And you've got an air conditioned game reserve (or maybe one populated with desert animals) to get meat in? And a hydroponic farm for crops? Maybe a fish farm that can sustain itself if ocean acidification hits a tipping point? An air conditioned exercise room (or maybe night vision goggles) since exerting yourself outdoors will be extremely exhausting? Hey even if you're fit your kids will probably want to play.
You're gonna need to be rich to afford all this stuff...
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His point is that corporations are making mostly evolutionary improvements while governments are doing the revolutionary/breakthrough stuff, which has a poor ROI (pharmaceuticals being an obvious exception - they've got enough money to dump billions of dollars and years of time into research).
The billionaire space adventure companies and Tesla Motors have only made evolutionary changes to existing tech. Heck, a gearhead with a six-figure budget could have easily built the Tesla Roadster in his garage using off-the-shelf parts.
These days, pretty much everything, be it performance, towing capacity, reliability, or safety are being sacrificed on the almighty MPG altar.
Safety being sacrificed? Please, it's the Safety Altar if anything. In the '70s little Datsuns with fridge-like aerodynamics and engines that were primitive as hell by today's standards were getting 40MPG without even trying. Why can't we do that today? Because you need to be able to walk away from accidents that would have turned you into a bloody shredded mess in that old 120Y, says the government.
If you called it the "SAFETY dammit SAFETY! (oh, and MPG) altar" I would agree, that's where things have been headed over the last 15 years.
But why should a car need to be able to tow a trailer? That's unnecessary inefficiency for most. It's the same reason most laptops aren't gaming laptops. And I'll bet on a recent Hilux, Patrol utility pickup or Dodge 3500 against any old pickup for towing capability any day.
Side note: I just realized that I moderated in this discussion and was able to post without getting a warning. So either the mod-deletion warning is broken or the mod-abuse-prevention system itself is broken. I hope it's the former.
Damn right. Edison was a greed-headed businessman and a giant asshole. Tesla was the brains behind the operation. Sad that most of us grew up being taught the whitewashed fictional history of Edison.
No, they think they arrested the spokesman but they arrested some dude who was framed by the spokesman. But the real spokesman (Topiary) has since had all his personal info released online so he's probably hiding in the woods right now.
Yeah good thing none of that ice is on land in, say, the form of a glacier, Mr. Genius. Your Nobel prize for debunking the entire theory of sea level increase due to climate change in your landmark Ice Cubes In A Glass experiment is ready to be collected.
It seems you're getting your info on environmentalists from Fox News stereotypes rather than the real world. Most intelligent environmentalists (the type you're likely to run into on Slashdot) DO advocate for nuclear power, and none want to turn the world communist or have us live in caves.
On a serious note, I think the carbon footprint of walking in a built-up area must be worse than riding a motor-scooter. Case in point: There's a crosswalk in the middle of a hill I drive up every day to work. For one person to cross, somewhere between 30 and 100 vehicles (depending on how bad traffic is) including big rigs, must come to a stop on the uphill and downhill lanes of this hill, and get moving again. Then this effect ripples through traffic all around the area, they have to slow down and speed up. Just for maybe 1-5 people to cross, not a big NY-style road crossing.
That HAS to be worse than riding a motor scooter around, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was worse than driving a car.
THANK YOU! Those local despots are good free-market despots. If ravenshrike goes in and clears them out, he is the new government. Even if he leaves afterwards he's just making room for new despots who will effectively be the new government.
The admission from a libertarian that a non-government entity can effectively become a government is, in effect, a strong renunciation of the ideology, whether he realizes it or not.
I like the addon blocking feature but now I gotta go through all this repo-changing bullshit AGAIN to upgrade my Linux machines? I'm thinking of just using the.deb installers, it's looking like using repos isn't worth it for Firefox at this point...
Well I don't find the idea of the plesiosaur being warm blooded or giving live birth upsetting. Now what's upsetting is that T-Rex might have been a scavenger. The proud king of the dinosaurs turns out to be a great big mooch who uses his size and strength for intimidation, like an unemployed guido roommate. Upsetting.
Maybe all those "don't worry, the future will fix it" types were right...hate to see the smug look on their irresponsible faces, but I can live with the results.
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Dude plastics rock. And spy satellites are just misused mapping satellites.
And you've got an air conditioned game reserve (or maybe one populated with desert animals) to get meat in? And a hydroponic farm for crops? Maybe a fish farm that can sustain itself if ocean acidification hits a tipping point? An air conditioned exercise room (or maybe night vision goggles) since exerting yourself outdoors will be extremely exhausting? Hey even if you're fit your kids will probably want to play.
You're gonna need to be rich to afford all this stuff...
