Is he complaining about actual content being churned out, or scrapers, which just plagiarise real sites? Please google, get rid of the scrapers, you'll clean up the internet in one fell swoop.
Really? You'd rather look at a bright monitor for reading purposes than a book? Wow. The ipad is a pretty toy, but that's the limit of it. Yes, you can use it for constructive work, but you can use a bag of lego for constructive work if you really want to. Even the interface is non optimal, one of the first computers I owned, the Spectrum ZX81, had buttons that were near flush with the computer for typing. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now, tactile feedback is Just Easier.
Before too long people will get tired of the shiny and drift on to something new, maybe apple will be there waiting with that something new, I don't know. This isn't speaking against apple as such, they have an unrivalled marketing department, just an assessment of the practical realities.
Some hunter-gatherers only had to work for 7 hours a week.
They then had to spend another fifty hours travelling, since the things you hunt tend to move away from you, and the fruit growing wild is a lot more sparse than you'd find in a farm, with the possible exception of tropical areas.
How is it cheaper to explore, drill, fail, and repeat numerous times for fossil fuels before finding something, lay down sub oceanic pipelines or move it via massive freighters, before being stored in valuable dockside space, move it again via trucks and pipes, then push it into gas stations or electrical power plants (where you lose yet more efficiency as it burns), than to pluck energy out of thin air and shunt it directly to consumers? All the fossil fuel industry has going for it is inertia.
Saddest part is I had to wade through dozens of half assed smartasses and bullshit replies about actors to get to the interesting technical information.
However there has never been a mechanism to instantly make decisions as a group and have them ratified by whatever democratic process you choose before now. This is one of the reasons the internet is so important, its a new phenomenon, and one that clearly threatens entrenched concerns. There will always be respected spokepeople or what have you, but thats a lot different to executive leadership that doesn't have to justify its decisions. The vast majority might not want control, but the alternative is being led into whatever cattle pen to be dealth with by those who are not accountable as they see fit, so control they must ultimately have.
No, I want normal people to be allowed to determine their own fates and communicate freely with one another without the intervention of those who dream themselves our masters.
Will nobody rid us of these lawyer politicians, whose only understanding of communication is how it can be used to control others? For countless millenia, these fools have been holding back humanity, calling themselves priests, or the aristocracy, or the upper class, or whatever. Enough! Can we not have a "normal people's congress" on the internet or something. They want to control the internet? I say let the internet control them.
How did this get modded up. Intel has a lot of R&D jobs in Ireland, as do the pharmas; Viagra was invented in Cork. Chuckle up your sleeve at that one if you like, but its one hell of a money spinner. Not to mention much of that high tech industry is in Shannon, with its very own international airport. As for the incubators, most of the investment in the country was going into property, so that's that.
And because the Irish pay so little tax other Europeans have to raise €85,000,000,000.- to bail them out.
Wrong. The only reason the bailout is being forced on Ireland is because of loans given by German and UK banks to Irish banks. Ireland is quite capable of sorting out its own deficit.
Meh hardly. Ireland is for a lack of a better term fucked, because it taxes businesses little to not at all, but relies heavily on income and sales tax to fill it's coffers.
Incorrect. Its in trouble because the government guaranteed huge amounts of speculator debt.
Ireland is in trouble because the government stupidly guaranteed the gambling loans of investors in Anglo Irish, not because of foreign direct investment.
Nothing, it's not possible. The gravity and inertia on Earth allow us to do things like pour liquids from one vessel to another.
Meh, just keep everything under a little pressure.
You'd have to reinvent every single process to do it in space. Why?
Because space has a lot more stuff than earth. True, you'd need to do it just for space based markets first, but before too long economies of scale would kick in and you could just drop your manufactured products straight down to earth.
Space is a dead end. Face it.
The more engineers I meet, the less I respect the breed tbh. Science, motherfucker, it does stuff it couldn't do yesterday. Economics, you do not understand it.
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Is he complaining about actual content being churned out, or scrapers, which just plagiarise real sites? Please google, get rid of the scrapers, you'll clean up the internet in one fell swoop.
Really? You'd rather look at a bright monitor for reading purposes than a book? Wow. The ipad is a pretty toy, but that's the limit of it. Yes, you can use it for constructive work, but you can use a bag of lego for constructive work if you really want to. Even the interface is non optimal, one of the first computers I owned, the Spectrum ZX81, had buttons that were near flush with the computer for typing. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now, tactile feedback is Just Easier.
