Here's the whole problem. Even if we reduced CO2 emissions to ZERO, it could still take hundreds of years for the oceans to uptake the excess CO2 and transfer it to the bottom. So, right now, mitigation and risk management are the strategy.
Musk once alluded to a better manufacturing process for actually building rockets. So, instead of saying that he's taking shortcuts and what not and doesn't have layers of bureacracy, what if he just has a cheaper way to build rockets that are better?
Is that it simplifies language binding. If you have the core stuff written in C, its fairly easy to bind to it from any language, whereas C++ is much more difficult - if not impossible, as I don't even think there is a standard C++ ABI. Certainly not on Windows. So, if you have your core os stuff written with C bindings, then, any language maker can talk to it, so that, if users want OOP languages, they can use anyone of them, not just C++.
I was a programmer that helped put together document management systems for people trying to get some compensation for the rather extensive environmental damages caused by the nuclear weapons industry and I feel a few facts are in order:
a) All nuke stuff is already privatized. It's subcontracted out or has been to players like EG&G, Dupont, and others. b) Originally, no contractor in their right mind would touch the manhattan project. So the government indemnified them. c) Layers of secrecy already exist within the privatized world, and unaccountability. And the military has a hand in it is as well, obviously.
Bottom line is, the result is, we got the bombs, the mess that was made is appalling, and the full story may never really be known. The moral is, it doesn't matter who does it, civilian or military, per say, as much as, what is needed is a genuine degree of openness and accountability and that is extremely hard to do when you also have to keep everything a secret. People abuse the system.
Letting Hamas and other terrorist organizations use Twitter keeps them in reach. Do you really want them to make their own, harder to find, twitter. At least this way, everyone can know what they are thinking.
The numbers the Guardian cites are somewhat dated and don't reflect the very recent American switch over from coal to natural gas. Many electricity operators have converted their coal plants to burn natural gas instead, because hydrofracking has made natural gas so cheap in the USA. This trend will continue and the result has been a net reduction in CO2 emissions, so much so that right now I believe the USA is on track to beat the EU at the CO2 reduction game (kickass!), because the Germans are retiring their nukes and using coal now in the winter.
and, while I disagree with this article about the risks / rewards of fracking, it is worth pointing out that as America switches to natural gas, the Europeans are buying our coal...
We need space surgery research. It's going to happen at some point. But, what we also need is faster spacecraft. Nuclear powered ships can cut the journey to Mars and asteroids down to months or even weeks, with even heavier payloads, and are designs that are viable. We could have artificial gravity by spinning wheels, arriving quickly at other places in the solar system, and know how to do surgery in zero g conditions. But, nope, instead we're going to have any number of earth bound pet projects.
If it was genuinely confirmable, that would be the point... but until the time where someone can do that and routinely, then its not really much of a theory at all, is it? You can't have science jumping all over crazy idea because you want to overturn everything that is known. Let's face it, to people in the field, the standard model is as tried and true as say, a C++ compiler might be to be us in IT. Sure, there might be a bug in the compiler these days... but 90% of the time, its probably going to be in the code it is compiling first. Not impossible... but, increasingly unlikely...
Ok, let's get to some reality checks. One of the unofficial world records for a non-steroid'd woman bench pressing, on the entire planet earth, is in the neighborhood of about 400lbs. I can do that, and I'm a 45 year old programmer, and there's plenty of guys out there that can hit that pretty easy. In fact, the world record's lift for a guy I think is well over 1000lbs. So now let's see, at the top of the curve, the strongest guys are -twice- as strong as the strongest women.
So sure, let's have a competition... let's follow your suggestion and have men and women compete together in the same exact thing. You know what would happen? Women wouldn't even qualify for half of the events. They wouldn't be in any weight lifting, any distance throwing events, any weight carrying. What about wrestling? Are women going to do that? Hmmm, don't think so. Maybe play football? Are you saying women should just try out to be on the same football team as guys?
How can you say separate divisions for men and women are sexist, when without them, women wouldn't even get a chance to play?
I would say that for the United States, capitalists are much much better at nuclear power than the government is. If you take a gander at what the US government did with radioactive and other hazardous materials at Rocky Flats or Hanford, and compare the level of callousness to the level of care taken at even the worst US near disaster at TMI, I think you would find that armies of lawyers waving class action lawsuits do far more to check corporations than government bureacrats can check themselves.
I really like Windows 8, and in general, I tend to prefer the way it does things on the desktop. I'm on the fence about Metro.. I think its awesome if you have your PC plugged into a TV, the way I do. And, I like the idea of flipping to a full screen view when looking for applications... but, oddly, I find that Ubuntu's latest version does it better.
