Recycling absolutely helps the environment. The fact that things happen like what's mentioned in the article says something about externalities and other market failures, rather than serving as an indictment of recycling per se.
I think that as more 'digital natives' run for political office, this will improve. In the Senate at least, many of the members are older and have probably never sent an email in their lives. As those people die off and get replaced, people who are more comfortable with modern technology will fill the vacancies. I doubt Orrin Hatch, for example, knows how to operate anything more complicated than an IBM Selectric -- even then, he'd have some gal type up his documents and fetch his coffee for him, too.
How do you feel about the above three compared to Signal? That's what I use, and would be willing to switch to something else if there's a compelling reason.
Bullshit. I have a 2005-vintage Pentium D box with 1GB of RAM running the latest copy of Linux Mint (xfce as desktop environment) and it absolutely flies. Granted, as a NetBurst machine it consumes quite a bit of power and serves as a pretty effective space-heater, but try running anything newer than Windows XP on such hardware -- I bet the fucking thing would take at least five minutes to boot to a barely usable desktop. However, with Linux on there, I can actually do some productive work on it if I so choose, and have the benefit of a recent OS release with modern features and security.
When I was a young kid (early- to mid-1980's), computing filled me with a sense of wonder and awe. It seemed like a wide-open frontier, with infinite delights to discover. The field has become so brazenly commercial and profit-driven, with few if any genuine life-changing applications (as opposed to a trivial and frivolous kabuki theatre of bread-and-circuses 'apps') that I now look upon it as a way to pay the bills and not much more. I keep waiting for something to reignite the fire in my belly, so far in vain. I am coming more and more to the conclusion that my choosing computers as a hobby was merely arbitrary, and that the sense of wonder and awe is unique to childhood and something that can never be recaptured for the rest of my life.:(
I pay for my domain name, host all data on my server and back the server content encrypted to my home machine and to a friend of mine home machine.
Unlike the child posters, I'll refrain from being an AC. If your process could be made derp-proof, I'd be all for it. Unfortunately, few non-geeks have the acumen to implement such a backup plan. The Cloud(tm) remains the only practical solution for most.
but not because it has anything to do with actual conservative ideology.
Actually, there are those in the Republican party who view environmentalism as a New Age, satanic cult. They equate it to a worship of Mother Earth, and therefore view it as inherently evil and unGodly.
...is to take humans completely out of the workflow. As long as you have a meat-puppet touching any part of it, rest assured s/he will print something.
either it is sent to a landfill to be used as cover
As less and less waste goes to landfill, there will be correspondingly less need for sources of 'cover'. This new process can provide an alternative use for all that sludge.
it goes through additional sterilization and is used as fertilizer on farms or is sold as fertilizer at retail.
Then in this sense the new process is neutral as regards the energy required to sterilise the sludge. If it's used as a fuel source, it doesn't need to be made sterile. Plus, many, many people have problems with the use of sewage sludge on their fruits and veggies. Besides the diseases, another problem is that sludge contains the byproducts of all the pharmaceuticals that get defecated or poured down the pipes. These drugs and their metabolites have unknown effects on the crops themselves. That problem goes away, as well.
If they can find a way to supply the energy required for pressurisation and refinement by using wind and/or solar, then the process could act as a 'battery' of sorts to smooth out supply/demand imbalances in the grid.
yet all that meddling has led to a society where many black families are even worse off than if government had not first enabled and then "reformed" all that racism in the first place.
Blame the Nixon-era War on Drugs for the destruction of black family life. By incarcerating large swathes of young black men and forcing mothers to be sole income earners, black children grow up impoverished and lacking a paternal influence in their lives. They grow up to repeat the vicious cycle. No single thing has done more to erase decades of minorities' economic and social progress than the WoD. It's the new Jim Crow.
Hopefully these exemptions will open the door to further challenges in court. As more and more people see the ludicrous degree to which the deck is stacked against consumers and the general welfare, things will slowly change through legal precedents and changed laws. One of the effects of this presidential election is that a majority of people realise the emperor has no clothes -- the lies (i.e., the Washington Consensus signed onto by both political parties) they've had shoved down their throats for decades no longer taste so good and are being expurgated. Let's cross our fingers that the issue referenced in the story is one addressed by more citizen vigilance and knowledge.
One problem is that Rachel from Card Member Services and other such scams are often run from boiler-room operations in Caribbean countries with lax laws and governments without much incentive to co-operate with US authorities. A start in solving the problem would be to outlaw Caller ID spoofing unless you are a law enforcement officer, skip-tracer, private investigator, or other such legitimate party -- and the use of such even by these actors should be strictly defined in statutes. One such provision should be the requirement for these legitimate parties to provide the proper paperwork to prove their need to avail themselves of spoofing. As it stands now, anyone can spoof Caller ID with few to no repercussions. This could be enforced technically by sunsetting SS7 and universally adopting Diameter in its stead (as some mobile operators, but not yet landline telcos, are starting to do).
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Recycling absolutely helps the environment. The fact that things happen like what's mentioned in the article says something about externalities and other market failures, rather than serving as an indictment of recycling per se.
I think that as more 'digital natives' run for political office, this will improve. In the Senate at least, many of the members are older and have probably never sent an email in their lives. As those people die off and get replaced, people who are more comfortable with modern technology will fill the vacancies. I doubt Orrin Hatch, for example, knows how to operate anything more complicated than an IBM Selectric -- even then, he'd have some gal type up his documents and fetch his coffee for him, too.
