New york gets swamped with a massive tsunami and Canada becomes a contiguous icecube. Welcome to the new iceage! Prepare for the poles to switch any day now! I'll be here along the equator watching the show unfold.
As bad as it may be in a factory, it's better than staying in the village with no electricity or running water and trying to eek out an existence as a subsistence farmer.
Don't even try! We need to perfect our laser powered reductive fabrication technology. Fully Integrate robotics into the assembly line and hook it all up to renewable energy sources. The whole plant will would probably employ a few dozen people, but at least they would be made locally and sustainably.
And another thing.... Apple has $60 Billion + in cash, the ebook initiative is going to be measured in decades. We're just coming up with iPad2, by the time we are at iPad 5, we'll be hitting mass penetration with schools. The future only gets better.
If the university makes it policy to endorse the iPad and require every student to have one, likely you won't have a say in the matter. Welcome to the future.
The United States is pretty much the only country out there with a significant population that continues to deny Climate Change. Ok, Canada has some issues as well (they have a religious conservative government at the moment), but it is quite difficult to find any other developed country out there that denies the mountain of evidence before us all. It would seem many Americans would deny that the sun is shining, even if they were standing right under it sweating like a pig in the middle of a desert, all for the sake of some twisted demagoguery.
You're arguing for ignorance. It's like denying that gravity doesn't exist just because some people can't understand how it operates. No sane person denies evolution in the world today, except for fundamentalist, semi-literate, buffoons. You are again speaking from a position of ignorance, I would pity you if it weren't so pathetic.
Please do some basic research on government and corporate initiatives around the world, they all realize what is happening and have plans to adapt to the changing planet. Why do you think China is investing so much in battery technology? What about massive investment in wind and solar power? I suppose an ignoramus such as yourself would write off such long term efforts as conspiracies.... wouldn't you? It's ok to admit it, being aware of your failings is the first step to correcting them.
It's only the ignorant who continue to deny man made climate change. The evidence is all around us, from massive deforestation, depletion of fresh water sources, desertification, acidification of the oceans, depletion of top soils, and the big one -- the continued and deliberate mass-extinction of Mammals and fish not seen since the last ice age.
A massive MAJORITY of world governments, corporations, scientists, leaders, and intellectuals in the world recognize that man made climate change is the number one challenge the human species faces this century. Climate change affects TWO of the top Human requirements on this Earth, Food production, and access to drinking water. Without a constant supply of either of these, misery will prevail.
You may continue to call yourself a 'moderate skeptic', but don't fool your self into thinking it is by any measure an intelligent choice.
The hackers attacked a key infrastructure such as a desalination plant and cause them to burn out. Hmmmm kinda like what happened in Iran. That would be ironic punishment.
Announcing your intended crime to your victim before you actually accomplish anything.... Kinda like a comic book villain plot? Cower in fear and behold our power to reveal your credit rating!!! Now you'll get spammed to death! High interest rates for all!!!(cue maniacal laughter...)
I would wish the hackers good luck if only because they are the underdogs.... I suspect they'll be getting a knock at the door any moment now. They should probably avoid motor vehicles for the foreseeable future as well. Oh and wear a hat! (The eye in the sky is always watching!)
Unlike Anonymous Coward, I can openly say I use Pirate Bay exclusively to get the software and media I want, when I want it. I haven't purchased a DVD, CD, or many games in years. I have hundreds of gigabytes of downloaded data. Piratebay is good because its convenient, that's all.
My home office is my 'Fortress of Solitude', safe from distraction of the outside world, incubator of ideas, and infused with the essence of coffee. Now if only I could stop checking Slashdot every fifteen minutes I might get some work done.
Look, unless they filter and censor every single email, text, data stream ect... it is a complete lost cause. This will just spur innovation in finding methods to avoid the censors such as seen in China.
If you're just a worker drone and clock puncher then I can see that. However if you're at the executive level and daily decisions have a large impact on hundreds or even thousands of people, that is a whole different level of responsibility.
Picture yourself in a refugee camp where you have thousands of people you must diagnose in the quickest way possible. Are you going to have time to give each one a five minute interview to discuss their symptoms...or is it just quicker to do a scan with a handheld device to diagnose ten or more diseases with 100% accuracy? The beauty of a medical tricorder device is that it could operated by non-medical professionals. Individuals could be trained to use the device and they could be deployed by the thousands to remote areas with little infrastructure, connected via internet. The savings from lab tests alone would make such a device nothing short of revolutionary.
I too travel all the time with External Harddrives. I've never had a problem. They just to through the xray machine with everything else. If border guards had to check every computer or harddrive for data they wouldn't be able to do their jobs very well. Of course, I'm not on any watch lists nor do I look like a terrorist, so that might help.
Yea I lived in Nairobi for a few years as well. The temperature varies...however the sunlight is on average very intense, very suitable for solar power generation. The solar isolation that Kenya receives is very high.
True, and in Kenya the average person spends over 50% of their income on food, which doesn't leave much for luxuries such as electricity. I am sure though, that if a nuclear power plant were built they would subsidize access to electricity to the poor. Most people in Kenya pirate their electricity as it is anyway.
