Did you mean Telstra or Tesla? This could get really confusing.
Easy to tell the difference, one is a large company producing inferior products to people who refuse to shop anywhere else... Oh wait, I haven't thought this through (not true, Telstra has become a competitive and reliable service provider since Sol Trujillo was outsted, maybe Denholm can turn it around for Tesla)
You've got to be fucking kidding? Telstra competitive and reliable.... please give me some of what you've been smoking.
Antidepressants block the absorption of serotonin in these organs as well, and the researchers warn that antidepressants could increase the risk of death by preventing multiple organs from functioning properly.
Is it just me? I find the whole idea of a pill curing depression rather strange. I think what we need is a more just society; a society that focuses less on material possessions or money but more on family -
whatever that may mean to an individual.
Let's remember that there are communities on this planet where depression is an unknown, especially the so called third world nations, despite their popluation's daily struggle to survive.
Yes it is just you! Although it's true that unhappiness can be a byproduct of social ills it is profoundly ignorant of you to confuse this with clinical depression. The former might trigger an epsidoe of the latter but depression, anxiety, bipolar specturm disorders, schizophrenia and other mental disorders have a neurophysiological basis.
Also, please keep the tired trope about third world nations to yourself as there is no evedince whatsoever to support the conjecture. People in third world nations who suffer mental illness are generally shunned. Those that come to harm generally have their cause of death misattributed,
The first link looks like a mistake, it has nothing to do with HTML/CSS.
Then again the question: why do you post nonsense like this?
What real life problem would you implement on top of a (simulated) turing machine?
Can YOU (not one, *you*) implement the Leipnitz Formula to calculate PI with the Turing machine simulator of your first link?
Throwing around 'turing complete' on/. is completely meaningless.
The first post is definately not a mistake. It's the repo of code by the guy who figured out that it is turing complete. In terms of what real life problems... well given that it is turing complete it could potentially be leveraged as a malware vector. That said, please refrain from putting words in my mouth: I was not making any claim as to usefulness, I was just responding to someone trying to be a smart arse. Also, since when has throwing around _anything_ on slashdot not been completely meaningless?
No boot ROM means that a hardware device constructed from discrete logic and analog chips directly demodulates digital data from the radio, addresses the memory, and writes the data. Once this process is completed, it de-asserts the RESET line of the CPU and the CPU starts executing from an address in memory. Really no ROM!
The situation for AMSAT is still pretty bad, as far as I've heard. As a radio amateur group (and one that has launched quite a few satellites as space hitch-hikers) they can't afford the good stuff, but they get some donated by NASA and some of the commercial satellite companies. Only a few years ago they were still using the 1802 as their main vehicle controller, as that was their main choice in silicon-on-sapphire CPUs. They get some donations of space-qualified solar cells. They scrub their memory continuously, They use no boot ROMS. The program is loaded entirely by hardware, and then the CPU is started.
Bruce, what do you mean by "...no boot ROMS.... loaded entirely by hardware" ?
As I understand it, this is not the point of the chip and signature system. The point of the chip is to make it much much harder to clone the card. With the old non-chip system, all someone needs is your CC number. They can program that into the magnetic strip and start using it. Many places like fast food never even required signatures. Gas stations only required zip codes, and then only sometimes.
My biggest problem with chip and pin is that banks disclaim themselves of all liability for transactions that go through with a valid PIN, as they feel the chip is secure enough to prove that the card must have been real and if the pin was used, that's because you intended to do it. Nevermind that cards can still be cloned and pin numbers skimmed. This is also a problem if someone steels your card and knows your pin, you're on the hook for everything. Happened to a guy here in Canada when his ex girlfriend stole his card. Back when they were dating he shared his pin with her (big mistake... but what about marriages that end in divorce?).
I think that most people miss the point of this. I don't thnk the banks truly believe that chip and pin is more secure, what I think they do believe is that they can use it as an excuse to disclaim any and all liability. In other words it's all about making sure the account holder bears all the risk.
As to your second point (divorce); I've been married for 15 years and I have a joint account with my spouse but we do not know each other's PIN's. Never share your PIN with _anyone_.
