tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post7148242779434627428..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: GUEST POST: Sustainability Isn’t SustainablePeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-37699628064270590632010-12-02T12:21:52.075+13:002010-12-02T12:21:52.075+13:00That is like cutting butter with more than a hot k...That is like cutting butter with more than a hot knife, but by lazer (-erated)<br /><br />This guy has also got it !, the driving politics behind the innocent meme using the loaded "Word", that can make you feel guilty as charged, convicted and then ceaselessly fined at the very least.! ! and all the ramifications<br /><br />By Tom De Weese,<br /> "Sustainable development"<br />http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom13.htm<br /><br /><i>"On our public education system - to prepare our children to live in a sustainable world. <br /><br />On our economy - to create partnerships between business and government, making sure business becomes a tool to help implement the policies. <br /><br />On the environment - leading to controls on private property and business. <br /><br />On health care - the new drive against obesity is leading directly toward controls on what we eat. <br /><br />On farming - Sustainable Development policies affect farmers' ability to produce more crops by regulating or banning precious chemicals, biotechnology and genetic engineering in the name of environmental protection. <br /><br />On our social and cultural environment - where political correctness is controlling policy hiring practices, immigration policy, multiculturalism, marriage laws, etc. <br /><br />On our mobility - with emphasis on carpools and public transportation and away from the freedom of personal transportation. <br /><br />And on public safety - where the rule of law and the court system is being challenged by new regulations that affect the right to privacy and unreasonable search and seizures. <br /><br />It's important to understand that these leading issues we face today are not just random concerns that find their way into the forefront of political debate. They are all interconnected to the policies of Sustainable Development. <br /><br />And you must understand that Sustainable Development is the official policy of the government of the United States of America - and every state, city and small burg in the nation. <br /><br />It is completely bi-partisan. It is being equally implemented by Republicans and Democrats. No matter the outcome of any election - the Sustainable Development agenda moves forward unabated."</i><br /><br />and with the insidious start of this back in the 80's and how it has been slowly dripped feed into our lexicon and daily lives.<br /> <br /><br />SimpletonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-13945568160765197102010-11-19T14:14:17.622+13:002010-11-19T14:14:17.622+13:00Great timing with this post, just as the 2010 NZI ...Great timing with this post, just as the 2010 NZI National Sustainable Business Network Awards were anounced in Auckland.<br />I particularly love this bit ..<br />"The event organisers put in exceptional efforts to host the most sustainable event possible with plenty of secure cycle parks inside the venue, the provision of online business cards, organic food and drinks, and plans to offset transport related emissions on the night with native tree planting."<br />God help us!! <br />FreeMackFreeMackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02866454490396377262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-24519736536128508502010-11-18T06:20:26.349+13:002010-11-18T06:20:26.349+13:00Falafulu Fisi
Thank you for the kind comments. W...Falafulu Fisi<br /><br />Thank you for the kind comments. While I have done some work on lenticular displays, I am not that lawyer.Dale B. Hallinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08647184662875078767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-26872806094124280652010-11-18T02:49:19.446+13:002010-11-18T02:49:19.446+13:00yep the only thing making a peak, is the Greenie&#...yep the only thing making a peak, is the Greenie's butt whilst their heads are firmly buried in the sand, and their hand is filching coin from your back pocketAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-42012975647109729292010-11-17T12:48:00.662+13:002010-11-17T12:48:00.662+13:00The question one must ask here is: why should we s...The question one must ask here is: why should we sacrifice our present quality of life for the sake of people we don't know, nor have any personal interest in? This is not the same thing as investing in your own quality of life by creating a better world for people you love or will love. Helping people you love makes your life better. That's why you do it.<br /><br />On top of this, how can we even predict what kinds of production future generations will engage in? Technology keeps improving. Solar power is considered a "sustainable" source of energy. But why should we stick only to solar power today, when fossil fuels are currently much cheaper, and when we will ultimately replace fossil fuels with something better?<br /><br />The sustainability of any particular form of production is of dubious value. Each form of production ultimately becomes obsolete. We shouldn't choose how to produce based on the possibility of doing it forever, because we won't want to do it forever. We'll want to do something better in the future.<br /><br />Instead of doing what is sustainable, we should do what is most productive in the context of our current technology and knowledge.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-47626882578863292862010-11-17T12:35:01.710+13:002010-11-17T12:35:01.710+13:00Yes, uniquely, we are inventors. We solve problems...Yes, uniquely, we are inventors. We solve problems and create knowledge. And not just that: we are universal knowledge creators. Nothing is beyond us to know.Brian Scurfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14791173154893714681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-20093408477207639182010-11-17T10:06:18.747+13:002010-11-17T10:06:18.747+13:00Dale said...
