I grew up a few miles from this plant, the local area has seen many of the factories that used to use that power have shut down and moved out of the country. The price drop is due to the reduced demand for power in the rust belt...
There are still many uses that can only provided by incandescent light, for example oh say having a full spectrum light instead of cheap fluorescent glow. Why don't we have the same energy options as major corporations? If only they subsidized CFLs and LEDs and put an energy tax on real light the middle class could still have the option of being able to see their house in warm full spectrum light if they were inclined. What about darkroom photography? CFLs in true red frequencies are hard to come by...What will happen to the easy bake oven?
Selling marijuana however IS civil disobedience, making a living while evading taxes is the best way to really make a change when it comes to political powers you don't agree with. We vote with our wallets and I'd rather give money to the black market (which is generally local when it comes to marijuana) than big pharmaceutical companies. The recent stunt pulled by Dr. Bronner comes to mind as a great example of civil disobedience.
"August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains" The idea of an automated house that just goes on living after humanity has vaporized itself in a nuclear holocaust is just sad. Dead dog included.
Is there any real difference between a tablet with a clam-shell "screen cover" that has a keyboard in it running windows, and a laptop with a touch screen?
This is a perfect case for reworking the patent system. Clearly it isn't working for the betterment of humanity, this isn't a problem with apple but with the concept of "intellectual property". Companies should be rewarded for their ability to consistently make good products and not for their ability to patent overly broad ideas and win lawsuits. Why didn't the plaintiff write an easy to use app distributed version of their software before the other company? They had no incentive to do the research, they already own the patent and can charge whatever they want for their curmudgeonly versions so why pay someone to make it cheaper and easier to use? If patent owners aren't diligent in maintaining their "property value" then they shouldn't be able to complain when someone plants a garden on their weed ridden lawn.
You mean so they can re-use the parts and overcharge someone else for used parts poorly assembled in a shiny new case? What a bunch of touchy-feely philanthropists those mac people are...
The door wasn't just unlocked, it was wide open. It'd be like having sex in front of a bay window and then suing the guy walking down the street that says, "Hey look"
Psychology is still pseudoscience, it's conjecture piled up on more conjecture, piled up on Freud's ego. It'll be an obsolete field of study when neuroscience discovers the actual physics of the brain. As far as I'm concerned he might as well have a degree in alchemy.
Isn't the very fact that we are discussing this issue via the internet disprove Carr's argument? Is this not a deep thinking issue, or does the topic that he picked to write his entire book on a shallow baseless bit of info that no one will take the time to thoroughly discuss?
I spend most of my online time debating philosophy and theology on youtube. YouTube! Supposedly the most shallow attention deficit form of media. I've been geared toward philosophy and deep thinking since childhood. If nothing else the internet give me access to peers who are willing to discuss intellectual topics, which are few and far between in my everyday life. No one wants to talk Religion at the bar, no one in my personal life is willing to take the time to learn about Quantum Physics. The internet gives me output for my deep philosophical thoughts I wouldn't otherwise have. Technology is a tool, it doesn't fundamentally change human nature.
Yeah I-Tunes just "works" I.e. it does whatever it feels like without even asking me, what if I DON'T want my entire music collection converted to apple format at doubling the space it takes up on my hard drive. What if instead of syncing my ENTIRE collection onto my MP3 player I just want to move one album onto it? Or what if I want to copy some of my music onto a friends laptop? Apple products are for people who don't like using computers, and they promote technological ignorance. Apple uses said technological ignorance to overcharge people for devices with less functionality, and also to charge for software that would otherwise be free.
Apple keeps it's customers because the majority of their market knows nothing, and doesn't want to know anything about computers. They aren't going to switch because it would involve learning how to operate new technology, which for Apple users is much more difficult than just paying twice as much for a computer-like object that does things when you press it's one button.
we could easily use reflective satellite dishes on our roofs to focus the sun's energy to small steam generators...it uses the simple technology of radiant heat instead of trying to catch falling photons and you wouldn't have to transmit the electricity more than a few meters. It's also much cheaper to produce and would create a lot of manufacturing jobs that you could hope to keep local...
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I grew up a few miles from this plant, the local area has seen many of the factories that used to use that power have shut down and moved out of the country. The price drop is due to the reduced demand for power in the rust belt...
but we are certain it has fleas!
