LOL. Ya I love when people get all hot and bothered about this type of technology, thinking it is all high tech and infallible. My favorite example of this was people spoofing "facial recognition" biometric software and sensors..... with a printed picture held up for the camera. LOL!
I went to University for 4 years and got a Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Geography with a special emphasis in GIS.
I went to College for 1 year and got a Geographic Information Systems - Applications Specialist Certificate.
The certificate at the College was a post graduate program, however most programs there you can take right out of high school, like Heavy Equipment Operator, Forestry Technician, Paramedic, etc...
The degree at University you take in Arts or Science, and then a discipline like Physics, Math, English, etc...
It was very weird to do it that way, though many people do. Because my College program was post graduate, it is full of people who already have their degree, sometimes a masters, or even a PhD. At the same time, the people going to class in the room next to you are 18 or 19 years old fresh out of high school (older if they took time off).
Made for some interesting times. I lived in an apartment that was part of a house. The people that lived in the house part were 5 guys in the Heavy Equipment Operator program who were all 19. The program they were in was only 6 months long. They pretty much partied every night for 6 months. Anyway I had a lot of fun while I was there, but had to juggle responsibility a bit more carefully than the average student there. Everyone in our classes were also ancient at 22-26 compared to everyone else. I also went from a University campus where there was about 4 girls to every guy (had coed and all girl dorm) to a College campus where it was like 32 guys to every girl (that particular campus had a natural resources focus, lots of hippies). It was some hard times that year, but I did have fun drinking with kids (though I was only 22) and smoking with hippies!
I remember I would start taking hand written notes at the beginning of class, but as he got more and more distracted and off topic, and farther on a tangent, my notes would sort of just drift off to nothing.
I remember one lecture (Artificial Life or Cyberspace, can't remember which as both were pretty out there) where he went on his rant of crazy, and I sort of lost consciousnesses for a while just zoning out wondering what the hell he was babbling about. When I sort of came to we were discussing water clocks in 18th century navel ships... wtf.
The icing on the cake was for the Final exam for Artificial Life, was one page. On that page were 12 essay questions. You had to answer three or four. One of those questions (i shit you not) was (and I quote): "Make up your own question. Answer it."
In a way kind of awesome. I don't think I had the balls to actually select that one, but wow.
No doubt!:) I have used it for absolutely nothing since anyway (1999). At least when I was taking it in University the purpose was to learn the proper way to code, and various basic structures and techniques. At college it was about syntax and memorization or something like that.
A) Allow players to go into debt B) Allow players to have credit C) Create things like derivatives that players can trade around.
Would be interesting to see what happens and how they manage it. They could also try to have one AH across all the servers (likely technically problematic). They all ready have the numbers for a pretty grand experimental in virtual economics, the closer they model reality, the more interesting it would be to see how things react.
I had a C+ teacher in college that used the worst overhead transparencies.
His transparencies had so many coding errors I stopped going to his class. (I already took C+ in University anyway) The class was constantly finding errors he missed.
Then on the final exam he has the gall to require perfect code using pencil and paper.
I had a +90% going into the exam (still did the work and went to labs with a TA), and the asshat gave me a 10% on the final exam dropping me to 55%. When I asked him to explain the mark he refused (his marking consisted of a red X and 10% no other explanation) saying it was just "wrong". I think he was just pissed that I was getting nearly a perfect mark without attending his shitty lectures ever, huge egoist. I would have complained to the dean and had an academic board look into it, except he WAS the dean... I also didn't need his mark changed to graduate, so I said screw it I would rather not deal with the jerk. He seriously didn't have a clue and had no business teaching.
That said all my university CS professors were great. Except one guy who was seriously crazy. I mean like batshit loony crazy. He also looked like the Unibomber, had a Russian accent, supposedly worked at IBM like 45 years ago, and called everything microcomputers. Of course he taught all the artsy fartsy CS courses like Artifical Life, Cyberspace, etc... so it had little impact on anything much. Sitting in one of his lectures was like going on acid for like two hours and talking to some one on mushrooms while sitting in a room filled with leprechauns.
I was on several power station tours (Hydro, Solar, Wind) and it seems common that A) the technology is built elsewhere and shipped in (Denmark, California, etc...), and B) the company that built the technology also has remote access to monitor and has the power to make changes when problems occur.
