Merriam-Webster is a poor choice of reference because it is not an English dictionary. It is an American dictionary. But the Oxford dictionary agrees, so your point stands.
100% of people were wearing clothes when involved in a traffic accident. Clearly wearing clothes while driving is a high risk activity and should be banned.
You could cancel the contract and get a prepaid sim, but nobody does because at the end of the standard 24month contract everyone wants a new phone anyway so the carrier says "pick one from this list of new toys" and the dance goes on.
So, unable to achieve godlike perfection, we ought to do nothing?
Besides, why is this an XOR thing? A high degree of precision is easy in dimensions that are curated (DM'd) and Google performs extremely well at searching in dimensions that weren't anticipated. In any given domain it is reasonable to expect the people currently filing bits of paper to know how documents need to be tagged, simply because they already do the curation.
In many cases I fail to see any value in transcribing records; apart from matters of ownership, contract or engineering, bureacratic records are best forgotten.
When the iPhone was first released, it was different. Quite so. Toy commanders and Apple fanbois bought it, in comparatively modest quantities. For a short period, it was qualitatively superior, and enjoyed deservedly high demand. But the set of people who actually need it is much smaller than the number of people who bought it, and the bulk of sales can be qualified as "me-too". I stand by my comment.
As for Apple's grammatical atrocity "think different", Monty Python summed things up perfectly:
I've just examined all three of your links. Two describe accidents that were rectified and the other involves an attempt to make users lives easier that was abandoned when a small group of whiners mounted a legal privacy challenge to a service they almost certainly didn't intend to use.
While markets are rational, product value is not the sole or even the governing factor under consideratopm. Share market decisions are based more on assessment of what "the market" (everyone else) will do next than on any intrinsic value of stock. Similarly, vast hordes bought an iPhone because they lacked sufficient stature to risk the social consequences of being different. This is completely rational even though it has nothing to do with any intrinsic value of the phone. A rational comparison of WP7, Android and iPhones would conclude that the phones themselves do all the same things in extremely similar ways with very similar UI metaphors on functionall identical hardware.
But a phone alone is worthless. Quality of network is very important, and if you want to develop software for your own use, WP7 is the pick of the bunch; the free tools for WP7 are streets ahead of the paid tools from Apple or Android, and the programming model is better. Contrary to widespread misinformation, the Android toolchain is no more free than the WP7 toolchain, which is to say that both provide a freebie version for non-commercial use. It will cost you to register for use of the WP7 marketplace, which is a Microsoft copy of the Apple app store infrastructure, and serves the same QA function that protects both Apple and Microsoft users from the malware plaguing Android.
You assume from a very loose correlation between CO2 and rising temperature that levels of CO2 are the driver for temperature. You do not consider other possible drivers, and you do not consider the quite real possibility that you have it ass-backwards and it's the other way round with rising temperature causing increased CO2 levels. You also totally ignore the fact that human industral impact is modest compared to bushfires and laughable compared to a single volcanic eruption.
Industrial nations need vast quantities of steel. Coking coal is used to turn iron into steel. The process involves burning it, and produces vast amounts of CO2. Taxing this will have absolutely no impact on global appetite for steel; the price has already gone up 2000% (500% in real terms) over the last 20 years and demand has increased.
Rising temperature is a marvellous thing if you live in Siberia, where a five degree average rise would open up vast wheat belts. So do not preach to me about the good of all when you are merely trying to preserve the status quo because it serves your own self interest.
AllIndustrial economies are pyramid schemes. They depend on growth. First they did it with empires, then they did it with inflation. Now that growth is no longer possible the morons responsible don't seem to understand that the GFC and its ongoing consequences are simply what happens to a pyramid scheme when growth slows.
What will happen is neofeudalism. Feudalism only failed when the Black Death culled the population, making expansion possible. Now that growth is once again no longer the norm, conditions favouring feudalism are returning. The middle classes will soon be extinct.
If you want the good times to roll again, there are only two options.
Human activities increased normally, CO2 spiked. Logical conclusion: human activities are not the governing factor. If the doings of man are incidental, then climate change should be historically evident. Oh looky, cyclic ice ages. What a surprise. Now take your carbon tax and shove it where the sun don't shine.
It's not mind-boggling, you clown. There are well preserved fossils of tropical animals like hippos in Norfolk in England around 600, 000 years ago. Obviously it was a lot warmer during the interglacial period. [sarcasm]Do you think perhaps that's why the glaciers melted? Must have been induced by all those prehistoric cars Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble got around in.[/sarcasm]
Then it got a lot colder, in another kind of climate change also not induced by humans, widely known as an ice age. After a long, freezing interlude, it got warmer again. Then it got colder. Climate change happens endlessly, on long cycles and on also on very short cycles known to the cogniscenti as "weather".
