Some bright boy already did - basically to put all the waste in front of a cyclotron beam; the recoverable energy, even if not at break-even for every type of waste, still makes the process humongously cheaper than all the bulk-storage or escape-velocity based solutions.
"Waaagh! Who am I? What's my purpose in life? Calm down, get a grip now..ooh, this is an interesting sensation!..."
"...so many things to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation... or is it the wind? Hey' there really is a lot of that now, isn't there? And what's this thing coming up at me very, very fast, so big, and wide, it needs a big, wide sort of name like wow -- rou -- round -- Ground! That's it! GROUND!... I wonder if it'll be friends with me?"
In Northern CA we have neighborhoods full of '60s houses dubbed "Eichlers". They use this method of heating.
When the pipes leak, you have a jackhammering road crew in your living room to fix them.
They also have huge glass windows all around most of the outer walls. Lets in a lot of light, lets out a lot of IR and heated air. Obviously designed when gas and oil were 3 cents/ton.
The things he DID mention are indeed rife with quackery; go reread the list.
The 'organic' label just means the farmer used traditional non-factory non-synthetic-chemical means to nourish the crops. The crud that gets into our food in the name of profit (does anyone think DES or polonium are food groups?) does indeed cause some people acute problems. More importantly, factory farming methods create artificially low prices by sloughing off ecological expenses as 'external costs' - ADM, Allis-Chalmers, Monsanto, etc. don't get billed for the millions of tons of topsoil that washes uselessly down the Mississippi every year.
With organic farming, you get real feedback as to whether your enterprise is sustainable. Trash the land, and your farm won't produce. Pumping up your 'stock value' (crop production) with external nutrients and usurped water will just lead to an Enron-style crash of your system (farm/environment). If that happens, it's more than retirement accounts that suddenly contain nothing - it's a few billion hungry tummies asking where 'America's Breadbasket' went.
Malcolm X said, "You do not stick a knife into a man nine inches, then pull it out six inches, and call it progress.".
P2P networks and other network providers are common carriers. Phone companies do not pro-actively work to
prevent the use of phones for commission of crimes; police radios are legal even if crooks use them to evade the police.
The 'major use' of P2P may or may not become infringing file sharing, but the world and the
economy may never know if these buggy-whip mfr.'s
persist in grinding their heels into our rights and wallets.
This is the largest peril likely to emerge from this
clusterfsck. (A poor, bored population is more likely to go along with fascism, after all.) Hopefully the prospect of becoming economic roadkill will help the Congrescritters pick their slack-jawed faces up out of their oatmeal long enough to limit this.
Anybody remember the old SNL skit about the phone company and a particularly rude operator.
"Were the phone company, we don't care"
Rita Pearlman, if I remember right. Man that was a funny skit. Good opening.
Nope. Lily Tomlin, doing a reprise of 'Ernestine', the Bell Telephone operator character she created on Laugh-In in the '60s and '70s. If you're in SF, go see Jane Wagner's Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, or look for it when it hits your town. Lily is brilliant in it.
CERN already has a good way to 'burn' radionuclides
into less harmful stuff - throw it in front of a
cyclotron beam. This produces a good net energy
gain in the bargain, and all the tech is quite
prosaic by high-energy research standards.
...unless you can keep DNA itself out of your taco shells?
Little can stop whoever wants to from reading the DNA code in product X, replicating it, and reverse-engineering it. Monsanto can't pull a M$ by embracing and extending the encoding (ACGT) or protocol (chromosomes) and making them 'incompatible'. And the reverse engineers can take out the jellyfish-glow or whatever components make the stuff identifiable from a distance, thus no Colombian spray-plane crop-clobbering is really feasible.
What are the implications of competition using an extensible language which results in source that will always stay open in every product? Even denaturing will have limited use, since the proteins we want would likewise get offed in many cases.
.... created with the more traditional genetic modification methods - 'breeding' and 'hybridization'.
You're essentially trusting your health to the tender mercies of phage viruses and plant and animal chemical defenses, the end product of a no-holds-barred chemical weapons war which has raged unchecked over the surface of our planet for billions of years.
If you really want to protect yourself ( including the environment in which you have parity with the critters' predatory abilities ), then militate against unrestricted air and ship travel - demand that they get decontaminated as if they were returning from another biologically active planet. All humans have done is defeat space-separation barriers between these smaller areas of battle, precipitating tests of their particular biochem technologies on novel ecosystems.
Oh, and we've insisted that these nanowarriors travel by chewing our way willy-nilly through wild areas without any bio-reconnaissance. Want some kudzu with your walking catfish? Dig in before the
West Nile Virus or Brazilian purpuric fever get you.
>Still, it's an intriguing datapoint and there's probably a couple of Ph.Ds that could be earned via a study of the correlation between "violent" media influences and
people born in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s.
An interesting study in that vein can be found
here. It's an excellent examination of some basic pleasure/pain biases that the PMRC types seemed to overlook as they 'wimpified' the media while pulling threatening numbers out of their ass to support the War on Some Drugs.