When I saw several of these solutions, on computer, my first thought was, oh wee, its connected to the internet, what could possibly go wrong!
I am sure there is some tight security (or I certainly hope so anyway), but like anything, users being lazy etc... default passwords, security holes, etc...
Considering how vulnerable and tightly interwoven all our power infrastructure is in NA, you don't have to take down a 2GW nuke plant to initiate a catastrophic cascade effect. If someone knows what they are doing, and where the weaknesses are, strategically taking down a couple hundred megawatts say during peak time, may case some real trouble. I can only hope that the people that regulate have taken this problem seriously enough.
...and don't get me wrong I am sure a lot of people at Apple are very smart people, they should try to capitalize to maximum advantage. Take a page out of the MS and Google book. Its not all about securing profits, but making sure your the big guy on top. I have heard that Google will never make back the money they spend on youtube, however by acquiring it they prevent anybody else from doing so and there by securing a foothold in the online market. Also due to the razor thin margins on netbooks, Microsoft isn't going to be making much money by supplying an OS for them, but it stopped the trend of offering Linux as an alternative and prevents them from getting a foot hold in the market.
Generally people use whatever they are most comfortable using. So if they start learning on Windows, that is what they know, and it is much easier for them to keep using it. Why do you think these companies offer "Student Versions" and huge discounts (even free) to large universities and colleges? Out of the goodness of their hearts? No, because when these kids grow up this is what they know, and when the go to work, if everyone knows how to use a technology it is cheaper and easier for a business to use that same technology, etc... It is a cycle that lasts years, even decades. So only looking at short term profit and protectionism is actually counter productive in the long term. However as smart as some people like to think Apple is, that is something they constantly do, and are by far the worst offenders.
If they were smart, they would realize that the Windows 7 that Microsoft has made available to netbooks (Starter Version), is a broken crippled thing, designed only to prevent Linux from being used, but yet at the same time not interfering with their core Windows 7 sales. Now if their was say another consumer alternative, perhaps one that might be even installed easily aftermarket (which means you don't need bigbox, or manufacture buy in) into the netbook market that might be considered a very good thing. Now granted it is unlikely that Apple will make any or much money off these sales, but if they EVER want a chance to garner more than 10% of the market and enter the show with the bog boys, it is something they are going to have to look at. How many collage kids will be buying netbooks? How many do you think it would think it cool to be running the Apple OS on it? In 5 to 10 years they might see their market share increase dramatically! What would it cost them? Nothing really, try to break even or even take a chance a sell it at a loss and see what happens, they likely have the cash to do it.
However having watched Apple over a long period of time, I do not seem them doing anything about this in any meaning way. They are always too concerned about control, and protectionism, everything else is secondary. Which is why they will always be a niche market of frappe-chino drinking elite, secure in their superiority of the world, even as it passes them by.
Which works for me as the solution is to blow it up remotely. Just means that everything gets blown up remotely. Works for me, better safe than sorry!:)
Generally speaking anywhere you go, the more educated and wealthy you are the less kids you will have, and the less educated and poor you are the more kids you will have.
Now tell me how this works in your world view?
I understand what you are saying don't get me wrong, its just not linked to current reality.
Heh! Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy in college. I always thought this was some kind of ladies man and must have been a smooth talker as he was rather a short guy, and nothing special in the looks department (or so I thought anyway) yet he always picked up at the bar, and had a different girl any night he wanted.
One day he set me straight as to what his Modus operandi was. Basically you need to have patience and be able to handle rejection well. If he wanted to get laid that night, he would just chat up any girl he felt like, the usual BS type of stuff and then ask her to go home with him. The key is he would never spend more then 10min on any one girl. He said if he couldn't convince her to go with him in 10min the odds that she would after that point were infinitesimal and to abandon her and just move on the the next. He said it might take a few tries, and didn't always work, but in the end he would generally find someone willing.
Anyway you can debate if this is ethical, healthy, or whatever, but he bottom line is that it worked.
I tried it. Leash + cat = bad idea. Under supervision is not bad, so your cat doesn't choke. Mostly they will just get tangled up in the line anyway and go nuts.
Also something you didn't mention, if a Cat or Dog get into a fight, and the outlook doesn't look so good, they always have to option of running away. If I am away at work, and kitty is on a leash and a dog gets into the back yard, then that is one dead cat. It can't run away, or run up a tree or whatever.
