Wow, shame I can't mod this comment up because it's extremely thoughtful.
Any radioactivity associated with N.P. is inherently assumed to be bad and probably rightfully so. ( I don't know either )
Nuclear however appears to be the ONLY fuel capable of supplying our needs. It gets a bad rap because of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Nuclear today is not your father's nuclear. I wish people would realize THAT.
Every other unrealistic idea has us completely shutting our energy usage down and replacing it with solar or wind. NOT realistic. People will NOT do this. We'll continue to pollute until we die. Hell we're dying already. Some on the right love to portray the idea that there is some debate in the scientific community about global warming. There IS no debate on global warming. It exists and we are making it worse just like a goldfish that craps in his bowl and you don't change the water. Maybe they think that the rapture is going to make it all irrelevent.
Our energy usage is so out of control and we will not be turning back so we either have to cut down (won't happen, especially since China is slowly modernizing) or we find a replacement. I'm not sure I would hold France's nuclear 1.0 as being a great example and we probably shouldn't since it's dated technology.
The only drawback is what to do with the waste and I'm not sure so sure we have the time to figure this one out before we start using it. Even one of Greenpeace's founders has reversed position on nuclear power. If nothing else use nuclear until we have in place a good solar/wind grid in place after solar/wind technology has become a reasonable replacement.
I like Pickens' idea of converting to both electric and natural gas. Semis can't run on electric but they can on NatGas. Convert heavy vehicles to NatGas and resurrect the EV-1 technology for cars. NatGas burns mostly clean and the EV-1 cars can be recharged via clean nuclear power plants.
There are always going to be terrorists, just safeguard the stuff better.
As the internet matures more and more, questionable legal methods are only going to get more and more defined.
Remember in the bad old days (7-8 years ago) when there were legal threats being brought for things like "deep linking"?
Back when the technology was new (compared to the legal system's understanding of it) I can see where the RIAA might have been able to strongarm people just by saying "we know you're doing it" but that's getting harder and harder to do.
Thank heavens for progress.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale.
Maybe using it to stop a missile from reaching Israel.......
Well good luck collecting it. Mod me down if you must but I just don't see the point in awarding ridiculous amounts that will never be collected. Besides who even knows if that IS the real amount justified?
Reminds me of companies saying how hackers cost them gazillions of dollars because they copied a manual or some dumb shit back in the late 80s/early 90s.
Guess I'm a cynic about any judgements being made by non technical people on technical issues. Not that spam is rocket surgery....
This is a loaded question to begin with. It assumes that a soul is actually something that is real to begin with. If you have a heart, it's easy to see, just reach inside and pull it out and you'll see that it's a pumping muscular mass. Same with your brain, just cut open your head and pull out a gray mass.
What doesn't exist however is ego, yet we do everything to protect it.
Ultimately the question comes to the realization that all we truly know about life is that it begins and ends and that's the extent of it.
Pondering a soul or an afterlife eventually becomes a pointless exercise. It's like being in a burning house and pondering the architect.
Perhaps a more interesting question is whether or not machine will be sentient. If a machine can ask or give compassion, then sure why not?
Yahoo! has lost the search engine war. If M$ buys Yahoo! they will basically whore out the Yahoo! page with ads and compete just as ineffectively as they always have.
Google is ahead because M$ and Yahoo! don't know how to give the people what they want and until they get that down, they are doomed to failure.
Google has always been in the dominant position because, let's face it, Google doesn't HAVE to buy Yahoo! They might buy Yahoo! to keep M$ from getting them but if it's too difficult why should they?
As everyone knows who knows anything about Carl Icahn it's this: he has a history of buying companies, stripping off the good parts and profiting. Now that he has two people on Yahoo!'s board and Google's unwillingness to help, it's almost a sure bet that M$ is going to get the search engine part........and they will fail ultimately in the search engine arena.
It's still some corporation that thinks they know what it is I want to see.. right off the bat I tried...
1. XTC
2. Wall of Voodoo
3. Human League
Granted these are niche bands...nothing on any of these.
