. It's the same concept, and the reason you pretend it's an abitrary number is that it breaks with the definitions you want to believe makes sense.
Then you're also defining 1/(1/infinity) as division by zero. You can of course do that, but you can just as well say that it means 1/infinitly low number=infinitly high number. Either way it's just a definition you agree to.
The big questions are military: who is the enemy? What are they trying to accomplish?
Like when they thought they were under attack by Iraq, and it turned out to be three teenagers from California and Israel? Sounds to me like they could use a few proper geeks to help them out with the computer stuff...
If course it was, this is just a clarification to stop religious extremists from being able to pretend that he supports their god. What I find really interesting in the article is that he supports M-theory. It may be old news, but I wasn't aware of it.
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US has Guantanamo, and a couple of similar smaller camps all around the world (Romania for example). Counting all together, how much do you think we're falling behind that million? (And what if we add the wrongfully imprisoned into private penitentiaries by a broken plea-bargain justice system, are we getting close yet?...)
No, you're not getting anywhere near close. There are currently about 55 people imprisoned in Guantanamo, captured under very different circumstances. The number of wrongfully imprisoned in China is probably also higher, considering they have a 99.9% conviction rate.
Don't talk to me about "Freedom of speech" while you have people like Assange bullied and prosecuted for what they said.
Again, no sense of proportions. You have Assange, I raise you one million Chinese Uyghurs being incarcerated in "re-education camps" in China for their religious beliefs.
So no, the US are definitely no more allies of Europe than China is.
You have no sense of proportion. China lives by completely different rules. They have no respect for freedom of speech or democracy, quite the opposite, and they don't care if other countries do. The US has its flaws, but I'll take a flawed democracy over an oppressing dictatorship any day.
And beyond ecinomics... well, if you're European, it's not like China is out to burn your home, rape your wife, kill your dog. They're on a different hemisphere for chrissake, there's noting to gain for them from indaving another, regardless of whether that's Europe or US. (FWIW, the only country that has a habit of doing that post-WW2, regularly, is the US.)
No, maybe they'll just destroy all your infrastructure that's connected to the internet, including telecommuncations, power supply, and everything else that's needed in a modern society. Japan's being in a different hemisphere didn't stop them from starting an all out war with the US. If the western countries tries to do the right thing and stop China from taking areas from smaller countries in Asia then a war is not an impossibility. I assume you know that China is already doing that by creating artificial islands with military bases.
would u buy a phone from china?
Because OnePlus is one of the brands with the best support from https://lineageos.org/. I think the question is why would anyone use the original firmware?
Pretty much all youths these days have excessive screen time already, depression can't increase it much more. Just like with smoking, there comes a time when most people understand that we can't rationalize away the evidence with the usual "correlation does not equal causation" any longer.
This guy did the same thing in 2011:
https://bitcointalk.org/index....
and I'm guessing we're not going to do a damn thing about it because a good chunk of us can't bear the thought of somebody having a nice things in life and not working relentlessly to get it. It comes down to an antiquated concept of 'fairness'.
What it comes down to is if you really want to pay twice the price for banking services just so that bankers can keep their highly paid jobs. I do banking in both Norway and Spain, and it is significantly more expensive in Spain, where they still have a lot of physical banks everywhere. The difference between the deposit rate and borrowing rate is about 1.5 percentage points in Norway and 2.5 percentage points in Spain. In addition the Spanish banks charges all kinds of fees for banking operations, while there are almost no fees in Norwegian banks. It's actually much cheaper for me to send money from a Norwegian bank to a Spanish bank than between two Spanish banks, unless the sum is very small.
People confuse crowdfunding with pre-ordering. In crowdfunding you sponsor someone's attempt to achieve something, because you want it to happen. Perks are just an additional incentive. Sometimes a perk happens to be a product, but it's still a perk for your sponsorship, not something you bought or pre-ordered.
If that's what it was marketed as then it would be ok, but in these cases it was not. It's a preorder when they ask for exactly $1500 and promise you a helmet in return. In reality it is an investment with no upside (you only get your money back in the form of a product if it succeeds) and a huge downside.
Eventually pretty much the only options will be to buy into the IoT shit or live in a cottage in the woods. These days you can't even play solitaire on Windows without being online and logged in to an Xbox account. This will spread everywhere.
