As a nation, we work harder and longer than almost all of our competitors, and much of that work is uncompensated
Oh, it's compensated all right, it's just not the poor bastard doing the overtime that's getting the dough, it's the directors and the shareholders.
If you work for free, that's called slavery and you're a mug. And American holidays are a joke. And the American health care system is a joke and the internet competition is a joke. Brainwashed.
You don't even have to host the email, I got a domain for a small company and let 1&1 look after the email for peanuts - without all of the maintenance drag. If 1&1 go down then there are multiple options for continuing the email.
Can doctors prescribe placebos, there's go to be legal and moral issues there. Isn't it more ethically wrong to prescribe something you don't believe in than to prescribe something you do believe in.
But would they? To protest poisoning rhino horns is pretty much to support the people killing rhinos. I don't think the 'bleeding hearts' would protest much.
Pain is exactly the kind of thing that Homeopathy's placebo effect is suited to
When I was a teenager, I was having bad headaches 2-3 times a week. I went to a homoeopath at my mother's insistence, I knew at the time what the little pills were and didn't believe they would work but after the 2nd attempt the headaches stopped, even to this day I only get about 1 headache per year and only mild at that.
When conventional medicine doesn't have a cure, what harm is there to allow placebo effect when it works? I would rather have taken a few pills with no side-effects than have been prescribed some pills by a real doctor that may have been addictive or dangerous if too many are taken and wouldn't cure the problem anyway.
Placebo effect has value and shouldn't be dismissed off-hand. Homoeopathy worked for me, so no amount of childish screaming it can't work it's not science doesn't cut it.
Don't you find Libre Office to be incredibly buggy?
Delete rows, crash, paste a table from the web, crash, click close, wait for save dialogue and it crashes instead!
And conditional formatting was very broken last time I tried to use it a lot. And the charts are very lacking and horrible to work with - a bizarre UI maze mess. And Macros are weird, vague and over complicated.
Now I have to figure out how to justify a $60 game.
Why on earth would you want to pay $60 for a game!?!?!, Games coming out now are no better than games which came out 3 years ago and you don't need super hardware to play 3-year old games.
Gog, Humble Bundle, Steam, Amazon etc sales and simple price drops, plenty of top games for 5 to 10 US/EU.
I disagree - I don't watch TV ads, ghostery and noscript kill internet ads. I'm more concerned with the corporate stalking, like any stalking it's creepy and wrong.
In the UK trading standards and ofcom govern 'truth in advertising' already. But advertising overall is a lie, it sells a false reality - that endless consumption is ok, that the dream is to be able to consume more than anyone else. The whole advertising message is 10% anti-sustainable.
Funny because Tesla's home batteries come with a ten year guarantee extendible for another ten years.
Tesla's batteries are sold out for the next year. There are bug competitors about to enter the market roughly within the next 12 months. I'd expect battery prices to continue to fall quickly - it's potentially a multi-trillion dollar market.
The current limit on the number of charge cycles is definitely not a problem.
The other tech that is dropping in cost and improving in efficiency is battery tech, it won't be long before solar+battery is cheaper than grid electricity in 90% of the world - they are already cheaper in some places.
If I stick a tower pc in the back of a truck and drive across the border, should the pc have a passport? No, of course not, so why should a robot have a passport?
Robots are not intelligent.
Robot definition: 'A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.'
It's thanks to those 'selfish pricks' who took a risk putting solar on their roofs that R&D in solar continued. Solar panels cost ten times less now because of the subsidies and R&D, and the prices are still falling fast.
Whilst the subsidies may have cost a few billion, solar panels in the future will save literally trillions in energy costs.
Battery technology is also progressing fast, in a few years we will have home battery systems that cost a fraction of the Tesla home battery system - several companies are about to join that market - a market that practically never existed before.
You're looking at it wrong, the politicians and the 'greenies' aren't. The exponential growth of solar is about to change the world.
There's virtually no scientific basis I can see where people are incapable of perceiving long term threats,
Over-population.
People know it's happening but they are not willing to think rationally about dealing with it - some other country has to do it.
I think Population controls should be based on country size minus land above N height. Britain and Japan are obviously over-populated - from a sustainability point of view.
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Oh, it's compensated all right, it's just not the poor bastard doing the overtime that's getting the dough, it's the directors and the shareholders.
If you work for free, that's called slavery and you're a mug. And American holidays are a joke. And the American health care system is a joke and the internet competition is a joke. Brainwashed.
What a truly absurd statement.
Pumped hydro, battery technologies, flywheels, compressed air systems, molten salts etc
Mozilla couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery these days, I went to the plugin check page and it is broken, no plugin check, no link to adobe.
Except for some youtube embeds - they still require flash to use. I have to enable flash for pages pretty regularly.
You don't even have to host the email, I got a domain for a small company and let 1&1 look after the email for peanuts - without all of the maintenance drag. If 1&1 go down then there are multiple options for continuing the email.
Can doctors prescribe placebos, there's go to be legal and moral issues there. Isn't it more ethically wrong to prescribe something you don't believe in than to prescribe something you do believe in.
But would they? To protest poisoning rhino horns is pretty much to support the people killing rhinos. I don't think the 'bleeding hearts' would protest much.