When MTV gets around to allowing users to upload videos and then replacing them with their own pristine copies, I'll be impressed. Maybe they should have tried THAT model.
Remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Now it's a darling because it learned a valuable lesson....
Ultimately companies that create standards will eventually have to transition to a company that contributes to them.
I'm no M$ fan at all and that goes back a ways for me. On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be showing signs that they have accepted open source as something that's here to stay (although they hate it).
Next up on the radar? Google
Once they became a publicly traded company, responsible for only making a profit for their shareholders, it appears more and more like their motto should transition to "We do less evil than everyone else"
Hey! HEY! Speaking as a Kentuckian there are many things we are proud of. Especially our invention of the toothbrush which if it had happened anywhere else would've been called teethbrush.
I'll be here all week enjoy the squirrel stew and bourbon.
Honestly why anyone is surprised at Google acting like a real company is a mystery. Since Google became a publicly traded company they only have one obligation.....
Making stockholders a profit
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad... +7.1 - Philanthropy
Creating a foundation to fight poverty. +5.3 - Coddling staff
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk. -2.4 - Moral Triage
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame -4.8 - Immaturity
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank. -6.7 - Screwing staff
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year. -8.3 - Censorship
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
In my day to day job I deal with having to develop for both IE and Firefox. I haven't even so much as downloaded Chrome. Why should I? I know someone is going to say "Because it's a superior browser", etc etc.
I also loved the Amiga and although it was a superior machine (IMHO), it was just TOO much of a niche and the rest of the world functioned on PCs. Just like the rest of the world functions just fine on IE and Firefox.
Do no evil? Hardly,... when Google became a publicly traded company their obligation became one thing..
Make money for stockholders
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad... Plus
Creating a foundation to fight poverty. Plus
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk. Minus
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame Minus
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank. Bigger Minus
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year. Real big minus
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
Honestly why should anyone be surprised that Google acts like any other company?
Google is a publicly traded company and as such it's only obligation is to it's shareholders.
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad... +7.1 - Philanthropy
Creating a foundation to fight poverty. +5.3 - Coddling staff
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk. -2.4 - Moral Triage
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame -4.8 - Immaturity
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank. -6.7 - Screwing staff
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year. -8.3 - Censorship
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
GASP!!!! Did he just say THAT? Yes, and here's why.. one party rule is the worst thing for America. It doesn't matter which party, there are no exceptions.
Frankly I like the idea of a Republican President having to work with a Democratic Congress and vice versa. If Republicans controlled the Congress I'd vote for Obama.
If you take away the hot button issues of flag burning, prayer in schools, abortion and gay rights, they're all the same crooks. You just have to keep enough on each side to keep the other side honest.
Like donating to the site. It's a massive amount of work that PJ has put into the site. So if you got a few bucks, donate. Sorry, but it has to be said and PJ won't say it.
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Wow, shame I can't mod this comment up because it's extremely thoughtful.
Any radioactivity associated with N.P. is inherently assumed to be bad and probably rightfully so. ( I don't know either )
Nuclear however appears to be the ONLY fuel capable of supplying our needs. It gets a bad rap because of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Nuclear today is not your father's nuclear. I wish people would realize THAT.
Every other unrealistic idea has us completely shutting our energy usage down and replacing it with solar or wind. NOT realistic. People will NOT do this. We'll continue to pollute until we die. Hell we're dying already. Some on the right love to portray the idea that there is some debate in the scientific community about global warming. There IS no debate on global warming. It exists and we are making it worse just like a goldfish that craps in his bowl and you don't change the water. Maybe they think that the rapture is going to make it all irrelevent.
Our energy usage is so out of control and we will not be turning back so we either have to cut down (won't happen, especially since China is slowly modernizing) or we find a replacement. I'm not sure I would hold France's nuclear 1.0 as being a great example and we probably shouldn't since it's dated technology.
