Every page is so loaded down with script that my browser warns me that just displaying it is using too much in resources. You can't click on any link in the page until you have waited several minutes for it to stop thrashing around as ads huff and puff to assume their place in this mountain of script. After waiting this out some comment sections are usable, some are not.
Why am I not running an ad blocker? I did until every site I visited detected its presence and demanded that I stop running it. Are there no stealth ad blockers out there?
There's nothing inherently wrong with centralized recycling. It's a matter of economy of scale weighed against transportation cost and impact. But if 'central' means a place where you have no idea what recycling standard, if any, is being applied, that's when you need to stay one step more local.
We keep being told that GE is a has-been company that no longer has interesting tech to offer the world. Why would Chinese intelligence be so interested in such a corpse?
There has been enough controversy lately over Google Maps dreaming up its own names for urban neighborhoods. Wait until British Columbia starts sprouting new lakes with names like Etherium, Monero, Dogecoin...
An isopropyl alcohol bath is resoundingly insufficient to sterilize surgical instruments. This has been known for decades. Likewise, nobody in their right mind assumes a quick wipe with an alcohol pad will make your skin sterile either.
That's why surgeons will have to start autoclaving their hands at scrub-in.
Meanwhile, hospital administrators already have a solution: just keep raising prices until there are no more patients.
There is a famous NASA composite image of the Earth, assembled from every region's cloudless nights. You wonder, 'What's that brilliantly lit island between Japan and China?' Then you realize that it's actually not an island.
I want to see the burning cow dung charger those NK phones use.
The "overshoot day" calculation is rather fuzzy, but the general idea is to determine the date at which each country uses up a year's worth of the planet's resources. According to the breakdown by country, the countries that do the best job of living within their ecological means are Vietnam (Dec 21), Jamaica (Dec 13), Cuba (Nov 19) and Colombia (Nov 17). Feel like moving to any of those paradises?
The US and Canada both poop out, resource-wise in mid-March, while Australia and most Scandinavian countries hold out until late March to early April. The rest of Europe goes resource-negative in May (May 2 for Germany, which has plowed most of its national budget into running on renewables). And what is it that makes little Luxembourg go negative on Feb 19?
San Francisco has shelters for the homeless, places where they could sleep and volunteer to help each other out, making social services go farther. But what is to be done about those who won't even use such facilities, the people who poop in the subway escalators and do nothing but make life miserable for everyone else in the city?
I don't think this ordinance has a chance in hell of passing constitutional muster,
But then again neither does anything else in today's San Francisco.I can see the Council passing this just to spite the rest of us.
I've worked in a number of companies that have cafeterias. Though they are great for grabbing lunch on busy days, nobody ever eats in them every day of the week. Local restaurants still get lunch parties daily, to the extent that in every tech area with a community nearby, lunch is the busiest time of the restaurant day.
I worked there the summer of 1996. It was still a nice place to live then, so long as the contract customer was paying for everything. Where else would you find a Jack Kerouac Alley?
And yet... Where are the great french entrepreneurs and innovators?
France was a tech leader back when we appointed Ben Franklin as the first ambassador, and it's just as much as a tech leader now that it has the carbon-free economy that no other country even plans to achieve this century.
But in that climate, solar is a more relatable 12-hour daily source than anywhere else with a significant user market and a lot of the kind of utter devastation that would be okay to pave over with solar collectors. Such a source could power, say, a large desalination project.
Define "terraforming" exactly? After we place an initial colonial foothold anywhere else in the solar system, we will make whatever short-term modifications of the environment may be feasible to make living there easier. No matter what changes we make, there will be no more interest in totally recreating the Earth environment any more than we made New Jersey an exact copy of Italy.
In the long run, we will change ourselves through genetic engineering to met our new environments - all of them - partway. Mars-folk might be tailored to breathe thinner air, while other colonial communities will find it easier to engineer humans who tolerate low gravity than to simulate gravity on a large scale.
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Every page is so loaded down with script that my browser warns me that just displaying it is using too much in resources. You can't click on any link in the page until you have waited several minutes for it to stop thrashing around as ads huff and puff to assume their place in this mountain of script. After waiting this out some comment sections are usable, some are not.
Why am I not running an ad blocker? I did until every site I visited detected its presence and demanded that I stop running it. Are there no stealth ad blockers out there?
Planet hunting results were also de-prioritized and filtered as a potentially blasphemous content...
The filter removes all planets which are white, or which are spherical.
