No matter what issue is raised with any nuclear reactor technology, somebody on this site pops up to say that would never happen if we only used reactors with some different element as fuel, some different physical layout, some different size, some different cooling scheme, yada, yada, yada.
Or they'll blame lack of progress on the "greens".
Cloud computing isn't replacing personal computing. That's idiocy. Sure, some people will make more use of cloud apps, but personal computing is still alive and well.
I don't know about that. Many if not most PCs these days run nothing other than a web browser. These computers end up being little more than souped-up graphical dumb terminals.
That's a good idea. "Income" is hard to pin down, and it's too easy for people of means to game the system.
For fairness, it would be preferable to replace it with a highly progressive excise tax on each citizen's total wealth, without regard to where on the planet such wealth is being hoarded. In particular, most of these graduate students wouldn't have to worry about a significant tax burden.
That doesn't nearly cover the damage they do to the roads.
Typical toll roads would charge a truck several times that amount to go about 5 miles. (And toll roads probably overcharge automobiles relative to to trucks as well.)
Trucking companies mostly avoid the first three problems by taking advantage of one of the largest socialist programs in the USA: government-provided roads.
When I worked at McDonald's four decades ago, minimum wage was very close to $15 in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
They also had more workers at the average store than today because almost every process was 100% manual (they even had the cashiers scribble out totals and tax by hand arithmetic for some reason, even though cash registers had been able to do that for about a century).
Somehow, McDonald's managed to survive. (I'd bet that getting real cash registers had more to do with McDonald's subsequent success than lowering workers' wages.)
If you're driving a car, you can't do anything else productive (at least safely or legally). Self-driving cars would free up most of the time you spend commuting for getting work done or entertainment, either of which would be worth significant money.
A group of cooperating self-driving cars could probably use about half of the parking space as human-driven cars by arranging themselves as densely as possible:
You could probably have one driving aisle for every four rows of cars; cars could move themselves as needed to free up access to packed-in cars.
Cars could pack within inches of each other because there would be no need to open doors, and cars could sort themselves by similar sizes.
In that case, the 3rd-party seller is supposed to collect sales tax for customers any state where Amazon is warehousing their inventory (which could be over 20 states, each usually requiring separate registration and quarterly filing).
I can imagine that the number of sellers actually 100% compliant with this crazy system is pretty small.
Vinyl is the newfangled phonograph technology; probably just a passing fad.
True enthusiasts play their music from shellac disks. This has the added benefit that hand-cranked gramophone players work off-grid and during power outages.
It's simple: If mining fossil fuels is banned by law, then people will buy electric cars or use alternatively-derived fuel. This is no different than what happened with CFCs, lead paint or asbestos. We already have REAL solutions that work well enough for most people, and more progress is being made every day to improve them.
That would not be the equivalent of returning to "hunting and gathering", and your assertion that it would just proves that you're an ignorant whiner with no grasp of the gravity of the current situation. For example, you don't think that letting most of the world's coastal cities end up under water would "diminish quality of life and harm prosperity"?
You need to get your priorities figured out. CO2 is on track to wreck society in a way far more serious than not being able to easily drive your car 9000 miles in 10 days.
Yeah, but once you've been working in a field for a few months, you're no longer a layman. It's easier for a layman to use a Veg-O-Matic than a chef's knife, but anyone who works in the restaurant industry would pick the latter tool.
A computer works using a set of mathematical logic operations. There's no need to dress them up to look like fancy talkin'.
Slashdot was one of the first social media websites. Just because it existed before the term was coined doesn't change that. The Wikipedia article defines social media as having the following four characterisics:
1. Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications. 2. User-generated content, such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions, are the lifeblood of social media. 3. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization. 4. Social media facilitate the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.
How does Slashdot compare?
1. Lame, but true. 2. Lame, but probably a slightly quality user content overall than Facebook, Twitter etc. 3. Lame, but true (user journals). 4. Lame, but true (friends and foes).
If certain Republicans in congress get their way, that will soon become very easy. Anything you make beyond a tiny pittance of a retirement deferral would be fully taxed in order to offset lower tax brackets for the ultra-rich and mega-corporations.
Our dear president says he's against it, but since almost every word that comes out of his mouth is a damned lie, things are looking bleak.
Worst case, I still have my old Nintendo Game Boy in a box in my basement, and I could use that for entertainment on airplanes like I did 25 years ago. It uses very safe alkaline AA batteries. (I even have an lighted frame accessory so that I can make out some of the contents on its indiscernible display.)
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Multiple paragraphs discussing Rust, but not a single mention of its code of conduct?
You must be new here.
No matter what issue is raised with any nuclear reactor technology, somebody on this site pops up to say that would never happen if we only used reactors with some different element as fuel, some different physical layout, some different size, some different cooling scheme, yada, yada, yada.
Or they'll blame lack of progress on the "greens".
Indeed, no true Scotsman would ever run this kind of reactor.
Cloud computing isn't replacing personal computing. That's idiocy. Sure, some people will make more use of cloud apps, but personal computing is still alive and well.
I don't know about that. Many if not most PCs these days run nothing other than a web browser. These computers end up being little more than souped-up graphical dumb terminals.
