Yep. They called black people unevolved primitives until it came out that only black people hadn't fucked Neanderthals. Then they had to do a quick 180, proving that the only thing they believe in is their own superiority, which is trivially disproven. What a bunch of cowards. If they had two balls between 'em they'd be able to go out in public without a ghost costume.
If you take the view that it's based on interbreeding ability, there is no such thing as a geographical species, just varieties. Ring species are sufficiently rare as to be an exception. But obviously, no simple definition can exist. It's amazing to me that people can have such attachment to the concept of race when even species isn't well-defined no matter which definition you use, but there you go.
That wasn't because display ps. That was because horsepower. Macintosh didn't have accelerated graphics built in until quadra! And their accelerated graphics card for Macintosh II cost as much as a PC! Next machines had graphics acceleration. Back then they had Adobe applications for other Unix too, including framemaker, Photoshop, and illustrator. Iirc they had them for sun and SGI. All SGI machines have some kind of graphics acceleration, albeit minimal on older machines like the indigo, and sun offered accelerated video from way back though, like having graphics at all, it was an added-cost option. (Sun machines would operate just fine with a serial console and no framebuffer installed at all.)
The Macintosh was not about RAM, or CPU, or colour.
The CPU was great, the color was fine, even 1bpp was acceptable. The RAM, however, was inadequate for a windowing operating system. 512kB would have been a more reasonable place to start. Even the budget-minded Amiga 1000 had 256kB. Speaking of the Amiga, the real problem with the Mac was that it was all-graphics with no graphics acceleration.
Nuclear plant accidents are also only hazardous locally. But people care way more about that than carbon.
They care because in the astronomically unlikely case that it happens to them, it could be fucking horrible.
Do you deny banannas are radioactive? If not, then how radioactive does something have to be before you start to worry about it?
They dropped a whole core into seawater, which is still exchanging with the ocean. No, I'm not worried about that radiation being here in the USA, but I'm still concerned about what it means because of bioaccumulation. Literally every single time Tepco has given information, they've lied or at best were confused about how severe it is, which has trained me to believe that the situation is worse than claimed.
Tidal and offshore wind don't use land area. If you get near a point, let us know.
When you engage in pointless pedantry all it means is you have no actual argument and so are presumably yielding the point to me.
Right back at, you sport:
We both know that they also require area for tidal pools in the case of tidal
You don't know as much as you think you do. Not all tidal power schemes require tidal pools.
and accessible sea floor in windy areas for offshore wind.
It's also true that if we max out both we still won't match out energy consumption. We make a huge dent in it, but we won't match it.
Energy consumption needs to fall anyway if we are to stop using natural capital faster than it can be replenished. You can talk about human nature all day, but ultimately if we don't get it together, we'll fail.
People need to get this. If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, consensus is irrelevant. The model is predictive or it's not, popularity doesn't enter into to.
All of this is true, but the above argument (predictive or isn't) it used by people to attack the theory of AGW on the specific basis that the models don't accurately predict what's going to happen on their block. They don't actually claim to, but that person is still going to use that argument and then sit back like they've accomplished something other than willful ignorance.
Coal is a slaughterhoue compared to nuclear and it pust land out of action, and yet the main thing people worry about is carbon.
Uh, yeah. That's because while coal plant emissions are most immediately hazardous to people downwind, the CO2 is hazardous to everyone on the planet.
Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Fukushima is still leaking into the sea.
Without some sort of threshold, that's a meaningless concern. It could be no worse than smeone throwing a bannana a day into the sea.
No, it couldn't. It literally couldn't.
But that's exactly what I mean: with nuclear people switch off to the usual risk/reward tradeoffs and simply say that anything is unacceptably bad.
Or they fall back on bullshit about bananas, if they're proponents.
No matter how much we pay, the land area of the UK is not going to increase. There are not enough renewable energy resources to cover our energy consumption.
1) Reduce your consumption, we are using more resources every year than can be replenished anyway. 2) Tidal and offshore wind don't use land area. If you get near a point, let us know.
He or she probably modded you down "-1 overrated" because there is no "- 1 batshit insane" option.
Point to the part you disagree with, and I'll provide a citation to cure your ignorance. Otherwise, run along kid, the adults are trying to have a conversation.
" Most of the mercury will be excreted over weeks-months, and it was only present in microgram quantities in any case."
