Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
Yeah, I'm getting tired of these 'reboots' too. They're re-booting Resident Evil, they've fucked up the fantastic four reboot, we're now in the third Spiderman reboot, and Batman has been rebooted so often the reset button has worn out and they are shorting the contacts with a screwdriver,... the list goes on. I'll give Guardians of the Galaxy credit for being new and surprisingly good, same for Deadpool but I'm sure they will wear them out too by rebooting them endlessly half way through the series because some director went off to pout, a lead actor decided to concentrate on more artistic projects or the bean counters decided they knew better how to make a movie than the pouty ego inflated artists do which seems to be the secret formula behind most Hollywood flops.
They explicitly overlook the fact that the languages they are always citing are written in C/C++ and rely to an extreme degree on libraries written in C/C++ even when they manage to self-host the languages. It's an ignorance of what the tools they are using actually are.
This is not ignorance but irrelevant.
How many people are working right now in C++ on the Oracle Java VM?
And how many people are working in Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy with that VM?
What exactly are you trying to say? That C/C++ really is dying? I was told 20 years ago that C is dying. C is still around and I'm coding C as well as C++ for that matter. If anything my employer has more jobs coding C and C++ than there are qualified applicants. Now I'm being told that C++ is dying by some troop of clowns that call themselves a 'job leadership consultancy'. My only remaining question is: Does Netcraft confirm this startling revelation that C++ is dying?
Will shitheads please stop conflating things that aren't related to each other? "Right wingers" often care about free speech, especially in regards to refuting government control! It's fuckers like you from both artificial "sides" of politics, that conflate shit to make politics into a fucking football match, that stop "Lefists" and "Right wingers" from banding together to stop this sort of dystopian, rights-squandering, stupid government overreach from happening. When it gets through, it will be because people like YOU won't agree on this issue because you are too busy pigeonholing people you disagree with on other issues as the dreaded Other!
That is true, one should not pigeonhole people, but according to the polls millions of conservatives are going to go out and vote for this woman. So while these conservatives may care about freedom of speech and government control it would appear that they do not care about these things so much that voting for somebody who wants to gut freedom of speech and extend government control is a deal breaker for them. Now I'm not saying that they should go out and vote for Jeremy Corbyn but they could stay at home rather than vote for Margaret Thatcher Mk.II.
Kinda like that time they saw what Xerox had going and ripped it off completely? Is this not basically Apple's game in a nutshell?
This factoid gets repeated a lot but what people who love slinging it about usually neglect to mention that the Alto finally wen on sale in the form of the Xerox Star in 1981 it turned out to be slow and under powered. It was a commercial failure and Xerox withdrew from the PC market altogether a little later, something that is also usually and conveniently left out of the story. The Apple Lisa went to market in 1983 and the Macintosh which turned out to be the hit only went to market in 1984. Xerox had ample time to make a success of the Xerox Alto/Star while Apple was still coding an OS a UI and building prototype PCs. The truth is that Xerox just gave up, Jobs didn't, you should try to just get over that fact. As for the question whether the Xerox Alto influenced the Lisa/Macintosh in a big way? Yes, it did. Did Apple ruin what would otherwise have been a big success for Xerox with their Alto/Star PC? No, the Star was a commercial failure 3 years before the Macintosh was unveiled. Is ripping other companies off Apple's game in a nutshell? Well they sometimes do it but I'd hardly call it their core business model, and besides what did Microsoft do with Windows other than rip off the Macintosh?... and what did Google do with Android other than rip off the iOS user interface and the iPhone's basic design (virtual keyboard, big high resolution screen, use your fingers for a stylus, etc...) ? I saw early Android prototypes and they were quite clearly designed to be Blackberry killers. Then, just before they were supposed to hit the market the iPhone showed up and by some strange coincidence, exactly around that time, Android disappeared and then reappeared quite a bit later, now clearly re-designed to be an iOS killer. Companies rip each other's ideas off, everybody does it, which is another thing you should try to get over.
Basically I don't care about Apple. I just think that the patent application process should include the question "could a 3 year old come up with the idea?" and if the answer is yes, throw it out on principle.
I don't think they are patenting the general idea of a bezel free display which would be kind of dumb since there are already bezel free displays, or are you are assuming that creating a bezel free display is a trivial undertaking?... because I'm pretty sure the underlying engineering is beyond a 3 year old. The same goes for developing a method of scanning fingerprints in three dimensions, either through a display which is what they'd have to do if the display covers the entire frontal real-estate of the device or by integrating a 3D sensor into the display. But don't take my word for it, feast your eyes:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
Or better yet, borrow a three year old and see if the toddler can explain that document to you.
