Nuclear power has gone from "too cheap to meter" to "too expensive to matter".
There are many problems with nuclear but its high cost will end up killing it.
Solar and wind are cheaper and battery storage can match supply to demand.
The Guardian has been doing a lot of research on police killing people in the US compared to the rest of the world.
Here's a good summary article:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
A few statistics from the article:
Fact: Police in the US have shot and killed more people – in every week this year – than are reportedly shot and killed by German police in an entire year.
Fact: Police in the US fatally shot more people in one month this year than police in Australia officially reported during a span of 19 years.
Fact: Police in Canada average 25 fatal shooting a year. In California, a state just 10% more populous than Canada, police in 2015 have fatally shot nearly three times as many people in just five months.
Fact: Police fired 17 bullets at Antonio Zambrano-Montes, who was “armed” with a rock. That’s nearly three times what police in Finland are reported to have fired during all of 2013.
Fact: In the first 24 days of 2015, police in the US fatally shot more people than police did in England and Wales, combined, over the past 24 years.
The willingness of soldiers to fire on the enemy has been long debated. There is good evidence that most soldiers, even when they are in danger of being overrun by the enemy, don't fire their rifles (only about 30% fired against enemy in WWII). We are raised to value human life and it's really difficult to overcome that prohibition.
Interesting article here:
http://www.historynet.com/men-...
The "problem" is that even cheap phone processors have far more processing power than needed. Anything that requires real processing power already is offloaded to the net. There is no need to scavenge cycles from other processors.
I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pi processors doing a bunch of stuff (mostly collecting data) and they all are overkill for the task at hand. They mostly send data to servers and/or retrieve massaged data for presentation. I can't imagine any of these processors ever becoming overloaded and needing assistance.
I only enjoy less than 1% of the music available. I have found a few free streams that play exactly the music I like. It wasn't hard. Only took a few minutes.
There are literally thousands of free streaming music stations covering every nook and cranny of music tastes.
Google it... here are just a few:
http://streema.com/
http://www.jango.com/
http://www.pandora.com/
http://www.live365.com/
http://www.slacker.com/
It's foolish to pay for streaming music when there is so much available free.
Are 13% of iOS users dumb enough to pay $9.99 a month for Apple music?
Quick, tell all of these hyperloop people that their idea can't work because you have found a fatal flaw that they never have considered.
I'm sure they will thank you and go back to designing fossil fueled cars.
Still runs fine (although recent OSX releases have been shite).
Why upgrade?
My next computer will probably be a Chromebook but I'm in no hurry... target date of 2020.
Most of the cores just shat on the ground but there were a few explosions. Still lots of radioactivity to go around. Permanent dead zone.
Yes. In response to LA Times article.
Electricity is not a source. Fossil fuels are the source.
No mention of green energy... Just fossil sources.
I couldn't find any reference to subsidies to "green" energy production.
All of the figures are for fossil fuels.
The linked Excel spreadsheet has the data.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
