In Canada, any brand of macaroni and cheese is called Kraft dinner, to the point that my mind stumbles on Mac'n'cheese as it is meaningless here. Another example of a brand name becoming a generic description
Always the option of starting your own business to hire yourself, which is the course Bill Gates took. Of course with the right family connections, it is also possible to bypass HR
I think you'd find the same with mens volleyball, volleyball itself doesn't seem to sell. For women it seems to be soccer and ice hockey. We just had the women's world cup here and it was very successful with 99% of hotel space taken, mostly by Americans.If the trend continues, womens soccer may be like mens football
History has shown that it can take generations for those new jobs, eg the Luddite times where it was 70 years before employment became close to full again. Then there are the times where the labour force was reduced through regulation, law and societies expectations. Child labour laws removed a good chunk of the work force and then schooling was enforced to keep the young occupied, with ever increasing age of school completion. This is still going on with societies expectation of a university degree. The house wife/homemaker was another way the labour force was reduced for a time. Forced retirement as well, by law and convention. Even now lots of 50 odd year olds are forced to take early retirement. Then there was the reduced hours of work. 300 years ago employment was close to total even if it was various types of work done at home and only gave a subsistence living. Now employment is probably lower then 50% of the population that is capable of working. At least generally those without jobs have much better lives then the average person 300 years ago and hopefully we'll balance things out but to expect all workers who are displaced by automation to just get another job is wishful thinking.
Just finished rereading Footfall, a quite realistic alien invasion novel where the authours consider all your points and answer them. Young race that is the second on their planet and get technology from artifacts left by the "Predecessors" rather then learning it themselves and herd animals that fight war differently enough from us that they honestly belief they can conquer another species. They are divided about whether to just stay in space or follow the original plan to conquer the Earth until they realize they need to conquer humanity to learn how to best utilize space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What we've seen of Earth's RF emissions as time has gone on is that they have been decreasing at an almost exponential amount. Today radio transmissions use so little power most cannot even escape the atmosphere and because they are digital they are almost indistinguishable from noise. But those early transmissions in the 40's, 50's and 60's were seriously powerful. They likely were visible above the sun's radiation and carried quite a distance, in addition being analog they would be very easy to spot.
AM and FM transmitters are as strong as ever with some very powerful transmitters. Things like radar also can have powerful transmitters. Then there are transmitters pointed outwards such as those used to communicate with Voyager or New Horizons which I'd guess are quite powerful. It's not so much that RF transmissions has been decreasing as much as new types of communications are generally low powered. Most of the transmissions of 50 years ago are still around and some such as TV have become more powerful though harder to decipher.
However, interstellar travel is likely extremely expensive, time consuming (...)
For the crew of an hypothetical alien ship traveling close to the speed of light, the journey would not be time consuming at all [refer to Time Dilation]
As physics is currently understood, achieving relativistic speeds is extremely expensive, with even an antimatter powered ship not capable of achieving it. Not too mention the shielding that would be needed at relativistic speeds. Without some sort of major breakthrough, we're basically left with generation ships and even they pretty well require fusion for any lengthy journey, though with work fission may be good enough (fuel deteriorates and would have to be re-concentrated regularly and enough left at the end of the journey to slow down)
So you're suggesting a more expensive option? Here in my Province where the government pretty well pays for both, they really want seniors staying at home as long as possible as they've done the numbers and it is cheaper to have home care then care centers, at least to a point. (Of course if someone needs 24hr care it is cheaper to put them in a care center)
You can move to 5 minutes from the office instead of 30 minutes. When they get rid of the office and you have to spend 30+ minutes driving in various directions that choice is gone. Note that this ruling is about businesses that don't have an office or another way to look at it is your home is the office.
When you do a wedding shoot, do you not bill for the total time that it takes or do you just bill for the time that you are at the wedding? Or in other words, do you charge more for a shoot that's further away then one that is closer? And of course, if you had an assistant, would you expect them to travel for free, whether it is 15 minutes or 2 hours to the wedding.
Harper is smart and knows that if he raises most of those issues, he'd be gone to the same fate as the Reform Party. Instead he is doing the slow frog thing, small changes that add up. Instead of attacking health care, underfund it until people get pissed off enough to reject. Campaign Finance reform. First thing he did when he got the majority was cut public funding. Then with the "Fair Voting Act" he snuck in a bit about if the election was longer then the usual 6 weeks, spending limits go up. Notice how long this election is and how the Conservatives were the only party prepared to spend the extra that the long campaign allowed. The important thing to him is being able to out spend everyone else. Prostitution, well he just made buying sex illegal and made it illegal to sell sex within miles of schools etc. He is still limited by the Constitution so same sex marriage isn't worth worrying about, especially since the majority of Canadians are OK with it, He's also done the right wing things like fuck the environment, Ran the biggest deficits in our countries history while claiming that they're the only fiscally responsible ones. No thought given to paying of the debts that he racked up either. Continuous war. No more peace keeping, just bombing civilians as long as they're not white. Total support of Israel to the point of mumbling about charging anyone who talks bad about them with hate crimes. And of course the attacks on our democracy. Robocall scandals. Disenfranchising parts of the electorate. Neutering Elections Canada, to the point they can't even encourage people to vote. And of course the attitude that openness means everyone but him.
