Troll of course but if anyone finds the question it's self interesting... I believe the main theory of why some countries fell behind is explained by early production. Many places that stayed primitive are closer to the equator, and most of them have something in common. Work. In places like South America the staple foods they have available to them take tons of work to get to. And the number of animals they have that they can have work for them are few. So given a tribe of 50 people in a European setting you could have 35 people feed the whole group because of the labour they share with animals and the easy to grow foods. In a jungle or desert or w/e harsher setting it might really take all 50 people just to feed themselves. This means that they don't have people to spare learning things when they have to be feeding themselves. The reason the equator matters is simply because of the heat, it is harder to work long days in grueling heat.
This accounts for a large portion of Africa leaving South Africa and the northern edge. In the north historically they did have great cultures, for the time period one of the most advanced tech cultures on the planet. This was followed by decades of drought so people simply moved, their wasn't a big deal about country borders and maps at the time amongst ordinary people. That was followed by religious strife and wars. That said I wouldn't be surprised if we see countries like Egypt holding their own scientifically in the next few years. South Africa is simply far too isolated. No other country is that isolated and successful. Someone mentioned Japan is on an isolated rock... They are descendant from the Chinese and had trade with the countries around them (most of the time) and really it isn't a very long boat ride. South Africa is like a half year voyage to reach Europe.
To destroy the rest of his argument, inventions happen in rich affluent countries. All of the inventions listed occur while a country is in a golden age and has plenty of money to spend. The IQ difference? Studies show that this is due to living in a poor country, or non-european, they are known to be flawed and admitted by the creators. Within the USA African Americans have only very very recently gained a sense of equality. But Im sure I could prove that the number of white folks that can afford to go to a good university and get a good research career are almost all white. There is also a culture issue, once a few black americans lead the way this will equalize over time.
I think going back thousands of years is a tad unfair but since you seem to want to... When was the last time the Jewish people controlled a major portion of the ME? You do know that even in the bible it is a story about the jewish people leaving. The roman's controlled the area the whole time. The area has been handed off dozens of times to different groups but never to the jewish people because historically everyone in the area has fought battles with the jewish people and won or just sent them away. Hell even God said that they are supposed to leave and not return until he sends them a prophet to guide their return. The natives in North America have a million time better claim on their historic land than the jewish people have in the middle east.
Jewish people and christian's lived in the ME relatively peacefully BEFORE the jewish people stated shooting things with rockets and running around with machine guns. I think people forget that this land ISNT JEWISH. The jewish people have no claim to the land whatsoever. They came and took what isn't theirs. The only and I mean ONLY reason it was allowed was because they did it while they had victim stigma after the holocaust. No western country was about to open fire on any jewish people after we had war to help them out. Simple history.
Both side's are retarded. The jewish people however invaded and conquered the region. They also massively unbalanced the region, having a military funded by the US. Their standard of living is many times better than their neighbors. And every few years THEY attack a neighboring country. And while hamas is a dick and won't acknowledge Israel, Israel too refuses to acknowledge Palestine. And since Israel first took some land they have expanded repeatedly. And though they fight against supposed terrorists they generally kill 10x as many citizens as the bad guys.
In fact in Israels last major battle they attacked a country that had a military worth probably less than 1% of theirs. They killed much more citizens than militants and spent most of their time blowing up infrastructure in the country, things like hospitals and UN buildings. The bad guys at the time provide assistance to victims and manage to kill a much better military to civilian ratio.
There is a reason the UN condemns Israel every handful of months and the US has to veto decisions made against it.
Israel is NOT a peaceful entity in the middle east.
I'm fairly certain that ignoring signs isn't helpful, I know those aren't the signs you were referring too but you may have accidentally ran into a point. People hand too much control over to GPS, at a certain point I wouldn't be surprised if i saw a GPS sitting in the drivers side driving with the passenger in the back sleeping. But GPS are meant to be dumb navigators not know anything, nor to read signs for you. That time may come but not yet.
My first thought when I read "UK and Israeli quantum physicists" was 'UK and Israeli quantum entangled physicists ' but I digress. My second thought went to the situation in the area.
I think that while off topic this isn't a bad thing. Israel is a harmful harmful force in the region. And it is sort of disconcerting that they can afford to do this type of research while simultaneously submitting their neighbors to situations where they routinely cannot afford electricity or sometimes even clean water depending on Israel's mood. While Israel's essential occupation of the middle east is not news for nerds it is stuff that matters. That said I don't think it was right to bring the topic up, just healthy to keep it in mind.
