Everybody knows what the OP meant - this is a battle to see who can be the most pedantic. The only winning move is not to play.
I agree with your conclusion, but not your premise. If we can't be pedantic here on Slashdot, where can we be? If we don't care about getting the language right, what do we care about?
If I could get an old razr with a slightly larger screen that will do music, podcasts, and cat pictures, I would be good to go.
A new RAZR should be a dual-screen flip phone. Only, what OS would it run? Android with hackiness for the second screen, or something else inherently hacky?
Not that I oppose the idea of getting rid of dependence on fossil fuels, but if you plan on producing approx 1 billion passenger cars ( and somehow forcing people to scrap the existing ones)
If we'd just pull our heads out of our collective asses and reorganize society such that people didn't have to commute, we could probably just recycle and not even bother to replace a billion cars just for a start. Not even building anything, just rotating who lives where.
But given the possible dire circumstances of climate change, I say it's worth throwing the spaghetti against the wall until something sticks.
Thing is, there's lots of lower-hanging fruit to be picked first. Our primary focus should be on wind power and grid improvements to go with it. Secondary, solar and storage. But we can and should do all of these things at once. By all means, keep nuclear research going, but don't give it more than already proven effective solar and wind.
First, molten salt Thorium reactors can use those "spent" fuel rods as fuel.
So far there's been what, one successful Thorium reactor design test, which is just wrapping up? That's cause for hope, but does not conclusively prove that building lots of them will be a good idea.
So imagine a city of one million, run largely by solar power, up comes a once in one hundred years hailstorm, taking out all the panels.
Solar panels of today are literally more durable than the roofs they're mounted on. A hailstorm big enough to take out all the solar panels is also big enough to take out all the roofs. That's not a hundred year hailstorm, that's a ten thousand year hailstorm. And when it comes, you're just fucked. And further, it probably won't come unless we've perturbed the climate so much that we're doubly fucked. Such a massive hailstorm could also easily do damage to nuclear plant infrastructure. When you break solar panels open, today even toxics don't come out (today, the panels are required to not leach even if ground up and landfilled.) What happens when you break open a nuclear plant?
Distributed generation always has been and always will be more robust than centralized generation. The notion that your nuclear plant is going to be more robust than our distributed arrays of solar panels is ridiculous at best.
If you removed all regulation and government involvement nuclear would be impossible to build because no-one could get insurance for it.
What? If you removed all regulation and government involvement, you wouldn't need insurance. If it blew up and ruined several counties, you'd just say "whoops" and move on.
Most cars have a hardware firewall between the telematics/infotainment systems and steering/drivetrain control,
They do these days, anyway. In the late nineties Audi was using a single bus across the entire vehicle. They didn't have internet infotainment though, just a lcd screen radio.
but obviously to support he remote control feature Tesla has to have comms between the two.
They all have comms between the two, in the gateway. How much do you trust the gateway?
Using a shitty fucked up language like PHP is lazy and irresponsible in the first place.
PHP is still here because it's convenient and good enough. Why isn't something better as convenient as PHP? I don't even mean installed base, I just mean as convenient to install and use. And custom repos are acceptable.
Just about anything will make short work of structural steel. Abrasive disc cutters, cold saws, reciprocating saws with a bimetal blade...
...hack saw and some bacon grease...
(I just did some googling around, and discovered that the best cutting fluid you can have is bacon fat with 5% flower of sulfur... take and be healthy)
You want someone claiming rape to come out of the woodwork for every candidate at the 11th hour?
That's not going to happen unless it's a successful strategy, and as we've seen recently, even when it's well-supported, the outcome really depends on who's controlling congress.
Libertarian websites tend to use some silly "labor participation" rate that treats retired people the same as unemployed able-bodied 30-year olds. That's the truly fictional number.
Well, it's all fictional. We have more than we need, but we have artificial scarcity to separate the haves and have nots, because it's imperative for the haves to have some have nots to look down upon so they can feel good about themselves. The idea that everyone should have a job is the real fiction. With that said, the true unemployment rate is somewhere in between the U-6 and the inverse of the labor participation rate. Obviously everyone who can work doesn't need to be working. But the U-6 doesn't count everyone who needs work, either. In the Puritan dream, everyone would have a job, because one's value is equal to the value of one's work. And that's the lie that we're sold in this country for the most part, although the rich sure don't believe in it for themselves. They rant simultaneously about how you have to earn a living, and how they should be able to pass their earnings on to their worthless offspring unencumbered.
