The Tragedy of the Commons. Garrett Hardin + Author Affiliations Abstract The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality. At the end of a thoughtful article on the future of nuclear war, Wiesner and York (1) concluded that: "Both sides in the arms race are ...confronted by the dilemma of steadily increasing military power and steadily decreasing national security. It is our considered professional judgment that this dilemma has no technical solution. If the great powers continue to look for solutions in the area of science and technology only, the result will be to worsen the situation. " I would like to focus your attention not on the subject of the article (national security in a nuclear world) but on the kind of conclusion they reached, namely that there is no technical solution to the problem. In our day (though not in earlier times) technical solutions are always welcome. It is easy to show that the class is not a null class.
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Jane Goodall: How humans and animals can live together. Overcoming the Slideshow Conundrum | Telegraph to Tokyo. I am writing to you over the Pacific Ocean. Our home in Berkeley (not on Telegraph, but quite near it) is 900 miles behind us. Japan, our home for the next two weeks, is somewhere beyond the vanishing point, 4600 miles in front of us. After a morning of false starts that only non-rev standby passengers can possibly understand, we are headed west for the Far East. If you, dear reader, are wondering just why that is, read on.
As is not always the case, but sometimes is, and this is one of those times, Kevin started it. And here we are, on a plane writing a blog post. But, if you want to keep up with what we’re doing in Japan, this blog is the place for you! Like this: Like Loading... The Stranger - Seattle's Only Newspaper - Screw Comcast and CenturyLink by Goldy. Shortly after taking office, Mayor Ed Murray finally pulled the plug on Gigabit Seattle, the financially challenged fiber- optic-broadband partnership that was once the centerpiece of his predecessor's internet strategy. But while Gigabit's failure was certainly a disappointment, it is also an opportunity: to give a giant collective municipal finger to those monopolistic fuckers at Comcast, CenturyLink, and Wave. Now that the market has failed to address our broadband woes, Seattle is free to reconsider building a city-owned municipal system.
And with Seattle City Light in the process of evaluating technologies for its coming "smart meter" rollout, the timing couldn't be more perfect. Under its current six-year strategic plan, City Light is planning to replace about 410,000 manually read meters with new digital smart meters (City Light prefers the term "AMI," or "Advanced Metering Infrastructure"). But is it feasible? Can't get much clearer than that.
American slavery – it’s a thing | The Odd is Silent. After an informal analysis of the health insurance system in the USA, I’ve come to the conclusion that while Lincoln may have freed the slaves, we haven’t actually abolished slavery here. In fact, it is alive and well, enshrined in law, and the Affordable Care Act is one of the few things that seeks to address that situation. Bear with me, I’ll connect the dots. This all started when I changed jobs and went on COBRA.
There was a 2-week period in which my COBRA application was being processed and in that time the insurance company told the pharmacy that I was self-pay. Like many plans, on ours we pay the retail price for meds or $10, whichever is less. Among the prescriptions that we get here at Casa de Wyatt are two maintenance meds that had always been less than a co-pay.
In fact, we’d never paid more than $10 total for both prescriptions for many years. Except it wasn’t $7 or $8. That’s a problem. If that gives you pause to think you’d better sit down before going further. Like this: Social Media Thinkers & Curators.