We see distant supernova events all the freaking time. We're talking about galaxies in other superclusters here, man. The further away we look, the more we see. (Obviously up to a point, or we'd be seeing quasars exploding all the time and the night sky would likely be rather warm.)
We were real programmers then. Didn't have these girly compilers that tell you exactly what and where the problem is.
What, you don't like girls?
My ideal compiler would be TITANICALLY "girly" in that she would not only let you down gently as she showed you precisely what you'd done wrong, but if you wrote efficient, elegant code with clear, concise documentation, she would, uh, "reward" you.
Unfortunately all my efforts so far at convincing the "female womens" to undergo the necessary cybernetic enhancements have been rebuffed for some reason, often with the assistance of blunt objects or pepper spray.
Solar power won't interfere with nuclear power, buddy. Take it from a former anti-nuclear activist: modern nuclear plants are great, and without them the warming would be a lot worse. I'm one of the weirdo Australian lefties who heartily endorses digging up all the uranium Australia has (a third of the world's known reserves) and shipping it overseas to countries who already have nuclear plants.
However, it's very hard for a country that hasn't got them already to go zero-carbon by developing a nuclear power industry. There's no time! The political barriers, not to mention the capital investment, will cause too many delays. Especially since we can't come close to having enough uranium to convert the entire world over without using breeder reactors, and they create a politically unacceptable proliferation risk.
Geothermal is the way to go for countries who are lucky enough to have extensive hot rocks under their territory. Endless baseload power, baby. Solar thermal, a proven, reliable technology, will work in most places outside the Arctic, and with enough buffering in place will even supply baseload.
There's room enough for all cost-effective options.
Yeah, that's a little sloppy, but give them some credit; at least the process names itself GoogleUpdate and not vitalsystemprocessdonottouchoryourcomputerwillexplode.exe.
Considering that global warming is expected to kill one-fifth to one-third of all species worldwide, I'd say that the relatively miniscule effect wind power generation will have on the environment is FAR preferable.
Wow. You really are a complete and utter bastard. Nice. You've wasted so much of your own life, but on top of that, you've wasted much more of OTHER people's lives! Well done!
People like you are the reason TF2 has no friendly fire.
Actually, there is a real question mark as to whether the bacterium still IS E. Coli, since the inability to metabolise citrates is one of the ways that E. Coli is supposed to be different from other species.
So, how many of your kids do you drop off at school before you get to work? Sure, they can ride bikes too, but more than 10 kilometres and the round-trip looks a little daunting. That, and you have to get up at 5AM.
Mine metals+minerals (using energy) -> Build solar power plant(using energy) -> Produce electricity (using some energy for maintenance) -> Transmit electricity through power grid (losing energy through resistance) -> Storage batteries (which themselves need to be manufactured, costing energy) -> Electric vehicle.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as much in favour of solar as you are, but don't be untruthful.
Also, geothermal power is usable in many, many more places than Iceland or New Zealand. Look up "hot rock geothermal" on Google sometime.
Oh, and electricity does indeed move atoms. In batteries.
Yes, because all parents, especially starving peasants, CHOOSE to have kids. None of them simply have them because they don't take precautions against it, or don't have the time to worry about such things when they're trying to bring in the fucking harvest.
You're half right. The reason that food prices didn't go up in Brazil is that, as you say, food production relies heavily on internal combustion engines for production and transport.
So, even as some of Brazil's food-growing areas switched over to ethanol-growing areas, the increase in ethanol production meant that the production and transport costs went down for the food that was still being produced.
So one factor in the price went up, another factor went down, and you had little change.
Also, you cut down half the Amazon to plant cows.:D But I can hardly blame Brazilians for that, having just myself eaten a double Whopper.
Dude, you can instantly switch between knife and sap with Q. And you can map Q to the middle-click. So I can do exactly what you do on my crappy mouse that I found in a crate full of peripherals in my cupboard after the old one got melted.
There are rules allowing US military folks (as well as those in most other western armies) to refuse to obey an illegal order. They may be court-martialled, but if they were right to disobey the order, they will not be punished.
If someone in the Nazi regime didn't follow an order to kill an unarmed civilian in a train, they were themselves shot.
So if one human dies, all the humans die? After all, the best reason to have an AI running a ship is that it's too complex for humans to do with peak alertness 24/7.
I should also point out that it wasn't HAL's fault that the humans died; it was the stupid bastards who brainwashed him and didn't think about what they were doing.
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If Microsoft wants to associate themselves with the term "Limited Open-Source Software", isn't it their LOSS?
We see distant supernova events all the freaking time. We're talking about galaxies in other superclusters here, man. The further away we look, the more we see. (Obviously up to a point, or we'd be seeing quasars exploding all the time and the night sky would likely be rather warm.)
We were real programmers then. Didn't have these girly compilers that tell you exactly what and where the problem is.
What, you don't like girls?
My ideal compiler would be TITANICALLY "girly" in that she would not only let you down gently as she showed you precisely what you'd done wrong, but if you wrote efficient, elegant code with clear, concise documentation, she would, uh, "reward" you.
