The carbon-negative claim is based upon the supposition that in its deployment, the magic water box would occasionally be near a forest with abundant dead trees that are at risk of spontaneous atmospheric carbon liberation.
When the gassifier is filled with wood chips, coconut shells, or whatever biomass is locally available, a process calls pyrolysis vaporizes that material. That makes the system hot and humid, the ideal environment to run the air-to-water machine. As it generates power, it also produces biochar, a charcoal that can be added to soil to store carbon and help plants grow.
There was a time and a place in the history of industrialization where many of your talking points were realistic, virtually unavoidable scenarios to be feared by the working man. Just as today, unionization of workers can still be beneficial for tradesmen, but it is not essential for safe working conditions and reasonable pay and benefits.
Since no single employee is indentured to an individual employer, there is no mandatory 100 hour week... as long as you're free to leave the job.
Flip side: Can I advertise for adult workers who wish to sign on to work lots of overtime, part of the year? Of course.
The only circumstance when this should be forbidden is when employees are falsely led to believe they have a choice, when after employment, they do not.
This will end in one of a few ways. Either a new dark age of conservativism where the ruling class clamp down on change to maintain the status quo or another round of nasty wars when the desperate get organized by a dictator into an angry mob. That's just how these things go. Basic income and other forms of socialism are pretty much the only way out of that (well, outside of mass extinction, which thanks to climate change is on the table...).
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The logic behind your proposed series of events is irrefutable, yet the American experiment is filled with doomsayers who disregard the tried and true narcotic annulment of revolution by giving the masses just enough to appease them. Joe Six Pack is ill respondent to the revolutions call for change when the beer and groceries he requires for subsistence level happiness are relatively easy to come by.
Mass extinction, despite climate change developments, seems an unlikely outcome, given humanity's cockroach-like penchant for survival.
Nice fearmongering, Ivan. Don't kill/rape/offend anyone and you have nothing to worry about.
Right.
Unless you consider that planting DNA at a crime scene is easy as swiping a hair/tooth brush, or combing through your trash for kleenex and toothpicks.
I wish people would stop building things that are going to wind up being used to control or kill us all.
Depressingly unlikely. At first, they will be heralded as important for dirty jobs no human wants to do: rescue operations in hazardous conditions like natural disasters or nuclear malfunctions.
Once the battery/power problem is solved, these machines will be misused... it's a facet of human nature.
Given the age of Hubble, the cost of such a rescue mission and the projected replacement of the system already scheduled, I'm guessing they use Hubble as best they can with what's left that is still working.
It does make sense to spend the dollars if it'll reap, say, a $billion in positive public relations for a private contractor that pulled it off.
If only there were a space flight contractor in need of some of that.
I think the plaintiffs should have to present some evidence why they believe it is likely the President would abuse this forum to broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages.
I received the following alert this morning, just before noon PST.
"Presidential Alert
THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.
Christine Blasey Ford is a skank."
Like no steak should ever, not ever, be served; well done, sir.
Sadly, no current party properly represents me. I am neither aligned with the Party of Lord Donald, nor the Clinton's political affiliation. I believe a candidate for office chooses a political side too often based on electability. Dems don't win in Texas (sorry, Beto) and Conservatives don't serve in Vermont (you know I'm right, Bernie.
There are certainly women who've been taken advantage of by powerful men, and not so powerful men, for aeons.
There are just as certainly, clever and unscrupulous modern women who will weaponize the movement. The benefit of the doubt to me-too-ers should absolutely be given, but in the court of law rather than the court of public opinion.
The original bill that created this national FEMA alert was passed in 2006. Bush then signed a bill that modified it in 2008. The original test was scheduled to happen during the hurricane Florence. So it was moved to today. Just another opportunity to smear Trump.
The plaintiffs are also concerned Trump might use the alerts to spread disinformation because IPAWS doesn't regulate the content of the messages. That means Trump may be free to define "act of terrorism" and "threat to public safety," and may broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages to "hundreds of millions of people," the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit.
I think the plaintiffs should have to present some evidence why they believe it is likely the President would abuse this forum to broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages.
To what individual tendency they'd even reference?
"I also generally don't have my plumber sign a contract before beginning to work for me."
In most states, a licensed plumber is required to have you sign a work order that contains a list of what is to be done and an estimate of the cost. It is a contract.
yes. Peculiarly enough though, the contract virtually always protects the contractor to the disadvantage of the home or business owner.
If we're not careful, they'll restrict everything that's even potentially onerous in the name of protecting us from ourselves.
