Hardly liberal. If you think that most conservatives like Mr. Limbaugh you live in an especially special place.
No, frakking isn't going to help much of anything except give us a few years before fossil fuel costs really go through the roof. It's not going to help unload the excess carbon from the environment. Natural gas is only marginally 'greener' than coal. Not enough to matter.
Nuclear power is another subject. IF we could do it correctly (better siting, upgrading, monitoring and decomissioning of plants as well as some sort of half reasonable way to deal with waste) it would be fine. Since we seem to be doing none of those things and since even solar and wind are cost comparable to nucs, it's not much of an answer, IMHO.
Kyoto was a bad political joke and had little to do with slowing global warming. It was simply a test of political will and as such, failed.
And yes, if humans, especially those in a 'leadership' position did something other than try to outrace the next guy in terms of carbon consumption it might help. However, the real problem is the several billion people trying to work their way up from dismal poverty to something better and scooping up all sorts of resources in the process. Can't say I blame them, but it is causing enormous, intractable problems.
All in all, Homo Industrialis won't deal with this problem very well. But it will get dealt with. It's just going to be ugly, protracted and scary.
Left up to some US state legislators, they'd probably try.
Look you loons, the climate IS changing, humans ARE pushing the carrying capacity of the planet, things ARE going to come to a head. Most likely in the lifetimes of some of the younger Slashdotters or at longest, their progeny (assuming a few will, like the original land dwelling animals, crawl out of the swamp and reproduce).
Details left as an exercise for the student or their favorite dystopian author.
The only chance (and it's a damned small one) of getting the various political entities motivated to actually do something is for major shifts to happen in a time frame so obvious that even Rush Limbaugh can figure out there is an issue. If the Arctic weather system collapses, pushes the jet stream away and lets Europe freeze... Damn it again. That'll just confuse them even more. We're doomed.
He liked Chinese, He liked their tiny little trees, Their yen, their ping-pong, their yin and yangese....
(I'll shut up now but for what I recall having met him at a single, wine fueled dinner, he liked Oriental cultures and people. He sided with Shockley / Jensen about the genetic nature of intelligence but wasn't seemingly all that wound up about it. You may be confusing Crick with James Watson who was openly and shockingly racist and got tossed off the lecture circuit and out of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.)
The problem with that is your passwords (hopefully) change occasionally which means you have to pester the lawyer / solicitor / brother / turtle (they live a long time) constantly and what's worse, you have to remember to tell them. A better method is a password safe like 1Password or KeePass. Then you only have one password to change. Furthermore, with at least 1Password, you have an encrypted file of lots of other useful legal bits, your SSN, bank account numbers, etc. Of course, that makes for one stop shopping for Mr. Nefarious so as usual you have to balance security with usability.
However, this doesn't address your online presence which for many people seems more important than their real lives. Thus, you need a mechanism that you can deal with all of those posts / blogs and nasty pictures that have littered your digital life. This is just a small step in some direction. I guess it's positive.
Interestingly, people who use paid-for services don't have this problem as much. If I still have my vanity website when I kick over, the first month that the ISP fails to get it's payment, it gets knocked off line. I don't have anything on my Google account except for a couple of Google maps tracks - they can stay there for all eternity as far as I'm concerned. Anything important and / or compromising on my personal drives is encrypted and the password goes away whenever I do. Anything that is important to my estate is in 1Password and my wife and lawyer and brother have the master password for that.
I live in Wisconsin, which is also acquainted with the cold. I have two of these CFL spots in a motion detector on my garage They work just fine, and have done so for at least 2 winters.
Not surprising. If you are a typical Slashdotter, nobody comes around your house so the motion detector never fires and they lights just sit there.
Have you actually tested them with a live human recently?
But eating a liver will. Polar bear and seal liver is high in Vitamins C, D and A.
yummm. Liver.
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Every once in a while, you hear of some local government or some NGO sponsoring an expensive piece of equipment for a hospital, then even with judicious use the hospital runs out of the yearly cap by May, making that equipment gather dust.
While here in good ol free market USA, virtually all our major equipment in our small rural hospital has been purchased by funds from various NGOs because we don't have the right mix of patients to make money off the bizarre US system. To add insult to injury to 'the best medical system in the world', we have increasing problems with drug unavailability. Nothing like a lack of sterile saline solution to kick your medicine back a couple hundred years.
The US system is failing on so many levels that it's pretty embarrassing.
