If you are concerned about carbon in the environment and do not support fission for electrical generation, You Are Not Really Concerned About Carbon.
No, that is complete bollocks.
No. Actually it's not.
If you purport to be concerned about carbon in the environment, and you don't support modern fission for electrical generation?
You, quite simply, have NOT thought through the equation well enough.
While some of the renewables COULD be built to a point that you could use them, in conjunction, for base load, the main problem is that the power STORAGE technology for such an undertaking just doesn't exist.
Without that, the build-out for a complete system is several orders of magnitude LARGER and several more orders of magnitude more intricate. This makes them totally unfeasible from pretty much EVERY logistical standpoint.
Yes, granted, we COULD build enough nuclear capacity to cover energy consumption for the entire planet for years/decades/centuries to come (both base and peak).
That's uneconomical. We're better off building nuclear to cover base load in the truly foreseeable future (basically over the 50 year lifespan of a typical generator), and then augmenting with renewables for peaks.
Once that's done, LOTS of research (and MONEY) needs to be poured into two things.
1: Fusion 2: Improvement of storage technologies/methods.
Reduce human population to that which can be sustained without modern power generation
Any population reduction effort begins with education, unless the state of your education system is so abysmal that you have to start punishing people for having too many children.
Unfortunately, you still can't fix stupid. Even with education.
And stupid people will continue to breed like rabbits.
And, while they are still debating all this, nuclear has been and continues to be the single energy technology that has already offset huge amounts of carbon generation. Nobody seems to want to give nuclear credit for what its already done.
Of course not!
Noo-kyoo-luhr = BOMBZ!
BOMZ! = EVIL!
Good people don't like EVIL!
Therefore, the unthinking masses have turned power generation from a science and a business into a popularity contest.
Now think about how much is going up smokestacks throughout Asia, without all the "stringent" environmental controls that the US plants have to comply with.
Considering that the first thing he does when thwarted is try to inflict harm on people he disagrees with? And the fact that he openly associated himself with an international "hacktivist" network that was breaking into government-affiliated websites (among other forms of mischeif)? That he's had a history of anti-government rhetoric that condones the use of violence?
He's basically shown that, unless he's ACTIVELY prevented from doing this shit, he's going to continue to do it. Regardless of the consequences.
So, putting him away and denying him access to a computing device, while not PERMANENT, *is* a solution.
It also sends a message to others that if you're a recalcitrant jackass like Jeremy Hammond is, and you follow his example, Bad Things are going to happen to you too.
You're entirely free to keep using pre-systemd versions of your preferred distribution, but that isn't enough, is it?
You are entirely free to keep using Windows Millennium Edition instead of Windows 7/8/10, but that isn't enough, is it?
On a less snarky note: Due to the interdependency of some packages, your "option"...isn't one. And running older versions with known security/stability issues is a pretty fucking shitty compromise.
The issue is NOT that Debian has decided to slob the systemd knob.
It is that they've essentially leg-shackled their entire distro to it in a way that:
A) Breaks lots of things, badly B) Doesn't make ANY allowances for the option of alternate/legacy bootloaders
I could go on. But you've chugged your Kool-Aid like a good little citizen of Jonestown. So anything I'm saying is simply going to bounce off your True Belief.
Break into computer resources you're not supposed to have access to and be violently anti-government (emphasis on VIOLENTLY). Watch List. Steal millions worth of credit card info and make donations to charity that later get yanked, hurting the charity? Watch list. Go to jail for some of this stuff. Watch list.
Okay first off, I have the displeasure of knowing Jeremy Hammond. Personally.
My basic opinion? He's an unthinking jackass.
He also does have a history of violence and acting out when he doesn't get his way.
He got ten years, not because what he did was a jackass stunt.
He got ten years because he's a REPEAT OFFENDER. He was busted back in 2006 for doing the same exact thing to a site called ProtestWarrior. He went to jail for 18 months.
And if he's in solitary (not "solidarity" comrade), it's due almost entirely to his abrasive personality. Hammond is the type of person who immediately becomes offensive if you disagree with him even a little. Being dropped in solitary is likely preventing him from being shanked.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable
Blame the admongers.