Heh, totally agree. I also thought I'd mention books, which while less costly to produce can take as long as software to produce (and time is money). But they wouldn't be afforded a shred of protection by this ruling. Books are generally not even compressed since they are smaller than mp3s to begin with. And clearly a fraction of what a legitimately free streaming video would be.
Google bid to make the network more open and made the frequency more useful for EVERYONE... That was a very good thing. Weird you'd pick that to complain about, it was pretty much an act of charity to the whole of the US.
I believe that graphs online should get their own file type. Having a graph as a static image ALWAYS sucks in one way or another. We are forced to suck it up irl. But online there is no reason we can't stick the raw data in a file and have an interactive graph generated for us. Here's hoping for html 6.0 upgrades?
I think google could do more. After they lose. Have the front page logo for google search in the whole state be a link to this bank's incompetence... for a month. Perfectly legal, costs them nothing and would gain them some good customer rep.
Ahahahahaa.... This is similar logic to saying that drinking and driving isn't dangerous since you've never died doing it yet. Total falsehood. Just because we haven't all died yet doesn't mean we haven't been in danger. And to assert that is a complete logical fallacy.
BTW look up aerosols. They may have doomed us all, but luckily we stopped it in time, aerosols are used a very very tiny fraction now compared to what they were at their peak. Since we averted the crisis does it not count?
1) No, no scientists think this. It is changing more rapidly than it ever has in past. Except possibly for extinction level events which wiped out almost all life on the planet.
2) Dear god no, it will likely cause harm measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Perhaps the hundreds of millions of lives.
Do tell me the last time the entire scientific community united to 'cry wolf' over anything in past? Aside from aerosols which I mentioned. Give an example, impress me.
With regular fluctuations we could be nearing a peak for ice cover. And this would be the lowest local max we've had in 1000years for all I know... I do know however that, using yearly data in such a manner 'hey there is more ice this month therefore global warming is a sham' is also dangerous. I have seen these types of arguements pop up in this subject fairly often. I think scientists are internally careful about these sorts of things but have lost any shred of trust they had for the public.
Fixing CO2 emissions is a few trillion dollar problem. Having water raise a foot and having temperatures change globally will be many many trillions. As lang changes there will be massive wars. You can already see parts in the Arctic. With the US claiming up to half of it (Including islands to the south Canadian's have claimed for almost 100years.). Dealing with food shortages, massive natural disasters. This will be many trillions of dollars over a long period of time.
And I'm sure the number of possible problems is significantly greater with the surface of the planet changing compared to retiring old coal power plants and converting to more electric cars.
The amount of ice globally is quickly reducing (including sea ice). There will be variations abound, but the fact is that the global total is shrinking rapidly is quite disconcerting. I think that was GP's point.
I would think software could be longer since much much more time and money is put into software than music. But the short lifecycle means it doesn't really matter )to be fair to the software industry I haven't seen anyone getting sued over 10yr old games lol...). 10~15 is probably fine for music.
But I'd like to point out that while the US is up there for insane copyrights... the world MINIMUM is life + 25years. So something like a 70year minimum up to 100+ in the states.
Software costs thousands sometimes 10s of thousands time more money to create. Yet they manage to whine less, it is quite amazing really. I think it is that the RIAA is closer to being useless. Software companies often distribute files directly to people or through just one middle man, stores. In the music industry they are realizing that if musicians distribute things by themselves then the RIAA has no place anymore. They are in deaththroes, whereas the software 'riaa' is far less important to begin with.
Most people....? A TB of music at normal compression is nearly 250,000 songs. At a dollar a pop I doubt any person has that many legit mp3s in North America.
Same here:/... once I had a problem and when I got a rep they didn't ask me questions like 'is the power on and is it plugged in'. Also they rickrolled me w/ the waiting music.
Stastically we are almost guaranteed there IS life on mars. Because of the proximity to earth through shedding the earth and mars have shared a lot of crap. It would be unlikely for atleast a few extremomophiles to not make the trip by now. I remember hearing something like in every shovelful of dirt on earth you are guaranteed a couple grams came from mars.