Before too long people will get tired of the shiny and drift on to something new, maybe apple will be there waiting with that something new, I don't know. This isn't speaking against apple as such, they have an unrivalled marketing department, just an assessment of the practical realities.
Some hunter-gatherers only had to work for 7 hours a week.
They then had to spend another fifty hours travelling, since the things you hunt tend to move away from you, and the fruit growing wild is a lot more sparse than you'd find in a farm, with the possible exception of tropical areas.
How is it cheaper to explore, drill, fail, and repeat numerous times for fossil fuels before finding something, lay down sub oceanic pipelines or move it via massive freighters, before being stored in valuable dockside space, move it again via trucks and pipes, then push it into gas stations or electrical power plants (where you lose yet more efficiency as it burns), than to pluck energy out of thin air and shunt it directly to consumers? All the fossil fuel industry has going for it is inertia.
Awesomest post on the internet.
Saddest part is I had to wade through dozens of half assed smartasses and bullshit replies about actors to get to the interesting technical information.
Maybe because organised crime could find a lot of uses for a database of the faces of police officers?
really, creationism is the 'elephant in the room' whenever you start talking about the fossil record
No, its not.
However there has never been a mechanism to instantly make decisions as a group and have them ratified by whatever democratic process you choose before now. This is one of the reasons the internet is so important, its a new phenomenon, and one that clearly threatens entrenched concerns. There will always be respected spokepeople or what have you, but thats a lot different to executive leadership that doesn't have to justify its decisions. The vast majority might not want control, but the alternative is being led into whatever cattle pen to be dealth with by those who are not accountable as they see fit, so control they must ultimately have.
No, I want normal people to be allowed to determine their own fates and communicate freely with one another without the intervention of those who dream themselves our masters.
Will nobody rid us of these lawyer politicians, whose only understanding of communication is how it can be used to control others? For countless millenia, these fools have been holding back humanity, calling themselves priests, or the aristocracy, or the upper class, or whatever. Enough! Can we not have a "normal people's congress" on the internet or something. They want to control the internet? I say let the internet control them.
How did this get modded up. Intel has a lot of R&D jobs in Ireland, as do the pharmas; Viagra was invented in Cork. Chuckle up your sleeve at that one if you like, but its one hell of a money spinner. Not to mention much of that high tech industry is in Shannon, with its very own international airport. As for the incubators, most of the investment in the country was going into property, so that's that.
Hope the WDA didn't pay you too much.
And because the Irish pay so little tax other Europeans have to raise €85,000,000,000.- to bail them out.
Wrong. The only reason the bailout is being forced on Ireland is because of loans given by German and UK banks to Irish banks. Ireland is quite capable of sorting out its own deficit.
Meh hardly. Ireland is for a lack of a better term fucked, because it taxes businesses little to not at all, but relies heavily on income and sales tax to fill it's coffers.
Incorrect. Its in trouble because the government guaranteed huge amounts of speculator debt.
On one hand we have Ireland, that has low tax rate... but somehow it is on the verge of bankrupcy
These two are not connected. Bankruptcy in this case has a lot more to do with the banks than anything else.
They do pay American taxes, the Irish operation only works with European, Middle Eastern and African income.
Not in the Irish case. Companies "in Ireland for tax reasons" don't necessarily employ many people there.
On the contrary, hundreds of thousands of people depend for their living directly and indirectly on FDI.
Ireland is in trouble because the government stupidly guaranteed the gambling loans of investors in Anglo Irish, not because of foreign direct investment.
If you look at the video, it never seems to actually submerge though - is it in fact a sub?
You dickhead.
Indeed. Someone needs to go to prison for this.
but Islam didn't make it that way
Yeah it did.
It will not benefit women in any way (except for those female politicians who use it to futher their careers).
Great, lets hope the female politicians in Saudi Arabia use it to further their careers.
Nothing, it's not possible. The gravity and inertia on Earth allow us to do things like pour liquids from one vessel to another.
Meh, just keep everything under a little pressure.
You'd have to reinvent every single process to do it in space. Why?
Because space has a lot more stuff than earth. True, you'd need to do it just for space based markets first, but before too long economies of scale would kick in and you could just drop your manufactured products straight down to earth.
Space is a dead end. Face it.
The more engineers I meet, the less I respect the breed tbh. Science, motherfucker, it does stuff it couldn't do yesterday. Economics, you do not understand it.
Oh piss off you spellchecker abusing malignancy.