Trees do not permanently remove CO2 from the air, they only hold it for a brief period before releasing almost all of it back into the air. There is also the matter of the acidification of the oceans which wouldn't be addressed by trees because they resperate annually causing the ocean to become a giant CO2 sink. Anyway, trees have been around a lot longer than humanity's CO2 problem, so don't you think they would have completely exhausted the CO2 from the air if they were good at absorbing CO2? Trees are little more than carbon neutral and microbial/animal life on Earth lived within the margins of what trees could handle for billions of years. We've blown past those margins and just to deal with our current output we would need to cover 1/3 of the Earth in trees.
The good news is that we made large machines that are orders of magnitude better at removing CO2 from the air but we need to build one hundred thousand of them. However, that will not be free and will cost money and doesn't even deal with further processing CO2 so that we can return the carbon into a solid form.
Tell me when we start charging adding a tax to gasoline for the amount of money required to remove from the resulting CO2 from the air. Until then, you are just stealing money from the future because we are going to have to start removing CO2 from the air and that shit isn't going to be free.
Whenever Tesla is mentioned, it always brings out the financial trading guys who do nothing but praise or shit on the company because of their own money interests. I think it's important that everyone remember that the entire point of Tesla Motors was to show that electric vehicles were viable and to hopefully get the ball rolling with moving society to electric vehicles. The fact that other companies are being forced to throw their hat in the ring shows that there is a real demand for electric vehicles. Nothing is ever done perfectly on the first try (or generation of vehicles in this case) but we're progressing toward a sustainable automotive option which is extremely important. Yes, not all sources of electricity are sustainable but we're marking progress in that area too.
There is still hope, we can still salvage this planet before the ecosystem goes pear-shaped, even if we have to drag the people in denial, kicking and screaming with us.
Before I couldn't get over the fact that the consoles on the bridge would explode in their faces but now I realize this was just a metaphor for Windows exploding.;)
Can someone explain to me why missing predicted goals - by even as much as 50% - is such a big issue with investors?
Any time Tesla comes out slightly lower than "predicted results" the market analysts go haywire, it's all "doom and gloom! We warned you about Tesla! It's a baaaaaad investment!".
You should be more sensitive to them because they can't help it. I mean, have you considered why there are Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men at every car sales lot? It's because they are the investors and they are always freaking out.;)
I'm not being optimistic about renewable energy use or the will of the government to stop pollution, it's just that natural gas has been gutting the coal industry and despite a recent uptick, automation is replacing most workers. The companies may survive another 7 years but the occupation as we know it will die. With no economic incentive (jobs) to keep the sector alive, politicians that aren't heavily bribed will turn on coal completely most likely by other growing sectors that bribe them better.
No amount of band-wagon nonsense is going to change these fundamental facts unless there's a fundamental breakthrough in technology to stockpile and transport electrons. So far, there there has been no such breakthrough.
It reads like you have been living with your eyes shut. Feel free to make a public display and repeat your nonsensical rant in 20 years because I'd love to laugh at you in person.;)
If the shooter did this for ideological or political reasons then it's terrorism. If he did it because he thought it was a gathering of demons that rose from hell to kill everyone (or something like that) then it's mental illness.
It isn't even remotely that scary. Your odds of dying while driving to a public event far exceed your chance of getting shot there. If you're afraid of going to a public event, then you probably shouldn't go anywhere near your automobile.
Indeed. We need to stop putting hundreds of billions into a massive military force to fight a tiny enemy which would be better addressed with common-sense gun regulation which wouldn't even cost the government a penny.
There are ways to curb the automobile injuries/death but it's off the topic.
Regardless of whatever they may have believed, they were warned and ignored the warnings. Sure seems like gross negligence or possibly even criminal negligence. If the system weren't corrupted, I would expect indictments. It's too bad our government doesn't function properly.
The API is a massive security hole and can tank the entire browser with ease so they will only allow large companies that they can fight in court to make extensions.
But WAPA's signal coverage was significantly cut in March 2017 when the FCC refused to renew the license for synchronous AM booster stations at Arecibo, Mayaguez and Aguadilla in March due to procedural issues with the petition for renewal.
Bullshit. It wasn't "procedural issues" it was a lack of compliance with the terms they were allowed to add boosters.
Blanco-Pi sought and received annual renewals for the Stations' licenses, albeit often without the required reports of his experimental progress.5 In 2009, he sought to add a third synchronous booster to the two he was already operating in conjunction with station WISO.6 After initially denying the application based on an erroneous interpretation of the rules,7 the staff denied reconsideration based on Blanco-Pi ' s failure to demonstrate any further experimental benefit of adding a third AM synchronous booster, at Guayama, Puerto Rico, to WISO and the two existing AM synchronous boosters.8 In seeking review, Blanco-Pi attempted, for the first time, to justify the addition of a new AM booster station on technical and experimental grounds; the Commission disregarded these new arguments pursuant to Section 1.115(c) of the rules.9
Who would have thought that flaunting the rules would eventually get you shut down, right?