Second, which is the real reason why my cat is an indoor cat again (she was an indoor cat, and when I bought a house, I decided I wanted to give her some freedom, so started letting her out for about a year), is the fleas. Because of all the feral and stray cats in the area, she got a major infestation of fleas. It was horrible. It took nearly a year of collars, sprays, baths, cleaning, etc... before the problem was solved. In that time my cat lost most of her fur (long hair) to scratching, and both her and I were miserable. I vowed that she remain an indoor kitty from now on. If I lived someplace a little more rural, it might be a bit different, but where I am not there are too many beasties walking around with other beastie onboard.
I couldn't agree more. I have probably had more problems with AV software than I have has with malware.
I would go on to say that ANYONE that connects to the net these days without a firewall/NAT router is bonkers.
I use firefox and adblock. However even on the machine that uses IE, I have never had a problem.
Clicking Dumb. No OS can help here, only education can. Sure an OS can apply restrictions, but then users bitch about access, and incompatibility so its a no win situation. Bottom line, when you torrent download some file called NoCD_Crack_Working.exe and then run it, well you takes your chances. If you hose your box, you have no one to blame (including whatever OS you happen to be running) but yourself. So if you deal with these sorts of files a lot, then you may want to spend the cash on a good AV software and updates. Anyway education is the key, and sometimes it takes getting burned really bad once to bring the message home.
I think most malware isn't designed by geniuses, they mostly depend on the lowest common denominator, in that most people are A) lazy, or B) Stupid. (I am not excluding myself here)
Sounds pretty cheap to me, particularly when you consider the specialized ships and expertise and whatnot you require for this type of work. Perhaps the got a volume discount.
300 Million / 10,000 Km = 30,000$/Km
That is everything, including the cable.
I know it isn't the same thing but I know of underwater electrical cable that cost something like 10,000$/Foot... just to put it in perspective. (That was for a wind power project located on an island that had to run a power cable from their substation to the grid, only a couple of kilometers away, running the cable was a major part of the overall cost of the wind farm)
Ya I saw a TV show on women bodybuilders that was interesting. The reason many of them look so masculine isn't genetics, its the lifestyle. Its not so much the actual muscles is the fact content, or lack of it. Women that lower the body fat percentage to a certain level (as most body builders do) produce less estrogen if any at all. The longer this occurs for the more changes happen.
I know I was surprised to hear this, but it made sense.
I would say that it is the government's responsibility to regulate the industry and ensure this doesn't happen. Problem is when the rich guys that own the mining company basically buy the rich guys the run the government, well you can see what the eventual result is. It really is criminal.
Problem is the rich owner, and the rich politician are long gone now. If they could be held responsible for their past actions, then something may happen. However I believe that is called accountability and that is indeed a rare commodity in both the government and private sectors.
Since it was the governments fault for not regulating properly it falls to them to clean up the mess. It doesn't matter that it wasn't this government, and the people involved are no longer around.
Accountability could solve so many things. However rich people on both sides do not want that to happen.
For example an easy solution to this sort of mess it to establish a central fund for say cleaning up after mining. Every company pays a considerable percentage each year into the fund. If you are a responsible company and clean up your mess to established specifications, then guess what? You get your money back from the fund when you are done! If you go bankrupt or are not responsible, then there is money saved up for the cleanup. In addition the government could use this money in very prudent secure investment to increase the funds available for cleanup.
Problem is that is a lot of money. A lot of money not going to share holders, owners, and the like. Say for argument 200 million per company for the lifetime of the mine. The owner pays a lobbyist and makes donations to political campaigns for say like 5 million (a 195 million dollar savings!). Now multiply that by however many mines there are in the US. You can see why perhaps progress is slow in this regard. It is a political issue, however unless people make it one, it is not to any politician.
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LOL. Ya I love when people get all hot and bothered about this type of technology, thinking it is all high tech and infallible. My favorite example of this was people spoofing "facial recognition" biometric software and sensors..... with a printed picture held up for the camera. LOL!
Maybe this is a Canadian terminology thing.
I went to University for 4 years and got a Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and Geography with a special emphasis in GIS.
I went to College for 1 year and got a Geographic Information Systems - Applications Specialist Certificate.
The certificate at the College was a post graduate program, however most programs there you can take right out of high school, like Heavy Equipment Operator, Forestry Technician, Paramedic, etc...
