How exactly do you SAFELY use a speedometer on your phone while riding the scooter?
I'd do it the same way one does it on a bicycle, with a handlebar cradle. Mind you, I don't do it on a bicycle, either. I have a three dollar cycle computer which tells me the things I might want to know all the time, like what time it is or how fast I'm going. If I were using my phone for GPS, I'd want to just keep it in my pocket, and use a bluetooth earpiece to get the navigation information.
No soda, no dish soap, no salad oil, fresh meat, frozen vegetables, fresh vegetables (packaged).... it goes on.
You have no clue what you're talking about. You don't even have to read the bill to understand that you're talking bananas. TFA makes it clear what they actually propose to ban:
The bill [...] would ban state and county agencies from buying, using or distributing single-use plastic foodware (including beverage containers, utensils, straws and polystyrene foam containers) by July 2021.
The ban would extend to food establishments and hotels by the following year.
In 2023, a statewide plastic bag ban would go into effect.
And by 2025, no individual or business in Hawaii could sell or âoeotherwise provideâ single-use plastic beverage containers in Hawaii.
You, sir, should perform at least the most cursory research before you go off half-cocked. It could save you a lot of senseless frothing.
It's also worth mentioning that even if you were correct about what they proposed to ban, you'd be incorrect about what the results would be. There are compostable replacements for not only what they actually propose to ban, but also literally all of the things you thought they were banning. If Hawaii actually banned those things you think they want to ban (which they don't) then processors would use compostable packaging for the Hawaiian market. There would be no competitive disadvantage, because they'd all have to do it. You are wrong in every possible way.
I want mesh networking like Trump's communications director wants him to use spell check, but I only want it fully standards-based. I've danced this dance before, with WDS. It's difficult to get that to work across vendors.
Throttling IS degradation of service, BY DEFINITION. This bill can be read as prohibiting throttling to ensure enough bandwidth for emergency workers, though it would not prohibit throttling users who reached their caps. It's poorly written, even if not poorly conceived.
iPhones prior to 5S don't get the OS update that is for some reason required to fix Apple's recent "FaceTime as spy tool" bug, even though that's a bug in an app, and not in the OS. Tell us again how smug you are about Apple's support strategy.
"There are a LOT of "pharmaceutical" products that have even less efficacy than some supplements !"
"I doubt that because they have to prove that they are at least more efficient than placebo to get clearance."
No, they do not. That's only true for new drugs. Trials of derivatives of old drugs don't have to prove efficacy at all, they only have to show that the new form will not kill statistically more people than the old drug. Then the companies seed the media with reports of the side effects of the old drug and with advertising for the new one to decrease demand for the old drug before it becomes available from someone as a generic.
Ye olde USB 1 isn't going away anytime soon, because it is cheap to implement. That makes it ideal for low-cost, low-bandwidth devices, especially input devices. And USB 2 has to stick around for another decade or so because of legacy flash drives and cameras. Consequently we will have all forms of USB for the foreseeable future.
Why punish an economy that has had the best results? I think that is a legitimate question.
Because what's happened so far is not enough, and also because there are localized effects of pollution like trash on beaches which have been heavily discussed in this discussion, which you'd know if only you had bothered to read it.
There are 'green' disposables, they generally contain plastics and are chemically very similar to plastics so they won't decompose as fast while still gassing off during the process (methane in particular).
First, "plastic" doesn't mean "petroleum". You can have compostable plastics made from plants. Second, the vast majority of compostable plastic cutlery is made from corn starch, and is suitable for backyard composting. Third, it's the city of St. Petersburg and not the state Florida which is banning single-use plastic straws, but a) they are banning alternatives, including multi-use plastic straws, and b) the ban does not go into effect until 2020. You are wrong on literally every point.
That's not necessary to solve this problem, but it would help solve another problem, which is that animals sometimes eat the filters (yeah, dumb ones, but the dumb ones can be important to the food chain too) and then die. This is actually a problem with butts as well, however, because the butt winds up acting as a filter as well — it's just not as effective as the actual filter. Still, we can solve the plastic problem by banning plastic filters. They make cotton ones, too. Cotton is the original performance microfiber fabric...
