I''m sure it's coincidence that this is about the single largest expansion of oil reserves in what the last 50+ years, and is the USs trump card in energy independence from the Middle East?
Except that this "disruptive" tech has the potential to get people KILLED.
It's one of the hobgoblins that the computer-driving systems have had to overcome, and Tesla HASN'T DONE IT YET.
Tesla's system is designed to simply relinquish control back to the driver the moment it can't handle what's happening. Could you think of a MORE dangerous model? A car you can grow to a level of comfort trusting (and you know people will) until there's a catastrophically dangerous moment, then it says "whups, I'm out" and now you're supposed to be completely as in-control and aware as if you'd been driving yourself?
Seriously?
Look, I know Volvo is harshing on Tesla for commercial reasons, but it doesn't mean their technical complaints aren't valid.
"But as somebody who has actually participated in the fairly complex, thankless, and completely unpaid work of getting all the cats in the same herd I kinda resent that a bunch of slacktivists think they should have as much influence over said coalition as I do"
You did the "thankless" work? Your vote is still worth precisely...1 slactivist.
Are we calling cronyist collusion between government and big banks "capitalism" now?
Imagine just for a moment: - if the US gov't hadn't granted 3 bonding agencies the "US gov't backed seal of approval" making them the "official" information source on rating bond products - if the US gov't hadn't deemed certain private firms "too big to fail"? - if Goldman Sachs alumni weren't present at the highest levels of every Western country's financial governance?
Look, I love to harsh on millennials as much as anyone else, by this is just silly and gratuitous.
First, I'm as ardent a capitalist as they come, but the currently-rugged crony political/banker cabal is disgusting. I've never been more convinced that the only solution is something that will literally shatter what this has ossified into.
Second, millennials are young and naive; that's not a slight,, it's just a commentary that a lot of learning about this stuff comes from real world experience, certainly not the leftist sjw drivel that these kids are being indoctrinated with in college.
In short, this is pretty much just a hit piece for laughs. The millennials will "get it" eventually like we did, except insofar as someone in power finds their ignorance opportunistically useful...never waste a crisis, right?
I'm probably not voting for any Republican candidate in this election, the choices are so horrible (but admittedly, I do usually vote Republican on national tickets). I was a GOP delegate to a state convention as an 18 year old but was so disgusted by the machinations of 'insider' politics I've never been party of the party since.
I hold no petro stocks that I know of (I have a 401k, so I don't really know all of its holdings). I have never been paid anything by any petro, energy, or comparable company. (I work in the paper industry.)
Please explain to me how I'm a petro industry shill.
I believed An Inconvenient Truth was a self-aggrandizing narcissist post-hippie desperately trying to stay relevant. It's alarmist FUD.
Looking at the temperature record historically, it's clear to me that there have been pulses of startlingly sudden temperature peaks about every 120k years, for at least the last 2 million years. The last one was about 140k years ago...so we're due. Claims that "this time it's different!" are unpersuasive. The suddenness of the change to day, or the peak of CO2 today could be as much a 'snapback' of the system where warming was SUPPRESSED by the soot of the industrial revolution, as anything.
I don't disagree with you in many respects and would even agree with UBI if it was genuinely presented and implemented. That is, that we give everyone a basic living income and that's IT. Ie, if they can't manage to live on that income, they die. Full stop.
Because what you're proposing is, simply, a lie: this is a cash grab to hand $trillions to the stupid and worthless IN ADDITION to the current programs.
Even if it WORKED, the software, hardware, and design techs in the F-35 are so completely compromised by Russian and likely Chinese espionage that the only thing delaying their rollout of a comparable craft is money (Russians) and some of the fundamental building techs (China).
It doesn't matter, we're nearing the end of the manned fighter aircraft anyway.
He killed 77 people, 69 on the island. Mostly CHILDREN. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new... Look through their pictures. 77 lives full of potential cut short. 77 families emotionally wrecked because of him.
I genuinely don't understand how his life is somehow sacrosanct?
If you genuinely believe that the taking of human life is somehow magically immoral, then I can credit you your convictions, and let Mr Breivik live out the rest of his life in misery in a steel 55gal drum. I'd be ok with that as a compromise.
But why is he entitled to "human rights" and "dignity" that he cheerfully tore away from so many? He is just another animal, one that is demonstrably dangerous and harmful.
He made the choice that he was no longer a member of society by committing his heinous acts. Society is under no obligation to re-admit him.
You didn't really respond to the point, you just shifted it.
