I did not say that increasing CO2 was not a bad idea.
Let me be more explicit. *I* am more in favor of actual measures which would actually result in real decreases in the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere than the so-called environmentalists who talk the most about CO2.
I have been advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for about 40 years now. Meanwhile, the vast majority (exceptions counted on the fingers of one hand, pretty much) of the so-called self-proclaimed environmentalist who make such a big deal about CO2 have, for that past 40 years, been among the most vehement of the anti-nuclear crowd.
If these anti-energy types had not taken over the debate, we wouldn't be talking about 400ppm CO2 and (One degree? Two? Three?) of warming from CO2.
I thought the entire point of Anthropomorphic Global Climate Change was to scare us? And that any attempt to minimize the fear was being a denier of settled science?
The point is to have a reason to take away everyones rights and to exterminate all the poor people
If it were about CO2/warming/climate change, we'd be allowed to build nuclear power plants, and the BANANAS* wouldn't be shutting down the existing ones. That's proof that they don''t believe in CO2/whatever. Not really. If they did, their priorities would be... somewhat different.
There's a difference between detecting malware running on the PCs that Kaspersky is protecting, and leveraging its presence on a PC in an intelligence agency's network to exfiltrate their little logic bombs. The first is entirely legitimate. The second... is espionage. I think it was Heinlein that said "Espionage is not immoral; everyone does it. But the cost for getting caught at it is very high." The cost to Kaspersky is likely to be very high indeed, whether someone at the company did it, or some Russian TLA inserted the code without their knowledge.
Kaspersky should have stuck to the first. Still, I wish they had let Stuxnet have its way with Iran's centrifuges for a few more years.
I want to read stuff on Facebook in forward chronological order, starting with the oldest one I have not yet read.
I want filters. Flexible, customizable filters.
Friend A is an over-the-top enthusiastic evangelist for Bariatric Surgery. 90% of her posts are about the glories of bariatric surgery, and support groups for such. I want to see none of that, but I very much do want to see the other 10% of her posts.
Friend B posts every Snoopy meme that he encounters, a dozen a day. I don't want to block all Snoopy memes, but I do want to block those that he posts, because he over-does it, and I do want to see his real posts. Similarly with Friend C, who posts dozens of cute puppy and kitten pictures a day.
Friend D lives 3000 miles away, and posts a continuous stream Lost/Found Pet notices. I want a proximity limit on Lost/Found Pet alerts.
I want to block absolutely and completely certain political screed sites, right left and center. Facebook only honors a block when a screed site story is shared, but not if it's a share of a share. When I block a site, I want it gone from my feed, no matter how many levels of nested shares it is.
Most of all, I want Facebook to NEVER NEVER EVER EVER zip to the top of the feed while I'm reading a dang story, rendering the story I was reading un-findable ever again without spending ages scrolling down searching for it, and most of the time not being able to find it at all.
Yeah... I want Facebook to be Usenet with trn 4.0.
I'm thinking of a certain era in Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories, where on Earth, disconnecting the autopilot and driving a car manually on public roads was an Organ-Bank offense.
Grandparents? Try great-great grandparents. (I'm probably old enough to be the grandfather of most slashdotters, and my great grandfather was born during the Civil War.)
California is virtually a case study in the politics of gerrymandering.
When they controlled all the levers in 1981 during Jerry Brown’s first governorship, Democrats gleefully grabbed every legislative and congressional district they could.
The late Congressman Phil Burton drew congressional maps so partisan and convoluted that he described them as “my contribution to modern art.”
After the 1970 and 1990 censuses, Republican Govs. Ronald Reagan and Pete Wilson refused to sign the Democrats’ gerrymanders and threw the issue to the state Supreme Court, which drew the maps itself.
Recent case, three thugs armed with knives and brass knuckles perform a home invasion robbery on a home they believe is only occupied by an elderly man. Wrong, the home is also occupied by the elderly man's son, who is armed with an AR-15, and shoots all three of them dead.
When the not-quite-dead-yet perp stumbled out of the house and collapsed to bleed out in the driveway, their getaway driver took off, leaving him to his fate.
Hm... Last time I flew on American... last time I will ***EVER*** fly on American... if Twitter had been a thing, I'd have melted the inter-tubes with my ire. (Capsule summary: Not getting me to a single airport in time for my connecting flight, either way, not once. Getting in a day late. Losing my bags, allowing me only to talk to Baggage Central, refusing to connect me to baggage claim at the airport my baggage had likely been sent to, 60 miles away from where I was staying. Finally, got ahold of a *Delta* baggage claim person at that airport, who went to American baggage claim and pointed out my bags to them that had been sitting in their claim area for *three* *days* that American couldn't find them.)
