tdyen

What your missing missing out is the societal destruction of the USA inherit in highly polarized wealth in a society. Crime increases with wealth inequality and it's because of companies exploiting visa's like the H1B.

You've seen this crime yourself why would you want to make America crap like the Phillipines?

I've heard the claim it's indespensible but that's not true from a chemical point of view. But possibly from an economic point of view.

You've hit the nail on the head with the exercise theories. Injuries can stop any program dead in its tracks. Avoiding injury is the key.

I find in some forums the issue is the group think enforced by moderators.

The StackOverflow forums suffer from this as they are community moderated and many questions get closed as Off Topic which basically are chats about something tangential to the area or opinion but are valuable none the less or I wouldn't have gone to the page to begin with. Effectively moderators promote group think.

Some bizarre things Ive seen in its computer science forum are questions being closed when about things like "what are the current areas of research in blah?". Somehow its gathered a bunch of crap mods and computer science doesn't really get discussed there.

If its truly out of forum then these forums need to allow some kind of "Open Discussion" tag or move to another forum ability.

Wow I wonder what has driven this? Anybody know?

Why didn't the failsafe dam get built? It's a perfect big infrastructure project for IMF types to fund?

That's a good point you make about US reconstruction or lack thereof. I wonder if any of the Marines on here who were in Iraq could explain why this buffer dam didn't get built? It seems a perfect large scale infrastructure project and it doesn't even have to work much.

Solar is on a downward cost curve. Every doubling of installed cells leads to I think %20 cheaper costs.

I think Snowden showed that it is as easy as pressing a button which is why he went and blurted it out. The NSA were also working to make it easier to track people.

My take on it is privacy is dead or nearly and we have to have good legal protections of who can use what data and when. The privacy arms race will mostly be won by big government with lots of resources and enough willing/foolish patriots (Depending on your point of view).

But evil uses paper is probably going to do less harm than evil uses Tor or a gun or a nuke. Societal control must adapt to the medium on a regularly adjusting basis depending on the perceived level of evil.

I concur.

What about What about the What about the ex CEO of Union Carbide who still has a warrant out for his arrest in India for the Bhopal incident. Basically this is a power game. If your little the US system screws you. If your big like China and ripping off Nike sneakers you can thumb your nose at the US legal system.

But as a reporter or editor you could choose to highlight the deaths of innocents such as children to raise moral outrage, generate click bait etc and yet they don't. There often is an implicit bias in the reporters and editors themselves. Whether malicious, that's another question.

So if an EmDrive worked, what would it give us? A star trek impulse drive type thing? Or is it so low level an effect it would be useless?

World Population comes to mind. Will it solve itself? It might but in countries where it doesnt the consequences will be devestating and flow over to other parts of the world for sure.

The loser out of all of this is Startup Weekend to me. Seems like you would need to sign on to percentages upfront and legal or if it goes well the shite will hit the fan.

To drag this into the Australian sporting arena. There is an Australian Rules Footballer here named Adam Goodes, (its not rugby, soccer, or NFL its only played in Australia). He is a very good and very famous footballer. He has won the Brownlow medal not once but twice (MVP) for the league and last year he was honored as Australian of the year by the Prime minister. But most importantly for this discussion recently he has been booed every time he gets the ball and he is an Aboriginal. During his year as Australian of the year he was outspoken about racism and Aboriginal issues. Which are numerous, health care, incarceration rates, prison deaths, violence, alcohol etc and have never been successfully addressed.

He called the booing racism and took a week out of the game, there was a lot of support for him but also a large negative reaction. And part of this reaction seems to be a reaction to the culture of victim hood. Other players have been booed before mercilessly, he is a good player, other good players get booed. Particularly high profile ones.

Is he a victim of racism? partly. Are supporters just booing the other sides good player? partly. Has he made himself a target with some of his speeches? Probably.

Inequality increases crime. Heaps of references like this

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-01-06/want-to-fig...

Reminds me of insurance companies cherry picking the healthy people. The profit motive conflicts with providing a universal service. While it can work, in Australia we have a public Health system, Medicare, that covers everybody.

Yeah, I'm not sure I trust Google so much anymore and I trust Facebook even less. It'd have to be a W3 group somehow with all the players involved. Definitely some of them would play spoiler like Microsoft did back in the day. Apple would probably play spoiler with this, they like their App Store it makes them money.

Fair point but the real solution would be to do those things all fast from the one site somehow. Not many url's many resources etc. How to do that I dunno.

Thats a mess waiting to happen. Just crazy, after Fukushima I lost any belief remaining that the nuclear industry can be safe.

Id implement a policy of no evil. It would be hard and painful but it would pay off. Geez even Bill Gates can turn around his image by giving to charity. Microsoft need to do the IT version of philanthropy. Their single biggest problem is their image and reputation and Im largely a MS fanboy. Good products by MS dont get taken up because of it. Live was good but died. They cant partner with anyone cos no one trusts them anymore. It must be a paranoid atmosphere in Redmond.

Why is 10 million years a blip in evolutionary time when you see the massive chamges that can happen on Islands in 100s of years?

Im surprised so few of the comments deal with disabled people or old people or people who cant walk much for injury or other reason. We cant make elitist cities. As I get older and my knees worse I really appreciate those who have to struggle. I love walking but its getting harder and harder. Saying that Id love to get rid of most cars or make em all electric. I train to work and its nicer than driving and Id bike if it was remotely safe but its psycho to bike in Australia.