Small, unobtrusive ads on a site, nobody really gives a shit about these.
But huge, noisy, flashing, screen-stealing, malware-injecting, movement tracking crap from the unscrupulous ad community is what drove people to create this stuff IN THE FIRST PLACE.
What you're doing is blaming a vaccine for the disease.
There should be procedure in place to allow for a municipal build-out if the municipality can document either a a rebuff from major local providers or total lack of response to multiple requests with a 60 day waiting period between request and assumed "rebuff".
If providers flat out decline to provide for the area, they should have no say in the area providing for itself.
Considering I spent most of my G3-G7 years getting the shit kicked out of me in full sight of teachers who just stood there and did nothing but tell me I MUST have done something to deserve it or grab me and take me to the principal's office as the instigator when all I was doing was fighting back.
With that firmly in mind, most of the people I went to school with, and most of the teachers from those particular grades can just burn in fucking hell for all I care.
You may be right. Apple did not create the smartphone segment. What Apple did was create a whole new market segment: Pocket computers, that could make phone calls. (well, technically, mp3 players that could make phone calls...).
No, because more primitive devices (like Blackberries) offered similar functionality prior. They just didn't package and present it as nicely.
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If you are concerned about carbon in the environment and do not support fission for electrical generation, You Are Not Really Concerned About Carbon.
No, that is complete bollocks.
No. Actually it's not.
If you purport to be concerned about carbon in the environment, and you don't support modern fission for electrical generation?
You, quite simply, have NOT thought through the equation well enough.
While some of the renewables COULD be built to a point that you could use them, in conjunction, for base load, the main problem is that the power STORAGE technology for such an undertaking just doesn't exist.
Without that, the build-out for a complete system is several orders of magnitude LARGER and several more orders of magnitude more intricate. This makes them totally unfeasible from pretty much EVERY logistical standpoint.
Yes, granted, we COULD build enough nuclear capacity to cover energy consumption for the entire planet for years/decades/centuries to come (both base and peak).
That's uneconomical. We're better off building nuclear to cover base load in the truly foreseeable future (basically over the 50 year lifespan of a typical generator), and then augmenting with renewables for peaks.
Once that's done, LOTS of research (and MONEY) needs to be poured into two things.
1: Fusion
2: Improvement of storage technologies/methods.
Reduce human population to that which can be sustained without modern power generation
Any population reduction effort begins with education, unless the state of your education system is so abysmal that you have to start punishing people for having too many children.
Unfortunately, you still can't fix stupid. Even with education.
And stupid people will continue to breed like rabbits.
And, while they are still debating all this, nuclear has been and continues to be the single energy technology that has already offset huge amounts of carbon generation. Nobody seems to want to give nuclear credit for what its already done.
Of course not!
Noo-kyoo-luhr = BOMBZ!
BOMZ! = EVIL!
Good people don't like EVIL!
Therefore, the unthinking masses have turned power generation from a science and a business into a popularity contest.
Now think about how much is going up smokestacks throughout Asia, without all the "stringent" environmental controls that the US plants have to comply with.
That's great for SoCal in the summer.
Try applying that to Chicago in the middle of winter.
Or nobody could care?
I thought the real Dread Pirate Spartacus Montoya was living like a king in Patagonia.
I am the Dread Pirate Spartacus Montoya.
I am not left handed.
Prepare to die!
Inigo Montoya. You should be familiar with the rest of this by now.
*STAB!*
Because it's not about finding a more effective means of producing biofuel.
It's about being a subsidy to Big Corn industry.
That and having to replace engine seals frequently.
One of the main problems high-E engines is the Ethanol tends to eat the seals, even on engines designed to handle high-E fuel.
Try reading the ENTIRE post next time douchebag.
Well,
Considering that the first thing he does when thwarted is try to inflict harm on people he disagrees with?
And the fact that he openly associated himself with an international "hacktivist" network that was breaking into government-affiliated websites (among other forms of mischeif)?
