The reason is, there is no answer for a 250,000 year problem like that.
Bullshit. All you have to do is recycle it as much as you can, store it, recycle it some more if you find a new way, store it, then eventually in 300 years either dump it into the nuclear melting core of Earth or send it into the big nuclear fire ball in the sky. Problem solved, and in the meantime you haven't dumped anything bad into the atmosphere.
Oh also, I'd like to say, market forces can supersede local government, so that for example in a country with no censorship you can still be effectively censored if no one's gonna publish your uncensored work.
My point is, we can't change the laws of China, but market forces can supersede them (well, not supersede, just add restrictions). And similarly, the laws of our countries affect directly the requirements and needs of the market forces.
So the thing about a global economy that has to be understood is, a domestic law in the USA affects work conditions in China. In a way, in a global economy, every country rules the world, with a varying degree of influence. By tightening a few screws at home your government can shape the world.
I know that by our standards sweat shops are objectionable, but to the people who work there sometimes it means the difference between feeding your family or not. We offer them some shitty jobs, and they take them, because to them it's better than their other options. So that's thanks to such shitty jobs that the economies of China or India have risen lately.
Now, making it seem like a necessary harm is not completely fair either. I think a solution if in our countries we had some (perhaps unusually) far reaching laws enforcing some vertically spreading ethics concerning foreign suppliers and such. By that I mean make a law in the USA that prevents Nike from having, at any point in its chain of production, "unethical labour" used, even in the Chinese suppliers of their Chinese suppliers.
The problem is, that would be a bit hard to make that work, but if it could work then that would be an elegant solution to removing the ethical issue from our products. Note that alternatively we could also apply that to any imported product, i.e. refuse the importation of anything that doesn't satisfy our legal criteria regarding ethic work. The result would be complying companies appearing in China and such, specifically meant to satisfy the requirements of such markets, and it would still provide the local population with jobs.
lol what? That's 1,000 cubic millimetres no matter how you cut it. Surely you meant "10 millimetres cubed", which no one says, but makes a bit of sense.
In other news, two Cesium atoms were shot dead by Crip gang members in East Los Angeles. Eyewitnesses report the two Cesium atoms were seen performing the Quantum Walk at the time of the shooting.
Muahaha, Fianna Fail, socialist. They're a lot closer to Slashdot libertarians than any flavour of socialism. Also, stop using the word socialism, it doesn't mean what you or Glenn Beck think it does. Actually it doesn't mean much without a context, it's very much an umbrella term.
Well, it's good to criticize your country for what you think is wrong with it, regardless of how it compares with other countries. Rest assured that the French, the Irish or the British do their share of being dissatisfied with their respective governments.
Hurricanes are not known to be affected in number or severity due to climate change, so it isn't clear why you bring them up
Because I know what I'm talking about. Well you could argue that you're right in that the number of hurricanes doesn't change, but the difference between a weak ass hurricane that dies on a beach and something like Katrina makes the whole difference between no one cares and the whole world cares.
Here, have a clue : "All these hurricanes in such a short period of time begs the question: are storms getting stronger, and if so, what's causing it? According to a new paper in Nature, the answer is yes â" and global warming seems to be the culprit. Researchers led by James Elsner, a meteorologist at Florida State University, analyzed satellite-derived data of tropical storms since 1981 and found that the maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms have increased significantly in the years since, with the most notable increases found in the North Atlantic and the northern Indian oceans. They believe that rising ocean temperatures â" due to global warming â" are one of the main causes behind that change. "There is a robust signal behind the shift to more intense hurricanes," says Judith Curry, chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology."
Yeah, it's like all those hurricanes and droughts, there's always been as many as now, it's just that people back then just didn't notice or die from them.
It's about the rocket falling back to the ground, so that's about any event in which the rocket would crash back to the ground within the first minute of flight. Not complicated.
I'm afraid you missed my point. What I'm saying is that talking about it is the best vector for these ideas. That's like free advertisement, and it only gives it legitimacy as "the other side of the story". If you want to "help", don't acknowledge the looney "theories" and debate them, just dismiss them.
Yes I do. When you'll learn to use logic you'll realise that you can know something doesn't exist when you can explain why people think it exists to begin with.
Yeah, but who fucking cares? I mean seriously, everytime the Apollo program comes up on Slashdot half of the discussion is about how hoax theorists won't shut up about it. How about we shut up about them, no one else cares about their ridiculous opinions, and if anything it'd be better to ignore such silly ideas.
Same thing for flat Earth theorists, creationists, holocaust deniers, global warming deniers and so on. If we stopped caring about what any looney/troll says we wouldn't even hear of those stupid ideas, cause we're the ones who do the best job at repeating and spreading those ideas.
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The reason is, there is no answer for a 250,000 year problem like that.
Bullshit. All you have to do is recycle it as much as you can, store it, recycle it some more if you find a new way, store it, then eventually in 300 years either dump it into the nuclear melting core of Earth or send it into the big nuclear fire ball in the sky. Problem solved, and in the meantime you haven't dumped anything bad into the atmosphere.
