I wasn't aware of any new/current wars since Afghanistan(which we are now doing training only) nor of any drone strikes that Canada has carried out in military operation. The closest I could come up with was the NATO missions in Lybia which I think have wrapped up and the current support non combat roll in Mali. So I have no idea what the hell your talking about, can you care to elaborate on that?
For me it wasn't that they added ads to it. It was that they charged me to use the thing online with services that I sometimes paid for, for example I have to have gold to use netflix on the xbox. Then after they made me pay to use services they didn't host themselves they went along and added ads as if to say "ok baby now just bend over over here and everyone on my team is going to have a turn." They are royally screwing with people constantly. They had better have some damn good exclusives if they are going to compete in the next generation. With PS guaranteeing no always on DRM(I'm not saying Microsoft will but they sure haven't done much to say that they aren't) and no subscription services I think it will put people over the edge.
True but you can't make your own gas as easily as you could make your own distilled water. When you think about it after initial costs you could create distilled water for significantly less than gas. Once your still is built your costs are heating(electric or gas) and tap water.
I agree, I love smart intelligent television but sometimes you just kind of want to sit back and have a laugh sometimes without having to think about it.
While apple has been about the walled garden, google has been about the green valley with large high hills surrounding that discourage you to leave(but you can). Google is into building devices and products that make you use their other services that generate more value through advertisement and data collection. Google doesn't need to get your money from google glass after you buy it, because chances are you are going to use google.com, gmail and probably other services as well from them. These as we all know already track the information they are banning on glass anyways. The device is made to drive users to the other advertisement revenue streams and the larger the adoption of it(like the android phones) the larger their market share is for other services.
Most of the people I know that use an android phone use gmail and google search built in as well as their play store and some of the other apps. This is the driving force behind android and glass.
OH! Another great one would be virtual board games, you both can see the board through your glasses while your at the mall sitting in the food court you move your virtual chess pieces.
You could become dependent on the technology but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Long before people had phones with contacts, people kept books that had numbers and addresses in them some quite intelligent contributing members of society. There is a chance that technology could make you more isolated but glass I see has less of a chance than most others of doing that. Most of the features I see glass excelling at are when your out and walking around. How great would it be if you had an account with one of those dating sites and your out on your own. Someone else has the same app and you both have social interactions on. The app realizes that you two are in the same store. bar or restaurant, with a likely match. It asks if you want to meet.
Same thing with card games and board games. You turn on a friend locator and it helps you find someone while your out that has their deck with them and you meet up for a game. The technology doesn't have to hold back your social interactions it can increase them. There's tons of things this technology can do and it's not all boarding up your windows and doors and drooling with your eyes glued to the glasses.
I can think of a crap ton to do with these things.
Facial recognition comparing people with facebook: Can't remeber a persons name? have glass go through your contacts and match up faces. Overlay of items at a grocery store: Setup your grocery list before you leave home, your local store now has everything mapped and your glasses will optimise your route in the store and show you where each item is on the shelf. Guided tour: Going on a vacation and want a tour of the town? We have an app for that! visual recognition of landmarks(or gps locations) and you will get videos and audio on historic events and buildings as you walk through the area. Education: learning anatomy has never been easier as you look at the subject and glass tells you where each part of the body is. Google Hangout/Skype: Take a video call or hangout with your friends while your on the go.(can't see you but hey it's a cool idea especially for conferencing in) Record videos: Make home movies while your out Play music and video Play games that require interaction: kind of like geocaching but with monsters along the way.
I don't know if you could do all of this with the current version the area is pretty small that you see. That would affect things like overlays. I think there's lots you could get out of it though and many more crazy ideas people could use. Some of it your smart phone can do and maybe do better, others not so much. I like the idea of having facial recognition so that it pops up the name of someone you know when you see them out on the street. That would be cool. my phone already can do facial recognition for security so that doesn't seem impossible. I won't be getting one when it comes out and I may never will but there's a boat load of things you can do with it.
