Posts by Chris G 6754 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007
In a probability somewhere, 42 is almost certainly the answer, although it's a million to one chance, nine times out of ten it will/ might happen.
As for intelligent alien life, PV panels are in their infancy here, anything reasonably well advanced or subject to development we haven't thought of yet and the reflective signature will be nothing like that expected from terrestrial PV.
The commonest pollutants that we produce are often similar to normal environmental pollutants such as methane, co2, sulphur dioxide etc and there is no guarantee another civilisation will necessarily develop along the same limes that we have, the thinking seems to be either simplistic or arrogant.
I think the WWW just about balances in humanity's favour even with the likes of FB, the tweetogarchy and
'fluencers, you just have to believe that en masse there is something innately good about humanity.
Right up to the moment we blow ourselves to kingdom come.*
* Not via the BBHC (Bloody Big Hadron Collider)
"They went on to say that Pluto and other large dwarf planets"
Just a leettle bit curious as to when a large dwarf stops being a dwarf and starts being not a dwarf?
When you read about Pluto it certainly has all the hallmarks of a planet; possible oceans, dunes, blue skies and an atmosphere.
This is worth a look; https://www.space.com/43-pluto-the-ninth-planet-that-was-a-dwarf.html
Lion dung
I call BS on that, having kept, bred and trained my own horses for over twenty years in the UK, you would be amazed at what a horse can be trained to do.
To be honest I haven't tried lion dung but we used to get tiger dung pellets to keep the cats off the flower borders, it never stopped the cats digging up the marigolds or the horses (and goats) from nibbling where the dung was.
Look up the Cadre Noir, those horses are trained to heavy cavalry standards that date back centuries, should you wish to you can run a horse directly into a screaming horde of soldiers, machine guns or cannon. Humans are able to train horses partly because they are higher in the food chain, just as scary for a horse as a lion.
All police forces ( as well as security agencies and even governments*) should have independent review bodies that they are answerable to. Individuals or groups who are members of those agencies, in the event of any rule or law breaking should have their cases reviewed by the external body that should be able to insist on prosecution if necessary.
After all, if they have nothing to hide they will have nothing to fear™.
* Governments in theory are reviewed and answerable to electorates but should have review during a term that has some power to check or balance bad government that is not the MSM, let's face it a lot of damage can be done in 4 or 5 years by a Muppet with executive power or a large majority. Letters to an MP or Congress critter don't really cut it.
Most of the useful idiots are those who don't question enough of what they are told.
I don't know where you live but I doubt it is a genuine democracy.
China is not a democracy and does not pretend to be even if it is far from the best place in the world it's not the worst place in the world either.
I'm not defending them or approving as just like most countries they must try harder.
Some beans; https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/
That is hardly surprising considering the billions of dollars of sanctions and accusations from the Persimmon Primate and others that every ill afflicting the world originated in the middle kingdom.
I have noticed that other countries seem to be equally thin skinned when under scrutiny.
Frankly, I don't trust any government.
Team building is not necessarily an event, those are usually not worth the money they cost in terms of having a better team at the end, though just having a break from work may be beneficial.
Team building is more often not the result of any pro active effort but a result of normal human bonding in the workplace often helped by good leadership and equally as often hindered by poor leadership.
In my opinion any manager who feels the need to do a team building course with his/her staff, has no real idea what a team is or how to lead it.
Perhaps leadership courses for manglers would be money better spent?
I don't agree necessarily with all the reasons in the article but I definitely think that WFH will not be the norm. There are too many problems with trying to manage such a system and much as I hate the term, team building which is important just won't happen as well between a team who see their. Colleagues as small images on a screen.
Human/management relationships, either good or bad also need genuine human contact not a remote face on a screen, never mind that many workers and managers will find ways to game remote working systems, resulting ultimately in poorer performance.
For those and many other reasons I doubt that the C19 related WHF culture will last much beyond the end of this pandemic.
With Lockheed and Serco operating together, prices will spiral without any visible progress, the more important a detail is,the more likely Serco will lose/break/leave it on a bus/or screw it up in some ludicrous manner.
