What do labor laws have to do with it? There are still a lot of morons to whom those laws don't apply because they aren't employed because nobody wants to employ them! We dont need as many unskilled jobs as before. With the exception of sweat shops running people to the ground like the story on slashdot a while ago, the unskilled jobs of yesteryear are become skilled jobs requiring specialization. And unless you advocate more sweatshops to employ those people, then those people who are only qualified to work in them need to become qualified in something better.
I'm in my twenties. Hardly a case of old fart syndrome. Ever see the numbers about obesity in the US? How about standardized test scores? Kids are getting dumber and dumber and parents are allowing them to indulge in dumbness. Have you seen the cartoons that are on anymore? Sad to say, but Spongebob is one of the better ones now days.
I seem to remember some statistic from history about food production in the USA where it was 100 years ago it took like 70 people to provide enough food for 100 people a year, then 50 years ago it was some other number, and currently it is like 5 people can feed 100 for a year. I dont think that food production is really a big problem for the future. Food distrobution might, but again I doubt it. Employment to buy said food is the issue. Building a brand new ultra modern skyscraper isnt going to help much when the only people that can afford to live in it are executives who can afford anything they need already. There are too many people, in the USA and abroad, who have zero employable skills. Personally I think it falls back to the question of education. We dont need as much manual labor as we used to. We need more thinkers. Kids nowdays are lazy and stupid, hardly a bright future when it comes to scientific development.
I for one find it annoying to hear about people ragging Wikipedia about its accuracy. Its not meant to be a replacement for actual experience and training. Its a quick crash course. Its meant to be fast, easy, and relatively accurate. Some topics are going to be better, some worse.
If your looking for information about some opensource project, it probably is pretty good. If you looking for a definition of some obscure abbreviation, your pretty good. If your looking for information about religion, what in the world are you starting at Wikipedia for?
I dont care if experts are writing it or not, because anything important I wouldnt trust/rely on a single source anyway even if it was written by an "expert"
PS. I do find it crazy how obsessed some people are with it though. Personally the only changes I usually make are grammatical errors.
How about we decide that if youre too stupid to figure out how to vote, that youre to stupid to vote?
I'm all for the right to vote and the right to be stupid, but there is no right to pick names on a ballot that you chose at random or because they had a nice tie on TV.
Problem is that the big cities already elect Presidents on their own. I saw a report once (sorry, dont have the link anymore) about the geographical area won by McCain and Obama. It came out that Obama had only a few percent of the nation as counted by area, but won the popular vote.
Interestingly, it also had stats about the crime rate/poverty rate/welfare rate of the respective precints. Dang it. I wish I remember where that was I read it >:
I'd agree on the first about sensing magnetic fields, but the second is just artificially converting one sense (vision) to another (touch). Thats no more of a new sense than the summary.
hmmm, a wikipedia article about emissions testing, a british site about building code (that doesnt mention stairs in the 3 minutes I looked), and an organization who spends most of its time dealing with poisonous/toxic substances. How compelling of an argument...
Im going to have to agree. I am looking to sell my 900 and get this new guy, but I would much rather get a 9 inch version again rather than the 10 inch version. I think the 900 is the perfect size.
It does matter because the sites are different. The ones that come up for Microsoft Framework Assistant are forum postings, articles and blogs instead of autogenerated bull-honky.
You're underestimating at least one little detail. It's fanless and free of moving parts. Working in surgery, I can tell you that is extremely important if it is to be used anywhere near the operating room enviroment. Even netbooks like the EEE still get hot enough to incorporate a fan. Leaving it out means that there has to be some other cooling system. Then there is the fact that it has no outer openings (also very important), meaning there are no vents.
It doesnt need to be running anything very powerful, as it will likely be running as a thin client anyways. Also, remember that Win 7 is right around the corner and I've heard of people running it smoothly on systems with 512mb of ram. Of course they cant put that on it yet, but that would be the logical progression once it is commerically availible.
