Huh? I'm from Denmark, and got the the impression that Norway was generating almost all the needed electricity from hydro. Wikipedia seems to confirm this?
The problem is that most people do it for fun, and it's just not a lot of fun to work on something you're never going to use and that requires you working in an environment you'd rather not work in.
The queuing system in Denmark was one provided by a company selling out-sourced queuing systems operated in the cloud. From someone who obviously knew what they were doing.
If there were a real business case for this, we would already be switching over to it.
You are conveniently ignoring externalities here and direct and indirect (like wars) government subsidies. Noone is denying it will cost more right now. But you know what? There's more to life than money.
Hidden from view, of course, is the fact that switching to these energy sources will impoverish anyone dumb enough to use them.
That's hyperbole. You are not going to be impoverished from switching to other energy sources. Some renewable sources are not that far from being competitive these days. And the price is going down.
For many, their college or university affiliation is like belonging to a special club. Even more so if they belonged to a fraternity or sorority. It will take time for that to wane.
And it is, in some sense. If you're paying attention, college installs a certain, shall we say academic, culture in people where you learn to question beliefs and work hard for the sake of knowledge.
As much as I enjoy America bashing, I think you're underestimating the illiteracy in other societies. Granted, the bible extremist may be fewer and less dominant, but America doesn't have a patent on stupidity. A couple of weeks ago I heard a Danish priest call the evolution theory "just a theory". What's important is arriving at a culture that doesn't idolize rampant lack of knowledge.
If I had moderator points, I'd mod you up. I have one bookshelf, but wish I didn't, because I like to have as few things as possible. But it's still sad - I've always borrowed all my books at the local library. I don't have time to read as much today, but in primary school and high school, I carried home a big pile of books every month. There were always this special feeling at the library - quiescence, subdued excitement over a newly discovered promising author with a series of books waiting to be read.
Contrary to the accusations flying around in this thread, many of the Wikipedia articles I read are better written and contain much more up to date knowledge than I can find elsewhere, even with some effort. Because someone who cared about the topic spent time researching and writing about it. It takes a lot of time to write a full-length Wikipedia article. The idea that people would just do it without caring about it is ridiculous.
Of course, now you may reply with the one single example you know of where you could do a Google search and find something better than a Wikipedia article. As if that was useful proof of the quality of a database of more than 1 million articles.
I get the impression this is a temporary shutdown?
As for Germany, speaking as someone coming from a neighbour country, it seems they're really into getting more renewable energy sources up and running. If you were really interested in this, as opposed to just complaining, you could check out the Wikipedia page on renewable energy in Germany.
To be honest, I think the tech is there, it's just a question of dumping some money into it, and the increasing oil prices are helping with that. The Danish engineering society had a plan for Denmark to get rid of (I think?) 90+% of the current dependence on fossil fuels in 2050. We have no nuclear power plants.
Danish television had a reportage on the effect of the Fukushima incident on the people living nearby.
After seeing the reportage, I can understand why they are shutting down the other reactors for the time being. It's one thing reading that nuclear power plants statistically kills very few compared to other sources of energy, it's another thing when you have to leave your ancestors home for 12 generations, or be stuck with a house that nobody will buy because even if it's outside the immediate danger zone and the authorities say it's safe, noone wants to take the risk.
Whether fair or not, the incident violated the trust people had in the administrators of the nuclear tech, and it's going to take something to earn that trust back.
I humbly disagree. The FPS games I've played, most people were usually friendly and nice. Of course, there's an occasional moron out to spoil the fun but they are few in comparison, although much more noticeable.
People ganging up is bad, though. I don't think that's necessarily related to age. Defenseless adults get harassed at their jobs, too.
You could also turn it around. If you kicked someone every day for a year, I'm sure they'd remember the single day you gave that person a free lunch and a pat on the back.
You're being irrational. Suicide bombers are employed as a last resort against a technically superior enemy. I'm sure that if you go back in time, you'll find that all major religions have had suicidal fighters in one way or another. It has nothing to do with religion.