It appears that people that DO smoke are more conscientious about how they smoke now (or just are more brow-beaten by non smokers); there is a lot less smoking in public, or even on the roads. I suspect a higher % of smoking now happens in the homes and gardens of the smokers rather than on the streets.
What we need to curtail smoking is a law that says you can only do it in your car if all the windows are rolled up. I'm so fucking tired of people smoking in their cars right outside supermarkets and restaurants, I've started saying mean things to them like "you fucking stink" or "you smell nasty". If smoking was so goddamned great, they'd keep their windows up so they could breathe the second hand smoke, too.
And yes, I used to be a smoker, but I always made a conscious effort not to stand upwind of people, bus stops, etc.
Saw a show where a guy had a company that is starting to make bio Styrofoam type stuff out of fungi.
Yeah, I think that kind of thing is awesome. We also have compostable PLA foam now, my local supermarket is using it for those trays they sell meats on. They still have to wrap them in old school plastic, but it eliminates the polystyrene tray.
Compostable plastics are produced from renewable sources,
There is no requirement that something that is compostable be produced from renewable sources,
I didn't say there was any such requirement. However, the vast majority are currently being made from renewable sources, primarily corn starch. Most corn is grown without irrigation, and the rest of the corn plant is also good for something, e.g. corn cobs into rayon, and corn stalks into building materials. Next time, I'll try to get that qualifier in there for you.
so they even have the potential to be carbon-neutral.
And just because something is derived from renewable materials does not automatically mean it is carbon neutral.
Your leg is jerking so hard you seem to have lost the ability to read. I never said that either. What happened to you? Take a knock on the noggin? You used to have reading comprehension skills.
I think you are conflating biodegradable plastic with compostable. Compostable is a subset of biodegradable. A product can be biodegradable but not break down into usable compost. If it cannot be turned into compost then it isn't compostable.
I'm not confused. It's a subset, but it's a desirable subset. All biodegradable means is that it can be broken down biologically, it doesn't speak to how safe the byproducts are in the environment. Compostable means it's not just biodegradable, but also safe to permit to biodegrade. So while you're technically correct, you're not speaking to the actually relevant issue, which is what happens to the material when it's released into the environment.
what can you do when society doesn't want to adopt it because of preconceptions they have about how the technology might be getting used by early adopters?
First and foremost, don't make it look stupid. There's plenty of almost-normal looking sunglasses with cameras built in. Nobody wants to look like a goddamn gargoyle.
What I would like someone to do is look at the concept and tell me what it has to do with terraforming Venus.
I suspect the idea is to move it to a different orbit, and/or change its day period. As far as I understand, either or both is possible with a Dyson motor.
No, but I've been to Glass Beach. (Sadly, most of the glass is gone now, but I got a great piece on my last visit, it's the Coca-Cola script logo off an old bottle on which the words were highly raised.)
Everybody loves beach glass. I've previously proposed that what we do with glass instead of recycling it is just dump it, at least for glass near a coast. But then there's the problem of peak sand...
If you are really interested in the subject start with looking up a Dyson Motor.
Ugh, so hard. I try this every so often and never actually find anything. It seems insensible that there is no Wikipedia article for the concept, but there isn't. When I search for info on the Dyson Motor, I just get piles and piles of crap on vacuum parts.
grown men talking seriously about the whole species as if they cared meanwhile they avoid eye contact with homeless people as they step over them
Musk is a corporate leader, not Jesus. He works with businesses designed to make profit. Assisting homeless people is a job for government, whose very purpose is maintenance of infrastructure through wealth redistribution.
With that said, someone who figures out how to profit from helping the homeless will have a seriously solid business model, because we keep making more and more homeless. I don't see it happening without some kind of support from government, however. For example, the much-discussed Green New Deal concept. One could institute a meaningful (cap and tax, not cap and trade) carbon tax, then employ the homeless in regreening in order to fix carbon.
Or do you mean they should work on a project worthwhile to someone else?
Should? No. They didn't say anything about should. They said "imagine if". And I'm right there with them, imagining it. This project is senseless. At the end, it will be good only for bragging rights, but who wants to brag about doing something useless?
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How exactly do you SAFELY use a speedometer on your phone while riding the scooter?
