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They could start by calling location history 'location history'.

As a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission's enforcement bureau said: “If you're going to allow users to turn off something called ‘location history’, then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off. That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.”

So the USA taxpayer has paid about $4 billion in subsidies so that rich people can have another new car. Woo Fucking Hoo. MAGA. (/. warning to snowflakes, there may be sarcasm).

You mean instead of the $20 billion we spend each year on direct fossil fuel subsidies? (never mind the indirect ones like lack of pollution controls which are MUCH larger costs) Globally fossil fuels are directly subsidized to the tune of about $5 TRILLION per year.

By your idiot logic NASA exists so rich people can joy ride in space. Maybe consider that there is a bigger picture goal to benefit us all that you have failed to comprehend. Sometimes subsidies actually do make sense because we all benefit in the long run. Not everything is a zero sum game.

Personally I would like my daughter to be able to breathe the air 80 years from now and to not have to ride around in loud, messy vehicles built with 19th century technology. Digging up all the carbon in our soil and releasing it into the air is quite literally suicidal.

Also, that definitely wouldn't explain Exxon's internal science team predicting a 2C warming by 2060 back in 1982?

Do you think those involved in that internal study thought that would help them keep their jobs at Exxon?

Are we still talking about this Obama, or some other: https://www.theguardian.com/wo...?

Uh, yeah. About that, see "Your private medical data is for sale – and it's driving a business worth billions".

If you think dictatorships are bad (and they are), wait until you get a load of the resource wars of the 2100s. Or the displacement of 150 million by the 2050s, according to the IPCC. How's the drive against dictatorships worked out for us so far? How'd Iraq fare?

I can't wait for the only remaining restaurant to be Taco Bell after the franchise wars are won.

If you think dictatorships are bad (and they are), wait until you get a load of the resource wars of the 2100s. Or the displacement of 150 million by the 2050s, according to the IPCC. How's the drive against dictatorships worked out for us so far? How'd Iraq fare?

The senate just passed the bill without the amendments.

Ayes 44

Noes 12

The bill is passed.

Australia’s security and intelligence agencies have legal authority to force encryption services to break the encryptions.

Shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

The U.S. barely imports fossil fuels anymore. We don't need anything from the middle east, we'd easily be covered by just Canada, for example. We're a net exporter (barely) for natural gas and refined fuels and on pace to be a net exporter of crude oil within the next 10 years.

So what does the military and intelligence agencies have to do with oil subsidies? Defending the country is now a burden supposed to be borne by a single industry?

Gasoline in the U.S. is already heavily taxed, averaging 25-35% of the purchase price. The government already makes way more money from a gallon of gas than the gas station, the refiner or the oil company. That's not exactly a subsidy. If global warming/climate change is true, that's worth maybe a 3% tax on gas to cover the externality, way lower than the current actual taxes. Actual fossil fuel subsidies in various forms (even including types of expenses which other industries also write off) from the government account for 1%, way less than the taxes, leaving a massive not-subsidy situation.

Most of your post was informative and interesting, so thank you for that. But I disagree with the conclusion in the last paragraph. I learnt the hard way about 15 years ago that if you refuse to take strong enough painkillers for chronic pain the result is nerve sensitisation which means that the pain can continue for months after the root cause has healed. I'm currently being treated for a different chronic pain, and because of my previous experience I didn't hesitate when my doctor prescribed tramadol. However, I'm being disciplined in my use of it. When she tried lowering the dosage and the pain in the part of the day which wasn't covered began to be a real problem I asked permission before going back to the initial dosage. An earlier Guardian article about the opioid epidemic implies that part of the problem is people self-medicating an increased dosage.

Addiction is indeed a curse, but so is chronic pain. I think the correct conclusion should be to discuss changes in dosage with your doctor first, and if you experience symptoms of dependency when ending the treatment then go back to the doctor and ask about weaning off rather than going to the dark web.

Prove that. Everyone else disagrees.

No. They don't. Not even remotely close. Assange is accused of inserting his penis into a sleeping woman without consent. Which is considered rape in all countries involved plus the "hang Assange high" set.

Prove that. Because it's not universal, including in Europe.

It's utterly commonplace including examples right here in the United States. More willful stupidity isn't helping your case - arguing that the allegations are so serious that they are worth an INTERPOL warrant plus the UK spending millions of pounds to enforce, but not pulling a passport. Hell, forget willful stupidity - now you're engaging in outright willful dumbfuckery.

Answer the questions.

Answered in spades and in triplicate - dumbfuck.

Not answers to the questions. Show how Sweden is acting differently in wanting to question Assange in Sweden. Or continue to not do so. Your evasion speaks volumes.

