Throw Apache on a Linux VM at some datacenter, use webdav clients to connect to it via SSL.
If you want, you can use an encrypting file system with your own key entered manually on startup, but if they drop it in a VM with or without your knowledge, they could certainly snoop your key and still decrypt it, but it'd certainly take more knowledge and effort than most of these places are going to have.
WebDAV support is fairly common, so you're likely to find apps that can use it much like those that use Dropbox.
If you want offline availability, well its a little more complicated, but not by much.
So, I'm a freebsd user and the commands are a little different, but if he's doing this on some sort of Linux distribution, wouldn't all the 'work' be done by your package manager?
apt install whatever
cron an apt update or however it works
Use webdav and let whatever clients you want 'auto-sync' with it since well... thats the only intelligent way to do it anyway since its supported almost everywhere and the important OSes have clients built in.
so basically install apache and mod_webdav, though I'd use subversion and get free revision retention myself if it was was being used to store documents mostly, regular webdav otherwise.
Cron a apt-update or however you do it in Linux, and forget it until you get emails from the cron job complaining that its not working.
I don't really understand why Dropbox is so hard to emulate unless you want it to scale to millions of users.
Why do FOSS people always seem to want to reinvent the wheel?
If you want version control, then you just use Subversion with mod_svn on apache, which gives you versionining on top of WebDAV. That is, after all, how Subversion works.
Or, you can encrypt on the client and send only encrypted data to the servers which prevents the servers and the owners from getting at your data while still maintaining the same service offering.
Its not even a little bit hard, it just requires a clue. A clue both you and Dropbox are missing, but a clue none the less.
Stop pretending you know about security and encryption, and PLEASE stop telling others about how it MUST work when you clearly have no clue.
The bottom of the ocean is now well understood to be rather abundant with life, even at tremendous depths. Not all plants require sunlight. Maybe you should read the link you posted, eh?
If that be the case my corner gas station likely makes more money per year *than all of Microsoft combined* (between 3:01:31AM and 3:01:35AM on August 4).
Except the original statement in the article is probably true, where as there is no way that gas station makes more money in several years than MS does in any given second on interest alone. You seriously underestimate the amount of money they have sitting around.
What would we have to replace Linux in the millions of Android with overnight?
NetBSD if your primary goal is portability. FreeBSD if your primary goal is speed, reliability and general overall niceness OpenBSD if your primary concern is security or you just like self inflicted pain.
There is nothing unique about Linux or GIT, nor Linus fanboys... they are just that, fanboys blinded by idol worship and unable to see clearly enough to realize both the things mentioned aren't unique.
Linux and Git are both just OSS copies of existing DCVS systems with nothing truely innovating about them.
Linux is a very impressive project, but thats not unique. Git really is nothing special and really shows the fanboy in someone. I've learned if your drooling over Git, 9.9 times out of 10, its cause you're a fanboy, not cause the benefits of Git offer something they couldn't get else where 10 years ago.
It basically shows that the senator and his office are completely technologically inept, and too lazy/stupid to find someone who is qualified to help them out.
They spent money... to make an app... that can be done in HTML... and work on every device that has a web browser rather than JUST iOS.
So what you should take from this is that this senator and his office are ignorant, lazy, wasteful, and fad followers who care more about popular opinion than doing their job.
As I said, probably nothing you didn't already know.
And as a certified iOS fanboy... let me add... DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING CLUE HOW GOD DAMN ANNOYING IT IS TO HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A FUCKING APP BECAUSE YOU STUPID JACKASSES WANTED TO FOLLOW THE CURRENT FAD RATHER THAN JUST MAKING IT A FUCKING WEBSITE. GIVE ME A DAMN WEBSITE, NOT FREAKING APP.... god I hate that, especially when they require you to use the app rather than providing a web based alternative of any sorts.
The problem with your logic is that you're making the assumption that you are 'taking away from Righthaven's valid business model', but the model is not legal so it can't be used, meaning you can't take away from it.
Basically, if it worked like you're saying, anyone could invent a 'business model' worded in such a way that someone else would be infringing on it, they could word it as such that it targeted specific people even.
You can't sue someone because they didn't allow you to break the law.
Yea, its decentralized... except the trackers and the search sites aren't, which for all practical purposes are required for bittorrent to be useful in a general purpose sense.
