Climate change is happening and has happened as long at the planet has been in existence.
I read how everyone wants something done to "fix" climate change. What is it they propose? I have not heard of any real solutions.
They talk about reducing carbon emissions. But how to achieve that?
Assuming we are only talking about human based carbon emissions, how do you significantly reduce the production of carbon?
Only one comes to mind. Eliminate a significant portion of the human population. This allows us to shutdown all those pesky power plants and cars.
Obviously there would the the elite that would be allowed to keep electricity, cars, A/C, etc. The rest of the population would be left without and the the numbers would decrease over time. Possibly a very short time as aggressive use of force would be needed to protect the elite from the rest of us.
Anything else would not accomplish what they suggest.
Why not embrace climate change? We can adapt. It is not happening that fast. As the sea levels rise we can build flood walls and move cities. We have done it in the past we can do it again.
Even better, let's expend the abundance of resources we have currently to get off the planet while there is still time and colonize space. We can use the resources available in the rest of the solar system to sustain a large population for many many generations.
But we are to short sighted.
When I was in college it was vi or emacs (or microemacs). Was about the only tool set that was available at that time. Of course that was toward the end of college. Early on it was great to find a punch card machine that had ink on the ribbon that would print what you typed at the top of the punch card.
Learned in early jobs that while I like emacs better than vi, I found vi was on more systems by default. So I learned both since it took a few extra steps to compile emacs for every system I was working on.
We were building our own tool sets and libraries back then. Lots of stuff pulled from USENET back in the day.
Critical thinking is like common sense, not so common anymore.
Kids coming out of college now have huge student debts which means they fail the first big test of life.
Most can't get jobs that pay enough to cover their student debts let alone proceed to raising a family and doing better than their parents did.
The next generation will end up renting their entire lives and retire on whatever is left of social security and still be paying on those student loans when they die.
Not smart to major in english or art.
You can't save DAYLIGHT! The concept is silly. You don't get any extra daylight by changing the clock.
If you want to see more sunlight then get up when it is out and go to bed when it is not.
There are huge areas that don't change for DST and they don't have any issues. The argument of saving power by doing this is debatable at best. Most places use lights all day anyway.
So stop the madness. Pick a time and stick to it. So what if the clock says 6:00am, if that is the start of your work day then get to work. It does not matter.
And for those that actually have a "9 to 5" job kudos to you. Lately I have been starting a 2am and working through until about 7pm or later. But that is due to maintenance windows to minimize impact due to down time on the servers.
Do away with DST. If people want/need to get up earlier or later to take advantage of the daylight then JUST GET UP EARLIER OR LATER! There is no good reason to change the clock backward and forward. Lots of places don't do it and they don't have any problems. STOP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!
So when the solar spot cycle is low does that mean there is more or less energy being radiated? It would seem that if there are sun spots that there might be less energy being radiated which would cause the planets to cool. When there are fewer sun spots there is more energy being radiated (more surface area at a constant temperature) so the planets would warm up more.
Do we have any instrumentation that shows the amount of energy the sun is giving off?
The old pin hole through cardboard method is used to show an image on a surface. You don't look through the hole.
Actually, never mind. It will be easier to spot the dumbasses if they are all bumping into stuff because they blinded themselves by trying to look at the sun.
Right, 5 billion here, 5 billion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money. For something that probably won't fix the problem this is a silly thing to spend money on.
Take it as given: climate change is happening and has happened in the past.
The cause for climate change does not matter. It is happening.
But remember the change is very slow. The changes are going to occur over the next few hundred years. Not next year or even in the next couple of decades. It will be hundreds of years.
During that time we will adapt. We will build flood walls around key cities. We will move populations where building flood walls does not make sense. We will shift farming to land that can now sustain plants. We will change and adapt to the climate as it shifts. It is a SLOW process and we have lots of time to adapt to it.
Spending billions of dollars on something that most likely will harm the environment more (has anyone asked how much pollution will be generated to build the industrial base to build all those ships?) is a silly thing to do. It will cost 2 to 3 times the highest estimate anyone throws out there.
Spend that kind of money to develop economical space capability so we can start mining the moon or asteroids and shipping material back to earth.
We would be better served doing that than wasting tremendous resources on a project that at best would do little to change things and at worst would damage the environment more than anything else we have done.
Actually all of this becomes mute since most end users will simply click OK or Yes when prompted that they keys have changed and may indicate something bad. Training end users to understand what is being reported is a never ending process and ultimately a game that can not be won. The attacker always has the advantage.
Global warming is almost as good as Duke Nukem Forever. Always just out of reach with lots of reasons why things won't get as bad as predicted as soon as predicted.
