Rarely will you find THE answer to anything. Biking is just one of the answers to some (many?) situations. Take college. I biked to pretty much every class. My crowning achievement was waking up at 8:56 before a test at 9 half way across campus and making it on time (thankfully it was downhill...and no I didn't do too well, hence being proud of just making it there on time). Sure, in the driving rain the answer isn't biking, its skipping class.
But seriously who said everyone has to bike? If 1/3 of people bike on nice days it would do wonders to reduce congestion and pollution. Speaking of, how many big cities get 3ft of snow on a regular basis?
"The deal" is that its the most extensive public transportation system in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny_subway) and was built early in the 20th century. As it serves over 5 million riders a day you can't just shut it down and rebuild the whole thing for less than $50 billion and another $100 billion in economic impact. Especially considering it functions well for most people. Of course its dirty because it's old and serves one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. I'm sure you can find many cleaner systems throughout the world but not many (outside asia maybe) are as effective. Articulated cars seem like a good non disruptive improvement that's good for everyone except a few hipsters that will miss the nostalgia of the trains they've been riding since they moved to williamsburg 8 months ago.
Actually, if you read the manual, soviet russia "jokes" stopped being an obligation when taco left. None the less, given the subject of the story I calculate the overused meme will appear in 51% of all comments. Carry on, comrades.
The "few dumb consumers" market is many orders of magnitude larger than the "educated/awak/aware consumers" market. Privacy implications not withstanding, I'd say Nest has succeeded in desiging a significantly better smoke detector.
I think its definitely worth pursuing further experiments. Maybe this will blow the lid off our society as we know it or maybe its flawed like the special interests say. I'll add that some people in hospitals (the "cage") stay addicted to pain killers long after their treatment ends and they return to their normal life (the "park"). I'm guessing like most everything else in the universe, the answer isn't as simple as legalizing everything and building a park.
Actually despite what hollywood would have you believe, modern cars are very good at not catching fire in a crash. As is the Tesla in most cases I'm sure. As more of them get out there, more unforeseen circumstances will occur but I'm assuming no one got hurt (else that would have been the headline) so its a great data point to make a safe car even safer. And Prius sales are doing just fine....
How often do you really need a revolution? I'd say a revolution is a once in a lifetime type thing. Many people would consider the smartphone revolutionary and they didn't exist 10 years ago! In theory you should be waiting another 70 years or so for the next true revolution. Or how bout just the cell phone? That was invented 30-40 some odd years ago so we still have 40 years to go. Or the internet (about the same time). Or digital computers? Now were getting to something that happened almost a lifetime ago. But in the mean time people have also gone to the moon and somehow made it profitable for everyone involved to sell a packet of ramen, a full meal to some, for under $0.15! Including transportation across the world! You want a revolution? Take your pick. The problem you might be having is that you are around for all of the other technologies and events that make today's tablets possible. You really think in a world of 7 billion people, there is a completely new unique idea that has not appeared in prior human history? Think of the craziest bleeding edge theory you can think of and search IEEE and you'll probably find dozens of papers on the subject already. Unless aliens show up and give us warp drive and transporters I doubt any new technology will meet your standards of revolutionary.
While I'm here, I'll give you the revolution you want from google: the self driving car. Which conveniently takes care of your cars gripe as well.
I called my representative Jared Polis to tell him I support this and not only did a real person answer right away, he informed me that Polis is a co sponsor, which I'd have known if I'd read the whole article...
If you're keeping score, congress just told me to RTFA! This has to be a good thing right?!
Speaking of people in power...I think a good story would be if everyone spontaneously developed the capability to read minds. Not only would society completely change from what we know, there wouldn't be a recourse for the people behind the curtain. I guess the story would follow some family or something where the dad is a gov worker trying to keep the family together when everyone knows each others thoughts. Meanwhile he stumbles upon a plan to build a mind reader blocker for the corporate overlord. At the last minute he destroys the device in some contrived sequence allowing humanity to continue on a level playing field for better or worse.
Says the AC. In my country a woman is free to leave a relationship if she so chooses. "Puts up with me" means I get to do all the crazy shit I like to do to AND still have an awesome wife that can think for herself. Perhaps your culture doesn't accept that women can have their own ideas but frankly I find it idiotic when a society decides to dismiss the ideas (good OR bad) of half their population out of hand.
