"The true challenge is to bring prosperity to the poor countries which currently have locally unsustainable population growth."
'prosperity' You the whole western world has been brain-washed, this prosperity thing, it has another name - mindless consumerism and it's this mindless consumerism, the idea that we must have ever more junk, ever bigger houses, cars etc, it's this falsehood that's getting us to where we are now which is at the edge of a precipice and that precipice is our impending extinction. It's good and well to say we can deal with these things, I know we have most of the solutions to do so, but we have to implement those solutions. And we need to stop investing into getting every last drop of oil and gas out of the ground, and we need to stop subsidising these same things.
If mankind doesn't face up to the fact that the very survival instincts that got us to where we are now will kill us all if we don't rise above them and use our brains instead of our balls.
Prosperity is the wrong goal, the correct goal is making sure everybody has clean air to breath, healthy food to eat, clean water to drink, but 1st and foremost we need to look after the planet we are on. And we should be trying a lot harder to preserve other species because our own survival may very well depend on it.
You can only say this if you are ignorant of the way we are decimating the ocean floor, polluting everything, ignorance of global warming and the domino effects waiting in store.
This isn't about simply being able to grow enough food, I never said it was.
" rest is quality of life: electricity, medicine, education. each of which is solvable."
These things are not the issue, looking after the planet we live on so that it can continue to support us, that is the issue.
The real challenge is admitting there's an over-population problem and that our current way of living isn't sustainable and dealing with this without getting peoples backs up.
Katla: I'm going to explode now:-) any second.. 5.. 4.. 3.. Hecla: No sorry you can't you haven't prepared. Katla: What, prepare? man I want TO EXPLODE NOW, how to prepare??? Hecla, You have to notify the airlines, fill the right govt forms. Katla what...... boooooooooommmmmmmmm
Here in the UK people living in flood plains get flooded, who would have expected that eh? And then they go complaining to the government. That's mostly as bad as it gets.
Yeah, all the radioactive waste has short half-lives and by 2016 they'll be able to clean up the mostly harmless waste. [sarc]
Seriously though, Tepco lied and said the reactor cores didn't melt down, so what else have they lied about.
We're told the clean-up is safe and no-one is getting ill. Then we're told the Yakuza are in charge of hiring, they're hiring homeless people and workers rights are being ignored. That doesn't sound like a recipe for safe working conditions to me.
Pretty much agree with that, although I think with fully autonomous cars it makes more sense for the manufacturer to cover the insurance. Why? Because it makes no sense for the customer to have the insurance - why wold they want that pointless burden? And because of potential new precedents. In a new legal field the manufacturer would want to throw everything they have towards winning cases in order to avoid any bad precedents.
An interesting point that we learn from this is that the Tesla vehicle is not looking as far ahead as the driver would be looking. I'm inferring that because the vehicle doesn't seem to have been recognised whilst it made the initial stages of the turn. Or it somehow forgot what it had seen.
This is what I don't like about autonomous vehicles, you don't know what their capabilities are or how they might react or what dangers they potentially pose, at least with humans you have a reasonable idea.
The driver failed to react because he was watching a video. The computer did not react at all, that's much different to not reacting in time, although I guess that some other sensors probably detected the truck when the car was 0.01ish seconds away from it.
It's the first time I've heard anyone say the turn was not legal, got a source? I read an article on it and it does not say the turn wasn't legal.Looks legal (road diagram): http://www.treehugger.com/cars...
I'm not sure if there are really good enough statistics to say autonomous cars are safer, but like you say, drivers who aren't distracted or intoxicated are safer, but if they keep developing the technology that would likely change.
I did a bit of researching and am entirely unconvinced so far that privacy badger actually works, I think I'd only use it to bolster ad-block / ublock.
If the expected battery lifetime is 8-10 years then that is a lot to spend on an old vehicle
That'd basically depend on mileage. And $300 per year for a car with lower maintenance costs doesn't sound too bad. And in 10 years the batteries will be cheaper again and probably half the size and weight too (already invented x2).
It doesn't actually say those deaths are due to homeopathic remedies as far as I can tell.
Also there is no mention of how much deadly nightshade is in the homeopathic pills, one would expect there to be inconsequential amounts due to the way homeopathic pills are made.
The article is somewhat useless without this information. And the article and summary are potentially very misleading but we can't actually tell because they both lack important details.
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"The true challenge is to bring prosperity to the poor countries which currently have locally unsustainable population growth."
'prosperity' You the whole western world has been brain-washed, this prosperity thing, it has another name - mindless consumerism and it's this mindless consumerism, the idea that we must have ever more junk, ever bigger houses, cars etc, it's this falsehood that's getting us to where we are now which is at the edge of a precipice and that precipice is our impending extinction. It's good and well to say we can deal with these things, I know we have most of the solutions to do so, but we have to implement those solutions. And we need to stop investing into getting every last drop of oil and gas out of the ground, and we need to stop subsidising these same things.
