Sure. Although I'll add, that the US gets as much sun as Australia in places, same too (and infact perhaps moreso) with asia and africa.
But the point being that if in finland and scotland hydro makes sense, then it means its viable. Wind yeah. Not too sure about waste combustion with the greenhouse thing, but then maybe so.
Either way, petrochemical industries have a ticket on em. Gotta go and no ifs nor buts. I think nuclear should always be treated as a drastic last resort. The dangers are astronomical (think chenobyl). But if its drastic, then.... ack. dont like.:)
But in terms of losing carbon industry. The choice is pretty stark. Do it (cos we know how and have no excuse) or face a slow choking apocalypse. Yes its that serious.
Well. I was involved in design for a project called 'pitcam' that involved a camera system for blowing up mining pits where humans best not be. We had , maybe 4 panels generating perhaps 30amps 240v in crap weather. With wise energy usage, thats plenty. (I think.. its been a while.. mighta been 24v which of course is completely diferent math)
I might also add in the Northwest, airconditioning can be vital to not dying. So yeah power consumption can be high.
At the university I'm attached to, theres a renewable energy research centre that researches solar and wind energy. Those cats are getting ridiculous amounts of energy out of small solar installations. One guy there estimated for me it probably costs about $15 to make a solar panel and he described the manufacturers as making 'free money'.
I'm a west australian, and I'll tell you this. Solar is ready to go NOW.
Up in the north of WA, we have a fair amount of mining, and reeeeeeealy remote towns (like towns with 500k spacings between each one and just desert in between) , and many many aboriginal communities with perhaps 20 members and the like.
Through necesity, alot of these places are using solar energy, simply because it isnt feasible to stick all that copper around the place. This includes mining btw which is verry energy intensive.
There are folks up there also using 'bio diesel', which is basically canola oil + ethanol + an agent to 'crack' the oil (dont ask me what that means, cos I dont know either!) since its cheaper to make diesel then to drive it there.
You can get a handfull of large solar panels , chuck it on the roof, stick it thru a 240w inverter and blammo. You dont have to pay power bills again (factor in 10 batteries every 5 years tho).
It can be done, we just need to get off our ass and do it. In some parts of the north west of australia, solar is the rule, not the exception.
A funny take on this was taken by RTmark who once put a $10,000 (I think) reward for the first judge to sentence a corporation to death , on the basis that if a corporation has the same rights as a living breathing human, then it ought to face the same responsibilities and peril.
I believe the brits actuall can do this with 'wind up orders'.
do you honestly believe any company is not interested in guerilla-advertising?
Not sure which mod smoked crack and decided above comment was flamebait. Theres still a corpus of truth to it in some way.
Most companies , given the chance, would love it if spam/popups/whatever worked and didnt irritate the living shit out folks. *however* that does NOT mean the same-said company knows full well it pisses off customers and therefore won't go near it with a ten foot pole.
Personally, popup ads will tend to mean I'll never buy something from the company, both on principle (stop shitting over my desktop popup advertisers!) and because I worry about the potential ethics of said company (if they are prepared to kick my door in and force me to watch ads, will they run off with my wallet also?). However from time to time, I'll click out of curiosity on a tasteful non intrusive banner, specifically the google style text ones that arent in the face and are informative.
Alot of dot coms are wising up to this and are using 'guerilla advertising' methods that wont piss me off.
I'd like one of these days to see something like a consumers manifesto; sorta like
I The customer do declare I will NOT buy your stuff when you;- 1) Spam me 2) Open up windows I do not want 3) Show my children pornography 4) Take over my screen 5) Crap on my psyche 6) Treat me like an idiot. Follow these rules and I may, just may, buy your widget! Break these rules and forever lose my custom. Signed;- Joe consumer.
Whatya think? Maybe its time customers made OUR rules for 'guerilla marketing'?
I'm no MS fan, but I call bullshit on the claim about the open source base.
While I believe there was some 'dumpster diving' by the teenage gates to learn a little about coding various things, it was basically a hack job of him and paul allen on an emulator whacking together assembler for the soon-to-be altair.
or to put it another way.... It was assembler code and there was no where to steal the code from cos the platform didnt exist yet.
Now more interesting;- did bill pay the bill(lol) for all that borrowed mainframe time;)
Perhaps microsoft is exploring a little. Just trying out a few things. Theres every chance microsoft has noticed that foss AINT going away, and in some areas (apache) foss is even eating them alive.
Perhaps microsoft is just getting a feel of how it works, so they can respond better to it and/or even participate. Of course these little libraries are a good start, since code is code and perhaps naturally suited to such things.