And how has your revenue changed? ;-)
Oh also, I'd like to say, market forces can supersede local government, so that for example in a country with no censorship you can still be effectively censored if no one's gonna publish your uncensored work.
My point is, we can't change the laws of China, but market forces can supersede them (well, not supersede, just add restrictions). And similarly, the laws of our countries affect directly the requirements and needs of the market forces.
So the thing about a global economy that has to be understood is, a domestic law in the USA affects work conditions in China. In a way, in a global economy, every country rules the world, with a varying degree of influence. By tightening a few screws at home your government can shape the world.
I know that by our standards sweat shops are objectionable, but to the people who work there sometimes it means the difference between feeding your family or not. We offer them some shitty jobs, and they take them, because to them it's better than their other options. So that's thanks to such shitty jobs that the economies of China or India have risen lately.
Now, making it seem like a necessary harm is not completely fair either. I think a solution if in our countries we had some (perhaps unusually) far reaching laws enforcing some vertically spreading ethics concerning foreign suppliers and such. By that I mean make a law in the USA that prevents Nike from having, at any point in its chain of production, "unethical labour" used, even in the Chinese suppliers of their Chinese suppliers.
The problem is, that would be a bit hard to make that work, but if it could work then that would be an elegant solution to removing the ethical issue from our products. Note that alternatively we could also apply that to any imported product, i.e. refuse the importation of anything that doesn't satisfy our legal criteria regarding ethic work. The result would be complying companies appearing in China and such, specifically meant to satisfy the requirements of such markets, and it would still provide the local population with jobs.
"10 cubic millimeters" is 10mm X 10mm X 10mm
lol what? That's 1,000 cubic millimetres no matter how you cut it. Surely you meant "10 millimetres cubed", which no one says, but makes a bit of sense.
In other news, two Cesium atoms were shot dead by Crip gang members in East Los Angeles. Eyewitnesses report the two Cesium atoms were seen performing the Quantum Walk at the time of the shooting.
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Just thought I'd share.
BTW, I picked my username many years ago and I'm stuck with it. I'd pick something different nowadays.
Haha oh man, fiannaFailMan, I just pictured someone bitterly tearing a Bertie Ahern poster off his bedroom wall ;-).
Muahaha, Fianna Fail, socialist. They're a lot closer to Slashdot libertarians than any flavour of socialism. Also, stop using the word socialism, it doesn't mean what you or Glenn Beck think it does. Actually it doesn't mean much without a context, it's very much an umbrella term.
Well, it's good to criticize your country for what you think is wrong with it, regardless of how it compares with other countries. Rest assured that the French, the Irish or the British do their share of being dissatisfied with their respective governments.
Wow, thank you random Slashdotter for debunking the research for a team of climatologists that Nature's peer review process failed to reject!
Hurricanes are not known to be affected in number or severity due to climate change, so it isn't clear why you bring them up
Because I know what I'm talking about. Well you could argue that you're right in that the number of hurricanes doesn't change, but the difference between a weak ass hurricane that dies on a beach and something like Katrina makes the whole difference between no one cares and the whole world cares.
Here, have a clue : "All these hurricanes in such a short period of time begs the question: are storms getting stronger, and if so, what's causing it? According to a new paper in Nature, the answer is yes â" and global warming seems to be the culprit. Researchers led by James Elsner, a meteorologist at Florida State University, analyzed satellite-derived data of tropical storms since 1981 and found that the maximum wind speeds of the strongest storms have increased significantly in the years since, with the most notable increases found in the North Atlantic and the northern Indian oceans. They believe that rising ocean temperatures â" due to global warming â" are one of the main causes behind that change. "There is a robust signal behind the shift to more intense hurricanes," says Judith Curry, chair of the school of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology."
lol, seriously...
You don't have an explanation for why it happens now more than it did before.
Your point? Masses of comets are dropping into the North Pole without anyone noticing and are hovering at a high altitude?
Yeah, it's like all those hurricanes and droughts, there's always been as many as now, it's just that people back then just didn't notice or die from them.
No offence but he has a point, you don't make a point by citing a crackpot.
It's about the rocket falling back to the ground, so that's about any event in which the rocket would crash back to the ground within the first minute of flight. Not complicated.
Fixed it for you!
I'm afraid you missed my point. What I'm saying is that talking about it is the best vector for these ideas. That's like free advertisement, and it only gives it legitimacy as "the other side of the story". If you want to "help", don't acknowledge the looney "theories" and debate them, just dismiss them.
Psychology 101, Life IS suffering.
Let me guess, your psychology teacher was darkly clad with thick black eye-liner and long hair covering most of his face?
Yes I do. When you'll learn to use logic you'll realise that you can know something doesn't exist when you can explain why people think it exists to begin with.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Yeah, but who fucking cares? I mean seriously, everytime the Apollo program comes up on Slashdot half of the discussion is about how hoax theorists won't shut up about it. How about we shut up about them, no one else cares about their ridiculous opinions, and if anything it'd be better to ignore such silly ideas.
Same thing for flat Earth theorists, creationists, holocaust deniers, global warming deniers and so on. If we stopped caring about what any looney/troll says we wouldn't even hear of those stupid ideas, cause we're the ones who do the best job at repeating and spreading those ideas.