The article is actually very good, it's the bulk of comments about the nature of lying and the lack of ability of most people commenting to fully understand the article that's the problem.
Geeks just need to take more philosophy and psychology classes. They aren't as great at thinking rationally and creatively as they believe they are.
Actually, a couple old thermometers contain enough mercury to be a significant issue in an enclosed and often populated place, like a classroom, especially if the mercury is dispersed and held in a medium like carpet, when it can continuously gass-out.
I think you're ignorance and dismissal is the real issue here. Mercury CAN be safely handled. Just not by someone that's full-on retard, like you.
Well, that's the goal, that's exactly how things work in the USA now.
Why do you think we have more people in prions and jails than ANY other nation (except Seychelles) ?
Our police are not held accountable, are militarized, and our entire legal system permitted it to happen. It's NOT going to get better, it WILL get much, much worse.
People get what they deserve, and if your local community and government is not held accountable, who's fault is that ?
You might be more impressed, but it would be stupid and not beneficial to anybody.
Being part of the grid means renewables can assist in reducing local peak power demand when there is excess power generated by renewables, thus stabilizing the grid.
The obsession some people have with "off-grid" implementations is unreasonable and deleterious economically and environmentally. The end goal should never be to be off-grid; it should be to make the entire grid renewable.
The militarization of the police force, and the incompetent rolling out of all that gear and personnel without any kind of rational checks and balances/verification is not a trivial or acceptable situation.
Frankly, I'd like to see WAY more people SWATted, until there's finally some fucking accountability. Every politician should be SWATted, for starters. Maybe SWATting the corporate masters would be even more effective.
And then there's the issue of SWAT existing primarily as a means by which to steal from the public and enforce the insane drug laws and continue to prop-up the failed War on Drugs.
Treating SWAT like it's even remotely acceptable in the first place IS the problem. Not the imaginary abuse of what is already abusive by it's very nature.
If you are going to outlaw homeopathy because it's little more than a placebo, you need to also pull all the drugs from the market that are also little more than placebos, which includes many antidepressants.
If homeopathy has failed at anything, it's at properly advertising and usurping and corrupting scientific method, like the pharmaceutical industry with the help of the more unscrupulous members of the medical community has been so very successful at for decades.
" depending on the vertebrate taxon, between 800 and 10,000 years to disappear. These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way."
yea, that 10,000 year range sure leads a lot of credibility to their argument.
This is not research in any meaningful way. this is politics.
Most techs I know are just plain stupid when it comes to long term planning and understanding the consequences of their actions.
So many time I've encountered on the job management demanding work and the learning of skills from techs to do shit they simply were not hired for, as if it's an expectation of us, because, well, we're the tech guys.
And while this is absolutely true, there are very few shills I can not pick up either on my own or by taking a few classes or reading a few manuals. the issue is COMPENSATION for all that.
Management simply does not compensate you for the skills you pick up to do the jobs you were not hired for, and that's how management LIKES it. Techs are stupid. They'll let their personal pride trump the simple economics EVERY TIME.
Frankly, most of you assholes DESERVE to loose your jobs, your houses, your retirements. You fucked us ALL over by being such tools and being the first to turn on other techs when what you SHOULD have been doing is organizing.
So suck it up, you helped create this mess, and clearly you STILL have zero integrity, you still don't see what created the HB-1 problem. You did it to yourselves by being such tools.
"Corporations market things all the time, but if people don't want it, the products and/or companies are ultimately unsuccessful. The conspiracy -- and that's what it is -- that people are purely told what to want disregards all of the massive market failures for every one success."
Yeah, only an idiot just tosses around the word "conspiracy" to support their bullshit assertions.
Look, if you are entirely unaware of the nature and history of marketing and advertising, and stubbornly refuse to be bothered, that's on you, and you should rightly be called out for being an idiot.
"Because, historically, creating products and trying to convince people that they need it when they don't is a good way to fail. Check out Shark Tank and see how many billionaires are *really* trying that approach. The answer is zero."
Your profound lack of knowledge of advertising and history is pretty amusing. Corporations market shit people don't need all the time, consent is manufactured, advertising exists not to educate or inform so much as to deceive and manipulate. You didn't know this ? Really ? What are you, 12 years old ?
And referencing a (particularly shitty) reality tv show to support a flawed assertion is laughable.
It's more than a problem, it's arguably a conspiracy of a sort that goes on every day in the USA.
None of those officers and none of the people working for the DA should be permitted employment int he public sector again - at the very least. Arguably dozens of people should be in prison. But that NEVER happens.
Because the DA and the police are a criminal class.
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The article is actually very good, it's the bulk of comments about the nature of lying and the lack of ability of most people commenting to fully understand the article that's the problem.
Geeks just need to take more philosophy and psychology classes. They aren't as great at thinking rationally and creatively as they believe they are.
Actually, a couple old thermometers contain enough mercury to be a significant issue in an enclosed and often populated place, like a classroom, especially if the mercury is dispersed and held in a medium like carpet, when it can continuously gass-out.
I think you're ignorance and dismissal is the real issue here. Mercury CAN be safely handled. Just not by someone that's full-on retard, like you.
