It's not but there are fully autonomous helicopters being used by the military. That said, there is hopefully still some substantive differences between your typical upscale American suburb and the backwoods of Afghanistan. Noise, the acceptance of a half ton of wrecked aluminum in your back yard, more noise - I just don't see it here in the US.
Not to even get into the limited capacity that air corridors have compared to roads. That could possibly change as autonomous flight allows for closer aircraft spacing, but it's not going to happen quickly.
And that noise... If you think the weeny little Phantom-class drones are going to be shotgun targets, wait until this thing tries to land in your neighbor's yard.
Did you see the drawing? Large houses, larger lawns. Those aren't the 'masses'. Think Tesla.
Then think again.
Nice try Airbus, but I can't image the local yard Nazis allowing giant mutant bumblebees to knock over the azaleas early in the morning. Those tiny-tiny ducted fans would just shriek.
Of course, if you had bothered to RTFA, you would have noticed that the antibiotic resistance element in question most likely came from a pig who was fed the drug in it's feed. So you missed the entire point of TFA. It's not even a drug typically used in humans. It's a last ditch drug because of side effects.
Apparently deaf pigs with renal failure aren't a big issue.
You apparently don't realize that hospital acquired infections are at the lowest point ever. We've lopped off all of the low hanging fruit and are now cruising into the noise. Still useful work to be done, but you have a pretty weird and completely unsupported notion of Ye Olden Tymes.
Nobody has forgotten quarantine - we call it 'isolation' because it's easier to spell. Hospitals are kept quite clean and iodine is a shitty topical antiseptic (alcohol is fine).
- not want anyone else knowing about how healthy you are or are not - not want the data uploaded into 'the cloud' - not even want to know what they are doing is unhealthy
Obamacare wasn't much of an answer to America's medical problems, but it is also not much of a problem. It has helped at the margins. Unfortunately, it has helped the insurance companies more than it should have, but that's called politics.
I eagerly await Mr. Trump and his Republican colleague's attempt at improving things.
Nope. Ain't gonna go. I suspect there are a number of different reasons - it's usually complicated.
- Poverty or at least fewer jobs without insurance. Remember folks, most non Medicare / Medicaid insurances in our Glorious Country are based on having a job with a largish employer. Small businesses - which tend to abound in places without lots of people - are famous for not carrying insurance for their employees. - Aging population. In my little rural town, the average age is older than Miami in the winter time. If it wasn't for the Coast Guard base and the schools we would have damned few kids in town (teachers tend to be younger with kids). - Poorer access to specialty care. As you age, you start to need the services of various -ologists. Which often means traveling to the Big City. Which often doesn't happen. Quite frequently, it is a conscious decision not to partake of the smorgasbord of potential medical treatments but finances and distance do play a part. - I'm not sure that lifestyle always plays a part. Here in Alaska we actually have a somewhat lower rate of obesity than in other states, but growing up in the South I was always struck with how many sedentary people spent their lives eating fried everything and smoking. Not too many vegans out here in the bush. - Education. Doesn't always correlate with health (or happiness) but trying to work your way around the mine field of recommendations these days takes at least an interest in doing so. Again, this is going to vary from place to place but access to above high school education isn't a given in a rural area (see also, poverty).
I'm sure there are other bits to this. It's very likely Bush's fault.
'Beats controls pretty much the entire wireless headphone market'????
Wow. I didn't realize. Amazon must be hiding something.
Sennheiser, Bose, and a host of Chinese manufacturers that you never have heard off might be a tad surprised at that statement. A quick perusal
of a couple of 'best of' compilations (no, not that kind) don't even mention Beats.
Not quite. Bluetooth audio CAN be quite good. Not reference level headphone good, but fairly close. Getting it any better is likely a fool's errand since the DACs on anything but audiophile gear are 'OK' but not beyond. Expensive audiophile DACs are audibly better than iPhones. And pricier.
I'm impressed by my Sennheiser Momentum 2s. At $300+ they damned well ought to work well. I'm not so impressed by a slew of $80-$150 Bluetooth headphones I've tried. Pops, snaps, drops - the whole gamut.
None of that is really relevant. Yes, there will be winners and losers - that is what evolution does. The big problem, as far as humans are concerned is that WE are likely to be one of the losers given our location at the top of the food chain.
Those poor unlucky souls didn't have giant Amazon warehouses to pilfer.....
