Yes. It's been known in South Carolina since at least the 1960's that buildings near the beach change the wind currents enough to cause the sand dunes to be blown away. Without the sand dunes next to the beach, the water washes the beach away. So building causes beach erosion!
Except when the hurricanes hit Folly beach, the people that had stuff there appealed to the state politicians and got a special law allowing them to build again. The beach erosion "serves them right".
Also, it is very wise to never forget that in the US, everybody and his dog has access to guns. It doesnt matter if the shooter is 12 years old or 70, you are going to be shot to death either way.
Over there, you have no choice but to take the death threats seriously. If somebody is coming for you, and they likely have firearms and know where you live, you need to do all that you can to protect yourself.
These threats are not to be taken lightly. They need to be investigated by the police and the crazed shooter needs to be chucked in jail before people are murdered.
True. I live in the US, and I have guns. And so do my neighbors. If an attacker comes "sniffing around" he will be a bit outnumbered. And yes, such threats are taken very seriously. Although young kids are "cut some slack" for unwise words.
,,, The fact that anyone takes this seriously shows just how naive they really are. Think about it... someone can type words... on the Internet... and you're in an uproar. That's like putting a button in the middle of the mall that if you push it, it calls a swat team. Of course it's going to get pressed over and over and over again. Stop sending the swat team, the kids will stop pressing it.
Maybe only one in 10,000 is serious. But considering how many trolls there are on the internet, your odds of getting an ISIL terrorist (or equivilent) are not that long. And the laws about such things, off of the internet, still apply when they are -on- the internet.
We have fire alarm switches in all public buildings, here, including malls. They don't get pulled very often. But if you pull one without good reason it can get you jail time! If they stopped sending help when someone pulled the fire alarm, the whole city might burn down.
In places where they ignore "broken windows", the crime rate slowly rises. When small crimes are no longer ignored, crime goes down. Even big crimes.
And, if the internet were really that anonymous, we would not be so worried about NSA and such.
I didn't get past the paywall, so I have to ask: What kind of work are they talking about?
Workers who change schedules more than once a week, like some of the police departments, and try to stay awake both night and day?
Or workers who stay on a night shift perminantly, and get used to the schedule?
That is a -huge- difference. I worked "12 on and 12 off" for six months and was fine after the first week. But they did have "daylight" lights for working.
What FTDI did was like someone who gets hit by a bully, and then turns around and hits the smaller boy standing on the other side of them. They punished the wrong people, and are themselves now the criminal. 8-(
The positive thinking is necessary for the sales people. The negative thinking is necessary for the engineers. That's why most companies have a "wall" between the groups.
But the engineers need some of sales' positive thinking to avoid loss of enthusiasm. And the sales people need some of engineering's negative thinking to avoid "floating away into the sky". So the "wall" should not be too high. 8-)
It's all just a trick by the 1%ers to keep us down.
Silly... We -are- the one percenters. Oh, you mean as measuered by money. They don't mean anything as far as I can see, except possibly as stumbling blocks. 8-)
Humor aside... It honestly wouldn't surprise me if supply chain documentation is what lead to some of this... the Aerospace and Defense industries are very very picky about knowing exactly what they're getting (aircraft falling out of the sky due to counterfeit components would be bad...).
(aircraft falling out of the sky due to counterfeit components is bad, and has happened...) Fixed that for you...
That was when the movies and TV started to portray technical people as being wierd and unappealing. It made a great joke and sold tickets, but it slandared the real Techs and Engineers.
I think it was partly because many of the corporations were taken over, about that time, by former salesmen and lawyers. The were afraid of the Techs because they didn't understand them, so they tried to "cut them down". And were able to make it stick, until we started to have problems because too many corps were run by salesmen.
Now it's beginning to change, but change is slow...
Kids, remember, if someone tells you not to act smart because it's not "cool", they are -not- your friend. They are just trying to sabatoge you, so they can continue to be lazy. 8-)
... It's similarly illegal to study gun violence under a US public health research grant, even though every other class of mortality is nominally okay....
That wasn't really politics, it was because some people at the CDC, which is supposed to be professional, were caught falsifying result data. The reaction was so negative from so many, that it was stopped for now.
It wasn't covered up, I sat and watched the reports. But the news services stopped reporting it as the election approached, apperently because they wanted to avoid calling their party a liar... 8-P
It sounds like the news people are trying to blame the silence on someone other than themselves.
Typical for industry. Most petrol stations I know of are not zoned in any kind of industrial area.
This will be ok to do in some area, but don't pretend that we can simply go and plug these into every petrol station.
Keep in mind that a lot of the people talking about this, here and other places, live in cities and don't believe that anything outside of the cities really exists...
