Cyber Security is the area where you will find the largest number of absurdly competent people without a degree. There is something about data protection that precludes a degree from being an indicator of true overall competence. Probably because society itself is mildly insane.
There is a subject line and a box for informational discussion. When you abuse the Subject Line, some people, like myself, miss part of your sentence. Here, watch what a naive replay does:
...that employers can take a glance at and as easily quantify as a stamp of approval on a topic as a college degree.
That is what referrals are for. If you get a resume without a degree, you throw out the resume. Don't have the time or money to assess whether or not this person is reasonable and our competitors could use it as a sort of DDOS on our HR department. So yeah, no degree = tossed resume...
But what about referrals? I guess you could assume that your own employees hate you and your company and want to see it die... and honestly, that wouldn't be too far removed from reality not to actually consider it... but in a reasonably run company, you probably should be trusting your employees at least a little. Regardless, even if every single employee referred one inappropriate person, that is not a lot of people to have to examine more closely.
Fuck it. I don't care about responding anymore. I should just hit cancel but your annoying abuse of the subject line means that my comment will stay.
Why do you misuse the Subject Line? Does it matter to you that you are violating convention? Is that the actual goal, to violate convention? Seriously, crap like that makes comments MUCH harder to read. And read how my quote looks... psychotic, because the first part of the quote is literally missing. Why? Because you broke up your words into various areas and I don't feel like fucking hunting them down to make a coherent quote. Stop being a self-important dick and thinking that you are special enough to get away with abusing convention to make yourself seem more... something?
Anyways, TL;DR, stop throwing away resumes from referrals just because of no college degree. There is a fucking reason a person puts their own reputation on the line to recommend someone else. This is not hard and it is not fucking complicated... unless you have an aversion to thinking... which most college graduates are explicitly guilty of. "Here is your degree", "Awesome! I know what I need to know, I can stop thinking now!"
That is actually pretty neat. Still the original suggestion of PiHole or whatever is not bad. There are tons of people like me who really would rather not use "the web" but kind of need to for some things. A quick and dirty answer is a reasonable solution.
Slashdot is the only website that I participate in on a regular basis. Figuring out Proximiatron or whatever is not on my todo list as the only website that I use enough to justify that level of control is Slashdot. And Slashdot is not THAT bad.
If the previous discussion between you two were to be viewed as battle, you both won and lost. He won because a quick and dirty solution is sometimes the best choice. You won because you pointed out some software that can completely transform your experience in a way that is desirable for you.
Not every discussion has to have a winner or loser. I don't see that problem here, but it erupts so often that I figured I would address it in an offhand manner here.
And then there are the useful people like you who hated Google and Chrome so much that they completely missed the entire fucking switch that Firefox went through to set up the infrastructure necessary for the web browser to completely ignore the user in favor of the advertiser.
Try to fully understand what happened here. Even the article writer refrains from calling it out directly: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12...
TL;DR. Firefox is not a reasonable fallback option from Chrome as its infrastructure was recently changed to allow the same behavior.
Except that Firefox semi-recently went through a change that made extensions like No-Script not really effective anymore. The rendering engine will ALWAYS see everything now. Extensions can not protect the engine anymore. Don't worry, it was for your own good that we tied your hands behind your back.
Bye Chrome. I never really liked you because this kind of shit was always possible in your roadmap.
Mozilla has already taken the initial steps to do this too. The web is about to become a MUCH emptier place when the mice realize that fucking with the bait ensures that the trap always fires off.
I am wondering if Konqueror is a reasonable enough method of looking at websites safely? Are they still working on it? Do they have good script controls now?
What is the use of getting everyone to think of Climate Change as a threat? I am sure it is useful to have an entire population scared and feeling helpless... but why should I care about of this?
Am I the person who can make laws?
Am I the person who owns infrastructure?
Why is everyone working so fucking hard to get me to be terrified and horrified about Climate Change?
I find electricity to be exceptionally useful. I don't use a lot and I definitely don't waste it, but I am not going to stop using it. I don't generate electricity. I don't have any control over how electricity is generated. Consumer electricity is not really a huge factor in all of this even if it is a factor that is messy and dirty.
Ok. So my electricity usage is not really an issue, what about the products that I buy and use? Well, again, all of those take energy and I don't generate energy nor do I have any control over those who do... but I can just not buy any products. Kind of? I don't really own anything except some clothes and a car. I think we can all agree that I should be wearing clothes, but what about the car? Well, I live across the street from where I work, so I solved the need for a car concerning getting to work. I still do need a car though. Someone smarter-than-the-rest-of-us fuckhead decided that the profits from making cars were so huge that they took some of those profits and used them to coerce municipalities into designing their cities and towns in such a way that mass transit is almost impossible to do, and is impossible to do in any sort of efficient and economical manner.