Here in Canada we've got a right wing authoritarian government (the only kind of right wing government that seems to have success in a democracy).They've been preaching and shrinking government as much as they can as they believe the only functions of government are helping the oil business, bombing brown people and especially spying on the citizens. Small government doesn't help if you're only left with the spying (too expensive to monitor the spies) part of government. Unluckily fear is a great way for a government to maintain power. Bomb people on the other side of the world to create hatred and terrorism, then offer protection in return for the removal of rights. Throw in some tax cuts and the libertarian types go right along with it as they seem more interested in tax cuts then freedom.
Microsoft is also embracing the collecting info on their users business model with free Win10 that collects lots of info and sends it home, and the functionality has been backported to Win7 and Win8. Seems there is a lot of money in targeted advertising.
The other big upcoming thing with streamed games (and video) is ads. Ads that are placed right into the game and can be updated. Product placement is one of the more successful types of advertising and the tech is becoming good enough to tailor the product placements for each individual. You see a character drinking a coke, Joe see the same scene except a pepsi and so on. Not only ads that you barely see on a conscious level but also ads that you can't block, fast forward, etc because if you do you miss out on the action.
The Lisa was simply too early with too expensive hardware. The first Macs had the same problem, too little memory or else they would have been too expensive.
Every user I knew had a third party fan. It didn't take long for those slots to start filling up. Working up from slot zero, language card, perhaps serial card (or modem), often a parallel card for printing, 80 column card (extended memory on the IIE) perhaps a clock or sound card or 2 empty slots, slot 6 was the 5.25 floppy and slot 7 was the 3.5 in floppy or HD controller. Sound, clock and 3.5 in controller came later.
How was the Apple II better or superior to the Commodore, TRS 80, Sinclaire Pet, or whatever the hell was out during the 1980's? Jobs provided much success so people could use the Apple II and bring in the revenue.
I believe the Apple II came out before any of the others and had some nice engineering that cut down on the chip count including a reasonable priced floppy drive, very important for the desktop computer to be more then a toy. As the sibling post mentions, it was also very hackable, 8 slots was the big one but even the joystick interface allowed some interesting hacking. It's a shame that Jobs killed it, and almost killed Apple in the process. Remember when he claimed users didn't need colour or expandability, just a toaster type computer, which at the time was seriously under powered and needed years of Apple II profits just to stay afloat.
As mentioned, NeXT was not a fork of Mac OS. The other choice at the time was Beos as the replacement for OS9 which would have made an interesting parallel future if it happened. I'm old enough that I think of Jobs as the guy who almost killed Apple. I can still hear the echo of him saying "Apple II forever" as he milked it to death in favour of the stripped down Lisa. It was hard to sell a 32 bit computer with a graphical UI and only 128 KBs of memory.
The methane does seem to lead the temperature peaks. What drives the methane would then be the question. The dust could be a proxy for rainfall and rain (actually erosion) drives one of the major sequesters of CO2. There is a lot of limestone. The closest to another Earth we have is Venus, which if nothing else shows how much CO2 an Earth type planet can produce if there are no processes to sequester the CO2. On Earth I believe it is pretty equal between geological and biological processes sequestering carbon with the tectonic plate system ultimately removing it from the surface as well as driving volcanism which replenishes the carbon.
There's not much info there but notice that every 125,000 years, which points to orbital changes driving warming, the dust goes up, then the temperature goes up fast, perhaps driven by methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, and then the methane turns into CO2 and the temps drop as CO2 isn't the strongest greenhouse gas. There are many ways to interpret that chart and without more info... The real question is what happens when something else such as burning large amounts of fossil fuels drives CO2 levels up and it looks like we're doing the experiment
You're correct that greed is only a motivation, just like do-gooding is a motivation. In both cases the motivation can lead to removing the freedoms of others and it seems that they usually go together so the robber baron teams up with the do-gooder to repress others and increase profits and the do-gooders look to the robber baron to finance their "good works". Between them they can lead to greater repression then either alone, especially in modern society where they capture the government.
