Exactly. China promised to do nothing, other than make Obama look like a dumb-ass.
As for a 'UN Climate Deal', they'll announce a glorious new agreement in 2015 that doesn't require anyone to do anything unless anyone else does. And the only people who'll actually do anything will be Obama and the suicidal EU nations.
How long does it take for people to realize that their car could be making them money whenever they are not driving it?
How long does it take for people to realize that this is utopian nonsense?
1. Outside rush hour, the demand for cars will be low. So there'll be a glut of people trying to make money from selling rides, and prices will be low. 2. I drive a car precisely so I don't have to share it with other people coughing and pissing and vomiting in it. 3. What's the car going to do when no-one else is renting it? Just drive around randomly, burning up fuel? Park at the side of the road, being charged for parking?
Yes, but rush hour might be reduced if the pod vehicles could hold a dozen people with optimised routes to pick up people that live within a few hundred metres of you and are going to the same location.
Yeah, we'll all get up at 4am to take the bus to the mill, and all return at 8pm for black pudding and tea.
You may not have noticed, but we live in the 21st century today, not the 19th. The odds of finding a dozen people within a few hundred metres of me going to somewhere within a few hundred metres of where I work at the same time as me are pretty much zero. Besides, who's going to want to wait for the 'pod vehicle' to drive around all those houses and wait for people to get on, when they could just drive themselves instead? And what if the person you're supposed to pick up is late? Will the pod vehicle just drive away and leave them stranded, or force everyone else to be late?
Don't worry, most of those jobs will go away soon.
Well, yes. And the Leftists will then be whining about how EVIL AMAZON is laying off workers who had high-paid jobs and willl now be lucky to find work a Starbucks.
They don't care about people or consequences, just having something to complain about. As, for example, they used to complain about low wages for the GLORIOUS PEOPLES' COAL MINERS working hard and dying young to dig coal from the ground that provided power to run the economy, and now whine about EVIL CORPORATE COAL MINERS digging CARBON-SPEWING. BABY-MURDERING POISON out of the ground.
So why are uber-socialist, resource-poor nations like Denmark, Singapore, Luxembourg, or the Netherlands, among the wealthiest countries on earth?
Singapore is uber-socialist? Not when I was there. Luxemburg has been raking in cash as a tax haven for big corporations. Denmark, I believe has a significant amount of oil revenue. Netherlands didn't seem particularly wealthy when I was there.
And, other than Singapore, none of those nations are exactly known for their super-rich residents.
Except negotiating on a person by person bases for the same work is stupid. Why should a great engineer be paid less because they aren't a social adept as someone else?
I have a daughter who like science and want's to be a game designer. I see how she has it stacked against her compared to my son.
Because guys can just walk into a game company and become a designer overnight.
Back in the real world, there are roughly three bazillion people who want to be game designers. The only way most of them will ever do so is to develop their own indie game and do it themselves. The rest will work seventy hour weeks in game companies who'll just lay them off after the game is released, in the hope that, maybe, someone will remember them when they want to hire someone in future.
Solar cell costs are plunging, while their efficiencies rise. I predict a collision, a market and a profit.
You might see one, if you could just plug solar cells into your house and magically get power all day. Most of our power usage in our house is at night, when... oops... there's no solar power.
So now you need batteries and inverters and all kinds of other junk to provide power when we're actually home. And you need enough to provide power to the whole house for a few days to cover the days when there's hardly any sun.
Solar cells could cost $0, and they still probably wouldn't make sense when compared to grid power that isn't made artifiicially expensive by Greenist boondoggles.
I think people would settle for fusion. It seems that fusion is also a difficult problem to crack.
It is, and will continue to be, so long as governemnts keep paying people to not build fusion reactors. My guess is that, when we finally get a working fusion reactor, it will be developed in a few years by a company that completely ignores all the 'basic research' governments have funded over the last fifty years.
This technology isn't needed. We have many sources of cheap energy. The Greenists have to make them artificially expensive for renewables to have any chance of competing.
