I feel the opposite way. I'm disappointed with how things have turned out. A launch of a cargo ship should be so routine that a news article isn't even written about it. In the 1970s people were walking on the moon and now it's still news to have a satellite launched or it we sent supplies to the space station that's been inhabited for 15 years. Christ we can't even launch a rocket if the weather isn't good enough! How are we supposed to go to the stars when our capabilities are regressing?
A couple of years ago the government of Ontario put out a request for a couple of new reactors and the lowest cost was $26B. I have no problems with the technology but when reactors are coming in at over $10B each there's no way these can be affordable. (Especially in Ontario where the salaries of people working at power production plants are extreme!)
You could buy the equivalent in wind and solar production for much, much less, then spend a pile of money on used car batteries for storage and probably have the same capacity without spending $26B.
Plus who said that solar has to meet all of our energy needs. Wind, tidal, hydroelectric, geothermal, bio-fuels (such as burning methane from landfills) and even nuclear (if we choose) can play a part along with solar.
You clearly haven't looked at the technology since they only use the maps in the exact same manner as the GPS systems you have in the cars today. They have sensors to keep the car on the road Sherlock. Maybe that's why all of the self driving cars are using the existing maps and aren't running off the roads. Maps won't tell you about other traffic, construction, changes to the road network that haven't been updated, etc. And I'm the moron?
Yes, the technology took them to the wrong address but it didn't knock the house down. So a self driving car takes you to the wrong house. It's not that big of a deal. Those things will happen and there will be methods for the maps to be corrected. Emergency vehicles are still going to have a person driving, or at lease an over-ride system, so peoples lives won't be put at risk.
In Ottawa there is St. Laurent Blvd which if you keep going straight it turns into Russell Road. If you want to stay on St. Laurent you actually have to make a right turn at a light. Then there is Somerset which turns into Wellington which turns into Richmond which turns into Robertson but you can stay on Richmond if you turn left (though they call it Old Richmond Road).
It's just how all the old villages grew together. They didn't rename the roads they connected at the time because they didn't want to inconvenience anyone but now they are confusing people unfamiliar to the area for generations.
Please, the real reason is that 10 months out of the year the sticker would be covered in salt that gets put down on the roads to keep them ice-free and so nobody could read the stickers anyway.
Or maybe it's because they were told that if they went outside then they would get kidnapped or something else bad would happen to them. Hell, kids can't even walk to school today because parents are worried that some sexual predator will get them. Or course now it's some Muslim or terrorist threat added in too. God forbid if they are allowed out to play on their own or head to the playground by themselves. No wonder they stick to the computer or game system as that's all they are allowed.
Maybe looking for a role model in someone who is paid to play a game is your first problem. Just being better than 99.99% of the population at something doesn't mean that you should be held up as an example for the rest of us.
OMG, you have to take the card out of your wallet! How lazy do you want to be?
I actually tried putting my bus card in an area of my wallet where I could just tap my wallet instead of taking the card out. Not out of laziness but because it would be quicker to just put my wallet in my pocket than putting the card back in my wallet first. Sometimes the drivers take off pretty quick. The bus pass (and "tickets") are on cards with NFC chips that you tap when you board a bus. Unfortunately the signal doesn't go through my wallet.
Just saved me some money. I said I wasn't going to buy the new phone to replace the 5s if it didn't have all of the features of the 6s. They didn't need to leave out the 3D touch to differentiate it from the 6s models. The screen size was the differentiating feature. I don't want the larger phones because I can't easily work them one-handed but I'm not going to buy a smaller phone that's deliberately lacking in features.
When Apple brings out a proper 4" phone again then I'll buy it.
I use the tap to pay on my cards all of the time too and it's very easy and convenient. The one advantage that using your phone to pay with NFC would be the one time number used instead of your credit card number. So when the retailer gets hacked, like we've been hearing for the past couple of years, you won't have the hassle of changing your credit cards.
And changing your credit cards is a hassle. I've had to do it twice in the past year. Not because I'm careless with my cards. From talking with the people at the fraud departments (it happened once with two different companies) what happened is that the person tried various combinations with a small transaction (~ $2) until one worked and then went on a spree buying cards for credits on gaming networks (Microsoft & Sony).
