Steel and aluminum in particular are NOT "easily recycled" - in fact that's a much more expensive process than creating engineered wood of any type by a factor nearing 100x
To use a French term: bullshit. Recycling aluminum is as easy as tossing it into the furnace. Unless you're going to claim mining the bauxite, transporting it, refining it, THEN heating it into ingots is somehow less expensive than transporting flattened cans to a mill and dumping them in the furnace.
While the thing you say -i.e. that recycling aluminium is much cheaper than creating it from bauxite- may be true, and the OP may be wrong, you are not replying to the OP's statement, which is that the recycling of aluminium is more expensive than the creation of the "engineered wood".
good customer service is cheaper than advertising and far more profitable
Says who?
Good for you. I ignore anyone that complains over things like this.
Apparently not.
With all of the geniuses on Slashdot, it's hard to understand why they aren't the most wealthy people in the world.
Not participating may not make you "the wealthiest people in the world", but it prevents you from becoming the poorest. I imagine Slashdotters don't participate in lotteries and pyramid schemes either, for the same reason.
If bitcoin is not currency, what is the driving force behind owning it?
In one word: greed.
The single best thing you can do to help prevent climate change (that doesn't involve murder / suicide) is to not have children.
The biggest impact on climate change is if idiots like the US americans reduce their personal carbon emissions. Using 4 times as much energy per person as an European, and ten times as much as an African is not necessary, you can easily solve that, but you don't want to.
Agreed 100%.
However... if they don't have children, all of this will certainly end within 100 years. I therefore do not feel impressed by "green" hippies with a large offspring. They may live ecologically on their moral high ground -though typically even that is debatable- but who guarantees their children or grandchildren will? Moreover, if they have more than two children, they have lost their climate case completely, because that leads to an exponential growth that can never be sustainable. Unless, of course -the classic argument- other people have less children. But that is not the "hippie's" merit.
This situation becomes even more embarrassing if following George Carlin's take on this, which is that "green" parents don't give a f*ck about the planet. They just want a nice place for their children to live. All of this is very opportunistic. But because children are today's Holy Cow, none of this can be mentioned by "selfish childless misanthropes".
... I was under the impression that certain astronomical measurements would imply the existence of a sim, but are not required for us to be in a sim.
No. Certain measurements could suggest the existence of a sim. They don't imply the existence of a sim. Most likely they indicate we have an incomplete understanding of the thing we are measuring and no sims are in the story at all.
Honestly I am getting a bit tired of all this "what if?"-new-age talk. If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. If AI finally is beginning to get somewhere -and nowhere near where we want to be- theories about the universe being a sim are popping up constantly, even though there is no good reason whatsoever for this assumption. At some point, science was about Occam's razor shaving off all unnecessary fluff. Now we are just inventing new fluff because... why actually?
The difference is negligible.
Source?
Mehinks that selective breeding goes a lot slower, allowing more time to discover "unwanted" side effects.
An attacker can receive the satellite signal and retransmit it.
In case the attacker only wants to shift the time a bit -which could be important for communication networks- this would not be too hard indeed. If, on the other hand, he wanted to do a spoofing of the position, that would require capturing the satellite signals and delaying them individually. For the civilian code, the separation of the satellite signals can be done easily by digital correlation. However, because the military code is not publicly known, the isolation of the signals can only be done using large dish antennas, each of which has only one satellite in view. One would need at least four of those, and they would need to track the satellite positions. While not impossible, this much less trivial, especially without being spotted, because the receiving antennas would need to be close to the target.
as if 2540C really provides any more meaningful a reference point as 4600F
To someone unfamiliar with the Fahrenheit scale it does.
It is also motivational for others to see that even highly specialized companies need some learning too. And succeed in the end.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
