After going through the woes of public education with 4 kids I can tell you that it's no fun for the teachers. Teachers are there to teach however nowadays they're overburdened with school administrations and core curriculum/testing laws that give them little leeway to be creative or to inspire kids to learn more and get the best education possible. Couple that with the facts that there are a lot of at-risk kids out there and parents who consider schools responsible for everything and we now have teachers who have to deal with a lot more things that parents should have to deal with vs. just teaching. What needs to happen is more positive involvement in our public schools both by parents and by other people who could help. There are lots of engineers and scientists out there who could contribute to STEM education in public schools if they were only given the chance and that way you would alleviate some of the pressure on teachers to be everything to everybody and focus on curriculum and learning in the classroom instead of whether or not the teacher understood the concepts you were presenting. It sounds like he was trying to inspire your understanding by having you play tug of war with the sphere, nowadays he'd probably have been repromanded for creating a situation that could have injured the students.
This story somehow reminds me of the Seinfeld Spongeworthy episode. Elaine finds out that the contraceptive sponge is no longer manufactured so she hoards them and then chooses her lovers based on the fact of whether or not she thinks they're Spongeworthy. I think in this case Linus doesn't have enough sponges left to waste.
Another possible attack vector for terrorists. Unwittingly this guy is now going to make it a living nightmare for people flying around Europe for exposing this security flaw. Prepare for the requisite knee-jerk response from the EU and the US.
If we don't wipe ourselves off this planet first, then maybe colonization on Mars is possible but you have to definite what living is on a planet with extremely hostile conditions. Yeah they'll be living in a habitat but without it they won't be able to survive. I guess it would be akin to the research teams at the South Pole working isolation and cut off for months at a time from any chance of resupply or exodus but from time to time at least they can go outside with less life support than if they were in Mars. No, I think colonies on Mars would definitely need lots of heavy duty meds and other things to take the inhabitants minds off the fact that without their fragile eco system and periodic resupply from Earth, there'd be no way they could survive there, not live there, survive.
Well you're now interjecting some opinion in there as well based on an observation. I do agree that GHGs are contributing to it but to what extent is one of those argument points but again it doesn't matter what the root cause is. Why? To be honest I think we're fucking the planet over in such a way that it'll make little difference if it's 2 or 4 degrees C higher on average in 100 years because there won't be really be an easy way to live on the planet. We have too many people trying to live on this blue ball and most of them want what the other industrialized nations have and they're not willing to sit down and enter into a dialog about slowing their own economic growth. Industrialized nations are consuming resources at a rate that will in some respects help curtail GHG emissions by their overconsumption of energy. At some point oil will run out but then you'll see coal being spun back up. We're already consuming more and more natural gas because of new tech. and just getting at that with fracking is screwing the water supplies and releasing more GHGs just in aquisition. Climate Change is only one leg on the barstool in other words but you can say with 100% certainty that human activity is fucking the planet over making it less inhabitable. Rich nations need to do with less, growing nations need to curtail their ambitions and also introduce reasonable contraception policies because more and more people all wanting better standards of living are the root cause. As George Carlin reminded us the Earth will eventually take care of this minor surface nuisance.
While people should learn about the issues and credible science to understand climate change, I'm increasingly worried about the outright rage and discourteous ways people are acting over this and other problems on our planet. To me it's a bigger issue because it's like there's no middle ground and no matter what the issue, it's polarized so you're either on one side or the other. Climate change is real, what's causing it could be natural or mostly man made. It doesn't matter who or what is causing it to just agree that the climate is changing. It's like the first step in correcting a problem, first you have to admit there's a problem. Why people continue to push back on it is not really ignorance because you can actually give somebody the facts and help them not be ignorant. It's rooted in static thinking about what is best for me, not everybody. Remember the controversy on retiring incandescent bulbs the US? The issue was spun around so that It wasn't about energy efficiency, it suddenly became an issue of uncompetitiveness by putting US companies out of business and that we should wait a few years to let our manufacturers catch up.