The computer industry was also bese...Dale said...<br /><i> The computer industry was also beset by predictions of impeding doom when it could no longer achieve Moore’s law of doubling the number of transistors every eighteen months.... When this reached their limit, they were replaced with relay devices, then these were replaced with vacuum tubes, then transistors, and then integrated circuits.[8]<br />...The unique way humans overcome entropy is by inventing. Inventing is the answer to “Peak Anything.” </i><br /><br />I completely agree here. IC (integrated circuits) is shifting from semiconductors (where severe limitation exists) to opto-electronics & photonics.<br /><br />In 2006, I attended a Physics Symposium here at Auckland University, where a leading expert in photonics from Australia, Prof. <a href="http://cudos.org.au/component/option,com_people/task,details/Itemid,88/PersonID,1/" rel="nofollow">Ben Eggleton</a>, passed around during his talk, a proto-type <i>photonic chip</i> about 1 square centimetre in size (where no semiconductor material is involved). He said that the future of computing & telecommunication will be heavily moved away from semiconductors (where their limitation is nearing due to physical difficulties in pushing further components miniaturization).<br /><br />Here is a picture of what the photonic chip looks like:<br /><br /><a href="http://cudos.org.au/content/view/64/162/" rel="nofollow">Photonic Chip</a><br /><br />Its animation is here (if you have flash player):<br /><br /><a href="http://cudos.org.au/animation/PCanimation.html" rel="nofollow">Photonic Chip - Animation</a><br /><br />Prof Eggleton said that his research group at <a href="http://cudos.org.au/index.php" rel="nofollow">CUDOS</a> is collaborating with other researchers from around the world (including some from University of Auckland's Photonics Department) to develop the next generation of photonic chip. He said that Intel is one of the big corporations that are funding the project.<br /><br />So, its true, that inventions is the answer to eliminating the so called peak everything.Falafulu Fisinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-22710703858025003242010-11-17T09:38:33.722+13:002010-11-17T09:38:33.722+13:00Insightful and a great article Dale Haling. There ...Insightful and a great article Dale Haling. There is no surprise here in your reference to entropy and thermodynamics, because you have backgrounds in engineering & physics.<br /><br />I don't think that there are that many practicing lawyers today who have had prior trainings in engineering & physics, but I suspect that those who have are mainly patent attorney like you.<br /><br />Anyway, 3 years ago, I was paid by an Auckland company to help them write their US patent claims (2 of them). The inventions were theirs (geometrical & lenticular linear optics) but they didn't know how to mathematicise them (formalize them in physics formula derivations). Their patent attorney is based in the US (since they have a small branch there). In my first report (first patent claim), there were more than 30 equations involved in the derivations and I think that in equation #27 I missed a sign (suppose to be both -ve & +ve solutions), where I only had the +ve solution but not the -ve solution. <br /><br />The company sent my report which was included in their full claims to their patent attorney and it came back for the first revise in which the lawyer himself had picked up my wrong formula derivations near the end, i.e., equation #27 wasn't complete (a total of more than 32 equations), which means that equation #28, #29, #30, up to the end were all wrong. It caught me by surprised as I went over my report many times before submitting to check (& re-check) that I didn't miss-derived the linear optics models that I was asked to do and here was a lawyer who found out that a few equations at the end of my report were miss-derived. I revised & corrected those wrong formulas and then resubmitted it again.<br /><br />I was curious to know why a lawyer would pick up the error that I made as the formulas were heavy. Sure, lawyers wouldn't understand the formulas (or their derivations). The company rep that I was dealing with in Auckland, told me that their US rep informed him that the lawyer has backgrounds in mathematics & physics and that's the reason they hire him or use his services is that he understands technical grounds from foundations/basics to advance. (Hehe, I wouldn't be surprised if that US patent attorney is you).Falafulu Fisinoreply@blogger.com