Is your willful dumbfuck engine fusion-powered? Again, Sweden has interviewed dozens of suspects abroad since Assange was granted asylum, and has refused to make it clear this is nothing but rape allegations, despite prodding and years to do just that.

Blah blah irrelevant blah

Translation: even your fusion-powered willful dumbfuckery ran out of talking points when confronted with a deluge of facts.

Citation needed. Desperately.

Again, do you comment at lengths on topics where you have a comical level of ignorance, or just this one? Solitary confinement is torture, particularly when used against a non-violent inmate who has shown zero signs of being a threat to herself or others.

Where's the mention of "America's brutal prison system"?

Even more dumbfuckery. It's the entire basis for the refusal to extradite.

Blah blah irrelevant blah.

You can't answer the question of why the UK would spend millions of pounds on a simple bail-jumping case because you can't.

Dumb.
Fuck.
Er.
Eee.

And that's before looking at the fact that the UK was begging Sweden to maintain the prosecution of Assange instead of dropping it. Not, "hey, can you go ahead and promise this nob you wont hand him to the United States so we can hand him over to you and go home".

This may be out of date but as of 2014, Android and Google Mobile Store did not have license fees. Manufacturers needed testing, from third parties NOT Google, to get the license to install Google Mobile Store. The third parties did charge for their services. https://www.theguardian.com/te... If this is a problem, I would think the EU is a big enough market with enough bright minds that they can roll out their own version of Android and create their own store. I'm sure somebody's brother would be delighted to get the contract. Who knows, it might make a great export and proceed to stomp all over Android (and Google).

That's because you're not a girl!

Much has been written on whether women should cut down on exclamation marks in the office. Sorry, but the answer is no! Exclamation marks! Are a good thing! And we should embrace them!

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It is funny how the superior Europeans ignore reality. Demand in Europe for fur is very high: https://www.theguardian.com/fa...

You know what also is going up in Europe? Emissions rose in both 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

Emissions going up now that Europe is letting all the immigrants in. Populations are rising, consuming increases.

From this article:

Carlsen will play as white in Wednesday’s first tiebreak stage after the drawing of lots following Monday’s game: a best-of-four rapid match with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move. (This is where the Norwegian was able to close the show after he was pushed to tie-breakers against Russia’s Sergey Karjakin two years ago in New York.)

If that is not enough to settle matters, they will play up to five mini-matches of two blitz games (five minutes for each player with a three-second increment). If all five mini-matches are drawn, it will come down to one sudden-death Armageddon match in which white receives five minutes, black receives four minutes and both will receive a three-second increment after the 60th move. If that game is drawn, black will be declared the winner.

Well you could start by reading EDF's Wikipedia page. The French version is best but the English one catalogues their financial woes too.

Basically their nuclear stuff is so expensive and risky that they keep running out of money and having to delay to take more bail-outs from the government.

https://www.ft.com/content/04d...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

Of course the government has no choice, if EDF failed they would have to nationalize it anyway to keep the lights on.

It is funny how the superior Europeans ignore reality. Demand in Europe for fur is very high: https://www.theguardian.com/fa...

You know what also is going up in Europe? Emissions rose in both 2017: https://planetsave.com/2018/05... and will again in 2018: https://www.thedailystar.net/w...

According to Hansen
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Still waiting for those 50 million climate refugees predicted by the UN
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Or how are things on the West Side of Manhattan these days ?
https://www.salon.com/2001/10/...

Then again snow is supposed to be a thing of the past as well
http://www.climatedepot.com/20...

This is the government that enslaved million of black Africans for profit.

A trade which still exists today in the Middle East:
https://www.theguardian.com/gl...

While that sounds well and good, it could cause some problems with weight distribution. Here's one article that discusses an actual incident where this became an issue.

Board the plane back-to front which is the most sane and keeps people from having to wait to move further back and creating traffic jams.

You most certainly do, when you're putting on a big show of not wanting to extradite someone to the USA when that is in fact your goal. It wouldn't even be the first time Sweden has used such a pretext - with a large helping of interrogating the suspect in solitary confinement but without a lawyer - with the destination country being Denmark rather than the US.

False:

https://www.theguardian.com/fo...

https://slate.com/technology/2...

Using this independent emissions calculator with a Model 3 in a zip code where basically 100% of the electricity comes from coal (an East suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio), it is still producing 1/2 of the carbon emissions of the average ICE-powered vehicle. It's even more compelling if you are in a zip code with a more clean energy mix, such as Portland, Oregon. (less than 1/4 the emissions) The up-front carbon cost to manufacture will be higher than an ICE, but the far lower operating carbon output will cross over into net-savings within a year or two.