The degree at University you take in Arts or Science, and then a discipline like Physics, Math, English, etc...
It was very weird to do it that way, though many people do. Because my College program was post graduate, it is full of people who already have their degree, sometimes a masters, or even a PhD. At the same time, the people going to class in the room next to you are 18 or 19 years old fresh out of high school (older if they took time off).
Made for some interesting times. I lived in an apartment that was part of a house. The people that lived in the house part were 5 guys in the Heavy Equipment Operator program who were all 19. The program they were in was only 6 months long. They pretty much partied every night for 6 months. Anyway I had a lot of fun while I was there, but had to juggle responsibility a bit more carefully than the average student there. Everyone in our classes were also ancient at 22-26 compared to everyone else. I also went from a University campus where there was about 4 girls to every guy (had coed and all girl dorm) to a College campus where it was like 32 guys to every girl (that particular campus had a natural resources focus, lots of hippies). It was some hard times that year, but I did have fun drinking with kids (though I was only 22) and smoking with hippies!
http://xkcd.com/641/
Its so true. It reinforces my mantra: "Never trust anyone". [tips tinfoil hat]
Yeah these guys would get along great I think.
I remember I would start taking hand written notes at the beginning of class, but as he got more and more distracted and off topic, and farther on a tangent, my notes would sort of just drift off to nothing.
I remember one lecture (Artificial Life or Cyberspace, can't remember which as both were pretty out there) where he went on his rant of crazy, and I sort of lost consciousnesses for a while just zoning out wondering what the hell he was babbling about. When I sort of came to we were discussing water clocks in 18th century navel ships... wtf.
The icing on the cake was for the Final exam for Artificial Life, was one page. On that page were 12 essay questions. You had to answer three or four. One of those questions (i shit you not) was (and I quote): "Make up your own question. Answer it."
In a way kind of awesome. I don't think I had the balls to actually select that one, but wow.
No doubt! :) I have used it for absolutely nothing since anyway (1999). At least when I was taking it in University the purpose was to learn the proper way to code, and various basic structures and techniques. At college it was about syntax and memorization or something like that.
That is what the World of Warcraft should do:
A) Allow players to go into debt
B) Allow players to have credit
C) Create things like derivatives that players can trade around.
Would be interesting to see what happens and how they manage it. They could also try to have one AH across all the servers (likely technically problematic). They all ready have the numbers for a pretty grand experimental in virtual economics, the closer they model reality, the more interesting it would be to see how things react.
I had a C+ teacher in college that used the worst overhead transparencies.
His transparencies had so many coding errors I stopped going to his class. (I already took C+ in University anyway) The class was constantly finding errors he missed.
Then on the final exam he has the gall to require perfect code using pencil and paper.
I had a +90% going into the exam (still did the work and went to labs with a TA), and the asshat gave me a 10% on the final exam dropping me to 55%. When I asked him to explain the mark he refused (his marking consisted of a red X and 10% no other explanation) saying it was just "wrong". I think he was just pissed that I was getting nearly a perfect mark without attending his shitty lectures ever, huge egoist. I would have complained to the dean and had an academic board look into it, except he WAS the dean... I also didn't need his mark changed to graduate, so I said screw it I would rather not deal with the jerk. He seriously didn't have a clue and had no business teaching.
That said all my university CS professors were great. Except one guy who was seriously crazy. I mean like batshit loony crazy. He also looked like the Unibomber, had a Russian accent, supposedly worked at IBM like 45 years ago, and called everything microcomputers. Of course he taught all the artsy fartsy CS courses like Artifical Life, Cyberspace, etc... so it had little impact on anything much. Sitting in one of his lectures was like going on acid for like two hours and talking to some one on mushrooms while sitting in a room filled with leprechauns.
There was a way to capture the energy released in a Ha-dou-ken or tap into the energies being released by super sayien auras...
Many are connected directly.
I was on several power station tours (Hydro, Solar, Wind) and it seems common that A) the technology is built elsewhere and shipped in (Denmark, California, etc...), and B) the company that built the technology also has remote access to monitor and has the power to make changes when problems occur.
When I saw several of these solutions, on computer, my first thought was, oh wee, its connected to the internet, what could possibly go wrong!
I am sure there is some tight security (or I certainly hope so anyway), but like anything, users being lazy etc... default passwords, security holes, etc...
