Waste is nothing more than an untapped resource stream. The light fractions burned off at refineries for instance. Instead of burning it off at the stack, pipe it under low pressure to a power plant made to run on methane and natural gas.
Waste is waste; you can improve efficiency up to a point, but ultimately you're going to have unusable waste. Entropy is a bitch.
Seriously looking into alternatives to combustion for power generation, or at the least, adopting carbon neutral economies, would go a very long way as well.
Fine, you go work on that. Until you find them, we'll keep burning things. Wind has very limited potential. Photovoltaic is a joke. Nuclear is politically infeasible. Solar thermal is of unproven potential. As for carbon neutrality -- there's that entropy again. We can't grow enough fuel to replace petroleum and oil.
The issue you seem to have, is that you appear to be butthurt that "purpetual growth" would be laughed at, and your idea of prosperity requires infinite resources from the environment to attain, and such restrictions would put the kabosh on that hard.
So you admit your ideas will cause quality of life to go down?
You're completely and utterly full of shit. There is absolutely no reason why cutting pollution has to cause quality of life to go down. The only profits that will go down are the profits of shitty companies that refuse to adapt.
You mean like the ones who depend on power and transportation? Yeah, those companies are really shitty.
Civilized people behave civilized, barbaric people behave barbaric. Guess who's most likely to start a fight and who's most likely to win that fight?
The civilized people often plan and build weapons so when the barbaric people attack, they get clobbered by the civilized people. Do that in school and you end up in prison first time you try it, win or lose.
And that's how you get adults who are anti-social and awkward around other adults once they get into the "real world". The WORST thing you can do is take them out of a situation(s) where they cannot handle what's going on.
You think? How about throwing them back into it day after day for years, telling them any issues they have are their own fault and their own problem to solve, punishing them for trying to do so, and if they don't, punishing them for being bullied. That's the standard way of handling it, and it doesn't seem to have such a great outcome.
The really sad thing about all this advice is that kids, whether they are jocks or geeks, are dumb shits when it comes to understanding things social. It takes years of practice to get good at it.
On the contrary; both jocks and geeks are quite good at social things. But being good at it doesn't mean being high in the hierarchy. Jocks are good at being alpha and beta, geeks are good at being omega. Some people are just destined to be bottom dog.
Just change it to this ""If your house has been robbed, is it legal for you to break into the other persons house and steal your stuff back?"
Doesn't help; that's not a simple question either. The answer is sometimes and in some places yes, other times and in other places no.
Personally I'm all for self-help because the courts are useless for actual redress of small grievances; by the time you've gotten through the process, you'll have cost yourself more than letting the issue pass, and likely have lost anyway. Assuming you can get the government interested in doing anything at all, which in the case of stolen property is small and in the case of breaking into your personal computer is miniscule.
How can I possibly be responsible if conflicting botnets are duking it out through my thoroughly pwned computer? That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
...that so many people reject the claim just because Murdock or a supposed Republican organization is making it. Suppose for the sake of argument that Lukianoff really is just a Republican shill and ignores crimes against free speech committed by conservatives. Does that mean the crimes against free speech committed by liberals, that he highlights, are any less wrong?
Take the Fordham University event. Those on the left are quick to point out that Fordham didn't actually ban Coulter. But were McShane's strong words against her and "disappointed with the judgment and maturity" of College Republicans just that, or were they a veiled threat of consequences should the event go on?
Then theres the "condescending sex-based attitude" -- it turns out that yes, as the article says, displaying such is sexual harassment if said attitude is unwelcome.
The prohibition on "annoying" speech from Northeastern's systems is also true. (It also applies to "offensive" speech, again in the sole judgement of the administratrs).
Software Engineering, in the sense of the Seattle University program, is the attempt to reduce the production of software to a set of reproducible steps that any monkey (code monkey) could accomplish. You know, you start with your requirements, you proceed to a high-level design using object oriented design techniques, then you make a low level design, and finally, almost as an afterthought, you write code. As anyone who has been on a software project which attempts to follow this particular discipline knows, it doesn't work. It does, however, succeed in its secondary goal of turning an interesting job into a horrible grind.