They are just going to buy off, sorry contribute to the campaigns of, a few federal politicians to get a law passed that will outlaw the labelling of whether food contains GMO ingredients. Problem solved.
If a papaya is able to say that it's genetically engineered then I'm going to go out on a limb and say that some scientist probably went a wee bit too far with the engineering.
Or you can achieve that with the proper crop rotation. Plant clover when you also plant grass to make silage as it fixes nitrogen. Beans and similar plants also fix nitrogen. Just don't pull up the roots when you harvest. You don't need to add the nitrogen fixing gene(s) to everything.
As a bonus, when you do proper crop rotation you get a reduction in pests (bacterial, fungal, viral, and animal) because they have a harder time gaining a foothold in a field. If you always plant potatoes in a field then there will always be food for the pests that attack potatoes. However a proper rotation will only have potatoes in that field approximately every seven years so there will probably be nothing for the pests to eat in six of the seven years and they will die (or at the very least have a lot harder time surviving).
If I was running my own web server I'd be using Linux. I'd be using it as a system administrator and a web administrator and thus systemd would be an issue for me. I've done both jobs in the past. I only outsource my sites now because I don't want to do it, not because I can't do it.
Yes because in thousands of years of farming we've managed to to take genes from one species and put it into another. Or from an animal and put it into a plant.
Of course we have haven't. Genetic engineering is NOT the same as creating hybrids in the manner we have been doing since we've started farming. If we were to use the technology to speed up the process to move genes within the same species I wouldn't have a problem with it. I'd love to see a new term for it. Something like Genetically Modified, Same Organism (GMSO).
My problem with using genes from different organisms isn't that food won't be safe to eat. It's that we don't know enough about the interactions of genes. Humanity isn't as smart as we like to believe we are and we have a terrible track record when it comes with the consequences of our decisions.
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I feel the opposite way. I'm disappointed with how things have turned out. A launch of a cargo ship should be so routine that a news article isn't even written about it. In the 1970s people were walking on the moon and now it's still news to have a satellite launched or it we sent supplies to the space station that's been inhabited for 15 years. Christ we can't even launch a rocket if the weather isn't good enough! How are we supposed to go to the stars when our capabilities are regressing?
Yes, but then who said that prison was actually about rehabilitation?
Everybody is using old electricity. You don't see anyone making new electrons do you? We're just shifting them around.
A couple of years ago the government of Ontario put out a request for a couple of new reactors and the lowest cost was $26B. I have no problems with the technology but when reactors are coming in at over $10B each there's no way these can be affordable. (Especially in Ontario where the salaries of people working at power production plants are extreme!)
You could buy the equivalent in wind and solar production for much, much less, then spend a pile of money on used car batteries for storage and probably have the same capacity without spending $26B.
Wow, you've convinced me with your superior debating skills.
(That was a sarcastic remark because I'm sure that someone who hasn't gotten out of elementary school probably couldn't recognize it.)
Someone get this person a copy of Stargate-SG1 to see just how bad the idea of self replicating robots is.
Plus who said that solar has to meet all of our energy needs. Wind, tidal, hydroelectric, geothermal, bio-fuels (such as burning methane from landfills) and even nuclear (if we choose) can play a part along with solar.
You clearly haven't looked at the technology since they only use the maps in the exact same manner as the GPS systems you have in the cars today. They have sensors to keep the car on the road Sherlock. Maybe that's why all of the self driving cars are using the existing maps and aren't running off the roads. Maps won't tell you about other traffic, construction, changes to the road network that haven't been updated, etc. And I'm the moron?
He believes that his insurance company is going to cover the cost?
Yes, the technology took them to the wrong address but it didn't knock the house down. So a self driving car takes you to the wrong house. It's not that big of a deal. Those things will happen and there will be methods for the maps to be corrected. Emergency vehicles are still going to have a person driving, or at lease an over-ride system, so peoples lives won't be put at risk.
Every city has those.
In Ottawa there is St. Laurent Blvd which if you keep going straight it turns into Russell Road. If you want to stay on St. Laurent you actually have to make a right turn at a light. Then there is Somerset which turns into Wellington which turns into Richmond which turns into Robertson but you can stay on Richmond if you turn left (though they call it Old Richmond Road).
