You need to look at CO2 emissions per $GDP at the very least
Emissions related to GDP is completely asinine when the topic is reducing climate change. "It's okay if we put ten times as much CO2 into the atmosphere because we made a SHIT TON of money doing it" is not a valid line of reasoning.
And emissions per capita are absolutely not meaningless. The population of a country is directly related to how many cars on on the road, how many houses need power, how many air conditioners are running 24/7, water treatment, sewage treatment, agriculture, etc, etc. If a country of 10 million is producing as much CO2 as a county of 100 million then clearly this is meaningful and worth trying to do something about it.
You might consider switching to DNS Watch. Instead of providing Google or Cloudflare all your DNS query data (they have fingers in plenty enough other places in my opinion), DNS Watch favors privacy, security, and anonymity.
Preffered DNS server: 84.200.69.80 Alternate DNS server: 84.200.70.40
This isn't something that large content publishers or hosting sites are going to address or change themselves. They don't really care how much data their page downloads, and the big ones like CNN don't even care how long the page takes to load. As long as they get their ad impressions, user profiling, and 27 different kinds of analytics then they're happy.
Individuals will need to take back control themselves. An adblocker and NoScript change CNN from a 30 second load to about 5 seconds. NoScript is the real champion, and yet it is so often maligned as "hard to use". The truth is that making sure the usual sites you visit work right takes just a few minutes, most sites work pretty well without scripts, and the vast majority work just fine if you enable first-party scripts only. And since it's the second and third (and fourth and fifth, ad infinitum) which load most of the garbage this is usually a good tradeoff.
What we really need (assuming it doesn't exist already?) is a curated whitelist for NoSciprt, like the subscription lists for AdBlock Plus. This would make the extension more user-friendly and allow a maximum level of functionality while still completely blocking a significant amount of unwanted and dangerous garbage.
Oh, and don't waste your time with a hosts file. It's completely useless in the age of dynamic DNS entries which appear and disappear on a daily or hourly basis.
You CAN say things they WILL pay attention to, though, if you're informed on the topic.
I might have believe this before the shitshow around net neutrality. In one fell swoop this Republican led FCC has shown it has no interest in consumers, their comments, or anything besides making their corporate masters wealthier.
I opened my first account with them (well, a bank they bought-out) 47 years ago, but even I'm considering moving to a new bank.
Why do you say it like this -- as if you owe a corporation some kind of loyalty? This quirk of psychology ("I've been with X for so long, I need to stick with them") is something that companies know about and take advantage of.
You don't owe Wells Fargo anything at all. Trust me, they certainly won't do anything special for you. As they've proven repeatedly over the last couple of years, you're just an account number and someone to take advantage of. I would strongly suggest looking for a local credit union to bank with. You might be surprised with how good they can be, but at the very least they won't be any worse than Wells Fargo.
In all of your examples, those people were spending their own money to try and achieve their goals -- and more power to them. However, Kickstarter is all about getting other people to spend their money.
This is the key difference and the reason that projects should be vetted before getting supported.
I'm glad to see payment processors taking an active role in what they facilitate.
Oh, really? And how would you feel if your Visa card was declined because they felt that you should stop stuffing your obese face at McDonalds 4 times a week? And PayPal rejected your payment to your church fundraiser because they thought the group had too many extreme-right racist undertones for their liking?
Payment processors should allow any legal transactions without trying to be the Morality Police. This is also the problem when a few middlemen consolidate too much power and is another reason why anyone who values freedom or privacy should push back against "cashless" societies.
Perhaps we need some kind of "common carrier" laws for large payment processors. If Visa wants to control 70% of the credit card market then they must also allow any legal transaction between consenting parties or they are found in violation of common payment laws.
You can walk into libraries all over the world, pull a book off the shelf, and read it. Nobody maintains it; it just sits there. Some things work that way.
Just think of the lost opportunities!!
Why, with just 2 months and $200,000 we could start modernizing these "books" so that they use a proper 1px razor-thin font, a 20% contrast ratio, and nice 30% transparent pages. Another 4 months and $400k and we can upgrade them to require batteries and use AI to replace all those long paragraphs with summaries. And lastly, in just 1 year and a million dollars, we can add encryption, fingerprint readers, dynamic advertising, and pay-per-chapter so that only people with an active subscription or make use of the freemium model can read them!
Books-as-a-Service with nice modern UX, targeted advertising based on book genre, and microtransactions. Let's get started! Now, who will fund us?
Agreed, though I think BSG redeemed itself a little bit during the mid-fourth season with the trial of Baltar and some other stories.
