Obviously we do. Is there some magical threshold of people calling out wrongdoings that would be sufficient for you?
I hate how ambiguous this kind of assertion is. As if there was some unspecified "they" keeping us from discussing it. I've been called an anti-semite for condemning this kind of bombing before, but that just represents one more thing that particular person was wrong about.
You have to accept, as a critic of Israel, that some people who agree with you about their human rights violations will have shades of actual anti-antisemitism in their statements.
Whether they intend it or not varies, but it's definitely there sometimes. People have a hard time separating nationality, race, religion, and government in their heads. We're a primitive species, and it happens.
You've made the conflation of "Israelis" and "Israel", for example, while Israelis do vote for the government they have, many(not enough though) vote for people who don't want to perpetuate the cycle of violence.
Not that I approve of Israel's bombing of their own citizens(who happen to not have the right to free travel, economic independence, the vote, or other important aspects we might consider important to a self-declared modern liberal democracy).
But it would be silly to think that only Israel is making enemies pointlessly, as far as middle east politics is concerned.
Depending on just how freshwater is distributed in Gaza, and the infrastructure demands it has, this could mean a lot more heat exhaustion, and water-borne infection related deaths.
Even a smallish percentage of people being affected is a huge number of people dying in a high temperature densely packed urban environment.
Well then write a paper called "an improved single metric for video compression" and submit it to a compsci journal. Anyone can dump opinions on slashdot comments, but if you're right, then you can get it in writing that you're right.
Have you seriously considered patenting this concept?
I mean, if you're an anti-patent revolutionary(or think it's obvious) then the reason to patent it would be to license freely to others instead of when someone else tries to patent it.
There is no reason to believe this concept is actually too difficult to implement on any level. You'd just need to devise a road safe linking system, and diagram it out, and that would take at most a matter of days for anyone who's done technical drawing before.
The problem, as I'm trying to make clear, isn't the absolute value of an electric car. It's an amazing thing. The problem is that people naturally will compare things to what they personally have at their disposal now. And when one attribute comes up short, it's human nature to reflect on that shortcoming, and how much it will cost you.
I mean, I personally would take the: simpler maintenance , quieter running, lack of gas station trips in "normal usage", lower running costs, and lower environmental externalities as more than enough to make up for it for me.
Let's be reasonable here. Everyone takes long trips sometimes. Now there's definitely an 80/20 problem, where that long trip 20% of miles becomes an inordinate source of range anxiety, and taking a half hour break every 3-4 hours isn't too much to ask I think.
Unfortunately, we have to convince people that it's a net positive for them, not that it's "not too much to ask". And it's not, unless you count the benefits from every other driver also going electric.
We got the idea with the Hercules that you could resupply military fleets or save fuel with launch your cargo ship into the air if time became an issue(because of the war). It was misguided, but at least a reason for the amphibious design.
Why are they building giant amphibious cargo planes today? Who has that need?
I'm not sure you understand what "vaporware" actually means. The fact that there are prototypes that you can pick up in your hands, try out, an purchase as an interested developer already sets it pretty far apart.
And DK2 has been out, what, a couple months? Virtually every production line of consumer electronics goes through, at minimum, a year between versions. Bigger companies with longer histories and larger staffs tend to sometimes have multiple similar lines going at once, but still run up against that limit within any given one.
When they get sufficient consumer feedback from this beta version to identify what still needs to change to appeal to the average consumer, go through several internal iterations and they implement those changes in prototypes, and ramp up mass-production, determine sales methods, and actually ship the things?
Roll eyes and move on. I'm sorry you don't know how nuclear power plants work, nor how solar flares cause damage, but get with the program, son.
Critical electrical components in nuclear power plants are more than sufficiently shielded from electrical spikes, and EMPs don't cause magical explosions. Nor, if a melt down were somehow to occur, an explosion an expected outcome.
The question becomes: how many people would die unnecessarily before we could recover, and how much of our annual GDP would it cost to perform the recovery?
Someone in the US energy department, at the very least, almost certainly has rough estimates of those questions, don't you think?
And, when, as is the case in North Carolina, those scumbags have gerrymandered both parties into "safe" districts, with the party most responsible having over 50% of the state as such?
What then?
Protest at the capital where they arrest hundreds of people on trumped up charges? Become a violent revolutionary over a tiny infrastructure debate?
Yeah, way to go Kimberly, you got petty revenge on people paying your employer, costing your company a small fortune in payoffs, and still likely losing them dozens of long-term customers, and almost certainly getting fired.
They have big all-in-one installer.exes that setup a full environment for the games.
A great many are run through dosbox, but others are old win95 games or whatever.
We're talking about a month-long project for a couple developers to convert the low hanging fruit that have an easy deployment target like that. And working out details with more modern indie game studios that natively target linux.
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Obviously we do. Is there some magical threshold of people calling out wrongdoings that would be sufficient for you?
I hate how ambiguous this kind of assertion is. As if there was some unspecified "they" keeping us from discussing it. I've been called an anti-semite for condemning this kind of bombing before, but that just represents one more thing that particular person was wrong about.
You have to accept, as a critic of Israel, that some people who agree with you about their human rights violations will have shades of actual anti-antisemitism in their statements.
Whether they intend it or not varies, but it's definitely there sometimes. People have a hard time separating nationality, race, religion, and government in their heads. We're a primitive species, and it happens.