I don't understand why people need a classic start menu, the whole start/metro page thing is the start menu and it's quite nice. What I would like to see in windows is having a distinct zone to click on it instead of having to find the magic spot or hitting the windows key. Or if I want to bring up settings and shut down the computer doing the same on the right. I've been playing around with windows 8 and server 2012 for awhile now and i have to say that it still frustrates me when I RDP into my 2012 server and I have to get to the right spot just to bring up settings and reboot.
Start into the desktop make buttons that allow you to switch to menus, scrap metro apps. That's what I would do for windows 8.1
Going native would be the best option for the end user but on the development side you would be supporting apps for so many different devices it would be insane. Using HTML5 and developing for that reduces the resources you would waste by supporting 8+ different apps for different platforms. That could potentially mean multiple teams working on the same project. That doesn't make sense in the long term. Developing one method and then even building an app that uses HTML5 would be much simpler and less overhead than developing, debugging and testing multiple apps for multiple platforms and paying multiple fees to get them certified and in the store for some of those apps.
I think it makes sense from a development standpoint to put the main focus on one thing and spread out from there.
You could use a bloody crayon and napkin instead of using the computers. This isn't their fault though the prosecution should be on trial for those tactics.
I've sold my wii probably 3 years ago I wasn't playing it but those were features that I once enjoyed. I'm disappointed that as a console reaches it's end of life that the company can just go and switch off services for it. I know these are added features that don't hinder game play but it still seems like they are taking something people have paid for away. I realize that online services can be costly but this disconnection seems premature. The WiiU only came out at the end of last year and 6 months later they are starting to abandon services on the previous one. That's a shame. In this case I think how Microsoft supports it's products is better. Give it and end of life time frame like their OS's get. Maybe I missed the news but it seems rather abrupt to me and rather soon after the release of the WiiU.
Yeah I seen that after I posted it and you have no idea how much it's bothering me now. I was kind of hoping no one would see that post and it would just disappear into the background.
If this were actually the case then I can think you would be seeing a disproportionate number of pilots and flight attendants getting cancer. Anyways it's something that is hopefully already being considered anyways as it's a fact that flying at higher altitudes increases your exposure to radiation anyways because of the lack of shielding from the atmosphere.
Also concord planes*(at least some) have radiation dosimeters any spikes caused by dark lightning must either be extremely rare or are not being announced by people who operate the sensors on planes.
This isn't some confused 14 year old who went out and started shooting the place up it was a 20 year old. A 20 year old that should have had 20 years to learn that life isn't a video game. Learn that you don't go killing people just for shits, because you're pissed off, or what ever. Myself, and I dare say millions of people in world have played violent video games since the day they were able to sit at a computer(now a console I suppose) and to this day we have maybe a handful of incidents that cry out tragedy. That's some fucked up math. You want to point a finger at guns, sure they were probably used in 90% of these attacks(I recall one where some asshole blew up a school decades ago with TNT). Guns are not the problem here either, it's not the media glorifying it* though I dare say that has more of an affect on children than video games.
The problem is mental illness. This guy was sick, that's all there is to it. How else do you explain the millions of people that play video games and nothing happens. How else do you explain people that have gone through so much tragedy seen so much worse from such horrible backgrounds not going out and killing a swath of children with semi-automatic guns. He was sick, and no one gives a fuck about it. No one wants to explore a health care system that would try and reach people like this early. They don't want to try and help the people like Adam Lanza because he wasn't at fault, it was the guns, the video games heaven forbid they found milk in his fridge and blamed the milk man.
*The media does more to glorify killing than any video game, they play on repeat hours and hours of footage of what happened they immortalize the killers. Some guy who said to himself all his life "no one knows who I am no one understands me" all of the sudden realize "If I shoot up a school people will look at me and know my name, they will know who I am and spend years trying to figure me out" Shits fucked up.
Dawn of the Dead was conceptualized during the Nixon years and started filming during Carters years in office.
Resident Evil was developed during the Clinton years for sure.
Walking dead was an adaptation of a comic book that was started in 2003 during Bush Jr. election and what people most think of as starting the current craze.
I frankly never figured zombies went away neither do vampires I think people just like to see patterns.