Its funny when people such as yourself run on about decentralized apps without realizing there isn't a 'decentralized' app on the Internet that doesn't depend directly on indirectly on something that is centralized and authoritative in order to thwart potential Bad Guys(tm).
I'm guessing by your post and its tone that you're what... 18, 19?
The reality of it is, the kid didn't actually do all of this.
If you go to the site for the product, its very clear that its no 15 year olds company.
At best, he took some of daddies money and told some other people to make some shit and his parents called it a company, his idea possibly developed to what it is now by some actual developer hired to work for him.
Whats likely is that his parents and he worked on this together, and the parents are calling it 'his company', but it would never exist without them.
Why do I say this?
Look at his website, in one spot it talks about how this 15 year old was trying to do a deployment for one of his clients in 2009 and realize he wanted something better... 'clients' at 13? No. And no 13 year old writes like that, regardless of how well educated and smart.
He started programming at a young age, with The Register noting that he began tinkering with HTML at the age of six and became a freelance Linux administrator at 11.
Really? Someone other than dad was allowing an 11 year old to 'admin' their Linux machines? Bullshit. Running your own Linux box in your bedroom doesn't make you an admin, when will you guys get that?
The kid could be the most intelligent, gifted person on the planet, but the story painted in the full article is clearly unbelievable if you look at the details, its just far too much.
because the turbines only last a few years and cannot easily be refurbished
Today that may be true, but after we've used Wind Power on a large scale for 15-20 years?
I was watching some show about a big hydroelectric plant in the US, I wanna save Hoover dam, but it could be another one, I don't remember the outside view at all.
There were replacing two of the generators with newer models... the ones they pulled out... had been in operation producing power, non-stop, for over 20 years. I'm not sure WHY wind turbines only last a few years, but I'm pretty confident it doesn't HAVE to be that way. Can't imagine why refurbishing them could be that difficult either. Its a big fan blade, a transmission to gear it up, and a generator. None of those things are new technology, and all of them are used in various industrial situations with far worse environments and last far longer than a few years. Sounds to me like we just don't have anyone making turbines that has a clue, or they just aren't putting any effort into making them last in order to keep generating revenue selling turbines. $50 says it comes down to greed.
Of course adding a dam changes the environment. Every breath you take has an impact on the environment, unlike most video games the real environment is actually dynamic and always changing. Damming a river and flooding thousands of acres even occurs naturally at times, just go look at how the Colorado River is currently thought to have been formed, heres a hint, it involves a dam that would make Hoover look like a baby.
Change is not always bad, but it is change. You might as well wake up and smell the roses cause you aren't going to avoid environmental change its impossibly in a chaotic system such as the universe is.
The real question is, what does the change mean long term to us?
Losing a few species of animals specific to a specific river may be an acceptable loss. I value life, but I value my life above all else. I don't want to wipe out a species, but honestly it won't slow me down.
Humans didn't invent extinction, nor were we the first to cause it. Species go extinct because they aren't suited for their environment, not because the environment isn't suited for them. When the environment changes, so does life, or it ceases to exist because it wasn't up to the challenge.
Those extinct animals may have had the cure for everything locked away in them, and its now lost forever. We might have also prevented the spread of some evil virus that would wipe out all life on Earth had it infected a human before going extinct. Then again, they may have been nothing special at all.
You cant live your life trying to preserve everything the way it is and never hurting anything. All living things die and go extinct, its just a matter of when.
No one lives within 30 km of the site, and only loons or paid professionals live in the pink areas
Because their government said so... as an after the event over reaction to the issue.
The whole area has been basically converted into a nature reserve, and if the place is so inhospitable as you'd like to make it out, why does the area have more healthy normal animal life living in it now than it did before the government threw all the people out?
You know that people still work at the Chernobyl plant right? And that it was a functioning nuclear power generation station until just recently (last few years), right?
You really have no clue what Chernobyl 'did' to that 30km area, get a clue, and no, you can't get a clue by browsing wikipedia.
Uhm, maybe you should learn what happened at Chernobyl and what its like there now... you know people still work there... right?
Most of what happened was an after the fact over reaction to the event.
