I really don't like this sort of thing being called child porn or the people looking at this stuff pedophiles. The girls where 14 and 15, that is not a child. Perhaps underage for that sort of thing but its not child porn. They are biologically much more a woman than a girl. (my friends daughter had C boobs at 13...)
I can't believe people would think otherwise. I mean Ebay feedback anyone. The default assumption when you read *anything* on the net (yes, even The wiki) should be that it is BS.
The number of pirate ships has also decreased! I know global warming might be bad, but for the love of God, think of the children! Stop the Pastafarian's from building pirate ships before its too late....
Much longer and you'd have to assume either everybody starts carrying multiple phones or starts disposing of them faster.
I know a large number of people with more than one phone. In fact I believe in NZ there are more cell phones than people. Its common to have a cell phone for each network to take advantage of the different/changing special deals. Even I have had 3 phones in the last 2 years.
So the US has about 300 million people. Say the ownership is at 200million. Replacing your phone every 2 years is 270 000 phones a day. Seems like the equilibrium will more likely be higher not lower than the current levels. Especially if we consider that as the technology changes some older phones will become obsolete.
My last phone cost 30EU and I have never heard of a phone that can't be unlocked for about 10EU.
Because they didn't need to, it was done (incidentally by a lot more people than 1).
Its dumb to claim that if person X didn't do it no one else would have. Thats like saying that if Edison didn't get the light bulb to work we would still be using candles. Or if Ford didn't come up with the assembly line no one else would have thought of it.
But as delovping power source its not quite that cut and dry. 10billion would buy you a *lot* of solar panels. Thats the kind of money needed to build a nuclear plant let alone run it.
If we spent the same money on solar as we have on nuclear it would be a very different. The original zeal in nuclear was heavy government help to secure the supply of.. well Plutonium. Even now the nuclear industry in France enjoys enormous pork from government.
What if that pork was in solar and storage technologies? There would at least be less radioactive waste now wouldn't there.
Unfortunately, like coal etc, it is in fact subsidized. Nuclear gets at least subsidies waste disposal at a fixed rate from uncle sam regardless of true cost. Local government is also usually involved with rather cheap access to land etc. The free market at this scale does not really exist anywhere.
Also there is not shortage of *independent* professionals. Profession quality sound equipment is very cheap these days, and even building or renting a sound studio is also cheap. Dam even getting your own CD's pressed is cheap too. All up you can do the above for the price of a new car.
So why did it get written in the first place? Without RMS it wouldn't have happened? I highly doubt that. He was not the only person out there that wanted to produce "free" code. And as needs became apparent others would have picked up the slack.
So are planes. We still use planes. I mean come on a fast breeder reactors with liquid sodium coolant is not a target? Get over it, what kind of nuclear plant wouldn't be a "very attractive terrorist target" ?
There are other options too. Like "faster" reactors that can "burn" waste. Also accelerator driven reactors can achieve the same goal. But both is a big R&D project. Perhaps fusion R&D would be better.
Why?
Because you get lots of fast neutrons from a fusion reactor and that can "burn" waste" in a non critical reactor....
As always it comes down to the fact that there are possible solutions if we invest the time and money. But who will fit the bill.
The way its packaged for storage would not make reprocessing a likely event. This is long term underground storage were it is usually mixed with stuff to prevent the bad from dissolving in water and to thin it out to the point that heat is a manageable problem. Short term storage under water etc is easy to stick back into the recycling program.
But seriously not recycling this stuff because of proliferation concerns when you are the nation with the most nukes is stupid.
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I really don't like this sort of thing being called child porn or the people looking at this stuff pedophiles. The girls where 14 and 15, that is not a child. Perhaps underage for that sort of thing but its not child porn. They are biologically much more a woman than a girl. (my friends daughter had C boobs at 13...)
Its a sculpted tree....
Perhaps you should also consider an alternative OS with a ftp client that doesn't sux. ;)
Or duke nukem forever.
I can't believe people would think otherwise. I mean Ebay feedback anyone. The default assumption when you read *anything* on the net (yes, even The wiki) should be that it is BS.
I prefer the Iain Banks Culture universe, where they have enhanced the orgasm and made it possible to have a lot more of them in a given time.
