That car might get 100mi on a charge but thats the market in Japan. If you are going further WTF wouldn't you take the train? It wouldn't make sense. The Tesla Model S gets 300mi to a charge; Thats Boston to Philadelphia in one go. Think about how often you make a trip that long... or half that long.
A better way to put it, Would you be willing to take a 3~5minute break every 3hours of driving? To help the environment? I think that is a fairly minor lifestyle change at this point.
Another point is that there is a world outside of the US. Newcastle to London is 300mi; Rome to Modena. In many places 300mi is horribly excessive. Hell, all of Ireland is 150mi across.
Anyways I think the Volt is an amazing transition vehicle until infrastructure gets in place... eventually people will no longer feel the need to shell out x dollars for the turbine and it'll fade away.
Nuclear is pretty cheap per kWh. If you take away free money that other forms of energy production get then it is quite affordable. And the space it takes up is very small. Waste isn't a problem cept in the US (because you have laws which enforce waste problems). And high maintenance costs isn't quite right either, you were probably thinking high upfront costs (which is certainly true)...
The reason people hate nuclear energy is because of fear and misinformation.
That seems like a sensible reaction on the face of it but really its silly and wrong. If people using it pay for it then you won't have paid for it. If it breaks even then only those using it paid. If you argument was that the taxpayer paid for it so it could be available to all and THAT is being taken away then you might have a point. But paying for something with taxes and then charging for it is 100% normal. For example look at any toll bridge or highway.
As a taxpayer you pay for the availability and the people that use the service pay to use it.
WTF should Britain be spending money on iphone apps? Using their apparent rejection of iphone as the one true future as proof of Britain's technology illiteracy is ridiculous. This smacks of Steve Jobs worship and/or extreme stupidity. (Is the author aware of the current political sphere around funding in Britain atm?)
It isn't 50 grand or anything but that isn't how money works. It is expensive FOR A PHONE. Even the relatively poor can get their hands on 20 bucks but only the very wealthy can use said $20 to wipe their ass. Just because the poor could technically flush their money down the toilet doesn't mean it should be accepted or encouraged by the government.
"Hm, otoh - what happened with NASA funding just after first photographs of a man on the Moon?" Good point.
"BTW, we still seem to have
a bit of "great wall of China type projects", also in Europe (accidentally, the top one...)"
The great wall of China cost over 1 million lives. And its construction on and off spanned many generations. The comparison is silly.
All camera's get 1billion mega-pixel just police get access to the majority of it, regular users only get the degraded 3megapixel versions. Duhhh. I don't know why people find CSI hard to follow.
I don't think the reason the RIAA/MPAA dislike/distrust open standards is perceiving them to be insecure. Many fogey old businessmen probably see it that way. But RIAA are opposed to the entire concept of open software. Think about it.
You have a product that you send around to each other freely, no-one gets charged for it, there aren't many horrible legal altercations over it and the word 'steal' can't even be cutely mis-applied to the product. Abhorrent! If music were simply given away in a similar fashion they would be reduced to a 1 story office with 5 guys instead of the miniature empire of leaches they currently control.
A photograph (not shopped) of a man on mars will ensure NASA's future and funding. The level of publicity for it will be crazy. Publicity and awareness results in funding. Probably not the smartest system but that is how it works.
Also, ships back during the world exploring time period were not cheap, they were fucking expensive as hell. BUT because of the type of government available known as fucking over anyone not at the top you could afford to do huge works. Great wall of China type projects could not be replicated in say Europe today (Even with the reduced costs attributed to having big trucks and w/e). No one has the funding for that kind of shit. Sticking people on mars isn't doable because of this.
Not true, we are improving. Statistically speaking humans behavior has improved greatly over the years. It is a common belief that we've gotten no where but that's just because we are always reaching forwards. Everyone can see many things that can be improved but it is hard to get there since civilization has such a large mass (social inertia?). It feels like we aren't improving because we aren't doing so nearly fast enough on an individual scale.