Pu239 is only 'waste' because of the lack of reprocessing.
Blocking reprocessing, then using Pu239 in the waste as an argument against nuclear power, is basically the "Erik and Lyle Menendez demand the court's mercy because they are orphans" argument.
If you took a brain with the sheer efficiency and complexity of a spider/cockroach and scaled it up to a cat sized organism you could potentially have an organism far more intelligent than us.
FWIW a local lost puppy was found a couple weeks ago in part due to help searching from shared FB posts.
This happens from time to time, but I think a different service like nextdoor.com is a better venue for that sort of thing. One of my friends posts a lot of lost/found puppy/kitten alerts -- but she lives 3000 miles away from me. I want to see her family/friends posts, but lost puppies on the opposite coast? Not so much.
Some people post on Facebook to communicate to friends and family.
That's the only reason I'm on Facebook. I hate Facebook with a white-hot hatred, but it's the best way to keep in contact with a lot of people I want to keep in contact with, and has enabled me to get back in contact with some old friends I'd lost contact with.
I still hate Facebook.
I just want filters. FILTERS, dang it! I want to absolutely block any posting that matches patterns that I select. When I block a source of garbage, I want any mention of it BLOCKED, no matter how deeply nested in shares of shares of shares it is. I want everything political, everything about any sort of sports whatsoever, every "Share this! Like this! Or you hate everything that is good and decent!!" thing. And anything else that might annoy me.
Working on anti-spam products, I see some of the most amazing things.
There are dozens of "spoof person A in email to person B to get something valuable" variations. Money, W2 forms, anything.
A recent favorite is to compromise someone's email. Keep monitoring their email, and when some financial transaction is about to happen, forge an email as if it were from the party receiving the money, to the sender of the money, saying "Oh, because reasons, our bank account had to change, send the money to...."
The forged email has the whole legitimate back-and-forth conversation about the transaction quoted, just as if it were a genuine reply.
1. They couldn't "find another candidate". Even at the time of the 1st allegation, it was too late to remove Moore from the ballot.
Exactly. The first allegation was trotted out to the world the very day after the deadline to remove Moore from the ballot.
Convenient timing, hmmm?
If, after the election, it is discovered that all these allegations are completely false (yeah, unlikely, some of them seem to have some basis) would there be a do-over on the election? Ha! Of course not; there is no provision in law for that.
I didn't even see the last Jar Jar Abrams trekoid thing. The previous one was just a bunch of zap zap boom boom with interludes of manly fisticuffs. No actual Trek. So I've written it off.
Tarantino has been on my personal index expurgatorius for years, so he's not going to be changing my mind about this faux trek stuff.
Socialism implies that you generate what people need.
Not exactly... In Socialism, you generate what some bureaucratic committee decides they want the people to have. This can be OK if the bureaucratic committee is basing this on what people actually want, not so good if they decide on some arbitrary definition of "need", and "You don't need that, so tough", bad to worse if the committee bases their decisions on other considerations.
"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference, but in practice, there is."
Interesting how "the usual suspects" openly scoffed at accusations of Russian propaganda when the purported Russian propaganda was in support of their causes.
Back then, the Russian propaganda was mostly along political lines, supporting whoever was most sympathetic to Communism. Now, Russia being nationalist and not Communist these days, and not so much pushing an ideological line, their propaganda is more like "How much can we screw them up?" So when the Left's ox gets mauled by the Russian bear... Suddenly, what was an object of derision ("The '80s called, they want their foreign policy back") becomes A Clear And Present Danger.
I wonder what could screw us up more than Trump in the White House... And the left says "Hold my joint."
We have ranked choice voting in my city for municipal elections. I voted for it when it was up as a charter amendment, but after the recent election I worry it has its own weird flaws.
In a couple of races, the person who got the outright most 1st choice votes lost the election. I can certainly see situations where this happens and it creates a sense of lack of representation.
This is actually a feature, not a bug. It tends to disadvantage the extremes, and advantage those who appeal to a wider cross-section of the electorate. When most voters say "Well, he wasn't my favorite, but he was my second choice", that's not a bad outcome.
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I did not say that increasing CO2 was not a bad idea.
Let me be more explicit. *I* am more in favor of actual measures which would actually result in real decreases in the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere than the so-called environmentalists who talk the most about CO2.
