But they absolutely SUCK at refining products unless they're an immediate hit.
Look at GMail and all the work that's been lavished on that.
Now look at something like Hangouts. It never really caught on, mostly because other community options were VASTLY more mature and dependable. So, did Google work on it, to grow it and make it a better product? Nope. They basically tossed it out like a puppy that'd peed the rug.
Many of my clients are older people who simply wouldn't know tech savvy if you drowned them in it.
A while back, one of my clients' wives calls us and tells us he's on the phone with this tech support company in India and they're asking for several hundred dollars to remove a virus.
I told her to pull their cablemodem out of the wall and then hang up with the guy. Don't even discuss it with her husband (as it'd give the guy from "wherever" a chance to do something to the machine).
Once he was disconnected I had him hang up and explained the scam to him, while the call center guy tried calling back.
I then pointed out that he already had both Kaspersky Antivirus and Malwarebytes on there.
And on the off chance he was infected, I had him pull down a bootable rescue CD and scan that way.
Saved him several hundred bucks and possibly getting his machine infected.
Because I'll be damned if I can recognize people by their faces most of the time. Yes, with long-time exposure, I can kinda get it. But for most people, I struggle over even tiny information.
Probably comes from being dropped on my head so much as a kid.
Please reread where I pointed out other avenues of:
A) Sequestering carbon B) Suggested changes in power infrastructure to reduce/eliminate carbon production.
It's not so much about completely offsetting what we've put into the atmosphere in the last 100 years. As it is about moving from a carbon positive position to a carbon neutral position, and eventually through to a carbon negative position.
And if anyone thinks it's happening overnight, they're nuts.
We've supposedly passed the "point of no return" on CO2 emissions right now. But that's assuming nothing drastic is done. But, with a bit of work, and judicious implementation, we CAN back our way down from that point in relatively short order.
However, it's going to take more than just any one country doing it.
Evolution is a model that rather closely mirrors (and explains) what we see in the real world.
Religion's model doesn't mirror the real world at all and explains nothing.
So, until something comes along that's actually a better model of the real world, Evolution's pretty much the go-to answer for anyone with a functional mind.
And it also isn't producing endless pronouncements of The End Of Days
Google "hottest *INSERT MONTH HERE* ever".
Then try to tell me that again with a straight face...
All of which can be gamed. Because they're essentially just that. A political game. It's like communism. Perfect, until enlightened self-interest comes into play. Then it all falls apart.
Again, I'm not denying that climate change is happening. And, frankly, I have better things to do than try to affix blame to any one source.
If carbon is a problem I'm all for building cleaner energy sources. I'm all for sequestration programs such as reforestation and topsoil building, as well as production of hydrocarbon fuels via sequestration.
It's not about "Oh THIS is at fault. Or THAT is at fault."
Just ID the issue "carbon", the work towards leaving the world a "cleaner" place than we found it. End of discussion.
As for the methane problem. Sure, cutting back on beef intake will help some. There are other options too. They've recently found that several forms of seaweed, used as a dietary supplement, cuts down on (and in some cases, eliminates) organic methane production in livestock.
And yes, moving towards sustainable, green buildings is also a great thing.
I know climate change is happening. And I'd be an idiot if I didn't think we were a part of it. As to HOW much of a part? I honestly don't really know and am beyond giving a fuck, as it's pointless to point fingers. I'd just advocate living by the Boy Scout Rule. "Leave a place cleaner/better than we found it."
That includes CO2.
With modern technology and agriculture, we ALREADY have several well-proven methods for sequestering CO2. They basically need an infusion of scale.
For instance, what could the national forestry services do with a couple extra billion dropped into their 6-7 billion dollar overall, annual budget SPECIFICALLY earmarked for their reforestation and topsoil regeneration efforts? And I'm talking for just one year!
Seriously, if it meant that for 4 years, welfare kids would survive on generic Corn Flakes, PB&J and Hamburger Helper, we didn't shoot anyone into space on the government dime, government projects would slow down and new ones would stall, and we removed economic subsidies for milking welfare.
