o Unless there is a mass die-back of our species, there will always be more humans, not fewer
All we need to reduce population is education. When you educate people, you rapidly head towards zero or even negative pop growth.
o People are never going to use less energy, they're only ever going to use more energy
EVs, heat pumps, LEDs, and CFLs all put the lie to that statement.
Meanwhile you're covering up arable land with solar panels, instead of growing food for the ever-burgeoning ranks of humans.
Bullshit. We're putting wind generators in arable land, where it coexists with those activities. We're putting panels over homes, over parking lots, over businesses, and over desert.
Then there's the NIMBYs. Bad enough fighting them to build nuclear power plants for the comparatively small acreage they need, let alone the massive amount required for solar installations.
NIMBY reaction to nuclear and solar are not at all the same, nor even similar.
Yell and scream and insult me all you want, this is my position on the subject, and I see no reason to change it.
I just want you to support it. You have so far only tried to do that with bullshit. Bullshit doesn't stack that high.
Did you know that in the dark ages, there were these things called manual transmissions, where a person controlled the transmission instead of a computer.
Did you know that until the 80s, automatic transmissions didn't have computers? And that Mercedes diesels kept coming with mechanical fuel injection and vacuum/cable-controlled transmissions until 1991? And that you can pull-start such vehicles behind another vehicle, with a tow strap?
I'm actually left of left, including being left of nobel-prize-for-drone-strikes Obama. I don't think Hillary is personally worse than El Chapo, I think Trump is the biggest shitheel around, etc. But I'm also pro personal responsibility where personal responsibility makes sense. The tools are available. I'm equally disgusted with people who don't read their car's owner's manual.
...why does anyone use this SHITTY platform? [...] all it is is a mechanism for blurting ones' random thoughts to a bunch of people that either a) don't really give a shit, or b) give WAY TOO MUCH of a shit about what you're saying.
Amending a comment (once) is cool. Editing is not. It's far too easy to abuse. People just have to learn self control.
I like the way this part of Slashdot works now, but if it had to change, having the option to add a well-marked (and timestamped) postscript to one's comment would be a reasonable change. Ideally, child comments would also be marked somehow (color?) to denote whether they were left before or after the edit.
Any science or engineering degree requires some level of programming which is almost impossible under these OS's so at least some "young people" will get used to desktop OS's.
Those people are dramatically in the minority. Most people will never even do any scripting, let alone programming. Since python is taking over scientific analysis from tools like matlab, it's quite feasible that all dominant desktop operating systems will die, and traditional Linux (mod systemd, unfortunately) will become the desktop OS of scientific computing and hackers — and pretty much nobody else. (Naturally, it will continue to power "The Cloud".)
On the other hand, Android sucked rocks as a desktop OS last time I tried it. One thing users do still expect is to be able to switch contexts rapidly, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Android and iOS are still very much designed to do one thing at a time. They'll have to support windowed apps floating around before it becomes feasible to use them as desktop operating systems.
How, I wonder, did human beings raise crops for thousands of years before herbicides, insecticides and artificial fertilizers were invented?
Much less efficiently.
False. The correct answer is much more labor-intensively. Modern farming techniques are designed to permit mechanization, in order to reduce labor. But planting crops in self-supporting guilds and returning human and animal waste to fields (after sufficient composting; even if you do nothing else to it, letting it lay around for a year will do the trick) increases crop yield per acre, and reduces the amount of energy spent per kcal of food energy produced. That is much more efficient if measured any way other than via hours of human labor.
That's not how it works, anyway. The farmers are using mechanical tilth which produces hardpan, which causes anaerobic conditions in the oil. Glyphosphate's ability to break down in the environment depends upon aerobic conditions. Consequently, it doesn't break down as advertised in the conditions in which it is actually used, and then it has a chance to enter our water systems.
Technically, ROMANS killed Christ. They crucified him and finished the job with a spear to the ribs.
Technically, the existence of Christ is still a fable, since the closest reports of his existence are literally thirdhand hearsay, and all the artifacts which were supposed to prove it which have been subjected to scientific inquiry have turned out to be fakes.
Well, there's diesel. And we can just move indigenous people aside and grow the palm oil or other crops we need to produce 'green diesel'.
FUD is the laziest form of argument. They proved at Sandia NREL in the 1980s that you can make diesel fuel from algae using open raceway ponds. Nature naturally colonizes them with an algae adapted to the local conditions if all you do is stand around and stare.