But again, I didn't have any control over how those profits were used.
The only other direct effect I can have is to stop eating meat or to stop living entirely. They are roughly equivalent to me. I will go buy guns and prevent you from forcing me to eat some protein "shake" that has all the essential amino acids that the body needs.
So explain to me why I should be all up in arms over Climate Change? What use is it for me to have lingering unresolved psychological issues related to things I can't control, change, or even influence?
Long story short, those who profited the most from this utter mess are throwing the responsibility back on the masses by saying, "you enticed me to do it! you are responsible". No mother fucker, the rapist doesn't get to say "you enticed me to rape you".
And yet some of you continue blithely along trying to get everyone all worked up over this shit. Stop it. rsilvergun and AmiMoJo, you are working directly for the people that you most despise. You are helping to remove the issue of direct accountability by helping those who profited to push the blame onto us, where we are expected to walk to work and eat protein shakes to help "save the environment" while mother fuckers Mary T. Barra assist their masters in continuing to do more damage to the environment than any random group of 7 billion people would by themselves.
Please stop posting articles about Climate Change here. There is no good coming out of it. I don't normally hate people, but god damn, it is REALLY hard not to have intense burning hatred for the useful fools like AmiMoJo and rsilvergun.
But there's no clear reason other sources can't grow at a fast enough pace.
Hm. Mineral extraction and manufacturing can only happen so fast. There is a limit. Have you run the numbers on how much power we need? It would take centuries to manufacture that many solar panels... and that would be using existing tech only. Replacing them with better tech later...
That says new nuclear plants aren't economically viable?
CO2 in the atmosphere is not economically viable either... and yet here we are.
Also, your education seems to have left out what to do with the waste. And no, you can't reprocess it all. First, it's not all spent fuel. Second, a reprocessing plant is also a nuclear weapons plant, which means it's not a practical global solution.
It is true that a reprocessing plant creates isotopes that could be weaponized. The knowledge is already out there and is NOT being shared with those who are considered "untrustworthy", so running a reprocessing plant does not expose any secrets, you merely have to be able to account for the output of the plant. What is nice is that one reprocessing plant could create fuel for the entire world. So it could be located in France or the UK somewhere that it would be pretty safe.
Nuclear is the answer. No answer is economically viable, but this issue does need to be addressed. Everything else will take a lot more time and resources. It is simply impossible to build enough solar panels fast enough. We should be pursuing all avenues and this fear of nuclear is creating a planetwide issue.
I guess you can have your acidic oceans and humid dank atmosphere brightened up by eventually having enough solar power to reduce the CO2 output into the atmosphere.
We all know this by now. The question I keep asking is, is this going to change how anybody votes in 2020? So far I haven't got a single answer of "yes". As such, I would expect him to continue this behavior since it seems to be working out just fine for him.
Really? You think voting Democrat will prevent someone like Ajit Pai being appointed to an important position?
LOL. Your naivety is adorable.
What is worse is that you expect people to change their vote based on just ONE appointment. "Ajit Pai sucks, vote Democrat next time".
Ummm. That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works. You are utterly deluded if you think the root of the problem is voting for one party over the other. They are both as corrupt as could possibly be. We have seen evidence of Republican corruption and evidence of Democrat corruption. We have seen Republicans show a complete lack of respect towards common citizens. We have seen Democrats show a complete lack of respect towards common citizens.
Sure, the Democrats offer a DIFFERENT shitshow than the Republicans do, but both parties only offer shit shows.
So how is "changing a vote" a thing here? You will get corruption no matter what you vote. Corruption is the only thing offered on the ballot. If it weren't, then we could vote for non-corrupt people. But we can't. The only choice is: Do I prefer to get fucked this way (copyrights forever, wasted tax money etc) or do I want to get fucked that way (corps getting away with murder, huge tax increases).
Well? How would I change my vote in a way that matters? Go ahead and say vote Democrat and I will laugh at your fantasy version of reality. It is getting harder to not just write Mickey Mouse in as a candidate.
There is an Agenda here. Good luck on getting a rational explanation of the methodology. Probably something to do with essential oil residue or something.;)
Yeah. We get it. Republicans are shit and Democrats offer a sane way for America to be governed...
Except for all the bad things the Democrats did.
So let's all vote Republican. Well, they are doing demonstrably bad things.
How about trying not to make this into a Democrats vs Republicans thing? Both parties are acting shitty right now. Both parties have acted like shit in the past. Both parties will act like shit in the future.
Your words contribute nothing positive to this discussion. It does not matter who is the worst when none of the choices are even neutral, much less good. Nobody, in good conscience, can vote either Democrat or Republican, even if the Republicans are 10 times worse than the Democrats.
