I'm looking around, but I don't actually see any of today's nuclear.
Try naval nuclear. Reactor design has been forging ahead over the years. We just don't get to use it because of fear.
I'm not even saying current military design is the best since it must be portable but I have to assume that current engineering practice, unencumbered by politics, can build pretty good reactors.
Everyone keeps saying "You will save all this money if we socialize medicine" Bullshit.
I won't save anything. All this crap costs me far more than I spend on actual health care and I'm in my mid 60's.
I work my ass off to stay healthy.
Yes, I'm an old meany who doesn't want to be forced to pay for other peoples healthcare.
"What about when YOU need it?????". I want pay for what I use rather than pay a lot all the time for something I might not use.
The real goal for responsible adults should be how to reduce cost inflation's for healthcare products/services. Get the government totally out of healthcare. That would allow for true competition in the market when the various providers can't use the coercive power of government for rent seeking.
Just let providers offer any products they want and let me decide which if any I want to buy. The only legitimate role for government here is recourse for fraud.
Now THIS is the kind of world I like!
Fricken birds that drop fire from above. Kind of like small feathered dragons if you squint a little and mistake the dropped torch for breath.
In most sane countries, the proper response to non-active duty use of idle vehicles, as long as it was reasonable use...
In Minneapolis the cops drive their squad cars all the time even off duty. The LEO across the street from me said it was policy because it's thought that the presence of squad cars helps suppress some illegal activity. It gives the impression of more active patrols than are really scheduled. This is partly true because even an off duty cop might step in when needed.
I know that I liked having his squad car parked across the street at night.
I definitely felt that it had at least the potential for suppressing mischief.
America has a similar problem brewing with marriage age men who can't get wives, although here it's just the crappy economy rather than polygamy.
Wrong It's not like partnering up with someone could be economical (One bed, two incomes). And just look at the Great Depression, no one got married for years.
There's not a lot more dangerous in this world then a large group of men with no wives, no jobs and no future.
True.
See the Democratic party policies designed to destroy African-American family structure over the years.
When the population increases in an area, people are always driven to build more housing on the bad land. It's no surprise when 'expensive new housing' is flooded or beset upon by a hurricane. The 'bad land' is the places where there aren't already 100 year old structures.
Upvote, upvote, upvote.
I grew up going to NC outer banks for holidays. The Styrofoam stucco houses on the beach regularly get devastated while some of the first structures built are still there.
People in the 1600's and 1700's knew about the ocean and weather and built as high up as possible and as far from the beach as feasible.
Growing up we had part of a Slinky. But I straightened it.
You must have come from a wealthy family. All we had was a rock and a stick, and I had to wait until my older sister got dysentery and died before I could play with them.
You had a stick?!?
Damn, we used to look through holes in the fence to see rich kids with a stick. Hell, we couldn't begin to afford dysentery.
We had to beg on street corners just to rent leprosy for an evening. And not the good stuff either.
Singapore - the best example of how sometimes you need an authority to decide in favor of group rights over individual rights. Too much freedom can be a curse.
People who have been there or who live there know this - the private car ownership thing is just not the same. It's a reasonably small city, and has excellent public transport or taxis. I've been several times, I've never been in a private car there..
I have and my friends paid a small fortune for the privilege of having it.
Pretty much the case already.
They control car numbers by having a very expensive fee. They adjust it up or down to meter the number of cars in Singapore.
All this discussion of how to ban a type of car, how to make people do something "for their own good", how to reduce automobile pollution is stupidity manifested to an amazing degree.
Are there no experienced software developers on this forum at ALL??
For God's sake stop with the HOW and discuss the WHAT. What are the WHATs we're looking for here? Here are some "whats" I'd like to see: Less pollution, less fuel use, fewer traffic deaths, to name a few.
Now we can discuss HOW to get these. Here's how to get these great results without worrying at all about fuel consumption, type of fuel, even to some degree, safety features.