Are they completely clean transportation? Clearly, no; and nothing is - not even walking. But they are "cleaner" which is what my earlier statement said. And now I've provided independent sources to back that up, with their reasoning and research attached.

Go away, troll.

One of the things that help the Daily Mail earn the bottom-of-the-barrel reputation they have is the way they steal anything that could pass for "real" journalism from other publications.

The article you posted, for example, is cribbed entirely from the BBC and Guardian.
https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Wow, I hope that post gets added to the investigation. I didn't realise Facebook was still using schills to attack Soros? Facebook is pure slime.

"If we can hack into their cars, others can as well."

Suppose, a similar technology existed to remotely disable your gun. Suddenly, the same people denouncing such control over cars have second thoughts.

And then conclude, that, not only would they welcome such feature's availability, they'd like it to become mandatory!

And to add, only dumb AmeriKKKunts can't tell the difference so Japan has had to strip the symbol from maps that used it to mark temples ahead of it hosting the Olympics. Dumbass USians think it's denoting the Nazis.

https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

I have no idea who this guy is
Not buying that for a second. The guy is an on-record racist and bigot, and it's tough to miss. And his name is very easy to Google.

But here, have some quotes:
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Here's a summary of their claims from a more respectable source:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

As any good source should, they link directly to the actual articles and you can read them yourself. This is a published comment on her method:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

In short, she's using an oversimplified model of the sun, knows nothing about the impact on climate and the implications would anyway be very small (-0.3C compared to a warming of +0.2C per decade).

I remember the solar cycle was a popular scape goat for global warming about 20 years ago but the focus shifted after a few years when there was just to much science showing the effect was minimal. Back then, the claim was that sunspots caused more solar storms and a "huge" amplifying effect due to cloud formation etc. Further research showed the effect was small and the deniers changed focus. This seems like a remake.

The USA are not the good guys either.

https://www.theguardian.com/bo...

However, the 96% of the worlds population who are NOT US citizens would like to invoke Trumpian politics and say "USA LAST" and this trade war is yours, not ours. Also No deal with the US is better than a bad deal with the US.

That a recent study conducted on beliefs showed that most people who believed global warming was a hoax also believed in the New World Order, ancient aliens, that vaccines caused autism, that JFK was murdered by his own government and/or that their government was trying to replace them with muslims.

I'm honestly curious why we even bother to discuss things, in that case. I have no objection to you believing whatever you like, but as people like that most certainly DO object to me holding to my views, I see no benefit in bothering to debate things. No, I don't hold those conspiracy theorists in high esteem, but why should that bother them? If they were secure in their views, it would be irrelevant.

Does it really cause that much distress to anyone if we use solar rather than coal for power plants? You get exactly the same amount of power, or maybe more with solar these days. How is that interfering with your lifestyle? Does it really cause a problem to argue that Brazil and Indonesia should stop producing cash crops and replant rainforest? Wow, a few products you weren't even buying anyway go up in price by all of five cents. The agony. Let me see if I can shed a tear... wait... wait... sorry, no.

For crying out loud, it has bugger all impact on anyone here. Not even your 401K will be affected, since the stock brokers will all transfer together, causing the stocks they switch to to skyrocket in price. Ok, you might actually make quite a lot of money on that.

That's it. That's all the affect YOU will ever notice. You becoming a little bit richer, in a few years.

I mean. The tragedy of having more money to spend.

https://www.theguardian.com/so...

You're in good company, or bad company. That national health services aren't government run, just government financed, is probably beyond you.

Wait meddling in foreign elections is an act of war? They why aren't we already at war with Russia with meddling in THEIR elections in 1996 https://www.theguardian.com/co... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

You know doing something bad and wrong is still something bad and wrong. We need to stay the hell out of other peoples elections too. If politicians want to vocally say they support someone and why. Fine. That is free speech. But no bullshit. It is also fair game to point out if we see someone else interfering, providing we point out everyone we see interfering and don't pick and choose.

I don't see why this is complex. Wrong is wrong. You can't build a fair and just world on a string of moral compromises. It's like building on sand.

That might be because France won't allow Google to give it away for free.

Wait meddling in foreign elections is an act of war? They why aren't we already at war with Russia with meddling in THEIR elections in 1996 https://www.theguardian.com/co... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...

why is Trump's daughter high enough in the administration that this matters? Can you say Conflict of Interest? How about emoluments clause? And yes, I'm not ashamed I had to google how to spell "emoluments".

There was a guy in Australia who decide to implant a chip inside himself a while back. (also here). Still have no idea what he was smoking when he changed his name to Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow.

