Time for the entire industry to pivot. They need to provide internet services with streaming level bandwidth, and get out of the content business. Plenty of other people are providing content.
That depends on how you've landscaped your yard, I guess. I plant edibles. Which in addition to my canned and better yet, my vacuum extracted preserved foodstuffs, my low voltage back up energy system, and yes, my squirrel hunting (everybody else will go after the big game, I'll go for things I can take down with a 180 FPS air rifle, both less likely to be taken from and turned against me and much easier to find/manufacture ammo for) I think I'll be fine.
My neighbors, not so much, I'd think, despite the fact I live in a temperate rain forest where wild foods abound.
BTW- your Year 100 is off. Small isolated populations (which this would certainly turn into) leads to language *fracture* , not language extinction. Only large culturally imperial armies lead to language extinction. I suspect within 200 years, you'd see the number of languages explode.
Interesting. Your link on the Toba supervolcano shows the idea that a 10 year volcanic winter, while bad, is certainly survivable (perhaps MORE survivable for a species now capable of 25 year food storage). Even relatively close civilizations like India show little to no difference in tool usage above or below the Toba Ash layer; homo flourensis has now been shown to have not only survived the Toba event, but flourished for another 60,000 years after.
So I'd have to think that no, a bowshot from a supervolcano is not something to worry an awful lot about- just be prepared.
Load Accumulator A with some memory location where there are no memory chips, was the old way to do it. I am honestly unsure how to find noise on any computer built since 1995, the last time I coded in assembly, but almost no 8 bit computer manufacturer was able to eliminate all noise from the system.
But I see no evidence of wisdom in any secular culture. In fact, wisdom, which is a form of knowledge that needs to be built up over many generations by lived experience, is missing from any society that removes the main way such knowledge is transmitted: Tradition.
Global warming also increases evaporation rates- which changes the water to clouds.....and rural folks aren't quite the heartless bastards you make them out to be
Lithium is too rare of a mineral to enable mass production cost cutting. If we have to go to ocean evaporation mining, there's plenty out there, but labor, and therefore cost, will increase.
I was mimicing the grandfather post, but I took him to mean bowshots- as in the warning shots across a bow with an arrow, and later a canon, common to early seafaring piracy. Also known as warning shots.
Economists. Self-Driving Cars are both likely to end up mandated by law (due to less chance of accidents, especially with car-to-car networking) and far too expensive to individually own (by any other than the rich). The obvious solution is ridesharing services, which maintain fleets at a low monthly subscription, and only enough to cover the people in their subscription. Want to go somewhere? Order a car online. Want to move? Order a truck online. With self-driving technology, it comes, picks up you and your stuff, takes you to whatever GPS location you want to go,
EVEN if the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano.,.Antartica is a bloody long way from anything civilized. At worst we might see some climate disruption.
Don't forget the Moon is indeed a Harsh Mistress. What this really means is that the Trump Administration wants to replace the Rod of God with cheaper rocks.
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That's less than a 30 second TV advertisement for HOURS of news coverage.
Isn't that what endpoint vpn tunneling is for?
Time for the entire industry to pivot. They need to provide internet services with streaming level bandwidth, and get out of the content business. Plenty of other people are providing content.
Top Answer above, and the only one worth following in the entire thread.
Why would I spend the money on an AR 15, when a .22 riffle does the same job at 1/4th the price?
That depends on how you've landscaped your yard, I guess. I plant edibles. Which in addition to my canned and better yet, my vacuum extracted preserved foodstuffs, my low voltage back up energy system, and yes, my squirrel hunting (everybody else will go after the big game, I'll go for things I can take down with a 180 FPS air rifle, both less likely to be taken from and turned against me and much easier to find/manufacture ammo for) I think I'll be fine.
My neighbors, not so much, I'd think, despite the fact I live in a temperate rain forest where wild foods abound.
BTW- your Year 100 is off. Small isolated populations (which this would certainly turn into) leads to language *fracture* , not language extinction. Only large culturally imperial armies lead to language extinction. I suspect within 200 years, you'd see the number of languages explode.
I like my non-lethal shotgun. It has a magazine of 80 shots, and I can just break into the table salt at any restaurant to find another 80 shots.
https://bugasalt.com/
Aimed in the eyes, it causes temporary blindness. Aimed at a fly, it knocks them out of the sky so you can swat them.
As long as you don't mind your dogs killing you for food, that is.
Interesting. Your link on the Toba supervolcano shows the idea that a 10 year volcanic winter, while bad, is certainly survivable (perhaps MORE survivable for a species now capable of 25 year food storage). Even relatively close civilizations like India show little to no difference in tool usage above or below the Toba Ash layer; homo flourensis has now been shown to have not only survived the Toba event, but flourished for another 60,000 years after.
So I'd have to think that no, a bowshot from a supervolcano is not something to worry an awful lot about- just be prepared.
I have yet to meet a wise CEO
Load Accumulator A with some memory location where there are no memory chips, was the old way to do it.
I am honestly unsure how to find noise on any computer built since 1995, the last time I coded in assembly, but almost no 8 bit computer manufacturer was able to eliminate all noise from the system.
But I see no evidence of wisdom in any secular culture. In fact, wisdom, which is a form of knowledge that needs to be built up over many generations by lived experience, is missing from any society that removes the main way such knowledge is transmitted: Tradition.
Global warming also increases evaporation rates- which changes the water to clouds.....and rural folks aren't quite the heartless bastards you make them out to be
Lithium is too rare of a mineral to enable mass production cost cutting. If we have to go to ocean evaporation mining, there's plenty out there, but labor, and therefore cost, will increase.
I was mimicing the grandfather post, but I took him to mean bowshots- as in the warning shots across a bow with an arrow, and later a canon, common to early seafaring piracy. Also known as warning shots.
Maybe in the coastal cities- but the sea would go back down just as quickly as the localized nuclear winter refroze Antarctica.
Not so ignorant perhaps. But I am astounded by his promotion of neanderthal genes,
Inescapable poverty is an immediate precursor to revolution.
Do you have any Somalian subscribers to your newsletter?
Economists. Self-Driving Cars are both likely to end up mandated by law (due to less chance of accidents, especially with car-to-car networking) and far too expensive to individually own (by any other than the rich). The obvious solution is ridesharing services, which maintain fleets at a low monthly subscription, and only enough to cover the people in their subscription. Want to go somewhere? Order a car online. Want to move? Order a truck online. With self-driving technology, it comes, picks up you and your stuff, takes you to whatever GPS location you want to go,
EVEN if the initial bowshots of a nascent super-volcano.,.Antartica is a bloody long way from anything civilized. At worst we might see some climate disruption.
I pretty much trust that it isn't. Privacy is largely overrated, and any number attached to your name can eventually be found.
Don't forget the Moon is indeed a Harsh Mistress. What this really means is that the Trump Administration wants to replace the Rod of God with cheaper rocks.
I resemble that remark, though I think it was 97 or 98....when I was working at Tektronix.
Thanks for this tip. Apparently I was heavily involved in the evaluation of spam filters at one time. https://ask.slashdot.org/story/04/12/28/2142204/bounced-email---dealing-w-the-latest-type-of-spam
Posting just to get my name and uid to copy....