While you are correct in that Cadmium is a Nasty Chemical, it is also something used for a variety of industrial processes and thus represents well known technology. Yes, you can screw things up - and mining / production of cadmium and other light metals needs to be rethought and closely monitored - but in an of itself it is something that we should be able to handle.
I sure wish the Surface Pro and Surface Book would run under OS X. Neat hardware but the OS just annoys me too much.
Of course, if Apple continues on it's current path, the annoyance level of OS X^HmacOS and Windows 12 will converge sometime during Trump's second term.
But by then I'll be spending too much on healthcare to care about computers......
Looks like the meds are wearing off again. Time for a refill.
Aaaand - you missed the point. This is not for consumers. It's for... well, keyboard junkies. For anyone who routinely tries to type on a small phablet and who wants a clamshell system. I'd love one if I had any use for it. If I were needing some sort of portable text terminal, if I had to create and respond to complex emails away from a real computer, if I were a closet Blackberry fan - I'd love one.
I still like it. Since I'm not doing anything like this at present, it doesn't really appeal to me. But there were times when I would have committed at least four of the seven sins to get one.
Contrast that with automation in a factory today. Have you been in a factory recently? The first thing you notice is that there aren't many workers on the floor.
You're looking in the wrong place. Yes, there are fewer people on the factory floor. But there are MORE people in the supply chain. The people designing the robots, making the robots, fixing the robots, cleaning up after the people that designed the robots, cleaning up after the people that made the robots.....
Well, the various studies in TFA and elsewhere have always managed to show a weak association with DST and various ills (death, dismemberment, hemorrhoids). The values are typically small which makes me discount much of a causal association. Having the entire country do 10 jumping jacks on some random Saturday would probably cause similar mayhem.
It's just a pain in the ass for no good reason (like hemorrhoids).
Well, yes, 'just manages' is closer to the truth than you might think. First off, the Western Social Democracies already have complicated systems in place that took decades to set up. Then there are the constantly contentious issues of how to fund it. It IS complex.
Starting over from scratch is clearly not a option so you have to create a plan to get there (wherever 'there' ends up being) from here. In a country that is having a Complete Twizzle Fit over whether a requirement to have medical insurance means means the End of the World as We Know It (but a coercive regressive tax credit is True Enlightenment) substantive changes to the system are clearly a non starter no matter what political stripe you're wearing or who has the quadrennial mandate.
Everyone on both sides of the aisle knew damned well it was complicated and that Trump's one liners and promises (yes, we'll change everything, no it won't cost any more) were complete (and typical) political nonsense.
In most countries and states police use overbroad warrants to as a sort of pre-emptive retaliation for the likelyhood that they will fail to get court approval for the illegal or unconstitutional nature of their goal. How come citizens cant do the same thing to the police?
Sure, you can do this. Get a whole raft of lawyers (solicitors), a whole bundle of money and a lot of patience.
That was Mr. Smith's dilemma. Despite having some access to representation (the Journalist's guild), he was heavily outgunned by the Crown. You need to have assets like Kim Dotcom to pull this off.
They don't even test each class of car to pass a driving test. Let alone each version of the software of each class of car.
NHTSA approval is no such thing, it's a set of guidelines to car markers.
The car does not pass a driving test, yet it's allowed to drive. Not by maker, not by model, not by version number. Not at all, in any way does it need to pass a basic test of driving competency.
You will end up with something like a program the FAA uses - the manufacturer certifies the craft to perform under certain conditions. You are required to maintain it to a certain spec and ensure that it is operated according to spec. This will be 'easy' to do with commercial fleets, a tad more interesting for private vehicles.
You may well see most autonomous vehicles rented / leased instead of just owned by individuals. Of course, that is the general direction society is heading these days anyways. You were born owning nothing, you won't actually own anything in your life time and your soul will be collected by Bank of America.
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So they set up a mulch pile.
Minus the methane. Even more Kaboom per cubic millimeter (or inch or your volume measurement of choice).
While you are correct in that Cadmium is a Nasty Chemical, it is also something used for a variety of industrial processes and thus represents well known technology. Yes, you can screw things up - and mining / production of cadmium and other light metals needs to be rethought and closely monitored - but in an of itself it is something that we should be able to handle.
Murphy was an optimist......
We turn the carbon into nanotubes, make a space elevator and toss the other stuff into the sun.
You're acting like this is hard or something.
I'll just take the shed load of money and convert that into useful energy. Easy peasy.
Add an oxygen here and there and you're back to CO2. Might as well just burn the stuff like we started out to do. No need for the Rube Goldberg stuff.
Cut, kill, dig, drill.
Video (there are other things besides porn).
High end digital photography (there are other things besides porn).
