Then at midnight we wave our wands and voila, all cars used for personal transportation are magically converted into electrical cars, world wide, the total drop is CO2 emissions would be ZERO.
I never said that would make the difference. I said your moving the problem to a few big sources rather than lots of little ones. Once you then convert the electrical generation to a cleaner source (which isn't all that hard as France, Japan and Norway have shown us), you get to solve an even bigger chunk of the problem; a fair bit bigger than if all the cars were still petrol, around an extra 10%. Add that 10% on to the 33% that is currently coal or natural gas power and you get a 43% reduction in emissions (a majority slice of the pie). Then considering people are buying these themselves, and with electric cars getting more competitive with gas (in cost and performance) you don't even need to wave a magic wand; or have to try and covert mines and farms green, which should be much harder than buying some new power stations (which pay for them selves any way).
I'm not disagreeing with you that there are bigger issues that could be solved (the agriculture industry is the most responsible, if we could switch to vegetarian meals or in vitro grown meat it would mean a huge drop). But given a world full of electric cars, it makes solving a decent chunk of the problem a lot more feasible and considering people are buying these things with their own money it's kind of a freebie. Cleaner engergy generation is starting to happen we have more renewable energy than ever before, and even more planned. Also Nuclear is a great alternative if we weren't so afraid of each other (or if we figure out mass produced safe mini reactors) you could easily power the world till fusion gets here.
But then your moving the problem to a few big sources rather than a few billion little ones. If all the cars were electric, then you just need to switch over to a cleaner energy generation (already starting to happen; many possibilities available now, many improving, and many great possibilities on the horizon), and then you've suddenly solved a giant slice of the problem.
Most games support higher resolutions (especially crysis) so that people can run multiple monitors side by side (of course you need very decent graphics to keep up with that many pixels). The problem for this monitor wont be resolution it'll be refresh rate; 8ms is more than enough for watching video but it doesn't feel quite natural when you have control of the camera.
and while we are at it, it's not even a very good implementation. Why a big un-hindged metal bar with a little pathetic screen in the corner? go back to the drawing board Google, this is pathetic (i could have bought that, or even made it my self 5-10 years ago).
But peoples moods can be changed so easily. Fear works best, run a couple of stories about the terrible dangers of something, claim the children are in harm and bam whatever you wanted banned is banned with full support, and your a hero (maybe your political life is even extended). Problem is it's expensive, so only rich people or governments can do it.
We should be embracing this technology not running away from it. Why not make the staff all on call for half the week? Apparently they are already working from home. Spend the weekend and Monday Tuesday answering some emails, helping coworkers, planning, being on call, then Wednesday to Friday smash the office work. We would be getting more time at home, on your boat, with the kids or whatever, and i reckon we would be getting roughly the same work done. We have these little computers in our pockets that are connected to the internet pretty much where ever we go, and its mostly used for uploading pictures of food. Also i would look at my phone maybe 10 times a day, so some people must be looking at it every couple of minutes to make up for people like me.
Generally your not allowed to do electrical work your self over 50 volts (unless your a sparky; i'm an EE and i'm allowed to design it, but not install it). If some how you find an electrician who is willing to sign off on it without ever doing any work, or even looking at it; then technically it's OK, but if anything goes wrong he is in big shit (so good luck finding one, must sparkies aren't willing to risk it). In that circumstance your basically being an apprentice for the licensed electrician.
ummmm... artistic license... I may have read the article a bit quick and i apologizes for the sensationalism. Still your hardly innocent when you print a gun (already illegal without a license), find ammo, and then fire it with out any testing and safety precautions. Are you innocent if you drive your car off the road and die while trying to do some trick you read on the internet, or doing your own electrical wiring with cellotape?
That does actually make a bit of sense. Although it would be much less of a problem if they let us have some normal guns without jumping though 50 hoops (hell were not even allowed some paintball guns here).
So lets have our police lie to us instead (nothing has changed there i guess). The end doesn't justify the means, and in a lot of cases will only breed contempt/distrust.
The story always was that it was only for Victoria. I've never heard any one say it about qld and i work for a major electricity network here. Hell maybe it's not even true for vic any more, but you have to admit we have some crazy restrictive laws here; were not called the nanny country for nothing.
I just did and it didn't say anything about changing bulbs. These guys reackon a $20 fine is associated though; "Suffice to say you're unlikely to get charged for doing it today, but even if you do, the penalty's just a $20 fine. Hardly worth worrying about." http://www.weekendnotes.com/the-3-best-illegal-things-to-do-in-melbourne/
True it would be very hard to enforce, but that dosn't stop it being true. Good luck stopping people downloading stuff from the internet either though.
So this clown of a police commissioner says his greatest fear is of criminals blowing themselves up with it. Are you serious? Are you not just a little bit more worried of people with a grudge against police using it against them, or even innocent people?
