Let me get this straight; Conservatives think Liberals are naive because we don't want to push Liberalism on foreign Conservatives? Otherwise, conservatives object to Islamic backward societies merely because they have the WRONG MASCOT.
All this is nothing to me. I'm waiting for a viable, programmable (and private) bike HUD (with rearview, HR, wattage, and navigation data.
That's what I'm waiting for.
That's nothing, I'm waiting for all that and an Robot to petal the bike for me, who can use SIRI to let me know how great the bike trip was from a remote location. But of course the robot can't convey emotional values of how nice the bike ride is -- I'm going to have to watch the Google Goggles video stream for THAT.
Of course, I won't be happy until I get the "anthropomorphizing" upgrade to my robot -- not completely.
So the argument for cheap crappy food and not spending a bit of money to prevent something is that we can do very drastic and expensive things to mitigate them?
I suppose we merely need to look at the price of a yard of thick plastic to determine a cost/benefit of living in bubbles.
Holland has implemented amazing technology to prevent flooding. But it's at a huge cost, in a certain situation and it might not be applicable everywhere -- and every time the barrier gets higher, the physics involved become monstrous. And it's at a HUGE cost. Do humans have the resources to put up barriers around every large coastal population? Hell to the no. 80% of the worlds population is within a mile of the coast.
The point not being discussed here is you can get a change of a meter or more in a year as wind currents shift. So it's not that the WHOLE ocean will suddenly rise -- it's that in some places, the sea level change will be sudden and extreme because ocean and wind currents have changed.
The "average" isn't whats going to kill you. New York only needs to have two meters rise for about half an hour to kill a few million people. And that might only happen "once a year" so on average -- that's only a millimeter change "on average."
It's likely that in our lifetime the Gulf Stream will change and many of the trade winds. Didn't people notice that Hurricane Sandy was actually a Cyclone -- meaning it rotated the opposite direction from the norm? I think that people should be waving their arms in alarm because the current level of importance on this issue is not high enough. We should not be spending one dollar on terrorism if we have not dealt with Global Warming and having some kind of Asteroid detection and path altering system in place. It's not the "average" or the "norm" we are worried about -- it's that outlier anomaly that destroys your civilization.
You are wasting your time. When you are arguing with anyone over "Hey, there was life in the Pleistocene -- so why should I stop using an SUV and shoving $1 Big Macs down my face?"
At this point you need a winch and the jaws of life to yank someone's head out of their fecal dispensing orifice.
You make a good point except you are wrong about everything.
The sea level rise can happen in a few months. Why? Because prevailing wind patterns are changing and could be disrupted permanently. The Easter Seaboard of the United States is chronically lower than it should be due to the trade winds. Change the prevailing winds and in one year you could see a sea level change in the meters.
Also, we don't have to wait for Greenland or Antarctica to melt -- just for large masses of ice to slide into the water. Now it may take decades for that water to traverse the globe but -- it's going to drastically change ocean currents and temperatures in key regions. Rapid change means lots of disruption.
You're harming your cause with such extreme and patently ridiculous alarmism. Did you know that up to the start of the Pleistocene, there were no permanent ice caps on either pole?
Did you know the earth used to have an atmosphere of Ammonia and Methane and when oxygen producing bacteria and plankton became widespread it almost froze the planet? Your tone and phrasing sounds reasonable, until someone actually starts parsing what you are saying. The point about Methane Hydrates and Siberian permafrost is a big deal and there isn't much hyperbole you could add to a point that "in a few years, you could quadruple the yearly release of organic gases."
Today's climate isn't the norm, it isn't the only climate in which life is possible.
You're not hurting your position at all with such statements; your whole world view is stupid and shortsighted and is an embarrassment to all future generations who will learn that some people in our era thought this way as they suck air through respirators and fight with transvestite warlords who go on killing sprees for a few tanks of gas. Now THAT IS HYPERBOLE!