Yet, at the end of those 4 years, we had the groundwork in place for massive reforestation (both urban and rural) designed SPECIFICALLY to sequester and offset carbon production, and we had the beginnings of an actual economy-scale topsoil building infrastructure, all while slowly phasing out dirty power and converting to a synthetic carbon biofuel economy, putting us in at LEAST a carbon-neutral position, if not a positive one? Would something like THAT be worth it?
Sure, the 4 years would kinda be a monotonous suck-fest for those people. But they'd still be alive.
And more, we'd have done some MAJOR work in breaking runaway carbon pollution on this planet. Meaning those people would actually HAVE a future.
They're not denying "the greenhouse effect" you tool.
They're simply saying that the causes of global climate change/global warming/global cooling/whatever the new happy-fun-name it uses today is still being debated. (Fact!)
The entire population of the planet hasn't bought in. Hell, there isn't even 100% agreement among climate scientists.
And, even if there were, science is about facts and evidence, not consensus. When you start talking "consensus", you're talking politics, not facts. And, when politics are involved, you usually see large amounts of MONEY thrown about.
Coincidence? I think not!
People keep talking about some "point of no return".
Never mind that, given a decent power infrastructure, we possess the ability to artificially sequester vast amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere into biofuels, while simultaneously ramping up replanting/reforestation efforts and go to town in topsoil production.
All while moving the power economy away from high-CO2 methods like coal, gas and oil and towards CO2-free methods methods like solar, wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and nuclear.
It's silly, self-riteous asshats like you who are poisoning the well here. Simply because the world doesn't arrange itself to your liking.
Well fuck you. You're not a special snowflake and your individual opinion means less than shit. You're just some random douchebag on the internet who "thinks" (using the term about as loosely as possible) that they're somehow special. And that said "specialness" somehow grants you more "rightness" and insight into issues. When, in fact, all you are is a fucking noisemaker that spews shit from both ends and prevents people who actually wish to take REAL action, not just some virtue signaling putzes, from doing so.
If you don't want to be part of an actual solution built on the "possible", and keep trying to hold out for some nebulous concept of "best", you're never going to accomplish ANYTHING. If this is the case, just shut the fuck up and get out of the way while your betters roll up their sleeves and get to work.
I've had to say "Don't show me this again" to some videos HUNDREDS of times, and they still keep coming up in my suggested.
I've tried wiping my view history.
I've tried pretty much everything, and I keep getting crap I don't want to see shoveled at me, and I see very little of anything that DOES interest me outside of a few channel subs.
No. I'm just someone who can do math, and knows a bit about what kind of stresses a roadbed is subjected to.
A house is not a roadway. I'm not sure WHY this is such a tough concept to grasp. A roadway is subjected to stresses and conditions that you simply don't see on a rooftop.
And I repeat, the rovers are not subjected to the same stresses and conditions you see on a roadway. The Mars rover doesn't have cars and trucks rolling over its solar panels or the shear forces of said cars and trucks making directional changes on the surface. Nor does it have various automotive chemicals and fluids being left on them. Nor does it have the tailings of thousands of rubber tires abrading against it.
Also, unlike the Mars Rover, a roadway coated in this stuff really doesn't have a self-cleaning event.
Because miles of the stuff, financed by the public money (to the tune of millions of dollars) isn't "research". It's implementation of an untested product. But hey, I could sell you some actual snake oil too if you want!
One day as efficiency improves it may get their but it is not even close at this point.
Yeah. Once they figure out how to break thermodynamics and extract more than 100% of power through a layer of dirt and grime and snow, and with the breakthrough of unobtainium so they're durable to the point of never needing replacement.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
And why does lack of support for exorbitant wages for unskilled jobs always get met with the bullshit "pennies" line?
The main problem is that many of these unskilled jobs where people are demanding high wages simply don't justify those sorts of wages. Nor were they intended to be lifelong careers, regardless of advancement.
And the more people who keep packing into these jobs, and demanding higher wages and essentially a job for life, the sooner these jobs are simply going to disappear behind a robot.