But the remote locations will probably just stay the same (gasoline) until they can get a fusion power unit in a shipping container out back. 8-)
Moving all of the energy that a 85 kW-hr lithium-ion EV battery can hold into a battery in 2 or 5 minutes would require some truly dangerous amperage, and some enormous amount of heat could be generated.
Go parallel....
Actually, it's the other way around. Charging of large packs is done in series, at a higher voltage, so that a large amount of power can be transferred at lower amperage. That's why long distance power lines use ultra-high voltages but relativly small wires.
The question is how do you avoid over-charging some of the cells, if they are not exactly matched. (Smart computerized power packs) And, how high can a car charger voltage go, before it gets too dangerous. ( About 220 volts, maybe )
As soon as we get ultra-high voltage power lines run over (or under) the oceans, the day side of the planet will be able to supply solar power to the night side.
P.S. I don't think the power transmission companies need to worry about solar power... 8-)
P.P.S. If you don't think this is plausable, consider that no one thought running telegraph wires (and later telephone) over the ocean was possible, either.
Every specialty has it own technical language, and words do not mean the same in different languages. Most arguments end up being about the meaning of words. No discussion is possible unless we can agree what the words used mean. And, the more technical the discussion, the more likely that words will -not- have the standard meaning. Best not to get in a "death spiral" over it... 8-)
As an artist the flat Metro look drives me crazy;...
It's supposed to look like a comic book, so the kids will like it. No artists involved, I'm sure.
The problem is that kids don't read paper comic books any more...
As an Engineer, I agree with you. Industrial users hate the flat look, it causes accidents. The "3D look" is actually far advanced, as far as fast recognition and reliable operation.
The only reason the older computers had "flat look" (before windows) was because that was all they could handle. On the other hand, it does seem to be "in" to play pixellated games, again... 8-)
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"...improving on the human brain"
No thank you!
Who will define "improve"? If we're aiming at a perfect society, removing emotions and making people more obedient is the first step, right? ...
Um... did someone say "Cybermen" ? Or is that copyrighted by the BBC?
8-)
... The one big problem is that we are not given free government-issued IDs that I am aware of.
Government issued IDs are illegal, in the USA. For good reason...
Selling sand to an Arab!! Hah, now I've heard it all.
What's next? Selling snow to an Eskimo?
That's not all. The local sand is too round to make good concrete, so they have to import sand to build stuff, too.
Yes. It's been known in South Carolina since at least the 1960's that buildings near the beach change the wind currents enough to cause the sand dunes to be blown away. Without the sand dunes next to the beach, the water washes the beach away. So building causes beach erosion!
Except when the hurricanes hit Folly beach, the people that had stuff there appealed to the state politicians and got a special law allowing them to build again. The beach erosion "serves them right".
Also, it is very wise to never forget that in the US, everybody and his dog has access to guns. It doesnt matter if the shooter is 12 years old or 70, you are going to be shot to death either way.
Over there, you have no choice but to take the death threats seriously. If somebody is coming for you, and they likely have firearms and know where you live, you need to do all that you can to protect yourself.
These threats are not to be taken lightly. They need to be investigated by the police and the crazed shooter needs to be chucked in jail before people are murdered.
True. I live in the US, and I have guns. And so do my neighbors. If an attacker comes "sniffing around" he will be a bit outnumbered.
And yes, such threats are taken very seriously. Although young kids are "cut some slack" for unwise words.
,,, The fact that anyone takes this seriously shows just how naive they really are. Think about it... someone can type words... on the Internet... and you're in an uproar. That's like putting a button in the middle of the mall that if you push it, it calls a swat team. Of course it's going to get pressed over and over and over again. Stop sending the swat team, the kids will stop pressing it.
Maybe only one in 10,000 is serious. But considering how many trolls there are on the internet, your odds of getting an ISIL terrorist (or equivilent) are not that long. And the laws about such things, off of the internet, still apply when they are -on- the internet.
We have fire alarm switches in all public buildings, here, including malls. They don't get pulled very often. But if you pull one without good reason it can get you jail time! If they stopped sending help when someone pulled the fire alarm, the whole city might burn down.
In places where they ignore "broken windows", the crime rate slowly rises. When small crimes are no longer ignored, crime goes down. Even big crimes.
And, if the internet were really that anonymous, we would not be so worried about NSA and such.
I didn't get past the paywall, so I have to ask:
What kind of work are they talking about?
Workers who change schedules more than once a week, like some of the police departments, and try to stay awake both night and day?
Or workers who stay on a night shift perminantly, and get used to the schedule?
That is a -huge- difference. I worked "12 on and 12 off" for six months and was fine after the first week. But they did have "daylight" lights for working.
... Maybe you drink all your beer in a wine cellar, in which case carry on--"room temperature" is correct! ...