Just make a drivers license really hard to get and keep. Base it on demonstrated skill, tested every few years. Only allow someone to drive who can physically demonstrate superior driving in a hard test. Instant revocation for driving impaired in any way, e.g., any measurable blood alcohol and instant revocation regardless of being in an accident. Massive penalties for driving without a license. I'm sure you all get the point.
Far fewer drivers on the road and the one's that are driving are only the best drivers.
Then, who cares what kind of car you have? Giant SUV gas guzzler? Won't be enough on the road to really matter. Cast iron dashboards or what not? Too bad for you if you have a wreck.
All residential buildings have need for domestic water heating all year long.
This particular scheme might turn out not to be practical but the basic idea is great.
Rather than paying gobs of money to waste heat from a server farm, use it to heat something you need to heat anyway.
I bet we've all seen the situation at work where the company is heating the building with a conventional HVAC system and at the same time refrigerating the server room. This can be difficult to fix after construction, but should grow more common in the design phase as time goes by.
We already have plenty of welfare spending going on, only the recipients are defense contractors. Let's spend it on humans instead of corporations.
I agree that we're pissing away too much money on stupid stuff, but most of the money given to defense contractors actually goes to people working in that industry. It's really a workfare program for the highest tech possible jobs.
So, if you're into handing money out to people, and I'm not, the defense industry is probably the best from a tech development standpoint.
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Civilisation is paid for with taxes.
That's possibly the dumbest thing I've ever heard. No, government is paid for with taxes. To confuse government with civilization is sad. really sad.
Civilization happens in spite of government, not because of it.
Good government is the result of civilization, not the cause.
I'm looking around, but I don't actually see any of today's nuclear.
Try naval nuclear. Reactor design has been forging ahead over the years. We just don't get to use it because of fear.
I'm not even saying current military design is the best since it must be portable but I have to assume that current engineering practice, unencumbered by politics, can build pretty good reactors.
Also, why wouldn't an AI like gaming with meat gladiators? Plenty of work to go around.
you can save a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money.
Everyone keeps saying "You will save all this money if we socialize medicine" Bullshit.
I won't save anything. All this crap costs me far more than I spend on actual health care and I'm in my mid 60's.
I work my ass off to stay healthy. Yes, I'm an old meany who doesn't want to be forced to pay for other peoples healthcare. "What about when YOU need it?????". I want pay for what I use rather than pay a lot all the time for something I might not use.
The real goal for responsible adults should be how to reduce cost inflation's for healthcare products/services. Get the government totally out of healthcare. That would allow for true competition in the market when the various providers can't use the coercive power of government for rent seeking.
Just let providers offer any products they want and let me decide which if any I want to buy. The only legitimate role for government here is recourse for fraud.
... he knows HIS password!
Now THIS is the kind of world I like! Fricken birds that drop fire from above. Kind of like small feathered dragons if you squint a little and mistake the dropped torch for breath.
In most sane countries, the proper response to non-active duty use of idle vehicles, as long as it was reasonable use...
In Minneapolis the cops drive their squad cars all the time even off duty. The LEO across the street from me said it was policy because it's thought that the presence of squad cars helps suppress some illegal activity. It gives the impression of more active patrols than are really scheduled. This is partly true because even an off duty cop might step in when needed. I know that I liked having his squad car parked across the street at night.
I definitely felt that it had at least the potential for suppressing mischief.
... Maybe hit up a gay night club with an automatic weapon?
If you talking about the nightclub in Florida, I'm not aware of an automatic weapon being used.
Oh, you're just making stuff up for fun. Never mind.
America has a similar problem brewing with marriage age men who can't get wives, although here it's just the crappy economy rather than polygamy.
Wrong It's not like partnering up with someone could be economical (One bed, two incomes). And just look at the Great Depression, no one got married for years.
There's not a lot more dangerous in this world then a large group of men with no wives, no jobs and no future.
True. See the Democratic party policies designed to destroy African-American family structure over the years.
If Mars had a Racnoss ship as its core like Earth does it might have been better at sustaining life.
Until the children are awakened!