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Troll of course but if anyone finds the question it's self interesting... I believe the main theory of why some countries fell behind is explained by early production. Many places that stayed primitive are closer to the equator, and most of them have something in common. Work. In places like South America the staple foods they have available to them take tons of work to get to. And the number of animals they have that they can have work for them are few. So given a tribe of 50 people in a European setting you could have 35 people feed the whole group because of the labour they share with animals and the easy to grow foods. In a jungle or desert or w/e harsher setting it might really take all 50 people just to feed themselves. This means that they don't have people to spare learning things when they have to be feeding themselves. The reason the equator matters is simply because of the heat, it is harder to work long days in grueling heat.
This accounts for a large portion of Africa leaving South Africa and the northern edge. In the north historically they did have great cultures, for the time period one of the most advanced tech cultures on the planet. This was followed by decades of drought so people simply moved, their wasn't a big deal about country borders and maps at the time amongst ordinary people. That was followed by religious strife and wars. That said I wouldn't be surprised if we see countries like Egypt holding their own scientifically in the next few years. South Africa is simply far too isolated. No other country is that isolated and successful. Someone mentioned Japan is on an isolated rock... They are descendant from the Chinese and had trade with the countries around them (most of the time) and really it isn't a very long boat ride. South Africa is like a half year voyage to reach Europe.
To destroy the rest of his argument, inventions happen in rich affluent countries. All of the inventions listed occur while a country is in a golden age and has plenty of money to spend. The IQ difference? Studies show that this is due to living in a poor country, or non-european, they are known to be flawed and admitted by the creators. Within the USA African Americans have only very very recently gained a sense of equality. But Im sure I could prove that the number of white folks that can afford to go to a good university and get a good research career are almost all white. There is also a culture issue, once a few black americans lead the way this will equalize over time.
I think going back thousands of years is a tad unfair but since you seem to want to... When was the last time the Jewish people controlled a major portion of the ME? You do know that even in the bible it is a story about the jewish people leaving. The roman's controlled the area the whole time. The area has been handed off dozens of times to different groups but never to the jewish people because historically everyone in the area has fought battles with the jewish people and won or just sent them away. Hell even God said that they are supposed to leave and not return until he sends them a prophet to guide their return. The natives in North America have a million time better claim on their historic land than the jewish people have in the middle east.
Jewish people and christian's lived in the ME relatively peacefully BEFORE the jewish people stated shooting things with rockets and running around with machine guns. I think people forget that this land ISNT JEWISH. The jewish people have no claim to the land whatsoever. They came and took what isn't theirs. The only and I mean ONLY reason it was allowed was because they did it while they had victim stigma after the holocaust. No western country was about to open fire on any jewish people after we had war to help them out. Simple history.
Both side's are retarded. The jewish people however invaded and conquered the region. They also massively unbalanced the region, having a military funded by the US. Their standard of living is many times better than their neighbors. And every few years THEY attack a neighboring country. And while hamas is a dick and won't acknowledge Israel, Israel too refuses to acknowledge Palestine. And since Israel first took some land they have expanded repeatedly. And though they fight against supposed terrorists they generally kill 10x as many citizens as the bad guys.
In fact in Israels last major battle they attacked a country that had a military worth probably less than 1% of theirs. They killed much more citizens than militants and spent most of their time blowing up infrastructure in the country, things like hospitals and UN buildings. The bad guys at the time provide assistance to victims and manage to kill a much better military to civilian ratio.
There is a reason the UN condemns Israel every handful of months and the US has to veto decisions made against it.
Israel is NOT a peaceful entity in the middle east.
I'm fairly certain that ignoring signs isn't helpful, I know those aren't the signs you were referring too but you may have accidentally ran into a point. People hand too much control over to GPS, at a certain point I wouldn't be surprised if i saw a GPS sitting in the drivers side driving with the passenger in the back sleeping. But GPS are meant to be dumb navigators not know anything, nor to read signs for you. That time may come but not yet.
What gives you the idea that GPS related deaths aren't similar figures(I know they aren't but that you didn't provide a similar study is kinda lame).
Explains the hands-free rules. I'm sure that fits under sexual harassment.
My first thought when I read "UK and Israeli quantum physicists" was 'UK and Israeli quantum entangled physicists ' but I digress. My second thought went to the situation in the area.
I think that while off topic this isn't a bad thing. Israel is a harmful harmful force in the region. And it is sort of disconcerting that they can afford to do this type of research while simultaneously submitting their neighbors to situations where they routinely cannot afford electricity or sometimes even clean water depending on Israel's mood. While Israel's essential occupation of the middle east is not news for nerds it is stuff that matters. That said I don't think it was right to bring the topic up, just healthy to keep it in mind.