I suspect working on Windows is already a horrible grind, so it probably won't make much difference.
And remember, until every single of them has been found, communications doesn't work
That's not how it works. One jammer takes out one base station, and puts a hole in your network. It doesn't take out the whole network, despite the headline.
Interesting example you cite with Rodney King. What wasn't mentioned until well after the riots is that Rodney King was a known violent offender to the local police. More to the point he was a known violent offender high on drugs, with a gun - in his hand - and the cops were trying to get him to drop it instead of shooting him.
Don't make bullshit excuses for the cops. Rodney King did not have a gun. Nor was he high (he tested positive only for trace amounts of marijuana), though he was drunk.
Will it matter to you, as you're being knifed for being white in the wrong place, that 10 or 100 or 1000 black people somewhere didn't get a job somewhere that day because they were black, while only 0.01 white people didn't get a job because they were white?
Racism is racism; a racist act stands alone, and does NOT rely on the relative power of the races the individuals committing it belong to have effect. Members of the more powerful groups can of course do more damage by being racism, on the whole. But that doesn't mean that the members of less powerful groups cannot be racism.
Could it, perhaps, have something to do with the distribution of wealth and power between the two groups? Negative attitudes by members of one artificially delimited social group against another are irrelevant if the people doing the discrimination are powerless to act on their negative beliefs.
When you're being knifed for walking down a street in the wrong colored neighborhood, will it matter to you whether the thugs knifing you are of a social group generally significantly less powerful than your own?
The solution is inflation? Scuse me but wtf are you smoking? Inflation screws everyone. Especially the poor and working poor.
Just about everything screws the poor the most. Even when you set out to screw the rich, the poor take it on the chin. The very last issue of the New York Times will read "World to End At Midnight. Poor and Minorities hardest hit."
I take it you think these requirements are really unreasonable, but to me they seem reasonable.
Really? 16 years of experience? And note that's experience working under a P.E. who will sign off on it, not just any old experience. Plus references from 9 people including 5 P.E.? I don't think I even know 5 P.E.s. And I have almost 20 years of experience.
Know how many Professional Software Engineers there are in all of Texas? 78, of whom 63 are active. That's how onerous the process is.
Note that the ACM and the IEEE once had a joint project to develop professional standards for engineers. The ACM pulled out when it became clear the IEEE was going down the P.E. path.
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Search for "HDCP Master Key". Now HDCP is reduced to annoying honest people rather than copyright violators.
Waste is waste; you can improve efficiency up to a point, but ultimately you're going to have unusable waste. Entropy is a bitch.
Fine, you go work on that. Until you find them, we'll keep burning things. Wind has very limited potential. Photovoltaic is a joke. Nuclear is politically infeasible. Solar thermal is of unproven potential. As for carbon neutrality -- there's that entropy again. We can't grow enough fuel to replace petroleum and oil.
So you admit your ideas will cause quality of life to go down?
Ground penetrating radar is well within Israeli capabilities. I don't think they'll be digging any tunnels.
You mean like the ones who depend on power and transportation? Yeah, those companies are really shitty.
Then they haven't saved enough for retirement.
Right. If you want a fighting chance, you've got to put the bully down and out before he gets any help.
The bully will then knock it off... around that adult.
The civilized people often plan and build weapons so when the barbaric people attack, they get clobbered by the civilized people. Do that in school and you end up in prison first time you try it, win or lose.
You think? How about throwing them back into it day after day for years, telling them any issues they have are their own fault and their own problem to solve, punishing them for trying to do so, and if they don't, punishing them for being bullied. That's the standard way of handling it, and it doesn't seem to have such a great outcome.