The real problem is that Ron Moore just doesn't know how to wind down and end a TV series. You can see the exact same problems with Deep Space Nine -- a great show that floundered at the end and also ended up going down the religion rabbit hole.
What on earth makes you think the Republicans control Trump?
Trump might spasm around a bit on the Republican talking points and agenda, but at the end of the day he knows that without Congress's backing he won't actually get anything done (except a disturbing number of inappropriate and celebrity pardons). He's also no doubt been told that congressional mid-terms are just around the corner and if his party loses many seats in the house or senate then he's pretty much screwed.
Trump might be singing off-key and marching like a drunkard, but he's still singing and dancing to the Repub theme song.
Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with Quality of Service, and you know it. Stop beating on this strawman -- it just makes you look like an astroturfing assclown.
The Phantom Menace was a slow and boring movie with an overall story that barely held together. It was the least offensive movie of the prequels, but certainly was the most boring.
The Last Jedi was an objectively terrible movie with a bad story that was internally inconsistent and utterly incongruous. Truly, TLJ has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
I was 100% in the same boat as you, up until about 4 months ago. I had an ancient feature phone with a $20/mo unlimited minutes plan and was pretty happy... until the battery fully died and I couldn't find a replacement.
Since not owning a smartphone had become more and more painful in small ways and I had to buy a new phone anyway, I decided to give in and give it a try. I bought a 64GB Moto G5s for $250 unlocked and got the cheapest smartphone plan Verizon offers (best coverage in my area) at $50 / mo.
I still barely use the smartphone capabilities, and have spent time changing things to increase the privacy from the (terrible) defaults, but overall it has been okay. Is it more expensive? Yes, but not quite as bad as I thought it would be. And there have been a few times when it's been handy to have Internet access (maps and Google) while away from my computer, though I still don't waste time with social media crap and will not install any apps that are ad-supported or have unacceptable device access requirements.
Did you even read that or watch the interview? Bill Maher is comparing the end of the republican campaign to the last days of Nazi Germany -- basically saying that they didn't realize or admit that they were going to lose until the very last days of the election. There is absolutely no comparison between Romney and Hitler in terms of personality, politics, ideals, or anything else.
Besides all that, Maher is a single comedian. He is hardly a consensus for "the Left". Try again.
Romney was an up-tight and out-of-touch sellout to the rich (pretty much the same as most Republican nominees), but "the Left" never called him the next Hitler. I dare you to find any kind of meaningful consensus that shows otherwise.
So they created a limited term for copyright term -- to prevent creative people from becoming too wealthy.
There is no innate right to copyright, perpetual or otherwise. For that matter there is also no innate right to own property. In both cases society has decided how we want to handle these things.
For physical things like property, it's pretty straightforward that only one person can control a rock, or a piece of land. We're limited by the laws of physics that prevent me from just making a perfect physical duplicate of your hotel that occupies the exact same physical space and renting rooms.
When it comes to copyright, there is no "thing" that is owned. Nothing prevents me from making a verbatim copy of a book, or a picture, or duplicating a collection of digital bits. It is solely a social construct that says "Billy is granted special exclusive rights for a limited time". It's not because Billy is special, or gifted, or even expected to do anything with it. In the US it is specifically "to encourage, by proper premiums & Provisions, the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries." A tit-for-tat.
But frankly, for the last 50 years it's been all tit and no tat. And not the good kind of tit.
But good lord if you find yourself at Panda and order steamed rice you should put serious thought into having yourself committed.
Actually, Panda is one of the best fast-food places I've found where you can get a pretty healthy meal. It's all about making the right choices (which requires menu nutrition info). For example:
Half side steamed brown rice: 200 kcal Half side steamed veggies: 40 kcal Broccoli beef: 160 kcal Mushroom chicken: 220 kcal
In all 620 kcal, 23g fat, 27g protein, 8g fiber and only 14g sugar. Sometimes I'll mix up the second entree with something a little heavier like the grilled chicken or steak, but that only adds around 100 kcal and is still completely reasonable. Sodium is the biggest offender, as with any fast food with the meal above being about 1600mg, basically 100% of daily recommended. Still, that's almost unavoidable eating any fast food.
There are folks you cannot reach despite all the evidence you can muster... nonetheless, please continue to provide that information for the folks you can.
Absolutely. A lack of information makes it impossible for anyone to make an informed decision whether they want to or not.
And obviously while putting calorie counts on menus won't prevent someone from ordering six Big Macs, I do think it can help people choose between two alternatives. As a random example, the fried rice at Panda Express has almost 40% more calories than steamed rice. So menu calorie info may not push someone away from Panda or from a side of rice, but it could easily make them consider getting steamed rice over fried.
