the small amount of "booster" elements (tritium and deuterium) found in fusion power could provide would-be proliferators what they need to boost the yield of fission bombs
The primary issue of proliferation is getting the bomb grade uranium in the first place. Fission power by itself doesn't lead to weapons proliferation so long as enrichment processes are restricted to producing only 'reactor grade' fuel. Given a source of weapons grade material, the availability of deuterium/tritium boosters aren't going to make a damned bit of difference to rogue states trying to build bombs. Crappy, low yield bombs will suit their purposes just fine.
We wouldn't dare supress the "all men are pigs" posts made by the whack-a-doodle feminist faction
What do you mean "we"? If anything even vaguely approaching this comes up here, then people jump all over it.
My point is: It comes up. And we respond to it. Nobody is suggesting that we surpress "all men are pigs" remarks. Fark is explicitly surpressing 'Calling women as a group "whores" or "sluts" or similar demeaning terminology'. Why? Let's out the knucle-draggers for what they are.
As a compromise, I could accept deletion of all 'hate language' posted anonymously. Want to make a negative generalization? Back it up with your reputation (your on-line ID as a minimum).
Equating the entirety of a movement to its most crazy wingnuts is really misrepresenting it.
Which is what the misogynists are on the male side. The crazy wingnut faction.
I think the point GT66 is trying to make is: We wouldn't dare supress the "all men are pigs" posts made by the whack-a-doodle feminist faction. Try that and you'll have the enire movement camped out on your doorstep with protest signs. Even if many feminists might quietly agree that the "all men" statements come from the nut job fringe.
We don't surpress the misogynists on many boards because we make fun of them. The self-proclaimed "alpha males" are in reality the neck-beards living in their parents' basement. But we can't do that with the fringe feminist elements because that would be an attack on all women.
The fridge will tell its smart meter, not the power company: "I'm about to switch on in roughly 5 mins".
The TV set will have to tell the fridge that there's a string of ads coming up in 5 minutes. And 100,000 couch potatos will be getting up to open the fridge door and make a monster sandwich. I don't think AI is quite there yet.
You also assume that the "call to refrigerators" will have any realistic affect over 5 minutes. Existing demand diversity already smooths these sorts of fluctuations out. I'm more concerned with a calm, hot day. Where the windmills won't be spinning for a number of hours. Well beyond a few on/off refrigerator cycles. When enough fridges call the power company to say that they absolutely have to start right now. Or the ice cream will melt, does the power company send a bill to the windmill owners for firing up the gas turbines?
No one is going to switch off your fridge for half a day.
Same for AC.
Are you windmill people going to put that in writing?
engineers perhaps being the beta clan in many corporations (that tend to hire beta engineers).
If you are a member of another clan and you can get control of the h.r. processes, you can ensure your supremacy.
Decades ago, I worked for a laarge engineering/manufacturing concern that was already struggling with this issue. Engineering quality was going down hill. Engineering management was concerned and corporate was brought in to quiet the dissent. One engineering manager was asked what we could do to increase the supply of competent talent. His answer: Pay entry level engineers more than $40,000 per year (this was decades ago). The corporate v.p. replied, "We want the best engineers that $40,000 can buy."
A few yars later, corporate management stated that their goal was no longer to be an "engineering company". But to be the best "honest broker" of engineering services possible. Which basically meant that they wanted to push the "engineering respect" problem down to their suppliers. Faction problem solved. The MBAs run the company. Engineering (what's left) is populated by a bunch of betas that will settle for (inflation adjusted) $40,000 per year. Their products are years late to market and catch fire. But the company owns a respected brand and that goodwill can be spent down for quite a few decades to come.
Lets say the grid operator detects an impending mismatch between supply and demand and they want me to shut down my refrigerator. So now I have to size my refrigerator such that it will 'carry through' such an outage without my food spoiling. That's just another form of storage. But now you've come up with a sneaky way for me to pay for it. And subsidize the renewable energy producers.
Will I get a tax credit for my extra large freezer? My oversized hot water tank? The extra capacity air conditioning unit I put in?
You think its expensive now? Just wait until the light rail project is completed, gentrification kicks into high gear and they run all the freaks out of that part of town.
And walkable? Try walking and you'll get run over by the bicycle activists.
Because business management is all about maintaining command and control of an enterprise. Everything else is a commodity; engineering, construction, human resources. It can be replaced. But just try suggesting that the large compensation increases handed top management might not be producing a decent ROI and there will be screams of discontent.
