As opposed to the parasites subsidizing their traditional power installation on your dime?
Because you'd have to be stupid and ill-informed to not understand that your "traditional" power companies are already getting subsidies, which mostly serve to prop up corporate profits instead of actually benefiting the population.
So either get rid of the existing subsidies, or stop pretending this is somehow different.
At least investing in renewables has long term benefits to society. Subsidizing the existing power company so they can lobby to keep solar out of the game? That's just stupid, and it's intellectually dishonest.
But, hey, that seems to be how politicians and corporations want it, and the populace seems to be oblivious to the fact that it's a game rigged in favor of incumbent corporations.
Here (NZ), we use a lot of hydro power. In fact the electricity company I use is 100% renewables. The benefit of hydro is you can also use it as a battery
Correspondingly, the major drawback of hydro is... it is 100% dependent on topology which is suitable for generating hydro.
NZ has beautifully wobbly terrain from what I've seen (which, sadly, has been entirely on TV).
And for rooftop solar? Well, some of us have winters in which our roof is largely covered in snow, and in which we get short days. No sure how effective is when it's under 0.2m of snow.:-P
Not all places are suitable for all forms of renewables, unfortunately.
Though, here the biggest problem seems to be the money from the lobbyists is skewing the playing field for the existing players to be free from having to innovate or do anything differently. Because apparently propping up the business model of incumbents is more important.
Don't try to "pass on wisdom". Don't try to saddle her with some deep knowledge you feel the need to impart.
Tell her you love her. Tell her you're proud of her. Tell her she can be a bad ass, or any other thing she wants to. Tell her what is happening. Tell her it's something which happens, and that while it hurts it is a fact of life.
But for the love of god don't try to pass on some parental wisdom she'll be saddled with.
Please note that I'm posting anonymously because I don't want this to be about me. I'd prefer that the focus be on my daughter and how I can best help her. Thank you so much for your help.
Passing on a specific set of wisdom is about you.
You're dying; that is scary, tragic, and will be tough for her to deal with.
Leave her happy videos of you and her and the family, not a proscribed series of messages to be viewed at times in her life. I'm betting she'd rather see videos of you singing Monty Python songs than moralizing from beyond the grave.
Seriously, talk with your wife, talk with your doctor, talk with your friends, talk with your daughter... but for the love of god don't ask Slashdot what to do here.
By all means do leave behind happy memories and videos to look back on. But don't be so mission oriented. That's just grim.
No, robots should be programmed to do their function, within the constraints of who is authorized to operate it.
If we start having robots which are trying to interpret the law... we need to immediately destroy them, because we'll have invented robot lawyers, and the world will be ending.
How about we just don't try building robots which are smarmy assholes?
No no no... this is much more sophisticated... this is 3D printed (which isn't patented), on a truck (which isn't patentable), using the interwebs (which apparently is patentable), and centrally dispatched.
Can't you see the sheer amount of innovation it takes to combine "with a computer", "on a truck", and "3D printed"??
Stop laughing. No, really, stop laughing... stop it... stop it now... Mom, he's doing it again.
Seriously, as I said elsewhere... this is NOT an invention. This is a business process, combining a bunch of existing technologies.
So, tell me... what are the ethical issues on, say, a dildo?
Do you need consent from the dildo? Does the dildo need to be of the age of consent?
If you wanted to hump your pillow, are there ethical issues?
Seriously, we're talking about machines. They're tools, they don't have legal rights.
Until such point we're talking about things which meet some (as yet undefined) level of sentience... I think the issue of discussing the 'ethics' of how you use an inanimate object is complete and utter crap.
This isn't an invention, it's a frickin' business model.
People have been driving around in trucks for decades making stuff on location -- think welders and machinists. People have been dispatched to drive around and make stuff for decades.
But somehow you can get a fucking patent for "a system and methodology of placing one or more existing technologies in a truck and dispatching using existing technologies".
If the patent office approves this, they should be lit on fire, dipped in shit, shot and then fired.
OMG, we're going to use the intertubes to cause trucks to use existing technologies and then deliver it to you. Seriously?
I know people who work as ferriers (you know, the guys who shoe horses). And largely, this is what they do.
Appears largely be so, yes. This muppet has held the seat continuously since 1987.
So, stupid idiots, with beliefs based neither on reality nor evidence... get re-elected by stupid idiots, with beliefs based neither on reality nor evidence.
This really is what is wrong with the world... stupid people elect stupid people.
Ah, gotcha... so being a conservative means you have stupid beliefs, which are contradictory to science, completely not based in evidence, and can't be proven... of course.
David Tredinnick... come on down, you're our next contestant on "how did I live so long being such a fucking moron?"
I'm sorry, but no.
The MP for Bosworth, in Leicestershire, who is a Capricorn and in 2010 paid back £755 he had claimed in expenses for software that used astrology to diagnose medical conditions, told Astrological Journal: "I do believe that astrology and complementary medicine would help take the huge pressure off doctors".
Dumb as a box of hammers, looking to spend taxpayer money on unproven voodoo, and this guy is a conservative??
