It's been going on for decades because people have been educated for decades to behave in ways that enable the problem to happen. I'd argue that if people can be educated to be selfish or indifferent or apathetic at the expense of the environment, then they can similarly be educated to think and act in ways that benefit the environment. A little empathy and compassion is contagious and can go a long way towards changing the collective mindset of a culture.
I'm not saying that you couldn't engineer a solution that would mitigate some of the effects of the current damage, but to me it smacks of treating symptoms while they're still being generated. And unintended consequences are a thing.
Sure, you could engineer a way to precipitate urine out of water, but seriously, just get everyone to stop pissing in the fucking pool already. Convince some people that it's bad, and get them to spread the word.
I think that, instead of trying to force anyone to obey you, it would be more effective to educate people and then just get out of their way so they can solve the problem themselves.
I'm probably not the first person in the comments to say "No shit, Sherlock", but did anyone actually not think this was happenning from day one with these companies? I mean come on. You're sending your DNA off in the mail to some random corporation so they can analyse it. There's a huge incentive there for them to give access to that information to anyone and everyone with a checkbook or a billy club. The icing on the cake is that the DNA is actually paying them to do this. This is a human-race epic self own.
I don't know, man. This sounds like someone who needs research funding, sees that the military has lots of money to burn, and therefore comes up with something they will buy into, in order to get the money. Additionally, you can't feel threatened by a threat you don't know about, so why expend effort thinking up new ways to scare people? Funding a bunch of paranoid researchers to run around and think up ways to kill lots of people in New York sounds like a really bad idea to me.
This. And glass bottles used to be a thing too. I remember hunting the neighbourhood for glass soft drink bottles when I was a kid. Got a dime for the small ones and a quarter for the big ones. they would be sent to back to the bottler to be washed and refilled. Ever wonder why they had those five little bumps on the bottom ridge? Every time they were reused, one of those bumps was ground off. When they were all gone, the bottle was melted down to make new bottles. oh yeah, and back in those days, you got your groceries in paper bags and then reused them as trash bags. Stores sold things packaged in paper boxes. There was Tupperware, and some of my toys and Magic Markers were made of nice chewy plastic (and toluene:/ ), but there was a lot less single use stuff and other wasteful plastic. Wooden ice cream spoons, wax paper cups (real wax that you could scrape off the cup), aluminum and steel cans with no plastic liner, so you had to watch out for old or damaged cans. Grandma had a basement full of Mason jars she filled from her garden. It's not rocket science; we just need to give more of a fuck and maybe remember how to do things like we used to.
Also, +1 for correct usage of "worse comes to worst". Faith in humanity subtly restored.
Back in California, some of the Bay Area's massive tech campuses have become mini cities, complete with their own closed food systems.
For some reason, this made me think of the design of modern web browsers. Instead of using and supporting existing resources, they're internally re-implementing what they need.
Forget Yellowstone. Kill two birds with the nuclear stone. Eject dark particulate matter into the upper atmosphere and, at the same time, decommission a lot of the carbon producing infrastructure via prudent target selection.
My opinion is that if a person cant find time to update their address or they misspell their own name, do they really need to be voting in the first place?
Yeah, they really do. If you're an American, you need to be voting in your state. If you can't vote because of some administrative issue, that's a serious problem, which needs to be addressed. Maybe you spelled your name wrong. Fine. Fill out a provisional ballot, and get if fixed. Maybe you don't have a street address. That's a bigger problem, and it's not yours; it's the state's problem, and it sure as fuck needs to be addressed.
Not sure how finicky the facial recognition is on these things, but couldn't you just stick out your tongue or something when registering your face ID? Whenever you wanted to unlock the phone, you would stick out your tongue again. If someone pointed your phone at you in an attempt to unlock it, you could just sit there and do nothing, and the phone would register a failed attempt, right?
+1 for entropy (no pun intended), but I think a technical solution won't be about reducing the amount to heat people are generating. The sun is by far the dominant energy driver in this system; the heat generated by people is miniscule by comparison. Any solution will have to be one that alters the equilibrium point between energy absorbed and energy radiated. That's how we got here, and that's our only proven technology for altering the balance.
