only problem with OkianWarrior/altslashdot is it is sounding that it's going to be a money-maker for him and maybe a few others, when I beleive that most here would rather take the opportunity to build something truly community based...
Dude,
whoosh
Think his point THROUGH --- ALL the way... He's obviously talking about being able to access necessary knowledge in a post-apocalyptic scenario, where POWER will be in obviously short supply... does that help?
to hell with an order of magnitude. just a 50% increase in storage capacity would hit the tipping point. Make a Nissan Leaf easily handle 140 miles and it suddenly becomes highly viable to most people.
I'm with you.... a true 140 would be just about perfect for me (as a minimum)... I'd definitely buy in at that point.
Farmers have access to a lot of manure. Cow manure, sheep manure, goat shit, chicken shit, the like. They also have access to non-useful plant matter, although some of that goes to ethanol. Farmers will tend to plow manure into the land; good. Do that. Skip the petrol, do this more. We have a lot of regulations here about plowing "natural fertilizer" into the land: it all needs to be used at once in the beginning of the season; this is unsustainable because farmers will add more manure to the top of the land throughout the season, and don't know how much to use in the beginning. This is a real thing. We've had legislative arguments on it. The legislature wants to prevent run-off of cow-shit-based nitrogen sources into the bay here, because algae growth from fertilizer run-off is a real problem; unfortunately, they're encouraging farmers to use chemical nitrogen sources, which doesn't help.
So, drop the chemical fertilizers. Use more cow shit.
That sounds just great in a hippy-dippy communish sort of way... There are a lot of practical issues with it, however. The largest being specialization in the areas of farming. The farmers that grow a thousand acres of corn/soybeans are not the same farmers that have heards of cows/pigs. The cow/pig farms generally are not the farmers that have thousands of acres of crops. So, unlike Slashdot, there is just not enough shit to go around.. at least with the farmers that need it.
Bringing up midgets does indeed bring up interesting possibilities. One would think that experiments with time perception could be done comparing/contrasting midgets with larger size of people of the same age to further explore the possibilities of time perception relating to size of a creature.
In the book Born to Run McDougall illustrates the theory that no only are those Tarahumara not unique, but the unique trait that let the entire human race survive when coming down from the trees (and get enough protein to build our large brains) was the ability to run extremely long distances and utilize persistence hunting.
Here's a nice little video on the tarahumara and touching on some themes in the book...
over active people also wear out their body parts with the exertion. there is a happy medium though and i think that it just needed to be clarified. if you run several super marathons every year its going to kill you early... if you run a 5k it's all good.
What is your source for that? I think these people would disagree...
Who even uses a desktop on RHEL server? I have X installed to remotely tunnel a few apps through ssh, but I won't ever run a full desktop on a server...
That's nothing! Did you see the episode where they compared it to being tired!
With the current social norm seeming to be, that not sleeping is somehow "cool" (instead of moronic), and drinking loads of coffee to stay awake as long as possible. one must assume that the majority of people are constantly overtired and not fit to drive a car.
Compared to that, things like 0.08% BAC are almost not even noteworthy!
Why the hell we're testing for BAC instead of the actual ability to react to reflexes and make good decisions is still beyond me...
Instead of a breathalyzer, they should invent a portable driving game console, and demand a certain level of proficiency in that....
Looks very cool, but what exactly is their business model? It looks to me like this
Step 1: build a cool microkernel
Step 2: Port GNU tools
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!
Slashdot Mirror
Tell the wife we'll have a kickstarter campaign to send you all on a nice vacation trip... :)
Buck the Feta's...
#Slashdot on Slashnet irc network...
Slashdot Beta was getting shipped to Afghanistan!!! Fuk the Beta -- send it away!
yeah.
huck the Feta
shuck the heta
fuk the Beta
Fuck the Black Hole!!!
if they went around giving $1000 dollar fines for people burning, they would tar and feather and hold a recall election
There are some people I might consider burning if it was only a $1000 fine!!