What isn't being acknowledged is that these entry level positions are gateways into career paths BEYOND those jobs. The people working them simply have to have the damn motivation to actually ADVANCE themselves. Rather than "settling" into an unskilled job and expecting it to support a lifestyle.
I'm sorry, this is a land of opportunity. And most people WASTE it. But hey, it's a free country as well. And people should be free to fail and, if they're too lazy to grow beyond that? They should be free to fucking starve as well.
Cruel and inhuman? Maybe. But I worked my ass off to get where I am. I am sick of having ever more of MY earnings taken to support people who won't (not CAN'T, WON'T) take advantage of their opportunities.
About 15-20 years back? Didn't the Internet companies at the time take payments, pay out a bunch of HUGE bonuses that year, and then did fuck-all to improve infrastructure?
Wreck the economy to the point that it's cheaper to ship jobs overseas. Have local workers demand exorbitantly high wages (I don't get out of bed to flip burgers for less than fifteen dollars!). Employers respond predictably by cutting hours and automating where they can... Now the administration wants to carebear people displaced by automation.
Never mind that they're the assholes that ultimately CAUSED this shit to happen.
Slashdot Mirror
This version actually crashed a company permanently!
Google's real good at churn and burn.
But they absolutely SUCK at refining products unless they're an immediate hit.
Look at GMail and all the work that's been lavished on that.
Now look at something like Hangouts. It never really caught on, mostly because other community options were VASTLY more mature and dependable.
So, did Google work on it, to grow it and make it a better product?
Nope.
They basically tossed it out like a puppy that'd peed the rug.
Many of my clients are older people who simply wouldn't know tech savvy if you drowned them in it.
A while back, one of my clients' wives calls us and tells us he's on the phone with this tech support company in India and they're asking for several hundred dollars to remove a virus.
I told her to pull their cablemodem out of the wall and then hang up with the guy. Don't even discuss it with her husband (as it'd give the guy from "wherever" a chance to do something to the machine).
Once he was disconnected I had him hang up and explained the scam to him, while the call center guy tried calling back.
I then pointed out that he already had both Kaspersky Antivirus and Malwarebytes on there.
And on the off chance he was infected, I had him pull down a bootable rescue CD and scan that way.
Saved him several hundred bucks and possibly getting his machine infected.
Because I'll be damned if I can recognize people by their faces most of the time.
Yes, with long-time exposure, I can kinda get it. But for most people, I struggle over even tiny information.
Probably comes from being dropped on my head so much as a kid.
No, seriously. It's a legend.
Because Razer simply has NO such thing as quality control.
This is why Razer products are lucky to last a few months from date of purchase.
If it was almost ANYONE besides Razer releasing this thing, I'd look at it.
But it IS Razer. Not going to waste good money on their crap.
Fuckin' with your cash is the only thing you kids seem to understand!
GOOD!
Libraries are supposed to be about KEEPING and CURATING books.
This is why these circulation/purge rules are such idiocy.
Especially with library budgets shrinking year over year...
There's GOT to be a better system than "It hasn't been checked out in a while, sell it or throw it away!".
Yep.
Going down hill like a warp-drive assisted sledder.
Please reread where I pointed out other avenues of:
A) Sequestering carbon
B) Suggested changes in power infrastructure to reduce/eliminate carbon production.
It's not so much about completely offsetting what we've put into the atmosphere in the last 100 years. As it is about moving from a carbon positive position to a carbon neutral position, and eventually through to a carbon negative position.
And if anyone thinks it's happening overnight, they're nuts.
We've supposedly passed the "point of no return" on CO2 emissions right now.
But that's assuming nothing drastic is done.
But, with a bit of work, and judicious implementation, we CAN back our way down from that point in relatively short order.
However, it's going to take more than just any one country doing it.
Evolution is a model that rather closely mirrors (and explains) what we see in the real world.
Religion's model doesn't mirror the real world at all and explains nothing.
So, until something comes along that's actually a better model of the real world, Evolution's pretty much the go-to answer for anyone with a functional mind.
