Any revamping of a currency gives the issuing country a seignorage bonus: the obsoleted coins acquire numismatic value and are taken out of circulation.
Yes, we're supposed to hate Uber here because capitalism.
I have the Uber app running on my iPhone. This combination must create such a concentrated locus of evil that it could be used as an energy source. If I were to eat a GMO power bar while I have the app open, would Democrats who happen to cross my path catch fire?
1. Relatively few dolphins can read English, though the New Jersey ESL program is working on that. 2. Because the dolphin version of the HIPAA consent form is printed on those waterproof pads that divers use to write notes to each other, many individuals have experienced trouble holding a grease pencil in their mouths and writing a legible signature at the bottom of the form. Furthermore, individuals with the requisite agility to accomplish this task tend not to be the dolphins who can read the form in the first place. 3. In dolphin culture, only the alpha bull of a pod has the legal authority to sign for the release of medical data on a deceased podmate. In the specific case at hand, the NJ Department of Agriculture was unable to obtain a validly signed release. 4. The head of the NJ DoA, Jerry "Three Fingers" Fibonacci, is under indictment for bribing certain dolphin pod chieftains, using prime tuna from his seafood processing business, to ignore reporting of river pollution in the state of New Jersey. He is suspected of involvement in this specific case. But even if Fibonacci is eventually convicted, legal questions about the translation accuracy of dolphin testimony are intricate enough that they may have to be resolved by the SCOTUS.
Gardasil is not banned; the just stopped recommending that girls take it, but because international studies have failed to prove any connection between generalized pain and Gardasil, the Japanese are taking it anyway.
argumentum ad monsantium all you like, but the safety is proven.
Rubio is a leading opponent of municipal broadband deployment, which would offer 'unfair competition' to struggling cable providers like Comcast and AT & T. https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"I use Windows 10 on a professional and personal level. I don't see a problem with adapting at all."
All conspiracy theorizing aside, I see it as an attempt to finally get at least most Windows users on one version again, which has not been the case since XP.
"My friend has throat cancer from HPV. He is straight, single , and a nice guy."
And if he's straight, then he got this cancer specifically from being nice to women. Hippie mothers of the anti-vax community, you need to think about that.
Looking at Phil Plait's original article, I see nothing over-the-top about it. If there is any single political stand that Slashdotters should be taking as a community, it should be to defend science and its applications. That's the one thing we have in common as nerds. This means calling out kooks and shaming them as idiots.
And he also lied about the Japanese 'banning' the vaccine: http://www.skepticalraptor.com... All the Japanese Health Ministry did was note the generalized-pain side effect reported by 180 women out of the 8.9M Japanese women who have taken - and are still taking - the vaccine.
He's also ignoring that if demand for uranium were to run far enough ahead of mining rate that the price increases ten times, as petroleum already did not long ago, it would become profitable to extract uranium from seawater. The huge desalination program that California will need in years to come could actually pay for itself and then some.
"but this, do you seriously believe that there can be only one explanation for wanting to mitigate environmental change? that some idiots just wanna live in caves? worse, they want everyone else to live in caves."
I've already linked this manifesto in a different thread (context obvious at link) but I'm assuming you didn't see it: http://dgrnewsservice.org/civi...
The Greens are aware that their own climate hysteria has had the unintended side effect of increased interest in building more nuclear as a way of avoiding carbon. Once they kill off nuclear construction in countries where they can influence policy, they will - and already are - cranking up opposition to what they call "industrial wind" and "big solar" [http://www.aweo.org] and [http://vtdigger.org/2015/11/11/rays-of-opposition-to-burlington-solar-project/]. Their real agenda: deindustrialization and civilizational collapse.
I have always suspected that the high upfront cost of new reactors is primarily caused by the Greens' legal delay strategy. Stretch the construction timetable out far enough, and bonding cost will eventually eat up any conceivable budget. Look to China to see what can be done where Greens have no input to the process. According to Reuters, China is building eight reactors of the standard AP-1000 design for $24 billion. In the US, we are close to spending about that much for just one new plant.
