which ones? the billionaire philanthropist that springs most easily to my mind is trying to eliminate malaria, solve the energy problem and thus mitigate climate change, and his wife's attempting to fix population problems in countries that can't sustain their birth rates.
but i listen to Beethoven every now and then i suppose...
so how'd you get the time travel driver to work and let you send your post 5 years into the future from where you are?
drivers are an unstable mess in _every_ operating system. it's amazing that there's a single working box out there anywhere, the way things are run.
i only use windows at work for 2 things (mainly 1 really - DVDmaestro doesn't work so well in wine).
i concede the user experience is drastically different between linux, windows and osx.
linux implies tinkerers who will never give up until $RANDOM_HARDWARE is working fully. they'll shout and swear and will be well aware of how fucked the situation can get, but they wont have it any other way because their machine is THEIRS, dammit, and total control is the only way.
a mac user when faced with some hardware that wont run will just buy another that will (possibly not even bothering to return the unsupported one). the min wage guy at the genius bar will also sell them a couple of RAM sticks, because that's the apple equivalent of nuking the site from orbit. (that and trashing the prefs, and flashing the PRAM).
windows user will go online to get drivers, navigate ugly photoshop-plastic-wrap sites, download over a gig of crapware, find it not working, return to google, download something dodgy and brick their computer with OVER 9000 trojans. then buy a new computer, rinse and repeat.
the only one that doesn't want something for free is the mac user. i'm not sure what that implies about anybody though. when i use windows i feel entitlement, when i use linux i feel amazed that someone out there was nice enough to give me something, and when i use a mac i find myself spending half the time in terminal anyway - it's like a big, beautiful desert with fuck-all in it.
one potential problem is the fact that when these things were built, nobody had seen what 80 years of _intense_ neutron bombardment does to steel.
not saying the engineers were dumb, but they had a moving target in a completely new area of science and engineering. safety factors would give some leeway. but you can't really tell when a big pressure vessel is about to pop from embrittlement and transmutation of it's steely goodness.
the problem is the near pure U233 that can trivially be extracted from the thorium fuel cycle. that stuff's very good for making nukes.
i don't see it as a problem - anyone who wants nukes and has the capability to solve the not insignificant design challenges involved, already has nukes.
anyone who does not, wont get them from thorium when magnox plans are available essentially for free.
it's curious that perhaps the change we've all wanted for so long is not coming from a foundation, or lobby group, or grassroots uprising, but just from a bunch of annoyed judges who don't particularly enjoy these cases or the wasted time they come with.
wouldn't that be fossil fuel that's not being released into the atmosphere, but rather captured and stored as a solar cell? seems like a good idea to me.
but where's the hominem there? (anthropogenesis aside...)
the whole thing played out more like a straw man - construct a false, weakened version of "what AGW science looks like", relying on the fact that people are not likely to read the emails in question, and that once someone does the story would be long gone and the backfire effect will be in play, and use this derpy AGW strawman to make the entire field look just as derpy.
ad hominem is saying wikileaks is all bullshit because julian assange is a womanising narcissist - it's only half true, and no matter how true the latter half, it cannot make the first half true
no, i believe that sentence could be chopped in thirds and the first kept.
i wouldn't pretend to understand the stuff they talk about either, and i consider myself an enlightened man of reason.
if science were easy to communicate to the general public, there wouldn't be so many people on both sides either yelling that the sky is falling or that nothing is happening and it's all a conspiracy to get more funding (yeah, cause if you wanna get rich, academic research is totally the best way. climate modellers could make a fortune on the stock market and their models wouldn't need to be peer reviewed).
nope, it's just that "space nutter" troll and a few fiscal-responsibility types. but if they watch the story tags fly by and jump on anything with "space" in it, they'll own every thread.
i've certainly observed this phenomenon in some towns i've been to (typically rural areas, but ghost-town sort of feeling - an old port that was made redundant by the expansion of a more major port near a bigger town, that kinda thing). i don't fully understand it because i'm sort of inner city and have access to more than just the local supermarket.