It is like saying that being burned alive is 10 times worse than having your head cut off, so let's all vote for having our heads cut off!
Hm. I was nodding in agreement with you, then this thought hit me: Frequently, the only reason to look up a receipt afterwards is to process a refund or warranty where your privacy is already tossed out the window...
and then I thought, "Why does this ever have to be a QR code? Just take a picture of what the actual receipt would look like, fully itemized. Makes it simpler for turning in receipts for reimbursement by your company.
In this article, every single person born in the 1970s or before says YES!! Esp the guy who loves his TV!
Every single person born from 1980 onwards except maybe one person says NO WAY!, including me.
Hey bud. I know these statements seem true to you, but they are not. I was born before 1980 and I feel like tech has been held in a stasis field of some sort.
In the 90s, I had some pretty deep and high quality education given to me concerning electricity, transistors, circuits, and such. Once I had some understanding of those subjects, I had some really awesome ideas, but realized that laws and fear would stop a lot of the ideas from ever being fully implemented.
An example: I designed a "ball" that I could toss into a room and it would measure everything in the room using various EM frequencies. Apparently, a couple years ago, someone finally implemented this (in a far more limited mode) and it is sold to police and special forces as a tool to use during hostage situations or clearing out houses.
I wanted to use it to suck the data into a computer so it could be used for many different purposes. Creating virtual environments, mapping out existing architecture, creating map levels for Doom, etc etc etc.
I also came up with some pretty interesting ideas using radio waves for communication purposes... but the frequencies I "needed" to use were all restricted. Bluetooth? lol. I was a decade ahead and had far more capabilities.
It is weird. It is like the world as a whole is limited to what one person, probably 80 years old now, sees as possible and reasonable. Everything else is either suppressed or hidden away because this one person thinks it is not viable or possible. The sense of it being a single person is overwhelmingly strong.
Microsoft alone has held back/slowed down any advances in general computing. In some ways, they have actually reversed progress itself. That is how strong their stranglehold is. But this is just one small symptom supporting my premise above.
TL;DR, advancement is being held in a stasis field where very few things actually escape from.
Kurzweil is unable to see this stasis field and is confused about why his Singularity has not happened yet. Dude, let me tell you something, your fucking Singularity is never going to happen unless you do it yourself... and you seem incapable of making it happen, so stop talking about the Singularity. It will not happen in your lifetime. The log jam has to be cleared first... but, if it is a single 80 year old person, time may clear that log jam soon... but if that person is like Queen Elizabeth, you may have many decades yet to go.
Except none of what is going on here has anything to do with "enough people". The layoffs are monetarily motivated. The corp needs more money to finance its debt and will get it by laying people off. Whether or not those people were needed for anything is not of concern. If they were needed, the corp will "suffer" until it has enough money to hire people again. If they were not needed, then BONUS! They also got rid of dead weight... but again, that is not why any of this occurring.
Given that FB has been accused of making shadow profiles of people not on FB, does deleting the App from a phone really achieve anything?
Yes. It does do something. Deleting it would prevent it from coming back to life like some sort of undead monster. Once it is back to life, it can continue sending data to Facebook.
It doesn't matter whether or not you have a shadow profile or a real profile, the "app" is fucking dangerous to you and should be deleted entirely so it can not keep reviving itself and sending more data.
Until the next update. So no, it does not act in every way like it is deleted. There are dozens of people in this thread alone who are saying that they disabled it and it keeps coming back with a vengeance.
And despite all that they are still at just a fraction of the per capita emissions of the US anyway, around half.
Grrrrrrrrrr
So countries with small populations can never get into mass manufacturing because the per-capita pollution measurement is what matters, not the total amount of pollution.
Let's build a hypothetical country here. It has 1,000 people in it. They manufacture a million cars per year. They get economic sanctions against them because their pollution per capita is ten thousand times higher than any other countries output.
Lets build another hypothetical country but this one has a HUGE population. There are 50 trillion people in this country. They manufacture 2 million cars a year. Hell yeah! Let's encourage those guys. Their per-capita emissions are so low that the number is not representable except in powers of ten notation representing numbers smaller than 1.
Now God, sitting there looking down on the world laughs his fucking ass off. These mother fuckers are actually willing to complain about the pollution that producing one million cars creates when the population of the country that built them (not drive or use, just built) is small but they are completely overjoyed at the pollution that producing 2 million cars makes... I guess because the blame can be spread amongst more people? I mean producing two millions cars creates twice as much pollution (kind of) as producing one million cars. But if you spread the blame amongst people who live in the same country but have nothing to do with the factory itself (work there, drive the cars produced there, etc), then pollution is tolerable.
