Will it be a truck like the Model X is an SUV (aka, not really one -- can't beat it up offroad like you can a 4Runner, Highlander, etc)?
Most SUVs, especially more modern ones, are not very offroad-capable, worst of all crossovers which are just tall station wagons (or in some cases, more like tall hatchbacks). Trucks like the 4Runner and Highlander that come with a taste of offroad capability are the exception, not the rule.
Most gigantic American pickups have a hilariously bad breakover angle as well.
The last humans on the floor are doing the job that most needs to be replaced by a computer:
Now, humans on the NYSE floor have more of a supervisory role, making sure the automated systems don't go haywire
As trading speeds climb higher and higher, the reaction speed of a human will be less and less relevant. Even most computers have slow reactions compared to the exotic hardware of an HFT machine.
And it's been proven to work in real life: There are real conspiracies that have been publicly outed but the believers don't care. The STEM shortage hoax and corporate-funded climate denialism are two I can think of that are running right now.
ISIS - Fear mongering, who really believes the US can't get rid of these camal fuckers in a matter of hours?
They sure could, if they were OK with being a bunch of murderous war criminals in the process and being bankrupt at the end of it. If you want that you could vote for Trump (but please don't).
Yep the 911 conspiracy theories are the most needlessly over-complicated ones, often involving things like buildings with explosives built into them decades in advance, remote-controlled airliners, and it only gets crazier from there. All it really needs is a blackmail plot to convince some dudes to fly some planes into some buildings (or their families get it).
Or even more simply you could find some nutjob terrorists who would already like to do that. You might not even need to help them OH WAIT
Exactly. Climate change denial can't work without an "active" conspiracy theory. That's why I like to call "climate denialists" "climate conspiracy theorists" - they often say they don't like "denialist" anyway:-) and only a few will even try to avoid directly admitting this, instead whistling innocently at the implication.
Any scientist who outed climate change as a hoax, whether through disproof or simply breaking the silence on the conspiracy, would be the most famous, awarded, and rewarded scientist in history. This person would replace Albert Einstein in the public consciousness. That's one helluva motivation to break the conspiracy, that the motivation to stay in on the conspiracy must exceed. Greater rewards (or greater punishments for whistleblowers) would need to be offered to virtually every professional and amateur scientist on Earth. The "non-malevolent groupthink" variant of the theory therefore makes no sense.
You want to religion taught in schools? Outside of religious schools, the problem becomes "What religion gets taught?", and there's a bundle of problems involved with that.
I think teaching the creation story of every religion out there could be a decent idea. Including that of Pastafarianism, of course. That should give the kids plenty of perspective!
Automakers seem to have recurring amnesia about what a terrible idea hydrogen-powered cars are (See this post.).
The cycle goes like this:
1. Develop hydrogen cars! They're totally the future you guys! 2. Realize they're a terrible idea surrounded by better alternatives. 3. Wait 5~15 years 4. Forget 2 5. GOTO 1
Hydrogen gives you the high up-front vehicle costs of an EV, the ongoing fuel costs of an ICE car, currently it gives you the fuel sourcing environmental problems of an ICE (look up where most hydrogen comes from today), and the fuel transportation and storage problems of...hydrogen.
Hydrogen cars are only missing the vehicle emissions problems and complexity of an ICE, and the range and refueling time problems of a current EV to be the worst of all worlds in all areas.
It looks like nobody has connected a PLC *directly* to the Internet in a nuclear plant yet, but they've connected control networks (those containing the industrial control systems and the computers that manage them) to non-control-related office networks resulting a number of incidents, both malicious and unintentional. See PDF page 14:
No, they haven't, that's why the government needs to advise them. They're doing deeply idiotic things like connecting industrial control equipment with joke security directly to the Internet.
Surely there is hope yet for technological solutionism! Maybe they need VR goggles? Wearables? IoT devices?...Teledildonics? There must be some gadget that can magically allow people to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!
Is letting the national debt balloon really unsustainable? It's not like personal debt. Most countries have been running theirs up for decades, many with no ill effects.
Fewer people is a bad thing for capitalism, because it requires exponential growth, perpetually and unconditionally. Capitalism doesn't care about any limits set by a planet's carrying capacity, or relativity, or thermodynamics - it doesn't care where the growth comes from, it just needs it and will crash if it doesn't get it, simple.