Actually its very clean. Sure its desert, but so is everything else for hundreds of miles around. Thats why they picked it. The first full scale operating reactor is now a public museum (as of last fall. Bus rides in are availible). Workers receive fewer REMs than citizens of Chicago from the ambient radiation. Sure mistakes were made, but its hardly the fallout 3 scenario you imply. Its all very closely monitored so nothing leaks. Everything that was done back then is being replaced/redone. The biggest problem now is lawyers. Enough is being done to keep it in the status quo, but too many realize that if they do ever finish then they loose their contract.
Nah, we have too many lawyers now. If anything they will look back and say "You morons, if you would just have thrown the lawyers and enviromentalist wackos out the window and just done the work you could have it cleaned up by now."
The currant big opposition to the vit plant now are seagulls nesting in the framework. Can't just shoot em though. That would not be earth friendly.
I have personally visited the fields where they doing all this. The term "waste pit" is misleading. A lot of stuff was stuffed in 55gal drums and buried in rows underground just because they didnt know what to do with it. It was always intended to go back and clean them up, but due to delays they have been there longer than expected. It wasnt just thrown out in a big pile.
There is a huge tent on rollers (about football field size) that has a crane mechanism hanging from the ceiling. The barrels (and some boxes) are mostly rusted really bad so digging is done very slowly to avoid busting any. Those that are judged to be too weak are packed into a larger barrel that fits over the old one. There is also a ventilation trailer that has automated drills to pierce drums that are under pressure slowly to release gases so they dont explode. Its really pretty cool how they have it set up.
They just didnt know any better back then, and there was no way for them to have guessed what would happen with all that stuff. Unfortunately work on the vitrification plant is constantly delayed due to red-tape, but when it gets up and running then that will be a major break through.
Note: Most of the stuff in these barrels is solid. The liquid stuff are held in huge (over a million gallon) tanks. Those are also being replaced.
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What do labor laws have to do with it? There are still a lot of morons to whom those laws don't apply because they aren't employed because nobody wants to employ them! We dont need as many unskilled jobs as before. With the exception of sweat shops running people to the ground like the story on slashdot a while ago, the unskilled jobs of yesteryear are become skilled jobs requiring specialization. And unless you advocate more sweatshops to employ those people, then those people who are only qualified to work in them need to become qualified in something better.
I'm in my twenties. Hardly a case of old fart syndrome. Ever see the numbers about obesity in the US? How about standardized test scores? Kids are getting dumber and dumber and parents are allowing them to indulge in dumbness. Have you seen the cartoons that are on anymore? Sad to say, but Spongebob is one of the better ones now days.
I seem to remember some statistic from history about food production in the USA where it was 100 years ago it took like 70 people to provide enough food for 100 people a year, then 50 years ago it was some other number, and currently it is like 5 people can feed 100 for a year. I dont think that food production is really a big problem for the future. Food distrobution might, but again I doubt it. Employment to buy said food is the issue. Building a brand new ultra modern skyscraper isnt going to help much when the only people that can afford to live in it are executives who can afford anything they need already.
There are too many people, in the USA and abroad, who have zero employable skills. Personally I think it falls back to the question of education. We dont need as much manual labor as we used to. We need more thinkers. Kids nowdays are lazy and stupid, hardly a bright future when it comes to scientific development.
I for one find it annoying to hear about people ragging Wikipedia about its accuracy. Its not meant to be a replacement for actual experience and training. Its a quick crash course. Its meant to be fast, easy, and relatively accurate. Some topics are going to be better, some worse.
If your looking for information about some opensource project, it probably is pretty good. If you looking for a definition of some obscure abbreviation, your pretty good. If your looking for information about religion, what in the world are you starting at Wikipedia for?
I dont care if experts are writing it or not, because anything important I wouldnt trust/rely on a single source anyway even if it was written by an "expert"
PS. I do find it crazy how obsessed some people are with it though. Personally the only changes I usually make are grammatical errors.
I'm pretty sure that the funky idle stylesheet is intentional just to piss everyone off that comes here.
That would mean jackpot is under the big Dubbya!
How about we decide that if youre too stupid to figure out how to vote, that youre to stupid to vote?
I'm all for the right to vote and the right to be stupid, but there is no right to pick names on a ballot that you chose at random or because they had a nice tie on TV.
