So I think the point the US is making is that rather than descend quite to their level, it'd rather punish them. The alternative is that the US expands it's programs to steal more Chinese/Russian corporate data, and to generally make life miserable for their citizens by stealing and releasing all their personal data, or DDoSing their bank websites and such.
Have a rather high/delusional opinion of USA, don't you?
Indeed it is. If you actually thought about it, if getting a new sim card mandatorily required biometric authentication, there will be a fool-proof system that the said terrorists cannot get SIM card using someone else's name. And since now I cannot blame a flawed system, I will take more care to report a stolen/lost SIM card to authorities and get it disabled.
What exactly is the problem here? Anyone who runs someone over, MUST be a taxi company employee? What do you do if you get hit by an individual car driver? As far as objections, go this is idiotic. "Oh, I wish the car that hit me, belonged to some multimillion dollar company so I could milk them for extra money". I repeat, what happens if the person causing the accident is a private individual?
And that does not applies to non-conventional energy industry exactly how? I am still waiting for the reason why this is justified only in case of one set of industries.
You seem to have a tendency of irrationally deciding that something is "evil"(TM), and THEN trying to assume supposed hypothetical flaws and then avoid even checking facts. Insurance policies are available for US, for uber.
You need to get therapy, mate. All this confirmation bias, and trying to grind an axe, just because you don't like something is just going to make you miserable in long term.
Uh. You do realize that you can use more than ONE panel? You know? Generate as much power as you need, limited only by the area you can spare? Initial installation is the only major cost. With no fuel being consumed and near negligible operations/maintenance cost, you can easily break even in 8-12 years.
For all your arguments, the model seems to have worked exceptionally well for Germany etc. where they are actually producing more than they can consume. Perhaps you might want to investigate how that "miracle" works, despite your "mathematics".
For the record, Germany gets very limited amount of sunlight. And they still produce enough to start considering selling excess power to other nations.
Any reason why you think that the panels cannot be installed on non-farming land or a bit higher up? Next you will be arguing that because you saw some fellow build a house on prime farmland, we should all live in caves instead. Do you actually use your brain?
Speaking about getting arithmetic wrong, did you flunk basic maths? Looks it. Also, I was under the impression that sunlight kept increasing every minute usually, till noon, and you were storing this generated power to use later, thus saving on your power bill.
Here is the biggest difference maker. Found a serious issue in your closed-source router? Wait for next 2 years for the vendor to fix it.
Open-source? There is at least a chance that you are not hostage to the whim of some mid-level manager deciding what goes in next dozen releases. Unlike in case of corporations like oracle/microsoft, you could reach out to the developers and argue the case of fixing the issue early or even(assuming you have the skill) come up with a fix yourself. Vendor of a popular product closes shop or kills off a much-needed feature? You don't have a prayer. Open-source? Project may just get forked, as happened in case of MySQL. Security? Truecrypt can be audited by a third-party, to confirm that it is actually secure *because* code is open-source. How does that even work for a closed-source proprietary encryption product?
Will the DBAs actually need to take the test again and again, each time to keep their certification? Else all this is going to prove is whether you paid the tithe to oracle or not.
It is not "donations". In medieval ages, any ruler/rich person who hoarded things too much, had a very short life-expectancy. Things like french revolution etc. are a bummer. So today, you are allowed to get rich only to the extent, till public thinks you are not messing with the world too much. Numerous examples abound actually. I think the whining should be about evil billionaires buying the laws wholesale, irrespective of WHO they donated to.
Considering that evolution essentially requires the gene pool to be constantly adapted to ever changing environment and circumstances, you sound even more suicidal on the species level. You will selfishly be hogging the resources, that your newer replacements(children) would need. And replacements there must be, since you yourself may not be best equipped to survive in a warmer planer or a world with more carbon mono-oxide. But there you will be, using artificial methods to hang on. As long as you live, you will be consuming resources, and therefore competing with and risking the survival of the children. That is not to say that your life has no value or that you should kill yourself at the earliest, but once you have raised your kids, once you are past your prime age to be an active contributor in general, it is time to let go. Medicine should be focusing on removing diseases and pain, not curing or postponing natural death. You should be enjoying a healthy life, not necessarily a very long one. If you really do actually love your children and their children that is.
