Now, lets try to get a correlation to good music and drugs/beer? Aerosmith anyone?
While it's undeniable that some great works of art - music included - were inspired by drugs (In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree...), a great much more art has been denied to humanity because of drugs. The number of musicians alone who've had their musical ability or careers destroyed by drugs and alcohol is staggering.
Spaceflight and oceanographic research. With cheaper rebreathers underwater research will become more affordable. It seems this chemical will absorb more CO2 than regular CO2 scubbers too, and having a scrubber media that isn't reactive to water would be a huge safety factor.
How about we take that fancy gizmo-setting-altering technology and put it to use on electricity meters. Instead of charging the same rate at peak usage as at 03:00 everyone's meter changes the price of electricity constantly to reflect demand. Also, put a big fat display on the front of the meter showing what the current price is. The first time people see they're paying $1.50/kWh I can guarantee you that all the thermostats in California will get turned up instantly.
More generally, when people end up paying the actual price for the electricity they use, lights will go off when they're not needed and CFTs will become economical. Putting one shirt in the dryer will cease to be an option. There will be a sudden increase in demand for electronic devices where the on/off button *actually turns the power off*.
Just bypass computers entirely. I got a typewriter at a second hand store then went next door to the office supply place and bought extra ribbon carts and teletype paper. Grand total cost was $25 CAD. Without word count, character count, or even individual sheets of paper my writing is far more focused. I even started using tiny margins so getting a word count from the line count wouldn't work. Worrying about how much writing you've done rather than simply doing it is a huge distraction. Removing the ability to edit on the fly is also a help. It's too easy to go over over passages already written and edit them instead of writing new ones.
Word processors have their uses, but so far I've found that a typewriter fed by a 250 foot continuous roll of paper the best trick so far.
How substantive do you think a movie with a girl who flys a helicopter whilst wearing a mini skirt and go-go boots can be?
Extremely. Characterization and development can be easily integrated into action. All Warner Bros. would have to do is hire a good writer... oh shit, what am I saying? Of course it's going to be vapid and empty.
A better analogy would be you arrived at the cooking school and the receptionist told you they no longer teach the classes you'd paid for, but they could give you credit for yoga lessons at a place across town.
If you can build model that finds 2-3 real criminals out of every one hundred people it flags I think you're already in the range of 'great success'. Data mining to find fraud comes to mind. Normally a crime must be reported before it gets attention. With data mining it would be possible to find cases where the victims don't know they've been screwed.
Now, specifically, I think that being flagged by the model should not be admissible in court or even grounds for a warrant. If only to prevent any kind of 'the machine told us you were a criminal so you must be' hanky-panky. Being flagged should only result in the computer looking closer at you and only looking at things a human agent could legally touch (ie, Reading the outside of your mail == yes. Reading the inside of your mail == no)
Lets not forget that junk mail gets sent because companies have found that junk mail works.
Absolutly, and with the Democrats forming such an effective opposition it's no wonder we've had nothing but peace and good governence in recent history.
Two of the studies use kids - who the entire video game industry agrees shouldn't play violent games, and to that extent has developed a rating system to help *parents* control this.
The third study simply says that the college undergrads were more aggressive after engaging in a mentally stimulating activity. People tend to be more aggressive right after watching sports too. We've known this for years.
So, what we have here is two studies that have very low validity because they have nothing to do with reality and one that's deliberately designed to come to the conclusion 'video-games make people aggressive'.
Strong, flexible plastics replaced metal for many products because plastic is much cheaper to produce. I would wager that conductive plastics would actually decrease the use of oil by generally reducing the amount of resources it takes to produce an electronic product.
The amount of fuel unused in mining and refining of aluminum and copper would probably cover the increased use of natural gas by electronic manufacturers.
We may think of oil as expensive, but plastic is still cheaper than metal and has a smaller environmental impact.
Education level correlates with leftward politics,
*Theoretical* education correlates leftward with politics. *Practical* education correlates rightward in politics.
Try telling a Class A nuclear welder that he's uneducated. You won't get very far. It's also very likely that he and all his buddies vote to the right. They're also very likely to vote the same way as the engineering, business and finance faculties of any university, that is, those university people who have to produce ideas of practical value.
Higher education does indeed correlate to the left, but that's only because trades programs aren't counted and there are far more theoretical subjects in universities than practical ones.
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They've stolen your eyes!
So the answer to global warming is that we should just not try to address it because we might actually fix it?
No, the answer to human impact on what would otherwise be the natural world is to use technologies that minimize said impact.
In the case of power generation that means nuclear power for base-load with hydro, pumped storage or maybe even gas turbine to handle variable load.
Mr. President, we must not allow a macaroni gap!