If mankind doesn't face up to the fact that the very survival instincts that got us to where we are now will kill us all if we don't rise above them and use our brains instead of our balls.
Prosperity is the wrong goal, the correct goal is making sure everybody has clean air to breath, healthy food to eat, clean water to drink, but 1st and foremost we need to look after the planet we are on. And we should be trying a lot harder to preserve other species because our own survival may very well depend on it.
As with any problem you start with accepting that there is a problem.
You can only say this if you are ignorant of the way we are decimating the ocean floor, polluting everything, ignorance of global warming and the domino effects waiting in store.
This isn't about simply being able to grow enough food, I never said it was.
" rest is quality of life: electricity, medicine, education. each of which is solvable."
These things are not the issue, looking after the planet we live on so that it can continue to support us, that is the issue.
Sustainable, look it up, research it.
You're looking at this from a completely different angle and ignoring the problem of resources, pollution and destruction of natural environments.
If we carry on like this we will cause our own extinction along with that of most life.
The real challenge is admitting there's an over-population problem and that our current way of living isn't sustainable and dealing with this without getting peoples backs up.
ord.
Katla: I'm going to explode now :-) any second.. 5.. 4.. 3..
Hecla: No sorry you can't you haven't prepared.
Katla: What, prepare? man I want TO EXPLODE NOW, how to prepare???
Hecla, You have to notify the airlines, fill the right govt forms.
Katla what...... boooooooooommmmmmmmm
...To initiate self-destruct you just drop it in a bucket of dirty water and leave if for a few hours. :-(
Here in the UK people living in flood plains get flooded, who would have expected that eh? And then they go complaining to the government. That's mostly as bad as it gets.
Making software easy to use is all about having a good intuitive ui, nothing to do with source code.
It should be easily possible to deny these things in settings, Android is deeply flawed.
Yeah, all the radioactive waste has short half-lives and by 2016 they'll be able to clean up the mostly harmless waste. [sarc]
Seriously though, Tepco lied and said the reactor cores didn't melt down, so what else have they lied about.
We're told the clean-up is safe and no-one is getting ill. Then we're told the Yakuza are in charge of hiring, they're hiring homeless people and workers rights are being ignored. That doesn't sound like a recipe for safe working conditions to me.
How the Yakuza went nuclear
Atomic mafia: Yakuza âcleans upâ(TM) Fukushima, neglects basic workers' rights â" RT News
Pretty much agree with that, although I think with fully autonomous cars it makes more sense for the manufacturer to cover the insurance. Why? Because it makes no sense for the customer to have the insurance - why wold they want that pointless burden? And because of potential new precedents. In a new legal field the manufacturer would want to throw everything they have towards winning cases in order to avoid any bad precedents.
An interesting point that we learn from this is that the Tesla vehicle is not looking as far ahead as the driver would be looking. I'm inferring that because the vehicle doesn't seem to have been recognised whilst it made the initial stages of the turn. Or it somehow forgot what it had seen.
This is what I don't like about autonomous vehicles, you don't know what their capabilities are or how they might react or what dangers they potentially pose, at least with humans you have a reasonable idea.
The driver failed to react because he was watching a video. The computer did not react at all, that's much different to not reacting in time, although I guess that some other sensors probably detected the truck when the car was 0.01ish seconds away from it.
It's the first time I've heard anyone say the turn was not legal, got a source? I read an article on it and it does not say the turn wasn't legal.Looks legal (road diagram): http://www.treehugger.com/cars...
I'm not sure if there are really good enough statistics to say autonomous cars are safer, but like you say, drivers who aren't distracted or intoxicated are safer, but if they keep developing the technology that would likely change.
"No cross-traffic"
It's human nature to make assumptions, assumptions that then get programmed into autonomous car systems. And then someone dies.
Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode | Technology | The Guardian
Do tesla have this special autonomous license everywhere, or is it an oversight?
I did a bit of researching and am entirely unconvinced so far that privacy badger actually works, I think I'd only use it to bolster ad-block / ublock.
Why's it better?
100% agree, I use Firefox because of the extensions, killing extensions is killing Firefox.
That'd basically depend on mileage.
And $300 per year for a car with lower maintenance costs doesn't sound too bad. And in 10 years the batteries will be cheaper again and probably half the size and weight too (already invented x2).
'Start-up's should be ring-fenced tightly, if this is done the all it would take is a re-boot to de-fang a virus.
A program that doesn't start is harmless.
They're not, you're just hallucinating.
It doesn't actually say those deaths are due to homeopathic remedies as far as I can tell.
Also there is no mention of how much deadly nightshade is in the homeopathic pills, one would expect there to be inconsequential amounts due to the way homeopathic pills are made.
The article is somewhat useless without this information. And the article and summary are potentially very misleading but we can't actually tell because they both lack important details.
Understatement of the year there, forking a browser would require more effort than one person could likely handle.
Blue pill.