Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624). It's been a massive metropolitan settlement for the better part of the last two hundred.
It's not as if someone went back to 1700 or so and started out with a city planning commission and 2015-level civil engineering technology. So yes, the city's going to be ANYTHING but efficiently run, plumbed, or laid out.
There are also 8.5 MILLION PEOPLE in the NYC metropolitan area. As part of the US Northeast Megalopolis, it's the center of a population of 53 million people.
Even if everyone was a card-carrying Greenpeace member, that's STILL a metric fuckton of waste. Urban living simply can't be environmentally neutral.
But, for that matter, living in a cave isn't environmentally neutral either. Even with the cleanest, most environmentally conscious methods of living close to nature, over time a primitive community's garbage midden will overwhelm it.
But hey, if you want to volunteer to be one of the people forced to shiver in a cave because modern society is so wasteful, be my guest.
A better and more humane course of action would be to adapt over time. Nothing lasts forever, not even NYC. It can, slowly, be rebuilt and repurposed, given a long enough time frame.
Plus, of course, it's still not that rare for people elsewhere in "IT" to switch over to software development at some point. They may actually be willing to take a salary cut and work for entry-level pay if that's what it takes to make the switch.
There are many reasons why pay alone doesn't "keep the old guys away", and some companies really do only want young workers. They tend to be very exploitative companies, however, banking on someone in their first job not recognizing how badly they're being used. Age discrimination may well be low on the list of sins for some of these companies.
This pretty much says it all right here.
They might as well advertise for "Naive, spinless young suckers who'll do anything for a buck."
So we should not remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but we should cut down our carbon dioxide emission?
Where is the credibility? It seems like global warming alarmists are trying to force their solutions down people throat. What is the difference between them and systemd supporters? Nothing much really.
Please, before you go off on me as if I were some lazy denier, try taking the time to READ what I said.
I'm saying that the science behind a geoengineering project needs to be HEAVILY scrutinized, as Doing It Wrong could be EXTREMELY detrimental to life on this planet. I'm also saying that there needs to be a certain unity of action from all nations on the planet. Having North America and western Europe "resolve" to do something means exactly jack-shit if South America, Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia aren't on board.
Tell you what I'm getting tired of, these assholes who come along and say "We don't think anything's wrong, so full speed ahead! Burn that coal, oil, and wood! We're all gonna be fine," no matter what the evidence actually tells us. It is considered ill-mannered, in my country, to kill your friends will committing suicide
Hey, you're preaching to the choir here. I'm not 100% sold, but I'm a big fan of "let's leave the planet better than we found it". If that means killing the burning of fossil fuels? Okay!
But simply doing "anything", or worse, badly coordinated "anything" is a recipe for disaster.
No. It's that geoengineering can be dangerous on a scale usually reserved for asteroid impacts and total thermonuclear war.
Done right? Sure, it could be beneficial.
Done wrong? And you could not only not fix the problems the project was designed to fix. But you could exacerbate them, or create entirely new problems. A Best Case Scenario for something like this is billions to quadrillions of dollars wasted and nothing happens.
What's being argued, right now, is that we don't have a sufficient grasp on the technology, or a suitably unified scientific/sociopolitical agenda.
Steve Jobs merely made trinkets for douchebags with too much money.
Musk, as self-aggrandizing as he may be, at least is genuinely trying to make the world a slightly better place (while making a buck at the same time).
People need to stop thinking in terms of 'its more expensive than conventional power.' That is the wrong way to look at this, IMHO.
No. This is EXACTLY the way people need to look at it.
Cost vs benefit. If a solution is uneconomical NOW, buying it is a silly splurge, like buying a $100,000 sports car as your daily driver in Alaska when what you need is a $30,000 4x4 truck. That, "SOME DAY" it might be more economical to install an identical system does not change the fact that it's still a silly splurge NOW.
If the system does NOT pay for itself over a reasonable period of time (and within the lifetime of the product warranty), you're splurging. Not spending wisely.
Learning to drive doesn't make people nauseous, give them cold sweats, give them vertigo, trigger headaches (traffic does that, learning doesn't).
Back when 3D cards first became available for general consumption, I bought one and conditioned myself to 3D by the simple expedient of playing Descent until I horked. Then playing till I horked again. Rinse mouth out and repeat.
Yeah. I was young and stupid.
Now, 20-ish years on? If you told me I had to do that all over again, I wouldn't bother.
blame the problem on the people trying to fix things.
So, kinda like The Inquisition.
The problem: Ignorance of the masses, widespread fear, and the church trying to edge early medical practitioners out in a social power grab.
The solution: BURN THE WITCH!
And modern power:
The problem: Ignorance of the masses, widespread fear and environmentalists trying to edge out power companies for mindshare in a social power grab.
