"Things were working just fine without communist net neutrality."
You're ignoring the natural monopoly problem with cable and telecom services. Suppose your electric company was to negotiate a deal with Maytag to give you a discount on power consumed by its appliances, while charging everyone else a little more to make up the difference? That's why we make the electrical service in any given place a common carrier.
Being able to see cellular data usage compared to plan limit in real time would be a great idea. Currently I have to keep going into a MyVerizon app to see where I stand in data usage.
What I would like to see is an indicator on the iOS top bar ('status bar') that lets a user know how when cellular data is in use on a network connection, and by how much in assistance to a WiFi connection. Instead of adding a new symbol to the status bar, we could turn the WiFi radiating-lines icon red to indicate that cellular data is in use. If WiFi Assist is in use to supplement a wobbly WiFi connection, we could turn a pie wedge of the WiFi icon red to indicate the proportion of cellular assist. The size of the red sector compared to the icon as a whole would shift to indicate the percentage contribution of cellular, in the same way that the number of dark radiating lines in the icon describes the strength of the signal.
A large oil tank farm is an example of infrastructure that can be threatened by a number of disasters, from tornados to terrorism. But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
The belt of warm water feeding this late-season hurricane is from El Niño, which is a cycle independent of all other cycles, and not a part of any carbon warming that may be occurring.
"We have enough uranium for 200 years at CURRENT consumption rates"
Because U prices are low right now, so not a lot of it is being mined. If the price were to rise 10x, as petroleum has done in recent times, it would become cost effective to strain it from seawater, where there is enough for millions of years to come. Meanwhile, California is starting to desalinate in a meaningful way. Once we get used to running large volumes of seawater through desal plants, the idea of using dissolved minerals will get a lot more interesting. We may never have to dig another mine again.
I've already tried this, but I found that hipsters burn belching black smoke, like old tires.
If old tech means building a large fleet of current-generation reactors while there is still time, let's go for it. In parallel, we develop new tech: scaling up thorium and other fast-burn technology so that the spent rods we already have can become fuel.
I disagree also, based on observation: the worst consumer experiences most of us have are in situations where we have NO choice. Examples are airlines, cable service, and pharma.
Any word on what Liberals will do to energy policy? Does this election mean that petroleum and tar sands development or natural gas fracking will be replaced by wind turbines, which NIMBYs will then not let anyone build? Will Calgary go back to being famous for its rodeo?
If the new majority is a liberal-in-the-US-sense party, by what ideological theory is it supporting business over consumer in copyright matters? Canada doesn't have a big film industry to protect, as our Democratic Party does.
The work product we're talking about here is the research. The paper is just a formalized public description of the research designed specifically to elicit the opinion of other scientists who may be interested in it. Your whole discussion of who should benefit and who should pay applies to the research effort, not the paper publicizing it.
"You are harmed when the publishing house goes insolvent due to an inability to keep their doors open because they were deprived of potential revenue."
No, as a scientist the demise of an obsolete publishing model sets you free to publicize your research the modern way and get it peer-reviewed faster. The research publishing houses existed because they were once the only way to distribute notice of your work to the intended niche audience.
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Unfortunately he's a judge, and therefore clueless about technology. That's the part of their life they leave to law clerks.
"Things were working just fine without communist net neutrality."
You're ignoring the natural monopoly problem with cable and telecom services. Suppose your electric company was to negotiate a deal with Maytag to give you a discount on power consumed by its appliances, while charging everyone else a little more to make up the difference? That's why we make the electrical service in any given place a common carrier.
Being able to see cellular data usage compared to plan limit in real time would be a great idea. Currently I have to keep going into a MyVerizon app to see where I stand in data usage.
