The problem is that, if the story is correct, the population is already too big.
Since significant environmental effects have been visible since the 1950s, then the point of maximum manageable population was probably passed in the 1920s or 1930s.
Corollary : 3 to 5 gigadeaths (difference between death count and birth count) are necessary before a "sustainable" population is achieved. I'll be optimistic and guess that improvements in technology could reduce that to one third of the headline value - to between 1.0 and 1.6 gigadeaths. For comparison, World War Two was around 0.04 gigadeaths.
The other problem is that, maybe it won't stop growing before it is too late.
Define "too late". Too late for people to continue living a western life style? Too late for human beings to survive with a pre-metals technology (unless they're really good at recycling)? Too late for non-microscopic life to survive on Earth?
I honestly couldn't remember the magazine for sure. I do remember that we were taking a day-trip down to some exhibition at the NHM or Science museum, and Dad thought (mad fool!) that getting the magazine would shut me up for the train journey.
You've never seen evidence of this because none exists outside of the movies.
Deckard:Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop.
[Zhora is visible]
Deckard:Enhance 15 to 23.
[marks on Zhora's face become visible]
Deckard:Gimme a hard copy right there.
It broke the laws of physics then, it breaks the laws of physics today, and by golly, it'll break the laws of physics after the heat death of the universe brings time to an effective end.
So, the US has no laws other than the Constitution? And it's amendments. Well, that's all laws relating to cars (flying or ground-constrained) out of consideration then.
You know, that's exactly what I thought. But this being slashdot, and me being about 3 days behind on my reading, I expected that someone would have provided the link. Instead of just complaining about the lack of a link.
So, here's the link.
On its maiden voyage in 1952, the ship traversed the Atlantic in three days, 10 hours and 42 minutes -- a record it held until 1990.
When I read things like this, I take this as meaing that they ran the engines to the absolute maximum they possibly dared to on the maiden voyage - and then never wound things up that high again, because they'd measured the vibration limits, and knew how much damage they were now doing when running at 105% of rated power.
--and assuming their claims are the complete and accurate truth--
The linked article is in the Torygraph - not a very reliable source. And even they don't claim that the technical details are any more than speculation.
If the vans can't hit the break-even point?
"Vans" probably means two or three - just enogh that one can be under repair and the number on the street remains plural.
The "break-even" isn't likely to be revenue raised > running cost. It's all about deterrence and being seen to deter. Having one or two cases per county per year (about one case per day) would get a local conviction into each local newspaper per year, which is probably sufficient to keep the licence fee compliance at an acceptably high rate.
I tried to persuade my father to get me the kit-form for my birthday or something, but I think he got me a mountain tent instead. It was about the same time.
just send whatever traffic with the packet-size signature, and people will look like they're using iPlayer when they are not.
You seem to have missed the point that the BBC can control the packet size of their iPlayer packets in real time. It is their service, after all. And the service is free to use for people who have paid their TV license - which are part of the Ts&Cs you signed up to. Personally, I don't object to paying £145.50/year for four advertising-free TV channels and I-don't-know-how-many advertising-free radio channels. It beats the approximately £550/year that a basic service from Sky for advertising-laden shite costs.
The linked article hypothesises (but doesn't actually state that it knows) that the technique uses detection of packet sizes. If that's the case, then I'd envision the detector van rolling up to a premises whose address is not on the list of addresses that have a TV license (if they have a license, move on to next address) and DF-ing the router, then contacting the iPlater control room to get a list of packet-size sequences that will be sent out in the next 5 minutes. Then turn on the wifi traffic logger until the evidence is captured - or not. If one test gets a hit, repeat a couple of times, log the evidence, and send to the Enforcement people.
When I was still on dial-up internet and did not have a TV, I used to enjoy taunting the Enforcement people by refusing to let them into the house. For some reason, they always turned up on a dark and stormy night - presumably because by standing there and dripping at me, they could get invited inside "to discuss the matter" - at which point they could conduct a search and seize operations. But they didn't have powers to require entry. It was more fun than pulling the wings off flies, and more ethically defensible.
Much though I appreciate Dean Swift's Proposal - and have done for at least 3 decades - it's only barely relevant here. The comparison up-thread with people fucking virgins to cure sexually transmitted diseases is much more apt. Pure "sympathetic magic," on a level with homeopathy.
