Are you sure you got your numbers right? Are you conflating the cost of the car, cost of the installation with the consumable per mile cost? What kind of amortization are you assuming?
What I know of India is, capital is still very expensive there. You will find lots of pay-as-you-go customers, but people willing to plunk down some investment to reap the benefit of lower running costs are rare. The future is discounted heavily. So the solar city model, someone installs solar panels on the roof, sets up a meter and charge per kilowatt hour will take off. But even with govt subsidies, most home owners are reluctant to install solar panels. Farmers are far more willing to pay for solar panels to pump water. They will be even more receptive to pay-as-you-go plans.
For commuting, mass transit is all most people could afford. Two wheelers come in as the middle class commuter's choice. Battery operated scooters are coming into the market now. Range is about 50 Km. If they can get the range up to 75 or 100 Km that would become the vehicle of choice. Assuming battery+motor costs same as IC-engine+transmission.
Grid electricity is about 0.1 US$ per kwh. Gas is about 1 US$ per liter. Cars go 10 km per liter, 0.1 USD per km, or 0.16 US$ per mile. Two wheelers go typically 50 km/l. 0.02 US$ per km, 0.03 US$ per mile. Gasoline cars 8000 US$ for the very low end. Middle class cars are 12K US$. All the cars from US and Europe are available. BMW X5, Lexus, Audi etc etc.
Without overflow or underflow? That is a big assumption to make. Once you make such qualification, it degenerates to "no true scottsman", if everyone has a job there will be no employment...
The function that calculates the intersection between two line segments could not make such assumptions. One could estimate the numerical error in the final result and recalculate it with 128 bit or 256 bit precision. Or one could try to predict when it would be needed by looking at some determinant. At some point it is more engineering hacks rather than strict mathematics. 128 bit calculations would be 10 times slower than 64 bit and 256 bits will be 100 times slower if implemented in software using highly portable but unoptimized functions ( qd lib I am looking at you). There are much faster implementations that will take two or four adjacent registers and use bit shifts to make it much faster. But it would be a pain to get them working cleanly. There are infinite precision arithmetic modules available. But they too are very expensive.
The summary confuses decimal places with significant digits. Let it slide, they mean 15 significant decimal digits or 64 bit accuracy.
The truncation error in cutting PI to 64 bits comes out to 1.5 inches out of 78 billion miles. But that is not how one decides whether 64 bits are good enough or not.
Each numerical operation will degrade the least significant bit. As you use result of one calc for the next you lose one more bit. If the final result you are looking for is the result of 10 operations, you could lose as much as one decimal digit in accuracy. If I have a 1 million unknowns and even if I somehow invert the million by million matrix and compute the solution in one pass, the last unknown will be only 3 significant decimal digits accurate. Usually we would use iterative methods to improve the accuracy to some seven or eight decimal digits.
Another important source of these errors is cancellation of terms. In math, a * B / B = a, no matter how big B is relative to A. In numerical computation if you add a large number and then subtract the large number, you would lose so many digits of accuracy. Similar thing happens when you multiply and then divide by a large number.
My work has not something monumental like calculating the orbits of spacecraft. Among the rocket scientists the lower echelons are made up of people like me, who toil, making a living by calculating intersections of triangles with tetrahedrons, the mesh makers, the grid generators. My code will drop down to using 128 bit or even 256 bit accurate calculations when necessary. It is insane when you think about it. One inch out of 78 billion miles? I am at one electron mass out of the mass of this galaxy! And... if the solution does not converge the first they blame is the mesh maker!
This jerk would replace his minimum wage workers with robots if that saves him one red cent in a heart beat. He would not be making such a hue and cry if he could do it. He is just bluffing. Time call his bluff and the bluff of all these "job creators".
Realize it folks, they did not get where they are by being kind and nice. They bargain hard and bluff their way to power and money. It is time to call their bluff. Tell them exactly what they are telling their employees. "You don't like this pay, get out, we have more people waiting in line for this job!" That is what they are saying.
