what i think is we need to promote a social division - drunk people are over here, and the rest of us are over here, by defining, legally, the lines around existing "red light" areas, to begin with - and the thing we focus on controlling is whatever it takes to keep teh zombies on the proper side of those lines.
if you are out of it and you can't pay to be carried home, you are simply not allowed out, or you go to jail, no option.
as i read this, said "language" is already available immediately, as i assume it's as open source as the raspy itself. can someone point me to the source, please - i'd like to know what this is about, and the official site is acting very coy. judging from all the ad hominem reactions, it certainly seems to have set some kind of cat amongst the pigeons, around here..
one - as far as i know cars now officially kill more people than anything else on the planet. more importantly - cars kill more children than anything else on the planet. as far as i know the situation in north america, in particular, suggests that the safest place to be is behind the wheel of an american dream, because - apparently - cars don't usually kill car drivers - just the pink and brown squishy things, the stuff without air bags.
apparently we have evolved into a species of metal beetle brain, and no other form of human - to date - has a better chance of survival.
two - alcohol appears to be the leading factor in cases vehicular death or trauma, and if there is any bias at all, alcohol appears to favour the survival of the driver, over that of the victim(s).
various other intoxicants have a similar, sometimes worse, effect on the body count.
setting all else aside, the simple fact that drunk drivers kill more children than anything else on the planet, indicates that something MUST BE DONE.
it would seem, i think, that techology has been the primary solution for any number of political failures, and that the more connected we become, the more desperate and illegal become the attempts to "fix" the leaks politically. we don't close down services, we just move on, improving as we go. as has been said - the internet considers censorship an error, and routes around it. dunno why i'm talking to a f*ckwit though, wasting bandwidth.
IMO only - there is no such thing as automatic security.
you either have blind faith in 'organised' authorities, in whom you place your trust, or you get off your mouse and go find some other means of exchanging keys, external to the cyberverse itself.
to pretend - or wish to believe - that anything else is possible is as joe cell ignorant as it gets, and generally a waste of resources.
the trouble is, in my experience, that good coding is an art, not just a skill. unfortunately it has to be commercial, so we find ourselves surrounded by managers and other business skills, none of whom have what it takes to understand what we actually do. to solve that they avoid hiring the genuine coders, and instead collect team players, the sort of people they understand. the result is microsoft, and the health care system, etc.
i don't know how to solve your problem - i'm here to suggest that evaluating you is their job, not yours, only i have no idea how you would explain that to the suits. i get along well with machines of all kinds, because that is how my brain is wired, and i avoid social situations, because i know from painful experience how that story always ends. in some ways i have managed to get along on the strength of my obvious design and problem solving skills, but i ended up self employed, at best.
if you continue to burn wood carelessly you only make the problem worse for the rest of us.
the point you are missing is that wood can be used responsibly, but it has to be burned correctly. it's all a part of remembering how to behave in a closed ecological system, now that we've burned most of the coal and oil. wood stoves have been more of a fashion industry than a technology, per se, for far too long, and all that is happening here is that we are being forced to remember how to burn wood wisely.
none of the technology the EPA now insists you use is new, it simply fell out of fashion.
if you rely on wood, please take the time to learn about biochar (terra preta) and wood-gas (producer gas, syngas).
citing Interpretation of CO and PM Emissions Data from TLUD Gasifier Cookstoves, by Paul S. Anderson, in particular, and also based on what i have gleaned from many larger studies, it would seem that the bulk of particulate matter produced when burning wood occurs in the charcoal reduction phase.
any stove modified to burn wood gas alone (secondary combustion) and specifically to not reduce charcoal to ash should pass new EPA regs easily, and this is easily done by (a) providing a suitable source of heated secondary air, to ensure proper wood-gas (smoke to the layman) combustion, and (b) carefully limiting the primary air supply to ensure that charcoal reduction is minimised.
if you then return the charcoal, intact, to the environment, the net result is carbon negative.
if you rely on and/or prefer wood for fuel, please learn to use it wisely.
apparently the materials i am worried about are used for more "special" cells, whereas "old school" PV tech really is mostly sand.
on the other hand wiki claims a larger "ecological footprint" for straight silicon, which i do not pretend to understand.
perhaps the problem is simply the amount of energy extracted, over an approximately thirty year lifespan, versus the amount of energy used to manufacture.
most of this appears to be the need for heat and hydrogen, both of which could be supplied by solar, i assume, and which may mean the process is self bootable...
so, in the end, perhaps i need to rethink my position on PV in general...
