All this disruption for a campaign that killed five people?
That's an interesting question - what price a human
life. Is 100 man years of inconvenience to everyone else worth say, one human life? Has anybody considered the thousands of man years invested in the WTC's
construction. In some ways, those lost years might
be considered part of the death toll. They have
to now be re-spent for reconstruction. Time that people could have spent living or with their families.
Which would lose is hard to predict and would depend
on the environment. For example Kangaroos are an
extremely hardy species. Yes, a lion could kill
one easy I guess. But would have a hard time wiping
out kangaroos as a species.
Yep sure this is better than nukes or coal. But it will probably destroy the natural environment of whatever used to sit underneath the thing. And you need a heck of a lot of them to replace all the coal. A bit like Hydro - it's free electricity, but
you have to dam up and destroy the environment to build the thing.
Can't we just use less electricity? We really don't need anywhere near as much as we use. Street lights? A waste. Neon? Waste. Heating? Need solar passive houses. The list goes on.
We do need a revolution in transport. Something
like a low three wheeled bike with a mini petrol
motor, weighing about 30kg would do the trick.
Keep it simple will solve our transport problems.
This segway gimmick won't.
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That's an interesting question - what price a human life. Is 100 man years of inconvenience to everyone else worth say, one human life? Has anybody considered the thousands of man years invested in the WTC's construction. In some ways, those lost years might be considered part of the death toll. They have to now be re-spent for reconstruction. Time that people could have spent living or with their families.
Which would lose is hard to predict and would depend
on the environment. For example Kangaroos are an
extremely hardy species. Yes, a lion could kill
one easy I guess. But would have a hard time wiping
out kangaroos as a species.
Yep sure this is better than nukes or coal. But it will probably destroy the natural environment of whatever used to sit underneath the thing. And you need a heck of a lot of them to replace all the coal. A bit like Hydro - it's free electricity, but
you have to dam up and destroy the environment to build the thing.
Can't we just use less electricity? We really don't need anywhere near as much as we use. Street lights? A waste. Neon? Waste. Heating? Need solar passive houses. The list goes on.
We do need a revolution in transport. Something
like a low three wheeled bike with a mini petrol
motor, weighing about 30kg would do the trick.
Keep it simple will solve our transport problems.
This segway gimmick won't.
Being the next language after Perl, is really NOT something you want to be bragging about.
I see that Sharp are also blocking Netscape 6 and Mozilla, just like MSN did.
Technically, you're right. But in a more
realistic sense, GPL software is community
owned.