They should start small, say a rat brain. There are plenty of rats to take apart and figure out how their brain works, and it's cheaper to work at a smaller scale. We assume most of the underlying principles are the same (we don't actually know how brains work), so there is no disadvantage of starting small. Once they have a working (silicon) rat brain they can scale it up to a useful level (replacing human workers, then discovering that the unemployed don't buy stuff but can still vote to nationalize the means of production).
The Democrats are not supporting nuclear in Iran, they are supporting supervision so they don't make bombs. Trump wants to kill the supervision so he can claim they have the bomb and start a war.
All problems facing humans can be divided into 2 catagories: 1-Politics, 2-cost. Eliminating all fossil fuels and replacing them with renewables is doable for stationary use right now (Appolo level project=10 years), if we want it. Using renewables for mobile use still needs some work. We don't need free power to eliminate air pollution, we need clean power that's not more expensive than what we're using and the political will to build it.
An orbital ring with tethers to the ground for the power cables would manage orbital solar. Or you could build solar on the ground, with batteries, for 1% of the cost with the same capacity. We know how to make stuff without releasing polution, it's just a cost problem.
Current designs of fusion reactors require expensive parts, meaning expensive power when it's eventually made to work. Solar power is cheap and readily available now, meaning it's what people will invest in. By the time they get fusion working there will be no compelling reason to use it (on Earth).
None of the abductees held at Quantanamo Bay have been convicted of a crime. Holding people for decades without even bothering to charge them with a crime is evil. If you go around pointing your finger at other countries, saying they are Evil because x,y,z then you lose your Moral High Ground when you do x,y,z.
1-You seem to think the American electric utility is 100% government owned. It's not. Try googling "Weakest Link" for the consequences of this public/private system. 2-Americans are subject to constant propaganda of "Government Bad, Corporations Good!". You should know that Governments work for you while Corporations want to take your money.
The unions targeted the rich, not the middle class (you rob banks because that's where the money is). The second war caused the worlds rich people to move their money to the USA (for safety) and they promptly took over. That is why the offshoring happened, because "Foreign" rich don't care about America. Corporate Wealfare is Socialism, but most Americans have no idea what socialism means. The Republican party has been moving steadily Left since Ronald Reagan, leaving the Democrats as America's only major right wing political party.
We run roads and highways as a government run service so everyone gets roads, not just the city folk. If you run the internet that way then the high density city regions would subsidize the low density country regions. This means it pays for itself, no taxpayer subsidies required.
Seasonal time changes kill people, they don't make sense anywhere. The original purpose was to make use of daylight in a world where lighting was expensive. We now have cheap electric lighting everywhere, so why pay the cost of time changes?
Any job that can be done by someone from home can be done by someone in India or China, for 1/10 your wage. Avoid any job that doesn't require a physical presence.
The Russians want to reduce Saudi oil production in order to drive up the price of oil. They need the money. You should root for Saudi Arabia if low oil prices are your priority, for Russia if you own oil stocks.
Or you can run an insulated unshielded copper wire to every zone of the barn and connect it to the antenna for a wifi router. It will act as an antenna everywhere.
When the Rich control government you end up with all the major political parties being right wing, as you see in the USA. Hillary Clinton is a right wing politician along the lines of George Bush or Barak Obama.
There is no cost to the record companies in extending copyright terms. It's free money for them, minus the small payment to politicians every 20 years for another extension.
Feeding human food to animals is only common in the western world. The rest of the world feeds their cattle whatever they don't eat, like the stuff left over after harvest and organic garbage.
If the company you work for found a way to get money from their customers without doing any work, would they? By the morals of your employer, is automating your job wrong?
Have Calfornia take ownership of the wires and cellphone towers. The people would pay a flat fee for monthly access, and a bandwidth charge for usage. Think state water system as your business model.
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If there were fines for spoofed caller id, the carriers would want to eliminate the problem, as opposed to wanting to ignore the problem.