Unfortunately all my efforts so far at convincing the "female womens" to undergo the necessary cybernetic enhancements have been rebuffed for some reason, often with the assistance of blunt objects or pepper spray.
...telling it like it is.
You haven't read any Culture novels before? You lu'y, lu'y, bastard!
Solar power won't interfere with nuclear power, buddy. Take it from a former anti-nuclear activist: modern nuclear plants are great, and without them the warming would be a lot worse. I'm one of the weirdo Australian lefties who heartily endorses digging up all the uranium Australia has (a third of the world's known reserves) and shipping it overseas to countries who already have nuclear plants.
However, it's very hard for a country that hasn't got them already to go zero-carbon by developing a nuclear power industry. There's no time! The political barriers, not to mention the capital investment, will cause too many delays. Especially since we can't come close to having enough uranium to convert the entire world over without using breeder reactors, and they create a politically unacceptable proliferation risk.
Geothermal is the way to go for countries who are lucky enough to have extensive hot rocks under their territory. Endless baseload power, baby. Solar thermal, a proven, reliable technology, will work in most places outside the Arctic, and with enough buffering in place will even supply baseload.
There's room enough for all cost-effective options.
Kickbacks.
Yeah, that's a little sloppy, but give them some credit; at least the process names itself GoogleUpdate and not vitalsystemprocessdonottouchoryourcomputerwillexplode.exe.
Yep.
It's entirely in the spirit of online freedom that all who use cracks live by. It's also a quiet nod to the expertise of those who wrote the crack.
I think we should all take this as a good sign of further co-operation in times to come.
Considering that global warming is expected to kill one-fifth to one-third of all species worldwide, I'd say that the relatively miniscule effect wind power generation will have on the environment is FAR preferable.
> And most (of the money from) food grown here goes > to migrant workers who send the money back home.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAA! Yes, those evil rich fruit-picking Mexicans, holding US agrobusiness to ransom! Oh my GOD.
Wow. You really are a complete and utter bastard. Nice. You've wasted so much of your own life, but on top of that, you've wasted much more of OTHER people's lives! Well done!
People like you are the reason TF2 has no friendly fire.
If foreplay is tedious to you, you're doing it wrong.
Britain and France!?!?! You racist. It was all Genghis Khan's fault.
Actually, there is a real question mark as to whether the bacterium still IS E. Coli, since the inability to metabolise citrates is one of the ways that E. Coli is supposed to be different from other species.
"Wow, that blue stuff is cool. I wonder what the fuck it's made of?"
"I'm afraid we can't find that out, since bsharma was in charge of the science mission and sent a microscope instead of a chemical analysis kit."
"Well, fuck!"
So, how many of your kids do you drop off at school before you get to work? Sure, they can ride bikes too, but more than 10 kilometres and the round-trip looks a little daunting. That, and you have to get up at 5AM.
Don't you mean:
Mine metals+minerals (using energy) -> Build solar power plant(using energy) -> Produce electricity (using some energy for maintenance) -> Transmit electricity through power grid (losing energy through resistance) -> Storage batteries (which themselves need to be manufactured, costing energy) -> Electric vehicle.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as much in favour of solar as you are, but don't be untruthful.
Also, geothermal power is usable in many, many more places than Iceland or New Zealand. Look up "hot rock geothermal" on Google sometime.
Oh, and electricity does indeed move atoms. In batteries.
Yes, because all parents, especially starving peasants, CHOOSE to have kids. None of them simply have them because they don't take precautions against it, or don't have the time to worry about such things when they're trying to bring in the fucking harvest.
You suck.
You're half right. The reason that food prices didn't go up in Brazil is that, as you say, food production relies heavily on internal combustion engines for production and transport.
:D But I can hardly blame Brazilians for that, having just myself eaten a double Whopper.
So, even as some of Brazil's food-growing areas switched over to ethanol-growing areas, the increase in ethanol production meant that the production and transport costs went down for the food that was still being produced.
So one factor in the price went up, another factor went down, and you had little change.
Also, you cut down half the Amazon to plant cows.
Dude, you can instantly switch between knife and sap with Q. And you can map Q to the middle-click. So I can do exactly what you do on my crappy mouse that I found in a crate full of peripherals in my cupboard after the old one got melted.
There are rules allowing US military folks (as well as those in most other western armies) to refuse to obey an illegal order. They may be court-martialled, but if they were right to disobey the order, they will not be punished.
If someone in the Nazi regime didn't follow an order to kill an unarmed civilian in a train, they were themselves shot.
No, if someone steals your identity and you kill them, it's MURDER. However, if they kill YOU, no crime has been committed, because you don't exist.
So it's best just to start running now.
The AI goes to sleep if one human dies.
So if one human dies, all the humans die? After all, the best reason to have an AI running a ship is that it's too complex for humans to do with peak alertness 24/7.
I should also point out that it wasn't HAL's fault that the humans died; it was the stupid bastards who brainwashed him and didn't think about what they were doing.