I do see the point of the copy-write holders here as much as I don't like to admit it. To me the reason I buy new books is because I don't want other people to touch them. I want them entirely to be mine. It's some weird thing about having it all to myself and not sharing I don't know. Now if I were to translate that to digital copies I don't care. I'm never going to get to crack the spine, earmark the page I'm on or what ever. you send me your digital copy and it's no different at all from being new. I would totally go and buy the used copy if there were some available. I would sell it when I was done because I wouldn't really have anyway of displaying it at home on my shelf. I have no pride in ownership of a digital copy like I do my physical wares.
I do think that removing the ability to resell something on the other hand removes my pride of ownership even more. It makes me think I never really owned the thing in the first place. I basically borrowed my book from a library for 5-10 bucks(stupid overpriced dresden files e-books)
I don't know, that only points out that their does seem to be other factors involved in the crime rate. I would there for be curious to know what the rate between two cities with similar social economic standards and similar differences between abortion rates would like. You can't really take two cases and directly compare them without excluding subject with other major factors.
Phoenix residents can carry concealed weapons without a permit. Chicago currently doesn't(though the law was tossed and Illinois has 6 months to re-write the law and they will. Does that affect the numbers?
I don't know if abortions affect crime levels I can see the point in the assumption but taking only two cities in one country that have very different demographics and comparing them is seriously flawed. You have to exclude all the other variables in the sample and have a larger sample size or your statistics are going to get hammered.
Most probably can carry enough to put out a fire on a birthday cake. Unless you had something like the military has(they have weapons which are illegal on drones inside the U.S.) your probably stuck with enough carry capacity to lift the battery, a camera and maybe a small payload. Especially the ones shown in the article which are basically really fancy R/C quad helicopters.
The "drone" that they had in an article is much MUCH different than what the military uses. I wouldn't even call it a drone so much as a quad RC helicopter with video modifications. They cost about 50,000 for a commercial version that they would use and last in the air for about 40 minutes at a time. You can actually buy some consumer ones for like 100-400 bucks depending on the quality of them. I have also heard of people making commercial versions for 1500 and up for personal use(wedding videos, music videos and such). They can be quite cost effective when you consider that running an actual helicopter alone in a year would cost more than the helicopter, they fit in the back of a car, and they run for 40 minutes. Not to mention the cost of buying a helicopter to do the same thing.
These are RC quadcopters more than they are Drones.
Can someone explain to me how these organizations manage to manage all of these apple devices? I mean with BB enterprise you can push and pull apps, wipe the phone and all kinds of stuff remotely.
In the classroom(I do IT for schools) with a microsoft tablet I can join it to the domain and set policies. once again I can push out applications and everything like a normal windows computer. The functionality on the IT department means that they are much easier to manage in both cases. It's gotten to the point that my department will refuse to configure 100+ ipads for a school because doing things like maintaining apps is an impossible waste of time. How are these large organizations doing it? How are they managing security with encryption? Is this safe?
If you know I would like to know how because I would love to present it to the other staff.
None are, his point is that it's possible to do so and that we are just technically behind in being able to do so. Advancements might make it possible for us to be able to do it much like plants do. That would be excellent but not happening right now. Don't be a dick about it.
There are a ton of problems with hydrogen that can't be solved easily. I've heard quotes of several decades before there may possibly be something viable in this area. By that point something else will most likely be viable as a green solution. That doesn't mean we shouldn't stop the research it could lead to other advancements and if there were a few unlikely breakthroughs it would be a good alternative. It just most likely never will be a good alternative before it's obsolete and we shouldn't be banking on it or dumping resources that could go into more viable methods.
So you can live forever but you are going to be a vegetable? We can prevent death but not old age? In the 100's of years we won't be able to figure out how to rejuvenate a human body, fix Alzheimer, put a colony another planet, find alternate sources of food, and power, clean our water supply?
We've been able to stop cancer, AID's, Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Lung Disease and countless illnesses from killing us, but we can't do these things. If I lived for a vegetable for 30 years and woke up one day cured. I would be happy. I WILL NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT!