We've decided that we can't do better than this awesome system, that rewards celebrity and ownership far more than productivity, that won't give you an opportunity to work for a living if it already has enough work, that increasingly concentrates all of the resources it produces on a few low-productivity celebrities, that responds to technological advances with great losses in opportunity that last generations.
I once spoke with an NSA worker who said he "knew" Snowden was a traitor...because we "can't see what he sees."
Unfortunately we have to choose between regarding all Arguments from Secret Intelligence as fallacious, and treating all intelligence workers as omniscient gods who know truths not meant for us mere mortals.
On the other hand if [walk] into the dealer the first thing you ask is "Show me something I can run over my ex-girlfriend with tonight" maybe someone ought to make a phone call, and not sell you a car just then.
And what Cisco did is the equivalent of the car salesman instead responding with "I can get you just the thing for that! We can customize this SUV with bludgeoning metal bars on the front, lacerating blades underneath, and a targeting system to keep track of her if she tries to escape!" And sadly that was legal in the prospective buyers' jurisdiction...
The various three-letter agencies have shown themselves to be at least as interested in peaceful protest groups as they are in terrorists, which is a messed-up set of priorities at the very least.
It's too bad that the metaphor is technically incorrect because it's a very useful one, like the slow-boiled frog.
The point of the metaphor is that terrible leaders ruling with an iron fist can achieve good things that a good leader could not...but that it's not worth all the terrible things they also do. Oddly enough the modern usage is a parody of its original intent - fascist supporters seriously suggested that these trinket achievements unattainable through reasonable democratic leadership justified their ideology.
I think Trump really could do an inspirational space program. He'd probably get the money for it by diverting funds from things the country needs to run, leading to societal collapse, but he could easily have an inspirational space program for a little while before that happens.
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Will it be a truck like the Model X is an SUV (aka, not really one -- can't beat it up offroad like you can a 4Runner, Highlander, etc)?
Most SUVs, especially more modern ones, are not very offroad-capable, worst of all crossovers which are just tall station wagons (or in some cases, more like tall hatchbacks). Trucks like the 4Runner and Highlander that come with a taste of offroad capability are the exception, not the rule.
Most gigantic American pickups have a hilariously bad breakover angle as well.
The last humans on the floor are doing the job that most needs to be replaced by a computer:
Now, humans on the NYSE floor have more of a supervisory role, making sure the automated systems don't go haywire
As trading speeds climb higher and higher, the reaction speed of a human will be less and less relevant. Even most computers have slow reactions compared to the exotic hardware of an HFT machine.
And it's been proven to work in real life: There are real conspiracies that have been publicly outed but the believers don't care. The STEM shortage hoax and corporate-funded climate denialism are two I can think of that are running right now.
ISIS - Fear mongering, who really believes the US can't get rid of these camal fuckers in a matter of hours?
They sure could, if they were OK with being a bunch of murderous war criminals in the process and being bankrupt at the end of it. If you want that you could vote for Trump (but please don't).
Yep the 911 conspiracy theories are the most needlessly over-complicated ones, often involving things like buildings with explosives built into them decades in advance, remote-controlled airliners, and it only gets crazier from there. All it really needs is a blackmail plot to convince some dudes to fly some planes into some buildings (or their families get it).
Or even more simply you could find some nutjob terrorists who would already like to do that. You might not even need to help them OH WAIT
Exactly. Climate change denial can't work without an "active" conspiracy theory. That's why I like to call "climate denialists" "climate conspiracy theorists" - they often say they don't like "denialist" anyway :-) and only a few will even try to avoid directly admitting this, instead whistling innocently at the implication.
Any scientist who outed climate change as a hoax, whether through disproof or simply breaking the silence on the conspiracy, would be the most famous, awarded, and rewarded scientist in history. This person would replace Albert Einstein in the public consciousness. That's one helluva motivation to break the conspiracy, that the motivation to stay in on the conspiracy must exceed. Greater rewards (or greater punishments for whistleblowers) would need to be offered to virtually every professional and amateur scientist on Earth. The "non-malevolent groupthink" variant of the theory therefore makes no sense.
The campaign eventually nearly £8,500,
But then they accidentally the whole thing :-(
I have heard tales from the elders of this "bo-nus."