No. Its the ultimate human rights issue. You cant violate a humans rights anymore than by killing them.
Think about what sort of person would volentarily enter a contract with the clause "Disobey us and we murder you". Well thats what Americans are forced into with the US govt.
Its really only the US (And perhaps its citizens? Doubt it tho) that still think its acceptable to kill citizens as part of running a modern state. Most modern state accept murder as unnaceptable for state function.
I note from a +1 comment to my grandparent state , turkey has infact now abolished it.
I believe china has started winding back executions drastically.
So really its the US thats gotta hurry up and wind up killin its people. Cos it'll put the US in a whacky situation when even china is able to claim a better human rights record.
I believe turkeys working on it. Still some outstanding issues such as cyprus and a few issues to be worked out. Also I believe turkey may still (I might be wrong, someone correct me) execute people, which most western countries consider barbaric (except strangely the US govt which has an unusually horrifying attitude to executions, which is the main reason verry few outside the US takes america seriously when they talk human rights. ie get em for your people, before talkin to us about our people).
So turkey has not too far to go. Switzerland has constitutional reasons (its bound to be neutral) for opting out.
I also think you'll find the EU is primarily a west euroupe thing thats over time growing to encompass east europe. Heck I read somewhere once that cuba wanted in(!!).
If a superior officer orders a private or whatever to go and whack a village , then I'd dearly hope the private would be prepared to take a stand and say 'No sir, thats a violation of the geneva convention, and therefore my orders.'
Of course I'm not a soldier and have no idea what sort of preasure comes to bear on a dissenting soldier. Not everyone has the moral fortitude to disobey a corrupt officer, particularly when some armies have been known to shoot disenters.
Yes. the dipshits in that prison deserve SEVERE justice for what theyve done to those iraqis.
Listen brother, I hear ya, but I gotta call you on what you say about soldiers.
I'm a pretty much full time activists, marched in every rally and honetly man, I cried when the troops went it.
But I've also sat and drank with american soldiers visiting my country and you know, for the most part there all pretty good kids (silly buggers on the piss tho, hint to us servicemen reading this: Dont get pissed and start punch ups in foreign ports, the locals HATE it).
I remeber sittign down with a couple of lonely marines after they offered to buy some of us locals some drinks, and I asked about the backgrounds, turns out alot of these guys come from lower class backgrounds, and do basically believe in apple pie, momma and the american way.
Now this isnt a malicious thing. These guys believe there there to A) Get a carreer which AINT pushing shopping trolleys at walmart, B) Do good things for people.
The problem is , the brass at the top taking these guys honest passion for things for whatever the freakin PNAC agenda or conservative 'one true way' is.
But dont hastle private joe bloggs about that man. Hes just doing his job, and chances are , when he steps off that carrier back home he'll be feeling fucked up and angry.
My generation saw what vietnam and the resulting 'spittin on the soldiers' did to our dads generation. we've been beaten around, had absent alcoholic dads, watched the big daddies in our lives turned into emotional messes when we needed them to be strong for us.
Lets not do that to these guys. When they get off feeling all fucked up and angry, buy the brother a beer.. He'll tell you whats *really* going on, and the peace people will be stronger for it.
*NEVER* forget the human costs of politics. Bother the killtoll of war and the headtoll of an angry unfocused oposition.
I disagree. (And I'll up an ante on this one, I've spent 8 years at uni doing journalism at an academic level;)
Katz is a feature writer as oposed to standard journalist. Theres not really the same sort of expectations working there. Truth's a little more subjective, the opinion is eleveated, and flowery language is an asset.
Sure he wasnt always writing he-said she-said reverse pyramid journo-drone, but he had something to say.
I have a suspicion that he touched too sore a nerdy nerve on his hellmouth series, and eventually became the target of the verry bullying he was trying to fight against.
I had an uncle who died from a melanoma. While he was fighting it, he had a goodbye letter he was working on over time in ms word, which he encrypted with a password.
his plan was to take the password off at the last minute.
Unfortunately he kinda just croaked oneday and the file was still encrypted. I was given the file and it took me nearly two weeks to unencrypt it with the help of a haXor friend from uni.
was quite a sad letter really. I dont think he wanted to die.
:) Yeah. Me too. I think the old Dick Smith Wizards (creativision rarity. my first pc) 16k basic led to many years of nerditude for me. However I freking aced algebra in my eightrh year of school as I was already doing matrix when the other kiddies where learning why "a" can mean a number. Now at 30 I'm still amazed at how damn smart kids are. I have little cousins making 3d engines in junior high and stuff. Great stuff.