;)
I wonder what treatment the neurologists would pick.
I wonder how much of the P0rn in china is streaming directly too government computers?
The number of pirate ships has also decreased! I know global warming might be bad, but for the love of God, think of the children! Stop the Pastafarian's from building pirate ships before its too late....
Two words. Laxative effects.
I meant that i have had 3 phones. I have only ever had one phone at one time however.
Much longer and you'd have to assume either everybody starts carrying multiple phones or starts disposing of them faster.
I know a large number of people with more than one phone. In fact I believe in NZ there are more cell phones than people. Its common to have a cell phone for each network to take advantage of the different/changing special deals. Even I have had 3 phones in the last 2 years.
So the US has about 300 million people. Say the ownership is at 200million. Replacing your phone every 2 years is 270 000 phones a day. Seems like the equilibrium will more likely be higher not lower than the current levels. Especially if we consider that as the technology changes some older phones will become obsolete.
My last phone cost 30EU and I have never heard of a phone that can't be unlocked for about 10EU.
Dead humans on mars will infact react rather slowly.
These planed maned missions to mars will not give a good science return or get "humanity" off this rock.
Using robotic probes does not take humans out of the loop.
We (other nations) have also benefited hugely from the US investment into science and space.
Even with the *current* knowledge of physics, moving beyond this system is entirely possible. Maybe not with our current level engineering however.
just send a robot to go and die there. Really, it would a whole lot cheaper. Why do we need people there again?
Because they didn't need to, it was done (incidentally by a lot more people than 1).
Its dumb to claim that if person X didn't do it no one else would have. Thats like saying that if Edison didn't get the light bulb to work we would still be using candles. Or if Ford didn't come up with the assembly line no one else would have thought of it.
fair call i guess.
.. well Plutonium. Even now the nuclear industry in France enjoys enormous pork from government.
But as delovping power source its not quite that cut and dry. 10billion would buy you a *lot* of solar panels. Thats the kind of money needed to build a nuclear plant let alone run it.
If we spent the same money on solar as we have on nuclear it would be a very different. The original zeal in nuclear was heavy government help to secure the supply of
What if that pork was in solar and storage technologies? There would at least be less radioactive waste now wouldn't there.
Unfortunately, like coal etc, it is in fact subsidized. Nuclear gets at least subsidies waste disposal at a fixed rate from uncle sam regardless of true cost. Local government is also usually involved with rather cheap access to land etc. The free market at this scale does not really exist anywhere.
This was R&D project that was not finished. Its not available now. I indicated as such in other posts.
Yes there are quite a few options, lets not end up with a bunch of waste before these options are implemented.
Some of these professionals use Macs ;)
Also there is not shortage of *independent* professionals. Profession quality sound equipment is very cheap these days, and even building or renting a sound studio is also cheap. Dam even getting your own CD's pressed is cheap too. All up you can do the above for the price of a new car.
Oh i see. When i was using svn and cvs i would rsync the repo locally anyway. But now I understand.
really. I thought in svn there would still a version of each binary in there somewhere. I mean what good would it be if it didn't?
So why did it get written in the first place? Without RMS it wouldn't have happened? I highly doubt that. He was not the only person out there that wanted to produce "free" code. And as needs became apparent others would have picked up the slack.
So are planes. We still use planes. I mean come on a fast breeder reactors with liquid sodium coolant is not a target? Get over it, what kind of nuclear plant wouldn't be a "very attractive terrorist target" ?
There are other options too. Like "faster" reactors that can "burn" waste. Also accelerator driven reactors can achieve the same goal. But both is a big R&D project. Perhaps fusion R&D would be better.
Why?
Because you get lots of fast neutrons from a fusion reactor and that can "burn" waste" in a non critical reactor....
As always it comes down to the fact that there are possible solutions if we invest the time and money. But who will fit the bill.
The way its packaged for storage would not make reprocessing a likely event. This is long term underground storage were it is usually mixed with stuff to prevent the bad from dissolving in water and to thin it out to the point that heat is a manageable problem. Short term storage under water etc is easy to stick back into the recycling program.
But seriously not recycling this stuff because of proliferation concerns when you are the nation with the most nukes is stupid.