Hmm, so to get an egg you need many gross things (chickens, hormones for the chickens, vaccines for the chickens, food for the chickens, fertilizer for the food for the chickens, etc etc etc) and yet to get peas you need a seed, sunlight, and water. Yep, let's go with eggs as being more natural!
Wait, you're comparing factory raised chickens with organic peas? Chickens only require two things food (pasture or feed) and water. All the other stuff is just to raise productivity. Commercial Ag peas use things like fertilizer, pesticides, etc. not just "seed, sunlight, and water".
Seriously, watch some of the DARPA robotics challenges. These machines attempt to mimic human tasks. They take something like an hour to do the calculations to move itself up a ladder. And usually fail at that. It takes me roughly 10 seconds to do that same bit of calculation. And I usually don't fail.
If we continue at the current pace of advancement the robot will be faster than you at that task within 10 years.
The premise is simple: the tech industry doesn't have enough good workers because our education system is not well suited to producing the necessary skill sets.
Or perhaps we could just let the free market do its job by raising the wages of the labor that is in shortage until more people decide to take up that field. Worked just fine in the 1990s, everyone that could spell computer was enrolled in CS classes.
For which, there are a lot of excuses but not much warming... all that time CO2 has continue to increase so obviously what temperature changes there are, is disconnected from CO2.
If you find that reassuring I don't think you understand the scale of the problem.
So even if they work they won't fully replace human security guards, what they will do is allow one guard to do the work that is now performed by a large group of people.
There are many studies that verify his claims. Once you account for various factors, the wage gap all but disappears.
Well, it goes down from 23% to around 7% if you adjust for confounding factors like equal education, equal jobs & equal seniority. I wouldn't call that disappearing and there are still issues with representation in upper management, but yeah numbers are often overstated.
In short, when every reactor disaster is dismissed in an offhand manner with simplistic - "Well, those were old dangerous designs - everything is perfeclty safe now" http://www.thehindu.com/todays...
Well, those old designs were "safe" at one time also. we need better approaches than "Modern reactors are perfectly safe, and only stupid assholes can't see that."
Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)
Coal – China 280,000 (75% China’s electricity)
Coal – global average 170,000 (50% global electricity)
Oil 36,000 (36% of energy, 8% of electricity)
Coal – U.S. 15,000 (44% U.S. electricity)
Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)
Hydro – global average 1,400 (15% global electricity)
Natural Gas 4,000 (20% global electricity)
Solar (rooftop) 440 (
Wind 150 (~ 1% global electricity)
Nuclear – global average 90 (17% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)
The fact we are running old reactors is easy to blame on hippies but it's not the hippies who failed to build them.
No, but they raised the costs high enough that it was no longer economically viable. The environmentalist movement is directly responsible for global warming due to blocking the switch from coal to nuclear power.
Well, fact is that governments sponsor most of basic research. It still takes very long time to fruit and I think most people who want the government to continue funding basic research are well aware of it.
I'm registered Libertarian and I support government sponsored basic research. Why? It's not a problem well solved by a free market.
Heat, Air Conditioning, Cooking, Refrigeration and Clothes Dryers are the main users of residential power. (See a pattern there? Anything that has to be heated up or cooled down) When the power peaks will depend heavily on where you live and the schedules of the people who live there.
Sadly, that decades gone Xanadu has been replaced by legions of people just looking for a paycheck, who have never seen any other platform than Windows, and whose main qualification is that they have a certification or two.
Good news! That decade is gone also. Now we're on to a new decade with all new things to complain about!
You obviously haven't looked at a property tax bill lately. Public education is a social good so I'm not saying we should get rid of it, but to suggest that it's somehow "cheap" at current rates is misleading at best.
I envision a brave new world, where teachers can determine who is and who isn't going to be a success, and we can become an even better society
You're being insufficiently imaginative. Try envisioning a world where when you apply for a job their hiring expert system reviews your entire school record. Remember that time you got in trouble in 2nd grade or your below average number of award badges, yeah that's going to cost you.
If they ever go against the constitution for any reason, that judge is hanged immediately right there. I want a fracking Gallows in the courtroom to remind these scumbag justices that they are the FOR THE PEOPLE and FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
Yes, because threat of hanging will ensure an independent judiciary. *sigh*
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Bark is a plant based natural ingredient, that doesn't necessarily make it healthy to consume.
Actually many are willing to reduce the size of government, it's just that we can't all agree on what parts are useful and what parts are waste.
Hmm, so to get an egg you need many gross things (chickens, hormones for the chickens, vaccines for the chickens, food for the chickens, fertilizer for the food for the chickens, etc etc etc) and yet to get peas you need a seed, sunlight, and water. Yep, let's go with eggs as being more natural!
Wait, you're comparing factory raised chickens with organic peas? Chickens only require two things food (pasture or feed) and water. All the other stuff is just to raise productivity. Commercial Ag peas use things like fertilizer, pesticides, etc. not just "seed, sunlight, and water".
