Indeed. Having done the CS thing myself, there were some parties, but not a lot.
True enough. I think the difference is something like an end of semester get together, or myself and a few friends/cohorts might get out after a hard evening's work. Assuming the bars were still open. But good heavens, many of the gut majors were busy getting ready for Friday and Saturday by hitting the bars on Thursday. And of course, the sports, esp football that were an excuse to get loaded on Saturday morning.
STEM majors are intellectually tough. They can understand things. That puts them ahead of 80% of the population, including most students and graduates of other subjects. It also makes them replaceable by nothing else than similar graduates, even if the software economy is still trying to do demanding engineering jobs with amateurs. With predictable results.
Yeah - that software economy. Another problem of modern social mores.
We live in an age of "You can be anything you want to be, if you only try hard enough".
No, we can't. I'm pretty damn good at what I do, To the point of being pulled out of retirement to do some more. But it is a skillset that not many have. Which is not to say that there aren't a lot of things I plain suck at doing. There are many. The difference is that I know what I'm bad at and accept that. Modern youth are told they are great at everything, and once they "find your passion" they'll be set for lifelong success.It's like they are trying to redefine passion as "something you are mildly interested in"
And STEM will never ever be a commodity, no matter what participation trophy ideologues think.
I don't know - it seems to me that an anti-satellite weapon is actually primarily defensive in nature.
Oh hell yeah. It's an awesome defense. Send up say 500 1 ton payloads of explosive and various sized particles, timed to explode and scatter debris in various orbital planes, retrograde them, and enjoy the loss of just about everything in orbit. Take out all the GPS sats. This is why we are going to resurrect Loran.
And it you really want to make the future rosy, take out geosynchronous orbit areas.
This can be a first class offensive weapon. A long lasting one as well.
Are you seriously saying that you know all of the debris paths and speeds of both the explosive device and the satellites it destroys? Stuff flies everywhere, ad different speeds and different directions. Especially your direct hit scenario, which will be very asymmetrical, and send shrapnel all over the place.
Orbital mechanics is very interesting, and while large orbiting objects deorbiting can be calculated with a bit of confidence usually within days when they are getting close, calculating the deorbit of miscellaneous debris traveling at different speeds, which is going to put them in higher or lower orbits is the sort of thing that only happens after tracking them - and does India have the sort of tracking system that allows them to truthfully say they know that all of this happens in 45 days?
Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space
I thought it meant the dawn of a new era of peace, love, reason and understanding. No?
It means ugh. I'd love to see their math on how the know the debris will drop out in 45 days. Ohh wait they "expect" it to drop out. These must be smart people that know the pats of all the debris.
Killing satellites is actually pretty easy. It is a broad side of the barn type accuracy needed.
Pretty much if you can get a rocket to orbital velocity and make it go kaboom, you are 90 percent of the way there.
The utter stupidity of humans amazes me though. The US and the old Soviet Union understood and worked within the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction. China understands this now. Sending up Satellite killers is neither difficult nor smart.
Our first war in space will be our last one for a long, long time. And it will destroy a lot of things that are very beneficial to everyone, as well as destroy things that are beneficial to the country that thinks it is smart to put a lot of high velocity space debris in orbit.
27 days paid? You're clearly not the norm in the US.
True enough. The total is almost two months once the holiday time is included.
Here's the thing that'll really piss of the vacationphiles - I didn't take all of mine. I've discussed that with people here before, and they think I'm nuts. I am results oriented, and if something needed done, I would always do it.
Only if you believe in a just, kind, and compassionate God.
Surely not the angry homicidal Desert Gawd - I know that much for certain.
Evidence casts doubt on this, so you may well expect a trend towards suffering, misery, and exploitation.
It doesn't work like that, and I hope you are being facetious. Any government resides on the will of it's people. And while there have been some rumblings, by and large, we aren't too concerned that some places get a month off.
And while it doesn't fit in with the narrative, a lot of us get a goodly amount of time off. I got 27 days of regular vacation, 2 personal holidays, 2 weeks off at Christmas. Oh - and unlimited sick days.
