You know that's how virtually all large clinical trials are done, right? There are lots of regulations, including international conventions, governing medical research. Subjects have to provide informed consent, and part of the "informed" part involves specifying what the data is going to be used for. If it weren't being done through a university's clinical research program, a la Facebook, you'd have a point.
The present topic is specifically offensive false-flags. It doesn't matter whether you're using someone else's flag so you can sneak in and do harm, or because you specifically want to frame the third party, either way it's going to damage the original relationship. The story implies it's the latter type anyway.
You're thinking too hard. Harper wants to sell stuff, primarily oil. The US is the biggest customer. If they keep getting into wars, they're an even bigger customer! So helping them kick over hornets' nests is good for everyone!
People generally understand that just fine. The problem is, various groups seem to be trying very hard to influence the majority's perception of the ideal tradeoff. They're doing that by misrepresenting the danger.
Relying on "common sense" is a far worse source of lack of sensible decisions.
I was in New York during hurricane Sandy. The house I was staying was without power for about ten days. The Starbucks down the street didn't ever lose power. The long distance transmission wasn't the problem, it was distribution within the neighbourhood. Unless everyone had their own electricity generation capability, even neighbourhood level generation wouldn't really alleviate power outages much. Things like pruning trees are the unglamorous solution that that problem. I'm from a place cities and municipalities will come and prune your trees for you if you don't, by the way. Power outages are extremely rare and don't last very long.
Efficiency is extremely important, and in things like hydro dams it often scales with the square or even cube of size. Efficiency can be (and is) sacrificed for special, smaller scale applications: backup generators, remote locations, places with low power requirements, but when you're talking about providing power for the biggest power users on the planet, efficiency is right up in the top few things to consider. Getting an extra nine in your suburban uptime isn't worth significant sacrifices, even if you could make that tradeoff.
You can easily get in on the deal. You just have to set up with some associates and buy the right public servants. Except that the other guy, with his associates, might meet you in a dark parking lot some night and express his displeasure. Or just have your restaurant firebombed.
Quebec already sells a lot of electricity to the US, New York included. There may be actual reasons to keep a nuke plant unused, but more likely it traces it's way back to corruption somehow.
Bad example: Niagara falls was the first hydro-electric plant, built by Nicola Tesla and George Westinghouse. The US and Canada both have hydroelectric plants there now. The US also has a pumped hydro storage facility.
Hydro is certainly one of the things that works better on a large scale: large dams are much more efficient than small ones. Solar thermal as well. Wind too, though less so. Photovoltaics work fine on small scales.
It seems like we need to twist everything possible to provide support for some political agenda or another. It's not limited to social justice types, but they do seem to be prominent users of the technique.
That's actually a bit of a problem. There are lots of stories about how women get screwed over for credit for scientific discoveries. They do, of course, but so do male students. So did whoever figured out the tungsten light bulb filament in Edison's lab, the guy who came up with the rounded corners on the iPhone, and the intern who actually put together that proposal your boss presented last week.
When you look into this particular case a bit, it seems like Russell actually acted pretty well.
This was the subject of an episode of the Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmos. The summary is pretty sensationalistic too. Hertzsprung discouraged his student from publishing because he thought she was wrong. When she was persistent and turned out to be right, they published. Professors always get the credit for what their students do.
Also, what is "combining those protons in a chain"?
Actually, if you're going to stick someone into a high radiation environment, the older they are the better. It wouldn't be difficult to send good medical equipment and personnel along as well.
The people you sent would have to go while they were healthy enough to make the trip, but once they were there, they might enjoy a longer life than otherwise: low gravity lessens the risk of falls, but also eases the strain on the heart and circulatory system.
And the stream of centenarians dying would provide fertilizer for making lunar soil.
The very few people who truly want to die are extremely difficult to stop. The vast majority of suicides and suicide attempts are people who don't really want to die, but also don't want to keep living the way they are. They respond to treatment.
Whoever is raking in all the money because of the automation.
Automating jobs creates more wealth, not less. The only thing that prevents it from being an unrelieved panacea is that capitalism is quite poor at wealth redistribution.
Actually, there are fairly well worked out regulations for this kind of thing, in the aviation and marine industries. They very likely apply to cars as well.
The basic guideline is your "it certainly should not have an expectation of profit." For example, if you're a pilot or skipper and you're taking some people up or out, they can pay for their share of the fuel, but no more. They cannot pay you for your time. I'd have to look up the rules on non-monetary compensation (lunch), but I'm sure it's covered.
Uber isn't ride sharing not because money changes hands, but because Uber drivers are making far more than the passenger's share of the fuel. Uber's own ads advertise "now your car is a money maker."
The AC has a good point, that you seem to have missed. It's particularly easy with cars to think that you're getting a good deal in the short term. Oh, I burned $100 in gas and made $300! This is awesome! Except you forgot to account for commercial insurance (or getting sued if you don't have it), a commercial drivers license (or getting fined if you don't have it), maintenance, amortization of the car (particularly if you're leasing it and discover that, whoops, your lease doesn't cover commercial use), unemployment insurance, pension, health care (especially if you "forget" to pay them and the government comes knocking one day).
Those happy Uber drivers might be fooling themselves. But if they are and they wise up one day and quit, well, there are lots of other suckers, er, employees, for Uber.
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You know that's how virtually all large clinical trials are done, right? There are lots of regulations, including international conventions, governing medical research. Subjects have to provide informed consent, and part of the "informed" part involves specifying what the data is going to be used for. If it weren't being done through a university's clinical research program, a la Facebook, you'd have a point.
