gonvaled

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by gonvaled 11y ago
One of the studies is based on the indian population of California
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by gonvaled 11y ago
And I think that: 1) That will never be a priority. We have so many things which are more important to us, and it is just such a difficult problem to solve because of: 2) Whenever (by some magic coincidence?) we are able to feed the whole
813.
by gonvaled 11y ago
Well, they are paying around 4% GDP in debt (2.5% real, since some creditors are allowing for a non-service period), which is actually not that much. But they have a huge debt/GDP ratio (around 200%), which has dramatically increased
814.
by gonvaled 11y ago
That is the point: we do not care, we just reproduce. We have been doing that (reproducing over the real carrying capacity, which is what the local environment can sustain) forever. You can argue that we'll get soon better at distribut
815.
by gonvaled 11y ago
The "population is controlled whenever technology is able to lead the way" is a myth which is based on the false assumption that "technology is able to lead the way". Humanity has not followed that pattern in the last 20
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by gonvaled 11y ago
We have been losing population to starvation since forever. We keep losing population to starvation. We are not able to feed the population of the Earth. We are living above carrying capacity. Worse: we can not change this. It is part of ou
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by gonvaled 11y ago
> What ecological pessimists forget is that so far scientists have always been able to stay ahead of resource scarcity. They have always found better, less toxic replacements for what we’ve lost. Wrong. Very wrong. Humanity has been livi
818.
by gonvaled 11y ago
What the Greek are arguing is that those strings attached are not going to make any difference macro-economically speaking, and that they are going to be extremely painful to an already suffering population. Those measures amount to nothing
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by gonvaled 11y ago
There are so much things wrong with this trolling comment, that I do not not were to start. Do not feed the troll they say, but I will anyway loose a couple of seconds with you, just by giving you some keywords. Marshall plan, dollar, Irak,
820.
by gonvaled 11y ago
Well, the US have the dollar (reserve currency) and the bombs going for them, so they can indulge in a lot more recklessness in this regard. We in Europe need to be much more careful.
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by gonvaled 11y ago
They are guilty. They have paid a hefty price. Bail them out, so that they can start again. They will continue to pay a hefty price nevertheless - bailing out a country does not magically make them prosper. Your moral sense of justice w
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by gonvaled 11y ago
That incentive does not seem so strong if you consider the situation that Greece has reached for them to be bailed-out (if that ever happens). Italy, Spain and Portugal are not in the same situation as Greece. And being bailed out would n
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by gonvaled 11y ago
You could argue that Greece found itself in war against the financial markets. They share some of the blame (like everybody does in any war), but the markets won, so they could provide reparations for the defeated Greece. As in the Marshall
824.
by gonvaled 11y ago
The Marshall plan supported the rebuild of Europe after the WWII ("supported" in a much stronger way: it was based on donations, not credit), for a long time. Without that, Europe would have probably needed a longer time to recove
825.
by gonvaled 11y ago
Usually The Truth (in human matters) doesn't exist. Most human matters are nonsensical - or so complex that there is no way of knowing "The Truth".
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by gonvaled 11y ago
That is one way of seeing it. Here is another way: global period of prosperity in which a world superpower has (momentarily?) solved the problem of maintaining its supremacy (mainly economic, but also military and political) by leeching the
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by gonvaled 11y ago
I think he is referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych Yanukovych was democratically elected and overthrown by popular protests (backed by the EU / US?).
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by gonvaled 11y ago
Probably thousands (millions?), in times past mostly, because that is when the mass population was not vaccinated. Diseases transmit with much more difficulty if people are vaccinated. Diseases kill some people (let's call them "t
829.
by gonvaled 11y ago
I would change "unverifiable" by "unfalsifiable" there. Nothing is verifiable (not even science works that way).
830.
by gonvaled 11y ago
A) the joke was that atheists are exhibitionists, not that they are ranters. BAD joke. B) In case the joke was meant to include ranters, the same case can be made that religious people are generally more ranting inclined. BAD joke. C) I do
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by gonvaled 11y ago
Sorry, I must be dense, I do not get it
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by gonvaled 11y ago
Really? How many official atheistic rituals are performed per week? per month? per year? How many atheistic personalities do you see/hear on the radio / television (talking about atheism, not about pizza)? How many atheistic polit
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by gonvaled 11y ago
TCP packet size? Ethernet frame size? SSD erase block size? WLAN block acknowledgement size? ... Do you really see urgent and think "yeah, right, that must be about bitcoin"? And (honest question) what is in the url " http:
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by gonvaled 11y ago
Even the greeks want to stay in the euro ( http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/04/30/poll-shows-75-of-... ) The current system benefits the monopolist of the global currency (dollar): basically, the system is
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Ah the irony: and the US government (the US being the pinnacle of capitalist society) is refusing them at every chance. Isn't this what Kyoto was proposing? Has not the US (effectively) killed Kyoto? Whatever carbon trading is taking p
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by gonvaled 12y ago
I wouldn't call solar power "nuclear-based", unless you want to call most other energy sources (including fossil fuels, wind, tides, ...) "nuclear-based" too (since the primary energy source is the sun, which genera
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by gonvaled 12y ago
I do not know why you were down-voted, that was interesting. So the quote comes from a fictional report from the late 1950s that tried to make fun of regulation of atomic power. That makes it strangely prescient: first, when the automobile
838.
by gonvaled 12y ago
Sure, we had a problem with horses. But we also had a looming problem with cars, which is what the quote is (correctly in my opinion) forecasting, one which we are now starting to acknowledge (practically unsolvable currently). So the quote
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by gonvaled 12y ago
Wherever the blame may be, and whatever the punishments are, the fact is that the quote was more prescient than inaccurate: we should have legislated better in the early days of the automobile. Now it is too late (or will take too long for
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by gonvaled 12y ago
This seems interesting: > The menace to our people of vehicles of this type hurtling through our streets and along our roads and poisoning the atmosphere would call for prompt legislative action ... Is this really so off-the-mark? Or hav

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