All they can do is spend a fortune firewalling their part of the Internet, while vainly trying to ignore an avalanche of complaints from their own users, who will just resign themselves to accessing everything through offshore servers.
CRISPR makes it easier for ISIS to create a doomsday virus, but at the same time the tech makes it easier for us to respond to threats like this. If the No GMO activists force us to recuse from using CRISPR because of this potential use, all it does is prevent us from fighting back. Could this perhaps be their original motivation?
So far, I haven't seen what the alternatives being considered actually are. McDonalds seems to be relying on 'straw on request' rather than replacing the plastic straw with something else. How about straw straws?
Apple Messages lets you send text to anything that can at least send/receive SMS. If it sees an Apple device on the other end, it messages through the Internet with rich protocols permitted (unlimited message length, high-res images, etc.). If it sees an infidel device on the other end, it falls back to SMS. And there is a differential message background color to let you know when that happens.
You are using the current version of the old nineteenth-century argument that New York City would soon become uninhabitable because of accumulated horse manure. Once we get full-burnup reactors going, all forms of fission waste will become new fuel. This will include Chernobyl and Fukushima. If Fukushima had occurred first, we would already be using the rad-hard robots that Japan is developing for dismantling the high-radiation parts of the site.
No, California pays us dearly for the baseload power that it does not deign to generate for itself. Several California cities even own fractional shares in our nuclear plant.
Airlines aren't setting the world up with a hazardous waste problem that will last thousands of years.
Not if you people let us build the new generation of full-burnup reactors. That spent fuel contains 95% of the energy in the original fuel. There is no need to let it sit around as 'waste'.
They grew up in a time where trusting people was not normally harmful. Interactions were local. Crooks from the other side of the world did not have easy access to a victim anywhere in the world.
Why yes. Today's old people grew up trusting every one of the people they bought dope from and the government that kept sending them to Vietnam. That's why the time in which they were young was so tranquil, especially on our college campuses.
The basic argument against the nuclear industry boils down to the idea that nuclear is a complex, unforgiving technology whose safety depends on constant monitoring.
I have an even better example of this kind of industry for you - aviation. Today, because of the elaborate precautions we take with air safety, most people feel perfectly safe on commercial aircraft. Yet we all know that somewhere in the world, about once a year, a planeload of people is lost. That's 200 or more at once each time, yet we generally feel that such numbers are not significant enough to worry about, even though most air accidents occur near airports, and can involve urban ground fatalities.
What would happen if a nuclear accident killed 200 people - just one? Now look at the converse: 6.5% of Americans are afraid to fly and opt to never get on a plane. When was the last time you saw even one of them protesting at an airport?
The difference between these industries is all in the politics.
Both of the sites your links refer to are so full of...nuclear weapons program waste. Militaries are not bound by the safety standards that apply in the nuclear power industry.
Always record incidents, public or private authority notwithstanding. The Dao dragging incident would have been quietly covered up had it not been for all those nearby passengers snapping away with phonecams.
If you encounter a ban on recording incidents, record more. Today's tech makes it easier to record surreptitiously than ever before. If there is a threat of officially forced deletion, get your footage onto social media as quickly as possible. Some camera apps have an option to automatically mirror to your Dropbox account.
Papers published in the Journal of Internet Manufactured Outrage are not falsifiable, cannot be retracted, and echo back and forth through blogs until the end of time. The Stanford experiment and the Wakefield anti-vax paper are examples.
We're about to see electricity become a much larger fraction of the nation's total energy requirements. If Los Angeles is not to be the next large city after Cape Town to run out of water, it will have to start desalinating to supply its 14 million population. Other coastal cities will follow. Car and truck traffic, a huge user of energy, is starting to move from the ICE column into the electricity column. We're not going to be able to fulfill current power demand by paving over the sacred Environment with mirrors and pinwheels, let alone all this new usage.
Our choice, people: will we have to open enormous new coal mines to generate baseload power, as Germany is doing even after massively subsidizing renewables, or do we burn the lawyers (with carbon capture, of course) so that we can cooperate with China in building a new generation of nukes?
If he gets an automated text from a server that one of the RAID volumes has failed, how long does he need to get over to Bouvet and change it out? Does he have to row a Zodiac boat from a seaplane?
I'm not claiming that the Postmodernists were totally joyless. The tribe did at one point open Casino Derrida on one of their campuses to bring in some income as their grants dried up. But because of their belief that mathematics is a "patriarchal colonialist construct" the Casino's games and slots are easy to manipulate in the player's favor, and the place did not last long.
Even the older, non-Pro iMacs have been a better deal than the Mac Pro for a few years. My 2013-vintage i7 is still fast enough for all current software. That includes Photoshop and Lightroom CC.
We could fix this by totally backing away from the modern lifestyle and living the Amish life, spending our days doing backbreaking manual farm work and living by candlelight. We could even go to a vegan lifestyle, though that would mean no candles either.
OR... we could replace our fossil fuel baseload with nuclear, electrify transportation and go on living normal 21st-century lives. The choice is ours.
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All they can do is spend a fortune firewalling their part of the Internet, while vainly trying to ignore an avalanche of complaints from their own users, who will just resign themselves to accessing everything through offshore servers.
CRISPR makes it easier for ISIS to create a doomsday virus, but at the same time the tech makes it easier for us to respond to threats like this. If the No GMO activists force us to recuse from using CRISPR because of this potential use, all it does is prevent us from fighting back. Could this perhaps be their original motivation?
