That might make some sense if citizens were able to purchase F18's, Guided missile destroyers, B52s and other fun things. Trying to defend agains the American military with a bump stock and and AR-15 seems a bit pointless.
I'll bet you also have a beautiful girlfriend (or any girlfriend at all), are retired at 37 and have a beautiful, natural tan and spend quite a bit of your free time on 4chan.
That's nice Mr. Aspy-in-the-woods. Try that in suburbia. Or, perish the thought, a city.
You don't want them to come visit, do you? So you need to find a scalable solution. Yes, that's going to require cooperation but you can leave that to the extroverts.
Ever try keeping a gas turbine plant running? Not so simple. Or cheap. Solar cell / battery plants are quite a bit easier to maintain than 30 foot tall jet engines.
Both do require access to high tech manufacturing and support but especially for a small island, solar / wind / battery combos seem to make quite a bit more sense than fossil fuel thermal plants. Right now, solar / wind / battery systems are equal priced to cheaper than thermal plants at the small sizes we're talking about in PV.
One of the big issues with power in PV is that the generation facilities are sited on the other side of the island from most of the the users. That requires expensive and fragile transmission lines (that still haven't been completely fixed). Small scale solar / wind/battery sited where the demand is makes a whole lot more sense than what they are doing now.
Putting a bunch of panels and batteries in a local field is quite a bit easier for locals to agree to than a brand new steam belching, noisy thermal plant.
Those toilet engineers have the worst job I think I've heard of yet. Unless they are the sort that really shouldn't be working there, in which case the best job ever.
Why is that? If they're like most engineers, they never get anywhere near where the device is installed.
If the doc saw a hint of blood, yellow color, or green color in the phlegm (or if your wife told him of it, or sometimes they can tell by looking at your throat,) that means she already had bacterial infection.
Bollocks. That particular pearl has been deprecated for decades. It just means that there is an inflammatory response going on. And viruses are good at getting that pathway going.
Now, there still are lots of practitioners who at least profess to believe that, but they are sadly behind the times.
I'd disagree. The production values on the ULA program were laughable. Camera menus on screen? Please.
Both ULA and SpaceX can be faulted (when I'm in Aspie mode) for silliness and fluff, at least SpaceX gave us the technical broadcasts. Sometimes. But I'm glad ULA is moving into the Modern World. It was nice to see some of the details of the launch. And to be fair, it's hard to pace a rocket launch. Has about as much internal excitement as an NFL game.
But the bow tie? Now, that's just not playing fair.
Yep, a broken watch tells the time twice a day (in the old analog world). But Washington is FULL of blur ribboned panels that have investigated both real and hallucinatory problems and even come up with ideas to fix them. Hasn't really moved the dial much (so to speak).
This. Those 'security questions' are really just another password. I use random nonsense and put the results in my password manager. I'm a bit surprised that the various nefarious critters wandering about the bottom of the Internet would even bother at this level of trolling, but I guess you gotta make a living somehow.
That's not really the point. Although from the conservationist side of things, you can be forgiven if you missed it.
The only salient issue is - when you have rapidly expanding human populations that are crowding out huge swaths of the ecological / environmental base that we depend on - and you add another forcing factor that has a timeline in decades - then you make run on sentences and create ever more stressful conditions for said human populations.
That really don't need any more stressors and strains. If you think geopolitics is bad now, wait another decade. The sort of good news is that the vast majority of humans that will be dramatically affected are brown / black and otherwise not so very important to the first world countries (despite what we say). The bad news is that if you are one of those nice people, you're in a world of even more hurt than what you've been going through.
Not to mention that they are still coupled to the same environmental problems that the sleek and fat first worlders are. It will be a temporary reprieve. Only temporary.
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Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
That might make some sense if citizens were able to purchase F18's, Guided missile destroyers, B52s and other fun things. Trying to defend agains the American military with a bump stock and and AR-15 seems a bit pointless.
I'll bet you also have a beautiful girlfriend (or any girlfriend at all), are retired at 37 and have a beautiful, natural tan and spend quite a bit of your free time on 4chan.
That's nice Mr. Aspy-in-the-woods. Try that in suburbia. Or, perish the thought, a city.
You don't want them to come visit, do you? So you need to find a scalable solution. Yes, that's going to require cooperation but you can leave that to the extroverts.
Ever try keeping a gas turbine plant running? Not so simple. Or cheap. Solar cell / battery plants are quite a bit easier to maintain than 30 foot tall jet engines.
