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Correction: they're legally required to give it to you - if you ask.

Counterpoints:

http://en.velib.paris.fr/

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14808.aspx

http://www.citybikes.se/en/

http://www.dublinbikes.ie/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bixi

It might be possible: it doesn't cost anything to publish to the Little Printer, anyway. Publishing app specification dox here http://www.bergcloud.com/download/Little_Printer_Publication...

All of you talking about this as a printer appear to have missed the point very slightly. This isn't a general purpose printer, its more like a personalized newspaper producer.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6nVVdwa3bs

You're thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

Note: I am NOT claiming this is easy. It's incredibly hard. But nothing else works.

Well in that case, you've got big issues with the science curriculum, and that might be a better place to start...

I said he was one of the commanders of a guerilla army committed to the destruction of a country he now is Deputy Prime Minister of. If he is no longer a member of the Army Council (he denies ever being so, with as much believability as Clinton's denial that he did not inhale pot) it is because the political role he was playing became more important, and military activity was jeopardizing that work. Sinn Fein still seek a united Ireland, but are trying to accomplish it through political means.

This is the power of dialogue. You talk, you talk, you keep talking. You deal with the less extreme popular factions (analogy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDLP), but the key word in that sentence is popular: an agreement with an organization with no backing in the community is an agreement with no-one. You do NOT commit to something and then completely disregard it, because then your word becomes worthless, and no-one believes anything you say ever again.

I do not know the solution. No-one does. But attempting to push the Palestinians into the sea is not it.

Well, history says different, and how things actually happened tends to have more weight than theoretical speculation about a perfect employment market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

Ballistics is occasionally interestingly counterintuitive, but perhaps that was overkill.

Bully for you. But it's the idea of prioritizing what is essentially a technician's job (yes, we call ourselves engineers; in reality, most of us are craftsmen) over knowing how the world works, and having some of the mental tools to figure stuff out that's confusing me.

Also, physics really rubbed in abstraction as a concept: "here's the atom, it's a black box, but externally scientists at this point in history could tell this about it. Then this discovery was made. Here's the nucleus, it's a black box, but externally scientists at this point in history could tell this about it..."

Point of information: the world population is currently predicted to peak at 11 billion, due to the rest of the world going through demographic transition. So not ever-growing - though 11 billion is definitely enough to cause problems...

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overpopulation#Projections_of_...)

So you think schools should teach programming over fundamental science? As a very learned person said, "[physics] runs the shit that runs the shit that runs the shit that runs your shit!"

If you don't know physics, you don't know why there are fundamental limits to Moore's Law that we are rapidly approaching, for an example.

When a terrorist hate group is the elected government of the Palestinian Authority, we expect you to deal with them as the elected government. Not to like it, but to do it. Martin McGuinness, former member of the IRA army council, is Deputy Minister of Northern Ireland - a country he ran bombing campaigns to destroy (I'm not exaggerating: the explicit aim of the 30-year PIRA campaign was a reunited Ireland). Nelson Mandela is a convicted terrorist. We expect so much from you, yes. No-one expects this much from people they hate.

That tar-brush you're waving around is very, very wide.

What about biological production of plastics?

Or bioinfomatics or computational biology, where they're understanding current biology, not engineering new stuff?

You've discarded all of fundamental science, in favour of teaching your kids programming. Programming's important, but a physics degree _definitely_ teaches programming along with _how the universe works_. And stats. Lots and lots of stats. ",)

I'm just saying; you come across as a little short sighted, here.

It's a Red Queen Race: everyone's running as fast as they can to stay in the same place - and burning cash by the ton to do so. Red Queen races tend to be good for advancing the state of the art, but they're wasteful. And if you're trying to do something other than advance the state of the art, they're a trap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_Hypothesis

Accepting "education is for a job" in the first place: you're lining your kids up to chase the biggest growth area of the last 20 years, when biotech is likely to be the most successful area in the next 20?

Why do you think the world hates them, then?

(aside: There's a long distance between "please stop allowing or encouraging your government to treat other human beings in this terrible, terrible manner. Please think about the crimes done to them by your parents and grandparents - and by you. Please consider how you can encourage peace," and "we hate you." Or there should be, anyway; there are some very invested people.)

Thus the confusion. ",)

Was this not previously titled "first panorama...," or am I losing grip on reality?

I admit to either being possible.

I am being paid a number of arbitrary denominators of value per time period.

Government declares that the arbitrary denominators of value now buy half the number of a different arbitrary denominators of value they did previously.

Because I am a locovore Luddite (for the sake of the argument), everything I buy is made in the country, with materials produced in the country.

How does the devaluation effect me?

Nope: http://www.amazon.com/Mars-Uncovering-Secrets-National-Geogr... published by the National Geographic from Pathfinder images in 1998.

Well, it would signal seriousness about a two-state solution (how is this http://news.antiwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/westbank.... ever supposed to be a country? It's been almost completely Balkanized) and stop the theft of Palestinian land (it's very hard to feel ...less than ambivalent about a neighbouring country who allows its citizens steal your livelihood).

Basically, to stop this kind of conflict takes dialogue. Lots and lots of dialogue, with people who are serious about it. And not stopping the expansion of the West Bank settlements as per the Oslo Accords signaled that the Israeli government was not serious about its commitments.

(Hi, I'm Irish, I have a small idea whereof I speak, though not much.)

It's the expansionism, and the dispossession of Palestinians that requires, that gets all activists of my acquaintance _really_ het up. Why exactly all the settlements in the West Bank, outside the Wall? Are they "correct" according to Zionism?

Because if yes, Zionism is an ideology in favour of ethnic cleansing, which is an uncomfortable spot to sit...

You want pithiness AND accuracy? What next, blood? :-) But yes, you're entirely correct.

You have access to infinite payphones just outside your door?

More seriously: what's wrong with asking developers to think about what their creations are enabling?

It's in the interests of Zionists to conflate "Jewish" and "Israeli" with "Zionist," then react to anti-Zionist sentiment as if it was anti-semitism.

Yeah, but in that case the RIAA/MPAA had sold off the collections rights to organised crime. This is the _cops_.

No, landlords would NOT be poorer, they're taking in exactly the same as before devaluation. Devaluation directly effects ONLY imports (more expensive) and exports (cheaper): it effects the local economy only based on how much it depends on each.

No, it's raising tariffs on imported goods by stealth.

<em>The currency only matters at the border</em>, so if the thing or person under consideration doesn't cross the border, devaluation doesn't matter.

If Drachmes are devalued, labour in Greece is cheaper than labour in Germany - workers get paid the same number of Drachmes as before devaluation, but they're paid less Euros.