Plenty of stuff is dumber than a cat and still quite useful. E.g. a programmable thermostat. A car is a little harder than a thermostat, but still far less than a dog.
My old gas blower was single stage that would stall out against a plow wall like that, this one is single stage but can handle such things if you slice off layers top down, and throws the snow as far as my neighbor's 2 stage while being very quiet by comparison.
I got a battery powered snow blower last year, and it is great! I got the Ego Power+ brand and couldn't be happier with it. Definitely going that way with the mower when my current mower needs replaced. (I haven't looked into it, but I am assuming that the greener thing to do is use the gas mower until it fails, or at least stops running well). Couldn't afford the electric car last time I needed one but it did occur to me when buying the one I have it would probably be the last ICE car I'd likely buy.
I agree that they aren't legally culpable, but I think it is fair to point out that it isn't good stewardship to push to rescind environmental regulations. I drive a fossil fuel powered car, the manufacturer has done their best to make it as efficient and clean as they can and as far as I know didn't try to get current restrictions on those changed.
On the one hand, sure, if they're following the regulations then it isn't at least negligently their fault if they're poisoning us. On the other hand, if they are helping ensure that guys like Pruitt get in charge of the EPA and gut the regulations so they don't have to spend money to be poisoning us less, then that's a bit different.
If a government level actor is trying to hack your proprietary machine developed by some small outfit that services a specific industry, you're going down whether MS was putting out patches or not.
If it is mission critical and that old, then you've got problems anyway, but the usual solution is to take it off the internet and segregate it. All that medical stuff needs to be validated, and ensuring it can continue to be patched is part of maintenance. The system manager is probably thanking the heavens they have a good excuse to replace the system.
Oh I don't know if you get a reward for using the tablet, I've never been at a place that had one. I was referring to fast food places with a survey URL on the receipt which yields a code for a $1 or 2 coupon.
I saw that Black Mirror episode! Seriously, though, it isn't the tablet hurting them so much as that there is now an easy way to get metrics. No one is going to bother with the receipt URL for a $1 coupon, but if you've got the chance to complain at the same time you're being annoyed by the server then it is more likely one gets filled out.
Eh, it'd be more surprising if it didn't involve ratios in construction. If you read on historical building techniques, the easiest way to do things well before you have rules to measure with is ratios. So if you're going through the trouble to build some big thing out of stone when that is pretty difficult, of course you're going to plan it all out with ratios or something convenient (which is why historical measures are based off of body parts) and subdivisions thereof (12 inches to a foot is because you can divide it by 2, 3 and 4 easily). Even if you're using modern laser range finders to measure everything, the design is going to initially use some ratios to make things aesthetically pleasing.
Much like fishing or hunting, it is an excuse to get together with the guys and drink heavily. Alternatively, a sociologist might say that instead of honing killing skills in the former, you're honing highly abstracted, ritualized combat skills via either participating or observing.
This is for food grade CO2, you probably can't just whip around a mason jar, slap the lid on, and call it good enough. There'll be all sorts of regulations and certifications that the existing process uses that would need to be done up from scratch. Generally, industrial production of chemicals captures "waste products" from one process and uses them for another. From the linked article, the CO2 shortage is due to market forces messing with ammonia production for fertilizer.
In addition to what the other posters said, CO2 from fermentation is also lost if the beer is pasteurized. On the other hand, I haven't found it that rare to find bottle conditioned beer, but it'll generally be the larger bottles that are sold individually.
What? You're fighting off viruses (and bacteria, and protists, maybe some microanimals if you've been swimming in natural water bodies) as you type this, asymptomatically. It's kind of why AIDS is a big deal.
It needn't be complex, the virus co-opts host cell behavior anyway. Over-express a few select host cytokines in addition to the normal viral protein manufacture.
Yeah unfortunately, even without regulatory hurdles, those exposed to an artificial plague would be long dead before you even figured out what it was or how it worked.
If your goal was terrorism, you wouldn't care about creating a persistent threat, just a big splash of 'airborne ebola/HIV' or whatever that burns out quickly would be just fine. If you're a nationstate looking to wipe out enemies and then move in, it'd be even preferable. That the mutating population would regress to a less virulent form or wouldn't spread far beyond those initially exposed wouldn't matter. Unfortunately I'm not sure how you could propose countermeasures. Even for plenty of regular pathogens, once you're showing symptoms (and the problem is identified) you may already be a goner.
If you have two cable companies in your area it can work out, but yes, where they have a monopoly I understand it is almost pointless. Here the smaller of the cable companies actually caters to cord cutters
Yeah but we'd need less 'fresh' fossil fuels if we could make it, so we could nominally reach an equilibrium point, or even store the fuel produced in strategic reserves and so on. Even if homes and personal vehicles all went electric we'd still need chemical fuel for some applications, I can't imagine we'll be using lithium ion batteries to launch rockets.
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Oh I certainly have had some coworkers that got glowing recommendations just to get them out the door ASAP!
Plenty of stuff is dumber than a cat and still quite useful. E.g. a programmable thermostat. A car is a little harder than a thermostat, but still far less than a dog.