There are still many uses that can only provided by incandescent light, for example oh say having a full spectrum light instead of cheap fluorescent glow. Why don't we have the same energy options as major corporations? If only they subsidized CFLs and LEDs and put an energy tax on real light the middle class could still have the option of being able to see their house in warm full spectrum light if they were inclined. What about darkroom photography? CFLs in true red frequencies are hard to come by...What will happen to the easy bake oven?
Self reported cannabis withdrawal symptoms:
Increases productivity
decreased appetite
persistent boredom
Selling marijuana however IS civil disobedience, making a living while evading taxes is the best way to really make a change when it comes to political powers you don't agree with. We vote with our wallets and I'd rather give money to the black market (which is generally local when it comes to marijuana) than big pharmaceutical companies.
The recent stunt pulled by Dr. Bronner comes to mind as a great example of civil disobedience.
"August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rains"
The idea of an automated house that just goes on living after humanity has vaporized itself in a nuclear holocaust is just sad. Dead dog included.
Making more laws clearly stops illegal behavior, just look at the drug war.
Is there any real difference between a tablet with a clam-shell "screen cover" that has a keyboard in it running windows, and a laptop with a touch screen?
This is a perfect case for reworking the patent system. Clearly it isn't working for the betterment of humanity, this isn't a problem with apple but with the concept of "intellectual property". Companies should be rewarded for their ability to consistently make good products and not for their ability to patent overly broad ideas and win lawsuits. Why didn't the plaintiff write an easy to use app distributed version of their software before the other company? They had no incentive to do the research, they already own the patent and can charge whatever they want for their curmudgeonly versions so why pay someone to make it cheaper and easier to use? If patent owners aren't diligent in maintaining their "property value" then they shouldn't be able to complain when someone plants a garden on their weed ridden lawn.
that would require that her parents and everyone around her learn sign language as well, making it not as effective of a communication tool.
Tell that to theDance your PHD people
Curb your enthusiasm
In my school they taught plate tectonics alongside Poseidon theory, thank Zeus for that!
You mean so they can re-use the parts and overcharge someone else for used parts poorly assembled in a shiny new case?
What a bunch of touchy-feely philanthropists those mac people are...
The door wasn't just unlocked, it was wide open. It'd be like having sex in front of a bay window and then suing the guy walking down the street that says, "Hey look"
Psychology is still pseudoscience, it's conjecture piled up on more conjecture, piled up on Freud's ego. It'll be an obsolete field of study when neuroscience discovers the actual physics of the brain. As far as I'm concerned he might as well have a degree in alchemy.
Isn't the very fact that we are discussing this issue via the internet disprove Carr's argument? Is this not a deep thinking issue, or does the topic that he picked to write his entire book on a shallow baseless bit of info that no one will take the time to thoroughly discuss?
I spend most of my online time debating philosophy and theology on youtube. YouTube! Supposedly the most shallow attention deficit form of media. I've been geared toward philosophy and deep thinking since childhood. If nothing else the internet give me access to peers who are willing to discuss intellectual topics, which are few and far between in my everyday life. No one wants to talk Religion at the bar, no one in my personal life is willing to take the time to learn about Quantum Physics. The internet gives me output for my deep philosophical thoughts I wouldn't otherwise have. Technology is a tool, it doesn't fundamentally change human nature.
Yeah I-Tunes just "works"
I.e. it does whatever it feels like without even asking me,
what if I DON'T want my entire music collection converted to apple format at doubling the space it takes up on my hard drive. What if instead of syncing my ENTIRE collection onto my MP3 player I just want to move one album onto it? Or what if I want to copy some of my music onto a friends laptop?
Apple products are for people who don't like using computers, and they promote technological ignorance.
Apple uses said technological ignorance to overcharge people for devices with less functionality, and also to charge for software that would otherwise be free.
Apple keeps it's customers because the majority of their market knows nothing, and doesn't want to know anything about computers. They aren't going to switch because it would involve learning how to operate new technology, which for Apple users is much more difficult than just paying twice as much for a computer-like object that does things when you press it's one button.
we could easily use reflective satellite dishes on our roofs to focus the sun's energy to small steam generators...it uses the simple technology of radiant heat instead of trying to catch falling photons and you wouldn't have to transmit the electricity more than a few meters. It's also much cheaper to produce and would create a lot of manufacturing jobs that you could hope to keep local...