We have discussed this before. I heard your arguments but none of them helped me to understand why per-capita is a useful measurement and why it can be used to completely ignore total tonnage of pollution. If an iPhone factory is in China and the Chinese are not using iPhones and only the owner of the factory is profiting, how does the blame for the pollution created by that factory get spread out amongst a billion other Chinese citizens? This does not make sense and I can only see dishonest reasons for promulgating this bullshit. It is the factory owner that is causing that pollution, not the fucking farmers. It is the factory owner reaping the profits while polluting, not the fucking farmer. Per-capita is bullshit.
China's per capita carbon emisions are about one third of the USA.
Wow! Really? All I have to do is encourage my poor farmers to breed like rabbits and I can then run dirty industries and make billions of dollars from them and everyone will give me a free pass because 90% of the citizens in my country live off the land and have essentially zero impact on the environment?
I really do love this whole per capita thing. It really captures the truth of the picture. I mean yeah, that poor subsistence farmer has nothing at all to do with that iPhone factory, but if we can lay some portion of the blame on that farmer, then we can appear to be better than we are concerning emissions.
So, if we fuck like rabbits here in the USA and we end up with 3 billion people to spread the blame over, we can look even better than China and run more dirty factories? After all, it does reduce the per-capita pollution numbers even if it fucking increases the overall pollution. After all, it is not the pollution that matters. No. What matters is how many people we can spread the blame over. No, the person who decides to run a business that dumps chemicals into the environment is not to blame. No. He gets to include his neighbors as partially to blame too.
I am sure that neighbor won't get pissed off being blamed for his neighbors spewing shit into the environment. The neighbor did petition city council, engaged in lawsuits, etc to stop the fucker from polluting, but it is appropriate to blame the neighbor because the neighbor obviously didn't do enough to stop it.
I will die on this hill. Measuring industrial pollution in a per-capita manner is absolutely fucking dishonest. You want to do per-capita pollution measurement? Then do it against what society as a whole is doing, not what specific segments of society are doing. Until then, this is all bullshit. I don't dump chemicals in my fucking rivers, but other Americans do and I can't fucking stop them. Stop fucking blaming me. Per-capita my ass.
There will be a lot less "gentlemen's agreement" in the constutution (sic) because the current pile of rightwing fuckwits have shown that there aren't any gentlemen on the rightwing.
Yep. There are no gentlemen in the right wing. I will immediately start voting left wing. I am sure there are lots of real gentlemen there. It doesn't matter if they go against my core values, it only matters that they are gentlemen.. and the left wing has them in spades!
Go go left wing politics! You are soooo much better and less insane than the right wing.
Thank you anonymous coward. I would not know what to do with myself if it weren't for people like you pointing out the obvious to stupid people like myself. I just can't believe I didn't know that the solution to all of the worlds problem was so simple. Just vote left wing and all this stupid shit goes away and life is all lollipops and kittens.
"Well those guys over there are pissing in the pool, so why should I stop?"
It is more like pissing in the ocean. Everyone has to piss. There is no way to stop it and we all have to live in it. To stretch the metaphor really far: As long as it is only whales, fish, etc in the oceans, everything should stay okay, but as humans, we can create things that have to piss more than all the humans in the world combined. And we are making millions of them.
See? The pool idea does not really fit because you can just get out of the pool and go take a piss elsewhere. We can't just get out of the planet. We eat and drink where we shit and piss. So far, the scale of the planet has been enough to "process" the waste products naturally. We have hit that limit in atmospheric chemistry.
We laughed at the idea of anyone buying water in bottles for drinking purposes. Why? Water is fucking free. It flows everywhere. We have drinking fountains that do not ask for payment. Why would anyone buy bottled water? Well, get ready for bottled air! We already have "oxygen bars". I imagine it shouldn't be too much longer until you can purchase premium air in a bottle. 100 years? With Beijing being the way it is, it may start earlier there. They are already wearing (ineffective) masks.
You are way too optimistic. I see this going the way of software and having a Microsoft Cancer treatment that is shitty and kills lots of people but there are no other alternatives available because they have a death-grip on the most important aspects of the market.
When you are spending Other People's Money, there is a limit to how much money is available. I am old enough now where if something devastating happens to my health, I am ok with taking care of the grossest of symptoms (pain) until I die rather than spending my sons money in a vain effort to keep my ass alive.
It sounds cold, and it absolutely IS cold to someone else who has not agreed to this tradeoff. We can't live forever and there is a finite amount of money. Opiates are cheap, but now, we can't even get those. We are all doomed to die in the most extreme agony possible now because of this. *sigh*
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Cyber Security is the area where you will find the largest number of absurdly competent people without a degree. There is something about data protection that precludes a degree from being an indicator of true overall competence. Probably because society itself is mildly insane.
