Apparently Brazil is most likely about to elect their own version of climate change denying Trumpist too. Fifth largest nation in the world. I think you called it right, we are doomed thanks to the stupids.
Ok, so how about we stop subsidizing fossil fuel production and new fossil fuel sites and then let the market take it's course? Renewable energy sources would already be cost competitive if there wasn't such a giant imbalance in government subsidies.
IIRC California's emissions standards exemption was the result of critical levels of air pollution in it's cities. The city air was so polluted that they had to do something to get it under control, and they managed to wring an exemption from the federal congress so that they could enforce their own standards. Of course, the current administration is now trying to do away with that exemption lock, stock, and barrel along with freezing the emissions standards at their currently levels.
I think the states could get away with an emissions registration sticker as part of a vehicle's annual inspection. The more a vehicle pollutes the higher the sticker cost. Thus, it doesn't interfere with "interstate commerce", but it does put the burden on the consumer. You want to buy a gas guzzling air polluting car? You're going to pay for the privilege each and every year you own it. That should shift consumer attention and demand to smaller more fuel efficient and cleaner vehicles instead of giant honking SUVs.
Step 1) Get the country hooked on sugar - Check and Profit
Step 2) Make a fortune of diabetes treatments - Check and Profit
Step 3) Develop and market tons of different artificial "no/low calorie" sweeteners and market to people now suffering from obesity - Check and Profit
Step 4) ???
Step 5) Profit Profit Profit!
If the software caused the accident, then yeah, the maker should be liable. But, they'll be able to disseminate against all kinds of factors. Was there a faulty sensor that caused the software to make that decision? Did the car owner fail to ensure that the vehicle was properly maintained and passed all safety and system checks?
I imagine that the vehicles will be insured for both damages and liability like every other car on the road, so fault will be the only determining factor in the suit as far as the individual is concerned. The insurer will probably be the one to go after the other avenues to recoup their losses if there's any indication of extraneous factors.
I think most of these farms are proof of concept installations. There's still a lot of R&D to be done developing robotics and AI control software. Once completely automated from planting to harvesting, they'll probably start looking at increasing production density inside the space. I believe another goal of these installations is supposed to be less environmental impact than their traditional counterparts, both in water consumption and carbon footprint.
California has problems the way the entire country has problems. It's got an infrastructure built in the 60s that was designed to support less than half the people currently living in the state. Corporations get away with paying minimum taxes on maximum profits just they do in the rest of the country. And there is massive income inequality between the rich and the poor. All problems shared by the country at large.
Otoh, California's debt to GDP ratio is only 15.7%, whereas the country's (including CA) debt to GDP ratio is now 105.08% ( http://www.usdebtclock.org/ )
It's not really about what he did 36 years ago, however horrid that might be, it's about how he acted and how he lied during his under oath testimony. He has neither the temperament nor the honesty for the position. He can deny the direct allegations, but he flat out lied about his typical behavior of the time, as well as on many other already verified points, and this isn't the first time he's lied under oath either.
I think that there's a few more contestants this year in the "Most Punchable Face" category, particularly Kavanaugh, but Pie is certainly a strong contender. Now if you were talking about the 2017 Most Punchable Face awards then yeah, Pie may have had that one in the bag.
Kodi itself doesn't. It's these third party piracy plug-ins that do, and Kodi's reputation has really been harmed by them since they have no association with them. If it keeps up, Kodi is going to end up being no more, since it's just an OSS project that doesn't have the funding or desire to deal with digging itself out of these legal pits caused by these third party plug-ins.
And as long as Kodi is open source, it's not like they can add any protection like plug-in signing to prevent that garbage from being added to the install. The only option for them would be to either cripple or remove their plug-in framework, which is good for no one.
The first few years where Netflix was able to license all the content they could possibly want from the studios for super cheap is over. Every company with the wherewithal has gotten jealous of Netflix's pie and have run around setting up their own services to compete, and in the process they hold back any content they have the rights to so that it exclusively shows only on their own service.
Signing up for half a dozen or more different streaming services and paying more than the cost of cable on top of the cost for high speed internet just so you can have access to content that still comes and goes in availability is not what the consumer wants, especially when some streaming services start shoving ads into their streams.
I don't know, there have been a variety of agricultural experiments to reduce the carbon emissions and water consumption of growing food and raising livestock. An initiative like this should encourage further development and investment in the area of low emission agriculture.
Frontier and other ISPs are upset because they spend the minimum amount necessary on infrastructure upgrades and maintenance. They oversold their minimalist networks as much as they possibly could, and then the likes of Netflix and YouTube came along and ISP customers started all consuming massive amounts of bandwidth instead of it just being the file sharers that ate bandwidth like mad.