That he's had a history of anti-government rhetoric that condones the use of violence?
Even in jail, there are people who understand the concept of a social filter.
Hammond has none. I mean NONE.
Does it "solve" the problem?
Depends on how you define the problem.
He's basically shown that, unless he's ACTIVELY prevented from doing this shit, he's going to continue to do it. Regardless of the consequences.
So, putting him away and denying him access to a computing device, while not PERMANENT, *is* a solution.
It also sends a message to others that if you're a recalcitrant jackass like Jeremy Hammond is, and you follow his example, Bad Things are going to happen to you too.
Not sure why this is even an issue.
You're entirely free to keep using pre-systemd versions of your preferred distribution, but that isn't enough, is it?
You are entirely free to keep using Windows Millennium Edition instead of Windows 7/8/10, but that isn't enough, is it?
On a less snarky note: Due to the interdependency of some packages, your "option"...isn't one. And running older versions with known security/stability issues is a pretty fucking shitty compromise.
The issue is NOT that Debian has decided to slob the systemd knob.
It is that they've essentially leg-shackled their entire distro to it in a way that:
A) Breaks lots of things, badly
B) Doesn't make ANY allowances for the option of alternate/legacy bootloaders
I could go on. But you've chugged your Kool-Aid like a good little citizen of Jonestown. So anything I'm saying is simply going to bounce off your True Belief.
As I've pointed out elsewhere.
Hammond didn't get 10 years just for this offense.
He's a repeat offender. He went away for a 2 year sentence for a nearly identical offense previously.
So there's an impetus to harsher sentencing for a repeat offense.
Break into computer resources you're not supposed to have access to and be violently anti-government (emphasis on VIOLENTLY). Watch List.
Steal millions worth of credit card info and make donations to charity that later get yanked, hurting the charity? Watch list.
Go to jail for some of this stuff. Watch list.
Okay first off, I have the displeasure of knowing Jeremy Hammond. Personally.
My basic opinion? He's an unthinking jackass.
He also does have a history of violence and acting out when he doesn't get his way.
He got ten years, not because what he did was a jackass stunt.
He got ten years because he's a REPEAT OFFENDER. He was busted back in 2006 for doing the same exact thing to a site called ProtestWarrior. He went to jail for 18 months.
And if he's in solitary (not "solidarity" comrade), it's due almost entirely to his abrasive personality. Hammond is the type of person who immediately becomes offensive if you disagree with him even a little. Being dropped in solitary is likely preventing him from being shanked.
Everyone running ad blocking software is not sustainable
Blame the admongers.
Small, unobtrusive ads on a site, nobody really gives a shit about these.
But huge, noisy, flashing, screen-stealing, malware-injecting, movement tracking crap from the unscrupulous ad community is what drove people to create this stuff IN THE FIRST PLACE.
What you're doing is blaming a vaccine for the disease.
So long as the above companies are complying with the acceptable ad policy, meant to keep ads from being obtrusive, does it really matter?
I know some people are like "No ads, no compromise". If that's the case, get Greasemonkey and go to town.
But, on a more realistic note, this company is putting out this product for free to end-users.
There should be procedure in place to allow for a municipal build-out if the municipality can document either a a rebuff from major local providers or total lack of response to multiple requests with a 60 day waiting period between request and assumed "rebuff".
If providers flat out decline to provide for the area, they should have no say in the area providing for itself.
Considering I spent most of my G3-G7 years getting the shit kicked out of me in full sight of teachers who just stood there and did nothing but tell me I MUST have done something to deserve it or grab me and take me to the principal's office as the instigator when all I was doing was fighting back.
With that firmly in mind, most of the people I went to school with, and most of the teachers from those particular grades can just burn in fucking hell for all I care.
You may be right. Apple did not create the smartphone segment. What Apple did was create a whole new market segment: Pocket computers, that could make phone calls. (well, technically, mp3 players that could make phone calls...).
No, because more primitive devices (like Blackberries) offered similar functionality prior. They just didn't package and present it as nicely.
No. Just widely (if not well) read, with a fairly astonishing retention number.