I have been advocating phasing out coal in favor of nuclear for about 40 years now. Meanwhile, the vast majority (exceptions counted on the fingers of one hand, pretty much) of the so-called self-proclaimed environmentalist who make such a big deal about CO2 have, for that past 40 years, been among the most vehement of the anti-nuclear crowd.
If these anti-energy types had not taken over the debate, we wouldn't be talking about 400ppm CO2 and (One degree? Two? Three?) of warming from CO2.
I thought the entire point of Anthropomorphic Global Climate Change was to scare us? And that any attempt to minimize the fear was being a denier of settled science?
The point is to have a reason to take away everyones rights and to exterminate all the poor people
If it were about CO2/warming/climate change, we'd be allowed to build nuclear power plants, and the BANANAS* wouldn't be shutting down the existing ones. That's proof that they don''t believe in CO2/whatever. Not really. If they did, their priorities would be ... somewhat different.
* Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything
There's a difference between detecting malware running on the PCs that Kaspersky is protecting, and leveraging its presence on a PC in an intelligence agency's network to exfiltrate their little logic bombs. The first is entirely legitimate. The second... is espionage. I think it was Heinlein that said "Espionage is not immoral; everyone does it. But the cost for getting caught at it is very high." The cost to Kaspersky is likely to be very high indeed, whether someone at the company did it, or some Russian TLA inserted the code without their knowledge.
Kaspersky should have stuck to the first. Still, I wish they had let Stuxnet have its way with Iran's centrifuges for a few more years.
"We won't let the FBI see the iPhones of people who commit mass murder in the US, but the Secret Police of Communist China gets whatever they want."
I'm sure glad I don't use Apple, for multiple other reasons.
Only after repeated offenses.
I want to read stuff on Facebook in forward chronological order, starting with the oldest one I have not yet read.
I want filters. Flexible, customizable filters.
Friend A is an over-the-top enthusiastic evangelist for Bariatric Surgery. 90% of her posts are about the glories of bariatric surgery, and support groups for such. I want to see none of that, but I very much do want to see the other 10% of her posts.
Friend B posts every Snoopy meme that he encounters, a dozen a day. I don't want to block all Snoopy memes, but I do want to block those that he posts, because he over-does it, and I do want to see his real posts. Similarly with Friend C, who posts dozens of cute puppy and kitten pictures a day.
Friend D lives 3000 miles away, and posts a continuous stream Lost/Found Pet notices. I want a proximity limit on Lost/Found Pet alerts.
I want to block absolutely and completely certain political screed sites, right left and center. Facebook only honors a block when a screed site story is shared, but not if it's a share of a share. When I block a site, I want it gone from my feed, no matter how many levels of nested shares it is.
Most of all, I want Facebook to NEVER NEVER EVER EVER zip to the top of the feed while I'm reading a dang story, rendering the story I was reading un-findable ever again without spending ages scrolling down searching for it, and most of the time not being able to find it at all.
Yeah... I want Facebook to be Usenet with trn 4.0.
I'm thinking of a certain era in Larry Niven's "Known Space" stories, where on Earth, disconnecting the autopilot and driving a car manually on public roads was an Organ-Bank offense.
Grandparents? Try great-great grandparents. (I'm probably old enough to be the grandfather of most slashdotters, and my great grandfather was born during the Civil War.)
http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/...
Not only that -- if you are robbing a bank, police shoot at you, and kill another member of your gang, you will be up on murder charges.
Recent case, three thugs armed with knives and brass knuckles perform a home invasion robbery on a home they believe is only occupied by an elderly man. Wrong, the home is also occupied by the elderly man's son, who is armed with an AR-15, and shoots all three of them dead.
When the not-quite-dead-yet perp stumbled out of the house and collapsed to bleed out in the driveway, their getaway driver took off, leaving him to his fate.
She is getting charged with first degree murder.
Hm... Last time I flew on American... last time I will ***EVER*** fly on American... if Twitter had been a thing, I'd have melted the inter-tubes with my ire. (Capsule summary: Not getting me to a single airport in time for my connecting flight, either way, not once. Getting in a day late. Losing my bags, allowing me only to talk to Baggage Central, refusing to connect me to baggage claim at the airport my baggage had likely been sent to, 60 miles away from where I was staying. Finally, got ahold of a *Delta* baggage claim person at that airport, who went to American baggage claim and pointed out my bags to them that had been sitting in their claim area for *three* *days* that American couldn't find them.)
Pu239 is only 'waste' because of the lack of reprocessing.
Blocking reprocessing, then using Pu239 in the waste as an argument against nuclear power, is basically the "Erik and Lyle Menendez demand the court's mercy because they are orphans" argument.