Considering how vulnerable and tightly interwoven all our power infrastructure is in NA, you don't have to take down a 2GW nuke plant to initiate a catastrophic cascade effect. If someone knows what they are doing, and where the weaknesses are, strategically taking down a couple hundred megawatts say during peak time, may case some real trouble. I can only hope that the people that regulate have taken this problem seriously enough.
I prefer my bunny to be the pet of small children. When it has been hugged and loved, it really tenderizes the meat, falls right off the bone.
Don't make me drug you and beat you with a wrench!
That is quite possibly the best quote ever... I am going to have to remember that one!
...and don't get me wrong I am sure a lot of people at Apple are very smart people, they should try to capitalize to maximum advantage. Take a page out of the MS and Google book. Its not all about securing profits, but making sure your the big guy on top. I have heard that Google will never make back the money they spend on youtube, however by acquiring it they prevent anybody else from doing so and there by securing a foothold in the online market. Also due to the razor thin margins on netbooks, Microsoft isn't going to be making much money by supplying an OS for them, but it stopped the trend of offering Linux as an alternative and prevents them from getting a foot hold in the market.
Generally people use whatever they are most comfortable using. So if they start learning on Windows, that is what they know, and it is much easier for them to keep using it. Why do you think these companies offer "Student Versions" and huge discounts (even free) to large universities and colleges? Out of the goodness of their hearts? No, because when these kids grow up this is what they know, and when the go to work, if everyone knows how to use a technology it is cheaper and easier for a business to use that same technology, etc... It is a cycle that lasts years, even decades. So only looking at short term profit and protectionism is actually counter productive in the long term. However as smart as some people like to think Apple is, that is something they constantly do, and are by far the worst offenders.
If they were smart, they would realize that the Windows 7 that Microsoft has made available to netbooks (Starter Version), is a broken crippled thing, designed only to prevent Linux from being used, but yet at the same time not interfering with their core Windows 7 sales. Now if their was say another consumer alternative, perhaps one that might be even installed easily aftermarket (which means you don't need bigbox, or manufacture buy in) into the netbook market that might be considered a very good thing. Now granted it is unlikely that Apple will make any or much money off these sales, but if they EVER want a chance to garner more than 10% of the market and enter the show with the bog boys, it is something they are going to have to look at. How many collage kids will be buying netbooks? How many do you think it would think it cool to be running the Apple OS on it? In 5 to 10 years they might see their market share increase dramatically! What would it cost them? Nothing really, try to break even or even take a chance a sell it at a loss and see what happens, they likely have the cash to do it.
However having watched Apple over a long period of time, I do not seem them doing anything about this in any meaning way. They are always too concerned about control, and protectionism, everything else is secondary. Which is why they will always be a niche market of frappe-chino drinking elite, secure in their superiority of the world, even as it passes them by.
The needle is stuck on "ITS A BOMB!"
Which works for me as the solution is to blow it up remotely. Just means that everything gets blown up remotely. Works for me, better safe than sorry! :)
HA HA HA!
You mean fairyland?
Generally speaking anywhere you go, the more educated and wealthy you are the less kids you will have, and the less educated and poor you are the more kids you will have.
Now tell me how this works in your world view?
I understand what you are saying don't get me wrong, its just not linked to current reality.
Heh! Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guy in college. I always thought this was some kind of ladies man and must have been a smooth talker as he was rather a short guy, and nothing special in the looks department (or so I thought anyway) yet he always picked up at the bar, and had a different girl any night he wanted.
One day he set me straight as to what his Modus operandi was. Basically you need to have patience and be able to handle rejection well. If he wanted to get laid that night, he would just chat up any girl he felt like, the usual BS type of stuff and then ask her to go home with him. The key is he would never spend more then 10min on any one girl. He said if he couldn't convince her to go with him in 10min the odds that she would after that point were infinitesimal and to abandon her and just move on the the next. He said it might take a few tries, and didn't always work, but in the end he would generally find someone willing.
Anyway you can debate if this is ethical, healthy, or whatever, but he bottom line is that it worked.
You should have called in tired, just like the beer commercial. I would link it, but I can't be bothered.
I would agree with all of what you said.
I tried it. Leash + cat = bad idea. Under supervision is not bad, so your cat doesn't choke. Mostly they will just get tangled up in the line anyway and go nuts.