We should tell them, "if you are not willing to run the company by these rules and laws, get out. Take your money and run. We have more people willing to play by our rules. World is sloshing with investment dollars with nowhere to go. Jobs are not created by you. Jobs and your profit is created by the people consuming what you are selling. They are there, whether you are there or not. The demand exists, the profit potentials exist. These are the rules. Don't like it, stuff your money in some bond fund and take a hike. There are others who will play by our laws, our rules, to tap this profit potential".
Stop coddling these jerk capitalists. The goal of Capitalism is not to enrich the rich. The goal of capitalism is to harness the profit motive of people to create a prosperous society. People with profit motives are not altruists. They have to be harnessed for the larger goal of prosperous society.
If Puzder is going to fire Suzie rather than give her a $3 raise, then his taxes are going to go up to pay for her social safety net costs.
He has bought the politicians. So he thinks he is covered there on the tax issue. But the damn fool does not realize, his machines won't need food, would not buy entertainment, would not buy a home or pay for college. As more and more employers automate more and more functions and lay off more and more people, he will end up with lots of shiny new machines willing sell food at great profit.... if only there are people with money to buy them.
It is really very short sighted of a food industry CEO to go this way. No matter how much money you have, the top 1% can not eat 99 times more to make up for the loss of income at the lower scales. The industries that serve the poorer people, fast food, low end restaurants, low end retail, low end consumables, low end groceries, should be at the forefront of supporting government assistance to the poor.
Every dollar spent, or wasted, if you want to call it that, by the government is a dollar of income to someone. The captains of these industries should be lobbying for increased government spending on welfare, if they have any sense.
Events that might be considered "once in a lifetime" will happen with such frequency that insurers simply won't provide cover.
No it won't. It is a self correcting problem. A couple of extreme hurricanes and drought, the life expectancy will drop, lifetime will shorten, and the events will become once-in-a-lifetime again. BTW for all those who get killed by these weather events, they are already once in a lifetime events.
The only role federal government can play here legally is to put out the wild fires using helicopters and airplanes.
As a Floridian, I don't want my tax money to pay for firefighting in the west. I think the western states should be able to take care of that on their own. Why does the federal government need to get involved? Just let nature take its course.
Our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, anticipated such disagreements. They provided for a conflict resolution mechanism to resolve such disputes.
It is called the second amendment. Shoot out in the main street, neutral venue. You want to choose the weapon and I the location? Or you want to pick the location and leave the weapon to me?
It has been ruled unconstitutional for the sea levels to rise.
It is the job of the federal government to respect and enforce all laws enacted by a duly elected constitutional body of legislators. If Florida had outlawed sea level rise in 2012, it would be a federal government problem, and the state does not have to do anything. Now ordinary Floridians are having to pay for the mistakes committed by incompetent state legislatures.
It clearly shows government does not work, any government based solutions does not work. It is time to shrink the government small enough to be drowned in a tidal pool.
Whatever it is, I am in the west, and I don't want my tax dollars paying for dumb mistakes done by Floridians. It is time for people to take responsibility for their decision where to live. And I want the Federal government off my back, off my land, the Bureau of land management dismantled. The only role federal government can play here legally is to put out the wild fires using helicopters and airplanes.
People work so hard when they are young and naive because they think working hard will get them ahead, get them promotions etc etc. And the employers suck them in by giving them better pay, faster promotions etc in the early days to cement the idea they are right. Suckers!
After making from second lieutenant to lieutenant to captain and then may be major, the reward for job done well is more work. Meanwhile the same starting class are the slackers who don't work very hard, but also not very smart, they get stuck at lower level. But a few smart slackers manage to sneak through, getting help from hard workers, finding the hard workers and joining their team and wangling some reflected glory etc etc. These are the ones, who don't work very hard, but they have the eye for figuring out who are hard working but not so astute people. They are the ones, we want in management. We find them and promote them higher than major to lt-col, brigs level. They smartly direct lots of work to hard workers who are capable of working hard.
Of course the hard workers realize they have been had, but it would be too late. The retired majors sit in the officers club, drowning their sorrows over scotch on the rocks, will tell everyone within listening distance, "Brigadier Ramaseshan. class of 84, Rajasthan Rifles, heard of him? Let me tell you what a chump he is. Couple of years junior to me, we were..." They will be surrounded by others similar to them, "Come one, Ramaseshan is nothing. Rear Admiral Dahage, Class of 82, GOC-in-C Western Naval Command, he was once arrested by Delhi police for riding a bicycle in the Cannaught Circus into the fountain. In his pajamas! At 3 AM" "Really? I knew he was arrested, but I thought he stole a policeman's helmet or something".
