Another factor they don't understand is Arizona's role in being a lifeline of baseload power to California, which no longer deigns to generate power of its own. Several California cities have quietly bought fractional shares in Palo Verde, our giant nuclear plant, for this reason.
If we want to move towards carbon-free, if we want California to survive, we should add several new units at Palo Verde.
Its intentions are laudable: fight carbon warming by promoting carbon-free energy sources. But not only does it leave out nuclear energy, which is already a large fraction of Arizona's baseload generation, but it leaves out the most important renewable, hydro, which happens to be another large fraction of Arizona's power base.
Prop 127 promotes only solar and wind as power sources. To put more of these on the grid would require that APS issue 'smart meters' to all customers that would measure demand load continuously, and which eventually would be able to turn major appliances on and off at strategic times to make the most of sunny afternoons and surges of wind.
And guess what? In my town, a rollout of the first-generation of smart meters was opposed by the same hippie moms who promote Prop 127. By refusing smart meters, they have already negated the whole idea of putting sun and wind on the grid.
Good point: pay restaurant prices plus the delivery markup to eat on your couch? Unlike the mall movie experience, the restaurant experience is still much better than being at home.
How is this rational? You know as well as I do, almost all scientists are deeply left-wing. You've just created a huge base of operations for the left.
When scientists count themselves as being on the left, they mean on issues like gender rights and single-payer health care. The left that opposes scientific research instruments is a movement that hates humanity itself and would literally welcome us all dying of a plague or whatever clamity they can envision. That's why the same people love to be hysterical about carbon warming at the same time as they automatically oppose any engineering technique for fixing the problem.
Here in Arizona, the same gang of thugs who are whipping up the Hawaiians against astronomy tried to prevent the Catholics specifically from building a telescope. Their research arm, Speccolo Vatticana, which has been doing astronomy for centuries near Rome, moved its operation here after Arcetri became smogged in.
Fortunately, we’re a bunch of armed Republicans fully aware of the importance of science to our state. We ran the Greens off, and the Large Binocular Tesescope was built.
You’ve never visited the mountain, I’m thinking. I have, back when the very first telescopes were being built in the astronomy reserve area.
NIMBY doesn’t come into play at all her because nobody lives on Mauna Kea. The mountain is a desolate expanse of red cinder where no one lives. No one even lived there in pre-American times either, because the ali’i, the one-percenters of the Bronze Age world, reserved it for their rituals. Commoner Kanaka were punished by death for so much as visiting the place.
Today the upper part of the mountain is a specially designated natural preserve where every identified heiau (altar) of the ali’i are protected, as is every natural species that has been identified there, down to the humble wekiu bug. All of the telescopes occupy the small reserve within this area that has been approved since 1960 as non-infringing on culture or nature.
When the same set of Green groups tried to stop telescope construction here in Arizona during the Nineties, one of their arguments at the time, and I swear I’m not making this up, was “Why not build on Mauna Kea? Hawaii has no cloudy monsoon season, and is astronomy-friendly because of the specifically-designated telescope reserve on the mountain.”
I’m sure that eventually we will be able to build a thirty-meter scope in space. While we wait out those decades, TMT will see better than the 72-inch Hubble because its multiple mirrors will wiggle in real time to offset the blurring of atmospheric cells. And it will do so at a tiny fraction of the cost. In fact, TMT will cost less than the much-delayed JWST space telescope, which is much smaller.
Sorry about that. I have posted this manifesto link a time or two before in comments attached to other articles about the TMT, but those attracted little attention at the time. I’m glad that there still are enough Slashdotters to occasionally slashdot sites.
The scientific-industrial complex sweeps all before it. This is just more visual pollution of the environment in order to collect data that has absolutely no value to humanity, but which satisfies the peculiarly accented motivation arrays of this type of scientist.
Being able to spot an Earth-impacting asteroid when it’s still far enough away for us to do something it could literally save human civilization.
Unfortunately, this would also include your sorry ass.
What benefits will they gain from a big telescope being nearby?
Telescopes are tended by a small crew of highly paid nerds. These are the kind of high-quality jobs that benefit every economy because they occupy the top of an economic pyramid. Each of those nerds needs a place to live, needs his/her lawn mowed, dog groomed, car washed, child care and education. Each of those techie jobs nourishes an expanding set of more humble jobs below it.
The users of TMT will be scientists, most of whom do not live in the area. They will make use of the same travel and hotel infrastructure as tourists, but will contribute a lot more to the economy than a week at the beach. Science enriches us all.
The author of this piece, Will Falk, has been one of the earliest organizers of the protest movement in Hawaii, whipping up a native uprising against "Western science." Until the Greens got involved, Hawaiians had a long and peaceful relationship with research science, astronomy in particular. Their ancestors constructed star maps to navigate the Pacific, and King Kamehameha himself was an astronomy buff.
The whole summit of mauna Kea is a 114,000 - acre nature preserve administered by University of Hawaii. Within that preserve, a 52-acre patch near the summit was set aside for astronomy in 1960. The TMT would be the latest of about 13 telescopes that have been built in this area. It is the first one to become controversial.