There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons.
Energy dense: Made irrelevant by quick charging.
Convenient: EVs are actually more convenient because you can slow charge them at night, and never have to go to a public charging station during normal use. And quick charging makes them convenient for other uses.
Safe: Gasoline is unsafe at every level. Refineries regularly have incidents involving release of massive toxic clouds which require evacuations, and they catch fire now and again, and occasionally explode. It can be stored for a maximum of about a year before it produces varnishes which destroy fuel systems. In storage, it commonly leaks and contaminates ground water. It is highly combustible, and its vapors are combustible or even explosive, even at atmospheric pressure. Producing it requires large amounts of energy consumption, which in a fossil fuel environment itself means significant carbon release. Burning it releases sequestered carbon, driving global warming. If you get it on your hands, it can cause skin cancer. If you get it in your eyes, it can cause blindness. If you drink it, it can cause death. Burning it produces soot, mostly the most hazardous kind (PM2.5 and below.) Hell, if you spill it, you can slip on it. Petrodiesel has most of the same problems, except for the high combustibility (etc.) at atmospheric pressures, and it only produces fine soot the way we actually use it now (with DPFs and the like — diesels with none of that stuff produce more NOx and HCs, but very little PM2.5.)
Inexpensive: Fossil fuels are only cheap if you ignore externalities. Ignorance is your forte, isn't it?
Sure, maybe the commuter car can be replaced with electrics. That won't mean much for the other vehicles that move, on the road and off.
Since EVs are more efficient, the only thing that makes them impractical for all the other uses is charge time, and that's being addressed. This is especially true for fleets, because they lower TCO, and they can get loans to cover the higher up-front costs.
To be fair to Cameron, she's supposed to be an anime character where big eyes are the norm
If you want to be fair to Cameron, then you're going to have to say that he's got no imagination. Where are the original concepts? Nowhere. America is down to knocking off Japanese cartoons because its own cartoons have already been knocked off, and there was no need for this movie no matter what country it was made in, to boot.
You Must Be New Here. This is how it has literally always been. Slashdot has never had editing worth beans. New boss, same as the old boss, and the boss before that.
This kind of stuff can only work in urban areas. Once you get out into the sticks, the latency gets to be too high. And even in lots of urban areas, the available internet options are all crap. I'm sure it's great in Tokyo, though, or anywhere they've got FTTH.
Maybe they got the whole idea from slashdot. There are lots of things wrong with this site (I can't even submit a journal entry and/or story submission any more... WTF) but the one thing it really has correct is the preview-no-edit paradigm. No one should be allowed to edit anything without it being made very clear that it has been edited, AND HOW. Barring immediately obvious edit history, no one should get to edit. You want that, you run your own site. Even on my own site, I only tend to fix spelling or formatting errors, and I leave comments to note factual errors.
Informed? Not by Faceboot. But by the hundreds of articles on the subject of their ubiquitous tracking, spying, etc. And by "the users" I don't mean only the direct provision of information by users themselves, but also the other users who provide information about other people by uploading pics and tagging them, gossiping about them, and the like. Remaining willfully ignorant is a choice. Not running a script blocker is a choice. Not running a cookie manager is a choice. Choosing a platform which makes those things hard is a choice. Facebook isn't magical, they depend on users acting dumb for their power. They can't wish their way to panopticon, they have to be given that position by countless hordes of the hear no evil, see no evil crowd.
This stuff is in the news constantly, and on people's lips as well. If people choose to block out information they find troubling, only further trouble follows.
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o Unless there is a mass die-back of our species, there will always be more humans, not fewer
All we need to reduce population is education. When you educate people, you rapidly head towards zero or even negative pop growth.
o People are never going to use less energy, they're only ever going to use more energy
EVs, heat pumps, LEDs, and CFLs all put the lie to that statement.
Meanwhile you're covering up arable land with solar panels, instead of growing food for the ever-burgeoning ranks of humans.
Bullshit. We're putting wind generators in arable land, where it coexists with those activities. We're putting panels over homes, over parking lots, over businesses, and over desert.
Then there's the NIMBYs. Bad enough fighting them to build nuclear power plants for the comparatively small acreage they need, let alone the massive amount required for solar installations.
NIMBY reaction to nuclear and solar are not at all the same, nor even similar.
Yell and scream and insult me all you want, this is my position on the subject, and I see no reason to change it.
