So let's privitize everything and still use our tax dollars. Sounds great, right? Then the rich say that because the money is linked to the kids, they shouldn't have to pay so much for other people. Dollars for students get cut and you need to be able to subsize your child in order to get them to a good school. Then all the "good" schools "compete" for all the rich students, not the good but the rich, and the poor get fucked. Sounds like a great idea, right?
Build wind turbines where wind turbines can be built, bird kill be damned.
Require high energy effeciency standards for all buildings.
Impose a large CO2 tax on all fossil fuels (natural gas, coal, oil, etc).
Build more and more solar as the costs come down, especially in cities.
Invest in hydroelectric energy storage for wind and solar energy systems (highly efficient).
Hand out condoms, make birth control pills and morning after pills cheap and easy to get especially in the third world, allow women to decided when they want children (most likely they will have fewer and have them later, decreasing the human footprint)
Make small sex ed pamphlets that encourage the use of birth control products and hand them out for free (because, lets face it, horny teenagers will never try abstinance. They aren't wired that way.)
Convert large sections of the rainforest to charcoal and bury it in the ground around the rainforest, creating a CO2 sink. The Charcoal will trap nutrients and encourage the growth of new rainforest, another CO2 sink. This method can seriously reduce the damage of CO2 induced global warming by sinking the CO2 in solid form. Also opens the land for sustainable agriculture.
Outlaw the suburban sprawl. Design cities around mass transit and make streets narrow and make owning a car a pain in the ass rather than a neccesity.
EVERYTHING is nanoparticulate in nature, including you. Just because these particles are being chopped up and misced better does not by any means imply that they are unhealthy. Your skin does a pretty good job protecting you from nanoparticulate oils and debris from bacteria. Just because there is better organization at the nano scale does not mean that the nano-particles will cause any sort of damage.
By placing a label on these products, consumers will irrationally be prejudiced against them. You should not do that to such a broad and beneficial industry. Mostly, these consumer groups do not understand the basic science. They just have a general technophobia and want to project that onto everyone else's lives.
Like anything, there should be health tests, but they should be data backed (as these are not). We can't assume that all these products are guilty until proven innocent.
That is not the point. It was simply admitted as evidence of possible criminal intent. If you are a suspect in a murder case where a knife was used, a knife could be admitte as evidence.
In this case he had the encryption program in order to hide naked pictures of a 9 year old. That is illegal use and is evidence of premeditation and thought and can be used by a court to show that this sick man needs to be locked up because he is a danger to society.
The fact that he had the encryption software isn't proof of his crime but it is proof of his ability to commit the crime. If he didn't do it, then the evidence would prove nothing.
Sometimes nerds forget to think illogically.
You're on the net, right? Last time I checked the net held much useful information for your consumption.
Methinks a bit of research is warranted instead of a post.
But of course we *ALL* know that burning fossil fuels has absolutely *NOTHING* to do with any of this climate change stuff. Global warming DOESN'T exist, Oil will never run out, and Bill Gates earned his money through fair buisness practices.
"Remember all those thousands of years they claim you have to keep radwaste sequestered? It's actually lots less; after about 600 years, the radiation diminishes to the normal background level."
Not exactly. See the radiation levels themselves are low, but these are heavy metals. Lanthanides and Acctenides (I'm sorry, my spelling sucks) are HIGHLY toxic. We aren't evolved to be able to handle them, are niether are most other creatures. (You can never account for roaches.) And keeping the seal going for more than 100 years is pretty problematic.
Have you seen the great wall of china???? Do you think that could stop a barbarian army now????
An interesting fact is that the sea proposal was thrown out becuase the supposedly stable ocean floor actually moves and the glass logs would most likely be unearthed in a much shorter period of time than 20,000 years.
There are just too many concerns with nuclear waste, so why even bother? Solar is cheaper and easier with no long term problems.
You have forgotten the second law of thermodynamics. The entropy of the universe is always increasing. Some energy will always be lost, and because fission/nuclear decay. itself does not completely destroy an atom, merely reduce it to smaller parts that are often radioactive themselves, you will always wind up with a huge load of useless radioactive crap with enormous half lives.