You are correct in a sense. Women do use their bodies as a tool to get things that they want(what I assume you are referring to as a weapon). Men rape women and this isn't all to unnatural. This was common long past the times of cavemen, men raped women long after that and no consequence was given to the rapist. That doesn't make the action right. I believe we are still animals with instincts that drive our most basic urges and feelings. These instincts make us no different than a dog, bird, cattle, sheep or most any other animal. What does define us as being human and different from these other animals is our intelligence. It gives us the ability to think reasonably about how these actions make others feel. If it didn't hurt someone would we call it rape? or at the very least would we have a problem with it? Probably not. But there is a feeling of being violated and the physical feeling of being penetrated and hurt, used and abused. Our ability to see that making someone else feel this way makes us realize that these urges and instincts are wrong. Our ability to use our intelligence to make it less pleasant to do that sort of thing than to feed the urge is what drives us to be better not just at empathy but other things as well.
Are we forcing our cultural views on the situation YES but those cultural views came from decades of listening to the other side of the situation and having the compassion to stop. It's not just cultural it's an evolution of thought and feelings that make this act disgusting to most. No one should be put in that situation because no one who enjoys it calls it rape, man or women.
I was watching a Nova documentary on the weekend about the issue of power in the US. it came out after Fukushima and there was this one guy who used to be an activist against nuclear power in the 70's talking about it. He said something along the line of even after the Fukushima disaster it's still a viable solution.
The documentary went on to show how newer models were being built to be safer. They were starting to standardize and simplify their models of plants to make them more safe. One thing for instance was the water tanks were above the reactors so if there was a complete loss of power and diesel generators failed gravity would still be able to pump cooling water into the reactor for a period of time(until the tank runs out something like 1-3 days).
The reactors that are a problem are the ones built in the 70's these need to be phased out, the U.S. hasn't built a new reactor since it was banned in the 70's. This scares the hell out of me. Proper construction and disposal of waste could be a lot cleaner than coal.
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I wasn't aware of any new/current wars since Afghanistan(which we are now doing training only) nor of any drone strikes that Canada has carried out in military operation. The closest I could come up with was the NATO missions in Lybia which I think have wrapped up and the current support non combat roll in Mali. So I have no idea what the hell your talking about, can you care to elaborate on that?
http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/index-eng.asp
For me it wasn't that they added ads to it. It was that they charged me to use the thing online with services that I sometimes paid for, for example I have to have gold to use netflix on the xbox. Then after they made me pay to use services they didn't host themselves they went along and added ads as if to say "ok baby now just bend over over here and everyone on my team is going to have a turn." They are royally screwing with people constantly. They had better have some damn good exclusives if they are going to compete in the next generation. With PS guaranteeing no always on DRM(I'm not saying Microsoft will but they sure haven't done much to say that they aren't) and no subscription services I think it will put people over the edge.
Wish I never bought my 360.
True but you can't make your own gas as easily as you could make your own distilled water. When you think about it after initial costs you could create distilled water for significantly less than gas. Once your still is built your costs are heating(electric or gas) and tap water.
I agree, I love smart intelligent television but sometimes you just kind of want to sit back and have a laugh sometimes without having to think about it.
I think you're totally correct,
While apple has been about the walled garden, google has been about the green valley with large high hills surrounding that discourage you to leave(but you can). Google is into building devices and products that make you use their other services that generate more value through advertisement and data collection. Google doesn't need to get your money from google glass after you buy it, because chances are you are going to use google.com, gmail and probably other services as well from them. These as we all know already track the information they are banning on glass anyways. The device is made to drive users to the other advertisement revenue streams and the larger the adoption of it(like the android phones) the larger their market share is for other services.
Most of the people I know that use an android phone use gmail and google search built in as well as their play store and some of the other apps. This is the driving force behind android and glass.
OH! Another great one would be virtual board games, you both can see the board through your glasses while your at the mall sitting in the food court you move your virtual chess pieces.
Maybe I should become an app developer for glass.
You could become dependent on the technology but that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Long before people had phones with contacts, people kept books that had numbers and addresses in them some quite intelligent contributing members of society. There is a chance that technology could make you more isolated but glass I see has less of a chance than most others of doing that. Most of the features I see glass excelling at are when your out and walking around. How great would it be if you had an account with one of those dating sites and your out on your own. Someone else has the same app and you both have social interactions on. The app realizes that you two are in the same store. bar or restaurant, with a likely match. It asks if you want to meet.
