'Fraud' in one form or another (in the legal sense or otherwise) is rampant in all online dating. The fact of the matter is, any sort of 'dating' service is always going have an overabundance of male clients.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if, in the final analysis, they discover that the so-called 'data breach' was perpetrated by the owners of Ashley Madison themselves, and that it was always their plan to blackmail their clientele.
Yeah, please do stop referrring to nuclear power as 'nukes' because it does sound like you're talking about weapons of mass destruction. And, I agree with you about extremist environmentalists. Of course they're against any kind of power generation, I think if they had their way we'd be back living a subsistence existence with no technology beyond muscle power, but then they don't want to give up their iPhones or Priuses now do they? Many of them talk the talk but can't walk the walk.
The trick there would be to have enough service infrastructure installed so that high-capacity rapid-charging stations would be available where you needed them, and, naturally, high-capacity charging ability where you park your truck or van at night. Ironically it's easier to install such a thing wherever you need it (the public grid is pretty much everywhere) but you don't see gas stations installing them do you? Seriously, most major gas stations have some parking spaces, would it really be that much of an imposition for them to install charging stations at each one, making a little profit off the electricity cost? The cost of installation and maintenance would be trivial compared to what gasoline and diesel storage and dispensing equipment costs.
Way back in the 90's when I first started hearing about hydrogen fuel cell technology, I said I'd get in line to buy a vehicle using it as soon as they came out with it, sure that it was the future, but unfortunately that never materialized for whatever reason (not totally sure if it was because it wasn't practical, or if it got killed off by other interests, or what). Now, as you say, we've got expensive plug-in electrics that may be very nice, but are very expensive, and we've got tiny little sub-compacts that are all electric, but really not suitable for my uses. The pickup I've got literally has the best fuel economy of any small pickup I could find at the time, but it's still burning gasoline and it's still expensive to operate compared to what recharging a battery bank would cost. I'd even take a fully electric motorcycle for daily commuting, but you don't see that available anywhere either now do you? It'd have to be highway legal and that's the deal-breaker right there (some little scooter isn't going to cut it). The best I've got is a motorcycle that gets 45mpg. At the rate things are going I don't think I'll live to see a world where you can get any configuration of vehicle in a fully electric version, and that's sad because I would totally go for it. I do all my own maintenance whenever necessary, and I'd be thrilled with how little maintenance an all-electric vehicle would be, comparatively speaking.
You're joking, right? I'm not gutting a pickup I'm still making payments on to do a hack-job 'conversion' to electric. Also, it needs to have at least a 300 mile range (more like 400 mile) on a single charge, and I don't have time, space, or money to do anything like that in the first place. When Toyota or Tesla or some other manufacturer comes out with what I want then we'll talk about change, but if it involves hamstringing my entire life to do it, then it's a non-starter.
First of all, I want to know what I want to know, when I want to know it; please don't sit there and tell me what I want to know, OK? Secondly, since what I want in a vehicle doesn't exist yet, so what am I supposed to do?
I've read through about the last 100 of your comments, and I've seen a trend. I'm not here to get in arguments just to get in an argument, so please don't, I'm not interested, OK? Thanks.
My interest is purely academic; I'm not a homeowner, and until someone starts selling small pickup trucks that are 100% electric, I'm not even in the market to be a direct consumer of any of this type of technology, but that doesn't mean that I'm disinterested in the details of it. If there turns out to be widespread adoption of it I might end up being an indirect consumer of it, though, if for instance the local power company decides to start employing it to store power generated from their own solar arrays.
I have the same question, and others. How sustainable, really, are these types of batteries? Recyclability? Cost effectiveness over the long term, including recycling/rebuilding them? I'm talking about 'cradle-to-grave' costs, both in monetary units and in costs to the environment. For the time being things like solar and wind power are probably our best bet to reduce dependence on fossil fuel use, and the ability to store power generated is critical to these technologies' usefulness being maximized, but if we're just 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' then it's pointless. Really, the sooner we have a permanent, large-scale solution (like practical fusion power) the better, but we have to make do as best we can in the meantime.
Here's a tip for you: If you're going to troll, you need to actually put some effort into it. You clearly didn't put ANY effort into any one of your posts, and by the way responding to yourself in support of yourself only proves that you're not even as smart as a 6th grader. You have moved no one with your words; they have been ignored, and you have just embarassed yourself repeatedly. The only way you could possibly look like more of a total nudnik is if you'd actually signed your silly little posts with your real name. By the way are you from Florida? I'll bet you're from Florida.