The fact that you conclude that the communists "undoubtedly wanted to wipe out their enemies" just shows how narrow you're thinking about this. The tragedy of an arms race like in the cold war is that both sides are building weapons out of fear of an attack. It's madness.
Well, I think it's just the way people think about. Nobody dreaming of having a child starts out by thinking they aren't going to make it themselves. So naturally they'd prefer to make it themselves, and while some people are probably going to resign relatively quickly if they can't and think about adoption instead, it's not really surprising to me that some are obsessed and will do anything, even going through several years of nerve-wrecking treatment.
This is of course a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway. The answer is that you don't have be obsessed, but the women who get sick and can't have a child would like to have some kind of cure. Maybe that's selfish of them, but if what you are thinking of is the sustainability of the earth, I'm sure that if you did the math,, it's more selfish to eat meat.
The truth is that many Western countries have a fertility rate below 2. So while there may be too many children born in some parts of the world, the population will decline in others ignoring immigration for a second. And somehow, I don't think the typical mother with 6 kids in a poor country is going to give up her kids just like that, even if she can barely support them.
The problem with the UN is there is also the matter that the UN is made up of members that have little to no respect for basic human freedoms, and that includes places like Western Europe where its say illegal to question certain historic view points.
Care to elaborate? Maybe you're referring to Germany's laws against nazi symbols? You have to remember that nazists did cause some horrible sufferings, not just to the Germans but to many other countries. Even so, this is a law specific to Germany and I haven't heard any Germans trying to push them to other countries.
That same organization than has the gal to berate us here in the USA on human rights for say executing adult criminals (18 years old), while they would classify all kinds of behavior as criminal which we would never criminalize in the first place.
You are speaking out of your ass here. If you weren't, you would have some examples.
The truth is that the UN, while by design not the most effective organization on earth, is doing a lot of good for the world, including basic human rights issues. Which also happens to include the right to not be killed by your government. I like that you phrase it the other way around, the right for the state to kill its citizens. I can see now how it should be written in the Law of Nation Rights:... 117. The state has the right to kill one of its citizens if said individual is found to be incompatible with the state. The state has the right to define what incompatible means.
If you would step down from your high horse for a second and realize that perhaps there is no single country in the world with a perfect governance, not even the one you happen to live in (the one in Western Europe I'm living in isn't perfect either), then maybe you'd gain some perspective on these things.
Huh? If it's not kidnapping, then what is it? If these people have done a criminal act, you need to put them through your justice system. If you can't convict them, they're innocent (and have effectively been kidnapped by a foreign government). If they are war combatants, you need to follow the Geneva convention.
Instead your government says, "no, they're special". Down that road lies human misery. If you don't believe that, you, sir, are an ignorant. There is no excuse on earth for letting people rot in a prison, year after year. Just take a look at the Wikipedia article on the camp. It's one huge hole human rights disaster.
"No" is usually supposed to signify a contradiction, but you seem to more or less acknowledge what I said? It's the first time I hear somebody think that the biggest problem with GNOME 2 was a hardcoded choice of Metacity and Nautilus.
There are pros and cons with an integrated solution compared to assemble-the-pieces-yourself architecture. I personally think that GNOME 3 is at the state of the GUI desktop art for ordinary people, which is a really cool thing to have on Linux. We need more of those users to get good hardware support.
You're probably better off with something like Xfce in the long run if you can live with the choices the GNOME developers make and the extension system is not enough. If you haven't tried that lately, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, though. It IS awesome already, and it is only getting better.
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Huh? I'm from Denmark, and got the the impression that Norway was generating almost all the needed electricity from hydro. Wikipedia seems to confirm this?
The problem is that most people do it for fun, and it's just not a lot of fun to work on something you're never going to use and that requires you working in an environment you'd rather not work in.
