Their chief fear is that their "new media" competitors are simply going to abandon them completely
I read an interesting article along this line of thought back in the earliest days of piracy scares.
What big movie studios were really afraid of was becoming irrelevant.
Who needs a multibillion dollar movie studio and a hundred million dollar budget if some creative kid in the basement can produce better special effects or write a more creative movie, produce it on their computer for $500 and get ten million viewers to watch it.
I went to a private Christian school and they taught evolution. Some classes were even required to read Origin of Species. So that's an option for you.
because they are not removed from the classroom, the rest of the kids that still have a chance are prevented from learning
It was like this in the 70's and by far (like 100x) the biggest difference hat I noticed between public and private schools. I don't recall a single disruption in my entire (private) high school career and I'm sure if there was one, he offending student would be permanently removed that day. We even had off campus rules of conduct where you could be expelled if a teacher or administrator witnessed you doing something against the rules in a public (non school) place...and there were maybe half a dozen expulsions that I could name over four years.
Is there anything left in sci-fi left to implement? The tablet showed up in 2001 and Star Trek, The cell phone in Star Trek (communicator). Dick Tracy watch. Star Trek "computer" (Siri). What else don't we have? Replicator/transporter/warp drive are still in the fantasy realm until someone discovers new physics.
The reason for limiting rainwater collection is that it harms the natural environment by robbing it of needed water. The affects do not show up for about 70 years after you do it, but they are real.
Something I've noticed about my garden(s) that I've planted around the country from Mexico to Canada, is that plant really really like warm to hot, a lot of sunshine and water. In Tucson, I could almost get a cucumber a day from my plant. In Seattle, I go two cucumbers in a season. And they were very anemic.
The company I work at seems to continually restructure.
I've been contracting since the 80's and have worked at about a dozen companies, and every single one of them has restructured constantly. I always assumed it was just a part of working at a large company (like getting free coffee) and one of the reasons never wanted to be a direct.
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How is 100% inheritance tax part of capitalism? The wikipedia entry on capitalism does no contain the word "inheritance".
think that "the American dream" is real and that they someday will be rich too.
It's working for a lot of immigrants in my old neighborhood. Second generation no as much.
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I don't follow politics, but I thought most people outside of reddit/slashdot/etc, were very unhappy with any of the candidates.
Their chief fear is that their "new media" competitors are simply going to abandon them completely
I read an interesting article along this line of thought back in the earliest days of piracy scares.
What big movie studios were really afraid of was becoming irrelevant.
Who needs a multibillion dollar movie studio and a hundred million dollar budget if some creative kid in the basement can produce better special effects or write a more creative movie, produce it on their computer for $500 and get ten million viewers to watch it.
I was thinking in he realm of something that Apple could do. And I'd consider a big chunk of your list as fantasy, eg., negative mass.
That's standard tap water pressure. Even then it's pretty weak/lossy (not efficient). We had to do his for an upper level thermo class.
Not after July 7 when the monsoon hits and its 39 at 2am.
I did that once and don't remember anything not in the fantasy realm.
I went to a private Christian school and they taught evolution. Some classes were even required to read Origin of Species. So that's an option for you.
because they are not removed from the classroom, the rest of the kids that still have a chance are prevented from learning
It was like this in the 70's and by far (like 100x) the biggest difference hat I noticed between public and private schools. I don't recall a single disruption in my entire (private) high school career and I'm sure if there was one, he offending student would be permanently removed that day. We even had off campus rules of conduct where you could be expelled if a teacher or administrator witnessed you doing something against the rules in a public (non school) place...and there were maybe half a dozen expulsions that I could name over four years.
Is there anything left in sci-fi left to implement? The tablet showed up in 2001 and Star Trek, The cell phone in Star Trek (communicator). Dick Tracy watch. Star Trek "computer" (Siri). What else don't we have? Replicator/transporter/warp drive are still in the fantasy realm until someone discovers new physics.
The reason for limiting rainwater collection is that it harms the natural environment by robbing it of needed water. The affects do not show up for about 70 years after you do it, but they are real.
My lead acid batteries are about $80/kwh and good for about 7 years.
You don't get any appreciable power from 2m of water. Thermodynamic availability.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to call a technological limit "obsolescence built in."
can actually be over $40
Are you sure? This seems high by a factor of about 100.
10 cents per KWH
I think you mean 10 cents per WH, not kwh. That's the number that I used for my off grid house.
Just out of curiosity, how much battery storage do you have? I have 4kwh, but limit myself to ~20% dod and haven't found that I need more.
Something I've noticed about my garden(s) that I've planted around the country from Mexico to Canada, is that plant really really like warm to hot, a lot of sunshine and water. In Tucson, I could almost get a cucumber a day from my plant. In Seattle, I go two cucumbers in a season. And they were very anemic.
The sooner, the better. Patents run out in twenty years.
An interglacial period (or alternatively interglacial) is a geological interval of warmer global average temperature lasting thousands of years that separates consecutive glacial periods within an ice age.
danger lies in when the next ice age starts
You're aware that the last ice age hasn't ended yet, right?
The end of civilization predictions predates everything. Perhaps even civilization itself.
Low level hardware and software has not changed significantly since the 50's. The last significant development was virtual memory.
The company I work at seems to continually restructure.
I've been contracting since the 80's and have worked at about a dozen companies, and every single one of them has restructured constantly. I always assumed it was just a part of working at a large company (like getting free coffee) and one of the reasons never wanted to be a direct.