Hey, give Skynet a break, everyone has to be a teenager once.
Seriously, watch some of the DARPA robotics challenges. These machines attempt to mimic human tasks. They take something like an hour to do the calculations to move itself up a ladder. And usually fail at that. It takes me roughly 10 seconds to do that same bit of calculation. And I usually don't fail.
If we continue at the current pace of advancement the robot will be faster than you at that task within 10 years.
Or perhaps admit that maybe contraceptives are a good thing after all?
The premise is simple: the tech industry doesn't have enough good workers because our education system is not well suited to producing the necessary skill sets.
Or perhaps we could just let the free market do its job by raising the wages of the labor that is in shortage until more people decide to take up that field. Worked just fine in the 1990s, everyone that could spell computer was enrolled in CS classes.
I heard the same screwing the american worker and milking entitlements myths repeatedly.
Well they are lowering the market wage for farm labor.
The fact is we don't HAVE to keep dumping CO2 into the air.
We tried that but the environmentalists said they preferred coal to nuclear.
Granted, the economic incentives for clean energy aren't there right now, but is capitalism a suicide pact?
No, but so far it's proven to be the least stupid way to do things.
First sensible idea I've heard so far.
For which, there are a lot of excuses but not much warming... all that time CO2 has continue to increase so obviously what temperature changes there are, is disconnected from CO2.
If you find that reassuring I don't think you understand the scale of the problem.
So even if they work they won't fully replace human security guards, what they will do is allow one guard to do the work that is now performed by a large group of people.
Are you still there?
There are many studies that verify his claims. Once you account for various factors, the wage gap all but disappears.
Well, it goes down from 23% to around 7% if you adjust for confounding factors like equal education, equal jobs & equal seniority. I wouldn't call that disappearing and there are still issues with representation in upper management, but yeah numbers are often overstated.
Legalized drugs ... has consistently lead to property crimes (and often assaults) increasing several hundred percent in other countries/states/cities.
Citation? It's usually the other way around. You're right about the firearms though.
In short, when every reactor disaster is dismissed in an offhand manner with simplistic - "Well, those were old dangerous designs - everything is perfeclty safe now" http://www.thehindu.com/todays...
Well, those old designs were "safe" at one time also. we need better approaches than "Modern reactors are perfectly safe, and only stupid assholes can't see that."
Energy Source Mortality Rate (deaths/trillionkWhr)
Coal – China 280,000 (75% China’s electricity)
Coal – global average 170,000 (50% global electricity)
Oil 36,000 (36% of energy, 8% of electricity)
Coal – U.S. 15,000 (44% U.S. electricity)
Biofuel/Biomass 24,000 (21% global energy)
Hydro – global average 1,400 (15% global electricity)
Natural Gas 4,000 (20% global electricity)
Solar (rooftop) 440 ( Wind 150 (~ 1% global electricity)
Nuclear – global average 90 (17% global electricity w/Chern&Fukush)
Nuclear looks pretty safe to me.
The fact we are running old reactors is easy to blame on hippies but it's not the hippies who failed to build them.
No, but they raised the costs high enough that it was no longer economically viable. The environmentalist movement is directly responsible for global warming due to blocking the switch from coal to nuclear power.
Well, fact is that governments sponsor most of basic research. It still takes very long time to fruit and I think most people who want the government to continue funding basic research are well aware of it.
I'm registered Libertarian and I support government sponsored basic research. Why? It's not a problem well solved by a free market.
Heat, Air Conditioning, Cooking, Refrigeration and Clothes Dryers are the main users of residential power. (See a pattern there? Anything that has to be heated up or cooled down) When the power peaks will depend heavily on where you live and the schedules of the people who live there.
I would like to live in your alternate reality, can you provide directions to get there from these temporal-spatial coordinates?
I hadn't thought of that. It will be like vi vs. emacs but with nukes! They have to be stopped now before it's too late for humanity!
Sadly, that decades gone Xanadu has been replaced by legions of people just looking for a paycheck, who have never seen any other platform than Windows, and whose main qualification is that they have a certification or two.
Good news! That decade is gone also. Now we're on to a new decade with all new things to complain about!
You pay hardly anything
You obviously haven't looked at a property tax bill lately. Public education is a social good so I'm not saying we should get rid of it, but to suggest that it's somehow "cheap" at current rates is misleading at best.
I envision a brave new world, where teachers can determine who is and who isn't going to be a success, and we can become an even better society
You're being insufficiently imaginative. Try envisioning a world where when you apply for a job their hiring expert system reviews your entire school record. Remember that time you got in trouble in 2nd grade or your below average number of award badges, yeah that's going to cost you.
If they ever go against the constitution for any reason, that judge is hanged immediately right there. I want a fracking Gallows in the courtroom to remind these scumbag justices that they are the FOR THE PEOPLE and FOR THE CONSTITUTION.
Yes, because threat of hanging will ensure an independent judiciary. *sigh*