People left the town near Chernobyl, planets and animals seem to be doing perfectly fine and are healthy and happy. In fact, only a few years after the people disappeared, everything more or less returned to wilderness showing not only was the effect of the explosion and radiation far far less than everyone freaked out about, that also nature can recover pretty fucking quick once the humans get the fuck out of the area.
or anti-matter etc.
You do realize that our only currently known sources of anti-matter require billions of times more energy being put into them than we can get out of the anti-matter thats produced... right?
Of course not, its clear from your post that you're just stuck in FUD world, you don't actually know about the things you are afraid of, you just know that you're afraid of them.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.
coal power doesn't leave future generations with tonnes of highly radioactive and long-lived waste to manage and dispose of.
Actually, it does, except instead of it being contained in on place... such as a spent fuel storage vault, its spread across the world in the exhaust ash.
Coal burning for power generation is the leading producer of radiation on the planet, for a bigger source, you actually have to set off bombs REGULARLY, or leave the protection of the planet.
And the waste storage vaults are rather well marked and well known to those around them, so its unlikely someone is going to accidentally build a school on top of one... not only because of that, but because they tend to be put in places where there aren't that many people anyway.
You're saying 'we know nuclear is going to have some long term costs'
And you ignore that 'we now know coal power ash spreads literal fucktons of radiation around the world every year'.
So basically, because we know about some long term issues in advance... you want to avoid it and continue to depend on and use a source of power generation that actually has a worse environmental impact because we simply didn't know that it was going to have that impact when we started using it?
I think you're drawing some really silly conclusions.
Yea but you can prevent E.Coli poisoning by cooking your food to 155 degrees F and washing the shit off of your hands after you take a dump. You can't prevent radiation poisoning quite so easily.
Actually, you can prevent radiation poisoning almost as easily, which is why up until just the last few years Chernobyl still had power producing reactors and still has on site personal 24 hours a day right this instant.
Its hard to prevent radiation poisoning when you're ingesting/inhaling it directly, or standing on top of a glowing white hot chunk of nuclear fuel, but you don't have to be very far from that fuel or have very much in between you and it before it ceases to be a concern. A few medical precautions, a pill a day keeps the radiation away!
So if people working just a few blocks away from the worst nuclear event in the history of man short of intentionally going super critical can survive for years with some iodine pills, I don't think it can really be that much harder to avoid than it is too cook all your food properly.
No, but they also tend to be used by people who don't rub unprocessed shit on plants as fertilizer as well.
Just because you think 'pesticides' when you think organic farm, doesn't mean thats where the problem lies. In this cause, its probably more likely to be caused by organic fertilizer or shitty cleaning processes that any other farm would have done.
You know why we have longer life expectancies than we did 100 years ago? Because we've gotten smart enough to fix a lot of problems in our life cycles using technology... organic farming is basically ignoring all that in search of some silly notion that 'more natural is always better'.
As the GP said, the reason we don't farm like that any more is because... WE LEARNED IT COULD BE DONE BETTER! And now most people live long enough to retire rather than dyeing before their first born would be able to start collage.
because no power plant was able to bootstrap itself
There is something fundamentally flawed with a electricity generation station that can't self start without outside electricity.
I understand the reasons why, don't get me wrong, I realize that from a practical perspective what I'm about to propose is... well, not possible... but...
Shouldn't there be a damn hand crank or something that could start a pilot light or a carousel and some horses to power some pumps or something for pressurizing the system or SOMETHING... I mean SERIOUSLY, we can't design SOME system so these things could be started via manual labor? Yea, it'll suck when half the plant workers have to leave their desks and air conditioners, go outside and do some manual labor for a few hours until help arrives and can power the pumps or start the generators or SOMETHING?
I just feel like that should be done like Chris Rock skit where he's ranting about Superman can't walk
If you knew anything about the CLR, you'd know that the last major change to the system was 2.0, everything since then is just a different standard library. Theres no real reason for Mono to claim a newer version of the CLR, and their libraries do support some newer stuff where its popular.
If you wanted to bitch about mono, the crappiness of the VM is a good thing to bitch about and how it performs. Picking on semantics without understanding even what you are saying is probably not a good course if you want to look intelligent.
Because OpenGL support for Windows sucks! Sure, the drivers are fine, but if you actually want to use a modern version of the API, you need to do a lot of faffing about checking for extensions, and get a pointer to a fnction bofre actually using it. There's also no official OpenGL wrapper for.Net.