Why is the argument against raising SOME taxes spun as "so you want to tax the job creators 100%!!!???" And in the case of "hey, we can reduce carbon footprints by moving cows to grass again" -- "WHAT, NO YEAR ROUND 100% DONKEY CARTED FARMING WITH THE FAMILY DOG???!!!!"
There is lots of land not in use, and left fallow. It would merely mean you move the cows to farms, or in winter, the graze on no-till fields. If you ran out of stuff to easily feed them, then you use a tractor and bring in some food. So you went to 80% grass, and NO PAYING FOR CORN.
Why is it impossible to try different things? Why is there this absolutism? Is everyone totally resigned to the concept that we "LIVE IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS -- and there is no use trying to change?"
It's like a religion that can broach no speculation or science where the answers might change and we can learn we are wrong. There is this corporate mentality that pretends to support competition, but then doesn't like change of the status quo. Please, unless someone pays you to blog, there's no need to always promote the status quo.
What is our lifestyle now with all this "cheap and convenient"?
I'd much prefer to have the body of Brad Pitt and eat one hamburger instead of two. Really the argument against doing something about Global Warming and eating Healthy Food is; "I want to stuff my fat face with crap food that's half price." And then of course, dump all your money on the doctor and hiring a prostitute because nobody wants to hang out with you because you smell of rancid cheese.
It would only force cattle raising to be spread out, rather than condensed into a few factory farms. We likely have plenty of biomass to do this -- we have a lot of farms the government pays farmers NOT TO USE.
We have a lot of farming practices that just funnel money into a few hands, and groups like Monsanto and ADM sell the seeds, the pesticides and the fertilizer -- and too many make the assumption we cannot live without this junk. We cannot live with it for much longer.
I'd heard that a lot of the reason Cows belch so much is that they are being fed Corn. Feed them Grass and less belching because THEY CAN DIGEST GRASS. So if you banned Corn, you'd be a long way to reducing the carbon footprint -- and the use of antibiotics. Because eating corn will kill a cow in about 2 years time./The preceding information may be factually incorrect.// But it could be true. The point is, I want someone to research and fact check this for me, then give me credit for these really brilliant points. If you have 50 years of iPhone programming experience, I will hire you, provided I can rent out your services -- it's a win/win!
I'm going to start putting down that I've got 50 years of iPhone programming experience.
Honestly, I've really only watched two 'iTunes University' video podcasts on the subject, but I'm showing my prowess in marketing and echoing that rock solid "fast advancement for employees with a go-getter attitude" by applying that same positive attitude and respect for the truth to my resume.
You forgot; "Include on portfolio or website a complete implementation of the latest cool thing I saw in a magazine on an airplane."
Most of the jobs I've seen that are still open are either; "We are just trolling to get personal information" or "Seriously, we do absolutely nothing at this company and figured the WHOLE PACKAGE would just drop in and take care of making a product for us. However we do have HR department to tell you not to make any jokes during work hours and a company email which will send you stuff that's important but never applies to you every 15 minutes."
Anytime I read about someone giving a Seminar to people WITH POWER AND MONEY, I immediately read it as; "Someone is getting PAID to tell the rich and powerful what they want to hear."
You'll probably be forgiven for not finding the highly paid pundits promoting privacy, transparency, and respecting people without large bank accounts.
A group at a college wants total access to track everything about students, spending undisclosed funds with undisclosed backers for undisclosed reasons, and they can't actually share the results because it is sensitive? And that's on top of a vague goal as to what this would accomplish.
Well, at least there is some consistency to this fascist trend.
There are people who grew up harassed in school, had sand kicked in their face while trying to impress some girl with their Newton. People have been through purgatory and ridiculed for loving Apple and enduring "innovations" from Microsoft only 5 years behind.
After having been through that gauntlet, there truly are Apple acolytes who will get mid-evil on your as$.
I just use a Mac because I can and I'm sick of repairing all the PCs in my family. But I can attest that there are people who are fanatics and will take a cut in pay just to work as an "Apple Genius" at their store. It's like Dungeons and Dragons geeks, without the integrity of the dice and cold hard reality of the limits of an allowance.
Seriously, what the f_ck will it take to get a high-level executive of one of these companies to see the inside of a jail cell for an extended period of time?
When a few judges and FBI directors seeing the inside of a Jail Cell.
Personally, I don't think things will change in the normal process given that there is so much interlocking corruption. I figure this will change when a few of these execs see the light and the error of their ways, due to a serious of Unfortunate Coincidences. There's always hope!
You can be sure the usual suspects will blame "Green Peace and environmentalism" for the failure of green technology with a system that is designed to make conglomerates more filthy rich rather than solve anything.
It takes a lot of tech and containers to condense Hydrogen to a good energy density. And then we get it from Natural Gas which would be EASIER to make part of the fuel system given current infrastructure.
I'm waiting for the Corn-to-Hydrogen plan so that ADM can get subsidies to make a product more expensive and polluting than what it replaced.
This is like the creation of the Internet; taxpayers pony up $500 Billion to create the infrastructure, and ISP's create toll gates to charge us for getting on the on ramps.
If the gas companies ever make a profit from Hydrogen stations, will they remember who paid for it?
Also -- I think of Hydrogen fuel as the Ethanol of the future; wildly wasteful and expensive corn will probably be burned along with natural gas in order to create the hydrogen. We will probably lose at least 20% of the energy in processing and just leaks. Why not just natural gas vehicles or MORE electric cars? I suppose that would be too easy and a cartel couldn't pretend to be green and then get paid on the back end.
I always thought we'd only get alternative energy if someone could continue to keep their cartel and their stranglehold on it -- and nothing seems to say; "big multinational conglomerate" more than Hydrogen.
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Let me get this straight; Conservatives think Liberals are naive because we don't want to push Liberalism on foreign Conservatives?
Otherwise, conservatives object to Islamic backward societies merely because they have the WRONG MASCOT.
All this is nothing to me. I'm waiting for a viable, programmable (and private) bike HUD (with rearview, HR, wattage, and navigation data.
That's what I'm waiting for.
That's nothing, I'm waiting for all that and an Robot to petal the bike for me, who can use SIRI to let me know how great the bike trip was from a remote location. But of course the robot can't convey emotional values of how nice the bike ride is -- I'm going to have to watch the Google Goggles video stream for THAT.
Of course, I won't be happy until I get the "anthropomorphizing" upgrade to my robot -- not completely.
So the argument for cheap crappy food and not spending a bit of money to prevent something is that we can do very drastic and expensive things to mitigate them?
I suppose we merely need to look at the price of a yard of thick plastic to determine a cost/benefit of living in bubbles.
Holland has implemented amazing technology to prevent flooding. But it's at a huge cost, in a certain situation and it might not be applicable everywhere -- and every time the barrier gets higher, the physics involved become monstrous. And it's at a HUGE cost. Do humans have the resources to put up barriers around every large coastal population? Hell to the no. 80% of the worlds population is within a mile of the coast.
The point not being discussed here is you can get a change of a meter or more in a year as wind currents shift. So it's not that the WHOLE ocean will suddenly rise -- it's that in some places, the sea level change will be sudden and extreme because ocean and wind currents have changed.
The "average" isn't whats going to kill you. New York only needs to have two meters rise for about half an hour to kill a few million people. And that might only happen "once a year" so on average -- that's only a millimeter change "on average."
It's likely that in our lifetime the Gulf Stream will change and many of the trade winds. Didn't people notice that Hurricane Sandy was actually a Cyclone -- meaning it rotated the opposite direction from the norm? I think that people should be waving their arms in alarm because the current level of importance on this issue is not high enough. We should not be spending one dollar on terrorism if we have not dealt with Global Warming and having some kind of Asteroid detection and path altering system in place. It's not the "average" or the "norm" we are worried about -- it's that outlier anomaly that destroys your civilization.
You are wasting your time. When you are arguing with anyone over "Hey, there was life in the Pleistocene -- so why should I stop using an SUV and shoving $1 Big Macs down my face?"
At this point you need a winch and the jaws of life to yank someone's head out of their fecal dispensing orifice.
You make a good point except you are wrong about everything.
The sea level rise can happen in a few months. Why? Because prevailing wind patterns are changing and could be disrupted permanently. The Easter Seaboard of the United States is chronically lower than it should be due to the trade winds. Change the prevailing winds and in one year you could see a sea level change in the meters.
Also, we don't have to wait for Greenland or Antarctica to melt -- just for large masses of ice to slide into the water. Now it may take decades for that water to traverse the globe but -- it's going to drastically change ocean currents and temperatures in key regions. Rapid change means lots of disruption.
You're harming your cause with such extreme and patently ridiculous alarmism. Did you know that up to the start of the Pleistocene, there were no permanent ice caps on either pole?
Did you know the earth used to have an atmosphere of Ammonia and Methane and when oxygen producing bacteria and plankton became widespread it almost froze the planet? Your tone and phrasing sounds reasonable, until someone actually starts parsing what you are saying. The point about Methane Hydrates and Siberian permafrost is a big deal and there isn't much hyperbole you could add to a point that "in a few years, you could quadruple the yearly release of organic gases."
Today's climate isn't the norm, it isn't the only climate in which life is possible.
You're not hurting your position at all with such statements; your whole world view is stupid and shortsighted and is an embarrassment to all future generations who will learn that some people in our era thought this way as they suck air through respirators and fight with transvestite warlords who go on killing sprees for a few tanks of gas. Now THAT IS HYPERBOLE!
Why is the argument against raising SOME taxes spun as "so you want to tax the job creators 100%!!!???" And in the case of "hey, we can reduce carbon footprints by moving cows to grass again" -- "WHAT, NO YEAR ROUND 100% DONKEY CARTED FARMING WITH THE FAMILY DOG???!!!!"
There is lots of land not in use, and left fallow. It would merely mean you move the cows to farms, or in winter, the graze on no-till fields. If you ran out of stuff to easily feed them, then you use a tractor and bring in some food. So you went to 80% grass, and NO PAYING FOR CORN.
Why is it impossible to try different things? Why is there this absolutism? Is everyone totally resigned to the concept that we "LIVE IN THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS -- and there is no use trying to change?"
It's like a religion that can broach no speculation or science where the answers might change and we can learn we are wrong. There is this corporate mentality that pretends to support competition, but then doesn't like change of the status quo. Please, unless someone pays you to blog, there's no need to always promote the status quo.
THIS!
What is our lifestyle now with all this "cheap and convenient"?
I'd much prefer to have the body of Brad Pitt and eat one hamburger instead of two. Really the argument against doing something about Global Warming and eating Healthy Food is; "I want to stuff my fat face with crap food that's half price." And then of course, dump all your money on the doctor and hiring a prostitute because nobody wants to hang out with you because you smell of rancid cheese.
It would only force cattle raising to be spread out, rather than condensed into a few factory farms. We likely have plenty of biomass to do this -- we have a lot of farms the government pays farmers NOT TO USE.
We have a lot of farming practices that just funnel money into a few hands, and groups like Monsanto and ADM sell the seeds, the pesticides and the fertilizer -- and too many make the assumption we cannot live without this junk. We cannot live with it for much longer.
I'd heard that a lot of the reason Cows belch so much is that they are being fed Corn. Feed them Grass and less belching because THEY CAN DIGEST GRASS. So if you banned Corn, you'd be a long way to reducing the carbon footprint -- and the use of antibiotics. Because eating corn will kill a cow in about 2 years time. /The preceding information may be factually incorrect. // But it could be true. The point is, I want someone to research and fact check this for me, then give me credit for these really brilliant points. If you have 50 years of iPhone programming experience, I will hire you, provided I can rent out your services -- it's a win/win!
Except of course executive, or VP who married the daughter.
I'm going to start putting down that I've got 50 years of iPhone programming experience.
Honestly, I've really only watched two 'iTunes University' video podcasts on the subject, but I'm showing my prowess in marketing and echoing that rock solid "fast advancement for employees with a go-getter attitude" by applying that same positive attitude and respect for the truth to my resume.
You forgot; "Include on portfolio or website a complete implementation of the latest cool thing I saw in a magazine on an airplane."
Most of the jobs I've seen that are still open are either; "We are just trolling to get personal information" or "Seriously, we do absolutely nothing at this company and figured the WHOLE PACKAGE would just drop in and take care of making a product for us. However we do have HR department to tell you not to make any jokes during work hours and a company email which will send you stuff that's important but never applies to you every 15 minutes."
Anytime I read about someone giving a Seminar to people WITH POWER AND MONEY, I immediately read it as; "Someone is getting PAID to tell the rich and powerful what they want to hear."
You'll probably be forgiven for not finding the highly paid pundits promoting privacy, transparency, and respecting people without large bank accounts.
Carrots and sticks for the next generation will be provided at an undisclosed location.
A group at a college wants total access to track everything about students, spending undisclosed funds with undisclosed backers for undisclosed reasons, and they can't actually share the results because it is sensitive? And that's on top of a vague goal as to what this would accomplish.
Well, at least there is some consistency to this fascist trend.
There are people who grew up harassed in school, had sand kicked in their face while trying to impress some girl with their Newton. People have been through purgatory and ridiculed for loving Apple and enduring "innovations" from Microsoft only 5 years behind.
After having been through that gauntlet, there truly are Apple acolytes who will get mid-evil on your as$.
I just use a Mac because I can and I'm sick of repairing all the PCs in my family. But I can attest that there are people who are fanatics and will take a cut in pay just to work as an "Apple Genius" at their store. It's like Dungeons and Dragons geeks, without the integrity of the dice and cold hard reality of the limits of an allowance.
I'm offended and deeply offended by your insinuation that people troll for Apple for free. /certified professional Apple troll who has standards.
Seriously, what the f_ck will it take to get a high-level executive of one of these companies to see the inside of a jail cell for an extended period of time?
When a few judges and FBI directors seeing the inside of a Jail Cell.
Personally, I don't think things will change in the normal process given that there is so much interlocking corruption. I figure this will change when a few of these execs see the light and the error of their ways, due to a serious of Unfortunate Coincidences. There's always hope!
I'd have to say that this system is slightly less dangerous than a warm blanket, but slightly more dangerous than looking a person with the naked eye.
Near infrared radiation must be stopped!
You can be sure the usual suspects will blame "Green Peace and environmentalism" for the failure of green technology with a system that is designed to make conglomerates more filthy rich rather than solve anything.
It takes a lot of tech and containers to condense Hydrogen to a good energy density. And then we get it from Natural Gas which would be EASIER to make part of the fuel system given current infrastructure.
I'm waiting for the Corn-to-Hydrogen plan so that ADM can get subsidies to make a product more expensive and polluting than what it replaced.
This is like the creation of the Internet; taxpayers pony up $500 Billion to create the infrastructure, and ISP's create toll gates to charge us for getting on the on ramps.
If the gas companies ever make a profit from Hydrogen stations, will they remember who paid for it?
Also -- I think of Hydrogen fuel as the Ethanol of the future; wildly wasteful and expensive corn will probably be burned along with natural gas in order to create the hydrogen. We will probably lose at least 20% of the energy in processing and just leaks. Why not just natural gas vehicles or MORE electric cars? I suppose that would be too easy and a cartel couldn't pretend to be green and then get paid on the back end.
I always thought we'd only get alternative energy if someone could continue to keep their cartel and their stranglehold on it -- and nothing seems to say; "big multinational conglomerate" more than Hydrogen.
Right, but considering they HAVE offspring, and yet you have a hypothetical.
Did you see what you did there?
If they have living descendants, then surely they didn't go extinct.
I'm seeing a new meme on Slashdot; "Did we really have to say this?"
Yes, we really did.
I'm seeing it more often as "sad but true" is trending downward as a meme, and I don't know if that's a sad thing, but it is ironic.
It's probably a "good delay" because out of pocket, he's probably paying 1/4th what he would for the same day results.