We'll discover a massive killer asteroid and spend a couple of weeks arguing about how to deal with it. Russia will act on its own and launch a couple of nukes which will break it into three smaller killer asteroids. The governments will spend the remaining time at the UN trying to punish Russia for sending the nukes but they keep using their veto.
With hours left for humanity a large two dimensional hollow triangle appears above the planet, shoots the asteroids until they are harmless dust particles, and then pops out of existence.
We're in an age where it's not politically correct to say that an individual is at fault for something. Sure the driver caused the accident but he's not at fault because Apple didn't implement a feature on it's phone. Because the driver couldn't possibly have the self control to not use the phone. It always has to be the fault of a corporation or the government.
If you want me to go to the movie theatre then do two things. Improve the whole theatre experience and make better movies.
I got tired of people talking and using their cell phones during movies. Granted that this really isn't the movie industry's fault as it's people being inconsiderate. We don't need a technological solution such as something to kill the cell signal. Just have it so that the movie studio pays for someone to be in the audience looking out for disruptive people. The usher would then go and have a quiet word with them reminding them to be nice. It works for all cases (people talking, texting, playing a game on the phone, etc) and if someone refuses they can be removed by calling security. (Of course the theatre company would have to have the balls to implement this.). Another thing I hate is the pile of ads and previews that are shown when the movie is supposed to start. I paid to see the movie, not 15 or 20 minutes of ads. (This goes for buying movies and TV shows too, especially the FBI warning on pirating. I've bought the show so don't force me to sit through a message on the evils of pirating every time I put the disc in the player.)
The other reason I don't go to the movies is that there aren't really any movies worth going out to see, or even to download. Hollywoods idea of a great movie is one that has more explosions. I want a great story that makes me think. How about something original?
Even if the coal mines were economical in the short and long terms the jobs wouldn't be there because the mines are becoming automated. Their way of live is over.
That's when you hope that they are going to someplace that has the same name in places such as Sydney, Australia and Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Then you just send them to one of them. For example, instead of Boston, Mass send them to Boston, Kentucky.
Cost overruns at a nuclear reactor business! How blind do you have to be to not see that one coming? That's an industry in which the cost overruns get overruns. The only possible thing that could shock me when it comes to building a reactor is if it's done on time and on budget.
This is what happens when the news tries to show balanced coverage on a topic where there is so much scientific consensus on a topic. The broadcaster brings in a scientist who is an expert in the field to explain why they believe climate change is happening and they start to go on about probability which sounds like they really aren't that sure about it at all. In reality with the numbers they are reaching the scientists would most likely bet their homes on it. Yet in the "interest of balance" the broadcaster brings on the skeptic who works in a different field and talks in absolutes. So the viewer thinks that the issue is really much more like 50/50 and it's even worse because only the skeptic is convinced in their work.
If the news were to show you what the climate science was really like then you would rarely see a denier debating a scientist. Same thing for the vaccinations.
And if you think the scientists aren't trying to disprove climate change you can think again. They would all love to find out that man-made climate change was wrong because it would be an easy Nobel Prize for showing what it was.
There was an audio drama episode of Doctor Who from Big Finish titled The Warehouse, episode 202 of the monthly series, that dealt with something similar except the warehouse was in orbit. Big Finish creates audio dramas featuring the Doctors before the latest return to TV and gets the actors to reprise their roles. I'm enjoying them much more than what Steven Moffat has been putting out over the last couple of seasons.
There's plenty of great music out there. You have to go looking for it in the indie bands. Don't expect to be spoon fed music great music over the top-40 radio stations and you will fall in love with music again.
But the McDonalds in Moscow, and all of the former Soviet Union, were owned by McDonalds Canada and had nothing to do with the US parent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have a Withings scale and it's not that great. It's nice that it uploads the data but it isn't that accurate. I had an old, basic digital scale that only measured weight and it was far more consistent than the Withings.
Since when is a store a walled garden? If Amazon or Walmart stopped selling Withings products would you be complaining?
Only the physical products are no longer available through the Apple Store and their physical locations. You can still get the applications in the App Store which you normally associate with the walled garden.
I don't agree with Apple's business practice but please try to get your facts right.