When I say useless, I mean useless in the worst sense of the word. The crap that is left over only puts out extremely low quality heat but more than enough radiation to seriously, for lack of a better word, fuck up anything with DNA. And yes, that means people. And as of yet there are NO viable ways to store this material for the neccesary period of time. (Estimated to be about 100,000 years or more.)
So no, due to logistical and environmental concerns, nuclear fissions is not a viable answer to our long term energy needs.
But why are we even talking about this? We got a nice large fusion reactor right now bombarding us with free energy. It's called the sun, and it aint going anywhere.
Yeah, and that way we'll really make life hell.
Now the real question is, "Is this malicious or simply the effect of general interest in the election?" I would hope for the latter, but the voting machines make me think of the former.
If we decrease the public's ability to respond to the election, we can steal it more effectively.
The government has always had the power to conduct secrect searches and servailence. How do you think they do steak outs of criminals or wrie tap people? The difference is that before they had to obtain the warrants via the court system, and those warrants may be brought under review at the time of trial.
However, now those warrants are obtained via a secret (sp?) court and can not be brought under review at the time of trial as they are classified. It also increases that gov't's ability to imprison, mainly immegrants, for longer periods of time without charges. No it hasn't affected me to my knowledge, but it is the very concept of these enchroachments that incense me.
As we all well know, "Give me liberty of give me death."
As a general computer geek, I don't trust anything that dosen't have a paper trail. You can kill a computer hardrive and do funky things to code in such a mallicous fashion as to say or do anything you want. If there isn't a carbon trail, it isn't secure.
Microsoft's history dosen't suggest any attempt at having their software co-exist with anybody else's. I'd be seriously concerned that they would do some odd thing such as use the ID - standard to open doors for THEIR spam campaigns or sell the loopholes to others.
It may be, however, that microsoft ACTUALLY decided to turn out a quality product in order to corner this market.
The only problem is that an X-box is horribly underpriced. So the end user may pay only 100$ but the total cost of the machine is much greater. Remember, console makers lose money on the consoles only to make money by charging anyone who wants to put a game on it.
The question then becomes, did this truely meet the requirement of being less than 100$.
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So let's privitize everything and still use our tax dollars. Sounds great, right? Then the rich say that because the money is linked to the kids, they shouldn't have to pay so much for other people. Dollars for students get cut and you need to be able to subsize your child in order to get them to a good school. Then all the "good" schools "compete" for all the rich students, not the good but the rich, and the poor get fucked. Sounds like a great idea, right?
Not all competition is good.
Build wind turbines where wind turbines can be built, bird kill be damned.
Require high energy effeciency standards for all buildings.
Impose a large CO2 tax on all fossil fuels (natural gas, coal, oil, etc).
Build more and more solar as the costs come down, especially in cities.
Invest in hydroelectric energy storage for wind and solar energy systems (highly efficient).
Hand out condoms, make birth control pills and morning after pills cheap and easy to get especially in the third world, allow women to decided when they want children (most likely they will have fewer and have them later, decreasing the human footprint)
Make small sex ed pamphlets that encourage the use of birth control products and hand them out for free (because, lets face it, horny teenagers will never try abstinance. They aren't wired that way.)
Convert large sections of the rainforest to charcoal and bury it in the ground around the rainforest, creating a CO2 sink. The Charcoal will trap nutrients and encourage the growth of new rainforest, another CO2 sink. This method can seriously reduce the damage of CO2 induced global warming by sinking the CO2 in solid form. Also opens the land for sustainable agriculture.
Outlaw the suburban sprawl. Design cities around mass transit and make streets narrow and make owning a car a pain in the ass rather than a neccesity.
EVERYTHING is nanoparticulate in nature, including you. Just because these particles are being chopped up and misced better does not by any means imply that they are unhealthy. Your skin does a pretty good job protecting you from nanoparticulate oils and debris from bacteria. Just because there is better organization at the nano scale does not mean that the nano-particles will cause any sort of damage.
By placing a label on these products, consumers will irrationally be prejudiced against them. You should not do that to such a broad and beneficial industry. Mostly, these consumer groups do not understand the basic science. They just have a general technophobia and want to project that onto everyone else's lives.