I also think it has a positive effect on many restaurants (even if relatively small) to try and reduce fat and sugar in their food and undermines attempts to trick people into thinking something is a "healthy" option when it's really anything but.
I'm currently in the market for a new vehicle (my '95 sedan getting to the point of concerning reliability) and I've thought about doing this, but I'm not sure what to look for. Do you (or anyone else) have some suggestions about decent sedans from that timeframe? I'd appreciate any ideas, or anything to especially avoid.
And RTS is a dead genre since most games devolve into twitch fests with Actions per Minute being how you win.
To be fair, that is kind of the "real time" part of the name. There are still some good turn-based strategy games like Civilization out there where reaction time is irrelevant.
I don't know where you're getting "bigotry" from, and I can't imagine why you think a small effort to encourage underrepresented groups into a project is somehow worse than overwhelming systemic efforts to channel only a privileged minority into it.
Bigotry is probably the wrong word in both cases, but it absolutely is discriminatory. I doubt anyone really has a problem with someone trying to "encourage underrepresented groups", but the explicit requirements of the Outreachy project exclude large swaths of "gender-normal" (or whatever the PC term is) people.
Discrimination is still discrimination, whether it's against a minority or a majority.
overwhelming systemic efforts to channel only a privileged minority into it.
To make such an outlandish claim requires strong evidence.
That's a good point. I haven't actually ripped apart the lamp to look, but I'm guessing there's a cheap thermocouple attached to or nearby the screw-in socket. If so that would put the LED heatsink almost in direct contact with it.
Slashdot Mirror
Those, plus:
Classic Theme Restorer
LiveHTTPHeaders
Session Manager
Tab Mix Plus
Plus versions of NoScript, AdBlock+, Greasemonkey and Stylus (Stylish) with functionality and UI that's not hamstrung by WebExtensions limitations.
You need to look at CO2 emissions per $GDP at the very least
Emissions related to GDP is completely asinine when the topic is reducing climate change. "It's okay if we put ten times as much CO2 into the atmosphere because we made a SHIT TON of money doing it" is not a valid line of reasoning.
And emissions per capita are absolutely not meaningless. The population of a country is directly related to how many cars on on the road, how many houses need power, how many air conditioners are running 24/7, water treatment, sewage treatment, agriculture, etc, etc. If a country of 10 million is producing as much CO2 as a county of 100 million then clearly this is meaningful and worth trying to do something about it.
You might consider switching to DNS Watch. Instead of providing Google or Cloudflare all your DNS query data (they have fingers in plenty enough other places in my opinion), DNS Watch favors privacy, security, and anonymity.
Preffered DNS server: 84.200.69.80
Alternate DNS server: 84.200.70.40
This isn't something that large content publishers or hosting sites are going to address or change themselves. They don't really care how much data their page downloads, and the big ones like CNN don't even care how long the page takes to load. As long as they get their ad impressions, user profiling, and 27 different kinds of analytics then they're happy.
Individuals will need to take back control themselves. An adblocker and NoScript change CNN from a 30 second load to about 5 seconds. NoScript is the real champion, and yet it is so often maligned as "hard to use". The truth is that making sure the usual sites you visit work right takes just a few minutes, most sites work pretty well without scripts, and the vast majority work just fine if you enable first-party scripts only. And since it's the second and third (and fourth and fifth, ad infinitum) which load most of the garbage this is usually a good tradeoff.
What we really need (assuming it doesn't exist already?) is a curated whitelist for NoSciprt, like the subscription lists for AdBlock Plus. This would make the extension more user-friendly and allow a maximum level of functionality while still completely blocking a significant amount of unwanted and dangerous garbage.
Oh, and don't waste your time with a hosts file. It's completely useless in the age of dynamic DNS entries which appear and disappear on a daily or hourly basis.
You CAN say things they WILL pay attention to, though, if you're informed on the topic.
I might have believe this before the shitshow around net neutrality. In one fell swoop this Republican led FCC has shown it has no interest in consumers, their comments, or anything besides making their corporate masters wealthier.
I opened my first account with them (well, a bank they bought-out) 47 years ago, but even I'm considering moving to a new bank.
Why do you say it like this -- as if you owe a corporation some kind of loyalty? This quirk of psychology ("I've been with X for so long, I need to stick with them") is something that companies know about and take advantage of.
You don't owe Wells Fargo anything at all. Trust me, they certainly won't do anything special for you. As they've proven repeatedly over the last couple of years, you're just an account number and someone to take advantage of. I would strongly suggest looking for a local credit union to bank with. You might be surprised with how good they can be, but at the very least they won't be any worse than Wells Fargo.