Listen, buddy: Go away. Slashdot is full of opinions, which is everything I post here. I don't come here for debates, and guys like you, who have to prove they're right and everyone else is wrong, like any of this shit matters to anyone, anywhere, just give me a ice-cream headache. By the way you're not changing my mind about anything, and the 20 minutes you must have taken to write all that TL,DR was pretty much for nothing. Seriously internet trolls must have a field day with you, because you're so reactive to everything and everyone and everything.
Let's say for arguments sake that people actually thought this was a good idea; how long would it be before someone came up with some half-assed justification to treat everyone, citizen and visitor alike, this way?
Also, what ever happened to:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
An idea like Mr. Christies' flies in the face of one of the things this country was supposed to be about in the first place. I know damned well that the United States I grew up believing in never really existed, but damnit, why can't we make it that? I want the Founding Fathers of this country to turn out to be right, not George Orwell!
Finally, what kind of an asshole do you have to be to come up with an idea like this? Fuck that, and fuck Christie sideways with a rusty chainsaw for even suggesting something like this.
Oh for fuck's sake, you've really got your panties in a bunch, don't you? Actual trolls must have a field day with you.
I never said 'solar sucks'. I am however saying that it's not the end-all, be-all, long-term solution to our energy needs. Neither is wind power. If you actually stop and think about it, it becomes fairly obvious.
Now, bashing fusion power is just plain silly, even if we don't have it yet. It's being worked on. Treating it like it's snake oil isn't going to help anyone. Enjoy your solar panels. For now. Eventually we will have fusion power. Probably in addition to solar power. But poo-pooing fusion now while it's being developed is just plain not necessary and very unhelpful.
And, finally: I'm sick and bloody well tired of the NIMBYs, environmentalists, and whoever else that gets their panties in a twist over anything with the word 'nuclear' in it. We have to transition out of fossil fuels, and the sooner the better, and nuclear power of some sort or another frankly one of the best and cleanest alternatives. Fission is messy but honestly it may be the best short-term solution in addition to solar power. Could even be thorium-based, which looks to be overall safer than what we've had in the past, and apparently is much tougher to subvert into producing anything weapons-grade. So environmentalists and their alarmist ways need to calm the hell down and stop spreading FUD to the uneducated masses, I'm sick of hearing it, as are apparently so many others.
Given their history, I have no problem with them wanting to clamp down on Holocaust deniers. However they seem to think that there is just some magic button they can press over at Facebook to prevent such content from being seen by German users. This is not the case. It would take human censors reviewing every German post to do it. From Facebooks perspective it would be cheaper and easier to just pull the plug on German users completely and not allow anyone from a German IP address to access Facebook at all. Unless Germany wants to foot the bill for the manpower to police Facebook posts from Germany-based accounts. In any event I can't see how they'd expect to censor all Holocaust-denying posts, even ones from non-German IP addresses; that would be enforcing their laws on citizens of other countries.
How cheap is coal and natural gas when you factor in the cost of, in the long run, destroying all life on Earth and the Earth itself? Or do these equations only assume 'during the lifespan of the person doing the calculations'? Also your 'environmentalists' don't want any power generation of any kind, not even wind or solar, and by the way need I remind you that many of them secretly (or not so secretly) think that the best thing for the environment is if we (the human race as a whole) weren't alive anymore? Hard to take any socio-political group seriously when they advocate 'sequestering carbon' in the form of a seven-billion-corpse mass grave. Meanwhile they get down off the podium from giving their speech about 'saving the planet' and get into their Prius and use their iPhone to tweet about how we're destroying the planet, rather than walking or riding a bike. Or maybe they get on a jet airplane to go to their next speaking engagement. Hard to take them seriously at all when they aren't willing to set an example by committing suicide 'to save the planet'.
Except when it's a cloudy day. Except when it's night time where you need power. Except where it's not practical or possible to have solar panels. Except that, I surmise, the power density and lifespan of a practical fusion reactor will make it many times more practical than littering every available horizontal surface with solar panels that will have to be replaced in 20 years or less. Oh, and don't tell me 'battery banks!' because unless someone comes up with a way of directly storing electric power that scales up very, very cheaply, it's not really a practical solution to have bank after bank after bank of Li+ (or whatever) batteries, which in way less than 20 years will have to be junked and replaced, too. I suspect you're the environmentalist type, like the Sierra Club or similar, and really are going to be against any type of centralized power generation; get over it already. We need nuclear power, if we're going to get out of the downward spiral that will turn the Earth into a copy of what Venus looks like now: A searing, lifeless black hell hot enough to keep lead molten on it's surface.