The strange narrative people have about 'Murrica is pretty much stereotyping.
There are pretty much two separate Universities in the same place. The one is the University of the people who are taking the majors that will allow them to have something of a skillset to support themselves. Engineering comes to mind.
The second one is degrees in subjects that mainly consist of people giving their opinion. The careers available for these majors are mostly replacing the present instructor or one at another campus.
But Gee - why don't people just take those courses that give them a good chance of gainful employment?
Relevant to your point of it being a distraction, it is the "College Experience". While the people having the College experience are busy partying and abusing their livers, and having a grand old time, the EE or other engineering major - or other worthwhile degree - is studying in the library or the lab. It is work.
And given the choice between partying hardy and hard work, and given that modern people seem to think one degree is worth the same as any other, it shouldn't be a surprise what many choose.
Australia, NZ, Argentina, Chile are all decent places to live and have over 30 paid days of time off per year by law. This isn't only in Europe -- this is most of the non-US world. Not everyone wants to "take over the world". Some of us just want to live comfortably and have some fun while we're here.
One of the most fascinating parts of your statement is that the USA wants to take over the world. That's just so interesting. A subthread about burnout, and you turn it into your seething hatred of the USA by bringinh in that we want to take over the world? Well here's a story that should cause you to orgasm......
Was it a mistake for the USA to get involved in WW2, when peace loving countries like Germany and Japan were ruthlessly attacked by this ware that the Imperialists in the USA started. As the countries russhed to become part of the Axis powers, and install a new world of peace and contentment, a world where individuals had as much freedom as was possible to have. But the criminals in the USA went on mission after mission, destruction of these peace loving peoplesd who never even fought back, until the poor misunderstood and legally elected pacifist governments of Germany and Italy and Japan were subjugated by the US and it's one world government unmercifully crushed them.
There ya go Sparky - Your rather messed up history of the world could use a new fake story.
And not just physical but mental exhaustion. Because we're not shovelling coal all day people expect us to be just as quick, attentive and efficient after 10 solid hours doing mentally taxing work as we were when we walked in the door.
When you're taxing your brain for practically every second you're awake it, like every other muscle, is going to get tired and you're going to fuck up, be slower and generally less able to do what you do.
The whole business of burnout and exhaustion is actually a pretty complex issue, based on the individual's personality and temperament.
Some people have problems handling surprisingly small amounts of work, some love loads of it. Then there is the issue of depression, which raises whole other issues. A depressed person is very likely to feel burned out, or the two things can be intermixed.
I personally find having a lot to do invigorating. And I've worked with people who find work itself stressing. They also tend to get pissed off at me.
Or stick your nose outside the USA, where workers actually have protections -- government health insurance, mandatory vacation time, mandatory sick leave, mandatory limits on working hours. The US "dog eat dog" model isn't the only one on this good green Earth.
Well then - your method will soon take over the world, and your hated USA will reside on the scrap heap of history, while you celebrate your win. We here in the US are hoping to emulate the wonderful history ot Europe, the home of peace and tranquility - always hass been, always will be.
The problems with colleges are deep and hard to fix.
Parents and others have been sold a bill of goods that without a college education, a person is less than worthless. So they will pay any price. And spend a hundred K for a bachelors degree.
And since the goal has morphed from a saleable skill to mere posession of a degree, ridiculous majors like philosophy and gender studies graduates ant their parents are expecting the graduate to be firmly emplaced in a 6 figure career right after graduation.
Research has become the raison d'etre for the Universities while the parents are expecting the kids to get that valuable degree.
There are so many layers of middle management being added that one would think that the main purpose of Universities is not education, not research, but middle management.
Finally, having spent several decades at a University, they have really become pretty toxic environments for around half of the population, leading to over-representation of the other half, and unfortunately many of that half are not pursuing degrees that lend themselves to financial solvency or paying back that 100 K loan.