Humans and their doings make almost no difference at all to the planet. What is truly mind-boggling is the colossal vanity to imagine that even our sustained collective doings will make a significant difference in the long run, or that the status quo is the best of all possible worlds. If you live in Siberia, five degrees warmer turns icy waste into an enormous wheat belt. Ten degrees would make it almost pleasant. This would completely bugger up ski season here in Australia, but I'm sure the Russians would be happy with the situation.
Whatever happened to democracy? Authority to regulate belongs to the people, and is delegated to officials for administrative purposes. If a majority of people ignore a regulation, that delegation has been revoked and government has no right to enforce it.
Roundabouts are very simple. They are not a single intersection with a concrete circle in the middle, they are a series of T intersections on a one-way ring road. Traffic on the stem of the T must give way to traffic on the bar of the T. In the case of the roundabout, this becomes "Traffic entering a roundabout must give way to traffic on the roundabout."
You can fight over terrestrial resources. I would revive Project Orion only without dirty nukes and take over the solar system. Actually you're right, we probably would fight, I'd most likely try to prevent other groups from escaping to space and threatening my empire. The best way to do this would be to drop rocks from orbit. Big rocks.
You could use it in a stationary plant but that would ignore the primary advantages of this adapation of the PV cell, which are that it directly produces something
(a) You can store.
(b) You can use directly in an internal combustion engine.
Doesn't come back as water? Yes it does, you ass. Water is exactly what you get when you burn hydrogen in oxygen. There are other possible intermediates but they all end up as water. To get anything else you would have to burn it in chlorine.
Learn some basic chemistry.
Big? Not from an Australian perspective it isn't. Our country is the same geographic size as mainland USA for a population one tenth the size. We are used to much bigger distances on much worse roads. Our smallest state is bigger than Texas. Our second smallest state is bigger than France.
many people would attest that they have [...] have seen proof of God than those who could attest to have proof of the current state of atomic physics, thermodynamics, or cosmology.
I expect this says a great deal about people. So far, all I've seen is proof of stupidity.
Atheism is not a leap of faith. If you assert passionately that there is a small white china teapot in stable orbit around L2 this also cannot be disproven, but since your assertion is patently absurd, no leap of faith is required to conclude that you are a couple of beers short of a carton.
You make a very good point. I was already working on independent water and power. No I think I had better improve my fencing and get bigger dogs, plus geese and possibly peacocks (peacocks are just slow enough that you keep thinking you can catch one, it should occupy the luckless "zombies" until exhaustion kills them). Luckily guns are banned here in Australia but there is an exemption for landholders.
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Merriam-Webster is a poor choice of reference because it is not an English dictionary. It is an American dictionary. But the Oxford dictionary agrees, so your point stands.
Europe asks? Europe is no more half a dozen fatcats than the USA is half a dozen warmongers.
You're all wrong anyway, unless your parents are also siblings. You should have eight fingers and two thumbs. Digits != fingers.
Shouldn't also deny pudding to fat people? How will the machine identify diabetics, compulsory tattoos?
Clearly all children should be bound and gagged for transport. Ideally this would extend to shopping trolleys.
100% of people were wearing clothes when involved in a traffic accident. Clearly wearing clothes while driving is a high risk activity and should be banned.
You could cancel the contract and get a prepaid sim, but nobody does because at the end of the standard 24month contract everyone wants a new phone anyway so the carrier says "pick one from this list of new toys" and the dance goes on.
So, unable to achieve godlike perfection, we ought to do nothing? Besides, why is this an XOR thing? A high degree of precision is easy in dimensions that are curated (DM'd) and Google performs extremely well at searching in dimensions that weren't anticipated. In any given domain it is reasonable to expect the people currently filing bits of paper to know how documents need to be tagged, simply because they already do the curation. In many cases I fail to see any value in transcribing records; apart from matters of ownership, contract or engineering, bureacratic records are best forgotten.
When the iPhone was first released, it was different. Quite so. Toy commanders and Apple fanbois bought it, in comparatively modest quantities. For a short period, it was qualitatively superior, and enjoyed deservedly high demand. But the set of people who actually need it is much smaller than the number of people who bought it, and the bulk of sales can be qualified as "me-too". I stand by my comment.
As for Apple's grammatical atrocity "think different", Monty Python summed things up perfectly:
I've just examined all three of your links. Two describe accidents that were rectified and the other involves an attempt to make users lives easier that was abandoned when a small group of whiners mounted a legal privacy challenge to a service they almost certainly didn't intend to use.