Looks like they're using the celestia engine for that feature. When I zoom all the way out in satellite mode, I get a sidebar menu with the planets and other things in it. I clicked on Mars, and it went full celestia on me, with the pan and zoom from Earth to Mars. I really hope we get to track SpaceX missions with this in the future.
This was in '96. I used Slack until '99, then tried out Mandrake for a couple of years, and then eventually moved to Gentoo in about '01. Also, my Uni never threw anything out. They were using (possibly still are using) another 5150 or maybe a 5160 in the actual physics lab to control experiments and collect data. The PC hardware was simple and well documented, which made it easier to understand how it might affect your experiment.
Last time I used Slackware, it needed significantly less than that, but that was back in 1999.
My first Linux box was a Cyrix 486slc running Slackware 3.4, IIRC. I had 1 MB of RAM, a 512MB hard drive, and a trident 9000 video card in that box. It took me all night in the Physics reading room, at uni, to ftp it from ftp.cdrom.com onto 57 floppy disks, using the department's IBM 5150.
Good distro.
I have (neigh, had) a client making the same choice right now.
+1 for having the horse sense to move on from that client, after you told them to hold their horses and they didn't listen. I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If they're going to get on their high horse and be as stubborn as a mule, then they're going to end up trying to close the barn door after the horse has bolted. When comparing in-house vs cloud, in-house really is a horse of a different colour. Trying to run a tech business on the cloud is just horsing around.
Yup. When I was a young'un, trucks were the cheaper option. They were bare-bones workhorses. Comfort meant a car. What the 'ell happened to the world in the last 40 years? I think maybe the price inversion on trucks was a tipping point, and we were all just too busy to notice. Everything after the '70s was the logical consequence of this innocuous event in motor vehicle history.
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It's been going on for decades because people have been educated for decades to behave in ways that enable the problem to happen. I'd argue that if people can be educated to be selfish or indifferent or apathetic at the expense of the environment, then they can similarly be educated to think and act in ways that benefit the environment. A little empathy and compassion is contagious and can go a long way towards changing the collective mindset of a culture.
I'm not saying that you couldn't engineer a solution that would mitigate some of the effects of the current damage, but to me it smacks of treating symptoms while they're still being generated. And unintended consequences are a thing.
Sure, you could engineer a way to precipitate urine out of water, but seriously, just get everyone to stop pissing in the fucking pool already. Convince some people that it's bad, and get them to spread the word.
I think that, instead of trying to force anyone to obey you, it would be more effective to educate people and then just get out of their way so they can solve the problem themselves.
I'm probably not the first person in the comments to say "No shit, Sherlock", but did anyone actually not think this was happenning from day one with these companies? I mean come on. You're sending your DNA off in the mail to some random corporation so they can analyse it. There's a huge incentive there for them to give access to that information to anyone and everyone with a checkbook or a billy club. The icing on the cake is that the DNA is actually paying them to do this. This is a human-race epic self own.
...but you apparently can't immunize against stupidity and willful ignorance.
Nature is immunizing us against those things, with measles. Unfortunately, it's taking down some of the rest of us too.
I don't know, man. This sounds like someone who needs research funding, sees that the military has lots of money to burn, and therefore comes up with something they will buy into, in order to get the money. Additionally, you can't feel threatened by a threat you don't know about, so why expend effort thinking up new ways to scare people? Funding a bunch of paranoid researchers to run around and think up ways to kill lots of people in New York sounds like a really bad idea to me.
This. And glass bottles used to be a thing too. I remember hunting the neighbourhood for glass soft drink bottles when I was a kid. Got a dime for the small ones and a quarter for the big ones. they would be sent to back to the bottler to be washed and refilled. Ever wonder why they had those five little bumps on the bottom ridge? Every time they were reused, one of those bumps was ground off. When they were all gone, the bottle was melted down to make new bottles. oh yeah, and back in those days, you got your groceries in paper bags and then reused them as trash bags. Stores sold things packaged in paper boxes. There was Tupperware, and some of my toys and Magic Markers were made of nice chewy plastic (and toluene :/ ), but there was a lot less single use stuff and other wasteful plastic. Wooden ice cream spoons, wax paper cups (real wax that you could scrape off the cup), aluminum and steel cans with no plastic liner, so you had to watch out for old or damaged cans. Grandma had a basement full of Mason jars she filled from her garden. It's not rocket science; we just need to give more of a fuck and maybe remember how to do things like we used to.