I just want you to support it. You have so far only tried to do that with bullshit. Bullshit doesn't stack that high.
Still, I managed to provoke embarrassed silence on the last conference by noting that the incomplete burning will emit methane
They were embarrassed for the guy that doesn't know about catalysts.
Did you know that in the dark ages, there were these things called manual transmissions, where a person controlled the transmission instead of a computer.
Did you know that until the 80s, automatic transmissions didn't have computers? And that Mercedes diesels kept coming with mechanical fuel injection and vacuum/cable-controlled transmissions until 1991? And that you can pull-start such vehicles behind another vehicle, with a tow strap?
I'm actually left of left, including being left of nobel-prize-for-drone-strikes Obama. I don't think Hillary is personally worse than El Chapo, I think Trump is the biggest shitheel around, etc. But I'm also pro personal responsibility where personal responsibility makes sense. The tools are available. I'm equally disgusted with people who don't read their car's owner's manual.
Stanford? Scruz? Either way, highly affluent. I'm sure there are exceptions like that, but in general, it's pretty true.
...why does anyone use this SHITTY platform? [...] all it is is a mechanism for blurting ones' random thoughts to a bunch of people that either a) don't really give a shit, or b) give WAY TOO MUCH of a shit about what you're saying.
Welcome to the internet, you must be new here.
Alternately: Who gives a shit?
Amending a comment (once) is cool. Editing is not. It's far too easy to abuse. People just have to learn self control.
I like the way this part of Slashdot works now, but if it had to change, having the option to add a well-marked (and timestamped) postscript to one's comment would be a reasonable change. Ideally, child comments would also be marked somehow (color?) to denote whether they were left before or after the edit.
Sadly, I nor anybody I know has ever seen a price difference in any establishment that offered a "cash discount".
Neither you nor anybody you know buys gasoline?
High speed urban internet 20 years ago was about 256kbs Today it is 1gbs (4000x faster), rural area is around 100mbs (400 times faster)
Speed is not the big issue, it's latency. And if your argument is that it will be feasible in 20 years, well, I'll agree.
I maintain that 'renewables' won't be enough. We need nuclear.
Show your math.
I've heard all the arguments and complaints and they don't move me.
And your FUD doesn't move me. Show your math.
We need nuclear, and that's that.
Show your math.
Any science or engineering degree requires some level of programming which is almost impossible under these OS's so at least some "young people" will get used to desktop OS's.
Those people are dramatically in the minority. Most people will never even do any scripting, let alone programming. Since python is taking over scientific analysis from tools like matlab, it's quite feasible that all dominant desktop operating systems will die, and traditional Linux (mod systemd, unfortunately) will become the desktop OS of scientific computing and hackers — and pretty much nobody else. (Naturally, it will continue to power "The Cloud".)
On the other hand, Android sucked rocks as a desktop OS last time I tried it. One thing users do still expect is to be able to switch contexts rapidly, and perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Android and iOS are still very much designed to do one thing at a time. They'll have to support windowed apps floating around before it becomes feasible to use them as desktop operating systems.
It's almost as if someone wanted to discredit the now-generic product in favor of a newer, still-patented alternative.
Monsanto is still the world's largest producer of glyphosphate. You think they'd be spending money to tell the world it's carcinogenic?
How, I wonder, did human beings raise crops for thousands of years before herbicides, insecticides and artificial fertilizers were invented?
Much less efficiently.
False. The correct answer is much more labor-intensively. Modern farming techniques are designed to permit mechanization, in order to reduce labor. But planting crops in self-supporting guilds and returning human and animal waste to fields (after sufficient composting; even if you do nothing else to it, letting it lay around for a year will do the trick) increases crop yield per acre, and reduces the amount of energy spent per kcal of food energy produced. That is much more efficient if measured any way other than via hours of human labor.
Is it ok if Monsanto is only poisoning farmers?
That's not how it works, anyway. The farmers are using mechanical tilth which produces hardpan, which causes anaerobic conditions in the oil. Glyphosphate's ability to break down in the environment depends upon aerobic conditions. Consequently, it doesn't break down as advertised in the conditions in which it is actually used, and then it has a chance to enter our water systems.
Technically, ROMANS killed Christ. They crucified him and finished the job with a spear to the ribs.
Technically, the existence of Christ is still a fable, since the closest reports of his existence are literally thirdhand hearsay, and all the artifacts which were supposed to prove it which have been subjected to scientific inquiry have turned out to be fakes.