The OP's argument that massive and rapid reversal of human population numbers would lead to a period of peace and prosperity because of all the extra resources laying around is more than a little absurd. Sure, there will be tons of brick and 2x4s to make houses with, lots of old cars to rip sheet metal and thousands of miles of decaying road.
But as numerous sci fi books and movies have chronicled, you would end up with a mostly scavenge environment. You would still run out of food (Wal Mart won't be there to restock the veggies), clean water and medications. Not to mention a whole list of other useful items. It will take a long time to boot up advanced civilization. The next group of apocalyptic survivors will have a leg up on their 14th century counterparts, but it's not going to be a real fun time for most.
The only way we are going to get a piece of ground so thoroughly polluted is to nuc the damn place. We didn't manage to make that much of a mess in WWII.
This entire scenario sounds ludicrous. Biodegradable firearms casing? Bullets? Seeds? As part something that gets heated to several hundred degrees and several thousand PSI? The seed part seems the most bizarre. Just fly over the ground with a C130 full of seed sacks and toss 'em out the back. Easy peasy.
They'd do better to figure out how to make ammo out of magnetic metals (steel is, if not biodegradable, eminently degradable via dependable 'ol redox reactions). It's going to be closer to brass and lead than biodegradable plastic or even ceramic. If you are too impatient to wait for things to rust away, drive a big tank dragging a magnet and pick up all sorts of things.
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Indeed. Otherwise they might use their talents to hurt someone.
Imprecisely dropping hand grenades seems like more of an act of desperation than strategy.
What next? Sticking M80's into Estes model rockets (like we did as kids)?
It's not but there are fully autonomous helicopters being used by the military. That said, there is hopefully still some substantive differences between your typical upscale American suburb and the backwoods of Afghanistan. Noise, the acceptance of a half ton of wrecked aluminum in your back yard, more noise - I just don't see it here in the US.
Not to even get into the limited capacity that air corridors have compared to roads. That could possibly change as autonomous flight allows for closer aircraft spacing, but it's not going to happen quickly.
And that noise... If you think the weeny little Phantom-class drones are going to be shotgun targets, wait until this thing tries to land in your neighbor's yard.
Did you see the drawing? Large houses, larger lawns. Those aren't the 'masses'. Think Tesla.
Then think again.
Nice try Airbus, but I can't image the local yard Nazis allowing giant mutant bumblebees to knock over the azaleas early in the morning. Those tiny-tiny ducted fans would just shriek.
You think leaf blowers were bad....
FYI, everybody hates everybody else.
Of course, if you had bothered to RTFA, you would have noticed that the antibiotic resistance element in question most likely came from a pig who was fed the drug in it's feed. So you missed the entire point of TFA. It's not even a drug typically used in humans. It's a last ditch drug because of side effects.
Apparently deaf pigs with renal failure aren't a big issue.
This sounds like great idea for a new reality TV show. Needs a catchy name and some attractive-but-down-on-their-luck actors.
You apparently don't realize that hospital acquired infections are at the lowest point ever. We've lopped off all of the low hanging fruit and are now cruising into the noise. Still useful work to be done, but you have a pretty weird and completely unsupported notion of Ye Olden Tymes.
Nobody has forgotten quarantine - we call it 'isolation' because it's easier to spell. Hospitals are kept quite clean and iodine is a shitty topical antiseptic (alcohol is fine).
Only 7 billion (and counting) more to go.
Most distinctions are lost on Trump supporters.
It's how they roll.
Why the F*** does it have to be a dystopian future? Really?
Because we don't have phasers, warp drive, transporters and Mr. Spock.
Next question?
Everyone may want to be healthy, but everyone may
- not want anyone else knowing about how healthy you are or are not
- not want the data uploaded into 'the cloud'
- not even want to know what they are doing is unhealthy
Here be Dragons.
Obamacare wasn't much of an answer to America's medical problems, but it is also not much of a problem. It has helped at the margins. Unfortunately, it has helped the insurance companies more than it should have, but that's called politics.
I eagerly await Mr. Trump and his Republican colleague's attempt at improving things.
Nope. Ain't gonna go. I suspect there are a number of different reasons - it's usually complicated.
- Poverty or at least fewer jobs without insurance. Remember folks, most non Medicare / Medicaid insurances in our Glorious Country are based on having a job with a largish employer. Small businesses - which tend to abound in places without lots of people - are famous for not carrying insurance for their employees.