The only drawback is what to do with the waste and I'm not sure so sure we have the time to figure this one out before we start using it. Even one of Greenpeace's founders has reversed position on nuclear power. If nothing else use nuclear until we have in place a good solar/wind grid in place after solar/wind technology has become a reasonable replacement.
I like Pickens' idea of converting to both electric and natural gas. Semis can't run on electric but they can on NatGas. Convert heavy vehicles to NatGas and resurrect the EV-1 technology for cars. NatGas burns mostly clean and the EV-1 cars can be recharged via clean nuclear power plants.
There are always going to be terrorists, just safeguard the stuff better.
As the internet matures more and more, questionable legal methods are only going to get more and more defined. Remember in the bad old days (7-8 years ago) when there were legal threats being brought for things like "deep linking"? Back when the technology was new (compared to the legal system's understanding of it) I can see where the RIAA might have been able to strongarm people just by saying "we know you're doing it" but that's getting harder and harder to do. Thank heavens for progress.
I can understand N. Korea since they can actually reach the Aleutians... but Iran? I'd like to see some propaganda that actually is realistic and Iran coming up with a missile that can reach the US is something of a fairy tale.
Maybe using it to stop a missile from reaching Israel.......
Well good luck collecting it. Mod me down if you must but I just don't see the point in awarding ridiculous amounts that will never be collected. Besides who even knows if that IS the real amount justified?
Reminds me of companies saying how hackers cost them gazillions of dollars because they copied a manual or some dumb shit back in the late 80s/early 90s.
Guess I'm a cynic about any judgements being made by non technical people on technical issues. Not that spam is rocket surgery....
If you remove the cloud of the the hipster-doofus lovefest for Apple you realize that Apple only has one obligation as a publicly traded company
Making a profit for shareholders
Why anyone is surprised that Apple (and Google) act like real companies is always a surprise to me.
Apple needs to turn a profit and make concessions to satisfy stockholders.
This is a loaded question to begin with. It assumes that a soul is actually something that is real to begin with. If you have a heart, it's easy to see, just reach inside and pull it out and you'll see that it's a pumping muscular mass. Same with your brain, just cut open your head and pull out a gray mass.
What doesn't exist however is ego, yet we do everything to protect it.
Ultimately the question comes to the realization that all we truly know about life is that it begins and ends and that's the extent of it.
Pondering a soul or an afterlife eventually becomes a pointless exercise. It's like being in a burning house and pondering the architect.
Perhaps a more interesting question is whether or not machine will be sentient. If a machine can ask or give compassion, then sure why not?
Google Apps. Google's only obligation since becoming a publicly traded company (GOOG) is this...
Making a profit for shareholders
Including StarOffice does nothing to that end.
Honestly why is anyone surprised when Google acts like a real company?
Yahoo! has lost the search engine war. If M$ buys Yahoo! they will basically whore out the Yahoo! page with ads and compete just as ineffectively as they always have.
Google is ahead because M$ and Yahoo! don't know how to give the people what they want and until they get that down, they are doomed to failure.
Google has always been in the dominant position because, let's face it, Google doesn't HAVE to buy Yahoo! They might buy Yahoo! to keep M$ from getting them but if it's too difficult why should they?
As everyone knows who knows anything about Carl Icahn it's this: he has a history of buying companies, stripping off the good parts and profiting. Now that he has two people on Yahoo!'s board and Google's unwillingness to help, it's almost a sure bet that M$ is going to get the search engine part........and they will fail ultimately in the search engine arena.
Once Google became a publicly traded company their only obligation transitioned to making a profit for their shareholders.
Yeah that sucks but it's reality.
Google: We do less evil than everyone else(tm)
Let the backlash and my modding down begin!
I can never get Tator Tots(tm) right.
It's still some corporation that thinks they know what it is I want to see.. right off the bat I tried...
1. XTC
2. Wall of Voodoo
3. Human League
Granted these are niche bands...nothing on any of these.
When MTV gets around to allowing users to upload videos and then replacing them with their own pristine copies, I'll be impressed. Maybe they should have tried THAT model.
I think Chicago is more than 100 miles from the Canadian border
Remember when IBM was the Microsoft of it's day? Now it's a darling because it learned a valuable lesson....