Also, if you think all this regulation on radio frequencies is silly then you should realize that the shielding on power supplies (that would otherwise jam most of the RF spectrum) only exist because of regulation that protects the RF spectrum from mass contamination.
While its research paper is focused on Apple, Duo Security said the same if not worse EFI issues likely affect PCs running Windows or Linux.
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
Also from TFA:
Our research focused on the Apple Mac ecosystem as Apple is in a somewhat unique position of controlling the full stack from hardware, through firmware, OS, and all the way up to application software and can be considered widely deployed.
This ensured that they were looking at a configuration that has one of the greatest levels of deployment. Identifying insecurities that occur in a 0.0001% of configurations isn't really productive.
Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something.
Yeah... not being in English causes a real disconnect for the US-centric crowd.
What, exactly, is the problem with languages that don't compile to native binaries?
Each layer below them can and most likely will change with time. It's like building on sand.
What about languages that typically use runtimes but have options to build to a native binary anyway?
You will end up with shitty support for and in the long term it will likely disappear. Besides, I doubt it would support any serious debugging capability for the native part.
Apparently nobody in the world is smart enough to arrange flawlessly reliable hands-off client/cloud synchronization.
Actually, there a plenty of people smart enough to ensure perfect synchronization. The problem is that not that many are interested in wasting their time on building an "app" that will likely be discarded in a few years for shitty pay. Also, if you aren't using a language that compiles to a natively executable binary then you have failed before even beginning.
Does it have four wheels and get you from point A to point B? I mean, that's the part I care about most. The second part is if it comes with that sweet wood paneling on the outside and have a large rear hatch.;)
"Is HR turning away good job candidates because they are looking for perfect job candidates?"
I feel like some people are refusing to listen to the truth and then after battling with reality for years, they finally arrive to the same conclusion only to announce it like it's some sort of new groundbreaking discovery.
There were only two expected outcomes here: either WhatsApp folds and gives China's government backdoor access to their application or they get blocked. The only thing this means is that they have opted for the highroad and got themselves blocked. I would be far more concerned about the applications that China's government acknowledges that they allow.
This is more likely just going to further suppress wages in these fields with an even greater glut of workers that they won't pay decent wages to and continue outsourcing work to other nations.
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Trees do not permanently remove CO2 from the air, they only hold it for a brief period before releasing almost all of it back into the air. There is also the matter of the acidification of the oceans which wouldn't be addressed by trees because they resperate annually causing the ocean to become a giant CO2 sink. Anyway, trees have been around a lot longer than humanity's CO2 problem, so don't you think they would have completely exhausted the CO2 from the air if they were good at absorbing CO2? Trees are little more than carbon neutral and microbial/animal life on Earth lived within the margins of what trees could handle for billions of years. We've blown past those margins and just to deal with our current output we would need to cover 1/3 of the Earth in trees.
The good news is that we made large machines that are orders of magnitude better at removing CO2 from the air but we need to build one hundred thousand of them. However, that will not be free and will cost money and doesn't even deal with further processing CO2 so that we can return the carbon into a solid form.
Tell me when we start charging adding a tax to gasoline for the amount of money required to remove from the resulting CO2 from the air. Until then, you are just stealing money from the future because we are going to have to start removing CO2 from the air and that shit isn't going to be free.
Whenever Tesla is mentioned, it always brings out the financial trading guys who do nothing but praise or shit on the company because of their own money interests. I think it's important that everyone remember that the entire point of Tesla Motors was to show that electric vehicles were viable and to hopefully get the ball rolling with moving society to electric vehicles. The fact that other companies are being forced to throw their hat in the ring shows that there is a real demand for electric vehicles. Nothing is ever done perfectly on the first try (or generation of vehicles in this case) but we're progressing toward a sustainable automotive option which is extremely important. Yes, not all sources of electricity are sustainable but we're marking progress in that area too.
There is still hope, we can still salvage this planet before the ecosystem goes pear-shaped, even if we have to drag the people in denial, kicking and screaming with us.
Before I couldn't get over the fact that the consoles on the bridge would explode in their faces but now I realize this was just a metaphor for Windows exploding. ;)
Can someone explain to me why missing predicted goals - by even as much as 50% - is such a big issue with investors?
Any time Tesla comes out slightly lower than "predicted results" the market analysts go haywire, it's all "doom and gloom! We warned you about Tesla! It's a baaaaaad investment!".
You should be more sensitive to them because they can't help it. I mean, have you considered why there are Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Men at every car sales lot? It's because they are the investors and they are always freaking out. ;)
I'm not being optimistic about renewable energy use or the will of the government to stop pollution, it's just that natural gas has been gutting the coal industry and despite a recent uptick, automation is replacing most workers. The companies may survive another 7 years but the occupation as we know it will die. With no economic incentive (jobs) to keep the sector alive, politicians that aren't heavily bribed will turn on coal completely most likely by other growing sectors that bribe them better.
Here's the long trend and here's the more recent trend.
