I think it is more like driving becoming irrelevent as driverless cars bocome more common. The main cause of accidents is people and eventually there will be sufficient pressure to actually ban manual driving.
Then you can only go where the car will let you, and you will be tracked all the way.
The problem is that technology has advanced to the point where creating those jobs is too expensive, and they employ highly skilled people who have no trouble finding a job anyway. You no longer need 500 ditch diggers for your canal, it's a few engineers and skilled equipment operators.
A similar thing is happening to labor as happened to capital, it is all concentrating on the top few percent because of the force multipliers of technology and automation. There are a some possibilities, but they are all politically unpalatable: - Universal Basic Income (start low and increase until enough people drop out and live on it to make unemployment hit your desired %) - Legally mandated (and enforced) maximum working hours (Start at 40 and drop until unemployment hits your desired %) - Massive Bullshit Makework projects
In theory mining should be almost value neutral. The amortised hardware cost and electrical power consumed should be equal to value of the bitcoins that mining produces (with a fudge factor for the expected deflation of bitcoins).
There are reports of ASICs being sold for many multiples of their retail price. In the short term, this should reduce the amount spent on electricity.
If the hardware plateaus, then long term the hardware cost should become marginal, and the coins mined and transactions fees should be equal to the cost of the power. As long as the hardware capability keeps improving, buying it will suck money out of the power bill.
"At least" they've only gone after Buckyballs, not the other manufacturers. I bought mine from NeoCube, as they're by far the cheapest for their large combo set. Buckyballs are expensive. As NeoCube and others (like Zen Magnets) generally only sell online, I'm not sure if they're in the CPSC's reach.
There's a banner on Neocube's website now that says: THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 14!! Please Read All Warnings
NOT FOR SALE INSIDE THE U.S.
The step from prokaryotic to eukaryotic took much longer - 3 billion years. It looks like that may actually be the difficult step. Self replication is practically a given in the primordial soup environment. It doesn't need to be A directly creates copies of A.
It could be molecule A promotes B, B promotes C, C promotes D,.... all the way to ZZ9pluralZAlpha promotes A.
Any such loop, no matter how many steps, will optimise as it progresses. That's what evolution means.
ps. Even that is a vast simplfication. It is more like "the presence of A increases the chance of B forming C instead of D". Millions of such "rules" acting together in the soup will produce self-promoting systems that eventually evolve into fully self replicating entities. ie Life.
In Aus, unless you do something stupid like overtake a cop, a patrol car probably won't book you unless you're doing 5km/h or more over the limit. Speed cameras, however will book for 1km/h over, and there are a lot of them. When they were introduced it was 10% + 3, but they have reduced it over time to zero tolerance. On the plus side, as long as you keep to the left (we drive on the correct side of the road), you will never get a ticket for going too slow.
When I said "live as best they can" I meant survive within the constraints of the situation they are in. They aren't bloody saints, but I bet that the vast majority of them would be decent people in a decent society, just like most americans would.
Also, that's not how it works because the ruling class on both sides would rather feed a few million peasants into the meat grinder than risk being targeted in retaliation. People like the GP who explicitly condone this just make it easier for them. You should be standing up and saying "Leave the poor ground-down buggers alone and launch a surgical strike on the arseholes in charge"
Personally, I'm more and more a proponent of planting a few mushrooms across Pyongyang.
So you'd kill a few million people who are trying to live as best they can in a shitty situation, just because you don't like what their dictatorial leaders have said and done? You must be such a nice guy. Do you also advocate napalming everyone in an electoral district every time their senator takes a bribe?
If you don't like what Kim Jong Un and his friends are doing, target them, don't irradiate the poor slobs who have been oppressed by them for the past fifty years.
And if you can't break it, you want to start rumours that you can, so that they switch to another system. Even if you can't break that either, you at least impose switching costs on them.
It's not a virus, it's a parasitic protozoan that is common in cats. It's called toxoplasmosis gondii and it makes men violent and women horny. Rats also get it, and it makes them attracted to the smell of cat piss.
There is a way to do solar thermal, using molten salt as a heat reservoir, that has about three or four days worth of energy in the plant. Seems to be about as efficient as photovoltaic, but has higher installation and running costs. As fossil fuels go up in price, it will probably become economical as baseline power, but it isn't yet.
All of which require mining, refining and deployment of significant amounts of construction and operational materials. No power generation is pollution free, the question is what type and how much per MWHr.
Do firemen only fight fires of people who have paid usage fees? If someone doesn't pay the fee beforehand, how can they after their house has burned down?