Same thing with card games and board games. You turn on a friend locator and it helps you find someone while your out that has their deck with them and you meet up for a game. The technology doesn't have to hold back your social interactions it can increase them. There's tons of things this technology can do and it's not all boarding up your windows and doors and drooling with your eyes glued to the glasses.
I can think of a crap ton to do with these things.
Facial recognition comparing people with facebook: Can't remeber a persons name? have glass go through your contacts and match up faces.
Overlay of items at a grocery store: Setup your grocery list before you leave home, your local store now has everything mapped and your glasses will optimise your route in the store and show you where each item is on the shelf.
Guided tour: Going on a vacation and want a tour of the town? We have an app for that! visual recognition of landmarks(or gps locations) and you will get videos and audio on historic events and buildings as you walk through the area.
Education: learning anatomy has never been easier as you look at the subject and glass tells you where each part of the body is.
Google Hangout/Skype: Take a video call or hangout with your friends while your on the go.(can't see you but hey it's a cool idea especially for conferencing in)
Record videos: Make home movies while your out
Play music and video
Play games that require interaction: kind of like geocaching but with monsters along the way.
I don't know if you could do all of this with the current version the area is pretty small that you see. That would affect things like overlays. I think there's lots you could get out of it though and many more crazy ideas people could use. Some of it your smart phone can do and maybe do better, others not so much. I like the idea of having facial recognition so that it pops up the name of someone you know when you see them out on the street. That would be cool. my phone already can do facial recognition for security so that doesn't seem impossible. I won't be getting one when it comes out and I may never will but there's a boat load of things you can do with it.
I don't understand why people need a classic start menu, the whole start/metro page thing is the start menu and it's quite nice. What I would like to see in windows is having a distinct zone to click on it instead of having to find the magic spot or hitting the windows key. Or if I want to bring up settings and shut down the computer doing the same on the right. I've been playing around with windows 8 and server 2012 for awhile now and i have to say that it still frustrates me when I RDP into my 2012 server and I have to get to the right spot just to bring up settings and reboot.
Start into the desktop make buttons that allow you to switch to menus, scrap metro apps. That's what I would do for windows 8.1
Going native would be the best option for the end user but on the development side you would be supporting apps for so many different devices it would be insane. Using HTML5 and developing for that reduces the resources you would waste by supporting 8+ different apps for different platforms. That could potentially mean multiple teams working on the same project. That doesn't make sense in the long term. Developing one method and then even building an app that uses HTML5 would be much simpler and less overhead than developing, debugging and testing multiple apps for multiple platforms and paying multiple fees to get them certified and in the store for some of those apps.
I think it makes sense from a development standpoint to put the main focus on one thing and spread out from there.
You could use a bloody crayon and napkin instead of using the computers. This isn't their fault though the prosecution should be on trial for those tactics.
I've sold my wii probably 3 years ago I wasn't playing it but those were features that I once enjoyed. I'm disappointed that as a console reaches it's end of life that the company can just go and switch off services for it. I know these are added features that don't hinder game play but it still seems like they are taking something people have paid for away. I realize that online services can be costly but this disconnection seems premature. The WiiU only came out at the end of last year and 6 months later they are starting to abandon services on the previous one. That's a shame. In this case I think how Microsoft supports it's products is better. Give it and end of life time frame like their OS's get. Maybe I missed the news but it seems rather abrupt to me and rather soon after the release of the WiiU.
Yeah I seen that after I posted it and you have no idea how much it's bothering me now. I was kind of hoping no one would see that post and it would just disappear into the background.
If this were actually the case then I can think you would be seeing a disproportionate number of pilots and flight attendants getting cancer. Anyways it's something that is hopefully already being considered anyways as it's a fact that flying at higher altitudes increases your exposure to radiation anyways because of the lack of shielding from the atmosphere.
