When will people get over their petty fears of nuclear ENERGY
It's not the nuclear (as in fission) energy per se but the waste that troubles most people.
I do not trust the lets-hide-our-head-in-the-sand waste disposal process and therefore I find it extremely hard to advocate nuclear power. In fact, I seriously campaigned against our fifth nuclear power plant in favour of CURBING the growth of national energy consumption.
If curbing the growth of energy consumption proves out to be impossible in the short term (in the long term it is unsustainable anyway), the only reason I'm willing to consider nuclear power is that other forms of "green" power also have significant problems with having to rely on high tech electronics/batteries/materials the production/disposal of which seriously burdens the environment. Even if I am a greenie, in the short term, nuclear power is better than coal and oil. In the long run, we definitely should drop fission.
Come on. I don't know if you're a Finn, but even in European context Finnish socialists are to the left of the centre.
But then again the whole right vs. left confrontation is flawed. For instance, the Greens are at the centre when it comes to the economy, but definitely on the left (liberal) when it comes to social issues. The world's not one dimensional.
Yes indeed, but crowbars don't kill at a distance. As it is with knives, it takes much more effort to kill someone at close range. In a gunless society, it's a rare burglar that resorts to lethal force unless provoked. Losing some of your property is a non-issue anyway.
I want legal access to the same weapons and tools to which criminals have illegal access.
But doesn't that mean access to every conceivable weapon? Surely you're not advocating that a citizen should be allowed to own M249s or PKs, for instance?
To what end? For home protection? Having grown up in a socialist nanny state, I've never quite understood how having guns at home would make one safer. Criminals will know that you're armed, so the logical step is to get a bigger gun and to be more inclined to use it. Who do you think will win in this arms-race?
"One old PC" in another building is mighty fine if you can afford that other building and the bandwidth to transfer hundreds of megabytes every night (or are you actually advocating the use of incremental/differential backups **shudder**?).
Having the "one old PC" in the same room with the computer you're backing up is just pointless. If your place burns down or is robbed, both of them will be gone regardless of all the fancy RAID arrays you might have set up.
It's much easier to cycle tapes. Cycle tapes and take the latest tape to work with you, for instance. What I guess I was getting at in my original post was that there aren't tapes with enough capacity. Instead of relying on rigged solutions like "remote backups on some old PC", more emphasis should be placed on developing tapes with more capacity. Tapes are not obsolete.
Unfortunately, this treaty is null and void unless there's a clear and immediate political fallout from being in breach of it. Things like global warming, melting ice-caps, desertification of southern Europe/Corn Belt USA and flooding of coastal areas are non-issues until they become political issues.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not the nuclear (as in fission) energy per se but the waste that troubles most people.
I do not trust the lets-hide-our-head-in-the-sand waste disposal process and therefore I find it extremely hard to advocate nuclear power. In fact, I seriously campaigned against our fifth nuclear power plant in favour of CURBING the growth of national energy consumption.
If curbing the growth of energy consumption proves out to be impossible in the short term (in the long term it is unsustainable anyway), the only reason I'm willing to consider nuclear power is that other forms of "green" power also have significant problems with having to rely on high tech electronics/batteries/materials the production/disposal of which seriously burdens the environment. Even if I am a greenie, in the short term, nuclear power is better than coal and oil. In the long run, we definitely should drop fission.
Where does the cost of pollution fit in your supply/demand curves?
Aha! So it was MD5 and not MP5...
But then again the whole right vs. left confrontation is flawed. For instance, the Greens are at the centre when it comes to the economy, but definitely on the left (liberal) when it comes to social issues. The world's not one dimensional.
Any idea when SCO will finally die?
Heh. Sounds a lot like many horrid amateur websites or Powerpoint presentations that I've seen.
I hate reading/producing anything longer than a post-it note that's in handwriting.
I still think that's the smartest move I've ever done.
And do what?
And why would you want to retire?
Yes indeed, but crowbars don't kill at a distance. As it is with knives, it takes much more effort to kill someone at close range. In a gunless society, it's a rare burglar that resorts to lethal force unless provoked. Losing some of your property is a non-issue anyway.
I want legal access to the same weapons and tools to which criminals have illegal access.
But doesn't that mean access to every conceivable weapon? Surely you're not advocating that a citizen should be allowed to own M249s or PKs, for instance?
To what end? For home protection? Having grown up in a socialist nanny state, I've never quite understood how having guns at home would make one safer. Criminals will know that you're armed, so the logical step is to get a bigger gun and to be more inclined to use it. Who do you think will win in this arms-race?
Having the "one old PC" in the same room with the computer you're backing up is just pointless. If your place burns down or is robbed, both of them will be gone regardless of all the fancy RAID arrays you might have set up.
It's much easier to cycle tapes. Cycle tapes and take the latest tape to work with you, for instance. What I guess I was getting at in my original post was that there aren't tapes with enough capacity. Instead of relying on rigged solutions like "remote backups on some old PC", more emphasis should be placed on developing tapes with more capacity. Tapes are not obsolete.
There's a slight difference in effort between cycling drives and cycling tapes.
Ok. I deserved that.
Never dropped your computer from a height?
Uh. I hope not.
Tapes are the most reliable and versatile medium for massive data storage and even the tapes can't keep up with the demand.
On my home computer, I've got 500+ MB worth of results from simulations that I would like to back up but there's just no affordable way to do that.
And no, having the data on RAID-arrays or copying it onto spare hard drives is not "backing the data up".
Now where did you get the silly idea that political decisions have anything to do with the public good?
Oh wait. You haven't been involved in any decisions dealing out real political or financial power, right?
Does it come with a secret decoder ring?
Unfortunately, this treaty is null and void unless there's a clear and immediate political fallout from being in breach of it. Things like global warming, melting ice-caps, desertification of southern Europe/Corn Belt USA and flooding of coastal areas are non-issues until they become political issues.
Or what?
Watching C64/C128 and interlaced Amiga 500 screens on TV ruined my eyes? You must be lying! That's impossible!
I just don't know what "doing a phycological analysis of people" would actually mean...
Well, the Christmas Islands could always have the mighty goatse-guy as their envoy...
"You will either accept our terms or I will show..." ;)
But don't too upset. I'm sure dog-eat-dog-capitalism works rather well, too - at least for the shareholders.