When I read the headline I thought it said "Disaster-as-a-service". Even though it's been 3 years since I worked for them I think the 13 years that I did spend there could be best summed up by that phrase.
still better than my hp-drive, running ms-car. it went into hybernation at a railway crossing the other day and then got stuck in an endless update loop. pushed it to a hp-garage, but they told me it was microsoft's fault. had it towed to a ms-garage where they told me hp was to blame - but they installed the free upgrade they had already secretly put in my trunk on my last visit. now it's not as fast as it used to be but on the other hand the steering wheel is now back on same place it used to be before the last update.
apple car looks nice, but i've heard it mysteriously shrinks over time.
Posting to undo accidental mod.
Wasn't sure if it should be +1 funny or +1 insightful
I don't know about anyone else, but if I go to a real sit-down restaurant, I want an actual human server, not a robot or some other form of 'automation', and I sure as heck don't want a robot or some automation preparing my food, either. If that was my only other choice then I'd just as soon stay home and cook my own food.
Given the direction in which these "trade" deals are going I suspect it won't be too long before cooking at home becomes prohibitive. Just imagine vastly expanded "Intellectual property" laws integrated with micropayments and the internet-of-things:
You'll have to pay royalties to everyone from Monsanto (base food stuffs), through Samsung (gotta pay each time you use the microwave) to whoever wrote the recipe (recipe's aren't currently copyrightable but lets wait and see).
Of course you could get some recipe advice via a cooking show that you watch on your IOT fridge. You'll have to watch all the ads now of course as adblockers are a way of helping the terrorists.
Think I'm trolling? This scenario isn't a big stretch from where we're at now.
Wait staff works for tips, and I doubt a change in minimum wage will change this. If a restaurant turns $3K/night in income, an increase in back room labor costs from $60 to $170 shouldn't hit the cost of a $15 entree too hard, as you say: maybe $0.30.
However, in places that operate entirely on minimum wage workers, tripling the cost of labor is going to have a noticeable effect on the cost of served food - your $4 value meal might have to jump to $5.
Tips used to be a (literal) foreign concept here in Australia until very recently. Why? Because wait staff were paid a reasonable wage and didn't need to rely on tips to get by. Unfortunately it's changing due to the wholesale importing of all things American into our culture.
What I don't understand is it only with wait staff? Surely if it's such a great idea then everyone should be working for tips?
Many of us in the west will instinctively think of this as a developing world scenario but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?
If you didn't get in in the good old days of, hell, the 90s, buying is not really an option anymore. A house I was looking at sold for $360k. For a 450sq foot house. Just barely bigger than my apartment.
Rents and Housing are absolutely out of control all over LA, not just SFO. I have no idea how anyone affords it on anything less than tech wages unless they're shacking up with 3 people. What's the point of making good money if you're spending it all on rent?
Damn! $360K wouldn't buy you an outside toilet in Sydney.... I always thought that somewhere like San Francisco would be well into the millions... I know that the minimum wage is higher here but even by proportion property prices in California is insanely cheap by our standards.
You make some valid points but it's a shame you spoilt it with "ethnically-homogeneous...Confucian culture". You really should go and do some travelling or at the very least some reading.... your characterisation is profoundly ignorant.
While working on my undergrad I studied Mandarin for two years and picked up a Chinese Studies certificate. I'm an American who has been living in Japan for four years. I've also spent a year in Korea, and just returned from a month in Hanoi. Two weeks in Slovenia (a friend is a Slovenian Army officer) and two weeks in Siberia (way back when I had a Russian girlfriend) for some European exposure too.
So yes....Taiwan/Korea/Japan/Singapore largely conform to East Asian value/social systems, which stem from Confucianism. Go read some Mencius and get back to me. Filial piety runs deep out here.
The notion of filial piety, whilst expressed by confucius, is present in some form or another in _every_ non-western culture however it's the phrase "ethnically homogenous" that is troubling; japan alone has more than 300 differening ethnic groups, tawiwan has a significant aboriginal population and as for singapore whilst the chinese cohort no doubt have some confucian affectations I think it's more than a stretch to place that upon the indian, malay and aboriginal populations. Although you didn't list mainland china it's also worth pointing out the not-insignificant minority ethnic groups within its borders.
It seems that whilst you've obviously travelled extensively within asia given that you are a mandarin speaker I suspect that has lead you to viewing the region through an ethnic chinese prism.
None of the countries you list are viable examples of what we can implement for the United States. They are all small, highly-urbanized, ethnically-homogeneous, never had a large civilian proliferation of firearms to begin with, and are based on Confucian culture (with an emphasis on conformity and sacrifice for public order).
