Every country in the world was run on pretty much 100% renewable energy sources until the industrial revolution. That's neither something to brag about or something to aspire to.
Renewable energy sources produce less pollution and are more sustainable than fossil fuels, why wouldn't they be something to aspire to?
Existing airbag crash sensors could be used to detect the crash. Design it to release some sort of spring-loaded jumper that disconnects the battery.
Most cars already have this (any car with an electric fuel pump), generally called an "inertia switch". I saw some evidence that Teslas have this feature as well (some forum posts) but was unable to find anything specific from the company itself in a quick search.
Sure, but on Star Trek they can arbitrarily convert energy into mass so to refuel you just tell the replicator to make a few tonnes of deuterium and then transport it into the tanks. If we had that technology then a drive that uses no reaction mass wouldn't be as important.
She can't even sign right, she did dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy! Maybe she'll claim that makes it not valid...
Yes, she used one of the two logical ways to portray a date, the other being YYYY-MM-DD. The American habit of using MM-DD-YYYY is almost as annoying as refusing to use the metric system
There is a difference between "working with authorities" and being compelled to do free work for the government by writing an exploit for your own OS. Apple was charged with no crimes and did not possess the data the government was looking for, why should they have to compromise their own security just because the FBI wants them to?
Well, John Galt sells power he generates, you don't like the price don't buy it from him. I am sure others would be happy to sell you the power they generate at lower prices.
Yep, of course it will probably cost you thousands of dollars to have them run a line from their power plant, since GaltCo certainly won't allow competitors to use their power lines. Sure, the power poles will look like this and be less safe but you're free now so you don't care about all the extra cost and risk.
Well it is rocket science. Reliability doesn't come cheap. That's why I laugh when private contractors say they can do rocket science better than nation states that have been doing it for over 60 years.
Yeah, because the spacecraft made by nation states NEVER blow up!
Why do bullets make a small hole when entering and a large hole when exiting? When something like this hits the panel at those relative velocities, the large energies involved essentially vaporize it and some of the material it hit. That vapor (probably mostly plasma at this point) is still moving very quickly. It's essentially an explosion in the panel.
The best choice, IMO, is to vote third-party; if enough people did that, they wouldn't be "third parties" any more.
Of course there will be, the voting system the US uses pretty much guarantees a two-party system. You can make one of the third parties into one of the two (just ask the Whigs) but we still will have a two party system. The only way to change this is to change the way we vote, which will never happen because the people who have the power to enact such a change directly benefit from maintaining the status quo (the same reason congressional term limits and campaign finance reform are never going to happen). If you would like to know why the two party system is a direct result of first past the post voting, this video explains it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...But I'm really starting to think internet-as-a-municipal-utility is the answer here.
Well, except for the whole direct government control of my data thing.
I have been on a municipal fiber network (UTOPIA) for the last ten years and I couldn't be happier. As far as I know, the government doesn't have anything to do with my data, they are just responsible for making sure the physical network is operational. My ISP is responsible for routing my data to the internet or other peers. I guess theoretically they could "control" my data if they really wanted to but why would my city care about my data? I'm just not seeing a motive for someone at that level of government trying to interfere with data on the network, I'm way more concerned about the feds snooping on my data and we know for that ISPs like Comcast and AT&T invite them right in. The owner of my (local) ISP has been very outspoken about free speech and net neutrality so I'm pretty sure they would resist any efforts for wholesale data harvest (although the feds can just as easily tap their upstream providers to see what's flowing off the network). And if I quit loving my current ISP, I can easily switch to a dozen others on a whim.
At least to this point the network has been stable and blazing fast. On the few occasions there have been network problems, my ISP gives full technical details about the cause of the issue and what they are doing to fix it. It's been a lot cheaper and loads faster than my previous ISP, Comcast. With cable there was constant slowdowns and I seldom, if ever, received the advertised speed. With fiber, my symmetric connection delivers exactly the speed I bought at all times of day. Granted, it's been 10 years since I last was on cable and maybe it's improved since then but it's still light years behind judging by the posts about it on Slashdot. Plus, I don't have to deal with Comcast's "Customer Service" or "Technical Support" anymore, which is worth its weight in gold.