1. Imam (leader) in Shi'a Islam refers to one of 12 people born over 1000 years ago. Most certainly no one can declare themselves an imam.
2. The "Imams" you refer to are either Sunni or Wahabbi not Shi'a.
3. 100% of "Muslim" terrorists are Wahabbi. The leader (Imam) of Daesh (ISIS) for example.
Plus the Shia (at least in the modern world) have always seemed to me as tending to be more organised and have something that a christian would recognise as a form of centralised hierarchical clergy. It's the Sunni world where you have a bewildering flora of sometimes weird sects and any crackpot with a Quaran and a digital camera (or occasionally, a bunch of thugs) seems to be able to put on black robes, declare himself 'Caliph' and stands a real chance of being taken seriously. If I had to draw a comparisons (and it would be an extremely broad one) the Shia are more like Catholics, centralised/organised, while the Sunni are like Protestants, fragmented into many factions and sects where any crackpot whit a bible and a YouTube channel (or occasionally, a crackpot militia) can set himself up as Grand Poobah and prophet with a direct line to god.
I personally think this is their main problem. Right now the focus of all industrialized nations should be on ditching the use of fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. Nuclear power is an effective way of producing energy to cover up for what cannot be produced by renewables. Right now as they're adamant on ditching nuclear as well, their CO2 emissions are rising and they're unlikely to meet their emission goals, because increased demand has to be met with increased used of natural gas, which, while better than coal for sure, is not as good emissions wise as nuclear.
Now don't get me wrong, I think nuclear is not a permanent solution so the idea of going fully renewable is good. I just think their implementation and schedule is slightly foolish. If they kept some of the nuclear and used that to provide the rest of what they need, they wouldn't have to use natural gas, or import as much energy from abroad.
The main reason I stopped voting for the Green party here in Finland was their illogical opposition to the use of nuclear energy as part of a strategy to cut down on emissions. Because the 'green' crowd has absurd fears of nuclear due to radiation they end up favoring policies which in the short-to-mid term drive emissions up, all in the name of protecting the environment.
The challenges with storing nuclear waste are much easier to solve than the challenges we're going to amass by continuing to release CO2 in current amounts, which is why I don't favor adopting the German approach even though we do have the same goal in mind.
The problem with Nuclear in Germany is and always will be the same.... PR, politics and the spotty history of nuclear power. The industry keeps claiming nuclear is the safest best and most environmentally friendly option out there and yet all the public sees is that we keep getting incidents like Three Mile Island, perpetual SNAFUS like Sellafield, and downright disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima due to a combination of greedy executives and widespread industry incompetence. Fukushima was actually one of the prime movers behind the decision to ditch nuclear. I'm sure you can write us a lecture on why none of these incidents matter and why nuclear is ultra safe but the public just does not want to know. The way the Germans see it there are safer alternatives than Nuclear such as Fusion in the wings that are beginning to look like they might pan out and since they are on track with track with renewables and energy-to-gas technology which is a very safe fallback plan they decided to ditch Nuclear and the political baggage that comes with it. Seems easier than ramming nuclear down the throats of 80 million people, 65 million of whom don't want to have anything to do with it. If you screw up a nuclear plant in densely populated Germany your most immediate problem is that you just irradiated a couple of million people, if you screw up a wind farm your biggest problem is getting sued by a group of irate investors.
That sounds to me like a problem that can be solved with good engineering and proper design, just like many of the other environmental problems. I have spent something like a minute thinking about it.......
Engineers have been thinking about the problem for decades and haven't solved it. What are the chances you solved it with little thought?
And if I, with no expert knowledge, can think of what may well be a plausible way to address the issue, how much more could a proper team of engineers come up width, if they tried?
Whence did you get the strange idea that electrical heating is widely used over here? Moreover, Germany is not a very cold country and many houses are insulated quite well because upgrading insulation was sponsored by the government a while ago. The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
Oh, by the way, just to rub it in your face: in the USA, the land of the free, where electricity is dirt cheap, on average 1500 people freeze to death every bloody year. In Germany 100 hypothermia deaths would be considered serious.
Actually, the north of Germany can be pretty bloody cold in the winter. It used to be that large parts of the Baltic froze over, the Firth of Kiel for example used to freeze over pretty regularly and did so as recently as the winter of 1995/6.
If you go back 5 or 10 years on Slashdot you can see hoards of idiots claiming that Germany can't do this and will become a third world country with intermittent power and will massively increase coal dependence and is headed for the stone age....