It has always been like this. Steal 100$ from a grocery store, you get 10 years in jail. They bank steals 100K from the grocery store by collusion with ATM networks to convert 25 cent transaction fee debit cards to 2% transaction fee creditcards, they walk away scot free!
Company A fires one IT worker and hire a H1B, it is illegal. And the company can be prosecuted. Company fires *all* its workers and outsources the department to Company B, it is legal business decision.
Corporations are people! But all it takes is some 100$ filing fee and you have a brand new people with all the rights and privileges from freedom of thought, expression and religion. It is nearly impossible for an real Indian people to get work permit to work in the USA. All that H1B lottery and paper work, and work permits... But it takes no effort for a corporate Indian people to work in the USA!
So company A creates a not-really-companyA in India and brings real Indian people employed by corporate Indian people to serve corporate American people. Real American people get royally screwed. Real Indian people get some bones. Corporate Indian people get a huge slice of the pie because the profits are parked abroad to skirt taxes. Corporate American people get a slice just big enough to pay the CEOs and the cronies large bonuses and pay.
OK, OK go ahead and vote for more tax cuts for the rich, to vote for more abortion restrictions, vote for unlimited mining on public lands, vote to relax envrionmental laws, and then sit in a corner and wonder why the American government always screws you.
From tiny acorns, grow mighty oaks. This Christian baker thumping the Bible to diminish a gay patron is the acorn. Continue in this path the grandson of this baker will be blowing himself up to kill non-Christians. We do not want Christianity to go back to the way it was in the 17-18th centuries. It took us four hundred years of reforms to bring Christianity to something resembling a peaceful religion. No way we should allow it to slide back down the slippery slope it has climbed over the centuries.
All businesses benefit from the tax payer funded courts for dispute resolution and contract enforcement. Tax payer funded regulations that allow the small baker level playing field against the bankers. That baker is taking advantage of taxpayer funded infrastructure to deliver goods to him and the customers to him. Business is secular, mundane. It is a perfectly legitimate function of the government to level the playing field to give small isolated groups some standing to deal with bigger players. The same laws that force the baker to serve a gay couple forces the banks from colluding against small business. At least they should, if we have legislators with two molecules of common sense, one molecule of courage and trace amounts patriotism.
All your private religious beliefs can be used in your private life. You can choose not to buy from a gay baker or not to watch gay newscasters, not donate to charities that support gays. But any dealing with the public, is subject to review and regulation. And that baker bakes for all or finds a different job.
If Islamic leaders had this vision, and the Islamic leaders over the years sold this idea to their flock, and if the Islamic people had agreed with this strong separation of State and Church, they would not be in such dire situation today. The main problem is that the internal conflict resolution mechanism within Islam is broken. The moderates who oppose violence, the intellectuals who should oppose it, all flee Islam controlled societies, take refuge in other places. The evaporation and emigration of the moderate elites is concentrating the power in the hands of the hardliners. And rabble rousers take control of the religion and the message. The moderates are finding it very difficult to fight them in the mindspace in Islamic countries. There are lots of these moderates trying very hard to do it. But their progress is slow, and almost completely invisible to the Western media.
It is a complex problem but that built up over centuries. It will take centuries to de-escalate and come back to normalcy.
How old are the tools? Oldest things recognizable as human made tools are some 2.8 million years old. Tool use must be older than that but the tools they used were indistinguishable from ordinary natural rock. May be there were wooden tools too which did not survive.
All the hominids with robust skulls and jaws are that old. Tool use did not change the anatomy of hominids when they were invented.
Fire was tamed some 500K years ago. There was a gradual change, even Homo sapien neanderthalis had less robust skulls than previous hominids. That was 200K years ago. The Homo sapien sapiens, anatomically modern human beings, also 200K years had definitely smaller jaws and teeth. It was due to fire, not due to tool use. Homo sapien skulls changed from "robust" to "gracile" gradually over the last 100K years. Definite evidence having a strong skull as protection against random enemy bashing the head with a stone tool was not that important. They attribute this change to either language or culture being developed that allowed less lethal interactions between strangers.