All you need is around $75 000 from 100 000 people; that gives you $7.5 billion. 50, 000 acre islands are surprisingly cheap (10 -50 million); if you build shelters in a mass produced fashion or even low cost sky rise you could get the price down to around 25 000 a home (maybe 30 000 with shipping) call it $3 billion; a billion dollars gets you a lot of wind/tidal power; internet cost depends where you get the island but should be under a billion for a submarine cable; you can grow enough vegetables to support 10 people from one 40 foot shipping container with 2 kw of continual power for the hydroponics, at $5000 for 10 000 that's $50 mill; planting a 10 000 acre orchard some where wouldn't cost more than 10 million; your an island nation so coastal fish farming would make sense, maybe $50 mill; throw some cows, chickens and whatever on to 10000 acres for $50 mill; a billion in investment for maintenance and stuff like rice and soap (it's so cheap it doesn't make sense to make it your self). That all adds up to 6.21 billion, leaving 1.29 billion dollars to spend on robots to do all the boring work, gaming/film studio, engineering work shops, and arts centers. Don't think it's enough, add on $10 000 to the entry cost and you have another billion to play with ($75 000 is nothing for shelter, food, water, power, internet, greatest hacker space ever imagined, and robot slaves, for life). and it's not even controlled by an advertising giant.
The article is brief on facts but i would bet my money she has just repeated the graphene super capacitor experiment done by and explained in detail by these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEFwyoWKXo all you need is a light scribe dvd player some grpahite oxide and a dielectric.
The rules that define them need improving. It's all you must have at least 1 number, symbol and capital; but when you have a 20 something character, couple of obscure words joined together password (much easier for humans to remember bluesunsuperpartytime than 1s0stat1C) it isn't going to matter much if you put in a % sign at the end.
No one really wants to admit their weakness and most are not even aware of it. It's hard to give an example without knowing you better; but what if something like a recommendation from Linus Torvald could get you onside. When they know something like that (and there is plenty of data to find it) you can think you have complete free will all they way to giving them your credit card details.
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Then at midnight we wave our wands and voila, all cars used for personal transportation are magically converted into electrical cars, world wide, the total drop is CO2 emissions would be ZERO.
I never said that would make the difference. I said your moving the problem to a few big sources rather than lots of little ones. Once you then convert the electrical generation to a cleaner source (which isn't all that hard as France, Japan and Norway have shown us), you get to solve an even bigger chunk of the problem; a fair bit bigger than if all the cars were still petrol, around an extra 10%. Add that 10% on to the 33% that is currently coal or natural gas power and you get a 43% reduction in emissions (a majority slice of the pie). Then considering people are buying these themselves, and with electric cars getting more competitive with gas (in cost and performance) you don't even need to wave a magic wand; or have to try and covert mines and farms green, which should be much harder than buying some new power stations (which pay for them selves any way).
I'm not disagreeing with you that there are bigger issues that could be solved (the agriculture industry is the most responsible, if we could switch to vegetarian meals or in vitro grown meat it would mean a huge drop). But given a world full of electric cars, it makes solving a decent chunk of the problem a lot more feasible and considering people are buying these things with their own money it's kind of a freebie. Cleaner engergy generation is starting to happen we have more renewable energy than ever before, and even more planned. Also Nuclear is a great alternative if we weren't so afraid of each other (or if we figure out mass produced safe mini reactors) you could easily power the world till fusion gets here.
But then your moving the problem to a few big sources rather than a few billion little ones. If all the cars were electric, then you just need to switch over to a cleaner energy generation (already starting to happen; many possibilities available now, many improving, and many great possibilities on the horizon), and then you've suddenly solved a giant slice of the problem.
You just made my day sir. Bravo.
Most games support higher resolutions (especially crysis) so that people can run multiple monitors side by side (of course you need very decent graphics to keep up with that many pixels). The problem for this monitor wont be resolution it'll be refresh rate; 8ms is more than enough for watching video but it doesn't feel quite natural when you have control of the camera.
and while we are at it, it's not even a very good implementation. Why a big un-hindged metal bar with a little pathetic screen in the corner? go back to the drawing board Google, this is pathetic (i could have bought that, or even made it my self 5-10 years ago).
But peoples moods can be changed so easily. Fear works best, run a couple of stories about the terrible dangers of something, claim the children are in harm and bam whatever you wanted banned is banned with full support, and your a hero (maybe your political life is even extended). Problem is it's expensive, so only rich people or governments can do it.