Need not take that long. Remember that line "if you build it, they(he) would come"? Once a new technology is made available to the public, people tend to hack it and tweak it to purposes that were not thought possible till then. Remember the PC kits apple used to sell out of a garage? Or consider the IOS app market.
So imagine someone hooking up Watson to a load of medical books, and then the system can suggest causes and tests to be taken, based on symptoms. Or maybe forecast trends in the financial market... there are applications that already do this, but this one has the potential to do it faster with more sizable chunk of data. It will take just one "angry bird" style success to win the folks over and start the gold rush. It all depends on the kind of support IBM provides or the sort of developer community it manages to foster.
Well... until and unless you actually want to argue that Germans are better at this stuff than Americans. But I doubt that so I will wait for some more clever explanation and excuses why the Germany story was a one-off and Sun is closer to the sun and/or sun is a communist.
Insects on average are smaller than most mammals. Mammals too come in all sizes.
Analysis of air trapped in amber fossil shows that oxygen ratio in that period was higher, which may have permitted evolutionary path of such giant creatures. http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/amber.html
Squishy joints? Considering how cause and effect get frequently confused, it seems more likely that the joints may have became "squishy" in order to support the larger size permitted by the oxygen-rich high-metabolism environment, not necessarily actually the cause.
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are in India and where?
Your indignant vitroil and personal attacks aside, cannot answer where, but majority of them are located in slums in Delhi and Mumbai and other various major cities, and quite a few all over India. How many? As per census difference extrapolation and media reports the number is anywhere between 2 million to 20 million...
Do you think even if all of them were given citizenship and free beer, they will even make 0.05% dent to the number of voters in an Indian constituency?
If congress moves these across to certain key constituencies to rig the election there, hell yes. You could pretty much block the opposition key candidates from even clearing the election. Like I said muslims vote en masse, unlike hindus.
I am not commenting on the feasibility of this strategy. But this IS what congress is attempting. Here are the various media reports btw..
"Bid to control welfare fraud"... that is just the cover story, considering that the system is full of intentional loopholes and bugs. The real reason why the ruling congress party wants this, is due to its relying on the muslim vote bank. Muslims vote en masse in India, based on whichever party is promising more benefits to them, but as of yet muslim citizens of India are a minority in the country.
Congress is trying to change this by using this scheme as a backdoor method of providing legitimate identity papers(and thus citienship) to millions of illegal muslim immigrants from neighbouring bangladesh and thus inflating their vote bank. The nearest oppositional rival party BJP has a more pro-hindu stance.
What is the point of passing any bills or laws related to this? It is not like NSA is going to obey the laws in first place, which is the actual problem.
If your government refuses to respect the very constitution that is supposed to give it its power in the first place, and do unconstitutional acts, your government's behavior is not so different from that of Pakistan's previous president Musharraf's imprisonment of all his political rivals during election and then declaring himself to be the "democratically elected representative".
In the meanwhile, Americans continue debating between "republicans" v/s "democrats" and "Bush" v/s "Obama".
The real consequences are already happening. By Brazil making a "noise" about it now, it weakens US position regards other nations disregarding international laws. It runs the risk of say, other nations disregarding their Intellectual Property treaties with US. If US tried any actual actions to prevent this, they would just counter it by demanding punishment of concerned parties. Don't assume that US still has the clout it used to enjoy before. Think of China for example. USA just handed China a license to act in similar fashion against it, and it has by itself, undermined any ethical or moral position it could have had to prevent it.
"a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."
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So I think the point the US is making is that rather than descend quite to their level, it'd rather punish them. The alternative is that the US expands it's programs to steal more Chinese/Russian corporate data, and to generally make life miserable for their citizens by stealing and releasing all their personal data, or DDoSing their bank websites and such.
Have a rather high/delusional opinion of USA, don't you?
USA will never use cyberattacks against enemy/rival nations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Indeed it is. If you actually thought about it, if getting a new sim card mandatorily required biometric authentication, there will be a fool-proof system that the said terrorists cannot get SIM card using someone else's name. And since now I cannot blame a flawed system, I will take more care to report a stolen/lost SIM card to authorities and get it disabled.
*sigh*
What exactly is the problem here? Anyone who runs someone over, MUST be a taxi company employee? What do you do if you get hit by an individual car driver? As far as objections, go this is idiotic. "Oh, I wish the car that hit me, belonged to some multimillion dollar company so I could milk them for extra money". I repeat, what happens if the person causing the accident is a private individual?
