Chemicals are dangerous. Especially DHMO. Thousands of people have DIED from it, but cities and towns keep pumping it out.
Check out this site for more details: http://www.bandhmo.org/
Actually, a bus or public transit would be more like UPS.
Both involve a central collection point and aggregation into a scheduled service.
Car transit is more like a peer-to-peer service: on demand and point-to-point. Much faster than going UPS (or bus).
It takes an interesting mind to watch thousands of 5-passenger cars go by with a single occupant and not think that carpooling is a solution. Just one additional passenger will double the capacity of the road.
And there are millions of packets going by on the Internet. Just think, if every other packet were concatenated on the previous one, there would be half as many packets, and that would double the capacity of the routers.
Our model we've discussed at work is that PCs are for content creators and tablets are for content consumers.
Very few people program or develop complex spreadsheets on tablets. Those users typically use laptops or desktops (whether MacOS, Windows or Linux).
People on tablets review spreadsheets, read web pages and read/reply to email.
In my experience, very little content is created on tablets.
That may mean that 90% of the users will be fine with a tablet, but there will still be a place for the desktop/laptop. The downside for us content creators, if that happens, is the price will go up as we become a specialty market rather than a mass market.
The problem is: when WW II and the first part of the Cold War were going on, Hanford was underregulated. The goal was to beat the Soviets in the race to build bombs. They should never have put that waste in single-lined tanks with no plan to ever get it out.
Now, the site is OVER regulated. The tanks are leaking, but no one will let them take it out of the tanks unless every part of the plan is 150% safe and they have a plan for storing the waste for ten million years.
Meanwhile, the tanks are rusting and the waste is leaking. Why not do what we can to get the waste out and stabilized rather than awaiting perfection that will never come.
If I were going to die (or at least suffer harm) if I received my prescription drugs on Monday rather than Saturday, I'd have them sent FedEx Express or UPS Overnight. My experience is that even 1st class mail may be delayed a day or two (and I have no recourse).
If CO2 IS the issue then it's incumbent on EVERY producer, including China to cap and reduce emissions.
All of the proposals I've seen put forward, including Kyoto and everything since, gives China and India a free pass to continue building coal plants, more automobiles and essentially outsourcing all the West's carbon-heavy production.
I'm not saying the grass roots (you) aren't interested in reducing CO2 - just that all the proposals put forward ignore the physics that CO2 is a global problem, and needs a universal solution.
Most of the Co2 crowd isn't really interested in reducing Co2 globally, or curing the problem. They're more interested in redistributing $trillions to the third-world and China.
China has become the largest emitter of Co2 in the world. But most of the activists focus on the per-capita emission of the US and Western Europe. If China gets anywhere close to the West, it won't be AGW that bothers us - we will smother in Co2.
China is building a coal-powered electric plant every week. The schemes for a carbon tax don't include China or India. Therefore, all the Western industry will move there and continue to export to the West.
Then there's the transfer payments.
The 1% won't see a difference if food and transportation (oil) go up 10x. The proposed transfer payments will take care of the very poor. China and India get a pass. The only ones cutting back are Americans and Europeans.
No way.
Also adding to the cost of rail:
Air travel:
FAA: government agency dispatching planes
Airports: built by government agencies using tax-exempt bonds
Planes: development subsidized by military designs
Subsidies: many small airports have a government subsidy equal to or greater than the ticket price
Roads:
Built by government agencies
using tax free bonds
paid for by tax on gasoline.
Rail travel:
Dispatching and traffic control: paid by railroad
Right-of-way: originally given for free to build the transcontinental railway; now paid for by railroads
Track maintenance: paid for by railroad
Roadbed: taxed as an asset
Is there any doubt that auto, truck and plane are winning and rail is losing as a transport mechanism, despite using the least fuel and Co2 emission (other than barges)?
No, killing vast numbers because of their nationality or race is genocide.
For example, the US Civil war killed vast numbers of Caucasian Americans, but it was not genocide because they were Caucasian ^B^B^B^B^B^B white ^B^B^B^B^B I mean because they were killed for attempting violent overthrow of the US government.