I've heard of low maintenance but if you think $30/mo to meet your wife means getting ripped off, you must have hit the jackpot with her! For the rest of us, cash pours out of our wallets like outdated memes in a slashdot post. Enjoy your early retirement.
So you met someone through a friend/bar/etc AND someone online AND got both of them to marry you? You're the man, man (or woman?) I count my lucky stars I found just one girl that puts up with me. Funny story though, I met her in college and had one great date and then met her again several years later through a dating site (got married about 2 years after that). Does that count as traditional, online or both? Either way, so far so good...that should counter your anecdote. Good luck next time!
Are you saying Aretha Franklin thinks we need a Really Excellent Soul Performer Eliciting Catchy Tunes? Cause I'd prefer that over soda to get me moving at work!
Indeed. I saw a post a while back about "basic salary". Essentially everyone gets paid enough by whoever to afford a living space and food. Those who are content to sit on their ass, do so. Those who aren't come up with awesome stuff at their own pace. This is obviously some form of socialism in the present day because someone has to pay for the couch potatoes. But...
What happens when everything is completely automated? Like food production, house building, raw material extraction, robot maintenance, pop single recording and michael bay movies? Humans are the only entities that care about salaries and if there are no humans in your conglomerate to pay I see two options. You can have an elite circle jerk where a couple CEOs control all the wealth in the world and just transfer it among each other while suppressing the peasants...or...provide all the standard stuff at cost (free) and allow the non slugs to come in and provide some kind of value addition for other non slugs. You're not taking anything from the go getters so the randian producers/leeches model doesn't apply.
I doubt I'll live long enough to see how it all shakes out but history shows that revolution is the most common result of keeping the peasants down (in this case, the super rich circle jerk)
First of all, human activity hasn't changed the global temp by 10 degrees (C or F). But if we got rid of ALL the CO2 that would indeed be a bad thing. We shouldn't do that. Ideally we would just get rid of the CO2 that the industrial age introduced and allow nature to take its course. The global temp may well drop 10 degrees but it would do so over 100,000 years or so like it always has. A blink of the eye to the earth but thats 20x the age of modern society. We could adapt in that time span. Case in point: 5000 years ago humans discovered how to make a notch in clay. Today we have a problem of placing too much crap in ORBIT. We can surely figure out how to move a city in that timespan. However, since we don't like change and we're not going to get rid of the CO2 any time soon, how in the hell is society going to deal with a 1-2 degree rise in temps in less than a century?
But thats not even the best argument. We should be spending tons of money on renewable energy research because it just makes fucking sense! Cheap max theoretical efficiency solar panels and wind farms could provide all the power you need right where you live! No need to lose 1/3 of the energy in transmission lines, or deal with middle east politics, or west Virginia black lung. A $100 billion one time fee and were good to go! The US could cover it by ordering a few less joint strike fighters and reducing healthcare costs by a few %. I'm convinced we can do it...but probably won't./rant
Correct! CFC's were a huge concern and the global community realized this, did something about it and now they are no longer a concern. Keyword in your sentence: WAS.
No, that one used to be bad because of acid rain but now I'm reading that it helped cool the planet and by reducing atmospheric levels of sulfur dioxide we've actually made global warming worse.
SO2 and CO2 can BOTH be bad at the same time. Think Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan in their heydays. Britney's shaved head may have diverted attention from a paparazzi crotch shot but regardless, they both ended up in rehab/jail.
So today CO2 is a civilization killer, but I'm sure there'll be a new environmental pollutant to worry about soon.
Sarcasm aside, I honestly hope you're right about this one too because that would mean that society either resolved global warming or it wasn't as bad as is currently predicted and society has advanced to the point where some new awesome shit is happening with unintended consequences like interstellar travel radiation causes spontaneous superpowers creating a societal rift. For factual content, your post may deserve the mod point but I'm still going to say it was misleading.
CO2 is a colorless gas. It doesn't look, smell, taste, feel, or sound like "dirt".
I hear you, friend. CO2 isn't even the end of dirty's improper use. There are thousands of girls all over the internet that are also called "dirty", even "very dirty". But upon close inspection, most of them don't have any dirt on them at all! And you can seriously inspect everything. Whats wrong with our society?!