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New york gets swamped with a massive tsunami and Canada becomes a contiguous icecube. Welcome to the new iceage! Prepare for the poles to switch any day now! I'll be here along the equator watching the show unfold.
He might want to find a non-extradition country to relocate too....
As bad as it may be in a factory, it's better than staying in the village with no electricity or running water and trying to eek out an existence as a subsistence farmer.
Don't even try! We need to perfect our laser powered reductive fabrication technology. Fully Integrate robotics into the assembly line and hook it all up to renewable energy sources. The whole plant will would probably employ a few dozen people, but at least they would be made locally and sustainably.
They have proven it time and again. Prove me wrong.
And another thing.... Apple has $60 Billion + in cash, the ebook initiative is going to be measured in decades. We're just coming up with iPad2, by the time we are at iPad 5, we'll be hitting mass penetration with schools. The future only gets better.
If the university makes it policy to endorse the iPad and require every student to have one, likely you won't have a say in the matter. Welcome to the future.
The United States is pretty much the only country out there with a significant population that continues to deny Climate Change. Ok, Canada has some issues as well (they have a religious conservative government at the moment), but it is quite difficult to find any other developed country out there that denies the mountain of evidence before us all. It would seem many Americans would deny that the sun is shining, even if they were standing right under it sweating like a pig in the middle of a desert, all for the sake of some twisted demagoguery.
You're arguing for ignorance. It's like denying that gravity doesn't exist just because some people can't understand how it operates. No sane person denies evolution in the world today, except for fundamentalist, semi-literate, buffoons. You are again speaking from a position of ignorance, I would pity you if it weren't so pathetic.
Please do some basic research on government and corporate initiatives around the world, they all realize what is happening and have plans to adapt to the changing planet. Why do you think China is investing so much in battery technology? What about massive investment in wind and solar power? I suppose an ignoramus such as yourself would write off such long term efforts as conspiracies.... wouldn't you? It's ok to admit it, being aware of your failings is the first step to correcting them.
A massive MAJORITY of world governments, corporations, scientists, leaders, and intellectuals in the world recognize that man made climate change is the number one challenge the human species faces this century. Climate change affects TWO of the top Human requirements on this Earth, Food production, and access to drinking water. Without a constant supply of either of these, misery will prevail.
You may continue to call yourself a 'moderate skeptic', but don't fool your self into thinking it is by any measure an intelligent choice.
The hackers attacked a key infrastructure such as a desalination plant and cause them to burn out. Hmmmm kinda like what happened in Iran. That would be ironic punishment.
I would wish the hackers good luck if only because they are the underdogs.... I suspect they'll be getting a knock at the door any moment now. They should probably avoid motor vehicles for the foreseeable future as well. Oh and wear a hat! (The eye in the sky is always watching!)
Unlike Anonymous Coward, I can openly say I use Pirate Bay exclusively to get the software and media I want, when I want it. I haven't purchased a DVD, CD, or many games in years. I have hundreds of gigabytes of downloaded data. Piratebay is good because its convenient, that's all.
My home office is my 'Fortress of Solitude', safe from distraction of the outside world, incubator of ideas, and infused with the essence of coffee. Now if only I could stop checking Slashdot every fifteen minutes I might get some work done.
Look, unless they filter and censor every single email, text, data stream ect... it is a complete lost cause. This will just spur innovation in finding methods to avoid the censors such as seen in China.
If you're just a worker drone and clock puncher then I can see that. However if you're at the executive level and daily decisions have a large impact on hundreds or even thousands of people, that is a whole different level of responsibility.
Picture yourself in a refugee camp where you have thousands of people you must diagnose in the quickest way possible. Are you going to have time to give each one a five minute interview to discuss their symptoms...or is it just quicker to do a scan with a handheld device to diagnose ten or more diseases with 100% accuracy? The beauty of a medical tricorder device is that it could operated by non-medical professionals. Individuals could be trained to use the device and they could be deployed by the thousands to remote areas with little infrastructure, connected via internet. The savings from lab tests alone would make such a device nothing short of revolutionary.
I too travel all the time with External Harddrives. I've never had a problem. They just to through the xray machine with everything else. If border guards had to check every computer or harddrive for data they wouldn't be able to do their jobs very well. Of course, I'm not on any watch lists nor do I look like a terrorist, so that might help.
There has been no proof that the drone that Iran 'acquired' was brought down by spoofing...
That Tolkien found most of his fame AFTER he died is indicative that what he wrote was not ready for his time, but the future.
In that case I'll wait for the 6th edition so they can get the bugs out.
I'm just finally mastering the 2nd edition rules.
Yea I lived in Nairobi for a few years as well. The temperature varies...however the sunlight is on average very intense, very suitable for solar power generation. The solar isolation that Kenya receives is very high.
True, and in Kenya the average person spends over 50% of their income on food, which doesn't leave much for luxuries such as electricity. I am sure though, that if a nuclear power plant were built they would subsidize access to electricity to the poor. Most people in Kenya pirate their electricity as it is anyway.