Nw tell me about how open sourcing software is going to fix this?
It really depends on a lot of things. Your brain, your current mood, your environment, your experience, the strain of weed, whether it's sativa or indica dominant, how it's been grown, all kinds of factors.
If the paranoia comes up, it's more a matter of how you handle it. It's like when you drink. Sometimes you might get the urge to fuck and fight, even if it's not appropriate, so you figure out how to handle your shit.
Well, when sober, I'm sorta intense and annoying. Get a few beers in me and I'm mellow. Dunno what I'm lke if drunk, last time must have been when I was in high school.
So maybe Devil's lettuce might thrun me into an even nicer guy.
A bug finder is just like a whistleblower. Report a bug, and it's likely you'll end up in trouble. A casino? lucky the bug finders are still alive, andnow that it is in the open....... And if you do manage to get paid, the reason is that you are supposed to keep your damn mouth shut
Don't do it. Let them find out the hard way - which serves them right.
What I take away from this is yet again, scientific proof that cannabinoid's are good for us. These helpful substances however are banned from our consumption. Thanks, government racist morons!
Well, we can always move to Colorado.
I wonder though, with the legalization of the devil's lettuce, has the paranoia aspect gone away? My stoner friends from high school alternated between bliss and paranoia - they did have a reason given the times.
This is an exciting line of research. If they can find a way to dull pain permanently it could help a lot of people with chronic pain. It's hard to describe to people who don't have it just had debilitating it can be. Even relatively low levels of pain have a huge effect if they are constant.
Yup. Although pain can be a sign to the person that they need to rest the affected part, the chronic stuff gets a life of it's own. And opioids surely aren't the solution other than in the very short term.
TENS machines can help, but it would sure be a lot easier if we can get it in pill form.
I didn't realize whiskey was a genetic mutation...
I'm partial to a nice bourbon myself.
I do understand now why a lot of the older guys in my familiy liked their tuner-uppers. Work for years in the mines, and you need a little pain killer every day.
That depends what problem you think you're fixing. If you want to fix the trash problem in Asia and Africa, then sure, go there and fix that. If you want to fix the trash problem in the EU, then you fix it there.
Again, all you're really saying is "but he did it more than me, miss!", like a fucking 5 year old.
My, such a cogent argument. Here's the flaw. I promote recycling, not trashing. I keep writing that, but the guy (you) who can't post a reply without insults and profanity doesn't seem to be able to read.
Recycling is not trashing. Trashing is throwing stuff away. Recycling is using it again. You are having imaginary arguments with me, and discarding what I write in order to fulfill some internet muscle anger management problem.
Regardless there really isn't much point in discussing it with you, so good day sir.
RoHS has exemptions for "critical systems", including aerospace.
Yes. It was a painful process finding out why. But it all comes down to the replacements for plain old tin/lead solder being inferior. And not always less poisonous.
Whereas at one time, the composition of solder was based on the conditions it was used for, politically based physics seldom beats reality. Removing lead from paints, water conduit and piping, and especially automotive use makes perfect sense. As well as all the other primitive uses. We've already come up with superior product replacements.
I'm a little surprised that the EU hasn't banned Lead/acid batteries for automobile use.
Yeah no, I think pretty much you're the dumbest ass on the planet. See what you do is, instead of just looking and seeing someone else isn't doing the right thing and going "well I"m not doing it either", you grow the fuck up and look to your own actions.
There was a guy driving down the street one evening. He saw a man looking around under street light. He stopped and asked the guy what the problem was...
"I lost my car keys".
"Where's your car at"
"Oh, about a thousand feet up the road. They fell out of my pocket up there."
"Well why are you looking down here for them?
The light down here is a lot better than up there!"
You want to fix a problem, you fix it. You want to feel good about yourself, pretend you are fixing it while doing absolutely nothing.
You want to fix the plastic in the ocean problem, go to where the problem is, not where it isn't. The "light" might be better in the EU, but you find the problem in Asia and Africa.
