Wouldn't that simply result in businesses paying as little as possible, which would then result in the need to tax the businesses harder?
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For the record, it's a habit you get used to rather fast; nowadays I use the ¨ modifier for ä and ö even when I'm using a Finnish keyboard.
It's amazing that we still have a small number of people connected with connections that are slower than the first one ever, 50 years ago.
Could it be that they anticipate that future earth quakes could cause such devastation that repairs to underground cables would be too difficult/time consuming?
It's fairly generic though. If I needed a more specific term for space planes like this, I'd probably go with orbital drone", based on terminology used in various sci-fi franchises.
It's simply one of those things one has to deal with if one operates an email server.
I agree. I intended that to be implied as a possibility for the first option. Bad things will most likely happen, but it's unlikely that it's THAT bad.
I'd go as far as arguing that _everyone_ should prepare for what's coming. All of us will be affected, be it directly or indirectly, through things like the (most likely) inevitable refugee crisis, or increased food prices and lower standards of living.
> but civilization itself has never, in history, collapsed
I meant individual civilizations and not civilization itself, although I read the original comment as something happening to "our" civilization and not all of them. Total collapse of civilization itself would require something cataclysmic happening on a global scale, and that the effects of said event are so severe that all of humanity fail to restore itself within the time span of several generations.
Some of the more alarmist reports about global warming are indeed pointing at that scenario, although it's more likely that progress will be slower, and that humanity as a whole will be able to adapt in the long run.
Regardless, I am convinced that even if we were talking about the actual end of civilization itself, it would not necessarily be evident to us until it was too late.
The fact that there are alarm bells ringing about the climate now is an indicator of climate changes being either:
a) survivable for humanity as a whole by doing what we can to prevent it and prepare for what happens if we fail
b) the end of the world and it's too late to do anything
This turned darker than I planned. :D
And yes, Yara is a godsend. :)
No doubt about it. At this point it's probably a better idea to start preparing for the changes rather than stopping them, unless we somehow manage to achieve some magical global unity around a single goal.
> I don't see why civilization would collapse any time soon
Civilizational collapse is a slow process. I doubt the people of the later stages of the Roman empire felt their society collapsed. It's more likely they simply experienced slowly decaying infrastructure as maintenance was neglected, social unrest, and the absence of the advantages we get from a large centralized authorities, all in a span of many decades.
I'm not saying that it's happening, or not happening -- It's just that you wouldn't know until it's happened.
Why would Russia argue against technology that would allow cyber warfare on an unprecedented scale?
I suspect it won't be a very user-friendly experience, but as a POC? Sure!
My first reaction to stuff like this is simply that I can't be bothered -- if Disney don't want me as a customer then I'll simply ignore their service.
This is a serious question; I'm quite ignorant when it comes to the content of the current Disney IP portfolio and I'm not really a consumer of mainstream media.
Combine that with:
* The fact that life on Earth was possibly dependent on life from other planets to form.
* Has had multiple near-total extinction events during it's time.
* We're outright dependant on fossil fuels left over from previous cycles in order to get to where we are now.
* Our own species have been close to extinction multiple times far before we reached our current technological level.
* Our own emissions most likely blends with the background noise and are probably not detectable that far out.
* It's taken us countless millennia just to get to the point where we're approaching a technology level that will allow a fraction of our population to scan parts of our closest galactic neighbourhood for disproportionately large signal sources that happens to be on the bands we find to be most convenient.
To me, it sounds like it's quite plausible that we could be amongst the first to spread on an interplanetary scale (assuming we actually manage to do that), or that something happens and we go back to pre-industrial levels, leaving the aliens on the next habitable planet wondering why the level of noise from group of stars a few hundred light-years away suddenly grew quieter.
There's a long way to go from that to bunkering down in the wilderness and withdrawing from society.
School didn't start until 08:00 though, and it was definitely too early if you asked teenage me.
Problem is, the speed limit is usually set with local factors in mind. I.e. if the speed limit doesn't make sense to you then the people who set the limit likely knew something you didn't.
Try driving in Finland, Sweden or Norway at dusk in the fall. That kind of attitude will often result in a white-tail or a moose through the front window. :D
I'm sure SOMEONE'S done it before though. :)