Think of all those folks you may have known who share/borrow WinDisks for the drearily frequent reinstall rituals. Suddenly that doesn't work; who in their right mind assumes that they'll just go and start shelling out for EACH AND EVERY copy on EACH AND EVERY machine? Micros~1 gets a nawful lot of free tech support from those of us who take pity on Aunt Tillie and our drinking buddies and help them navigate Winders. Now all those altruists are going to buy an E-ticket for each session AND donate their time? Hah.
Not before taking a gander at free ( as in beer )software - they've already had to learn a bit to start with, and the installs get easier all the time. I intend to start volunteering my Linux and OpenBSD skills around the neighborhood - I've done a whole *one* install of each ( lookit me admin!:) But that's enough. In a month, I'll know MTA's; in a few more, I'll know firewalling and networking. And a legion of AOLusers will just be stumbling out into the sunlight....
"Remember, brethren, that no man's opinion is worth a sack of weed" - Brigham Young
Solid examples here, people. What could a publisher do to "ride the internet wave" and become a better company? That's not rhetorical or sarcastic, I'm seriously interested in replies.
Okay, how's this: Get all of Marketing in a meeting. Pair up each of the oldest employees with three of the youngest employees. Send each group to a different bar in the neighborhood ( remember to leave the cellphones in the office, and shuck off the suit coats ).
The oldest employees will only listen; the rest will buy the first five people they see a drink, sit down with them, and ask what they want. Not from their company, or product line, or country club - just what they want to see in the world to help them get by. (Generally, you'll hear that they want the mostest for the cheapest, so if your co. can't provide that, go back and cut costs until you can. The Net allows effortless comparison shopping.)
Make sure the older ones learn from the others' communication styles, and that the younger ones learn from the elders' poker skills. Any group that comes back and can't provide a set of ideas which improve the bottom line in six months are deadwood - get rid of them. Otherwise they'll poison the company over time with the (justified!) perception that Marketing==clueless. Those remaining should cause serious jolts and shudders in the corporate culture.
The problem with altering the nature of publishing houses (be they paper, film, record, whatever) is that they're hocking _two_ products:
<pedantic> This is a very important point, but you mean 'hawking' - the other refers to a pawnshop transaction. </pedantic>
Longtime AC, first logged-in post. Was I supposed to have a.sig?
Slashdot Mirror
It's happened before.
Check out the Gipper's Karma.
Energy Amplifier
Some bright boy already did - basically to put all the waste in front of a cyclotron beam; the recoverable energy, even if not at break-even for every type of waste, still makes the process humongously cheaper than all the bulk-storage or escape-velocity based solutions.
"...so many things to look forward to, I'm quite dizzy with anticipation
And the downside of this is
When the pipes leak, you have a jackhammering road crew in your living room to fix them.
They also have huge glass windows all around most of the outer walls. Lets in a lot of light, lets out a lot of IR and heated air. Obviously designed when gas and oil were 3 cents/ton.
The 'organic' label just means the farmer used traditional non-factory non-synthetic-chemical means to nourish the crops. The crud that gets into our food in the name of profit (does anyone think DES or polonium are food groups?) does indeed cause some people acute problems. More importantly, factory farming methods create artificially low prices by sloughing off ecological expenses as 'external costs' - ADM, Allis-Chalmers, Monsanto, etc. don't get billed for the millions of tons of topsoil that washes uselessly down the Mississippi every year.
With organic farming, you get real feedback as to whether your enterprise is sustainable. Trash the land, and your farm won't produce. Pumping up your 'stock value' (crop production) with external nutrients and usurped water will just lead to an Enron-style crash of your system (farm/environment). If that happens, it's more than retirement accounts that suddenly contain nothing - it's a few billion hungry tummies asking where 'America's Breadbasket' went.
Malcolm X said, "You do not stick a knife into a man nine inches, then pull it out six inches, and call it progress.".
P2P networks and other network providers are common carriers. Phone companies do not pro-actively work to
prevent the use of phones for commission of crimes; police radios are legal even if crooks use them to evade the police.
The 'major use' of P2P may or may not become infringing file sharing, but the world and the
economy may never know if these buggy-whip mfr.'s
persist in grinding their heels into our rights and wallets.
This is the largest peril likely to emerge from this
clusterfsck. (A poor, bored population is more likely to go along with fascism, after all.) Hopefully the prospect of becoming economic roadkill will help the Congrescritters pick their slack-jawed faces up out of their oatmeal long enough to limit this.
The concentration's too low. You need Southern Comfort, Yukon Jack, or brandy...
Nope. Lily Tomlin, doing a reprise of 'Ernestine', the Bell Telephone operator character she created on Laugh-In in the '60s and '70s. If you're in SF, go see Jane Wagner's Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, or look for it when it hits your town. Lily is brilliant in it.
