Apple TV+ nears series order for Scott Z. Burns new anthology 'Extrapolations'

Will they do a story on the negative  impact of the “market based solutions”* so loved by the political class and their useful idiots to solve the problem identified by the science on the cost of living, lifestyles and way of life of people in the lower half of the population? Or will the scenario explore the consequences of ever bigger mommy government to provide tonnes of free stuff to offset what the government has done to them?

* a euphemism for massive government intervention that would make the old soviets blush, and endless subsidies and ticket clipping opportunities for the big end of town.  If it was really about the science, it would be all an aggressive build out of dams for hydro, fracking for gas and nuclear energy to provide lower emissions and high reliability required for an industrial society, rather than complex and expensive build outs of scaled up, highly variable cottage industry power that requires massive market rigging.

i guess the plan is for industry to all go to other countries so the corporate and political classes in their leafy enclaves can feel good about themselves?

In looking for solutions, it is important the solutions are not worse than the disease.

entropys said:

Will they do a story on the negative  impact of the “market based solutions”* so loved by the political class and their useful idiots to solve the problem identified by the science on the cost of living, lifestyles and way of life of people in the lower half of the population? Or will the scenario explore the consequences of ever bigger mommy government to provide tonnes of free stuff to offset what the government has done to them?

* a euphemism for massive government intervention that would make the old soviets blush, and endless subsidies and ticket clipping opportunities for the big end of town.  If it was really about the science, it would be all an aggressive build out of dams for hydro, fracking for gas and nuclear energy to provide lower emissions and high reliability required for an industrial society, rather than complex and expensive build outs of scaled up, highly variable cottage industry power that requires massive market rigging.

i guess the plan is for industry to all go to other countries so the corporate and political classes in their leafy enclaves can feel good about themselves?

In looking for solutions, it is important the solutions are not worse than the disease.

Fracking is the solution? Yeah no, I like my water not flammable. 

Nuclear isn't an ideal solution either, as we've already seen with two massive disasters in its relatively young history. I like my fish uncontaminated. 

How is this Apple Hollywood pablum the top story while the two-faced shenanigans of Cook to cave to the FBI in allowing insecure iCloud backups not?   In any case, I'm guessing these "intimate stories" of climate change will be carefully screen by Cook to ensure no offense to China -  the world’s largest source of planet-warming carbon emissions and air pollution.  

StrangeDays said:

entropys said:

Will they do a story on the negative  impact of the “market based solutions”* so loved by the political class and their useful idiots to solve the problem identified by the science on the cost of living, lifestyles and way of life of people in the lower half of the population? Or will the scenario explore the consequences of ever bigger mommy government to provide tonnes of free stuff to offset what the government has done to them?

* a euphemism for massive government intervention that would make the old soviets blush, and endless subsidies and ticket clipping opportunities for the big end of town.  If it was really about the science, it would be all an aggressive build out of dams for hydro, fracking for gas and nuclear energy to provide lower emissions and high reliability required for an industrial society, rather than complex and expensive build outs of scaled up, highly variable cottage industry power that requires massive market rigging.

i guess the plan is for industry to all go to other countries so the corporate and political classes in their leafy enclaves can feel good about themselves?

In looking for solutions, it is important the solutions are not worse than the disease.

Fracking is the solution? Yeah no, I like my water not flammable. 

Nuclear isn't an ideal solution either, as we've already seen with two massive disasters in its relatively young history. I like my fish uncontaminated. 

Choices are never easy. You do not negate options with risks you personally don’t like for others that just have a different set of risks you don’t factor in.

in case your wondering, my preference is a single, global tax on greenhouse gas emissions, and absolutely nothing else (on the mitigation side anyway). No carbon trading with its endless opportunities for graft and corruption (thus no ticket clipping), no subsidies for one energy source over another, no subsidies for lobbyists with “solutions”. No government emissions targets that are always conveniently well beyond the term of the carpet bagger scumbag politician spruiking it.

If it isn’t global, all the imposing country is doing is shifting industry offshore to countries that don’t have the same controls. End result total failure. In fact it is worse as you are just making your own country poorer for no result. In fact it is worse than that as in reducing your country’s wealth, you are making you country less able to deal with the climate changes hat happen anyway. It’s time to stop giving China and India a free pass.
the onky other thing than a global carbon tax governments should pursue is climate adaptation strategies to deal with the climate change that will happen anyway after all the trillions and trillions wasted in subsidies do little else than line carpet baggers’ pockets to the detriment of everyone else.

markbyrn said:

How is this Apple Hollywood pablum the top story while the two-faced shenanigans of Cook to cave to the FBI in allowing insecure iCloud backups not?   In any case, I'm guessing these "intimate stories" of climate change will be carefully screen by Cook to ensure no offense to China -  the world’s largest source of planet-warming carbon emissions and air pollution.  

Insecure? You obviously have no idea what the issue is.

First of all, the story of Tim Cook caving to the FBI is not at all a proven fact. It is merely something someone outside of Apple mentioned as a possibility given the fact that Apple has been working on E2E iOS backups for a couple of years now. The FACT is, no one knows why Apple has not instituted that policy. The only thing that comes remotely close to it, is Tim Cook stating that most users expect Apple to be able to recover data if/when a password is lost - they would not be able to do that if everything had E2E encryption. How would you feel if you spent thousands of dollars on iTunes content and forgot your iTunes password and could no longer play or get access to that content? The fact is, Apple has been building up E2E encryption in its services over time... For all we know they're probably working on a feature for iOS 14 that does just that and that's why someone recently over heard the FBI asking Apple not to do it.

Second, everything on iCloud, your iCloud Drive, your contacts, photos, even your iOS backups are encrypted and secure on Apple's servers. The issue is that iOS backups are not end-to-end encrypted. Your iOS backups are uploaded, encrypted and then saved on Apple's servers. No one but Apple and you have access to any data stored on iCloud. With the appropriate warrants Apple can turn that data over to the authorities. Just as they can any of your data stored on iCloud. Just as almost every cloud storage service can.