Sen. Markey has a long record of Luddism on every conceivable kind of technology. My personal Markey Rule is to support anything that Markey opposes, and vice versa.
This Steemit, on the other hand, is something else entirely. It renders completely moot the question of wondering who the attention seekers are, versus who are just the paid shills. Now you know it's everybody!
But can Steemit really pay more for posts than Monsanto, the company that pays for every post we disagree with?
I don't like using recycling cost as an argument against any widely deployed technology. If any electronics is made in sufficient quantities for recycling its discards to be regarded as a disposal problem, we ought to take the time and trouble to develop a customized recycling scheme for it. This should have been done for the lead glass in all those CRTs which have ended up being surreptitiously dumped in arroyos because landfills and recycling centers wouldn't take them. Doing so for PV cells will enable us to recover tons of the rare earth elements we need in making new panels.
PV panels will work fine in winter, provided you keep the snow swept off them, on the same sunny days they make use of in summer. Meaning not so much in those leaden German winters.
Slashdot users usually prefer to insist that a new thing is completely impossible and cannot be done until the thing is commoditized and ubiquitous, at which point they roll their eyes and declare it old news.
And then ignore it because real people, rather than Linux fanboys, use it.
Middlemen were a vital part of the entertainment supply chain in the days when music and movies were physical goods. When a movie was marketed in a new country, someone had to arrange for physical distribution of film cans to theaters. This required trucks, security, permits and checking for product wear over time. Advertising meant billboards and posters all over the place in each new locale. When was the last time your band sold its music from card tables full of cassettes?
All of this goes away when the product is sold digitally, but the companies that got their cut in the old days still want to get paid for what they feel is their due slice of thin air. This is the part that I Kodi over if it gets in my way. One example going on right now: I get ABC TV shows over one of the major cable providers, for which the abc.com streaming site has an online logon. But any attempt to stream on the ABC site elicits a "Need to reauthorize" error loop. So if I miss something on ABC, I have to Kodi it.
I support creators of content, but not middlemen who geofence it, region-block it, or herd it into bundles that require me to subscribe to a ludicrous number of different streaming services. For that reason I Kodi when I find I can't rent a single view of content because of one of these mechanisms.
Both, though hardly "on a full time basis" since I get them at Whole Foods, so you can imagine what they cost. They're a great high-protein snack for hiking.
Crickets. Not 'crickets' as in there's no alternative, but crickets as in actual crickets. They can be ranched with almost no water and a much better feed-to-meat ratio than the nine-to one from cattle.
The safety factor of hydro is just as good as nuclear because it has been around long enough for the safety bugs to have been worked out after "meltdowns" like Banqiao and Fréjus. The real problem with hydro is that it has no future. The good places have already been taken.
If the situation in Korea heats up again, watch for the military to turn on Selective Availability in case of an imminent attack. We're in for an entertaining day of cars crashing into buildings and diving off closed bridges.
Apple requires that all iPhone cases, even the thermonuclear-resistant Otterbox line, have a window in the back to make the Apple logo visible. I always though that this was just to allow the Apple coolness rays to show through to the outside world, but it makes moving the TouchID sensor there an even better idea. When you hold a iPhone in its case, the logo window location is immediately visible to your fingers.
What was clueless about Bodega was not realizing that convenience store operators gather a lot of specific knowledge about the shopping habits of people in the close vicinity that can be used for finely scaled marketing. A human convenience operator knows to stock the odd brand of microwaveable tostadas that Martín buys every Wednesday after he works late. He knows that the families in the apartment buildiong across the street like to throw spontaneous pool parties. His fund of customer information is exactly what the critics of Silicon Valley automatically define as 'creepy' if collected by a company like Amazon.
A good convenience store app would be, not a replacement of that business model, but would reinforce it by enabling operators to extend into lines of business that they could not contemplate entering themselves, like making regional travel arrangements.
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Sen. Markey has a long record of Luddism on every conceivable kind of technology. My personal Markey Rule is to support anything that Markey opposes, and vice versa.
Carbon! In its many forms, what can't it do?
Soon, it will be simply to valuable to leave sitting around in the atmosphere.
This Steemit, on the other hand, is something else entirely. It renders completely moot the question of wondering who the attention seekers are, versus who are just the paid shills. Now you know it's everybody!
But can Steemit really pay more for posts than Monsanto, the company that pays for every post we disagree with?
They're supposed to be, but the Slashdot "editors" seem to assume every reader is an expert is all fields.
As we used to be before all the trolls showed up.
