Comment Re:Weather is NOT climate (Score 1) 567
climate
noun: climate; plural noun: climates
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
So, climate *is* weather.
climate
noun: climate; plural noun: climates
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
So, climate *is* weather.
Free Speech Zones? That's a new one
I didn't say oil is getting cheaper. I said it is cheaper, e.g., oil is cheaper with this technology than without it.
Your math is off. The cheaper oil is the more we rely on it as an energy source as opposed to less dirty alternatives.
There's actually over 100,000 characters according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... which would reduce the length to 8 characters.
While the threat of a 51% attack may be blown out of proportion (a pool sells their cut of the coins that are mined and it is in their best interest that the coin remain as valuable as possible - attacking a coin would be counterproductive)
Why don't we just let ghash.io own the "official" copy of the ledger, and do away with mining entirely, then? After all, according to you, it would be against ghash.io's best interest to do anything to harm the value of bitcoin...
The corruption of the taxi industry is humanities last hope.
In the future, when robots and AI has taken over every available job a human being could do, the one remaining bulwark that saves the human race from destruction will be the taxi lobby. At that time, the only job for a human will be a taxi driver, and we will drive around robots (other humans will not be able to afford it).
1. Give vasectomies and tubectomies to everyone on alien worlds
2. ?????
3. Profit!
If you bought Comcast in 2009, you'd probably have a different opinion
He should make them all wear dresses..
On the whole, I like weapons being more selective, tends to cut down on civilian casualties, but I think that it's a topic more deserving of careful scrutiny than a reflexive ban.
Such as a weapon that can think for itself, like this?
How would taxing help? The regular investors would still getting screwed, the profits just now being split by the HFTs and the government.
Then DO SOMETHING!
From your link:
In a pinch, power companies could protect valuable transformers by taking them offline before the storm strikes. That would produce local blackouts, but they wouldn't last for long.
It doesn't seem as bad as you make it out to be.
From Nigeria?
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