So now, in order to meet customer demand, ISPs have to use some of the profits they've been racking in hand over fist to go out an upgrade their networks. But, instead of just getting the job done, they'd rather spend a few million on a political propaganda campaign and buying off politicians to try and kill Net Neutrality so they can keep their grubby mitts on the most profit possible.
Now, make no mistake, either way consumers are still going to get screwed in the end, but, better they get screwed while getting an upgraded infrastructure, instead of letting the ISPs rip off Netflix and others for the crime of serving content. Because without Net Neutrality, the ISPs get to demand tolls from Netflix, and Netflix's prices go up, while the ISPs sit back and do nothing. With Net Neutrality, the ISPs will raise prices and implement data caps - but they also build infrastructure to handle the demand.
And Netflix already has all the incentive in the world to research, develop, and adopt new video codecs like AV1 to make their content smaller, because they still need to pay to have their content mirrored all around the country. And the smaller that content is, the less they have to pay.
Expecting the rest of the world to stop developing, while you slowly over the course of the rest of the century, drop down to something even remotely approaching the average. Is just not realistic in the slightest.
You just will not get all nations to drop. You need a more realistic goal if you want people to take you seriously.
One of the points of the Paris agreement - the one were already heavily developed nations like the US pledged money too - was to use the pledged money to assist those countries in developing using clean power sources, rather than resorting to dirty sources like coal.
But of course it was so easy for right-wing messaging to demonize the idea of giving money away to these countries - despite the fact that heavily developed nations have afflicted the entire world (including those countries) with the containments of their dirty development. After all, what does the average US citizen care about some fly spec undeveloped nation that's going to find itself under water, destroyed by storms, or otherwise devastated because we've been burning coal night and day for the last hundred years?
Naw, they're rich and powerful. Their kids will have only the best. While the rest of the world is starving and fighting over barely drinkable water and wilted lettuce, their kids will be living in guarded paradises with the best water filtration systems money can buy, eating caviar, and placing bets on which third world country will go up in flames next.
Switching over to fracked gas burning from coal is hardly all that great of a milestone to crow about. Yes, gas burns cleaner than coal. However, the process of getting it pollutes water tables, causes earthquakes, and releases tons of methane into the atmosphere which is a lot worse of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Obtaining coal has it's own set of environmental impacts, but, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have the huge methane problem.
If every dollar that had been put into fracking and natural gas over the last decade had instead been spent on renewables, we'd be in a much better place. Instead, we ceded the development and production of solar technologies mostly to China, and let them become the export kings for solar panels throughout the world.
Check the Speech-to-Text on an Android phone - it does bleep out curse words as the first letter of the word plus a number of asterisks. Guess it's better than it making stupid substitutions. Not sure if iOS does the same thing or not.
Honestly not sure how the Text-to-Speech systems deal with curse words.
BTW, FOSTA-SESTA passed passed the House with a vote of 388-25[13] and the Senate with a vote of 97-2.
There's almost no chance of a new "Communications Decency Act" that targets Hate Speech not passing if it gets introduced.
How is this not a clear violation of the First Amendment again? Sure sounds like he's trying to get Congress to make a law abridging free speech, and it won't hold up to the so-called "yelling fire in a theater" test as it's not endangering public safety or willful negligence. In the best case, it's trolling or extreme ignorance - worst case is this is a back door for government abuse of power to go after political enemies and malcontents because you don't like what they're saying.
Oh, that's just it though - it's not the government censoring your speech, it's the government forcing a third party to censor your speech. Totally different./sarcasm
And as long as FOSTA-SESTA stands, they already have their foot in the door.
Next up, taxes on bread, meat, and sugar (especially sugar). Also, all sugar substitutes. Because everything is bad for your health other than fruits, vegetables, and plain filtered water. Also, a tax on fat people, because they're weighing down the health care system.
FOSTA-SESTA now holds site operators criminally liable for the posts of any users that "may be related to sex trafficking". How long until congress pushes through a bill that holds site operators liable for user posted content that incites acts of violence or spreads hate (or that Donald Trump just doesn't like)?
They've really gone an maligned a perfectly good piece of software. Kodi does not promote or enable piracy. They just happen to have a very extensible plug-in system that anyone can use to add components to and customize the app.
Sadly, if Team Kodi wants to deal with this, the only way I see them being able to do it is by changing their plug-in system so that only signed plug-ins can be installed and run. That and lawsuits, lots of lawsuits. But those cost lots of money.
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Apparently Brazil is most likely about to elect their own version of climate change denying Trumpist too. Fifth largest nation in the world. I think you called it right, we are doomed thanks to the stupids.