(The reported rejuvenating effects of lab injections between inbred mice is interesting. But no scientist is looking at that as an ageing treatment, but as an indicator of a potentially usable quirk of the immune system.)
The open water swimmers will be hit the hardest out of anyone, since they will be immersed in raw sewage.
Just a quick question - how many jobs have you had that invlved routinely dealing with literal raw sewage? I'm going to hazard a guess that the number is zero. I've had two. There is a very big difference between raw sewage and somewhat dirty water.
Sometimes, when you hear the hysterical squawking about shit, that some people forget that they get shit on their arseholes every day, and they get other people's shit on their hands and up their noses every time they use a public toilet or "wash"room.
If you hear a doctor coming out with horse shit like that, keep him in view as you back out of the room. That is a dangerous idiot masquerading as a doctor.
(Though if you knew any medics in your undergraduate years, you'd hardly be surprised to learn that there are such idiots around.)
My original 60MB hard drive was still working when the burglars took it (and the computer it was in) 12 years after I got it. (Actually it was 40MB when I got it, but you know that trick, I'm sure.)
I'm working on my alternative citizenship, so that I can take myself out of the racist shithole that is Britain (country of my birth) and move to a more amenable European country (and taking my tax revenue with me).
Speaking another language for breakfast. So fucking what?
If you're pissed, why not just take the bus home. Or walk.
Or have sme countries so distorted their city plans so that a car is an absolute necessity (like air and water - and food in alternating months) instead of a luxury. What weird priorities.
This must be the Brave New World I hear so much of - the one where one procedes directly from accusation to punishment without going through pesky intervening stages like "trial" and "conviction".
At lest, that is my impression. So, since the accusation has been made and trial and conviction are being bypassed I can go directly to punishing the people involved for attempting to undermine the fundamental human rights of the accused.
And this is a problem? I'd have thought lawyers would be queueing up to help. (Since it would imply that the dead can simultaneously be pursued for their debts. IANAL in my country, let alone anyone else's.)
Not one OSHA regulation applies. this isn't America. We have standards which I- having worked with a number of American safety-responsible personnel - think are generally tighter. Those standards are designed by the Health And Safety Executuve and are enforced with the power of the criminal law. Directors of companies do get jailed for breaches on occasion, and HSE inspectors who achieve that are very happy to have achieved it.
It's the way that you think there is a single place called "the rest of the world", and that it is a homogeneous, uniform place defined by it's not being America. Hint: there is human variation outside your experience of your home country. (Actually, there is probably more variation in your home country than you are aware. How many of your country's native languages can you at least read?)
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Since significant environmental effects have been visible since the 1950s, then the point of maximum manageable population was probably passed in the 1920s or 1930s.
Corollary : 3 to 5 gigadeaths (difference between death count and birth count) are necessary before a "sustainable" population is achieved. I'll be optimistic and guess that improvements in technology could reduce that to one third of the headline value - to between 1.0 and 1.6 gigadeaths. For comparison, World War Two was around 0.04 gigadeaths.
Define "too late". Too late for people to continue living a western life style? Too late for human beings to survive with a pre-metals technology (unless they're really good at recycling)? Too late for non-microscopic life to survive on Earth?
I honestly couldn't remember the magazine for sure. I do remember that we were taking a day-trip down to some exhibition at the NHM or Science museum, and Dad thought (mad fool!) that getting the magazine would shut me up for the train journey.
The difficulty is, deciding which version to watch.
Deckard: Enhance 57 to 19. Track 45 left. Stop.
[Zhora is visible]
Deckard: Enhance 15 to 23.
[marks on Zhora's face become visible]
Deckard: Gimme a hard copy right there.
It broke the laws of physics then, it breaks the laws of physics today, and by golly, it'll break the laws of physics after the heat death of the universe brings time to an effective end.
So, the US has no laws other than the Constitution? And it's amendments. Well, that's all laws relating to cars (flying or ground-constrained) out of consideration then.
Maybe, if drivers produced urine composed of nothing but urea and water, and put nothing but that (unrealistic) urine down the pipe.
You know, that's exactly what I thought. But this being slashdot, and me being about 3 days behind on my reading, I expected that someone would have provided the link. Instead of just complaining about the lack of a link. So, here's the link.
When I read things like this, I take this as meaing that they ran the engines to the absolute maximum they possibly dared to on the maiden voyage - and then never wound things up that high again, because they'd measured the vibration limits, and knew how much damage they were now doing when running at 105% of rated power.
