I'm just sick of hearing people whine about it incessantly. I want to know what we should DO about it at this point.
As for renewables.
Considering that solar panels simply weren't anything more than a science experiment 20-40 years ago (and they struggle to pay back their investment as is), that we're basically BEYOND peak hydro in this country (for ecological reasons), and that the engineering hadn't been done for widespread wind power, not to mention that implementation and change-over times are measured in decades all by themselves. I think your expectations are a bit pie-in-the-sky.
Okay. Stop fucking screaming about it already. We get it, atmospheric carbon is ridiculous now.
But that simply isn't important.
How do we address the problem in a way that doesn't destroy modern civilization, kill off a large percentage of the world population and send us back to the Stone Age?
And how do we get universal buy-in from other governments?
That's the important part.
What we have now are a bunch of armchair "research scientists" competing for funding so they can continue to bleat on about how "bad" things are. Like nobody else in the world can read automatically collected data. It's like a bunch of bazaar vendors scrambling over a lucky "first customer of the day".
If the government can force Apple to write a whole new operating system
Its not a new OS, just a small code change. What Apple has that FBI lacks is the digital signature needed to install the modified firmware. At least the FBI is not demanding that, though few would be surprised if the NSA already has it.
*Insert Standard Code Rant*
Unless you've actually SEEN the code, SHUT THE FUCK UP. You're not qualified to gauge how large or small such a change is. Nor how much effort it will take to alter/implement it.
If you think these conferences are all about work, you're mistaken.
Yes, they're there to inform people professionally.
But they're also social gatherings. Lots of networking goes on, much of it during the various dinners and parties and social interaction after the professional tracks are done for the day.
Okay, you're a hetero male who feels they don't need T&A in marketing.
Are you REALLY going to tell a marketing group that they CAN'T use tame versions of it to market? Even when research shows that IT WORKS? Do you feel you represent the "norm" for the industry? Do you feel you have a right to speak for everyone else because of this?
I agree. People are growing tired of the PC, special snowflake, everyone is a victim crap that's cropped up in the last few decades here. Trump is milking that, as well as being a giant fuck-you-gramme to the DC establishment that's been sitting on their thumbs for most of the last 60 years.
I wouldn't vote for the guy myself (he's a disaster waiting to happen). But I understand the environment that created him.
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Thin film PV panels use Indium and Tellurium.
As such, there's an environmental impact in the mining of said materials.
I vote that we call it "Boom Shaka Laka"!
I already know I'm homicidal 24x7...
No, but they found an intact liver, thrice normal size and completely turned to stone. And they think it happened before death.
Clinton doesn't shoot squares.
She has people for that.
I'm not just talking the US. Yes, we're one of the worst.
But if we decrease and China just takes up the slack, plus emerging third world countries...
1: Interesting.
2: Not sure this would fly (if you'll pardon the pun).
3: This'd never fly. EVER. Nobody would come within a light year of the liabilities this would introduce.
Oh for fuck's sake...
Please point out where I "denied" it.
Please point out where I'm ignoring it.
I'm just sick of hearing people whine about it incessantly. I want to know what we should DO about it at this point.
As for renewables.
Considering that solar panels simply weren't anything more than a science experiment 20-40 years ago (and they struggle to pay back their investment as is), that we're basically BEYOND peak hydro in this country (for ecological reasons), and that the engineering hadn't been done for widespread wind power, not to mention that implementation and change-over times are measured in decades all by themselves. I think your expectations are a bit pie-in-the-sky.
Two of several problems with your taxation idea.
How does one keep ANY government from using it as a piggy bank for various pork projects (like Social Security was)?
And how does it help alternative forms of energy development when the legal framework has already been poisoned against just such a thing?
And the standard code rant says that until one knows what they're actually talking about, they don't actually have an opinion in the matter.
Please see parent post for my answer.
Seriously.
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
Okay. Stop fucking screaming about it already. We get it, atmospheric carbon is ridiculous now.
But that simply isn't important.
How do we address the problem in a way that doesn't destroy modern civilization, kill off a large percentage of the world population and send us back to the Stone Age?
And how do we get universal buy-in from other governments?
That's the important part.
What we have now are a bunch of armchair "research scientists" competing for funding so they can continue to bleat on about how "bad" things are. Like nobody else in the world can read automatically collected data. It's like a bunch of bazaar vendors scrambling over a lucky "first customer of the day".
If the government can force Apple to write a whole new operating system
Its not a new OS, just a small code change. What Apple has that FBI lacks is the digital signature needed to install the modified firmware.
At least the FBI is not demanding that, though few would be surprised if the NSA already has it.
*Insert Standard Code Rant*
Unless you've actually SEEN the code, SHUT THE FUCK UP. You're not qualified to gauge how large or small such a change is. Nor how much effort it will take to alter/implement it.
Here's your computer with a tiny postage stamp screen!
Seriously, mark it all as GMO-bearing. Even if there's a chance it ain't.
Have every company do this.
Then let the fuckers scramble to find some high-dollar "all natural" alternative or starve.
So if they define US territory as stopping at the outside surface of my home's exterior walls, fuck me.
Because, heaven forbid I be a US citizen traveling abroad who simply wants to access the content he's paid for.
Fuck me and my selfish, unfair self.
Then put your money where your mouth is.
Stop bitching about it and vote with your wallet.
But noooooo! It's just more FUN to bitch about it. Right?
If you think these conferences are all about work, you're mistaken.
Yes, they're there to inform people professionally.
But they're also social gatherings. Lots of networking goes on, much of it during the various dinners and parties and social interaction after the professional tracks are done for the day.
Feel free to try it any time junior.
Okay, let me ask it to you this way.
Okay, you're a hetero male who feels they don't need T&A in marketing.
Are you REALLY going to tell a marketing group that they CAN'T use tame versions of it to market? Even when research shows that IT WORKS? Do you feel you represent the "norm" for the industry? Do you feel you have a right to speak for everyone else because of this?
Who ever told you that marketing was about "reasonableness"?
And why are you listening to liars like that?
If you think that Microsoft doesn't know who the majority of their GDC audience is, you're deluded.
And demanding that they never cater to the majority because it might offend someone is simply tyranny of the minority.
Now, should they look at developing something more palatable to everyone, at least as an alternative? Sure.
Will someone still be pissed because those evil OTHER PEOPLE are doing evil other people things?
*Grey Poupon Guy* But of course!
Exactly. Their job is to cater to their customers.
That's the post office's job too. And who are their major customers? The junkmail industry.
Offensive to some? Sure.
Should they realistically give a shit? No.
Should the GDC also develop some more preference-neutral entertainment? Probably.
Will some people STILL be offended by the more sex-oriented entertainment, despite being offered something more palatable?
This is America! YOU FUCKIN' BETCHA!
Precisely.
Bullshit.
These women KNOW why they're being hired. They're professional dancers. They're being paid to be looked at.
And they're NOT making minimum wage for being out there for hours on end with a bunch of sweaty devnerds.
And they're NOT being asked to cuddle up or sleep with these guys.
If they're going in, eyes open, and reaping the benefits of the interaction, who are you to tell them they're being sexually harassed?
I agree. People are growing tired of the PC, special snowflake, everyone is a victim crap that's cropped up in the last few decades here.
Trump is milking that, as well as being a giant fuck-you-gramme to the DC establishment that's been sitting on their thumbs for most of the last 60 years.
I wouldn't vote for the guy myself (he's a disaster waiting to happen). But I understand the environment that created him.