You're right, Slashdot does make me feel old.
CERN already has a good way to 'burn' radionuclides
into less harmful stuff - throw it in front of a
cyclotron beam. This produces a good net energy
gain in the bargain, and all the tech is quite
prosaic by high-energy research standards.
Google up the
Energy Amplifier by Prof Carlo Rubbia.
Acts of war are generally excluded from insurance policies. Read yours, and reflect on the corporate donations to political campaigns ...
There's a reasonable Behe critique here.
Little can stop whoever wants to from reading the DNA code in product X, replicating it, and reverse-engineering it. Monsanto can't pull a M$ by embracing and extending the encoding (ACGT) or protocol (chromosomes) and making them 'incompatible'. And the reverse engineers can take out the jellyfish-glow or whatever components make the stuff identifiable from a distance, thus no Colombian spray-plane crop-clobbering is really feasible.
What are the implications of competition using an extensible language which results in source that will always stay open in every product? Even denaturing will have limited use, since the proteins we want would likewise get offed in many cases.
.... created with the more traditional genetic modification methods - 'breeding' and 'hybridization'.
You're essentially trusting your health to the tender mercies of phage viruses and plant and animal chemical defenses, the end product of a no-holds-barred chemical weapons war which has raged unchecked over the surface of our planet for billions of years.
If you really want to protect yourself ( including the environment in which you have parity with the critters' predatory abilities ), then militate against unrestricted air and ship travel - demand that they get decontaminated as if they were returning from another biologically active planet. All humans have done is defeat space-separation barriers between these smaller areas of battle, precipitating tests of their particular biochem technologies on novel ecosystems.
Oh, and we've insisted that these nanowarriors travel by chewing our way willy-nilly through wild areas without any bio-reconnaissance. Want some kudzu with your walking catfish? Dig in before the West Nile Virus or Brazilian purpuric fever get you.
Bon appetit, and here's to absinthe friends.
"The best way to deal with a Silastic Armorfiend is just to lock him in a room alone, because he would eventually beat himself up."
--Life, the Universe, and Everything.
RIP, Mr. Adams. So long, and thanks for all the laughs.
If one takes that 'most central' verb and rips it out of the English language, I find that one's language and thought improves.
An interesting study in that vein can be found here. It's an excellent examination of some basic pleasure/pain biases that the PMRC types seemed to overlook as they 'wimpified' the media while pulling threatening numbers out of their ass to support the War on Some Drugs.
That's actually
'ecuas yrrebnarC'.Lennon said so in a Rolling Stone interview (published six months after his death).
How did the traditional media, once a populist, working-class information medium, fall so totally, even suicidally, in love with themselves?
Katz, the answer to that one is taped to your back like a 'Kick Me' sign. Happy hunting.
Favorite typo: "pulications". Indeed.Think of all those folks you may have known who share/borrow WinDisks for the drearily frequent reinstall rituals. Suddenly that doesn't work; who in their right mind assumes that they'll just go and start shelling out for EACH AND EVERY copy on EACH AND EVERY machine? Micros~1 gets a nawful lot of free tech support from those of us who take pity on Aunt Tillie and our drinking buddies and help them navigate Winders. Now all those altruists are going to buy an E-ticket for each session AND donate their time? Hah.
Not before taking a gander at free ( as in beer )software - they've already had to learn a bit to start with, and the installs get easier all the time. I intend to start volunteering my Linux and OpenBSD skills around the neighborhood - I've done a whole *one* install of each ( lookit me admin! :) But that's enough. In a month, I'll know MTA's; in a few more, I'll know firewalling and networking. And a legion of AOLusers will just be stumbling out into the sunlight....
"Remember, brethren, that no man's opinion is worth a sack of weed" - Brigham Young
Okay, how's this:
Get all of Marketing in a meeting. Pair up each of the oldest employees with three of the youngest employees. Send each group to a different bar in the neighborhood ( remember to leave the cellphones in the office, and shuck off the suit coats ).
The oldest employees will only listen; the rest will buy the first five people they see a drink, sit down with them, and ask what they want. Not from their company, or product line, or country club - just what they want to see in the world to help them get by. (Generally, you'll hear that they want the mostest for the cheapest, so if your co. can't provide that, go back and cut costs until you can. The Net allows effortless comparison shopping.)
Make sure the older ones learn from the others' communication styles, and that the younger ones learn from the elders' poker skills. Any group that comes back and can't provide a set of ideas which improve the bottom line in six months are deadwood - get rid of them. Otherwise they'll poison the company over time with the (justified!) perception that Marketing==clueless. Those remaining should cause serious jolts and shudders in the corporate culture.
The problem with altering the nature of publishing houses (be they paper, film, record, whatever) is that they're hocking _two_ products:
<pedantic>
This is a very important point, but you mean 'hawking' - the other refers to a pawnshop transaction.
</pedantic>
Longtime AC, first logged-in post. Was I supposed to have a .sig?