Hackers are no match for mother nature in making the power go out. Outages from storms actually kill people every year. Spend the money on more tree-trimming if you want to protect the people.
To the extent of his support for working people, he won't have to do that until wages rise more significantly. Meanwhile, his cohorts in the 1percent will continue to do everything they can to keep "regular" inflation too low for such rises to be forced. I say "regular" inflation to represent more classic and visible raising of prices, as opposed to inflation by devaluation of good and services (smaller roll of toilet paper for same price) or using new technologies to more effectively "milk" consumers.
Thank you. A 3 hour outage is run-of-the-mill for for wind storms 2 or three times every winter in my location. Storms regularly cause much longer outages that actually kill people, most recently on the U.S. East Coast this past winter. Money spent on chasing "cyber" (a disgusting use of the term) terrorists would be better spent on tree-trimming.
So just how much damage was done in those "massive" previous attacks, and how long did it take to restore the power grid and factories? Was it worse than squirrels or a hurricane?
A similar phenomena would be "security fatigue" -- the sense that it's either all pointless, or that as security measures grow more complicated, the costs exceed the benefits for more and more situations.
As someone who has been shopping for a new vehicle lately, I am dismayed by how many of the new vehicles have implemented desperate measures to achieve the higher CAFE requirements. The low hanging fruit in efficiency improvements seems to have all been picked. Now things like start/stop, exotic transmissions, and some poor turbo implementations are making the vehicles drive worse than the previous generation. And with electric/hybrid vehicles, many hidden costs remain a question, including rumored safety issues around fire and rescue response due to the battery packs. I can't help but feel that the car companies would have an easier sale if they could sell people what they want vs what the government is mandating.
It's curious, because I think that conventional neuroscience would say that the memory I have of seeing the red light is not stored throughout my brain, but in a definite and fairly limited network of neurons / connections / what-have-you. This means that I could potentially take that memory and swap it with the blue one in the copy. Now I have taken the alteration and switched it up. So I wake up and see red, but remember seeing blue, and think I have been moved. This assumes that the unaltered portion of me - which is identical in both of us, is still distinct in some way, such that I am not magically under the blue light just because that memory was moved over there.
What if I take you and your copy and lay them on operating tables side by side with you laying under a red light and your copy under a blue light. You see a red light. Then I put you out and transplant half of your brain into the copy and vice versa. Which light do you see now? What about 3/4 of your brain or some arbitrary bit of your brain? What part of your brain do I need to transplant to get you to see the blue light? Or if your sense of self is emergent from the entire brain, I guess I've got to swap the whole thing, but then what is the difference between them anyway, since they are exact copies? Does this mean our self is defined by a unique place in space-time?
What's really going on is the music sellers are moving to the cable company model where they will not let you cherry pick the songs you want to buy and they will boil your frog-like ass for years until you are paying $100 per month for music. Are any of you cord cutters feeling the heat yet? I thought not, you stupid frogs.
This is true in my experience in the U.S. too. There are vast differences in productivity levels between different people and times of the day, and most of the ones "working" the long hours are inefficient or faking it. There are "crunch" times on occasion, but even with those, the averages just need not be over 40 hours per week for people who make effective use of their time.
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Irradiated food is not radioactive. It's not like putting plutonium on your breakfast cereal.
Hackers are no match for mother nature in making the power go out. Outages from storms actually kill people every year. Spend the money on more tree-trimming if you want to protect the people.
Yeah, Spring is one of the many cases of "cure is worse than the disease" that mid-experience designers have foisted upon us.
Would you be interested in selling it? I think it would look good next to the bridge I just bought in New York City.
"from a report"
"major haul"
"bought over"
Bye bye editing.
OOOo spooky. Now nobody will find my site. http://solaria5.fragcube.net/
Oh wait, nobody was finding it anyway...
Mental peace in our time.
But context gets complicated, quickly. And when things get too complicated, managers and grad students retreat to their happy places. End of AI story.
Goliath?
In Soviet Russia, the people are expendable, like the rockets.
To the extent of his support for working people, he won't have to do that until wages rise more significantly. Meanwhile, his cohorts in the 1percent will continue to do everything they can to keep "regular" inflation too low for such rises to be forced. I say "regular" inflation to represent more classic and visible raising of prices, as opposed to inflation by devaluation of good and services (smaller roll of toilet paper for same price) or using new technologies to more effectively "milk" consumers.
Thank you. A 3 hour outage is run-of-the-mill for for wind storms 2 or three times every winter in my location. Storms regularly cause much longer outages that actually kill people, most recently on the U.S. East Coast this past winter. Money spent on chasing "cyber" (a disgusting use of the term) terrorists would be better spent on tree-trimming.
Can you explain why that matters, in terms of the economics of what I should be hysterical about?
So just how much damage was done in those "massive" previous attacks, and how long did it take to restore the power grid and factories? Was it worse than squirrels or a hurricane?
A similar phenomena would be "security fatigue" -- the sense that it's either all pointless, or that as security measures grow more complicated, the costs exceed the benefits for more and more situations.
Your sig is so old. It seems like you've had it for 20 years. Maybe you should change XML to JSON so the kids can eventually grok it.
As someone who has been shopping for a new vehicle lately, I am dismayed by how many of the new vehicles have implemented desperate measures to achieve the higher CAFE requirements. The low hanging fruit in efficiency improvements seems to have all been picked. Now things like start/stop, exotic transmissions, and some poor turbo implementations are making the vehicles drive worse than the previous generation. And with electric/hybrid vehicles, many hidden costs remain a question, including rumored safety issues around fire and rescue response due to the battery packs. I can't help but feel that the car companies would have an easier sale if they could sell people what they want vs what the government is mandating.
Did you mean "a series of tubes"?
It's curious, because I think that conventional neuroscience would say that the memory I have of seeing the red light is not stored throughout my brain, but in a definite and fairly limited network of neurons / connections / what-have-you. This means that I could potentially take that memory and swap it with the blue one in the copy. Now I have taken the alteration and switched it up. So I wake up and see red, but remember seeing blue, and think I have been moved. This assumes that the unaltered portion of me - which is identical in both of us, is still distinct in some way, such that I am not magically under the blue light just because that memory was moved over there.
What if I take you and your copy and lay them on operating tables side by side with you laying under a red light and your copy under a blue light. You see a red light. Then I put you out and transplant half of your brain into the copy and vice versa. Which light do you see now? What about 3/4 of your brain or some arbitrary bit of your brain? What part of your brain do I need to transplant to get you to see the blue light? Or if your sense of self is emergent from the entire brain, I guess I've got to swap the whole thing, but then what is the difference between them anyway, since they are exact copies? Does this mean our self is defined by a unique place in space-time?
What's really going on is the music sellers are moving to the cable company model where they will not let you cherry pick the songs you want to buy and they will boil your frog-like ass for years until you are paying $100 per month for music.
Are any of you cord cutters feeling the heat yet? I thought not, you stupid frogs.
This is true in my experience in the U.S. too. There are vast differences in productivity levels between different people and times of the day, and most of the ones "working" the long hours are inefficient or faking it. There are "crunch" times on occasion, but even with those, the averages just need not be over 40 hours per week for people who make effective use of their time.
Like many big companies end up doing. In time, YouTube will join Myspace and Facebook in the hall of internet has-beens.
More likely it was storms or squirrels or changes.
With water available, and enough technology to reach it, maybe he can build a base on that planet.