Well, there's diesel. And we can just move indigenous people aside and grow the palm oil or other crops we need to produce 'green diesel'.
FUD is the laziest form of argument. They proved at Sandia NREL in the 1980s that you can make diesel fuel from algae using open raceway ponds. Nature naturally colonizes them with an algae adapted to the local conditions if all you do is stand around and stare.
There is nothing as energy dense, convenient, safe, and inexpensive as hydrocarbons.
Energy dense: Made irrelevant by quick charging.
Convenient: EVs are actually more convenient because you can slow charge them at night, and never have to go to a public charging station during normal use. And quick charging makes them convenient for other uses.
Safe: Gasoline is unsafe at every level. Refineries regularly have incidents involving release of massive toxic clouds which require evacuations, and they catch fire now and again, and occasionally explode. It can be stored for a maximum of about a year before it produces varnishes which destroy fuel systems. In storage, it commonly leaks and contaminates ground water. It is highly combustible, and its vapors are combustible or even explosive, even at atmospheric pressure. Producing it requires large amounts of energy consumption, which in a fossil fuel environment itself means significant carbon release. Burning it releases sequestered carbon, driving global warming. If you get it on your hands, it can cause skin cancer. If you get it in your eyes, it can cause blindness. If you drink it, it can cause death. Burning it produces soot, mostly the most hazardous kind (PM2.5 and below.) Hell, if you spill it, you can slip on it. Petrodiesel has most of the same problems, except for the high combustibility (etc.) at atmospheric pressures, and it only produces fine soot the way we actually use it now (with DPFs and the like — diesels with none of that stuff produce more NOx and HCs, but very little PM2.5.)
Inexpensive: Fossil fuels are only cheap if you ignore externalities. Ignorance is your forte, isn't it?
Sure, maybe the commuter car can be replaced with electrics. That won't mean much for the other vehicles that move, on the road and off.
Since EVs are more efficient, the only thing that makes them impractical for all the other uses is charge time, and that's being addressed. This is especially true for fleets, because they lower TCO, and they can get loans to cover the higher up-front costs.
What is the cost of nuclear without those lawsuits?
Fascism, because you can't have that nuclear without those lawsuits without denying access to the courts.
Anything that allows people to justify backing away from nuclear is a friend and gift to the oil industry.
So solar+wind+battery being cheaper than nuclear is a friend and gift to the oil industry? You're going to have to draw me a flowchart for that one.
To be fair to Cameron, she's supposed to be an anime character where big eyes are the norm
If you want to be fair to Cameron, then you're going to have to say that he's got no imagination. Where are the original concepts? Nowhere. America is down to knocking off Japanese cartoons because its own cartoons have already been knocked off, and there was no need for this movie no matter what country it was made in, to boot.
You Must Be New Here. This is how it has literally always been. Slashdot has never had editing worth beans. New boss, same as the old boss, and the boss before that.
This kind of stuff can only work in urban areas. Once you get out into the sticks, the latency gets to be too high. And even in lots of urban areas, the available internet options are all crap. I'm sure it's great in Tokyo, though, or anywhere they've got FTTH.
Maybe they got the whole idea from slashdot. There are lots of things wrong with this site (I can't even submit a journal entry and/or story submission any more... WTF) but the one thing it really has correct is the preview-no-edit paradigm. No one should be allowed to edit anything without it being made very clear that it has been edited, AND HOW. Barring immediately obvious edit history, no one should get to edit. You want that, you run your own site. Even on my own site, I only tend to fix spelling or formatting errors, and I leave comments to note factual errors.
Informed? Not by Faceboot. But by the hundreds of articles on the subject of their ubiquitous tracking, spying, etc. And by "the users" I don't mean only the direct provision of information by users themselves, but also the other users who provide information about other people by uploading pics and tagging them, gossiping about them, and the like. Remaining willfully ignorant is a choice. Not running a script blocker is a choice. Not running a cookie manager is a choice. Choosing a platform which makes those things hard is a choice. Facebook isn't magical, they depend on users acting dumb for their power. They can't wish their way to panopticon, they have to be given that position by countless hordes of the hear no evil, see no evil crowd.
This stuff is in the news constantly, and on people's lips as well. If people choose to block out information they find troubling, only further trouble follows.
LG is the worst.
The digitizer failed on my Nexus 4 (LG E960). How much more rapidly will this cause the digitizer to fail on these devices?