9000 cases of food poisoning probably generates about 4.5 million dollars worth of direct economic activity. Employers would probably spend a few million more for hiring the temps. If this is not stopped they will go and find every thing that creates economic activity in the name of improving efficiency, quality of life and other touchy feely metrics.
I am sure there a lot more such plagiarisms to be unearthed. All those recipes in all those cooking magazines, shows, and books. Who actually vetted them or even filed copyright? Same with crochet patterns and embroidery ideas. Home furnishings and decorative ideas seem to be recycled forever, except for more recent and more glossier pictures. BTW who keeps random lemons and half cut red peppers next to washed and cleaned dishes on the counter? Who are those lemon obsesses demons?
I know for a fact lots of Bollywood music is totally pirated from the West. Actually there is one actor in Tamil who keeps remaking Hollywood hits in Tamil, not sure he is paying royalties. I am looking at you Kamal Hasan. Superstar Rajnikant does not plagiarize Hollywood because he is making the same movie again and again for the last 25 years. (Rajni good. Other guy bad. Dishoom dishoom! bang! Everyone is happy, the end.)
You are confused. The one who used eminent domain to evict the elderly is Trump, not Hillary. You seem to have drunk the cool-aid. Even Trump hinted darkly that "He would love to run against Hillary, if she is allowed to run...". She faced six hostile Republican congressmen, under oath, on live TV for 10 hours.
No one, no politician, no white collar criminal, has ever faced that level of scrutiny.
Another much talked about project was the countrywide wifi network, wi-max or something. Google was supposedly trying to completely bypass all the cellular companies, provide free wifi for everyone in exchange for the permission to snoop even more deeply into your email traffic. What happened? It sold out to the cell companies?
It was predicted by Dr Emitt Brown that by 2014 we will be producing energy from food scraps, 88 Gigawatts to refuel the flux capacitor. No need to steal plutonium from Libyan terrorists.
I mean I could see third party peoples like Beltek making docking stations to attach the phone to TVs, or keyboard+monitor+mouse combo or interfaces to A/V receivers...
Because of the trade embargo with Cuba, all these small islands thrived in US tourist traffic. Now that Cuba is opening up, a very strong tourism industry will develop in Cuba and most of these tiny tourist spots might lose significant revenue. Would not be surprised if these tiny islands become affordable [*] to the bottom half of the top 1% in the next two decades.
[*] I mean affordable for purchase, not merely visit. The whole island, not some minor property therein.
India is a very class conscious society. When I visit India I use a cheap Nokia-the-indestructable phone for calls when not connected to wi-fi. My nephews and nieces call it "servant-maid's phone" and would not be seen dead using it. They would rather buy a cheap unreliable knock off that has an apple logo on it, rather than a reliable Nokia. This 251Rs phone will be instantly marked as the servant-maid, rickshaw-puller, veggie-hawker, coster-monger phone and most of middle class will eschew it. That is actually good. The government subsidy will actually reach the poor. If the manufacturer delivers a half decent product at that price after taking all the govt funds.
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What I know of India is, capital is still very expensive there. You will find lots of pay-as-you-go customers, but people willing to plunk down some investment to reap the benefit of lower running costs are rare. The future is discounted heavily. So the solar city model, someone installs solar panels on the roof, sets up a meter and charge per kilowatt hour will take off. But even with govt subsidies, most home owners are reluctant to install solar panels. Farmers are far more willing to pay for solar panels to pump water. They will be even more receptive to pay-as-you-go plans.
For commuting, mass transit is all most people could afford. Two wheelers come in as the middle class commuter's choice. Battery operated scooters are coming into the market now. Range is about 50 Km. If they can get the range up to 75 or 100 Km that would become the vehicle of choice. Assuming battery+motor costs same as IC-engine+transmission.