Now onto the topic. In media theory theres this idea of "paedocracy" , kind of 'by the children for the children'' And it essentially describes the medias prediclition to treat adults as children on the basis that the mysterious view *might* just be that dumn. Spelling *I think* commented that his model viewer was a retarded 12 year old. Of course this just makes for dumb adults.
In many respects theres a danger of doing this with 'easy' computers. But its not sooooo bad. I use at home Xandros debian , for two reasons. First off, my family is still capable of using it. Secondly there is *still* under the hood debian. Best of both worlds really:) A similar thing can be said of OS/X as well.
Compare that to windows. Generally its pretty easy (asuming the damn thing *works*) to do the basics needed. But try getting into the kernel parameters without a hell mess of H_KEY_ARCANE_REGISTERY_TWEAKS.
Haha. Yeah I was kinda thinking there was a bit of a buzzword overload there..
That said , I think they missed the bit about it using "XML compliant Strategic Webservice Failover Product placements + Redundant steak knives!!"
Aint it scary tho, when you read articles like that, and despite having years of IT deep-fried knowledge, you'd probably have to pass it to marketing to decode it.
Any why do we have hospital records on computers attached to the internet? I bet you're the kind of guy who believes that you can ssh into nuke1.usaf.gov, login as root:h4xx0r and./nuke pakistan right?
I didn't know worms were so powerful now that they could melt a computer into a pile of toxic sludge. : / I gather you never came across the bios flasher horrors of about ten years ago. *THEY* where evil viruses. Not that this is one of em.:)
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Sure. Although I'll add, that the US gets as much sun as Australia in places, same too (and infact perhaps moreso) with asia and africa.
.... ack. dont like. :)
But the point being that if in finland and scotland hydro makes sense, then it means its viable. Wind yeah. Not too sure about waste combustion with the greenhouse thing, but then maybe so.
Either way, petrochemical industries have a ticket on em. Gotta go and no ifs nor buts. I think nuclear should always be treated as a drastic last resort. The dangers are astronomical (think chenobyl). But if its drastic, then
But in terms of losing carbon industry. The choice is pretty stark. Do it (cos we know how and have no excuse) or face a slow choking apocalypse. Yes its that serious.
Well. I was involved in design for a project called 'pitcam' that involved a camera system for blowing up mining pits where humans best not be. We had , maybe 4 panels generating perhaps 30amps 240v in crap weather. With wise energy usage, thats plenty. (I think.. its been a while.. mighta been 24v which of course is completely diferent math)
I might also add in the Northwest, airconditioning can be vital to not dying. So yeah power consumption can be high.
At the university I'm attached to, theres a renewable energy research centre that researches solar and wind energy. Those cats are getting ridiculous amounts of energy out of small solar installations. One guy there estimated for me it probably costs about $15 to make a solar panel and he described the manufacturers as making 'free money'.
Go figure.
I'm a west australian, and I'll tell you this. Solar is ready to go NOW.
Up in the north of WA, we have a fair amount of mining, and reeeeeeealy remote towns (like towns with 500k spacings between each one and just desert in between) , and many many aboriginal communities with perhaps 20 members and the like.
Through necesity, alot of these places are using solar energy, simply because it isnt feasible to stick all that copper around the place. This includes mining btw which is verry energy intensive.
There are folks up there also using 'bio diesel', which is basically canola oil + ethanol + an agent to 'crack' the oil (dont ask me what that means, cos I dont know either!) since its cheaper to make diesel then to drive it there.
You can get a handfull of large solar panels , chuck it on the roof, stick it thru a 240w inverter and blammo. You dont have to pay power bills again (factor in 10 batteries every 5 years tho).
It can be done, we just need to get off our ass and do it. In some parts of the north west of australia, solar is the rule, not the exception.
Coffee helps
A funny take on this was taken by RTmark who once put a $10,000 (I think) reward for the first judge to sentence a corporation to death , on the basis that if a corporation has the same rights as a living breathing human, then it ought to face the same responsibilities and peril.
I believe the brits actuall can do this with 'wind up orders'.
do you honestly believe any company is not interested in guerilla-advertising?
Not sure which mod smoked crack and decided above comment was flamebait. Theres still a corpus of truth to it in some way.
Most companies , given the chance, would love it if spam/popups/whatever worked and didnt irritate the living shit out folks. *however* that does NOT mean the same-said company knows full well it pisses off customers and therefore won't go near it with a ten foot pole.