If you've read enough of plato/about plato you'd be completely unsurprised that he'd write something in code long before he merely hid something. Only surprised that it doesn't seem more mathematical.
"who just crib together their own half-assed belief systems out of the spare parts of real cultures and civilizations, with little interest in the actual myths and rituals themselves."
Foundation of early Christianity? Seriously most religions modify and rip off other religions. That's why everyone and their mom has a flood story. Daniken was also one person, you can't reasonably compare him to hebrews w/e. I can guarantee that there are people in all religions listed that thought it was stupid and used it for personal gain.
"Plato could only harm himself with that if people had any real self-hood." I'm sure Nietzche had something to say about self-hood in this situation......
I've often thought that china should give the ppl the right to vote just to get the west off its back. They'd win not only by a landslide but they'd do so for the next 15years minimum. Hardly a risk for the people in power now anyways. Perhaps its that they feel their system of government is better though. And maybe they are right./.ers are always arguing against mono cultures in plants... seems the same would apply to governance.
Japanese TV is the same. They have a few oddball long running series but the mainstay gets one season and then ends. It works way more nicely for the writers who can actually have a beginning middle and end rather than keeping it open the whole time. Lately they've tried to give shows that do well a 2nd season but it seems like the writers aren't prepared for it (since they only expect 1 season) and the 2nd season ends in pitiful failure.
Its flickr, the spray part has already happened, no need to pay them for that. Jobs to photograph events like weddings news and catalogues and such will always be there. But 'I need a pretty photo of a smallish bridge in venice at sunset' is filled by flickr. So is 'I need a generic clean person smiling as a backdrop to show how good my phone service is' (works for annual reports too). 'I need a picture of this x to sell on ebay' is well filled.
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That car might get 100mi on a charge but thats the market in Japan. If you are going further WTF wouldn't you take the train? It wouldn't make sense. The Tesla Model S gets 300mi to a charge; Thats Boston to Philadelphia in one go. Think about how often you make a trip that long... or half that long.
A better way to put it, Would you be willing to take a 3~5minute break every 3hours of driving? To help the environment? I think that is a fairly minor lifestyle change at this point.
Another point is that there is a world outside of the US. Newcastle to London is 300mi; Rome to Modena. In many places 300mi is horribly excessive. Hell, all of Ireland is 150mi across.
Anyways I think the Volt is an amazing transition vehicle until infrastructure gets in place... eventually people will no longer feel the need to shell out x dollars for the turbine and it'll fade away.
Nuclear is pretty cheap per kWh. If you take away free money that other forms of energy production get then it is quite affordable. And the space it takes up is very small. Waste isn't a problem cept in the US (because you have laws which enforce waste problems). And high maintenance costs isn't quite right either, you were probably thinking high upfront costs (which is certainly true)...
The reason people hate nuclear energy is because of fear and misinformation.
*sigh* I thought /.ers were better than this.
That seems like a sensible reaction on the face of it but really its silly and wrong. If people using it pay for it then you won't have paid for it. If it breaks even then only those using it paid. If you argument was that the taxpayer paid for it so it could be available to all and THAT is being taken away then you might have a point. But paying for something with taxes and then charging for it is 100% normal. For example look at any toll bridge or highway.
As a taxpayer you pay for the availability and the people that use the service pay to use it.
WTF should Britain be spending money on iphone apps? Using their apparent rejection of iphone as the one true future as proof of Britain's technology illiteracy is ridiculous. This smacks of Steve Jobs worship and/or extreme stupidity. (Is the author aware of the current political sphere around funding in Britain atm?)
It isn't 50 grand or anything but that isn't how money works. It is expensive FOR A PHONE. Even the relatively poor can get their hands on 20 bucks but only the very wealthy can use said $20 to wipe their ass. Just because the poor could technically flush their money down the toilet doesn't mean it should be accepted or encouraged by the government.
You started off so well :S
The democracy index (obviously not perfect) seems to put you in 18th in regards to strength on democracy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
"Hm, otoh - what happened with NASA funding just after first photographs of a man on the Moon?"
Good point.