Grid electricity is about 0.1 US$ per kwh. Gas is about 1 US$ per liter. Cars go 10 km per liter, 0.1 USD per km, or 0.16 US$ per mile. Two wheelers go typically 50 km/l. 0.02 US$ per km, 0.03 US$ per mile. Gasoline cars 8000 US$ for the very low end. Middle class cars are 12K US$. All the cars from US and Europe are available. BMW X5, Lexus, Audi etc etc.
If some lone wolf who got caught did that, what is the guarantee there are not others? What is the guarantee the others too are lone wolves?
It stinks that all the wealth we think we have is in a system that is so vulnerable. Calling a colander a bucket does not make any less leaky!
2. Make a plywood model.
3. ...
4. Profit!
The function that calculates the intersection between two line segments could not make such assumptions. One could estimate the numerical error in the final result and recalculate it with 128 bit or 256 bit precision. Or one could try to predict when it would be needed by looking at some determinant. At some point it is more engineering hacks rather than strict mathematics. 128 bit calculations would be 10 times slower than 64 bit and 256 bits will be 100 times slower if implemented in software using highly portable but unoptimized functions ( qd lib I am looking at you). There are much faster implementations that will take two or four adjacent registers and use bit shifts to make it much faster. But it would be a pain to get them working cleanly. There are infinite precision arithmetic modules available. But they too are very expensive.
It ain't gonna work this time. It works only when you are the de-facto monopoly. And people have cottoned on to it.
The truncation error in cutting PI to 64 bits comes out to 1.5 inches out of 78 billion miles. But that is not how one decides whether 64 bits are good enough or not.
Each numerical operation will degrade the least significant bit. As you use result of one calc for the next you lose one more bit. If the final result you are looking for is the result of 10 operations, you could lose as much as one decimal digit in accuracy. If I have a 1 million unknowns and even if I somehow invert the million by million matrix and compute the solution in one pass, the last unknown will be only 3 significant decimal digits accurate. Usually we would use iterative methods to improve the accuracy to some seven or eight decimal digits.
Another important source of these errors is cancellation of terms. In math, a * B / B = a, no matter how big B is relative to A. In numerical computation if you add a large number and then subtract the large number, you would lose so many digits of accuracy. Similar thing happens when you multiply and then divide by a large number.
My work has not something monumental like calculating the orbits of spacecraft. Among the rocket scientists the lower echelons are made up of people like me, who toil, making a living by calculating intersections of triangles with tetrahedrons, the mesh makers, the grid generators. My code will drop down to using 128 bit or even 256 bit accurate calculations when necessary. It is insane when you think about it. One inch out of 78 billion miles? I am at one electron mass out of the mass of this galaxy! And... if the solution does not converge the first they blame is the mesh maker!
Realize it folks, they did not get where they are by being kind and nice. They bargain hard and bluff their way to power and money. It is time to call their bluff. Tell them exactly what they are telling their employees. "You don't like this pay, get out, we have more people waiting in line for this job!" That is what they are saying.
We should tell them, "if you are not willing to run the company by these rules and laws, get out. Take your money and run. We have more people willing to play by our rules. World is sloshing with investment dollars with nowhere to go. Jobs are not created by you. Jobs and your profit is created by the people consuming what you are selling. They are there, whether you are there or not. The demand exists, the profit potentials exist. These are the rules. Don't like it, stuff your money in some bond fund and take a hike. There are others who will play by our laws, our rules, to tap this profit potential".
Stop coddling these jerk capitalists. The goal of Capitalism is not to enrich the rich. The goal of capitalism is to harness the profit motive of people to create a prosperous society. People with profit motives are not altruists. They have to be harnessed for the larger goal of prosperous society.
If Puzder is going to fire Suzie rather than give her a $3 raise, then his taxes are going to go up to pay for her social safety net costs.
He has bought the politicians. So he thinks he is covered there on the tax issue. But the damn fool does not realize, his machines won't need food, would not buy entertainment, would not buy a home or pay for college. As more and more employers automate more and more functions and lay off more and more people, he will end up with lots of shiny new machines willing sell food at great profit.... if only there are people with money to buy them.