It's just another Greenist wet-dream, and no-one should be surprised that Google's effort was a dismal failure. When we live off Earth and can build huge mirrors to collect sunlight 24/7, solar power will make sense. Today, wind and solar power makes very little sense, except in specialised circumstances where reliable power is less important than having any power at all (e.g. charging your satellite phone or laptop in the jungle).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it have been really bad if there had been a boatload of plutonium-238 on the Challenger?
Uh, no.
A boatload of Pu-238 won't explode, and RTGs are designed to stay together even in a launch explosion. If I remember correctly, one RTG was involved in a launch explosion, and it was recovered, refurbished, and used again.
The other problem is that most of the decision makers will just bail when the first failure happens, after having collected the bonus for getting rid of the IT team.
And the smart ones bail right after collecting their bonus, before the first failure happens...
An example here is missing devices/mount points in fstab: sysvinit will happily ignore them, systemd won't consider local-fs.target reached and you'll have to fix your system for it to boot correctly.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that makes many of us wary of systemd. I saw a post from someone a few weeks ago complaining that systemd wouldn't let his system start up because there was a problem in/etc/fstab, and he couldn't edit/etc/fstab because systemd wouldn't let his system start up.
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Exactly. China promised to do nothing, other than make Obama look like a dumb-ass.
As for a 'UN Climate Deal', they'll announce a glorious new agreement in 2015 that doesn't require anyone to do anything unless anyone else does. And the only people who'll actually do anything will be Obama and the suicidal EU nations.
1. Make rush hour trips more expensive. If the price is high enough, someone will want to own the fleet.
Yeah, because we'll all be lining up every day to rent a car that costs more than we'd pay to own one ourselves.
Why are autonomous car fanboys such economic illiterates? Oh, sorry, I guess it's the economic illiterates who are autonomous car fanboys.
How long does it take for people to realize that their car could be making them money whenever they are not driving it?
How long does it take for people to realize that this is utopian nonsense?
1. Outside rush hour, the demand for cars will be low. So there'll be a glut of people trying to make money from selling rides, and prices will be low.
2. I drive a car precisely so I don't have to share it with other people coughing and pissing and vomiting in it.
3. What's the car going to do when no-one else is renting it? Just drive around randomly, burning up fuel? Park at the side of the road, being charged for parking?
When is life ever like that.
In the Glorious New Socialist Utopian Future where the Glorious Central Planners decide what everyone is going to do at all times during their life.
Yes, but rush hour might be reduced if the pod vehicles could hold a dozen people with optimised routes to pick up people that live within a few hundred metres of you and are going to the same location.
Yeah, we'll all get up at 4am to take the bus to the mill, and all return at 8pm for black pudding and tea.
You may not have noticed, but we live in the 21st century today, not the 19th. The odds of finding a dozen people within a few hundred metres of me going to somewhere within a few hundred metres of where I work at the same time as me are pretty much zero. Besides, who's going to want to wait for the 'pod vehicle' to drive around all those houses and wait for people to get on, when they could just drive themselves instead? And what if the person you're supposed to pick up is late? Will the pod vehicle just drive away and leave them stranded, or force everyone else to be late?
Uh, you never read Eisenhower's Farewell Address, did you?
Don't worry, most of those jobs will go away soon.
Well, yes. And the Leftists will then be whining about how EVIL AMAZON is laying off workers who had high-paid jobs and willl now be lucky to find work a Starbucks.
They don't care about people or consequences, just having something to complain about. As, for example, they used to complain about low wages for the GLORIOUS PEOPLES' COAL MINERS working hard and dying young to dig coal from the ground that provided power to run the economy, and now whine about EVIL CORPORATE COAL MINERS digging CARBON-SPEWING. BABY-MURDERING POISON out of the ground.
I wonder why men value their lives and safety less than women do.
Because a man can have 500 kids much more easily than a woman can.
So why are uber-socialist, resource-poor nations like Denmark, Singapore, Luxembourg, or the Netherlands, among the wealthiest countries on earth?