Seriously? Your argument is that you don't like using the P/Invoke methods to deal with OGL extensions and you don't want to use a non-official OpenGL.NET wrapper even though there are several that work just fine?
Your post SCREAMS lazy/crappy developer.
You may not be, but your post really makes you sound like it.
You didn't show me a difference, you just said these two things are different, and I'm waiting for you to say something specific so I can point out how your lack of understanding of the languages is confusing you.
Explain what you think is different and I'll show you your misunderstanding.
First off, no it doesnt throw an exception. Of course, your code is also wrong in general, you don't compare strings with equivelqncy operators in the.NET environment, like in most other languages.
You would use the following in both languages: If ("".Equals(test))
Your if statements aren't comparing strings, they are comparing to see if the two objects are the same object, which may not be the case even if the backing strings are identical text.
In short, you don't understand one of the most basic usages of either language, so you don't exactly hold a lot of credibility. The differences you think exist are due to your own lack of understanding of the languages. Come back to me when you actually understand OOP with.NET, and how to actually work with objects.
It's interesting that you probably inherently understand you have to spend money to make money but can't envision the possibility that the jet's emissions might be less than the emissions reduced or prevented by participation at the climate conference.
Also failing to take into account that the jet is actually likely more economical than any other way the person would travel, since they'd likely need security escorts and such if using any public form of transportation, and any ground based transportation is almost certainly going to be less efficient. No, a car doesn't consume as much fuel per minute as a jet, but the jet gets there much quicker, and doesn't require a motorcade to insure the passenger is safe.
Theres more to why we send people around on private jets than just pleasing the politicians in them, its actually cheaper to charter a private jet (or as the government goes, own/lease one) than it is to use any public alternative and deal with all the increased needs of using public transportation.
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mod_svn being optional, if you want versioning.
Throw Apache on a Linux VM at some datacenter, use webdav clients to connect to it via SSL.
If you want, you can use an encrypting file system with your own key entered manually on startup, but if they drop it in a VM with or without your knowledge, they could certainly snoop your key and still decrypt it, but it'd certainly take more knowledge and effort than most of these places are going to have.
WebDAV support is fairly common, so you're likely to find apps that can use it much like those that use Dropbox.
If you want offline availability, well its a little more complicated, but not by much.
So, I'm a freebsd user and the commands are a little different, but if he's doing this on some sort of Linux distribution, wouldn't all the 'work' be done by your package manager?
apt install whatever
cron an apt update or however it works
Use webdav and let whatever clients you want 'auto-sync' with it since well ... thats the only intelligent way to do it anyway since its supported almost everywhere and the important OSes have clients built in.
so basically install apache and mod_webdav, though I'd use subversion and get free revision retention myself if it was was being used to store documents mostly, regular webdav otherwise.
Cron a apt-update or however you do it in Linux, and forget it until you get emails from the cron job complaining that its not working.
I don't really understand why Dropbox is so hard to emulate unless you want it to scale to millions of users.
Why do FOSS people always seem to want to reinvent the wheel?
If you want version control, then you just use Subversion with mod_svn on apache, which gives you versionining on top of WebDAV. That is, after all, how Subversion works.
Or, you can encrypt on the client and send only encrypted data to the servers which prevents the servers and the owners from getting at your data while still maintaining the same service offering.
Its not even a little bit hard, it just requires a clue. A clue both you and Dropbox are missing, but a clue none the less.
Stop pretending you know about security and encryption, and PLEASE stop telling others about how it MUST work when you clearly have no clue.
The bottom of the ocean is now well understood to be rather abundant with life, even at tremendous depths. Not all plants require sunlight. Maybe you should read the link you posted, eh?
If that be the case my corner gas station likely makes more money per year *than all of Microsoft combined* (between 3:01:31AM and 3:01:35AM on August 4).
Except the original statement in the article is probably true, where as there is no way that gas station makes more money in several years than MS does in any given second on interest alone. You seriously underestimate the amount of money they have sitting around.
What would we have to replace Linux in the millions of Android with overnight?
NetBSD if your primary goal is portability.