It is really very short sighted of a food industry CEO to go this way. No matter how much money you have, the top 1% can not eat 99 times more to make up for the loss of income at the lower scales. The industries that serve the poorer people, fast food, low end restaurants, low end retail, low end consumables, low end groceries, should be at the forefront of supporting government assistance to the poor.
Every dollar spent, or wasted, if you want to call it that, by the government is a dollar of income to someone. The captains of these industries should be lobbying for increased government spending on welfare, if they have any sense.
Events that might be considered "once in a lifetime" will happen with such frequency that insurers simply won't provide cover.
No it won't. It is a self correcting problem. A couple of extreme hurricanes and drought, the life expectancy will drop, lifetime will shorten, and the events will become once-in-a-lifetime again. BTW for all those who get killed by these weather events, they are already once in a lifetime events.
The only role federal government can play here legally is to put out the wild fires using helicopters and airplanes.
As a Floridian, I don't want my tax money to pay for firefighting in the west. I think the western states should be able to take care of that on their own. Why does the federal government need to get involved? Just let nature take its course.
Our founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, anticipated such disagreements. They provided for a conflict resolution mechanism to resolve such disputes.
It is called the second amendment. Shoot out in the main street, neutral venue. You want to choose the weapon and I the location? Or you want to pick the location and leave the weapon to me?
It has been ruled unconstitutional for the sea levels to rise.
It is the job of the federal government to respect and enforce all laws enacted by a duly elected constitutional body of legislators. If Florida had outlawed sea level rise in 2012, it would be a federal government problem, and the state does not have to do anything. Now ordinary Floridians are having to pay for the mistakes committed by incompetent state legislatures.
It clearly shows government does not work, any government based solutions does not work. It is time to shrink the government small enough to be drowned in a tidal pool.
Whatever it is, I am in the west, and I don't want my tax dollars paying for dumb mistakes done by Floridians. It is time for people to take responsibility for their decision where to live. And I want the Federal government off my back, off my land, the Bureau of land management dismantled. The only role federal government can play here legally is to put out the wild fires using helicopters and airplanes.
After making from second lieutenant to lieutenant to captain and then may be major, the reward for job done well is more work. Meanwhile the same starting class are the slackers who don't work very hard, but also not very smart, they get stuck at lower level. But a few smart slackers manage to sneak through, getting help from hard workers, finding the hard workers and joining their team and wangling some reflected glory etc etc. These are the ones, who don't work very hard, but they have the eye for figuring out who are hard working but not so astute people. They are the ones, we want in management. We find them and promote them higher than major to lt-col, brigs level. They smartly direct lots of work to hard workers who are capable of working hard.
Of course the hard workers realize they have been had, but it would be too late. The retired majors sit in the officers club, drowning their sorrows over scotch on the rocks, will tell everyone within listening distance, "Brigadier Ramaseshan. class of 84, Rajasthan Rifles, heard of him? Let me tell you what a chump he is. Couple of years junior to me, we were..." They will be surrounded by others similar to them, "Come one, Ramaseshan is nothing. Rear Admiral Dahage, Class of 82, GOC-in-C Western Naval Command, he was once arrested by Delhi police for riding a bicycle in the Cannaught Circus into the fountain. In his pajamas! At 3 AM" "Really? I knew he was arrested, but I thought he stole a policeman's helmet or something".
Company A fires one IT worker and hire a H1B, it is illegal. And the company can be prosecuted. Company fires *all* its workers and outsources the department to Company B, it is legal business decision.
Corporations are people! But all it takes is some 100$ filing fee and you have a brand new people with all the rights and privileges from freedom of thought, expression and religion. It is nearly impossible for an real Indian people to get work permit to work in the USA. All that H1B lottery and paper work, and work permits... But it takes no effort for a corporate Indian people to work in the USA!
So company A creates a not-really-companyA in India and brings real Indian people employed by corporate Indian people to serve corporate American people. Real American people get royally screwed. Real Indian people get some bones. Corporate Indian people get a huge slice of the pie because the profits are parked abroad to skirt taxes. Corporate American people get a slice just big enough to pay the CEOs and the cronies large bonuses and pay.
OK, OK go ahead and vote for more tax cuts for the rich, to vote for more abortion restrictions, vote for unlimited mining on public lands, vote to relax envrionmental laws, and then sit in a corner and wonder why the American government always screws you.