The United States is the size of a continent, possesses vast tracks of low-population-density wilderness (very difficult to efficiently patrol/police), ethnically-diverse (which, honestly, is the cause of some of internal divisions/conflicts/paranoia/crime), and with a culture of staunch individuality. We also possess ~300 million firearms, which is, IIRC, more than the rest of the entire PLANET combined.
Do you have any idea how many law enforcement personnel, how many total man-hours it would take, to have even the slightest chance of enforcing a firearms ban? Take a look at the German experience against partisans in the Eastern Theater of WW2. Too much territory to cover with too few people.
You make some valid points but it's a shame you spoilt it with "ethnically-homogeneous...Confucian culture". You really should go and do some travelling or at the very least some reading.... your characterisation is profoundly ignorant.
Bad form to reply to myself but I should point out that I mostly agree with the AC I replied to above but his/her post typifies what I believe is the biggest problem we have as a society/civilisation; we are experts in ever increasingly narrow domains of knowledge and are not just profoundly igonorant outside of that domain but as a result we are incapable of understanding our collective shortcomings or syntheisising sustainable solutions to address them.
You said
The issue is not that the engineers on this site don't understand human nature,
and then went on to completely contradict yourself
its that we don't understand how the rest of society can be so clueless of a clear solution path to our energy needs.
In the case of nuclear power, circletimessquare was mostly right, however he doesn't explicitly state that in the case of nuclear power the problems are greatly exacerbated by the time scales involved. The length of the fuel-cycle is not just longer than a human lifetime, not just longer than the expected lifetime of a even the longest lived corporate entity, but longer than the likely length of our our civilisation. Given a presumed understanding of human nature it is obvious to anyone who takes the time to really think about it, current nuclear power technologies are not viable. With that said it is obvious that something needs to be done about our reliance on fossil fuels, and although many alternative energy sources are starting to look promising they are not quite there yet. Alternate nuclear processes aught to be considered, thorium reactors seem to be the favourite on this site, the technology might be the greatest thing since sliced bread but the significant cohort of posters on this site that preach the virtues of thorium (or fusion for that matter) without any sign that they have considered that there might also be negative imapacts is ironically the reason that whilst I desipse the narrow minded, unelnightened, and ignorant management class that runs our businesses and our societies I still prefer that they run things than a bunch of (fellow) engineers.
With an IQ of 144, I just have to remind myself that 100 is the average, with half the population below and half above
This doesn't help you argument either; it never ceases to amaze that people who are clearly intelligent and work with numbers can place faith in an obviously flawed pseudo-scientific "measurement"
The issue is not that the engineers on this site don't understand human nature,
and then went on to completely contradict yourself
its that we don't understand how the rest of society can be so clueless of a clear solution path to our energy needs.
In the case of nuclear power, circletimessquare was mostly right, however he doesn't explicitly state that in the case of nuclear power the problems are greatly exacerbated by the time scales involved. The length of the fuel-cycle is not just longer than a human lifetime, not just longer than the expected lifetime of a even the longest lived corporate entity, but longer than the likely length of our our civilisation. Given a presumed understanding of human nature it is obvious to anyone who takes the time to really think about it, current nuclear power technologies are not viable. With that said it is obvious that something needs to be done about our reliance on fossil fuels, and although many alternative energy sources are starting to look promising they are not quite there yet. Alternate nuclear processes aught to be considered, thorium reactors seem to be the favourite on this site, the technology might be the greatest thing since sliced bread but the significant cohort of posters on this site that preach the virtues of thorium (or fusion for that matter) without any sign that they have considered that there might also be negative imapacts is ironically the reason that whilst I desipse the narrow minded, unelnightened, and ignorant management class that runs our businesses and our societies I still prefer that they run things than a bunch of (fellow) engineers.
With an IQ of 144, I just have to remind myself that 100 is the average, with half the population below and half above
This doesn't help you argument either; it never ceases to amaze that people who are clearly intelligent and work with numbers can place faith in an obviously flawed pseudo-scientific "measurement"
Slashdot Mirror
Telsa
Did you mean Telstra or Tesla? This could get really confusing.
Easy to tell the difference, one is a large company producing inferior products to people who refuse to shop anywhere else... Oh wait, I haven't thought this through (not true, Telstra has become a competitive and reliable service provider since Sol Trujillo was outsted, maybe Denholm can turn it around for Tesla)
You've got to be fucking kidding? Telstra competitive and reliable.... please give me some of what you've been smoking.