There is a subject line and a box for informational discussion. When you abuse the Subject Line, some people, like myself, miss part of your sentence. Here, watch what a naive replay does:
...that employers can take a glance at and as easily quantify as a stamp of approval on a topic as a college degree.
That is what referrals are for. If you get a resume without a degree, you throw out the resume. Don't have the time or money to assess whether or not this person is reasonable and our competitors could use it as a sort of DDOS on our HR department. So yeah, no degree = tossed resume...
But what about referrals? I guess you could assume that your own employees hate you and your company and want to see it die... and honestly, that wouldn't be too far removed from reality not to actually consider it... but in a reasonably run company, you probably should be trusting your employees at least a little. Regardless, even if every single employee referred one inappropriate person, that is not a lot of people to have to examine more closely.
Fuck it. I don't care about responding anymore. I should just hit cancel but your annoying abuse of the subject line means that my comment will stay.
Why do you misuse the Subject Line? Does it matter to you that you are violating convention? Is that the actual goal, to violate convention? Seriously, crap like that makes comments MUCH harder to read. And read how my quote looks... psychotic, because the first part of the quote is literally missing. Why? Because you broke up your words into various areas and I don't feel like fucking hunting them down to make a coherent quote. Stop being a self-important dick and thinking that you are special enough to get away with abusing convention to make yourself seem more ... something?
Anyways, TL;DR, stop throwing away resumes from referrals just because of no college degree. There is a fucking reason a person puts their own reputation on the line to recommend someone else. This is not hard and it is not fucking complicated... unless you have an aversion to thinking... which most college graduates are explicitly guilty of. "Here is your degree", "Awesome! I know what I need to know, I can stop thinking now!"
That is actually pretty neat. Still the original suggestion of PiHole or whatever is not bad. There are tons of people like me who really would rather not use "the web" but kind of need to for some things. A quick and dirty answer is a reasonable solution.
Slashdot is the only website that I participate in on a regular basis. Figuring out Proximiatron or whatever is not on my todo list as the only website that I use enough to justify that level of control is Slashdot. And Slashdot is not THAT bad.
If the previous discussion between you two were to be viewed as battle, you both won and lost. He won because a quick and dirty solution is sometimes the best choice. You won because you pointed out some software that can completely transform your experience in a way that is desirable for you.
Not every discussion has to have a winner or loser. I don't see that problem here, but it erupts so often that I figured I would address it in an offhand manner here.
And then there are the useful people like you who hated Google and Chrome so much that they completely missed the entire fucking switch that Firefox went through to set up the infrastructure necessary for the web browser to completely ignore the user in favor of the advertiser.
Try to fully understand what happened here. Even the article writer refrains from calling it out directly: https://www.ghacks.net/2017/12...
TL;DR. Firefox is not a reasonable fallback option from Chrome as its infrastructure was recently changed to allow the same behavior.
Except that Firefox semi-recently went through a change that made extensions like No-Script not really effective anymore. The rendering engine will ALWAYS see everything now. Extensions can not protect the engine anymore. Don't worry, it was for your own good that we tied your hands behind your back.
Bye Chrome. I never really liked you because this kind of shit was always possible in your roadmap.
Mozilla has already taken the initial steps to do this too. The web is about to become a MUCH emptier place when the mice realize that fucking with the bait ensures that the trap always fires off.
I am wondering if Konqueror is a reasonable enough method of looking at websites safely? Are they still working on it? Do they have good script controls now?
What is the use of getting everyone to think of Climate Change as a threat? I am sure it is useful to have an entire population scared and feeling helpless... but why should I care about of this?
Am I the person who can make laws?
Am I the person who owns infrastructure?
Why is everyone working so fucking hard to get me to be terrified and horrified about Climate Change?
I find electricity to be exceptionally useful. I don't use a lot and I definitely don't waste it, but I am not going to stop using it. I don't generate electricity. I don't have any control over how electricity is generated. Consumer electricity is not really a huge factor in all of this even if it is a factor that is messy and dirty.
Ok. So my electricity usage is not really an issue, what about the products that I buy and use? Well, again, all of those take energy and I don't generate energy nor do I have any control over those who do... but I can just not buy any products. Kind of? I don't really own anything except some clothes and a car. I think we can all agree that I should be wearing clothes, but what about the car? Well, I live across the street from where I work, so I solved the need for a car concerning getting to work. I still do need a car though. Someone smarter-than-the-rest-of-us fuckhead decided that the profits from making cars were so huge that they took some of those profits and used them to coerce municipalities into designing their cities and towns in such a way that mass transit is almost impossible to do, and is impossible to do in any sort of efficient and economical manner.
But again, I didn't have any control over how those profits were used.