Despite CIGS having the advantage over CdTe, which is negatively affected by the issues of both heavy metal cadmium usage and rare-earth telluride availability, the development of the CIGS lags behind CdTe commercially.
At the present time, the price of the raw materials cadmium and tellurium are a negligible proportion of the cost of CdTe solar cells and other CdTe devices. However, tellurium is an extremely rare element (1–5 parts per billion in the Earth's crust; see Abundances of the elements (data page)), and if CdTe were to be used in sufficiently large quantities (for example, to make enough solar cells to provide a significant proportion of worldwide energy consumption), tellurium availability could be a serious problem. See Cadmium telluride photovoltaics for more information.
wiki does not have an entry directly relating to Copper indium gallium (di)selenide, as yet, so i can't quote for the common alternative.
we might be getting there, but solar panels are not, in themselves, a renewable resource. as far as i know, they consume a lot of rare materials to make, and an irreplaceable portion of this is consumed in use. i stand to be corrected on this, but i gather it is also true for battery technology.
on a slightly larger scale - solar collection with mirrors, especially "tower and heliostat" method, with liquid salt storage, seem to work well.
see abengoa in spain, and later developments, oddly not well documented in merkinland.
Slashdot Mirror
specifically? is there a reason renesis does not appear to supply this information, or am i missing it?
these people are not warriors - they are parasites, and should be treated as such.
it's simply criminal, they should go to jail, like all the rest.
what i think is we need to promote a social division - drunk people are over here, and the rest of us are over here, by defining, legally, the lines around existing "red light" areas, to begin with - and the thing we focus on controlling is whatever it takes to keep teh zombies on the proper side of those lines.
if you are out of it and you can't pay to be carried home, you are simply not allowed out, or you go to jail, no option.
floats are soft option, only gets us all in trouble.
remember
we are pentium of borg, division is futile
as i read this, said "language" is already available immediately, as i assume it's as open source as the raspy itself.
can someone point me to the source, please - i'd like to know what this is about, and the official site is acting very coy.
judging from all the ad hominem reactions, it certainly seems to have set some kind of cat amongst the pigeons, around here..
-- be aLert, your country needs Lerts.
you seem to think we're all drunks...
(i realise i'm flaming here, if offended please substitute "me" and "you" for "sober" and "drunk"
additional tax deductions - you want us to pay for your lack of self control?
coverage of taxi fares - you actually want us to carry you home?
loosening transport regulation - you expect these good people to carry drunks?
free parking - is there even enough to go around, as it is? where do the sober citizens park, next morning?
monetary honariums - you want us to pay for you lack of self control?
sponsoring ride share software - for drunks?
subsidise "drive-you-home-in-your-own-car" - you want us to pay to make like easier for drunks?
no, sorry, what i see is a rubbie, touching me for change, to spend on booze.
please list.
one - as far as i know cars now officially kill more people than anything else on the planet. more importantly - cars kill more children than anything else on the planet. as far as i know the situation in north america, in particular, suggests that the safest place to be is behind the wheel of an american dream, because - apparently - cars don't usually kill car drivers - just the pink and brown squishy things, the stuff without air bags.
apparently we have evolved into a species of metal beetle brain, and no other form of human - to date - has a better chance of survival.
two - alcohol appears to be the leading factor in cases vehicular death or trauma, and if there is any bias at all, alcohol appears to favour the survival of the driver, over that of the victim(s).
various other intoxicants have a similar, sometimes worse, effect on the body count.
setting all else aside, the simple fact that drunk drivers kill more children than anything else on the planet, indicates that something MUST BE DONE.
but what?
how do we fix this?
you mean you use a mouse, don't you?
and report back?
i only wish microsoft had bought bookface instead.
it would seem, i think, that techology has been the primary solution for any number of political failures, and that the more connected we become, the more desperate and illegal become the attempts to "fix" the leaks politically. we don't close down services, we just move on, improving as we go. as has been said - the internet considers censorship an error, and routes around it. dunno why i'm talking to a f*ckwit though, wasting bandwidth.
as you promised. admit i only scanned your article...
i think i smell a wumpus.