Have you ever stopped to consider that human relationships are complicated? People write books about this sort of thing. Plays and movies even. Tears are shed, bottles of booze drank and broken. Wars started. Wars ended.
It's time to stop pretending all this is going to work. If anyone in the world wants software or hardware it's pretty easy to get it.
It works as well as expected. It slows things down but doesn't pretend stop the flow of information completely. Nobody except the black and white brigade thinks otherwise. Slowing your enemy down is a useful strategic goal. And, in this case, Russia and China are enemies in the great game.
And lots of things aren't 'easy' to get. You might get the part. You won't get much support. And in complex tech, support is often a deal breaker.
Not to be snarky at all, but a subscription to Science is well worth it for the summary articles and overviews (assuming you're into that sort of thing). It's a refreshing change from the ten line garbled summaries you find elsewhere.
Of course, that doesn't answer the problem of having a paywalled article as reference to a thread. It's not like people would read it, but we must keep up with appearances.
That;s a lovely boat. It's a work boat, not a pagoda on a glass brick like some other luxury yachts we've dissected. It might even weather a real storm in a real ocean as opposed to sinking at the dock as soon as the tide turned.
He should donate to a real oceanography group, Scripps, Texas A&M, hell, NOAA could probably use it.
Or, if he will simply transfer the title to me, I'll pay for the moorage and start buying lottery tickets to put fuel in the thing. Maybe a kickstarter project....
Not so fast Charley. Yes, you've 'lost' quite a bit of sunk expense but there are still enormous real dollars that will have to be spent to keep those useless birds fed, flying and fixed. If you were really worried about that, you could put the planes in a long term development mode (where they belong anyway) and keep iterating the things until we have a need to such an advanced weapon. Drop out 90% of funds and make Lockheed Martin actually work for a living. Despite all the scary talk, China hasn't moved the ball very far and the Russians can barely keep what they've got flying. We can probably counter the North Vietnamese threat with a dozen Cessna 172s and a bunch of model planes. Same with Iran except we could just use the model planes to counter their model planes.
And just because the Constitution doesn't say something, it doesn't mean that we can or can't do it. It's not an operations manual. The founding fathers expected us to think for ourselves from time to time.
If there's one thing I have learned from reading the Harvard Business Review is that to build a successful company your management structure needs to be flexible yet strict, specific and diverse, your company needs to have a flat organisational chart with few managers, it needs many levels of management to keep it under control. You need to keep your employees happy by letting them think for themselves, and you need to control their every movement and thought throughout the day. You need to diversify and yet focus on your core competencies.
You are on to something there but I'm pretty sure that you need a couple more buzzwords to be really accurate.
Problem is if you go out for longer periods of time you have enormous problems with reporting errors and definitions of incidence and prevalence. We are much better at diagnosing cancers earlier - that can look like an increased incidence. We have different screening and reporting criteria that change the definition of cancers.
So it's difficult to make quantitative assessments of cancer incidence and prevalence over interesting periods of time, like 50 to 100 years, that might speak to long term environmental changes or changes in behavior (no jet flights 100 years ago, no McDonalds, no High Fructose Corn Syrup, etc.).
Well, your impression isn't exactly concordant with the facts (it's complicated):
Between 2000 and 2009, overall cancer incidence rates decreased by 0.6 percent per year among men, were stable among women, and increased by 0.6 percent per year among children (ages 0 to 14 years). During that time period, incidence rates among men decreased for five of the 17 most common cancers (prostate, lung, colon and rectum, stomach, and larynx) and increased for six others (kidney, pancreas, liver, thyroid, melanoma of the skin, and myeloma). Among women, incidence rates decreased for seven of the 18 most common cancers (lung, colon and rectum, bladder, cervix, oral cavity and pharynx, ovary, and stomach), and increased for seven others (thyroid, melanoma of the skin, kidney, pancreas, leukemia, liver, and uterus). Incidence rates were stable for the other top 17 cancers, including breast cancer in women and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men and women.
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Hardly liberal. If you think that most conservatives like Mr. Limbaugh you live in an especially special place.
No, frakking isn't going to help much of anything except give us a few years before fossil fuel costs really go through the roof. It's not going to help unload the excess carbon from the environment. Natural gas is only marginally 'greener' than coal. Not enough to matter.
Nuclear power is another subject. IF we could do it correctly (better siting, upgrading, monitoring and decomissioning of plants as well as some sort of half reasonable way to deal with waste) it would be fine. Since we seem to be doing none of those things and since even solar and wind are cost comparable to nucs, it's not much of an answer, IMHO.