One principle taught in management classes is to make sure that no one employee becomes such a key to the success of a business that they can hold it hostage. If that means dumbing down the product, so be it. And yet, management works themselves into exactly this position. We've got to hand that CEO the big wage package or he/she will leave. Fine. Let them go. There are case histories of executives hopping back and forth between different industries that a good argument can be made for management as a commodity.
That's why email has to be stopped. Corporate interests (Facebook, Twitter et al) can't have you relying on a commodity service. You've got to buy their brand and lock your identity to their product.
Back in the beginning of email, it was sort of this way as well. You were known by your Compuserve or AOL address. Or by the domain name of your ISP. Changing was a PITA if you had a lot of contacts. And then some people got smart, buying their own domain name and setting up redirection to which ever underlying physical address offered the best deal.
But the service providers didn't like this, as it made their branding invisible*. And gave customers an easy way to switch. Lately, a few ISPs have atempted to categorize such redirection services as security/spam risks and block email sent through them. A few people I know have caved in and reverted to the ISP's domain. Others have gotten the ISPs to remove the block after some strongly worded correspondence.
*A decade or so ago, the game was for big ISPs to buy domain names from services that registered but did not turn over ownership/administration to the user. A friend of mine lost her business domain when MSN did this and switched everyone from an XYZ.com name to XYZ.MSN.com.
Bulk port scanning is something I'd expect criminals to do looking for vulnerable systems to exploit. Its not going to tell you anything about the use of that system or the motives of its owners unless you install some sort of exploit. The only thing this will reveal is the possible presence of certain peer-to-peer apps that use well known ports.
I'd expect the intelligence agencies to develop a list of likely terrorists and then concentrate on breaking into their systems. This looks like GCHQ has given up on al Qaida and is chasing file sharers full time. Public funds expended to protect the Disney companies property. When can I expect the local police department to pay two officers to guard my old pickup truck parked in my driveway every night?
that aren't relevant to the software doing the rendering
And how much is that? Compared to the rendered graphics objects?
Very little in a well designed system. Objects to be rendered come from user space. Everything else originates within and remains in the graphics drivers. Or GPU firmware. Or sometimes its not even resident on the same machine (think X servers and window managers).
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Different chemical. Same treaty lophole.
Also in instruction manuals for lots of equipment.
We have already undertaken an effort to eradicate the seals. We have found that the most efficient means involves hunters with clubs.
the small amount of "booster" elements (tritium and deuterium) found in fusion power could provide would-be proliferators what they need to boost the yield of fission bombs
The primary issue of proliferation is getting the bomb grade uranium in the first place. Fission power by itself doesn't lead to weapons proliferation so long as enrichment processes are restricted to producing only 'reactor grade' fuel. Given a source of weapons grade material, the availability of deuterium/tritium boosters aren't going to make a damned bit of difference to rogue states trying to build bombs. Crappy, low yield bombs will suit their purposes just fine.
We wouldn't dare supress the "all men are pigs" posts made by the whack-a-doodle feminist faction
What do you mean "we"? If anything even vaguely approaching this comes up here, then people jump all over it.
My point is: It comes up. And we respond to it. Nobody is suggesting that we surpress "all men are pigs" remarks. Fark is explicitly surpressing 'Calling women as a group "whores" or "sluts" or similar demeaning terminology'. Why? Let's out the knucle-draggers for what they are.
As a compromise, I could accept deletion of all 'hate language' posted anonymously. Want to make a negative generalization? Back it up with your reputation (your on-line ID as a minimum).
Equating the entirety of a movement to its most crazy wingnuts is really misrepresenting it.
Which is what the misogynists are on the male side. The crazy wingnut faction.
I think the point GT66 is trying to make is: We wouldn't dare supress the "all men are pigs" posts made by the whack-a-doodle feminist faction. Try that and you'll have the enire movement camped out on your doorstep with protest signs. Even if many feminists might quietly agree that the "all men" statements come from the nut job fringe.
We don't surpress the misogynists on many boards because we make fun of them. The self-proclaimed "alpha males" are in reality the neck-beards living in their parents' basement. But we can't do that with the fringe feminist elements because that would be an attack on all women.
Not only that, but they are discriminating against Italians.
The fridge will tell its smart meter, not the power company: "I'm about to switch on in roughly 5 mins".
The TV set will have to tell the fridge that there's a string of ads coming up in 5 minutes. And 100,000 couch potatos will be getting up to open the fridge door and make a monster sandwich. I don't think AI is quite there yet.
You also assume that the "call to refrigerators" will have any realistic affect over 5 minutes. Existing demand diversity already smooths these sorts of fluctuations out. I'm more concerned with a calm, hot day. Where the windmills won't be spinning for a number of hours. Well beyond a few on/off refrigerator cycles. When enough fridges call the power company to say that they absolutely have to start right now. Or the ice cream will melt, does the power company send a bill to the windmill owners for firing up the gas turbines?