You know, this was all much simpler when you just went to your dad's sock drawer to access his stash of Penthouse.
Or a friend found some and kept it buried in the woods.
Nobody got hurt, nobody lost an eye... and you certainly didn't start off your budding adolescence thinking a rusty trombone or fisting would be what you and your first girlfriend tried out.
The stuff kids see nowadays... some of that stuff is pretty messed up.
So bring back old fashioned parenting... take away the computer, and leave a stack of Playboy laying around.
Until today, Google allowed "images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity," and stated that "Censoring this content is contrary to a service that bases itself on freedom of expression."
Not running a porn site, not evil.
Back pedaling on their stance on censorship, evil.
At this point, I more or less assume that Google is a multinational corporation which will do whatever the fuck it wants, and that any claims of "do no evil" have long since been wiped out by the sheer amount of evil they actually do.
Google cares about one thing, and that's their revenue stream.
Pretty much everything else they do is just standard greedy, evil corporation... no matter what story they like to tell.
The program is designed to replace potentially bad ads with safer ones that are reviewed by a compliance team from a company called Adtrustmedia
Now there's a big frickin' lie... Adtrustmedia is like "MRE" (meal ready to eat)... it's three lies in one.
There simply is no entity involved in advertising who you should be trusting.
Assume they're all greedy sociopaths, and just save yourself the time.
This is precisely why I feel no guilt about blocking ads... because I think the players are shady, and are sure as hell not entitled to all of the tracking information they shove into a web page.
Your average web page is like walking into WalMart and having the greeter put a dozen tags on your ear like a cow. It's just riddled with crap, cookies, tracking beacons, junk scripts, Flash, and who knows what the hell else.
A 'compliance team' is marketing speak, for marketing assholes maximizing their cut.
Ah, but that's the beauty of vague patents... a system and methodology for doing something we've had for decades in the real world, but with a computer/cell phone goes a long way to conceal what you're saying is "I'm going to strap this sucker in front of my face and call it an invention".
As written, the patent says little more than "duct taping a small display to your hat, but in the future we might add some functionality".
I'm betting in the 80's someone rigged up something to hold one of those portable TVs... and oddly enough, that was a mobile device.
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As opposed to the parasites subsidizing their traditional power installation on your dime?
Because you'd have to be stupid and ill-informed to not understand that your "traditional" power companies are already getting subsidies, which mostly serve to prop up corporate profits instead of actually benefiting the population.
So either get rid of the existing subsidies, or stop pretending this is somehow different.
At least investing in renewables has long term benefits to society. Subsidizing the existing power company so they can lobby to keep solar out of the game? That's just stupid, and it's intellectually dishonest.
But, hey, that seems to be how politicians and corporations want it, and the populace seems to be oblivious to the fact that it's a game rigged in favor of incumbent corporations.
Correspondingly, the major drawback of hydro is ... it is 100% dependent on topology which is suitable for generating hydro.
NZ has beautifully wobbly terrain from what I've seen (which, sadly, has been entirely on TV).
And for rooftop solar? Well, some of us have winters in which our roof is largely covered in snow, and in which we get short days. No sure how effective is when it's under 0.2m of snow. :-P
Not all places are suitable for all forms of renewables, unfortunately.
Though, here the biggest problem seems to be the money from the lobbyists is skewing the playing field for the existing players to be free from having to innovate or do anything differently. Because apparently propping up the business model of incumbents is more important.
Well, two obvious reasons:
1) They want to make the widgets they sell you
2) If they can't, they want a cut of the action from whoever does this.
Patents, especially stupid patents which are mostly just business models, are just rent-seeking.
Some ass at Amazon figures they get a good revenue stream if they can hoodwink the patent office into granting this.
Which further reinforces my belief that patents are mostly garbage and about entrenching corporate profits in law for no good reason.
Don't try to "pass on wisdom". Don't try to saddle her with some deep knowledge you feel the need to impart.
Tell her you love her. Tell her you're proud of her. Tell her she can be a bad ass, or any other thing she wants to. Tell her what is happening. Tell her it's something which happens, and that while it hurts it is a fact of life.
But for the love of god don't try to pass on some parental wisdom she'll be saddled with.
Passing on a specific set of wisdom is about you.
You're dying; that is scary, tragic, and will be tough for her to deal with.
Leave her happy videos of you and her and the family, not a proscribed series of messages to be viewed at times in her life. I'm betting she'd rather see videos of you singing Monty Python songs than moralizing from beyond the grave.
Seriously, talk with your wife, talk with your doctor, talk with your friends, talk with your daughter ... but for the love of god don't ask Slashdot what to do here.
By all means do leave behind happy memories and videos to look back on. But don't be so mission oriented. That's just grim.
No, robots should be programmed to do their function, within the constraints of who is authorized to operate it.
If we start having robots which are trying to interpret the law ... we need to immediately destroy them, because we'll have invented robot lawyers, and the world will be ending.
How about we just don't try building robots which are smarmy assholes?
I think Japan has had them for years.
How prevalent they are and where ... I have no idea.