Dude,
whoosh
Think his point THROUGH --- ALL the way...
He's obviously talking about being able to access necessary knowledge in a post-apocalyptic scenario, where POWER will be in obviously short supply... does that help?
to hell with an order of magnitude. just a 50% increase in storage capacity would hit the tipping point. Make a Nissan Leaf easily handle 140 miles and it suddenly becomes highly viable to most people.
I'm with you.... a true 140 would be just about perfect for me (as a minimum)... I'd definitely buy in at that point.
Bad soil. Let's attack bad soil first.
Farmers have access to a lot of manure. Cow manure, sheep manure, goat shit, chicken shit, the like. They also have access to non-useful plant matter, although some of that goes to ethanol. Farmers will tend to plow manure into the land; good. Do that. Skip the petrol, do this more. We have a lot of regulations here about plowing "natural fertilizer" into the land: it all needs to be used at once in the beginning of the season; this is unsustainable because farmers will add more manure to the top of the land throughout the season, and don't know how much to use in the beginning. This is a real thing. We've had legislative arguments on it. The legislature wants to prevent run-off of cow-shit-based nitrogen sources into the bay here, because algae growth from fertilizer run-off is a real problem; unfortunately, they're encouraging farmers to use chemical nitrogen sources, which doesn't help.
So, drop the chemical fertilizers. Use more cow shit.
That sounds just great in a hippy-dippy communish sort of way... There are a lot of practical issues with it, however. The largest being specialization in the areas of farming. The farmers that grow a thousand acres of corn/soybeans are not the same farmers that have heards of cows/pigs. The cow/pig farms generally are not the farmers that have thousands of acres of crops. So, unlike Slashdot, there is just not enough shit to go around.. at least with the farmers that need it.
Dang! Where are mod points when I need them?? Good post!
Bringing up midgets does indeed bring up interesting possibilities. One would think that experiments with time perception could be done comparing/contrasting midgets with larger size of people of the same age to further explore the possibilities of time perception relating to size of a creature.
....so if we pumped enough heat out of the air could we fight global warming?
In the book Born to Run McDougall illustrates the theory that no only are those Tarahumara not unique, but the unique trait that let the entire human race survive when coming down from the trees (and get enough protein to build our large brains) was the ability to run extremely long distances and utilize persistence hunting. Here's a nice little video on the tarahumara and touching on some themes in the book...
over active people also wear out their body parts with the exertion. there is a happy medium though and i think that it just needed to be clarified. if you run several super marathons every year its going to kill you early... if you run a 5k it's all good.
What is your source for that? I think these people would disagree...
...so let me get this straight... "Calibre" in French means the same thing as "Caliber" in English.... who'd a thunk it... ;)
Interesting... I used to believe that.. However, it's getting harder and harder...
Nice quote :)
huh, I thought he meant OS/2... oh, wait... maybe that was just them stabbing IBM in the back... yeah, that was it.
Who even uses a desktop on RHEL server? I have X installed to remotely tunnel a few apps through ssh, but I won't ever run a full desktop on a server...
Mod this up!!! I've been waiting so long for EV's to have the range I need!!
That's nothing! Did you see the episode where they compared it to being tired!
With the current social norm seeming to be, that not sleeping is somehow "cool" (instead of moronic), and drinking loads of coffee to stay awake as long as possible. one must assume that the majority of people are constantly overtired and not fit to drive a car.
Compared to that, things like 0.08% BAC are almost not even noteworthy!
Why the hell we're testing for BAC instead of the actual ability to react to reflexes and make good decisions is still beyond me...
Instead of a breathalyzer, they should invent a portable driving game console, and demand a certain level of proficiency in that....
Looks very cool, but what exactly is their business model? It looks to me like this Step 1: build a cool microkernel Step 2: Port GNU tools Step 3: ??? Step 4: Profit!
What was Linux's business model?