Ignoring the technical aspect... there is (amazingly!) an artistic component to getting a good shot. It's not as simple as pointing at what you want to photograph and hitting a button. You may replicate this if you have an eye for composition, but a human still has to make that decision at some point, and that person may well be (or have been) a photographer.
Sorry for the impatient tone before, I just assumed you'd overlooked it. No biggie.
http://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/ , second paragraph. And it's really not just this one - the internet is peppered with nonsensical opposition to anything and everything that sounds scary to the ignorant.
I sincerely do think your fears are mostly unfounded. The catalyst for a lot of this work is not a profit motive but spectacularly huge government grants. As to the effect of realtime pricing (which is still years down the road for most utilities) I think there will be a more or less normative of the generating capacity: When the thrifty turn off their ACs and unused appliances, the price of electricity also falls in general. This is because an significant amount of total grid capacity is dedicated to a total of like an hour every year of peak demand. If the electric company can price based on the actual cost, which fluctuates very quickly, even ten over minutes, the actual use will to some degree scale to the economy. Meaning, the grid doesn't suffer the additional overhead of having unused capacity, the price people pay is fairer, and electricity doesn't get wasted. The guy using during peak is simply paying something closer to the actual cost, where today it is spread out like a collective guilt.
I don't watch TMZ. I'm contracted at a utility currently in the deployment phase of similar meters.
I don't see anything related to the wider utility health practices - in fact everything I see is directly related to the meters themselves, including the health claims - perhaps you missed that section. From the website:
"Do you value your health, and the health of your family and friends? Just as we’re learning that cell phones cause brain tumors, why are we installing the same technology on everyone’s homes, often with no right to opt out?"
Unless you're going to quibble on the definition of cancer, I'd say that's pretty much on the mark. They are also plainly stating this as a causative link without presenting a shred of evidence. In fact, all of their relatively outlandish claims are made without anything to back them up.
Realtime pricing should in theory benefit all parties involved - generation, distribution, and consumption. The sky is not falling.
When so many Californians believe that their new electric meters are going to be giving them cancer ( http://stopsmartmeters.org/ ), this is comes as no surprise at all. Also, crystal healing and homeopathy.
Regarding health effects, the claimants have failed to convince me that there is any benefit of significance. The numbers just don't make sense, in many cases are not supported with citations, and in some are obvious outright lies - I've seen 50% reduction in HIV infections claimed.
Anorexia is also a psychological and emotional issue, correct? The people who suffer from the condition have not just physical, but emotional issues as well?
So to is being mutilated sexually. I often hear arguments that talk about "most people" not caring. I am not "most people". I want the body that I was born with, but because my parents were ignorant and the doctors greedy, I will never know what it is to have that. While I recognize the need to live my life, this has caused and will continue to cause me tremendous emotional pain, and for nothing. It won't go away until people start caring about their children enough to simply not do this to them.
So, yeah - not a direct comparison. Anorexia in advertising is not a human rights issue. This is. Anorexia is developed independently, and people have a measure of control over it. Circumcision is decided for a child without his consent, and without an iota of scientifically-valid justification. The point of intersection is that both are highly relevant to peoples' ultimate happiness and well-being, or lack thereof.
From John Harvey Kellogg (yes, the cornflakes Kellogg), who also advocated pouring carbolic acid on the clitorises of girls caught masturbating:
"A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Views_on_sexuality )
For those who may not know, the foreskin, which is in approximately 20% of cases entirely removed (including the frenulum and frenular delta, a commonly-recognized specific erogenous zone which most cut men retain to some extent) has the sensitivity akin to that of the lips.
The beginnings of the practice in the U.S. were thoroughly unscientific, as is its continuation. It should be thoroughly illegal, but delusion will continue to prevail for decades, as more children are mutilated.
The same country which sexually mutilates nearly all of its male children has a law pushed through to kinda-maybe prevent underweight people from suffering from being underweight. What?
I got ahold of a vm with this new operating system. Its strengths are the scalability of the network (a "swarm" of ad-hoc'd laptops is possible), a straightforward interface that doesn't depend so much on language use, and its simplicity.
Its major drawback, however, is the fact that it's not a sophisticated enough system to be useful for all ages of children. The UI and software suit are so surprisingly dumbed down that if it weren't internet capable, I fear it would be useless for any children over, say, 12 years old. And that's pushing it: My 12-year-old sister is making elaborate animations with stuff that would never run on the 100-pc.
I say build schools; build libraries. Build something sustainable, for christ's sake! They're going to give these laptops to children who may not have the best living conditions. My home is hypo-allergenic and safety-sealed, and my sister's laptop is falling apart. What would it look like if dust and dirt and sand came into the picture? Probably a lot like a 100 dollar paperweight. Oh wait- there's no paper that would need a weight, since all our offices went paperless, and the Congo decided to follow suit.