Personally, popup ads will tend to mean I'll never buy something from the company, both on principle (stop shitting over my desktop popup advertisers!) and because I worry about the potential ethics of said company (if they are prepared to kick my door in and force me to watch ads, will they run off with my wallet also?). However from time to time, I'll click out of curiosity on a tasteful non intrusive banner, specifically the google style text ones that arent in the face and are informative.
Alot of dot coms are wising up to this and are using 'guerilla advertising' methods that wont piss me off.
I'd like one of these days to see something like a consumers manifesto; sorta like
I The customer do declare I will NOT buy your stuff when you;-
1) Spam me
2) Open up windows I do not want
3) Show my children pornography
4) Take over my screen
5) Crap on my psyche
6) Treat me like an idiot.
Follow these rules and I may, just may, buy your widget! Break these rules and forever lose my custom.
Signed;- Joe consumer.
Whatya think? Maybe its time customers made OUR rules for 'guerilla marketing'?
I'm no MS fan, but I call bullshit on the claim about the open source base.
;)
While I believe there was some 'dumpster diving' by the teenage gates to learn a little about coding various things, it was basically a hack job of him and paul allen on an emulator whacking together assembler for the soon-to-be altair.
or to put it another way.... It was assembler code and there was no where to steal the code from cos the platform didnt exist yet.
Now more interesting;- did bill pay the bill(lol) for all that borrowed mainframe time
Perhaps microsoft is exploring a little. Just trying out a few things. Theres every chance microsoft has noticed that foss AINT going away, and in some areas (apache) foss is even eating them alive.
Perhaps microsoft is just getting a feel of how it works, so they can respond better to it and/or even participate. Of course these little libraries are a good start, since code is code and perhaps naturally suited to such things.
No. Its the ultimate human rights issue. You cant violate a humans rights anymore than by killing them.
Think about what sort of person would volentarily enter a contract with the clause "Disobey us and we murder you". Well thats what Americans are forced into with the US govt.
Its really only the US (And perhaps its citizens? Doubt it tho) that still think its acceptable to kill citizens as part of running a modern state. Most modern state accept murder as unnaceptable for state function.
I note from a +1 comment to my grandparent state , turkey has infact now abolished it.
I believe china has started winding back executions drastically.
So really its the US thats gotta hurry up and wind up killin its people. Cos it'll put the US in a whacky situation when even china is able to claim a better human rights record.
I believe turkeys working on it. Still some outstanding issues such as cyprus and a few issues to be worked out. Also I believe turkey may still (I might be wrong, someone correct me) execute people, which most western countries consider barbaric (except strangely the US govt which has an unusually horrifying attitude to executions, which is the main reason verry few outside the US takes america seriously when they talk human rights. ie get em for your people, before talkin to us about our people).
So turkey has not too far to go.
Switzerland has constitutional reasons (its bound to be neutral) for opting out.
I also think you'll find the EU is primarily a west euroupe thing thats over time growing to encompass east europe. Heck I read somewhere once that cuba wanted in(!!).
Well no. Thats different.
If a superior officer orders a private or whatever to go and whack a village , then I'd dearly hope the private would be prepared to take a stand and say 'No sir, thats a violation of the geneva convention, and therefore my orders.'
Of course I'm not a soldier and have no idea what sort of preasure comes to bear on a dissenting soldier. Not everyone has the moral fortitude to disobey a corrupt officer, particularly when some armies have been known to shoot disenters.
Yes. the dipshits in that prison deserve SEVERE justice for what theyve done to those iraqis.
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gifs are lossless, and the patents expired. They are now free as in speech and jpegs are not apropriate for screencaps
pngs are cool and all, but wig out some proprietry browsers
Listen brother, I hear ya, but I gotta call you on what you say about soldiers.
I'm a pretty much full time activists, marched in every rally and honetly man, I cried when the troops went it.
But I've also sat and drank with american soldiers visiting my country and you know, for the most part there all pretty good kids (silly buggers on the piss tho, hint to us servicemen reading this: Dont get pissed and start punch ups in foreign ports, the locals HATE it).
I remeber sittign down with a couple of lonely marines after they offered to buy some of us locals some drinks, and I asked about the backgrounds, turns out alot of these guys come from lower class backgrounds, and do basically believe in apple pie, momma and the american way.
Now this isnt a malicious thing. These guys believe there there to A) Get a carreer which AINT pushing shopping trolleys at walmart, B) Do good things for people.
The problem is , the brass at the top taking these guys honest passion for things for whatever the freakin PNAC agenda or conservative 'one true way' is.