"BTW, we still seem to have a bit of "great wall of China type projects", also in Europe (accidentally, the top one...)"
The great wall of China cost over 1 million lives. And its construction on and off spanned many generations. The comparison is silly.
Holy shit, your heart must be fucking huge.
All camera's get 1billion mega-pixel just police get access to the majority of it, regular users only get the degraded 3megapixel versions. Duhhh. I don't know why people find CSI hard to follow.
I don't think the reason the RIAA/MPAA dislike/distrust open standards is perceiving them to be insecure. Many fogey old businessmen probably see it that way. But RIAA are opposed to the entire concept of open software. Think about it.
You have a product that you send around to each other freely, no-one gets charged for it, there aren't many horrible legal altercations over it and the word 'steal' can't even be cutely mis-applied to the product. Abhorrent! If music were simply given away in a similar fashion they would be reduced to a 1 story office with 5 guys instead of the miniature empire of leaches they currently control.
A photograph (not shopped) of a man on mars will ensure NASA's future and funding. The level of publicity for it will be crazy. Publicity and awareness results in funding. Probably not the smartest system but that is how it works.
Also, ships back during the world exploring time period were not cheap, they were fucking expensive as hell. BUT because of the type of government available known as fucking over anyone not at the top you could afford to do huge works. Great wall of China type projects could not be replicated in say Europe today (Even with the reduced costs attributed to having big trucks and w/e). No one has the funding for that kind of shit. Sticking people on mars isn't doable because of this.
Not true, we are improving. Statistically speaking humans behavior has improved greatly over the years. It is a common belief that we've gotten no where but that's just because we are always reaching forwards. Everyone can see many things that can be improved but it is hard to get there since civilization has such a large mass (social inertia?). It feels like we aren't improving because we aren't doing so nearly fast enough on an individual scale.
If you've read enough of plato/about plato you'd be completely unsurprised that he'd write something in code long before he merely hid something. Only surprised that it doesn't seem more mathematical.
"who just crib together their own half-assed belief systems out of the spare parts of real cultures and civilizations, with little interest in the actual myths and rituals themselves."
Foundation of early Christianity? Seriously most religions modify and rip off other religions. That's why everyone and their mom has a flood story. Daniken was also one person, you can't reasonably compare him to hebrews w/e. I can guarantee that there are people in all religions listed that thought it was stupid and used it for personal gain.
Why is it impossible that I'm not actually God? And I'm telling you that I never met Ezekiel.
Because that's fucking stupid.
"Plato could only harm himself with that if people had any real self-hood." I'm sure Nietzche had something to say about self-hood in this situation......
Very informative. I'm usually pretty good about avoiding urban legend. TY
I've often thought that china should give the ppl the right to vote just to get the west off its back. They'd win not only by a landslide but they'd do so for the next 15years minimum. Hardly a risk for the people in power now anyways. Perhaps its that they feel their system of government is better though. And maybe they are right. /.ers are always arguing against mono cultures in plants... seems the same would apply to governance.
Glass would deform in that time scale...
Thats what a stove is for.
File formats can be figured out eventually. In 20years I'm pretty sure we'll be able to figure any weird file formats that are usable today.
Goes the other way too. Don't act all surprised if someone steals your car because you left the door open with the keys in it.
/. users*
*edited to car analogy to help out
Japanese TV is the same. They have a few oddball long running series but the mainstay gets one season and then ends. It works way more nicely for the writers who can actually have a beginning middle and end rather than keeping it open the whole time. Lately they've tried to give shows that do well a 2nd season but it seems like the writers aren't prepared for it (since they only expect 1 season) and the 2nd season ends in pitiful failure.
Its flickr, the spray part has already happened, no need to pay them for that. Jobs to photograph events like weddings news and catalogues and such will always be there. But 'I need a pretty photo of a smallish bridge in venice at sunset' is filled by flickr. So is 'I need a generic clean person smiling as a backdrop to show how good my phone service is' (works for annual reports too). 'I need a picture of this x to sell on ebay' is well filled.