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Comment Re:FFS (Score 1) 398

Yea, they should have made alcohol consumption illegal 95 years ago. But I guess there wasn't idea on the danger of alcohol consumption.

While pot may be safer then alcohol it doesn't mean that it is good for you. Alcohol consumption has a wide cultural background for good or for bad. Pot and tobacco much less so. We want to get people to stop smoking tobacco too. Why should we just green light pot just because it is less bad, but still bad.

Now for legit medical use, it makes sence and it should be legal for medical. But for recreational use it should fall under the same category as pain killers.

Comment Re:the evil central business district (Score 2) 81

However if your business is integrated with your home, then you have a different set of issues.
1. Customers will need to travel further to work with you, So we will need more expensive last mile infrastructure.
2. Large business will buy your home. If a business wants to expand, they will probably target your home more than they would if you live in a residential district. As well you get the issues of company owned housing. Where you are a slave to the company, as if you get fired or laid off you loose your job and your home.

Comment Re:on starting with smaller-scale albedo modificat (Score 2) 421

The problem is actions like this put the burden individuals and smaller municipal governments.
People especially Americans, do not like the government telling them what they can and can't do to their own property. Also the small local governments have limited funds, such actions will mean that the local government will need to make a serious sacrifice.
Putting such actions in place, will only lead to the politicians who put the rule in place being kicked out, and if it continues violence will escalate.

Now your post didn't mention a forced change, I just wanted to bring up trying such smaller scale modifications, will require a slow approach, where alternatives will need to be sure that there aren't major flaws in the design, as a large scale implementation failure could have a major backlash.

Comment Re:Good grief... (Score 1) 681

Computer science as an academic field of study, isn't about how a computer works (that is computer engineering) neither it it about programming (those can be taught in vocational training) computer science is the science of computation. Experimenting in different ways we can solve problems.

Now many people with such a degree in their undergrad get a rewarding career in programming or other work doing more advanced thing with computers. But that is their job, not their degree of study.

As for Bill Nye statement. It isn't as much about lack of science, but the fact that most CS do not focus attention in natural sciences, and focus more on the abstract modeling then the actual results. Secondly right now the degree in CS means there are a lot of outside accedemia. When we leave the instruction walls we are exposed to a lot more types of people, so our opinion forms from a different cultural exposure. As well there are a lot of grads who took CS to just get a job, to play the system, there is no real interest in Computer Science, it is a way for them to get the paper to say they can be hired for such a job. It isn't the academic discipline, but the people who get it.

Comment Re:Fool me once, shame on you... (Score 1) 252

The 1990s internet adds were mostly from questionable business or from a few large companies. Without the ability to target, individuals their effectiveness wasn't as good as it is now, so in general they just could make the money. Today they Are more profitable and can keep a business profitable.
A lot of the 1990s tech companies also didn't have a business plan at all, sell under cost, but sell a lot of them. Hoping to get a customer base, and force an economy of scale.
The winners Amazon, Google, eBay had a model that brought in revenue to cover their growth.

Comment Re:Price matters. (Score 1) 26

The thing is. Most people really don't get so crazy about adds, just as long as they don't get too abusive.

I am sure most of you don't remember the internet before ads.
In short there wasn't much to it.
We had a few companies posing their sales fliers, we had some academic papers. Software companies may have had a public FTP site. The rest was an attempt to make a Telnet version of the BBS (The old dial up ones, that were more then a message board) The bulk of the interesting stuff was on the IRC, internet apps were via Telnet. To get access to a lot of these places even the public ones, you needed to give out far more personal information then you would ever do today.

When companies could urge companies to pay them to post their ads, that is when the big growth of the public internet came out. Most internet sites without the revenue from ads, will not make it.
Lets use Slashdot:
Do you think enough people are willing to pay slashdot directly to keep them operational?
Do you think slashdot would be able to keep its load, enough to bring down other sites without significant revenue?
If you had to pay for it. Would you use it or switch to an other site such as OSnews?

Comment Re:Seriously, an Apple car? (Score -1, Troll) 196

I figure a Fan Boy Response will be such....
White and silver: Apple also has a tradition of offering many color products as well. the original iMac - the iPhone 6. Has a choice of colors. There is no evidence that an iCar will be just restricted to a few colors.

The hood doesn't need to open, because the car will not break down, as the engine is proposed of no moving parts that will wear out. As well such hood interferes with the aerodynamics of the automobile.

The tires don't cost twice as much, you are just use to putting on the cheap bargain tires on your car, while Apple only uses the high end quality tires. They will last you twice as long too.

You are over stating the gas and windshield wiper fluids. There is an adapter so you can operate with pedestrian gas stations, and you can pick up an additive that you can mix with the windshield-wiper fluid.

The car doesn't emit exhaust, it does have a Starbucks store built in so that is where the smell is probably coming from.

Comment Re:Waste of time (Score 1) 129

It will depend on the community and the volume.
Say you have an area that is mostly densely packed. And you have 95 Small packages, and 5 large packages, with 10 drones. While you are hand delivering the big packages, the drones can be getting the small ones outs.
If you have just a few packages, and the area isn't so dense, then you are better off hand delivering them.

Comment Re:Cancer just doesn't have that "it" factor!! (Score 2) 96

While it is one one most preventable in terms it, can be controlled by voluntary actions. However these actions are in societies taboo areas. So it is difficult to say to propose the use of condoms to people in a society where they are told not to have premarital sex. So by having such items shows that you are guilty of diverting from societies expectation.

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