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So they are currently fed little to keep them light. Exactly how much food do you think they will get once they aren't earning money for the arse who owns them by riding camels.
My guess is the amount of food won't go up!
Humans throw much more in the atmosphere then any common volcano does.
Where did you get that odd idea from? Volcanoes put far more gasses into the atmosphere than humans, yes even those common ones. Each erruption may only add a small amount, but there are thousands of erruptions a day, including many thousand volcanoes that are continuously errupting. Add the volcanoes that seep out gasses constantly without actually errupting. It ain't all Mt Etna when we come to volcanoes.
I'd be hard-pressed to recall any
How about them banning the Renault Megane ad with the arse wiggling until afer 9pm so that small children wouldn't copy it in the playground?
And then changing their mind...
Here in England we have an organisation called the Football Association (FA). For Football read Soccer if your Uncle is called Sam.
Stick with me, I'm going somewhere with this.
Many years ago, the FA mandated that if a player was to be replaced during the game, a match official would hold up two bits of paper (well, card really) one with the number of the player to be taken off and the other with the number of the player to be put on. This worked very well. The numbers were large and could be read clearly in all except the darkest of situations. They don't play football in the dark so this didn't matter. The paper was cheap, worked every time, and never showed anything other than what was intended.
Then, the FA went all techno. They replaced the paper with a digital thingy. A big heavy plastic box with LEDs on it. The official would now press buttons on this thing and the LEDs light up to show the numbers. These things cost a lot more than paper, often didn't show any numbers, sometimes showed the wrong numbers, broke down and most significantly could be seen very clearly in the dark but not at all in strong sunlight. They often play football in strong sunlight so this did matter.
So, a cheap, trusty, proven, solution with one irrelevant drawback has been replaced with an expensive, unreliable solution with one major drawback.
Luckily the FA look after football and nothing more important that that. I find the parallels here to be interesting however.
Punch cards caused problems so we replace them with an even more techno solution. Why not go back to holding up a card with a number on it?
It may be in your pocket and it may work, but do you actually use it?
More importantly, how many other folk have one and can have a telepicture call with you? Not many I'd bet.
Even if the problems of packing those bulky carbos into a pill are solved, the biggest problem is that us Hooman Beens actually like eating.
"Hmm, big steak pie, or lil' biddy pill?"
We will all go for the pie every time.
Roosevelt?
New Deal?
There was certainly some of the economic tinkering that you suggest is all that can be done by a government, but I think building the Hoover Dam might just have 'created' a job or two...
I must be a crackpot.
Calm down.
It is Heinlein AND Asimov
See the Caves of Steel by Asimov. They are in there.
It won't be the first time that two sci-fi writers use the same technology.
And so you would use the data you get accordingly. The problems you foresee already exist for any kind of data gathering. Unless you do it yourself, you don't know how accurate it is (and even then you can delude yourself).
They are. Welcome to the real world. In my experience, most people long for safety and stability, not liberty and truth. I would be more than delighted to be proven wrong, though
Most people do long for safety and stability. The problem is that safety and stability are a natural consequence of of liberty and truth but no one notices. The world has huge amounts of liberty and truth and is a very safe place to be. Crossing the road is still the most dangerous thing you are likely to do even with all the wars, despots and terrorists. The sense of proportion gets lost at times like this however, which is how these worring laws get passed. If every 'Man killed by terrorist' report came along with the millions of 'Man has entirely trouble free day' reports that could also me true at that point, then maybe we wouldn't panic so much.
Well, actually F1 gearboxes are automatic in that they do not require any input from the driver at all. The computer in the car changes the gears based on a combination of engine speed, wheel speed and which part of the circuit the car is on. The driver can override this using paddles if he wants to, but the car is capable of and usually does, do all the shifting in the race entirely on its own.
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So they are currently fed little to keep them light. Exactly how much food do you think they will get once they aren't earning money for the arse who owns them by riding camels.
My guess is the amount of food won't go up!
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Humans throw much more in the atmosphere then any common volcano does.
Where did you get that odd idea from? Volcanoes put far more gasses into the atmosphere than humans, yes even those common ones. Each erruption may only add a small amount, but there are thousands of erruptions a day, including many thousand volcanoes that are continuously errupting. Add the volcanoes that seep out gasses constantly without actually errupting. It ain't all Mt Etna when we come to volcanoes.
I'd be hard-pressed to recall any
How about them banning the Renault Megane ad with the arse wiggling until afer 9pm so that small children wouldn't copy it in the playground?
And then changing their mind...
Here in England we have an organisation called the Football Association (FA). For Football read Soccer if your Uncle is called Sam. Stick with me, I'm going somewhere with this. Many years ago, the FA mandated that if a player was to be replaced during the game, a match official would hold up two bits of paper (well, card really) one with the number of the player to be taken off and the other with the number of the player to be put on. This worked very well. The numbers were large and could be read clearly in all except the darkest of situations. They don't play football in the dark so this didn't matter. The paper was cheap, worked every time, and never showed anything other than what was intended. Then, the FA went all techno. They replaced the paper with a digital thingy. A big heavy plastic box with LEDs on it. The official would now press buttons on this thing and the LEDs light up to show the numbers. These things cost a lot more than paper, often didn't show any numbers, sometimes showed the wrong numbers, broke down and most significantly could be seen very clearly in the dark but not at all in strong sunlight. They often play football in strong sunlight so this did matter. So, a cheap, trusty, proven, solution with one irrelevant drawback has been replaced with an expensive, unreliable solution with one major drawback. Luckily the FA look after football and nothing more important that that. I find the parallels here to be interesting however. Punch cards caused problems so we replace them with an even more techno solution. Why not go back to holding up a card with a number on it?
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Move North my friend. The roads are always clear up here so you don't need the trains.
Beer's cheaper too!
It may be in your pocket and it may work, but do you actually use it?
More importantly, how many other folk have one and can have a telepicture call with you? Not many I'd bet.
Even if the problems of packing those bulky carbos into a pill are solved, the biggest problem is that us Hooman Beens actually like eating.
"Hmm, big steak pie, or lil' biddy pill?"
We will all go for the pie every time.
Hurrah to that! Comic Sans is the work of the devil and should be purged from and business machine. Ban it now!
Roosevelt? New Deal? There was certainly some of the economic tinkering that you suggest is all that can be done by a government, but I think building the Hoover Dam might just have 'created' a job or two... I must be a crackpot.
Calm down. It is Heinlein AND Asimov See the Caves of Steel by Asimov. They are in there. It won't be the first time that two sci-fi writers use the same technology.
And so you would use the data you get accordingly. The problems you foresee already exist for any kind of data gathering. Unless you do it yourself, you don't know how accurate it is (and even then you can delude yourself).
Most people do long for safety and stability. The problem is that safety and stability are a natural consequence of of liberty and truth but no one notices. The world has huge amounts of liberty and truth and is a very safe place to be. Crossing the road is still the most dangerous thing you are likely to do even with all the wars, despots and terrorists. The sense of proportion gets lost at times like this however, which is how these worring laws get passed. If every 'Man killed by terrorist' report came along with the millions of 'Man has entirely trouble free day' reports that could also me true at that point, then maybe we wouldn't panic so much.
Well, actually F1 gearboxes are automatic in that they do not require any input from the driver at all. The computer in the car changes the gears based on a combination of engine speed, wheel speed and which part of the circuit the car is on. The driver can override this using paddles if he wants to, but the car is capable of and usually does, do all the shifting in the race entirely on its own.