Singapore is uber-socialist? Not when I was there. Luxemburg has been raking in cash as a tax haven for big corporations. Denmark, I believe has a significant amount of oil revenue. Netherlands didn't seem particularly wealthy when I was there.
And, other than Singapore, none of those nations are exactly known for their super-rich residents.
Problem solved.
Making everyone poor is the usual means by which socialists reduce 'income inequality'.
Except negotiating on a person by person bases for the same work is stupid. Why should a great engineer be paid less because they aren't a social adept as someone else?
Because someone has to talk to customers.
I have a daughter who like science and want's to be a game designer. I see how she has it stacked against her compared to my son.
Because guys can just walk into a game company and become a designer overnight.
Back in the real world, there are roughly three bazillion people who want to be game designers. The only way most of them will ever do so is to develop their own indie game and do it themselves. The rest will work seventy hour weeks in game companies who'll just lay them off after the game is released, in the hope that, maybe, someone will remember them when they want to hire someone in future.
Solar cell costs are plunging, while their efficiencies rise. I predict a collision, a market and a profit.
You might see one, if you could just plug solar cells into your house and magically get power all day. Most of our power usage in our house is at night, when... oops... there's no solar power.
So now you need batteries and inverters and all kinds of other junk to provide power when we're actually home. And you need enough to provide power to the whole house for a few days to cover the days when there's hardly any sun.
Solar cells could cost $0, and they still probably wouldn't make sense when compared to grid power that isn't made artifiicially expensive by Greenist boondoggles.
I think people would settle for fusion. It seems that fusion is also a difficult problem to crack.
It is, and will continue to be, so long as governemnts keep paying people to not build fusion reactors. My guess is that, when we finally get a working fusion reactor, it will be developed in a few years by a company that completely ignores all the 'basic research' governments have funded over the last fifty years.
I think you miss the point.
This technology isn't needed. We have many sources of cheap energy. The Greenists have to make them artificially expensive for renewables to have any chance of competing.
It's just another Greenist wet-dream, and no-one should be surprised that Google's effort was a dismal failure. When we live off Earth and can build huge mirrors to collect sunlight 24/7, solar power will make sense. Today, wind and solar power makes very little sense, except in specialised circumstances where reliable power is less important than having any power at all (e.g. charging your satellite phone or laptop in the jungle).
You believe that EVIL OIL COMPANIES bought out those 200mpg carburettor patents, don't you?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't it have been really bad if there had been a boatload of plutonium-238 on the Challenger?
Uh, no.
A boatload of Pu-238 won't explode, and RTGs are designed to stay together even in a launch explosion. If I remember correctly, one RTG was involved in a launch explosion, and it was recovered, refurbished, and used again.
Doesn't nuclear power work by boiling water? Doesn't it require that steam then turning back to water?
Uh, no.
Do a web search on RTG sometime.
And, even if it wasn't, the hippies would whine about NASA launching something Nuke-leer into space.
Except the new consoles are just low to mid-range PCs.
The other problem is that most of the decision makers will just bail when the first failure happens, after having collected the bonus for getting rid of the IT team.
And the smart ones bail right after collecting their bonus, before the first failure happens...
If only someone could invent a file format that separates content from presentation, then you wouldn't have to care what screen ratio users had...
An example here is missing devices/mount points in fstab: sysvinit will happily ignore them, systemd won't consider local-fs.target reached and you'll have to fix your system for it to boot correctly.
And this is exactly the kind of thing that makes many of us wary of systemd. I saw a post from someone a few weeks ago complaining that systemd wouldn't let his system start up because there was a problem in /etc/fstab, and he couldn't edit /etc/fstab because systemd wouldn't let his system start up.
No one is forcing you to use it!
Yeah, it's not like other projects like Gnome 3 are deliberately making themselves dependent on systemd, is it?
We will get there (and what a mess we will make of it) but neither you or I will be alive when it comes about.
No, but I will be.
We don't need to magic up immortality tomorrow, we just need to increase lifespan by one year every year.