So far, I haven't seen what the alternatives being considered actually are. McDonalds seems to be relying on 'straw on request' rather than replacing the plastic straw with something else. How about straw straws?
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Buy Android Phone:
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Step 3: Install an antivirus on your Android phone. Run it before every use.
Apple Messages lets you send text to anything that can at least send/receive SMS. If it sees an Apple device on the other end, it messages through the Internet with rich protocols permitted (unlimited message length, high-res images, etc.). If it sees an infidel device on the other end, it falls back to SMS. And there is a differential message background color to let you know when that happens.
You are using the current version of the old nineteenth-century argument that New York City would soon become uninhabitable because of accumulated horse manure. Once we get full-burnup reactors going, all forms of fission waste will become new fuel. This will include Chernobyl and Fukushima. If Fukushima had occurred first, we would already be using the rad-hard robots that Japan is developing for dismantling the high-radiation parts of the site.
Say, using one to appear being in the US when using a stolen account.
What if the scammer is running a VPN?
No, California pays us dearly for the baseload power that it does not deign to generate for itself. Several California cities even own fractional shares in our nuclear plant.
Airlines aren't setting the world up with a hazardous waste problem that will last thousands of years.
Not if you people let us build the new generation of full-burnup reactors. That spent fuel contains 95% of the energy in the original fuel. There is no need to let it sit around as 'waste'.
... people fly, but don't want nuclear in their backyard or the next 1000 miles.
That's what happens in liberal, anti-science California, but not here, which is why we can ship nuclear electricity to California.
Our problem is not being able to get rid of our one last coal plant, because it's on an Indian reservation that claims it needs the jobs.
They grew up in a time where trusting people was not normally harmful. Interactions were local. Crooks from the other side of the world did not have easy access to a victim anywhere in the world.
Why yes. Today's old people grew up trusting every one of the people they bought dope from and the government that kept sending them to Vietnam. That's why the time in which they were young was so tranquil, especially on our college campuses.
The basic argument against the nuclear industry boils down to the idea that nuclear is a complex, unforgiving technology whose safety depends on constant monitoring.
I have an even better example of this kind of industry for you - aviation. Today, because of the elaborate precautions we take with air safety, most people feel perfectly safe on commercial aircraft. Yet we all know that somewhere in the world, about once a year, a planeload of people is lost. That's 200 or more at once each time, yet we generally feel that such numbers are not significant enough to worry about, even though most air accidents occur near airports, and can involve urban ground fatalities.
What would happen if a nuclear accident killed 200 people - just one? Now look at the converse: 6.5% of Americans are afraid to fly and opt to never get on a plane. When was the last time you saw even one of them protesting at an airport?
The difference between these industries is all in the politics.
You're so full of shit.
Both of the sites your links refer to are so full of...nuclear weapons program waste. Militaries are not bound by the safety standards that apply in the nuclear power industry.
Always record incidents, public or private authority notwithstanding. The Dao dragging incident would have been quietly covered up had it not been for all those nearby passengers snapping away with phonecams.
If you encounter a ban on recording incidents, record more. Today's tech makes it easier to record surreptitiously than ever before. If there is a threat of officially forced deletion, get your footage onto social media as quickly as possible. Some camera apps have an option to automatically mirror to your Dropbox account.
Papers published in the Journal of Internet Manufactured Outrage are not falsifiable, cannot be retracted, and echo back and forth through blogs until the end of time. The Stanford experiment and the Wakefield anti-vax paper are examples.
We're about to see electricity become a much larger fraction of the nation's total energy requirements. If Los Angeles is not to be the next large city after Cape Town to run out of water, it will have to start desalinating to supply its 14 million population. Other coastal cities will follow. Car and truck traffic, a huge user of energy, is starting to move from the ICE column into the electricity column. We're not going to be able to fulfill current power demand by paving over the sacred Environment with mirrors and pinwheels, let alone all this new usage.
Our choice, people: will we have to open enormous new coal mines to generate baseload power, as Germany is doing even after massively subsidizing renewables, or do we burn the lawyers (with carbon capture, of course) so that we can cooperate with China in building a new generation of nukes?
If you legalize all drugs there will be so many dead kids you dumbass. OTOH, it might be a reasonable solution to our overpopulation problem.
No, but it could be a reasonable solution to the idiot problem.
If he gets an automated text from a server that one of the RAID volumes has failed, how long does he need to get over to Bouvet and change it out? Does he have to row a Zodiac boat from a seaplane?
Remember when we talked about ozone depletion in the same apocalyptic terms?
I'm not claiming that the Postmodernists were totally joyless. The tribe did at one point open Casino Derrida on one of their campuses to bring in some income as their grants dried up. But because of their belief that mathematics is a "patriarchal colonialist construct" the Casino's games and slots are easy to manipulate in the player's favor, and the place did not last long.
Even the older, non-Pro iMacs have been a better deal than the Mac Pro for a few years. My 2013-vintage i7 is still fast enough for all current software. That includes Photoshop and Lightroom CC.
It's not even Microsoft planned obsolescence. It's the crappy hardware that most Window installations run on.
We could fix this by totally backing away from the modern lifestyle and living the Amish life, spending our days doing backbreaking manual farm work and living by candlelight. We could even go to a vegan lifestyle, though that would mean no candles either.
OR... we could replace our fossil fuel baseload with nuclear, electrify transportation and go on living normal 21st-century lives. The choice is ours.
If you are reading this, you were born during an ice age
Come on, not everybody here is my age.