mikevp
I met him briefly at one of the West Coast Computer Faires, in the early days of AutoDesk, or maybe pre-AutoDesk.
His name was familiar to me from the infamous "Pervading Animal Game" on the Univac mainframes. "Introducing a new way of distributing software, Pervasive Release. If someone asks you for your program, you can tell them that in all likelihood, they already have it." There were a number of other, more serious programs in the Univac 1108 ecosystem that had his name on them.
It would be unfair to call this a virus, as it went to great lengths to insure that it couldn't do any harm, other than the few kilobytes it took up in a "program file". (Think "directory" in modern terms.)
There's a browser plugin "Social Fixer" that can do this really well by all accounts, but alas, almost all my facebooking is on my phone, which it doesn't support.
Bingo. Michael Moore has been on my personal _index expurgatorius_ for decades.
Much of what this film says is outdated enough to constitute deliberate mendacity, and deliberate mendacity is Moore's stock and trade.
Of course, Moore's latest documendacity doesn't mention nuclear as a carbon-free energy source.
I've long said that the moment an energy source -- ANY energy source -- threatens to be able to produce enough reliable 24x7 power to keep technological civilization from collapsing, All The Usual Suspects will find some reason to oppose it. The goal is the collapse of technological civilization and the depopulation of the planet. (These types assume that they will not be personally snapped because they are Oh So Special.)
I hadn't thought wind and solar were likely to meet the challenge of producing sufficient 24x7 energy to power our technological civilization, but Moore & co. seem to think there's a risk that it might.
I'm pretty much convinced this was not a mistake, it was a "Be really CAREFUL with this stuff!" object lesson.
After so many disappointments, I'm down to "Let me know when I can buy one at Fry's, until then, I am not holding my breath."
Those interested in what is already there at Yucca Mountain should go to Google Earth. Search for "Sedan Crater." Scan south.
Guess what those 1000-ish craters are.
"Near-infinite" power source from decay of Carbon 14. In some low power applications this would be close enough to eternal as makes no difference, but calling it a "near-infinite" source of power in general is pretty wildly exaggerated.
Every time, I've gotten a half hour or so into the process and realized I'm re-inventing trn 4.0.
I call this arithmetic denialism.
If you don't want to be an arithmetic denier, show me the energy source that can provide 24x7 energy all 356 days a year in sufficient quantity to power industrial/technological civilization. I see a startling lack of any energy source that passes muster with the anti-nuke sort of "environmentalist."
Call that what you like...
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I've been watching this soap opera for years. These announcements keep coming, but nothing I can pop down to Fry's and pick some up.
Let me know when they're on the shelf at Fry's or Best Buy, or I can order them from Amazon.
Uh... I believe soliciting murder of rivals may have had something do to with it. Leaving out that little ... detail... kind of casts a shadow on how much actual reasoning there might be in this reason.com article. I quit reading at this point.
In my case, a user agent string pretending to be Firefox is already part of my .curlrc, so it's no time at all, just grab the PoC code and fire away. (I've got commented out user-agent lines for a bunch of other browsers that I can uncomment as the need or mood strikes me.)
Oh, wait...
cat ~/.curlrc user-agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0"
I get Flexon frames. Actually, I haven't bought frames in years. I just have them put new lenses in the "time before last" frames. So, maybe Flexon has inflated in price, too, in the past few years.
But the fact that I'm still happily wearing Flexon frames from years ago, and they still look just fine, and are still comfortable, means it doesn't affect me.
They do gouge for some of the stuff I get on the lenses; anti-glare, scratch resistant, progressive multifocal. I could cheap out on some of this, but this, at least, is functional, not "Oh, look how kuuuul I am, my glasses have a "D&G" on them!" crap.
Those who pretend to believe that industrial civilization can be run on "sunny days when the wind is blowing" energy are engaged in arithmetic denialism.
Seriously? Seriously!?!?
I think the public needs to know who this CRAZY PERSON is so they can keep a far, far distance away from her.
And she most certainly should be prosecuted, to the fullest extent of the law.
At first, I thought nominating Carson for head of HUD was a very strange choice. He's a neurosurgeon. Why???
But then... He was Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, so he had some administrative experience.
Then, I realized that Ben Carson has one bit of very relevant life experience that no other HUD director has ever had: He grew up in The Projects.
I thought then that that might lead to something interesting. Seems I may have been right.
"I am not so much pro-nuclear as I am pro-arithmetic." -- Stuart Brand.
And I'm old enough I can just retire if they were to push it.