All businesses benefit from the tax payer funded courts for dispute resolution and contract enforcement. Tax payer funded regulations that allow the small baker level playing field against the bankers. That baker is taking advantage of taxpayer funded infrastructure to deliver goods to him and the customers to him. Business is secular, mundane. It is a perfectly legitimate function of the government to level the playing field to give small isolated groups some standing to deal with bigger players. The same laws that force the baker to serve a gay couple forces the banks from colluding against small business. At least they should, if we have legislators with two molecules of common sense, one molecule of courage and trace amounts patriotism.
All your private religious beliefs can be used in your private life. You can choose not to buy from a gay baker or not to watch gay newscasters, not donate to charities that support gays. But any dealing with the public, is subject to review and regulation. And that baker bakes for all or finds a different job.
If Islamic leaders had this vision, and the Islamic leaders over the years sold this idea to their flock, and if the Islamic people had agreed with this strong separation of State and Church, they would not be in such dire situation today. The main problem is that the internal conflict resolution mechanism within Islam is broken. The moderates who oppose violence, the intellectuals who should oppose it, all flee Islam controlled societies, take refuge in other places. The evaporation and emigration of the moderate elites is concentrating the power in the hands of the hardliners. And rabble rousers take control of the religion and the message. The moderates are finding it very difficult to fight them in the mindspace in Islamic countries. There are lots of these moderates trying very hard to do it. But their progress is slow, and almost completely invisible to the Western media.
It is a complex problem but that built up over centuries. It will take centuries to de-escalate and come back to normalcy.
All the hominids with robust skulls and jaws are that old. Tool use did not change the anatomy of hominids when they were invented.
Fire was tamed some 500K years ago. There was a gradual change, even Homo sapien neanderthalis had less robust skulls than previous hominids. That was 200K years ago. The Homo sapien sapiens, anatomically modern human beings, also 200K years had definitely smaller jaws and teeth. It was due to fire, not due to tool use. Homo sapien skulls changed from "robust" to "gracile" gradually over the last 100K years. Definite evidence having a strong skull as protection against random enemy bashing the head with a stone tool was not that important. They attribute this change to either language or culture being developed that allowed less lethal interactions between strangers.
We must all unite and fight this.
I know for a fact lots of Bollywood music is totally pirated from the West. Actually there is one actor in Tamil who keeps remaking Hollywood hits in Tamil, not sure he is paying royalties. I am looking at you Kamal Hasan. Superstar Rajnikant does not plagiarize Hollywood because he is making the same movie again and again for the last 25 years. (Rajni good. Other guy bad. Dishoom dishoom! bang! Everyone is happy, the end.)
When they came for 93 Escort Wagon there was not one left to care.
No one, no politician, no white collar criminal, has ever faced that level of scrutiny.
Another much talked about project was the countrywide wifi network, wi-max or something. Google was supposedly trying to completely bypass all the cellular companies, provide free wifi for everyone in exchange for the permission to snoop even more deeply into your email traffic. What happened? It sold out to the cell companies?
It was predicted by Dr Emitt Brown that by 2014 we will be producing energy from food scraps, 88 Gigawatts to refuel the flux capacitor. No need to steal plutonium from Libyan terrorists.
All my plans for world domination is hobbled by the same thing. Lack of money.
I mean I could see third party peoples like Beltek making docking stations to attach the phone to TVs, or keyboard+monitor+mouse combo or interfaces to A/V receivers...
[*] I mean affordable for purchase, not merely visit. The whole island, not some minor property therein.
India is a very class conscious society. When I visit India I use a cheap Nokia-the-indestructable phone for calls when not connected to wi-fi. My nephews and nieces call it "servant-maid's phone" and would not be seen dead using it. They would rather buy a cheap unreliable knock off that has an apple logo on it, rather than a reliable Nokia. This 251Rs phone will be instantly marked as the servant-maid, rickshaw-puller, veggie-hawker, coster-monger phone and most of middle class will eschew it. That is actually good. The government subsidy will actually reach the poor. If the manufacturer delivers a half decent product at that price after taking all the govt funds.