It takes people to generate wealth. The problem with Africa is no investment. That's because of political instability. And that is due to the cultural predispositions of its people groups. But yeah, there are too many people in the Sahel. They should move, and probably would, if it werent for international borders in the way. Nation-states are a crime against humanity. Nation-states directly and actively killed 200 million people in the past century. And, one may argue, through incompetence killed many of the remainder.
I don't think it's especially militant, meaning more militant than normal, to violently oppose the invasion of your home and its robbery for foreign interests. It is militant, in as much as the opposition elicited is military opposition, but it is not militant in the sense of being an aggressive expression of a peculiar ideology. It's just defending your home.
If the time lag between the response to the crisis and the effectiveness of the response exceeds the time lag between the onset of the crisis and the culmination of the crisis, capitalism will no longer EXIST, and will not be able to do any work.
They will adapt, or they will die. Given that the energy supply is insufficient for survival, most will die. Until the numbers are small enough to fit the energy supply. The remainder will adapt.
The issue as I see it is that petroleum resources are required in order to build out the alternative infrastructure necessary to replace those resources when they are no longer a viable source of fuel and fertilizers. If we don't start building nuclear reactors, all-out, balls-to-the-wall, pedal-to-the-metal, and wind farms, and hydro plants, and biodeisel plants, and ethanol plants, using every dollar we don't need to eat and stay warm, and every drop of oil, period, then by 2025 we're in the stone age, and 6 billion people die.
There are intermediate scenarios, where die-off is limited, but this is a critical juncture, in which a small change of policy could dramatically influence the eventual die-off statistics. My view is that in order to preclude the annihilation of my genotype, I need to collaborrate with others to insure the assassination of all NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS leaders if they do not act effectively, immediately.
Tor lets you configure the bandwidth allocation for anonymizing traffic in considerable detail.
Welcome to the world of Internet service provision. Most of the traffic that goes over the wire is probably something you would disapprove of. Anonymized traffic is no different.
In my experience, having attempted to send CDs to China repeatedly, by postal mail, nothing gets in, regardless of content.
Fedex might do better, I don't know, but their service area is limited to a few major metropolitan zones, and cost is imposing.
I think illegal smuggling is probably the most reliable and cost-effective way to ship data into China by sneakernet. Hand off to a friend at the airport, whatever.
You hit that one on the head, buddy! (Erm, or sissy, as the case may be.)
I find most of the pleasure in music is in the subtle lsbits. Thus, when I make MP3s out of my CDs, I always compress by removing the top 8 bits from each 16 bit sample. All the subtlety, none of the crass bombast. Schuite!
How much mail would they send across their borders? Very little. How much extra manpower do they have for mail inspection? Quite a lot. It is remarkably difficult to get information into or out of China. This is a major limiting factor inhibiting Chinese participation in the economy, and participation of the economy in China.
Personally, I think it's an expression of despite for the arrogance and mass murder conducted by intellectuals and scientists, during the past century. It does seem that intelligence is a self-limiting genetic trait.
It's more like saying that Ferrari produces more Testarossas each year than Kia will produce in a millenium. The economic incentive to deliver consumer-oriented applications on the most prevalent consumer-oriented platforms is obvious. Most people don't want or need Ferraris.
That's a twisty little ball of confusion you've got there. There's no such thing as "literalism". This is a manifestation of the symbol-grounding problem familiar from theoretical AI: You can't have an understanding which is not an interpretation. "Scripture" is a symbol stream. Until you interpret those symbols, it is, as Paul of Tarsus is vividly paraphrased, "dead letter". This closely relates to the original Christian Logos theology, which holds that God is Reason, and that it is by understanding the revelation of God in accordance with divine Reason than we participate in the same life of God that is manifest in the resurrection of Jesus.
No, it does not require tons of U-238 to produce supercritical masses of Pu-239. Less than a ton will do very nicely. What it does require is a fair amount of Tritium. D-D fusion neutrons are too slow. D-T fusion neutrons are perfect for the production of Pu-239. Separating the Pu from the U is trivial. It is a purely chemical process. I did this with an IEC fusor using surplus DU from a 747 counterweight. Using the fusor it would have taken gigawatts of electric power to produce a critical mass in less than a decade, and the process was impractical for weapon production. I don't know enough about the new process to comment, but if it improved the electrical efficiency by a couple of orders of magnitude, it would result in a viable process.
This is very true, but it leaves out the reason why the world changed: The server operators fucked up. People got more done with simple, cheap devices under their own control. Now circumstances have changed again. Suitable techniques and protocols are ubiquitous, which enable centralization of applications to servers which offer a value-add by virtue of central management. But if you think of it as regaining control, you've already screwed the goose that laid the golden egg, because nobody is going to let your control interfere with their productivity.
> I would like to retain the power over what runs on *my* pc & where that info is stored.
Indeed, this is one of the best arguments for software as a service. I don't want to install 500MB of bloated crapware on my computer to view a spreadsheet, thank you very much. Windows is just a badly debugged collection of device drivers, and I don't want to trust my data to it. I would much prefer an audited, open-source service which stores my data in a cryptographically secure manner, and operates a data-center than can take a nuclear hit.
This is especially, emphatically, true when I am mobile.
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> I've been told that it rains hydrocarbons on some faraway moons out there.
That seems doable. Stick an engine on Titan, put it in geosynchronous orbit, build a space elevator, and pump atmosphere down the tube.
I'd give the project 50 years. That's going to be one amazing nuclear reactor, though, powering that engine. Invest in Niger.
It takes people to generate wealth. The problem with Africa is no investment. That's because of political instability. And that is due to the cultural predispositions of its people groups. But yeah, there are too many people in the Sahel. They should move, and probably would, if it werent for international borders in the way. Nation-states are a crime against humanity. Nation-states directly and actively killed 200 million people in the past century. And, one may argue, through incompetence killed many of the remainder.
