Yeah sure. We'll just sit on our asses on this one ball of rock until we use up all it's resources, poison it to the point where we can't even exist on it anymore, then our entire species will just die. Great plan, genius.
The so-called 'World Health Organization' seems to be more of a political organization with an agenda than it is anything that exists solely for reasons of medical science, therefore I do not consider it to be trustworthy or credible.
1. If you think for even a moment that I'm some whacko environmentalist that expects everyone to turn off all the power to their homes, shut off the gas, and walk everywhere right now to "save the planet", then take step back because you're completely wrong. We need to transition away from fossil fuel use. That make take 20 years but it has to happen; time to stop being a species of children and grow up. So far as heating your house, when we've finally got cheap, efficient power generation that doesn't pollute the atmosphere and release shitloads of CO2 (preferably fusion power), then the 'inefficiency' won't matter much anymore, and in the meantime someone may come up with a better way to climate control your house anyway. "Open flame" should be reserved for campfires, not as a permanent solution for climate-controlling structures.
2. Wind/solar/geothermal/etc aren't the total solution but they're better than myopically ignoring reality and acting like fossil fuels aren't destructive to use and will never be exhausted. They'll help in the transition away from fossil fuels and in fact are already helping quite a bit with that. Now if we can get people to stop fearing the Nuclear Boogieman we'll be able to put the final nails in the coffin of fossil fuels once and for all.
3. Yes, wholeheartedly agree with this, and there are better reactor designs out there (non-"high pressure" designs, thorium, etc) that are inherently safer and cheaper to operate, and we need to get off our technological asses and make them happen. People will get very comfortable with it once they start seeing their electric bills cut in half or more every single year. Who knows, if we can get fusion to work, maybe we don't even pay for electricity anymore for all I know.
Myopic much? Energy consumption never goes down, it only ever goes up, and none of your wishful thinking will change that. The only thing that will cause energy consumption to go down would be a massive die-back of the human race. You can go live in the dark, fry in the summer, and freeze in the winter all you want, and the other 6,999,999,999 people on the planet will just look at you funny and say "LOL what's HIS problem?". Also screw you for making assumptions about my lifestyle, jerk.
Unless you're a Dominionist and actually believe that the Earth is going to end soon anyway, you can't defend saying that it's okay to keep burning fossil fuels, even so-called 'clean burning' natural gas. It's just plain stupid. Meanwhile I'm not going to defend the long-in-the-tooth nuclear reactors that are still operating; they're outdated designs, they're flawed designs to start with, and should be retired -- after being replaced, that is. There are better designs, and better fuels than what they're using. We can't keep relying on fossil fuels, we can't run everything off solar, wind, and hydroelectric, and if anyone thinks that there's ever going to be less of a demand for electricity, then they're dreaming, there will only ever be more demand, unless there is a die-back of homo sapiens sapiens around the world. So come on you NIMBYs and nuclear power-haters, it's time to bite the bullet and admit that there aren't any other alternatives at the moment, and nuclear power in one form or another is what the situation calls for. Stop being irrational about it and accept the logic. The alternative is an energy crisis.
Personally I think it's because there are more and more 'conveniences' making people's brains lazy. Why bother learning anything, and more important than that, why bother disciplining your mind in the ways of learning (which would help build the neural pathways that enhance intelligence) when you can just go look it up on your smartphone or computer? Why learn skills (like driving a car) when there are more and more machines that will (allegedly) do all that for you? This is one of the reasons I'm against self-driving cars, it discourages people from the practice of learning a skill (driving). Some will say "Oh well those are all unnecessary skills that take up time you could be learning something else more useful" but it ends up not working that way, people will instead naturally have more 'leisure time' where they learn nothing at all, further encouraging their brains to get lazy.
Not only does 'logic' mean something totally different to marketing people, they're not even using the same dictionary as everyone else, as we can all clearly see here.
China no doubt either hampered Uber, helped Didi, or more likely both, and very possibly is just faking the performance statistics of both so they get their own state-owned-and-controlled company a foot in the door. Also no doubt there will be cameras and microphones in all the cars recording everything that's going on, maybe even hacking people's phones. You're nuts to use their service, ever. Of course I'm no fan of Uber either, they're just a bunch of criminals.