No one is going to switch off your fridge for half a day. Same for AC.
Are you windmill people going to put that in writing?
The British will be looking for just such a trick.
Pardon me Mrs. Doubtfire. But you are blocking my view of that van in the embassy parking lot.
It doesn't sound so bad if you describe it as a power function.
engineers perhaps being the beta clan in many corporations (that tend to hire beta engineers).
If you are a member of another clan and you can get control of the h.r. processes, you can ensure your supremacy.
Decades ago, I worked for a laarge engineering/manufacturing concern that was already struggling with this issue. Engineering quality was going down hill. Engineering management was concerned and corporate was brought in to quiet the dissent. One engineering manager was asked what we could do to increase the supply of competent talent. His answer: Pay entry level engineers more than $40,000 per year (this was decades ago). The corporate v.p. replied, "We want the best engineers that $40,000 can buy."
A few yars later, corporate management stated that their goal was no longer to be an "engineering company". But to be the best "honest broker" of engineering services possible. Which basically meant that they wanted to push the "engineering respect" problem down to their suppliers. Faction problem solved. The MBAs run the company. Engineering (what's left) is populated by a bunch of betas that will settle for (inflation adjusted) $40,000 per year. Their products are years late to market and catch fire. But the company owns a respected brand and that goodwill can be spent down for quite a few decades to come.
Lets say the grid operator detects an impending mismatch between supply and demand and they want me to shut down my refrigerator. So now I have to size my refrigerator such that it will 'carry through' such an outage without my food spoiling. That's just another form of storage. But now you've come up with a sneaky way for me to pay for it. And subsidize the renewable energy producers.
Will I get a tax credit for my extra large freezer? My oversized hot water tank? The extra capacity air conditioning unit I put in?
You think its expensive now? Just wait until the light rail project is completed, gentrification kicks into high gear and they run all the freaks out of that part of town.
And walkable? Try walking and you'll get run over by the bicycle activists.
Because business management is all about maintaining command and control of an enterprise. Everything else is a commodity; engineering, construction, human resources. It can be replaced. But just try suggesting that the large compensation increases handed top management might not be producing a decent ROI and there will be screams of discontent.
One principle taught in management classes is to make sure that no one employee becomes such a key to the success of a business that they can hold it hostage. If that means dumbing down the product, so be it. And yet, management works themselves into exactly this position. We've got to hand that CEO the big wage package or he/she will leave. Fine. Let them go. There are case histories of executives hopping back and forth between different industries that a good argument can be made for management as a commodity.
Bodacious Tatas.
That's why email has to be stopped. Corporate interests (Facebook, Twitter et al) can't have you relying on a commodity service. You've got to buy their brand and lock your identity to their product.
Back in the beginning of email, it was sort of this way as well. You were known by your Compuserve or AOL address. Or by the domain name of your ISP. Changing was a PITA if you had a lot of contacts. And then some people got smart, buying their own domain name and setting up redirection to which ever underlying physical address offered the best deal.
But the service providers didn't like this, as it made their branding invisible*. And gave customers an easy way to switch. Lately, a few ISPs have atempted to categorize such redirection services as security/spam risks and block email sent through them. A few people I know have caved in and reverted to the ISP's domain. Others have gotten the ISPs to remove the block after some strongly worded correspondence.
*A decade or so ago, the game was for big ISPs to buy domain names from services that registered but did not turn over ownership/administration to the user. A friend of mine lost her business domain when MSN did this and switched everyone from an XYZ.com name to XYZ.MSN.com.
In related news, ants develop a religion around the question of why they have not been stepped on by an elephant.
Bulk port scanning is something I'd expect criminals to do looking for vulnerable systems to exploit. Its not going to tell you anything about the use of that system or the motives of its owners unless you install some sort of exploit. The only thing this will reveal is the possible presence of certain peer-to-peer apps that use well known ports.
I'd expect the intelligence agencies to develop a list of likely terrorists and then concentrate on breaking into their systems. This looks like GCHQ has given up on al Qaida and is chasing file sharers full time. Public funds expended to protect the Disney companies property. When can I expect the local police department to pay two officers to guard my old pickup truck parked in my driveway every night?
that aren't relevant to the software doing the rendering
And how much is that? Compared to the rendered graphics objects?
Very little in a well designed system. Objects to be rendered come from user space. Everything else originates within and remains in the graphics drivers. Or GPU firmware. Or sometimes its not even resident on the same machine (think X servers and window managers).