On the contrary; both jocks and geeks are quite good at social things. But being good at it doesn't mean being high in the hierarchy. Jocks are good at being alpha and beta, geeks are good at being omega. Some people are just destined to be bottom dog.
Unless the talent is in a team sport.
...will be killed by the robots of those who don't.
Doesn't help; that's not a simple question either. The answer is sometimes and in some places yes, other times and in other places no.
Personally I'm all for self-help because the courts are useless for actual redress of small grievances; by the time you've gotten through the process, you'll have cost yourself more than letting the issue pass, and likely have lost anyway. Assuming you can get the government interested in doing anything at all, which in the case of stolen property is small and in the case of breaking into your personal computer is miniscule.
How can I possibly be responsible if conflicting botnets are duking it out through my thoroughly pwned computer? That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
...that so many people reject the claim just because Murdock or a supposed Republican organization is making it. Suppose for the sake of argument that Lukianoff really is just a Republican shill and ignores crimes against free speech committed by conservatives. Does that mean the crimes against free speech committed by liberals, that he highlights, are any less wrong?
Take the Fordham University event. Those on the left are quick to point out that Fordham didn't actually ban Coulter. But were McShane's strong words against her and "disappointed with the judgment and maturity" of College Republicans just that, or were they a veiled threat of consequences should the event go on?
Then theres the "condescending sex-based attitude" -- it turns out that yes, as the article says, displaying such is sexual harassment if said attitude is unwelcome.
The prohibition on "annoying" speech from Northeastern's systems is also true. (It also applies to "offensive" speech, again in the sole judgement of the administratrs).
My kingdom for a mod point! Voltaire could not have put it better.
The free were imprisoned and the brave got shot.
Software Engineering, in the sense of the Seattle University program, is the attempt to reduce the production of software to a set of reproducible steps that any monkey (code monkey) could accomplish. You know, you start with your requirements, you proceed to a high-level design using object oriented design techniques, then you make a low level design, and finally, almost as an afterthought, you write code. As anyone who has been on a software project which attempts to follow this particular discipline knows, it doesn't work. It does, however, succeed in its secondary goal of turning an interesting job into a horrible grind.
I suspect working on Windows is already a horrible grind, so it probably won't make much difference.
It's one of those rare things which works a lot better in practice than in theory.
That's not how it works. One jammer takes out one base station, and puts a hole in your network. It doesn't take out the whole network, despite the headline.
Don't make bullshit excuses for the cops. Rodney King did not have a gun. Nor was he high (he tested positive only for trace amounts of marijuana), though he was drunk.
Seems unlikely. Software pirate in a Mississippi prison? He'll be lucky if he survives the first night; he'll have AIDS within a week.
Will it matter to you, as you're being knifed for being white in the wrong place, that 10 or 100 or 1000 black people somewhere didn't get a job somewhere that day because they were black, while only 0.01 white people didn't get a job because they were white?
Racism is racism; a racist act stands alone, and does NOT rely on the relative power of the races the individuals committing it belong to have effect. Members of the more powerful groups can of course do more damage by being racism, on the whole. But that doesn't mean that the members of less powerful groups cannot be racism.
When you're being knifed for walking down a street in the wrong colored neighborhood, will it matter to you whether the thugs knifing you are of a social group generally significantly less powerful than your own?
Just about everything screws the poor the most. Even when you set out to screw the rich, the poor take it on the chin. The very last issue of the New York Times will read "World to End At Midnight. Poor and Minorities hardest hit."
Really? 16 years of experience? And note that's experience working under a P.E. who will sign off on it, not just any old experience. Plus references from 9 people including 5 P.E.? I don't think I even know 5 P.E.s. And I have almost 20 years of experience.
Know how many Professional Software Engineers there are in all of Texas? 78, of whom 63 are active. That's how onerous the process is.
Note that the ACM and the IEEE once had a joint project to develop professional standards for engineers. The ACM pulled out when it became clear the IEEE was going down the P.E. path.