You recycle. You first get the plastic out of the riverine environment. Concurrently, you educate people to stop dumping their plastic in the rivers. There's a hella lot of it, Recycle it. That will fix the problem, not banning it in the EU.
The EU introduced RoHS that limited things like the use of leaded solder in consumer products. People would have moaned about "virtue signalling" but the term hadn't been invented back then.
What actually happened is that the rest of the world basically adopted RoHS since it made more sense to build one product for every market than to make a special one for the EU.
And yet, for critical systems, Tin lead or silver tin lead are still in use. The solders that don't contain lead have an issue with something called Tin Whiskers. And it affected a lot of electronics. Here's a listing of the EU's improvements with their new solder formulations https://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/....
The lives of people everywhere were improved because the electronics they were buying had less lead and other hazardous substances in them, even though it was an EU rule.
Do you have the citations of solder creating health problems? It's a cool story bro, but responsible recycling is the answer, not creating more problems.
Your welcome.
I'll say thank you when the EU pays for all the damage they instigated. Now it isn't likely you are familiar with all of the problems caused by the switch away from leaded solder, including problems caused when someone tried to use lead free to repair solder joints on tin lead boards. But your example isn't really a good one.
And now on my workbench, I have to keep several different compositions of solder, including 50/50 and the standby 63/37 tin/lead mixtures and hope I choose the right ones for whatever equipment I'm working onbecause you don't want mix. All the different metals mix together, and can create different melting points, brittle and other bad joints. In an interesting twist, the materials used as a substitute like antimony is considered an impurity - and it is toxic as well - symptoms similar to arsenic poisoning. I really do think it's a case of TANSTAAFL.
Regardless, there is nothing wrong with being a spearhead of change. But change done to make you feel good is just like I said - virtue signaling, not fixing a problem.
Recycling is the answer, not making something illegal. Tin/lead solder is till in use for mission critical electronics, and the EU banning plastic will not stop the people who are causing the problem. Good luck with that.
Years ago, we used to have ring pulls. Now, we have ring pushes. No longer are cities and countries covered with ring pulls. No longer do you risk lacerations from ring pulls on the beach.
Do we still have rubbish in our cities? Well, yes. Can you still get your feet cut on broken glass on the beach? Well, yes. But it is better than it was, and this is no nothing, it is a good thing.
Getting rid of plastic cutlery is a small thing also. But, it is probably a good thing, unless it becomes an excuse for not doing other things. But, let's give it the benefit of the doubt. It is signalling virtue, because it is virtuous. Not very virtuous, but a little bit.
Yes - the EU will tidy up their part of the globe, shuffling the papers around, insuring every glass is in place, making it so wonderful, and that everyone will feel sssooooo good, while China and Africa, will continut to do as they will, dumping huge amounts of plastic into th eworld's oceans. Then the hand wringers will wonder and come to the decision "We need to ban more!! We banned all of this plastic, and th eproblem hasn't gone away! Make all plastics illegal - you can't have plastic pollution if there are no plastics!"
Perhaps I am the dumbest ass on the planet, but in troubleshooting a problem, I've always thought that you find the source of the problem, then you fix it. You can't fix a problem by not fixing the problem.
You'll forgive me if I think that fixing a problem by blaming something that isn't a problem, then eliminating the not a problem, and not fixing it at all, is stupid, counterproductive, and plain weird.
Buit if you all EU citizens want to pat yourself on the back that knowing that by disrupting industries and people's lifestyles will fix perhaps 1 percent of the problem, well then be virtuous and prosper.
I can't even call this sarcasm, when it is a mere statement of truth.
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Indeed. Having done the CS thing myself, there were some parties, but not a lot.
True enough. I think the difference is something like an end of semester get together, or myself and a few friends/cohorts might get out after a hard evening's work. Assuming the bars were still open. But good heavens, many of the gut majors were busy getting ready for Friday and Saturday by hitting the bars on Thursday. And of course, the sports, esp football that were an excuse to get loaded on Saturday morning.