Problem is that the big cities already elect Presidents on their own. I saw a report once (sorry, dont have the link anymore) about the geographical area won by McCain and Obama. It came out that Obama had only a few percent of the nation as counted by area, but won the popular vote.
Interestingly, it also had stats about the crime rate/poverty rate/welfare rate of the respective precints. Dang it. I wish I remember where that was I read it >:
Not to mention it is still another pain in the ass to have to register for a service that I only intend to use once.
that is probably one of the single funniest comments ive seen on slashdot for a long time. nice
hmmm, i still got marked as troll for it. someone must have sockpuppets with mod points at the moment.
I'd agree on the first about sensing magnetic fields, but the second is just artificially converting one sense (vision) to another (touch). Thats no more of a new sense than the summary.
hmmm, a wikipedia article about emissions testing, a british site about building code (that doesnt mention stairs in the 3 minutes I looked), and an organization who spends most of its time dealing with poisonous/toxic substances. How compelling of an argument...
Im going to have to agree. I am looking to sell my 900 and get this new guy, but I would much rather get a 9 inch version again rather than the 10 inch version. I think the 900 is the perfect size.
Well, pre-orders are already up on amazon, so id imagine the 400 price point is going to stick.
Just to be a bit of a devil's advocate, eating dirt in childhood helps develop the immune system and can prevent allergies later in life.
It does matter because the sites are different. The ones that come up for Microsoft Framework Assistant are forum postings, articles and blogs instead of autogenerated bull-honky.
No to mention a population and land size about a zillion times larger. That complicates public service/standards programs.
You're underestimating at least one little detail. It's fanless and free of moving parts. Working in surgery, I can tell you that is extremely important if it is to be used anywhere near the operating room enviroment. Even netbooks like the EEE still get hot enough to incorporate a fan. Leaving it out means that there has to be some other cooling system. Then there is the fact that it has no outer openings (also very important), meaning there are no vents.
It doesnt need to be running anything very powerful, as it will likely be running as a thin client anyways. Also, remember that Win 7 is right around the corner and I've heard of people running it smoothly on systems with 512mb of ram. Of course they cant put that on it yet, but that would be the logical progression once it is commerically availible.
And where is the guarantee that the 5 dollar drug in Cuba is any better than the copy of Vista?
I was going to point that out myself. Nice catch :)
Actually its very clean. Sure its desert, but so is everything else for hundreds of miles around. Thats why they picked it. The first full scale operating reactor is now a public museum (as of last fall. Bus rides in are availible). Workers receive fewer REMs than citizens of Chicago from the ambient radiation. Sure mistakes were made, but its hardly the fallout 3 scenario you imply. Its all very closely monitored so nothing leaks. Everything that was done back then is being replaced/redone. The biggest problem now is lawyers. Enough is being done to keep it in the status quo, but too many realize that if they do ever finish then they loose their contract.
Nah, we have too many lawyers now. If anything they will look back and say "You morons, if you would just have thrown the lawyers and enviromentalist wackos out the window and just done the work you could have it cleaned up by now."
The currant big opposition to the vit plant now are seagulls nesting in the framework. Can't just shoot em though. That would not be earth friendly.
I have personally visited the fields where they doing all this. The term "waste pit" is misleading. A lot of stuff was stuffed in 55gal drums and buried in rows underground just because they didnt know what to do with it. It was always intended to go back and clean them up, but due to delays they have been there longer than expected. It wasnt just thrown out in a big pile.
There is a huge tent on rollers (about football field size) that has a crane mechanism hanging from the ceiling. The barrels (and some boxes) are mostly rusted really bad so digging is done very slowly to avoid busting any. Those that are judged to be too weak are packed into a larger barrel that fits over the old one. There is also a ventilation trailer that has automated drills to pierce drums that are under pressure slowly to release gases so they dont explode. Its really pretty cool how they have it set up.
They just didnt know any better back then, and there was no way for them to have guessed what would happen with all that stuff. Unfortunately work on the vitrification plant is constantly delayed due to red-tape, but when it gets up and running then that will be a major break through.
Note: Most of the stuff in these barrels is solid. The liquid stuff are held in huge (over a million gallon) tanks. Those are also being replaced.
Sure they do! Just not as good of one.