The Sacramento Valley rice paddys flood to a depth of 5 inches. This utilizes 80B gallons of water, in order to irrigate the 600,000 acres under cultivation in rice. On top of this, it requires another 4B gallons of water a day to deal with the evaporation losses.
So color me unimpressed that conservation by reduced human consumption results in 1/4 of that amount being saved. It's not a big deal, or a big amount, in the grand scheme of things, particularly compared to agricultural usage on products which are mostly exported from the U.S..
Time to get serious about desalination, if California wants to keep its agricultural export industry. Or it could let e.g. China invest in growing their own rice, instead of in building "ghost cities".
P.S. While you are at it, stop drinking "almond milk" please; a quart of that runs about 345 gallons of water.
Yeah, we joke about it, but there are a few there who truly are devoid of empathy, far beyond being mere assholes.
I was contracting on a poorly-managed death-march project, where my job was basically to work night and day to make up for the product manager's lack of planning. (I willing accepted this, because I needed money, and they were desperate, and we came to terms that I was willing to accept: $$$ cha-ching.)
Contractors are required by the Department Of Labor to be treated as less than employees, to avoid the Department Of Labor declaring that they are in fact employees. So they are effectively required to dehumanize you. You can go to work some place else (or even there) as a regular wage-slave, which means less "cha-ching", or you can eat they way they differentiate you from regular employees, and just shut up and take it for the "cha-ching". Pick your poison.
why the fuck do you think there ARE homeless people!!! dammit.
Mostly?
Drug addiction and mental illness? Personal choice to live in areas of the country with housing shortages due to zoning resulting in building out instead of up? Lack of crowbars in Detroit to engage in squatting? Unwillingness to start a small business? Fear of risk taking?
We aren't actually bulldozing large numbers of houses under, and our population (even with illegal immigration) isn't growing as quickly as available housing, so it's not like the housing doesn't exist.
Not according to the BLS; they say it's 50% higher than that (Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 4.5%): http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/l...
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
During the Great Recession, some people were unemployed for THREE YEARS or more. The Obama Administration had to extend and re-extend unemployment benefits for people.
And then they didn't extend it before the last mid term election, because letting people fall off the rolls entirely substantially improve the Department Of Labor job numbers, heading into the election. This is a common practice, for the party with executive authority, when heading into mid terms.
Sometimes you don't know the right people in the right places, have the "perfect" match of skills or cannot manage to live on 120,000 Rupees a year.
No idea where in the U.S. you are living that you get paid in Rupees, but given the current exchange rate, that's like $1,843/year. I assume you must be in the U.S., since you are citing the Obama administration and its unemployment benefits practices. You're not going to be living on that, even in Detroit, even with 10 roommates.
How many symptoms are real, and how many imagined by people in fear?
This was my first thought a well.
This is an area of the world where they killed medical workers, supposedly for intentionally spreading Ebola, where they still believe in witches stealing penises, and where they murder albinos for the "magical properties" of their body parts, such as "good luck". The general population is quite prone to hysterical rumor in the region. The Osun Defender, a tabloid newspaper in the area, tends to egg these rumors on.
They are obviously not thinking this through. I admit that I have only been to Cuba twice but, well, I suspect that is more than most but it does not make me an expert.
First, there are lots of remote people - comparatively. Second, some of them live in some rather extreme terrain. Look at how long Castro was able to hide from Batista's army... Those mountains and jungles are still there. There are still people there.
Cuba is around 42,400 square miles; technically, that'd fit in 205x205 miles, if it was actually square. Kentucky is sitting at 40,409 square miles. Both places are about half the size of Utah, and about a quarter of the size of California.
Could a Google do it? Yes. And they could afford to. A Facebook could do the same, if they wanted to do so; they've been annoying people in India already, and India is 1.27M square miles, which is just over 1100 miles on an edge, were it square. So it's definitely doable.
However... I don't believe the government there would allow it. They're still a relatively oppressive regime, for all that the U.S. appears to be thawing on the normalization of relations, and oppressive regimes require control of communications to survive; they can't tolerate free and open communications, and retain government authority in its present incarnation.
Reporters Without Borders is already reporting that Cuba, Zimbabwe and Belarus have been buying "Golden Shield" technology from China (what China calls what we call "The Great Firewall of China". Here's the article: http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rap...
So it's unlikely that, even 9 years later, that they would take the boot off the neck of their own people (see Cuba's Decree-Law 209 for details on that boot; they must also obtain accreditation from ETEC SA by providing a "valid reason").
It's funny they cite Ookla’s Net Index, given that the site has been dead since last week (take down August 4th, but not updated for a while before that), and it relies on statistics gathered by their "Internet Speed Test" site, which is not going to be accurate for Cuba, since it relies on "nearby" central nodes for the testing.