But dont hastle private joe bloggs about that man. Hes just doing his job, and chances are , when he steps off that carrier back home he'll be feeling fucked up and angry.
My generation saw what vietnam and the resulting 'spittin on the soldiers' did to our dads generation. we've been beaten around, had absent alcoholic dads, watched the big daddies in our lives turned into emotional messes when we needed them to be strong for us.
Lets not do that to these guys. When they get off feeling all fucked up and angry, buy the brother a beer.. He'll tell you whats *really* going on, and the peace people will be stronger for it.
*NEVER* forget the human costs of politics. Bother the killtoll of war and the headtoll of an angry unfocused oposition.
You're a journalist and you cannot corrrectly contract "there is"?
:)
No, I said I was in academia. We use spel chekaz
I disagree. (And I'll up an ante on this one, I've spent 8 years at uni doing journalism at an academic level ;)
Katz is a feature writer as oposed to standard journalist. Theres not really the same sort of expectations working there. Truth's a little more subjective, the opinion is eleveated, and flowery language is an asset.
Sure he wasnt always writing he-said she-said reverse pyramid journo-drone, but he had something to say.
I have a suspicion that he touched too sore a nerdy nerve on his hellmouth series, and eventually became the target of the verry bullying he was trying to fight against.
Wheres jon katz you ask?
He went away after being constantly harassed and flamed by some of the adult children trolls who from time to time inhabit this place.
I thought katz was a fine writer, but clearly some folks didnt care what he had to say, only that they where offended he said it eloquently.
I had an uncle who died from a melanoma. While he was fighting it, he had a goodbye letter he was working on over time in ms word, which he encrypted with a password.
his plan was to take the password off at the last minute.
Unfortunately he kinda just croaked oneday and the file was still encrypted. I was given the file and it took me nearly two weeks to unencrypt it with the help of a haXor friend from uni.
was quite a sad letter really. I dont think he wanted to die.
:) Yeah. Me too. I think the old Dick Smith Wizards (creativision rarity. my first pc) 16k basic led to many years of nerditude for me. However I freking aced algebra in my eightrh year of school as I was already doing matrix when the other kiddies where learning why "a" can mean a number. Now at 30 I'm still amazed at how damn smart kids are. I have little cousins making 3d engines in junior high and stuff. Great stuff.
:) A similar thing can be said of OS/X as well.
Now onto the topic. In media theory theres this idea of "paedocracy" , kind of 'by the children for the children'' And it essentially describes the medias prediclition to treat adults as children on the basis that the mysterious view *might* just be that dumn. Spelling *I think* commented that his model viewer was a retarded 12 year old. Of course this just makes for dumb adults.
In many respects theres a danger of doing this with 'easy' computers. But its not sooooo bad. I use at home Xandros debian , for two reasons. First off, my family is still capable of using it. Secondly there is *still* under the hood debian. Best of both worlds really
Compare that to windows. Generally its pretty easy (asuming the damn thing *works*) to do the basics needed. But try getting into the kernel parameters without a hell mess of H_KEY_ARCANE_REGISTERY_TWEAKS.
Ugh.
I think its something on the internet.
I had a friend seriously (admitedly when drunk) claim to be calling his soon-to-be-born kid "Incredible 3D monster".
Of course he changed his mind when he sobered he said he was just talking about graphics cards.
So he settled on "Zebulon" for a boys name. Fortunately he got a daughter and mother got to chose the (sensible) name.
eek.
No I think the usage is correct , but strange.
:)
It sorta becomes a metaphor at the point like is used, but the "literally" is sorta saying "It reaaly really reaaly is like "
Also. You assume all readers here speak english as a first language. And thats a bad assumption
Haha. Yeah I was kinda thinking there was a bit of a buzzword overload there..
That said , I think they missed the bit about it using "XML compliant Strategic Webservice Failover Product placements + Redundant steak knives!!"
Aint it scary tho, when you read articles like that, and despite having years of IT deep-fried knowledge, you'd probably have to pass it to marketing to decode it.
Any why do we have hospital records on computers attached to the internet? I bet you're the kind of guy who believes that you can ssh into nuke1.usaf.gov, login as root:h4xx0r and ./nuke pakistan right?
I gather you havent worked in government.
I didn't know worms were so powerful now that they could melt a computer into a pile of toxic sludge. : /
I gather you never came across the bios flasher horrors of about ten years ago. *THEY* where evil viruses. Not that this is one of em.:)
If they wipe the disk clean they force the USER to police their own system
And with all those hospital records wiped it might clean the slate for a new master race??? Sheesh. scary attitude dude.