my wife and i are getting a business off the ground and everything i earn is going into it. plus we have a 13 month old kid, so things are extremely tight. diet wise, we're finding that meat is the most expensive item, and honestly if you do it right you can cut it almost entirely, or stretch that 1 chicken very far indeed (ie use absolutely all of it - everything not eaten gets made into a stock, and the softened bony crap left over goes to the dogs). iron can be had from roo meat, which is a fair bit cheaper here (an amazing cut will cost you less that a crap cut of beef and taste a lot better). pasta sorts out the carbs, and homemade bread. there's always rice if needed, potatoes are cheap as at the moment (cheaper than sugar too, which is rare). greens grow in the garden, but it's a tiny garden so i wouldn't rely on it for more than the vitamin content, and veggies are actually pretty cheap if you go to the market (even the supermarket isn't ridiculous). canned tomato, chickpea and butter-beans make up the rest of it. all this for about AU30 bucks a week. we're brewing our own beer and distilling our own vodka/gin/bourbon/whatever.
neither of us go hungry, and neither of us are overweight (though my little son puts away as much as i do...)
give it 10 years or so... perhaps scarcity will become the norm again.
and with childhood obesity an increasing problem, perhaps evolution really does have something to say about it.
honestly, there need to be some serious efforts made to show people how much they actually need to eat. there's such a thing with alcohol, (not that many abide by it) with the "standard drink". perhaps instead of stupid coloured boxes with percentages on them, a meal could be given a simple "1.5 standard meals" and be done with it.
i see far too much herp derp from "both" sides of the fence. people's political affiliation seems to have defined their sense of morals as well. it's a really fucked way to think. human ethics are not a line between left and right. it's a bit more dimensional than that.
you assume that if the Bakers knew the financial sector well enough, they would not have gone to GS. no shit, sherlock. they would not have needed financial advice in the first place.
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which ones? the billionaire philanthropist that springs most easily to my mind is trying to eliminate malaria, solve the energy problem and thus mitigate climate change, and his wife's attempting to fix population problems in countries that can't sustain their birth rates.
but i listen to Beethoven every now and then i suppose...
so how'd you get the time travel driver to work and let you send your post 5 years into the future from where you are?
drivers are an unstable mess in _every_ operating system. it's amazing that there's a single working box out there anywhere, the way things are run.
i only use windows at work for 2 things (mainly 1 really - DVDmaestro doesn't work so well in wine).
i concede the user experience is drastically different between linux, windows and osx.
linux implies tinkerers who will never give up until $RANDOM_HARDWARE is working fully. they'll shout and swear and will be well aware of how fucked the situation can get, but they wont have it any other way because their machine is THEIRS, dammit, and total control is the only way.
a mac user when faced with some hardware that wont run will just buy another that will (possibly not even bothering to return the unsupported one). the min wage guy at the genius bar will also sell them a couple of RAM sticks, because that's the apple equivalent of nuking the site from orbit. (that and trashing the prefs, and flashing the PRAM).
windows user will go online to get drivers, navigate ugly photoshop-plastic-wrap sites, download over a gig of crapware, find it not working, return to google, download something dodgy and brick their computer with OVER 9000 trojans. then buy a new computer, rinse and repeat.
the only one that doesn't want something for free is the mac user. i'm not sure what that implies about anybody though. when i use windows i feel entitlement, when i use linux i feel amazed that someone out there was nice enough to give me something, and when i use a mac i find myself spending half the time in terminal anyway - it's like a big, beautiful desert with fuck-all in it.
you're a fucking idiot.
CFCs are pretty stable.
need an advice dog here:
"accuse parent post of straw-man... ...respond with straw man"
one potential problem is the fact that when these things were built, nobody had seen what 80 years of _intense_ neutron bombardment does to steel.
not saying the engineers were dumb, but they had a moving target in a completely new area of science and engineering. safety factors would give some leeway. but you can't really tell when a big pressure vessel is about to pop from embrittlement and transmutation of it's steely goodness.
the problem is the near pure U233 that can trivially be extracted from the thorium fuel cycle. that stuff's very good for making nukes.
i don't see it as a problem - anyone who wants nukes and has the capability to solve the not insignificant design challenges involved, already has nukes.
anyone who does not, wont get them from thorium when magnox plans are available essentially for free.
it's curious that perhaps the change we've all wanted for so long is not coming from a foundation, or lobby group, or grassroots uprising, but just from a bunch of annoyed judges who don't particularly enjoy these cases or the wasted time they come with.
