I'm considering going from a regular hybrid to a PHEV. We have free level 2 chargers at work that would cover most of my in-town driving. The gas motor would be better for road trips, because our highway EV charging situation is not really set up yet.
"Passive Villanry" is perhaps the phras we're looking for? But the character really conveyed the disdain of the people in his grouping. Yes, definitely a "he".
If you are going to wait with putting out the fire until the water is cheap enough, then you're going to lose your house. Some things are important enough to do even if it means you're only making 4% profit instead of 12%.
There was a while when the internet actually had accessible information. What happened in between was that google dropped their "don't be evil" slogan, forcibly bought out anything resembling competition, and then when they had all customers locked in stopped pandering to the customers' desire for access to information. Instead they started pandering to the advertisers. At least, until they also had them locked in, then they started squeezing the advertisers too.
Depends on your goal and what you're bombing.For example, if you want to make fossil fuel more expensive and you bomb a pipeline, then you're making things better. On the other hand, if you want to prevent oil spills and you bomb a pipeline, then you're making things worse.
I think the bad guy is obviously the whole of humanity and the societies we've built, which we are all living in right now. If KSR had written out the villains, the book would have been twice as big and ten times as slow. Pacing required the assumption of a certain level of reader's knowledge, so in a way the absence of a description of the villain is a compliment.
Thanks Doc for the cliff notes. So that I got the jizzt of the story line. That’s a lot of topics. And it’s all VERY important ultimately. Adaptation is going to happen. Some ppl will plan ahead more wisely than others. Like get the hell out of Arizona / Tex / Floduh while the getting is good. For many reasons
In this case I'd call it a deus ex convenientum, because it VERY conveniently seems to kibosh large-scale military action as a serious problem. No resource wars, no state-level reprisals for terrorist attacks, just some conflicts about economic ideas (the Ministry's carbon coin vs the central banks) and the odd climate asshole getting drone'd.
The pebble mob thing here is maybe a fantastical build on our recent Rapid Dragon platform, basically pushing pallets full of cruise missiles out of cargo planes in order to mass-blitz targets. But that's pretty fancy new stuff that only the US is dabbling with, these pebble mobs sound like they're cheaper, easier to deploy and more covert, and can basically kill anything up to and including a carrier battle group. That's...a lot.
But it's also far from the most important thing going on in the world. The far more important thing in this story is the multi-tiered, global scale response to the crisis. And the fact that it really, truly is at crisis levels that seem to have triggered almost everyone into acting. Or at least being indifferent when bad things happen to people that are contributing to the problems.
Naw, my sailboat is Fleetwood Tack.
I'm considering going from a regular hybrid to a PHEV. We have free level 2 chargers at work that would cover most of my in-town driving. The gas motor would be better for road trips, because our highway EV charging situation is not really set up yet.
Villain? Capitalism gets bonked on the head and sent to the shed
Hey, buddy, nice marmot!
Charmed, I'm sure
"Passive Villanry" is perhaps the phras we're looking for? But the character really conveyed the disdain of the people in his grouping. Yes, definitely a "he".
Same as the asshole Frank killed on the beach below the party.
Would anything have changed without the children of kali?
"the bad guys got enormous passes here. "That's because punishment doesn't motivate, and they/we need everyone working together.
If you are going to wait with putting out the fire until the water is cheap enough, then you're going to lose your house. Some things are important enough to do even if it means you're only making 4% profit instead of 12%.
There was a while when the internet actually had accessible information. What happened in between was that google dropped their "don't be evil" slogan, forcibly bought out anything resembling competition, and then when they had all customers locked in stopped pandering to the customers' desire for access to information. Instead they started pandering to the advertisers. At least, until they also had them locked in, then they started squeezing the advertisers too.
Depends on your goal and what you're bombing.For example, if you want to make fossil fuel more expensive and you bomb a pipeline, then you're making things better. On the other hand, if you want to prevent oil spills and you bomb a pipeline, then you're making things worse.
FotherMuckers?
I think the bad guy is obviously the whole of humanity and the societies we've built, which we are all living in right now. If KSR had written out the villains, the book would have been twice as big and ten times as slow. Pacing required the assumption of a certain level of reader's knowledge, so in a way the absence of a description of the villain is a compliment.
Thanks Doc for the cliff notes. So that I got the jizzt of the story line. That’s a lot of topics. And it’s all VERY important ultimately. Adaptation is going to happen. Some ppl will plan ahead more wisely than others. Like get the hell out of Arizona / Tex / Floduh while the getting is good. For many reasons
In this case I'd call it a deus ex convenientum, because it VERY conveniently seems to kibosh large-scale military action as a serious problem. No resource wars, no state-level reprisals for terrorist attacks, just some conflicts about economic ideas (the Ministry's carbon coin vs the central banks) and the odd climate asshole getting drone'd.
The pebble mob thing here is maybe a fantastical build on our recent Rapid Dragon platform, basically pushing pallets full of cruise missiles out of cargo planes in order to mass-blitz targets. But that's pretty fancy new stuff that only the US is dabbling with, these pebble mobs sound like they're cheaper, easier to deploy and more covert, and can basically kill anything up to and including a carrier battle group. That's...a lot.
But it's also far from the most important thing going on in the world. The far more important thing in this story is the multi-tiered, global scale response to the crisis. And the fact that it really, truly is at crisis levels that seem to have triggered almost everyone into acting. Or at least being indifferent when bad things happen to people that are contributing to the problems.