Ok, so how about we stop subsidizing fossil fuel production and new fossil fuel sites and then let the market take it's course? Renewable energy sources would already be cost competitive if there wasn't such a giant imbalance in government subsidies.
IIRC California's emissions standards exemption was the result of critical levels of air pollution in it's cities. The city air was so polluted that they had to do something to get it under control, and they managed to wring an exemption from the federal congress so that they could enforce their own standards. Of course, the current administration is now trying to do away with that exemption lock, stock, and barrel along with freezing the emissions standards at their currently levels.
I think the states could get away with an emissions registration sticker as part of a vehicle's annual inspection. The more a vehicle pollutes the higher the sticker cost. Thus, it doesn't interfere with "interstate commerce", but it does put the burden on the consumer. You want to buy a gas guzzling air polluting car? You're going to pay for the privilege each and every year you own it. That should shift consumer attention and demand to smaller more fuel efficient and cleaner vehicles instead of giant honking SUVs.
100% agree. Any excel sheet that complicated that someone needs "help" with it, doesn't belong in excel.
Step 1) Get the country hooked on sugar - Check and Profit
Step 2) Make a fortune of diabetes treatments - Check and Profit
Step 3) Develop and market tons of different artificial "no/low calorie" sweeteners and market to people now suffering from obesity - Check and Profit
Step 4) ???
Step 5) Profit Profit Profit!
If the software caused the accident, then yeah, the maker should be liable. But, they'll be able to disseminate against all kinds of factors. Was there a faulty sensor that caused the software to make that decision? Did the car owner fail to ensure that the vehicle was properly maintained and passed all safety and system checks?
I imagine that the vehicles will be insured for both damages and liability like every other car on the road, so fault will be the only determining factor in the suit as far as the individual is concerned. The insurer will probably be the one to go after the other avenues to recoup their losses if there's any indication of extraneous factors.
I think most of these farms are proof of concept installations. There's still a lot of R&D to be done developing robotics and AI control software. Once completely automated from planting to harvesting, they'll probably start looking at increasing production density inside the space. I believe another goal of these installations is supposed to be less environmental impact than their traditional counterparts, both in water consumption and carbon footprint.
California has problems the way the entire country has problems. It's got an infrastructure built in the 60s that was designed to support less than half the people currently living in the state. Corporations get away with paying minimum taxes on maximum profits just they do in the rest of the country. And there is massive income inequality between the rich and the poor. All problems shared by the country at large.
Otoh, California's debt to GDP ratio is only 15.7%, whereas the country's (including CA) debt to GDP ratio is now 105.08% ( http://www.usdebtclock.org/ )
It's not really about what he did 36 years ago, however horrid that might be, it's about how he acted and how he lied during his under oath testimony. He has neither the temperament nor the honesty for the position. He can deny the direct allegations, but he flat out lied about his typical behavior of the time, as well as on many other already verified points, and this isn't the first time he's lied under oath either.
I think that there's a few more contestants this year in the "Most Punchable Face" category, particularly Kavanaugh, but Pie is certainly a strong contender. Now if you were talking about the 2017 Most Punchable Face awards then yeah, Pie may have had that one in the bag.
Kodi itself doesn't. It's these third party piracy plug-ins that do, and Kodi's reputation has really been harmed by them since they have no association with them. If it keeps up, Kodi is going to end up being no more, since it's just an OSS project that doesn't have the funding or desire to deal with digging itself out of these legal pits caused by these third party plug-ins.
And as long as Kodi is open source, it's not like they can add any protection like plug-in signing to prevent that garbage from being added to the install. The only option for them would be to either cripple or remove their plug-in framework, which is good for no one.
The first few years where Netflix was able to license all the content they could possibly want from the studios for super cheap is over. Every company with the wherewithal has gotten jealous of Netflix's pie and have run around setting up their own services to compete, and in the process they hold back any content they have the rights to so that it exclusively shows only on their own service.
Signing up for half a dozen or more different streaming services and paying more than the cost of cable on top of the cost for high speed internet just so you can have access to content that still comes and goes in availability is not what the consumer wants, especially when some streaming services start shoving ads into their streams.
Probably the gestapo shutting down climate change research.
I don't know, there have been a variety of agricultural experiments to reduce the carbon emissions and water consumption of growing food and raising livestock. An initiative like this should encourage further development and investment in the area of low emission agriculture.
Frontier and other ISPs are upset because they spend the minimum amount necessary on infrastructure upgrades and maintenance. They oversold their minimalist networks as much as they possibly could, and then the likes of Netflix and YouTube came along and ISP customers started all consuming massive amounts of bandwidth instead of it just being the file sharers that ate bandwidth like mad.
