Worst case is worse than that. Look at the worst collapses of civilization, like Easter Island. (All) 17 species of trees went extinct, as in they either cut down every last tree, or the last few died on their own. Without trees, the soil washed away, animals they used to eat all died, and they could no longer make boats to go fish. The population crashed from 20,000 or more to fewer than 2,000 practically overnight. The damage we're doing could result in an equally horrendous but global collapse. Like Easter Island, there may be no going back, no way to undo the damage once it's done. Early civilizations overused their environments in the same way we're doing now but on a smaller scale, and they turned their dominions into desert. China, Egypt, Incas, Mayans, and many others were once in the middle of lush fertile regions, and now occupy nothing but desert. And now we're consuming, destroying, and polluting with the help of technology. Who's to say there will be anything habitable on which to farm?
I think the bigger risk is cloning the signal and making false IDs. Many places simply require you swipe your badge to enter. If you could clone the signal from someone's badge, how hard would it be to make a fake one to gain entrance to where they work? Same goes for your passport, keyfob for buying gas, etc.
I've got one. I put my RFID badge in it, and it still scanned at the same distance I always hold it in the same time (1 to 2 seconds). I've half a mind to line it with aluminum foil.
I was thinking of the Starbucks next door. Probably hundreds of defense contractors with their access badges walk through there every day, probably more than a few with their RFID passports and other IDs too.
And while populations are stabilizing and falling in some areas, consumption has gone up. More third world countries are becoming more like first world consumers, like China. Americans, on average, consume 17 times the natural resources of third worlders. So a decreasing population that is more educated with more money is worse for the planet, not better. The lifeboat can only hold 10 people. There are 40 crammed in, and the boat is sinking. Either we kick out 30 to save 10, or all 40 die. That's the conundrum and our solution so far has been to ignore it.
"It's all part of this population control mentality that we as humans are the disease," Strauch said.
Yes, from the point of the view of the planet and every other living thing, we are the disease. There's somewhere around 6+ billion people, happily eating, consuming, polluting, and destroying to our hearts' content. Installing higher efficiency light bulbs or buying Prius' or switching to riding a bike aren't going to avert a collapse in our global ecology/economy. We have to stop destroying our food and ecosystems on which we rely and undo the damage we've done. In short, stop charging to our children's credit cards, start paying them off, then start saving. Switching to riding a bike is like spending just a little less on their credit cards. We have to do so much more.
Practically makes me want to drown my sorrows in synthetic Victory Gin while I try to keep the tobacco in my last Victory Cigarette, while sitting just out of range of the telescreen of course. Orwell got more than a few things wrong too, and pretty much every dystopian novel got at least a few things right.
Right right. Real horrorshow malenky like, these vesches are with the slobos. Like to go all ultraviolence on their litsos til the tolchoks make their rots all skorry like. You viddy?
If they made all of Russia part of Europe, then the middle of Europe may as well be in Russia. I usually figure Russia to be part of Asia, that being where most of it is. Still, definitely NOT in UK or France.
You must be trolling at this point. Or at least I hope so, otherwise Holy Fucking Shit, are you retarded.
1. Colonies do not magically become part of the continent of the mother country. Or do you think Hong Kong was in Europe?
2. Canada is no longer a colony.
3. Being a part of any economical union does not mean you are a part of that continent. Continents are geographically determined. You can't become a "member" of one. I'll grant there are differences of opinion as to whether some countries are in one or the other, like Turkey.
And there's this European country called Canada pretty far from UK in the opposite direction.
If there was any doubt you weren't playing with a full deck of cards, you wiped it out with this. Canada is part of this continent I like to call NORTH AMERICA, which would mean it's not part of Europe.
I'm talking about cultural/economic centers of Europe.
Boy, that would have been helpful to throw out there up front. If it were true. Which I doubt. Your first two posts made no mention of it, and only talked about centers of mass, calculating centers, etc. And no shit, this little town in Austria isn't the cultural/economic center of Europe, so I guess maybe that's not what the article is talking about. But somehow you were. I guess. But hey, given you never heard of Austria, and think Canada is part of Europe, I guess anything's possible.
For example there are concepts such as "center of mass" and elevation
Some areas have more land than others, mountains, etc. Which causes the center of mass to be different from the average geometrically.
Yeah, I follow you. Could be more than one center, depending on how you calculate. Now please look at a fucking map of Europe and explain how the UK might possibly be the center. While you're looking at it, look at the center of Europe and you're likely to find this country called Austria, which is pretty far from UK. Get it?