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Ignoring the technical aspect... there is (amazingly!) an artistic component to getting a good shot. It's not as simple as pointing at what you want to photograph and hitting a button. You may replicate this if you have an eye for composition, but a human still has to make that decision at some point, and that person may well be (or have been) a photographer.
Sorry for the impatient tone before, I just assumed you'd overlooked it. No biggie.
http://stopsmartmeters.org/why-stop-smart-meters/ , second paragraph. And it's really not just this one - the internet is peppered with nonsensical opposition to anything and everything that sounds scary to the ignorant.
I sincerely do think your fears are mostly unfounded. The catalyst for a lot of this work is not a profit motive but spectacularly huge government grants. As to the effect of realtime pricing (which is still years down the road for most utilities) I think there will be a more or less normative of the generating capacity: When the thrifty turn off their ACs and unused appliances, the price of electricity also falls in general. This is because an significant amount of total grid capacity is dedicated to a total of like an hour every year of peak demand. If the electric company can price based on the actual cost, which fluctuates very quickly, even ten over minutes, the actual use will to some degree scale to the economy. Meaning, the grid doesn't suffer the additional overhead of having unused capacity, the price people pay is fairer, and electricity doesn't get wasted. The guy using during peak is simply paying something closer to the actual cost, where today it is spread out like a collective guilt.
I don't watch TMZ. I'm contracted at a utility currently in the deployment phase of similar meters.
I don't see anything related to the wider utility health practices - in fact everything I see is directly related to the meters themselves, including the health claims - perhaps you missed that section. From the website:
"Do you value your health, and the health of your family and friends? Just as we’re learning that cell phones cause brain tumors, why are we installing the same technology on everyone’s homes, often with no right to opt out?"
Unless you're going to quibble on the definition of cancer, I'd say that's pretty much on the mark. They are also plainly stating this as a causative link without presenting a shred of evidence. In fact, all of their relatively outlandish claims are made without anything to back them up.
Realtime pricing should in theory benefit all parties involved - generation, distribution, and consumption. The sky is not falling.
When so many Californians believe that their new electric meters are going to be giving them cancer ( http://stopsmartmeters.org/ ), this is comes as no surprise at all. Also, crystal healing and homeopathy.
What in the world is a "social clock"? What's social about it? It doesn't seem to have anything to do with interaction.
Regarding health effects, the claimants have failed to convince me that there is any benefit of significance. The numbers just don't make sense, in many cases are not supported with citations, and in some are obvious outright lies - I've seen 50% reduction in HIV infections claimed. Anorexia is also a psychological and emotional issue, correct? The people who suffer from the condition have not just physical, but emotional issues as well? So to is being mutilated sexually. I often hear arguments that talk about "most people" not caring. I am not "most people". I want the body that I was born with, but because my parents were ignorant and the doctors greedy, I will never know what it is to have that. While I recognize the need to live my life, this has caused and will continue to cause me tremendous emotional pain, and for nothing. It won't go away until people start caring about their children enough to simply not do this to them. So, yeah - not a direct comparison. Anorexia in advertising is not a human rights issue. This is. Anorexia is developed independently, and people have a measure of control over it. Circumcision is decided for a child without his consent, and without an iota of scientifically-valid justification. The point of intersection is that both are highly relevant to peoples' ultimate happiness and well-being, or lack thereof.
From John Harvey Kellogg (yes, the cornflakes Kellogg), who also advocated pouring carbolic acid on the clitorises of girls caught masturbating: "A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Views_on_sexuality ) For those who may not know, the foreskin, which is in approximately 20% of cases entirely removed (including the frenulum and frenular delta, a commonly-recognized specific erogenous zone which most cut men retain to some extent) has the sensitivity akin to that of the lips. The beginnings of the practice in the U.S. were thoroughly unscientific, as is its continuation. It should be thoroughly illegal, but delusion will continue to prevail for decades, as more children are mutilated.
The same country which sexually mutilates nearly all of its male children has a law pushed through to kinda-maybe prevent underweight people from suffering from being underweight. What?
I got ahold of a vm with this new operating system. Its strengths are the scalability of the network (a "swarm" of ad-hoc'd laptops is possible), a straightforward interface that doesn't depend so much on language use, and its simplicity.
Its major drawback, however, is the fact that it's not a sophisticated enough system to be useful for all ages of children. The UI and software suit are so surprisingly dumbed down that if it weren't internet capable, I fear it would be useless for any children over, say, 12 years old. And that's pushing it: My 12-year-old sister is making elaborate animations with stuff that would never run on the 100-pc.
I say build schools; build libraries. Build something sustainable, for christ's sake! They're going to give these laptops to children who may not have the best living conditions. My home is hypo-allergenic and safety-sealed, and my sister's laptop is falling apart. What would it look like if dust and dirt and sand came into the picture? Probably a lot like a 100 dollar paperweight. Oh wait- there's no paper that would need a weight, since all our offices went paperless, and the Congo decided to follow suit.