At least for the questions "Why would you want to do that in the first place?" and "why don't you look at X poorly written documentation page" I agree. Often users have problems that they are trying to solve in a bad way, or it's difficult to know what they don't understand about the documentation. Adding some more context will frequently get you an answer. Calling those who bother to read your question and write an answer unhelpful or worse will not.
Also: where's the "click to run HTML5 video", please?
Even more importantly, where's the click to start downloading HTML5 video? Most HTML5 video can be stopped from playing automatically but it will still start downloading, and drain the quota on a metered connection in no time.
People who are being persecuted in Thailand might wonder how it's being spent: http://asiancorrespondent.com/42468/whats-the-point-of-amnesty-international-in-thailand/
Yes, Amnesty is clearly ignoring everything that goes on in Thailand: http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/thailand
And yes, that was sarcasm.
I've come to the conclusion that the best long term charity is Amnesty International. Sure, feeding the hungry saves more people in the short run, but I believe that democracy and freedom of speech is the only way to stop hunger and famine to return to the same areas again and again.
No, he got it because Torbjorn Jagland really likes being in the spotlight. Unfortunately he's not very good at politics, so he practically got kicked out of the important spots in the Labor party when they lost big after a period with him as prime minister. Getting the most powerful man in the world to visit Norway was an excellent alternative way to get attention. The way he sucked up to Obama in the Norwegian news media was just sickening to watch.
Greenland isn't melting. The icesheet is ablating. Just because its average temp during the summer is 3C above "normal" (whatever that is) does not mean that the average temp is not 20-30C below freezing.
You are clearly just making your "facts" up. We know for certain that the ice is melting because of simple observable things like rivers and ice sliding into the ocean. The average temperature is well above 0 most places on Greenland during the summer months. If the temperature is on average 3C higher than normal, even more ice will melt during those months.
They should have a FAQ List, just like the one that exists for every proposed solution to defeating spam mail.
In case you're not being sarcastic: there are tons of them, all you/they have to do to find them is tell Google to show you a list.
One of the best reasoned papers on this was penned by Burt Rutan, If you are only a casual follower of AGW I challenge you to read this and see things from one of the disbelievers points of view.
I agree this presentation works best if you don't spend too much time reading up on the science, because if you did you'd know how bad his arguments really are. They are fairly generic, and among the worst and most easily countered generic arguments the denialist camp has to offer. A google search for "generic denialist arguments" would be enough. Despite what denialist want to believe, proper scientists knows about these things and account for them.
It's not the temperature change itself that can stop the Gulf stream, but a large flood of fresh water from melting glaciers. Especially if the water piles up in large dams (much larger than the ones we've seen in Iceland) that burst suddenly, it will change the salinity level a lot in a short time.
Who's going to pay for the production and distribution of all this easily available food? I doubt those who pay for it now will, considering you're going to give it to somebody else. Also, the people in charge in these countries are a product of their society. They're corrupt because the whole society is corrupt. Take away one and another just as corrupt person will replace him.
Of course, the fishing will end when there is no more fish to catch. Unfortunately, when this has happened in more local areas the stock has taken 20-40 years to recover, or not recovered at all (like some species of whale). In the mean time we will have to stop eating fish completely, which most likely means overtaxing other resources even more.
Wooho, aren't you clever. If you want to make fun of my misspellings, at least have the courtesy to misspell it the same way.
Anyway, it's not an arbitrary low number, it's a number that's always lower than whatever number you can come up with, making it impossible to reach, and thus infinitely low. It's the same concept, and the reason you pretend it's an abitrary number is that it breaks with the definitions you want to believe makes sense.
Then you're also defining 1/(1/infinity) as division by zero. You can of course do that, but you can just as well say that it means 1/infinitly low number=infinitly high number. Either way it's just a definition you agree to.
The big questions are military: who is the enemy? What are they trying to accomplish?
Like when they thought they were under attack by Iraq, and it turned out to be three teenagers from California and Israel? Sounds to me like they could use a few proper geeks to help them out with the computer stuff...
I always thought it was a metaphor
If course it was, this is just a clarification to stop religious extremists from being able to pretend that he supports their god. What I find really interesting in the article is that he supports M-theory. It may be old news, but I wasn't aware of it.
> I hate to go all Godwin on you, but isn't the best example of evil in the past 100 years a perfect example of 'lawful evil'?
No, that's an example of a few lawful evil making the laws and a lot of lawful neutral following them.