I'd do it the same way one does it on a bicycle, with a handlebar cradle. Mind you, I don't do it on a bicycle, either. I have a three dollar cycle computer which tells me the things I might want to know all the time, like what time it is or how fast I'm going. If I were using my phone for GPS, I'd want to just keep it in my pocket, and use a bluetooth earpiece to get the navigation information.
scams don't have to be illegal dude
A scam by definition involves fraud, which is illegal. QED, scams have to be illegal.
No soda, no dish soap, no salad oil, fresh meat, frozen vegetables, fresh vegetables (packaged).... it goes on.
You have no clue what you're talking about. You don't even have to read the bill to understand that you're talking bananas. TFA makes it clear what they actually propose to ban:
You, sir, should perform at least the most cursory research before you go off half-cocked. It could save you a lot of senseless frothing.
It's also worth mentioning that even if you were correct about what they proposed to ban, you'd be incorrect about what the results would be. There are compostable replacements for not only what they actually propose to ban, but also literally all of the things you thought they were banning. If Hawaii actually banned those things you think they want to ban (which they don't) then processors would use compostable packaging for the Hawaiian market. There would be no competitive disadvantage, because they'd all have to do it. You are wrong in every possible way.
I want mesh networking like Trump's communications director wants him to use spell check, but I only want it fully standards-based. I've danced this dance before, with WDS. It's difficult to get that to work across vendors.
Throttling IS degradation of service, BY DEFINITION. This bill can be read as prohibiting throttling to ensure enough bandwidth for emergency workers, though it would not prohibit throttling users who reached their caps. It's poorly written, even if not poorly conceived.
iPhones prior to 5S don't get the OS update that is for some reason required to fix Apple's recent "FaceTime as spy tool" bug, even though that's a bug in an app, and not in the OS. Tell us again how smug you are about Apple's support strategy.
"There are a LOT of "pharmaceutical" products that have even less efficacy than some supplements !"
"I doubt that because they have to prove that they are at least more efficient than placebo to get clearance."
No, they do not. That's only true for new drugs. Trials of derivatives of old drugs don't have to prove efficacy at all, they only have to show that the new form will not kill statistically more people than the old drug. Then the companies seed the media with reports of the side effects of the old drug and with advertising for the new one to decrease demand for the old drug before it becomes available from someone as a generic.
Ye olde USB 1 isn't going away anytime soon, because it is cheap to implement. That makes it ideal for low-cost, low-bandwidth devices, especially input devices. And USB 2 has to stick around for another decade or so because of legacy flash drives and cameras. Consequently we will have all forms of USB for the foreseeable future.
Sure, if you want something trolled, doxxed, or ddosed, or someone swatted.
It doesn't count if it's the result of a stroke, or getting stroked off by a porn star.
Today they are unheard of and yet we still have full employment.
What? Who told you that?
Why punish an economy that has had the best results? I think that is a legitimate question.
Because what's happened so far is not enough, and also because there are localized effects of pollution like trash on beaches which have been heavily discussed in this discussion, which you'd know if only you had bothered to read it.
There are 'green' disposables, they generally contain plastics and are chemically very similar to plastics so they won't decompose as fast while still gassing off during the process (methane in particular).
First, "plastic" doesn't mean "petroleum". You can have compostable plastics made from plants. Second, the vast majority of compostable plastic cutlery is made from corn starch, and is suitable for backyard composting. Third, it's the city of St. Petersburg and not the state Florida which is banning single-use plastic straws, but a) they are banning alternatives, including multi-use plastic straws, and b) the ban does not go into effect until 2020. You are wrong on literally every point.
Is the solution is banning filters on cigarettes?
That's not necessary to solve this problem, but it would help solve another problem, which is that animals sometimes eat the filters (yeah, dumb ones, but the dumb ones can be important to the food chain too) and then die. This is actually a problem with butts as well, however, because the butt winds up acting as a filter as well — it's just not as effective as the actual filter. Still, we can solve the plastic problem by banning plastic filters. They make cotton ones, too. Cotton is the original performance microfiber fabric...
It appears that people that DO smoke are more conscientious about how they smoke now (or just are more brow-beaten by non smokers); there is a lot less smoking in public, or even on the roads. I suspect a higher % of smoking now happens in the homes and gardens of the smokers rather than on the streets.