- Aging population. In my little rural town, the average age is older than Miami in the winter time. If it wasn't for the Coast Guard base and the schools we would have damned few kids in town (teachers tend to be younger with kids).
- Poorer access to specialty care. As you age, you start to need the services of various -ologists. Which often means traveling to the Big City. Which often doesn't happen. Quite frequently, it is a conscious decision not to partake of the smorgasbord of potential medical treatments but finances and distance do play a part.
- I'm not sure that lifestyle always plays a part. Here in Alaska we actually have a somewhat lower rate of obesity than in other states, but growing up in the South I was always struck with how many sedentary people spent their lives eating fried everything and smoking. Not too many vegans out here in the bush.
- Education. Doesn't always correlate with health (or happiness) but trying to work your way around the mine field of recommendations these days takes at least an interest in doing so. Again, this is going to vary from place to place but access to above high school education isn't a given in a rural area (see also, poverty).
I'm sure there are other bits to this. It's very likely Bush's fault.
Right. We can just reset the clock again.
Last year was 1 BC (Before Clown).
Apparently those are all plusses for certain 'noise artists' (no, I'm not looking that up).
OTOH, you don't need iTunes for it, so there is an upside.
What? I've had perhaps a half dozen cell phones. Some with removable batteries, some not.
I never have had to pull a battery because I got the thing wet.
What in bog's name are you doing?
'Beats controls pretty much the entire wireless headphone market'????
Wow. I didn't realize. Amazon must be hiding something.
Sennheiser, Bose, and a host of Chinese manufacturers that you never have heard off might be a tad surprised at that statement. A quick perusal
of a couple of 'best of' compilations (no, not that kind) don't even mention Beats.
Not quite. Bluetooth audio CAN be quite good. Not reference level headphone good, but fairly close. Getting it any better is likely a fool's errand since the DACs on anything but audiophile gear are 'OK' but not beyond. Expensive audiophile DACs are audibly better than iPhones. And pricier.
I'm impressed by my Sennheiser Momentum 2s. At $300+ they damned well ought to work well. I'm not so impressed by a slew of $80-$150 Bluetooth headphones I've tried. Pops, snaps, drops - the whole gamut.
Perhaps the price points will drop at some time.
Colour me fucking stunned.
You got a Pantone chip for that?
Just curious.
Wait a minute. We didn't invoke you. No one mentioned any files or things remotely resembling files.
Begone!
what about that home video recorder i left behind the drywall behind the fridge 20 years ago? i just woke up from my comma yesterday
Well you had better put your parentheses on. You're scaring the kids.
None of that is really relevant. Yes, there will be winners and losers - that is what evolution does. The big problem, as far as humans are concerned is that WE are likely to be one of the losers given our location at the top of the food chain.
Those poor unlucky souls didn't have giant Amazon warehouses to pilfer.....
The OP's argument that massive and rapid reversal of human population numbers would lead to a period of peace and prosperity because of all the extra resources laying around is more than a little absurd. Sure, there will be tons of brick and 2x4s to make houses with, lots of old cars to rip sheet metal and thousands of miles of decaying road.
But as numerous sci fi books and movies have chronicled, you would end up with a mostly scavenge environment. You would still run out of food (Wal Mart won't be there to restock the veggies), clean water and medications. Not to mention a whole list of other useful items. It will take a long time to boot up advanced civilization. The next group of apocalyptic survivors will have a leg up on their 14th century counterparts, but it's not going to be a real fun time for most.
The only way we are going to get a piece of ground so thoroughly polluted is to nuc the damn place. We didn't manage to make that much of a mess in WWII.
This entire scenario sounds ludicrous. Biodegradable firearms casing? Bullets? Seeds? As part something that gets heated to several hundred degrees and several thousand PSI? The seed part seems the most bizarre. Just fly over the ground with a C130 full of seed sacks and toss 'em out the back. Easy peasy.
They'd do better to figure out how to make ammo out of magnetic metals (steel is, if not biodegradable, eminently degradable via dependable 'ol redox reactions). It's going to be closer to brass and lead than biodegradable plastic or even ceramic. If you are too impatient to wait for things to rust away, drive a big tank dragging a magnet and pick up all sorts of things.
You will be. You will be. /Yoda