My thoughts, exactly. If you listen to radio, you are not the customer -- you're the product. If you watch television, you are not the customer -- you are the product.
Because the BBC doesn't exist.
I think most slashdotters prefer rampant consumer capitalism to what is perceived as evil state controlled/socialist media. Then they complain about advertisements and install adblocker on their browsers.
But the point about the (correct) observation about Google and commercial TV is that it isn't "consumer capitalism". The slashdot reader is the product being sold.
Should slaves stand up for the free market in slaves?
My thoughts, exactly. If you listen to radio, you are not the customer -- you're the product. If you watch television, you are not the customer -- you are the product.
Maybe soon we'll be able to genetically modify humans so that a specific action (e.g., tapping your nose, pinching your ear) triggers the release of THC directly from your own cells.
Remember the sign on the exit door from the polling station that read "if you did not participate, you've forfeited your right to complain"? OK, it's a metaphorical sign, but the problem is a general one.
But these were basicaly all prototypes. Wires are easier to change than PCB's.
I'd imagine they saved more time using the techniques and materials they were used to.
(Of course the whole decryption effort became industrial as time went on - They ended up with 100's of bombes, I don't know what technologies they were using to build them towards the end when they were being built in the US).
Just looking at all the wire used in those wire harnesses gives me a headache.
When I worked at Plessey's Edge Lane, Liverpool, works in 1981 there were still women up on the fourth floor making these things while we software people downstairs next door were working to put them out of a job.
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"Climate science is being used to advance a political objective".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
So because the science says something you don't like, it's wrong.
Oh I do rational think about it. [ ...]
However, if we would magically reduce the amount of workers needed to produce that amount of coal to 100, we had far better ration. Don't you agree?
So: AGAIN, using death per terrawat is a completely arbitrary measurement and you can find dozens of others and try to draw conclusions from them.
So you think death per terrawat us arbitrary because, by using magic, you can reduce deaths from coal production.
So, do that then, and we'll look at the numbers again.
In the absence of available magic we have to go with the numbers we have.
After 50 years of neutron bombardment, even the concrete and steel of the containment is radioactive. What are you going to do with THAT?
Leave it on site for the 15 - 20 years it takes to cool.
You could of looked that up you know.
Hydro is great (a few catistrophic 1000's of deaths accidents aside).
Probkem is most European countries reached 100% utilisation of hydro resources in the '30s.
Rubbish.
The waste shipped to Germany is German waste, sent to France for reprocessing.
(Stuff France wants to get rid of it sends to Russia not Gremany).
Germany has one of the highest rates of solar installation in the world.
Splendid.
So, with all that installation, how much electricity does it produce from solar?
Oh, less thanit gets from burning straw. I see.
You're talking to a self confessed facist there. Don't expect rationality.
Kid, your Granny is a bad bad lady for taking advantage of your little mental problem for laughs.
fed printing dollars = EUR worth more dollars.
Please short Euro if you want to.
AWE is the Atomic Weopons Establishment. They're interested in fusion all right.
But maybe not the kind you want in your neighborhood.
Hey, NIF fanboys - it's a military project. They want make BIG BOOM not nice electricity.
My thoughts, exactly. If you listen to radio, you are not the customer -- you're the product. If you watch television, you are not the customer -- you are the product.
Because the BBC doesn't exist.
I think most slashdotters prefer rampant consumer capitalism to what is perceived as evil state controlled/socialist media. Then they complain about advertisements and install adblocker on their browsers.
But the point about the (correct) observation about Google and commercial TV is that it isn't "consumer capitalism". The slashdot reader is the product being sold.
Should slaves stand up for the free market in slaves?
My thoughts, exactly. If you listen to radio, you are not the customer -- you're the product. If you watch television, you are not the customer -- you are the product.
Because the BBC doesn't exist.
You never had a Lemon?
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1196&st=1
Nah, everyone over 210684 is an idiot.
+this.
I'm rather annoyed by the whole CO2 issue as I think it's a red herring compared to deforestation.
I'm mostly annoyed by people who decide they know what is going on with no references to any actual, you know, research.
Got some papers to back that up or did you just pull it out of your arse?
1) Stop deforestation, try to re-forest lands previously cleared. This will help remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Only if you then turn those trees back into coal and oil.
Frank Herbert has thought the idea in Dune, with satellite controlling the climate
Huh? In Dune the climate was controlled by the sandworms sequestering the water.
Chuck Bukowski so rightly observed: A man is an asshole on earth, he'll be an asshole on the moon.
Much more fun. On the moon he'll be an asshole in charge of your oxygen supply.
And if they don't have the means?
Glanding?
Remember the sign on the exit door from the polling station that read "if you did not participate, you've forfeited your right to complain"? OK, it's a metaphorical sign, but the problem is a general one.
On th exit door?
But these were basicaly all prototypes. Wires are easier to change than PCB's.
I'd imagine they saved more time using the techniques and materials they were used to.
(Of course the whole decryption effort became industrial as time went on - They ended up with 100's of bombes, I don't know what technologies they were using to build them towards the end when they were being built in the US).
Just looking at all the wire used in those wire harnesses gives me a headache.
When I worked at Plessey's Edge Lane, Liverpool, works in 1981 there were still women up on the fourth floor making these things while we software people downstairs next door were working to put them out of a job.
The National Museum of Computing
See also one man bravely trying to restart a 1980's mainframe without letting all the magic smoke escape and many other death defying feats.