Also, just the attitude of some users there. I was fixing up some pages dealing with colours because I have a plug-in for Xcode that helps developers with colours. I got in touch with a user to ask about the reasoning of a change so I could understand it. I explained why I was interested in knowing and didn't just ask "Why did you do this?" The response back was filled with I know better, I'm an expert, don't question me, etc.
One thing I really hate when people move a section is that they don't update any links that pointed to where that section was. I spend a couple of hours looking for items because people moved something and didn't bother to update the links. Wikipedia really needs a way to automate those chances.
Oh god, one of those people that "need" a 4x4 truck to drive in a bit of snow. Unless you are in a rural area where the roads don't get plowed then you don't really need the 4x4. Mind you electric cars are easier to build 4x4. I don't know where you are but I'm in Ontario, Canada and we have lots of snow during the winter. Most people don't have 4x4s and we get along fine.
Yes, heating is going to be a drain on the battery. But then in the summer so is the air conditioner and that hasn't been a terrible hindrance on the sales of electric vehicles. Losing a bit of performance in the battery due to the cold isn't that bad. At least it's better than fuel cells, or at least when Ford introduced cars with them. They weren't going to be available in Canada because the fuel cells wouldn't work at all during winter.
Where did I say to put a solar panel on the roof of the car? That's just being silly. You have a solar farm feeding the grid electricity. Improvements in storage will help let the plant put electricity into the grid during the evening and into the night.
Petroleum and wind/solar solve two different problems and have nothing to do with one another. Wind and solar will replace nature gas and coal, not petroleum.
What you really want is advances in batteries so that electric cars can take off. Mind you the only thing really keeping them back is mindset. They are perfectly fine for everyday driving for the majority of people. When people want to go on vacation or a longer trip which doesn't happen that often then for the shorter term they should be able to rent a car that runs on gas. For some jobs that require them to be on the road all day then an electric car isn't an option right now.
And as for where the cars are going to get the electricity wind and solar can help. Again the problem is a social one and not technological one. There are some countries in Europe that are getting 30% to 40% of their needs through renewables. Scotland gets 33% of their electricity from renewables. From the US EIA the US gets just 13% of its electricity from renewables in 2015. If the US went up to 33% like Scotland then coal use could be cut in half (and natural gas would probably finish the rest off). The problem is people don't want to see wind turbines that are a couple of miles offshore. Or complain that they will impact whale migration yet oil rigs won't somehow.
Because the need the consumers to keep spending in order for the economy to remain relatively stable. If the unemployment rate suddenly jumps up to levels seen in Greece it make 2007/2008 look like a pleasant walk in the park.
NASA is very important to the Republicans even if they don't want it doing Earth science. It is very efficient at distributing government spending across the country and no politician will want to miss their chance at getting their more than their "fair share".
How many of the people that are suggesting that the devices automatically download updates were the ones complaining that Microsoft forced updates to be automatically installed onto their systems?
I'm sorry but I must have missed their work because I didn't see them get the Noble prize for physics. The truth is that if someone does come up with an explanation for the warming that we are experiencing which gives better predictions and doesn't require the CO2 emissions from humans then they will win that years Nobel.
The problem is that based on a video I've seen there's a very simple experiment to show that an atmosphere with more CO2 warms up faster and it's very easy to calculate the amount of CO2 that we put into the atmosphere per year to increase the percentage as compared to what is naturally increasing it.
The experiment: - Take two tubes that have a black back such as those that are used to heat water on roofs - Insert a thermometer into each - Seal each tube off - Into one tube add CO2 so that it increase the concentration by 5ppm (I don't remember what the experiment did) - Place both tubes into the sun
You should see that the tube with the increased CO2 gets warmer faster. From that you can extrapolate that our atmosphere would be warmer if the concentration of CO2 was higher. And you know that the concentration of CO2 is going higher because we're burning so many fossil fuels. You know how much it's increasing in the atmosphere in one year and you can subtract how much we contribute by burning fossil fuels, both known or guessable values, to get a value for how much CO2 nature is putting into the atmosphere a year.
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We'll discover a massive killer asteroid and spend a couple of weeks arguing about how to deal with it. Russia will act on its own and launch a couple of nukes which will break it into three smaller killer asteroids. The governments will spend the remaining time at the UN trying to punish Russia for sending the nukes but they keep using their veto.