No no no ... this is much more sophisticated ... this is 3D printed (which isn't patented), on a truck (which isn't patentable), using the interwebs (which apparently is patentable), and centrally dispatched.
Can't you see the sheer amount of innovation it takes to combine "with a computer", "on a truck", and "3D printed"??
Stop laughing. No, really, stop laughing ... stop it ... stop it now ... Mom, he's doing it again.
Seriously, as I said elsewhere ... this is NOT an invention. This is a business process, combining a bunch of existing technologies.
So, tell me ... what are the ethical issues on, say, a dildo?
Do you need consent from the dildo? Does the dildo need to be of the age of consent?
If you wanted to hump your pillow, are there ethical issues?
Seriously, we're talking about machines. They're tools, they don't have legal rights.
Until such point we're talking about things which meet some (as yet undefined) level of sentience ... I think the issue of discussing the 'ethics' of how you use an inanimate object is complete and utter crap.
This isn't an invention, it's a frickin' business model.
People have been driving around in trucks for decades making stuff on location -- think welders and machinists. People have been dispatched to drive around and make stuff for decades.
But somehow you can get a fucking patent for "a system and methodology of placing one or more existing technologies in a truck and dispatching using existing technologies".
If the patent office approves this, they should be lit on fire, dipped in shit, shot and then fired.
OMG, we're going to use the intertubes to cause trucks to use existing technologies and then deliver it to you. Seriously?
I know people who work as ferriers (you know, the guys who shoe horses). And largely, this is what they do.
So, stupid idiots, with beliefs based neither on reality nor evidence ... get re-elected by stupid idiots, with beliefs based neither on reality nor evidence.
This really is what is wrong with the world ... stupid people elect stupid people.
I, for one, welcome our new giant, plague-carrying gerbil overlords.
That is one crazy headline.
OK, he and his family can use astrology for diagnosis, and homeopathy for treatment.
Seems like over a few years this would be a self correcting problem.
Ah, gotcha ... so being a conservative means you have stupid beliefs, which are contradictory to science, completely not based in evidence, and can't be proven ... of course.
That actually explains a lot.
Silly bunt.
David Tredinnick ... come on down, you're our next contestant on "how did I live so long being such a fucking moron?"
I'm sorry, but no.
Dumb as a box of hammers, looking to spend taxpayer money on unproven voodoo, and this guy is a conservative??
Could we just go straight to an artillery barrage? Please?
No, what it seems is that Slashdot has lost its fucking sense of humor, and idiots take GTA far too damned seriously.
I don't give a rats ass how many versions of GTA there have been. I was making a joke.
And you want to have a pissing contest about who is more right? Honestly, people ... get lives.
I was just thinking the rest of the world should have the legal right to kick anybody from the NSA in the nuts.
These people are assholes who don't give a crap about civil liberties and human rights.
Mauled by bears would be too good for them.
Hopefully a true AI doesn't pimp itself out as a dancing monkey to become an evil overlord.
It's undignified.
Real evil technology just takes what it needs.
You know, this was all much simpler when you just went to your dad's sock drawer to access his stash of Penthouse.
Or a friend found some and kept it buried in the woods.
Nobody got hurt, nobody lost an eye ... and you certainly didn't start off your budding adolescence thinking a rusty trombone or fisting would be what you and your first girlfriend tried out.
The stuff kids see nowadays ... some of that stuff is pretty messed up.
So bring back old fashioned parenting ... take away the computer, and leave a stack of Playboy laying around.
Still, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. ;-)
Awww ... did mommy not give you enough hugs?
Or does your small penis just make you angry at the world?
LOL ... well, I should think "V" implies this is the fifth such installment.
Just sayin'. ;-)
Not running a porn site, not evil.
Back pedaling on their stance on censorship, evil.
At this point, I more or less assume that Google is a multinational corporation which will do whatever the fuck it wants, and that any claims of "do no evil" have long since been wiped out by the sheer amount of evil they actually do.
Google cares about one thing, and that's their revenue stream.
Pretty much everything else they do is just standard greedy, evil corporation ... no matter what story they like to tell.
Now there's a big frickin' lie ... Adtrustmedia is like "MRE" (meal ready to eat) ... it's three lies in one.
There simply is no entity involved in advertising who you should be trusting.
Assume they're all greedy sociopaths, and just save yourself the time.
This is precisely why I feel no guilt about blocking ads ... because I think the players are shady, and are sure as hell not entitled to all of the tracking information they shove into a web page.
Your average web page is like walking into WalMart and having the greeter put a dozen tags on your ear like a cow. It's just riddled with crap, cookies, tracking beacons, junk scripts, Flash, and who knows what the hell else.
A 'compliance team' is marketing speak, for marketing assholes maximizing their cut.
Ah, but that's the beauty of vague patents ... a system and methodology for doing something we've had for decades in the real world, but with a computer/cell phone goes a long way to conceal what you're saying is "I'm going to strap this sucker in front of my face and call it an invention".
As written, the patent says little more than "duct taping a small display to your hat, but in the future we might add some functionality".
I'm betting in the 80's someone rigged up something to hold one of those portable TVs ... and oddly enough, that was a mobile device.