The real center of Europe is probably in the UK, Germany, France, or Russia. Austria must be some small country. never heard of that one..
Have you ever seen a map of Europe? Like, ever? How would the UK be at the center? I can forgive you for Germany, since it's right next to Austria. France is next to Germany, so not quite. Russia is almost as bad as UK.
'If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them.' This in part led to hiring bad programmers
Did anyone else read this as, they hired lousy programmers so they could compete with Microsoft?
MGRS format uses round numbers. A 6 digit grid equals 100m square on the ground, 8 digit grid equals 10m, 10 digit grid equals 1m. So if the grid was 18SMB1234567890, that gives you a 10m square on the ground, like you say. 18SMB123678 would be the 100m square of that grid. Still pretty damn close. 100meter grid squares are good enough for land navigation in most instances. If you're looking for a hilltop, intersection, or other prominent feature, 100 meters gets you close enough to see it. If you're looking for a particular house in a crowded urban environment, you need an 8 digit grid at the very least, but more likely a 10 digit grid.
They could also shorten it to 18SMB1267 (1,000m grid), or even 18SMB16 (10,000m). Though those aren't standard formats, they do plot.
Another problem is that there are many official (and many more unofficial) formats for reporting MGRS. 18S MB 1234567890, 18S MB 1234567890, 18SMB12345 67890, or even MB 1234567890 or 1234567890. Occasionally, a date from a message will plot, like 14APR123556. That looks like 14A is the Grid Zone Designator, PR is the 100,000m square, and 123556 is the 6 digit grid, when it's actually DTG (Date Time Group) for 14 April 12:45 and 56 seconds. Then there's UTM and Lat/Long. Only point is that a simple scrub probably wouldn't turn up every coordinate that was too accurate.
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You know, in the public space you only get someone's attention for two minutes a day.
So I'm not allowed to express my opinion on the internet unless I stay on message with people with whom I don't agree? That makes sense.
You just spent yours telling them not to ride bikes.
That's like your opinion, man. Actually, what I said was that we have to do so much more. What you heard on the other hand...
Worst case is worse than that. Look at the worst collapses of civilization, like Easter Island. (All) 17 species of trees went extinct, as in they either cut down every last tree, or the last few died on their own. Without trees, the soil washed away, animals they used to eat all died, and they could no longer make boats to go fish. The population crashed from 20,000 or more to fewer than 2,000 practically overnight. The damage we're doing could result in an equally horrendous but global collapse. Like Easter Island, there may be no going back, no way to undo the damage once it's done. Early civilizations overused their environments in the same way we're doing now but on a smaller scale, and they turned their dominions into desert. China, Egypt, Incas, Mayans, and many others were once in the middle of lush fertile regions, and now occupy nothing but desert. And now we're consuming, destroying, and polluting with the help of technology. Who's to say there will be anything habitable on which to farm?
I think the bigger risk is cloning the signal and making false IDs. Many places simply require you swipe your badge to enter. If you could clone the signal from someone's badge, how hard would it be to make a fake one to gain entrance to where they work? Same goes for your passport, keyfob for buying gas, etc.
I've got one. I put my RFID badge in it, and it still scanned at the same distance I always hold it in the same time (1 to 2 seconds). I've half a mind to line it with aluminum foil.
I was thinking of the Starbucks next door. Probably hundreds of defense contractors with their access badges walk through there every day, probably more than a few with their RFID passports and other IDs too.
And while populations are stabilizing and falling in some areas, consumption has gone up. More third world countries are becoming more like first world consumers, like China. Americans, on average, consume 17 times the natural resources of third worlders. So a decreasing population that is more educated with more money is worse for the planet, not better. The lifeboat can only hold 10 people. There are 40 crammed in, and the boat is sinking. Either we kick out 30 to save 10, or all 40 die. That's the conundrum and our solution so far has been to ignore it.
It is not in my programming to self terminate.
Except I'm not conspiring with anyone. Yet.
"It's all part of this population control mentality that we as humans are the disease," Strauch said.
Yes, from the point of the view of the planet and every other living thing, we are the disease. There's somewhere around 6+ billion people, happily eating, consuming, polluting, and destroying to our hearts' content. Installing higher efficiency light bulbs or buying Prius' or switching to riding a bike aren't going to avert a collapse in our global ecology/economy. We have to stop destroying our food and ecosystems on which we rely and undo the damage we've done. In short, stop charging to our children's credit cards, start paying them off, then start saving. Switching to riding a bike is like spending just a little less on their credit cards. We have to do so much more.