Come on Trump supporters, where's my (-1, Troll)? Don't hold back, show us how angry you are that someone is dragging the lies out into the light! Where's the crude insults? Where's the hate from the AC's? You're not even trying!
The Trump administration uses anything they can to divert the attention of the public and the press away from the inhumane, anti-American, anti-Christian (which I only mention because that's supposedly the base of his supporters), and downright evil shit that he and his appointees keep committing against the United States, it's citizens, and the human race in general; so it is with this, it literally doesn't matter.. Don't fall for it, kids. Keep your eye on the ball.
What makes you think they care what 'matters' to a bunch of neckbearded tech geeks? They only care what makes them the most profit. They already have shit installed they'll squeeze every last cent they can out of it and they know the Joe Average and his family don't understand the difference and will pay anyway. You don't seem to understand that marketing has little if anything to do with common sense or decency, it's all about the money.
Oh no see you've got it all wrong, in post-post-Net Neutrality America of 2018, you Base Monthly Fee only buys you limited access to the tubes; if you want access to the tunnels, too, then you have to pay an extra Tunnel Subscription Fee.
But see unlike electricity or natural gas you're not actually 'using anything up' when you use your internet connection, it more or less costs the same for them to operate regardless of 0% being used or 100% being used.
Actually they don't have 'plenty of bandwidth', they over-sell it assuming people won't all be using it all the time. That's why they advertise it as 'speeds up to n-Mb/s' instead of a static number, if lots of people are using it at the same time it gets bogged down, they know this, but they over-sell anyway because $$$.
Why go to these half measures, China? Just implant tracking chips in everyone from birth and make it a death-penalty offense to evade it. It's not like anyone actually believes you care about human rights at all.
You want to remove the monopoly that Comcast and AT&T already have? Take away their ownership of the Last Mile infrastructure and lease bandwidth on it to whoever wants to pay for it, but exclude NO ONE.
..more tracking, more data-mining of personal information, and since it's inherently 'cashless', more opportunities for data breaches stealing your payment information and identity information. Fuck that, fuck Microsoft, fuck 'cashless', fuck having every aspect of our lives 24/7/365 cradle-to-grave surveilled, logged, tracked, analyzed, scrutinized, and monetized. Get the FUCK out of our lives.
I don't know how this is all going to play out in the long run, there are too many variables involved, and too many upheavals both here in the U.S. and around the world right now. The entire spectrum of outcomes is in play: all the way from 'nothing bad happens and everything works out fine' all the way to 'the Internet becomes an unusable disaster and everyone just stops bothering with it and it dies off' and maybe even 'the Internet as we know it gets chopped up and destroyed by shitty governments and greedy corporations, so Internet 2p0 gets built and we start over from scratch'. I don't know, you don't know, nobody knows, and it'll be a while before we see what the hell is actually going to happen. But I can speak for mysefl when I say that I'm prepared to just bail out of it and stop using/paying for Internet, if it becomes too stupid to bother with anymore.
You're trying to be funny and sarcastic but what you don't seem to understand is that some are using sarcasm like yours as an instruction manual for how to get things done. We here in the U.S. already have the most corrupt and dysfunctional government we've ever had in our over 200 year history, we do not need more corruption and dysfunctionality.
Between Comcast and AT&T, they pretty much own the entirety of the Last Mile, and the only way anyone else gets to use those is if they lease them from them. Unless Google/Alphabet, Netflix, and whoever else wants to get into the infrastructure business, too, then they'll either be entirely denied by Comcast and AT&T, or they'll get price-gouged so much that there's no way they could be competitive. Then there's the problem of Comcast and AT&T having regulators and legislators more or less in their hip pockets; they'd use politics to prevent more infrastructure being built in the first place, and anything else they can get away with to stifle competition and ensure their monopolies. The problem is very far along and that asshole Pai has just made it that much worse starting now, it's a steep uphill battle from here-on out to reverse the damage and break the monopolies, if it's even possible to do. As I've said before, between this and so many other problems for the Internet in the world, we may be seeing the beginning of the end for the Internet so far as it being anything useful to anyone other than greedy corporations and nosy governments.
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Yeah sure. We'll just sit on our asses on this one ball of rock until we use up all it's resources, poison it to the point where we can't even exist on it anymore, then our entire species will just die. Great plan, genius.
