Posts by strum

It can only lead to mediocrity - especially as 'AI' (it isn't really AI) proceeds to train itself on AI-output.

So, quite a lot of Hollywood is mediocre, you say. Well, yes. Making mediocre shows is how writers/actors/sfxers learned their trade. They hacked their way through the kind of pot-boilers that AI may now be able to replicate. But those learners will never have a chance to learn. There won't be the writers/actors/sfxers to make the important movies, the moving movies, the groundbreaking movies. They'll be (pretending to) flip burgers at McDonalds.

Re: it can only take the output of about 15 Dogger Bank turbines

"The dirty little secret of renewables is that when the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow and the dam is empty"

As opposed to when the planet heats up enough to kill off most species?

The answer to "when the sun don't shine, the wind don't blow and the dam is empty" is to over-supply (since supply is so cheap) and store energy for the quiet times.

It doesn't have to be lithium. Pumped hydro, gravel beds, green hydrogen & the rest can do the job. In addition, tidal energy & geothermal *never* goes away.

Nuke fans really have to face the facts; there is no way enough nukes to make a difference can be in place in time to make a difference (leaving aside the huge CO2 output of all that concrete.

Re: Come Down From Your Ivory Tower

Yes, that 'rare' comment screamed of naivity.

Any power that is available will be used, often just as a fishing expedition, into the affairs of someone the police find annoying - a journo, lawyer, activist.

Re: Clearly states the first batch is manufactured in EU, not UK

What they said and what they did are two different things.

> if he was also the Tony Lewis who played for England

Yeah. I had always assumed it was him. I even have a (false, I now know) memory of him explaining the method.

Re: Asimov was a letcher

Bottom-pinching was wrong then, too (as Pohl's attitude confirms). It was just that blokes stuck together and ensured that any woman who objected was ridiculed into silence.

You'd only need to ask leches like Asimov whether they'd approve of similar treatment of his sister?

Re: Pointless Statement

>Since when exactly did a law / regulation / rule actually prevent miscreants doing the very thing(s) that said law (etc) makes illegal?

Classic example - seatbelts. The law changed general behaviour, almost overnight. Some people still break it, but most don't.

Same applies to drink/drive laws, speeding laws

Most people are law-abiding (no matter how much they may disagree with the law). Some people don't give a shit about the law, social norms - or anything at all.

Re: Transcript of the meeting after Sadiq's statement

>MPS : You told a lie.

No he didn't. MPS lied to him. He reported their assurances in good faith.

>Michael Mann, inventor of the (in)famous 'Hockey Stick'

...which is still in play, despite deniers attempts to rubbish it.

Re: biased against right-wingers.

>This requires them to impose SOME standard of morality

Simple test; if you are happy to have a Morality Tsar appointed by President Trump, are you equally happy to have one apponted by President Sanders?

Re: Same old smokscreen

>Iain Duncan Smith said that 3m people will lose their jobs.

IDS was (and still is) a rabid Brexiteer. I think this demonstrates your attitude to the truth.

>most of them are unworkable for

...those who have dug their heels into the 20th century, and won't let go.

Re: Lies versus incompetance

>no more talent or brain power than your average middle manager

More talent & brain power on a single HoC bench than in the entire Register comments circus.

Nearly every MP goes into politics to make thing better (or, at least, stop them from getting worse). But politics is difficult, complicated and boody hard work. You can't get anything done without power. You can't get power without aggregating yours with lots of others. You can't keep power unless everyone involved gets what they want (or appears to). And then you come up against forces that don't give a shit about anything but profit.

Why does it look so corrupt and chaotic - well, sometimes it is, but quite a lot of our perception of politics comes from the Fourth Estate, who resent politicians having all that power and are convinced they could do so much better, if only they could be arsed to get off this bar stool. So they spend their time slagging of their betters.

Re: Socialism

>Moreover Socialism is rooted in Marxism

Tosh. Marx came to Britain to study a socialism that owed more to Christianity than to materialist philosophies. I believe he got it wrong, but there can be no doubt - Marxism is rooted in socialism.

>Dr Who has sunk even lower

A remark that has been repeated, regularly, for the last 60 years.

Re: @TheVogon ... How about both?: Rising sea levels and nuke use

>there are ways to build safe latest gen nuclear plants

There have always been 'ways to build safe nuclear plants'. Problem is - they cost too much, so there will always be shareholders who don't mind cutting safety corners to boost profits.

Note that UK/US has had no ban on nukes - they haven't built them because they make no economic sense.

Re: Meteor. Sacramento. Crater.

> nothing good ever comes out of the Cali-Fornicate-You state legislature.

Perhaps you'd like to point to a red state legislature doing a better job on privacy.

Re: Is this the best that the USA can come up with ?

>when was the last time you heard of horsemeat being introduced into the U.S. beef supply

When was the last time anyone checked?

>So that's all relatively straightforward.

And that's the delusion that got us into this mess. Nothing about life is straightforward (except death). Nothing about politics is straightforward (except that the ignorant will imagine that they could do a better job).

And that's just the normal processes in stable times. In unstable times, such as these, anyone who thinks our problems are 'straightforward' needs a straitjacket.