Bagger 288 energy draw: 16.56MW
Vestas V164 power output: 8MW
So a windmill wouldn't power that, but three would.
You want to religion taught in schools? Outside of religious schools, the problem becomes "What religion gets taught?", and there's a bundle of problems involved with that.
I think teaching the creation story of every religion out there could be a decent idea. Including that of Pastafarianism, of course. That should give the kids plenty of perspective!
The oldest profession does involve working a lot of wood...
Automakers seem to have recurring amnesia about what a terrible idea hydrogen-powered cars are (See this post.).
The cycle goes like this:
1. Develop hydrogen cars! They're totally the future you guys!
2. Realize they're a terrible idea surrounded by better alternatives.
3. Wait 5~15 years
4. Forget 2
5. GOTO 1
Hydrogen gives you the high up-front vehicle costs of an EV, the ongoing fuel costs of an ICE car, currently it gives you the fuel sourcing environmental problems of an ICE (look up where most hydrogen comes from today), and the fuel transportation and storage problems of...hydrogen.
Hydrogen cars are only missing the vehicle emissions problems and complexity of an ICE, and the range and refueling time problems of a current EV to be the worst of all worlds in all areas.
Lightspeed briefs! For the discriminating crotch.
It looks like nobody has connected a PLC *directly* to the Internet in a nuclear plant yet, but they've connected control networks (those containing the industrial control systems and the computers that manage them) to non-control-related office networks resulting a number of incidents, both malicious and unintentional. See PDF page 14:
https://www.chathamhouse.org/s...
This is also worth a read:
http://large.stanford.edu/cour...
You joke but it's actually a serious problem in medicine that drugs aren't being sufficiently tested on female subjects.
No, they haven't, that's why the government needs to advise them. They're doing deeply idiotic things like connecting industrial control equipment with joke security directly to the Internet.
Surely there is hope yet for technological solutionism! Maybe they need VR goggles? Wearables? IoT devices?...Teledildonics? There must be some gadget that can magically allow people to pull themselves up by the bootstraps!
Is letting the national debt balloon really unsustainable? It's not like personal debt. Most countries have been running theirs up for decades, many with no ill effects.
Fewer people is a bad thing for capitalism, because it requires exponential growth, perpetually and unconditionally. Capitalism doesn't care about any limits set by a planet's carrying capacity, or relativity, or thermodynamics - it doesn't care where the growth comes from, it just needs it and will crash if it doesn't get it, simple.
We've decided that we can't do better than this awesome system, that rewards celebrity and ownership far more than productivity, that won't give you an opportunity to work for a living if it already has enough work, that increasingly concentrates all of the resources it produces on a few low-productivity celebrities, that responds to technological advances with great losses in opportunity that last generations.
I once spoke with an NSA worker who said he "knew" Snowden was a traitor...because we "can't see what he sees."
Unfortunately we have to choose between regarding all Arguments from Secret Intelligence as fallacious, and treating all intelligence workers as omniscient gods who know truths not meant for us mere mortals.
On the other hand if [walk] into the dealer the first thing you ask is "Show me something I can run over my ex-girlfriend with tonight" maybe someone ought to make a phone call, and not sell you a car just then.
And what Cisco did is the equivalent of the car salesman instead responding with "I can get you just the thing for that! We can customize this SUV with bludgeoning metal bars on the front, lacerating blades underneath, and a targeting system to keep track of her if she tries to escape!" And sadly that was legal in the prospective buyers' jurisdiction...
The various three-letter agencies have shown themselves to be at least as interested in peaceful protest groups as they are in terrorists, which is a messed-up set of priorities at the very least.
It's too bad that the metaphor is technically incorrect because it's a very useful one, like the slow-boiled frog.
The point of the metaphor is that terrible leaders ruling with an iron fist can achieve good things that a good leader could not...but that it's not worth all the terrible things they also do. Oddly enough the modern usage is a parody of its original intent - fascist supporters seriously suggested that these trinket achievements unattainable through reasonable democratic leadership justified their ideology.
I think Trump really could do an inspirational space program. He'd probably get the money for it by diverting funds from things the country needs to run, leading to societal collapse, but he could easily have an inspirational space program for a little while before that happens.
Also, Mussolini could make the trains run on time.