Google "hottest *INSERT MONTH HERE* ever".
Then try to tell me that again with a straight face...
Sure, carbon taxes and carbon credit schemes.
All of which can be gamed. Because they're essentially just that. A political game.
It's like communism. Perfect, until enlightened self-interest comes into play. Then it all falls apart.
Again, I'm not denying that climate change is happening.
And, frankly, I have better things to do than try to affix blame to any one source.
If carbon is a problem I'm all for building cleaner energy sources. I'm all for sequestration programs such as reforestation and topsoil building, as well as production of hydrocarbon fuels via sequestration.
It's not about "Oh THIS is at fault. Or THAT is at fault."
Just ID the issue "carbon", the work towards leaving the world a "cleaner" place than we found it. End of discussion.
As for the methane problem. Sure, cutting back on beef intake will help some. There are other options too. They've recently found that several forms of seaweed, used as a dietary supplement, cuts down on (and in some cases, eliminates) organic methane production in livestock.
And yes, moving towards sustainable, green buildings is also a great thing.
And, please, don't make me out to be a denier.
I know climate change is happening.
And I'd be an idiot if I didn't think we were a part of it.
As to HOW much of a part? I honestly don't really know and am beyond giving a fuck, as it's pointless to point fingers.
I'd just advocate living by the Boy Scout Rule.
"Leave a place cleaner/better than we found it."
That includes CO2.
With modern technology and agriculture, we ALREADY have several well-proven methods for sequestering CO2. They basically need an infusion of scale.
For instance, what could the national forestry services do with a couple extra billion dropped into their 6-7 billion dollar overall, annual budget SPECIFICALLY earmarked for their reforestation and topsoil regeneration efforts? And I'm talking for just one year!
Seriously, if it meant that for 4 years, welfare kids would survive on generic Corn Flakes, PB&J and Hamburger Helper, we didn't shoot anyone into space on the government dime, government projects would slow down and new ones would stall, and we removed economic subsidies for milking welfare.
Yet, at the end of those 4 years, we had the groundwork in place for massive reforestation (both urban and rural) designed SPECIFICALLY to sequester and offset carbon production, and we had the beginnings of an actual economy-scale topsoil building infrastructure, all while slowly phasing out dirty power and converting to a synthetic carbon biofuel economy, putting us in at LEAST a carbon-neutral position, if not a positive one? Would something like THAT be worth it?
Sure, the 4 years would kinda be a monotonous suck-fest for those people. But they'd still be alive.
And more, we'd have done some MAJOR work in breaking runaway carbon pollution on this planet. Meaning those people would actually HAVE a future.
With Evolution, nobody's come up with a better model for how life began/advanced on earth.
The existing model works quite well. And it also isn't producing endless pronouncements of The End Of Days with no concrete solutions for avoiding it.
With AGW/GCC, we get an endless string of:
THE END IS NIGH! ...THE END IS NIGH!
What do we do about it?
They're not denying "the greenhouse effect" you tool.
They're simply saying that the causes of global climate change/global warming/global cooling/whatever the new happy-fun-name it uses today is still being debated. (Fact!)
The entire population of the planet hasn't bought in.
Hell, there isn't even 100% agreement among climate scientists.
And, even if there were, science is about facts and evidence, not consensus. When you start talking "consensus", you're talking politics, not facts. And, when politics are involved, you usually see large amounts of MONEY thrown about.
Coincidence? I think not!
People keep talking about some "point of no return".
Never mind that, given a decent power infrastructure, we possess the ability to artificially sequester vast amounts of CO2 out of the atmosphere into biofuels, while simultaneously ramping up replanting/reforestation efforts and go to town in topsoil production.
All while moving the power economy away from high-CO2 methods like coal, gas and oil and towards CO2-free methods methods like solar, wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and nuclear.
It's silly, self-riteous asshats like you who are poisoning the well here. Simply because the world doesn't arrange itself to your liking.