The OP - people are shitting in the bushes, should they really be focused on building solar? You - it takes years of breaking cultural norms to get people to act hygienically
I daresay the OP's point was that maybe they should work on bringing their population up into, say, the developed world's 20th century before they set their sights on the 21st?
"Greedy fuckers in music industry grudgingly admit that maybe the sky not falling as predicted; predict that sky will fall due to 'that darn Youtube needs to pay us more' despite $billions in music industry growth."
The simplest alternative is for the government to *entirely* disregard religion.
(Note, I'm a practicing Lutheran, although not a devout evangelical one.)
No tax breaks for churches: if you want to incorporate as a non-profit, you're just another non-profit, no special treatment. No behavioral breaks: you need to wear a funny hat or a special scarf all the time in a way that impedes a facial picture? Fine, no photo ID for you, meaning no driver's license, etc. Need to go to church on Sunday? Find a business that doesn't make you work that day. Need to pray 5 times a day to your Noodly master? Negotiate that as part of your employment. Need to wear a beard? Sorry, in prison you don't get to. Don't want to be forcibly shaved? Don't go to prison.
Slashdot Mirror
This means a lot less if he has tenure, right?
Title: Engineers Plan The Most Expensive Object Ever Built
!= to
The linked article "...the most expensive object on Earth"
and is in fact contradicted by its own summary:
" up in the sky is something that eclipses all of these things. The International Space Station. Price tag: $110 billion"
So it's self-evidently NOT the most expensive thing ever built.
It's a good thing wind and weather are never a challenge at sea!
At least congress is finally spending its time usefully engaging on the meaningful issues that face the country.
That's progress, I guess.
I''m sure it's coincidence that this is about the single largest expansion of oil reserves in what the last 50+ years, and is the USs trump card in energy independence from the Middle East?
Yeah, complete coincidence.
...I'll be able to use the Head of Vecna!
It has been a long, oft-tragic story.
http://www.blindpanic.com/humo...
Muhahahah.
It's coming for everyone.
http://www.techtimes.com/artic...
"WHO Warns Of Upcoming Obesity Epidemic In Europe"
I've said for years that it's not an "American" thing, it's an affluence thing.
Except that this "disruptive" tech has the potential to get people KILLED.
It's one of the hobgoblins that the computer-driving systems have had to overcome, and Tesla HASN'T DONE IT YET.
Tesla's system is designed to simply relinquish control back to the driver the moment it can't handle what's happening. Could you think of a MORE dangerous model? A car you can grow to a level of comfort trusting (and you know people will) until there's a catastrophically dangerous moment, then it says "whups, I'm out" and now you're supposed to be completely as in-control and aware as if you'd been driving yourself?
Seriously?
Look, I know Volvo is harshing on Tesla for commercial reasons, but it doesn't mean their technical complaints aren't valid.
"But as somebody who has actually participated in the fairly complex, thankless, and completely unpaid work of getting all the cats in the same herd I kinda resent that a bunch of slacktivists think they should have as much influence over said coalition as I do"
You did the "thankless" work? Your vote is still worth precisely...1 slactivist.
Did someone *make* you buy the Fire? Or (as you imply) did you buy it because it was good and cheap? Why not buy an ipad, if Amazon is so evil?
TANSTAAFL
How do you think they justify the cost of that subsidized electronic device that they sold to you?
Seriously: you make your choices based on your priorities. Don't blame the fisherman if you're too stupid to see the hook sticking in the bait.
Are we calling cronyist collusion between government and big banks "capitalism" now?
Imagine just for a moment:
- if the US gov't hadn't granted 3 bonding agencies the "US gov't backed seal of approval" making them the "official" information source on rating bond products
- if the US gov't hadn't deemed certain private firms "too big to fail"?
- if Goldman Sachs alumni weren't present at the highest levels of every Western country's financial governance?
Yeah, that's "free market capitalism", right?
Look, I love to harsh on millennials as much as anyone else, by this is just silly and gratuitous.
First, I'm as ardent a capitalist as they come, but the currently-rugged crony political/banker cabal is disgusting. I've never been more convinced that the only solution is something that will literally shatter what this has ossified into.
Second, millennials are young and naive; that's not a slight,, it's just a commentary that a lot of learning about this stuff comes from real world experience, certainly not the leftist sjw drivel that these kids are being indoctrinated with in college.
In short, this is pretty much just a hit piece for laughs. The millennials will "get it" eventually like we did, except insofar as someone in power finds their ignorance opportunistically useful...never waste a crisis, right?
