Meanwhile my mother died at 80 of a massive heart attack, my father at 86 and my father in law at 85, and my step mother in law at 70 of pancreatic cancer. They hardly cost society anything. They did have one thing in common - they smoked cigarettes.
And of course, one anecdote is more important than hundreds of scientific studies.
I really can't understand how these worthless hippie bastards can't understand how important it is to replant what was lost to logging.
It's the fucking logging companies that can't be bothered to replant the clear-cut forests. What the fuck do "worthless hippie bastards" have to do with it?
Yes, but murder is irrelevant to this situation. It is the likelihood of someone throwing a brick through a glass window (ever seen an Apple store?) and making off with an armful of expensive, easily fenced booty that matters here.
An attacker can also get about 10 or 20 cooking pots for the same price they'd pay for each drone.
Sure, you can just pilot the flying cooking pot through a window, above the heads of the secret service agents, and explode it above the politician you are trying to kill.
All you have to do is invent a flying cooking pot. Idiot.
The summary referred to the tiny drones as carrying "bombs" and that's what I took issue with.
What else would you call a shaped charge of C4? Clearly your analysis above demonstrated that you were foolishly assuming the use of black powder. You must be embarrassed as hell.
However, I'm of the opinion that anything we can't reach within the working lifetime of a human isn't something we're terribly likely to put any effort into reaching.
Unless we develop some kind of hibernation, which is tricky but by no means impossible.
What kind of moron wouldn't want to live in a world where every facet of life is decreed from on high by noble, enlightened bureaucrats?
You're forgetting that "liberty" includes the rights of your neighbours to fuck you over anytime they want to.
And if there is enough of them, and they are well armed, then there is sweet fuck all that you can do about it. That's what life in all failed states (e.g. Somalia, Afghanistan) is like.
Buildings don't break even on sprinkler systems, either. Sometimes doing what is good for others is enough. Of course that involves regulation(!) since no developer would do that unless forced to.
Photovoltaics on the roofs make some more sense, at least for buildings not in the shade of taller buildings. But it isn't going to provide nearly enough power to power the building.
They don't need to power the whole building.
If they can provide 10% of the building's summer A/C energy cost, that would be a win for the building's owners and a huge win for the environment.
we know how to make a few tens of thousands of different types of neurons, any of which could self-assemble into an intelligent mind given enough of them.
Except our neurons took 3 billion years of evolution to "self assemble" into their present state.
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Now, what's your proposal to select the 6.5 vs 0.5 billion people ? And what will the exact method of culling ?
You don't have to kill anybody.
You can just suppress fertility (via an engineered virus?) and wait for natural causes to kill off the older people.
Mr. President, we can not allow a cave gap!
Any rational company that is a going concern will choose to hire.
First of all, "companies" are an abstraction and don't "choose" to do anything. What companies do is whatever their management wants to do.
And what they will do is dump their investments, grab their cash, short their own company, and vamoose to the nearest tax shelter nation.
So let's say we eradicate all tobacco, with some manner of engineered virus, made it a capital crime to consume sugar. What's next on your list?
You, of course.
Meanwhile my mother died at 80 of a massive heart attack, my father at 86 and my father in law at 85, and my step mother in law at 70 of pancreatic cancer. They hardly cost society anything. They did have one thing in common - they smoked cigarettes.
And of course, one anecdote is more important than hundreds of scientific studies.
I really can't understand how these worthless hippie bastards can't understand how important it is to replant what was lost to logging.
It's the fucking logging companies that can't be bothered to replant the clear-cut forests.
What the fuck do "worthless hippie bastards" have to do with it?
You loved Max Headroom, or you loved the TV Pirate who wore a Max Headroom mask and exposed his bare ass to all within reception range?
Yes!
People tend to murder people that they know.
Yes, but murder is irrelevant to this situation.
It is the likelihood of someone throwing a brick through a glass window (ever seen an Apple store?) and making off with an armful of expensive, easily fenced booty that matters here.
Also, Apple employees may be afraid to work in a poor area (lots of muggings).
An attacker can also get about 10 or 20 cooking pots for the same price they'd pay for each drone.
Sure, you can just pilot the flying cooking pot through a window, above the heads of the secret service agents, and explode it above the politician you are trying to kill.
All you have to do is invent a flying cooking pot.
Idiot.
The summary referred to the tiny drones as carrying "bombs" and that's what I took issue with.
What else would you call a shaped charge of C4?
Clearly your analysis above demonstrated that you were foolishly assuming the use of black powder. You must be embarrassed as hell.
Some examples:
Hungarian:"I wish to buy some tobacco" becomes
English: "My hovercraft is full of eels, so do you want to come back to my place, bouncy-bouncy?"
However, I'm of the opinion that anything we can't reach within the working lifetime of a human isn't something we're terribly likely to put any effort into reaching.
Unless we develop some kind of hibernation, which is tricky but by no means impossible.
If anyone needed further proof of the gaping chasm between con-men and their marks, this is it.
FTFY.
There's been a lot of recent research showing this is much, much easier to do than we ever realized.
Such as?
Your reference has absolutely nothing to do with that snake-oil con-man Mercola.
Looks to me like the winners are wind, hydro, and nuclear.
The biggest and cheapest winner is increased energy efficiency. Get those old energy-wasting buildings, vehicles and appliances to the dump.
What kind of moron wouldn't want to live in a world where every facet of life is decreed from on high by noble, enlightened bureaucrats?
You're forgetting that "liberty" includes the rights of your neighbours
to fuck you over anytime they want to.
And if there is enough of them, and they are well armed,
then there is sweet fuck all that you can do about it.
That's what life in all failed states (e.g. Somalia, Afghanistan) is like.
Flint, the local government there was so incompetent that their ability to govern themselves was taken away by the adults.
Where the "adults" were the federal government.
I read that they don't even break even in energy.
Buildings don't break even on sprinkler systems, either.
Sometimes doing what is good for others is enough.
Of course that involves regulation(!) since no developer would do that unless forced to.
Photovoltaics on the roofs make some more sense, at least for buildings not in the shade of taller buildings. But it isn't going to provide nearly enough power to power the building.
They don't need to power the whole building.
If they can provide 10% of the building's summer A/C energy cost,
that would be a win for the building's owners and a huge win for the environment.
The company is no longer in business, having gained a reputation for unreliable equipment.
Sounds like British Leyland.
Wondering if we're going to get same day delivery once it opens.
My friend who lives in Seattle regularly gets two hour delivery, and sometimes as little as 30 minutes.
No, the AI that writes the shittiest code will become the managers for all the other AIs
And it will have pointy hair.
I study this stuff, actually.
In kindergarten?
we know how to make a few tens of thousands of different types of neurons, any of which could self-assemble into an intelligent mind given enough of them.
Except our neurons took 3 billion years of evolution to "self assemble" into their present state.