The queuing system in Denmark was one provided by a company selling out-sourced queuing systems operated in the cloud. From someone who obviously knew what they were doing.
You would be wrong. Sorry. It's a really good book.
If there were a real business case for this, we would already be switching over to it.
You are conveniently ignoring externalities here and direct and indirect (like wars) government subsidies. Noone is denying it will cost more right now. But you know what? There's more to life than money.
Hidden from view, of course, is the fact that switching to these energy sources will impoverish anyone dumb enough to use them.
That's hyperbole. You are not going to be impoverished from switching to other energy sources. Some renewable sources are not that far from being competitive these days. And the price is going down.
For many, their college or university affiliation is like belonging to a special club. Even more so if they belonged to a fraternity or sorority. It will take time for that to wane.
And it is, in some sense. If you're paying attention, college installs a certain, shall we say academic, culture in people where you learn to question beliefs and work hard for the sake of knowledge.
Well, that's what it's supposed to do, at least.
As much as I enjoy America bashing, I think you're underestimating the illiteracy in other societies. Granted, the bible extremist may be fewer and less dominant, but America doesn't have a patent on stupidity. A couple of weeks ago I heard a Danish priest call the evolution theory "just a theory". What's important is arriving at a culture that doesn't idolize rampant lack of knowledge.
If I had moderator points, I'd mod you up. I have one bookshelf, but wish I didn't, because I like to have as few things as possible. But it's still sad - I've always borrowed all my books at the local library. I don't have time to read as much today, but in primary school and high school, I carried home a big pile of books every month. There were always this special feeling at the library - quiescence, subdued excitement over a newly discovered promising author with a series of books waiting to be read.
Oh, really? Care to back that up in any way?
Contrary to the accusations flying around in this thread, many of the Wikipedia articles I read are better written and contain much more up to date knowledge than I can find elsewhere, even with some effort. Because someone who cared about the topic spent time researching and writing about it. It takes a lot of time to write a full-length Wikipedia article. The idea that people would just do it without caring about it is ridiculous.
Of course, now you may reply with the one single example you know of where you could do a Google search and find something better than a Wikipedia article. As if that was useful proof of the quality of a database of more than 1 million articles.
Come on. Take a step back. Wikipedia is awesome.
This is sad. Rest in peace, Giraud.
I get the impression this is a temporary shutdown?
As for Germany, speaking as someone coming from a neighbour country, it seems they're really into getting more renewable energy sources up and running. If you were really interested in this, as opposed to just complaining, you could check out the Wikipedia page on renewable energy in Germany.
To be honest, I think the tech is there, it's just a question of dumping some money into it, and the increasing oil prices are helping with that. The Danish engineering society had a plan for Denmark to get rid of (I think?) 90+% of the current dependence on fossil fuels in 2050. We have no nuclear power plants.
Danish television had a reportage on the effect of the Fukushima incident on the people living nearby.
After seeing the reportage, I can understand why they are shutting down the other reactors for the time being. It's one thing reading that nuclear power plants statistically kills very few compared to other sources of energy, it's another thing when you have to leave your ancestors home for 12 generations, or be stuck with a house that nobody will buy because even if it's outside the immediate danger zone and the authorities say it's safe, noone wants to take the risk.
Whether fair or not, the incident violated the trust people had in the administrators of the nuclear tech, and it's going to take something to earn that trust back.
when anonymous? no.
I humbly disagree. The FPS games I've played, most people were usually friendly and nice. Of course, there's an occasional moron out to spoil the fun but they are few in comparison, although much more noticeable.
People ganging up is bad, though. I don't think that's necessarily related to age. Defenseless adults get harassed at their jobs, too.
You could also turn it around. If you kicked someone every day for a year, I'm sure they'd remember the single day you gave that person a free lunch and a pat on the back.
You're being irrational. Suicide bombers are employed as a last resort against a technically superior enemy. I'm sure that if you go back in time, you'll find that all major religions have had suicidal fighters in one way or another. It has nothing to do with religion.