There was a case of that in the news not that long ago. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/ Someone who hadn't paid the fire services levy had their house catch fire.
Firemen turned up and made sure that the house next door (who had paid) didn't catch, while they watched it burn to the ground. There were plenty of officials defending it, so I guess it is still official policy
I was going to suggest a simple 7805, but the TSR-2450 would be much better heat-wise.
Damn, power supplies are getting small. That thing is 11 x 10 x 7 mm!
I'm not saying that all of the other 2/3rds are caused by bad drivers slamming on their brakes and being an unpredictable danger on the road, but certainly some of them are.
Not in Australia. By law, if you run into the back of someone you were driving behind, it's your fault. Roads and traffic are considered to be inherently unpredictable and you are supposed to leave enough space, and pay enough attention, to avoid collisions even if someone slams on their brakes. Pretty good chance of getting a dangerous driving charge, too. And the cops do target tailgating, if you make a habit of tailgating anyone sticking to the speed limit you'll rack up the points and fines pretty fast.
Also, Wikipedia is misrepresenting those figures. If you follow the citation to the actual SA government document, it says that 1/3 of all collisions are rear-enders, most of which are caused by tailgating.
"According to crash statistics, about one third (13 400) of all crashes in South Australia are rear end crashes. Tailgating (following other vehicles too closely) causes most of these. Tailgating has not been targeted previously through an advertising campaign in South Australia. There is an opportunity through this campaign to bring about a major reduction in the number of rear end crashes through increasing awareness of the severity of the problem."
Ronnie Reagan had a better one "Two guys in a phone booth threatening each other with grenades." Of course kids these days probably don't know what a phone box is (or was).
I'm not paranoid about them. It's just that in a bunch of posts you have pointed out they have a "recording now" light on them. I was pointing out that that does not mean much. To be honest, I agree with your sibling AC poster who says cheap pen and shirt button cameras are more likely to be used surreptitiously.
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Paul Hogan's "financial adviser" (offshore "tax minimiser") ran off with his fortune recently.
Fair dinkum? Strewth, I bet he's madder 'n a mallee bull.
I think it is more like driving becoming irrelevent as driverless cars bocome more common.
The main cause of accidents is people and eventually there will be sufficient pressure to actually ban manual driving.
Then you can only go where the car will let you, and you will be tracked all the way.
Well yeah. When cats get to plague proporions, rats and mice get scarce. Maybe there's a connection.
The problem is that technology has advanced to the point where creating those jobs is too expensive, and they employ highly skilled people who have no trouble finding a job anyway.
You no longer need 500 ditch diggers for your canal, it's a few engineers and skilled equipment operators.
A similar thing is happening to labor as happened to capital, it is all concentrating on the top few percent because of the force multipliers of technology and automation.
There are a some possibilities, but they are all politically unpalatable:
- Universal Basic Income (start low and increase until enough people drop out and live on it to make unemployment hit your desired %)
- Legally mandated (and enforced) maximum working hours (Start at 40 and drop until unemployment hits your desired %)
- Massive Bullshit Makework projects
You know, it's not a nice thing, but I sort of hope that at least some of the judges are close to women who have had breast cancer.
In theory mining should be almost value neutral. The amortised hardware cost and electrical power consumed should be equal to value of the bitcoins that mining produces (with a fudge factor for the expected deflation of bitcoins).
There are reports of ASICs being sold for many multiples of their retail price. In the short term, this should reduce the amount spent on electricity.
If the hardware plateaus, then long term the hardware cost should become marginal, and the coins mined and transactions fees should be equal to the cost of the power.
As long as the hardware capability keeps improving, buying it will suck money out of the power bill.
"At least" they've only gone after Buckyballs, not the other manufacturers. I bought mine from NeoCube, as they're by far the cheapest for their large combo set. Buckyballs are expensive. As NeoCube and others (like Zen Magnets) generally only sell online, I'm not sure if they're in the CPSC's reach.
There's a banner on Neocube's website now that says :
THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN UNDER 14!! Please Read All Warnings
NOT FOR SALE INSIDE THE U.S.
The step from prokaryotic to eukaryotic took much longer - 3 billion years. It looks like that may actually be the difficult step. .... all the way to ZZ9pluralZAlpha promotes A.
Self replication is practically a given in the primordial soup environment. It doesn't need to be A directly creates copies of A.
It could be molecule A promotes B, B promotes C, C promotes D,
Any such loop, no matter how many steps, will optimise as it progresses. That's what evolution means.
ps. Even that is a vast simplfication. It is more like "the presence of A increases the chance of B forming C instead of D".
