It's not really just about annoying the neighbours. If you stick all the poor people in the same neighbourhood, then all the poor kids will go to schools with poor kids, and all the rich kids will go to school with rich kids. Since schools are funded by property taxes, the poor kid schools always end up having less money. If you mix poor and rich kids in the same areas, and they attend the same schools, and benefit from the same property taxes, then things end up much more even. Instead of one school having everything, and another having nothing, you'd have all the schools with similar amounts of resources.
Some states (like Michigan) have addressed this by changing things up, and funding schools on a statewide basis rather than from property taxes.
Hint to cable : Deliver more for $8 than Netflix instead of charging hundreds per month.
Like US car companies, it is very hard to admit when the fat years are over. Give them time; I suspect they will come around a bit.
They're a company that wants to stay in business. TV's about as locked in as can be and even they're draining audiences in one form or another. The internet is an amazing levelling field, and even if terrestrial TV packed up and quit tomorrow, there'd be no firm reason NetFlix alone would dominate the internet markets. They're playing the same game by locking up good content behuind their platform so that if/when the sh hits the fan, they'll have something to keep loyal customers paying well for their services.
Er, so?
Yes, on a broad scale to get quality TV, it will still be made by people who make money off of it. It should be a relief that someone can still do that, not a bad thing.
Government can impose prices, but it can't force people to do business.
Unless you bake cakes
That article just says that old forests capture more carbon than was initially thought. They initially thought they captured none; that really isn't a high bar to get over. Young forest still capture more than old forests.
"...solar-powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide."
Trees. Quit cutting them down. Plant more. Problem solved.
Actually, cutting down trees is a great way to optimize carbon storage, as long as new trees are planted to replace the ones cut down. It clears space for new trees, which grow faster and eat more carbon when they are young. The cut wood keeps the carbon locked up and is a useful building material. As long as the cut wood keeps the carbon in solid form it isn't going to affect the atmosphere.
I've actually seen plans where cut wood is dumped to the bottom of the ocean where it won't decay, then replanted in a constant cycle. That carbon would basically be locked up forever (at least until we start mining it at some point in the far future).
That was actually one of my favorite parts of the book, but friends I have recommenced it to have come back and specifically mentioned that part as being hard to get past.
At first I thought that the 'Acre-Foot' sounded like a joke unit, but obviously it is the amount of water that one hundred and twelve horses need to drink if they are each to plough eight hundred furlongs of furrow in a fortnight!! Honestly, you Americans just crack me up with your wacky units. So much more fun than being stuck with boring old litres!
Oh sure, privilege the number ten just because humans have ten fingers.
I thought you were supposed to be more progressive than us backwater colonies?
If you fly, ride the bus, train or cruise ship, other people control where you go.
Hmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with why so many people have cars?
This is always been the solution, even after such massive failures as the Valve Anti-Cheat System on PCs. Have the game analyze the size, name, and even hash of all its files when it opens. If they're different than a preapproved list that's loaded into memory for milliseconds after being unencrypted with an enormous hard-wired password, refuse to open the game. That's moderately secure, assuming they can't get to the hard wired password.
How do you trust that the user hasn't modified "the game" to make it think the hashes always pass?
I love how the summary had more words describing features of Minecraft than it had describing features of the OS.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.