In all of your examples, those people were spending their own money to try and achieve their goals -- and more power to them. However, Kickstarter is all about getting other people to spend their money.
This is the key difference and the reason that projects should be vetted before getting supported.
I doubt there will be any layoffs. AT&T announced at the meeting they don't have people to do the jobs and there wouldn't be layoffs.
Oh, you sweet summer child.
He said, in part: "It's going to be a tough year. It's going to be a lot of work to alter and change direction a little bit.
Company execs talk in code during big company meetings. This is code for "start looking for a new job".
I'm glad to see payment processors taking an active role in what they facilitate.
Oh, really? And how would you feel if your Visa card was declined because they felt that you should stop stuffing your obese face at McDonalds 4 times a week? And PayPal rejected your payment to your church fundraiser because they thought the group had too many extreme-right racist undertones for their liking?
Payment processors should allow any legal transactions without trying to be the Morality Police. This is also the problem when a few middlemen consolidate too much power and is another reason why anyone who values freedom or privacy should push back against "cashless" societies.
Perhaps we need some kind of "common carrier" laws for large payment processors. If Visa wants to control 70% of the credit card market then they must also allow any legal transaction between consenting parties or they are found in violation of common payment laws.
You can walk into libraries all over the world, pull a book off the shelf, and read it. Nobody maintains it; it just sits there. Some things work that way.
Just think of the lost opportunities!!
Why, with just 2 months and $200,000 we could start modernizing these "books" so that they use a proper 1px razor-thin font, a 20% contrast ratio, and nice 30% transparent pages. Another 4 months and $400k and we can upgrade them to require batteries and use AI to replace all those long paragraphs with summaries. And lastly, in just 1 year and a million dollars, we can add encryption, fingerprint readers, dynamic advertising, and pay-per-chapter so that only people with an active subscription or make use of the freemium model can read them!
Books-as-a-Service with nice modern UX, targeted advertising based on book genre, and microtransactions. Let's get started! Now, who will fund us?
Agreed, though I think BSG redeemed itself a little bit during the mid-fourth season with the trial of Baltar and some other stories.
The real problem is that Ron Moore just doesn't know how to wind down and end a TV series. You can see the exact same problems with Deep Space Nine -- a great show that floundered at the end and also ended up going down the religion rabbit hole.
What on earth makes you think the Republicans control Trump?
Trump might spasm around a bit on the Republican talking points and agenda, but at the end of the day he knows that without Congress's backing he won't actually get anything done (except a disturbing number of inappropriate and celebrity pardons). He's also no doubt been told that congressional mid-terms are just around the corner and if his party loses many seats in the house or senate then he's pretty much screwed.
Trump might be singing off-key and marching like a drunkard, but he's still singing and dancing to the Repub theme song.
Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with Quality of Service, and you know it. Stop beating on this strawman -- it just makes you look like an astroturfing assclown.
Phantom Menace was just a terrible movie overall.
The Phantom Menace was a slow and boring movie with an overall story that barely held together. It was the least offensive movie of the prequels, but certainly was the most boring.
The Last Jedi was an objectively terrible movie with a bad story that was internally inconsistent and utterly incongruous. Truly, TLJ has absolutely no redeeming qualities.
I was 100% in the same boat as you, up until about 4 months ago. I had an ancient feature phone with a $20/mo unlimited minutes plan and was pretty happy... until the battery fully died and I couldn't find a replacement.
Since not owning a smartphone had become more and more painful in small ways and I had to buy a new phone anyway, I decided to give in and give it a try. I bought a 64GB Moto G5s for $250 unlocked and got the cheapest smartphone plan Verizon offers (best coverage in my area) at $50 / mo.
I still barely use the smartphone capabilities, and have spent time changing things to increase the privacy from the (terrible) defaults, but overall it has been okay. Is it more expensive? Yes, but not quite as bad as I thought it would be. And there have been a few times when it's been handy to have Internet access (maps and Google) while away from my computer, though I still don't waste time with social media crap and will not install any apps that are ad-supported or have unacceptable device access requirements.
Just something to think about.
Bill Maher comparing the Romeny campaign to the last days of Nazi Germany? http://thehill.com/video/campa...
Did you even read that or watch the interview? Bill Maher is comparing the end of the republican campaign to the last days of Nazi Germany -- basically saying that they didn't realize or admit that they were going to lose until the very last days of the election. There is absolutely no comparison between Romney and Hitler in terms of personality, politics, ideals, or anything else.
Besides all that, Maher is a single comedian. He is hardly a consensus for "the Left". Try again.