By allowing these issues to be spun one way or another it creates barriers and if somebody doesn't agree with you we just call these people dumbfucks, ignorant or immature and shut out any commentary or opinion they may have because they don't agree with us. The author of this article comes to mind on that one, people don't agree with me so they're ignorant. That's not a good starting point for building a constructive dialog is it?
I think if you want to get true impetus on addressing the risks and some mitigation strategy for climate change you first have to create a dialog and hear both sides. Sure there's economic risk for every nation on the planet but there's also other risks as well and the IPCC isn't helping matters, it's becoming a wedge as well with every report and it allows people who deny it to become even more rooted, while those who agree do likewise. Either we're going to solve this and all agree how we'll solve it or we're just going to go nowhere with it. Right now we're close to nowhere.
Yes I saw the episode and Clarkson does poke fun at all things American. We on the other hand can point out that he's an obnoxious clown who wouldn't be much good at anything else other than what he does. In any event, the Tesla did have problems and Tesla didn't like the review, they sued and the courts sided with Top Gear. Case over.
James May's review of the Fisker Karma was very positive and it was Top Gear's 2012 car of the year so I'd also say that they hate hybrids / electrics is an evolving thing especially with this season's review of the McLaren P1 and Porsche Spyder 918. Also in the last series Clarkson reviewed the AMG SLS Electric in which the car didn't break down and he was much more intrigued with it and very positive. So yeah Tesla had a bad day at the Top Gear track, musky boy didn't like it. If car manufacturers don't want to be made fun of then they shouldn't submit their product for testing to Top Gear.
I've heard this before, there was nothing wrong with what Top Gear said in the program.
Tesla complained about a passage of Clarkson's commentary in which he said: "Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again." Clarkson and others are then shown pushing the Roadster into the Top Gear hangar and recharging it.
The British courts have agreed with Top Gear and to be fair to other cars but on the track where they're going full tilt, mileage on gas powered cars isn't the same either so pushing the Tesla resulted in Top Gear making the statement and we know range would be reduced.
That's all you have to say Wesley Crusher produces Sharknado II....
Frankly SyFy is a network that should be avoided at all costs. When programs become overblown commercials, for example "Eureka" selling Degree antiperspirant in episodes a few years ago, it's time to move on. Sure, "Breaking Bad" was able to get away with it with Chrysler but still that show had a trifecta of writing, acting and overall plot line. SyFy produces drivel that's not even suitable for Hulu.
Moving from MSFT is a great move but jumping into Google's camp is a bad move. It's trading one set of evils/problems with another. A few years ago I would have said great move but Google lately has started to become a more smiling version of Apple and Microsoft and frankly is pushing their commercial interests above that of open computing. London Council can be proud of saving money but in a few years I think we'll be hearing another headline that they're switching to something else.
Let's see, first let's try and stop Plate Tectonics. First let's shut down that big old nuclear furnace at the center of the Earth... Nothing to big to do there... After which the electromagnetic field shielding the earth stops and we all get hella bombarded by solar winds..
There are other articles indicating that they won't fix it so the message is confused. If it were under a recall then Tesla would be compelled to fix it not just wait for a customer to ask for it especially since the shielding is for safety reasons.
Good point just the ignition failing doesn't mean you have complete lack of control but you do have diminished braking and turning capabilities in most cars. Depending on when the failure occurs and where you are, twisty mountain road or in traffic at high speed for example, you may have a difficult time controlling the vehicle. Now if the problem also say locks the steering at the same time, you're going to have a very bad day.
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Exactly, it's the growing arrogance that's plaguing all aspects of society. If you don't believe what I believe then you're an idiot.