Gnome 3, for all of its detractors, is pretty nice... but Windows file dialogs and shell explorer dialogs are simply miles ahead of it, and the gap seems to be widening. I mean, simple things like rename a file within a file save dialog, let alone copying files, seem to forever elude Linux desktops, and on Windows I take it for granted. Gnome has a pretty rough story when it comes to fonts, for sure.
And yes, not only is Windows 7's U/I more stable than Gnome 3 or KDE (would you like to send us a crash report ) 4, but Windows 8's latest preview is as well.
That's not gas prices are plunging. Gas prices are plunging fracking right now is producing the same amount of oil and natural gas monthly as previous modest releases from the SPR....
You don't need to believe in evolution to believe in science in other methods. People can pick and choose the science that they want to use. Evolution doesn't have any products that can be made from it so who gives a shit. On the other hand, real science likes physics and chemistry can produce products... so people do believe in that. Asking people to think more about science is just asking them to believe in your own f'd up religion. The only reason science is good is because it is useful, and the way that we prove things are useful is that people are willing to pay for those things. Anything else is just nonsense just as much as noah's flood was.
well the problem is that there are negative externalities to fixing global warming too.
all that money increased energy prices translates into a reduced standard of living for everyone. every dollar that would get spent on more expensive energy is a dollar they cannot use for their own investments and as such that represents an -enormous- and incalculable lost opportunity cost.
Point 6 isn't settled at all. And while point 7 has silly examples, it is a fair question.
The consequences of eliminating fossil fuels are arguably more poverty causing than the consequences of using them for another 50 years until nuclear power becomes less expensive and fusion becomes available. You assume that increased energy taxes, essentially, aren't going to be consumer neutral - when they are going to be disasterous. A modest increase in gasoline prices in the USA directly caused the financial disaster of 2008, and AGW advocates propose doing that, every year, by design that is utterly insane!
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Here's the whole problem. Even if we reduced CO2 emissions to ZERO, it could still take hundreds of years for the oceans to uptake the excess CO2 and transfer it to the bottom. So, right now, mitigation and risk management are the strategy.
Musk once alluded to a better manufacturing process for actually building rockets. So, instead of saying that he's taking shortcuts and what not and doesn't have layers of bureacracy, what if he just has a cheaper way to build rockets that are better?
Is that it simplifies language binding. If you have the core stuff written in C, its fairly easy to bind to it from any language, whereas C++ is much more difficult - if not impossible, as I don't even think there is a standard C++ ABI. Certainly not on Windows. So, if you have your core os stuff written with C bindings, then, any language maker can talk to it, so that, if users want OOP languages, they can use anyone of them, not just C++.
I was a programmer that helped put together document management systems for people trying to get some compensation for the rather extensive environmental damages caused by the nuclear weapons industry and I feel a few facts are in order:
a) All nuke stuff is already privatized. It's subcontracted out or has been to players like EG&G, Dupont, and others.
b) Originally, no contractor in their right mind would touch the manhattan project. So the government indemnified them.
c) Layers of secrecy already exist within the privatized world, and unaccountability. And the military has a hand in it is as well, obviously.
Bottom line is, the result is, we got the bombs, the mess that was made is appalling, and the full story may never really be known. The moral is, it doesn't matter who does it, civilian or military, per say, as much as, what is needed is a genuine degree of openness and accountability and that is extremely hard to do when you also have to keep everything a secret. People abuse the system.
Letting Hamas and other terrorist organizations use Twitter keeps them in reach. Do you really want them to make their own, harder to find, twitter. At least this way, everyone can know what they are thinking.
The numbers the Guardian cites are somewhat dated and don't reflect the very recent American switch over from coal to natural gas. Many electricity operators have converted their coal plants to burn natural gas instead, because hydrofracking has made natural gas so cheap in the USA. This trend will continue and the result has been a net reduction in CO2 emissions, so much so that right now I believe the USA is on track to beat the EU at the CO2 reduction game (kickass!), because the Germans are retiring their nukes and using coal now in the winter.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428947/a-drop-in-us-co2-emissions/
and, while I disagree with this article about the risks / rewards of fracking, it is worth pointing out that as America switches to natural gas, the Europeans are buying our coal...
http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/co2-drop-us-25092012/
But, we humans ARE chimpanzee groups in a loose sort of way.
We need space surgery research. It's going to happen at some point. But, what we also need is faster spacecraft. Nuclear powered ships can cut the journey to Mars and asteroids down to months or even weeks, with even heavier payloads, and are designs that are viable. We could have artificial gravity by spinning wheels, arriving quickly at other places in the solar system, and know how to do surgery in zero g conditions. But, nope, instead we're going to have any number of earth bound pet projects.