The farther up the Periodic Table of Elements something is, the more energy required to 'fuse' it into a higher element; all the elements in the Universe heavier than helium happened when stars when nova or supernova. 'Mr. Fusion' is total fantasy. Also, as someone else already mentioned, hydrogen is the most abundant element in our Universe.
Actually you do bring up a point. In addition to openly 'using' a non-functioning cellphone right in front of her, have someone later come in with a fully-functional phone in their pocket, doing something very transceive-intensive, like streaming something from YouTube, but with the volume down so she can't detect it. Then, again, see if she develops 'symptoms'.
Pretend to use a cellphone in her presence. When she starts complaining of symptoms and discomfort, show her that the phone not only isn't on, that it doesn't even have a battery in it so there's no chance it could have been on.
I did something similar to this with a friend of mine who claimed to be able to see infrared light from TV remotes. While he wasn't looking I removed the batteries from one, then called his name and when he turned around, pointed it at him and pushed buttons. He complained about how much that hurt his eyes, and how could I do that to him? Then I showed him the remote had no batteries in it. Needless to say he was somewhat embarassed. Still claims to be able to 'see' IR light though.
Then come back and talk about it once we have a world power grid in place.
Yeah no kidding! The day that we can get every nation on Earth to actually agree to something will be quite a day indeed. Not to mention that if you did manage such a thing as a 'world power grid' there'd still be terrorist organizations sabotaging it constantly, greedy corporations (and individuals) trying to leverage it for their own profit, and protestors protesting whatever it is they protest about concerning a 'world power grid'. Then there's the NIMBYs, and the people convinced that powerlines are causing their chronic illnesses.
Here comes the people who couldn't give a fuck about what happens after they're dead, so long as they're not 'inconvenienced' by anything right now. The Human Race gets what it deserves, I guess.
Banning the Bible wouldn't accomplish anything. People would just find something to take it's place. What we need is to, somehow, evolve past the point where we need such things, and everything associated with it, at all. Of course we also need to evolve past things like greed, lust for power, crime and corruption, racism, sexism, and a whole long laundry list of problems with Humans in general, and that ain't happening anytime soon, either. Oh and since I'm 100% certain that this will be one of the least popular opinions I can post anywhere, I'll just quietly accept my (-1, {whatever}) moderation, LOL IDGAF.
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'Fraud' in one form or another (in the legal sense or otherwise) is rampant in all online dating. The fact of the matter is, any sort of 'dating' service is always going have an overabundance of male clients.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if, in the final analysis, they discover that the so-called 'data breach' was perpetrated by the owners of Ashley Madison themselves, and that it was always their plan to blackmail their clientele.
Yeah, please do stop referrring to nuclear power as 'nukes' because it does sound like you're talking about weapons of mass destruction. And, I agree with you about extremist environmentalists. Of course they're against any kind of power generation, I think if they had their way we'd be back living a subsistence existence with no technology beyond muscle power, but then they don't want to give up their iPhones or Priuses now do they? Many of them talk the talk but can't walk the walk.
The trick there would be to have enough service infrastructure installed so that high-capacity rapid-charging stations would be available where you needed them, and, naturally, high-capacity charging ability where you park your truck or van at night. Ironically it's easier to install such a thing wherever you need it (the public grid is pretty much everywhere) but you don't see gas stations installing them do you? Seriously, most major gas stations have some parking spaces, would it really be that much of an imposition for them to install charging stations at each one, making a little profit off the electricity cost? The cost of installation and maintenance would be trivial compared to what gasoline and diesel storage and dispensing equipment costs.
Way back in the 90's when I first started hearing about hydrogen fuel cell technology, I said I'd get in line to buy a vehicle using it as soon as they came out with it, sure that it was the future, but unfortunately that never materialized for whatever reason (not totally sure if it was because it wasn't practical, or if it got killed off by other interests, or what). Now, as you say, we've got expensive plug-in electrics that may be very nice, but are very expensive, and we've got tiny little sub-compacts that are all electric, but really not suitable for my uses. The pickup I've got literally has the best fuel economy of any small pickup I could find at the time, but it's still burning gasoline and it's still expensive to operate compared to what recharging a battery bank would cost. I'd even take a fully electric motorcycle for daily commuting, but you don't see that available anywhere either now do you? It'd have to be highway legal and that's the deal-breaker right there (some little scooter isn't going to cut it). The best I've got is a motorcycle that gets 45mpg. At the rate things are going I don't think I'll live to see a world where you can get any configuration of vehicle in a fully electric version, and that's sad because I would totally go for it. I do all my own maintenance whenever necessary, and I'd be thrilled with how little maintenance an all-electric vehicle would be, comparatively speaking.
