Most ocean pollution comes from litter in fast-growing coastal cities in Asia, Africa and South America.
You know, maybe, just maybe Hawaii is most concerned not about plastic in the 350 million odd square kilometers of open ocean, but in the few hundred square kilometers of ocean around the Hawaiian islands.
And guess where most of the plastic just off the Hawaiian coast (you know, the plastic that impacts fishing, beach culture, and via tourism the economy) comes from?
Most plastic doesn't travel that far. Your recycling trading scheme would be utterly useless for cleaning up the waters around Hawaii & makes it obvious that you think of plastic in water in generalized terms & have no understanding of the direct economic benefits that come from having clean coastal waters.
Your comment was reasonably intelligent. Pity you had to open with this line:
Legos are probably a half decent way of sequestering carbon.
Because that statement is so outright stupid that I have to dismiss everything else you said.
Think about it.
All ABS plastic is sourced from all ready sequestered carbon. It can't be a good way of sequestering carbon, because you're never going to be able to put more carbon back in the ground than you dug up to make the ABS.
Now, if they start making ABS equivalent plastics from plant materials, that would mean lego is an awesome way of sequestering carbon
Mission-critical functions should be kept in-house. Never farm out anything that can kill your business if your vendor fails to do their job.
[emp mine]
Like legal advice? Networking infrastructure? Roads to your business? Power generation? Clean water delivery? Insurance? Property protection? Defense of borders? Being an absolutist pedantic asshole?
Yet no one seems to care. I'm left with the inescapable conclusion that outrage at Facebook is nothing more than an extension of (D)s throwing a fit because Trump got elected.
Facebook got CAUGHT selling your data to others. MS haven't as yet.
You didn't really put much effort into your inescapable conclusion did you?
I've read that story & I'm not buying it. Consider this quote from the article:
First, while multiple-victim shootings in general are on the rise, that's not the case in schools. There's an average of about one a year — in a country with more than 100,000 schools.
"There were more back in the '90s than in recent years," says Fox. "For example, in one school year — 1997-98 — there were four multiple-victim shootings in schools."
So, one a year is the average & four (in the 1997-98 school year) is exceptional, but in this school year (17-18), we've also also had four multiple-victim shootings in schools - and the year ain't over.
It doesn't sound like a decline in school shootings to me frankly.
Whatever the case, I'm glad I don't live in that fucked up country.
"School shootings" are another current fad, even though they are nothing new, and are actually less common today than they were 25 years ago. So far the media attention has had zero effect on policy.
Less common? How do you measure that? Number of shootings or number of victims?
Because going by number of shootings, according to wikipedia, there have been roughly the SAME number of school shootings in the 3 and a bit years since 2015 (62) as there were in the ENTIRE decade of the 1990s (63).
So. Why do you think they're 'actually less common today' than the early to mid 90s?
You're kidding right? It is impossible to tell from that video.
WTF happened to LIDAR and sub millisecond braking reactions? The woman stepped out of a shadow at a point where a human would've struggled to brake hard enough to stop, but a machine should've been able to sense via lidar an object moving ACROSS ANOTHER LANE in a trajectory that would end in front of it fast enough to at least brake enough to turn a death into an injury.
I don't think this is a problem with autonomous cars in general, but a problem with Uber's 'I got mine, fuck everyone else' mentality towards everything. I doubt they're prioritizing pedestrian safety whatsoever.
Fire anyone who offers a "cloud" solution before offering an in-house solution, because I can guarantee you that "cloud" services are only half as efficient as running the hardware in-house.
But then give a bunch of examples where the cloud is actually better than in-house - eg:
* If you are simply serving cat videos, then cloud-away * it is cheaper to borrow the CPU power of 500 computers for one day than it is to buy two computers and have them take one year.
Fact is, buying computer services off other people (which is essentially all the cloud is), makes a ton of sense for all sorts of applications.Be sensible, and see if your use case fits the model of your vendor.
If you're as absolutist as "The Cloud is your enemy," then you're not suited for a job in modern IT.
then stop with the FUD that portrays those companies as actively working against the interests of society and most people.
All companies will actively work against the interests of society and most people if it is within their own interests to do so. Microsoft & the rest of the big tech companies do so everyday by actively evading paying their fair share of taxes.
and many slash dotters who are definitely not environmentalists will oppose this because it is an energy source they hate.
Hating an energy source isn't rational.
Reality Check. Environmentalist & non-environmentalist don't hate wind turbines in significant numbers.The anti-turbine mob are all nimbys worried about spoiling their views, and old-energy shills and their useful idiots.
results from all the oil that we export, which is our number one source of revenue for our economy
What makes you say that? Your own link puts imports of refined petroleum at $4.83B, with exports at $7.22B, for total net exports of $2.84B.
