A 40 year old reactor that was poorly maintained/upgraded fails in mag 9.2 earthquake and has probably ended any possibility of new plants being built in the united states for at least 20 years. Not only could this kill or injure a large amount of people but it's a setback for the only realistic option we had to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and global CO2 reduction. Sadly this will be reported as a failure of the technology and not the people that maintain it.
That only works when you're part of the majority. But everyone is part of some minority. If given enough access to your personal life anyone can find a reason to discriminate against you. The masses are ignorant to the legacy they are leaving behind and it is quite possible that in the future we elect a despot into office that uses the decades of personal information collected by these service to control the populace.
Keeping the ATF off your lawn Pissing people off ensuring your never get to your mother-in-laws house The most awesome geocache prank ever created etc... etc...
What I do all day long is write/maintain/modify software that does exactly what this article is talking about. The problem is in what the article is defining as "brains." In my experience the type of worker that I'm able to replace with software is the type of person that probably shouldn't have their degree anyway. You've got the kind of person that gets their degree and does great... really knows their stuff, wins a lot of cases. Then you've got the people that barely graduated, maybe paid someone to write their term papers for them, have a degree but are actually very poorly skilled. Those people end up in what I've always called "Professional secretary" positions. They do all the menial work that the real highly skilled employees can't be bothered with. You'll find a plethora of people like this in the IT industry.
The fact that the person came into a Python IRC channel and started ripping on python, by definition would not be a troll. They are argumentative, irritating, and most probably drunk... but not a troll. A Troll is secretive, hiding under a bridge, then springs out on you. I'm not sure who decided that anyone they find irritating on the internet is a Troll, but it needs to stop. Trolling is an Art-form... a very irritating, often insulting, art-form. Someone that just yells "Your favorite band sucks!" is not a troll, they're just a jerk.
Something to do in space? Like... solar power unimpeded by an atmosphere? Near limitless material resources? Industrial production with no concern for environmental impact?
A lot of people will lam-bast him, or defend him... whatever... here's my take on it:
I started reading his incredibly good books 11 (that's ELEVEN) years ago. They were great books! But waiting 5 years for a Feast for crows? I waited till it came out on paperback, got about half way through it and realized there was no point. I didn't remember any of the characters or the plot, and didn't feel like re-reading 4000+ pages just to catch myself up. Now, 17 years after the series started he finally writes the last book. Good for you George. Maybe my kid can read it when he gets old enough. But as for me and a lot of your audience? You lost us a decade ago. You got too involved in other projects, even politics for gods sake.
only because of naysayers like yourself. We are very close to having the tech to build a space elevator. A big project like that is just want the USA needs, and having the only cheap way to and from space would secure our super power status for the next 100 years or more. Our ability to seed space with cheap orbital solar arrays and solve our energy problems would be reason enough to do it. That's not even considering all the easy material wealth that could be mined from asteroids. Flying around and working in space is easy, it's the getting out of earths gravity well part that's the problem.
yes yes, apples magic koolaid batteries that never die. I've got 2 dead iPods sitting in a desk drawer that would like to argue your point if they could stay on for more than 5min.
Nearly every manufacturer is using lithium polymer batteries, Apple has no invented some kind of new battery thats better than everyone elses.
He's talking about when the batter DIES not when it runs out of juice. Rechargeable batteries degrade significantly with age. After a year or 2 your Ipad2 is going to have a battery life of an hour or two and you're not going to be able to replace the battery. Throw-away society I guess.
You're assuming he had $200k. He probably borrowed the money against his house or something. Not only did it probably crush him, it's likely to ruin his life as he'll think everything is a scam.