The solution: NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NUKES IS BOMBZ!!! Let's put a ton or three of batteries in your place and hook up some solar panels, regardless of suitability! And things'll magically be unicorn ponies that fart rainbows!
But hey, you're blaming the problem on the people trying to "fix" them!
Methinks someone has confused the terms "fix" with "scuttle".
Gen1 and Gen2 Rifts are nice rich-boy gadgets. But of EXTREMELY limited utility, as the side-effects of working with them are still as bad as they are.
The guy was put under an electron microscope the second this hot issue came up.
Had this not been as controversial as it was, I SERIOUSLY doubt that he or the issue would have had that kind of all-seeing scrutiny.
In many cases, skulduggery requires apathy and/or ignorance from the general public.
The Comcast/TWC merger had a few octillion candle power focused on it from all directions.
You had consumers going "FUCK NO!" by the millions.
You had reportage going "FUCK NO!"
Hell, you had POLITICIANS going "FUCK NO!"
Had he rubber-stamped this merger, all manner of people would have been howling for blood. He'd be removed from his position, and the ensuing legal and political inquiries would have essentially ended his life and neutered any prospect of future employment.
So, with pretty much EVERYONE standing over his shoulder (with club in hand), he was FORCED to play it straight.
I hope that the elected officials in Congress, that promised to serve the public, actually read the bills before voting on them.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That's funny.
Basically, officials care about three things:
1) Did THEY get money out of it? 2) Is one of their pork projects rider'ed in on the bill? 3) Was primary authorship of said bill under the proper wing of the US Political Monoparty?
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Mostly because out-of-the-box, Dynamics is good for exactly jack and shit. It requires extensive work to be made even marginally usable.
Salesforce, while not necessarily one-size-fits-all, is at least marginally useful from the get-go (though that could be a fluke).
Oh I dunno.
Current versions of Dynamics are so bad it's nearly impossible to get simple db backups, let alone meaningful data exports.
Okay, what do you expect? NYC (in one form or another) has been there for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS (the area was first settled in 1624). It's been a massive metropolitan settlement for the better part of the last two hundred.
It's not as if someone went back to 1700 or so and started out with a city planning commission and 2015-level civil engineering technology.
So yes, the city's going to be ANYTHING but efficiently run, plumbed, or laid out.
There are also 8.5 MILLION PEOPLE in the NYC metropolitan area.
As part of the US Northeast Megalopolis, it's the center of a population of 53 million people.
Even if everyone was a card-carrying Greenpeace member, that's STILL a metric fuckton of waste. Urban living simply can't be environmentally neutral.
But, for that matter, living in a cave isn't environmentally neutral either.
Even with the cleanest, most environmentally conscious methods of living close to nature, over time a primitive community's garbage midden will overwhelm it.
But hey, if you want to volunteer to be one of the people forced to shiver in a cave because modern society is so wasteful, be my guest.
A better and more humane course of action would be to adapt over time. Nothing lasts forever, not even NYC. It can, slowly, be rebuilt and repurposed, given a long enough time frame.
Plus, of course, it's still not that rare for people elsewhere in "IT" to switch over to software development at some point. They may actually be willing to take a salary cut and work for entry-level pay if that's what it takes to make the switch.
There are many reasons why pay alone doesn't "keep the old guys away", and some companies really do only want young workers. They tend to be very exploitative companies, however, banking on someone in their first job not recognizing how badly they're being used. Age discrimination may well be low on the list of sins for some of these companies.
This pretty much says it all right here.
They might as well advertise for "Naive, spinless young suckers who'll do anything for a buck."
Warp speed ahead.
That's like trying to rob the donut joint across the street from a police station...
Well, either that or Steve Buscemi humping a nuke.
So we should not remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but we should cut down our carbon dioxide emission?
Where is the credibility? It seems like global warming alarmists are trying to force their solutions down people throat. What is the difference between them and systemd supporters? Nothing much really.
Please, before you go off on me as if I were some lazy denier, try taking the time to READ what I said.
I'm saying that the science behind a geoengineering project needs to be HEAVILY scrutinized, as Doing It Wrong could be EXTREMELY detrimental to life on this planet.
I'm also saying that there needs to be a certain unity of action from all nations on the planet. Having North America and western Europe "resolve" to do something means exactly jack-shit if South America, Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia aren't on board.
Tell you what I'm getting tired of, these assholes who come along and say "We don't think anything's wrong, so full speed ahead! Burn that coal, oil, and wood! We're all gonna be fine," no matter what the evidence actually tells us. It is considered ill-mannered, in my country, to kill your friends will committing suicide
Hey, you're preaching to the choir here. I'm not 100% sold, but I'm a big fan of "let's leave the planet better than we found it". If that means killing the burning of fossil fuels? Okay!