After going through the woes of public education with 4 kids I can tell you that it's no fun for the teachers. Teachers are there to teach however nowadays they're overburdened with school administrations and core curriculum/testing laws that give them little leeway to be creative or to inspire kids to learn more and get the best education possible. Couple that with the facts that there are a lot of at-risk kids out there and parents who consider schools responsible for everything and we now have teachers who have to deal with a lot more things that parents should have to deal with vs. just teaching. What needs to happen is more positive involvement in our public schools both by parents and by other people who could help. There are lots of engineers and scientists out there who could contribute to STEM education in public schools if they were only given the chance and that way you would alleviate some of the pressure on teachers to be everything to everybody and focus on curriculum and learning in the classroom instead of whether or not the teacher understood the concepts you were presenting. It sounds like he was trying to inspire your understanding by having you play tug of war with the sphere, nowadays he'd probably have been repromanded for creating a situation that could have injured the students.
This story somehow reminds me of the Seinfeld Spongeworthy episode. Elaine finds out that the contraceptive sponge is no longer manufactured so she hoards them and then chooses her lovers based on the fact of whether or not she thinks they're Spongeworthy. I think in this case Linus doesn't have enough sponges left to waste.
First rule of Fight Club is..
You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
Second rule is..
You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
Good Old Ted Stevens was proven right once and for all! It is a bunch of tubes!!!
Another possible attack vector for terrorists. Unwittingly this guy is now going to make it a living nightmare for people flying around Europe for exposing this security flaw. Prepare for the requisite knee-jerk response from the EU and the US.
If we don't wipe ourselves off this planet first, then maybe colonization on Mars is possible but you have to definite what living is on a planet with extremely hostile conditions. Yeah they'll be living in a habitat but without it they won't be able to survive. I guess it would be akin to the research teams at the South Pole working isolation and cut off for months at a time from any chance of resupply or exodus but from time to time at least they can go outside with less life support than if they were in Mars. No, I think colonies on Mars would definitely need lots of heavy duty meds and other things to take the inhabitants minds off the fact that without their fragile eco system and periodic resupply from Earth, there'd be no way they could survive there, not live there, survive.
Well you're now interjecting some opinion in there as well based on an observation. I do agree that GHGs are contributing to it but to what extent is one of those argument points but again it doesn't matter what the root cause is. Why? To be honest I think we're fucking the planet over in such a way that it'll make little difference if it's 2 or 4 degrees C higher on average in 100 years because there won't be really be an easy way to live on the planet. We have too many people trying to live on this blue ball and most of them want what the other industrialized nations have and they're not willing to sit down and enter into a dialog about slowing their own economic growth. Industrialized nations are consuming resources at a rate that will in some respects help curtail GHG emissions by their overconsumption of energy. At some point oil will run out but then you'll see coal being spun back up. We're already consuming more and more natural gas because of new tech. and just getting at that with fracking is screwing the water supplies and releasing more GHGs just in aquisition. Climate Change is only one leg on the barstool in other words but you can say with 100% certainty that human activity is fucking the planet over making it less inhabitable. Rich nations need to do with less, growing nations need to curtail their ambitions and also introduce reasonable contraception policies because more and more people all wanting better standards of living are the root cause.
As George Carlin reminded us the Earth will eventually take care of this minor surface nuisance.
ChromeOS is Linux based.
While people should learn about the issues and credible science to understand climate change, I'm increasingly worried about the outright rage and discourteous ways people are acting over this and other problems on our planet. To me it's a bigger issue because it's like there's no middle ground and no matter what the issue, it's polarized so you're either on one side or the other. Climate change is real, what's causing it could be natural or mostly man made. It doesn't matter who or what is causing it to just agree that the climate is changing. It's like the first step in correcting a problem, first you have to admit there's a problem. Why people continue to push back on it is not really ignorance because you can actually give somebody the facts and help them not be ignorant. It's rooted in static thinking about what is best for me, not everybody. Remember the controversy on retiring incandescent bulbs the US? The issue was spun around so that It wasn't about energy efficiency, it suddenly became an issue of uncompetitiveness by putting US companies out of business and that we should wait a few years to let our manufacturers catch up.
By allowing these issues to be spun one way or another it creates barriers and if somebody doesn't agree with you we just call these people dumbfucks, ignorant or immature and shut out any commentary or opinion they may have because they don't agree with us. The author of this article comes to mind on that one, people don't agree with me so they're ignorant. That's not a good starting point for building a constructive dialog is it?