So why does Republican Senator Ron Johnson say he's against the tax bill because it's screwing over small businesses in favor of big corporations?
And this becomes a non-issue.
-jcr
That's a good idea. "Income" is hard to pin down, and it's too easy for people of means to game the system.
For fairness, it would be preferable to replace it with a highly progressive excise tax on each citizen's total wealth, without regard to where on the planet such wealth is being hoarded. In particular, most of these graduate students wouldn't have to worry about a significant tax burden.
That doesn't nearly cover the damage they do to the roads.
Typical toll roads would charge a truck several times that amount to go about 5 miles. (And toll roads probably overcharge automobiles relative to to trucks as well.)
Trucking companies mostly avoid the first three problems by taking advantage of one of the largest socialist programs in the USA: government-provided roads.
When I worked at McDonald's four decades ago, minimum wage was very close to $15 in today's dollars, adjusted for inflation.
They also had more workers at the average store than today because almost every process was 100% manual (they even had the cashiers scribble out totals and tax by hand arithmetic for some reason, even though cash registers had been able to do that for about a century).
Somehow, McDonald's managed to survive. (I'd bet that getting real cash registers had more to do with McDonald's subsequent success than lowering workers' wages.)
I don't like their new name for this technology, "Near Share". That's boring.
Back in the Zune days, Microsoft used to call it "Squirting", which is a much more entertaining name.
If you're driving a car, you can't do anything else productive (at least safely or legally). Self-driving cars would free up most of the time you spend commuting for getting work done or entertainment, either of which would be worth significant money.
A group of cooperating self-driving cars could probably use about half of the parking space as human-driven cars by arranging themselves as densely as possible:
You could probably have one driving aisle for every four rows of cars; cars could move themselves as needed to free up access to packed-in cars.
Cars could pack within inches of each other because there would be no need to open doors, and cars could sort themselves by similar sizes.
it's a heck of a lot more efficient and fast than a bunch of lava lamps.
I made my lava lamp RNG much more efficient by installing LED bulbs in the lamps.
It's also much faster now. No matter how fast I read out bits, I get the same results.
In that case, the 3rd-party seller is supposed to collect sales tax for customers any state where Amazon is warehousing their inventory (which could be over 20 states, each usually requiring separate registration and quarterly filing).
I can imagine that the number of sellers actually 100% compliant with this crazy system is pretty small.
Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out to steal your technology.
Vinyl is the newfangled phonograph technology; probably just a passing fad.
True enthusiasts play their music from shellac disks. This has the added benefit that hand-cranked gramophone players work off-grid and during power outages.
It's simple: If mining fossil fuels is banned by law, then people will buy electric cars or use alternatively-derived fuel. This is no different than what happened with CFCs, lead paint or asbestos. We already have REAL solutions that work well enough for most people, and more progress is being made every day to improve them.
That would not be the equivalent of returning to "hunting and gathering", and your assertion that it would just proves that you're an ignorant whiner with no grasp of the gravity of the current situation. For example, you don't think that letting most of the world's coastal cities end up under water would "diminish quality of life and harm prosperity"?
You need to get your priorities figured out. CO2 is on track to wreck society in a way far more serious than not being able to easily drive your car 9000 miles in 10 days.
If we do *not* get the results predicted by the study above, would that invalidate the theory of global warming?
I'm not sure about that, but I'm pretty sure of one thing:
If we *do* get the results predicted by the study above, you're going to deny them anyway.
Yeah, but once you've been working in a field for a few months, you're no longer a layman. It's easier for a layman to use a Veg-O-Matic than a chef's knife, but anyone who works in the restaurant industry would pick the latter tool.
A computer works using a set of mathematical logic operations. There's no need to dress them up to look like fancy talkin'.
Slashdot was one of the first social media websites. Just because it existed before the term was coined doesn't change that. The Wikipedia article defines social media as having the following four characterisics:
1. Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.
2. User-generated content, such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions, are the lifeblood of social media.
3. Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.
4. Social media facilitate the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.
How does Slashdot compare?
1. Lame, but true.
2. Lame, but probably a slightly quality user content overall than Facebook, Twitter etc.
3. Lame, but true (user journals).
4. Lame, but true (friends and foes).
In summary, this is a lame social media site.
Ironically, you're arguing that this is not a social media website by using the very features that define a social media website.
A news feed is telling me that news feeds must die.
"Max out your 401k as soon as humanly possible".
If certain Republicans in congress get their way, that will soon become very easy. Anything you make beyond a tiny pittance of a retirement deferral would be fully taxed in order to offset lower tax brackets for the ultra-rich and mega-corporations.
Our dear president says he's against it, but since almost every word that comes out of his mouth is a damned lie, things are looking bleak.
More likely someone else is doing the actual digging and planning
To handle the physical tunnel work, Musk has recently recruited John Henry, who is one of the top rock stars in the field.
Worst case, I still have my old Nintendo Game Boy in a box in my basement, and I could use that for entertainment on airplanes like I did 25 years ago. It uses very safe alkaline AA batteries. (I even have an lighted frame accessory so that I can make out some of the contents on its indiscernible display.)