I do if that guy is named Elon Musk. From what I know he is a bizarre type of billionaire. Rather than just increase Q3's profit forecast he actually seems to want to advance the human race through true technical progress. If there was some public transit project underway it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him throw a couple bucks at it. But there isn't. There is however, a project underway to improve the road he is driving on right now and hes one of the few people Ive ever heard of to voluntarily give money to potentially improve his life even so it might possibly improve all of his neighbors lives as well.
Sales tax is levied at the merchant's location, not the customer's.
Thats all well and good for your examples because in each case, the transaction occurred at the merchant's location. What's the point of sale for amazon.com or a bid on ebay? Is it where you enter your credit card on your PC in your home state? The home of the guy you're buying from? The warehouse where its shipped from? Or the server that handles the transaction? It seems to me your examples break down when you apply them to online sales.
Are you saying that the US does not have the coordinates of all major cities of its enemies programmed in to its nuclear war-heads?
If I read GP's post correctly I believe he actually said
I have no idea if these are accurately translated.
Hope that clears it up. Regarding your second wild conjecture...
I somehow doubt that translation is accurate
Thermonuclear weapons landing on NK cities would indeed qualify as a thermonuclear war on the korean peninsula. I'll grant you that the US has a ton of baggage but I don't get how you can keep being so apologetic to the NK regime. Since you asked (ha I kill me), my take on the situation is that we got a 30 year old kid trying to out-blowhard all of the blowhards at the top of NK's military so no one tries to make a power play on him. Thats why the usual saber rattling (designed to get aid money for their hopelessly decrepit country) started to spiral out of control. Add in the sanctions preventing luxury goods being shipped to his palaces and he is backed in a corner and has no choice but to get even crazier.
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Rarely will you find THE answer to anything. Biking is just one of the answers to some (many?) situations. Take college. I biked to pretty much every class. My crowning achievement was waking up at 8:56 before a test at 9 half way across campus and making it on time (thankfully it was downhill...and no I didn't do too well, hence being proud of just making it there on time). Sure, in the driving rain the answer isn't biking, its skipping class.
But seriously who said everyone has to bike? If 1/3 of people bike on nice days it would do wonders to reduce congestion and pollution. Speaking of, how many big cities get 3ft of snow on a regular basis?
I say its good to have the option.
"The deal" is that its the most extensive public transportation system in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ny_subway) and was built early in the 20th century. As it serves over 5 million riders a day you can't just shut it down and rebuild the whole thing for less than $50 billion and another $100 billion in economic impact. Especially considering it functions well for most people. Of course its dirty because it's old and serves one of the most densely populated regions on the planet. I'm sure you can find many cleaner systems throughout the world but not many (outside asia maybe) are as effective. Articulated cars seem like a good non disruptive improvement that's good for everyone except a few hipsters that will miss the nostalgia of the trains they've been riding since they moved to williamsburg 8 months ago.
Actually, if you read the manual, soviet russia "jokes" stopped being an obligation when taco left. None the less, given the subject of the story I calculate the overused meme will appear in 51% of all comments. Carry on, comrades.
The "few dumb consumers" market is many orders of magnitude larger than the "educated/awak/aware consumers" market. Privacy implications not withstanding, I'd say Nest has succeeded in desiging a significantly better smoke detector.
I think its definitely worth pursuing further experiments. Maybe this will blow the lid off our society as we know it or maybe its flawed like the special interests say. I'll add that some people in hospitals (the "cage") stay addicted to pain killers long after their treatment ends and they return to their normal life (the "park"). I'm guessing like most everything else in the universe, the answer isn't as simple as legalizing everything and building a park.
Actually despite what hollywood would have you believe, modern cars are very good at not catching fire in a crash. As is the Tesla in most cases I'm sure. As more of them get out there, more unforeseen circumstances will occur but I'm assuming no one got hurt (else that would have been the headline) so its a great data point to make a safe car even safer. And Prius sales are doing just fine....