I don't think that you can take the labor participation rate wholesale to determine the unemployment rate, but I do think that it would feature in a meaningful calculation.
What I don't believe is the nonsense about the unemployment rate. I didn't believe it when the same criticism was leveled at Obama.
The unemployment rate has been bullshit since time was time. But the longer economic distress continues, the more bullshit it is, because people become ineligible to collect unemployment insurance and therefore drop off of the U-2 rate, which is the one used in the media. The U-6 rate is around double the U-2, and even it misses people, but they don't seem to want to use that number even though it's much more realistic.
The unemployment rate is more of a lie under Trump than it was under Obama — and it was more of a lie under Obama than it was under Dubya. I have no love for Obama. I have even less for the published unemployment rate. It was valid criticism then, and it's valid criticism now. I was making it then, and I'm making it now.
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CCTV-like live video feeds from the cockpit and cabin going up to a satellite uplink at all times
You do realize that trans-oceanic planes regularly go places where there is no line-of-sight communications to civilization on the ground?
You do realize that satellites are not on the ground?
Bandwidth over satellite isn't cheap, especially before this new generation of Iridium.
Some systems are cheaper than others.
Everybody knows what the OP meant - this is a battle to see who can be the most pedantic. The only winning move is not to play.
I agree with your conclusion, but not your premise. If we can't be pedantic here on Slashdot, where can we be? If we don't care about getting the language right, what do we care about?
If I could get an old razr with a slightly larger screen that will do music, podcasts, and cat pictures, I would be good to go.
A new RAZR should be a dual-screen flip phone. Only, what OS would it run? Android with hackiness for the second screen, or something else inherently hacky?
I would like to suggest that replacing "Nuclear Energy" with "Vasectomy" would be far more appropriate.
With careful application of "nuclear energy", you don't even need "vasectomy"!
There's loads of alternatives to reducing the birth rate. You could increase the death rate in all sorts of ways, like with war or plague.
Not that I oppose the idea of getting rid of dependence on fossil fuels, but if you plan on producing approx 1 billion passenger cars ( and somehow forcing people to scrap the existing ones)
If we'd just pull our heads out of our collective asses and reorganize society such that people didn't have to commute, we could probably just recycle and not even bother to replace a billion cars just for a start. Not even building anything, just rotating who lives where.
But given the possible dire circumstances of climate change, I say it's worth throwing the spaghetti against the wall until something sticks.
Thing is, there's lots of lower-hanging fruit to be picked first. Our primary focus should be on wind power and grid improvements to go with it. Secondary, solar and storage. But we can and should do all of these things at once. By all means, keep nuclear research going, but don't give it more than already proven effective solar and wind.
First, molten salt Thorium reactors can use those "spent" fuel rods as fuel.
So far there's been what, one successful Thorium reactor design test, which is just wrapping up? That's cause for hope, but does not conclusively prove that building lots of them will be a good idea.
So imagine a city of one million, run largely by solar power, up comes a once in one hundred years hailstorm, taking out all the panels.
Solar panels of today are literally more durable than the roofs they're mounted on. A hailstorm big enough to take out all the solar panels is also big enough to take out all the roofs. That's not a hundred year hailstorm, that's a ten thousand year hailstorm. And when it comes, you're just fucked. And further, it probably won't come unless we've perturbed the climate so much that we're doubly fucked. Such a massive hailstorm could also easily do damage to nuclear plant infrastructure. When you break solar panels open, today even toxics don't come out (today, the panels are required to not leach even if ground up and landfilled.) What happens when you break open a nuclear plant?
Distributed generation always has been and always will be more robust than centralized generation. The notion that your nuclear plant is going to be more robust than our distributed arrays of solar panels is ridiculous at best.
First, it's not all spent fuel. Second, a reprocessing plant is also a nuclear weapons plant, which means it's not a practical global solution.
Third, a reprocessing plant is dangerous and expensive to operate, and Fourth, it produces some really high-grade waste in addition to useful fuel.
We do have workable fusion reactors.
Where?
They were developed here, and are now in use in places we're not supposed to talk about.