The so-called 'World Health Organization' seems to be more of a political organization with an agenda than it is anything that exists solely for reasons of medical science, therefore I do not consider it to be trustworthy or credible.
You're missing the point, intentionally, I think. Stop that.
1. If you think for even a moment that I'm some whacko environmentalist that expects everyone to turn off all the power to their homes, shut off the gas, and walk everywhere right now to "save the planet", then take step back because you're completely wrong. We need to transition away from fossil fuel use. That make take 20 years but it has to happen; time to stop being a species of children and grow up. So far as heating your house, when we've finally got cheap, efficient power generation that doesn't pollute the atmosphere and release shitloads of CO2 (preferably fusion power), then the 'inefficiency' won't matter much anymore, and in the meantime someone may come up with a better way to climate control your house anyway. "Open flame" should be reserved for campfires, not as a permanent solution for climate-controlling structures.
2. Wind/solar/geothermal/etc aren't the total solution but they're better than myopically ignoring reality and acting like fossil fuels aren't destructive to use and will never be exhausted. They'll help in the transition away from fossil fuels and in fact are already helping quite a bit with that. Now if we can get people to stop fearing the Nuclear Boogieman we'll be able to put the final nails in the coffin of fossil fuels once and for all.
3. Yes, wholeheartedly agree with this, and there are better reactor designs out there (non-"high pressure" designs, thorium, etc) that are inherently safer and cheaper to operate, and we need to get off our technological asses and make them happen. People will get very comfortable with it once they start seeing their electric bills cut in half or more every single year. Who knows, if we can get fusion to work, maybe we don't even pay for electricity anymore for all I know.
Myopic much? Energy consumption never goes down, it only ever goes up, and none of your wishful thinking will change that. The only thing that will cause energy consumption to go down would be a massive die-back of the human race. You can go live in the dark, fry in the summer, and freeze in the winter all you want, and the other 6,999,999,999 people on the planet will just look at you funny and say "LOL what's HIS problem?". Also screw you for making assumptions about my lifestyle, jerk.
Yeah, sure buddy. They're not teaching kids how to write in school anymore. You were saying?
Unless you're a Dominionist and actually believe that the Earth is going to end soon anyway, you can't defend saying that it's okay to keep burning fossil fuels, even so-called 'clean burning' natural gas. It's just plain stupid. Meanwhile I'm not going to defend the long-in-the-tooth nuclear reactors that are still operating; they're outdated designs, they're flawed designs to start with, and should be retired -- after being replaced, that is. There are better designs, and better fuels than what they're using. We can't keep relying on fossil fuels, we can't run everything off solar, wind, and hydroelectric, and if anyone thinks that there's ever going to be less of a demand for electricity, then they're dreaming, there will only ever be more demand, unless there is a die-back of homo sapiens sapiens around the world. So come on you NIMBYs and nuclear power-haters, it's time to bite the bullet and admit that there aren't any other alternatives at the moment , and nuclear power in one form or another is what the situation calls for. Stop being irrational about it and accept the logic. The alternative is an energy crisis.
Personally I think it's because there are more and more 'conveniences' making people's brains lazy. Why bother learning anything, and more important than that, why bother disciplining your mind in the ways of learning (which would help build the neural pathways that enhance intelligence) when you can just go look it up on your smartphone or computer? Why learn skills (like driving a car) when there are more and more machines that will (allegedly) do all that for you? This is one of the reasons I'm against self-driving cars, it discourages people from the practice of learning a skill (driving). Some will say "Oh well those are all unnecessary skills that take up time you could be learning something else more useful" but it ends up not working that way, people will instead naturally have more 'leisure time' where they learn nothing at all, further encouraging their brains to get lazy.
Not only does 'logic' mean something totally different to marketing people, they're not even using the same dictionary as everyone else, as we can all clearly see here.
China no doubt either hampered Uber, helped Didi, or more likely both, and very possibly is just faking the performance statistics of both so they get their own state-owned-and-controlled company a foot in the door. Also no doubt there will be cameras and microphones in all the cars recording everything that's going on, maybe even hacking people's phones. You're nuts to use their service, ever. Of course I'm no fan of Uber either, they're just a bunch of criminals.
Come on Trump supporters, where's my (-1, Troll)? Don't hold back, show us how angry you are that someone is dragging the lies out into the light! Where's the crude insults? Where's the hate from the AC's? You're not even trying!