IMO only - there is no such thing as automatic security.
you either have blind faith in 'organised' authorities, in whom you place your trust, or you get off your mouse and go find some other means of exchanging keys, external to the cyberverse itself.
to pretend - or wish to believe - that anything else is possible is as joe cell ignorant as it gets, and generally a waste of resources.
please prove me wrong.
so more like an extra year or two, at best, and probably more like a few months.
it's later than you think, and possibly too late already, only we hope not.
sigh...
the trouble is, in my experience, that good coding is an art, not just a skill. unfortunately it has to be commercial, so we find ourselves surrounded by managers and other business skills, none of whom have what it takes to understand what we actually do. to solve that they avoid hiring the genuine coders, and instead collect team players, the sort of people they understand. the result is microsoft, and the health care system, etc.
i don't know how to solve your problem - i'm here to suggest that evaluating you is their job, not yours, only i have no idea how you would explain that to the suits. i get along well with machines of all kinds, because that is how my brain is wired, and i avoid social situations, because i know from painful experience how that story always ends. in some ways i have managed to get along on the strength of my obvious design and problem solving skills, but i ended up self employed, at best.
if you continue to burn wood carelessly you only make the problem worse for the rest of us.
the point you are missing is that wood can be used responsibly, but it has to be burned correctly. it's all a part of remembering how to behave in a closed ecological system, now that we've burned most of the coal and oil. wood stoves have been more of a fashion industry than a technology, per se, for far too long, and all that is happening here is that we are being forced to remember how to burn wood wisely.
none of the technology the EPA now insists you use is new, it simply fell out of fashion.
if you rely on wood, please take the time to learn about biochar (terra preta) and wood-gas (producer gas, syngas).
we will all be glad you did.
citing Interpretation of CO and PM Emissions Data from TLUD Gasifier Cookstoves, by Paul S. Anderson, in particular, and also based on what i have gleaned from many larger studies, it would seem that the bulk of particulate matter produced when burning wood occurs in the charcoal reduction phase.
any stove modified to burn wood gas alone (secondary combustion) and specifically to not reduce charcoal to ash should pass new EPA regs easily, and this is easily done by (a) providing a suitable source of heated secondary air, to ensure proper wood-gas (smoke to the layman) combustion, and (b) carefully limiting the primary air supply to ensure that charcoal reduction is minimised.
if you then return the charcoal, intact, to the environment, the net result is carbon negative.
if you rely on and/or prefer wood for fuel, please learn to use it wisely.
you make lemonade.
this marissa person needs to get off her duff and find something for these people to do, that's all.
obesity is not cured by surgery.
it's jellyfish all the way up, now.
key resource in many street level recovery industries - cheap, dangerous and dirty, unfortunately.
i think.
apparently the materials i am worried about are used for more "special" cells, whereas "old school" PV tech really is mostly sand.
on the other hand wiki claims a larger "ecological footprint" for straight silicon, which i do not pretend to understand.
perhaps the problem is simply the amount of energy extracted, over an approximately thirty year lifespan, versus the amount of energy used to manufacture.
most of this appears to be the need for heat and hydrogen, both of which could be supplied by solar, i assume, and which may mean the process is self bootable...
so, in the end, perhaps i need to rethink my position on PV in general...
for which i thank you, and slashdot, very much.
i should have read further - again i quote wiki:
Despite CIGS having the advantage over CdTe, which is negatively affected by the issues of both heavy metal cadmium usage and rare-earth telluride availability, the development of the CIGS lags behind CdTe commercially.
source wiki:
At the present time, the price of the raw materials cadmium and tellurium are a negligible proportion of the cost of CdTe solar cells and other CdTe devices. However, tellurium is an extremely rare element (1–5 parts per billion in the Earth's crust; see Abundances of the elements (data page)), and if CdTe were to be used in sufficiently large quantities (for example, to make enough solar cells to provide a significant proportion of worldwide energy consumption), tellurium availability could be a serious problem. See Cadmium telluride photovoltaics for more information.
wiki does not have an entry directly relating to Copper indium gallium (di)selenide, as yet, so i can't quote for the common alternative.
we might be getting there, but solar panels are not, in themselves, a renewable resource. as far as i know, they consume a lot of rare materials to make, and an irreplaceable portion of this is consumed in use. i stand to be corrected on this, but i gather it is also true for battery technology.
on a slightly larger scale - solar collection with mirrors, especially "tower and heliostat" method, with liquid salt storage, seem to work well.
see abengoa in spain, and later developments, oddly not well documented in merkinland.