How convenient for your argument.
How do you think we power those weapons systems?
With fission power plants, because when we make war we don't care about the secondary effects.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
If you removed all regulation and government involvement nuclear would be impossible to build because no-one could get insurance for it.
What? If you removed all regulation and government involvement, you wouldn't need insurance. If it blew up and ruined several counties, you'd just say "whoops" and move on.
Bullshit. Countries with low interference from regulatory agencies can produce a full 1+ GW plant in 5 years.
So, how long does it take to install a solar array or a wind farm?
Most cars have a hardware firewall between the telematics/infotainment systems and steering/drivetrain control,
They do these days, anyway. In the late nineties Audi was using a single bus across the entire vehicle. They didn't have internet infotainment though, just a lcd screen radio.
but obviously to support he remote control feature Tesla has to have comms between the two.
They all have comms between the two, in the gateway. How much do you trust the gateway?
It's absolutely the Chinese trying to send a not-so-subtle message about the way US politics and international affairs are at the moment.
FREE TIBET with every purchase of a Hong Kong!
...or maybe we could go back to arguing about GamerGate
Using a shitty fucked up language like PHP is lazy and irresponsible in the first place.
PHP is still here because it's convenient and good enough. Why isn't something better as convenient as PHP? I don't even mean installed base, I just mean as convenient to install and use. And custom repos are acceptable.
The cheapest plan is only going up $1. The people who care about a dollar or two already have this plan. The people who don't care can pay another $2.
You can't appropriate Nazi while we literally still have real Nazis running around, to say nothing of neo-Nazis. Nice try there, sport.
Just about anything will make short work of structural steel. Abrasive disc cutters, cold saws, reciprocating saws with a bimetal blade...
...hack saw and some bacon grease...
(I just did some googling around, and discovered that the best cutting fluid you can have is bacon fat with 5% flower of sulfur... take and be healthy)
The arguments that walls and fences shouldn't be built because there are very expensive ways to breach them is rather ludicrous.
The tunnels are much cheaper than the wall. If you can defeat a security measure with a much cheaper tool, then it's worthless.
You want someone claiming rape to come out of the woodwork for every candidate at the 11th hour?
That's not going to happen unless it's a successful strategy, and as we've seen recently, even when it's well-supported, the outcome really depends on who's controlling congress.
Libertarian websites tend to use some silly "labor participation" rate that treats retired people the same as unemployed able-bodied 30-year olds. That's the truly fictional number.
Well, it's all fictional. We have more than we need, but we have artificial scarcity to separate the haves and have nots, because it's imperative for the haves to have some have nots to look down upon so they can feel good about themselves. The idea that everyone should have a job is the real fiction. With that said, the true unemployment rate is somewhere in between the U-6 and the inverse of the labor participation rate. Obviously everyone who can work doesn't need to be working. But the U-6 doesn't count everyone who needs work, either. In the Puritan dream, everyone would have a job, because one's value is equal to the value of one's work. And that's the lie that we're sold in this country for the most part, although the rich sure don't believe in it for themselves. They rant simultaneously about how you have to earn a living, and how they should be able to pass their earnings on to their worthless offspring unencumbered.
I don't think that you can take the labor participation rate wholesale to determine the unemployment rate, but I do think that it would feature in a meaningful calculation.
What I don't believe is the nonsense about the unemployment rate. I didn't believe it when the same criticism was leveled at Obama.
The unemployment rate has been bullshit since time was time. But the longer economic distress continues, the more bullshit it is, because people become ineligible to collect unemployment insurance and therefore drop off of the U-2 rate, which is the one used in the media. The U-6 rate is around double the U-2, and even it misses people, but they don't seem to want to use that number even though it's much more realistic.
The unemployment rate is more of a lie under Trump than it was under Obama — and it was more of a lie under Obama than it was under Dubya. I have no love for Obama. I have even less for the published unemployment rate. It was valid criticism then, and it's valid criticism now. I was making it then, and I'm making it now.
So should we change the Constitution so that the Senate's role is removed and we cannot have a repeat of the Garland fiasco?
Or in some other way, so that they can't refuse to seat someone without a reason.
I'm guessing the last minute push to put Ray Tracing in is to blame.
Does that really make sense? The people working on rendering probably aren't the same as the people working on game modes.