FreeBSD if your primary goal is speed, reliability and general overall niceness
OpenBSD if your primary concern is security or you just like self inflicted pain.
There is nothing unique about Linux or GIT, nor Linus fanboys ... they are just that, fanboys blinded by idol worship and unable to see clearly enough to realize both the things mentioned aren't unique.
Linux and Git are both just OSS copies of existing DCVS systems with nothing truely innovating about them.
Linux is a very impressive project, but thats not unique. Git really is nothing special and really shows the fanboy in someone. I've learned if your drooling over Git, 9.9 times out of 10, its cause you're a fanboy, not cause the benefits of Git offer something they couldn't get else where 10 years ago.
Nothing we probably didn't already know sadly.
It basically shows that the senator and his office are completely technologically inept, and too lazy/stupid to find someone who is qualified to help them out.
They spent money ... to make an app ... that can be done in HTML ... and work on every device that has a web browser rather than JUST iOS.
So what you should take from this is that this senator and his office are ignorant, lazy, wasteful, and fad followers who care more about popular opinion than doing their job.
As I said, probably nothing you didn't already know.
And as a certified iOS fanboy ... let me add ... DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING CLUE HOW GOD DAMN ANNOYING IT IS TO HAVE TO DOWNLOAD A FUCKING APP BECAUSE YOU STUPID JACKASSES WANTED TO FOLLOW THE CURRENT FAD RATHER THAN JUST MAKING IT A FUCKING WEBSITE. GIVE ME A DAMN WEBSITE, NOT FREAKING APP. ... god I hate that, especially when they require you to use the app rather than providing a web based alternative of any sorts.
The problem with your logic is that you're making the assumption that you are 'taking away from Righthaven's valid business model', but the model is not legal so it can't be used, meaning you can't take away from it.
Basically, if it worked like you're saying, anyone could invent a 'business model' worded in such a way that someone else would be infringing on it, they could word it as such that it targeted specific people even.
You can't sue someone because they didn't allow you to break the law.
Yea, its decentralized ... except the trackers and the search sites aren't, which for all practical purposes are required for bittorrent to be useful in a general purpose sense.
Its funny when people such as yourself run on about decentralized apps without realizing there isn't a 'decentralized' app on the Internet that doesn't depend directly on indirectly on something that is centralized and authoritative in order to thwart potential Bad Guys(tm).
I'm guessing by your post and its tone that you're what ... 18, 19?
The reality of it is, the kid didn't actually do all of this.
If you go to the site for the product, its very clear that its no 15 year olds company.
At best, he took some of daddies money and told some other people to make some shit and his parents called it a company, his idea possibly developed to what it is now by some actual developer hired to work for him.
Whats likely is that his parents and he worked on this together, and the parents are calling it 'his company', but it would never exist without them.
Why do I say this?
Look at his website, in one spot it talks about how this 15 year old was trying to do a deployment for one of his clients in 2009 and realize he wanted something better ... 'clients' at 13? No. And no 13 year old writes like that, regardless of how well educated and smart.
He started programming at a young age, with The Register noting that he began tinkering with HTML at the age of six and became a freelance Linux administrator at 11.
Really? Someone other than dad was allowing an 11 year old to 'admin' their Linux machines? Bullshit. Running your own Linux box in your bedroom doesn't make you an admin, when will you guys get that?
The kid could be the most intelligent, gifted person on the planet, but the story painted in the full article is clearly unbelievable if you look at the details, its just far too much.
because the turbines only last a few years and cannot easily be refurbished
Today that may be true, but after we've used Wind Power on a large scale for 15-20 years?
I was watching some show about a big hydroelectric plant in the US, I wanna save Hoover dam, but it could be another one, I don't remember the outside view at all.
There were replacing two of the generators with newer models ... the ones they pulled out ... had been in operation producing power, non-stop, for over 20 years. I'm not sure WHY wind turbines only last a few years, but I'm pretty confident it doesn't HAVE to be that way. Can't imagine why refurbishing them could be that difficult either. Its a big fan blade, a transmission to gear it up, and a generator. None of those things are new technology, and all of them are used in various industrial situations with far worse environments and last far longer than a few years. Sounds to me like we just don't have anyone making turbines that has a clue, or they just aren't putting any effort into making them last in order to keep generating revenue selling turbines. $50 says it comes down to greed.