We're already dumbing down our education system to account for the least of us, at the expense of the best of us... why not legislate to protect the weakest citizens so I can't even get a decent pain pill?
Ever since switching to my own domain several years ago, I haven't received a single e-mail intended for someone else. It used to happen with my Gmail account on occasion, but even then it was relatively rare for me, given that I'm the only person in the world with my first and last name.
It seems likely a simple majority of people would rather risk a false positive and an unnecessary visit to the doctor, than have a significant arrhythmia go undetected.
With more than 4 people, it takes too long for people to get their turn to talk and they forget what they were going to say.
Close. With more than 4 people, it takes too long for people to get their turn to talk, and their egos require more frequent opportunities to be stroked.
All of my cellphone calls are unsolicited and unwanted.
Lucky you. I run a service company that's dependent on customer calls to my cellphone, and I have a landline that's often forwarded to my cellie 'cause I like to talk to the customers my own damn self... control issues acknowledged.
All my regular customers are saved in the phone and their calls come in immediately identified. Local number scam spoofers suck, but operating as essentially a closed practice requiring referral, if you ain't in the phone already, you're going to have to leave a convincing message. Customers who pay the bills year round are not affected negatively.
Say what you will about the recent public relations gaffes by their fearless leader; Tesla, and Musk, are typically at the forefront of exploiting the 24 hour news cycle to their benefit.
I'll tell you want _does_ worry me about kill bots: the rich using them to do away with the need to take care of the working class. As it stands the ultra wealthy have to fear being disposed in a coup by the military they use to oppress. That goes away once they have kill bots. They not only don't need us they don't have to fear us.
Historically, the rich are unlikely to act on their own, enjoying cozy, comfortable relationships with powerful governments... who are, time and again, willing to subcontract out their dirty work for paltry bribes and political contributions, but I digress.
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The carbon-negative claim is based upon the supposition that in its deployment, the magic water box would occasionally be near a forest with abundant dead trees that are at risk of spontaneous atmospheric carbon liberation.
FTA:
When the gassifier is filled with wood chips, coconut shells, or whatever biomass is locally available, a process calls pyrolysis vaporizes that material. That makes the system hot and humid, the ideal environment to run the air-to-water machine. As it generates power, it also produces biochar, a charcoal that can be added to soil to store carbon and help plants grow.
There was a time and a place in the history of industrialization where many of your talking points were realistic, virtually unavoidable scenarios to be feared by the working man. Just as today, unionization of workers can still be beneficial for tradesmen, but it is not essential for safe working conditions and reasonable pay and benefits.
Since no single employee is indentured to an individual employer, there is no mandatory 100 hour week... as long as you're free to leave the job.
Flip side: Can I advertise for adult workers who wish to sign on to work lots of overtime, part of the year? Of course.
The only circumstance when this should be forbidden is when employees are falsely led to believe they have a choice, when after employment, they do not.
This will end in one of a few ways. Either a new dark age of conservativism where the ruling class clamp down on change to maintain the status quo or another round of nasty wars when the desperate get organized by a dictator into an angry mob. That's just how these things go. Basic income and other forms of socialism are pretty much the only way out of that (well, outside of mass extinction, which thanks to climate change is on the table...). --
The logic behind your proposed series of events is irrefutable, yet the American experiment is filled with doomsayers who disregard the tried and true narcotic annulment of revolution by giving the masses just enough to appease them. Joe Six Pack is ill respondent to the revolutions call for change when the beer and groceries he requires for subsistence level happiness are relatively easy to come by.
Mass extinction, despite climate change developments, seems an unlikely outcome, given humanity's cockroach-like penchant for survival.
Sadly, caring for our elderly might fall right in category as one of those
jobs no human wants to do.
Nice fearmongering, Ivan. Don't kill/rape/offend anyone and you have nothing to worry about.
Right.
Unless you consider that planting DNA at a crime scene is easy as swiping a hair/tooth brush, or combing through your trash for kleenex and toothpicks.
I wish people would stop building things that are going to wind up being used to control or kill us all.
Depressingly unlikely. At first, they will be heralded as important for dirty jobs no human wants to do: rescue operations in hazardous conditions like natural disasters or nuclear malfunctions.
Once the battery/power problem is solved, these machines will be misused... it's a facet of human nature.
Given the age of Hubble, the cost of such a rescue mission and the projected replacement of the system already scheduled, I'm guessing they use Hubble as best they can with what's left that is still working.
It does make sense to spend the dollars if it'll reap, say, a $billion in positive public relations for a private contractor that pulled it off.
