I am old enough to remember when Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published. I think he settled this question well enough back then but there is just no way his message could grow past its apparent obscurity.
Fast forward a few decades and I am helping my girlfriends early-teen sons with their homework. They cannot even conceive of even sitting down to do it without a CD (that era) with some obnoxious bang bang BANG bang noise being distorted out of some nearby speaker. They are bright enough but their concentration is shit for what seems to me to be obvious reason. I can turn it off when I'm there and explain what is going on but the instant I am gone they start up the noise again and they must be entertained. Their grades remained crap and they barely passed high school. I got a serious case of oldfartitis.
Creative work does have a domain where outside stimulus such as favorite music might be helpful. Few musicians create worthwhile new works without listening to what came before. Even cross-genre. Maybe particularly so.
But at some point the passive reception mode has to be changed to forward focus mode. And for that you have to lose the need to be stimulated and focus on the task at hand. It can be hard work.
As Ursula Le Guin once pointed out: many writers make the mistake of confusing feeling creative with actually being creative. She was talking about taking drugs not music but I think it is pretty much the same.
I cannot believe that so few of you care about this. It's completely beyond my comprehension.
Actually there are a lot of people who care and and the ones that don't seem to care are not incomprehensible. Just stupid.
Most people don't have the time to fight to try to roll back the security state. It is very easy to slide into complacency and shrug it all off (for now) with two bromides: 1) I'm a law abiding citizen so I have nothing to hide and 2) it is just bits in a computer somewhere that no human will look at anyway.
I know from your post that you know why this shouldn't be acceptable but the vast majority of people crave security. They want the government to take care of them and be a force for "good" against the "bad" guys. To them this is just the police being better, higher-tech police.
I'll bet that anyone reading this could not recite all the titles of the movies, TV shows, thriller novels they have seen where the hero caught the bad guy with some high-tech data system run by the government. Something that would totally appall the founding fathers of the U.S. who created laws against anyone opening your mail.
So why are some countries so successful at dropping their emissions? Part of it is likely to be economic growth, but the biggest reason may have to do with government policies.
Ya think. And where do those "government policies" come from?
In the U.S. one of our two major political parties represents a minority of voters but thanks to our voting system has had a stranglehold on policy and that party is dedicated to doing everything possible to maximize donor profit. To them that means oppose anything and everything that has anything to do with mitigating climate change. For that matter anything to do with preserving or improving the environment. Our current EPA head was appointed for the express purpose of destroying the EPA.
Their mindless followers vote them in being mesmerized by keywords like "job creation" and chimeras like "the liberals are coming to get your guns." They will churn up FUD with their industry-funded studies. Much you will see repeated right here on/.
Don't look to the U.S. to help with this problem until we get rid of the minority rule. The majority wants something done about climate change.
I hear you. I'm not sure what I would use 5G for and I have Gbit service to the house and use it.
If I did have 5G and there was a reasonable plan I would probably tether my laptop to it so I could work somewhere other than my office. The main apps would be to monitor my infrastructure and to do teleconferences from the road. So far I just do that from the closest free WiFi like Starbucks.
5G is fine technology and all but I just don't see the killer app for it.
You would think Kansas might have learned something after Brownback and his Laffer-curve nonsense destroyed the state's finances.
Anything conservatives want to do -- if you do the exact opposite you are almost always close to a decision that is consistent with good government if not outright necessary for it.
I used to have a contract where I spent a lot of time inside the power plant at South Port, NC. I am not a mechanical engineer but I was able to see and learn enough that I was reasonably assured that the kind of incident that happened at Chernobyl wouldn't happen there. At least not by accident. And that plant is pretty old tech.
If the plant was sabotaged -- that's another matter. That's also effectively what happened at Chernobyl. Nobody had the intent to do anything wrong. They were doing standard procedures and "mistakes were made."
So yes nuclear power plants are scary. But so are a lot of other things we do and live with as if they are safe. And until a real fusion system comes along we still need fission plants.
This. I am sure that JPM is going to tie the coins to a cash reserve (most likely US$) and there won't be any mining of new coins to create new "wealth." (Note the scare quotes they are significant.) JPM will control the coin supply the same as the Fed controls the US dollar supply.