My old gas blower was single stage that would stall out against a plow wall like that, this one is single stage but can handle such things if you slice off layers top down, and throws the snow as far as my neighbor's 2 stage while being very quiet by comparison.
I got a battery powered snow blower last year, and it is great! I got the Ego Power+ brand and couldn't be happier with it. Definitely going that way with the mower when my current mower needs replaced. (I haven't looked into it, but I am assuming that the greener thing to do is use the gas mower until it fails, or at least stops running well). Couldn't afford the electric car last time I needed one but it did occur to me when buying the one I have it would probably be the last ICE car I'd likely buy.
I agree that they aren't legally culpable, but I think it is fair to point out that it isn't good stewardship to push to rescind environmental regulations. I drive a fossil fuel powered car, the manufacturer has done their best to make it as efficient and clean as they can and as far as I know didn't try to get current restrictions on those changed.
On the one hand, sure, if they're following the regulations then it isn't at least negligently their fault if they're poisoning us. On the other hand, if they are helping ensure that guys like Pruitt get in charge of the EPA and gut the regulations so they don't have to spend money to be poisoning us less, then that's a bit different.
If a government level actor is trying to hack your proprietary machine developed by some small outfit that services a specific industry, you're going down whether MS was putting out patches or not.
If it is mission critical and that old, then you've got problems anyway, but the usual solution is to take it off the internet and segregate it. All that medical stuff needs to be validated, and ensuring it can continue to be patched is part of maintenance. The system manager is probably thanking the heavens they have a good excuse to replace the system.
haha, +1 funny, a pity I've no points!
Sort of, but if it is everyone just being petty, shouldn't all the servers receive equivalently poor marks?
Oh I don't know if you get a reward for using the tablet, I've never been at a place that had one. I was referring to fast food places with a survey URL on the receipt which yields a code for a $1 or 2 coupon.
I saw that Black Mirror episode! Seriously, though, it isn't the tablet hurting them so much as that there is now an easy way to get metrics. No one is going to bother with the receipt URL for a $1 coupon, but if you've got the chance to complain at the same time you're being annoyed by the server then it is more likely one gets filled out.
Oh in that case I agree, it's like the Bermuda triangle or whatever find-a-pattern nonsense.
Eh, it'd be more surprising if it didn't involve ratios in construction. If you read on historical building techniques, the easiest way to do things well before you have rules to measure with is ratios. So if you're going through the trouble to build some big thing out of stone when that is pretty difficult, of course you're going to plan it all out with ratios or something convenient (which is why historical measures are based off of body parts) and subdivisions thereof (12 inches to a foot is because you can divide it by 2, 3 and 4 easily). Even if you're using modern laser range finders to measure everything, the design is going to initially use some ratios to make things aesthetically pleasing.
Much like fishing or hunting, it is an excuse to get together with the guys and drink heavily. Alternatively, a sociologist might say that instead of honing killing skills in the former, you're honing highly abstracted, ritualized combat skills via either participating or observing.
This is for food grade CO2, you probably can't just whip around a mason jar, slap the lid on, and call it good enough. There'll be all sorts of regulations and certifications that the existing process uses that would need to be done up from scratch. Generally, industrial production of chemicals captures "waste products" from one process and uses them for another. From the linked article, the CO2 shortage is due to market forces messing with ammonia production for fertilizer.
In addition to what the other posters said, CO2 from fermentation is also lost if the beer is pasteurized. On the other hand, I haven't found it that rare to find bottle conditioned beer, but it'll generally be the larger bottles that are sold individually.
What? You're fighting off viruses (and bacteria, and protists, maybe some microanimals if you've been swimming in natural water bodies) as you type this, asymptomatically. It's kind of why AIDS is a big deal.
It needn't be complex, the virus co-opts host cell behavior anyway. Over-express a few select host cytokines in addition to the normal viral protein manufacture.
Yeah unfortunately, even without regulatory hurdles, those exposed to an artificial plague would be long dead before you even figured out what it was or how it worked.
If your goal was terrorism, you wouldn't care about creating a persistent threat, just a big splash of 'airborne ebola/HIV' or whatever that burns out quickly would be just fine. If you're a nationstate looking to wipe out enemies and then move in, it'd be even preferable. That the mutating population would regress to a less virulent form or wouldn't spread far beyond those initially exposed wouldn't matter. Unfortunately I'm not sure how you could propose countermeasures. Even for plenty of regular pathogens, once you're showing symptoms (and the problem is identified) you may already be a goner.
If you have two cable companies in your area it can work out, but yes, where they have a monopoly I understand it is almost pointless. Here the smaller of the cable companies actually caters to cord cutters
Yeah I was surprised the summary indicating companies would care about video messaging, the primary use case is definitely grandparents/grandkids.
Yes! But it would be carbon neutral, and perhaps easier to store than CO2 if you wanted to sequester instead.
Yeah but we'd need less 'fresh' fossil fuels if we could make it, so we could nominally reach an equilibrium point, or even store the fuel produced in strategic reserves and so on. Even if homes and personal vehicles all went electric we'd still need chemical fuel for some applications, I can't imagine we'll be using lithium ion batteries to launch rockets.