The linked article is in the Torygraph - not a very reliable source. And even they don't claim that the technical details are any more than speculation.
"Vans" probably means two or three - just enogh that one can be under repair and the number on the street remains plural.
The "break-even" isn't likely to be revenue raised > running cost. It's all about deterrence and being seen to deter. Having one or two cases per county per year (about one case per day) would get a local conviction into each local newspaper per year, which is probably sufficient to keep the licence fee compliance at an acceptably high rate.
I tried to persuade my father to get me the kit-form for my birthday or something, but I think he got me a mountain tent instead. It was about the same time.
You seem to have missed the point that the BBC can control the packet size of their iPlayer packets in real time. It is their service, after all. And the service is free to use for people who have paid their TV license - which are part of the Ts&Cs you signed up to. Personally, I don't object to paying £145.50/year for four advertising-free TV channels and I-don't-know-how-many advertising-free radio channels. It beats the approximately £550/year that a basic service from Sky for advertising-laden shite costs.
The linked article hypothesises (but doesn't actually state that it knows) that the technique uses detection of packet sizes. If that's the case, then I'd envision the detector van rolling up to a premises whose address is not on the list of addresses that have a TV license (if they have a license, move on to next address) and DF-ing the router, then contacting the iPlater control room to get a list of packet-size sequences that will be sent out in the next 5 minutes. Then turn on the wifi traffic logger until the evidence is captured - or not. If one test gets a hit, repeat a couple of times, log the evidence, and send to the Enforcement people.
When I was still on dial-up internet and did not have a TV, I used to enjoy taunting the Enforcement people by refusing to let them into the house. For some reason, they always turned up on a dark and stormy night - presumably because by standing there and dripping at me, they could get invited inside "to discuss the matter" - at which point they could conduct a search and seize operations. But they didn't have powers to require entry. It was more fun than pulling the wings off flies, and more ethically defensible.
(The reported rejuvenating effects of lab injections between inbred mice is interesting. But no scientist is looking at that as an ageing treatment, but as an indicator of a potentially usable quirk of the immune system.)
Just a quick question - how many jobs have you had that invlved routinely dealing with literal raw sewage? I'm going to hazard a guess that the number is zero. I've had two. There is a very big difference between raw sewage and somewhat dirty water.
Sometimes, when you hear the hysterical squawking about shit, that some people forget that they get shit on their arseholes every day, and they get other people's shit on their hands and up their noses every time they use a public toilet or "wash"room.
(Though if you knew any medics in your undergraduate years, you'd hardly be surprised to learn that there are such idiots around.)
... which are fuck-all use against viruses.
My original 60MB hard drive was still working when the burglars took it (and the computer it was in) 12 years after I got it. (Actually it was 40MB when I got it, but you know that trick, I'm sure.)
(2) Pay for goods with money.
What's the problem?
I'm working on my alternative citizenship, so that I can take myself out of the racist shithole that is Britain (country of my birth) and move to a more amenable European country (and taking my tax revenue with me). Speaking another language for breakfast. So fucking what?
30 play this?
Or have sme countries so distorted their city plans so that a car is an absolute necessity (like air and water - and food in alternating months) instead of a luxury. What weird priorities.
... but not "citizens". Or, for that matter, "human beings"?
This must be the Brave New World I hear so much of - the one where one procedes directly from accusation to punishment without going through pesky intervening stages like "trial" and "conviction". At lest, that is my impression. So, since the accusation has been made and trial and conviction are being bypassed I can go directly to punishing the people involved for attempting to undermine the fundamental human rights of the accused.
And this is a problem? I'd have thought lawyers would be queueing up to help. (Since it would imply that the dead can simultaneously be pursued for their debts. IANAL in my country, let alone anyone else's.)
Not one OSHA regulation applies. this isn't America. We have standards which I- having worked with a number of American safety-responsible personnel - think are generally tighter. Those standards are designed by the Health And Safety Executuve and are enforced with the power of the criminal law. Directors of companies do get jailed for breaches on occasion, and HSE inspectors who achieve that are very happy to have achieved it.
Let me guess - you're an American?
It's the way that you think there is a single place called "the rest of the world", and that it is a homogeneous, uniform place defined by it's not being America. Hint: there is human variation outside your experience of your home country. (Actually, there is probably more variation in your home country than you are aware. How many of your country's native languages can you at least read?)