The only other direct effect I can have is to stop eating meat or to stop living entirely. They are roughly equivalent to me. I will go buy guns and prevent you from forcing me to eat some protein "shake" that has all the essential amino acids that the body needs.
So explain to me why I should be all up in arms over Climate Change? What use is it for me to have lingering unresolved psychological issues related to things I can't control, change, or even influence?
Long story short, those who profited the most from this utter mess are throwing the responsibility back on the masses by saying, "you enticed me to do it! you are responsible". No mother fucker, the rapist doesn't get to say "you enticed me to rape you".
And yet some of you continue blithely along trying to get everyone all worked up over this shit. Stop it. rsilvergun and AmiMoJo, you are working directly for the people that you most despise. You are helping to remove the issue of direct accountability by helping those who profited to push the blame onto us, where we are expected to walk to work and eat protein shakes to help "save the environment" while mother fuckers Mary T. Barra assist their masters in continuing to do more damage to the environment than any random group of 7 billion people would by themselves.
Please stop posting articles about Climate Change here. There is no good coming out of it. I don't normally hate people, but god damn, it is REALLY hard not to have intense burning hatred for the useful fools like AmiMoJo and rsilvergun.
Of the two evils, Oracle is probably, for once, the innocent party here.
Jesus Fucking H Christ. Is the Apocalypse here already? *sigh*
But there's no clear reason other sources can't grow at a fast enough pace.
Hm. Mineral extraction and manufacturing can only happen so fast. There is a limit. Have you run the numbers on how much power we need? It would take centuries to manufacture that many solar panels... and that would be using existing tech only. Replacing them with better tech later...
That is a LOT of sand that is needed.
That says new nuclear plants aren't economically viable?
CO2 in the atmosphere is not economically viable either... and yet here we are.
Also, your education seems to have left out what to do with the waste. And no, you can't reprocess it all. First, it's not all spent fuel. Second, a reprocessing plant is also a nuclear weapons plant, which means it's not a practical global solution.
It is true that a reprocessing plant creates isotopes that could be weaponized. The knowledge is already out there and is NOT being shared with those who are considered "untrustworthy", so running a reprocessing plant does not expose any secrets, you merely have to be able to account for the output of the plant. What is nice is that one reprocessing plant could create fuel for the entire world. So it could be located in France or the UK somewhere that it would be pretty safe.
Nuclear is the answer. No answer is economically viable, but this issue does need to be addressed. Everything else will take a lot more time and resources. It is simply impossible to build enough solar panels fast enough. We should be pursuing all avenues and this fear of nuclear is creating a planetwide issue.
I guess you can have your acidic oceans and humid dank atmosphere brightened up by eventually having enough solar power to reduce the CO2 output into the atmosphere.
We all know this by now. The question I keep asking is, is this going to change how anybody votes in 2020? So far I haven't got a single answer of "yes". As such, I would expect him to continue this behavior since it seems to be working out just fine for him.
Really? You think voting Democrat will prevent someone like Ajit Pai being appointed to an important position?
LOL. Your naivety is adorable.
What is worse is that you expect people to change their vote based on just ONE appointment. "Ajit Pai sucks, vote Democrat next time".
Ummm. That is not how this works. That is not how any of this works. You are utterly deluded if you think the root of the problem is voting for one party over the other. They are both as corrupt as could possibly be. We have seen evidence of Republican corruption and evidence of Democrat corruption. We have seen Republicans show a complete lack of respect towards common citizens. We have seen Democrats show a complete lack of respect towards common citizens.
Sure, the Democrats offer a DIFFERENT shitshow than the Republicans do, but both parties only offer shit shows.
So how is "changing a vote" a thing here? You will get corruption no matter what you vote. Corruption is the only thing offered on the ballot. If it weren't, then we could vote for non-corrupt people. But we can't. The only choice is: Do I prefer to get fucked this way (copyrights forever, wasted tax money etc) or do I want to get fucked that way (corps getting away with murder, huge tax increases).
Well? How would I change my vote in a way that matters? Go ahead and say vote Democrat and I will laugh at your fantasy version of reality. It is getting harder to not just write Mickey Mouse in as a candidate.
There is an Agenda here. Good luck on getting a rational explanation of the methodology. Probably something to do with essential oil residue or something. ;)
Yeah. We get it. Republicans are shit and Democrats offer a sane way for America to be governed...
Except for all the bad things the Democrats did.
So let's all vote Republican. Well, they are doing demonstrably bad things.
How about trying not to make this into a Democrats vs Republicans thing? Both parties are acting shitty right now. Both parties have acted like shit in the past. Both parties will act like shit in the future.
Your words contribute nothing positive to this discussion. It does not matter who is the worst when none of the choices are even neutral, much less good. Nobody, in good conscience, can vote either Democrat or Republican, even if the Republicans are 10 times worse than the Democrats.