So now, in order to meet customer demand, ISPs have to use some of the profits they've been racking in hand over fist to go out an upgrade their networks. But, instead of just getting the job done, they'd rather spend a few million on a political propaganda campaign and buying off politicians to try and kill Net Neutrality so they can keep their grubby mitts on the most profit possible.
Now, make no mistake, either way consumers are still going to get screwed in the end, but, better they get screwed while getting an upgraded infrastructure, instead of letting the ISPs rip off Netflix and others for the crime of serving content. Because without Net Neutrality, the ISPs get to demand tolls from Netflix, and Netflix's prices go up, while the ISPs sit back and do nothing. With Net Neutrality, the ISPs will raise prices and implement data caps - but they also build infrastructure to handle the demand.
And Netflix already has all the incentive in the world to research, develop, and adopt new video codecs like AV1 to make their content smaller, because they still need to pay to have their content mirrored all around the country. And the smaller that content is, the less they have to pay.
Expecting the rest of the world to stop developing, while you slowly over the course of the rest of the century, drop down to something even remotely approaching the average. Is just not realistic in the slightest. You just will not get all nations to drop. You need a more realistic goal if you want people to take you seriously.
One of the points of the Paris agreement - the one were already heavily developed nations like the US pledged money too - was to use the pledged money to assist those countries in developing using clean power sources, rather than resorting to dirty sources like coal.
But of course it was so easy for right-wing messaging to demonize the idea of giving money away to these countries - despite the fact that heavily developed nations have afflicted the entire world (including those countries) with the containments of their dirty development. After all, what does the average US citizen care about some fly spec undeveloped nation that's going to find itself under water, destroyed by storms, or otherwise devastated because we've been burning coal night and day for the last hundred years?
Naw, they're rich and powerful. Their kids will have only the best. While the rest of the world is starving and fighting over barely drinkable water and wilted lettuce, their kids will be living in guarded paradises with the best water filtration systems money can buy, eating caviar, and placing bets on which third world country will go up in flames next.
Switching over to fracked gas burning from coal is hardly all that great of a milestone to crow about. Yes, gas burns cleaner than coal. However, the process of getting it pollutes water tables, causes earthquakes, and releases tons of methane into the atmosphere which is a lot worse of a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Obtaining coal has it's own set of environmental impacts, but, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have the huge methane problem.
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If every dollar that had been put into fracking and natural gas over the last decade had instead been spent on renewables, we'd be in a much better place. Instead, we ceded the development and production of solar technologies mostly to China, and let them become the export kings for solar panels throughout the world.
Check the Speech-to-Text on an Android phone - it does bleep out curse words as the first letter of the word plus a number of asterisks. Guess it's better than it making stupid substitutions. Not sure if iOS does the same thing or not.
Honestly not sure how the Text-to-Speech systems deal with curse words.
BTW, FOSTA-SESTA passed passed the House with a vote of 388-25[13] and the Senate with a vote of 97-2.
There's almost no chance of a new "Communications Decency Act" that targets Hate Speech not passing if it gets introduced.
How is this not a clear violation of the First Amendment again? Sure sounds like he's trying to get Congress to make a law abridging free speech, and it won't hold up to the so-called "yelling fire in a theater" test as it's not endangering public safety or willful negligence. In the best case, it's trolling or extreme ignorance - worst case is this is a back door for government abuse of power to go after political enemies and malcontents because you don't like what they're saying.
Oh, that's just it though - it's not the government censoring your speech, it's the government forcing a third party to censor your speech. Totally different. /sarcasm
And as long as FOSTA-SESTA stands, they already have their foot in the door.
Time for a primary challenger!
Next up, taxes on bread, meat, and sugar (especially sugar). Also, all sugar substitutes. Because everything is bad for your health other than fruits, vegetables, and plain filtered water. Also, a tax on fat people, because they're weighing down the health care system.
FOSTA-SESTA now holds site operators criminally liable for the posts of any users that "may be related to sex trafficking". How long until congress pushes through a bill that holds site operators liable for user posted content that incites acts of violence or spreads hate (or that Donald Trump just doesn't like)?
They've really gone an maligned a perfectly good piece of software. Kodi does not promote or enable piracy. They just happen to have a very extensible plug-in system that anyone can use to add components to and customize the app.
Sadly, if Team Kodi wants to deal with this, the only way I see them being able to do it is by changing their plug-in system so that only signed plug-ins can be installed and run. That and lawsuits, lots of lawsuits. But those cost lots of money.