They have a peering connection via optical fiber to Venezuela (restricted), and a relatively slow link to Sprint in the U.S., which has to be the source of the Ookla numbers for them.
> They sure as heck are *not* drones, if there's a human piloting them.
Yes, they are.
A "drone" is any unmanned aircraft, whether it's autonomous or remotely piloted.
In fact, the existence of the phrase "autonomous drone" should tell you that it's possible to have non-autonomous drones.
There is a huge difference between remote control of all flight surfaces vs. setting goals and letting on-board computation decide the best way to achieve those goals.
A Tomahawk Cruise Missile is a drone: you give it a goal, but it's not the job of the pilot to handle the TFR, reaction to unexpected atmospheric conditions, or other flight aspects which can be adequately handled by the on-board avionics. There is a degree of autonomy.
It's convenient for regulatory agencies to blur the distinction between what are essentially the same toys that we've had since the first article on RC modeling came out in Radio Electronics magazine, well before the term "drone" was coined. That fails to make the case for the device being a drone because we've suddenly invented a new word for the thing, or achieved a small enough camera size that these toys are capable of carrying them successfully. Social consequences do not a drone make.
Looks like fun but 12km really isn't very far, especially if you want to ride it to your destination and back, in which case you can only go places up to 6km away.
Only if you think getting up early commuting to a cubical to spend 8+ hours a day looking at a computer screen only to commute back home and do it again the next day to be a boring life.
Please don't stereotype us. We occasionally also do group outings to watch the latest science fiction movies, on the company dime. We are not culturally bereft.
Wanna bet? I have sent out 350 resumes in the past 9 months, and I have only received one offer. I spent 5 years as a design, manufacturing, and quality engineer and no one even looked at me.
Wait a second...
The United States has MANUFACTURING? WFT?!?! When did that happen?
None of them are robots. They don't make decisions.
This, in fact, would be my criteria for "robot".
Almost everything we call "robot" today is actually a waldo (like the "robot" in this article), or it's something that exhibits pre-programmed non-adaptive behaviour (like industrial robots; but I give them some leeway for fuzzy control systems for proximity, pick-and-place, orientation recognition, etc.).
I also don't think a toy helicopter magically becomes a "drone" because you put a camera on it, and the FAA rules on "civilian drones" these days actually down-regulate them to only allowing RPVs, and then only in sight of the operator. They sure as heck are *not* drones, if there's a human piloting them.
Yes, I understood that you were implying that you wanted:
(1) A description of the realization (2) The process by which I arrived at the realization ("show your work") (3) A description of the algorithm, process, or formula used to obtain the next number in the sequence given the previous numbers as a clue
Why don't we wait for brute force verification as to whether or not I'm correct, shall we? If that verification happens, I will happily describe those three points, and ruin a perfectly good (so far) crypto algorithm for everyone.
Grunenthal signed a distribution agreement with the William S. Merrell Company.
Merrell started human trials in the U.S. in Feb 1959, and expanded it to include pregnant women in May 1959.
Merrell submitted an NDA (New Drug Application) in Sep 1960 under the drug name Kevadon.
Merell began the "Kevadon Hospital Program" and ramped up distribution.
Mostly Dr. Kelsey demanded testing on pregnant animals; while that was happening, news broke on the effects in July 1961.
The NDA was withdrawn on March 8, 1962.
All in all, 2.5M doses were distributed to 20,000 patients in the U.S.. The FDA did not have the teeth to prevent this, and Dr. Kelsey merely prevented approval, not distribution.
There were actually a lot of victims of the drug in the U.S., and the FDA didn't (couldn't) prevent it.
I am aware of a good 30 of them... but then I used to work at Whistle with Julian, and know what you look like; in other words, the same "cheat" I used to make the same response about Greg Egan...;^)
I won't send you the links... but I personally am aware of at least 5 pictures of Greg Egan on the Internet, since I have met the author at a convention, and the author is quite recognizable in the photos.
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A billion gallons isn't much.
The Sacramento Valley rice paddys flood to a depth of 5 inches. This utilizes 80B gallons of water, in order to irrigate the 600,000 acres under cultivation in rice. On top of this, it requires another 4B gallons of water a day to deal with the evaporation losses.
So color me unimpressed that conservation by reduced human consumption results in 1/4 of that amount being saved. It's not a big deal, or a big amount, in the grand scheme of things, particularly compared to agricultural usage on products which are mostly exported from the U.S..
Time to get serious about desalination, if California wants to keep its agricultural export industry. Or it could let e.g. China invest in growing their own rice, instead of in building "ghost cities".
P.S. While you are at it, stop drinking "almond milk" please; a quart of that runs about 345 gallons of water.