There are natural cycles people. It will get warmer and colder as it always has. We will need to adapt to the changes. If the theories were correct then things would be getting worse at a predictable rate. But now the planets natural cycle is going to keep things cooler than expected. Hmmm, seems like the natural cycle has more control over things than everyone was giving it credit. Maybe man is not affecting things as much as supposed.
Of course no one will ever read this and think about it that much since it will be modded to -100 in the next few seconds.
So what you are saying is that the list does not really do much unless you happen to be a stupid terrorist that uses your own name. And the list only works if you happened to have come to the attention of someone that can put you on the list. To quote you, "It was never going to stop the really bad people." Then what is it going to stop? The only time this list comes up is when someone gets hassled because they have the same name as someone on the list.
This is just another form of security theater. It is totally ineffectual as implemented and does not achieve any of the goals that were set out for it. As you said the really bad people will drive truck bombs through the holes in the system. Literally. This does nothing to raise the bar.
So if you happen to be on the no fly list make sure you manufacture a military looking ID that the TSA will accept as proof that you are not a threat.
This just more security theater. The real bad guys are going to get around this list with no problem. The names they use will NOT be on the list to start with. And some TSA wonk is not going to be able to identify a valid ID vs. a false one. There are to many forms of valid IDs for any one person to be able to recognize a good forgery. Only the really bad forgeries that high school kids get will be caught.
Reduce the wait time? Are there actual stats that show that or is that a pipe dream?
And what cashier are you talking about? The one that is monitoring all 10 lines? And is busy fixing something or showing someone how to use the system? Sounds like the wait time just increased. Seems like this is where time could be saved by manning all the lines.
This is just another move towards getting rid of cashiers and making the customer check their own goods. This trend has been increasing in the last the year or two. Now there are more self serve checkouts at Home Depot, Lowe's, Sam's and other stores.
Eventually they will have huge warehouses where the customers never see a live person that works there. Combined with ATMs and fast food drive up windows a person would not have to talk to anyone at all.
Some how I don't think this is an improvement. How can a self checkout improve the customer experience? And just imagine the backups when that item you picked up does not have the barcode on it. Who is going to help then?
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Climate change is happening and has happened as long at the planet has been in existence.
I read how everyone wants something done to "fix" climate change. What is it they propose? I have not heard of any real solutions.
They talk about reducing carbon emissions. But how to achieve that?
Assuming we are only talking about human based carbon emissions, how do you significantly reduce the production of carbon?
Only one comes to mind. Eliminate a significant portion of the human population. This allows us to shutdown all those pesky power plants and cars.
Obviously there would the the elite that would be allowed to keep electricity, cars, A/C, etc. The rest of the population would be left without and the the numbers would decrease over time. Possibly a very short time as aggressive use of force would be needed to protect the elite from the rest of us.
Anything else would not accomplish what they suggest.
Why not embrace climate change? We can adapt. It is not happening that fast. As the sea levels rise we can build flood walls and move cities. We have done it in the past we can do it again.
Even better, let's expend the abundance of resources we have currently to get off the planet while there is still time and colonize space. We can use the resources available in the rest of the solar system to sustain a large population for many many generations.
But we are to short sighted.
When I was in college it was vi or emacs (or microemacs). Was about the only tool set that was available at that time. Of course that was toward the end of college. Early on it was great to find a punch card machine that had ink on the ribbon that would print what you typed at the top of the punch card.
Learned in early jobs that while I like emacs better than vi, I found vi was on more systems by default. So I learned both since it took a few extra steps to compile emacs for every system I was working on.
We were building our own tool sets and libraries back then. Lots of stuff pulled from USENET back in the day.
Critical thinking is like common sense, not so common anymore.
Kids coming out of college now have huge student debts which means they fail the first big test of life.
Most can't get jobs that pay enough to cover their student debts let alone proceed to raising a family and doing better than their parents did.
The next generation will end up renting their entire lives and retire on whatever is left of social security and still be paying on those student loans when they die.
Not smart to major in english or art.
That means they have a working quantum computer and need additional code to throw at it.
So in about 10 to 15 years we will start seeing quantum computers available for the masses.
COOL!
You can't save DAYLIGHT! The concept is silly. You don't get any extra daylight by changing the clock.
If you want to see more sunlight then get up when it is out and go to bed when it is not.
There are huge areas that don't change for DST and they don't have any issues. The argument of saving power by doing this is debatable at best. Most places use lights all day anyway.
So stop the madness. Pick a time and stick to it. So what if the clock says 6:00am, if that is the start of your work day then get to work. It does not matter.
And for those that actually have a "9 to 5" job kudos to you. Lately I have been starting a 2am and working through until about 7pm or later. But that is due to maintenance windows to minimize impact due to down time on the servers.
Do away with DST. If people want/need to get up earlier or later to take advantage of the daylight then JUST GET UP EARLIER OR LATER! There is no good reason to change the clock backward and forward. Lots of places don't do it and they don't have any problems. STOP DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!