Whoever said that does not know Germans very well. Outlandish as that statement is, after watching what has unfolded in the US over the last year, I can actually believe that a large number of Foghorn Leghorns with a paid up membership of the Republican party went on the record and said something to that effect.
Do tell, what President Sanders would've done differently from El Presidente Chavez. I'm listening...
Do tell, what President Trump will do differently from Reichskanzler Hitler. I'm listening... See how stupid that sounded when you read it? That's how stupid your comment sounded to the rest of us.
Be sure not to compare US health to Europe
Do you have statistics for longevity — and differences in longevity — among Europeans? I'm listening...
I'm pretty sure Obama For America employed many, if not all the same tactics in 2008 election...
Why yes, look at MIT's Technology Review, the New York Times, and InfoWorld - again, another glaring example of a profound double-standard. When Team Obama did it, it was "ground-breaking", when Republicans employ similar tools it a nefarious plot to control the world!
Normally I'd agree with you but since you are trying to compare putting Obama in the White House to putting Donald Trump in the White House I'm going to have to disagree here. Obama, whatever you may think of him, at least had a multi digit IQ that allowed him to answer questions from reporters, skin that was too thick for his soul to be injured by Saturday Night Live skits and had a clear idea of which countries he had bombed. Trump on the other hand walks out of press conferences when he gets questions he does not like, launches twitter storms where he lambasts anybody who lampoons him and told a reporter he'd launched a missile strike on Iraq until the reporter corrected him and pointed out the strike was on Syria.... and those are just three sample of the highlights of what those bastards at SCL Group and their friends have saddled us with
It's not that the media fails to inform - there is informative media out there. During Brexit, for example, the BBC in particular and a few other neutral organizations did debunk the lies and post what little factual information was available. The problem is that people didn't want to hear it.
In the post-truth world, people don't care about reality or facts. They only care about hearing what they want to hear, which is why populists did so well. Facebook is a great platform for this. Fake news and biased information on Facebook has credibility, because it appears to be coming from "friends". Not politicians, who all lie all the time, but friends and "ordinary people" who are far more trustworthy.
It's a very efficient system. Someone posts a meme or some fake news. Lots of other people like it and re-post it, giving it credibility and truthiness. Any dissent or contradiction is quickly silenced by virtue of being comment #697 that no-one will ever read.
People do eventually learn to care about the issues over the message they want to hear. The problem is that they only learn after voting in a demagogue like Donald Trump and watching him trash their nation for four to eight years. Even worse is that this has to repeat itself every generation because young people are even less likely to listen to the people who have seen it all before than they are to read comment #697.
I work in a cubicle environment and have done so for most of my professional life and it's been my experience that there is little you can do to stop interruptions. If you are the kind of person who is insanely bothered by interruptions, can't stand the sound of people punching a keyboard, drinking coffee, munching on a donut, stirring a cup of tea with a metal spoon, slurping same, phones ringing,..., etc... you can either try to get a new job with a company that offers its workers their own private oasis of tranquillity to work in or consider a new career as a forest ranger in a remote nature reserve or join a monastery. There is very little you can do to force your co-workers into stealth mode without it blowing back on you. I currently work in a very quite place surrounded by developers and sysadmins but I used to work in a place where we developers were sat next to a bunch of women from the billing department. The lady who sat next to me used to get loads of calls from her counterparts at another companies which was not so bad except when she left her desk for meals and breaks which meant that she usually left her mobile phone behind to get some peace and quiet. The downside for me was that her colleagues would ring her and keep ringing until the desk phone timed out and then auto dial her mobile, which had the vibration function on in addition to the ring tone, so you can imagine what that sounded like while the mobile danced around on her desk until it timed out as well. When you are trying to code a piece of billing software this is not an environment conducive to allowing you to concentrate. One day I finally just snapped (which was a mistake, I should have just quit my job and told them why), answered the call and asked the caller why she kept ringing both phones in succession until they timed out and pointed out that if people did not answer after the first ten rings they are normally not there. Mind you I did not intend to be rude or insulting, I was mostly just genuinely curious to know why somebody would do this. The woman on the other end told me that she always let the pones ring themselves out because eventually somebody would answer so she could ask them where her friend was (which was always the same two answers: She's on a break/She's out to [breakfast|lunch|tea]). In the end I got chewed out by a supervisor for being rude to a caller and basically told that I should put up with the several dozens of daily two minute long ringing marathons and like it. So the moral of the story is, all you'll achieve by trying to make your co-worker tip-toe around you is piss everybody off.
They're already suppressing it. The various hashtags talking about this were artificially blocked from trending.
What is the next step they could take? Auto-hiding tweets talking about it? (They're already doing that.) Banning users for talking about it? Auto-removing discussion of his name?