I don't think it's especially militant, meaning more militant than normal, to violently oppose the invasion of your home and its robbery for foreign interests. It is militant, in as much as the opposition elicited is military opposition, but it is not militant in the sense of being an aggressive expression of a peculiar ideology. It's just defending your home.
If the time lag between the response to the crisis and the effectiveness of the response exceeds the time lag between the onset of the crisis and the culmination of the crisis, capitalism will no longer EXIST, and will not be able to do any work.
Left out the link by mistake, sorry.
They will adapt, or they will die. Given that the energy supply is insufficient for survival, most will die. Until the numbers are small enough to fit the energy supply. The remainder will adapt.
But CO2 is a solved problem. For less than $US 1B/year, you can fix it. See this for a teaser on how to do it.
The issue as I see it is that petroleum resources are required in order to build out the alternative infrastructure necessary to replace those resources when they are no longer a viable source of fuel and fertilizers. If we don't start building nuclear reactors, all-out, balls-to-the-wall, pedal-to-the-metal, and wind farms, and hydro plants, and biodeisel plants, and ethanol plants, using every dollar we don't need to eat and stay warm, and every drop of oil, period, then by 2025 we're in the stone age, and 6 billion people die.
There are intermediate scenarios, where die-off is limited, but this is a critical juncture, in which a small change of policy could dramatically influence the eventual die-off statistics. My view is that in order to preclude the annihilation of my genotype, I need to collaborrate with others to insure the assassination of all NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AND ECONOMIC AND RELIGIOUS leaders if they do not act effectively, immediately.
Tor lets you configure the bandwidth allocation for anonymizing traffic in considerable detail.
Welcome to the world of Internet service provision. Most of the traffic that goes over the wire is probably something you would disapprove of. Anonymized traffic is no different.
Ah, but are you willing to kill everyone who is willing to die to stop you from saying it?
In my experience, having attempted to send CDs to China repeatedly, by postal mail, nothing gets in, regardless of content.
Fedex might do better, I don't know, but their service area is limited to a few major metropolitan zones, and cost is imposing.
I think illegal smuggling is probably the most reliable and cost-effective way to ship data into China by sneakernet. Hand off to a friend at the airport, whatever.
> the extra 8 bits are ... important
You hit that one on the head, buddy! (Erm, or sissy, as the case may be.)
I find most of the pleasure in music is in the subtle lsbits. Thus, when I make MP3s out of my CDs, I always compress by removing the top 8 bits from each 16 bit sample. All the subtlety, none of the crass bombast. Schuite!
You can use a Tor node as a proxy. I do it all day every day. I didn't install anything on my computer, I just set the proxy.
How much mail would they send across their borders? Very little. How much extra manpower do they have for mail inspection? Quite a lot. It is remarkably difficult to get information into or out of China. This is a major limiting factor inhibiting Chinese participation in the economy, and participation of the economy in China.
Personally, I think it's an expression of despite for the arrogance and mass murder conducted by intellectuals and scientists, during the past century. It does seem that intelligence is a self-limiting genetic trait.
> Point taken.
And indeed, taken more gracefully than it was made. Well done.
> everywhere in the UK is cold.
And "bloody". Don't forget "bloody".
> Proof
I think it does not mean what you think it does.
It's more like saying that Ferrari produces more Testarossas each year than Kia will produce in a millenium. The economic incentive to deliver consumer-oriented applications on the most prevalent consumer-oriented platforms is obvious. Most people don't want or need Ferraris.
That's a twisty little ball of confusion you've got there. There's no such thing as "literalism". This is a manifestation of the symbol-grounding problem familiar from theoretical AI: You can't have an understanding which is not an interpretation. "Scripture" is a symbol stream. Until you interpret those symbols, it is, as Paul of Tarsus is vividly paraphrased, "dead letter". This closely relates to the original Christian Logos theology, which holds that God is Reason, and that it is by understanding the revelation of God in accordance with divine Reason than we participate in the same life of God that is manifest in the resurrection of Jesus.
No, it does not require tons of U-238 to produce supercritical masses of Pu-239. Less than a ton will do very nicely. What it does require is a fair amount of Tritium. D-D fusion neutrons are too slow. D-T fusion neutrons are perfect for the production of Pu-239. Separating the Pu from the U is trivial. It is a purely chemical process. I did this with an IEC fusor using surplus DU from a 747 counterweight. Using the fusor it would have taken gigawatts of electric power to produce a critical mass in less than a decade, and the process was impractical for weapon production. I don't know enough about the new process to comment, but if it improved the electrical efficiency by a couple of orders of magnitude, it would result in a viable process.
It is cold. It is fusion. It is cold fusion. Then again, it is quixotic to argue with anyone who does not accept FOPL.
This is very true, but it leaves out the reason why the world changed: The server operators fucked up. People got more done with simple, cheap devices under their own control. Now circumstances have changed again. Suitable techniques and protocols are ubiquitous, which enable centralization of applications to servers which offer a value-add by virtue of central management. But if you think of it as regaining control, you've already screwed the goose that laid the golden egg, because nobody is going to let your control interfere with their productivity.
> I would like to retain the power over what runs on *my* pc & where that info is stored.
Indeed, this is one of the best arguments for software as a service. I don't want to install 500MB of bloated crapware on my computer to view a spreadsheet, thank you very much. Windows is just a badly debugged collection of device drivers, and I don't want to trust my data to it. I would much prefer an audited, open-source service which stores my data in a cryptographically secure manner, and operates a data-center than can take a nuclear hit.
This is especially, emphatically, true when I am mobile.
I think it was PeeWee Herman who made a pretty good living saying "I meant to do that".