It is a useful illusion to have while destroying it. Hey, we will fix this in 10 years with our billions. It is a huge pill we incidentally forget we swallow daily. No need to remind.
I agree that we can consume less, it is just a hard policy to push. How will the market be affected? Any politician enacting this change will be hit with the 'destroying the economy'. Is there room for capitalism in that economy? It feels like the idealism wars have doomed us.
OT: I would also prefer a 20 yr old car design then a modern 'smart screens everywhere let the car drive for you because it is safer'. Cars were just finoshed back then, but in comes the age of 'Everything as a service'. Cars today are crap. Maybe in another 20 when they fix the batteries.
Wow, if they even wanted this to be taken seriously they could have just included everyone in on it. Why just this specific class? Refuse anyone that has <same race><same gender><same orientation> on the board. That would have got me atleast thinking about diversity. This just sounds ridiculous.
Only free transportation I have come across in the Midwest is Free shuttle to nearby casinos. Now I hope they also have a shuttle or two to the next city center but I have my doubts that I can reach Atlantic City from here. I should try that next spring.
Only free transportation I have come across in the Midwest is Free shuttle to nearby casinos.
When you get out into the really small towns there are often free, regularly scheduled shuttle busses and vans paid for by the state or county that ferry people to the nearest medium-sized town for groceries and pharmacies and such. Usually it's the elderly and poor that use them. Some of those routes are an hour or two each way.
The casino is 45m away from a major city, and they have a few routes going through it. It isn't in a big town itself, so I hope they can connect me to another big city from there. Casino-touring here I come.
This would violate the "It must be available free of charge to any person regardless of citizenship, residency, age, occupation, gender or any other characteristic." rule though. Would the bus accept a 16 year old?
I was underage when I used it, when the shuttle driver asked if I had the years I asked him if they ID on the shuttle or at the entrance of the casino. I stayed on.
EDIT: I guess it does discriminate on age. Having trouble editing OP.
I'm surprised that they didn't ID at the shuttle. My ex loved going to casinos and we been to over 20 in North America taking the shuttle buses. For us they either required ID at the shuttle boarding or the member card at shutting boarding. Of course the member card is free, but you needed to be of age at the casino to get one.
What does lack of further support mean to a user? Will browsers start breaking? Games stop working? I haven't DLed/installed updates on my Win7 for years now, will this be the same?
Semi truck cabs often have a communications/GPS/electronic logging terminal called a "Qualcomm" because that's what it says on the bezel.
The ones in my company run Windows XP, and the functional software is by Omnitracs, part of Qualcomm in some way.
The only sense of urgency I've seen for leaving these behind is from the recent debacle at the end of last year, when a huge chunk of truckers were forced to use paper logs for a month or two (eight days max is legal) because of an Omnitracs update related to the GPS rollover back in April. I'm just an end user, so I'm sure I have some details wrong. I also have my paper logs, dutifully kept in case asked for them.
In other words, the software running on the OS is important to users/owners, and which version of Windows is running is probably irrelevant, especially if you're a captive customer.
My understanding is that my company is going to build its own ELDs, based on tablets. Oh. Joy.
Is cancer infectious? How is this anywhere near anti-vaxxers? Don't vaccines mainly exist to treat for something dangerous to the whole herd? Only some small part of the herd even gets cancer.. how is this not discrediting vaccines by even just comparing the two?
One is to prevent the whole herd from being infected(eradicated possibly), the other is a sick member to choose their way to treat themselves. Grievance is a part of life, it is sad to see members go, but I can't compare between that and the herd disappearing completely(no one left to grief).
EDIT: also I can't help but feel that this claim puts Chemotherapy on the same level of effectiveness as Vaccines. I think all options should be exhausted before we start claiming chemo to be as miraculous as vaccines are.
An alternate take is that, from a certain point of view:
1: Cancer and heart disease are the leading causes of death in Rich Countries, specifically the US [1]
2: Your chances of dying from either cancer or heart disease, given no other incidents claim your life first, asymptotically arrive at 100% [2]
So, yes, cancer is not infectious, but our bodies are prone to two classes of diseases (neither cancer nor heart disease are actually a single disease, but more correctly disease families) that have environmental and hereditary causes. Our tools for treating both are crude, but getting more and more effective year-over-year.
By advocating against the state-of-our-current-art in treating either disease (informed criticism is fine, and in fact, encouraged), the end result is that many people suffer and die when they could merely suffer, then live years of their lives before succumbing to a relapse or other causes of death. Perhaps the headline is hyperbole, but the argument is analogous: By advocating against chemotherapy and replacing it solely with a hard-to-follow diet and exercise regimen, the cull of older people dying from treatable disease can look something like the cull of younger people dying from preventable disease due to advocating against vaccination against infectious diseases.
It may be Exec culture or just culture in general. We all want to be successful/ better than the competiton. It attracts/feeds our narcissism and eventually gets buried by people who only optimize for profit, success on paper.
Can't we replace the finance folks with software yet? It seems that should be the easiest to automate. They can see it, but of course they are closest to the money, and can't let go.