It is like saying that being burned alive is 10 times worse than having your head cut off, so let's all vote for having our heads cut off!
Ummm... Duh?
So would this be one of the situations where the word "decimate" actually means what the word itself means? ;)
Hm. I was nodding in agreement with you, then this thought hit me: Frequently, the only reason to look up a receipt afterwards is to process a refund or warranty where your privacy is already tossed out the window...
and then I thought, "Why does this ever have to be a QR code? Just take a picture of what the actual receipt would look like, fully itemized. Makes it simpler for turning in receipts for reimbursement by your company.
In this article, every single person born in the 1970s or before says YES!! Esp the guy who loves his TV!
Every single person born from 1980 onwards except maybe one person says NO WAY!, including me.
Hey bud. I know these statements seem true to you, but they are not. I was born before 1980 and I feel like tech has been held in a stasis field of some sort.
In the 90s, I had some pretty deep and high quality education given to me concerning electricity, transistors, circuits, and such. Once I had some understanding of those subjects, I had some really awesome ideas, but realized that laws and fear would stop a lot of the ideas from ever being fully implemented.
An example: I designed a "ball" that I could toss into a room and it would measure everything in the room using various EM frequencies. Apparently, a couple years ago, someone finally implemented this (in a far more limited mode) and it is sold to police and special forces as a tool to use during hostage situations or clearing out houses.
I wanted to use it to suck the data into a computer so it could be used for many different purposes. Creating virtual environments, mapping out existing architecture, creating map levels for Doom, etc etc etc.
I also came up with some pretty interesting ideas using radio waves for communication purposes... but the frequencies I "needed" to use were all restricted. Bluetooth? lol. I was a decade ahead and had far more capabilities.
It is weird. It is like the world as a whole is limited to what one person, probably 80 years old now, sees as possible and reasonable. Everything else is either suppressed or hidden away because this one person thinks it is not viable or possible. The sense of it being a single person is overwhelmingly strong.
Microsoft alone has held back/slowed down any advances in general computing. In some ways, they have actually reversed progress itself. That is how strong their stranglehold is. But this is just one small symptom supporting my premise above.
TL;DR, advancement is being held in a stasis field where very few things actually escape from.
Kurzweil is unable to see this stasis field and is confused about why his Singularity has not happened yet. Dude, let me tell you something, your fucking Singularity is never going to happen unless you do it yourself... and you seem incapable of making it happen, so stop talking about the Singularity. It will not happen in your lifetime. The log jam has to be cleared first... but, if it is a single 80 year old person, time may clear that log jam soon... but if that person is like Queen Elizabeth, you may have many decades yet to go.
Except none of what is going on here has anything to do with "enough people". The layoffs are monetarily motivated. The corp needs more money to finance its debt and will get it by laying people off. Whether or not those people were needed for anything is not of concern. If they were needed, the corp will "suffer" until it has enough money to hire people again. If they were not needed, then BONUS! They also got rid of dead weight... but again, that is not why any of this occurring.
Given that FB has been accused of making shadow profiles of people not on FB, does deleting the App from a phone really achieve anything?
Yes. It does do something. Deleting it would prevent it from coming back to life like some sort of undead monster. Once it is back to life, it can continue sending data to Facebook.
It doesn't matter whether or not you have a shadow profile or a real profile, the "app" is fucking dangerous to you and should be deleted entirely so it can not keep reviving itself and sending more data.
So yes, it acts in every way like its deleted.
Until the next update. So no, it does not act in every way like it is deleted. There are dozens of people in this thread alone who are saying that they disabled it and it keeps coming back with a vengeance.
Try again? :)
And despite all that they are still at just a fraction of the per capita emissions of the US anyway, around half.
Grrrrrrrrrr
So countries with small populations can never get into mass manufacturing because the per-capita pollution measurement is what matters, not the total amount of pollution.
Let's build a hypothetical country here. It has 1,000 people in it. They manufacture a million cars per year. They get economic sanctions against them because their pollution per capita is ten thousand times higher than any other countries output.
Lets build another hypothetical country but this one has a HUGE population. There are 50 trillion people in this country. They manufacture 2 million cars a year. Hell yeah! Let's encourage those guys. Their per-capita emissions are so low that the number is not representable except in powers of ten notation representing numbers smaller than 1.
Now God, sitting there looking down on the world laughs his fucking ass off. These mother fuckers are actually willing to complain about the pollution that producing one million cars creates when the population of the country that built them (not drive or use, just built) is small but they are completely overjoyed at the pollution that producing 2 million cars makes... I guess because the blame can be spread amongst more people? I mean producing two millions cars creates twice as much pollution (kind of) as producing one million cars. But if you spread the blame amongst people who live in the same country but have nothing to do with the factory itself (work there, drive the cars produced there, etc), then pollution is tolerable.