Until you're ready for social security and Medicare, at least. Then you'll scream and yell for entitlements.
It's not an entitlement if you paid for it, ya moron.
It's an entitlement when participation is mandatory and the payments have at best a loose relationship with "benefits".
Like other mediocre franchises like "Highlander", or "Iron Man", Star Wars might be more fondly remembered had it been a one-off, like "The Matrix".
Uh, you do know that there were 3 Matrix movies and the sequels sucked, right?
When the population increases in an area, people are always driven to build more housing on the bad land. It's no surprise when 'expensive new housing' is flooded or beset upon by a hurricane. The 'bad land' is the places where there aren't already 100 year old structures.
Upvote, upvote, upvote.
I grew up going to NC outer banks for holidays. The Styrofoam stucco houses on the beach regularly get devastated while some of the first structures built are still there. People in the 1600's and 1700's knew about the ocean and weather and built as high up as possible and as far from the beach as feasible.
You must have come from a wealthy family. All we had was a rock and a stick, and I had to wait until my older sister got dysentery and died before I could play with them.
You had a stick?!?
Damn, we used to look through holes in the fence to see rich kids with a stick. Hell, we couldn't begin to afford dysentery.
We had to beg on street corners just to rent leprosy for an evening. And not the good stuff either.
Had to post it: Dogs vs cats
Especially if one has his/her hands on an Excel spreadsheet.
... people would advocate tearing down the pyramids which, for all their architectural genius, were built at a cost of thousands of lives.
Definitely tear it down. Carefully cataloging every piece and location. Measure and photograph exhaustively and then re-assemble exactly.
Then we'd know. No more guesses or conspiracies. We'd just know.
Singapore - the best example of how sometimes you need an authority to decide in favor of group rights over individual rights. Too much freedom can be a curse.
And this is how it starts. Fascism in 4, 3, 2....
People who have been there or who live there know this - the private car ownership thing is just not the same. It's a reasonably small city, and has excellent public transport or taxis. I've been several times, I've never been in a private car there. .
I have and my friends paid a small fortune for the privilege of having it.
Pretty much the case already. They control car numbers by having a very expensive fee. They adjust it up or down to meter the number of cars in Singapore.
Different tools for different purposes. I have both.
Are there no experienced software developers on this forum at ALL??
For God's sake stop with the HOW and discuss the WHAT. What are the WHATs we're looking for here? Here are some "whats" I'd like to see: Less pollution, less fuel use, fewer traffic deaths, to name a few.
Now we can discuss HOW to get these. Here's how to get these great results without worrying at all about fuel consumption, type of fuel, even to some degree, safety features.
Just make a drivers license really hard to get and keep. Base it on demonstrated skill, tested every few years. Only allow someone to drive who can physically demonstrate superior driving in a hard test. Instant revocation for driving impaired in any way, e.g., any measurable blood alcohol and instant revocation regardless of being in an accident. Massive penalties for driving without a license. I'm sure you all get the point.
Far fewer drivers on the road and the one's that are driving are only the best drivers.
Then, who cares what kind of car you have? Giant SUV gas guzzler? Won't be enough on the road to really matter. Cast iron dashboards or what not? Too bad for you if you have a wreck.
This particular scheme might turn out not to be practical but the basic idea is great.
Rather than paying gobs of money to waste heat from a server farm, use it to heat something you need to heat anyway.
I bet we've all seen the situation at work where the company is heating the building with a conventional HVAC system and at the same time refrigerating the server room. This can be difficult to fix after construction, but should grow more common in the design phase as time goes by.
We already have plenty of welfare spending going on, only the recipients are defense contractors. Let's spend it on humans instead of corporations.
I agree that we're pissing away too much money on stupid stuff, but most of the money given to defense contractors actually goes to people working in that industry. It's really a workfare program for the highest tech possible jobs.
So, if you're into handing money out to people, and I'm not, the defense industry is probably the best from a tech development standpoint.
Great idea except where do you get sustainable funding for it?
Volume!