In this case I believe it's closer to the next 30 million years. I also believe that a surface level explosion of a nuke on it would be quite unlikely to have any significant effect (on the volcano).
OTOH, our ability to predict just when a volcano will explode is extremely poor. IIRC Mt. St. Helens took everyone totally by surprise.
You have definitely different experiences with both cities and suburbs than I have. I live in a house, and, yes, it has a garage. It is, however, in practice impossible to get the car out of or into the garage. It requires a 90 degree turn from the left hand lane into the garage. I think it was designed for a model T. Or possibly a horse drawn wagon. (That's really unlikely, as there's no place for the horse.) My parents house once had a two car garage, but when the house was purchased that had already been converted into a room, with the garage door removed and replaced by a wall. They did, however, have a driveway with parking for two cars. That still exists, but now is occupied by an RV, and the cars are parked on the street. I don't know the details, but an increasing number of their neighbors also park their cars on the street.
Additionally, while it would possibly be safe in the area where my parents live, I live in the city rather than in the suburbs, and leaving something with resale value available to be lifted is a good way to loose it. Businesses have lost benches that were secured with concrete blocks. The city has lost such a large number of garbage cans that they have replaced them with a much more inexpensive model which has essentially no resale value.
Charging purely electric cars is going to be a problem once they move into more populated areas. Your idea of restaurants being the site of charging is equally out of touch. Most people don't go to restaurants very often. and, for that matter, the newer restaurants in this area don't HAVE parking lots. For that matter, I believe that the same statement applies in downtown San Jose, and even Alameda. Walnut Creek may still have restaurant parking lots, as it's well out in suburbia. That will stop when the population gets denser. Perhaps city owned parking lots will put in chargers for electric cars. Maybe. I'm not saying it's a problem that can't be solved, just that its going to be a real problem that will get a lot worse if it isn't addressed.
Not ever is too extreme. I thnik that a decade of good behavior would cause me to be willing to trust them in non-critical matters. Of course the timeing of that is dubious. Should I start counting from the last time they threatened people with patents without saying which patents, or from the last time they extorted a payment?
IIUC it's worse than that. For a
That said, they won't bother to sue you unless you're successful, so most people will be safe.
I think you understand the process. Every party out of power decries the actions of the party in power. Every party in power accepts the power accrued by the prior regime and adds extensions of its own. Sometimes they don't actually implement their own extensions, but just leave it as an additonal tool for their successors.
Or did you mean to imply that the sucessors to the current government will be crazier? While that's possible, I suspect that they will just extend their powers in a slightly different direction (while continuing to keep all the extensions of power claimed by the current regime).
As for "a whole new department just to manage all the US executive assassination squads", I'm not sure that isn't already in existence. What else would you call the group that runs targeted drone assassinations. (Though, of course, there's still some "on the ground" work done by human agents where it's undesireable to use drones. I think the group that does that is called the CIA.) But you could have been implying that those two groups would be combined under a post analogous to the department of defense. I think the current bureaucracy would object.
Excuse me, but what evidence do you have that
"""it's "The Man" that keeps the suicide bombers out of your gay pride parade or naked protest """
It's barely possible that there have been averted incidents, but the reports I've seen generally are along the lines of "some low level operative attempted to report this threat in process, but was ignored". Now I can understand ignoring the actual signal because they are swamped with noise from irrelevant reports, but to me that suggests that they need a much better level of filters on what they receive more than that they need to snoop even more.
Individualism is a theory that only works when there is an open frontier where those who are oppressed by the system can escape. It's not all that great, either, and gives rise to essentially uncontrolled scams. It also tends to yield to warlords. (See California during the Bear Republic. Mind you, most systems allow some groups to scam.) Kit Carson, the noted traitor, cannibal, and indian scout is a individualist hero.