Well fuck you. You're not a special snowflake and your individual opinion means less than shit. You're just some random douchebag on the internet who "thinks" (using the term about as loosely as possible) that they're somehow special. And that said "specialness" somehow grants you more "rightness" and insight into issues. When, in fact, all you are is a fucking noisemaker that spews shit from both ends and prevents people who actually wish to take REAL action, not just some virtue signaling putzes, from doing so.
If you don't want to be part of an actual solution built on the "possible", and keep trying to hold out for some nebulous concept of "best", you're never going to accomplish ANYTHING. If this is the case, just shut the fuck up and get out of the way while your betters roll up their sleeves and get to work.
I look at LN2 overclocking, shutting down all but a core or two, etc, as basically masturbation using lidocaine jelly as lube.
Sure, it produces an interesting result.
But, in the end, it's ultimately useless for purpose.
I know. But even THIS level of common sense is just jaw-dropping.
I'm just afraid I've been dropped onto Bizarro World or into the Mirror Universe or something...
Seriously.
I've had to say "Don't show me this again" to some videos HUNDREDS of times, and they still keep coming up in my suggested.
I've tried wiping my view history.
I've tried pretty much everything, and I keep getting crap I don't want to see shoveled at me, and I see very little of anything that DOES interest me outside of a few channel subs.
Congress ALREADY has enough idiots and head-cases in there.
They do NOT need a complete loon like Wu.
To say that I'm stunned is pure understatement!
No. I'm just someone who can do math, and knows a bit about what kind of stresses a roadbed is subjected to.
A house is not a roadway. I'm not sure WHY this is such a tough concept to grasp. A roadway is subjected to stresses and conditions that you simply don't see on a rooftop.
And I repeat, the rovers are not subjected to the same stresses and conditions you see on a roadway. The Mars rover doesn't have cars and trucks rolling over its solar panels or the shear forces of said cars and trucks making directional changes on the surface. Nor does it have various automotive chemicals and fluids being left on them. Nor does it have the tailings of thousands of rubber tires abrading against it.
Also, unlike the Mars Rover, a roadway coated in this stuff really doesn't have a self-cleaning event.
Because miles of the stuff, financed by the public money (to the tune of millions of dollars) isn't "research". It's implementation of an untested product.
But hey, I could sell you some actual snake oil too if you want!
Got it in one...
One day as efficiency improves it may get their but it is not even close at this point.
Yeah. Once they figure out how to break thermodynamics and extract more than 100% of power through a layer of dirt and grime and snow, and with the breakthrough of unobtainium so they're durable to the point of never needing replacement.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
Who the hell said "pennies"?
And why does lack of support for exorbitant wages for unskilled jobs always get met with the bullshit "pennies" line?
The main problem is that many of these unskilled jobs where people are demanding high wages simply don't justify those sorts of wages. Nor were they intended to be lifelong careers, regardless of advancement.
And the more people who keep packing into these jobs, and demanding higher wages and essentially a job for life, the sooner these jobs are simply going to disappear behind a robot.
What isn't being acknowledged is that these entry level positions are gateways into career paths BEYOND those jobs. The people working them simply have to have the damn motivation to actually ADVANCE themselves. Rather than "settling" into an unskilled job and expecting it to support a lifestyle.
I'm sorry, this is a land of opportunity. And most people WASTE it.
But hey, it's a free country as well. And people should be free to fail and, if they're too lazy to grow beyond that? They should be free to fucking starve as well.
Cruel and inhuman? Maybe. But I worked my ass off to get where I am. I am sick of having ever more of MY earnings taken to support people who won't (not CAN'T, WON'T) take advantage of their opportunities.
About 15-20 years back?
Didn't the Internet companies at the time take payments, pay out a bunch of HUGE bonuses that year, and then did fuck-all to improve infrastructure?
Wreck the economy to the point that it's cheaper to ship jobs overseas.
Have local workers demand exorbitantly high wages (I don't get out of bed to flip burgers for less than fifteen dollars!).
Employers respond predictably by cutting hours and automating where they can...
Now the administration wants to carebear people displaced by automation.
Never mind that they're the assholes that ultimately CAUSED this shit to happen.