This isn't Bitcoin. It is simply a new kind of open ledger using blockchains as kalpol said.
However it might still be worth doing. People will still be able to trade JPCoins around the world and they will be far more stable than any free-floating cryptocurrency. What will be significant is if the coin owners are permitted to remain anonymous or not. If they are then eventually JPM will run afoul of authorities who don't want JPMCoins to be used to bypass currency controls and doing illegal stuff. I can't imagine JPM going this way but they stand to make a fortune (more of a fortune) if they do just off of transaction fees.
I run a Windows 10 VM on my Mac for those few software packages that need it. Most notably Solidworks and some MRP software. Office 365 runs on the Mac just fine.
Your arguments, although well stated, seem to be resting on one fundamental assumption that is wrong. Tesla is not sitting still. This isn't just a race between the Series 3 and whatever BMW puts up to compete with it.
Yes the big-3 "could" suddenly decide to take it seriously and start massively investing. That would mean that the Model 3 competitor they come up with won't appear for several years at least. By that time the Series 3 won't be edge-of-the-art.
Will Ford have something that competes with Tesla's new pickup? Will Peterbilt be able to counter the Tesla big truck (500 mile range) for which orders are already being taken? Will GM have something as good as the new Tesla roadster?
That's the thing about the big automakers. Yes they are massive but that means they also do not innovate quickly. It takes them up to 5 years to put a new powertrain into production and yes, they can pump them out once they do but that is no threat to Tesla. And by the time that Tesla becomes a perceived threat it will most likely be too late to drive Tesla out of business.
Tesla is out of cash. Will close the doors in six months tops.
Telsa's employees are in open revolt.
Elon Musk promises but never delivers.
Tesla's top executives are bailing.
EVs are more polluting than ICE cars anyway.
All the big automakers are going to eat Tesla's lunch. Tesla will never scale. And don't get me started on China.
Telsa quality control is complete crap worst ever.
Tesla cars catch fire all the time why would anyone buy one.
All Tesla's investors are suing the company and the SEC is going to put the company in receiverhip.
Did I miss anything? For the past 4 years I have been reading all the above here on/. over and over and over again posted with absolute conviction any time the topic comes up. Anyone care to update or respond to the list?
Yes I realized from the get-go that it is not all in a single passbook savings at Wells Fargo at 0.82% interest. All the same the assertion that Apple "can't afford" something is just amazing.
It is hard to believe someone could write that seriously.
Apple has around $240 billion cash on hand. They could allocate $10 billion to nothing but awards for bug fixes and they wouldn't even feel it. Arguably they could do that every year.
you can't expect a 13 year-old to make decisions like an adult. This kid needs counseling. Who seriously thinks it's going to be helpful to anyone to send this kid to juvi?
You can and should expect a kid that age to understand there are consequences to his/her actions. Even if they are not fully thinking like an adult.
Would you expect a 13-year-old to be able to avoid stepping in front of traffic? Would you expect a 13-year old not to light a gas fire in the library? Why would it be unacceptable to expect a 13-year-old not to issue public terrorist threats?
Juvie may not be the best option but not many communities have other options.
If reading information-dense articles are too much for you here is one money-quote pulled from the second link above:
All told, nearly 1 million Americans are working near- or full-time in the energy efficiency, solar, wind, and alternative vehicles sectors. This is almost five times the current employment in the fossil fuel electric industry, which includes coal, gas, and oil workers.
The great Chinese Climate Change Hoax claims yet another victim.
Those poor German fools are going to clean up their environment, make more livable cities, have cleaner water and less smog and create tens of thousands of new jobs. All for nothing.
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If I am annoyed at Tesla for anything it is calling the Model X an "SUV."
* No roof rack capability. Lots of storage space but where goes the windsurf board, the hang glider, the canoe?
* No trailer hitch.
* No ability for off-road (clearance of a sport sedan).
* No ability to carry a spare tire.
Great for soccer moms. Great for sales execs to drive clients around in. It is not an SUV it is a minivan.
I hope the model Y is better but I doubt it.
I am old enough to remember when Robert Pirsig's book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published. I think he settled this question well enough back then but there is just no way his message could grow past its apparent obscurity.