Mercury is bioaccumulative, so there is no safe dosage. The argument over thimerosal is whether it breaks down into a form that can be absorbed or not. AFAICT that is still being questioned. In the USA, it is used only in multi-use vials, so you can avoid it by going to the doctor for injections instead of getting them from a queue. It HAS been used in schools, even past the date at which it wasn't meant to have been given to children any more, which reduces public trust in vaccination systems.
"Why do you think the doctors and nurses take them themselves every single year?"
Because it is a condition of employment.
"The problem is the flu virus mutates rapidly and there are several strains of the virus, unlike other viruses, so the protection it provides is limited in time until the flu virus mutates again."
So close, yet so fail. You started out great, then petered out. The problem is the flu virus mutates rapidly and there are several strains of the virus, and the companies making the vaccines sometimes target the wrong strain(s)... But when they do, they don't tell you so, and instead they continue marketing the vaccine as if it would be useful. So every year, you have to dig through news articles to find out whether they got it right to determine whether there is actually any point to getting it. It's understandable that they would get it wrong sometimes, but it is outright fraud when they sell you vaccinations targeting the wrong strains under the claims that flu vaccinations save lives. Sure they do, but not those ones! But they advertise them exactly the same as the ones that will. It's crap like that which reduces public faith in vaccination.
"Much like self driving cars that need human monitoring, automation at least at this point, can't account for unseen variables and therefor, a human must be monitoring at all times."
Humans can't account for unseen variables either. Maybe you meant unforeseeable? Because a computer can "see" a lot more than a human, and faster too. Multiple cameras, radar, altimeter, engine speeds, fuel pressures, much much faster sense of motion than any human...
YouTube-dl is the only tool to use. I only wish I could get it working on Android. I built the app that someone made for it but it choked on a download that worked fine on my desktop, and the author closed my bug report as user error. I guess you can just run it in qpython, but qpython demands lots of permissions and won't run if you don't enable them all, so I don't trust it.
"YouTube doesn't allow ripping and works hard at it."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
YouTube is chock full of full movies uploaded under their actual title plus "full movie". A very small shell script could prevent that. Now go on, pull the other one.
I tried to play your video and YouTube sent me to "Ludicrous Tesla takes down multiple Hellcat Challengers Drag Racing!" Which doesn't really speak to your claim. Just tell me whether that was a customer car and save me the trouble.
"Their sentences will serve as a good object lesson to others considering such foolishness."
No, they won't. Most people will never even hear about them. Meanwhile, long prison sentences tend to create more crime. You don't think these guys will turn to crime to make a living when they get out, and find that they can't get a job?
". I'm perfectly happy allocating a small portion of my taxes to pay for their prosecution and subsequent incarceration."
Why are you happy to waste money? That's literally insane.
That was a long comment that covered a lot of ground, but I bet the person who modded it down did so because I shared facts about nuclear. Second most likely, because I shared facts about career criminal Bill Gates. Too bad they're too cowardly to actually attempt to rebut my comment, because we'll never know precisely what brand of mental illness they embody. Here, coward, mod this down, too. I can afford the karma, and you've only got so many mod points.
"And what do you mean "GC controllers were garbage"? It was one of the most comfortable and pleasant controllers ever released for a console"
It was too small and the angle at which you had to hold it was too narrow, and it had too few buttons and the buttons were both oddly shaped and weirdly placed. I have adult-sized hands though, so perhaps that's why I'm so emphatic about it. It seems like it was okay for children. Sadly, only Microsoft has ever made a controller for adults, and they discontinued it because they only wanted to make one controller at a time, and the smaller one takes up less shelf space. But regardless, most lists of the gaming industry's worst controllers include GameCube.
Who cares why, when it is obviously nefarious? It's clearly fraud to willfully claim that your phone number is someone else's phone number for personal gain, and what they are gaining is a complete record of a conversation with a business. That has numerous obvious commercial purposes. This should produce a slam-dunk class action lawsuit against Google.
These days uranium is taken from open pit mines. Uranite is the least concentrated ore that we mine, so that means a bigger open pit per gram of usable material than any other substance. And of course, the mine tends to produce worse runoff than other types.
"Nuclear basically only has big, rare accidents. It also puts land out of action so you keep on hearing about it forever. Other forms have smaller but much more numerous accidents, so you never hear about them."
Yes, you just summed up there why nuclear is unacceptable. It only has big accidents which put land out of action, among other effects. Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Fukushima is still leaking into the sea.
