Nowadays, we have people trying to shut up even POLITE speakers. Many times, not even having the first clue about what they're saying. All because someone "told them this person was "bad"".
Honestly, if I could get large, hgh resolution monitors in 4:3 or 3:2, I would.
The problem is, the availability just isn't there.
As such, I'm compromised on pretty much all laptop purchases. Yes, there's the Surface, but the Surface is compromised in ways that make it a sub-optimal choice for me.
For my desktop, I wound up simply buying 3 27" 4K monitors, rotating them into portrait mode, then merging the screens. The result is actually a bit less than 3:2, but it makes reading EMINENTLY less "scroll-happy" than a widescreen.
Seriously. Instead of trying to play PreCrime and Thought Police, why not simply do the following?
Give users all the tools they need to block any content they find "offensive" FOR THEMSELVES? And hey, give them the ability to share these sorts of filters amongst themselves!
Then these companies don't have to expend the capital required for meatspace moderation, since everyone is their own moderator. And they don't run into problems like overzealous or biased moderators.
End of discussion!
Seriously. Allow adults to BE adults and choose FOR THEMSELVES what they DO and DO NOT wish to see!
Chinese energy experts are estimating that by 2050 the percentage of China's energy requirements that are satisfied by coal-fired plants will have declined to 30-50% of total energy consumption and that the remaining 50-70% will be provided by a combination of oil, natural gas, and renewable energy sources, including hydropower, nuclear power, biomass, solar energy, wind energy, and other renewable energy sources.
A solar facility would still have to have a grid tie. Especially if you're talking about powering the entire planet. Then the main problems become off-peak production, line and conversion losses.
You can't simply hook an 8 gauge wire up to a powerplant in Arizona and run it to central China.
For solar facility to provide peak power for the entire globe at a specific time you have to build it in a semi-specific general location and build it of sufficient size (basically 2-3x (more actually if you plan on "pumping" to the entire globe to account for power losses) the capacity you'd spec for nuclear).
Then, to keep the power flowing, you'd have to build ANOTHER one a few hours away so that, as one plant comes down off peak, the next plant is ramping up to peak.
The reason you'd have to do this is because power storage technology simply isn't "there" for this kind of 24x7 capacity.
You then ALSO have to deal with solar facility heat island effects on the environment.
Plus, when all those panels wear out in 25-50 years, what then? Currently there are no comprehensive plans for recycling solar panels. So that means MEGATONS on landfill.
Since when has it been necessary to absolve people of their own agency and self-responsibility?
It's not the fault of those who invented the Internet. They simply created one of the most comprehensive data sharing mediums to-date. It isn't their fault that a raft of other companies and governments usurped it, gamified, propaganzied and turned it into crack.
I'm saying there is NOTHING STOPPING YOU (but you) from abusing your freedom of speech. This notion of "allowed" is simply self-abrogation of one's own responsibilities Because, in the end YOU are the ultimate arbiter of what YOU do and say.
I'm saying there are, however, consequences for such abuses. And I'm saying that yes, some consequences are going to make life unpleasant for you. So, since YOU are the ultimate arbiter of what you do and say, it's up to YOU to determine a modicum of appropriateness that you (and others) can live with.
Reddit is a (generally) moderated platform, privately held. As such, you have ZERO expectation of complete freedom of speech. Just as with any other form of social networking platform that you, yourself, do not own (lock, stock and barrel). You can attempt to PUSH whatever artificial limits are in place. But they're free to delete you and deny you access. It's their end of "don't listen and change the channel".
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah.
Fuck that.
Why do *I* need a *market* to tell me what *I* want to see?
So long as you're good with YouTube regurgitating mainstream media partners at you, it's all good.
Otherwise, the recommended section is utter crap.
And their umpty-quadrillion layers of "subscription" is an exercise in sisyphean bullshit.
And who gets to decide "acceptable"?
You?
Nowadays, we have people trying to shut up even POLITE speakers. Many times, not even having the first clue about what they're saying.
All because someone "told them this person was "bad"".
Honestly, if I could get large, hgh resolution monitors in 4:3 or 3:2, I would.
The problem is, the availability just isn't there.
As such, I'm compromised on pretty much all laptop purchases.
Yes, there's the Surface, but the Surface is compromised in ways that make it a sub-optimal choice for me.
For my desktop, I wound up simply buying 3 27" 4K monitors, rotating them into portrait mode, then merging the screens.
The result is actually a bit less than 3:2, but it makes reading EMINENTLY less "scroll-happy" than a widescreen.
Because my job can't be automated.
Seriously. Instead of trying to play PreCrime and Thought Police, why not simply do the following?
Give users all the tools they need to block any content they find "offensive" FOR THEMSELVES?
And hey, give them the ability to share these sorts of filters amongst themselves!
Then these companies don't have to expend the capital required for meatspace moderation, since everyone is their own moderator.
And they don't run into problems like overzealous or biased moderators.
End of discussion!
Seriously. Allow adults to BE adults and choose FOR THEMSELVES what they DO and DO NOT wish to see!