It's OK... it puts most of the bad guys over their data caps when they attempt to download it all.
Yeah, we joke about it, but there are a few there who truly are devoid of empathy, far beyond being mere assholes.
I was contracting on a poorly-managed death-march project, where my job was basically to work night and day to make up for the product manager's lack of planning. (I willing accepted this, because I needed money, and they were desperate, and we came to terms that I was willing to accept: $$$ cha-ching.)
Contractors are required by the Department Of Labor to be treated as less than employees, to avoid the Department Of Labor declaring that they are in fact employees. So they are effectively required to dehumanize you. You can go to work some place else (or even there) as a regular wage-slave, which means less "cha-ching", or you can eat they way they differentiate you from regular employees, and just shut up and take it for the "cha-ching". Pick your poison.
why the fuck do you think there ARE homeless people!!! dammit.
Mostly?
Drug addiction and mental illness? Personal choice to live in areas of the country with housing shortages due to zoning resulting in building out instead of up? Lack of crowbars in Detroit to engage in squatting? Unwillingness to start a small business? Fear of risk taking?
We aren't actually bulldozing large numbers of houses under, and our population (even with illegal immigration) isn't growing as quickly as available housing, so it's not like the housing doesn't exist.
The unemployment rate in Seattle is about 3%
Not according to the BLS; they say it's 50% higher than that (Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area: 4.5%):
http://www.bls.gov/web/metro/l...
Of course, those numbers are also deflate, due to people falling off the eligibility rolls:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welc...
You have NO IDEA how fortunate you are. Or how bad things can be.
During the Great Recession, some people were unemployed for THREE YEARS or more. The Obama Administration had to extend and re-extend unemployment benefits for people.
And then they didn't extend it before the last mid term election, because letting people fall off the rolls entirely substantially improve the Department Of Labor job numbers, heading into the election. This is a common practice, for the party with executive authority, when heading into mid terms.
Sometimes you don't know the right people in the right places, have the "perfect" match of skills or cannot manage to live on 120,000 Rupees a year.
No idea where in the U.S. you are living that you get paid in Rupees, but given the current exchange rate, that's like $1,843/year. I assume you must be in the U.S., since you are citing the Obama administration and its unemployment benefits practices. You're not going to be living on that, even in Detroit, even with 10 roommates.
How many symptoms are real, and how many imagined by people in fear?
This was my first thought a well.
This is an area of the world where they killed medical workers, supposedly for intentionally spreading Ebola, where they still believe in witches stealing penises, and where they murder albinos for the "magical properties" of their body parts, such as "good luck". The general population is quite prone to hysterical rumor in the region. The Osun Defender, a tabloid newspaper in the area, tends to egg these rumors on.
It has to be much better than a human driver or the lawyers will be all over it. Human drivers get sued too (and/or hauled off to jail).
Google has deep pockets. You just have to have one death, and the lawyers will be all over it. The can smell a deep pocket from several states away.
They are obviously not thinking this through. I admit that I have only been to Cuba twice but, well, I suspect that is more than most but it does not make me an expert.
First, there are lots of remote people - comparatively. Second, some of them live in some rather extreme terrain. Look at how long Castro was able to hide from Batista's army... Those mountains and jungles are still there. There are still people there.
Cuba is around 42,400 square miles; technically, that'd fit in 205x205 miles, if it was actually square. Kentucky is sitting at 40,409 square miles. Both places are about half the size of Utah, and about a quarter of the size of California.
Could a Google do it? Yes. And they could afford to. A Facebook could do the same, if they wanted to do so; they've been annoying people in India already, and India is 1.27M square miles, which is just over 1100 miles on an edge, were it square. So it's definitely doable.
However... I don't believe the government there would allow it. They're still a relatively oppressive regime, for all that the U.S. appears to be thawing on the normalization of relations, and oppressive regimes require control of communications to survive; they can't tolerate free and open communications, and retain government authority in its present incarnation.
Reporters Without Borders is already reporting that Cuba, Zimbabwe and Belarus have been buying "Golden Shield" technology from China (what China calls what we call "The Great Firewall of China". Here's the article: http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rap...
So it's unlikely that, even 9 years later, that they would take the boot off the neck of their own people (see Cuba's Decree-Law 209 for details on that boot; they must also obtain accreditation from ETEC SA by providing a "valid reason").
If you're on the internet you have NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY.
Is that you, Scott McNealy? Because 1999 called, and they want that quote back.
Specifically, a dupe from yesterday.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/s...
It's funny they cite Ookla’s Net Index, given that the site has been dead since last week (take down August 4th, but not updated for a while before that), and it relies on statistics gathered by their "Internet Speed Test" site, which is not going to be accurate for Cuba, since it relies on "nearby" central nodes for the testing.