Are you really this daft? The story posted to Slashdot RIGHT BEFORE this one is "Singapore Launches World's First 'Self-driving' Taxi Service". Also, Uber is planning on deploying autonomous cars to Pittsburgh "as soon as this month". Yes, there will be a "driver" (at least for now) but autonomous driving systems are only getting better and cheaper while human drivers keep the same skill level and get more expensive. They're not only coming, they are here today.
Well, we send a bunch of them since we just spent a metric fucktonne of money building this fancy laser, we might as well use it. At least some of them will get through.
Purchases of travel and tourism-related goods and services by international visitors traveling in the United States totaled $10.9 billion during February 2013... In the US, tourism is either the first, second, or third largest employer in 29 states... Tourists spend more money in the United States than any other country, while attracting the second-highest number of tourists
I don't think that this submission was particularly biased. Nuclear technology does get lots of subventions by the state, some of them in the form that the state takes over if there is an accident like this.
I've seen lots of MS spam lately, that's far more unpleasant to read.
This isn't handouts from the state, this is nuclear weapons waste. This is the government cleaning up after itself. It's got nothing to do with subsidies.
To be fair it looks like we are going to subsidize any type of energy production though; by allowing climate change we are collectively giving a much bigger hand out to the fossil fuel industry. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying let people off the hook for actually causing problems like this or trying to be dismissive of the actual problems, but realistically, since it looks like we're already dealing with the externalities of energy, $2 billion dollars is still less than we will be paying for fossil fuels over the long run. It still sucks, but before anyone jumps on the inevitable anti-nuclear soapbox, don't forget that we're all subsidizing energy in one way or another.
This has nothing to do with energy, this is waste from nuclear weapons production.
They do this with gas stations. Gas stations are prohibited from enumerating on their signage the taxes which the corrupt statist pigs are saddling you with.
At least in my state, all taxes are displayed on each pump. There may not be station-provided signage everywhere but it is pretty apparent how much taxes add to the cost of the fuel.
And clean up after the cows. Every barn everywhere uses a lot of water to wash out mud/waste/dirt/food/etc
Have you ever been in a barn? There isn't a lot of washing going on. Generally, there is a bunch of manure and hay on the floor, once in a while it might get shoveled out but seldom, if ever, gets washed out.
But who's going to drive it? Without enough farebox revenue to pay drivers, a lot of cities have to completely shut down bus service at night and on Sundays and major holidays. (Source: fwcitilink.com)
A computer is going to drive it. Busses are low-hanging fruit for automation.
There's already that special breed of driver who inches half way out into the intersection when they think it's about to turn
You must have better drivers around your parts then they have here. Around here, drivers creep forward when the light is red but by the time it turns green they have already lost interest and are looking at their phones or woolgathering.
By "someone who got distracted" do you mean "someone who is using their cell phone"? Every light now gets fewer cars through it per cycle because half of the people waiting for it are typing on their phones and don't notice when the car in front of them leaves. Put the fucking phone down -- nobody cares that you are getting off the highway, you don't need to post it to Facebook.
That would require Intrepid-class starships for the really useful and good holodecks, so that's quite some time into the future.
Actually, holodecks in Intrepid-class starships are notoriously unreliable and liable to tricky failure modes like "the safeguards have somehow been shut off" and "everyone in the simulation is now alive and they all want to kill me".
In this case, a woman lying bleeding, broken, and nearly dead likely qualifies as "probable cause" for arrest.
Indeed. Domestic violence might be the most common arrest police make. In many states, if there are visible injuries the law REQUIRES the police to arrest the other party. Just arrest him and call a judge to get a warrant to gather further evidence.
