with an appropriate energy source, such as a
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-hundred million years.
We humans have a hard time going at 30 km/sec (19 miles per second) or
0.001% light speed. At 0.001% light speed, that takes ten billion
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as dogs once did for humans. Generally speaking, dogs can endure even
more boredom than those humans who endure a lot, but the amount can be
too much ...
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of electricty and how many meters that same car will move on one
gallon of gasoline, it is easy to convert.)
Thus,
USD 0.10/kWh = ? per US gallon of gasoline
EUR 0.10/kWh (which is now around USD 0.14/kWh) = ? per liter
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organizations have favored more feudalistic governance, inequality,
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pollution at night, including all of
Austria.)
The study in Austria tells us that currently there is no link, which
her suggestion predicts.
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the Israeli port on the
Gulf of Aqaba the way the Egyptians did.
Instead, the Palestinians have employed suicide bombers. ...
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the poles.
According to the article, that warming will promote plant growth
(i.e., produce higher yields) by causing more rain -- or, at least, so
long as the warming is less than 3 degrees C or so.
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glaciers
occur more often when energy sticks close to the earth's surface
rather than vanish into deep space.
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East has
what white, middle-class Americans of the 1930s would consider a
`wide' belief system. Iran may have the widest ...
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was very fast in the latter 18th and early 19th
centuries. It is considered slow, now. The US went through its fast
growth period in the mid-19th century.)
(My sense is that an inorganic replicator should double every 7 months
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to Acts 14:8 - 18 (KJV)), or as a Visit from a single God or
from God's Mother, depending on your tradition. Or you could take the
laws of evolution seriously and figure that your ancestors found it
better (for you) to reproduce than be eaten ...
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enable more
action than simple changes of culture.
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to transfer information faster than light.
But I don't know how.
I would love to be shown wrong.
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...
You can postulate information transfer faster than light, but that is
not yet seen in reality.
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and Boltzmann brought us understanding, an engineer could
say `the thermal energy content of this piece of iron is 0.6% less
than it was yesterday', making use of a ratio scale.
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, that religions fail which do not encourage
reason, observation, and experiment.
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external experience, what
others say, hearsay.
As far as I know, fundamentally, those are the only sources.
(I am not speaking here of con men and other crooks, but of people who
sincerely believe in the knowledge they relate to others.)
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. John's daughter college in Santa Fe, NM. Certainly, it is a
good place. But please remember, besides reading Plato and Aristotle,
Marx and Freud, you read Catholic texts, the best there are.
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After being unable to read the list for, I don't know, months
now, I suddenly had the digest appear in my mailbox!! What a
great Holiday present.
Same here. It is wonderful that I can see it again.
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to convince yourself through your own thinking
that the `pancake theory' is highly suggestive. You do not need to
depend on anyone else, on good or bad hearsay, to reach your conclusion.
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is, or was, considerably smaller.)
I was in Provo at the time, and I'll try to find a summary I wrote
of what went on if anyone's interested . . .
Yes, I am curious.
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and nonliving? Or does it require more criteria
(which I have suggested before: selecting, eating, excreting,
healing)?
What do you think?
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Reads like an astrology collumn in the newspaper.
Doesn't to me, unless of course, you pay attention to the names (like
Pices and Virgo). To me, Forer's text as given in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forer_effect
sounds much more like an astrology column.
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not know whether it is in the
Bible or not.
Does someone here know? And if it is in the Bible, please post the
reference. Thanks.
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cultures (or enough of
them). Since the reasoning, observing, or experimenting are done
by the person, not by someone else reporting to the person, these
experiences are as utterly convincing as a numinous religious
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is a
bit off. While annoying to the less concise, this fine
discrimination ability gives INTPs so inclined a natural
advantage as, for example, grammarians and linguists.
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? On the other hand, you
cannot see with your own senses how a telephone works, only the result
of it working.
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?
(Actually, the question has to do more with statements from the
theologians of the the various denominations; obviously, the
denominations are different from one another.)