Kyoto was a bad political joke and had little to do with slowing global warming. It was simply a test of political will and as such, failed.
And yes, if humans, especially those in a 'leadership' position did something other than try to outrace the next guy in terms of carbon consumption it might help. However, the real problem is the several billion people trying to work their way up from dismal poverty to something better and scooping up all sorts of resources in the process. Can't say I blame them, but it is causing enormous, intractable problems.
All in all, Homo Industrialis won't deal with this problem very well. But it will get dealt with. It's just going to be ugly, protracted and scary.
Boy this was hard.
Or even harder
Left up to some US state legislators, they'd probably try.
Look you loons, the climate IS changing, humans ARE pushing the carrying capacity of the planet, things ARE going to come to a head. Most likely in the lifetimes of some of the younger Slashdotters or at longest, their progeny (assuming a few will, like the original land dwelling animals, crawl out of the swamp and reproduce).
Details left as an exercise for the student or their favorite dystopian author.
The only chance (and it's a damned small one) of getting the various political entities motivated to actually do something is for major shifts to happen in a time frame so obvious that even Rush Limbaugh can figure out there is an issue. If the Arctic weather system collapses, pushes the jet stream away and lets Europe freeze ...
Damn it again.
That'll just confuse them even more.
We're doomed.
He liked Chinese, ....
He liked their tiny little trees,
Their yen, their ping-pong, their yin and yangese
(I'll shut up now but for what I recall having met him at a single, wine fueled dinner, he liked Oriental cultures and people. He sided with Shockley / Jensen about the genetic nature of intelligence but wasn't seemingly all that wound up about it. You may be confusing Crick with James Watson who was openly and shockingly racist and got tossed off the lecture circuit and out of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.)
The problem with that is your passwords (hopefully) change occasionally which means you have to pester the lawyer / solicitor / brother / turtle (they live a long time) constantly and what's worse, you have to remember to tell them. A better method is a password safe like 1Password or KeePass. Then you only have one password to change. Furthermore, with at least 1Password, you have an encrypted file of lots of other useful legal bits, your SSN, bank account numbers, etc. Of course, that makes for one stop shopping for Mr. Nefarious so as usual you have to balance security with usability.
However, this doesn't address your online presence which for many people seems more important than their real lives. Thus, you need a mechanism that you can deal with all of those posts / blogs and nasty pictures that have littered your digital life. This is just a small step in some direction. I guess it's positive.
Interestingly, people who use paid-for services don't have this problem as much. If I still have my vanity website when I kick over, the first month that the ISP fails to get it's payment, it gets knocked off line. I don't have anything on my Google account except for a couple of Google maps tracks - they can stay there for all eternity as far as I'm concerned. Anything important and / or compromising on my personal drives is encrypted and the password goes away whenever I do. Anything that is important to my estate is in 1Password and my wife and lawyer and brother have the master password for that.
Why not do what millions of others have done? Nothing.
I suppose for AC's, this is a particularly attractive option.
I call bullshit. Now you have to opt-out of Google's spying every time your account is deleted.
How many times are you planning to die, Mr. Bond?
I live in Wisconsin, which is also acquainted with the cold. I have two of these CFL spots in a motion detector on my garage They work just fine, and have done so for at least 2 winters.
Not surprising. If you are a typical Slashdotter, nobody comes around your house so the motion detector never fires and they lights just sit there.
Have you actually tested them with a live human recently?
Speaking as a horticultural and interior lighting research director.
Now that's a pretty impressive euphemism for a marijuana grower.
He was found 22 years ago. It took that long to examine his teeth?
He was afraid of dentists. It's quite a primeval phobia, you know.
But eating a liver will. Polar bear and seal liver is high in Vitamins C, D and A.
yummm. Liver.
Every once in a while, you hear of some local government or some NGO sponsoring an expensive piece of equipment for a hospital, then even with judicious use the hospital runs out of the yearly cap by May, making that equipment gather dust.
While here in good ol free market USA, virtually all our major equipment in our small rural hospital has been purchased by funds from various NGOs because we don't have the right mix of patients to make money off the bizarre US system. To add insult to injury to 'the best medical system in the world', we have increasing problems with drug unavailability. Nothing like a lack of sterile saline solution to kick your medicine back a couple hundred years.
The US system is failing on so many levels that it's pretty embarrassing.