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I thought the PSA was "Only losers use drugs" which was quickly corrupted to "Only users lose drugs"
Every country in the world was run on pretty much 100% renewable energy sources until the industrial revolution. That's neither something to brag about or something to aspire to.
Renewable energy sources produce less pollution and are more sustainable than fossil fuels, why wouldn't they be something to aspire to?
Existing airbag crash sensors could be used to detect the crash. Design it to release some sort of spring-loaded jumper that disconnects the battery.
Most cars already have this (any car with an electric fuel pump), generally called an "inertia switch". I saw some evidence that Teslas have this feature as well (some forum posts) but was unable to find anything specific from the company itself in a quick search.
Sure, but on Star Trek they can arbitrarily convert energy into mass so to refuel you just tell the replicator to make a few tonnes of deuterium and then transport it into the tanks. If we had that technology then a drive that uses no reaction mass wouldn't be as important.
She can't even sign right, she did dd-mm-yyyy instead of mm-dd-yyyy!
Maybe she'll claim that makes it not valid...
Yes, she used one of the two logical ways to portray a date, the other being YYYY-MM-DD. The American habit of using MM-DD-YYYY is almost as annoying as refusing to use the metric system
There is a difference between "working with authorities" and being compelled to do free work for the government by writing an exploit for your own OS. Apple was charged with no crimes and did not possess the data the government was looking for, why should they have to compromise their own security just because the FBI wants them to?
Well, John Galt sells power he generates, you don't like the price don't buy it from him. I am sure others would be happy to sell you the power they generate at lower prices.
Yep, of course it will probably cost you thousands of dollars to have them run a line from their power plant, since GaltCo certainly won't allow competitors to use their power lines. Sure, the power poles will look like this and be less safe but you're free now so you don't care about all the extra cost and risk.
Well it is rocket science. Reliability doesn't come cheap.
That's why I laugh when private contractors say they can do rocket science better than nation states that have been doing it for over 60 years.
Yeah, because the spacecraft made by nation states NEVER blow up!
Why do bullets make a small hole when entering and a large hole when exiting? When something like this hits the panel at those relative velocities, the large energies involved essentially vaporize it and some of the material it hit. That vapor (probably mostly plasma at this point) is still moving very quickly. It's essentially an explosion in the panel.
TFS says this drone was under 30 feet
No it doesn't, it says "25 or 30 feet above my trees". Not knowing the height of the trees, we have no way of knowing the drone's altitude.
The best choice, IMO, is to vote third-party; if enough people did that, they wouldn't be "third parties" any more.
Of course there will be, the voting system the US uses pretty much guarantees a two-party system. You can make one of the third parties into one of the two (just ask the Whigs) but we still will have a two party system. The only way to change this is to change the way we vote, which will never happen because the people who have the power to enact such a change directly benefit from maintaining the status quo (the same reason congressional term limits and campaign finance reform are never going to happen). If you would like to know why the two party system is a direct result of first past the post voting, this video explains it nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
...But I'm really starting to think internet-as-a-municipal-utility is the answer here.
Well, except for the whole direct government control of my data thing.
I have been on a municipal fiber network (UTOPIA) for the last ten years and I couldn't be happier. As far as I know, the government doesn't have anything to do with my data, they are just responsible for making sure the physical network is operational. My ISP is responsible for routing my data to the internet or other peers. I guess theoretically they could "control" my data if they really wanted to but why would my city care about my data? I'm just not seeing a motive for someone at that level of government trying to interfere with data on the network, I'm way more concerned about the feds snooping on my data and we know for that ISPs like Comcast and AT&T invite them right in. The owner of my (local) ISP has been very outspoken about free speech and net neutrality so I'm pretty sure they would resist any efforts for wholesale data harvest (although the feds can just as easily tap their upstream providers to see what's flowing off the network). And if I quit loving my current ISP, I can easily switch to a dozen others on a whim.
