At the very least all this compute will ensure that we have plenty of energy going forward. People still assume that green power is about replacing fossil fuels. It isn't. We will need way more power in the future, and thank gods the green power wave came in time so that we won't burn up the planet next century with all those energy requirements. But we're not off the hook, because waste energy alone will simply cook us all in the 2300s, so we're going to have to find ways to reduce our energy footprint anyway. But that's another discussion.

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Bart Ehrman is a new testament scholar. He studied theology at a religious university and when he started looking at the new testament with a scholar's eye, putting the gospels next to each other line by line, sentence by sentence, he lost his faith. He believes it's likely that Jesus existed though.

One remarkable thing is the end of the gospel according to Matthew where some monk in the middle ages added the resurrection to the text cause he couldn't understand why it was present in other gospels but missing in this one.

So I'm wondering what evidence the journalist you mention found. The evidence regarding even Jesus himself is extremely scant; outside the Bible there is only one reference to him that is considered genuine (by Josephus), even though even that one was embellished with extra wording afterwards. The resurrection story is found in just about every culture that ever existed (as far as we know). Are all of those true too?

I suspect that the journalist somehow "found god" and then found him in all sorts of places, looking at stones and bread and so one.

I really don't get why so many Americans still believe in god. Why hasn't rationality taken more of a hold?

You can mail me at charlotte@enron.com

Exxon and other companies are terrified that transparency will give the public information that can be used to sue them (like big tobacco was). And they're probably right too. I can't imagine they haven't formed cartels like tobacco did.

This seems fair enough to me. Apple was able to make a lot of money off their investment, which is not unreasonable: rolling out a product like the iPhone was a huge risk and some rewards are due if and when it works.

Once they started using it to strategically carve their market share in stone it became another matter.

Slashdot can do images? When was that feature added?

It's not like I had a choice at the time. Most software was only made for Windows so if you needed get shit done (like write a thesis) you were stuck with Word on Windows.

It all went downhill after MS-DOS 5 I think. They never quite recovered from that...

Jobsworth, n.
"an official who upholds petty rules even at the expense of humanity or common sense."

I've been wondering about this myself. People graduating now have been living on-screen for all their lives, but hardly ever question what a computer really is - as in, a really complicated Turing machine.

I get really strange questions when applying for jobs as a senior non-programmer (mostly automation, cloud, CI/CD, etc). Can I program? Well duh, who can't. Do I know python? Well duh, I can lookup the syntax (of course I actually do know python). People seem to think these are questions actually worth asking. Maybe we're transitioning into a world where you can't take knowledge like that for granted? Where juniors have never set a jumper switch, never bypassed the boot sequence to set a new root password, never cross compiled across architectures, never setup a home lab, can't setup a SQL server or speak to it directly, don't know how to setup a certificate authority, don't know how a file system works?

Do you want a ride? Im going there anyway.

I owned 5 Audi's over two decades.

As time went on it became evident that innovation had stopped. The first one was a Quattro (4 wheel differential) which had superb driving safety characteristics. On subsequent cars they took away the Quattro feature and limited it to insanely expensive models. The rest of the car stayed pretty much the same: same options, every iteration, just more expensive. Not a single feature improvement.

The integrated GPS never got any updates except for the ridiculously expensive SD card purchases, plus no way to link your mobile phone GPS to the damn thing even though it had been standard on most non German cars by then.

It was evident that VW Audi stopped being a car manufacturer a while ago and was just keeping the lights on until they had squeezed every last bit of juice out of their customers. Thankfully I was able to switch away from them eventually (company car).

Good riddance, I will never buy a German car again.

Precisely.

When anyone pulls the GDPR card it's almost always cause they're marketing your private data to everyone and their uncle.