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In Canada, any brand of macaroni and cheese is called Kraft dinner, to the point that my mind stumbles on Mac'n'cheese as it is meaningless here. Another example of a brand name becoming a generic description
Always the option of starting your own business to hire yourself, which is the course Bill Gates took. Of course with the right family connections, it is also possible to bypass HR
I think you'd find the same with mens volleyball, volleyball itself doesn't seem to sell. For women it seems to be soccer and ice hockey. We just had the women's world cup here and it was very successful with 99% of hotel space taken, mostly by Americans.If the trend continues, womens soccer may be like mens football
History has shown that it can take generations for those new jobs, eg the Luddite times where it was 70 years before employment became close to full again. Then there are the times where the labour force was reduced through regulation, law and societies expectations. Child labour laws removed a good chunk of the work force and then schooling was enforced to keep the young occupied, with ever increasing age of school completion. This is still going on with societies expectation of a university degree. The house wife/homemaker was another way the labour force was reduced for a time. Forced retirement as well, by law and convention. Even now lots of 50 odd year olds are forced to take early retirement. Then there was the reduced hours of work.
300 years ago employment was close to total even if it was various types of work done at home and only gave a subsistence living. Now employment is probably lower then 50% of the population that is capable of working.
At least generally those without jobs have much better lives then the average person 300 years ago and hopefully we'll balance things out but to expect all workers who are displaced by automation to just get another job is wishful thinking.
Just finished rereading Footfall, a quite realistic alien invasion novel where the authours consider all your points and answer them. Young race that is the second on their planet and get technology from artifacts left by the "Predecessors" rather then learning it themselves and herd animals that fight war differently enough from us that they honestly belief they can conquer another species. They are divided about whether to just stay in space or follow the original plan to conquer the Earth until they realize they need to conquer humanity to learn how to best utilize space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What we've seen of Earth's RF emissions as time has gone on is that they have been decreasing at an almost exponential amount. Today radio transmissions use so little power most cannot even escape the atmosphere and because they are digital they are almost indistinguishable from noise. But those early transmissions in the 40's, 50's and 60's were seriously powerful. They likely were visible above the sun's radiation and carried quite a distance, in addition being analog they would be very easy to spot.
AM and FM transmitters are as strong as ever with some very powerful transmitters. Things like radar also can have powerful transmitters. Then there are transmitters pointed outwards such as those used to communicate with Voyager or New Horizons which I'd guess are quite powerful.
It's not so much that RF transmissions has been decreasing as much as new types of communications are generally low powered. Most of the transmissions of 50 years ago are still around and some such as TV have become more powerful though harder to decipher.
However, interstellar travel is likely extremely expensive, time consuming (...)
For the crew of an hypothetical alien ship traveling close to the speed of light, the journey would not be time consuming at all [refer to Time Dilation]
As physics is currently understood, achieving relativistic speeds is extremely expensive, with even an antimatter powered ship not capable of achieving it. Not too mention the shielding that would be needed at relativistic speeds.
Without some sort of major breakthrough, we're basically left with generation ships and even they pretty well require fusion for any lengthy journey, though with work fission may be good enough (fuel deteriorates and would have to be re-concentrated regularly and enough left at the end of the journey to slow down)
So you're suggesting a more expensive option? Here in my Province where the government pretty well pays for both, they really want seniors staying at home as long as possible as they've done the numbers and it is cheaper to have home care then care centers, at least to a point. (Of course if someone needs 24hr care it is cheaper to put them in a care center)
You can move to 5 minutes from the office instead of 30 minutes. When they get rid of the office and you have to spend 30+ minutes driving in various directions that choice is gone.
Note that this ruling is about businesses that don't have an office or another way to look at it is your home is the office.
When you do a wedding shoot, do you not bill for the total time that it takes or do you just bill for the time that you are at the wedding? Or in other words, do you charge more for a shoot that's further away then one that is closer?
And of course, if you had an assistant, would you expect them to travel for free, whether it is 15 minutes or 2 hours to the wedding.
The end goal of evolution is survival and the most evolved are those genes that are still around.
Harper is smart and knows that if he raises most of those issues, he'd be gone to the same fate as the Reform Party. Instead he is doing the slow frog thing, small changes that add up. Instead of attacking health care, underfund it until people get pissed off enough to reject. Campaign Finance reform. First thing he did when he got the majority was cut public funding. Then with the "Fair Voting Act" he snuck in a bit about if the election was longer then the usual 6 weeks, spending limits go up. Notice how long this election is and how the Conservatives were the only party prepared to spend the extra that the long campaign allowed. The important thing to him is being able to out spend everyone else.
Prostitution, well he just made buying sex illegal and made it illegal to sell sex within miles of schools etc.
He is still limited by the Constitution so same sex marriage isn't worth worrying about, especially since the majority of Canadians are OK with it,
He's also done the right wing things like fuck the environment, Ran the biggest deficits in our countries history while claiming that they're the only fiscally responsible ones. No thought given to paying of the debts that he racked up either. Continuous war. No more peace keeping, just bombing civilians as long as they're not white. Total support of Israel to the point of mumbling about charging anyone who talks bad about them with hate crimes.