Communalism which is people giving their loyalty to their immediate community, is what many people think of when they praise individualism (but not when they act on it). Again Communalism tends to depend on a strong leader, but often that leader is expected to ensure that everyone accepted as a member of the community is supported. It also tends to maintain itself by "outcasting" persons judged not suitable for membership in the community. In isolated groups this outcasting can be quite violent, and can result in death. This binds the group more tightly together.
Nationalism is an distant descendant of Communalism, and tends to be formed by communities amalgamating into groups too large for everyone to know everyone else. It's commonly seen around us in a developed form, but the essential ingredient is respect for written laws. I'm not sure what to expect when the central authority of the nation evinces distaste and disrespect for the law, but it can't be good. The most likely result is the reorganization around some different authority. I don't think I've ever seen this happen in a nation before, but it has much similarity to the way the Nazis took over Germany. Everything was done following legal forms, though only the forms. Much the same seems to be happening now in the US. Germany didn't last long enough to determine what it would have evolved into, but I don't think it would have been pleasant. The US seems to be much more likely to survive, as in not be conquered, but only be subverted from within, and it's even possible that the persons doing so believe that they are protecting the country. Barely possible, but possible.
There actually *is* US justice. There's even more of it than there is injustice. It's just that the injustice is a lot more damaging than the justice is constructive.
IIRC the US has officially been in a state of emergency ever since WWII. It was declared during the war and was never recinded. (I think it's also been redeclared a few times since then, but, again IIRC, the WWII declaration came with the approval of Congress, the others have just been presidential declarations, and didn't actually change the legal standing...though they did announce how the government intended to act.)
Some are ignorant fools. Others realize that they have a choice of two bad actors and a few real nuts when it comes time to vote. And only the bad actors have a serious chance to win. For some reason voting keeps falling off.
And this is the kind of free charging that I expect will be going away as the number of electric cars increases. Currently it's a novelty that attracts even some people who don't have an electric car, just to see them. But unless the electricity prices drop this "free charge" is going to disapear. And charging your car at home depends on having a garage, or at least a special carport. But I believe that more than half of the cars are parked on the street. (For that matter, in San Francisco there are already more cars than places to park them most of the time. So it only works at all because there's always some cars prowling for a parking place.)
When I was growing up in Sunnyvale most of the cars were parked beside the houses. When I went back recently, in the same neighborhood with minimal new construction more than half of the cars appeared to be parked on the streed. And Sunnyvale counts as a suburb. (Well, I *think* it still counts as a suburb.)
Ahh. I had misunderstood. I thought it was an electric rather than a hybrid.
I believe you are thinking of the suburbs. But I believe that most people live in cities. And many residential carports have no way to charge the car. I've certainly visited some that don't.
Even in the suburbs an increasing number of cars are parked at the curb. I've noticed the percentage increasing over the decades since I moved away from my parents home.
Your description of the particular technique used by the LLVM doesn't mean that this is the only approach. And in my opinion the garbage collector, of whatever nature, including reference counting, should run in a separate thread. Whether it's reasonable for a battery powered device I don't know. Clearly it means extra processing, but it also can mean less disk activity. I suspect that Apple has put much more thought into this than I ever would, but I also suspect that they were considering making things ROMable, and using the same code in both conditions would be an obvious win.
That said, I *do* think that it's quite reasonable to have a garbage collector be either or both of a program switch (changeable at run time) or a compiler switch, allowing optimization with garbage collector removed. I haven't, however, seen a language that supports this well. Many enable temporary disabling of the garbage collector, but few (if any) allow the compiler level switch. This is because, e.g., it does bad things to the handling of variable arrays. (C++ has proved you can do it anyway, of course. But my belief is that they are using refrence counted garbage collection, in this case probably "smart pointers". Which I count as garbage collection.)
But being bad for systems programming is not the same as being bad in a systems programming language. I will readily grant that there are applications in which it is desireable to avoid garbage collection. This just means that the language must be able to run well without it. And really, is easily casting integers to pointers and back important? That's the main they the language needs to avoid to make garbage collection reasonable. And switches, either program or compiler, to disable it are also fairly easy.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