Antidepressants block the absorption of serotonin in these organs as well, and the researchers warn that antidepressants could increase the risk of death by preventing multiple organs from functioning properly.
Is it just me? I find the whole idea of a pill curing depression rather strange. I think what we need is a more just society; a society that focuses less on material possessions or money but more on family -
whatever that may mean to an individual.
Let's remember that there are communities on this planet where depression is an unknown, especially the so called third world nations, despite their popluation's daily struggle to survive.
Yes it is just you! Although it's true that unhappiness can be a byproduct of social ills it is profoundly ignorant of you to confuse this with clinical depression. The former might trigger an epsidoe of the latter but depression, anxiety, bipolar specturm disorders, schizophrenia and other mental disorders have a neurophysiological basis.
Also, please keep the tired trope about third world nations to yourself as there is no evedince whatsoever to support the conjecture. People in third world nations who suffer mental illness are generally shunned. Those that come to harm generally have their cause of death misattributed,
I'd love to see this fantastic game open sourced so that I could run it without Windows or Wine
I was just responding to someone trying to be a smart arse.
Then accept my apologizes!
Accepted!
The first link looks like a mistake, it has nothing to do with HTML/CSS.
Then again the question: why do you post nonsense like this?
What real life problem would you implement on top of a (simulated) turing machine?
Can YOU (not one, *you*) implement the Leipnitz Formula to calculate PI with the Turing machine simulator of your first link?
Throwing around 'turing complete' on /. is completely meaningless.
The first post is definately not a mistake. It's the repo of code by the guy who figured out that it is turing complete.
In terms of what real life problems... well given that it is turing complete it could potentially be leveraged as a malware vector. That said, please refrain from putting words in my mouth: I was not making any claim as to usefulness, I was just responding to someone trying to be a smart arse.
Also, since when has throwing around _anything_ on slashdot not been completely meaningless?
Since HTML5+CSS3 was shown to be turing complete.
More here.
How quaint. I disabled voicemail on my cell phone around five years ago and I've not missed it at all.
The only people who leave voicemail are either advertising pricks trying to annoy you or your boss wanting to harass you outside of hours.
If it's important they'll email or text.
No boot ROM means that a hardware device constructed from discrete logic and analog chips directly demodulates digital data from the radio, addresses the memory, and writes the data. Once this process is completed, it de-asserts the RESET line of the CPU and the CPU starts executing from an address in memory. Really no ROM!
Ok! (Very) remote pre-boot DMA, nice!
Thanks for the expdanded explanation,
The situation for AMSAT is still pretty bad, as far as I've heard. As a radio amateur group (and one that has launched quite a few satellites as space hitch-hikers) they can't afford the good stuff, but they get some donated by NASA and some of the commercial satellite companies. Only a few years ago they were still using the 1802 as their main vehicle controller, as that was their main choice in silicon-on-sapphire CPUs. They get some donations of space-qualified solar cells. They scrub their memory continuously, They use no boot ROMS. The program is loaded entirely by hardware, and then the CPU is started.
Bruce, what do you mean by "...no boot ROMS.... loaded entirely by hardware" ?
Is this the long sought after counter-example to Betteridge's Law where the response to a question mark is always "yes" ?
US swimmers robbed at gunpoint last night.
Awaiting your mea culpa.
The Brazillians just wanted to make sure that the American athletes felt right at home.
/ducks
As I understand it, this is not the point of the chip and signature system. The point of the chip is to make it much much harder to clone the card. With the old non-chip system, all someone needs is your CC number. They can program that into the magnetic strip and start using it. Many places like fast food never even required signatures. Gas stations only required zip codes, and then only sometimes.
My biggest problem with chip and pin is that banks disclaim themselves of all liability for transactions that go through with a valid PIN, as they feel the chip is secure enough to prove that the card must have been real and if the pin was used, that's because you intended to do it. Nevermind that cards can still be cloned and pin numbers skimmed. This is also a problem if someone steels your card and knows your pin, you're on the hook for everything. Happened to a guy here in Canada when his ex girlfriend stole his card. Back when they were dating he shared his pin with her (big mistake... but what about marriages that end in divorce?).
I think that most people miss the point of this. I don't thnk the banks truly believe that chip and pin is more secure, what I think they do believe is that they can use it as an excuse to disclaim any and all liability. In other words it's all about making sure the account holder bears all the risk.
As to your second point (divorce); I've been married for 15 years and I have a joint account with my spouse but we do not know each other's PIN's. Never share your PIN with _anyone_.