Millions of such "rules" acting together in the soup will produce self-promoting systems that eventually evolve into fully self replicating entities. ie Life.
In Aus, unless you do something stupid like overtake a cop, a patrol car probably won't book you unless you're doing 5km/h or more over the limit.
Speed cameras, however will book for 1km/h over, and there are a lot of them. When they were introduced it was 10% + 3, but they have reduced it over time to zero tolerance.
On the plus side, as long as you keep to the left (we drive on the correct side of the road), you will never get a ticket for going too slow.
When I said "live as best they can" I meant survive within the constraints of the situation they are in. They aren't bloody saints, but I bet that the vast majority of them would be decent people in a decent society, just like most americans would.
Also, that's not how it works because the ruling class on both sides would rather feed a few million peasants into the meat grinder than risk being targeted in retaliation.
People like the GP who explicitly condone this just make it easier for them. You should be standing up and saying "Leave the poor ground-down buggers alone and launch a surgical strike on the arseholes in charge"
Personally, I'm more and more a proponent of planting a few mushrooms across Pyongyang.
So you'd kill a few million people who are trying to live as best they can in a shitty situation, just because you don't like what their dictatorial leaders have said and done?
You must be such a nice guy. Do you also advocate napalming everyone in an electoral district every time their senator takes a bribe?
If you don't like what Kim Jong Un and his friends are doing, target them, don't irradiate the poor slobs who have been oppressed by them for the past fifty years.
And if you can't break it, you want to start rumours that you can, so that they switch to another system. Even if you can't break that either, you at least impose switching costs on them.
It's not a virus, it's a parasitic protozoan that is common in cats.
It's called toxoplasmosis gondii and it makes men violent and women horny.
Rats also get it, and it makes them attracted to the smell of cat piss.
There is a way to do solar thermal, using molten salt as a heat reservoir, that has about three or four days worth of energy in the plant.
Seems to be about as efficient as photovoltaic, but has higher installation and running costs.
As fossil fuels go up in price, it will probably become economical as baseline power, but it isn't yet.
All of which require mining, refining and deployment of significant amounts of construction and operational materials.
No power generation is pollution free, the question is what type and how much per MWHr.
Interesting. I wonder if there is a correlation between locked down publishing, and the "hardness" of the science.
Printing is dirt cheap. Mailing the hardcopies out is likely to cost more than printing them.
That's because Ginger was played by Ginger Lynn.
Do firemen only fight fires of people who have paid usage fees? If someone doesn't pay the fee beforehand, how can they after their house has burned down?
There was a case of that in the news not that long ago. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/
Someone who hadn't paid the fire services levy had their house catch fire.
Firemen turned up and made sure that the house next door (who had paid) didn't catch, while they watched it burn to the ground.
There were plenty of officials defending it, so I guess it is still official policy
I can. I still have a working A500. :)
In fact, using messydos it can also read 720K DOS floppies as well as the 880K Amiga floppies.
I was going to suggest a simple 7805, but the TSR-2450 would be much better heat-wise.
Damn, power supplies are getting small. That thing is 11 x 10 x 7 mm!
I'm not saying that all of the other 2/3rds are caused by bad drivers slamming on their brakes and being an unpredictable danger on the road, but certainly some of them are.
Not in Australia. By law, if you run into the back of someone you were driving behind, it's your fault.
Roads and traffic are considered to be inherently unpredictable and you are supposed to leave enough space, and pay enough attention, to avoid collisions even if someone slams on their brakes.
Pretty good chance of getting a dangerous driving charge, too.
And the cops do target tailgating, if you make a habit of tailgating anyone sticking to the speed limit you'll rack up the points and fines pretty fast.
Also, Wikipedia is misrepresenting those figures. If you follow the citation to the actual SA government document, it says that 1/3 of all collisions are rear-enders, most of which are caused by tailgating.
"According to crash statistics, about one third (13 400) of all crashes in South Australia are rear end crashes. Tailgating (following other vehicles too closely) causes most of these. Tailgating has not been targeted previously through an advertising campaign in South Australia. There is an opportunity through this campaign to bring about a major reduction in the number of rear end crashes through increasing awareness of the severity of the problem."
So swap it out for some fertilizer for your garden.
Ronnie Reagan had a better one "Two guys in a phone booth threatening each other with grenades."
Of course kids these days probably don't know what a phone box is (or was).
I'm not paranoid about them. It's just that in a bunch of posts you have pointed out they have a "recording now" light on them. I was pointing out that that does not mean much.
To be honest, I agree with your sibling AC poster who says cheap pen and shirt button cameras are more likely to be used surreptitiously.