Comment Re:Space travel (Score 4, Insightful) 357
Or a hundred-man colonization team, for that matter.
That would not be a successful long term colonization effort. But fifty men plus fifty women might be.
Or a hundred-man colonization team, for that matter.
That would not be a successful long term colonization effort. But fifty men plus fifty women might be.
The joke falls flat because every single professional driver with a dispatcher (from taxis to police to heavy trucks) has conversations while driving
I don't understand your point. Are you saying that professional drivers don't have accidents?
In many contexts they are quite complementary.
In order to drive north, I need to drive south out of my cul-de-sac. So "north" and "south" are complementary. They are also complete opposites.
keep re-reading the wiki until you manage to understand the words
Sorry, but I am stuck on the part where it says that critical thinking is a "commitment to the social and political practice of participatory democracy." Really? What the hell is that supposed to mean? It seems to be saying that critical thinking means "go with the crowd".
So I ask again, what differentiates "critical" thinking from "normal" thinking? You seem to believe that "critical" thinking is done by anyone that agrees with you, and "normal" thinking is done by anyone else. Can you go beyond that?
When a citation is requested and provided, the proper counter-argument is not to ridicule the source of the citations, but to provide your own citations that provide opposing evidence. According to the citations, since 1950, public school enrollment has gone up by 96%, the number of teachers has gone up by 252%, and the number of administrative employees has gone up by 702%. If you can find a citation that contradicts this statement, please provide it.
none of those definitions are directly contradictory.
Baloney. "Inward-directed, self-reflective thinking", and "evidence based reasoning" are complete opposites. Any definition that encompasses both, will be so broad as to be meaningless. Can you explain what differentiates "critical" thinking from "normal" thinking?
Otherwise known as "critical thinking".
"Critical Thinking" is a meaningless phrase. The Wikipedia page contains nine different definitions, some directly contradictory. So whatever "critical thinking" means, those that use the phrase without saying what they actually mean, are not doing it.
Aren't the prices set by law too?
The point is that they are set higher than a free market would provide.
Cabs are regulated similar to the post-office, there are more and less profitable routes, and some subsidize others.
Which is, of course, idiotic. There is no reason for routes to "cost the same". Should the government also regulate grocery stores so that oatmeal is the same price as filet mignon? That way all meals will cost the same.
They don't want non-licensed services that can charge whatever they want to snipe profitable routes at a lower rate.
You cannot repeal the laws of supply and demand. If you fix the price of bread, you get empty shelves. If you fix the price of taxi fares, you will have plenty of cabs lining up for the profitable routes, and no one willing to drive a black guy to Harlem at 11pm. Which is exactly what happens.
I'm not saying it's good, but it's really not a case of artificial scarcity.
It is not good, and it is absolutely a case of artificial scarcity. You are just arguing that it is motivated by cross subsidies, rather than rent-seeking cronyism. But if it was really just leveling the prices, then a taxi medallion wouldn't cost over a million dollars.
Those that get diluted get repeatedly diluted by a factor of TEN not HUNDRED.
Both Wikipedia and The Society of Homeopaths state that the standard "C-scale" is based on dilutions of one hundred.
And this is NOT repeated 100 times, the maximum AFAIK is 23.
Nope. Some remedies go up to 200C which is 100^200 or 1e400. For instance the anti-flu drug Oscillococcinum uses a dilution of 200C.
Shouldn't sea water be considered a wonder drug in homeopathy, because everything eventually makes its way into the ocean and gets ultra-diluted.
No. A homeopathic remedy is typically diluted by a factor of one hundred, one hundred times. So one liter of original substance would be diluted by 1e200. All the world's oceans contain about 1.35e9 cubic km, or 1.35e21 liters. So diluting with the ocean would be shy by 179 orders of magnitude.
Why should they be on a network at all?
As we increase the proportion of electricity generated from intermittent sources such as wind and solar, we will use spot pricing to even out the demand. When the sun goes behind a cloud, the price of electricity will bump up, and your electric meter needs to be able to communicate with your refrigerator to tell it to shut down the compressor. Once the sun comes back out, the price will drop, and then your refrigerator can use cheaper electricity to "pre-chill", so it can coast again the next time the price bumps up.
My refrigerator does just fine with a basic thermostat,
At a greater than needed cost to both your wallet and our environment.
the third party candidates never get any national coverage, so get very few votes.
When third party candidates do get coverage, their support tends to go down. The reasons for this are complex. They often focus on ideology rather than practical solutions, and have difficulty compressing their message into simplistic soundbites that can be understood by the general public.
Gonna be a long while till robots will be able to do all the shitty things nomadic, entry-level employees do.
It will be a while before robots can do all of those jobs, but many of them will soon be automated. If you go into a McDonald's, half the employees are taking orders, and the other half are fulfilling them. The people taking the orders could easily be replaced: Just turn the touchscreens around so that customers can enter their own orders, and then swipe a card to pay. Grocery stores have already done this, and so have banks. Fast food is next.
So my honda civic that I regularly get 44mpg out of is better than the Leaf, Tesla, and Volt.
It may be "better" at CO2 emissions, but it is worse in other ways. If the electricity used by the Leaf/Tesla/Volt is from fossil fuels, then it is generated from domestic coal or natural gas, creating jobs for Americans. The money you pay for gasoline for your Honda goes to support some odious governments in Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Russia, etc.
No. But they can certainly check your resume by calling your ex-bosses to ask them about you.
They may check on your last job, or the one before that if in the last few years. But it is very unlikely that they are going to check on a job from five or ten years ago. Likewise, if you are 23, they may check on your degree, but if you are 33, that is unlikely too. You just need to be smart about what you lie about.
No prospective employer has ever asked me for proof of any degrees, and they never asked for my GPA or transcripts. As far as I know, they never checked with any previous employer about anything. For some reason, they seemed to be much more concerned about what I could actually do.
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.