Also concord planes*(at least some) have radiation dosimeters any spikes caused by dark lightning must either be extremely rare or are not being announced by people who operate the sensors on planes.
*http://www.iaasm.org/documents/Cosmic_Radiation.pdf
This isn't some confused 14 year old who went out and started shooting the place up it was a 20 year old. A 20 year old that should have had 20 years to learn that life isn't a video game. Learn that you don't go killing people just for shits, because you're pissed off, or what ever. Myself, and I dare say millions of people in world have played violent video games since the day they were able to sit at a computer(now a console I suppose) and to this day we have maybe a handful of incidents that cry out tragedy. That's some fucked up math. You want to point a finger at guns, sure they were probably used in 90% of these attacks(I recall one where some asshole blew up a school decades ago with TNT). Guns are not the problem here either, it's not the media glorifying it* though I dare say that has more of an affect on children than video games.
The problem is mental illness. This guy was sick, that's all there is to it. How else do you explain the millions of people that play video games and nothing happens. How else do you explain people that have gone through so much tragedy seen so much worse from such horrible backgrounds not going out and killing a swath of children with semi-automatic guns. He was sick, and no one gives a fuck about it. No one wants to explore a health care system that would try and reach people like this early. They don't want to try and help the people like Adam Lanza because he wasn't at fault, it was the guns, the video games heaven forbid they found milk in his fridge and blamed the milk man.
*The media does more to glorify killing than any video game, they play on repeat hours and hours of footage of what happened they immortalize the killers. Some guy who said to himself all his life "no one knows who I am no one understands me" all of the sudden realize "If I shoot up a school people will look at me and know my name, they will know who I am and spend years trying to figure me out" Shits fucked up.
Dawn of the Dead was conceptualized during the Nixon years and started filming during Carters years in office.
Resident Evil was developed during the Clinton years for sure.
Walking dead was an adaptation of a comic book that was started in 2003 during Bush Jr. election and what people most think of as starting the current craze.
I frankly never figured zombies went away neither do vampires I think people just like to see patterns.
I do see the point of the copy-write holders here as much as I don't like to admit it. To me the reason I buy new books is because I don't want other people to touch them. I want them entirely to be mine. It's some weird thing about having it all to myself and not sharing I don't know. Now if I were to translate that to digital copies I don't care. I'm never going to get to crack the spine, earmark the page I'm on or what ever. you send me your digital copy and it's no different at all from being new. I would totally go and buy the used copy if there were some available. I would sell it when I was done because I wouldn't really have anyway of displaying it at home on my shelf. I have no pride in ownership of a digital copy like I do my physical wares.
I do think that removing the ability to resell something on the other hand removes my pride of ownership even more. It makes me think I never really owned the thing in the first place. I basically borrowed my book from a library for 5-10 bucks(stupid overpriced dresden files e-books)
I don't know, that only points out that their does seem to be other factors involved in the crime rate. I would there for be curious to know what the rate between two cities with similar social economic standards and similar differences between abortion rates would like. You can't really take two cases and directly compare them without excluding subject with other major factors.
Phoenix residents can carry concealed weapons without a permit. Chicago currently doesn't(though the law was tossed and Illinois has 6 months to re-write the law and they will. Does that affect the numbers?
Phoenix has an unemployment rate of 6.7
Chicago has an unemployment rate of 8.6
source: http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/laulrgma.htm
would this affect the numbers?
I don't know if abortions affect crime levels I can see the point in the assumption but taking only two cities in one country that have very different demographics and comparing them is seriously flawed. You have to exclude all the other variables in the sample and have a larger sample size or your statistics are going to get hammered.
Most probably can carry enough to put out a fire on a birthday cake. Unless you had something like the military has(they have weapons which are illegal on drones inside the U.S.) your probably stuck with enough carry capacity to lift the battery, a camera and maybe a small payload. Especially the ones shown in the article which are basically really fancy R/C quad helicopters.