If only there were a space flight contractor in need of some of that.
I think the plaintiffs should have to present some evidence why they believe it is likely the President would abuse this forum to broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages.
I received the following alert this morning, just before noon PST.
"Presidential Alert THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed.
Christine Blasey Ford is a skank."
Like no steak should ever, not ever, be served; well done, sir.
FD
Sadly, no current party properly represents me. I am neither aligned with the Party of Lord Donald, nor the Clinton's political affiliation. I believe a candidate for office chooses a political side too often based on electability. Dems don't win in Texas (sorry, Beto) and Conservatives don't serve in Vermont (you know I'm right, Bernie.
There are certainly women who've been taken advantage of by powerful men, and not so powerful men, for aeons.
There are just as certainly, clever and unscrupulous modern women who will weaponize the movement. The benefit of the doubt to me-too-ers should absolutely be given, but in the court of law rather than the court of public opinion.
The original bill that created this national FEMA alert was passed in 2006. Bush then signed a bill that modified it in 2008. The original test was scheduled to happen during the hurricane Florence. So it was moved to today. Just another opportunity to smear Trump.
Fortuitously, they've been quite few.
The plaintiffs are also concerned Trump might use the alerts to spread disinformation because IPAWS doesn't regulate the content of the messages. That means Trump may be free to define "act of terrorism" and "threat to public safety," and may broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages to "hundreds of millions of people," the plaintiffs say in the lawsuit.
I think the plaintiffs should have to present some evidence why they believe it is likely the President would abuse this forum to broadcast "arbitrary, biased, irrational" messages.
To what individual tendency they'd even reference?
"I also generally don't have my plumber sign a contract before beginning to work for me."
In most states, a licensed plumber is required to have you sign a work order that contains a list of what is to be done and an estimate of the cost. It is a contract.
yes. Peculiarly enough though, the contract virtually always protects the contractor to the disadvantage of the home or business owner.
I'd like to enter a motion this front page story be reconsidered for placement in the it-was-only-a-matter-of-time dept.
In the spirit of
"I'd rather have honest enemies than fake friends."
Paraphrase: "Trade should not be used for war, but should instead foster peace."
This does shed some light on the full ramifications of protectionist trade policy... much like thermonuclear war, there are no winners.
Shhhh...
If we're not careful, they'll restrict everything that's even potentially onerous in the name of protecting us from ourselves.
We're already dumbing down our education system to account for the least of us, at the expense of the best of us... why not legislate to protect the weakest citizens so I can't even get a decent pain pill?
Ever since switching to my own domain several years ago, I haven't received a single e-mail intended for someone else. It used to happen with my Gmail account on occasion, but even then it was relatively rare for me, given that I'm the only person in the world with my first and last name.
Mister Mxyzptlk?.?.?
I've heard it said that we should all take more time to listen, instead of just waiting for our turn to talk... you definitely learn more.
Speaking in the group is more geared towards edifying your colleagues; or at the very least, sharing what you believe you know.
Posting in a good /. discussion is the same... I learn considerably more reading and/or moderating than I do when my keyboard goes to blathering.
It seems likely a simple majority of people would rather risk a false positive and an unnecessary visit to the doctor, than have a significant arrhythmia go undetected.
With more than 4 people, it takes too long for people to get their turn to talk and they forget what they were going to say.
Close. With more than 4 people, it takes too long for people to get their turn to talk, and their egos require more frequent opportunities to be stroked.
All of my cellphone calls are unsolicited and unwanted.
Lucky you. I run a service company that's dependent on customer calls to my cellphone, and I have a landline that's often forwarded to my cellie 'cause I like to talk to the customers my own damn self... control issues acknowledged.
All my regular customers are saved in the phone and their calls come in immediately identified. Local number scam spoofers suck, but operating as essentially a closed practice requiring referral, if you ain't in the phone already, you're going to have to leave a convincing message. Customers who pay the bills year round are not affected negatively.
Say what you will about the recent public relations gaffes by their fearless leader; Tesla, and Musk, are typically at the forefront of exploiting the 24 hour news cycle to their benefit.
I'll tell you want _does_ worry me about kill bots: the rich using them to do away with the need to take care of the working class. As it stands the ultra wealthy have to fear being disposed in a coup by the military they use to oppress. That goes away once they have kill bots. They not only don't need us they don't have to fear us.
Historically, the rich are unlikely to act on their own, enjoying cozy, comfortable relationships with powerful governments... who are, time and again, willing to subcontract out their dirty work for paltry bribes and political contributions, but I digress.