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in the Thank You section? At
the moment that section consists only of:
Thank You
My thanks to Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah for suggesting names.
My thanks to my sister, Karen Chassell Ringwald, for suggesting a
guide to pronunciation.
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etc.
That whole posting helps make sense of the pre-industrial,
agricultural world -- it is terrific (and terrifying).
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an outcome?
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in the
1960s.
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Deutscher's more technical passages. The notions
were new to me, especially the passages on the Semantic verb, which
has a purely consonantal root. Deutscher shows how different vowels
could come to indicate different grammatical tenses and consonants
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/three/random/silence.html ) is that a world kills
or seriously injures itself shortly -- within centuries -- after its
intelligent species becomes able to build nuclear weapons.
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this information on a low-resolution display,
such as Lynx, or in one dimensions, such as with text that is
converted to speech by Emacspeak (for car drivers, for example)?
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. But rather than focus on his honesty, I
remember focusing more on his having cut down the tree -- we cut down
and sold Christmas trees, and cutting down the wrong tree was
definitely a mistake. Should the young George Washington have cut
down a different tree?)
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telephone call operation.)
But large secret operations were not the main action. After all, Rove
and others have said what they did. To think that big secrets were
the main action is to be distracted.
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directly? Who is hurt more?
If you were moving more than a billion US dollars each day
internationally, where would you put that money?
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of it', but that is not true in
all situations.
-- Footnote --
(1) `The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful
Growth',
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Raynor,
2003, Harvard Business School Press,
ISBN 1578518520
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English, it is quaranta-cinque. That is base 10, as you would
expect from the symbols.
How was the number expressed in 1200 AD?
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thinking of adding this, or part of
this, to `Choice and Constraint'. See
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a rebuilt New
Orleans, and whether to end the current doubts held by businessmen
and home owners whether to invest privately in rebuilding New
Orleans. Only the most poorly brought up children fail to think
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be a deterrent to raids and/or aboriginal
insurgency in cases where (aboriginal) numbers were low enough to
give advantage to the better armed group.
I think so, too.
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social movements, not the actions of a few in
places like Wyoming.)
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enables previously difficult-to-price activities to be priced in
markets, but have not seen the software. If this last claim is true,
then the current romantic and feudalistic movements should fade.
Otherwise, these thoughts are grim.
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dislike from ambush or when you are angry and never
have to be polite.
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advance means that competitors may become
successful (eventually, if not immediately), feudalists will seek to
stop technological advance.
All in all, very grim thoughts.
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it
was used by Nixon at the very least as a bargaining tool.
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has been investigating
perceived reality
beliefs
institutions
and so must work backwards to how people perceive.
I shall soon reach Part II, The Road Ahead.
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perceive reality before talking about
economic policies that result from perceptions, beliefs, and
institutions.
This is as far as I have read so far. More later.
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consciously, but in practice --
and made decisions accordingly.
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you more as I read more.
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their estates, is going to pay for the recall not Sony itelf, because
that is what Sony's legal contracts say for royalties.
My hunch is that internally in Sony, the people who sell laptops are
going to be upset that they are included with people who sell legal
restrictions.
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, encyclopedia
articles, and the like?
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, but they
are additional.
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have a
good point. But what if the searches were _not_ a random subset?
We do not know.
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by a
proto-chicken, its genes changed, and its changed genes are got passed
on. This supposes that in biological evolution there are no Lamarkian
changes, as in human learning.
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follow through. If you say that
Bush was not lying, then you must admit the chance that sometime
in the past 6 weeks, someone hostile to the US has taken something
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of people
dying. And when it is clear that we cannot depend on mining petroleum
and more hydrogen-poor hydrocarbons like coal for ever.
Depressing thoughts.
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economic map using one
of the software packages for US voting, but failed.)
Thank you!
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are the aluminum metal
of which many imagine when you speak of transparent aluminum ... then
again, most who wear rubies do not think of themselves as wearing
hunks of aluminum oxide contaminated with chrome ...
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the `normal' and hoped for the `typical'.