Now, lets try to get a correlation to good music and drugs/beer? Aerosmith anyone?
While it's undeniable that some great works of art - music included - were inspired by drugs (In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn a stately pleasure dome decree...), a great much more art has been denied to humanity because of drugs. The number of musicians alone who've had their musical ability or careers destroyed by drugs and alcohol is staggering.
Spaceflight and oceanographic research. With cheaper rebreathers underwater research will become more affordable. It seems this chemical will absorb more CO2 than regular CO2 scubbers too, and having a scrubber media that isn't reactive to water would be a huge safety factor.
How about we take that fancy gizmo-setting-altering technology and put it to use on electricity meters. Instead of charging the same rate at peak usage as at 03:00 everyone's meter changes the price of electricity constantly to reflect demand. Also, put a big fat display on the front of the meter showing what the current price is. The first time people see they're paying $1.50/kWh I can guarantee you that all the thermostats in California will get turned up instantly.
More generally, when people end up paying the actual price for the electricity they use, lights will go off when they're not needed and CFTs will become economical. Putting one shirt in the dryer will cease to be an option. There will be a sudden increase in demand for electronic devices where the on/off button *actually turns the power off*.
If you want a free, full screen text editor for for writers try Q10. http://www.baara.com/q10/
Word processors have their uses, but so far I've found that a typewriter fed by a 250 foot continuous roll of paper the best trick so far.
I'm about six feet into my current project.
There are two pumps on primary power but *backup* power only works for one at the moment. The reactor only needs one pump to operate.
Yeah, but to retrofit an existing city like that would cost, like, a brazilian dollars.
The world does not need more effective ways to kill people.
We should be so lucky to have enemies that agree with you.
Star Wars is fantasy with machines.
The current alternative is nuclear power, not coal.
How substantive do you think a movie with a girl who flys a helicopter whilst wearing a mini skirt and go-go boots can be?
Extremely. Characterization and development can be easily integrated into action. All Warner Bros. would have to do is hire a good writer... oh shit, what am I saying? Of course it's going to be vapid and empty.
A better analogy would be you arrived at the cooking school and the receptionist told you they no longer teach the classes you'd paid for, but they could give you credit for yoga lessons at a place across town.
Ender's Game is a worthwhile novel for the last paragraph, not for any of the preceding.
If you can build model that finds 2-3 real criminals out of every one hundred people it flags I think you're already in the range of 'great success'. Data mining to find fraud comes to mind. Normally a crime must be reported before it gets attention. With data mining it would be possible to find cases where the victims don't know they've been screwed.
Now, specifically, I think that being flagged by the model should not be admissible in court or even grounds for a warrant. If only to prevent any kind of 'the machine told us you were a criminal so you must be' hanky-panky. Being flagged should only result in the computer looking closer at you and only looking at things a human agent could legally touch (ie, Reading the outside of your mail == yes. Reading the inside of your mail == no)
Lets not forget that junk mail gets sent because companies have found that junk mail works.
Seriously, who even uses a keypad for dialing anymore?
Someone who wants to call anyone they've never called before?
Absolutly, and with the Democrats forming such an effective opposition it's no wonder we've had nothing but peace and good governence in recent history.
Two of the studies use kids - who the entire video game industry agrees shouldn't play violent games, and to that extent has developed a rating system to help *parents* control this.
The third study simply says that the college undergrads were more aggressive after engaging in a mentally stimulating activity. People tend to be more aggressive right after watching sports too. We've known this for years.
So, what we have here is two studies that have very low validity because they have nothing to do with reality and one that's deliberately designed to come to the conclusion 'video-games make people aggressive'.
Can we have some real science now, please?
Why are you bringing Dawn into this? What did she do?
Strong, flexible plastics replaced metal for many products because plastic is much cheaper to produce. I would wager that conductive plastics would actually decrease the use of oil by generally reducing the amount of resources it takes to produce an electronic product.
The amount of fuel unused in mining and refining of aluminum and copper would probably cover the increased use of natural gas by electronic manufacturers.
We may think of oil as expensive, but plastic is still cheaper than metal and has a smaller environmental impact.
Jenner? Battlemaster? Everyone knows that the Madcat sets the standard for mech-enthusiast fap material. What kind of geek are you?
You mean like Slashdot? Oh shi-
*Theoretical* education correlates leftward with politics. *Practical* education correlates rightward in politics.
Try telling a Class A nuclear welder that he's uneducated. You won't get very far. It's also very likely that he and all his buddies vote to the right. They're also very likely to vote the same way as the engineering, business and finance faculties of any university, that is, those university people who have to produce ideas of practical value.
Higher education does indeed correlate to the left, but that's only because trades programs aren't counted and there are far more theoretical subjects in universities than practical ones.