Heh, totally agree. I also thought I'd mention books, which while less costly to produce can take as long as software to produce (and time is money). But they wouldn't be afforded a shred of protection by this ruling. Books are generally not even compressed since they are smaller than mp3s to begin with. And clearly a fraction of what a legitimately free streaming video would be.
Uncompressed blurays? Maybe if you hate drive space i guess.
Google bid to make the network more open and made the frequency more useful for EVERYONE... That was a very good thing. Weird you'd pick that to complain about, it was pretty much an act of charity to the whole of the US.
I believe that graphs online should get their own file type. Having a graph as a static image ALWAYS sucks in one way or another. We are forced to suck it up irl. But online there is no reason we can't stick the raw data in a file and have an interactive graph generated for us. Here's hoping for html 6.0 upgrades?
I think google could do more. After they lose. Have the front page logo for google search in the whole state be a link to this bank's incompetence... for a month. Perfectly legal, costs them nothing and would gain them some good customer rep.
Ahahahahaa.... This is similar logic to saying that drinking and driving isn't dangerous since you've never died doing it yet. Total falsehood. Just because we haven't all died yet doesn't mean we haven't been in danger. And to assert that is a complete logical fallacy.
BTW look up aerosols. They may have doomed us all, but luckily we stopped it in time, aerosols are used a very very tiny fraction now compared to what they were at their peak. Since we averted the crisis does it not count?
1) No, no scientists think this. It is changing more rapidly than it ever has in past. Except possibly for extinction level events which wiped out almost all life on the planet.
2) Dear god no, it will likely cause harm measured in the hundreds of trillions of dollars. Perhaps the hundreds of millions of lives.
Do tell me the last time the entire scientific community united to 'cry wolf' over anything in past? Aside from aerosols which I mentioned. Give an example, impress me.
With regular fluctuations we could be nearing a peak for ice cover. And this would be the lowest local max we've had in 1000years for all I know... I do know however that, using yearly data in such a manner 'hey there is more ice this month therefore global warming is a sham' is also dangerous. I have seen these types of arguements pop up in this subject fairly often. I think scientists are internally careful about these sorts of things but have lost any shred of trust they had for the public.
Fixing CO2 emissions is a few trillion dollar problem. Having water raise a foot and having temperatures change globally will be many many trillions. As lang changes there will be massive wars. You can already see parts in the Arctic. With the US claiming up to half of it (Including islands to the south Canadian's have claimed for almost 100years.). Dealing with food shortages, massive natural disasters. This will be many trillions of dollars over a long period of time.
And I'm sure the number of possible problems is significantly greater with the surface of the planet changing compared to retiring old coal power plants and converting to more electric cars.
The amount of ice globally is quickly reducing (including sea ice). There will be variations abound, but the fact is that the global total is shrinking rapidly is quite disconcerting. I think that was GP's point.
I would think software could be longer since much much more time and money is put into software than music. But the short lifecycle means it doesn't really matter )to be fair to the software industry I haven't seen anyone getting sued over 10yr old games lol...). 10~15 is probably fine for music.
But I'd like to point out that while the US is up there for insane copyrights... the world MINIMUM is life + 25years. So something like a 70year minimum up to 100+ in the states.
Software costs thousands sometimes 10s of thousands time more money to create. Yet they manage to whine less, it is quite amazing really. I think it is that the RIAA is closer to being useless. Software companies often distribute files directly to people or through just one middle man, stores. In the music industry they are realizing that if musicians distribute things by themselves then the RIAA has no place anymore. They are in deaththroes, whereas the software 'riaa' is far less important to begin with.
Most people....? A TB of music at normal compression is nearly 250,000 songs. At a dollar a pop I doubt any person has that many legit mp3s in North America.
That is one of the options ... vote for it?
No, it won't affect phone services. But i don't know that techsavvy is flexible enough to survive losing their main product.
Same here :/ ... once I had a problem and when I got a rep they didn't ask me questions like 'is the power on and is it plugged in'. Also they rickrolled me w/ the waiting music.
Stastically we are almost guaranteed there IS life on mars. Because of the proximity to earth through shedding the earth and mars have shared a lot of crap. It would be unlikely for atleast a few extremomophiles to not make the trip by now. I remember hearing something like in every shovelful of dirt on earth you are guaranteed a couple grams came from mars.
All the cool kids in space party with energon cubes.