With hours left for humanity a large two dimensional hollow triangle appears above the planet, shoots the asteroids until they are harmless dust particles, and then pops out of existence.
Did they blend a Beowulf cluster of them?
We're in an age where it's not politically correct to say that an individual is at fault for something. Sure the driver caused the accident but he's not at fault because Apple didn't implement a feature on it's phone. Because the driver couldn't possibly have the self control to not use the phone. It always has to be the fault of a corporation or the government.
If you want me to go to the movie theatre then do two things. Improve the whole theatre experience and make better movies.
I got tired of people talking and using their cell phones during movies. Granted that this really isn't the movie industry's fault as it's people being inconsiderate. We don't need a technological solution such as something to kill the cell signal. Just have it so that the movie studio pays for someone to be in the audience looking out for disruptive people. The usher would then go and have a quiet word with them reminding them to be nice. It works for all cases (people talking, texting, playing a game on the phone, etc) and if someone refuses they can be removed by calling security. (Of course the theatre company would have to have the balls to implement this.). Another thing I hate is the pile of ads and previews that are shown when the movie is supposed to start. I paid to see the movie, not 15 or 20 minutes of ads. (This goes for buying movies and TV shows too, especially the FBI warning on pirating. I've bought the show so don't force me to sit through a message on the evils of pirating every time I put the disc in the player.)
The other reason I don't go to the movies is that there aren't really any movies worth going out to see, or even to download. Hollywoods idea of a great movie is one that has more explosions. I want a great story that makes me think. How about something original?
Even if the coal mines were economical in the short and long terms the jobs wouldn't be there because the mines are becoming automated. Their way of live is over.
Mirrors in spaces to redirect light to the solar plant at night? /s
That's when you hope that they are going to someplace that has the same name in places such as Sydney, Australia and Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Then you just send them to one of them. For example, instead of Boston, Mass send them to Boston, Kentucky.
... is how much are they going to milk it for?
(As much as they can is the correct answer.)
Cost overruns at a nuclear reactor business! How blind do you have to be to not see that one coming? That's an industry in which the cost overruns get overruns. The only possible thing that could shock me when it comes to building a reactor is if it's done on time and on budget.
This is what happens when the news tries to show balanced coverage on a topic where there is so much scientific consensus on a topic. The broadcaster brings in a scientist who is an expert in the field to explain why they believe climate change is happening and they start to go on about probability which sounds like they really aren't that sure about it at all. In reality with the numbers they are reaching the scientists would most likely bet their homes on it. Yet in the "interest of balance" the broadcaster brings on the skeptic who works in a different field and talks in absolutes. So the viewer thinks that the issue is really much more like 50/50 and it's even worse because only the skeptic is convinced in their work.
If the news were to show you what the climate science was really like then you would rarely see a denier debating a scientist. Same thing for the vaccinations.
And if you think the scientists aren't trying to disprove climate change you can think again. They would all love to find out that man-made climate change was wrong because it would be an easy Nobel Prize for showing what it was.
There was an audio drama episode of Doctor Who from Big Finish titled The Warehouse, episode 202 of the monthly series, that dealt with something similar except the warehouse was in orbit. Big Finish creates audio dramas featuring the Doctors before the latest return to TV and gets the actors to reprise their roles. I'm enjoying them much more than what Steven Moffat has been putting out over the last couple of seasons.
There's plenty of great music out there. You have to go looking for it in the indie bands. Don't expect to be spoon fed music great music over the top-40 radio stations and you will fall in love with music again.
But the McDonalds in Moscow, and all of the former Soviet Union, were owned by McDonalds Canada and had nothing to do with the US parent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I have a Withings scale and it's not that great. It's nice that it uploads the data but it isn't that accurate. I had an old, basic digital scale that only measured weight and it was far more consistent than the Withings.
Since when is a store a walled garden? If Amazon or Walmart stopped selling Withings products would you be complaining?
Only the physical products are no longer available through the Apple Store and their physical locations. You can still get the applications in the App Store which you normally associate with the walled garden.
I don't agree with Apple's business practice but please try to get your facts right.