2% of the economy is serious, but that figure is dwarfed by Packaged Medicaments ($6.22B), Cars ($5.85B), Vehicle Parts ($4.76B) and Telephones ($3.99B) - hardly the number one source of revenue.
Frankly, I'm surprised armaments isn't on the list. (perhaps hidden in vehicle parts?) I always the Swedish Socialist Utopia was pay for by profits from selling guns for poor people to kill each other with.
Twitter has obviously gotten WAY away from being a Common Carrier in any sense,
WTF are you talking about? Twitter is not & has never been a common carrier. You do not have the intelligence to comment on this (or probably any other matter).
Frankly, I'd rather have police accountability than privacy from having people see my face while I'm in public.
You realize that this is not an either/or choice right? We can give police body cameras & get the associated enhanced accountability and put safeguards in to prevent it turning to ubiquitous surveillance,
'Oh noes', like people are being irrational suggesting we limit ubiquitous surveillance.
Only the models "Margherita" having toppings tomato sauce, olive oil, basil and buffalo mozzarella and "Marinara" with tomato sauce, olive oil, oregano and garlic
Nononononono, initially sell the Margherita with mozzarella olive oil and basil, then when demand dies down a bit, sell a Margherita extra (rebrand as Margherita plus), where the mozzarella is substituted for buffalo mozzarella.
The white Rhino was saved by the establishment of the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park. The last 20 Rhinos were not privately owned, but protected by the state.
Had they been privately owned, they would almost certainly now be extinct. The idea that private enterprise would conserve and endangered animal for some far off future benefit when it is generally incapable of seeing past the next quarter is not just stupid, but dangerous.
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Most ocean pollution comes from litter in fast-growing coastal cities in Asia, Africa and South America.
You know, maybe, just maybe Hawaii is most concerned not about plastic in the 350 million odd square kilometers of open ocean, but in the few hundred square kilometers of ocean around the Hawaiian islands.
And guess where most of the plastic just off the Hawaiian coast (you know, the plastic that impacts fishing, beach culture, and via tourism the economy) comes from?
Most plastic doesn't travel that far. Your recycling trading scheme would be utterly useless for cleaning up the waters around Hawaii & makes it obvious that you think of plastic in water in generalized terms & have no understanding of the direct economic benefits that come from having clean coastal waters.
In Australia we manage to eat grass-fed beef.
Unfortunately not. Linked article sez:
Approximately 40% of Australiaâ(TM)s total beef supply and 80% of beef sold in major domestic supermarkets is sourced from the cattle feedlot sector.
The average Human *snip* does not even make anywhere close to $1000 a year.
Got a cite for that? I'm having trouble finding a median (which what I presumed you meant) world income.
France *snip* has by far the cheapest electricity prices in Europe.
Not even remotely true.
Estonia & Bulgaria are far cheaper & countries like Finland & the UK are on par with France.
All in all, France (even with massive subsidies for Nuclear) has fairly average prices for electricity in Europe.
Unless of course by Europe, you meant "German and Scandinavia (but not Finland).
Your comment was reasonably intelligent. Pity you had to open with this line:
Legos are probably a half decent way of sequestering carbon.
Because that statement is so outright stupid that I have to dismiss everything else you said.
Think about it.
All ABS plastic is sourced from all ready sequestered carbon. It can't be a good way of sequestering carbon, because you're never going to be able to put more carbon back in the ground than you dug up to make the ABS.
Now, if they start making ABS equivalent plastics from plant materials, that would mean lego is an awesome way of sequestering carbon
Mission-critical functions should be kept in-house. Never farm out anything that can kill your business if your vendor fails to do their job.
[emp mine]
Like legal advice? Networking infrastructure? Roads to your business? Power generation? Clean water delivery? Insurance? Property protection? Defense of borders? Being an absolutist pedantic asshole?
Yet no one seems to care. I'm left with the inescapable conclusion that outrage at Facebook is nothing more than an extension of (D)s throwing a fit because Trump got elected.
Facebook got CAUGHT selling your data to others. MS haven't as yet.
You didn't really put much effort into your inescapable conclusion did you?
I've read that story & I'm not buying it. Consider this quote from the article:
First, while multiple-victim shootings in general are on the rise, that's not the case in schools. There's an average of about one a year — in a country with more than 100,000 schools.
"There were more back in the '90s than in recent years," says Fox. "For example, in one school year — 1997-98 — there were four multiple-victim shootings in schools."
So, one a year is the average & four (in the 1997-98 school year) is exceptional, but in this school year (17-18), we've also also had four multiple-victim shootings in schools - and the year ain't over.
It doesn't sound like a decline in school shootings to me frankly.
Whatever the case, I'm glad I don't live in that fucked up country.
"School shootings" are another current fad, even though they are nothing new, and are actually less common today than they were 25 years ago. So far the media attention has had zero effect on policy.
