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Comment A rich history of bullshit (Score 0) 41

1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that âoecivilization will end within 15 or 30 years [by 1985 or 2000] unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.â 2. âoeWe are in an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,â wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment. 3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, âoeMan must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.â 4. âoePopulation will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,â Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 issue of Mademoiselle. âoeThe death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years [by 1980].â 5. âoeMost of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,â wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled âoeEco-Catastrophe! âoeByâ¦[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.â 6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the âoeGreat Die-Off.â 7. âoeIt is already too late to avoid mass starvation,â declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness. 8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, âoeDemographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China, and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditionsâ¦.By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.â Note: The prediction of famine in South America is partly true, but only in Venezuela and only because of socialism, not for environmental reasons. 9. In January 1970, Life reported, âoeScientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to supportâ¦the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollutionâ¦by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one halfâ¦.â 10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, âoeAt the present rate of nitrogen buildup, itâ(TM)s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.â 11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in Americaâ(TM)s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate. 12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in 1970 that âoeair pollutionâ¦is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.â Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during âoesmog disastersâ in New York and Los Angeles. 13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons âoemay have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.â Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946â¦now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980 when it might level out. (Note: According to the most recent CDC report, life expectancy in the US is 78.6 years). 14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, âoeBy the year 2000 if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rateâ¦that there wonâ(TM)t be any more crude oil. Youâ(TM)ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill âer up, buddy,â(TM) and heâ(TM)ll say,`I am very sorry, there isnâ(TM)t any.â(TM)â Note: Global oil production last year at about 95M barrels per day (bpd) was double the global oil output of 48M bpd around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970. 15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated that humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990. 16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look, âoeDr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.â 17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that âoesince more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so [by 2005], it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.â 18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. âoeThe world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,â he declared. âoeIf present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an Ice Age.â

Comment Holding it wrong (Score -1) 121

This is a misapplication of AI. A professional engineer will utilize AI to speed up rote work and to research new solutions. At no point would AI output exceed the knowledge base of the engineer. Use the tool i the same way you would use technical documents, but enjoy the fact that you can interface the documentation intuitively.

Comment In all seriousness (Score -1) 83

There's no reason for deletion to occur. The appropriate hacking model is to extract the maximum amount possible via ransomware and then generate additonal revenue via data sales. There is no encentive to deviate from this course of action, unless an arrangement has been brokered to forego criminal proceedings. If the hackers can walk away with a reduced negotiated amount, and have the criminal act dismissed, then I would believe in good faith deletion. Make no mistake, it would take some form of liability reduction to actually dispose of the data.

Comment Good riddance (Score -1) 95

Reading the comments to this story,I'm hoping European union countries voluntarily divest from US resources. With respect to the several World War II comments, we should have left your lying asses to be conquered by Zie Germans. It would serve you well to subjegate you to a satellite of Nazi Europe.

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