This is another moral failing since those involved had all sworn or
affirmed to ... provide for the common defense ... as stated in the
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burned coal.)
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must
``do rightly'' rather than ``do wrongly'' or ``not do''
at all.
[1] `The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy',
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exploited.
At a recent seminar about the rebuilding efforts, New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin asked the crowd: How do I ensure that New Orleans
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the worse.
(Incidentally, I tend to think and speak in terms of the fourth
branch, determinative. Rather than attempt to win over others using
any sort of means, I describe notions that I think are suggestive of
truth. This is often a mistake.)
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the use of
domestically produced coal which produces such aerosols is less
difficult than increasing the use of cleaner sources of energy.
That is to say, while some will say `cannot do', there will be others
with a `can do' spirit, although they may `wrongly do'.
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... By the way, speaking in defense of Aristotle, I can tell you
from personal experience that heavy stones stop moving when you stop
pushing. Worse, dropped stones seek the center of the earth, even
if your toe is in the way!)
Julia Thompson
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Orleans as it was, where it
was. This is a wrongly do response since it tells us that a
government will remake a known mistake when it tries to act.)
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breeding it back to the parent Mexican
Tetra line? Could it be done in less than 100 generations?
I have no idea. I've heard that efforts are or have been made to
back-breed cows.
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against the US for years;
or some combination.
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you have the product of thousands of already improbable
events; the resultant product is even less probable.
Only selection determines that those with high net reproduction rates
each generation reproduce so that what was improbable becomes
probable.
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and dangers. Nonetheless, he was hurt
by that decision because few people saw it as a reasonable response to
fuzzy information.
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collective action. Let's see it again.
Otherwise, more people will be hurt.
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for someone
elses misfortune and feel guilty for it, but all the same your
suffering will be diminished. ...
Yes, I sympathize. This is so hard.
Fear can really wear one down ...
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on Saturday
morning and to category 5 on Sunday morning; it made landfall as a
category 4 hurricane on Monday morning.
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, preserve, prepare, and
provide food, water, shelter, fuel and more. That action is a public
good and those supplies are good for the relevant public.
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as odd circumstances.
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Of course, many will argue that you cannot extrapolate from a single
dollop and that you should drop various sized dollops from various
heights, so we can extrapolate from a proper equation. But I think a
cream pie should be eaten ...
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commented that many American
Christians would have trouble with the same question, too (including,
I think, him although he was too discrete to say anything).
All in all, I like this book.
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or the other.)
Theologically, is the original dead? Should we consider the two who
live as being imposters? Or has one soul become two?
Legally, what is right?
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was born more
than 700 years before Christ.
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the current owners expect to lose value within the next
generation.
Plan B meant that the debate over the long-term future of Social
Security was distraction from a debate over much larger,
short-term government deficits.
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the Internet, for example with an
apt-get install tla
command for Debian, it costs you nothing but the time of you and your
equipment.
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out how
to act united.
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into processes with marked thresholds.)
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; government borrowing has continued, non-military
government spending has increased, tax cuts have continued; people
have been distracted by social security debates from bothersome issues
like the current government deficit.
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terawatts, according to
http://www.cpast.org/Articles/fetch.adp?topicnum=13
My understanding is that about 5.5 million Exajoules of sunlight
strike the upper atmosphere of the Earth each year and about 250,000
Exajoules of that make it to Earth's surface.
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, such as
cheaper-to-install insulation, and support new companies taking on
older more established companies for the innovations.
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of sustainable energy
sources, or for public investment in short term activities only.
But who is going to think about that question when you give the
appearance of disregarding what people say? I doubt you want to
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other than `inherent'. Perhaps Deborah
does have opinions about inherent differences, but from her statement
that you quoted no one can tell. She just talked about what girls
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Rather than do this, I think that a government of either the US,
or Western Europe, or Japan, or China should spend 2% or more of
its gross domestic product each year on researching and
developing alternative sources of energy ...
And Alberto
to get uninterrupted time to
work.
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should benefit from the poor, which are
different from the question of which entity should bear the risks,
each individual or all taxpayers as a group.)
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