What I would like to see is an indicator on the iOS top bar ('status bar') that lets a user know how when cellular data is in use on a network connection, and by how much in assistance to a WiFi connection. Instead of adding a new symbol to the status bar, we could turn the WiFi radiating-lines icon red to indicate that cellular data is in use. If WiFi Assist is in use to supplement a wobbly WiFi connection, we could turn a pie wedge of the WiFi icon red to indicate the proportion of cellular assist. The size of the red sector compared to the icon as a whole would shift to indicate the percentage contribution of cellular, in the same way that the number of dark radiating lines in the icon describes the strength of the signal.
A large oil tank farm is an example of infrastructure that can be threatened by a number of disasters, from tornados to terrorism. But as soon as you say "fracking", the swarms of small earthquakes that lubrication of shallow rock strata can create suddenly become much more important than other threats that are historically worse in the region. You can get the same effect by dropping "nuclear" into any discussion.
It's used a lot these days. So much more trendy a logical fallacy than those plain old Occam's Razor violations of old.
"Would such a clause be enforceable?"
Not since December 6, 1865.
The belt of warm water feeding this late-season hurricane is from El Niño, which is a cycle independent of all other cycles, and not a part of any carbon warming that may be occurring.
"We have enough uranium for 200 years at CURRENT consumption rates"
Because U prices are low right now, so not a lot of it is being mined. If the price were to rise 10x, as petroleum has done in recent times, it would become cost effective to strain it from seawater, where there is enough for millions of years to come. Meanwhile, California is starting to desalinate in a meaningful way. Once we get used to running large volumes of seawater through desal plants, the idea of using dissolved minerals will get a lot more interesting. We may never have to dig another mine again.
I've already tried this, but I found that hipsters burn belching black smoke, like old tires.
If old tech means building a large fleet of current-generation reactors while there is still time, let's go for it. In parallel, we develop new tech: scaling up thorium and other fast-burn technology so that the spent rods we already have can become fuel.
"the next time you con some poor unsuspecting female of your species to copulate with you, PLEASE WHERE A CONDOM"
Before you can talk the world into birth control, you need t practice spelling control.
"The United States and Canada must reduce their energy consumption by about 90 percent"
No, we need to reduce our carbon emissions by that much.
"They are building hundreds of nuclear power plants."
And they're not even all in China:
http://www.bbc.com/news/busine...
I disagree also, based on observation: the worst consumer experiences most of us have are in situations where we have NO choice. Examples are airlines, cable service, and pharma.
The best argument against wormholes is that if they existed, the aliens would already be here.
On second thought, that might explain the Kardashians.
"Pretty soon, all will be Google....everything will be Google, and Google will be everything."
This meme alternates weekly with the "Google never finishes anything" meme.
If they do get this thing working, the flat-earth lobby will still find a way to stop it.
I suspect Google Translate.
Any word on what Liberals will do to energy policy? Does this election mean that petroleum and tar sands development or natural gas fracking will be replaced by wind turbines, which NIMBYs will then not let anyone build? Will Calgary go back to being famous for its rodeo?
"They'll have to pry my penis from my cold, dead hands."
Au Canada il est un membre, francophobe!
If the new majority is a liberal-in-the-US-sense party, by what ideological theory is it supporting business over consumer in copyright matters? Canada doesn't have a big film industry to protect, as our Democratic Party does.
The work product we're talking about here is the research. The paper is just a formalized public description of the research designed specifically to elicit the opinion of other scientists who may be interested in it. Your whole discussion of who should benefit and who should pay applies to the research effort, not the paper publicizing it.
"You are harmed when the publishing house goes insolvent due to an inability to keep their doors open because they were deprived of potential revenue."
No, as a scientist the demise of an obsolete publishing model sets you free to publicize your research the modern way and get it peer-reviewed faster. The research publishing houses existed because they were once the only way to distribute notice of your work to the intended niche audience.
"The copyright and patent systems provide mechanisms (albeit rather dysfunctional at this time) for information creators to be compensated "
This applies to photographs and novels, not research papers. If it did, the informal workaround described in this article wouldn't exist.
We now live in an era when myths are more popular than reality.