At least to this point the network has been stable and blazing fast. On the few occasions there have been network problems, my ISP gives full technical details about the cause of the issue and what they are doing to fix it. It's been a lot cheaper and loads faster than my previous ISP, Comcast. With cable there was constant slowdowns and I seldom, if ever, received the advertised speed. With fiber, my symmetric connection delivers exactly the speed I bought at all times of day. Granted, it's been 10 years since I last was on cable and maybe it's improved since then but it's still light years behind judging by the posts about it on Slashdot. Plus, I don't have to deal with Comcast's "Customer Service" or "Technical Support" anymore, which is worth its weight in gold.
Are you really this daft? The story posted to Slashdot RIGHT BEFORE this one is "Singapore Launches World's First 'Self-driving' Taxi Service". Also, Uber is planning on deploying autonomous cars to Pittsburgh "as soon as this month". Yes, there will be a "driver" (at least for now) but autonomous driving systems are only getting better and cheaper while human drivers keep the same skill level and get more expensive. They're not only coming, they are here today.
Well, we send a bunch of them since we just spent a metric fucktonne of money building this fancy laser, we might as well use it. At least some of them will get through.
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I don't think that this submission was particularly biased. Nuclear technology does get lots of subventions by the state, some of them in the form that the state takes over if there is an accident like this.
I've seen lots of MS spam lately, that's far more unpleasant to read.
This isn't handouts from the state, this is nuclear weapons waste. This is the government cleaning up after itself. It's got nothing to do with subsidies.
To be fair it looks like we are going to subsidize any type of energy production though; by allowing climate change we are collectively giving a much bigger hand out to the fossil fuel industry. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying let people off the hook for actually causing problems like this or trying to be dismissive of the actual problems, but realistically, since it looks like we're already dealing with the externalities of energy, $2 billion dollars is still less than we will be paying for fossil fuels over the long run. It still sucks, but before anyone jumps on the inevitable anti-nuclear soapbox, don't forget that we're all subsidizing energy in one way or another.
This has nothing to do with energy, this is waste from nuclear weapons production.
They do this with gas stations. Gas stations are prohibited from enumerating on their signage the taxes which the corrupt statist pigs are saddling you with.
At least in my state, all taxes are displayed on each pump. There may not be station-provided signage everywhere but it is pretty apparent how much taxes add to the cost of the fuel.
And clean up after the cows. Every barn everywhere uses a lot of water to wash out mud/waste/dirt/food/etc
Have you ever been in a barn? There isn't a lot of washing going on. Generally, there is a bunch of manure and hay on the floor, once in a while it might get shoveled out but seldom, if ever, gets washed out.
I'm looking forward to the nuclear powered bus.
But who's going to drive it? Without enough farebox revenue to pay drivers, a lot of cities have to completely shut down bus service at night and on Sundays and major holidays. (Source: fwcitilink.com)
A computer is going to drive it. Busses are low-hanging fruit for automation.
That's actually a pretty cool idea... *rushes to patent office*
Prior art
There's already that special breed of driver who inches half way out into the intersection when they think it's about to turn
You must have better drivers around your parts then they have here. Around here, drivers creep forward when the light is red but by the time it turns green they have already lost interest and are looking at their phones or woolgathering.
By "someone who got distracted" do you mean "someone who is using their cell phone"? Every light now gets fewer cars through it per cycle because half of the people waiting for it are typing on their phones and don't notice when the car in front of them leaves. Put the fucking phone down -- nobody cares that you are getting off the highway, you don't need to post it to Facebook.
That would require Intrepid-class starships for the really useful and good holodecks, so that's quite some time into the future.
Actually, holodecks in Intrepid-class starships are notoriously unreliable and liable to tricky failure modes like "the safeguards have somehow been shut off" and "everyone in the simulation is now alive and they all want to kill me".
In this case, a woman lying bleeding, broken, and nearly dead likely qualifies as "probable cause" for arrest.
Indeed. Domestic violence might be the most common arrest police make. In many states, if there are visible injuries the law REQUIRES the police to arrest the other party. Just arrest him and call a judge to get a warrant to gather further evidence.