What we need to curtail smoking is a law that says you can only do it in your car if all the windows are rolled up. I'm so fucking tired of people smoking in their cars right outside supermarkets and restaurants, I've started saying mean things to them like "you fucking stink" or "you smell nasty". If smoking was so goddamned great, they'd keep their windows up so they could breathe the second hand smoke, too.
And yes, I used to be a smoker, but I always made a conscious effort not to stand upwind of people, bus stops, etc.
... didn't he once say that Microsoft addressed the memory security issues in Windows? Maybe 15 years ago?
Microsoft developed and provided all the tools you'd need to avoid the problem, and then apparently never bothered to use them themselves.
Saw a show where a guy had a company that is starting to make bio Styrofoam type stuff out of fungi.
Yeah, I think that kind of thing is awesome. We also have compostable PLA foam now, my local supermarket is using it for those trays they sell meats on. They still have to wrap them in old school plastic, but it eliminates the polystyrene tray.
Compostable plastics are produced from renewable sources,
There is no requirement that something that is compostable be produced from renewable sources,
I didn't say there was any such requirement. However, the vast majority are currently being made from renewable sources, primarily corn starch. Most corn is grown without irrigation, and the rest of the corn plant is also good for something, e.g. corn cobs into rayon, and corn stalks into building materials. Next time, I'll try to get that qualifier in there for you.
so they even have the potential to be carbon-neutral.
And just because something is derived from renewable materials does not automatically mean it is carbon neutral.
Your leg is jerking so hard you seem to have lost the ability to read. I never said that either. What happened to you? Take a knock on the noggin? You used to have reading comprehension skills.
I think you are conflating biodegradable plastic with compostable. Compostable is a subset of biodegradable. A product can be biodegradable but not break down into usable compost. If it cannot be turned into compost then it isn't compostable.
I'm not confused. It's a subset, but it's a desirable subset. All biodegradable means is that it can be broken down biologically, it doesn't speak to how safe the byproducts are in the environment. Compostable means it's not just biodegradable, but also safe to permit to biodegrade. So while you're technically correct, you're not speaking to the actually relevant issue, which is what happens to the material when it's released into the environment.
what can you do when society doesn't want to adopt it because of preconceptions they have about how the technology might be getting used by early adopters?
First and foremost, don't make it look stupid. There's plenty of almost-normal looking sunglasses with cameras built in. Nobody wants to look like a goddamn gargoyle.
What I would like someone to do is look at the concept and tell me what it has to do with terraforming Venus.
I suspect the idea is to move it to a different orbit, and/or change its day period. As far as I understand, either or both is possible with a Dyson motor.
Ever been to Glass Beach?
No, but I've been to Glass Beach. (Sadly, most of the glass is gone now, but I got a great piece on my last visit, it's the Coca-Cola script logo off an old bottle on which the words were highly raised.)
Everybody loves beach glass. I've previously proposed that what we do with glass instead of recycling it is just dump it, at least for glass near a coast. But then there's the problem of peak sand...
Go cry in a corner then. It's their money not yours, and your opinion matters as much as last year's snow.
Nonsense. Last year's snow is this year's water. He's just pissing in the wind.
If you are really interested in the subject start with looking up a Dyson Motor.
Ugh, so hard. I try this every so often and never actually find anything. It seems insensible that there is no Wikipedia article for the concept, but there isn't. When I search for info on the Dyson Motor, I just get piles and piles of crap on vacuum parts.
grown men talking seriously about the whole species as if they cared
meanwhile they avoid eye contact with homeless people as they step over them
Musk is a corporate leader, not Jesus. He works with businesses designed to make profit. Assisting homeless people is a job for government, whose very purpose is maintenance of infrastructure through wealth redistribution.
With that said, someone who figures out how to profit from helping the homeless will have a seriously solid business model, because we keep making more and more homeless. I don't see it happening without some kind of support from government, however. For example, the much-discussed Green New Deal concept. One could institute a meaningful (cap and tax, not cap and trade) carbon tax, then employ the homeless in regreening in order to fix carbon.
Or do you mean they should work on a project worthwhile to someone else?
Should? No. They didn't say anything about should. They said "imagine if". And I'm right there with them, imagining it. This project is senseless. At the end, it will be good only for bragging rights, but who wants to brag about doing something useless?