Also, +1 for correct usage of "worse comes to worst". Faith in humanity subtly restored.
Back in California, some of the Bay Area's massive tech campuses have become mini cities, complete with their own closed food systems.
For some reason, this made me think of the design of modern web browsers. Instead of using and supporting existing resources, they're internally re-implementing what they need.
Yeah right. Next they'll be trying to get you to believe that Daft Punk are just two dudes in motorcycle helmets.
the big purple dinosaur called Barney is also (gasp!) a dude in a suit.
Wait, what? Barney isn't a six foot penis? How can a dinosaur be purple or your best friend? That makes absolutely no sense.
Forget Yellowstone. Kill two birds with the nuclear stone. Eject dark particulate matter into the upper atmosphere and, at the same time, decommission a lot of the carbon producing infrastructure via prudent target selection.
No way, man! Almost every Microsoft product ever produced sucks hard. There's no reason to believe that would change for sex toys.
My opinion is that if a person cant find time to update their address or they misspell their own name, do they really need to be voting in the first place?
Yeah, they really do. If you're an American, you need to be voting in your state. If you can't vote because of some administrative issue, that's a serious problem, which needs to be addressed. Maybe you spelled your name wrong. Fine. Fill out a provisional ballot, and get if fixed. Maybe you don't have a street address. That's a bigger problem, and it's not yours; it's the state's problem, and it sure as fuck needs to be addressed.
Just because you don't like what's on the videos doesn't make them any less accurate.
Or conversely...
Proposition: feelings are orthoganal to veracity.
Not sure how finicky the facial recognition is on these things, but couldn't you just stick out your tongue or something when registering your face ID? Whenever you wanted to unlock the phone, you would stick out your tongue again. If someone pointed your phone at you in an attempt to unlock it, you could just sit there and do nothing, and the phone would register a failed attempt, right?
Zeno would disagree with you, I think.
+1 for entropy (no pun intended), but I think a technical solution won't be about reducing the amount to heat people are generating. The sun is by far the dominant energy driver in this system; the heat generated by people is miniscule by comparison. Any solution will have to be one that alters the equilibrium point between energy absorbed and energy radiated. That's how we got here, and that's our only proven technology for altering the balance.
Looks like they're using the celestia engine for that feature. When I zoom all the way out in satellite mode, I get a sidebar menu with the planets and other things in it. I clicked on Mars, and it went full celestia on me, with the pan and zoom from Earth to Mars. I really hope we get to track SpaceX missions with this in the future.
There was only one 2008.
This was in '96. I used Slack until '99, then tried out Mandrake for a couple of years, and then eventually moved to Gentoo in about '01. Also, my Uni never threw anything out. They were using (possibly still are using) another 5150 or maybe a 5160 in the actual physics lab to control experiments and collect data. The PC hardware was simple and well documented, which made it easier to understand how it might affect your experiment.
Last time I used Slackware, it needed significantly less than that, but that was back in 1999. My first Linux box was a Cyrix 486slc running Slackware 3.4, IIRC. I had 1 MB of RAM, a 512MB hard drive, and a trident 9000 video card in that box. It took me all night in the Physics reading room, at uni, to ftp it from ftp.cdrom.com onto 57 floppy disks, using the department's IBM 5150. Good distro.
I think the whole system is screwed up.
It could be just your keyboard driver. If you think you've been infected, maybe check that one.
I have (neigh, had) a client making the same choice right now.
+1 for having the horse sense to move on from that client, after you told them to hold their horses and they didn't listen. I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. If they're going to get on their high horse and be as stubborn as a mule, then they're going to end up trying to close the barn door after the horse has bolted. When comparing in-house vs cloud, in-house really is a horse of a different colour. Trying to run a tech business on the cloud is just horsing around.
That's heavy, man. What's your conversion formula from meters to kilograms?
Yup. When I was a young'un, trucks were the cheaper option. They were bare-bones workhorses. Comfort meant a car. What the 'ell happened to the world in the last 40 years? I think maybe the price inversion on trucks was a tipping point, and we were all just too busy to notice. Everything after the '70s was the logical consequence of this innocuous event in motor vehicle history.
There's a B-Ark joke in here somewhere...