"Yes, there are people who are content to live on that. But not most people. Would you?"
If you're getting it FOR FREE, do you get a choice?
If you choose to live better, it's not hard.
I'm probably not voting for any Republican candidate in this election, the choices are so horrible (but admittedly, I do usually vote Republican on national tickets). I was a GOP delegate to a state convention as an 18 year old but was so disgusted by the machinations of 'insider' politics I've never been party of the party since.
I hold no petro stocks that I know of (I have a 401k, so I don't really know all of its holdings).
I have never been paid anything by any petro, energy, or comparable company.
(I work in the paper industry.)
Please explain to me how I'm a petro industry shill.
I believed An Inconvenient Truth was a self-aggrandizing narcissist post-hippie desperately trying to stay relevant. It's alarmist FUD.
Looking at the temperature record historically, it's clear to me that there have been pulses of startlingly sudden temperature peaks about every 120k years, for at least the last 2 million years. The last one was about 140k years ago...so we're due.
Claims that "this time it's different!" are unpersuasive. The suddenness of the change to day, or the peak of CO2 today could be as much a 'snapback' of the system where warming was SUPPRESSED by the soot of the industrial revolution, as anything.
Considering Greenpeace's main anti human mission/message, you'd think they'd be happy with anything that kills or drives people away.
For example, there's no place in Europe that has such a flourishing, healthy ecosystem as the area around Chernobyl.
I don't disagree with you in many respects and would even agree with UBI if it was genuinely presented and implemented. That is, that we give everyone a basic living income and that's IT. Ie, if they can't manage to live on that income, they die. Full stop.
Because what you're proposing is, simply, a lie: this is a cash grab to hand $trillions to the stupid and worthless IN ADDITION to the current programs.
Even if it WORKED, the software, hardware, and design techs in the F-35 are so completely compromised by Russian and likely Chinese espionage that the only thing delaying their rollout of a comparable craft is money (Russians) and some of the fundamental building techs (China).
It doesn't matter, we're nearing the end of the manned fighter aircraft anyway.
Is this the updated version of the question asked, what, maybe a year ago asking if computer games were dead and consoles were the future?
Or is it the "consoles and computers are dead, mobile gaming is the future?" question?
I get confused which point on the repetitive-headline cycle we're in this week.
He killed 77 people, 69 on the island.
Mostly CHILDREN.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Look through their pictures. 77 lives full of potential cut short.
77 families emotionally wrecked because of him.
I genuinely don't understand how his life is somehow sacrosanct?
If you genuinely believe that the taking of human life is somehow magically immoral, then I can credit you your convictions, and let Mr Breivik live out the rest of his life in misery in a steel 55gal drum. I'd be ok with that as a compromise.
But why is he entitled to "human rights" and "dignity" that he cheerfully tore away from so many? He is just another animal, one that is demonstrably dangerous and harmful.
He made the choice that he was no longer a member of society by committing his heinous acts. Society is under no obligation to re-admit him.
Is it ironic or sad that he announced this by posting to his website?
Shouldn't he have just sent this in a letter to everyone he knew?
This sounds about as intrinsically dangerous as a phone book: some of the numbers enclosed may connect you to criminals and naughty people.
You didn't really respond to the point, you just shifted it.
The OP - people are shitting in the bushes, should they really be focused on building solar?
You - it takes years of breaking cultural norms to get people to act hygienically
I daresay the OP's point was that maybe they should work on bringing their population up into, say, the developed world's 20th century before they set their sights on the 21st?
"Greedy fuckers in music industry grudgingly admit that maybe the sky not falling as predicted; predict that sky will fall due to 'that darn Youtube needs to pay us more' despite $billions in music industry growth."
Does that about sum it up?
The simplest alternative is for the government to *entirely* disregard religion.
(Note, I'm a practicing Lutheran, although not a devout evangelical one.)
No tax breaks for churches: if you want to incorporate as a non-profit, you're just another non-profit, no special treatment.
No behavioral breaks: you need to wear a funny hat or a special scarf all the time in a way that impedes a facial picture? Fine, no photo ID for you, meaning no driver's license, etc.
Need to go to church on Sunday? Find a business that doesn't make you work that day. Need to pray 5 times a day to your Noodly master? Negotiate that as part of your employment.
Need to wear a beard? Sorry, in prison you don't get to. Don't want to be forcibly shaved? Don't go to prison.
It simply won't happen until there is a compelling financial reason to do so.
Market forces always, eventually, win.