Makes you wonder who they consider in their "industry"... I know a lot of people still paying for music. The difference between 20 years ago and now is, now they are paying for live shows, T-shirts etc... indie artists give away the music and profit off their fans good will. The days of a large record company investing $50k in an artist, forcing them to sign a horrible contract and then ripping them off for the next 20 to 30 years are over. Old fashion radio was dead 10 years ago, and now is so laden with payola that no-one listens to it. The ONLY chance the record companies have of surviving is embracing services like Pandora and Grooveshark. At least they get some money then. The fact of the matter is, with modern technology no one needs record companies anymore. For what it used to cost to record a single album you can build your own studio in your basement today. A few classes at a community college, post some MP3s to the internet and away you go.
Well, in principle I agree with you BUT... The reason the price of a common household object comes down with demand. Because Incandescent already have a large presence in the market place, they are extremely cheap because so many of them are made. This isn't so with compact florescent. Once most people use CF bulbs their price will come down to the point where they'll be competitive with regular bulbs. This is where the government actually should step in. Outright banning incandescent was probably overkill. Instead they should have taxed them, and then given the taxs collected as incentives on incandescent. So if a regular bulb is $1 and a CF is $5, charge $1 tax on the regular bulb and give a $1 credit for purchasing the CF. Now their prices are more competitive and the consumer has more incentive to buy the better bulb.
We can already see that with the ramp up of manufacturing to prepare for the ban that the price of CF bulbs has dropped significantly. Again, I don't support the outright ban, but the premise is sound.
I believe, what their saying is that, a superfluid can escape a container that air can not. Not that the superfluid can escape an inescapable container.
First: I'd agree with stop watering laws. I don't water mine and it looks fine. Second: There's a huge difference between spreading water around, that's already out in the environment, and releasing a gas that's been trapped in the earths crust for hundreds of millions of years.
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A 40 year old reactor that was poorly maintained/upgraded fails in mag 9.2 earthquake and has probably ended any possibility of new plants being built in the united states for at least 20 years. Not only could this kill or injure a large amount of people but it's a setback for the only realistic option we had to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and global CO2 reduction. Sadly this will be reported as a failure of the technology and not the people that maintain it.
That only works when you're part of the majority. But everyone is part of some minority. If given enough access to your personal life anyone can find a reason to discriminate against you. The masses are ignorant to the legacy they are leaving behind and it is quite possible that in the future we elect a despot into office that uses the decades of personal information collected by these service to control the populace.
perfectly non-questionable uses:
Keeping the ATF off your lawn
Pissing people off
ensuring your never get to your mother-in-laws house
The most awesome geocache prank ever created
etc... etc...
What's your point?
I read that for like 10min before I realized I don't care.
My $150 card I bought a year ago can play every game on the market right now. Why do I need a $700 card?
How do I get one?
I did not realize that it was derived from the fishing term "trolling" that's awesome. Thank you!
What I do all day long is write/maintain/modify software that does exactly what this article is talking about. The problem is in what the article is defining as "brains." In my experience the type of worker that I'm able to replace with software is the type of person that probably shouldn't have their degree anyway. You've got the kind of person that gets their degree and does great... really knows their stuff, wins a lot of cases. Then you've got the people that barely graduated, maybe paid someone to write their term papers for them, have a degree but are actually very poorly skilled. Those people end up in what I've always called "Professional secretary" positions. They do all the menial work that the real highly skilled employees can't be bothered with. You'll find a plethora of people like this in the IT industry.
The fact that the person came into a Python IRC channel and started ripping on python, by definition would not be a troll. They are argumentative, irritating, and most probably drunk... but not a troll. A Troll is secretive, hiding under a bridge, then springs out on you. I'm not sure who decided that anyone they find irritating on the internet is a Troll, but it needs to stop. Trolling is an Art-form... a very irritating, often insulting, art-form. Someone that just yells "Your favorite band sucks!" is not a troll, they're just a jerk.
Something to do in space? Like... solar power unimpeded by an atmosphere? Near limitless material resources? Industrial production with no concern for environmental impact?
"Songwriters Association of Canada" a business that claims to represent song writers, proposed this idea.