Also, just the attitude of some users there. I was fixing up some pages dealing with colours because I have a plug-in for Xcode that helps developers with colours. I got in touch with a user to ask about the reasoning of a change so I could understand it. I explained why I was interested in knowing and didn't just ask "Why did you do this?" The response back was filled with I know better, I'm an expert, don't question me, etc.
One thing I really hate when people move a section is that they don't update any links that pointed to where that section was. I spend a couple of hours looking for items because people moved something and didn't bother to update the links. Wikipedia really needs a way to automate those chances.
Based on the title I thought that they did create their own company and then undercut Capgemini but all he did was send a rant to the CEO.
In cosmological terms it's soon.
Oh god, one of those people that "need" a 4x4 truck to drive in a bit of snow. Unless you are in a rural area where the roads don't get plowed then you don't really need the 4x4. Mind you electric cars are easier to build 4x4. I don't know where you are but I'm in Ontario, Canada and we have lots of snow during the winter. Most people don't have 4x4s and we get along fine.
Yes, heating is going to be a drain on the battery. But then in the summer so is the air conditioner and that hasn't been a terrible hindrance on the sales of electric vehicles. Losing a bit of performance in the battery due to the cold isn't that bad. At least it's better than fuel cells, or at least when Ford introduced cars with them. They weren't going to be available in Canada because the fuel cells wouldn't work at all during winter.
Where did I say to put a solar panel on the roof of the car? That's just being silly. You have a solar farm feeding the grid electricity. Improvements in storage will help let the plant put electricity into the grid during the evening and into the night.
Petroleum and wind/solar solve two different problems and have nothing to do with one another. Wind and solar will replace nature gas and coal, not petroleum.
What you really want is advances in batteries so that electric cars can take off. Mind you the only thing really keeping them back is mindset. They are perfectly fine for everyday driving for the majority of people. When people want to go on vacation or a longer trip which doesn't happen that often then for the shorter term they should be able to rent a car that runs on gas. For some jobs that require them to be on the road all day then an electric car isn't an option right now.
And as for where the cars are going to get the electricity wind and solar can help. Again the problem is a social one and not technological one. There are some countries in Europe that are getting 30% to 40% of their needs through renewables. Scotland gets 33% of their electricity from renewables. From the US EIA the US gets just 13% of its electricity from renewables in 2015. If the US went up to 33% like Scotland then coal use could be cut in half (and natural gas would probably finish the rest off). The problem is people don't want to see wind turbines that are a couple of miles offshore. Or complain that they will impact whale migration yet oil rigs won't somehow.
Because the need the consumers to keep spending in order for the economy to remain relatively stable. If the unemployment rate suddenly jumps up to levels seen in Greece it make 2007/2008 look like a pleasant walk in the park.
Well, there are over 3600 jobs from Indiana alone going overseas that he isn't doing anything about. This includes 350 lost at Rexnord that Trump had tweeted about it not happening and then the company heard nothing from him.
NASA is very important to the Republicans even if they don't want it doing Earth science. It is very efficient at distributing government spending across the country and no politician will want to miss their chance at getting their more than their "fair share".
How many of the people that are suggesting that the devices automatically download updates were the ones complaining that Microsoft forced updates to be automatically installed onto their systems?
I'm sorry but I must have missed their work because I didn't see them get the Noble prize for physics. The truth is that if someone does come up with an explanation for the warming that we are experiencing which gives better predictions and doesn't require the CO2 emissions from humans then they will win that years Nobel.
The problem is that based on a video I've seen there's a very simple experiment to show that an atmosphere with more CO2 warms up faster and it's very easy to calculate the amount of CO2 that we put into the atmosphere per year to increase the percentage as compared to what is naturally increasing it.
The experiment:
- Take two tubes that have a black back such as those that are used to heat water on roofs
- Insert a thermometer into each
- Seal each tube off
- Into one tube add CO2 so that it increase the concentration by 5ppm (I don't remember what the experiment did)
- Place both tubes into the sun
You should see that the tube with the increased CO2 gets warmer faster. From that you can extrapolate that our atmosphere would be warmer if the concentration of CO2 was higher. And you know that the concentration of CO2 is going higher because we're burning so many fossil fuels. You know how much it's increasing in the atmosphere in one year and you can subtract how much we contribute by burning fossil fuels, both known or guessable values, to get a value for how much CO2 nature is putting into the atmosphere a year.