The present topic is specifically offensive false-flags. It doesn't matter whether you're using someone else's flag so you can sneak in and do harm, or because you specifically want to frame the third party, either way it's going to damage the original relationship. The story implies it's the latter type anyway.
You're thinking too hard. Harper wants to sell stuff, primarily oil. The US is the biggest customer. If they keep getting into wars, they're an even bigger customer! So helping them kick over hornets' nests is good for everyone!
People generally understand that just fine. The problem is, various groups seem to be trying very hard to influence the majority's perception of the ideal tradeoff. They're doing that by misrepresenting the danger.
Relying on "common sense" is a far worse source of lack of sensible decisions.
I was in New York during hurricane Sandy. The house I was staying was without power for about ten days. The Starbucks down the street didn't ever lose power. The long distance transmission wasn't the problem, it was distribution within the neighbourhood. Unless everyone had their own electricity generation capability, even neighbourhood level generation wouldn't really alleviate power outages much. Things like pruning trees are the unglamorous solution that that problem. I'm from a place cities and municipalities will come and prune your trees for you if you don't, by the way. Power outages are extremely rare and don't last very long.
Efficiency is extremely important, and in things like hydro dams it often scales with the square or even cube of size. Efficiency can be (and is) sacrificed for special, smaller scale applications: backup generators, remote locations, places with low power requirements, but when you're talking about providing power for the biggest power users on the planet, efficiency is right up in the top few things to consider. Getting an extra nine in your suburban uptime isn't worth significant sacrifices, even if you could make that tradeoff.
I haven't ever been there in person when they're diverting most of the water, but there are pictures on the net. It's impressive.
Winter is by far the prettiest time to visit Niagara falls.
Seems just as professional as GIMP.
You can easily get in on the deal. You just have to set up with some associates and buy the right public servants. Except that the other guy, with his associates, might meet you in a dark parking lot some night and express his displeasure. Or just have your restaurant firebombed.
Quebec already sells a lot of electricity to the US, New York included. There may be actual reasons to keep a nuke plant unused, but more likely it traces it's way back to corruption somehow.
Don't forget, that 100 mile zone also surrounds international airports.
Bad example: Niagara falls was the first hydro-electric plant, built by Nicola Tesla and George Westinghouse. The US and Canada both have hydroelectric plants there now. The US also has a pumped hydro storage facility.
Hydro is certainly one of the things that works better on a large scale: large dams are much more efficient than small ones. Solar thermal as well. Wind too, though less so. Photovoltaics work fine on small scales.
It seems like we need to twist everything possible to provide support for some political agenda or another. It's not limited to social justice types, but they do seem to be prominent users of the technique.
That's actually a bit of a problem. There are lots of stories about how women get screwed over for credit for scientific discoveries. They do, of course, but so do male students. So did whoever figured out the tungsten light bulb filament in Edison's lab, the guy who came up with the rounded corners on the iPhone, and the intern who actually put together that proposal your boss presented last week.
When you look into this particular case a bit, it seems like Russell actually acted pretty well.
Hertzsrung --> Russell.
This was the subject of an episode of the Neil deGrasse Tyson Cosmos. The summary is pretty sensationalistic too. Hertzsprung discouraged his student from publishing because he thought she was wrong. When she was persistent and turned out to be right, they published. Professors always get the credit for what their students do.
Also, what is "combining those protons in a chain"?
That's what GRAIL is, and yes, it's found signs of large lava tubes. So says the summary.
Actually, if you're going to stick someone into a high radiation environment, the older they are the better. It wouldn't be difficult to send good medical equipment and personnel along as well.
The people you sent would have to go while they were healthy enough to make the trip, but once they were there, they might enjoy a longer life than otherwise: low gravity lessens the risk of falls, but also eases the strain on the heart and circulatory system.
And the stream of centenarians dying would provide fertilizer for making lunar soil.
The very few people who truly want to die are extremely difficult to stop. The vast majority of suicides and suicide attempts are people who don't really want to die, but also don't want to keep living the way they are. They respond to treatment.
Sure you can. Any form of torture will do it, including long enough in solitary confinement.
Agreed. If you guys don't manage to destroy your empire before then, that will surely do it.
Whoever is raking in all the money because of the automation.
Automating jobs creates more wealth, not less. The only thing that prevents it from being an unrelieved panacea is that capitalism is quite poor at wealth redistribution.
Actually, there are fairly well worked out regulations for this kind of thing, in the aviation and marine industries. They very likely apply to cars as well.
The basic guideline is your "it certainly should not have an expectation of profit." For example, if you're a pilot or skipper and you're taking some people up or out, they can pay for their share of the fuel, but no more. They cannot pay you for your time. I'd have to look up the rules on non-monetary compensation (lunch), but I'm sure it's covered.
Uber isn't ride sharing not because money changes hands, but because Uber drivers are making far more than the passenger's share of the fuel. Uber's own ads advertise "now your car is a money maker."
The AC has a good point, that you seem to have missed. It's particularly easy with cars to think that you're getting a good deal in the short term. Oh, I burned $100 in gas and made $300! This is awesome! Except you forgot to account for commercial insurance (or getting sued if you don't have it), a commercial drivers license (or getting fined if you don't have it), maintenance, amortization of the car (particularly if you're leasing it and discover that, whoops, your lease doesn't cover commercial use), unemployment insurance, pension, health care (especially if you "forget" to pay them and the government comes knocking one day).
Those happy Uber drivers might be fooling themselves. But if they are and they wise up one day and quit, well, there are lots of other suckers, er, employees, for Uber.
I haven't seen navigation software yet, including Google and Apple, that will successfully get someone to my home. So how does that work then?
Another problem with Uber: it's only available to people rich enough to afford a smartphone.