"But renewables are only a complete solution in conutries with enough resources."
What? It takes way more resources to build and maintain a nuke plant, counting fueling, but not even counting decommissioning (which literally always costs more and takes longer than estimated.)
""Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that's available 24 hours a day,"
"Geothermal would also meet this criteria."
First let's look at the original claim, which is false. If wind is sufficiently distributed, it is also available full time. If you add battery storage to any so-called alternative power, then that is also available full time. And you can do that cheaper than nuclear, so not only was it a lie, but a blatant one.
Second we will consider geothermal. Radioactive isotopes come out of volcanic vents. If you use vent geothermal, you have to deal with that stuff on your turbine blades. America's largest geothermal plant, located in literally the most geothermally active region on the planet, is perpetually over budget and under projected production, and has produced one Superfund site and is well on its way to producing another. Heat pipe geo power works when you've got a sealed geo tap, but depending on the situation it can easily compare with the cost of a solar installation, since most of the good geo taps are in extremely rocky conditions. So really, geothermal is a bit of a boondoggle.
All this however is secondary to the real arguments. One, nuclear is prohibitively expensive on all levels. Two, one billion dollars is just enough to commission a study claiming Bill Gates can save the world by making a profit selling us nukes. Three, Bill Gates is a career criminal who is just a monocle and a Persian cat away from being a bond villain. He has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that he is not trustworthy. If he cared about saving the planet, he would do what we know works, since there is so much we can do with existing tech. That billion would better be spent on a PV array with a battery backup. It would be cheaper than nukes, and it would be online soonest, so it would be reducing co2 soonest.
We don't need nuke power, on any basis. If fusion power eventually pans out that's cool (yuk yuk) but fission power is not only stupid, but actually evil. You know, perfect for Bill Gates.
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Yep. They called black people unevolved primitives until it came out that only black people hadn't fucked Neanderthals. Then they had to do a quick 180, proving that the only thing they believe in is their own superiority, which is trivially disproven. What a bunch of cowards. If they had two balls between 'em they'd be able to go out in public without a ghost costume.
If you take the view that it's based on interbreeding ability, there is no such thing as a geographical species, just varieties. Ring species are sufficiently rare as to be an exception. But obviously, no simple definition can exist. It's amazing to me that people can have such attachment to the concept of race when even species isn't well-defined no matter which definition you use, but there you go.
That wasn't because display ps. That was because horsepower. Macintosh didn't have accelerated graphics built in until quadra! And their accelerated graphics card for Macintosh II cost as much as a PC! Next machines had graphics acceleration. Back then they had Adobe applications for other Unix too, including framemaker, Photoshop, and illustrator. Iirc they had them for sun and SGI. All SGI machines have some kind of graphics acceleration, albeit minimal on older machines like the indigo, and sun offered accelerated video from way back though, like having graphics at all, it was an added-cost option. (Sun machines would operate just fine with a serial console and no framebuffer installed at all.)
The Macintosh was not about RAM, or CPU, or colour.
The CPU was great, the color was fine, even 1bpp was acceptable. The RAM, however, was inadequate for a windowing operating system. 512kB would have been a more reasonable place to start. Even the budget-minded Amiga 1000 had 256kB. Speaking of the Amiga, the real problem with the Mac was that it was all-graphics with no graphics acceleration.
Nuclear plant accidents are also only hazardous locally. But people care way more about that than carbon.
They care because in the astronomically unlikely case that it happens to them, it could be fucking horrible.
Do you deny banannas are radioactive? If not, then how radioactive does something have to be before you start to worry about it?
They dropped a whole core into seawater, which is still exchanging with the ocean. No, I'm not worried about that radiation being here in the USA, but I'm still concerned about what it means because of bioaccumulation. Literally every single time Tepco has given information, they've lied or at best were confused about how severe it is, which has trained me to believe that the situation is worse than claimed.
Tidal and offshore wind don't use land area. If you get near a point, let us know.
When you engage in pointless pedantry all it means is you have no actual argument and so are presumably yielding the point to me.
Right back at, you sport:
We both know that they also require area for tidal pools in the case of tidal
You don't know as much as you think you do. Not all tidal power schemes require tidal pools.
and accessible sea floor in windy areas for offshore wind.
Sigh.
It's also true that if we max out both we still won't match out energy consumption. We make a huge dent in it, but we won't match it.