Practically makes me want to drown my sorrows in synthetic Victory Gin while I try to keep the tobacco in my last Victory Cigarette, while sitting just out of range of the telescreen of course. Orwell got more than a few things wrong too, and pretty much every dystopian novel got at least a few things right.
If you changed the second line in your sig to " Molecules scatter blue light", it would be a haiku.
And the telephone. Hello was invented as a word to use when one picked up the phone. Bell wanted everyone to say "ahoy", but that didn't catch on.
Right right. Real horrorshow malenky like, these vesches are with the slobos. Like to go all ultraviolence on their litsos til the tolchoks make their rots all skorry like. You viddy?
If they made all of Russia part of Europe, then the middle of Europe may as well be in Russia. I usually figure Russia to be part of Asia, that being where most of it is. Still, definitely NOT in UK or France.
You must be trolling at this point. Or at least I hope so, otherwise Holy Fucking Shit, are you retarded.
1. Colonies do not magically become part of the continent of the mother country. Or do you think Hong Kong was in Europe?
2. Canada is no longer a colony.
3. Being a part of any economical union does not mean you are a part of that continent. Continents are geographically determined. You can't become a "member" of one. I'll grant there are differences of opinion as to whether some countries are in one or the other, like Turkey.
And there's this European country called Canada pretty far from UK in the opposite direction.
If there was any doubt you weren't playing with a full deck of cards, you wiped it out with this. Canada is part of this continent I like to call NORTH AMERICA, which would mean it's not part of Europe.
I'm talking about cultural/economic centers of Europe.
Boy, that would have been helpful to throw out there up front. If it were true. Which I doubt. Your first two posts made no mention of it, and only talked about centers of mass, calculating centers, etc. And no shit, this little town in Austria isn't the cultural/economic center of Europe, so I guess maybe that's not what the article is talking about. But somehow you were. I guess. But hey, given you never heard of Austria, and think Canada is part of Europe, I guess anything's possible.
For example there are concepts such as "center of mass" and elevation Some areas have more land than others, mountains, etc. Which causes the center of mass to be different from the average geometrically.
Yeah, I follow you. Could be more than one center, depending on how you calculate. Now please look at a fucking map of Europe and explain how the UK might possibly be the center. While you're looking at it, look at the center of Europe and you're likely to find this country called Austria, which is pretty far from UK. Get it?
The real center of Europe is probably in the UK, Germany, France, or Russia. Austria must be some small country. never heard of that one..
Have you ever seen a map of Europe? Like, ever? How would the UK be at the center? I can forgive you for Germany, since it's right next to Austria. France is next to Germany, so not quite. Russia is almost as bad as UK.
It's not. That's why it's in Idle.
Or I was just trying to be funny, and your lack of humor is a sad indictment on your lack of humor. Either way.
'If anyone at Yahoo considered the idea that they should be a technology company, the next thought would have been that Microsoft would crush them.' This in part led to hiring bad programmers
Did anyone else read this as, they hired lousy programmers so they could compete with Microsoft?
MGRS format uses round numbers. A 6 digit grid equals 100m square on the ground, 8 digit grid equals 10m, 10 digit grid equals 1m. So if the grid was 18SMB1234567890, that gives you a 10m square on the ground, like you say. 18SMB123678 would be the 100m square of that grid. Still pretty damn close. 100meter grid squares are good enough for land navigation in most instances. If you're looking for a hilltop, intersection, or other prominent feature, 100 meters gets you close enough to see it. If you're looking for a particular house in a crowded urban environment, you need an 8 digit grid at the very least, but more likely a 10 digit grid.
They could also shorten it to 18SMB1267 (1,000m grid), or even 18SMB16 (10,000m). Though those aren't standard formats, they do plot.
Another problem is that there are many official (and many more unofficial) formats for reporting MGRS. 18S MB 1234567890, 18S MB 1234567890, 18SMB12345 67890, or even MB 1234567890 or 1234567890. Occasionally, a date from a message will plot, like 14APR123556. That looks like 14A is the Grid Zone Designator, PR is the 100,000m square, and 123556 is the 6 digit grid, when it's actually DTG (Date Time Group) for 14 April 12:45 and 56 seconds. Then there's UTM and Lat/Long. Only point is that a simple scrub probably wouldn't turn up every coordinate that was too accurate.
Bricked? I thought you could just re-synch your phone and restore it.
Yo dawg! I herd you like driving, so I put an XBox in your car so you can drive while you drive!
I know, that was terrible. But someone had to say it, right? I'll show myself out now.
Why would you want ethernet over USB, when USB would both power and provide access? How would I plug in an iPhone for instance?