STEM majors are intellectually tough. They can understand things. That puts them ahead of 80% of the population, including most students and graduates of other subjects. It also makes them replaceable by nothing else than similar graduates, even if the software economy is still trying to do demanding engineering jobs with amateurs. With predictable results.
Yeah - that software economy. Another problem of modern social mores.
We live in an age of "You can be anything you want to be, if you only try hard enough".
No, we can't. I'm pretty damn good at what I do, To the point of being pulled out of retirement to do some more. But it is a skillset that not many have. Which is not to say that there aren't a lot of things I plain suck at doing. There are many. The difference is that I know what I'm bad at and accept that. Modern youth are told they are great at everything, and once they "find your passion" they'll be set for lifelong success.It's like they are trying to redefine passion as "something you are mildly interested in"
And STEM will never ever be a commodity, no matter what participation trophy ideologues think.
I don't know - it seems to me that an anti-satellite weapon is actually primarily defensive in nature.
Oh hell yeah. It's an awesome defense. Send up say 500 1 ton payloads of explosive and various sized particles, timed to explode and scatter debris in various orbital planes, retrograde them, and enjoy the loss of just about everything in orbit. Take out all the GPS sats. This is why we are going to resurrect Loran.
And it you really want to make the future rosy, take out geosynchronous orbit areas.
This can be a first class offensive weapon. A long lasting one as well.
Are you seriously saying that you know all of the debris paths and speeds of both the explosive device and the satellites it destroys? Stuff flies everywhere, ad different speeds and different directions. Especially your direct hit scenario, which will be very asymmetrical, and send shrapnel all over the place.
Orbital mechanics is very interesting, and while large orbiting objects deorbiting can be calculated with a bit of confidence usually within days when they are getting close, calculating the deorbit of miscellaneous debris traveling at different speeds, which is going to put them in higher or lower orbits is the sort of thing that only happens after tracking them - and does India have the sort of tracking system that allows them to truthfully say they know that all of this happens in 45 days?
Does India's Anti-Satellite Missile Test Mean The Weaponization of Space
I thought it meant the dawn of a new era of peace, love, reason and understanding. No?
It means ugh. I'd love to see their math on how the know the debris will drop out in 45 days. Ohh wait they "expect" it to drop out. These must be smart people that know the pats of all the debris. Killing satellites is actually pretty easy. It is a broad side of the barn type accuracy needed.
Pretty much if you can get a rocket to orbital velocity and make it go kaboom, you are 90 percent of the way there.
The utter stupidity of humans amazes me though. The US and the old Soviet Union understood and worked within the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction. China understands this now. Sending up Satellite killers is neither difficult nor smart.
Our first war in space will be our last one for a long, long time. And it will destroy a lot of things that are very beneficial to everyone, as well as destroy things that are beneficial to the country that thinks it is smart to put a lot of high velocity space debris in orbit.
27 days paid? You're clearly not the norm in the US.
True enough. The total is almost two months once the holiday time is included.
Here's the thing that'll really piss of the vacationphiles - I didn't take all of mine. I've discussed that with people here before, and they think I'm nuts. I am results oriented, and if something needed done, I would always do it.
Only if you believe in a just, kind, and compassionate God.
Surely not the angry homicidal Desert Gawd - I know that much for certain.
Evidence casts doubt on this, so you may well expect a trend towards suffering, misery, and exploitation.
It doesn't work like that, and I hope you are being facetious. Any government resides on the will of it's people. And while there have been some rumblings, by and large, we aren't too concerned that some places get a month off.
And while it doesn't fit in with the narrative, a lot of us get a goodly amount of time off. I got 27 days of regular vacation, 2 personal holidays, 2 weeks off at Christmas. Oh - and unlimited sick days.
The strange narrative people have about 'Murrica is pretty much stereotyping.
unfortunately many of that half are not pursuing degrees that lend themselves to financial solvency or paying back that 100 K loan.
Once AOC is elected president, all the student loans will be forgiven. Problem solved.