Fast forward a few decades and I am helping my girlfriends early-teen sons with their homework. They cannot even conceive of even sitting down to do it without a CD (that era) with some obnoxious bang bang BANG bang noise being distorted out of some nearby speaker. They are bright enough but their concentration is shit for what seems to me to be obvious reason. I can turn it off when I'm there and explain what is going on but the instant I am gone they start up the noise again and they must be entertained. Their grades remained crap and they barely passed high school. I got a serious case of oldfartitis.
Creative work does have a domain where outside stimulus such as favorite music might be helpful. Few musicians create worthwhile new works without listening to what came before. Even cross-genre. Maybe particularly so.
But at some point the passive reception mode has to be changed to forward focus mode. And for that you have to lose the need to be stimulated and focus on the task at hand. It can be hard work.
As Ursula Le Guin once pointed out: many writers make the mistake of confusing feeling creative with actually being creative. She was talking about taking drugs not music but I think it is pretty much the same.
I cannot believe that so few of you care about this. It's completely beyond my comprehension.
Actually there are a lot of people who care and and the ones that don't seem to care are not incomprehensible. Just stupid.
Most people don't have the time to fight to try to roll back the security state. It is very easy to slide into complacency and shrug it all off (for now) with two bromides: 1) I'm a law abiding citizen so I have nothing to hide and 2) it is just bits in a computer somewhere that no human will look at anyway.
I know from your post that you know why this shouldn't be acceptable but the vast majority of people crave security. They want the government to take care of them and be a force for "good" against the "bad" guys. To them this is just the police being better, higher-tech police.
I'll bet that anyone reading this could not recite all the titles of the movies, TV shows, thriller novels they have seen where the hero caught the bad guy with some high-tech data system run by the government. Something that would totally appall the founding fathers of the U.S. who created laws against anyone opening your mail.
... A bird shit on a Tesla! This is clearly a design flaw in Tesla!!!
And of course it finally proves -- as if we needed it -- that Musk is a delusional fraud.
Came here to say this. Whatever happened to that startup that was doing this? Can't remember the name.
So why are some countries so successful at dropping their emissions? Part of it is likely to be economic growth, but the biggest reason may have to do with government policies.
Ya think. And where do those "government policies" come from?
In the U.S. one of our two major political parties represents a minority of voters but thanks to our voting system has had a stranglehold on policy and that party is dedicated to doing everything possible to maximize donor profit. To them that means oppose anything and everything that has anything to do with mitigating climate change. For that matter anything to do with preserving or improving the environment. Our current EPA head was appointed for the express purpose of destroying the EPA.
Their mindless followers vote them in being mesmerized by keywords like "job creation" and chimeras like "the liberals are coming to get your guns." They will churn up FUD with their industry-funded studies. Much you will see repeated right here on /.
Don't look to the U.S. to help with this problem until we get rid of the minority rule. The majority wants something done about climate change.
I hear you. I'm not sure what I would use 5G for and I have Gbit service to the house and use it.
If I did have 5G and there was a reasonable plan I would probably tether my laptop to it so I could work somewhere other than my office. The main apps would be to monitor my infrastructure and to do teleconferences from the road. So far I just do that from the closest free WiFi like Starbucks.
5G is fine technology and all but I just don't see the killer app for it.
Internet, meet capitalism.
Capitalism, meet internet.
What did you expect, Libertarian paradise?
I always thought that "set in stone" refers to the condition where you have carved words into stone and they can't (easily) be undone.
Is there any other possible origin of that phrase?
You would think Kansas might have learned something after Brownback and his Laffer-curve nonsense destroyed the state's finances.
Anything conservatives want to do -- if you do the exact opposite you are almost always close to a decision that is consistent with good government if not outright necessary for it.
I used to have a contract where I spent a lot of time inside the power plant at South Port, NC. I am not a mechanical engineer but I was able to see and learn enough that I was reasonably assured that the kind of incident that happened at Chernobyl wouldn't happen there. At least not by accident. And that plant is pretty old tech.
If the plant was sabotaged -- that's another matter. That's also effectively what happened at Chernobyl. Nobody had the intent to do anything wrong. They were doing standard procedures and "mistakes were made."