FOADIAF.
Wow, he even looks like a DoucheBro.
This is a serious question and not a troll.
How do you feel about the above three compared to Signal? That's what I use, and would be willing to switch to something else if there's a compelling reason.
I'm betting you're significantly more educated and informed than the average rural resident. That makes a huge difference. You're an outlier.
Bullshit. I have a 2005-vintage Pentium D box with 1GB of RAM running the latest copy of Linux Mint (xfce as desktop environment) and it absolutely flies. Granted, as a NetBurst machine it consumes quite a bit of power and serves as a pretty effective space-heater, but try running anything newer than Windows XP on such hardware -- I bet the fucking thing would take at least five minutes to boot to a barely usable desktop. However, with Linux on there, I can actually do some productive work on it if I so choose, and have the benefit of a recent OS release with modern features and security.
When I was a young kid (early- to mid-1980's), computing filled me with a sense of wonder and awe. It seemed like a wide-open frontier, with infinite delights to discover. The field has become so brazenly commercial and profit-driven, with few if any genuine life-changing applications (as opposed to a trivial and frivolous kabuki theatre of bread-and-circuses 'apps') that I now look upon it as a way to pay the bills and not much more. I keep waiting for something to reignite the fire in my belly, so far in vain. I am coming more and more to the conclusion that my choosing computers as a hobby was merely arbitrary, and that the sense of wonder and awe is unique to childhood and something that can never be recaptured for the rest of my life. :(
You get an F for reading comprehension. Ignorant twat.
roman_mir is Ayn Rand's Poltergeist, destined to plague /. for ever. Where's Steven Freeling when we need him?
Correct. The lax antitrust environment probably started with the Powell Memorandum.
I pay for my domain name, host all data on my server and back the server content encrypted to my home machine and to a friend of mine home machine.
Unlike the child posters, I'll refrain from being an AC. If your process could be made derp-proof, I'd be all for it. Unfortunately, few non-geeks have the acumen to implement such a backup plan. The Cloud(tm) remains the only practical solution for most.
Or you could get a combo, but select unsweetened tea as the beverage and ask them to hold the salt on your fries...
Sounds like a perfect application for the Interplanetary File System.
Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.
but not because it has anything to do with actual conservative ideology.
Actually, there are those in the Republican party who view environmentalism as a New Age, satanic cult. They equate it to a worship of Mother Earth, and therefore view it as inherently evil and unGodly.
Princess Lay Ya at weekends.
Precisely my point. The 'paperless' office will never exist.
To you, maybe. I stand by my earlier statement.
...is to take humans completely out of the workflow. As long as you have a meat-puppet touching any part of it, rest assured s/he will print something.
They may not see eye-to-eye on economic issues, but they are largely in agreement about social ones.
either it is sent to a landfill to be used as cover
As less and less waste goes to landfill, there will be correspondingly less need for sources of 'cover'. This new process can provide an alternative use for all that sludge.
it goes through additional sterilization and is used as fertilizer on farms or is sold as fertilizer at retail.
Then in this sense the new process is neutral as regards the energy required to sterilise the sludge. If it's used as a fuel source, it doesn't need to be made sterile. Plus, many, many people have problems with the use of sewage sludge on their fruits and veggies. Besides the diseases, another problem is that sludge contains the byproducts of all the pharmaceuticals that get defecated or poured down the pipes. These drugs and their metabolites have unknown effects on the crops themselves. That problem goes away, as well.
If they can find a way to supply the energy required for pressurisation and refinement by using wind and/or solar, then the process could act as a 'battery' of sorts to smooth out supply/demand imbalances in the grid.
yet all that meddling has led to a society where many black families are even worse off than if government had not first enabled and then "reformed" all that racism in the first place.
Blame the Nixon-era War on Drugs for the destruction of black family life. By incarcerating large swathes of young black men and forcing mothers to be sole income earners, black children grow up impoverished and lacking a paternal influence in their lives. They grow up to repeat the vicious cycle. No single thing has done more to erase decades of minorities' economic and social progress than the WoD. It's the new Jim Crow.
Hopefully these exemptions will open the door to further challenges in court. As more and more people see the ludicrous degree to which the deck is stacked against consumers and the general welfare, things will slowly change through legal precedents and changed laws. One of the effects of this presidential election is that a majority of people realise the emperor has no clothes -- the lies (i.e., the Washington Consensus signed onto by both political parties) they've had shoved down their throats for decades no longer taste so good and are being expurgated. Let's cross our fingers that the issue referenced in the story is one addressed by more citizen vigilance and knowledge.
One problem is that Rachel from Card Member Services and other such scams are often run from boiler-room operations in Caribbean countries with lax laws and governments without much incentive to co-operate with US authorities. A start in solving the problem would be to outlaw Caller ID spoofing unless you are a law enforcement officer, skip-tracer, private investigator, or other such legitimate party -- and the use of such even by these actors should be strictly defined in statutes. One such provision should be the requirement for these legitimate parties to provide the proper paperwork to prove their need to avail themselves of spoofing. As it stands now, anyone can spoof Caller ID with few to no repercussions. This could be enforced technically by sunsetting SS7 and universally adopting Diameter in its stead (as some mobile operators, but not yet landline telcos, are starting to do).