You're joking, right? I'm not gutting a pickup I'm still making payments on to do a hack-job 'conversion' to electric. Also, it needs to have at least a 300 mile range (more like 400 mile) on a single charge, and I don't have time, space, or money to do anything like that in the first place. When Toyota or Tesla or some other manufacturer comes out with what I want then we'll talk about change, but if it involves hamstringing my entire life to do it, then it's a non-starter.
First of all, I want to know what I want to know, when I want to know it; please don't sit there and tell me what I want to know, OK? Secondly, since what I want in a vehicle doesn't exist yet, so what am I supposed to do?
I've read through about the last 100 of your comments, and I've seen a trend. I'm not here to get in arguments just to get in an argument, so please don't, I'm not interested, OK? Thanks.
My interest is purely academic; I'm not a homeowner, and until someone starts selling small pickup trucks that are 100% electric, I'm not even in the market to be a direct consumer of any of this type of technology, but that doesn't mean that I'm disinterested in the details of it. If there turns out to be widespread adoption of it I might end up being an indirect consumer of it, though, if for instance the local power company decides to start employing it to store power generated from their own solar arrays.
I have the same question, and others. How sustainable, really, are these types of batteries? Recyclability? Cost effectiveness over the long term, including recycling/rebuilding them? I'm talking about 'cradle-to-grave' costs, both in monetary units and in costs to the environment. For the time being things like solar and wind power are probably our best bet to reduce dependence on fossil fuel use, and the ability to store power generated is critical to these technologies' usefulness being maximized, but if we're just 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' then it's pointless. Really, the sooner we have a permanent, large-scale solution (like practical fusion power) the better, but we have to make do as best we can in the meantime.
Here's a tip for you: If you're going to troll, you need to actually put some effort into it. You clearly didn't put ANY effort into any one of your posts, and by the way responding to yourself in support of yourself only proves that you're not even as smart as a 6th grader. You have moved no one with your words; they have been ignored, and you have just embarassed yourself repeatedly. The only way you could possibly look like more of a total nudnik is if you'd actually signed your silly little posts with your real name. By the way are you from Florida? I'll bet you're from Florida.
Listen, buddy: Go away. Slashdot is full of opinions, which is everything I post here. I don't come here for debates, and guys like you, who have to prove they're right and everyone else is wrong, like any of this shit matters to anyone, anywhere, just give me a ice-cream headache. By the way you're not changing my mind about anything, and the 20 minutes you must have taken to write all that TL,DR was pretty much for nothing. Seriously internet trolls must have a field day with you, because you're so reactive to everything and everyone and everything.
Also, what ever happened to:
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
An idea like Mr. Christies' flies in the face of one of the things this country was supposed to be about in the first place. I know damned well that the United States I grew up believing in never really existed, but damnit, why can't we make it that? I want the Founding Fathers of this country to turn out to be right, not George Orwell!
Finally, what kind of an asshole do you have to be to come up with an idea like this? Fuck that, and fuck Christie sideways with a rusty chainsaw for even suggesting something like this.
Oh for fuck's sake, you've really got your panties in a bunch, don't you? Actual trolls must have a field day with you.
I never said 'solar sucks'. I am however saying that it's not the end-all, be-all, long-term solution to our energy needs. Neither is wind power. If you actually stop and think about it, it becomes fairly obvious.
Now, bashing fusion power is just plain silly, even if we don't have it yet. It's being worked on. Treating it like it's snake oil isn't going to help anyone. Enjoy your solar panels. For now. Eventually we will have fusion power. Probably in addition to solar power. But poo-pooing fusion now while it's being developed is just plain not necessary and very unhelpful.
And, finally: I'm sick and bloody well tired of the NIMBYs, environmentalists, and whoever else that gets their panties in a twist over anything with the word 'nuclear' in it. We have to transition out of fossil fuels, and the sooner the better, and nuclear power of some sort or another frankly one of the best and cleanest alternatives. Fission is messy but honestly it may be the best short-term solution in addition to solar power. Could even be thorium-based, which looks to be overall safer than what we've had in the past, and apparently is much tougher to subvert into producing anything weapons-grade. So environmentalists and their alarmist ways need to calm the hell down and stop spreading FUD to the uneducated masses, I'm sick of hearing it, as are apparently so many others.
Given their history, I have no problem with them wanting to clamp down on Holocaust deniers. However they seem to think that there is just some magic button they can press over at Facebook to prevent such content from being seen by German users. This is not the case. It would take human censors reviewing every German post to do it. From Facebooks perspective it would be cheaper and easier to just pull the plug on German users completely and not allow anyone from a German IP address to access Facebook at all. Unless Germany wants to foot the bill for the manpower to police Facebook posts from Germany-based accounts. In any event I can't see how they'd expect to censor all Holocaust-denying posts, even ones from non-German IP addresses; that would be enforcing their laws on citizens of other countries.
How cheap is coal and natural gas when you factor in the cost of, in the long run, destroying all life on Earth and the Earth itself? Or do these equations only assume 'during the lifespan of the person doing the calculations'? Also your 'environmentalists' don't want any power generation of any kind, not even wind or solar, and by the way need I remind you that many of them secretly (or not so secretly) think that the best thing for the environment is if we (the human race as a whole) weren't alive anymore? Hard to take any socio-political group seriously when they advocate 'sequestering carbon' in the form of a seven-billion-corpse mass grave. Meanwhile they get down off the podium from giving their speech about 'saving the planet' and get into their Prius and use their iPhone to tweet about how we're destroying the planet, rather than walking or riding a bike. Or maybe they get on a jet airplane to go to their next speaking engagement. Hard to take them seriously at all when they aren't willing to set an example by committing suicide 'to save the planet'.
Except when it's a cloudy day.
Except when it's night time where you need power.
Except where it's not practical or possible to have solar panels.
Except that, I surmise, the power density and lifespan of a practical fusion reactor will make it many times more practical than littering every available horizontal surface with solar panels that will have to be replaced in 20 years or less.
Oh, and don't tell me 'battery banks!' because unless someone comes up with a way of directly storing electric power that scales up very, very cheaply, it's not really a practical solution to have bank after bank after bank of Li+ (or whatever) batteries, which in way less than 20 years will have to be junked and replaced, too.
I suspect you're the environmentalist type, like the Sierra Club or similar, and really are going to be against any type of centralized power generation; get over it already. We need nuclear power, if we're going to get out of the downward spiral that will turn the Earth into a copy of what Venus looks like now: A searing, lifeless black hell hot enough to keep lead molten on it's surface.
The farther up the Periodic Table of Elements something is, the more energy required to 'fuse' it into a higher element; all the elements in the Universe heavier than helium happened when stars when nova or supernova. 'Mr. Fusion' is total fantasy. Also, as someone else already mentioned, hydrogen is the most abundant element in our Universe.
Actually you do bring up a point. In addition to openly 'using' a non-functioning cellphone right in front of her, have someone later come in with a fully-functional phone in their pocket, doing something very transceive-intensive, like streaming something from YouTube, but with the volume down so she can't detect it. Then, again, see if she develops 'symptoms'.
Hate to tell you but you're not Special: Some IR LEDs still emit a little visible light. I have even experienced what you describe.
All a bunch of bullshit invented to sell drugs that don't even WORK
Don't you really mean to say that they're ALL A BUNCH OF COWS?
Pretend to use a cellphone in her presence. When she starts complaining of symptoms and discomfort, show her that the phone not only isn't on, that it doesn't even have a battery in it so there's no chance it could have been on.
I did something similar to this with a friend of mine who claimed to be able to see infrared light from TV remotes. While he wasn't looking I removed the batteries from one, then called his name and when he turned around, pointed it at him and pushed buttons. He complained about how much that hurt his eyes, and how could I do that to him? Then I showed him the remote had no batteries in it. Needless to say he was somewhat embarassed. Still claims to be able to 'see' IR light though.
Then come back and talk about it once we have a world power grid in place.
Yeah no kidding! The day that we can get every nation on Earth to actually agree to something will be quite a day indeed. Not to mention that if you did manage such a thing as a 'world power grid' there'd still be terrorist organizations sabotaging it constantly, greedy corporations (and individuals) trying to leverage it for their own profit, and protestors protesting whatever it is they protest about concerning a 'world power grid'. Then there's the NIMBYs, and the people convinced that powerlines are causing their chronic illnesses.
Here comes the people who couldn't give a fuck about what happens after they're dead, so long as they're not 'inconvenienced' by anything right now. The Human Race gets what it deserves, I guess.
..as the sun never stops shining..
Except at night. Or when it's cloudy.
So did he get all his experience back?
Yes, but he lost all the items in his inventory.
Banning the Bible wouldn't accomplish anything. People would just find something to take it's place. What we need is to, somehow, evolve past the point where we need such things, and everything associated with it, at all. Of course we also need to evolve past things like greed, lust for power, crime and corruption, racism, sexism, and a whole long laundry list of problems with Humans in general, and that ain't happening anytime soon, either. Oh and since I'm 100% certain that this will be one of the least popular opinions I can post anywhere, I'll just quietly accept my (-1, {whatever}) moderation, LOL IDGAF.