So yes nuclear power plants are scary. But so are a lot of other things we do and live with as if they are safe. And until a real fusion system comes along we still need fission plants.
This. I am sure that JPM is going to tie the coins to a cash reserve (most likely US$) and there won't be any mining of new coins to create new "wealth." (Note the scare quotes they are significant.) JPM will control the coin supply the same as the Fed controls the US dollar supply.
This isn't Bitcoin. It is simply a new kind of open ledger using blockchains as kalpol said.
However it might still be worth doing. People will still be able to trade JPCoins around the world and they will be far more stable than any free-floating cryptocurrency. What will be significant is if the coin owners are permitted to remain anonymous or not. If they are then eventually JPM will run afoul of authorities who don't want JPMCoins to be used to bypass currency controls and doing illegal stuff. I can't imagine JPM going this way but they stand to make a fortune (more of a fortune) if they do just off of transaction fees.
What more do you need?
High-grade sexbots.
I run a Windows 10 VM on my Mac for those few software packages that need it. Most notably Solidworks and some MRP software. Office 365 runs on the Mac just fine.
So why would I do this on a Pi?
Every modern country I ever visited has extensive passenger rail systems that everybody uses. But we can't afford it.
Military adventures in the Middle east costing hundreds of billions? No problem. But no new infrastructure. That's socialism or something.
Your arguments, although well stated, seem to be resting on one fundamental assumption that is wrong. Tesla is not sitting still. This isn't just a race between the Series 3 and whatever BMW puts up to compete with it.
Yes the big-3 "could" suddenly decide to take it seriously and start massively investing. That would mean that the Model 3 competitor they come up with won't appear for several years at least. By that time the Series 3 won't be edge-of-the-art.
Will Ford have something that competes with Tesla's new pickup? Will Peterbilt be able to counter the Tesla big truck (500 mile range) for which orders are already being taken? Will GM have something as good as the new Tesla roadster?
That's the thing about the big automakers. Yes they are massive but that means they also do not innovate quickly. It takes them up to 5 years to put a new powertrain into production and yes, they can pump them out once they do but that is no threat to Tesla. And by the time that Tesla becomes a perceived threat it will most likely be too late to drive Tesla out of business.
The record.
Did I miss anything? For the past 4 years I have been reading all the above here on /. over and over and over again posted with absolute conviction any time the topic comes up. Anyone care to update or respond to the list?
Jeez I know my dad sowed some wild oats but this is taking it too far.
The Navy operates the world's largest solar farm just for this purpose.
Source: Apple's cash pile hits $285.1 billion, a record.
Yes I realized from the get-go that it is not all in a single passbook savings at Wells Fargo at 0.82% interest. All the same the assertion that Apple "can't afford" something is just amazing.
Apple can't afford ...
It is hard to believe someone could write that seriously.
Apple has around $240 billion cash on hand. They could allocate $10 billion to nothing but awards for bug fixes and they wouldn't even feel it. Arguably they could do that every year.
you can't expect a 13 year-old to make decisions like an adult. This kid needs counseling. Who seriously thinks it's going to be helpful to anyone to send this kid to juvi?
You can and should expect a kid that age to understand there are consequences to his/her actions. Even if they are not fully thinking like an adult.
Would you expect a 13-year-old to be able to avoid stepping in front of traffic? Would you expect a 13-year old not to light a gas fire in the library? Why would it be unacceptable to expect a 13-year-old not to issue public terrorist threats?
Juvie may not be the best option but not many communities have other options.
I only learned this adage just recently (don't know where it came from) but I haven't ever seen a more clear example:
If the product is free then you are the product.
In this case since the cost is negative, so it seems the saying has to be extended somehow.
If you are really look here or or maybe here.
If reading information-dense articles are too much for you here is one money-quote pulled from the second link above:
All told, nearly 1 million Americans are working near- or full-time in the energy efficiency, solar, wind, and alternative vehicles sectors. This is almost five times the current employment in the fossil fuel electric industry, which includes coal, gas, and oil workers.
The great Chinese Climate Change Hoax claims yet another victim.
Those poor German fools are going to clean up their environment, make more livable cities, have cleaner water and less smog and create tens of thousands of new jobs. All for nothing.