You've made the conflation of "Israelis" and "Israel", for example, while Israelis do vote for the government they have, many(not enough though) vote for people who don't want to perpetuate the cycle of violence.
In a word: no. Terrorism is almost definitionally non-government organizations engaged in violence to effect political change.
When governments do it, we call it various other things based on our own perspective of the situation: war, policing, tyranny, among others.
Not that I approve of Israel's bombing of their own citizens(who happen to not have the right to free travel, economic independence, the vote, or other important aspects we might consider important to a self-declared modern liberal democracy).
But it would be silly to think that only Israel is making enemies pointlessly, as far as middle east politics is concerned.
Depending on just how freshwater is distributed in Gaza, and the infrastructure demands it has, this could mean a lot more heat exhaustion, and water-borne infection related deaths.
Even a smallish percentage of people being affected is a huge number of people dying in a high temperature densely packed urban environment.
Well then write a paper called "an improved single metric for video compression" and submit it to a compsci journal. Anyone can dump opinions on slashdot comments, but if you're right, then you can get it in writing that you're right.
Have you seriously considered patenting this concept?
I mean, if you're an anti-patent revolutionary(or think it's obvious) then the reason to patent it would be to license freely to others instead of when someone else tries to patent it.
There is no reason to believe this concept is actually too difficult to implement on any level. You'd just need to devise a road safe linking system, and diagram it out, and that would take at most a matter of days for anyone who's done technical drawing before.
(Score:-1, was it really that hard a joke to get?)
Well, it sure was called misguided in its era. Fraudulent, even. But I understand the motivation.
Of course I know that.
The problem, as I'm trying to make clear, isn't the absolute value of an electric car. It's an amazing thing. The problem is that people naturally will compare things to what they personally have at their disposal now. And when one attribute comes up short, it's human nature to reflect on that shortcoming, and how much it will cost you.
I mean, I personally would take the: simpler maintenance , quieter running, lack of gas station trips in "normal usage", lower running costs, and lower environmental externalities as more than enough to make up for it for me.
But others won't.
Look, slashdotters are terrified of change. If you don't like that, go somewhere else.
Except that's changing things, so please don't; it's too scary.
Easiest DDOS ever: install a worm that makes the targeted site take part in a DDOS, and get disconnected as a security measure.
Let's be reasonable here. Everyone takes long trips sometimes. Now there's definitely an 80/20 problem, where that long trip 20% of miles becomes an inordinate source of range anxiety, and taking a half hour break every 3-4 hours isn't too much to ask I think.
Unfortunately, we have to convince people that it's a net positive for them, not that it's "not too much to ask". And it's not, unless you count the benefits from every other driver also going electric.
We got the idea with the Hercules that you could resupply military fleets or save fuel with launch your cargo ship into the air if time became an issue(because of the war). It was misguided, but at least a reason for the amphibious design.
Why are they building giant amphibious cargo planes today? Who has that need?
I'm not sure you understand what "vaporware" actually means. The fact that there are prototypes that you can pick up in your hands, try out, an purchase as an interested developer already sets it pretty far apart.
And DK2 has been out, what, a couple months? Virtually every production line of consumer electronics goes through, at minimum, a year between versions. Bigger companies with longer histories and larger staffs tend to sometimes have multiple similar lines going at once, but still run up against that limit within any given one.
When they get sufficient consumer feedback from this beta version to identify what still needs to change to appeal to the average consumer, go through several internal iterations and they implement those changes in prototypes, and ramp up mass-production, determine sales methods, and actually ship the things?
What? It's not as simple as taking a shit? Oh my.
People do vote with the party. Or at least enough people do to establish broken democracies.
What they're doing is using data mining to locate biometric readings that aren't frequently followed by a negative health event.
Obviously those metrics will vary a bit on gender, age, and other "healthy" factors that nonetheless influence health.
Not to worry, spam ads aren't going anywhere. We just get targeted and spammed. Isn't the 21st century wonderful?
Roll eyes and move on. I'm sorry you don't know how nuclear power plants work, nor how solar flares cause damage, but get with the program, son.
Critical electrical components in nuclear power plants are more than sufficiently shielded from electrical spikes, and EMPs don't cause magical explosions. Nor, if a melt down were somehow to occur, an explosion an expected outcome.
The question becomes: how many people would die unnecessarily before we could recover, and how much of our annual GDP would it cost to perform the recovery?
Someone in the US energy department, at the very least, almost certainly has rough estimates of those questions, don't you think?
And, when, as is the case in North Carolina, those scumbags have gerrymandered both parties into "safe" districts, with the party most responsible having over 50% of the state as such?
What then?
Protest at the capital where they arrest hundreds of people on trumped up charges? Become a violent revolutionary over a tiny infrastructure debate?
Yeah, way to go Kimberly, you got petty revenge on people paying your employer, costing your company a small fortune in payoffs, and still likely losing them dozens of long-term customers, and almost certainly getting fired.
Good job, Kimberly!
I learned in school that almost 50% of software projects fail to deliver at all.
It's a little more complicated than that.
They have big all-in-one installer .exes that setup a full environment for the games.
A great many are run through dosbox, but others are old win95 games or whatever.
We're talking about a month-long project for a couple developers to convert the low hanging fruit that have an easy deployment target like that. And working out details with more modern indie game studios that natively target linux.