At what point do calls for the blatant support for a single politician or suppressing support for others cross the line into political censorship and attempts at manipulating the election?
Blatant support for a single politician, meaning attempts to shield Macron from being damaged by this leak... I suppose one could see it that way and not without a certain amount of justification either. However, please enlighten us, what exactly do you call it when the president of Russia orders the FSB to hack the Macron campaign to help Le Pen win the election, (reportedly) spikes the documents with falsifications because the haul did not include enough juicy stuff to have any effect and releases it to the public?...doing god's work?
It was never the Federal Government's business what a school kid was eating for lunch.
If the thing the school kid is eating is unhealthy and contributing to kids on the whole being physically unfit and sick then it is every bit the Federal Governments business, or rather duty, to fix that just like it was and is their duty to fix the water situation in flint Michigan. And yeah I know the Feds have been dragging their heels on the Flint situation but at least they did something to fix this school lunch situation. Now the current admin is spending it's time un-fixing the school lunch situation for the sake of corporate profits when they should be using that time to fix the poisoned water problem in Flint Michigan which is only set to get worse now that the EPA is being run by a neo-liberal sociopath/moron hybrid who thinks having something like the EPA to keep an eye on things like poisoned water is a waste of taxpayer money because it interferes with his ability to boost his profit margin by dumping poison in the water supply and feeding school kids substandard food.
They aren't going to maintain their majority for 4. They'll be LUCKY if they don't lose the house in 2018 and Trump is a one term president. They've got two years at best to fuck everything up they can.
Really? You are underestimating the complete and utter cowardice, apathy, incompetence and spinelessness of the Democrats. Plus, I forgot to add that the Reps. are also in control of the supreme court (none of the conservative judges are likely to die or retire for a generation). This gives the Reps. carte blanche on gerrymandering and voter discrimination on a hitherto unprecedented scale since with the appointment of that soulless corporate rent-boy Gorsuch the supreme court is now a mindless rubber-stamping office that twill validate everything the Reps. want it to without a single critical thought. If the Dems. fuck up in the 2018 (and the Democrat's set of corporate prostitutes looks looks hellbent on taking the party there) this, combined with the Reps. control of the house, the senate, the presidency and the supreme court might just give them control of enough states to call a constitutional convention which would allow them to modify the constitution at will so expect some really interesting constitutional amendments. Every single one of America's founding fathers is rolling in his grave.
In the USA, if you wish to actually be a part of modern society, yes you really do have to use the Internet.
Just like not having a phone number became a liability many years ago, not being online cuts you off from modern life.
This guy is living in the past...
No, he's not, he's living in the new reality that US voters created in the last general election. The corporate prostitutes in the Republican party are now in control of the house, the senate and the presidency and they will use that situation liberally to shaft the American people for the next eight years because there seems to be no chance the Democrats will ever grow a spine. The Dems may be corrupt to but they would have opposed this, or at least been easier to turn against it if they had a majority which they don't. The Rep's friends in the advertising business want to buy and sell the most intimate details of your online life? No problem, they'll pass a law. The American people don't like that? Let me paraphrase Antonin Scalia: 'Get over it!...bitches...' If anybody wants to chew me out for saying this feel free but in the end I'm only repeating what Wisconsin congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr is saying on behalf of more or less the entire Republican party in a slightly more colloquial way. You get what you vote for...
Why not, I dunno, sell government approved vape pens in the commissary? From what I've read, most of the incidents with vaping are from people trying to "soup up" their vape machines. This amounts to banning Honda Civics on base because a few ill informed morons cause them to ignite by modifying them in ways they don't really understand.
No, it's more like banning Ford Pinto's on a facility full of powerful conventional ordinance and nuclear weapons.
Don't try to blame this on Apple. Those vape pen are running Samsung firmware, those sailors must have accidentally activated 'incendiary grenade mode'.
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Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I can't wait for the remastered, re-released rebooted remaster of the anniversary edition with two extra deleted scenes Guardians of the Galaxy 14.
Yeah, I'm getting tired of these 'reboots' too. They're re-booting Resident Evil, they've fucked up the fantastic four reboot, we're now in the third Spiderman reboot, and Batman has been rebooted so often the reset button has worn out and they are shorting the contacts with a screwdriver, ... the list goes on. I'll give Guardians of the Galaxy credit for being new and surprisingly good, same for Deadpool but I'm sure they will wear them out too by rebooting them endlessly half way through the series because some director went off to pout, a lead actor decided to concentrate on more artistic projects or the bean counters decided they knew better how to make a movie than the pouty ego inflated artists do which seems to be the secret formula behind most Hollywood flops.