Now if they can just find gainful employment with that communications degree.
It isn't. It's intended to be a distraction.
There are pretty much two separate Universities in the same place. The one is the University of the people who are taking the majors that will allow them to have something of a skillset to support themselves. Engineering comes to mind.
The second one is degrees in subjects that mainly consist of people giving their opinion. The careers available for these majors are mostly replacing the present instructor or one at another campus.
But Gee - why don't people just take those courses that give them a good chance of gainful employment?
Relevant to your point of it being a distraction, it is the "College Experience". While the people having the College experience are busy partying and abusing their livers, and having a grand old time, the EE or other engineering major - or other worthwhile degree - is studying in the library or the lab. It is work.
And given the choice between partying hardy and hard work, and given that modern people seem to think one degree is worth the same as any other, it shouldn't be a surprise what many choose.
Australia, NZ, Argentina, Chile are all decent places to live and have over 30 paid days of time off per year by law. This isn't only in Europe -- this is most of the non-US world. Not everyone wants to "take over the world". Some of us just want to live comfortably and have some fun while we're here.
One of the most fascinating parts of your statement is that the USA wants to take over the world. That's just so interesting. A subthread about burnout, and you turn it into your seething hatred of the USA by bringinh in that we want to take over the world? Well here's a story that should cause you to orgasm......
Was it a mistake for the USA to get involved in WW2, when peace loving countries like Germany and Japan were ruthlessly attacked by this ware that the Imperialists in the USA started. As the countries russhed to become part of the Axis powers, and install a new world of peace and contentment, a world where individuals had as much freedom as was possible to have. But the criminals in the USA went on mission after mission, destruction of these peace loving peoplesd who never even fought back, until the poor misunderstood and legally elected pacifist governments of Germany and Italy and Japan were subjugated by the US and it's one world government unmercifully crushed them.
There ya go Sparky - Your rather messed up history of the world could use a new fake story.
And not just physical but mental exhaustion. Because we're not shovelling coal all day people expect us to be just as quick, attentive and efficient after 10 solid hours doing mentally taxing work as we were when we walked in the door. When you're taxing your brain for practically every second you're awake it, like every other muscle, is going to get tired and you're going to fuck up, be slower and generally less able to do what you do.
The whole business of burnout and exhaustion is actually a pretty complex issue, based on the individual's personality and temperament.
Some people have problems handling surprisingly small amounts of work, some love loads of it. Then there is the issue of depression, which raises whole other issues. A depressed person is very likely to feel burned out, or the two things can be intermixed.
I personally find having a lot to do invigorating. And I've worked with people who find work itself stressing. They also tend to get pissed off at me.
I can see where people would indeed be at risk of too much Burnout, given how many releases they have had.
The answer might be to take a step back for a while, and maybe not play the game that is Burnout.
Too much burnout and you end up playing Half Life.
Or stick your nose outside the USA, where workers actually have protections -- government health insurance, mandatory vacation time, mandatory sick leave, mandatory limits on working hours. The US "dog eat dog" model isn't the only one on this good green Earth.
Well then - your method will soon take over the world, and your hated USA will reside on the scrap heap of history, while you celebrate your win. We here in the US are hoping to emulate the wonderful history ot Europe, the home of peace and tranquility - always hass been, always will be.
Parents and others have been sold a bill of goods that without a college education, a person is less than worthless. So they will pay any price. And spend a hundred K for a bachelors degree.
And since the goal has morphed from a saleable skill to mere posession of a degree, ridiculous majors like philosophy and gender studies graduates ant their parents are expecting the graduate to be firmly emplaced in a 6 figure career right after graduation.
Research has become the raison d'etre for the Universities while the parents are expecting the kids to get that valuable degree.
There are so many layers of middle management being added that one would think that the main purpose of Universities is not education, not research, but middle management.
Finally, having spent several decades at a University, they have really become pretty toxic environments for around half of the population, leading to over-representation of the other half, and unfortunately many of that half are not pursuing degrees that lend themselves to financial solvency or paying back that 100 K loan.