Energy consumption needs to fall anyway if we are to stop using natural capital faster than it can be replenished. You can talk about human nature all day, but ultimately if we don't get it together, we'll fail.
People need to get this. If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, consensus is irrelevant. The model is predictive or it's not, popularity doesn't enter into to.
All of this is true, but the above argument (predictive or isn't) it used by people to attack the theory of AGW on the specific basis that the models don't accurately predict what's going to happen on their block. They don't actually claim to, but that person is still going to use that argument and then sit back like they've accomplished something other than willful ignorance.
Coal is a slaughterhoue compared to nuclear and it pust land out of action, and yet the main thing people worry about is carbon.
Uh, yeah. That's because while coal plant emissions are most immediately hazardous to people downwind, the CO2 is hazardous to everyone on the planet.
Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Fukushima is still leaking into the sea.
Without some sort of threshold, that's a meaningless concern. It could be no worse than smeone throwing a bannana a day into the sea.
No, it couldn't. It literally couldn't.
But that's exactly what I mean: with nuclear people switch off to the usual risk/reward tradeoffs and simply say that anything is unacceptably bad.
Or they fall back on bullshit about bananas, if they're proponents.
No matter how much we pay, the land area of the UK is not going to increase. There are not enough renewable energy resources to cover our energy consumption.
1) Reduce your consumption, we are using more resources every year than can be replenished anyway.
2) Tidal and offshore wind don't use land area. If you get near a point, let us know.
He or she probably modded you down "-1 overrated" because there is no "- 1 batshit insane" option.
Point to the part you disagree with, and I'll provide a citation to cure your ignorance. Otherwise, run along kid, the adults are trying to have a conversation.
False. Targeting the wrong strain is something that you only find out after the fact.
After it's been made, but before flu season hits, actually. Try reading the news.
"It was me. The thing you left out is that certain radio-isotopes are also toxic and they bio-accumulate in different ways."
They also left out the fact that one good hot particle in your body can kill you.
"No ... what does it say about the climate of fear amongst health professionals who want to speak out?"
Literally nothing, since you can retain your anonymity on slashdot by using a throwaway email account, and a pseudonym.
" Most of the mercury will be excreted over weeks-months, and it was only present in microgram quantities in any case."
Mercury is bioaccumulative, so there is no safe dosage. The argument over thimerosal is whether it breaks down into a form that can be absorbed or not. AFAICT that is still being questioned. In the USA, it is used only in multi-use vials, so you can avoid it by going to the doctor for injections instead of getting them from a queue. It HAS been used in schools, even past the date at which it wasn't meant to have been given to children any more, which reduces public trust in vaccination systems.
"Why do you think the doctors and nurses take them themselves every single year?"
Because it is a condition of employment.
"The problem is the flu virus mutates rapidly and there are several strains of the virus, unlike other viruses, so the protection it provides is limited in time until the flu virus mutates again."
So close, yet so fail. You started out great, then petered out. The problem is the flu virus mutates rapidly and there are several strains of the virus, and the companies making the vaccines sometimes target the wrong strain(s) ... But when they do, they don't tell you so, and instead they continue marketing the vaccine as if it would be useful. So every year, you have to dig through news articles to find out whether they got it right to determine whether there is actually any point to getting it. It's understandable that they would get it wrong sometimes, but it is outright fraud when they sell you vaccinations targeting the wrong strains under the claims that flu vaccinations save lives. Sure they do, but not those ones! But they advertise them exactly the same as the ones that will. It's crap like that which reduces public faith in vaccination.
"Much like self driving cars that need human monitoring, automation at least at this point, can't account for unseen variables and therefor, a human must be monitoring at all times."
Humans can't account for unseen variables either. Maybe you meant unforeseeable? Because a computer can "see" a lot more than a human, and faster too. Multiple cameras, radar, altimeter, engine speeds, fuel pressures, much much faster sense of motion than any human...
YouTube-dl is the only tool to use. I only wish I could get it working on Android. I built the app that someone made for it but it choked on a download that worked fine on my desktop, and the author closed my bug report as user error. I guess you can just run it in qpython, but qpython demands lots of permissions and won't run if you don't enable them all, so I don't trust it.
"YouTube doesn't allow ripping and works hard at it."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
YouTube is chock full of full movies uploaded under their actual title plus "full movie". A very small shell script could prevent that. Now go on, pull the other one.
