Huge amounts of coal are used in Germany for making steel and cement. Not entirely sure how much - hard to google the numbers - but the steel companies in particular aren't going to like it. They rely on cheap electrical power to run arc furnaces as well as using roughly a quarter of the coal directly.
Absolutely agree. Going to China made me realise how dependent we'd become on a very few communications service providers, all of which have government hooks deeply embedded. Worse, the West has an open season on corporate information gathering and trading schemes using said services.
In China, I used WeChat because it is used for every damn thing over there. However, on my return I became very keen on promoting Open Whisper Systems' Signal, using DuckDuckGo.com instead of Google, abandoning Facebook except for communication with uneducated family members, and not physically taking my data through borders in any recognisable form.
Not much bleeding point in having the most secure voting software in the universe if the client's OS or GUI is compromised. This is what TOR users found out when the NSA broke not the TOR network, but simply hacked the user's browsers and got them to betray themselves.
Forget the infotainment/bugging crap - we have that already and it's called a smartphone. What we need is Open Source and Open Standard systems for controlling the car and - new kid on the block - battery management.
Real hardware and software already exist in projects like Tumanako which even have the foresight to integrate with distributed power generation systems. But no, big auto manufacturers still focusing on bling that will date faster than a Miley Cyrus video.
It's made from sugarbeet, milk waste, and current pilot plants are looking at cellulosic production piggybacking on ethanol research. Only in the US where agricultural subsidies encourage it is it made from maize. That's a political problem, not a biological problem.
If anyone is interested, the http://asi.org/ site is still there. Would've cost the same as 4 shuttle flights and left a permanent base on the moon. But nooooo.
What's changed? Well, now there's even less money spare...
Governments are scared of technology that allows people to be creative, particularly if they can share that creativity. It fosters an independent spirit, and that's something that questions authority.
Not just a Saudi problem - Obama thinks snooping on messages is just fine and dandy as long as it is not done to members of his Master Race. So far. May I once more bring people's attention to the Open and Free SMS encryption via the Textsecure Android app, and the disaster- (and government-) resistant mesh networking of Project Byzantium which now runs on a Raspberry Pi. They are becoming more and more relevant, and soon we shall have to switch to darknets to do anything non-commercial. Get with the program early, folks.
The inevitable next step by Kim Dotcom's Mega.co.nz's completely encrypted file sharing is completely encrypted messaging. When that takes off, Google's evil practice of not encrypting mail will be left for dust. They're going to lose a lot of customers unless they decide to jump first. Which, as you can see, will lose them more revenue.
You could always, you know, buy all their cheap solar panels? Or do what I do and make better products rather than cheaper ones. No need to fight them, just take the right road. That's how come I end up exporting plastic to China.
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"Remember when teenagers all designed their own patches and made their own clothes? Oh right, never happened."
I call bullshit. Did happen lots. Still happens. Happens more the further back you go and the poorer you get. Just doesn't apply to rich white folks anymore.
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I have a few reservations, and big disclaimer here - I make 3D printer filament. The main one is that the tiniest bit of crap in your plastic will inevitably find your printer's nozzle pinhole. If it does not fit through, you will block.
The other is that the machine does not yet seem to be fully functional and they're already welding up all the pretty boxes. Priorities, guys.
Adverts are little attention-getters that push buttons to make you do things you don't want to do. It could be that they're causing us to do a number of other weird things too as a side effect - like get unreasonably violent and agressive. This is of particular suspicion in the US where foreigners meeting US advertisements for the first time get a big culture shock. Could this "Shock! Get yours now!" subliminal message be driving roberies, greed, rape and other undesirable behaviour, which let's face it is over-abundant in the US?
With 3D printers being able to print gun magazines now as well as firearm components, I strongly suspect that the silly little law on high capacity magazines will be irrelevant within a year or so.
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Huge amounts of coal are used in Germany for making steel and cement. Not entirely sure how much - hard to google the numbers - but the steel companies in particular aren't going to like it. They rely on cheap electrical power to run arc furnaces as well as using roughly a quarter of the coal directly.
PS One thing I didn't get in China was spam.
Absolutely agree. Going to China made me realise how dependent we'd become on a very few communications service providers, all of which have government hooks deeply embedded. Worse, the West has an open season on corporate information gathering and trading schemes using said services.