If you took a brain with the sheer efficiency and complexity of a spider/cockroach and scaled it up to a cat sized organism you could potentially have an organism far more intelligent than us.
You've just hypothesized Yoda.
Should be "Yoda just hypothesized you have".
You're welcome.
FWIW a local lost puppy was found a couple weeks ago in part due to help searching from shared FB posts.
This happens from time to time, but I think a different service like nextdoor.com is a better venue for that sort of thing. One of my friends posts a lot of lost/found puppy/kitten alerts -- but she lives 3000 miles away from me. I want to see her family/friends posts, but lost puppies on the opposite coast? Not so much.
Some people post on Facebook to communicate to friends and family.
That's the only reason I'm on Facebook. I hate Facebook with a white-hot hatred, but it's the best way to keep in contact with a lot of people I want to keep in contact with, and has enabled me to get back in contact with some old friends I'd lost contact with.
I still hate Facebook.
I just want filters. FILTERS, dang it! I want to absolutely block any posting that matches patterns that I select. When I block a source of garbage, I want any mention of it BLOCKED, no matter how deeply nested in shares of shares of shares it is. I want everything political, everything about any sort of sports whatsoever, every "Share this! Like this! Or you hate everything that is good and decent!!" thing. And anything else that might annoy me.
Working on anti-spam products, I see some of the most amazing things.
There are dozens of "spoof person A in email to person B to get something valuable" variations. Money, W2 forms, anything.
A recent favorite is to compromise someone's email. Keep monitoring their email, and when some financial transaction is about to happen, forge an email as if it were from the party receiving the money, to the sender of the money, saying "Oh, because reasons, our bank account had to change, send the money to ...."
The forged email has the whole legitimate back-and-forth conversation about the transaction quoted, just as if it were a genuine reply.
Google for Brett Glass and Lariat.
1. They couldn't "find another candidate". Even at the time of the 1st allegation, it was too late to remove Moore from the ballot.
Exactly. The first allegation was trotted out to the world the very day after the deadline to remove Moore from the ballot.
Convenient timing, hmmm?
If, after the election, it is discovered that all these allegations are completely false (yeah, unlikely, some of them seem to have some basis) would there be a do-over on the election? Ha! Of course not; there is no provision in law for that.
I didn't even see the last Jar Jar Abrams trekoid thing. The previous one was just a bunch of zap zap boom boom with interludes of manly fisticuffs. No actual Trek. So I've written it off.
Tarantino has been on my personal index expurgatorius for years, so he's not going to be changing my mind about this faux trek stuff.
Oh, why oh why, we give them free streaming TV and they still pirate.
We just can't understand it.
Last sentence of the summary above: "they did not stop using BitTorrent to pirate movies and TV shows that were not included in the offering."
Well **DUH!!!**
And the LiIon battery can turn excess electricity back into "Diesel fuel" to re-fill the tank when demand for electricity is lower.
As a means of dealing with short-term transient loads, this seems like a pretty good idea.
Socialism implies that you generate what people need.
Not exactly... In Socialism, you generate what some bureaucratic committee decides they want the people to have. This can be OK if the bureaucratic committee is basing this on what people actually want, not so good if they decide on some arbitrary definition of "need", and "You don't need that, so tough", bad to worse if the committee bases their decisions on other considerations.
"The difference between theory and practice is that in theory there is no difference, but in practice, there is."
And, the more things change...
Interesting how "the usual suspects" openly scoffed at accusations of Russian propaganda when the purported Russian propaganda was in support of their causes.
Back then, the Russian propaganda was mostly along political lines, supporting whoever was most sympathetic to Communism. Now, Russia being nationalist and not Communist these days, and not so much pushing an ideological line, their propaganda is more like "How much can we screw them up?" So when the Left's ox gets mauled by the Russian bear... Suddenly, what was an object of derision ("The '80s called, they want their foreign policy back") becomes A Clear And Present Danger.
I wonder what could screw us up more than Trump in the White House... And the left says "Hold my joint."
We have ranked choice voting in my city for municipal elections. I voted for it when it was up as a charter amendment, but after the recent election I worry it has its own weird flaws.
In a couple of races, the person who got the outright most 1st choice votes lost the election. I can certainly see situations where this happens and it creates a sense of lack of representation.
This is actually a feature, not a bug. It tends to disadvantage the extremes, and advantage those who appeal to a wider cross-section of the electorate. When most voters say "Well, he wasn't my favorite, but he was my second choice", that's not a bad outcome.