I'd put it something that both makes people puke their guts up and makes them unable to get it up (if such a thing exists).
Immoral? No, it's punishment, no more immoral than prison.
Most materials will soak up another material of the right type afaik, so capture the rare rhino's and soak their horns in something poisonous.
Make anyone using rhino horn medicinally puke their guts up for a month, that'll teach the fuckers.
In fact, someone should take the confiscated rhino horn, poison them and then release them onto the market.
Pain is exactly the kind of thing that Homeopathy's placebo effect is suited to
When I was a teenager, I was having bad headaches 2-3 times a week. I went to a homoeopath at my mother's insistence, I knew at the time what the little pills were and didn't believe they would work but after the 2nd attempt the headaches stopped, even to this day I only get about 1 headache per year and only mild at that.
When conventional medicine doesn't have a cure, what harm is there to allow placebo effect when it works? I would rather have taken a few pills with no side-effects than have been prescribed some pills by a real doctor that may have been addictive or dangerous if too many are taken and wouldn't cure the problem anyway.
Placebo effect has value and shouldn't be dismissed off-hand. Homoeopathy worked for me, so no amount of childish screaming it can't work it's not science doesn't cut it.
Perhaps the reason we can't work it out is because we are artificial intelligences in a big computer simulation.
Don't think too hard, you might crash teh sim!
Don't you find Libre Office to be incredibly buggy?
Delete rows, crash, paste a table from the web, crash, click close, wait for save dialogue and it crashes instead!
And conditional formatting was very broken last time I tried to use it a lot. And the charts are very lacking and horrible to work with - a bizarre UI maze mess. And Macros are weird, vague and over complicated.
Maybe Open Office is better?
Why on earth would you want to pay $60 for a game!?!?!, Games coming out now are no better than games which came out 3 years ago and you don't need super hardware to play 3-year old games.
Gog, Humble Bundle, Steam, Amazon etc sales and simple price drops, plenty of top games for 5 to 10 US/EU.
GOG.com - summer sale on right now! DRM Free
The Humble Store: Great games. Fantastic prices. Support charity.
Set an alert, pay when the price is right:
Amazon price alerts. | camelcamelcamel.com
SteamAlerts.com -- Email notifications when games go on sale
I disagree - I don't watch TV ads, ghostery and noscript kill internet ads. I'm more concerned with the corporate stalking, like any stalking it's creepy and wrong.
In the UK trading standards and ofcom govern 'truth in advertising' already. But advertising overall is a lie, it sells a false reality - that endless consumption is ok, that the dream is to be able to consume more than anyone else. The whole advertising message is 10% anti-sustainable.
Funny because Tesla's home batteries come with a ten year guarantee extendible for another ten years.
Tesla's batteries are sold out for the next year. There are bug competitors about to enter the market roughly within the next 12 months. I'd expect battery prices to continue to fall quickly - it's potentially a multi-trillion dollar market.
The current limit on the number of charge cycles is definitely not a problem.
The other tech that is dropping in cost and improving in efficiency is battery tech, it won't be long before solar+battery is cheaper than grid electricity in 90% of the world - they are already cheaper in some places.
And?
If I stick a tower pc in the back of a truck and drive across the border, should the pc have a passport? No, of course not, so why should a robot have a passport?
Robots are not intelligent.
Robot definition:
'A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically, especially one programmable by a computer.'
Over the last 10 to 15 years installed solar capacity increased 100-fold.
It will grow another 100-fold, long before 2050.
It's thanks to those 'selfish pricks' who took a risk putting solar on their roofs that R&D in solar continued. Solar panels cost ten times less now because of the subsidies and R&D, and the prices are still falling fast.
Whilst the subsidies may have cost a few billion, solar panels in the future will save literally trillions in energy costs.
Battery technology is also progressing fast, in a few years we will have home battery systems that cost a fraction of the Tesla home battery system - several companies are about to join that market - a market that practically never existed before.
You're looking at it wrong, the politicians and the 'greenies' aren't. The exponential growth of solar is about to change the world.
Price history of silicon PV cells since 1977 - Price per watt
Cost Of Solar PV Will Fall To 2 Cents/kWh In 2050, Says Fraunhofer Study
Are Facebook tagging people who don't have Facebook accounts if their face is in a photo?
Seems like a breach of the data protection act - keeping details (face, place, time+date, more(?)) on a person who has not agreed to their T's & C's.
I guess, and what about dolphins and fish crossing borders, how are we going to stop that or issue passports to fish?
Shouldn't we be making sure that unicorns, fairies and dragons get passports - after all, they were first.
Why are robots jumping the queue?
There is no AI that has common sense, it's a fantasy.
And most of all:
Robot != AI
A robot is a machine that sits in a factory making cars.
AI is mostly software which sits in a computer typically in a university or corporate lab.
Please quit with calling AI robots.
Cars.
An incredibly crap method of transport, two tons heap burning fossil fuels - wasting most of what they burn.
Most of the population do not seem to be able to think rationally about cars.
Why do people today think they are entitled to a large share of finite resources?
Over-population.
People know it's happening but they are not willing to think rationally about dealing with it - some other country has to do it.
I think Population controls should be based on country size minus land above N height. Britain and Japan are obviously over-populated - from a sustainability point of view.