Have you ever stopped to consider that human relationships are complicated? People write books about this sort of thing. Plays and movies even. Tears are shed, bottles of booze drank and broken. Wars started. Wars ended.
I mean, people Tweet about this stuff!
It's time to stop pretending all this is going to work. If anyone in the world wants software or hardware it's pretty easy to get it.
It works as well as expected. It slows things down but doesn't pretend stop the flow of information completely. Nobody except the black and white brigade thinks otherwise. Slowing your enemy down is a useful strategic goal. And, in this case, Russia and China are enemies in the great game.
And lots of things aren't 'easy' to get. You might get the part. You won't get much support. And in complex tech, support is often a deal breaker.
Not to be snarky at all, but a subscription to Science is well worth it for the summary articles and overviews (assuming you're into that sort of thing). It's a refreshing change from the ten line garbled summaries you find elsewhere.
Of course, that doesn't answer the problem of having a paywalled article as reference to a thread. It's not like people would read it, but we must keep up with appearances.
Raised position .... ....
Preemptive strike
MUST NOT!
Where the hell have you been this past decade?
'beginning'?
He said 'trusty' not 'rusty'.
That's the problem with aluminum, all the noise it makes as it rattles around inside your head.
That;s a lovely boat. It's a work boat, not a pagoda on a glass brick like some other luxury yachts we've dissected. It might even weather a real storm in a real ocean as opposed to sinking at the dock as soon as the tide turned.
He should donate to a real oceanography group, Scripps, Texas A&M, hell, NOAA could probably use it.
Or, if he will simply transfer the title to me, I'll pay for the moorage and start buying lottery tickets to put fuel in the thing. Maybe a kickstarter project....
Not so fast Charley. Yes, you've 'lost' quite a bit of sunk expense but there are still enormous real dollars that will have to be spent to keep those useless birds fed, flying and fixed. If you were really worried about that, you could put the planes in a long term development mode (where they belong anyway) and keep iterating the things until we have a need to such an advanced weapon. Drop out 90% of funds and make Lockheed Martin actually work for a living. Despite all the scary talk, China hasn't moved the ball very far and the Russians can barely keep what they've got flying. We can probably counter the North Vietnamese threat with a dozen Cessna 172s and a bunch of model planes. Same with Iran except we could just use the model planes to counter their model planes.
And just because the Constitution doesn't say something, it doesn't mean that we can or can't do it. It's not an operations manual. The founding fathers expected us to think for ourselves from time to time.
If there's one thing I have learned from reading the Harvard Business Review is that to build a successful company your management structure needs to be flexible yet strict, specific and diverse, your company needs to have a flat organisational chart with few managers, it needs many levels of management to keep it under control. You need to keep your employees happy by letting them think for themselves, and you need to control their every movement and thought throughout the day. You need to diversify and yet focus on your core competencies.
You are on to something there but I'm pretty sure that you need a couple more buzzwords to be really accurate.
Of course, I think all cars should come with adaptive cruise control with pedestrian detection. So make of it what you will.
So the car speeds up when it detects a pedestrian?
I am intrigued by you views and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Problem is if you go out for longer periods of time you have enormous problems with reporting errors and definitions of incidence and prevalence. We are much better at diagnosing cancers earlier - that can look like an increased incidence. We have different screening and reporting criteria that change the definition of cancers.
So it's difficult to make quantitative assessments of cancer incidence and prevalence over interesting periods of time, like 50 to 100 years, that might speak to long term environmental changes or changes in behavior (no jet flights 100 years ago, no McDonalds, no High Fructose Corn Syrup, etc.).
Well, your impression isn't exactly concordant with the facts (it's complicated):
Between 2000 and 2009, overall cancer incidence rates decreased by 0.6 percent per year among men, were stable among women, and increased by 0.6 percent per year among children (ages 0 to 14 years). During that time period, incidence rates among men decreased for five of the 17 most common cancers (prostate, lung, colon and rectum, stomach, and larynx) and increased for six others (kidney, pancreas, liver, thyroid, melanoma of the skin, and myeloma). Among women, incidence rates decreased for seven of the 18 most common cancers (lung, colon and rectum, bladder, cervix, oral cavity and pharynx, ovary, and stomach), and increased for seven others (thyroid, melanoma of the skin, kidney, pancreas, leukemia, liver, and uterus). Incidence rates were stable for the other top 17 cancers, including breast cancer in women and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in men and women.