Both do require access to high tech manufacturing and support but especially for a small island, solar / wind / battery combos seem to make quite a bit more sense than fossil fuel thermal plants. Right now, solar / wind / battery systems are equal priced to cheaper than thermal plants at the small sizes we're talking about in PV.
One of the big issues with power in PV is that the generation facilities are sited on the other side of the island from most of the the users. That requires expensive and fragile transmission lines (that still haven't been completely fixed). Small scale solar / wind /battery sited where the demand is makes a whole lot more sense than what they are doing now.
Putting a bunch of panels and batteries in a local field is quite a bit easier for locals to agree to than a brand new steam belching, noisy thermal plant.
Those toilet engineers have the worst job I think I've heard of yet. Unless they are the sort that really shouldn't be working there, in which case the best job ever.
Why is that? If they're like most engineers, they never get anywhere near where the device is installed.
Since we all here are experts in this field, we can cash in. Right?
If the doc saw a hint of blood, yellow color, or green color in the phlegm (or if your wife told him of it, or sometimes they can tell by looking at your throat,) that means she already had bacterial infection.
Bollocks. That particular pearl has been deprecated for decades. It just means that there is an inflammatory response going on. And viruses are good at getting that pathway going.
Now, there still are lots of practitioners who at least profess to believe that, but they are sadly behind the times.
Somebody is going to put up a split picture view of a SpaceX launch and a ULA event. A lot of the shots will look remarkably similar.
And then there will the the mission control sequences. A more succinct visual of the differences between the two approaches could not be made.
I'd disagree. The production values on the ULA program were laughable. Camera menus on screen? Please.
Both ULA and SpaceX can be faulted (when I'm in Aspie mode) for silliness and fluff, at least SpaceX gave us the technical broadcasts. Sometimes. But I'm glad ULA is moving into the Modern World. It was nice to see some of the details of the launch. And to be fair, it's hard to pace a rocket launch. Has about as much internal excitement as an NFL game.
But the bow tie? Now, that's just not playing fair.
The paper is really about the cell culture model, which is very important, but it's not a new drug, and it's a long way from being an actual human.
Dunno about that. There are lots of people I know that are as shallow and plastic as a petri dish.
Philistine.
Most interesting.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Donald
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Yep, a broken watch tells the time twice a day (in the old analog world). But Washington is FULL of blur ribboned panels that have investigated both real and hallucinatory problems and even come up with ideas to fix them. Hasn't really moved the dial much (so to speak).
I am definitely NOT inviting you to my Christmas party,
They stopped that recently. They found that nobody could pick out the regular conversations from the noise. The extra noise wasn't really needed.
There is a reason why the unemployment rate is hovering around historical lows.
They're taking everyone who couldn't hold a normal job and turning them into web developers.
Well, you'll fit right in here. You should get an account and sign in.
Welcome.
Yep, and we see these people hung up on rocks all of the time. Kinda amusing actually.
This. Those 'security questions' are really just another password. I use random nonsense and put the results in my password manager. I'm a bit surprised that the various nefarious critters wandering about the bottom of the Internet would even bother at this level of trolling, but I guess you gotta make a living somehow.
No, he's probably in the Trump cabinet.
Oh. Wait.
That's not really the point. Although from the conservationist side of things, you can be forgiven if you missed it.
The only salient issue is - when you have rapidly expanding human populations that are crowding out huge swaths of the ecological / environmental base that we depend on - and you add another forcing factor that has a timeline in decades - then you make run on sentences and create ever more stressful conditions for said human populations.
That really don't need any more stressors and strains. If you think geopolitics is bad now, wait another decade. The sort of good news is that the vast majority of humans that will be dramatically affected are brown / black and otherwise not so very important to the first world countries (despite what we say). The bad news is that if you are one of those nice people, you're in a world of even more hurt than what you've been going through.
Not to mention that they are still coupled to the same environmental problems that the sleek and fat first worlders are. It will be a temporary reprieve. Only temporary.
We're doomed.
"Windows Mail is also notorious for not sending emails."
I kinda like that. Maybe I will get my coworkers to move off Exchange.
Dunno, 'Canadian Beaver' isn't very, well, topical.
"Bionic" has a much bigger potential audience - very cyber and all that - and just really sucks as a commercial product name.
They must have picked up some old, ex Microsoft marketing execs ....
"You'd make a grown man cry."
Garbage in, garbage out.
All of life's ills will be reduced to issues surrounding cat videos.