It's just how all the old villages grew together. They didn't rename the roads they connected at the time because they didn't want to inconvenience anyone but now they are confusing people unfamiliar to the area for generations.
Stop thinking small. Let's put it to where it can do some real good. Send it to the lawyers!
Please, the real reason is that 10 months out of the year the sticker would be covered in salt that gets put down on the roads to keep them ice-free and so nobody could read the stickers anyway.
Or maybe it's because they were told that if they went outside then they would get kidnapped or something else bad would happen to them. Hell, kids can't even walk to school today because parents are worried that some sexual predator will get them. Or course now it's some Muslim or terrorist threat added in too. God forbid if they are allowed out to play on their own or head to the playground by themselves. No wonder they stick to the computer or game system as that's all they are allowed.
Maybe looking for a role model in someone who is paid to play a game is your first problem. Just being better than 99.99% of the population at something doesn't mean that you should be held up as an example for the rest of us.
OMG, you have to take the card out of your wallet! How lazy do you want to be?
I actually tried putting my bus card in an area of my wallet where I could just tap my wallet instead of taking the card out. Not out of laziness but because it would be quicker to just put my wallet in my pocket than putting the card back in my wallet first. Sometimes the drivers take off pretty quick. The bus pass (and "tickets") are on cards with NFC chips that you tap when you board a bus. Unfortunately the signal doesn't go through my wallet.
Just saved me some money. I said I wasn't going to buy the new phone to replace the 5s if it didn't have all of the features of the 6s. They didn't need to leave out the 3D touch to differentiate it from the 6s models. The screen size was the differentiating feature. I don't want the larger phones because I can't easily work them one-handed but I'm not going to buy a smaller phone that's deliberately lacking in features.
When Apple brings out a proper 4" phone again then I'll buy it.
I use the tap to pay on my cards all of the time too and it's very easy and convenient. The one advantage that using your phone to pay with NFC would be the one time number used instead of your credit card number. So when the retailer gets hacked, like we've been hearing for the past couple of years, you won't have the hassle of changing your credit cards.
And changing your credit cards is a hassle. I've had to do it twice in the past year. Not because I'm careless with my cards. From talking with the people at the fraud departments (it happened once with two different companies) what happened is that the person tried various combinations with a small transaction (~ $2) until one worked and then went on a spree buying cards for credits on gaming networks (Microsoft & Sony).
They are just going to buy off, sorry contribute to the campaigns of, a few federal politicians to get a law passed that will outlaw the labelling of whether food contains GMO ingredients. Problem solved.
If a papaya is able to say that it's genetically engineered then I'm going to go out on a limb and say that some scientist probably went a wee bit too far with the engineering.
But the big agriculture companies are making large profits so it must be good! /sarcasm
Or you can achieve that with the proper crop rotation. Plant clover when you also plant grass to make silage as it fixes nitrogen. Beans and similar plants also fix nitrogen. Just don't pull up the roots when you harvest. You don't need to add the nitrogen fixing gene(s) to everything.
As a bonus, when you do proper crop rotation you get a reduction in pests (bacterial, fungal, viral, and animal) because they have a harder time gaining a foothold in a field. If you always plant potatoes in a field then there will always be food for the pests that attack potatoes. However a proper rotation will only have potatoes in that field approximately every seven years so there will probably be nothing for the pests to eat in six of the seven years and they will die (or at the very least have a lot harder time surviving).
If I was running my own web server I'd be using Linux. I'd be using it as a system administrator and a web administrator and thus systemd would be an issue for me. I've done both jobs in the past. I only outsource my sites now because I don't want to do it, not because I can't do it.
Yes because in thousands of years of farming we've managed to to take genes from one species and put it into another. Or from an animal and put it into a plant.
Of course we have haven't. Genetic engineering is NOT the same as creating hybrids in the manner we have been doing since we've started farming. If we were to use the technology to speed up the process to move genes within the same species I wouldn't have a problem with it. I'd love to see a new term for it. Something like Genetically Modified, Same Organism (GMSO).
My problem with using genes from different organisms isn't that food won't be safe to eat. It's that we don't know enough about the interactions of genes. Humanity isn't as smart as we like to believe we are and we have a terrible track record when it comes with the consequences of our decisions.
But we need to prepare for when the sun expands later in it's life so that the Earth isn't burnt to a crisp!