They explicitly overlook the fact that the languages they are always citing are written in C/C++ and rely to an extreme degree on libraries written in C/C++ even when they manage to self-host the languages. It's an ignorance of what the tools they are using actually are. This is not ignorance but irrelevant.
How many people are working right now in C++ on the Oracle Java VM? And how many people are working in Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy with that VM?
What exactly are you trying to say? That C/C++ really is dying? I was told 20 years ago that C is dying. C is still around and I'm coding C as well as C++ for that matter. If anything my employer has more jobs coding C and C++ than there are qualified applicants. Now I'm being told that C++ is dying by some troop of clowns that call themselves a 'job leadership consultancy'. My only remaining question is: Does Netcraft confirm this startling revelation that C++ is dying?
Will shitheads please stop conflating things that aren't related to each other? "Right wingers" often care about free speech, especially in regards to refuting government control! It's fuckers like you from both artificial "sides" of politics, that conflate shit to make politics into a fucking football match, that stop "Lefists" and "Right wingers" from banding together to stop this sort of dystopian, rights-squandering, stupid government overreach from happening. When it gets through, it will be because people like YOU won't agree on this issue because you are too busy pigeonholing people you disagree with on other issues as the dreaded Other!
That is true, one should not pigeonhole people, but according to the polls millions of conservatives are going to go out and vote for this woman. So while these conservatives may care about freedom of speech and government control it would appear that they do not care about these things so much that voting for somebody who wants to gut freedom of speech and extend government control is a deal breaker for them. Now I'm not saying that they should go out and vote for Jeremy Corbyn but they could stay at home rather than vote for Margaret Thatcher Mk.II.
Macs are susceptible to malware? My world view is shattered.
Deliberately downloading malware infected software and installing it after being warned not to will compromise any system? My world view is shattered.
Uh, the actual claim is correct. Apple DID see what Xerox did and DID rip it off.
They paid off some value, but the fact is Apple saw what Xerox did and ripped it off.
U huh! And Microsoft ripped off Macintosh, Google ripped off iOS and the iPhone, everybody does it to everybody else... now go cry me a river!
Kinda like that time they saw what Xerox had going and ripped it off completely? Is this not basically Apple's game in a nutshell?
This factoid gets repeated a lot but what people who love slinging it about usually neglect to mention that the Alto finally wen on sale in the form of the Xerox Star in 1981 it turned out to be slow and under powered. It was a commercial failure and Xerox withdrew from the PC market altogether a little later, something that is also usually and conveniently left out of the story. The Apple Lisa went to market in 1983 and the Macintosh which turned out to be the hit only went to market in 1984. Xerox had ample time to make a success of the Xerox Alto/Star while Apple was still coding an OS a UI and building prototype PCs. The truth is that Xerox just gave up, Jobs didn't, you should try to just get over that fact. As for the question whether the Xerox Alto influenced the Lisa/Macintosh in a big way? Yes, it did. Did Apple ruin what would otherwise have been a big success for Xerox with their Alto/Star PC? No, the Star was a commercial failure 3 years before the Macintosh was unveiled. Is ripping other companies off Apple's game in a nutshell? Well they sometimes do it but I'd hardly call it their core business model, and besides what did Microsoft do with Windows other than rip off the Macintosh? ... and what did Google do with Android other than rip off the iOS user interface and the iPhone's basic design (virtual keyboard, big high resolution screen, use your fingers for a stylus, etc...) ? I saw early Android prototypes and they were quite clearly designed to be Blackberry killers. Then, just before they were supposed to hit the market the iPhone showed up and by some strange coincidence, exactly around that time, Android disappeared and then reappeared quite a bit later, now clearly re-designed to be an iOS killer. Companies rip each other's ideas off, everybody does it, which is another thing you should try to get over.
Basically I don't care about Apple. I just think that the patent application process should include the question "could a 3 year old come up with the idea?" and if the answer is yes, throw it out on principle.
I don't think they are patenting the general idea of a bezel free display which would be kind of dumb since there are already bezel free displays, or are you are assuming that creating a bezel free display is a trivial undertaking? ... because I'm pretty sure the underlying engineering is beyond a 3 year old. The same goes for developing a method of scanning fingerprints in three dimensions, either through a display which is what they'd have to do if the display covers the entire frontal real-estate of the device or by integrating a 3D sensor into the display. But don't take my word for it, feast your eyes:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi...
Or better yet, borrow a three year old and see if the toddler can explain that document to you.
"Anyone can declare themselves an Imam"
1. Imam (leader) in Shi'a Islam refers to one of 12 people born over 1000 years ago. Most certainly no one can declare themselves an imam.