The president of this company is famous for writing a song by the name of ""Does a Fool Ever Learn"
Ironic eh?
A lot of people will lam-bast him, or defend him... whatever... here's my take on it:
I started reading his incredibly good books 11 (that's ELEVEN) years ago. They were great books! But waiting 5 years for a Feast for crows? I waited till it came out on paperback, got about half way through it and realized there was no point. I didn't remember any of the characters or the plot, and didn't feel like re-reading 4000+ pages just to catch myself up. Now, 17 years after the series started he finally writes the last book. Good for you George. Maybe my kid can read it when he gets old enough. But as for me and a lot of your audience? You lost us a decade ago. You got too involved in other projects, even politics for gods sake.
only because of naysayers like yourself. We are very close to having the tech to build a space elevator. A big project like that is just want the USA needs, and having the only cheap way to and from space would secure our super power status for the next 100 years or more. Our ability to seed space with cheap orbital solar arrays and solve our energy problems would be reason enough to do it. That's not even considering all the easy material wealth that could be mined from asteroids. Flying around and working in space is easy, it's the getting out of earths gravity well part that's the problem.
yes yes, apples magic koolaid batteries that never die. I've got 2 dead iPods sitting in a desk drawer that would like to argue your point if they could stay on for more than 5min.
Nearly every manufacturer is using lithium polymer batteries, Apple has no invented some kind of new battery thats better than everyone elses.
He's talking about when the batter DIES not when it runs out of juice. Rechargeable batteries degrade significantly with age. After a year or 2 your Ipad2 is going to have a battery life of an hour or two and you're not going to be able to replace the battery. Throw-away society I guess.
Pictures or it didn't happen.
My vendor had no problem just using a different name for their store and don't have a problem with people finding it. They call their store "Warez"
You're assuming he had $200k. He probably borrowed the money against his house or something. Not only did it probably crush him, it's likely to ruin his life as he'll think everything is a scam.
Makes you wonder who they consider in their "industry"... I know a lot of people still paying for music. The difference between 20 years ago and now is, now they are paying for live shows, T-shirts etc... indie artists give away the music and profit off their fans good will. The days of a large record company investing $50k in an artist, forcing them to sign a horrible contract and then ripping them off for the next 20 to 30 years are over. Old fashion radio was dead 10 years ago, and now is so laden with payola that no-one listens to it. The ONLY chance the record companies have of surviving is embracing services like Pandora and Grooveshark. At least they get some money then. The fact of the matter is, with modern technology no one needs record companies anymore. For what it used to cost to record a single album you can build your own studio in your basement today. A few classes at a community college, post some MP3s to the internet and away you go.
Pirated versions of your content do not have these annoying restrictions.
Well, in principle I agree with you BUT... The reason the price of a common household object comes down with demand. Because Incandescent already have a large presence in the market place, they are extremely cheap because so many of them are made. This isn't so with compact florescent. Once most people use CF bulbs their price will come down to the point where they'll be competitive with regular bulbs. This is where the government actually should step in. Outright banning incandescent was probably overkill. Instead they should have taxed them, and then given the taxs collected as incentives on incandescent. So if a regular bulb is $1 and a CF is $5, charge $1 tax on the regular bulb and give a $1 credit for purchasing the CF. Now their prices are more competitive and the consumer has more incentive to buy the better bulb.
We can already see that with the ramp up of manufacturing to prepare for the ban that the price of CF bulbs has dropped significantly. Again, I don't support the outright ban, but the premise is sound.
I believe, what their saying is that, a superfluid can escape a container that air can not. Not that the superfluid can escape an inescapable container.
First: I'd agree with stop watering laws. I don't water mine and it looks fine.
Second: There's a huge difference between spreading water around, that's already out in the environment, and releasing a gas that's been trapped in the earths crust for hundreds of millions of years.
No.
But common sense can tell us dumping huge amounts of a gas into the atmosphere that's poisonous to humans is a bad thing.