I think if you want to get true impetus on addressing the risks and some mitigation strategy for climate change you first have to create a dialog and hear both sides. Sure there's economic risk for every nation on the planet but there's also other risks as well and the IPCC isn't helping matters, it's becoming a wedge as well with every report and it allows people who deny it to become even more rooted, while those who agree do likewise. Either we're going to solve this and all agree how we'll solve it or we're just going to go nowhere with it. Right now we're close to nowhere.
It's all about the meds...
Yes I saw the episode and Clarkson does poke fun at all things American. We on the other hand can point out that he's an obnoxious clown who wouldn't be much good at anything else other than what he does. In any event, the Tesla did have problems and Tesla didn't like the review, they sued and the courts sided with Top Gear. Case over.
James May's review of the Fisker Karma was very positive and it was Top Gear's 2012 car of the year so I'd also say that they hate hybrids / electrics is an evolving thing especially with this season's review of the McLaren P1 and Porsche Spyder 918. Also in the last series Clarkson reviewed the AMG SLS Electric in which the car didn't break down and he was much more intrigued with it and very positive. So yeah Tesla had a bad day at the Top Gear track, musky boy didn't like it. If car manufacturers don't want to be made fun of then they shouldn't submit their product for testing to Top Gear.
I've heard this before, there was nothing wrong with what Top Gear said in the program.
Tesla complained about a passage of Clarkson's commentary in which he said: "Although Tesla say it will do 200 miles, we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles and if it does run out, it is not a quick job to charge it up again." Clarkson and others are then shown pushing the Roadster into the Top Gear hangar and recharging it.
The British courts have agreed with Top Gear and to be fair to other cars but on the track where they're going full tilt, mileage on gas powered cars isn't the same either so pushing the Tesla resulted in Top Gear making the statement and we know range would be reduced.
For comparison look at their one gallon supercar race.
YMMV... Sorry Tesla Nutswingers!
Based on Linux, yes the rest is just Google invading your privacy and directing you to their view of the world.
That's all you have to say Wesley Crusher produces Sharknado II....
Frankly SyFy is a network that should be avoided at all costs. When programs become overblown commercials, for example "Eureka" selling Degree antiperspirant in episodes a few years ago, it's time to move on. Sure, "Breaking Bad" was able to get away with it with Chrysler but still that show had a trifecta of writing, acting and overall plot line. SyFy produces drivel that's not even suitable for Hulu.
Moving from MSFT is a great move but jumping into Google's camp is a bad move. It's trading one set of evils/problems with another. A few years ago I would have said great move but Google lately has started to become a more smiling version of Apple and Microsoft and frankly is pushing their commercial interests above that of open computing. London Council can be proud of saving money but in a few years I think we'll be hearing another headline that they're switching to something else.
Let's see, first let's try and stop Plate Tectonics. First let's shut down that big old nuclear furnace at the center of the Earth... Nothing to big to do there...
After which the electromagnetic field shielding the earth stops
and we all get hella bombarded by solar winds..
This is a bad sci fi movie plot, April Fools
Those are spying, prying bits, I don't want any part of those.
So your into electronic bit genocide!?!?! Save the bits!
Billions of electronic bits gave their lives to produce this article. It's sad really since we'll never see their likes again.
you've never flipped over off road in an old Bronco! It's not a question of doing it wrong, it's just having too much fun doing it!
There are other articles indicating that they won't fix it so the message is confused. If it were under a recall then Tesla would be compelled to fix it not just wait for a customer to ask for it especially since the shielding is for safety reasons.
IHS, DOT, NHTSA.... GM
Definitely a regression they'll need to account for in the future. "Let's see do we have the 20lb keyring test results?"
Good point just the ignition failing doesn't mean you have complete lack of control but you do have diminished braking and turning capabilities in most cars. Depending on when the failure occurs and where you are, twisty mountain road or in traffic at high speed for example, you may have a difficult time controlling the vehicle. Now if the problem also say locks the steering at the same time, you're going to have a very bad day.
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