I don't like using recycling cost as an argument against any widely deployed technology. If any electronics is made in sufficient quantities for recycling its discards to be regarded as a disposal problem, we ought to take the time and trouble to develop a customized recycling scheme for it. This should have been done for the lead glass in all those CRTs which have ended up being surreptitiously dumped in arroyos because landfills and recycling centers wouldn't take them. Doing so for PV cells will enable us to recover tons of the rare earth elements we need in making new panels.
PV panels will work fine in winter, provided you keep the snow swept off them, on the same sunny days they make use of in summer. Meaning not so much in those leaden German winters.
Am I still going to retire on Mars?
You're certainly welcome to. I'm sticking with tropical paradise, right here...
Your generation will have tropical retirement wherever they want because my generation couldn't abide anything nuclear.
Slashdot users usually prefer to insist that a new thing is completely impossible and cannot be done until the thing is commoditized and ubiquitous, at which point they roll their eyes and declare it old news.
And then ignore it because real people, rather than Linux fanboys, use it.
No, what we do today is buy frivolous things with the loyalty points we earned by buying other frivolous things on credit.
This applies not just to people, but to their machines and to any given person-machine combination.
Middlemen were a vital part of the entertainment supply chain in the days when music and movies were physical goods. When a movie was marketed in a new country, someone had to arrange for physical distribution of film cans to theaters. This required trucks, security, permits and checking for product wear over time. Advertising meant billboards and posters all over the place in each new locale. When was the last time your band sold its music from card tables full of cassettes?
All of this goes away when the product is sold digitally, but the companies that got their cut in the old days still want to get paid for what they feel is their due slice of thin air. This is the part that I Kodi over if it gets in my way. One example going on right now: I get ABC TV shows over one of the major cable providers, for which the abc.com streaming site has an online logon. But any attempt to stream on the ABC site elicits a "Need to reauthorize" error loop. So if I miss something on ABC, I have to Kodi it.
I support creators of content, but not middlemen who geofence it, region-block it, or herd it into bundles that require me to subscribe to a ludicrous number of different streaming services. For that reason I Kodi when I find I can't rent a single view of content because of one of these mechanisms.
If it ain't on Amazon or Comcast, I'm not watching it. Not gonna pay monthly fees for yet another streaming service just to watch one TV show.
Wait until the end of the season, when it will be on Netflix.
Both, though hardly "on a full time basis" since I get them at Whole Foods, so you can imagine what they cost. They're a great high-protein snack for hiking.
What's your solution?
Crickets. Not 'crickets' as in there's no alternative, but crickets as in actual crickets. They can be ranched with almost no water and a much better feed-to-meat ratio than the nine-to one from cattle.
The safety factor of hydro is just as good as nuclear because it has been around long enough for the safety bugs to have been worked out after "meltdowns" like Banqiao and Fréjus. The real problem with hydro is that it has no future. The good places have already been taken.
If you’re not a religious environmentalist, your cows' methane emissions are not a sin.
And if you ARE a religious environmentalist, you're not going to eat designer cows.
Defeat the US military with clouds of cheap civilian drones.
Except for the ones who oppose GMOs. They will have to fatalistically die because that is the will of Mother Gaia.
If the situation in Korea heats up again, watch for the military to turn on Selective Availability in case of an imminent attack. We're in for an entertaining day of cars crashing into buildings and diving off closed bridges.
Spotted the Scientologist!
Right To Repair really means "right to try to repair." It will not force manufacturers to make it more convenient to repair their stuff.
Just try to repair a Microsoft Surface.
This will be Facebook's scripting language for highly addictive content.
Apple requires that all iPhone cases, even the thermonuclear-resistant Otterbox line, have a window in the back to make the Apple logo visible. I always though that this was just to allow the Apple coolness rays to show through to the outside world, but it makes moving the TouchID sensor there an even better idea. When you hold a iPhone in its case, the logo window location is immediately visible to your fingers.
What was clueless about Bodega was not realizing that convenience store operators gather a lot of specific knowledge about the shopping habits of people in the close vicinity that can be used for finely scaled marketing. A human convenience operator knows to stock the odd brand of microwaveable tostadas that Martín buys every Wednesday after he works late. He knows that the families in the apartment buildiong across the street like to throw spontaneous pool parties. His fund of customer information is exactly what the critics of Silicon Valley automatically define as 'creepy' if collected by a company like Amazon.
A good convenience store app would be, not a replacement of that business model, but would reinforce it by enabling operators to extend into lines of business that they could not contemplate entering themselves, like making regional travel arrangements.