And of course the attacks on our democracy. Robocall scandals. Disenfranchising parts of the electorate. Neutering Elections Canada, to the point they can't even encourage people to vote. And of course the attitude that openness means everyone but him.
Actually Harper is so far right that he is actually to the right of Obama. Slightly more authoritarian too. See the political compass. http://www.politicalcompass.or... http://www.politicalcompass.or...
Here in Canada we've got a right wing authoritarian government (the only kind of right wing government that seems to have success in a democracy).They've been preaching and shrinking government as much as they can as they believe the only functions of government are helping the oil business, bombing brown people and especially spying on the citizens. Small government doesn't help if you're only left with the spying (too expensive to monitor the spies) part of government.
Unluckily fear is a great way for a government to maintain power. Bomb people on the other side of the world to create hatred and terrorism, then offer protection in return for the removal of rights. Throw in some tax cuts and the libertarian types go right along with it as they seem more interested in tax cuts then freedom.
Microsoft is also embracing the collecting info on their users business model with free Win10 that collects lots of info and sends it home, and the functionality has been backported to Win7 and Win8. Seems there is a lot of money in targeted advertising.
The other big upcoming thing with streamed games (and video) is ads. Ads that are placed right into the game and can be updated. Product placement is one of the more successful types of advertising and the tech is becoming good enough to tailor the product placements for each individual. You see a character drinking a coke, Joe see the same scene except a pepsi and so on. Not only ads that you barely see on a conscious level but also ads that you can't block, fast forward, etc because if you do you miss out on the action.
The Lisa was simply too early with too expensive hardware. The first Macs had the same problem, too little memory or else they would have been too expensive.
Every user I knew had a third party fan. It didn't take long for those slots to start filling up. Working up from slot zero, language card, perhaps serial card (or modem), often a parallel card for printing, 80 column card (extended memory on the IIE) perhaps a clock or sound card or 2 empty slots, slot 6 was the 5.25 floppy and slot 7 was the 3.5 in floppy or HD controller. Sound, clock and 3.5 in controller came later.
How was the Apple II better or superior to the Commodore, TRS 80, Sinclaire Pet, or whatever the hell was out during the 1980's? Jobs provided much success so people could use the Apple II and bring in the revenue.
I believe the Apple II came out before any of the others and had some nice engineering that cut down on the chip count including a reasonable priced floppy drive, very important for the desktop computer to be more then a toy. As the sibling post mentions, it was also very hackable, 8 slots was the big one but even the joystick interface allowed some interesting hacking.
It's a shame that Jobs killed it, and almost killed Apple in the process. Remember when he claimed users didn't need colour or expandability, just a toaster type computer, which at the time was seriously under powered and needed years of Apple II profits just to stay afloat.
As mentioned, NeXT was not a fork of Mac OS. The other choice at the time was Beos as the replacement for OS9 which would have made an interesting parallel future if it happened.
I'm old enough that I think of Jobs as the guy who almost killed Apple. I can still hear the echo of him saying "Apple II forever" as he milked it to death in favour of the stripped down Lisa. It was hard to sell a 32 bit computer with a graphical UI and only 128 KBs of memory.
That's how I heard it, including the lack of a fan, which was needed as soon as you started filling up the slots.
And of course I still managed to read the chart backwards. Bedtime.
The methane does seem to lead the temperature peaks. What drives the methane would then be the question. The dust could be a proxy for rainfall and rain (actually erosion) drives one of the major sequesters of CO2. There is a lot of limestone.
The closest to another Earth we have is Venus, which if nothing else shows how much CO2 an Earth type planet can produce if there are no processes to sequester the CO2. On Earth I believe it is pretty equal between geological and biological processes sequestering carbon with the tectonic plate system ultimately removing it from the surface as well as driving volcanism which replenishes the carbon.
There's not much info there but notice that every 125,000 years, which points to orbital changes driving warming, the dust goes up, then the temperature goes up fast, perhaps driven by methane, a very potent greenhouse gas, and then the methane turns into CO2 and the temps drop as CO2 isn't the strongest greenhouse gas.
There are many ways to interpret that chart and without more info...
The real question is what happens when something else such as burning large amounts of fossil fuels drives CO2 levels up and it looks like we're doing the experiment
You're correct that greed is only a motivation, just like do-gooding is a motivation. In both cases the motivation can lead to removing the freedoms of others and it seems that they usually go together so the robber baron teams up with the do-gooder to repress others and increase profits and the do-gooders look to the robber baron to finance their "good works". Between them they can lead to greater repression then either alone, especially in modern society where they capture the government.