The "drone" that they had in an article is much MUCH different than what the military uses. I wouldn't even call it a drone so much as a quad RC helicopter with video modifications. They cost about 50,000 for a commercial version that they would use and last in the air for about 40 minutes at a time. You can actually buy some consumer ones for like 100-400 bucks depending on the quality of them. I have also heard of people making commercial versions for 1500 and up for personal use(wedding videos, music videos and such). They can be quite cost effective when you consider that running an actual helicopter alone in a year would cost more than the helicopter, they fit in the back of a car, and they run for 40 minutes. Not to mention the cost of buying a helicopter to do the same thing.
These are RC quadcopters more than they are Drones.
Can someone explain to me how these organizations manage to manage all of these apple devices? I mean with BB enterprise you can push and pull apps, wipe the phone and all kinds of stuff remotely.
In the classroom(I do IT for schools) with a microsoft tablet I can join it to the domain and set policies. once again I can push out applications and everything like a normal windows computer. The functionality on the IT department means that they are much easier to manage in both cases. It's gotten to the point that my department will refuse to configure 100+ ipads for a school because doing things like maintaining apps is an impossible waste of time. How are these large organizations doing it? How are they managing security with encryption? Is this safe?
If you know I would like to know how because I would love to present it to the other staff.
None are, his point is that it's possible to do so and that we are just technically behind in being able to do so. Advancements might make it possible for us to be able to do it much like plants do. That would be excellent but not happening right now. Don't be a dick about it.
There are a ton of problems with hydrogen that can't be solved easily. I've heard quotes of several decades before there may possibly be something viable in this area. By that point something else will most likely be viable as a green solution. That doesn't mean we shouldn't stop the research it could lead to other advancements and if there were a few unlikely breakthroughs it would be a good alternative. It just most likely never will be a good alternative before it's obsolete and we shouldn't be banking on it or dumping resources that could go into more viable methods.
So you can live forever but you are going to be a vegetable? We can prevent death but not old age? In the 100's of years we won't be able to figure out how to rejuvenate a human body, fix Alzheimer, put a colony another planet, find alternate sources of food, and power, clean our water supply?
We've been able to stop cancer, AID's, Hepatitis, Heart Disease, Lung Disease and countless illnesses from killing us, but we can't do these things. If I lived for a vegetable for 30 years and woke up one day cured. I would be happy. I WILL NOT GO GENTLY INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT!
You are correct in a sense. Women do use their bodies as a tool to get things that they want(what I assume you are referring to as a weapon). Men rape women and this isn't all to unnatural. This was common long past the times of cavemen, men raped women long after that and no consequence was given to the rapist. That doesn't make the action right. I believe we are still animals with instincts that drive our most basic urges and feelings. These instincts make us no different than a dog, bird, cattle, sheep or most any other animal. What does define us as being human and different from these other animals is our intelligence. It gives us the ability to think reasonably about how these actions make others feel. If it didn't hurt someone would we call it rape? or at the very least would we have a problem with it? Probably not. But there is a feeling of being violated and the physical feeling of being penetrated and hurt, used and abused. Our ability to see that making someone else feel this way makes us realize that these urges and instincts are wrong. Our ability to use our intelligence to make it less pleasant to do that sort of thing than to feed the urge is what drives us to be better not just at empathy but other things as well.
Are we forcing our cultural views on the situation YES but those cultural views came from decades of listening to the other side of the situation and having the compassion to stop. It's not just cultural it's an evolution of thought and feelings that make this act disgusting to most. No one should be put in that situation because no one who enjoys it calls it rape, man or women.
I was watching a Nova documentary on the weekend about the issue of power in the US. it came out after Fukushima and there was this one guy who used to be an activist against nuclear power in the 70's talking about it. He said something along the line of even after the Fukushima disaster it's still a viable solution.
The documentary went on to show how newer models were being built to be safer. They were starting to standardize and simplify their models of plants to make them more safe. One thing for instance was the water tanks were above the reactors so if there was a complete loss of power and diesel generators failed gravity would still be able to pump cooling water into the reactor for a period of time(until the tank runs out something like 1-3 days).
The reactors that are a problem are the ones built in the 70's these need to be phased out, the U.S. hasn't built a new reactor since it was banned in the 70's. This scares the hell out of me. Proper construction and disposal of waste could be a lot cleaner than coal.