Yeah, I don't know why you'd take the bus when the metro is so much faster.

ou must understand every aspect of the system if you want to make predictions of a real=world system by modelling it.

No you're flat out wrong. We certainly do not understand all aspects of physics. There is no way of unifying quantum mechnics and gravity yet. Yet both complex CPUs and GPS works just fine without understanding "every aspect".

Peasants working less?

What are you, a commie? The plebs are not allowed spare time, or they might find out how we bullshit them into compliance!

You seem to be confusing science and politics. You'd do well to ignore the politics and look at the science.

Who is studying the positive effects of a warmer climate?

That sounds rather unscientific. Surely one should study the effects of a warmer climate, not bias onesself to positive and negative.

But anyway why are your fishing for these red herrings? The effects on people has nothing to do with climate science. Climate scientists don't stufy the positive or negative effects, because they're too busy figuring out how the climate will change.

Somewhat true, but the regulations really could use an overhaul in the efficiency department. I'm fine with high standards, but if the standard is met, it should be possible to get approval in a reasonable amount of time without spending an inordinate amount of money on the process, and with a reasonable degree of finality (rather than having a million different ways to reopen a court challenge). California's patchwork of regulations is kind of a mess in that department, which is even causing problems for the state itself; the high-speed rail plan has been mired in the process and lawsuits over the process that state law permits a very wide range of people to file. (Granted, it's not all CA law that's the problem in that case; there are also people trying to slow down the process using federal agencies and lawsuits.)

I don't know what you mean by "statistically significant workforce" since we're not talking about an experiment.

A company large enough where any disparity cannot easily be explained by randomness.

What official policy? It's perfectly fine, and would be lauded, to start a tech company "for women, by women" or whatever. You're grasping for straws here.

I'm not sure if you're simple or genuinely ignorant. You know gender (not women) is a protected category for employment, right? That makes having such a policy completely and utterly 100% do not pass go do not collect $200 illegal.

So yes if you had such a police, you'd be sued out of existence in 10 seconds flat.

Which makes the rest of your post irrelevant since it's all predicated on something which would never fly legally.

But libraries already have floating e-book licenses you can check out for downloadable content (including off hours) in addition to everything else they offer.

My daughter volunteered at the local library this summer teaching younger kids to read. In theory some semblance of this "could" be done over the Internet, but I just don't see it actually happening, and it wouldn't be the same.

That is just a general limitation of crowdsourcing (or democracy for that matter). There is a not-super-high ceiling of quality you will hit. But anything much better will, inevitably, come to resemble a scientific journal, and that's not what most of us want most of the time.

No, China is NOT moving as fast as possible. They could stop producing new coal plants and buy nuke plants that are produced in America. However, that is EXACTLY what they are avoiding. Chinese leaders do NOT care about the lead, mercury, CO2, etc that they dump into the air and water. What they care about is holding on to power, while winning the cold war that they have with the west.

China claimed that they were going to spend 100's of billions on doing Solar and Wind for China, BUT, for the amount that they put in, the Chinese gov would have been paying 10x what America paid for our solar/wind. Basically, that money went not into developing China's AE programs, but about destroying companies in Germany, Japan, and America.

We NEVER should have given them a single thing about thorium plants. That will come back to haunt us.

And as to the Chinese economics, they are still a centrally planned system. The only parts that are really free market are companies that export to the west. However, to work there, you have to have gov. permission. Otherwise, the gov still tells you where you will work and what you will earn.

Thank you for the work. I worked on Mars Global Surveyor and Suspect that I had the same feeling when we lost MGS
And yeah, when OCS's shroud failed to release, I was miffed, but far more miffed when they got the next contract for OCO2. Thank god that it was turned over to ULA. Oddly, not sure if you have noticed, but 100% of OCS's failures were earth sats. That has always struck me as interesting.

But, I suspect that when the initial batch of numbers come from OCO2, that it is going to drive a lot of politicians crazy. We continue to focus just on America, when I THINK that we contribute only about 13-15% of total. The idea that so many focus on stopping America, while ignoring China and their constant growth in CO2 is just amazing to me. In fact, it is scary. There is a real lack of logic by both the far right and left WRT to this issue and others like it.

The correct answer is that Marvin the Martian lost his lludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator, and wasn't able to blow it up.

It's called fair queuing. Serve all active customers equally. I switched WISPs because my old one couldn't handle bittorrent and so banned the protocol, so there is definitely something to the idea that their network might be shit and thus they might be banning it because it causes service to degrade even when they do fair queuing.

The article doesn't explain why the idea of this particular body being one mass instead of a rubble pile has been dismissed. Is there a good one?

If you think it's in the hands of the US citizens...then you haven't been paying attention. It's in the hands of a very small group of extremely powerful people. They usually get their way be fraud, but partially it's because the design of the voting system means that there are only two viable candidates for any national office. (This is a result of the plurality wins voting system.) That means that only two candidates need to be bought off before the election. And the costs of running for office are such than anyone who refuses to be bought off won't get elected. Even Ross Perot couldn't win, despite his incredible wealth. It's also a facto that media celebreties aren't allowed to campaign. During the VietNam incursion Pat Paulson ran a humorous campaign for president. He might well have won if they had counted the votes for him. People were that dissatisfied with the government. So they just didn't count the votes. The consolidation of the media means that only those stories that the owners of the media consider "appropriate" get much coverage. So they barely cover public demonstrations, and when they do the coverage is slanted.

The US isn't yet a true dictatorship, but it's drifting in that direction quite rapidly, and VERY few of the citizens desire this. Most of the areas where those who do are in the majoritye are remote areas where they have little contact with the actions of the government. Also the government is, in conjunction with various technological trends, destroying the middle class. Relatively few leave it by climbing up.

Quite often the project ends up with zero adoption because its not that interesting and often there's a bunch of existing projects with already built communities that are doing more or less the same thing. Or the focus is so narrow that it solves nobody's problem.

And those are the better ones! The really bad open-source dumps don't even really build or work outside the original company's complex production environment, and don't have any documentation for how to set up such an environment.