It would be called "Kindle" and you could use it to read most books on a smartphone. With its settable font and type size and its white-on-black mode, it's a lot more readable than most people think.
I never know whether an image grid section that has one tiny edge/corner of the street sign or store front in it counts as a "street sign" or a "store front." I've tried it both ways, and I get it wrong every time. The textual CAPTCHAs were no better: as robots got better at solving them, the squiggly figures got more and more obscure, until AI was required to solve them.
Is reCAPTCH's new technique a spy system? I don't goddamn care. I just want user solving of CAPCHAs gone, using whatever technique they wish to devise.
Not exactly, but it's slowing down. All societal exponential curves are really S-curves whose asymptote is still distant. Remember all the scary population curves we had going a generation or so ago?
Yes, the chip reader would have to be set to return the value at just a single index at once, read any value no more often than every N seconds, and raise an alarm if any software attempted a "read different values as fast as possible" attack from one user. These are the sort of security features that people who have to make up their own passwords find odious now, but which in a chip-based system would be transparent to the user.
My chip would contain not a single number, but a read-only array (1024? 2**32?) of large random integers. When you want to set up an online account of any kind, the software would read your chip, pick one value at random, and encipher as your match value the number and its index. If a password gets compromised, just sign up again in the same way.
In being the "IT country doctor" in a high-end retirement area, everyone's biggest IT problem I encounter here is keeping track of passwords. If an implanted read-only chip full of large random numbers were offered as an alternative to the whole password mess, 95% of this town would be on it like stink on skunk. No more lists of passwords in spidery handwriting taped onto monitors, no more having to come up with online identifiers cobbled up to satisfy increasingly arcane security rules and then forgotten. To log onto anything from your system, just place the palm of your hand on a USB-connected reader and the app, operating system or website would use the I'th random number on the chip as your password.
For our seasoned citizens, an authentication chip would be the greatest thing since Medicare.
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Another factor they don't understand is Arizona's role in being a lifeline of baseload power to California, which no longer deigns to generate power of its own. Several California cities have quietly bought fractional shares in Palo Verde, our giant nuclear plant, for this reason.
If we want to move towards carbon-free, if we want California to survive, we should add several new units at Palo Verde.
Its intentions are laudable: fight carbon warming by promoting carbon-free energy sources. But not only does it leave out nuclear energy, which is already a large fraction of Arizona's baseload generation, but it leaves out the most important renewable, hydro, which happens to be another large fraction of Arizona's power base.
Prop 127 promotes only solar and wind as power sources. To put more of these on the grid would require that APS issue 'smart meters' to all customers that would measure demand load continuously, and which eventually would be able to turn major appliances on and off at strategic times to make the most of sunny afternoons and surges of wind.
And guess what? In my town, a rollout of the first-generation of smart meters was opposed by the same hippie moms who promote Prop 127. By refusing smart meters, they have already negated the whole idea of putting sun and wind on the grid.
Good point: pay restaurant prices plus the delivery markup to eat on your couch? Unlike the mall movie experience, the restaurant experience is still much better than being at home.
How is this rational? You know as well as I do, almost all scientists are deeply left-wing. You've just created a huge base of operations for the left.
When scientists count themselves as being on the left, they mean on issues like gender rights and single-payer health care. The left that opposes scientific research instruments is a movement that hates humanity itself and would literally welcome us all dying of a plague or whatever clamity they can envision. That's why the same people love to be hysterical about carbon warming at the same time as they automatically oppose any engineering technique for fixing the problem.
Here in Arizona, the same gang of thugs who are whipping up the Hawaiians against astronomy tried to prevent the Catholics specifically from building a telescope. Their research arm, Speccolo Vatticana, which has been doing astronomy for centuries near Rome, moved its operation here after Arcetri became smogged in.
Fortunately, we’re a bunch of armed Republicans fully aware of the importance of science to our state. We ran the Greens off, and the Large Binocular Tesescope was built.
You’ve never visited the mountain, I’m thinking. I have, back when the very first telescopes were being built in the astronomy reserve area.
NIMBY doesn’t come into play at all her because nobody lives on Mauna Kea. The mountain is a desolate expanse of red cinder where no one lives. No one even lived there in pre-American times either, because the ali’i, the one-percenters of the Bronze Age world, reserved it for their rituals. Commoner Kanaka were punished by death for so much as visiting the place.
Today the upper part of the mountain is a specially designated natural preserve where every identified heiau (altar) of the ali’i are protected, as is every natural species that has been identified there, down to the humble wekiu bug. All of the telescopes occupy the small reserve within this area that has been approved since 1960 as non-infringing on culture or nature.
When the same set of Green groups tried to stop telescope construction here in Arizona during the Nineties, one of their arguments at the time, and I swear I’m not making this up, was “Why not build on Mauna Kea? Hawaii has no cloudy monsoon season, and is astronomy-friendly because of the specifically-designated telescope reserve on the mountain.”