The castles of Europe were -not- all that warm. "Room Temperature" all depends on the temperature of your room. 8-)
What FTDI did was like someone who gets hit by a bully, and then turns around and hits the smaller boy standing on the other side of them. They punished the wrong people, and are themselves now the criminal. 8-(
The positive thinking is necessary for the sales people. The negative thinking is necessary for the engineers. That's why most companies have a "wall" between the groups.
But the engineers need some of sales' positive thinking to avoid loss of enthusiasm. And the sales people need some of engineering's negative thinking to avoid "floating away into the sky". So the "wall" should not be too high. 8-)
See also: Y2K
And if you don't know what that means, look it up. But don't believe the stories about it being a hoax, it was very real. I was there.
It's all just a trick by the 1%ers to keep us down.
Silly... We -are- the one percenters.
Oh, you mean as measuered by money. They don't mean anything as far as I can see, except possibly as stumbling blocks. 8-)
Humor aside... It honestly wouldn't surprise me if supply chain documentation is what lead to some of this... the Aerospace and Defense industries are very very picky about knowing exactly what they're getting (aircraft falling out of the sky due to counterfeit components would be bad...).
(aircraft falling out of the sky due to counterfeit components is bad, and has happened...)
Fixed that for you...
That was when the movies and TV started to portray technical people as being wierd and unappealing. It made a great joke and sold tickets, but it slandared the real Techs and Engineers.
I think it was partly because many of the corporations were taken over, about that time, by former salesmen and lawyers. The were afraid of the Techs because they didn't understand them, so they tried to "cut them down". And were able to make it stick, until we started to have problems because too many corps were run by salesmen.
Now it's beginning to change, but change is slow...
Kids, remember, if someone tells you not to act smart because it's not "cool", they are -not- your friend. They are just trying to sabatoge you, so they can continue to be lazy. 8-)
... It's similarly illegal to study gun violence under a US public health research grant, even though every other class of mortality is nominally okay. ...
That wasn't really politics, it was because some people at the CDC, which is supposed to be professional, were caught falsifying result data.
The reaction was so negative from so many, that it was stopped for now.
Silencers prevent your people from going deaf.
They are now called suppressors, they don't actually silence anything. Except in the tv or movies. 8-P
Saying what you think, can be embarasing when the internet includes people that actually live there! 8-)
It wasn't covered up, I sat and watched the reports.
But the news services stopped reporting it as the election approached, apperently because they wanted to avoid calling their party a liar... 8-P
It sounds like the news people are trying to blame the silence on someone other than themselves.
WMD, It's called "NBC" = Nuclear - Biological - Chemical. Using your own private definition doesn't make you correct...
Typical for industry. Most petrol stations I know of are not zoned in any kind of industrial area.
This will be ok to do in some area, but don't pretend that we can simply go and plug these into every petrol station.
Keep in mind that a lot of the people talking about this, here and other places, live in cities and don't believe that anything outside of the cities really exists...
But the remote locations will probably just stay the same (gasoline) until they can get a fusion power unit in a shipping container out back. 8-)
Wasn't he talking about the flywheel being in the filling station ??
Moving all of the energy that a 85 kW-hr lithium-ion EV battery can hold into a battery in 2 or 5 minutes would require some truly dangerous amperage,
and some enormous amount of heat could be generated.
Go parallel. ...
Actually, it's the other way around. Charging of large packs is done in series, at a higher voltage, so that a large amount of power can be transferred at lower amperage. That's why long distance power lines use ultra-high voltages but relativly small wires.
The question is how do you avoid over-charging some of the cells, if they are not exactly matched. (Smart computerized power packs)
And, how high can a car charger voltage go, before it gets too dangerous. ( About 220 volts, maybe )
As soon as we get ultra-high voltage power lines run over (or under) the oceans, the day side of the planet will be able to supply solar power to the night side.
P.S. I don't think the power transmission companies need to worry about solar power... 8-)
P.P.S. If you don't think this is plausable, consider that no one thought running telegraph wires (and later telephone) over the ocean was possible, either.
Every specialty has it own technical language, and words do not mean the same in different languages.
Most arguments end up being about the meaning of words.
No discussion is possible unless we can agree what the words used mean. And, the more technical the discussion, the more likely that words will -not- have the standard meaning.
Best not to get in a "death spiral" over it... 8-)
As an artist the flat Metro look drives me crazy; ...
It's supposed to look like a comic book, so the kids will like it. No artists involved, I'm sure.
The problem is that kids don't read paper comic books any more...
As an Engineer, I agree with you. Industrial users hate the flat look, it causes accidents.
The "3D look" is actually far advanced, as far as fast recognition and reliable operation.
The only reason the older computers had "flat look" (before windows) was because that was all they could handle.
On the other hand, it does seem to be "in" to play pixellated games, again... 8-)