Also something you didn't mention, if a Cat or Dog get into a fight, and the outlook doesn't look so good, they always have to option of running away. If I am away at work, and kitty is on a leash and a dog gets into the back yard, then that is one dead cat. It can't run away, or run up a tree or whatever.
Second, which is the real reason why my cat is an indoor cat again (she was an indoor cat, and when I bought a house, I decided I wanted to give her some freedom, so started letting her out for about a year), is the fleas. Because of all the feral and stray cats in the area, she got a major infestation of fleas. It was horrible. It took nearly a year of collars, sprays, baths, cleaning, etc... before the problem was solved. In that time my cat lost most of her fur (long hair) to scratching, and both her and I were miserable. I vowed that she remain an indoor kitty from now on. If I lived someplace a little more rural, it might be a bit different, but where I am not there are too many beasties walking around with other beastie onboard.
I couldn't agree more. I have probably had more problems with AV software than I have has with malware.
I would go on to say that ANYONE that connects to the net these days without a firewall/NAT router is bonkers.
I use firefox and adblock. However even on the machine that uses IE, I have never had a problem.
Clicking Dumb. No OS can help here, only education can. Sure an OS can apply restrictions, but then users bitch about access, and incompatibility so its a no win situation. Bottom line, when you torrent download some file called NoCD_Crack_Working.exe and then run it, well you takes your chances. If you hose your box, you have no one to blame (including whatever OS you happen to be running) but yourself. So if you deal with these sorts of files a lot, then you may want to spend the cash on a good AV software and updates. Anyway education is the key, and sometimes it takes getting burned really bad once to bring the message home.
I think most malware isn't designed by geniuses, they mostly depend on the lowest common denominator, in that most people are A) lazy, or B) Stupid. (I am not excluding myself here)
Sounds pretty cheap to me, particularly when you consider the specialized ships and expertise and whatnot you require for this type of work. Perhaps the got a volume discount.
300 Million / 10,000 Km = 30,000$/Km
That is everything, including the cable.
I know it isn't the same thing but I know of underwater electrical cable that cost something like 10,000$/Foot... just to put it in perspective. (That was for a wind power project located on an island that had to run a power cable from their substation to the grid, only a couple of kilometers away, running the cable was a major part of the overall cost of the wind farm)
The flower department... why?
Heh, makes me laugh, but good for Toyota all the same!
Hey he changed his name to Mohammad something or other and became a Muslim... Get 'em!
I mean seriously Cat Stevens? If ever there was anybody that wasn't going to hurt anyone...
Having a "no fly list" may sound like a good idea, just not a particularity well thought out one.
Look at any carving of woman's fertility around the world from any culture from ancient times. Short and Fat are the norm I would say.
Ya I saw a TV show on women bodybuilders that was interesting. The reason many of them look so masculine isn't genetics, its the lifestyle. Its not so much the actual muscles is the fact content, or lack of it. Women that lower the body fat percentage to a certain level (as most body builders do) produce less estrogen if any at all. The longer this occurs for the more changes happen.
I know I was surprised to hear this, but it made sense.
I would say that it is the government's responsibility to regulate the industry and ensure this doesn't happen. Problem is when the rich guys that own the mining company basically buy the rich guys the run the government, well you can see what the eventual result is. It really is criminal.
Problem is the rich owner, and the rich politician are long gone now. If they could be held responsible for their past actions, then something may happen. However I believe that is called accountability and that is indeed a rare commodity in both the government and private sectors.
Since it was the governments fault for not regulating properly it falls to them to clean up the mess. It doesn't matter that it wasn't this government, and the people involved are no longer around.
Accountability could solve so many things. However rich people on both sides do not want that to happen.
For example an easy solution to this sort of mess it to establish a central fund for say cleaning up after mining. Every company pays a considerable percentage each year into the fund. If you are a responsible company and clean up your mess to established specifications, then guess what? You get your money back from the fund when you are done! If you go bankrupt or are not responsible, then there is money saved up for the cleanup. In addition the government could use this money in very prudent secure investment to increase the funds available for cleanup.
Problem is that is a lot of money. A lot of money not going to share holders, owners, and the like. Say for argument 200 million per company for the lifetime of the mine. The owner pays a lobbyist and makes donations to political campaigns for say like 5 million (a 195 million dollar savings!). Now multiply that by however many mines there are in the US. You can see why perhaps progress is slow in this regard. It is a political issue, however unless people make it one, it is not to any politician.