Also forget about true security and sovereignty, I suspect everything Lockheed does is fully open to US TLAs scrutiny.
Rather than relying on hamsters that get tired, fall over and jam things up, might I suggest upscaling to larger wheels and using politicians with hats that dangle brown envelopes in front of them?
I think they would supply a surprising amount of energy as well as being a renewable resource, let's face face it, as soon as one drops out they are always replaced by another as nature abhors a vacuum.
AWS; All Wheels Silent?
I used to do the 50 odd miles from Bromley, Kent to Hastings and back fairly often in the late sixties early seventies on some weekends. In those days we would wear a cape in the rain, teeshirt and shorts, that was on an old Claude Butler 10 speed bike, not for sport, just to go see a couple of mates who lived down there.
Now, at my age, I wouldn't like to inflict me in lycra on to the public, plus I don't go far enough.
They don't even tell the truth about those few that have actually been tested, count multiple tests on one individual as 'tests'.
Proper planned testing9in significant numbers) on demand by anyone who even thinks they have a sniffle with results that are accessible by those who can do something with the results would be useful but that's a bit advanced for the current lot and I don't think a change of government would improve things.
Any chance of switching things off and then on again?
The last Epson printer I had a couple of years back was a royal pain in the arse if I tried to use even their own refilled ink cartridges.
The pop ups telling me about the dangers of not using freshly paid for, overpriced epson cartridges made it almost impossible to print and prevented access to advanced print options.
It was still in good nick when I threw the poxy thing in a skip.
The HP I replaced with recently had a flying lesson.
Any recommendations for an occasional home use printer that doesn't dry up between uses?
This attitude from big business trying to maintain control of your property after you have paid for it is a real pain, I wonder where it will all end?
Will MacDees be selling burgers as a service soon?
@Osakjin
The World economy has been heading down the pan for a while, since 2008 the Us debt has expanded from 12 trillion to over double that figure. Trump's trade wars and sanctions to make America great haven't helped, so as soonbas hurricane covid showed up it gave all the government's something to not only distract the people but to also get them used to not having stuff. The recession is already here but can be blamed on the pandemic, so the austerity you may be feeling you will blame on a virus which is conveniently connected with Chinese mismanagement if you believe the PTB instead of blaming your local leaders who print money to give to their buddies and corporations 'Too big to fail'™ .
I am unable to answer your question but what I can tell you, is when I kept horses on the UK, a bunch of us used to go for a good pre-lunch Sunday ride.
One of the routes used to take us past a Little Chef, so when on that route we would have lunch there, the manageress always welcomed us, not because she particularly liked horsesbut the 5 or 6 horses tethered outside always pulled the punters in .
I have four huge grape vines my wife has been nurturing, it's looking to be a bumper crop this year after the long wet spring. Have also been reading about fig beer, the fig trees are doing well as are the almonds, so some brewing is definitely on the cards this coming autumn.
I sun dry the figs and will probably use a mix with barley.
The biggest fun with beer making is bottling too early and the bottles going off in the middle of the night.
Clearly the current government would not want a judicial enquiry, the setting of real regulations to govern such rollouts as Horizon or meaningful penalties to those who in this case maliciously pursued innocent people in order to cover up their own shortcomings, because that would interfere with ' business as usual'.
Leaving aside the question of whether or not an autonomous fighter could outperform and out think a meatbag, truly autonomous strike aircraft are more likely to be more likely to strike questionable targets and to create moral distance between targets/victims and the operators.
It's one thing to shoot a man when you can see the whites of his eyes and entirely another to set a mission program for an autonomous aircraft to go and destroy coordinates on a map. It removes the human element even more than drone strikes, which with the current numbers of civilians who seem to have been targeted 'mistakenly' or often with no admission a strike has even taken place, see https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/shadow-wars .
It also makes plausable deniability even easier; 'Oh it was an autonomous strike , it must have got a glitch...etc', as well as the potential for friendly fire mistakes et al.
Humans fighting humans is bad enough.
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