Of course adding a dam changes the environment. Every breath you take has an impact on the environment, unlike most video games the real environment is actually dynamic and always changing. Damming a river and flooding thousands of acres even occurs naturally at times, just go look at how the Colorado River is currently thought to have been formed, heres a hint, it involves a dam that would make Hoover look like a baby.
Change is not always bad, but it is change. You might as well wake up and smell the roses cause you aren't going to avoid environmental change its impossibly in a chaotic system such as the universe is.
The real question is, what does the change mean long term to us?
Losing a few species of animals specific to a specific river may be an acceptable loss. I value life, but I value my life above all else. I don't want to wipe out a species, but honestly it won't slow me down.
Humans didn't invent extinction, nor were we the first to cause it. Species go extinct because they aren't suited for their environment, not because the environment isn't suited for them. When the environment changes, so does life, or it ceases to exist because it wasn't up to the challenge.
Those extinct animals may have had the cure for everything locked away in them, and its now lost forever. We might have also prevented the spread of some evil virus that would wipe out all life on Earth had it infected a human before going extinct. Then again, they may have been nothing special at all.
You cant live your life trying to preserve everything the way it is and never hurting anything. All living things die and go extinct, its just a matter of when.
Or possibly, a democracy until it was recently ruined!
I got nothing. Theres a sexist joke in there thats funny I'm sure, but I just couldn't find it.
No one lives within 30 km of the site, and only loons or paid professionals live in the pink areas
Because their government said so ... as an after the event over reaction to the issue.
The whole area has been basically converted into a nature reserve, and if the place is so inhospitable as you'd like to make it out, why does the area have more healthy normal animal life living in it now than it did before the government threw all the people out?
You know that people still work at the Chernobyl plant right? And that it was a functioning nuclear power generation station until just recently (last few years), right?
You really have no clue what Chernobyl 'did' to that 30km area, get a clue, and no, you can't get a clue by browsing wikipedia.
consider what happened a Chernobyl.
Uhm, maybe you should learn what happened at Chernobyl and what its like there now ... you know people still work there ... right?
Most of what happened was an after the fact over reaction to the event.
People left the town near Chernobyl, planets and animals seem to be doing perfectly fine and are healthy and happy. In fact, only a few years after the people disappeared, everything more or less returned to wilderness showing not only was the effect of the explosion and radiation far far less than everyone freaked out about, that also nature can recover pretty fucking quick once the humans get the fuck out of the area.
or anti-matter etc.
You do realize that our only currently known sources of anti-matter require billions of times more energy being put into them than we can get out of the anti-matter thats produced ... right?
Of course not, its clear from your post that you're just stuck in FUD world, you don't actually know about the things you are afraid of, you just know that you're afraid of them.
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to the dark side.
I sense much fear in you.
coal power doesn't leave future generations with tonnes of highly radioactive and long-lived waste to manage and dispose of.
Actually, it does, except instead of it being contained in on place ... such as a spent fuel storage vault, its spread across the world in the exhaust ash.
Coal burning for power generation is the leading producer of radiation on the planet, for a bigger source, you actually have to set off bombs REGULARLY, or leave the protection of the planet.
And the waste storage vaults are rather well marked and well known to those around them, so its unlikely someone is going to accidentally build a school on top of one ... not only because of that, but because they tend to be put in places where there aren't that many people anyway.
You're saying 'we know nuclear is going to have some long term costs'
And you ignore that 'we now know coal power ash spreads literal fucktons of radiation around the world every year'.
So basically, because we know about some long term issues in advance ... you want to avoid it and continue to depend on and use a source of power generation that actually has a worse environmental impact because we simply didn't know that it was going to have that impact when we started using it?
I think you're drawing some really silly conclusions.
Yea but you can prevent E.Coli poisoning by cooking your food to 155 degrees F and washing the shit off of your hands after you take a dump. You can't prevent radiation poisoning quite so easily.
Actually, you can prevent radiation poisoning almost as easily, which is why up until just the last few years Chernobyl still had power producing reactors and still has on site personal 24 hours a day right this instant.
Its hard to prevent radiation poisoning when you're ingesting/inhaling it directly, or standing on top of a glowing white hot chunk of nuclear fuel, but you don't have to be very far from that fuel or have very much in between you and it before it ceases to be a concern. A few medical precautions, a pill a day keeps the radiation away!