2. The "Imams" you refer to are either Sunni or Wahabbi not Shi'a.
3. 100% of "Muslim" terrorists are Wahabbi. The leader (Imam) of Daesh (ISIS) for example.
Plus the Shia (at least in the modern world) have always seemed to me as tending to be more organised and have something that a christian would recognise as a form of centralised hierarchical clergy. It's the Sunni world where you have a bewildering flora of sometimes weird sects and any crackpot with a Quaran and a digital camera (or occasionally, a bunch of thugs) seems to be able to put on black robes, declare himself 'Caliph' and stands a real chance of being taken seriously. If I had to draw a comparisons (and it would be an extremely broad one) the Shia are more like Catholics, centralised/organised, while the Sunni are like Protestants, fragmented into many factions and sects where any crackpot whit a bible and a YouTube channel (or occasionally, a crackpot militia) can set himself up as Grand Poobah and prophet with a direct line to god.
I personally think this is their main problem. Right now the focus of all industrialized nations should be on ditching the use of fossil fuels as rapidly as possible. Nuclear power is an effective way of producing energy to cover up for what cannot be produced by renewables. Right now as they're adamant on ditching nuclear as well, their CO2 emissions are rising and they're unlikely to meet their emission goals, because increased demand has to be met with increased used of natural gas, which, while better than coal for sure, is not as good emissions wise as nuclear.
Now don't get me wrong, I think nuclear is not a permanent solution so the idea of going fully renewable is good. I just think their implementation and schedule is slightly foolish. If they kept some of the nuclear and used that to provide the rest of what they need, they wouldn't have to use natural gas, or import as much energy from abroad.
The main reason I stopped voting for the Green party here in Finland was their illogical opposition to the use of nuclear energy as part of a strategy to cut down on emissions. Because the 'green' crowd has absurd fears of nuclear due to radiation they end up favoring policies which in the short-to-mid term drive emissions up, all in the name of protecting the environment.
The challenges with storing nuclear waste are much easier to solve than the challenges we're going to amass by continuing to release CO2 in current amounts, which is why I don't favor adopting the German approach even though we do have the same goal in mind.
The problem with Nuclear in Germany is and always will be the same.... PR, politics and the spotty history of nuclear power. The industry keeps claiming nuclear is the safest best and most environmentally friendly option out there and yet all the public sees is that we keep getting incidents like Three Mile Island, perpetual SNAFUS like Sellafield, and downright disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima due to a combination of greedy executives and widespread industry incompetence. Fukushima was actually one of the prime movers behind the decision to ditch nuclear. I'm sure you can write us a lecture on why none of these incidents matter and why nuclear is ultra safe but the public just does not want to know. The way the Germans see it there are safer alternatives than Nuclear such as Fusion in the wings that are beginning to look like they might pan out and since they are on track with track with renewables and energy-to-gas technology which is a very safe fallback plan they decided to ditch Nuclear and the political baggage that comes with it. Seems easier than ramming nuclear down the throats of 80 million people, 65 million of whom don't want to have anything to do with it. If you screw up a nuclear plant in densely populated Germany your most immediate problem is that you just irradiated a couple of million people, if you screw up a wind farm your biggest problem is getting sued by a group of irate investors.
That sounds to me like a problem that can be solved with good engineering and proper design, just like many of the other environmental problems. I have spent something like a minute thinking about it.......
Engineers have been thinking about the problem for decades and haven't solved it. What are the chances you solved it with little thought?
And if I, with no expert knowledge, can think of what may well be a plausible way to address the issue, how much more could a proper team of engineers come up width, if they tried?
See this and this.
XKCD spot on as usual.
Whence did you get the strange idea that electrical heating is widely used over here? Moreover, Germany is not a very cold country and many houses are insulated quite well because upgrading insulation was sponsored by the government a while ago. The typical heating bill for a rented apartment (that's how the majority of Germans live) is about 700 EUR a year and quite a bit less than that if the house is insulated and it is paid as a part of the rent anyway.
Oh, by the way, just to rub it in your face: in the USA, the land of the free, where electricity is dirt cheap, on average 1500 people freeze to death every bloody year. In Germany 100 hypothermia deaths would be considered serious.
Actually, the north of Germany can be pretty bloody cold in the winter. It used to be that large parts of the Baltic froze over, the Firth of Kiel for example used to freeze over pretty regularly and did so as recently as the winter of 1995/6.
If you go back 5 or 10 years on Slashdot you can see hoards of idiots claiming that Germany can't do this and will become a third world country with intermittent power and will massively increase coal dependence and is headed for the stone age....