His point is that corporations are making mostly evolutionary improvements while governments are doing the revolutionary/breakthrough stuff, which has a poor ROI (pharmaceuticals being an obvious exception - they've got enough money to dump billions of dollars and years of time into research).
The billionaire space adventure companies and Tesla Motors have only made evolutionary changes to existing tech. Heck, a gearhead with a six-figure budget could have easily built the Tesla Roadster in his garage using off-the-shelf parts.
These days, pretty much everything, be it performance, towing capacity, reliability, or safety are being sacrificed on the almighty MPG altar.
Safety being sacrificed? Please, it's the Safety Altar if anything. In the '70s little Datsuns with fridge-like aerodynamics and engines that were primitive as hell by today's standards were getting 40MPG without even trying. Why can't we do that today? Because you need to be able to walk away from accidents that would have turned you into a bloody shredded mess in that old 120Y, says the government.
If you called it the "SAFETY dammit SAFETY! (oh, and MPG) altar" I would agree, that's where things have been headed over the last 15 years.
But why should a car need to be able to tow a trailer? That's unnecessary inefficiency for most. It's the same reason most laptops aren't gaming laptops. And I'll bet on a recent Hilux, Patrol utility pickup or Dodge 3500 against any old pickup for towing capability any day.
Side note: I just realized that I moderated in this discussion and was able to post without getting a warning. So either the mod-deletion warning is broken or the mod-abuse-prevention system itself is broken. I hope it's the former.
Damn right. Edison was a greed-headed businessman and a giant asshole. Tesla was the brains behind the operation. Sad that most of us grew up being taught the whitewashed fictional history of Edison.
No, they think they arrested the spokesman but they arrested some dude who was framed by the spokesman. But the real spokesman (Topiary) has since had all his personal info released online so he's probably hiding in the woods right now.
Defense rests.
A lot of anti-nuclear nuts have come out since the Fukushima incident but I'd say the majority are still pro-nuclear.
13,000? That's like 4.3 9/11s per year! Seems like an excellent use of effort and money compared to the wars in the Middle East.
Sounds like you got a plan, if you've saved up for air conditioned spacesuits for your descendants to wear outdoors.
Now, global warming is based of measurements we are not allowed to see, using programs we aren't allowed to see,
"We are not allowed to see?" "I can't be assed to look for" is more like it.
One kook predicted global cooling in the '70s and, unfortunately, got onto the cover of Time. But whatever, keep spewing the same old fiction.
Yeah good thing none of that ice is on land in, say, the form of a glacier, Mr. Genius. Your Nobel prize for debunking the entire theory of sea level increase due to climate change in your landmark Ice Cubes In A Glass experiment is ready to be collected.
It seems you're getting your info on environmentalists from Fox News stereotypes rather than the real world. Most intelligent environmentalists (the type you're likely to run into on Slashdot) DO advocate for nuclear power, and none want to turn the world communist or have us live in caves.
On a serious note, I think the carbon footprint of walking in a built-up area must be worse than riding a motor-scooter. Case in point: There's a crosswalk in the middle of a hill I drive up every day to work. For one person to cross, somewhere between 30 and 100 vehicles (depending on how bad traffic is) including big rigs, must come to a stop on the uphill and downhill lanes of this hill, and get moving again. Then this effect ripples through traffic all around the area, they have to slow down and speed up. Just for maybe 1-5 people to cross, not a big NY-style road crossing.
That HAS to be worse than riding a motor scooter around, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was worse than driving a car.
THANK YOU! Those local despots are good free-market despots. If ravenshrike goes in and clears them out, he is the new government. Even if he leaves afterwards he's just making room for new despots who will effectively be the new government.
The admission from a libertarian that a non-government entity can effectively become a government is, in effect, a strong renunciation of the ideology, whether he realizes it or not.
Thanks for this, now I know that MyCleanPC is run by spamming shitsacks, and to recommend against it if anyone brings it up.
I like the addon blocking feature but now I gotta go through all this repo-changing bullshit AGAIN to upgrade my Linux machines? I'm thinking of just using the .deb installers, it's looking like using repos isn't worth it for Firefox at this point...
Well I don't find the idea of the plesiosaur being warm blooded or giving live birth upsetting. Now what's upsetting is that T-Rex might have been a scavenger. The proud king of the dinosaurs turns out to be a great big mooch who uses his size and strength for intimidation, like an unemployed guido roommate. Upsetting.
So, you drank Zuckerberg's kool-aid...
...or until Facebook rolls out a new "feature" that makes that info public by default.
Even if you're smart enough to keep your info protected, most users aren't.
That's also the best one-line summary of Heinlein's attitude I've ever seen.
Maybe all those "don't worry, the future will fix it" types were right...hate to see the smug look on their irresponsible faces, but I can live with the results.