I hear there's lots less carbon in the atmosphere of the moon, we could always move there.
The problem with the moon and carbon dioxide is, just exhaling a few times will make the CO2 ppm in lunar atmosphere rise to Jurassic levels. And then next thing you know, there will be allosauruses roaming about eating the colonists. So going to moon is no solution, we'd need to be even more careful about carbon emissions there.
Chit mon, if we're already screwed, we might as well party and pollute like there's no tomorrow. Might as well use the earth all up since it's a goner anyways.
When all is lost, you don't have care anymore. Thanks, global warming alarmists.
But all is not lost. Things are just going to be bad, but just how bad, that remains to be seen.
On the other hand our ancestors lived self-sufficiently off this land for millenia. On the other hand, that was not very fun life. But then, even if global civilization collapses, information does not disappear overnight. I for one will teach my kids both to make fire with flint and steel, and create and program a robot which can make fire with flint and steel. That should cover a lot of possible futures.
By default, when the tree dies, it will rot and return all that CO2 back to the air. So it's not really a solution unless you sequester the wood after the tree dies.
Sounds like you are not seeing the forest for the trees...
you could just give the money directly to engineers and scientists to invent cool stuff
Have you ever actually worked with R&D engineers and scientists? They don't convert money into cool stuff. They convert cool problems into cool stuff, given sufficient resources to allow solving the given cool problem.
the perennial favorite thermo-nuclear war. Though the last one would actually be pretty boring. The players would have to do nothing to compete.
The real problem with thermonuclear war as Olympic sport? The only way to win is not to play.
Not just that. The only way to win is to make sure nobody plays.
I'm continually amazed how humanity has managed to successfully keep winning this particular game for almost 70 years now! But how long can this winning streak continue?
...but was it 4K?
Well, I don't know about that, but at least it was better than Oculus Rift, if images in TFA are anything to go by. Something like semi-spherical 320 by 240 degrees with 3D zone of maybe 120 by 240 degrees in the middle, or thereabouts.
Also, it's not just the vision, the display system goes with lateral twin ultra low bass audio arrays, capable of generating fully spherical acoustic environment awareness experience.
Without concrete suggestion on which games to play, or how to select the games, and all the practicalities involved, this is a pointless suggestion.
that we're entirely made of meat.
But, at the point we're going to be intelligent machines too...
I'd suggest EU countries of central Europe. That's such a mess that it will be very difficult to clamp certain basic freedoms down, especially considering how there are still people who experienced various dictatorships first hand. Of course non-EU citizen staying there would depend on your own country keeping your passport valid, but if things really got so bad that you would not get a new visa, you could probably apply for political asylum...
And of course moving out of the country, or just going abroad for holiday or business certainly qualifies as exporting or publishing technology, if you happen to know anything which qualifies as restricted information. Australians, better move out while you can!
Is your point that the Cuban government is more successful than Iraq?
Or Afghanistan. Or North Korea. Iran... maybe not but Iran has oil money and is much bigger. Anyway, pretty well among enemies of US.
The Cuban people survived 55 years of near total trade embargo, with universal healthcare intact, and no one starving in the streets.
Cuba survived by getting huge payments from the USSR, then from Venezuela. I hope 'no one starving in the streets' isn't how you measure success these days.
No, success for a small country under US hostilities is not having having thousands upon thousands of civilian deaths while under US occupation/protection to establish democratic government. I think Cuba qualifies.
This very much depends on "what average IT job". I am in Finland and work a "very average IT job" and a major telco, me and my colleagues don't just have to provide our criminal record to the employer - the Finnish intelligence services (not regular police) do a full background check on us.
But it is worth mentioning, that content of the background check is not revealed, the employer only gets "yes" or "no" result from the check for the particular job. So in fact you are not providing your criminal records to anybody, you just provide permission for the background check.
I have to work with Java after a long while, and it is just... Suffocating. Archaic. Kludgey. Oracle. Ask! toolbar. trWTF.
C#, please come and rescue us! F#, deliver us from evil! MS has a chance to do some real good on the backend/server side landscape here. Let's hope they'll somehow manage to not screw it up!
I don't wish for Java to disappear or fail, mind you, I just wish I don't need to work with it in future...
A rich person lives in a House. The money for maintaining it comes from somewhere. He eats with his family, money comes from somewhere. He uses a car for personal purposes, money for that comes from somewhere. He does a personal investment with money.
In my idea, all that money came to him as taxable income, no loopholes. Anybody spending a lot of money would have to (either eat into existing savings or) use taxable money for it. If company pays directly, it's still income and company needs to pay the tax toi. Flat tax rate is important here, no deductions, so there isn't complex tax calculation to be done, just $X (money or benefit) received by the person, then $Y paid in taxes would come directly from flat tax rate.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian
