At the time so many of us hated the 16 years of one Bush or the other in the White House, feeling they were evil men.. but compared to what we're having to endure now, these men were saints. Godspeed, Dubya. History will be much kinder to you than some that came after you.
FWIW, you're right about nuclear reactor/power plant design; but the NIMBYs and others who have been scared off of nuclear are standing in the way of it saving us from ourselves -- and being someone who voted for Rancho Seco to be shut down back in the 80's, I feel I have a right to admit we were both right for all the wrong reasons, and wrong for all the right reasons, if you catch my drift. There are now, in fact, much safer fission reactor designs that are not the 'high pressure' types currently in use, and that are inherently safer, theoretically meltdown-proof, but trying to get the DoE to allow them to be built, getting funding to build them, and getting people within the affected area to sign off on them being built, has prevented any of them from moving forward. We've got to get past this fear of the nuclear boogeyman though. Fission isn't as good as fusion will be once we get the details of it ironed out, but we need time to do that, and meanwhile we need to stop dumping the last several million years worth of natural carbon sequestration back into the atmosphere.
How we could ever allow one group - the mining interests, to permanently destroy land that could be useful for many purposes both profitable, providing entertainment, and ecologically sustaining is so short sighted.
This is the sort of thing I'm referring to when I say "Capitalism gone bad" or "Out-of-control capitalism"; there was a time, dim in our memories now (and absent completely in the memories of some too young or too unaware of history to know it) when 'capitalism' operated differently, operated with more regard for the needs of society, i.e. capitalism that had more of a conscience. A good way for me to illustrate this, maybe, is it's like a certain yeast-like micro-organism that naturally exists in the human body: when it's not over-fed with sugars, it exists in a symbiotic role, helping regulate the natural balance of your body, but when it's fed too much sugar, it changes it's nature entirely, goes into a spore-like mode, over-reproducing, and actually causes harm. That's the road capitalism seems to have gone down, causing all the harm you mentioned in it's mad rush for more, more, more profit. Note that I'm not saying capitalism is bad; it's not, but there needs to be a sense of scale observed, to keep it from running mad and destroying everything in it's wake.
Just a thought, but they might be profitable if they switched from internal combustion engine-driven vehicles and tools to plug-in electrics recharged from renewable sources and nuclear power.. oh, wait..
I just love how all the assholes who think they're part of the Rich 1%, and who happen to have mod points, have leveraged that to try to destroy me. Fucking cunts.
The more scammy shit I hear come out of India, the more India starts sounding like China if China was smoking weed all the time, thus kinda laid-back and lazy about being evil.
If you have a vehicle that has wireless connectivity, it is 100% certain that it's 'phoning home' to either the manufacturer or the government. Guaranteed. Even if, somehow, your car isn't, your gods-be-damned smartphone is reporting your position anyway. Hell, between the two, when you're driving, it's likely providing differential GPS to whoever is collecting the data on you, thus improving the accuracy practically down to mere centimeters.
Does this bother you? It should.
o Locate, disconnect, and dummy-load the wireless connectivity in your car
o Get rid of your smartphone, get a nice cheap dumbphone, and turn it off when you're not using it actively
Now you have some privacy at least. "But Rick, I'm addicted to my smartphone! How will I check Facebook and Twitter every 5 minutes, or play Candy Crush, or watch movies? I have to be entertained every waking moment or I'll lose my mind!"
Please, humans, grow up already. Or at least read a book when you're bored. "But Rick, how can I read an e-book without a smartphone or e-book reader?
A paper book, damnit..
It seems pretty clear to me that 'data security' doesn't exist, and any data stored anywhere that isn't literally air-gapped is fair game for any script-kiddie with an Internet connection (and even then, air-gapped doesn't exclude you from 'social engineering' and phishing attacks). So how do we fix this? Is it really just a matter of humans being careless, and we need a judicial (perhaps a literal use of the word) application of the Clue-by-Four to administrators and executives? Or are the programmers and systems administrators to blame?
Last I heard around here, it's entirely likely that nothing is safe, not critical infrastructure systems, not even military systems. So what the actual fuck needs to happen, here? How do we fix this?
It sounds like news from 15 years ago because too many people never learned, therefore the ruse still works. Same excuse for phishing still working, and other forms of 'social engineering' attacks still working.
You are wise, but what 'society' will do to repay you for your forward-looking wisdom, is to continue to chastise you for not making your personal finances a negative-sum game, spending more than you have, because some people in this country want you to be beholden to them. So be prepared for being demonized, with accusations of 'not supporting economic growth', and maybe even 'being selfish'.
I honestly don't know the answer to that. I'd have to do some serious studying of the overall situation to have anything really intelligent to say about it. But at least on the surface it does seem like there'd be EU member countries that would fall on either side of that line; some would love the benefits and not be bothered so much by the restrictions, and vice-versa.
I wouldn't mind, too bad I can't afford it because it's so fscking expensive to live here. Getting away from Orange Julius Caesar wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
Sure. Someone I used to know once said "If you're pissing off the competition you know you're doing something right". He's not wrong. That's why trolls do troll things, as you imply. How dare I speak the truth! xD
Two-dimensional thinking much, AC? Or are you a Russian operative? No matter..
There's plenty of data showing there was Russian influence helping fuel the Brexit vote. No one said there wasn't anti-EU sentiment extant, but outside influence inflamed and amplified it into the Brexit vote. Even many who voted for an exit from the EU are starting to wonder if they've been hoodwinked.
Pirate sites will just change hosting providers when they're blocked, just like they do now. Or they'll move to the Dark Web where it's almost impossible to find them anyway. Meanwhile the fucktard music industry (and whoever else would pile on) will leave a trail of broken, blocked hosting providers behind them.
Just GIVE UP, RIAA/MPAA; why can't you see that what you're trying to do is impossible in the long run? You could kill the entire Internet, and people will go back to SneakerNet. You couldn't kill off mixtapes/mix CDs, you won't kill this off either. All you're doing is wasting your time, money, and energy, and meanwhile pissing off the people you're NOT trying to go after.
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At the time so many of us hated the 16 years of one Bush or the other in the White House, feeling they were evil men.. but compared to what we're having to endure now, these men were saints. Godspeed, Dubya. History will be much kinder to you than some that came after you.
FWIW, you're right about nuclear reactor/power plant design; but the NIMBYs and others who have been scared off of nuclear are standing in the way of it saving us from ourselves -- and being someone who voted for Rancho Seco to be shut down back in the 80's, I feel I have a right to admit we were both right for all the wrong reasons, and wrong for all the right reasons, if you catch my drift. There are now, in fact, much safer fission reactor designs that are not the 'high pressure' types currently in use, and that are inherently safer, theoretically meltdown-proof, but trying to get the DoE to allow them to be built, getting funding to build them, and getting people within the affected area to sign off on them being built, has prevented any of them from moving forward. We've got to get past this fear of the nuclear boogeyman though. Fission isn't as good as fusion will be once we get the details of it ironed out, but we need time to do that, and meanwhile we need to stop dumping the last several million years worth of natural carbon sequestration back into the atmosphere.
How we could ever allow one group - the mining interests, to permanently destroy land that could be useful for many purposes both profitable, providing entertainment, and ecologically sustaining is so short sighted.
This is the sort of thing I'm referring to when I say "Capitalism gone bad" or "Out-of-control capitalism"; there was a time, dim in our memories now (and absent completely in the memories of some too young or too unaware of history to know it) when 'capitalism' operated differently, operated with more regard for the needs of society, i.e. capitalism that had more of a conscience. A good way for me to illustrate this, maybe, is it's like a certain yeast-like micro-organism that naturally exists in the human body: when it's not over-fed with sugars, it exists in a symbiotic role, helping regulate the natural balance of your body, but when it's fed too much sugar, it changes it's nature entirely, goes into a spore-like mode, over-reproducing, and actually causes harm. That's the road capitalism seems to have gone down, causing all the harm you mentioned in it's mad rush for more, more, more profit. Note that I'm not saying capitalism is bad; it's not, but there needs to be a sense of scale observed, to keep it from running mad and destroying everything in it's wake.
Well, see, fossil fuels are clearly and objectively shitty, though, and everyone should understand that by now. ;-)
Just a thought, but they might be profitable if they switched from internal combustion engine-driven vehicles and tools to plug-in electrics recharged from renewable sources and nuclear power.. oh, wait..
I don't even like autocorrect turned on, I sure as fuck don't want the gods-be-damned computer to finish sentences for me.
Need I say more?
Ask yourself: Why are you still using Facebook?
I just love how all the assholes who think they're part of the Rich 1%, and who happen to have mod points, have leveraged that to try to destroy me. Fucking cunts.
The more scammy shit I hear come out of India, the more India starts sounding like China if China was smoking weed all the time, thus kinda laid-back and lazy about being evil.
If you have a vehicle that has wireless connectivity, it is 100% certain that it's 'phoning home' to either the manufacturer or the government. Guaranteed. Even if, somehow, your car isn't, your gods-be-damned smartphone is reporting your position anyway. Hell, between the two, when you're driving, it's likely providing differential GPS to whoever is collecting the data on you, thus improving the accuracy practically down to mere centimeters.
Does this bother you? It should.
o Locate, disconnect, and dummy-load the wireless connectivity in your car
o Get rid of your smartphone, get a nice cheap dumbphone, and turn it off when you're not using it actively
Now you have some privacy at least.
"But Rick, I'm addicted to my smartphone! How will I check Facebook and Twitter every 5 minutes, or play Candy Crush, or watch movies? I have to be entertained every waking moment or I'll lose my mind!"
Please, humans, grow up already. Or at least read a book when you're bored.
"But Rick, how can I read an e-book without a smartphone or e-book reader?
A paper book, damnit..
It seems pretty clear to me that 'data security' doesn't exist, and any data stored anywhere that isn't literally air-gapped is fair game for any script-kiddie with an Internet connection (and even then, air-gapped doesn't exclude you from 'social engineering' and phishing attacks). So how do we fix this? Is it really just a matter of humans being careless, and we need a judicial (perhaps a literal use of the word) application of the Clue-by-Four to administrators and executives? Or are the programmers and systems administrators to blame?
Last I heard around here, it's entirely likely that nothing is safe, not critical infrastructure systems, not even military systems. So what the actual fuck needs to happen, here? How do we fix this?
Huzzah for common sense. I hope he goes far in politics.
Hey! I'm standing right here! xD
It sounds like news from 15 years ago because too many people never learned, therefore the ruse still works. Same excuse for phishing still working, and other forms of 'social engineering' attacks still working.
You are wise, but what 'society' will do to repay you for your forward-looking wisdom, is to continue to chastise you for not making your personal finances a negative-sum game, spending more than you have, because some people in this country want you to be beholden to them. So be prepared for being demonized, with accusations of 'not supporting economic growth', and maybe even 'being selfish'.
I honestly don't know the answer to that. I'd have to do some serious studying of the overall situation to have anything really intelligent to say about it. But at least on the surface it does seem like there'd be EU member countries that would fall on either side of that line; some would love the benefits and not be bothered so much by the restrictions, and vice-versa.
Great. Tell me which countries that all applies to, and which ones have freedom of speech so I don't get sent to prison for daring to speak my mind.
I wouldn't mind, too bad I can't afford it because it's so fscking expensive to live here. Getting away from Orange Julius Caesar wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
Trollololololol
You've been spotted.
Go play with your apps.
LOL, you sound like an out-of-control rich capitalist -- or one of their operatives; astroturf much?
Consider this: some of those 'third world countries' might be let in for strategic purposes more than anything else.
Sure. Someone I used to know once said "If you're pissing off the competition you know you're doing something right". He's not wrong. That's why trolls do troll things, as you imply. How dare I speak the truth! xD
Two-dimensional thinking much, AC? Or are you a Russian operative? No matter..
There's plenty of data showing there was Russian influence helping fuel the Brexit vote. No one said there wasn't anti-EU sentiment extant, but outside influence inflamed and amplified it into the Brexit vote. Even many who voted for an exit from the EU are starting to wonder if they've been hoodwinked.
Pirate sites will just change hosting providers when they're blocked, just like they do now. Or they'll move to the Dark Web where it's almost impossible to find them anyway. Meanwhile the fucktard music industry (and whoever else would pile on) will leave a trail of broken, blocked hosting providers behind them.
Just GIVE UP, RIAA/MPAA; why can't you see that what you're trying to do is impossible in the long run? You could kill the entire Internet, and people will go back to SneakerNet. You couldn't kill off mixtapes/mix CDs, you won't kill this off either. All you're doing is wasting your time, money, and energy, and meanwhile pissing off the people you're NOT trying to go after.