How often do you really need a revolution? I'd say a revolution is a once in a lifetime type thing. Many people would consider the smartphone revolutionary and they didn't exist 10 years ago! In theory you should be waiting another 70 years or so for the next true revolution. Or how bout just the cell phone? That was invented 30-40 some odd years ago so we still have 40 years to go. Or the internet (about the same time). Or digital computers? Now were getting to something that happened almost a lifetime ago. But in the mean time people have also gone to the moon and somehow made it profitable for everyone involved to sell a packet of ramen, a full meal to some, for under $0.15! Including transportation across the world! You want a revolution? Take your pick. The problem you might be having is that you are around for all of the other technologies and events that make today's tablets possible. You really think in a world of 7 billion people, there is a completely new unique idea that has not appeared in prior human history? Think of the craziest bleeding edge theory you can think of and search IEEE and you'll probably find dozens of papers on the subject already. Unless aliens show up and give us warp drive and transporters I doubt any new technology will meet your standards of revolutionary.
While I'm here, I'll give you the revolution you want from google: the self driving car. Which conveniently takes care of your cars gripe as well.
I called my representative Jared Polis to tell him I support this and not only did a real person answer right away, he informed me that Polis is a co sponsor, which I'd have known if I'd read the whole article...
If you're keeping score, congress just told me to RTFA! This has to be a good thing right?!
Speaking of people in power...I think a good story would be if everyone spontaneously developed the capability to read minds. Not only would society completely change from what we know, there wouldn't be a recourse for the people behind the curtain. I guess the story would follow some family or something where the dad is a gov worker trying to keep the family together when everyone knows each others thoughts. Meanwhile he stumbles upon a plan to build a mind reader blocker for the corporate overlord. At the last minute he destroys the device in some contrived sequence allowing humanity to continue on a level playing field for better or worse.
you're pathetic..
Says the AC. In my country a woman is free to leave a relationship if she so chooses. "Puts up with me" means I get to do all the crazy shit I like to do to AND still have an awesome wife that can think for herself. Perhaps your culture doesn't accept that women can have their own ideas but frankly I find it idiotic when a society decides to dismiss the ideas (good OR bad) of half their population out of hand.
I've heard of low maintenance but if you think $30/mo to meet your wife means getting ripped off, you must have hit the jackpot with her! For the rest of us, cash pours out of our wallets like outdated memes in a slashdot post. Enjoy your early retirement.
So you met someone through a friend/bar/etc AND someone online AND got both of them to marry you? You're the man, man (or woman?) I count my lucky stars I found just one girl that puts up with me. Funny story though, I met her in college and had one great date and then met her again several years later through a dating site (got married about 2 years after that). Does that count as traditional, online or both? Either way, so far so good...that should counter your anecdote. Good luck next time!
Are you saying Aretha Franklin thinks we need a Really Excellent Soul Performer Eliciting Catchy Tunes? Cause I'd prefer that over soda to get me moving at work!
Indeed. I saw a post a while back about "basic salary". Essentially everyone gets paid enough by whoever to afford a living space and food. Those who are content to sit on their ass, do so. Those who aren't come up with awesome stuff at their own pace. This is obviously some form of socialism in the present day because someone has to pay for the couch potatoes. But...
What happens when everything is completely automated? Like food production, house building, raw material extraction, robot maintenance, pop single recording and michael bay movies? Humans are the only entities that care about salaries and if there are no humans in your conglomerate to pay I see two options. You can have an elite circle jerk where a couple CEOs control all the wealth in the world and just transfer it among each other while suppressing the peasants...or...provide all the standard stuff at cost (free) and allow the non slugs to come in and provide some kind of value addition for other non slugs. You're not taking anything from the go getters so the randian producers/leeches model doesn't apply.
I doubt I'll live long enough to see how it all shakes out but history shows that revolution is the most common result of keeping the peasants down (in this case, the super rich circle jerk)
"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it"
- Some historical figure who's name I forgot
Sounds about right. Regardless, some quick consoling thoughts:
"Better late than never"
"A win is a win"
It's barely a blip in the ocean of associations - madman, paranoid, child molester, murderer, drug addict, unstable, liar, to name but a few
Wow, whoda thought poor spelling would move to the top of that list?