The announcement today means that Assange was completely 100% wrong.

Forget this week - the 2001 case of Sweden handing people over to the CIA to be tortured makes all of Assange's fears entirely reasonable. Anyone who claims otherwise is either woefully ignorant of relevant events or is purposely turning their brain off, and accept more BS from the same sort of people that lied you into Iraq. That one example of shenanigans is more than enough, but there are plenty more where that came from. And each one doubles the willful ignorance involved, like that old story about a kid getting a grain of rice from a greedy king, except each day that grain of rice would double:

• There's the fact that Assange was questioned and cleared to leave Sweden by investigators, only for another, more politically motivated prosecutor to step in. And get an INTERPOL warrant. For a couple of women who asked for an STD test.

  There's the fact that Sweden has refused for years to either interview Assange remotely, or to send investigators to interview him in London - as they've done dozens of other times since Assange took refuge in the embassy.

  There's the fact that Sweden has refused Assange's offer to return to Sweden if they promise not to hand him over to the United States. A promise that would be easy to make, given America's fondness for torture. Speaking off...

  There's the fact that Obama had Chelsea Manning tortured with a year and a half of solitary confinement.

  There's the fact that the UK has spent millions of pounds to watch one person for...jumping bail. And pressured Sweden to keep up the investigation instead of dropping it.

  Then there's the fact that Sweden went to great lengths to nab a founder of the Pirate Bay from a non-extradition country - and as soon as he was on Swedish soil, interrogated him at length without a lawyer for an alleged crime in another country. Which meant it was their plan to do so all along. And as soon as his Swedish sentence was up, deported him to said other country (Denmark).

And that's off the top of my head, there's probably some more I'm forgetting. But you're already at an entire kingdom's worth of willful dumbfuckery, based facts that have been readily available for years.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
https://www.theguardian.com/us...

"Trump probably has in mind how a century of putting out wildfires in the American west has caused forests to grow dense with trees, making large, hot fires more common than they once were. This is not the predominant cause, however, of the fires currently making the news. To comprehend what is currently taking place in California, you have to comprehend how it has historically burned – and the vast changes now occurring across the landscape."

The rest of the article provides insight into how climate change affects fires; the fact that many wildfires happen in non-forested areas; and how clear-cutting is an ineffective technique.

How about Oliver Stone? There's a man whose art is taken seriously by the intelligentsia. Heck, look at what our own politicians think:

"These days, the American dream is more apt to be realized in South America, in places such as Ecuador, VENEZUELA and Argentina, where incomes are actually more equal today than they are in the land of Horatio Alger. Who's the banana republic now?"
-- Bernie Sanders

This is democratic socialism, as much as Slashdot refuses to accept it. The Venezuelan government was democratically elected by the people to seize the means of production and ration out the benefits. The United Socialist Party of Venezuela instituted democratic socialism built on the socialist policies of Hugo Chavez. It was failing long before the oil prices fell, there were chronic food shortages back in 2013 when the oil was close to a $100.

This is socialism, it has lead to ruin and misery in many states before. At some point when its failed economic policies start leading to starvation, the people start revolting and it inevitably starts demanding more authoritarian power to maintain its control. You know, like is happening in this very story we're discussing.

As I said: The data adjustment is discussed in great detail by the Berkeley project: http://berkeleyearth.org/understanding-adjustments-temperature-data/

and if that's too much detail, try the Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/feb/08/no-climate-conspiracy-noaa-temperature-adjustments-bring-data-closer-to-pristine

Or you can to to the GISS site: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/

The EuroGitmo is only used by the CIA anyway.

The data adjustment is discussed in a lot of detail by the Berkeley project: http://berkeleyearth.org/under...
If you want less detail and more of an overview, try the Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/en...

You are out of touch. Take a quick run around the comments section on any Intel vs AMD article and you will find Meltdown frequently cited. And Meltdown has gone mainstream. Even the business pages talk about it because it is affecting Intel's stock price.

See, it's like GMO, it may or may not affect you directly but it is always a concern and a source of endless debate, such as this. The only way out of this for Intel is to fix it definitively in hardware as opposed to papering over by minor circuit tweaks, costly microcode workarounds and disgusting OS hacks. That isn't going to happen until Cannon Lake.

The Meltdown deniers are just angry nerds like you.

it could be easily falsified. Climate scientists compare data to models all the time to check how well the models do.So far, the models are holding up rather well.

Nonsense. They have had to throw away all the most alarmist models/datasets.
Some of the early ones were so bad the first gnat exhale of CO2 would have led to inevitable venus like conditions. They just like to pretend they never published those now.