The Trump administration uses anything they can to divert the attention of the public and the press away from the inhumane, anti-American, anti-Christian (which I only mention because that's supposedly the base of his supporters), and downright evil shit that he and his appointees keep committing against the United States, it's citizens, and the human race in general; so it is with this, it literally doesn't matter.. Don't fall for it, kids. Keep your eye on the ball.
What makes you think they care what 'matters' to a bunch of neckbearded tech geeks? They only care what makes them the most profit. They already have shit installed they'll squeeze every last cent they can out of it and they know the Joe Average and his family don't understand the difference and will pay anyway. You don't seem to understand that marketing has little if anything to do with common sense or decency, it's all about the money.
Oh no see you've got it all wrong, in post-post-Net Neutrality America of 2018, you Base Monthly Fee only buys you limited access to the tubes; if you want access to the tunnels, too, then you have to pay an extra Tunnel Subscription Fee.
But see unlike electricity or natural gas you're not actually 'using anything up' when you use your internet connection, it more or less costs the same for them to operate regardless of 0% being used or 100% being used.
Actually they don't have 'plenty of bandwidth', they over-sell it assuming people won't all be using it all the time. That's why they advertise it as 'speeds up to n-Mb/s' instead of a static number, if lots of people are using it at the same time it gets bogged down, they know this, but they over-sell anyway because $$$.
Why go to these half measures, China? Just implant tracking chips in everyone from birth and make it a death-penalty offense to evade it. It's not like anyone actually believes you care about human rights at all.
You want to remove the monopoly that Comcast and AT&T already have? Take away their ownership of the Last Mile infrastructure and lease bandwidth on it to whoever wants to pay for it, but exclude NO ONE.
..more tracking, more data-mining of personal information, and since it's inherently 'cashless', more opportunities for data breaches stealing your payment information and identity information. Fuck that, fuck Microsoft, fuck 'cashless', fuck having every aspect of our lives 24/7/365 cradle-to-grave surveilled, logged, tracked, analyzed, scrutinized, and monetized. Get the FUCK out of our lives.
Someone seems to not understand that 'sarcasm' is not equivalent to 'trolling'.
It's not good for consumers, not at all.
I don't know how this is all going to play out in the long run, there are too many variables involved, and too many upheavals both here in the U.S. and around the world right now. The entire spectrum of outcomes is in play: all the way from 'nothing bad happens and everything works out fine' all the way to 'the Internet becomes an unusable disaster and everyone just stops bothering with it and it dies off' and maybe even 'the Internet as we know it gets chopped up and destroyed by shitty governments and greedy corporations, so Internet 2p0 gets built and we start over from scratch'. I don't know, you don't know, nobody knows, and it'll be a while before we see what the hell is actually going to happen. But I can speak for mysefl when I say that I'm prepared to just bail out of it and stop using/paying for Internet, if it becomes too stupid to bother with anymore.
Aw, it's adorable that you actually believe that, where do you get your rose-colored glasses? Do they actually help?
You're trying to be funny and sarcastic but what you don't seem to understand is that some are using sarcasm like yours as an instruction manual for how to get things done. We here in the U.S. already have the most corrupt and dysfunctional government we've ever had in our over 200 year history, we do not need more corruption and dysfunctionality.
Between Comcast and AT&T, they pretty much own the entirety of the Last Mile, and the only way anyone else gets to use those is if they lease them from them. Unless Google/Alphabet, Netflix, and whoever else wants to get into the infrastructure business, too, then they'll either be entirely denied by Comcast and AT&T, or they'll get price-gouged so much that there's no way they could be competitive. Then there's the problem of Comcast and AT&T having regulators and legislators more or less in their hip pockets; they'd use politics to prevent more infrastructure being built in the first place, and anything else they can get away with to stifle competition and ensure their monopolies. The problem is very far along and that asshole Pai has just made it that much worse starting now, it's a steep uphill battle from here-on out to reverse the damage and break the monopolies, if it's even possible to do. As I've said before, between this and so many other problems for the Internet in the world, we may be seeing the beginning of the end for the Internet so far as it being anything useful to anyone other than greedy corporations and nosy governments.
I heard you like to ban bad businesses, so I see you put a bad business in your business, so you can ban yourself while you ban everyone else.
Kill Facebook.