Now imagine if Windows had done the same thing. Slashdot would be in an uproar.
Bullshit, stop trolling. When Microsoft releases a patch which doesn't break anything, nobody complains. It's when they release "patches" which alter the behavior of the operating system in undesirable ways that we get our knickers twisted.
A conspiracy is when two or more people get together (conspire) to take advantage of one or more people. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.
Conspiracy Theorist, as a phrase, was ironically (for you) deliberately created by the CIA as a means of discrediting people who had ideas about how they might be fucking us.
These deep-think groups of geniuses are always 2 steps behind those creating the exploits. They publish white papers containing postmortems on exploits that have already reeked havoc
Tee hee. "Reeked" havoc. Do yourself a favor and don't use words you don't understand while talking shit about other people.
The game changed and nobody told us. Nobody can assume that they aren't "important enough".
You think you're being edgy and clever but all you are is way fucking behind. That's always been true!
I used to snicker at people who thought like this, maybe throwing in a "tinfoil hat" joke here and there. Damn... it's not quite at the level of CIA implanted brain bugs, or thought-controlling water additives, but the government is getting damn creepy with it's mass surveillance.
What we know about CIA-implanted brain bugs and thought-controlling water additives is that this government would not hesitate to use either one if it were available to them.
You can already manipulate people's mental states with water additives, and implanted "brain bugs" are only a matter of time — we're making more and more progress along those lines all the time. We don't have long to get this government under control...
5000 ppm CO2 is an order of magnitude higher than you can find outdoors in any city in the world.
Nobody said otherwise.
Do you think Google cars are going to be driving around in poorly ventilated spaces?
We'll find out soon enough just how much CO2 lingers. It's heavier than air, you know.
Monitoring CO2 levels in cities is completely irrelevant in terms of outdoor air quality.
Not only is that wrong, but the goal is to map "urban air quality", not just "outdoor air quality". RTFA, HTH, HAND.
P.S. If you had anything worthwhile to say, you'd have logged in.
I'm pretty sure I'm right.
Yes, I can see that.
I don't need "data" to back me up.
Unless you want anyone with a brain to care what you think.
Hint, data just the plural of datum, which is just a a single number.
Oh, so we only need one data point to make any decision ever?
fine. i bet the co2 level outside at street level is never more than 10% higher than up in the sky.
I prefer data to what you're willing to bet on. Luckily, someone is going to go forth and gather it regardless of what you think, and we'll find out whether you're right or not.
It's awesome how you really are the stereotypical dead broke neckbeard on slashdot.
Getting just five used cables this way will save enough to pay for breakfast for two in a nice restaurant in Mendocino. You don't get to do fun stuff by throwing away money. I've saved hundreds of dollars just by hauling crates of cables around with me through my various moves, many of which came from thrift stores, yard sale, and flea markets.
If I need a cable right away, I don't look to see which flea market occurs next. I just buy it. But mostly I don't have to, because crates. Sorry you haven't got a place to store crates yet.
his BBC lucrative contract
You really think nobody would pay him more than the BBC? Seriously?
Which is part of the siting and site analysis process that failed to keep a plant that was not designed to be hit by a tsunami out of the path of a tsunami.
It's the post-bean-counter phase of design. Engineers find a site which will work, bean counters fuck it all up, just like I said.
More to the point: how do I get to be a multinational corporation so I can tell local authorities to fuck off too?
Every great fortune is based on a great crime.
Putting generators on pylons is a tremendous oversimplification of what would be needed to design to withstand a tsunami.
In this case, it probably would have done the job; emergency power would have been available to keep things running.
Plants are designed for floods up to a certain level. It is up to the siting analysis to determine where you can place the plant and auxiliaries
You know the site was actually lowered substantially to make construction cheaper, right?
further, co2 isnt' an an air pollutant. it doesn't cause ozone, smog, bronchitis, heart disease or cancer.
But increased levels of CO2 actually found in (some relatively extreme) workplaces in the USA do have significant negative health effects! Occupational CO2 exposure limits have been set in the United States at 0.5% (5000 ppm) for an 8-hour period.[88] At this level of CO2, International Space Station crew experienced headaches, lethargy, mental slowness, emotional irritation, and sleep disruption.[89] Studies in animals at 0.5% CO2 have demonstrated kidney calcification and bone loss after 8 weeks of exposure.[90] Another study of humans exposed in 2.5 hour sessions demonstrated significant effects on cognitive abilities at concentrations as low as 0.1% (1000ppm) CO2 likely due to CO2 induced increases in cerebral blood flow.[91] [...] Higher CO2 concentrations are associated with occupant health, comfort and performance degradation. ASHRAE Standard 62.1â"2007 ventilation rates may result in indoor levels up to 2,100 ppm above ambient outdoor conditions. Thus if the outdoor ambient is 400 ppm, indoor concentrations may reach 2,500 ppm with ventilation rates that meet this industry consensus standard. Concentrations in poorly ventilated spaces can be found even higher than this (range of 3,000 or 4,000). Keep in mind that levels under 5,000 ppm can cause negative health effects; that's just the level at which our government says you have to do something about it.
It is highly relevant what CO2 levels are like in our cities, and the things you said are completely irrelevant to that fact.
I think people notice incandescents fail right when being turned on rather than just crapping out while they were already running. I don't know if this is selection bias and these events are just more noticable than the other types of failure.
I'm quite sure that they fail right when turned on more in this house, but I've got almost all of them replaced with Cree lights now that they are dirt cheap at the home despot. Except I've got a $1 CFL over the stove, where the most lights died, and it's been a peach.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov
