So it's a method to run untrusted, potentially hostile code in a jail to minimize the harm it can do to the user and the host system. (In an open source setting you must assume all closed code is hostile)
Can they do this to other plugins too? Like flash?
All plugins that Firefox uses run in a separate container already. I do not know what the cost of jailing said container would be.
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it is a historical sociological fact that societies do better when those at the bottom are taken care of (there are limits to the truth of that, but we aren't even vaguely close to them).
Where is money actually the problem in the system? The problem, as I see it, is that the governed no longer CARE enough to do anything unless stirred to a frenzy. When you have a turnout of just over half of the eligible voters, a nearly even split between the two major parties, a system that doesn't allow for a viable third party candidate, and a plethora of people who just vote party lines (including the representatives sent to DC) instead of doing research, I can very easily see how we wound up with what we have.
The money isn't the biggest problem. It's a symptom: The voters don't care enough to keep tabs on their elected representatives to make it excessively painful when they take cash from $INFLUENCE_OF_THE_WEEK. Education, information dissemination, and a general lack of belief that "voting matters" is the problem, from where I sit. How we fix these things is where the focus should be. Make the people care about who they send to DC, their state capitol, and their county seat, and what those people are doing, saying, and voting.
How this happens, I have not sorted out. I hope someone smarter than me can get it solved, before some elected official gets killed and then they get completely isolated from the governed in "the interest of national security". Some say this has already happened.
Price? It's priced competitively with other cars in its class (most people don't buy luxury sedans).
Cross-country trip? What about it? The supercharger network reaches coast to coast, and by the end of the year there will be a few more cross-country routes possible.
LA to SF? This was literally the first place they built superchargers.
while technically true, it's only on very specific routes currently. Tesla claims this will be fixed by (effectively) 2016.
We're so productive, but *what* are we producing and for *who*?
Great post. That's the million dollar question, right there. We certainly are propping up an outdated socio-economic system. But powerful people retain their power through this system. That's the obstacle I see. Otherwise we could all be working much less, have full employment and much more time for personal pursuits.
Your "outdated socio-economic system" is someone else's "reality". While we are rapidly eliminating jobs for people on the left side of whatever IQ test you wish to use, we still have to pay people for food and to build stuff. When we automate THOSE jobs, we'll STILL have to pay for the energy production, energy usage, and maintenance of said automation, energy production and energy distribution.
"Powerful people" aren't the problem. Energy and materials science is. Until energy production and transmission is zero cost, or close enough to it that it becomes an advertising expense, the leisure society isn't going to happen. I also don't believe that "Powerful people" are hiding the near zero cost energy production silver bullet. To speculate that it is so leads down the dark hole of conspiracy. Near zero cost energy not going to be in my lifetime, and probably not in my child's either. If the NIF (or any of its analogs) produce a self-sustaining fusion reaction, that will be tipping point. The materials science problem is nearly taken care of, but said materials (Iconel, among others) are too expensive and (again) energy intensive to produce in large quantities.
There is speculation that if we actually get to the zero cost for energy society, mankind will inadvertently self-exterminate. I can see this being a very real possibility.
The American public can finally see, first-hand, just how incredibly expensive healthcare is in this country. It's incredibly easy to forget if you have a large company to help buffer the cost. Maybe, hopefully, if enough people get pissed/fed up/tired, we can talk about tackling the root causes instead of the symptoms.
And what are those root causes of heathcare being expensive? 12+ years of education? $BIGNUM spent on research for new/better ways to do things? Malpractice payouts driving malpractice insurance through the roof? The large number of people employed by insurance companies? Something else?
Education and Reasearch takes time from multiple people. Malpractice is a real problem and takes up lawyers time. Apparently all those people employed by insurance companies are needed for one function or another. All of these people need to eat and an incentive to keep doing what they do. Money is what feeds them and the incentive. I'm not sure how to change that equation, or even lower its end number.
I suspect that most if not all the Hydro is being used that is economically and perhaps practically feasible.
There has been exactly 1 permit for a nuke plant in the US in the past 40ish years that I know if (Vogtle). The 3 mile island non-incident gave nukes bad enough press that between the NIMBY crowd and the "Gotta ensure my job" crowd basically killed nukes until someone gets really desperate. The number of nukes going offline soon is troubling enough. Fukushima has not helped in the US and actually started to cause other governments to massively back off from nukes
The 'whatnot' I guess could be:
CNG/Propane and such fired plants, which may be feasible considering the boom the US has had in fracking.
Some of the tide based generator stuff, but I'm unclear if it's been proven effective yet.
Biomass, but that's proven to be expensive and a bit of a shell game when it comes to where fuel comes from.
Replacements for coal are tricky, as the GP pointed out. If they were easy and close to cost neutral, someone would have already capitalized on it.
I'm not saying that a better/cleaner/cheaper method of generating electricity shouldn't come on line. I don't think many, if any, would disagree with that. When you start to talk about cutting one of the major resources that enables the research for the improvements (the amount of power the NIF in the US uses is patently absurd), it becomes difficult to work out a reasonable transition from the "bad" to "anything else".
Other examples are the people who payed FICA all their life and are now collecting. The people who payed UI and are collecting. These people are counted in that 70% figure, even though they are just withdrawing from a (mandatory to participate) insurance program that they were formerly funding.
Lots of claims in this thread as to "plenty of statistics" about how many freeloaders there are. No actual statistics provided. Tell you something?
Politicians and their buds just want to steal the cash retirees put into the system.
I would buy this if diesel were taxed at the same rate as gasoline. That's not true, as it's usually about 10% more. Considering the sheer volume of fuel these large trucks go through, claiming that they aren't paying their fair share seems a bit of a stretch.
Also consider that while a large truck does carry a significant amount of weight, they also distribute it over a significantly larger contact patch. While I will grant you that load on the asphalt is still higher than most cars, it's not nearly as straight forward as one might think. If someone with more time could google a comparison, that would be very enlightening.
Its too low budget and obviously biased to be believed. If they had a point made by any fact, it was lost in their enthusiasm to trash Islam.
However this opens the door to Christians taking down Atheist videos, Atheist taking down Christian videos, Islamic taking down Jewish videos, Jews taking down Islamic videos, $cientologists taking down Subgenius videos, Subgenii taking down $cientology videos and Anonymous taking down any server that displeases them.
I think we can live with a few offensive videos and keep everyones grubby mits to their goddamn selves.
And thus the prophecy from FSM will be fulfilled: Cats will be all that is left on the internet.
Can someone please explain the appeal of these games? To me, they're full of stupid puzzles and sophomoric quirkiness. What am I missing? Is it symptomatic of a dull generation?
Portal had some of the most amusing dark humor in a game that I've ever heard. While I won't say that the gameplay redefined a genre, as someone who is terrible at FPS, it was a refreshing change to not be "go here, blow this up, shoot these guys, get cake". Granted, it was "go here, press this button, get cake", but I actually like puzzles, so perhaps that is where I found most of my entertainment.
I hate to break it back to you but the S is not a hatchback in any way shape or form and it's stupid to say that it is. The Golf segment hatchback in the US and throughout the rest of the world dwarfs anything else. As it is he's got no chance of selling US-centric cars in the rest of the world and will forever be painting himself into a niche.
"The golf segment" means "compact car". I think "Mid size" would be generous. If you want a compact, Tesla is not catering to you. Sorry. Largely due to the fact that even in a smaller dress (Like the original Tesla Roadster) it will still be outrageously expensive (Like the original Tesla Roadster) for its size.
If you want something right now, your best bet is probably a Ford CMax or Nissan Leaf. The stupid little thing that Mistubishi is pushing is a city car. While they have their applications, many in NA will not find it useful.
the free market is allowed to make mistakes *I* dont pay for them, the owner of the company does.
Sure. Except when Exxon and BP dumped tons of oil into the water. Or when Wall Street banks and auto manufacturers were failing.
when the government fucks up *I* DO have to pay for it, That is the difference my friend
True, but the green energy investments were far, far more successful than private sector venture capital investments. And even if they were less successful, the government investments were for things which will benefit the entire economy, not just a few venture funds. You need both private and public funding or your economy falters.
Broken window. The Fed needs to stop digging and start filling in the hole that they're making to the tune of $1 trillion per year as opposed to throwing darts at a board for investing. I also think that all of your examples should have been allowed to go through the process instead of being bailed out by the Fed. Chrysler's done it twice now.
While not germane to the current conversation, I'll say this: I'm not so sure. Base price of a Model S approaches $70k without any of the short list of options. I don't think I've spent half that on all the cars that I've owned in the past 20 years combined as a data point. While a 1/7th "incentive" to buy a car is not chump change, this still puts it well on the upper end of purchase price for the average NA car buyer. I don't think that 10k is really helping as much as you believe.
The best adage I've heard for this was actually applied to the Prius when I first heard it, but I think it fits: "The males who buy Teslas are buying them for much the same reason as the males who buy Corvettes. They're just looking to impress a different kind of woman."
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Now I just need to get my Red Barchetta.
http://www.2112.net/xanadu/art...
What, so your brother's son can try and wreck it for you?
So it's a method to run untrusted, potentially hostile code in a jail to minimize the harm it can do to the user and the host system. (In an open source setting you must assume all closed code is hostile)
Can they do this to other plugins too? Like flash?
All plugins that Firefox uses run in a separate container already. I do not know what the cost of jailing said container would be.
2012 Dodge Charger Pursuit, 5.7L/370-hp/395-lb-ft OHV 16-valve V-8, $30,965
Meanwhile, in an alternate dimension (Norway): Civilian 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0L/80-hp $29,116.
Import tariffs?
... it is a historical sociological fact that societies do better when those at the bottom are taken care of (there are limits to the truth of that, but we aren't even vaguely close to them).
[Citation Needed]
Where is money actually the problem in the system? The problem, as I see it, is that the governed no longer CARE enough to do anything unless stirred to a frenzy. When you have a turnout of just over half of the eligible voters, a nearly even split between the two major parties, a system that doesn't allow for a viable third party candidate, and a plethora of people who just vote party lines (including the representatives sent to DC) instead of doing research, I can very easily see how we wound up with what we have.
The money isn't the biggest problem. It's a symptom: The voters don't care enough to keep tabs on their elected representatives to make it excessively painful when they take cash from $INFLUENCE_OF_THE_WEEK. Education, information dissemination, and a general lack of belief that "voting matters" is the problem, from where I sit. How we fix these things is where the focus should be. Make the people care about who they send to DC, their state capitol, and their county seat, and what those people are doing, saying, and voting.
How this happens, I have not sorted out. I hope someone smarter than me can get it solved, before some elected official gets killed and then they get completely isolated from the governed in "the interest of national security". Some say this has already happened.
[citation needed]
1000 times thank you. I've had to repeat the "Volt is a Prius" mantra far more than I care to.
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
I'd like to know how they came up with MPG with hydrogen. Did they just use an equivalent volume of Hydrogen?
"He made a load of money from a scam and used his ill-gotten gains to fund toy projects." FTFY
[Citation needed]
Price? It's priced competitively with other cars in its class (most people don't buy luxury sedans).
Cross-country trip? What about it? The supercharger network reaches coast to coast, and by the end of the year there will be a few more cross-country routes possible.
LA to SF? This was literally the first place they built superchargers.
while technically true, it's only on very specific routes currently. Tesla claims this will be fixed by (effectively) 2016.
Source: http://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger
Yay! We've finally reached that!
And it's delicious.
Willing to relocate? Depending on what you're looking for, I may have a few leads.
We're so productive, but *what* are we producing and for *who*?
Great post. That's the million dollar question, right there. We certainly are propping up an outdated socio-economic system. But powerful people retain their power through this system. That's the obstacle I see. Otherwise we could all be working much less, have full employment and much more time for personal pursuits.
Your "outdated socio-economic system" is someone else's "reality". While we are rapidly eliminating jobs for people on the left side of whatever IQ test you wish to use, we still have to pay people for food and to build stuff. When we automate THOSE jobs, we'll STILL have to pay for the energy production, energy usage, and maintenance of said automation, energy production and energy distribution.
"Powerful people" aren't the problem. Energy and materials science is. Until energy production and transmission is zero cost, or close enough to it that it becomes an advertising expense, the leisure society isn't going to happen. I also don't believe that "Powerful people" are hiding the near zero cost energy production silver bullet. To speculate that it is so leads down the dark hole of conspiracy. Near zero cost energy not going to be in my lifetime, and probably not in my child's either. If the NIF (or any of its analogs) produce a self-sustaining fusion reaction, that will be tipping point. The materials science problem is nearly taken care of, but said materials (Iconel, among others) are too expensive and (again) energy intensive to produce in large quantities.
There is speculation that if we actually get to the zero cost for energy society, mankind will inadvertently self-exterminate. I can see this being a very real possibility.
The American public can finally see, first-hand, just how incredibly expensive healthcare is in this country. It's incredibly easy to forget if you have a large company to help buffer the cost. Maybe, hopefully, if enough people get pissed/fed up/tired, we can talk about tackling the root causes instead of the symptoms.
And what are those root causes of heathcare being expensive? 12+ years of education? $BIGNUM spent on research for new/better ways to do things? Malpractice payouts driving malpractice insurance through the roof? The large number of people employed by insurance companies? Something else?
Education and Reasearch takes time from multiple people. Malpractice is a real problem and takes up lawyers time. Apparently all those people employed by insurance companies are needed for one function or another. All of these people need to eat and an incentive to keep doing what they do. Money is what feeds them and the incentive. I'm not sure how to change that equation, or even lower its end number.
There has been exactly 1 permit for a nuke plant in the US in the past 40ish years that I know if (Vogtle). The 3 mile island non-incident gave nukes bad enough press that between the NIMBY crowd and the "Gotta ensure my job" crowd basically killed nukes until someone gets really desperate. The number of nukes going offline soon is troubling enough. Fukushima has not helped in the US and actually started to cause other governments to massively back off from nukes
The 'whatnot' I guess could be:
Replacements for coal are tricky, as the GP pointed out. If they were easy and close to cost neutral, someone would have already capitalized on it.
I'm not saying that a better/cleaner/cheaper method of generating electricity shouldn't come on line. I don't think many, if any, would disagree with that. When you start to talk about cutting one of the major resources that enables the research for the improvements (the amount of power the NIF in the US uses is patently absurd), it becomes difficult to work out a reasonable transition from the "bad" to "anything else".
I think you're thinking of Bastiat.
Soylent green is people...
It was one obvious example.
Other examples are the people who payed FICA all their life and are now collecting. The people who payed UI and are collecting. These people are counted in that 70% figure, even though they are just withdrawing from a (mandatory to participate) insurance program that they were formerly funding.
Lots of claims in this thread as to "plenty of statistics" about how many freeloaders there are. No actual statistics provided. Tell you something?
Politicians and their buds just want to steal the cash retirees put into the system.
This assumes that they haven't already. That is a false assumption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund#An_economic_perspective
I would buy this if diesel were taxed at the same rate as gasoline. That's not true, as it's usually about 10% more. Considering the sheer volume of fuel these large trucks go through, claiming that they aren't paying their fair share seems a bit of a stretch.
Also consider that while a large truck does carry a significant amount of weight, they also distribute it over a significantly larger contact patch. While I will grant you that load on the asphalt is still higher than most cars, it's not nearly as straight forward as one might think. If someone with more time could google a comparison, that would be very enlightening.
Its too low budget and obviously biased to be believed. If they had a point made by any fact, it was lost in their enthusiasm to trash Islam. However this opens the door to Christians taking down Atheist videos, Atheist taking down Christian videos, Islamic taking down Jewish videos, Jews taking down Islamic videos, $cientologists taking down Subgenius videos, Subgenii taking down $cientology videos and Anonymous taking down any server that displeases them. I think we can live with a few offensive videos and keep everyones grubby mits to their goddamn selves.
And thus the prophecy from FSM will be fulfilled: Cats will be all that is left on the internet.
Can someone please explain the appeal of these games? To me, they're full of stupid puzzles and sophomoric quirkiness. What am I missing? Is it symptomatic of a dull generation?
Portal had some of the most amusing dark humor in a game that I've ever heard. While I won't say that the gameplay redefined a genre, as someone who is terrible at FPS, it was a refreshing change to not be "go here, blow this up, shoot these guys, get cake". Granted, it was "go here, press this button, get cake", but I actually like puzzles, so perhaps that is where I found most of my entertainment.
Minecraft is digital Lego Mindstorm.
At the EU and Asian auto shows, Tesla was talking about 2015 west coast introduction of a $36k version, as well as something in the $60k range.
Credibility on a 36k Tesla is low, but hey, I'd love to be proven wrong.
I hate to break it back to you but the S is not a hatchback in any way shape or form and it's stupid to say that it is. The Golf segment hatchback in the US and throughout the rest of the world dwarfs anything else. As it is he's got no chance of selling US-centric cars in the rest of the world and will forever be painting himself into a niche.
"The golf segment" means "compact car". I think "Mid size" would be generous. If you want a compact, Tesla is not catering to you. Sorry. Largely due to the fact that even in a smaller dress (Like the original Tesla Roadster) it will still be outrageously expensive (Like the original Tesla Roadster) for its size.
If you want something right now, your best bet is probably a Ford CMax or Nissan Leaf. The stupid little thing that Mistubishi is pushing is a city car. While they have their applications, many in NA will not find it useful.
the free market is allowed to make mistakes *I* dont pay for them, the owner of the company does.
Sure. Except when Exxon and BP dumped tons of oil into the water. Or when Wall Street banks and auto manufacturers were failing.
when the government fucks up *I* DO have to pay for it, That is the difference my friend
True, but the green energy investments were far, far more successful than private sector venture capital investments. And even if they were less successful, the government investments were for things which will benefit the entire economy, not just a few venture funds. You need both private and public funding or your economy falters.
Broken window. The Fed needs to stop digging and start filling in the hole that they're making to the tune of $1 trillion per year as opposed to throwing darts at a board for investing. I also think that all of your examples should have been allowed to go through the process instead of being bailed out by the Fed. Chrysler's done it twice now.
While not germane to the current conversation, I'll say this: I'm not so sure. Base price of a Model S approaches $70k without any of the short list of options. I don't think I've spent half that on all the cars that I've owned in the past 20 years combined as a data point. While a 1/7th "incentive" to buy a car is not chump change, this still puts it well on the upper end of purchase price for the average NA car buyer. I don't think that 10k is really helping as much as you believe.
The best adage I've heard for this was actually applied to the Prius when I first heard it, but I think it fits: "The males who buy Teslas are buying them for much the same reason as the males who buy Corvettes. They're just looking to impress a different kind of woman."