Well, that's the goal, that's exactly how things work in the USA now.
Why do you think we have more people in prions and jails than ANY other nation (except Seychelles) ?
Our police are not held accountable, are militarized, and our entire legal system permitted it to happen. It's NOT going to get better, it WILL get much, much worse.
People get what they deserve, and if your local community and government is not held accountable, who's fault is that ?
You might be more impressed, but it would be stupid and not beneficial to anybody.
Being part of the grid means renewables can assist in reducing local peak power demand when there is excess power generated by renewables, thus stabilizing the grid.
The obsession some people have with "off-grid" implementations is unreasonable and deleterious economically and environmentally. The end goal should never be to be off-grid; it should be to make the entire grid renewable.
The militarization of the police force, and the incompetent rolling out of all that gear and personnel without any kind of rational checks and balances/verification is not a trivial or acceptable situation.
Frankly, I'd like to see WAY more people SWATted, until there's finally some fucking accountability. Every politician should be SWATted, for starters. Maybe SWATting the corporate masters would be even more effective.
And then there's the issue of SWAT existing primarily as a means by which to steal from the public and enforce the insane drug laws and continue to prop-up the failed War on Drugs.
Treating SWAT like it's even remotely acceptable in the first place IS the problem. Not the imaginary abuse of what is already abusive by it's very nature.
It's simply called growing up and becoming an adult.
doctors.
And likewise, no mention of the crappy USA culture of greed, exploitation of labor, and money-grubbing being responsible ?
You have got to be kidding, you couldn't find HazMat info on toner cartridges ?
No wonder you're anon.
Screw that, I want a medical and physics tricorder.
Who says any of the systems are mission critical systems ?
If you are going to outlaw homeopathy because it's little more than a placebo, you need to also pull all the drugs from the market that are also little more than placebos, which includes many antidepressants.
If homeopathy has failed at anything, it's at properly advertising and usurping and corrupting scientific method, like the pharmaceutical industry with the help of the more unscrupulous members of the medical community has been so very successful at for decades.
" depending on the vertebrate taxon, between 800 and 10,000 years to disappear. These estimates reveal an exceptionally rapid loss of biodiversity over the last few centuries, indicating that a sixth mass extinction is already under way."
yea, that 10,000 year range sure leads a lot of credibility to their argument.
This is not research in any meaningful way. this is politics.
I see something designed to be less wasteful and to be structurally superior to traditional design and construction methods in every way.
...and how it can solve all our problems...
The police are a criminal class.
Most techs I know are just plain stupid when it comes to long term planning and understanding the consequences of their actions.
So many time I've encountered on the job management demanding work and the learning of skills from techs to do shit they simply were not hired for, as if it's an expectation of us, because, well, we're the tech guys.
And while this is absolutely true, there are very few shills I can not pick up either on my own or by taking a few classes or reading a few manuals. the issue is COMPENSATION for all that.
Management simply does not compensate you for the skills you pick up to do the jobs you were not hired for, and that's how management LIKES it. Techs are stupid. They'll let their personal pride trump the simple economics EVERY TIME.
Frankly, most of you assholes DESERVE to loose your jobs, your houses, your retirements. You fucked us ALL over by being such tools and being the first to turn on other techs when what you SHOULD have been doing is organizing.
So suck it up, you helped create this mess, and clearly you STILL have zero integrity, you still don't see what created the HB-1 problem. You did it to yourselves by being such tools.
"Corporations market things all the time, but if people don't want it, the products and/or companies are ultimately unsuccessful. The conspiracy -- and that's what it is -- that people are purely told what to want disregards all of the massive market failures for every one success."
Yeah, only an idiot just tosses around the word "conspiracy" to support their bullshit assertions.
Look, if you are entirely unaware of the nature and history of marketing and advertising, and stubbornly refuse to be bothered, that's on you, and you should rightly be called out for being an idiot.
"Because, historically, creating products and trying to convince people that they need it when they don't is a good way to fail. Check out Shark Tank and see how many billionaires are *really* trying that approach. The answer is zero."
Your profound lack of knowledge of advertising and history is pretty amusing. Corporations market shit people don't need all the time, consent is manufactured, advertising exists not to educate or inform so much as to deceive and manipulate. You didn't know this ? Really ? What are you, 12 years old ?
And referencing a (particularly shitty) reality tv show to support a flawed assertion is laughable.
as the last.
And almost indistinguishable from the last one.
Actually, the scenario you describe would simply be spun as a reason to INCREASE the TSA's budget.
It's more than a problem, it's arguably a conspiracy of a sort that goes on every day in the USA.
None of those officers and none of the people working for the DA should be permitted employment int he public sector again - at the very least. Arguably dozens of people should be in prison. But that NEVER happens.
Because the DA and the police are a criminal class.
our military machine and our murderous forays into other nations. 5 billion isn't squat.
Is the cause of the problem.
Not to mention basic greed.
People who knowingly commit fraud love how the general public is so naive and gullible about the integrity of scientists.
"If licenses weren't numbered, the proliferation of taxis would render city streets unnavigable."
Except that is an unfounded assumption.
It's never happened anywhere.
taken a nose-dive here.