We should be embracing this technology not running away from it. Why not make the staff all on call for half the week? Apparently they are already working from home. Spend the weekend and Monday Tuesday answering some emails, helping coworkers, planning, being on call, then Wednesday to Friday smash the office work. We would be getting more time at home, on your boat, with the kids or whatever, and i reckon we would be getting roughly the same work done. We have these little computers in our pockets that are connected to the internet pretty much where ever we go, and its mostly used for uploading pictures of food. Also i would look at my phone maybe 10 times a day, so some people must be looking at it every couple of minutes to make up for people like me.
Generally your not allowed to do electrical work your self over 50 volts (unless your a sparky; i'm an EE and i'm allowed to design it, but not install it). If some how you find an electrician who is willing to sign off on it without ever doing any work, or even looking at it; then technically it's OK, but if anything goes wrong he is in big shit (so good luck finding one, must sparkies aren't willing to risk it). In that circumstance your basically being an apprentice for the licensed electrician.
ummmm ... artistic license... I may have read the article a bit quick and i apologizes for the sensationalism. Still your hardly innocent when you print a gun (already illegal without a license), find ammo, and then fire it with out any testing and safety precautions. Are you innocent if you drive your car off the road and die while trying to do some trick you read on the internet, or doing your own electrical wiring with cellotape?
Your not allowed any semi-automatic rifles in Australia (were not even allowed some types of paintball guns). I don't know about the silencer.
That does actually make a bit of sense. Although it would be much less of a problem if they let us have some normal guns without jumping though 50 hoops (hell were not even allowed some paintball guns here).
So lets have our police lie to us instead (nothing has changed there i guess). The end doesn't justify the means, and in a lot of cases will only breed contempt/distrust.
The story always was that it was only for Victoria. I've never heard any one say it about qld and i work for a major electricity network here. Hell maybe it's not even true for vic any more, but you have to admit we have some crazy restrictive laws here; were not called the nanny country for nothing.
I just did and it didn't say anything about changing bulbs. These guys reackon a $20 fine is associated though; "Suffice to say you're unlikely to get charged for doing it today, but even if you do, the penalty's just a $20 fine. Hardly worth worrying about." http://www.weekendnotes.com/the-3-best-illegal-things-to-do-in-melbourne/
True it would be very hard to enforce, but that dosn't stop it being true. Good luck stopping people downloading stuff from the internet either though.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3780599&cid=43809871, i answered this other guy first.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/weird/the-worlds-strangest-laws/story-e6frev20-1111114208087
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/australia
http://www.weekendnotes.com/the-3-best-illegal-things-to-do-in-melbourne/
So this clown of a police commissioner says his greatest fear is of criminals blowing themselves up with it. Are you serious? Are you not just a little bit more worried of people with a grudge against police using it against them, or even innocent people?
i wouldn't speak too soon, this is australia after all (it's still illigal to change your own light bulb in victoria).
I'm sure the NSW police department dosn't have a gun manufacturing licence; But since when do police obey the rules any way.
All you need is around $75 000 from 100 000 people; that gives you $7.5 billion. 50, 000 acre islands are surprisingly cheap (10 -50 million); if you build shelters in a mass produced fashion or even low cost sky rise you could get the price down to around 25 000 a home (maybe 30 000 with shipping) call it $3 billion; a billion dollars gets you a lot of wind/tidal power; internet cost depends where you get the island but should be under a billion for a submarine cable; you can grow enough vegetables to support 10 people from one 40 foot shipping container with 2 kw of continual power for the hydroponics, at $5000 for 10 000 that's $50 mill; planting a 10 000 acre orchard some where wouldn't cost more than 10 million; your an island nation so coastal fish farming would make sense, maybe $50 mill; throw some cows, chickens and whatever on to 10000 acres for $50 mill; a billion in investment for maintenance and stuff like rice and soap (it's so cheap it doesn't make sense to make it your self). That all adds up to 6.21 billion, leaving 1.29 billion dollars to spend on robots to do all the boring work, gaming/film studio, engineering work shops, and arts centers. Don't think it's enough, add on $10 000 to the entry cost and you have another billion to play with ($75 000 is nothing for shelter, food, water, power, internet, greatest hacker space ever imagined, and robot slaves, for life). and it's not even controlled by an advertising giant.
The article is brief on facts but i would bet my money she has just repeated the graphene super capacitor experiment done by and explained in detail by these guys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oEFwyoWKXo all you need is a light scribe dvd player some grpahite oxide and a dielectric.
The rules that define them need improving. It's all you must have at least 1 number, symbol and capital; but when you have a 20 something character, couple of obscure words joined together password (much easier for humans to remember bluesunsuperpartytime than 1s0stat1C) it isn't going to matter much if you put in a % sign at the end.
No one really wants to admit their weakness and most are not even aware of it. It's hard to give an example without knowing you better; but what if something like a recommendation from Linus Torvald could get you onside. When they know something like that (and there is plenty of data to find it) you can think you have complete free will all they way to giving them your credit card details.