wouldn't that be fossil fuel that's not being released into the atmosphere, but rather captured and stored as a solar cell? seems like a good idea to me.
or you could be tagged along with 50 other people in a lolcat that a friend wanted you all to see.
huh?
second HN reference from an AC in two days (possibly more).
i can't be bothered googling it. i'm just gonna assume astroturf and move on.
but where's the hominem there? (anthropogenesis aside...)
the whole thing played out more like a straw man - construct a false, weakened version of "what AGW science looks like", relying on the fact that people are not likely to read the emails in question, and that once someone does the story would be long gone and the backfire effect will be in play, and use this derpy AGW strawman to make the entire field look just as derpy.
ad hominem is saying wikileaks is all bullshit because julian assange is a womanising narcissist - it's only half true, and no matter how true the latter half, it cannot make the first half true
no, i believe that sentence could be chopped in thirds and the first kept.
i wouldn't pretend to understand the stuff they talk about either, and i consider myself an enlightened man of reason.
if science were easy to communicate to the general public, there wouldn't be so many people on both sides either yelling that the sky is falling or that nothing is happening and it's all a conspiracy to get more funding (yeah, cause if you wanna get rich, academic research is totally the best way. climate modellers could make a fortune on the stock market and their models wouldn't need to be peer reviewed).
nope, it's just that "space nutter" troll and a few fiscal-responsibility types. but if they watch the story tags fly by and jump on anything with "space" in it, they'll own every thread.
well, there was a bug in the EULA page and it can't be determined for sure if she really clicked "I Agree" or not... server logs are sketchy.
bah! made the joke i was going to make, but in a better way.
give this man some mods! ...and for the non-aussies - this is why we tend to smirk when you say "i'm rooting for you!"
add spices and nothing is boring...
i find this and GP's post very interesting.
i've certainly observed this phenomenon in some towns i've been to (typically rural areas, but ghost-town sort of feeling - an old port that was made redundant by the expansion of a more major port near a bigger town, that kinda thing). i don't fully understand it because i'm sort of inner city and have access to more than just the local supermarket.
my wife and i are getting a business off the ground and everything i earn is going into it. plus we have a 13 month old kid, so things are extremely tight. diet wise, we're finding that meat is the most expensive item, and honestly if you do it right you can cut it almost entirely, or stretch that 1 chicken very far indeed (ie use absolutely all of it - everything not eaten gets made into a stock, and the softened bony crap left over goes to the dogs). iron can be had from roo meat, which is a fair bit cheaper here (an amazing cut will cost you less that a crap cut of beef and taste a lot better). pasta sorts out the carbs, and homemade bread. there's always rice if needed, potatoes are cheap as at the moment (cheaper than sugar too, which is rare). greens grow in the garden, but it's a tiny garden so i wouldn't rely on it for more than the vitamin content, and veggies are actually pretty cheap if you go to the market (even the supermarket isn't ridiculous). canned tomato, chickpea and butter-beans make up the rest of it. all this for about AU30 bucks a week. we're brewing our own beer and distilling our own vodka/gin/bourbon/whatever.
neither of us go hungry, and neither of us are overweight (though my little son puts away as much as i do...)
you're clearly not married :)
like their short-lived experiment in photochemical stenography?
or we could just eat less.
give it 10 years or so... perhaps scarcity will become the norm again.
and with childhood obesity an increasing problem, perhaps evolution really does have something to say about it.
honestly, there need to be some serious efforts made to show people how much they actually need to eat. there's such a thing with alcohol, (not that many abide by it) with the "standard drink". perhaps instead of stupid coloured boxes with percentages on them, a meal could be given a simple "1.5 standard meals" and be done with it.
it is what you make it.
i see far too much herp derp from "both" sides of the fence. people's political affiliation seems to have defined their sense of morals as well. it's a really fucked way to think. human ethics are not a line between left and right. it's a bit more dimensional than that.
what's the point of all that shit that went down at the tower of Babel if we go and make everyone understand each other again?
you assume that if the Bakers knew the financial sector well enough, they would not have gone to GS. no shit, sherlock. they would not have needed financial advice in the first place.
fucking Randroids. GTFO my planet.