Less common? How do you measure that? Number of shootings or number of victims?
Because going by number of shootings, according to wikipedia, there have been roughly the SAME number of school shootings in the 3 and a bit years since 2015 (62) as there were in the ENTIRE decade of the 1990s (63).
So. Why do you think they're 'actually less common today' than the early to mid 90s?
You are discounting how much carbon living screaming birds on fire generate.
Was going to mod you down, but realized it would be more satisfying to just tell you what a fucking idiot you are.
You're kidding right? It is impossible to tell from that video.
WTF happened to LIDAR and sub millisecond braking reactions? The woman stepped out of a shadow at a point where a human would've struggled to brake hard enough to stop, but a machine should've been able to sense via lidar an object moving ACROSS ANOTHER LANE in a trajectory that would end in front of it fast enough to at least brake enough to turn a death into an injury.
I don't think this is a problem with autonomous cars in general, but a problem with Uber's 'I got mine, fuck everyone else' mentality towards everything. I doubt they're prioritizing pedestrian safety whatsoever.
I tried to inject a turkey - but it wouldn't stay on the spoon!
You're right, they should've said Tesla was decimating production levels, not slashing.
Fire anyone who offers a "cloud" solution before offering an in-house solution, because I can guarantee you that "cloud" services are only half as efficient as running the hardware in-house.
But then give a bunch of examples where the cloud is actually better than in-house - eg:
* If you are simply serving cat videos, then cloud-away
* it is cheaper to borrow the CPU power of 500 computers for one day than it is to buy two computers and have them take one year.
Fact is, buying computer services off other people (which is essentially all the cloud is), makes a ton of sense for all sorts of applications.Be sensible, and see if your use case fits the model of your vendor.
If you're as absolutist as "The Cloud is your enemy," then you're not suited for a job in modern IT.
then stop with the FUD that portrays those companies as actively working against the interests of society and most people.
All companies will actively work against the interests of society and most people if it is within their own interests to do so. Microsoft & the rest of the big tech companies do so everyday by actively evading paying their fair share of taxes.
Because the American colonies had rebelled & were no longer accepting England's detritus?
I think Tesla can make an argument about safety that Sonos can't make here.
Some environmentalists will oppose this because of presumed bird mortality,
Not if they're rational.
and many slash dotters who are definitely not environmentalists will oppose this because it is an energy source they hate.
Hating an energy source isn't rational.
Reality Check. Environmentalist & non-environmentalist don't hate wind turbines in significant numbers.The anti-turbine mob are all nimbys worried about spoiling their views, and old-energy shills and their useful idiots.
All these measures to encourage (or enforce) vaccines in children are great.
But why not adults too? There are more vaccinated adults than children (most vaccinations lose effectiveness after a period of time).
Are your vaccines up-to-date? If not - why not? Do you consider yourself an anti-vaxxer - or are you just lazy?
results from all the oil that we export, which is our number one source of revenue for our economy
What makes you say that? Your own link puts imports of refined petroleum at $4.83B, with exports at $7.22B, for total net exports of $2.84B.
2% of the economy is serious, but that figure is dwarfed by Packaged Medicaments ($6.22B), Cars ($5.85B), Vehicle Parts ($4.76B) and Telephones ($3.99B) - hardly the number one source of revenue.
Frankly, I'm surprised armaments isn't on the list. (perhaps hidden in vehicle parts?) I always the Swedish Socialist Utopia was pay for by profits from selling guns for poor people to kill each other with.
Twitter has obviously gotten WAY away from being a Common Carrier in any sense,
WTF are you talking about? Twitter is not & has never been a common carrier. You do not have the intelligence to comment on this (or probably any other matter).
Frankly, I'd rather have police accountability than privacy from having people see my face while I'm in public.
You realize that this is not an either/or choice right? We can give police body cameras & get the associated enhanced accountability and put safeguards in to prevent it turning to ubiquitous surveillance,
'Oh noes', like people are being irrational suggesting we limit ubiquitous surveillance.
Impossible. The company that owns porsche never cheats like this.
Only the models "Margherita" having toppings tomato sauce, olive oil, basil and buffalo mozzarella and "Marinara" with tomato sauce, olive oil, oregano and garlic
Nononononono, initially sell the Margherita with mozzarella olive oil and basil, then when demand dies down a bit, sell a Margherita extra (rebrand as Margherita plus), where the mozzarella is substituted for buffalo mozzarella.
Privatization? WTF are you talking about?
The white Rhino was saved by the establishment of the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park. The last 20 Rhinos were not privately owned, but protected by the state.
Had they been privately owned, they would almost certainly now be extinct. The idea that private enterprise would conserve and endangered animal for some far off future benefit when it is generally incapable of seeing past the next quarter is not just stupid, but dangerous.