When I read the headline I thought it said "Disaster-as-a-service".
Even though it's been 3 years since I worked for them I think the 13 years that I did spend there could be best summed up by that phrase.
still better than my hp-drive, running ms-car. it went into hybernation at a railway crossing the other day and then got stuck in an endless update loop. pushed it to a hp-garage, but they told me it was microsoft's fault. had it towed to a ms-garage where they told me hp was to blame - but they installed the free upgrade they had already secretly put in my trunk on my last visit. now it's not as fast as it used to be but on the other hand the steering wheel is now back on same place it used to be before the last update.
apple car looks nice, but i've heard it mysteriously shrinks over time.
Posting to undo accidental mod.
Wasn't sure if it should be +1 funny or +1 insightful
I don't know about anyone else, but if I go to a real sit-down restaurant, I want an actual human server, not a robot or some other form of 'automation', and I sure as heck don't want a robot or some automation preparing my food, either. If that was my only other choice then I'd just as soon stay home and cook my own food.
Given the direction in which these "trade" deals are going I suspect it won't be too long before cooking at home becomes prohibitive.
Just imagine vastly expanded "Intellectual property" laws integrated with micropayments and the internet-of-things:
You'll have to pay royalties to everyone from Monsanto (base food stuffs), through Samsung (gotta pay each time you use the microwave) to whoever wrote the recipe (recipe's aren't currently copyrightable but lets wait and see).
Of course you could get some recipe advice via a cooking show that you watch on your IOT fridge.
You'll have to watch all the ads now of course as adblockers are a way of helping the terrorists.
Think I'm trolling? This scenario isn't a big stretch from where we're at now.
Wait staff works for tips, and I doubt a change in minimum wage will change this. If a restaurant turns $3K/night in income, an increase in back room labor costs from $60 to $170 shouldn't hit the cost of a $15 entree too hard, as you say: maybe $0.30.
However, in places that operate entirely on minimum wage workers, tripling the cost of labor is going to have a noticeable effect on the cost of served food - your $4 value meal might have to jump to $5.
Tips used to be a (literal) foreign concept here in Australia until very recently.
Why? Because wait staff were paid a reasonable wage and didn't need to rely on tips to get by.
Unfortunately it's changing due to the wholesale importing of all things American into our culture.
What I don't understand is it only with wait staff? Surely if it's such a great idea then everyone should be working for tips?
Many of us in the west will instinctively think of this as a developing world scenario but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?
If you didn't get in in the good old days of, hell, the 90s, buying is not really an option anymore. A house I was looking at sold for $360k. For a 450sq foot house. Just barely bigger than my apartment.
Rents and Housing are absolutely out of control all over LA, not just SFO. I have no idea how anyone affords it on anything less than tech wages unless they're shacking up with 3 people. What's the point of making good money if you're spending it all on rent?
Damn! $360K wouldn't buy you an outside toilet in Sydney.... I always thought that somewhere like San Francisco would be well into the millions... I know that the minimum wage is higher here but even by proportion property prices in California is insanely cheap by our standards.
You make some valid points but it's a shame you spoilt it with "ethnically-homogeneous...Confucian culture". You really should go and do some travelling or at the very least some reading.... your characterisation is profoundly ignorant.
While working on my undergrad I studied Mandarin for two years and picked up a Chinese Studies certificate. I'm an American who has been living in Japan for four years. I've also spent a year in Korea, and just returned from a month in Hanoi. Two weeks in Slovenia (a friend is a Slovenian Army officer) and two weeks in Siberia (way back when I had a Russian girlfriend) for some European exposure too.
So yes....Taiwan/Korea/Japan/Singapore largely conform to East Asian value/social systems, which stem from Confucianism. Go read some Mencius and get back to me. Filial piety runs deep out here.
The notion of filial piety, whilst expressed by confucius, is present in some form or another in _every_ non-western culture however it's the phrase "ethnically homogenous" that is troubling; japan alone has more than 300 differening ethnic groups, tawiwan has a significant aboriginal population and as for singapore whilst the chinese cohort no doubt have some confucian affectations I think it's more than a stretch to place that upon the indian, malay and aboriginal populations. Although you didn't list mainland china it's also worth pointing out the not-insignificant minority ethnic groups within its borders.
It seems that whilst you've obviously travelled extensively within asia given that you are a mandarin speaker I suspect that has lead you to viewing the region through an ethnic chinese prism.