And that does not applies to non-conventional energy industry exactly how? I am still waiting for the reason why this is justified only in case of one set of industries.
Sorry, but you are just dumb.
You seem to have a tendency of irrationally deciding that something is "evil"(TM), and THEN trying to assume supposed hypothetical flaws and then avoid even checking facts. Insurance policies are available for US, for uber.
http://blog.uber.com/rideshari...
You need to get therapy, mate. All this confirmation bias, and trying to grind an axe, just because you don't like something is just going to make you miserable in long term.
Our hero! Walking 20 miles to work every day and back, and going all the way to China, on a long walk. :)
I think the evidence was posted ALL over the internet, if you were paying attention.
Uh. You do realize that you can use more than ONE panel? You know? Generate as much power as you need, limited only by the area you can spare?
Initial installation is the only major cost. With no fuel being consumed and near negligible operations/maintenance cost, you can easily break even in 8-12 years.
For all your arguments, the model seems to have worked exceptionally well for Germany etc. where they are actually producing more than they can consume. Perhaps you might want to investigate how that "miracle" works, despite your "mathematics".
http://www.treehugger.com/sola...
http://inhabitat.com/germany-q...
For the record, Germany gets very limited amount of sunlight. And they still produce enough to start considering selling excess power to other nations.
Any reason why you think that the panels cannot be installed on non-farming land or a bit higher up?
Next you will be arguing that because you saw some fellow build a house on prime farmland, we should all live in caves instead. Do you actually use your brain?
Speaking about getting arithmetic wrong, did you flunk basic maths? Looks it. Also, I was under the impression that sunlight kept increasing every minute usually, till noon, and you were storing this generated power to use later, thus saving on your power bill.
Here is the biggest difference maker. Found a serious issue in your closed-source router? Wait for next 2 years for the vendor to fix it.
Open-source? There is at least a chance that you are not hostage to the whim of some mid-level manager deciding what goes in next dozen releases. Unlike in case of corporations like oracle/microsoft, you could reach out to the developers and argue the case of fixing the issue early or even(assuming you have the skill) come up with a fix yourself. Vendor of a popular product closes shop or kills off a much-needed feature? You don't have a prayer. Open-source? Project may just get forked, as happened in case of MySQL. Security? Truecrypt can be audited by a third-party, to confirm that it is actually secure *because* code is open-source. How does that even work for a closed-source proprietary encryption product?
Will the DBAs actually need to take the test again and again, each time to keep their certification?
Else all this is going to prove is whether you paid the tithe to oracle or not.
It is not "donations". In medieval ages, any ruler/rich person who hoarded things too much, had a very short life-expectancy. Things like french revolution etc. are a bummer. So today, you are allowed to get rich only to the extent, till public thinks you are not messing with the world too much. Numerous examples abound actually. I think the whining should be about evil billionaires buying the laws wholesale, irrespective of WHO they donated to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Considering that evolution essentially requires the gene pool to be constantly adapted to ever changing environment and circumstances, you sound even more suicidal on the species level. You will selfishly be hogging the resources, that your newer replacements(children) would need. And replacements there must be, since you yourself may not be best equipped to survive in a warmer planer or a world with more carbon mono-oxide. But there you will be, using artificial methods to hang on. As long as you live, you will be consuming resources, and therefore competing with and risking the survival of the children. That is not to say that your life has no value or that you should kill yourself at the earliest, but once you have raised your kids, once you are past your prime age to be an active contributor in general, it is time to let go. Medicine should be focusing on removing diseases and pain, not curing or postponing natural death. You should be enjoying a healthy life, not necessarily a very long one. If you really do actually love your children and their children that is.
Need not take that long. Remember that line "if you build it, they(he) would come"? Once a new technology is made available to the public, people tend to hack it and tweak it to purposes that were not thought possible till then. Remember the PC kits apple used to sell out of a garage? Or consider the IOS app market.
So imagine someone hooking up Watson to a load of medical books, and then the system can suggest causes and tests to be taken, based on symptoms. Or maybe forecast trends in the financial market... there are applications that already do this, but this one has the potential to do it faster with more sizable chunk of data. It will take just one "angry bird" style success to win the folks over and start the gold rush. It all depends on the kind of support IBM provides or the sort of developer community it manages to foster.