Likewise, the Japanese were not killed because they were Asian. They were killed for starting a war of conquest and including the United States when we imposed sanctions on them for that war of conquest.
Japan invaded China and Manchuria, killing 300k in Shanghai alone.
The US tried the darling of the left, sanctions.
Then, while the Japanese were in Washington, in negotiation with the US on resolving the conflict peacefully, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor one Sunday morning. That afternoon, the Japanese ambassador delivered the declaration of war.
Along the way, there was the Bataan Death March (definitely genocide).
On Saipan, the US had translators and loudspeakers trying to convince the Japanese civilians that they would not be harmed. The Japanese military told them the Americans would kill them. They jumped off a cliff into the sea. Can you have genocide within the same racial group.
Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we asked the Japanese to surrender. Sound of crickets as the Japanese, with their custom, killed the peace proposal with silence.
Then the B-29s were sent out, not with bombs, but risking flak, etc., to drop leaflets telling everyone in town to get out or face a new and powerful bomb. They chose to stay, working in the Mitsubishi Torpedo Works, the shipyards and other armaments plants.
After the first bomb, the US waited three days. Still the sound of crickets from the Imperial Palace.
So, your definition of genocide is striking back in force after an unprovoked attack? Interesting definition.
And, once the Japanese surrendered, we spent millions feeding their people. Genocide?
We can cure deafness with technology (cochlear implants). Some in the deaf culture world think this should not be done, since, if widespread, it will end 'deaf culture' and people will no longer learn sign language and expect the deaf to get an implant.
I think it's a crime not to cure it if we can.
Sort of like the Christopher Columbus mythology... not a lot of market or other profit reasons to sail that long, dangerous, expensive way from Portugal to the New World. Not going to be any future in it, so everyone would be better off staying home in Europe.
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Obviously /. is a Swiss shill, as evidenced by their almost universal use of Helvetica.
I thought Cook and Jobs destroyed Ballmer?
Actually, the preferred term is "undocumented torte".
Will they play a recording, like: "Please wait there next to the mud hut. The next drone operator will be with you shortly."
If Google can build a self-driving car, why can't NorthropGrumman build an autonomous drone?
Actually this one gives even more information: http://www.dhmo.org/
Chemicals are dangerous. Especially DHMO. Thousands of people have DIED from it, but cities and towns keep pumping it out. Check out this site for more details: http://www.bandhmo.org/
We did solve the issue. It's called "Yucca Flats", and it's essentially complete. NIMBY politics killed it.
Does that mean we're going to have more of those fake-tree cellular towers? I like the monopoles better.
Actually, a bus or public transit would be more like UPS. Both involve a central collection point and aggregation into a scheduled service. Car transit is more like a peer-to-peer service: on demand and point-to-point. Much faster than going UPS (or bus).
It takes an interesting mind to watch thousands of 5-passenger cars go by with a single occupant and not think that carpooling is a solution. Just one additional passenger will double the capacity of the road.
And there are millions of packets going by on the Internet. Just think, if every other packet were concatenated on the previous one, there would be half as many packets, and that would double the capacity of the routers.
Very few people program or develop complex spreadsheets on tablets. Those users typically use laptops or desktops (whether MacOS, Windows or Linux).
People on tablets review spreadsheets, read web pages and read/reply to email.
In my experience, very little content is created on tablets.
That may mean that 90% of the users will be fine with a tablet, but there will still be a place for the desktop/laptop. The downside for us content creators, if that happens, is the price will go up as we become a specialty market rather than a mass market.
I thought that's what xenu did according to Scientology...
The problem is: when WW II and the first part of the Cold War were going on, Hanford was underregulated. The goal was to beat the Soviets in the race to build bombs. They should never have put that waste in single-lined tanks with no plan to ever get it out. Now, the site is OVER regulated. The tanks are leaking, but no one will let them take it out of the tanks unless every part of the plan is 150% safe and they have a plan for storing the waste for ten million years. Meanwhile, the tanks are rusting and the waste is leaking. Why not do what we can to get the waste out and stabilized rather than awaiting perfection that will never come.
If I were going to die (or at least suffer harm) if I received my prescription drugs on Monday rather than Saturday, I'd have them sent FedEx Express or UPS Overnight. My experience is that even 1st class mail may be delayed a day or two (and I have no recourse).