In base 10:
10 is an order of magnitude: 10^1
100 is two orders of magnitude: 10^2
1000 is three orders of magnitude: 10^3
Are we sufficiently educated now?
So we're still paying a bunch of people to sit around, useless, milking the public teat.
Not just no.
HELL FUCKING NO.
I refuse to bust my ass so that some lazy shit can get by on absolute minimum participation in society.
No. Not "a good job". A "status job".
There are plenty of excellent paying jobs that have NO collegiate requirement whatsoever.
They simply aren't viewed as attractive as sitting in an office browsing porn all day and getting paid for it.
Seriously. Anyone who actually pays attention to economics will understand why this is bullshit.
For those that don't, look at college loans.
Decades ago, a college degree was orders of magnitude cheaper.
But, with the prevalence of loans, the price has crept up over time, as these BUSINESSES try to absorb as much available cash as possible.
The same thing is going to happen with UBI and the general economy.
Rent will get more expensive.
Food will get more expensive.
Insurance will get more expensive.
All to accomodate the value of UBI.
So, yeah, you're getting money, but it will still be like you have no income because everything is priced out of your reach.
So you've just increased the value of zero.
I swear to fuck.
These people need to all be committed.
They're insane.
Not just "mumbles to self" nuts.
Full on, completely delusional, multiple personality, chuck-manson-level derangement...
Congratulations on completely missing my point.
Fuck climate denial.
What can be done ABOUT THE REEF IN PARTICULAR?
Would this be implemented before it's ALL DEAD?
Probably not.
Their business model BENEFITS from being decentralized and almost completely virtual for distribution?
Why would they invest in the dying "theater" business model?
Outside of specialty "brew and view" / dinner-and-a-movie venues, the entire market segment is contracting violently...
Okay.
CAN anything REALISTICALLY be done in a time-frame that would help save ANY of the remainder?
Because if something CAN, all the whingeing and bitching is wasting time.
I know this. I simply quoted.
Chinese energy experts are estimating that by 2050 the percentage of China's energy requirements that are satisfied by coal-fired plants will have declined to 30-50% of total energy consumption and that the remaining 50-70% will be provided by a combination of oil, natural gas, and renewable energy sources, including hydropower, nuclear power, biomass, solar energy, wind energy, and other renewable energy sources.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Basically they're expecting to replace 4 Gwh mainly with nuclear, hydro, wind, oil and gas.
And solar isn't even 5% of RENEWABLES.
What kind of idiot, SITTING IN PRISON for SWAT'ing, sneaks online and self-incriminates by promising MORE?
His parents couldn't have dropped him on his head as a baby.
They must have been spiking his stupid ass like a football!
You're an idiot.
A solar facility would still have to have a grid tie.
Especially if you're talking about powering the entire planet.
Then the main problems become off-peak production, line and conversion losses.
You can't simply hook an 8 gauge wire up to a powerplant in Arizona and run it to central China.
For solar facility to provide peak power for the entire globe at a specific time you have to build it in a semi-specific general location and build it of sufficient size (basically 2-3x (more actually if you plan on "pumping" to the entire globe to account for power losses) the capacity you'd spec for nuclear).
Then, to keep the power flowing, you'd have to build ANOTHER one a few hours away so that, as one plant comes down off peak, the next plant is ramping up to peak.
The reason you'd have to do this is because power storage technology simply isn't "there" for this kind of 24x7 capacity.
You then ALSO have to deal with solar facility heat island effects on the environment.
Plus, when all those panels wear out in 25-50 years, what then?
Currently there are no comprehensive plans for recycling solar panels.
So that means MEGATONS on landfill.
Deaths per terawatt hour produced?
How in the holy name of fuck do you figure this?
Nuclear POWER has possibly the lowest death rates in the entirety of the power industry.
And NO, you cannot simply chalk up random cancer deaths to nuclear power.
And NO, you can't simply chalk up the use of atomic bombs to nuclear power.
Since when has it been necessary to absolve people of their own agency and self-responsibility?
It's not the fault of those who invented the Internet. They simply created one of the most comprehensive data sharing mediums to-date.
It isn't their fault that a raft of other companies and governments usurped it, gamified, propaganzied and turned it into crack.
No. You completely misunderstand my point.
I'm saying there is NOTHING STOPPING YOU (but you) from abusing your freedom of speech.
This notion of "allowed" is simply self-abrogation of one's own responsibilities
Because, in the end YOU are the ultimate arbiter of what YOU do and say.
I'm saying there are, however, consequences for such abuses.
And I'm saying that yes, some consequences are going to make life unpleasant for you.
So, since YOU are the ultimate arbiter of what you do and say, it's up to YOU to determine a modicum of appropriateness that you (and others) can live with.
Reddit is a (generally) moderated platform, privately held. As such, you have ZERO expectation of complete freedom of speech. Just as with any other form of social networking platform that you, yourself, do not own (lock, stock and barrel).
You can attempt to PUSH whatever artificial limits are in place.
But they're free to delete you and deny you access.
It's their end of "don't listen and change the channel".
I'm not sure why this is such a hard concept.
Again,
I'd argue that the speech is still free.
What you're being prosecuted for are run-on effects that are a consequence of your speech.