The fact that you conclude that the communists "undoubtedly wanted to wipe out their enemies" just shows how narrow you're thinking about this. The tragedy of an arms race like in the cold war is that both sides are building weapons out of fear of an attack. It's madness.
Well, I think it's just the way people think about. Nobody dreaming of having a child starts out by thinking they aren't going to make it themselves. So naturally they'd prefer to make it themselves, and while some people are probably going to resign relatively quickly if they can't and think about adoption instead, it's not really surprising to me that some are obsessed and will do anything, even going through several years of nerve-wrecking treatment.
This is of course a rhetorical question, but I'm going to answer it anyway. The answer is that you don't have be obsessed, but the women who get sick and can't have a child would like to have some kind of cure. Maybe that's selfish of them, but if what you are thinking of is the sustainability of the earth, I'm sure that if you did the math,, it's more selfish to eat meat.
The truth is that many Western countries have a fertility rate below 2. So while there may be too many children born in some parts of the world, the population will decline in others ignoring immigration for a second. And somehow, I don't think the typical mother with 6 kids in a poor country is going to give up her kids just like that, even if she can barely support them.
That's a lot of ifs. Maybe it would go in a storage pool which would have been become economic with lots of almost free energy at night?
...so everyone can just use the current version of Flash in any case
Until sites start requiring the next version of Flash.
The problem with the UN is there is also the matter that the UN is made up of members that have little to no respect for basic human freedoms, and that includes places like Western Europe where its say illegal to question certain historic view points.
Care to elaborate? Maybe you're referring to Germany's laws against nazi symbols? You have to remember that nazists did cause some horrible sufferings, not just to the Germans but to many other countries. Even so, this is a law specific to Germany and I haven't heard any Germans trying to push them to other countries.
That same organization than has the gal to berate us here in the USA on human rights for say executing adult criminals (18 years old), while they would classify all kinds of behavior as criminal which we would never criminalize in the first place.
You are speaking out of your ass here. If you weren't, you would have some examples.
The truth is that the UN, while by design not the most effective organization on earth, is doing a lot of good for the world, including basic human rights issues. Which also happens to include the right to not be killed by your government. I like that you phrase it the other way around, the right for the state to kill its citizens. I can see now how it should be written in the Law of Nation Rights: ...
117. The state has the right to kill one of its citizens if said individual is found to be incompatible with the state. The state has the right to define what incompatible means.
If you would step down from your high horse for a second and realize that perhaps there is no single country in the world with a perfect governance, not even the one you happen to live in (the one in Western Europe I'm living in isn't perfect either), then maybe you'd gain some perspective on these things.
Huh? If it's not kidnapping, then what is it? If these people have done a criminal act, you need to put them through your justice system. If you can't convict them, they're innocent (and have effectively been kidnapped by a foreign government). If they are war combatants, you need to follow the Geneva convention.
Instead your government says, "no, they're special". Down that road lies human misery. If you don't believe that, you, sir, are an ignorant. There is no excuse on earth for letting people rot in a prison, year after year. Just take a look at the Wikipedia article on the camp. It's one huge hole human rights disaster.
...and with the US, China and the Soviet Union getting a veto in the Security Council there was zero chance of anything positive ever happening
FTFY.
Not true, they all stink.
"No" is usually supposed to signify a contradiction, but you seem to more or less acknowledge what I said? It's the first time I hear somebody think that the biggest problem with GNOME 2 was a hardcoded choice of Metacity and Nautilus.
There are pros and cons with an integrated solution compared to assemble-the-pieces-yourself architecture. I personally think that GNOME 3 is at the state of the GUI desktop art for ordinary people, which is a really cool thing to have on Linux. We need more of those users to get good hardware support.
You're probably better off with something like Xfce in the long run if you can live with the choices the GNOME developers make and the extension system is not enough. If you haven't tried that lately, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it, though. It IS awesome already, and it is only getting better.