If CO2 IS the issue then it's incumbent on EVERY producer, including China to cap and reduce emissions. All of the proposals I've seen put forward, including Kyoto and everything since, gives China and India a free pass to continue building coal plants, more automobiles and essentially outsourcing all the West's carbon-heavy production. I'm not saying the grass roots (you) aren't interested in reducing CO2 - just that all the proposals put forward ignore the physics that CO2 is a global problem, and needs a universal solution.
BS. If they were cheaper, industry would be doing them in a massive fashion.
Most of the Co2 crowd isn't really interested in reducing Co2 globally, or curing the problem. They're more interested in redistributing $trillions to the third-world and China. China has become the largest emitter of Co2 in the world. But most of the activists focus on the per-capita emission of the US and Western Europe. If China gets anywhere close to the West, it won't be AGW that bothers us - we will smother in Co2. China is building a coal-powered electric plant every week. The schemes for a carbon tax don't include China or India. Therefore, all the Western industry will move there and continue to export to the West. Then there's the transfer payments. The 1% won't see a difference if food and transportation (oil) go up 10x. The proposed transfer payments will take care of the very poor. China and India get a pass. The only ones cutting back are Americans and Europeans. No way.
And that same hyperinflation effectively confiscates everyone's 401k, pension and any other savings. It also eliminates mortgage debt.
White long-haired cat optional.
Also adding to the cost of rail: Air travel: FAA: government agency dispatching planes Airports: built by government agencies using tax-exempt bonds Planes: development subsidized by military designs Subsidies: many small airports have a government subsidy equal to or greater than the ticket price Roads: Built by government agencies using tax free bonds paid for by tax on gasoline. Rail travel: Dispatching and traffic control: paid by railroad Right-of-way: originally given for free to build the transcontinental railway; now paid for by railroads Track maintenance: paid for by railroad Roadbed: taxed as an asset Is there any doubt that auto, truck and plane are winning and rail is losing as a transport mechanism, despite using the least fuel and Co2 emission (other than barges)?
For example, the US Civil war killed vast numbers of Caucasian Americans, but it was not genocide because they were Caucasian ^B^B^B^B^B^B white ^B^B^B^B^B I mean because they were killed for attempting violent overthrow of the US government.
Likewise, the Japanese were not killed because they were Asian. They were killed for starting a war of conquest and including the United States when we imposed sanctions on them for that war of conquest.
What part of it did I miss?
Let's see:
Japan invaded China and Manchuria, killing 300k in Shanghai alone.
The US tried the darling of the left, sanctions.
Then, while the Japanese were in Washington, in negotiation with the US on resolving the conflict peacefully, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor one Sunday morning. That afternoon, the Japanese ambassador delivered the declaration of war.
Along the way, there was the Bataan Death March (definitely genocide).
On Saipan, the US had translators and loudspeakers trying to convince the Japanese civilians that they would not be harmed. The Japanese military told them the Americans would kill them. They jumped off a cliff into the sea. Can you have genocide within the same racial group.
Before Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we asked the Japanese to surrender. Sound of crickets as the Japanese, with their custom, killed the peace proposal with silence.
Then the B-29s were sent out, not with bombs, but risking flak, etc., to drop leaflets telling everyone in town to get out or face a new and powerful bomb. They chose to stay, working in the Mitsubishi Torpedo Works, the shipyards and other armaments plants.
After the first bomb, the US waited three days. Still the sound of crickets from the Imperial Palace.
So, your definition of genocide is striking back in force after an unprovoked attack? Interesting definition.
And, once the Japanese surrendered, we spent millions feeding their people. Genocide?
We can cure deafness with technology (cochlear implants). Some in the deaf culture world think this should not be done, since, if widespread, it will end 'deaf culture' and people will no longer learn sign language and expect the deaf to get an implant. I think it's a crime not to cure it if we can.
Sort of like the Christopher Columbus mythology... not a lot of market or other profit reasons to sail that long, dangerous, expensive way from Portugal to the New World. Not going to be any future in it, so everyone would be better off staying home in Europe.