Comment Re:Agreed. (Score 5, Funny) 594
Don't knock having primate ancestors. Some of my best friends are primates.
The organization says that the system "consists of an Intranet designed ultimately to replace the international Internet and to discriminate between ordinary citizens and the 'elite' (banks, ministries and big companies), which will continue to have access to the international Internet."
If that is accurate and if I follow your naming scheme correctly, in this case the "bad guys" want continued access to the wider world. It is the "ordinary citizens" who need to be "left alone" by the "good" guys. Did I get all that right?
It's a YouTube link. Not exactly going to be some graphically disgusting video. Unless you think Beyond Thunderdome is graphically disgusting.
Yes.
Unfortunately, within the academic world, the quality of publications on your CV is determined by the perceived quality of the venue (e.g., high-impact journals, low-acceptance conferences, etc.), as opposed to the quality of the actual work getting published.
This is true and unfortunate, but there is a serious lack of more accurate means of measurement. I'm curious - what do you suggest as a better way to compare 400 candidates applying for 4 jobs? Don't forget the most important constraint: you are not an expert in any of their fields.
you publish articles in prestigious journals so that others read your work.
No, no, no. In maths, cs and physics, that is what preprints are for. The journal process can take years -- it is much too slow to be used as a means of communication.
And a big part of how professors are judged for tenure is how many good articles did they publish in prestigious journals.
This part is correct. Classy journals are used by tenure and hiring committees as a way of measuring quality across sub-disciplines of a larger field.
PS: And, yes, there is always arXiv.org for pre-prints, where you can get most of the papers anyhow, if you are willing to take the risk.
What risk? What are you talking about? I'll guess: You think think that peer-review is a guarantee of correctness. If so: that is not the case.
This is a good opportunity to put Occam's razor to use. We know that in sudden, widespread disruptive events people loot.
They loot libraries? After a disaster I might loot a store, or an abandoned police station/military post, I guess, but a library? For books? "Hey, its the end of the world! Let's go snag some calculus textbooks!"
Notice that there is still lots of room for non-violent protest and civil disobedience inside of that script. If you and 1,000 others get peacefully arrested at the same time then the cops are going to have to think deeply about what they are doing and for who...
China are burning oil to make inefficient PV panels that will never generate the energy required to produce them
I'd love to see a citation on this. Typical panels average construction energy payback in one to two years, have consumer warranties in the 20-25 year range, and useful lifetimes of four or more decades. Are Chinese-made solar panel factories genuinely forty times less efficient than others? I kinda doubt it.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander. You got a reference for those figures?
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