They should start small, say a rat brain. There are plenty of rats to take apart and figure out how their brain works, and it's cheaper to work at a smaller scale. We assume most of the underlying principles are the same (we don't actually know how brains work), so there is no disadvantage of starting small. Once they have a working (silicon) rat brain they can scale it up to a useful level (replacing human workers, then discovering that the unemployed don't buy stuff but can still vote to nationalize the means of production).
The Democrats are not supporting nuclear in Iran, they are supporting supervision so they don't make bombs. Trump wants to kill the supervision so he can claim they have the bomb and start a war.
All problems facing humans can be divided into 2 catagories: 1-Politics, 2-cost. Eliminating all fossil fuels and replacing them with renewables is doable for stationary use right now (Appolo level project=10 years), if we want it. Using renewables for mobile use still needs some work. We don't need free power to eliminate air pollution, we need clean power that's not more expensive than what we're using and the political will to build it.
An orbital ring with tethers to the ground for the power cables would manage orbital solar. Or you could build solar on the ground, with batteries, for 1% of the cost with the same capacity. We know how to make stuff without releasing polution, it's just a cost problem.
Current designs of fusion reactors require expensive parts, meaning expensive power when it's eventually made to work. Solar power is cheap and readily available now, meaning it's what people will invest in. By the time they get fusion working there will be no compelling reason to use it (on Earth).
None of the abductees held at Quantanamo Bay have been convicted of a crime. Holding people for decades without even bothering to charge them with a crime is evil. If you go around pointing your finger at other countries, saying they are Evil because x,y,z then you lose your Moral High Ground when you do x,y,z.
Interesting how terrorist activity from Saudi Arabia (Taliban, Isis) gets ignored while the same stuff from Iran is headline news.
1-You seem to think the American electric utility is 100% government owned. It's not. Try googling "Weakest Link" for the consequences of this public/private system. 2-Americans are subject to constant propaganda of "Government Bad, Corporations Good!". You should know that Governments work for you while Corporations want to take your money.
The unions targeted the rich, not the middle class (you rob banks because that's where the money is). The second war caused the worlds rich people to move their money to the USA (for safety) and they promptly took over. That is why the offshoring happened, because "Foreign" rich don't care about America. Corporate Wealfare is Socialism, but most Americans have no idea what socialism means. The Republican party has been moving steadily Left since Ronald Reagan, leaving the Democrats as America's only major right wing political party.
The deal was for $10 Billion, they can write a cheque for the rest.
We run roads and highways as a government run service so everyone gets roads, not just the city folk. If you run the internet that way then the high density city regions would subsidize the low density country regions. This means it pays for itself, no taxpayer subsidies required.
Claw back the money, with interest, for every single house that doesn't have broadband.
Seasonal time changes kill people, they don't make sense anywhere. The original purpose was to make use of daylight in a world where lighting was expensive. We now have cheap electric lighting everywhere, so why pay the cost of time changes?
Any job that can be done by someone from home can be done by someone in India or China, for 1/10 your wage. Avoid any job that doesn't require a physical presence.
The Russians want to reduce Saudi oil production in order to drive up the price of oil. They need the money. You should root for Saudi Arabia if low oil prices are your priority, for Russia if you own oil stocks.
We have the technology to destroy (not store) nuclear waste, we choose not to do that due to cost.
Or you can run an insulated unshielded copper wire to every zone of the barn and connect it to the antenna for a wifi router. It will act as an antenna everywhere.
Given that China copies foreign products you should assume that the American installed back doors are still there.
When the Rich control government you end up with all the major political parties being right wing, as you see in the USA. Hillary Clinton is a right wing politician along the lines of George Bush or Barak Obama.
There is no cost to the record companies in extending copyright terms. It's free money for them, minus the small payment to politicians every 20 years for another extension.
Feeding human food to animals is only common in the western world. The rest of the world feeds their cattle whatever they don't eat, like the stuff left over after harvest and organic garbage.
If the company you work for found a way to get money from their customers without doing any work, would they? By the morals of your employer, is automating your job wrong?
The American Federal Government is paid to care.
Have Calfornia take ownership of the wires and cellphone towers. The people would pay a flat fee for monthly access, and a bandwidth charge for usage. Think state water system as your business model.