But a phone alone is worthless. Quality of network is very important, and if you want to develop software for your own use, WP7 is the pick of the bunch; the free tools for WP7 are streets ahead of the paid tools from Apple or Android, and the programming model is better. Contrary to widespread misinformation, the Android toolchain is no more free than the WP7 toolchain, which is to say that both provide a freebie version for non-commercial use. It will cost you to register for use of the WP7 marketplace, which is a Microsoft copy of the Apple app store infrastructure, and serves the same QA function that protects both Apple and Microsoft users from the malware plaguing Android.
AllIndustrial economies are pyramid schemes. They depend on growth. First they did it with empires, then they did it with inflation. Now that growth is no longer possible the morons responsible don't seem to understand that the GFC and its ongoing consequences are simply what happens to a pyramid scheme when growth slows.
What will happen is neofeudalism. Feudalism only failed when the Black Death culled the population, making expansion possible. Now that growth is once again no longer the norm, conditions favouring feudalism are returning. The middle classes will soon be extinct.
If you want the good times to roll again, there are only two options.
Human activities increased normally, CO2 spiked. Logical conclusion: human activities are not the governing factor. If the doings of man are incidental, then climate change should be historically evident. Oh looky, cyclic ice ages. What a surprise. Now take your carbon tax and shove it where the sun don't shine.
Like me, you are a "reductionist" thinking in terms of mechanism; you want the junk removed so you can discern essential principles.
It's not mind-boggling, you clown. There are well preserved fossils of tropical animals like hippos in Norfolk in England around 600, 000 years ago. Obviously it was a lot warmer during the interglacial period. [sarcasm]Do you think perhaps that's why the glaciers melted? Must have been induced by all those prehistoric cars Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble got around in.[/sarcasm]
Then it got a lot colder, in another kind of climate change also not induced by humans, widely known as an ice age. After a long, freezing interlude, it got warmer again. Then it got colder. Climate change happens endlessly, on long cycles and on also on very short cycles known to the cogniscenti as "weather".
Humans and their doings make almost no difference at all to the planet. What is truly mind-boggling is the colossal vanity to imagine that even our sustained collective doings will make a significant difference in the long run, or that the status quo is the best of all possible worlds. If you live in Siberia, five degrees warmer turns icy waste into an enormous wheat belt. Ten degrees would make it almost pleasant. This would completely bugger up ski season here in Australia, but I'm sure the Russians would be happy with the situation.
Whatever happened to democracy? Authority to regulate belongs to the people, and is delegated to officials for administrative purposes. If a majority of people ignore a regulation, that delegation has been revoked and government has no right to enforce it.
Roundabouts are very simple. They are not a single intersection with a concrete circle in the middle, they are a series of T intersections on a one-way ring road. Traffic on the stem of the T must give way to traffic on the bar of the T. In the case of the roundabout, this becomes "Traffic entering a roundabout must give way to traffic on the roundabout."
You can fight over terrestrial resources. I would revive Project Orion only without dirty nukes and take over the solar system. Actually you're right, we probably would fight, I'd most likely try to prevent other groups from escaping to space and threatening my empire. The best way to do this would be to drop rocks from orbit. Big rocks.
You could use it in a stationary plant but that would ignore the primary advantages of this adapation of the PV cell, which are that it directly produces something
Doesn't come back as water? Yes it does, you ass. Water is exactly what you get when you burn hydrogen in oxygen. There are other possible intermediates but they all end up as water. To get anything else you would have to burn it in chlorine. Learn some basic chemistry.
Big? Not from an Australian perspective it isn't. Our country is the same geographic size as mainland USA for a population one tenth the size. We are used to much bigger distances on much worse roads. Our smallest state is bigger than Texas. Our second smallest state is bigger than France.
many people would attest that they have [...] have seen proof of God than those who could attest to have proof of the current state of atomic physics, thermodynamics, or cosmology.
I expect this says a great deal about people. So far, all I've seen is proof of stupidity.
Atheism is not a leap of faith. If you assert passionately that there is a small white china teapot in stable orbit around L2 this also cannot be disproven, but since your assertion is patently absurd, no leap of faith is required to conclude that you are a couple of beers short of a carton.
You make a very good point. I was already working on independent water and power. No I think I had better improve my fencing and get bigger dogs, plus geese and possibly peacocks (peacocks are just slow enough that you keep thinking you can catch one, it should occupy the luckless "zombies" until exhaustion kills them). Luckily guns are banned here in Australia but there is an exemption for landholders.