LOL... LOL... LOL... Don't worry, they will kill it in favor of socialist highway construction...
Well that and all the touch changes they made - with the WM_GESTURE stuff, has been around since Vista... how long ago was that?
If it was genuinely confirmable, that would be the point... but until the time where someone can do that and routinely, then its not really much of a theory at all, is it? You can't have science jumping all over crazy idea because you want to overturn everything that is known. Let's face it, to people in the field, the standard model is as tried and true as say, a C++ compiler might be to be us in IT. Sure, there might be a bug in the compiler these days... but 90% of the time, its probably going to be in the code it is compiling first. Not impossible... but, increasingly unlikely...
Ok, let's get to some reality checks. One of the unofficial world records for a non-steroid'd woman bench pressing, on the entire planet earth, is in the neighborhood of about 400lbs. I can do that, and I'm a 45 year old programmer, and there's plenty of guys out there that can hit that pretty easy. In fact, the world record's lift for a guy I think is well over 1000lbs. So now let's see, at the top of the curve, the strongest guys are -twice- as strong as the strongest women.
So sure, let's have a competition... let's follow your suggestion and have men and women compete together in the same exact thing. You know what would happen? Women wouldn't even qualify for half of the events. They wouldn't be in any weight lifting, any distance throwing events, any weight carrying. What about wrestling? Are women going to do that? Hmmm, don't think so. Maybe play football? Are you saying women should just try out to be on the same football team as guys?
How can you say separate divisions for men and women are sexist, when without them, women wouldn't even get a chance to play?
I would say that for the United States, capitalists are much much better at nuclear power than the government is. If you take a gander at what the US government did with radioactive and other hazardous materials at Rocky Flats or Hanford, and compare the level of callousness to the level of care taken at even the worst US near disaster at TMI, I think you would find that armies of lawyers waving class action lawsuits do far more to check corporations than government bureacrats can check themselves.
I really like Windows 8, and in general, I tend to prefer the way it does things on the desktop. I'm on the fence about Metro.. I think its awesome if you have your PC plugged into a TV, the way I do. And, I like the idea of flipping to a full screen view when looking for applications... but, oddly, I find that Ubuntu's latest version does it better.
that just freezes the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then we can figure out what to do with it...
asteroid mining for rare earths seems like a logical idea....
Gnome 3, for all of its detractors, is pretty nice... but Windows file dialogs and shell explorer dialogs are simply miles ahead of it, and the gap seems to be widening. I mean, simple things like rename a file within a file save dialog, let alone copying files, seem to forever elude Linux desktops, and on Windows I take it for granted. Gnome has a pretty rough story when it comes to fonts, for sure.
And yes, not only is Windows 7's U/I more stable than Gnome 3 or KDE (would you like to send us a crash report ) 4, but Windows 8's latest preview is as well.
The pre-amble is not part of the law of the constitution. promote the general welfare did not mean, well, welfare.
Very well said!
That's not gas prices are plunging. Gas prices are plunging fracking right now is producing the same amount of oil and natural gas monthly as previous modest releases from the SPR....
You don't need to believe in evolution to believe in science in other methods. People can pick and choose the science that they want to use. Evolution doesn't have any products that can be made from it so who gives a shit. On the other hand, real science likes physics and chemistry can produce products... so people do believe in that. Asking people to think more about science is just asking them to believe in your own f'd up religion. The only reason science is good is because it is useful, and the way that we prove things are useful is that people are willing to pay for those things. Anything else is just nonsense just as much as noah's flood was.
An anti-belief is a belief just the same. Atheism is just another religion. Get over it.
How are they, when they typically are the ones with all the money... usually its the educated left that are the economic losers of America.
well the problem is that there are negative externalities to fixing global warming too.
all that money increased energy prices translates into a reduced standard of living for everyone. every dollar that would get spent on more expensive energy is a dollar they cannot use for their own investments and as such that represents an -enormous- and incalculable lost opportunity cost.
Point 6 isn't settled at all. And while point 7 has silly examples, it is a fair question.
The consequences of eliminating fossil fuels are arguably more poverty causing than the consequences of using them for another 50 years until nuclear power becomes less expensive and fusion becomes available. You assume that increased energy taxes, essentially, aren't going to be consumer neutral - when they are going to be disasterous. A modest increase in gasoline prices in the USA directly caused the financial disaster of 2008, and AGW advocates propose doing that, every year, by design that is utterly insane!