I tried to play your video and YouTube sent me to "Ludicrous Tesla takes down multiple Hellcat Challengers Drag Racing!" Which doesn't really speak to your claim. Just tell me whether that was a customer car and save me the trouble.
"Their sentences will serve as a good object lesson to others considering such foolishness."
No, they won't. Most people will never even hear about them. Meanwhile, long prison sentences tend to create more crime. You don't think these guys will turn to crime to make a living when they get out, and find that they can't get a job?
". I'm perfectly happy allocating a small portion of my taxes to pay for their prosecution and subsequent incarceration."
Why are you happy to waste money? That's literally insane.
That was a long comment that covered a lot of ground, but I bet the person who modded it down did so because I shared facts about nuclear. Second most likely, because I shared facts about career criminal Bill Gates. Too bad they're too cowardly to actually attempt to rebut my comment, because we'll never know precisely what brand of mental illness they embody. Here, coward, mod this down, too. I can afford the karma, and you've only got so many mod points.
"And what do you mean "GC controllers were garbage"? It was one of the most comfortable and pleasant controllers ever released for a console"
It was too small and the angle at which you had to hold it was too narrow, and it had too few buttons and the buttons were both oddly shaped and weirdly placed. I have adult-sized hands though, so perhaps that's why I'm so emphatic about it. It seems like it was okay for children. Sadly, only Microsoft has ever made a controller for adults, and they discontinued it because they only wanted to make one controller at a time, and the smaller one takes up less shelf space. But regardless, most lists of the gaming industry's worst controllers include GameCube.
Who cares why, when it is obviously nefarious? It's clearly fraud to willfully claim that your phone number is someone else's phone number for personal gain, and what they are gaining is a complete record of a conversation with a business. That has numerous obvious commercial purposes. This should produce a slam-dunk class action lawsuit against Google.
That is a shit suggestion since gdpr is first and foremost a spying/data retention plan. You want to reduce freedom, why?
#2 is not an either-or. We should do both.
Put down the corporate cock, it has been sucked sufficiently.
These days uranium is taken from open pit mines. Uranite is the least concentrated ore that we mine, so that means a bigger open pit per gram of usable material than any other substance. And of course, the mine tends to produce worse runoff than other types.
"Nuclear basically only has big, rare accidents. It also puts land out of action so you keep on hearing about it forever. Other forms have smaller but much more numerous accidents, so you never hear about them."
Yes, you just summed up there why nuclear is unacceptable. It only has big accidents which put land out of action, among other effects. Unless I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Fukushima is still leaking into the sea.
"But renewables are only a complete solution in conutries with enough resources."
What? It takes way more resources to build and maintain a nuke plant, counting fueling, but not even counting decommissioning (which literally always costs more and takes longer than estimated.)
""Nuclear is ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that's available 24 hours a day,"
"Geothermal would also meet this criteria."
First let's look at the original claim, which is false. If wind is sufficiently distributed, it is also available full time. If you add battery storage to any so-called alternative power, then that is also available full time. And you can do that cheaper than nuclear, so not only was it a lie, but a blatant one.
Second we will consider geothermal. Radioactive isotopes come out of volcanic vents. If you use vent geothermal, you have to deal with that stuff on your turbine blades. America's largest geothermal plant, located in literally the most geothermally active region on the planet, is perpetually over budget and under projected production, and has produced one Superfund site and is well on its way to producing another. Heat pipe geo power works when you've got a sealed geo tap, but depending on the situation it can easily compare with the cost of a solar installation, since most of the good geo taps are in extremely rocky conditions. So really, geothermal is a bit of a boondoggle.
All this however is secondary to the real arguments. One, nuclear is prohibitively expensive on all levels. Two, one billion dollars is just enough to commission a study claiming Bill Gates can save the world by making a profit selling us nukes. Three, Bill Gates is a career criminal who is just a monocle and a Persian cat away from being a bond villain. He has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that he is not trustworthy. If he cared about saving the planet, he would do what we know works, since there is so much we can do with existing tech. That billion would better be spent on a PV array with a battery backup. It would be cheaper than nukes, and it would be online soonest, so it would be reducing co2 soonest.
We don't need nuke power, on any basis. If fusion power eventually pans out that's cool (yuk yuk) but fission power is not only stupid, but actually evil. You know, perfect for Bill Gates.