The earliest of the convective-radiative models using accurate measurements of infrared absorption-- that is to say, the ancestor of today's GCMs-- was Manabe and Wetherald 1967. Over the fifty years of data since the model was published, guess what? the theory is pretty well matching measurements.

  https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/03/15/the-first-climate-model-turns-50-and-predicted-global-warming-almost-perfectly/

  https://climategraphs.wordpress.com/2017/11/06/evaluating-the-prediction-of-manabe-and-wetherald-1967/

  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972/

How many have we killed in Iraq since 2003, I wonder.

10 times less than the number killed in Iraq not directly attributable by US coalition forces... if you believe the reporting. Not that any number of dead is a good thing.

https://www.theguardian.com/ne...

From https://www.theguardian.com/fo...: (with a nice infographic :) )

For every 100km travelled in a petrol car ... ... it takes 26 megajoules to get petrol out of the ground and transport it to the car ... ... and the car itself uses 142 megajoules to move itself around.

For the same distance in an electric car, using electricity generated in an oil-fired power plant ... it takes 74 megajoules to generate and transport the electricity to the car ... ... which then uses just 38 megajoules to move itself and its passengers

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Passenger car diesel engines have energy efficiency of up to 41% but more typically 30%, and petrol engines of up to 37.3%, but more typically 20%

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Gasoline engines effectively use only 15% of the fuel energy content to move the vehicle or to power accessories, and diesel engines can reach on-board efficiency of 20%, while electric vehicles have on-board efficiency of over 90%, when counted against stored chemical energy, or around 80%, when counted against required energy to recharge

And finally, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...:

Typical thermal efficiency for utility-scale electrical generators is around 37% for coal and oil-fired plants[4], and 56 – 60% (LEV) for combined-cycle gas-fired plants.

I couldn't find good statistics on energy costs of mining and transporting coal, pumping up and refining oil, and pumping up gas but I'm sure they're on the wiki somewhere :). Also, no idea of the energy cost of assembling the batteries vs an ICE but I would assume over the total lifetime of the car it should be negligible.

In any case, the most "optimistic" comparison (from the EV point of view) it gets total fossil-to-wheels efficiency of .6*.8=48%. The most pessimistic is .37*.8=30%. The former figure is lower than total ICE efficiency, while the latter figure is comparable. The statistics from the Guardian link above (which have the ICE use 3.7 times the energy per distance traveled) seems to be close to the 20% vs 80% comparison.

All in all, there does seem evidence for assuming that an EV will get better total energy efficiency, but it will be more like 1.5-2x as efficiency and not an order of magnitude better. Of course, an EV fleet gives better options for generating power - ICEs can only use fossil fuels or biofuels (which are problematic in many cases), while EVs can use anything that generates electricity. Especially solar seems a good idea for Israel.

Of course there are still some bad ones, particularly for textiles, but the idea that it's "slave labour" that is driving China's competitiveness is a myth.

You do remember the Foxconn suicides right? Or here's a more recent article. I'll quote:
When I look back at the photos I snapped, I can’t find one that has someone smiling in it. It does not seem like a surprise that people subjected to long hours, repetitive work and harsh management might develop psychological issues. That unease is palpable – it’s worked into the environment itself. As Xu said: “It’s not a good place for human beings.”

While I agree with Trump on virtually nothing, slapping tariffs on goods produced with subpar labor conditions is EXACTLY the purpose of a tariff. As far as other sources, you could always manufacture in Dresden Germany which produces AMD microprocessors and shouldn't be affected by said tariff which would encourage investment in a country that shares our values and ideals.

That's not a credible source. Unnamed officials who we know lied? And whose unsubstantiated claims were later disproved?

Sorry, you're an idiot if you think outright fraud constitutes a credible source.

No, I want a credible source. From a credible news outlet that wasn't taking bribes.

https://www.theguardian.com/me...

This is a credible source - a former CIA operative working in the weapons inspections team. He was not some gullible fool, he had worked on this sort of stuff for many years and he was very good at his job. He was not caught lying, or bribing newspapers. The anonymous folks you quote were.

So why do you choose the swamp? I'm curious.

I heard comments at the time that Kim Briggs walked out in to the road without looking because she was looking at her phone, although I can't find anything to cite online now. This is a serious problem in London and one of my biggest fears as a cyclist here. All the anti-cyclist politics that have spewed from this don't seem to be addressing this issue.

Charlie Alliston was a complete idiot and his comments on social media were rightly used against him. This article in the Guardian though brings up some interesting points about stopping distances in this case and the bias against cyclists in general:
https://www.theguardian.com/en...