So when the solar spot cycle is low does that mean there is more or less energy being radiated? It would seem that if there are sun spots that there might be less energy being radiated which would cause the planets to cool. When there are fewer sun spots there is more energy being radiated (more surface area at a constant temperature) so the planets would warm up more.
Do we have any instrumentation that shows the amount of energy the sun is giving off?
The old pin hole through cardboard method is used to show an image on a surface. You don't look through the hole.
Actually, never mind. It will be easier to spot the dumbasses if they are all bumping into stuff because they blinded themselves by trying to look at the sun.
Right, 5 billion here, 5 billion there, pretty soon you are talking about real money. For something that probably won't fix the problem this is a silly thing to spend money on.
Take it as given: climate change is happening and has happened in the past.
The cause for climate change does not matter. It is happening.
But remember the change is very slow. The changes are going to occur over the next few hundred years. Not next year or even in the next couple of decades. It will be hundreds of years.
During that time we will adapt. We will build flood walls around key cities. We will move populations where building flood walls does not make sense. We will shift farming to land that can now sustain plants. We will change and adapt to the climate as it shifts. It is a SLOW process and we have lots of time to adapt to it.
Spending billions of dollars on something that most likely will harm the environment more (has anyone asked how much pollution will be generated to build the industrial base to build all those ships?) is a silly thing to do. It will cost 2 to 3 times the highest estimate anyone throws out there.
Spend that kind of money to develop economical space capability so we can start mining the moon or asteroids and shipping material back to earth.
We would be better served doing that than wasting tremendous resources on a project that at best would do little to change things and at worst would damage the environment more than anything else we have done.
Wasn't the first game to have teleportation Zork?
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Why did they not add the capability of the segway to balance things and do away with the crutches?
This is refuted by the discussions on this board. There are stupid neanderthals posting here every day!
Actually all of this becomes mute since most end users will simply click OK or Yes when prompted that they keys have changed and may indicate something bad. Training end users to understand what is being reported is a never ending process and ultimately a game that can not be won. The attacker always has the advantage.
Global warming is almost as good as Duke Nukem Forever. Always just out of reach with lots of reasons why things won't get as bad as predicted as soon as predicted.
There are natural cycles people. It will get warmer and colder as it always has. We will need to adapt to the changes. If the theories were correct then things would be getting worse at a predictable rate. But now the planets natural cycle is going to keep things cooler than expected. Hmmm, seems like the natural cycle has more control over things than everyone was giving it credit. Maybe man is not affecting things as much as supposed.
Of course no one will ever read this and think about it that much since it will be modded to -100 in the next few seconds.
HA HA!
So what you are saying is that the list does not really do much unless you happen to be a stupid terrorist that uses your own name. And the list only works if you happened to have come to the attention of someone that can put you on the list. To quote you, "It was never going to stop the really bad people." Then what is it going to stop? The only time this list comes up is when someone gets hassled because they have the same name as someone on the list.
This is just another form of security theater. It is totally ineffectual as implemented and does not achieve any of the goals that were set out for it. As you said the really bad people will drive truck bombs through the holes in the system. Literally. This does nothing to raise the bar.
So if you happen to be on the no fly list make sure you manufacture a military looking ID that the TSA will accept as proof that you are not a threat.
This just more security theater. The real bad guys are going to get around this list with no problem. The names they use will NOT be on the list to start with. And some TSA wonk is not going to be able to identify a valid ID vs. a false one. There are to many forms of valid IDs for any one person to be able to recognize a good forgery. Only the really bad forgeries that high school kids get will be caught.
Reduce the wait time? Are there actual stats that show that or is that a pipe dream?
And what cashier are you talking about? The one that is monitoring all 10 lines? And is busy fixing something or showing someone how to use the system? Sounds like the wait time just increased. Seems like this is where time could be saved by manning all the lines.
Very nice fiction. You do know this is slashdot don't you? Girlfriends are a myth.
Amazingly I always get the cheaper one that is displayed. Don't you?
This is just another move towards getting rid of cashiers and making the customer check their own goods. This trend has been increasing in the last the year or two. Now there are more self serve checkouts at Home Depot, Lowe's, Sam's and other stores.
Eventually they will have huge warehouses where the customers never see a live person that works there. Combined with ATMs and fast food drive up windows a person would not have to talk to anyone at all.
Some how I don't think this is an improvement. How can a self checkout improve the customer experience? And just imagine the backups when that item you picked up does not have the barcode on it. Who is going to help then?
Good to see that technical merit is no match for dogged mediocrity. Or in this case Microsofts pocket book. Once they buy something it stays bought!
I used to keep my money in my butt. But it made me sit at an angle.