Whoever said that does not know Germans very well. Outlandish as that statement is, after watching what has unfolded in the US over the last year, I can actually believe that a large number of Foghorn Leghorns with a paid up membership of the Republican party went on the record and said something to that effect.
Exactly. Don't send humans, send H1B smelly parasitic indo-chimps and their cousins sand n1ggers jihaddists
You sound like a perfect candidate for an all expense paid re-settlement in the new seed colony on the surface of the sun.
Do tell, what President Sanders would've done differently from El Presidente Chavez. I'm listening...
Do tell, what President Trump will do differently from Reichskanzler Hitler. I'm listening... See how stupid that sounded when you read it? That's how stupid your comment sounded to the rest of us.
Do you have statistics for longevity — and differences in longevity — among Europeans? I'm listening...
It's a about ten years in the UK:
http://www.acegeography.com/re...
Seems to be rather similar in Germany:
https://www.mpg.de/9324818/reg...
I'll let you google the rest... it's not particularly complicated just search on the topic: regional variations in life expectancy <name of country>
I'm pretty sure Obama For America employed many, if not all the same tactics in 2008 election...
Why yes, look at MIT's Technology Review, the New York Times, and InfoWorld - again, another glaring example of a profound double-standard. When Team Obama did it, it was "ground-breaking", when Republicans employ similar tools it a nefarious plot to control the world!
Normally I'd agree with you but since you are trying to compare putting Obama in the White House to putting Donald Trump in the White House I'm going to have to disagree here. Obama, whatever you may think of him, at least had a multi digit IQ that allowed him to answer questions from reporters, skin that was too thick for his soul to be injured by Saturday Night Live skits and had a clear idea of which countries he had bombed. Trump on the other hand walks out of press conferences when he gets questions he does not like, launches twitter storms where he lambasts anybody who lampoons him and told a reporter he'd launched a missile strike on Iraq until the reporter corrected him and pointed out the strike was on Syria.... and those are just three sample of the highlights of what those bastards at SCL Group and their friends have saddled us with
It's not that the media fails to inform - there is informative media out there. During Brexit, for example, the BBC in particular and a few other neutral organizations did debunk the lies and post what little factual information was available. The problem is that people didn't want to hear it.
In the post-truth world, people don't care about reality or facts. They only care about hearing what they want to hear, which is why populists did so well. Facebook is a great platform for this. Fake news and biased information on Facebook has credibility, because it appears to be coming from "friends". Not politicians, who all lie all the time, but friends and "ordinary people" who are far more trustworthy.
It's a very efficient system. Someone posts a meme or some fake news. Lots of other people like it and re-post it, giving it credibility and truthiness. Any dissent or contradiction is quickly silenced by virtue of being comment #697 that no-one will ever read.
People do eventually learn to care about the issues over the message they want to hear. The problem is that they only learn after voting in a demagogue like Donald Trump and watching him trash their nation for four to eight years. Even worse is that this has to repeat itself every generation because young people are even less likely to listen to the people who have seen it all before than they are to read comment #697.
So. People are stupid if they disagree with you?
That depends entirely upon what it is that we disagree about.
I work in a cubicle environment and have done so for most of my professional life and it's been my experience that there is little you can do to stop interruptions. If you are the kind of person who is insanely bothered by interruptions, can't stand the sound of people punching a keyboard, drinking coffee, munching on a donut, stirring a cup of tea with a metal spoon, slurping same, phones ringing, ..., etc... you can either try to get a new job with a company that offers its workers their own private oasis of tranquillity to work in or consider a new career as a forest ranger in a remote nature reserve or join a monastery. There is very little you can do to force your co-workers into stealth mode without it blowing back on you. I currently work in a very quite place surrounded by developers and sysadmins but I used to work in a place where we developers were sat next to a bunch of women from the billing department. The lady who sat next to me used to get loads of calls from her counterparts at another companies which was not so bad except when she left her desk for meals and breaks which meant that she usually left her mobile phone behind to get some peace and quiet. The downside for me was that her colleagues would ring her and keep ringing until the desk phone timed out and then auto dial her mobile, which had the vibration function on in addition to the ring tone, so you can imagine what that sounded like while the mobile danced around on her desk until it timed out as well. When you are trying to code a piece of billing software this is not an environment conducive to allowing you to concentrate. One day I finally just snapped (which was a mistake, I should have just quit my job and told them why), answered the call and asked the caller why she kept ringing both phones in succession until they timed out and pointed out that if people did not answer after the first ten rings they are normally not there. Mind you I did not intend to be rude or insulting, I was mostly just genuinely curious to know why somebody would do this. The woman on the other end told me that she always let the pones ring themselves out because eventually somebody would answer so she could ask them where her friend was (which was always the same two answers: She's on a break/She's out to [breakfast|lunch|tea]). In the end I got chewed out by a supervisor for being rude to a caller and basically told that I should put up with the several dozens of daily two minute long ringing marathons and like it. So the moral of the story is, all you'll achieve by trying to make your co-worker tip-toe around you is piss everybody off.