Romney was an up-tight and out-of-touch sellout to the rich (pretty much the same as most Republican nominees), but "the Left" never called him the next Hitler. I dare you to find any kind of meaningful consensus that shows otherwise.
So they created a limited term for copyright term -- to prevent creative people from becoming too wealthy.
There is no innate right to copyright, perpetual or otherwise. For that matter there is also no innate right to own property. In both cases society has decided how we want to handle these things.
For physical things like property, it's pretty straightforward that only one person can control a rock, or a piece of land. We're limited by the laws of physics that prevent me from just making a perfect physical duplicate of your hotel that occupies the exact same physical space and renting rooms.
When it comes to copyright, there is no "thing" that is owned. Nothing prevents me from making a verbatim copy of a book, or a picture, or duplicating a collection of digital bits. It is solely a social construct that says "Billy is granted special exclusive rights for a limited time". It's not because Billy is special, or gifted, or even expected to do anything with it. In the US it is specifically "to encourage, by proper premiums & Provisions, the advancement of useful knowledge and discoveries." A tit-for-tat.
But frankly, for the last 50 years it's been all tit and no tat. And not the good kind of tit.
And the large pharmaceutical companies are delighted to hear that you've swallowed this massive lie -- hook, line, and sinker.
- Most drugs are developed in cooperation with universities, often with the assistance of taxpayer-funded research.
- Pharmaceuticals are making record net profits.
- The largest expenditure for pharmaceutical companies is advertising and bribing^W explaining to doctors why they should over-prescribe their drugs.
- The government is legally not allowed to negotiate prices for Medicare and Medicaid and must basically pay list price.
But you go on blaming those poor Central Americans stealing our drugs for the absurd prices here in the grand old USA.
But good lord if you find yourself at Panda and order steamed rice you should put serious thought into having yourself committed.
Actually, Panda is one of the best fast-food places I've found where you can get a pretty healthy meal. It's all about making the right choices (which requires menu nutrition info). For example:
Half side steamed brown rice: 200 kcal
Half side steamed veggies: 40 kcal
Broccoli beef: 160 kcal
Mushroom chicken: 220 kcal
In all 620 kcal, 23g fat, 27g protein, 8g fiber and only 14g sugar. Sometimes I'll mix up the second entree with something a little heavier like the grilled chicken or steak, but that only adds around 100 kcal and is still completely reasonable. Sodium is the biggest offender, as with any fast food with the meal above being about 1600mg, basically 100% of daily recommended. Still, that's almost unavoidable eating any fast food.
There are folks you cannot reach despite all the evidence you can muster... nonetheless, please continue to provide that information for the folks you can.
Absolutely. A lack of information makes it impossible for anyone to make an informed decision whether they want to or not.
And obviously while putting calorie counts on menus won't prevent someone from ordering six Big Macs, I do think it can help people choose between two alternatives. As a random example, the fried rice at Panda Express has almost 40% more calories than steamed rice. So menu calorie info may not push someone away from Panda or from a side of rice, but it could easily make them consider getting steamed rice over fried.
I also think it has a positive effect on many restaurants (even if relatively small) to try and reduce fat and sugar in their food and undermines attempts to trick people into thinking something is a "healthy" option when it's really anything but.
I'm currently in the market for a new vehicle (my '95 sedan getting to the point of concerning reliability) and I've thought about doing this, but I'm not sure what to look for. Do you (or anyone else) have some suggestions about decent sedans from that timeframe? I'd appreciate any ideas, or anything to especially avoid.
And RTS is a dead genre since most games devolve into twitch fests with Actions per Minute being how you win.
To be fair, that is kind of the "real time" part of the name. There are still some good turn-based strategy games like Civilization out there where reaction time is irrelevant.
I don't know where you're getting "bigotry" from, and I can't imagine why you think a small effort to encourage underrepresented groups into a project is somehow worse than overwhelming systemic efforts to channel only a privileged minority into it.
Bigotry is probably the wrong word in both cases, but it absolutely is discriminatory. I doubt anyone really has a problem with someone trying to "encourage underrepresented groups", but the explicit requirements of the Outreachy project exclude large swaths of "gender-normal" (or whatever the PC term is) people.
Discrimination is still discrimination, whether it's against a minority or a majority.
overwhelming systemic efforts to channel only a privileged minority into it.
To make such an outlandish claim requires strong evidence.
That's a good point. I haven't actually ripped apart the lamp to look, but I'm guessing there's a cheap thermocouple attached to or nearby the screw-in socket. If so that would put the LED heatsink almost in direct contact with it.