And yes, the China program went through the same post-Fukushima safety check cycle as in Japan. Like Japan, they chose to proceed.
" completely decentralize our power, virtually destroying "the grid" by putting solar+battery at every home."
To what then are the wind and solar farms going to connect?
Actually, the technical push right now is to revamp the grid to accommodate these medium-scale renewable sources. This means users getting 'smart meters' that not only continuously inform the grid of usage, but which can turn off the A/C and the electric range at times when the wind isn't blowing hard enough to serve the region.
An interesting case in point: my brother was just prescribed Harvoni, a new drug which costs $120,000 per fill, on his state's medical plan. I'm sure that if the government were allowed to, it could negotiate a better price.
I see a use case: road warriors who have moved on from the hassle of laptops when traveling to tablets. For those occasions when you run onto the need to run a Windows program on your laptop which is now at home, plug the Stick into your hotel TV set to use it as a monitor. You can get tablet keyboard cases that will home to two Bluetooth devices, and given a Bluetooth mouse, you're in business.
If you have Plutonium Triple Graphene loyalty with the hotel chain and can get access to fast broadband, you could even VPN into your office desktop with such a setup.
If an "OS X Lite" were avaailable on Compute Stick, it could be a great way of introducing users to a non-Windows OS that they could use for some existing low-RAM applications.
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"The penny should be made from aluminum like the yen is in Japan."
And it would be every bit as hated, just as the 1-yen coin is in Japan.
Any revamping of a currency gives the issuing country a seignorage bonus: the obsoleted coins acquire numismatic value and are taken out of circulation.
Yes, we're supposed to hate Uber here because capitalism.
I have the Uber app running on my iPhone. This combination must create such a concentrated locus of evil that it could be used as an energy source. If I were to eat a GMO power bar while I have the app open, would Democrats who happen to cross my path catch fire?
1. Relatively few dolphins can read English, though the New Jersey ESL program is working on that.
2. Because the dolphin version of the HIPAA consent form is printed on those waterproof pads that divers use to write notes to each other, many individuals have experienced trouble holding a grease pencil in their mouths and writing a legible signature at the bottom of the form. Furthermore, individuals with the requisite agility to accomplish this task tend not to be the dolphins who can read the form in the first place.
3. In dolphin culture, only the alpha bull of a pod has the legal authority to sign for the release of medical data on a deceased podmate. In the specific case at hand, the NJ Department of Agriculture was unable to obtain a validly signed release.
4. The head of the NJ DoA, Jerry "Three Fingers" Fibonacci, is under indictment for bribing certain dolphin pod chieftains, using prime tuna from his seafood processing business, to ignore reporting of river pollution in the state of New Jersey. He is suspected of involvement in this specific case. But even if Fibonacci is eventually convicted, legal questions about the translation accuracy of dolphin testimony are intricate enough that they may have to be resolved by the SCOTUS.
Gardasil is not banned; the just stopped recommending that girls take it, but because international studies have failed to prove any connection between generalized pain and Gardasil, the Japanese are taking it anyway.
argumentum ad monsantium all you like, but the safety is proven.
Rubio is a leading opponent of municipal broadband deployment, which would offer 'unfair competition' to struggling cable providers like Comcast and AT & T.
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
"I use Windows 10 on a professional and personal level. I don't see a problem with adapting at all."
All conspiracy theorizing aside, I see it as an attempt to finally get at least most Windows users on one version again, which has not been the case since XP.
"My friend has throat cancer from HPV. He is straight, single , and a nice guy."
And if he's straight, then he got this cancer specifically from being nice to women. Hippie mothers of the anti-vax community, you need to think about that.