Nw tell me about how open sourcing software is going to fix this?
It really depends on a lot of things. Your brain, your current mood, your environment, your experience, the strain of weed, whether it's sativa or indica dominant, how it's been grown, all kinds of factors.
If the paranoia comes up, it's more a matter of how you handle it. It's like when you drink. Sometimes you might get the urge to fuck and fight, even if it's not appropriate, so you figure out how to handle your shit.
Well, when sober, I'm sorta intense and annoying. Get a few beers in me and I'm mellow. Dunno what I'm lke if drunk, last time must have been when I was in high school.
So maybe Devil's lettuce might thrun me into an even nicer guy.
Don't do it. Let them find out the hard way - which serves them right.
What I take away from this is yet again, scientific proof that cannabinoid's are good for us. These helpful substances however are banned from our consumption. Thanks, government racist morons!
Well, we can always move to Colorado.
I wonder though, with the legalization of the devil's lettuce, has the paranoia aspect gone away? My stoner friends from high school alternated between bliss and paranoia - they did have a reason given the times.
This is an exciting line of research. If they can find a way to dull pain permanently it could help a lot of people with chronic pain. It's hard to describe to people who don't have it just had debilitating it can be. Even relatively low levels of pain have a huge effect if they are constant.
Yup. Although pain can be a sign to the person that they need to rest the affected part, the chronic stuff gets a life of it's own. And opioids surely aren't the solution other than in the very short term.
TENS machines can help, but it would sure be a lot easier if we can get it in pill form.
Slashdot mutates that in its headline about something that specifically makes women (plural) feel no pain.
And that son, is how we turn a story into clickbait.
I didn't realize whiskey was a genetic mutation...
I'm partial to a nice bourbon myself.
I do understand now why a lot of the older guys in my familiy liked their tuner-uppers. Work for years in the mines, and you need a little pain killer every day.
Public domain has been so thoroughly destroyed that I didn't even realize we have public domain memes until just now, like this one for example.
Ahh - that's a good one! Sometimes fitting with some of the stuff here on Slashdot.
That depends what problem you think you're fixing. If you want to fix the trash problem in Asia and Africa, then sure, go there and fix that. If you want to fix the trash problem in the EU, then you fix it there.
Again, all you're really saying is "but he did it more than me, miss!", like a fucking 5 year old.
My, such a cogent argument. Here's the flaw. I promote recycling, not trashing. I keep writing that, but the guy (you) who can't post a reply without insults and profanity doesn't seem to be able to read.
Recycling is not trashing. Trashing is throwing stuff away. Recycling is using it again. You are having imaginary arguments with me, and discarding what I write in order to fulfill some internet muscle anger management problem.
Regardless there really isn't much point in discussing it with you, so good day sir.
RoHS has exemptions for "critical systems", including aerospace.
Yes. It was a painful process finding out why. But it all comes down to the replacements for plain old tin/lead solder being inferior. And not always less poisonous.
Whereas at one time, the composition of solder was based on the conditions it was used for, politically based physics seldom beats reality. Removing lead from paints, water conduit and piping, and especially automotive use makes perfect sense. As well as all the other primitive uses. We've already come up with superior product replacements.
I'm a little surprised that the EU hasn't banned Lead/acid batteries for automobile use.
Yeah no, I think pretty much you're the dumbest ass on the planet. See what you do is, instead of just looking and seeing someone else isn't doing the right thing and going "well I"m not doing it either", you grow the fuck up and look to your own actions.
There was a guy driving down the street one evening. He saw a man looking around under street light. He stopped and asked the guy what the problem was...
"I lost my car keys".
"Where's your car at"
"Oh, about a thousand feet up the road. They fell out of my pocket up there."
"Well why are you looking down here for them?
The light down here is a lot better than up there!"
You want to fix a problem, you fix it. You want to feel good about yourself, pretend you are fixing it while doing absolutely nothing.