Like anything, there should be health tests, but they should be data backed (as these are not). We can't assume that all these products are guilty until proven innocent.
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That is not the point. It was simply admitted as evidence of possible criminal intent. If you are a suspect in a murder case where a knife was used, a knife could be admitte as evidence. In this case he had the encryption program in order to hide naked pictures of a 9 year old. That is illegal use and is evidence of premeditation and thought and can be used by a court to show that this sick man needs to be locked up because he is a danger to society. The fact that he had the encryption software isn't proof of his crime but it is proof of his ability to commit the crime. If he didn't do it, then the evidence would prove nothing. Sometimes nerds forget to think illogically.
You're on the net, right? Last time I checked the net held much useful information for your consumption. Methinks a bit of research is warranted instead of a post.
But of course we *ALL* know that burning fossil fuels has absolutely *NOTHING* to do with any of this climate change stuff. Global warming DOESN'T exist, Oil will never run out, and Bill Gates earned his money through fair buisness practices.
"Remember all those thousands of years they claim you have to keep radwaste sequestered? It's actually lots less; after about 600 years, the radiation diminishes to the normal background level." Not exactly. See the radiation levels themselves are low, but these are heavy metals. Lanthanides and Acctenides (I'm sorry, my spelling sucks) are HIGHLY toxic. We aren't evolved to be able to handle them, are niether are most other creatures. (You can never account for roaches.) And keeping the seal going for more than 100 years is pretty problematic. Have you seen the great wall of china???? Do you think that could stop a barbarian army now????
An interesting fact is that the sea proposal was thrown out becuase the supposedly stable ocean floor actually moves and the glass logs would most likely be unearthed in a much shorter period of time than 20,000 years. There are just too many concerns with nuclear waste, so why even bother? Solar is cheaper and easier with no long term problems.
You have forgotten the second law of thermodynamics. The entropy of the universe is always increasing. Some energy will always be lost, and because fission/nuclear decay. itself does not completely destroy an atom, merely reduce it to smaller parts that are often radioactive themselves, you will always wind up with a huge load of useless radioactive crap with enormous half lives. When I say useless, I mean useless in the worst sense of the word. The crap that is left over only puts out extremely low quality heat but more than enough radiation to seriously, for lack of a better word, fuck up anything with DNA. And yes, that means people. And as of yet there are NO viable ways to store this material for the neccesary period of time. (Estimated to be about 100,000 years or more.) So no, due to logistical and environmental concerns, nuclear fissions is not a viable answer to our long term energy needs. But why are we even talking about this? We got a nice large fusion reactor right now bombarding us with free energy. It's called the sun, and it aint going anywhere.
Yeah, and that way we'll really make life hell. Now the real question is, "Is this malicious or simply the effect of general interest in the election?" I would hope for the latter, but the voting machines make me think of the former. If we decrease the public's ability to respond to the election, we can steal it more effectively.
The government has always had the power to conduct secrect searches and servailence. How do you think they do steak outs of criminals or wrie tap people? The difference is that before they had to obtain the warrants via the court system, and those warrants may be brought under review at the time of trial. However, now those warrants are obtained via a secret (sp?) court and can not be brought under review at the time of trial as they are classified. It also increases that gov't's ability to imprison, mainly immegrants, for longer periods of time without charges. No it hasn't affected me to my knowledge, but it is the very concept of these enchroachments that incense me. As we all well know, "Give me liberty of give me death."
As a general computer geek, I don't trust anything that dosen't have a paper trail. You can kill a computer hardrive and do funky things to code in such a mallicous fashion as to say or do anything you want. If there isn't a carbon trail, it isn't secure.
Microsoft's history dosen't suggest any attempt at having their software co-exist with anybody else's. I'd be seriously concerned that they would do some odd thing such as use the ID - standard to open doors for THEIR spam campaigns or sell the loopholes to others. It may be, however, that microsoft ACTUALLY decided to turn out a quality product in order to corner this market.
The only problem is that an X-box is horribly underpriced. So the end user may pay only 100$ but the total cost of the machine is much greater. Remember, console makers lose money on the consoles only to make money by charging anyone who wants to put a game on it. The question then becomes, did this truely meet the requirement of being less than 100$.