Looking at Phil Plait's original article, I see nothing over-the-top about it. If there is any single political stand that Slashdotters should be taking as a community, it should be to defend science and its applications. That's the one thing we have in common as nerds. This means calling out kooks and shaming them as idiots.
And he also lied about the Japanese 'banning' the vaccine:
http://www.skepticalraptor.com...
All the Japanese Health Ministry did was note the generalized-pain side effect reported by 180 women out of the 8.9M Japanese women who have taken - and are still taking - the vaccine.
"Seriously... is this what Salon has fallen to? "
This article is from Slate. Salon hates science and would probably come down on the side of the anti-vaxers.
"A million miles at no higher than 25mph."
Hasn't this already been done in Volvos?
He's also ignoring that if demand for uranium were to run far enough ahead of mining rate that the price increases ten times, as petroleum already did not long ago, it would become profitable to extract uranium from seawater. The huge desalination program that California will need in years to come could actually pay for itself and then some.
"Never had any problem with Intel ones."
Aren't the Intel SSDs the drives that fail to brick, as opposed to failing read only?
"but this, do you seriously believe that there can be only one explanation for wanting to mitigate
environmental change? that some idiots just wanna live in caves? worse, they want everyone
else to live in caves."
I've already linked this manifesto in a different thread (context obvious at link) but I'm assuming you didn't see it:
http://dgrnewsservice.org/civi...
The Greens are aware that their own climate hysteria has had the unintended side effect of increased interest in building more nuclear as a way of avoiding carbon. Once they kill off nuclear construction in countries where they can influence policy, they will - and already are - cranking up opposition to what they call "industrial wind" and "big solar" [http://www.aweo.org] and [http://vtdigger.org/2015/11/11/rays-of-opposition-to-burlington-solar-project/]. Their real agenda: deindustrialization and civilizational collapse.
I have always suspected that the high upfront cost of new reactors is primarily caused by the Greens' legal delay strategy. Stretch the construction timetable out far enough, and bonding cost will eventually eat up any conceivable budget. Look to China to see what can be done where Greens have no input to the process. According to Reuters, China is building eight reactors of the standard AP-1000 design for $24 billion. In the US, we are close to spending about that much for just one new plant.
And yes, the China program went through the same post-Fukushima safety check cycle as in Japan. Like Japan, they chose to proceed.
"It's just God."
And because he knows when you're using an ad blocker, He won't let you read the article.
" completely decentralize our power, virtually destroying "the grid" by putting solar+battery at every home."
To what then are the wind and solar farms going to connect?
Actually, the technical push right now is to revamp the grid to accommodate these medium-scale renewable sources. This means users getting 'smart meters' that not only continuously inform the grid of usage, but which can turn off the A/C and the electric range at times when the wind isn't blowing hard enough to serve the region.
"One mistake by a rookie engineer in Arizona took out the grid for most of southern California"
That's what can happen when the most highly populated state depends on the nukes and the dams of Arizona for its power.
Huffing poisonous fumes, on the other hand, is a perfectly good way of getting rid of hopeless, worthless dopers.
An interesting case in point: my brother was just prescribed Harvoni, a new drug which costs $120,000 per fill, on his state's medical plan. I'm sure that if the government were allowed to, it could negotiate a better price.
I see a use case: road warriors who have moved on from the hassle of laptops when traveling to tablets. For those occasions when you run onto the need to run a Windows program on your laptop which is now at home, plug the Stick into your hotel TV set to use it as a monitor. You can get tablet keyboard cases that will home to two Bluetooth devices, and given a Bluetooth mouse, you're in business.
If you have Plutonium Triple Graphene loyalty with the hotel chain and can get access to fast broadband, you could even VPN into your office desktop with such a setup.
North Korea uses exactly the same system for exchanging news: http://techli.com/2012/05/nort....
If an "OS X Lite" were avaailable on Compute Stick, it could be a great way of introducing users to a non-Windows OS that they could use for some existing low-RAM applications.