We have discussed this before. I heard your arguments but none of them helped me to understand why per-capita is a useful measurement and why it can be used to completely ignore total tonnage of pollution. If an iPhone factory is in China and the Chinese are not using iPhones and only the owner of the factory is profiting, how does the blame for the pollution created by that factory get spread out amongst a billion other Chinese citizens? This does not make sense and I can only see dishonest reasons for promulgating this bullshit. It is the factory owner that is causing that pollution, not the fucking farmers. It is the factory owner reaping the profits while polluting, not the fucking farmer. Per-capita is bullshit.
China's per capita carbon emisions are about one third of the USA.
Wow! Really? All I have to do is encourage my poor farmers to breed like rabbits and I can then run dirty industries and make billions of dollars from them and everyone will give me a free pass because 90% of the citizens in my country live off the land and have essentially zero impact on the environment?
I really do love this whole per capita thing. It really captures the truth of the picture. I mean yeah, that poor subsistence farmer has nothing at all to do with that iPhone factory, but if we can lay some portion of the blame on that farmer, then we can appear to be better than we are concerning emissions.
So, if we fuck like rabbits here in the USA and we end up with 3 billion people to spread the blame over, we can look even better than China and run more dirty factories? After all, it does reduce the per-capita pollution numbers even if it fucking increases the overall pollution. After all, it is not the pollution that matters. No. What matters is how many people we can spread the blame over. No, the person who decides to run a business that dumps chemicals into the environment is not to blame. No. He gets to include his neighbors as partially to blame too.
I am sure that neighbor won't get pissed off being blamed for his neighbors spewing shit into the environment. The neighbor did petition city council, engaged in lawsuits, etc to stop the fucker from polluting, but it is appropriate to blame the neighbor because the neighbor obviously didn't do enough to stop it.
I will die on this hill. Measuring industrial pollution in a per-capita manner is absolutely fucking dishonest. You want to do per-capita pollution measurement? Then do it against what society as a whole is doing, not what specific segments of society are doing. Until then, this is all bullshit. I don't dump chemicals in my fucking rivers, but other Americans do and I can't fucking stop them. Stop fucking blaming me. Per-capita my ass.
There will be a lot less "gentlemen's agreement" in the constutution (sic) because the current pile of rightwing fuckwits have shown that there aren't any gentlemen on the rightwing.
Yep. There are no gentlemen in the right wing. I will immediately start voting left wing. I am sure there are lots of real gentlemen there. It doesn't matter if they go against my core values, it only matters that they are gentlemen.. and the left wing has them in spades!
Go go left wing politics! You are soooo much better and less insane than the right wing.
Thank you anonymous coward. I would not know what to do with myself if it weren't for people like you pointing out the obvious to stupid people like myself. I just can't believe I didn't know that the solution to all of the worlds problem was so simple. Just vote left wing and all this stupid shit goes away and life is all lollipops and kittens.
"Well those guys over there are pissing in the pool, so why should I stop?"
It is more like pissing in the ocean. Everyone has to piss. There is no way to stop it and we all have to live in it. To stretch the metaphor really far: As long as it is only whales, fish, etc in the oceans, everything should stay okay, but as humans, we can create things that have to piss more than all the humans in the world combined. And we are making millions of them.
See? The pool idea does not really fit because you can just get out of the pool and go take a piss elsewhere. We can't just get out of the planet. We eat and drink where we shit and piss. So far, the scale of the planet has been enough to "process" the waste products naturally. We have hit that limit in atmospheric chemistry.
We laughed at the idea of anyone buying water in bottles for drinking purposes. Why? Water is fucking free. It flows everywhere. We have drinking fountains that do not ask for payment. Why would anyone buy bottled water? Well, get ready for bottled air! We already have "oxygen bars". I imagine it shouldn't be too much longer until you can purchase premium air in a bottle. 100 years? With Beijing being the way it is, it may start earlier there. They are already wearing (ineffective) masks.
You are way too optimistic. I see this going the way of software and having a Microsoft Cancer treatment that is shitty and kills lots of people but there are no other alternatives available because they have a death-grip on the most important aspects of the market.
When you are spending Other People's Money, there is a limit to how much money is available. I am old enough now where if something devastating happens to my health, I am ok with taking care of the grossest of symptoms (pain) until I die rather than spending my sons money in a vain effort to keep my ass alive.
It sounds cold, and it absolutely IS cold to someone else who has not agreed to this tradeoff. We can't live forever and there is a finite amount of money. Opiates are cheap, but now, we can't even get those. We are all doomed to die in the most extreme agony possible now because of this. *sigh*
At least his grandma got pain pills.