You want to fix the plastic in the ocean problem, go to where the problem is, not where it isn't. The "light" might be better in the EU, but you find the problem in Asia and Africa.
You recycle. You first get the plastic out of the riverine environment. Concurrently, you educate people to stop dumping their plastic in the rivers. There's a hella lot of it, Recycle it. That will fix the problem, not banning it in the EU.
The EU introduced RoHS that limited things like the use of leaded solder in consumer products. People would have moaned about "virtue signalling" but the term hadn't been invented back then.
What actually happened is that the rest of the world basically adopted RoHS since it made more sense to build one product for every market than to make a special one for the EU.
And yet, for critical systems, Tin lead or silver tin lead are still in use. The solders that don't contain lead have an issue with something called Tin Whiskers. And it affected a lot of electronics. Here's a listing of the EU's improvements with their new solder formulations https://nepp.nasa.gov/WHISKER/....
The lives of people everywhere were improved because the electronics they were buying had less lead and other hazardous substances in them, even though it was an EU rule.
Do you have the citations of solder creating health problems? It's a cool story bro, but responsible recycling is the answer, not creating more problems.
Your welcome.
I'll say thank you when the EU pays for all the damage they instigated. Now it isn't likely you are familiar with all of the problems caused by the switch away from leaded solder, including problems caused when someone tried to use lead free to repair solder joints on tin lead boards. But your example isn't really a good one.
And now on my workbench, I have to keep several different compositions of solder, including 50/50 and the standby 63/37 tin/lead mixtures and hope I choose the right ones for whatever equipment I'm working onbecause you don't want mix. All the different metals mix together, and can create different melting points, brittle and other bad joints. In an interesting twist, the materials used as a substitute like antimony is considered an impurity - and it is toxic as well - symptoms similar to arsenic poisoning. I really do think it's a case of TANSTAAFL.
Regardless, there is nothing wrong with being a spearhead of change. But change done to make you feel good is just like I said - virtue signaling, not fixing a problem.
Recycling is the answer, not making something illegal. Tin/lead solder is till in use for mission critical electronics, and the EU banning plastic will not stop the people who are causing the problem. Good luck with that.
"Virtue signalling that accomplishes nothing."
Years ago, we used to have ring pulls. Now, we have ring pushes. No longer are cities and countries covered with ring pulls. No longer do you risk lacerations from ring pulls on the beach.
Do we still have rubbish in our cities? Well, yes. Can you still get your feet cut on broken glass on the beach? Well, yes. But it is better than it was, and this is no nothing, it is a good thing.
Getting rid of plastic cutlery is a small thing also. But, it is probably a good thing, unless it becomes an excuse for not doing other things. But, let's give it the benefit of the doubt. It is signalling virtue, because it is virtuous. Not very virtuous, but a little bit.
Yes - the EU will tidy up their part of the globe, shuffling the papers around, insuring every glass is in place, making it so wonderful, and that everyone will feel sssooooo good, while China and Africa, will continut to do as they will, dumping huge amounts of plastic into th eworld's oceans. Then the hand wringers will wonder and come to the decision "We need to ban more!! We banned all of this plastic, and th eproblem hasn't gone away! Make all plastics illegal - you can't have plastic pollution if there are no plastics!"
Perhaps I am the dumbest ass on the planet, but in troubleshooting a problem, I've always thought that you find the source of the problem, then you fix it. You can't fix a problem by not fixing the problem.
You'll forgive me if I think that fixing a problem by blaming something that isn't a problem, then eliminating the not a problem, and not fixing it at all, is stupid, counterproductive, and plain weird.
Buit if you all EU citizens want to pat yourself on the back that knowing that by disrupting industries and people's lifestyles will fix perhaps 1 percent of the problem, well then be virtuous and prosper.
I can't even call this sarcasm, when it is a mere statement of truth.
That's what they deserve for exceeding the meme limit!
The black market in memes is going to take off like a rocket.
psst.... hey Eurocitizen? wanna buy some memes? Good stuff, nothing in the public domain.....