None of the countries you list are viable examples of what we can implement for the United States. They are all small, highly-urbanized, ethnically-homogeneous, never had a large civilian proliferation of firearms to begin with, and are based on Confucian culture (with an emphasis on conformity and sacrifice for public order).
The United States is the size of a continent, possesses vast tracks of low-population-density wilderness (very difficult to efficiently patrol/police), ethnically-diverse (which, honestly, is the cause of some of internal divisions/conflicts/paranoia/crime), and with a culture of staunch individuality. We also possess ~300 million firearms, which is, IIRC, more than the rest of the entire PLANET combined.
Do you have any idea how many law enforcement personnel, how many total man-hours it would take, to have even the slightest chance of enforcing a firearms ban? Take a look at the German experience against partisans in the Eastern Theater of WW2. Too much territory to cover with too few people.
You make some valid points but it's a shame you spoilt it with "ethnically-homogeneous...Confucian culture". You really should go and do some travelling or at the very least some reading.... your characterisation is profoundly ignorant.
Admiral Akbar
Obligatory Talkie Toaster
This must be how they made the Disaster Area stunt ships
Bad form to reply to myself but I should point out that I mostly agree with the AC I replied to above but his/her post typifies what I believe is the biggest problem we have as a society/civilisation; we are experts in ever increasingly narrow domains of knowledge and are not just profoundly igonorant outside of that domain but as a result we are incapable of understanding our collective shortcomings or syntheisising sustainable solutions to address them.
You said
The issue is not that the engineers on this site don't understand human nature,
and then went on to completely contradict yourself
its that we don't understand how the rest of society can be so clueless of a clear solution path to our energy needs.
In the case of nuclear power, circletimessquare was mostly right, however he doesn't explicitly state that in the case of nuclear power the problems are greatly exacerbated by the time scales involved.
The length of the fuel-cycle is not just longer than a human lifetime, not just longer than the expected lifetime of a even the longest lived corporate entity, but longer than the likely length of our our civilisation.
Given a presumed understanding of human nature it is obvious to anyone who takes the time to really think about it, current nuclear power technologies are not viable.
With that said it is obvious that something needs to be done about our reliance on fossil fuels, and although many alternative energy sources are starting to look promising they are not quite there yet.
Alternate nuclear processes aught to be considered, thorium reactors seem to be the favourite on this site, the technology might be the greatest thing since sliced bread but the significant cohort of posters on this site that preach the virtues of thorium (or fusion for that matter) without any sign that they have considered that there might also be negative imapacts is ironically the reason that whilst I desipse the narrow minded, unelnightened, and ignorant management class that runs our businesses and our societies I still prefer that they run things than a bunch of (fellow) engineers.
With an IQ of 144, I just have to remind myself that 100 is the average, with half the population below and half above
This doesn't help you argument either; it never ceases to amaze that people who are clearly intelligent and work with numbers can place faith in an obviously flawed pseudo-scientific "measurement"
You said
The issue is not that the engineers on this site don't understand human nature,
and then went on to completely contradict yourself
its that we don't understand how the rest of society can be so clueless of a clear solution path to our energy needs.
In the case of nuclear power, circletimessquare was mostly right, however he doesn't explicitly state that in the case of nuclear power the problems are greatly exacerbated by the time scales involved.
The length of the fuel-cycle is not just longer than a human lifetime, not just longer than the expected lifetime of a even the longest lived corporate entity, but longer than the likely length of our our civilisation.
Given a presumed understanding of human nature it is obvious to anyone who takes the time to really think about it, current nuclear power technologies are not viable.
With that said it is obvious that something needs to be done about our reliance on fossil fuels, and although many alternative energy sources are starting to look promising they are not quite there yet.
Alternate nuclear processes aught to be considered, thorium reactors seem to be the favourite on this site, the technology might be the greatest thing since sliced bread but the significant cohort of posters on this site that preach the virtues of thorium (or fusion for that matter) without any sign that they have considered that there might also be negative imapacts is ironically the reason that whilst I desipse the narrow minded, unelnightened, and ignorant management class that runs our businesses and our societies I still prefer that they run things than a bunch of (fellow) engineers.
With an IQ of 144, I just have to remind myself that 100 is the average, with half the population below and half above
This doesn't help you argument either; it never ceases to amaze that people who are clearly intelligent and work with numbers can place faith in an obviously flawed pseudo-scientific "measurement"