But simply doing "anything", or worse, badly coordinated "anything" is a recipe for disaster.
Okay! Say it with my (like an asthmatic chihuahua).
SPACE!!! MADNESS!!!
No. It's that geoengineering can be dangerous on a scale usually reserved for asteroid impacts and total thermonuclear war.
Done right? Sure, it could be beneficial.
Done wrong? And you could not only not fix the problems the project was designed to fix. But you could exacerbate them, or create entirely new problems. A Best Case Scenario for something like this is billions to quadrillions of dollars wasted and nothing happens.
What's being argued, right now, is that we don't have a sufficient grasp on the technology, or a suitably unified scientific/sociopolitical agenda.
With with Lithium Ion's charge cycle limits.
That's the thing.
Those costs ARE factored into what you pay for power.
If they weren't, the power companies would be going broke.
I think you've overestimated exactly how much power one of these batteries stores and how long it lasts.
Steve Jobs merely made trinkets for douchebags with too much money.
Musk, as self-aggrandizing as he may be, at least is genuinely trying to make the world a slightly better place (while making a buck at the same time).
People need to stop thinking in terms of 'its more expensive than conventional power.' That is the wrong way to look at this, IMHO.
No. This is EXACTLY the way people need to look at it.
Cost vs benefit. If a solution is uneconomical NOW, buying it is a silly splurge, like buying a $100,000 sports car as your daily driver in Alaska when what you need is a $30,000 4x4 truck.
That, "SOME DAY" it might be more economical to install an identical system does not change the fact that it's still a silly splurge NOW.
If the system does NOT pay for itself over a reasonable period of time (and within the lifetime of the product warranty), you're splurging. Not spending wisely.
I remember Descent and Terminal Velocity, etc. I can't even imagine getting sick just playing them.
I know, right?
Hell, I didn't even completely "cure" myself.
I'm fine when I'm playing. But I *still* cannot watch someone else play.
Learning to drive doesn't make people nauseous, give them cold sweats, give them vertigo, trigger headaches (traffic does that, learning doesn't).
Back when 3D cards first became available for general consumption, I bought one and conditioned myself to 3D by the simple expedient of playing Descent until I horked. Then playing till I horked again. Rinse mouth out and repeat.
Yeah. I was young and stupid.
Now, 20-ish years on? If you told me I had to do that all over again, I wouldn't bother.
blame the problem on the people trying to fix things.
So, kinda like The Inquisition.
The problem: Ignorance of the masses, widespread fear, and the church trying to edge early medical practitioners out in a social power grab.
The solution: BURN THE WITCH!
And modern power:
The problem: Ignorance of the masses, widespread fear and environmentalists trying to edge out power companies for mindshare in a social power grab.
The solution: NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NO NUKES! NUKES IS BOMBZ!!! Let's put a ton or three of batteries in your place and hook up some solar panels, regardless of suitability! And things'll magically be unicorn ponies that fart rainbows!
But hey, you're blaming the problem on the people trying to "fix" them!
Methinks someone has confused the terms "fix" with "scuttle".
Seriously. That's all that's happening here. Pepsi's going to move on to another sweetener that's probably worse for you than Aspartame.
Seriously.
Gen1 and Gen2 Rifts are nice rich-boy gadgets. But of EXTREMELY limited utility, as the side-effects of working with them are still as bad as they are.
Okay, let's be honest here.
The guy was put under an electron microscope the second this hot issue came up.
Had this not been as controversial as it was, I SERIOUSLY doubt that he or the issue would have had that kind of all-seeing scrutiny.
In many cases, skulduggery requires apathy and/or ignorance from the general public.
The Comcast/TWC merger had a few octillion candle power focused on it from all directions.
You had consumers going "FUCK NO!" by the millions.
You had reportage going "FUCK NO!"
Hell, you had POLITICIANS going "FUCK NO!"
Had he rubber-stamped this merger, all manner of people would have been howling for blood. He'd be removed from his position, and the ensuing legal and political inquiries would have essentially ended his life and neutered any prospect of future employment.
So, with pretty much EVERYONE standing over his shoulder (with club in hand), he was FORCED to play it straight.
I hope that the elected officials in Congress, that promised to serve the public, actually read the bills before voting on them.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That's funny.
Basically, officials care about three things:
1) Did THEY get money out of it?
2) Is one of their pork projects rider'ed in on the bill?
3) Was primary authorship of said bill under the proper wing of the US Political Monoparty?
Looks like at least 8 climbers dead from the avalanches at Everest.
Damn...
Nah. Unity was the first stab of seppuku.
Systemd was the jumonji giri.