First of all, human activity hasn't changed the global temp by 10 degrees (C or F). But if we got rid of ALL the CO2 that would indeed be a bad thing. We shouldn't do that. Ideally we would just get rid of the CO2 that the industrial age introduced and allow nature to take its course. The global temp may well drop 10 degrees but it would do so over 100,000 years or so like it always has. A blink of the eye to the earth but thats 20x the age of modern society. We could adapt in that time span. Case in point: 5000 years ago humans discovered how to make a notch in clay. Today we have a problem of placing too much crap in ORBIT. We can surely figure out how to move a city in that timespan. However, since we don't like change and we're not going to get rid of the CO2 any time soon, how in the hell is society going to deal with a 1-2 degree rise in temps in less than a century?
/rant
But thats not even the best argument. We should be spending tons of money on renewable energy research because it just makes fucking sense! Cheap max theoretical efficiency solar panels and wind farms could provide all the power you need right where you live! No need to lose 1/3 of the energy in transmission lines, or deal with middle east politics, or west Virginia black lung. A $100 billion one time fee and were good to go! The US could cover it by ordering a few less joint strike fighters and reducing healthcare costs by a few %. I'm convinced we can do it...but probably won't.
I thought that was chlorofluorocarbons
Correct! CFC's were a huge concern and the global community realized this, did something about it and now they are no longer a concern. Keyword in your sentence: WAS.
No, that one used to be bad because of acid rain but now I'm reading that it helped cool the planet and by reducing atmospheric levels of sulfur dioxide we've actually made global warming worse.
SO2 and CO2 can BOTH be bad at the same time. Think Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan in their heydays. Britney's shaved head may have diverted attention from a paparazzi crotch shot but regardless, they both ended up in rehab/jail.
So today CO2 is a civilization killer, but I'm sure there'll be a new environmental pollutant to worry about soon.
Sarcasm aside, I honestly hope you're right about this one too because that would mean that society either resolved global warming or it wasn't as bad as is currently predicted and society has advanced to the point where some new awesome shit is happening with unintended consequences like interstellar travel radiation causes spontaneous superpowers creating a societal rift. For factual content, your post may deserve the mod point but I'm still going to say it was misleading.
CO2 is a colorless gas. It doesn't look, smell, taste, feel, or sound like "dirt".
I hear you, friend. CO2 isn't even the end of dirty's improper use. There are thousands of girls all over the internet that are also called "dirty", even "very dirty". But upon close inspection, most of them don't have any dirt on them at all! And you can seriously inspect everything. Whats wrong with our society?!
The 1980's called, they want their family friendly pop culture zingers back.
I do if that guy is named Elon Musk. From what I know he is a bizarre type of billionaire. Rather than just increase Q3's profit forecast he actually seems to want to advance the human race through true technical progress. If there was some public transit project underway it wouldn't surprise me at all to see him throw a couple bucks at it. But there isn't. There is however, a project underway to improve the road he is driving on right now and hes one of the few people Ive ever heard of to voluntarily give money to potentially improve his life even so it might possibly improve all of his neighbors lives as well.
Sales tax is levied at the merchant's location, not the customer's.
Thats all well and good for your examples because in each case, the transaction occurred at the merchant's location. What's the point of sale for amazon.com or a bid on ebay? Is it where you enter your credit card on your PC in your home state? The home of the guy you're buying from? The warehouse where its shipped from? Or the server that handles the transaction? It seems to me your examples break down when you apply them to online sales.
One nitpick: doesn't a regime need to be stable before it can be destabilized?
Are you saying that the US does not have the coordinates of all major cities of its enemies programmed in to its nuclear war-heads?
If I read GP's post correctly I believe he actually said
I have no idea if these are accurately translated.
Hope that clears it up. Regarding your second wild conjecture...
I somehow doubt that translation is accurate
Thermonuclear weapons landing on NK cities would indeed qualify as a thermonuclear war on the korean peninsula. I'll grant you that the US has a ton of baggage but I don't get how you can keep being so apologetic to the NK regime. Since you asked (ha I kill me), my take on the situation is that we got a 30 year old kid trying to out-blowhard all of the blowhards at the top of NK's military so no one tries to make a power play on him. Thats why the usual saber rattling (designed to get aid money for their hopelessly decrepit country) started to spiral out of control. Add in the sanctions preventing luxury goods being shipped to his palaces and he is backed in a corner and has no choice but to get even crazier.