In China, I used WeChat because it is used for every damn thing over there. However, on my return I became very keen on promoting Open Whisper Systems' Signal, using DuckDuckGo.com instead of Google, abandoning Facebook except for communication with uneducated family members, and not physically taking my data through borders in any recognisable form.
The link in that article goes to goldseek.com, which has dick all to do with Uber trucks.
What is going on here? Are that many people really ranting without clicking on the link, or has it been subsequently hacked?
Not much bleeding point in having the most secure voting software in the universe if the client's OS or GUI is compromised. This is what TOR users found out when the NSA broke not the TOR network, but simply hacked the user's browsers and got them to betray themselves.
You can telnet into most Huawei/Vodafone DSL modems with admin/{VF-}[Countrycode]hg[ModelId] through the ethernet port...
Forget the infotainment/bugging crap - we have that already and it's called a smartphone. What we need is Open Source and Open Standard systems for controlling the car and - new kid on the block - battery management.
Real hardware and software already exist in projects like Tumanako which even have the foresight to integrate with distributed power generation systems. But no, big auto manufacturers still focusing on bling that will date faster than a Miley Cyrus video.
I presume someone is planning offensive capabilities to get the fuunding?
Vik :v)
It's made from sugarbeet, milk waste, and current pilot plants are looking at cellulosic production piggybacking on ethanol research. Only in the US where agricultural subsidies encourage it is it made from maize. That's a political problem, not a biological problem.
If anyone is interested, the http://asi.org/ site is still there. Would've cost the same as 4 shuttle flights and left a permanent base on the moon. But nooooo.
What's changed? Well, now there's even less money spare...
Governments are scared of technology that allows people to be creative, particularly if they can share that creativity. It fosters an independent spirit, and that's something that questions authority.
They make ceramic ball bearings which allegedly work fine in primitive non-metallic muzzle-loaders.
Not just a Saudi problem - Obama thinks snooping on messages is just fine and dandy as long as it is not done to members of his Master Race. So far. May I once more bring people's attention to the Open and Free SMS encryption via the Textsecure Android app, and the disaster- (and government-) resistant mesh networking of Project Byzantium which now runs on a Raspberry Pi. They are becoming more and more relevant, and soon we shall have to switch to darknets to do anything non-commercial. Get with the program early, folks.
So who is going to bother putting a serial number on a 3D printer thant their 3D printer just printed?
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My fears exactly.
The inevitable next step by Kim Dotcom's Mega.co.nz's completely encrypted file sharing is completely encrypted messaging. When that takes off, Google's evil practice of not encrypting mail will be left for dust. They're going to lose a lot of customers unless they decide to jump first. Which, as you can see, will lose them more revenue.
You could always, you know, buy all their cheap solar panels? Or do what I do and make better products rather than cheaper ones. No need to fight them, just take the right road. That's how come I end up exporting plastic to China.
Vik :v)
"Remember when teenagers all designed their own patches and made their own clothes? Oh right, never happened."
I call bullshit. Did happen lots. Still happens. Happens more the further back you go and the poorer you get. Just doesn't apply to rich white folks anymore.
VIk :v)
I have a few reservations, and big disclaimer here - I make 3D printer filament. The main one is that the tiniest bit of crap in your plastic will inevitably find your printer's nozzle pinhole. If it does not fit through, you will block.
The other is that the machine does not yet seem to be fully functional and they're already welding up all the pretty boxes. Priorities, guys.
If the idea is to make it understand and converse with real humans, teach it not to swear inapropriately.
If you can't figure out when it is apropriate or not, leave the fucking program to it.
Vik :v)
Adverts are little attention-getters that push buttons to make you do things you don't want to do. It could be that they're causing us to do a number of other weird things too as a side effect - like get unreasonably violent and agressive. This is of particular suspicion in the US where foreigners meeting US advertisements for the first time get a big culture shock. Could this "Shock! Get yours now!" subliminal message be driving roberies, greed, rape and other undesirable behaviour, which let's face it is over-abundant in the US?
The more that is done to supress them the better.
They took it down for cleaning then?
Reminds me of Occupy protests...
With 3D printers being able to print gun magazines now as well as firearm components, I strongly suspect that the silly little law on high capacity magazines will be irrelevant within a year or so.
The first to blog about it, you mean. I strongly suspect completely plastic single-use firearms have been 3D printed for some time.
So, seeing as the human body needs to ingest roughly 35% of its essential substances because it can't make them, where do humans fit on your scale?