So if people working just a few blocks away from the worst nuclear event in the history of man short of intentionally going super critical can survive for years with some iodine pills, I don't think it can really be that much harder to avoid than it is too cook all your food properly.
No, but they also tend to be used by people who don't rub unprocessed shit on plants as fertilizer as well.
Just because you think 'pesticides' when you think organic farm, doesn't mean thats where the problem lies. In this cause, its probably more likely to be caused by organic fertilizer or shitty cleaning processes that any other farm would have done.
You know why we have longer life expectancies than we did 100 years ago? Because we've gotten smart enough to fix a lot of problems in our life cycles using technology ... organic farming is basically ignoring all that in search of some silly notion that 'more natural is always better'.
As the GP said, the reason we don't farm like that any more is because ... WE LEARNED IT COULD BE DONE BETTER! And now most people live long enough to retire rather than dyeing before their first born would be able to start collage.
because no power plant was able to bootstrap itself
There is something fundamentally flawed with a electricity generation station that can't self start without outside electricity.
I understand the reasons why, don't get me wrong, I realize that from a practical perspective what I'm about to propose is ... well, not possible ... but ...
Shouldn't there be a damn hand crank or something that could start a pilot light or a carousel and some horses to power some pumps or something for pressurizing the system or SOMETHING ... I mean SERIOUSLY, we can't design SOME system so these things could be started via manual labor? Yea, it'll suck when half the plant workers have to leave their desks and air conditioners, go outside and do some manual labor for a few hours until help arrives and can power the pumps or start the generators or SOMETHING?
I just feel like that should be done like Chris Rock skit where he's ranting about Superman can't walk
If you knew anything about the CLR, you'd know that the last major change to the system was 2.0, everything since then is just a different standard library. Theres no real reason for Mono to claim a newer version of the CLR, and their libraries do support some newer stuff where its popular.
If you wanted to bitch about mono, the crappiness of the VM is a good thing to bitch about and how it performs. Picking on semantics without understanding even what you are saying is probably not a good course if you want to look intelligent.
Because OpenGL support for Windows sucks! Sure, the drivers are fine, but if you actually want to use a modern version of the API, you need to do a lot of faffing about checking for extensions, and get a pointer to a fnction bofre actually using it. There's also no official OpenGL wrapper for .Net.
Seriously? Your argument is that you don't like using the P/Invoke methods to deal with OGL extensions and you don't want to use a non-official OpenGL.NET wrapper even though there are several that work just fine?
Your post SCREAMS lazy/crappy developer.
You may not be, but your post really makes you sound like it.
Seems like this is a recurring theme at Mozilla that 'makes great bounds' but never actually gets things down to a sane level.
You didn't show me a difference, you just said these two things are different, and I'm waiting for you to say something specific so I can point out how your lack of understanding of the languages is confusing you.
Explain what you think is different and I'll show you your misunderstanding.
First off, no it doesnt throw an exception. Of course, your code is also wrong in general, you don't compare strings with equivelqncy operators in the .NET environment, like in most other languages.
You would use the following in both languages:
If ("".Equals(test))
Your if statements aren't comparing strings, they are comparing to see if the two objects are the same object, which may not be the case even if the backing strings are identical text.
In short, you don't understand one of the most basic usages of either language, so you don't exactly hold a lot of credibility. The differences you think exist are due to your own lack of understanding of the languages. Come back to me when you actually understand OOP with .NET, and how to actually work with objects.
It's interesting that you probably inherently understand you have to spend money to make money but can't envision the possibility that the jet's emissions might be less than the emissions reduced or prevented by participation at the climate conference.
Also failing to take into account that the jet is actually likely more economical than any other way the person would travel, since they'd likely need security escorts and such if using any public form of transportation, and any ground based transportation is almost certainly going to be less efficient. No, a car doesn't consume as much fuel per minute as a jet, but the jet gets there much quicker, and doesn't require a motorcade to insure the passenger is safe.
Theres more to why we send people around on private jets than just pleasing the politicians in them, its actually cheaper to charter a private jet (or as the government goes, own/lease one) than it is to use any public alternative and deal with all the increased needs of using public transportation.