Correction ...Sun is closer to Germany and/or sun is a communist.
Clever arguments... a bit too clever.
I think folks in the energy/power sector are just worried about things turning out the way they did in Germany.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/08/20/2140215/germany-produces-record-breaking-51-terawatt-hours-of-solar-energy-in-one-month
Well... until and unless you actually want to argue that Germans are better at this stuff than Americans. But I doubt that so I will wait for some more clever explanation and excuses why the Germany story was a one-off and Sun is closer to the sun and/or sun is a communist.
Evolutionary paths.
Insects on average are smaller than most mammals. Mammals too come in all sizes.
Analysis of air trapped in amber fossil shows that oxygen ratio in that period was higher, which may have permitted evolutionary path of such giant creatures.
http://minerals.cr.usgs.gov/gips/na/amber.html
Squishy joints? Considering how cause and effect get frequently confused, it seems more likely that the joints may have became "squishy" in order to support the larger size permitted by the oxygen-rich high-metabolism environment, not necessarily actually the cause.
Do you know how many illegal Bangladeshi immigrants are in India and where?
Your indignant vitroil and personal attacks aside, cannot answer where, but majority of them are located in slums in Delhi and Mumbai and other various major cities, and quite a few all over India. How many? As per census difference extrapolation and media reports the number is anywhere between 2 million to 20 million...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_in_India#Bangladeshi_immigrants
Do you think even if all of them were given citizenship and free beer, they will even make 0.05% dent to the number of voters in an Indian constituency?
If congress moves these across to certain key constituencies to rig the election there, hell yes. You could pretty much block the opposition key candidates from even clearing the election. Like I said muslims vote en masse, unlike hindus.
I am not commenting on the feasibility of this strategy. But this IS what congress is attempting. Here are the various media reports btw..
http://www.dailypioneer.com/todays-newspaper/illegal-bangladeshis--pan-out-in-india-to-cement-their-aadhar.html
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-12-14/news/35820254_1_aadhar-cards-bangladeshi-intruders-bjp-leader
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/15-illegal-Bangladeshi-migrants-held-one-with-Aadhaar-card/Article1-988057.aspx
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/aadhaar-cards-supreme-court-uidai-illegal-immigrants-anil-divan/1/311349.html
All of above are very respected and established news medias in India. Not sure if they are flaming racist xenophobic.
Now, you were saying?...
"Bid to control welfare fraud"... that is just the cover story, considering that the system is full of intentional loopholes and bugs. The real reason why the ruling congress party wants this, is due to its relying on the muslim vote bank. Muslims vote en masse in India, based on whichever party is promising more benefits to them, but as of yet muslim citizens of India are a minority in the country.
Congress is trying to change this by using this scheme as a backdoor method of providing legitimate identity papers(and thus citienship) to millions of illegal muslim immigrants from neighbouring bangladesh and thus inflating their vote bank. The nearest oppositional rival party BJP has a more pro-hindu stance.
What is the point of passing any bills or laws related to this? It is not like NSA is going to obey the laws in first place, which is the actual problem.
If your government refuses to respect the very constitution that is supposed to give it its power in the first place, and do unconstitutional acts, your government's behavior is not so different from that of Pakistan's previous president Musharraf's imprisonment of all his political rivals during election and then declaring himself to be the "democratically elected representative".
In the meanwhile, Americans continue debating between "republicans" v/s "democrats" and "Bush" v/s "Obama".
The real consequences are already happening. By Brazil making a "noise" about it now, it weakens US position regards other nations disregarding international laws. It runs the risk of say, other nations disregarding their Intellectual Property treaties with US. If US tried any actual actions to prevent this, they would just counter it by demanding punishment of concerned parties. Don't assume that US still has the clout it used to enjoy before. Think of China for example. USA just handed China a license to act in similar fashion against it, and it has by itself, undermined any ethical or moral position it could have had to prevent it.
if you asked ANY criminal, "did you commit this crime", do you honestly think they will say "yes"?
"a witness may have a reasonable fear of prosecution and yet be innocent of any wrongdoing. The privilege serves to protect the innocent who otherwise might be ensnared by ambiguous circumstances."