They have a peering connection via optical fiber to Venezuela (restricted), and a relatively slow link to Sprint in the U.S., which has to be the source of the Ookla numbers for them.
Well, yeah, it is kind of shocking to compare crime between the US and Finland: http://www.nationmaster.com/co...
The molecules which make up all objects, including criminals, move substantially slower when it's cold as hell.
Obviously they should also call when seeing taxis, since any reasonable study will need baseline data.
> They sure as heck are *not* drones, if there's a human piloting them.
Yes, they are.
A "drone" is any unmanned aircraft, whether it's autonomous or remotely piloted.
In fact, the existence of the phrase "autonomous drone" should tell you that it's possible to have non-autonomous drones.
There is a huge difference between remote control of all flight surfaces vs. setting goals and letting on-board computation decide the best way to achieve those goals.
A Tomahawk Cruise Missile is a drone: you give it a goal, but it's not the job of the pilot to handle the TFR, reaction to unexpected atmospheric conditions, or other flight aspects which can be adequately handled by the on-board avionics. There is a degree of autonomy.
It's convenient for regulatory agencies to blur the distinction between what are essentially the same toys that we've had since the first article on RC modeling came out in Radio Electronics magazine, well before the term "drone" was coined. That fails to make the case for the device being a drone because we've suddenly invented a new word for the thing, or achieved a small enough camera size that these toys are capable of carrying them successfully. Social consequences do not a drone make.
Actually a waldo is what this is. I suggest you look the word up again.
So... I said it was a waldo, and then you "corrected me" by telling me it was a waldo, and now you want me to look up the word waldo?
???
Posted from my HP calculator...
Bill Gates insisted that 640K was enough for anyone and that decision
life hard for everyone for years.
Made
Looks like fun but 12km really isn't very far, especially if you want to ride it to your destination and back, in which case you can only go places up to 6km away.
Don't be ridiculous! 12K is enough for anyone!
Only if you think getting up early commuting to a cubical to spend 8+ hours a day looking at a computer screen only to commute back home and do it again the next day to be a boring life.
Please don't stereotype us. We occasionally also do group outings to watch the latest science fiction movies, on the company dime. We are not culturally bereft.
Wanna bet? I have sent out 350 resumes in the past 9 months, and I have only received one offer. I spent 5 years as a design, manufacturing, and quality engineer and no one even looked at me.
Wait a second...
The United States has MANUFACTURING? WFT?!?! When did that happen?
None of them are robots. They don't make decisions.
This, in fact, would be my criteria for "robot".
Almost everything we call "robot" today is actually a waldo (like the "robot" in this article), or it's something that exhibits pre-programmed non-adaptive behaviour (like industrial robots; but I give them some leeway for fuzzy control systems for proximity, pick-and-place, orientation recognition, etc.).
I also don't think a toy helicopter magically becomes a "drone" because you put a camera on it, and the FAA rules on "civilian drones" these days actually down-regulate them to only allowing RPVs, and then only in sight of the operator. They sure as heck are *not* drones, if there's a human piloting them.
Yes, I understood that you were implying that you wanted:
(1) A description of the realization
(2) The process by which I arrived at the realization ("show your work")
(3) A description of the algorithm, process, or formula used to obtain the next number in the sequence given the previous numbers as a clue
Why don't we wait for brute force verification as to whether or not I'm correct, shall we? If that verification happens, I will happily describe those three points, and ruin a perfectly good (so far) crypto algorithm for everyone.
Not exactly the actual story... here's the real deal:
http://blog.seattlepi.com/stev...
SKF declined to market the drug in the U.S..
Grunenthal signed a distribution agreement with the William S. Merrell Company.
Merrell started human trials in the U.S. in Feb 1959, and expanded it to include pregnant women in May 1959.
Merrell submitted an NDA (New Drug Application) in Sep 1960 under the drug name Kevadon.
Merell began the "Kevadon Hospital Program" and ramped up distribution.
Mostly Dr. Kelsey demanded testing on pregnant animals; while that was happening, news broke on the effects in July 1961.
The NDA was withdrawn on March 8, 1962.
All in all, 2.5M doses were distributed to 20,000 patients in the U.S.. The FDA did not have the teeth to prevent this, and Dr. Kelsey merely prevented approval, not distribution.
There were actually a lot of victims of the drug in the U.S., and the FDA didn't (couldn't) prevent it.
I am aware of a good 30 of them... but then I used to work at Whistle with Julian, and know what you look like; in other words, the same "cheat" I used to make the same response about Greg Egan... ;^)
I won't send you the links... but I personally am aware of at least 5 pictures of Greg Egan on the Internet, since I have met the author at a convention, and the author is quite recognizable in the photos.