I’m sure that eventually we will be able to build a thirty-meter scope in space. While we wait out those decades, TMT will see better than the 72-inch Hubble because its multiple mirrors will wiggle in real time to offset the blurring of atmospheric cells. And it will do so at a tiny fraction of the cost. In fact, TMT will cost less than the much-delayed JWST space telescope, which is much smaller.
Sorry about that. I have posted this manifesto link a time or two before in comments attached to other articles about the TMT, but those attracted little attention at the time. I’m glad that there still are enough Slashdotters to occasionally slashdot sites.
The scientific-industrial complex sweeps all before it. This is just more visual pollution of the environment in order to collect data that has absolutely no value to humanity, but which satisfies the peculiarly accented motivation arrays of this type of scientist.
Being able to spot an Earth-impacting asteroid when it’s still far enough away for us to do something it could literally save human civilization.
Unfortunately, this would also include your sorry ass.
What benefits will they gain from a big telescope being nearby?
Telescopes are tended by a small crew of highly paid nerds. These are the kind of high-quality jobs that benefit every economy because they occupy the top of an economic pyramid. Each of those nerds needs a place to live, needs his/her lawn mowed, dog groomed, car washed, child care and education. Each of those techie jobs nourishes an expanding set of more humble jobs below it.
The users of TMT will be scientists, most of whom do not live in the area. They will make use of the same travel and hotel infrastructure as tourists, but will contribute a lot more to the economy than a week at the beach. Science enriches us all.
Here is the smoking gun, their manifesto on TMT:
https://deepgreenresistancegre...
The author of this piece, Will Falk, has been one of the earliest organizers of the protest movement in Hawaii, whipping up a native uprising against "Western science." Until the Greens got involved, Hawaiians had a long and peaceful relationship with research science, astronomy in particular. Their ancestors constructed star maps to navigate the Pacific, and King Kamehameha himself was an astronomy buff.
The whole summit of mauna Kea is a 114,000 - acre nature preserve administered by University of Hawaii. Within that preserve, a 52-acre patch near the summit was set aside for astronomy in 1960. The TMT would be the latest of about 13 telescopes that have been built in this area. It is the first one to become controversial.
For that whole week, everyone in that hospital sounded hilarious.
It would be called "Kindle" and you could use it to read most books on a smartphone. With its settable font and type size and its white-on-black mode, it's a lot more readable than most people think.
Photoshop on Java? Now pull the other one.
To run Photoshop as God intended it be run, you're still going to want an iMac.
Does anyone even test things on slow networks?
If they want it to work in the US, they have to.
I never know whether an image grid section that has one tiny edge/corner of the street sign or store front in it counts as a "street sign" or a "store front." I've tried it both ways, and I get it wrong every time. The textual CAPTCHAs were no better: as robots got better at solving them, the squiggly figures got more and more obscure, until AI was required to solve them.
Is reCAPTCH's new technique a spy system? I don't goddamn care. I just want user solving of CAPCHAs gone, using whatever technique they wish to devise.
Are there any other non-SI units I should be aware of?
Don't forget the thing, a substance-dependent unit of measurement used by women:
"Honey, can you pick up a thing of butter and a thing of milk on the way?"
I'll have you know that when it rains there is often water under his bridge, and from time to time he swims in it.
Moore's Law stopped a couple years ago.
Not exactly, but it's slowing down. All societal exponential curves are really S-curves whose asymptote is still distant. Remember all the scary population curves we had going a generation or so ago?
They also don‘t know how a car or a locomotive works and if they are from the South, how Evolution works.
Or if they're from California, how vaccines work. And they would be horrified if they found out they are made of atoms.
Because they are less likely to eat gobs of added sugar. Nothing to do with the purity label of thier food.
And because this is the population that eats less and which exercises more. Were these factors controlled for?
Yes, the chip reader would have to be set to return the value at just a single index at once, read any value no more often than every N seconds, and raise an alarm if any software attempted a "read different values as fast as possible" attack from one user. These are the sort of security features that people who have to make up their own passwords find odious now, but which in a chip-based system would be transparent to the user.
My chip would contain not a single number, but a read-only array (1024? 2**32?) of large random integers. When you want to set up an online account of any kind, the software would read your chip, pick one value at random, and encipher as your match value the number and its index. If a password gets compromised, just sign up again in the same way.
A fingerprint or iris scan is immutable. Once compromised, it can't be changed (see blow).
In being the "IT country doctor" in a high-end retirement area, everyone's biggest IT problem I encounter here is keeping track of passwords. If an implanted read-only chip full of large random numbers were offered as an alternative to the whole password mess, 95% of this town would be on it like stink on skunk. No more lists of passwords in spidery handwriting taped onto monitors, no more having to come up with online identifiers cobbled up to satisfy increasingly arcane security rules and then forgotten. To log onto anything from your system, just place the palm of your hand on a USB-connected reader and the app, operating system or website would use the I'th random number on the chip as your password.
For our seasoned citizens, an authentication chip would be the greatest thing since Medicare.