Just this once, I hope the record companies win every penny. This will be an object lesson to ISPs in why they should lobby for common carrier status.
There's nothing inherently wrong with centralized recycling. It's a matter of economy of scale weighed against transportation cost and impact. But if 'central' means a place where you have no idea what recycling standard, if any, is being applied, that's when you need to stay one step more local.
We have never had assurance that the material we send to China is actually being recycled. The controversy is over how much of it may just be dumped.
If we're not reusing the materials ourselves, it's not real recycling.
In this new version of Google Maps, the turtles are gone too.
We keep being told that GE is a has-been company that no longer has interesting tech to offer the world. Why would Chinese intelligence be so interested in such a corpse?
So long as crystalline carbon is the only aphrodisiac that works on women, they will be prized.
There has been enough controversy lately over Google Maps dreaming up its own names for urban neighborhoods. Wait until British Columbia starts sprouting new lakes with names like Etherium, Monero, Dogecoin...
And while we're putting in typographic quotes, to also include the European accent characters.
An isopropyl alcohol bath is resoundingly insufficient to sterilize surgical instruments. This has been known for decades. Likewise, nobody in their right mind assumes a quick wipe with an alcohol pad will make your skin sterile either.
That's why surgeons will have to start autoclaving their hands at scrub-in.
Meanwhile, hospital administrators already have a solution: just keep raising prices until there are no more patients.
There is a famous NASA composite image of the Earth, assembled from every region's cloudless nights. You wonder, 'What's that brilliantly lit island between Japan and China?' Then you realize that it's actually not an island.
I want to see the burning cow dung charger those NK phones use.
The "overshoot day" calculation is rather fuzzy, but the general idea is to determine the date at which each country uses up a year's worth of the planet's resources. According to the breakdown by country, the countries that do the best job of living within their ecological means are Vietnam (Dec 21), Jamaica (Dec 13), Cuba (Nov 19) and Colombia (Nov 17). Feel like moving to any of those paradises?
The US and Canada both poop out, resource-wise in mid-March, while Australia and most Scandinavian countries hold out until late March to early April. The rest of Europe goes resource-negative in May (May 2 for Germany, which has plowed most of its national budget into running on renewables). And what is it that makes little Luxembourg go negative on Feb 19?
San Francisco has shelters for the homeless, places where they could sleep and volunteer to help each other out, making social services go farther. But what is to be done about those who won't even use such facilities, the people who poop in the subway escalators and do nothing but make life miserable for everyone else in the city?
That's Hollywood's job.
They can build their own factory that grows food and prepares it using robots.
But the techs who work in that factory will still have to eat out.
I don't think this ordinance has a chance in hell of passing constitutional muster,
But then again neither does anything else in today's San Francisco.I can see the Council passing this just to spite the rest of us.
I've worked in a number of companies that have cafeterias. Though they are great for grabbing lunch on busy days, nobody ever eats in them every day of the week. Local restaurants still get lunch parties daily, to the extent that in every tech area with a community nearby, lunch is the busiest time of the restaurant day.
One way to get a start on civic beautification would be to round up all the bums and passed-out junkies and quietly put them to sleep.
Wtf? Horse poop doesn't smell even slightly bad. On a scale of 0 to 10 it's a 0.
And horses don't drop needles all over the place.
I worked there the summer of 1996. It was still a nice place to live then, so long as the contract customer was paying for everything. Where else would you find a Jack Kerouac Alley?
And yet... Where are the great french entrepreneurs and innovators?
France was a tech leader back when we appointed Ben Franklin as the first ambassador, and it's just as much as a tech leader now that it has the carbon-free economy that no other country even plans to achieve this century.
EDIT: "...reliable 12-hour..."
But in that climate, solar is a more relatable 12-hour daily source than anywhere else with a significant user market and a lot of the kind of utter devastation that would be okay to pave over with solar collectors. Such a source could power, say, a large desalination project.
Define "terraforming" exactly? After we place an initial colonial foothold anywhere else in the solar system, we will make whatever short-term modifications of the environment may be feasible to make living there easier. No matter what changes we make, there will be no more interest in totally recreating the Earth environment any more than we made New Jersey an exact copy of Italy.
In the long run, we will change ourselves through genetic engineering to met our new environments - all of them - partway. Mars-folk might be tailored to breathe thinner air, while other colonial communities will find it easier to engineer humans who tolerate low gravity than to simulate gravity on a large scale.