Ultimately companies that create standards will eventually have to transition to a company that contributes to them.
I'm no M$ fan at all and that goes back a ways for me. On the other hand, Microsoft seems to be showing signs that they have accepted open source as something that's here to stay (although they hate it).
Next up on the radar? Google
Once they became a publicly traded company, responsible for only making a profit for their shareholders, it appears more and more like their motto should transition to "We do less evil than everyone else"
the phrase "tyranny of the majority" doesn't it?
Hey! HEY! Speaking as a Kentuckian there are many things we are proud of. Especially our invention of the toothbrush which if it had happened anywhere else would've been called teethbrush.
I'll be here all week enjoy the squirrel stew and bourbon.
How interesting and ironic that not that long ago (1991) possessing encryption tools was considered as munitions!
It used to be that Philip Zimmermann was getting hassled for his creation of PGP.
Boy we've come a long way. Check out the Wikipedia entry on PGP if you can
ANYTHING that Windows wants to do to improve sucks and linux has already done it, done it better, cured cancer, etc.
/. that isn't a "me too, me too" Microsoft sucks, Linux is good person?
Seriously is there anyone on
Jesus this is like Digg more and more everyday.
OK bitches mod me down now.
Honestly why anyone is surprised at Google acting like a real company is a mystery. Since Google became a publicly traded company they only have one obligation.....
Making stockholders a profit
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad...
+7.1 - Philanthropy
Creating a foundation to fight poverty.
+5.3 - Coddling staff
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk.
-2.4 - Moral Triage
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame
-4.8 - Immaturity
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank.
-6.7 - Screwing staff
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year.
-8.3 - Censorship
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
In my day to day job I deal with having to develop for both IE and Firefox. I haven't even so much as downloaded Chrome. Why should I? I know someone is going to say "Because it's a superior browser", etc etc. I also loved the Amiga and although it was a superior machine (IMHO), it was just TOO much of a niche and the rest of the world functioned on PCs. Just like the rest of the world functions just fine on IE and Firefox.
Do no evil? Hardly,... when Google became a publicly traded company their obligation became one thing..
Make money for stockholders
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad...
Plus
Creating a foundation to fight poverty.
Plus
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk.
Minus
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame
Minus
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank.
Bigger Minus
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year.
Real big minus
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
Honestly why should anyone be surprised that Google acts like any other company?
Google is a publicly traded company and as such it's only obligation is to it's shareholders.
Few companies set out to do bad deeds but most won't rule them out. Google was supposed to be different. Regarding "Don't be evil"(tm), CEO Eric Schmidt recently clarified the policy saying that it was simply meant as a conversation starter.
Here's Google from good to bad...
+7.1 - Philanthropy
Creating a foundation to fight poverty.
+5.3 - Coddling staff
Establishing on-site day care as an employee perk.
-2.4 - Moral Triage
Giving Brazilian police access to private photo albums on Orkut to assist an investigation into child pornography.The lesser of two evils is still pretty lame
-4.8 - Immaturity
Google's on going smear campaign against Privacy International for giving them a last place rank.
-6.7 - Screwing staff
Raising cost of on site day care to $57,000 per year.
-8.3 - Censorship
Instituting keyword filters at the request of the Chinese government. Google's do no evil policy only applies to the U.S.
Source: Wired 16.10
Imagine a Beowulf...... ah nevermind....
GASP!!!! Did he just say THAT? Yes, and here's why.. one party rule is the worst thing for America. It doesn't matter which party, there are no exceptions.
Frankly I like the idea of a Republican President having to work with a Democratic Congress and vice versa. If Republicans controlled the Congress I'd vote for Obama.
If you take away the hot button issues of flag burning, prayer in schools, abortion and gay rights, they're all the same crooks. You just have to keep enough on each side to keep the other side honest.
Like donating to the site. It's a massive amount of work that PJ has put into the site. So if you got a few bucks, donate. Sorry, but it has to be said and PJ won't say it.