They're already suppressing it. The various hashtags talking about this were artificially blocked from trending.
What is the next step they could take? Auto-hiding tweets talking about it? (They're already doing that.) Banning users for talking about it? Auto-removing discussion of his name?
At what point do calls for the blatant support for a single politician or suppressing support for others cross the line into political censorship and attempts at manipulating the election?
Blatant support for a single politician, meaning attempts to shield Macron from being damaged by this leak... I suppose one could see it that way and not without a certain amount of justification either. However, please enlighten us, what exactly do you call it when the president of Russia orders the FSB to hack the Macron campaign to help Le Pen win the election, (reportedly) spikes the documents with falsifications because the haul did not include enough juicy stuff to have any effect and releases it to the public? ...doing god's work?
It was never the Federal Government's business what a school kid was eating for lunch.
If the thing the school kid is eating is unhealthy and contributing to kids on the whole being physically unfit and sick then it is every bit the Federal Governments business, or rather duty, to fix that just like it was and is their duty to fix the water situation in flint Michigan. And yeah I know the Feds have been dragging their heels on the Flint situation but at least they did something to fix this school lunch situation. Now the current admin is spending it's time un-fixing the school lunch situation for the sake of corporate profits when they should be using that time to fix the poisoned water problem in Flint Michigan which is only set to get worse now that the EPA is being run by a neo-liberal sociopath/moron hybrid who thinks having something like the EPA to keep an eye on things like poisoned water is a waste of taxpayer money because it interferes with his ability to boost his profit margin by dumping poison in the water supply and feeding school kids substandard food.
The other languages are for pussies.
Eight years? LOL
They aren't going to maintain their majority for 4. They'll be LUCKY if they don't lose the house in 2018 and Trump is a one term president. They've got two years at best to fuck everything up they can.
Really? You are underestimating the complete and utter cowardice, apathy, incompetence and spinelessness of the Democrats. Plus, I forgot to add that the Reps. are also in control of the supreme court (none of the conservative judges are likely to die or retire for a generation). This gives the Reps. carte blanche on gerrymandering and voter discrimination on a hitherto unprecedented scale since with the appointment of that soulless corporate rent-boy Gorsuch the supreme court is now a mindless rubber-stamping office that twill validate everything the Reps. want it to without a single critical thought. If the Dems. fuck up in the 2018 (and the Democrat's set of corporate prostitutes looks looks hellbent on taking the party there) this, combined with the Reps. control of the house, the senate, the presidency and the supreme court might just give them control of enough states to call a constitutional convention which would allow them to modify the constitution at will so expect some really interesting constitutional amendments. Every single one of America's founding fathers is rolling in his grave.
In the USA, if you wish to actually be a part of modern society, yes you really do have to use the Internet.
Just like not having a phone number became a liability many years ago, not being online cuts you off from modern life.
This guy is living in the past...
No, he's not, he's living in the new reality that US voters created in the last general election. The corporate prostitutes in the Republican party are now in control of the house, the senate and the presidency and they will use that situation liberally to shaft the American people for the next eight years because there seems to be no chance the Democrats will ever grow a spine. The Dems may be corrupt to but they would have opposed this, or at least been easier to turn against it if they had a majority which they don't. The Rep's friends in the advertising business want to buy and sell the most intimate details of your online life? No problem, they'll pass a law. The American people don't like that? Let me paraphrase Antonin Scalia: 'Get over it! ...bitches...' If anybody wants to chew me out for saying this feel free but in the end I'm only repeating what Wisconsin congressman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr is saying on behalf of more or less the entire Republican party in a slightly more colloquial way. You get what you vote for...
Why not, I dunno, sell government approved vape pens in the commissary? From what I've read, most of the incidents with vaping are from people trying to "soup up" their vape machines. This amounts to banning Honda Civics on base because a few ill informed morons cause them to ignite by modifying them in ways they don't really understand.
No, it's more like banning Ford Pinto's on a facility full of powerful conventional ordinance and nuclear weapons.
No, they are just holding them wrong.
Don't try to blame this on Apple. Those vape pen are running Samsung firmware, those sailors must have accidentally activated 'incendiary grenade mode'.