Comment Wikipedia's page on the U.S. Constitution (Score 1) 165
(On the discussion page it looks like all the recent edits are coming from five guys at the Supreme Court.)
At least they weren't gzipped.
Don't be ridiculous. The dinosaurs lived long before the GNU utils were written. They would have been compressed.
And are you seriously telling me if she gets an iphone 64 GB 5S it's the same price as if she gets the $20 special?
In many cases... yes. The most expensive phones have an up-front cost in addition to the two-year commitment, but if you get the most expensive phone you can without an up-front fee, then there is no price difference between that one and the cheapest phone.
Yes, this is ridiculous.
In March 1989 much of Quebec lost power for the same thing.
They lost power because the common-mode breakers tripped, not because their system was actually damaged.
Of hosts, we could even call the file 'hosts'. Then, periodically, you pull a copy from the master to have locally. Simply set up a governing body to arbitrate name clashes (like 'mailserver') and you're good to go!
They can't do everything, which is going to lead them to doing a lot of things suckily.
How do they actually make money to keep those bazillions of servers running? Does anyone ever actually click on those ads?
It started when it became ok to simply "hate" GWB. You never needed a reason.
How are you going to create the atmosphere ON a human timescale?
Hallam said it best: there has never been a time when humanity has successfully and peacefully coexisted with nature.
That would be a nice quote, but it contains an implicit assumption which is seriously wrong: That there is any distinction between humanity and nature.
It's not surprising that we tend to see ourselves as distinct from the rest of nature, because we are dramatically different from all other forms of life around us, and not just because we're self-centered, or even because we're objectively hugely more successful than any other species. We're dramatically different because we're the only species we know of that is capable of creating explanatory knowledge, of conjecturing and criticizing ideas, individually and in collaboration, to understand how and why things work. Many species on Earth are capable of learning, but as far as we can tell it's all "behavioral" learning; understanding merely that specific behaviors cause specific results. Sometimes the results of that level of understanding can be quite sophisticated, as in the animals who can create and use tools in complex sequences to accomplish goals, but it's still on a completely different level from the ability that humans have to deduce deep explanations of the structure and nature of the universe, and how to manipulate it.
Regardless of the temptation to view ourselves as separate from nature, though, we're not. That doesn't mean we won't benefit from applying our understanding of the rest of nature to maintain the elements of it that are beneficial to us. Obviously, we're better off if we don't make the world a worse for ourselves -- the flip side of that is that we are better off if we make the world a better place for us, so stasis is not the goal. That's really good because stasis (aka "sustainability") is impossible.
That's the sound of you missing the point. TFS goes into great detail about facts of whats happened, then says "which makes the point" - but it never MAKES the point. It's just a groupthink argument that everyone must somehow naturally arrive at the same conclusion.
Indeed. In fact, they've not been enforceable for over 145 years per the Fourteenth Amendment and Marbury v. Madison (Anything repugnant to the Constitution is void from it's beginnings...)
practical long distance EVs at a reasonable price and/or can recharge in less than half an hour
The price may or may not be reasonable, depending on your budget, though it definitely is for a non-trivial number of people, but the Tesla Model S fulfills the other requirements today.
My Nissan LEAF doesn't, though it's still a very practical car that easily manages all but a small fraction of my driving.
"Don't build anything, ever, and don't eat any animals, ever" ?
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