No amount of band-wagon nonsense is going to change these fundamental facts unless there's a fundamental breakthrough in technology to stockpile and transport electrons. So far, there there has been no such breakthrough.
It reads like you have been living with your eyes shut. Feel free to make a public display and repeat your nonsensical rant in 20 years because I'd love to laugh at you in person. ;)
But is it terrorism
If the shooter did this for ideological or political reasons then it's terrorism. If he did it because he thought it was a gathering of demons that rose from hell to kill everyone (or something like that) then it's mental illness.
It isn't even remotely that scary. Your odds of dying while driving to a public event far exceed your chance of getting shot there. If you're afraid of going to a public event, then you probably shouldn't go anywhere near your automobile.
Indeed. We need to stop putting hundreds of billions into a massive military force to fight a tiny enemy which would be better addressed with common-sense gun regulation which wouldn't even cost the government a penny.
There are ways to curb the automobile injuries/death but it's off the topic.
Seriously, which part of that thing reminds you of a car? Feel free to list which parts.
Eagles are top of the food chain predators
Challenge Accepted. *shotgun ammo loading sound* ;)
Regardless of whatever they may have believed, they were warned and ignored the warnings. Sure seems like gross negligence or possibly even criminal negligence. If the system weren't corrupted, I would expect indictments. It's too bad our government doesn't function properly.
The API is a massive security hole and can tank the entire browser with ease so they will only allow large companies that they can fight in court to make extensions.
Microsoft spies on you and they sell your information to interested parties: New NSA Leaks Confirm That Microsoft Skype is a Wiretapping Hub
But WAPA's signal coverage was significantly cut in March 2017 when the FCC refused to renew the license for synchronous AM booster stations at Arecibo, Mayaguez and Aguadilla in March due to procedural issues with the petition for renewal.
Bullshit. It wasn't "procedural issues" it was a lack of compliance with the terms they were allowed to add boosters.
Blanco-Pi sought and received annual renewals for the Stations' licenses, albeit often without the
required reports of his experimental progress.5 In 2009, he sought to add a third synchronous booster to
the two he was already operating in conjunction with station WISO.6 After initially denying the
application based on an erroneous interpretation of the rules,7 the staff denied reconsideration based on
Blanco-Pi ' s failure to demonstrate any further experimental benefit of adding a third AM synchronous
booster, at Guayama, Puerto Rico, to WISO and the two existing AM synchronous boosters.8 In seeking
review, Blanco-Pi attempted, for the first time, to justify the addition of a new AM booster station on
technical and experimental grounds; the Commission disregarded these new arguments pursuant to
Section 1.115(c) of the rules.9
Who would have thought that flaunting the rules would eventually get you shut down, right?
Also, if you think all this regulation on radio frequencies is silly then you should realize that the shielding on power supplies (that would otherwise jam most of the RF spectrum) only exist because of regulation that protects the RF spectrum from mass contamination.
From TFA:
But don't let that stop a good Apple ass-whoopin'... carry on.
Also from TFA:
Our research focused on the Apple Mac ecosystem as Apple is in a somewhat unique position of controlling the full stack from hardware, through firmware, OS, and all the way up to application software and can be considered widely deployed.
This ensured that they were looking at a configuration that has one of the greatest levels of deployment. Identifying insecurities that occur in a 0.0001% of configurations isn't really productive.
Hardly ever does something appear about a European startup, or how such-and-such out of Europe is transforming an industry, or how the Europeans are taking over something.
Yeah... not being in English causes a real disconnect for the US-centric crowd.
What, exactly, is the problem with languages that don't compile to native binaries?
Each layer below them can and most likely will change with time. It's like building on sand.
What about languages that typically use runtimes but have options to build to a native binary anyway?
You will end up with shitty support for and in the long term it will likely disappear. Besides, I doubt it would support any serious debugging capability for the native part.
Congratulations, my fellow computer scientists, we're finally destroying freedom! ;)
You don't build on sand because it has a tendency to shift.
Apparently nobody in the world is smart enough to arrange flawlessly reliable hands-off client/cloud synchronization.
Actually, there a plenty of people smart enough to ensure perfect synchronization. The problem is that not that many are interested in wasting their time on building an "app" that will likely be discarded in a few years for shitty pay. Also, if you aren't using a language that compiles to a natively executable binary then you have failed before even beginning.
Does it have four wheels and get you from point A to point B? I mean, that's the part I care about most. The second part is if it comes with that sweet wood paneling on the outside and have a large rear hatch. ;)
"Is HR turning away good job candidates because they are looking for perfect job candidates?"
I feel like some people are refusing to listen to the truth and then after battling with reality for years, they finally arrive to the same conclusion only to announce it like it's some sort of new groundbreaking discovery.
There were only two expected outcomes here: either WhatsApp folds and gives China's government backdoor access to their application or they get blocked. The only thing this means is that they have opted for the highroad and got themselves blocked. I would be far more concerned about the applications that China's government acknowledges that they allow.
This is more likely just going to further suppress wages in these fields with an even greater glut of workers that they won't pay decent wages to and continue outsourcing work to other nations.