Both take up metric shitloads of space.
Don't you watch movies? ALL server / starship / government installation hardware fails with earth shattering kabooms, sparkles and smoke.
You can't miss it.
Why do people make this so hard? Replacing platters? Controllers? JUST BACK UP THE DATA.
Geez.
I sure wish the Surface Pro and Surface Book would run under OS X. Neat hardware but the OS just annoys me too much.
Of course, if Apple continues on it's current path, the annoyance level of OS X^HmacOS and Windows 12 will converge sometime during Trump's second term.
But by then I'll be spending too much on healthcare to care about computers. .....
Looks like the meds are wearing off again. Time for a refill.
Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
Movies. Pizza. Microcode.
Aaaand - you missed the point. This is not for consumers. It's for ... well, keyboard junkies. For anyone who routinely tries to type on a small phablet and who wants a clamshell system. I'd love one if I had any use for it. If I were needing some sort of portable text terminal, if I had to create and respond to complex emails away from a real computer, if I were a closet Blackberry fan - I'd love one.
I still like it. Since I'm not doing anything like this at present, it doesn't really appeal to me. But there were times when I would have committed at least four of the seven sins to get one.
If you need your car to bring excitement into your life, perhaps you're doing something wrong?
Contrast that with automation in a factory today. Have you been in a factory recently? The first thing you notice is that there aren't many workers on the floor.
You're looking in the wrong place. Yes, there are fewer people on the factory floor. But there are MORE people in the supply chain. The people designing the robots, making the robots, fixing the robots, cleaning up after the people that designed the robots, cleaning up after the people that made the robots.....
That's how economies grow.
You seem to be implying that Windows needs outside help to mess itself up.
Just sit back for a moment, relax, imbibe you favorite adult beverage and maybe reconsider that concept.
Everybody will be too stoned to notice.
Well, the various studies in TFA and elsewhere have always managed to show a weak association with DST and various ills (death, dismemberment, hemorrhoids). The values are typically small which makes me discount much of a causal association. Having the entire country do 10 jumping jacks on some random Saturday would probably cause similar mayhem.
It's just a pain in the ass for no good reason (like hemorrhoids).
No, then we'd have to pay Veteran's benefits to those folks. That's a really bad idea.
Well, yes, 'just manages' is closer to the truth than you might think. First off, the Western Social Democracies already have complicated systems in place that took decades to set up. Then there are the constantly contentious issues of how to fund it. It IS complex.
Starting over from scratch is clearly not a option so you have to create a plan to get there (wherever 'there' ends up being) from here. In a country that is having a Complete Twizzle Fit over whether a requirement to have medical insurance means means the End of the World as We Know It (but a coercive regressive tax credit is True Enlightenment) substantive changes to the system are clearly a non starter no matter what political stripe you're wearing or who has the quadrennial mandate.
Everyone on both sides of the aisle knew damned well it was complicated and that Trump's one liners and promises (yes, we'll change everything, no it won't cost any more) were complete (and typical) political nonsense.
You thought Trump would fulfill his "promises"?
He's only been in office 50 days.
What makes you think that he *won't*?
The first 50 days.
In most countries and states police use overbroad warrants to as a sort of pre-emptive retaliation for the likelyhood that they will fail to get court approval for the illegal or unconstitutional nature of their goal. How come citizens cant do the same thing to the police?
Sure, you can do this. Get a whole raft of lawyers (solicitors), a whole bundle of money and a lot of patience.
That was Mr. Smith's dilemma. Despite having some access to representation (the Journalist's guild), he was heavily outgunned by the Crown. You need to have assets like Kim Dotcom to pull this off.
Lawyers, guns and money.
They don't even test each class of car to pass a driving test. Let alone each version of the software of each class of car.
NHTSA approval is no such thing, it's a set of guidelines to car markers.
The car does not pass a driving test, yet it's allowed to drive. Not by maker, not by model, not by version number. Not at all, in any way does it need to pass a basic test of driving competency.
You will end up with something like a program the FAA uses - the manufacturer certifies the craft to perform under certain conditions. You are required to maintain it to a certain spec and ensure that it is operated according to spec. This will be 'easy' to do with commercial fleets, a tad more interesting for private vehicles.
You may well see most autonomous vehicles rented / leased instead of just owned by individuals. Of course, that is the general direction society is heading these days anyways. You were born owning nothing, you won't actually own anything in your life time and your soul will be collected by Bank of America.
Dunno - E85 gas is up to 15% ethanol - 30 proof.
A couple of gallons and .... wipeout.
'I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.'
I would be soooo tempted to bribe the lab tech (who probably doesn't give a shit) and give the lab a vial of my dog's blood .....