To presume we can control the climate is to assume we are completely aware of all the variables, the means of their regulation, and their impact. Clearly we are not. The statement is arrogance in the extreme and is the danger behind all the climate change hysteria. That type of thinking exposes the public to profiteers peddling all manner of 'snake oil' solutions with considerable potential to harm. There is little "reason" in climate science it seems, just shrill doomsayers encouraging someone else to take action and deniers advocating no action at all. The climate is changing as it always has but the solution is not to change the climate, it is to change what we do control... ourselves. We will adapt and we will survive and the climate will be different... and that's fine.
Ponder: If you are worried about the millions living in low-lying coastal regions threatened by rising sea levels what are you doing about it? Are you stridently demanding 'climate control' by someone? Or are you actively exploring ways of helping those people adapt or move say by facilitating immigration in to your own country? Here's the thing, the latter is actionable here and now while the former is speculative and unlikely. Ask yourself why you made the choice you did.
... adjust you're pricing and it will be 100%. 'Pirating' will always be present until the purchase of the music becomes a reasonable 'risk' for the money and one is allowed to move and replicate the purchase on all one's owned devices.
Diesel electric submarine tech has been around close to a century so that's not new. Running on electric is quieter and in the submarine warfare scenario, that is crucial. Batteries don't radically extend range. What is likely is that the batteries have better range than previous types of batteries. This is all information that is easily available and yet the referenced article reports on it poorly. So ask yourself, "How accurate is the media when it comes to information that is hard to obtain?"
Quote: "He said he "would much prefer a feature that can automatically dial a user-determined contact."
Yeah, it's called making the patient the focus of your system. That's what smart systems do: http://aetonix.com/ The Apple watch caters to making it easy for the corporation i.e. no finicky designing choice for the users. Maybe Mr. Jobs was labeled an ass to work for because we've only been hearing from the people he called out for doing a shitty job.
At what point does the general population accept that it is part of the problem and step up and do something?
The average person _still_ buys that pool, that SUV, and that air conditioner. That person still doesn't recycle, demands maximum product packaging, and throws away otherwise good food because 'leftovers... ick'. And those habits are passed on through the generations so that it is absolutely no surprise that when those offspring move in to industry they carry with them little of an eco-friendly mindset as they sip their bottled water and work at maximizing profits.
There doesn't need to be government involvement or the staggering tax burden of state-owned satellite to address the 'problem of climate change'. What is needed is for each individual to step up and commit to the efficient use of our resources, to be less wasteful, and teach our children to do the same. Angry that some company is profiting and the expense of the environment? Then stop buying their products!
If you are willing to defer to someone else to solve the problem or insist that someone else take care of it, say 'government', then you are part of the problem not the solution.
If the storms were drier and more focused... that's because "climate change". If the storms were fewer and weaker... that's because "climate change". If the storms disappeared... that's because "climate change". If the storms were pink with balloons... that's because "climate change". Temperatures up or down or sideways... that's because "climate change". Everything is... that's because "climate change". Everything else... that's because "Russia". "Russia" and "climate change" the two most effective, fear-inspiring scapegoats for just about anything.
Too hard to educate people on how to understand URL's. Instead let's dumb down the URL's and let's set the standard so we can have control and competitive advantage. Profit!
Who needs smarter people? Education just makes them harder to track and fool.
The US currently enjoys unprecedented transparency in to the Whitehouse. You may not like what your President is doing or who he is as a person but you have a clear view of him and more importantly he publishes his random thoughts uncensored. If you look at your past presidents there probably is not a single one that didn't strive to present wonderful public persona while working a hidden agenda out of sight... until they were caught.
Observation: there is so much personal and media focus on disrespecting the current President but there doesn't seem to be any initiative on addressing the issues in the US that got him to power. Where is the media focus and the personal effort being put on fixing voter registration, the electoral college structure, the working poor, the radical right (winning hearts/minds not shouting at them), etc. Fact is, it seems it is easier to criticize and dig up dirt than it is to get on the job of fixing things. America has the President it deserves and needed. It's a wake up call, things are not all right. Fix them.
... for what, two decades at least, all i have seen in the media is how the coral reefs are disappearing due to climate change. So I pictured just a bunch of unadaptable polyps going extinct. But no, suddenly it appears that a deep reef was discovered and then it's revealed that there are such things as deep reefs, etc.
The point is, all the brouhaha over "... it will mean the disappearance of... " should actually be suffixed by "... as we currently know it." So be it the climate or whatever, the fuss is really about wanting things to stay the same. And they don't. Ever. Things _cannot_ stay the same and to want or expect them to is insanity.
The challenge then is not to stop the change but instead to adapt to it and make the current state as close to what you desire as possible.
Will adaptation be free or easy? No, there is no free lunch.
Can't read the paper and the abstract is ambiguous so it seems like the paper is about a 'way ahead' as opposed to an actual device prototype. It seemed like the paper + article were a way to profile the research in order to get funding to actually build something... a long long way (as one of the researchers says herself) from actually having a product or even it seems an experimental prototype.
Maybe if you're prone to cardiovascular problems you don't use a sauna much because it feels bad. Maybe if your very overweight you don't use a sauna because it's uncomfortably hot. Maybe if your slim, fit, and healthy... you use a sauna because it feels good.
People seem to have no problem venting their frustrations on call center staff. At least with a bot, no feelings are hurt. Sucks to work a call center... or any kind of one-on-one customer interaction, just ask any poor starbucks employee.
Seriously, lobbying/calling/etc takes time away from the necessities of keeping your company alive. What's the ROI in whining to legiglators vs calling another potential client?
Between the definition of 'modern history' and the accuracy of the measure of wealth of any person what is the point of this story?
"In the news: someone is much richer than you. and to make the story more interesting we will choose some random dates and use a guess about how much they are worth. More at eleven."
"... which is built on recognizing individual rights..."... but _whose_ individual rights? At the time of writing, the 'who' was a very restricted subset of the population. It did not at the time include First Nations or slaves nor some would say, women. The document was in many respects inherently discriminatory especially if viewed through the lense of the moral belief system of the time. But if we view it through the lense of today's morality we can interpret it to our collective benefit. Maybe that is it's true value, it's flexibility to interpretation... the ultimate political document.
The guy is one of the premier sail racers in the world. The boat is a riff of the kind of high performance cat- and tri- maran sail boats he has raced. He's doing this to highlight renewable energy's potential.
It's funky only if you've been oblivious the developments in the yachting world (esp. catamarans and French sail racing). State of the art design, state of the are materials, even state of the art propulsion equipment (the ideas are old but the implementation is SOTA). Also, see this for what it is: advertising for renewable energy and responsible environmental practices. While this is utterly impractical (currently) for a ship, the scale _is_ practical for a reasonably sized private dwelling.
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But then no artist gives credit to the canvas maker, paint brush maker, or paint maker ...
To presume we can control the climate is to assume we are completely aware of all the variables, the means of their regulation, and their impact. Clearly we are not. ... ourselves. ... and that's fine.
The statement is arrogance in the extreme and is the danger behind all the climate change hysteria.
That type of thinking exposes the public to profiteers peddling all manner of 'snake oil' solutions with considerable potential to harm.
There is little "reason" in climate science it seems, just shrill doomsayers encouraging someone else to take action and deniers advocating no action at all.
The climate is changing as it always has but the solution is not to change the climate, it is to change what we do control
We will adapt and we will survive and the climate will be different
Ponder: If you are worried about the millions living in low-lying coastal regions threatened by rising sea levels what are you doing about it? Are you stridently demanding 'climate control' by someone? Or are you actively exploring ways of helping those people adapt or move say by facilitating immigration in to your own country? Here's the thing, the latter is actionable here and now while the former is speculative and unlikely. Ask yourself why you made the choice you did.
... adjust you're pricing and it will be 100%.
'Pirating' will always be present until the purchase of the music becomes a reasonable 'risk' for the money and one is allowed to move and replicate the purchase on all one's owned devices.
Diesel electric submarine tech has been around close to a century so that's not new.
Running on electric is quieter and in the submarine warfare scenario, that is crucial.
Batteries don't radically extend range. What is likely is that the batteries have better range than previous types of batteries.
This is all information that is easily available and yet the referenced article reports on it poorly.
So ask yourself, "How accurate is the media when it comes to information that is hard to obtain?"
Quote: "He said he "would much prefer a feature that can automatically dial a user-determined contact."
Yeah, it's called making the patient the focus of your system. That's what smart systems do: http://aetonix.com/
The Apple watch caters to making it easy for the corporation i.e. no finicky designing choice for the users. Maybe Mr. Jobs was labeled an ass to work for because we've only been hearing from the people he called out for doing a shitty job.
At what point does the general population accept that it is part of the problem and step up and do something?
The average person _still_ buys that pool, that SUV, and that air conditioner. That person still doesn't recycle, demands maximum product packaging, and throws away otherwise good food because 'leftovers ... ick'. And those habits are passed on through the generations so that it is absolutely no surprise that when those offspring move in to industry they carry with them little of an eco-friendly mindset as they sip their bottled water and work at maximizing profits.
There doesn't need to be government involvement or the staggering tax burden of state-owned satellite to address the 'problem of climate change'. What is needed is for each individual to step up and commit to the efficient use of our resources, to be less wasteful, and teach our children to do the same. Angry that some company is profiting and the expense of the environment? Then stop buying their products!
If you are willing to defer to someone else to solve the problem or insist that someone else take care of it, say 'government', then you are part of the problem not the solution.
If the storms were drier and more focused ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "climate change". ... that's because "Russia".
If the storms were fewer and weaker
If the storms disappeared
If the storms were pink with balloons
Temperatures up or down or sideways
Everything is
Everything else
"Russia" and "climate change" the two most effective, fear-inspiring scapegoats for just about anything.
Too hard to educate people on how to understand URL's. Instead let's dumb down the URL's and let's set the standard so we can have control and competitive advantage. Profit!
Who needs smarter people? Education just makes them harder to track and fool.
The US currently enjoys unprecedented transparency in to the Whitehouse. You may not like what your President is doing or who he is as a person but you have a clear view of him and more importantly he publishes his random thoughts uncensored. If you look at your past presidents there probably is not a single one that didn't strive to present wonderful public persona while working a hidden agenda out of sight ... until they were caught.
Observation: there is so much personal and media focus on disrespecting the current President but there doesn't seem to be any initiative on addressing the issues in the US that got him to power. Where is the media focus and the personal effort being put on fixing voter registration, the electoral college structure, the working poor, the radical right (winning hearts/minds not shouting at them), etc. Fact is, it seems it is easier to criticize and dig up dirt than it is to get on the job of fixing things. America has the President it deserves and needed. It's a wake up call, things are not all right. Fix them.
Geeze, all these newbs on /. never even try to answer the question themselves. Honestly (shakes head )
... for what, two decades at least, all i have seen in the media is how the coral reefs are disappearing due to climate change. So I pictured just a bunch of unadaptable polyps going extinct. But no, suddenly it appears that a deep reef was discovered and then it's revealed that there are such things as deep reefs, etc.
The point is, all the brouhaha over " ... it will mean the disappearance of ... " should actually be suffixed by " ... as we currently know it." So be it the climate or whatever, the fuss is really about wanting things to stay the same. And they don't. Ever. Things _cannot_ stay the same and to want or expect them to is insanity.
The challenge then is not to stop the change but instead to adapt to it and make the current state as close to what you desire as possible.
Will adaptation be free or easy? No, there is no free lunch.
Can't read the paper and the abstract is ambiguous so it seems like the paper is about a 'way ahead' as opposed to an actual device prototype. It seemed like the paper + article were a way to profile the research in order to get funding to actually build something ... a long long way (as one of the researchers says herself) from actually having a product or even it seems an experimental prototype.
If not then where's the "news"?
Maybe a loss of a sense of personal ownership ... but corporations are more focused on ownership than ever.
... in Python
Maybe if you're prone to cardiovascular problems you don't use a sauna much because it feels bad. ... you use a sauna because it feels good.
Maybe if your very overweight you don't use a sauna because it's uncomfortably hot.
Maybe if your slim, fit, and healthy
People seem to have no problem venting their frustrations on call center staff. At least with a bot, no feelings are hurt. Sucks to work a call center ... or any kind of one-on-one customer interaction, just ask any poor starbucks employee.
Seriously, lobbying/calling/etc takes time away from the necessities of keeping your company alive. What's the ROI in whining to legiglators vs calling another potential client?
Between the definition of 'modern history' and the accuracy of the measure of wealth of any person what is the point of this story?
"In the news: someone is much richer than you. and to make the story more interesting we will choose some random dates and use a guess about how much they are worth. More at eleven."
You don't do coin mining on a laptop and not everyone can afford a server/GPU rack so ...
"... which is built on recognizing individual rights ..." ... but _whose_ individual rights? At the time of writing, the 'who' was a very restricted subset of the population. It did not at the time include First Nations or slaves nor some would say, women. The document was in many respects inherently discriminatory especially if viewed through the lense of the moral belief system of the time. But if we view it through the lense of today's morality we can interpret it to our collective benefit. Maybe that is it's true value, it's flexibility to interpretation ... the ultimate political document.
So _some_ things that are historic and have content at odds with today's morality should be allowed to stay.
Other things that are historic and have content at odds with today's morality should be removed.
Fact: by today's standards of morality, most of the founding fathers would be found to be sexist and racist.
Do you not see the inherent problem with this?
The guy is one of the premier sail racers in the world. The boat is a riff of the kind of high performance cat- and tri- maran sail boats he has raced. He's doing this to highlight renewable energy's potential.
It's funky only if you've been oblivious the developments in the yachting world (esp. catamarans and French sail racing). State of the art design, state of the are materials, even state of the art propulsion equipment (the ideas are old but the implementation is SOTA).
Also, see this for what it is: advertising for renewable energy and responsible environmental practices. While this is utterly impractical (currently) for a ship, the scale _is_ practical for a reasonably sized private dwelling.
... end of life maybe? You do know trees don't live forever, right? But hey, "climate change" gets you in the news.
Other spontaneously idiotic possibilities: it was the Russians, Chinese, or North Koreans ... or Trump. So many possibilities.
On the plus side, they WERE NOT CUT DOWN. So yay team humans!