IE was pushing weird non standard standards on the web. There were all these sites that didn't work on alternative browsers at a time when the WWW was becoming necessary to do things. As well, IE was just one of multiple things that MS was doing to kill any competition. Youtube doesn't seem to be trying to kill Vimeo or other competitors, works on most all platforms and doesn't seem important. It it only worked on the Chrome browser and Google was using patents or such to deny competition, you might have a point.
There are not enough carbon absorbing life forms or mechanical means on earth to recapture that bulk of carbon which had been sequestered away for eons but is now floating around our atmosphere
Actually it will be recaptured, just not in a reasonable time frame. CO2 causes warming which causes more rain which causes more weathering which sequesters CO2. I've heard different numbers, some as short as a thousand years, for CO2 to return to preindustrial levels if we stopped adding it. DDGing for half life of CO2 gives about a 2.5% reduction a year.
Good points which I'm not knowledgeable enough to argue. I do know we had a pipeline explosion here (actually 500 miles north) the other week and it sure affected things. Gasoline instantly went up 20 cents a litre, people were told to lower their thermostats, businesses had to scale back, shutdown, or switch to alternatives such as diesel. I'd hate to think how things would have gone if we used it for electricity.
Generally governments give really good deals on land for pipelines (and even railroads, which ship a lot of energy), really good deals on land to drill or mine for energy, allow companies to leave a huge mess. In the case of nuclear, the insurance costs are very high and susidized and you're suggesting self insurance which equals company goes bankrupt if there are problems and the tax payers are on the hook. Nuclear is also given really good deals on water usage.
Greed is human nature, of course they will choose the option that makes them the most money. Humans have survived as long as they have because people are greedy. Nobody can remove greed from the human soul.
Lots of evidence that it is actually altruism that has enabled humanity to survive for hundreds of thousands of years. Tribes that support each other is the reason that people are successful.
And how many pages do the court cases on why the Constitution doesn't apply amount to? Just consider the 1st and 2nd amendments, which are very simple and all the exceptions ruled on by the courts instead of being put in the Constitution.
My government ran the electrical utility well for 70 years until we got a more right wing government that claimed to be good business people, who then lowered taxes and made up the deficit by demanding the utility borrow money and give it to the government. Unluckily it just takes one election to vote in a bunch of idiots who can destroy things. They're usually business people who can't see past the next quarter and yes, things are good for a short while until the bills come due, usually under the next government so they can blame them for the crap. Of course private, is always inefficient as they have to have ever growing profits, at least in the case of publicly traded private companies.
Until you get a right wing government that wants to lower taxes and balance the budget. Then they discover they can demand large royalties from the government owned power company, putting the power company into massive debt while making the governments books look balanced. This also leads to the excuse that the public power company is badly run and should be given to private interests because private is always better.
Humanity has saved a lot more from extinction through conservation efforts than it has "wiped out". When will activists learn that such dishonest hyperbole is doing more harm to their causes than help?
I saw a blurb the other day that only in North America and Southern Africa wildlife has increased in numbers in recent decades - both based on income and sustainable use provided by the hunting industry ("big huntin' " ?). Probably needs verification, which I don't have...
Are they the same wildlife as was there previously? For example, here foxes are pretty well gone but we have a huge population of non-native coyotes.
Back in the '70's, they still made the decision that there were more profits in oil and seeing global warming coming and wanting to stop the less profitable solution, nuclear, financed Greenpeace.
Huh? The Chinese buying up property, usually as part of a laundering process is a real problem where I am. A bunch of empty properties doesn't benefit anyone except the foreigner who has a bolt hole, or at least assets that he can hide from their government.
Fair enough. around here the average person is getting fucked by the Chinese laundering money through real estate and then sitting on it rather then doing something with it.
Did you ever have an actual conservative party? History seems to be full of corporate welfare of some type or other with the rich buying politicians for as long as there has been politicians.
That's true. But when the government goes too far and starts subsidizing public transportation by taxing those who drive cars, it's a threat to our freedom to travel independently and under our own control.
OTOH, it helps your freedom of travel by cutting back on the number of cars on the road, at least if done well.
A better parallel would be a municipal run phone service. Do they get censored down there? You do have a lot of government censorship on the public airwaves. Heard a DJ ranting here on the CBC as he was interviewing a band called the Fuckheads or such and the problems that the fact that his program would be broadcast on NPR caused, namely having to self-censor. Seems your Federal government actively bans certain types of speech and other types of freedom of expression on the public airwaves. It was quite amazing the reaction to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, especially the fact that citizens complained so much. I've seen almost everything (anal is about the only exception) on the local PEG channel, including real intercourse and closeups of a woman getting made up for a porn magazine, namely the "pussy juice" being applied. This was in the evening. As for the above DJ, he also mentioned that there had never been one complaint about language from a Canadian. Whereas down there, there is a large portion of the population that would freak out if someone said fuck on TV when a kid might hear it.
Hmm, didn't know that about export taxes, whether the Supreme Court would agree that an export fee in the name of national security is a tax remains to be seen, but judging by some of their other rulings such as Congress being free to write laws abridging speech in the name of national security or infringe on the right to own arms in the name of the children, who knows. It still takes a lot of power to liquefy and transport that way compared to a pipeline and it has got to the point where America is as unpredictable as Russia and seems to be heading for more of a war footing. Germany would be smart to do both, import by ship and pipeline
And how is that natural gas going to be liquefied? And what is going to power the ship that transports it across the ocean? And what about when Trump decides to put export fees or such on the natural gas?
I'm in rural Canada and have a LTE connection. It's not too bad. Streaming works fine along as you don't expect really high resolution. I get about 10-15/1-3 for speed and 250 GB cap. In a severe weather scenario, the power and phone can be down for a couple of days, I doubt the cell service will be worse though the tower has only been there for a year so it hasn't been really tested yet.
I'm in Canada, somewhat rural, and that is what is happening here, rural LTE plans for internet. For about a hundred a month, I get 250 GBs of data at LTE (10-15/1-3 here) speeds. Seems to work well and while somewhat expensive, a lot better then the 10 GBs that the same price would buy in town. Internet and Cell are expensive in Canada.
The weird reasoning is that Netflix, YouTube etc won't give out numbers, making it hard to pay royalties to the content producers, so have a tax to pay the content producers and since no one uses the internet for stuff like analyzing astronomical data, just streaming and low bandwidth stuff like email, tax them (actually probably officially a levy as the money will go to the industry, who promise to share it with the artists). http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
Because gnome practically requires it at this point. Several distros tried various workarounds to stay systemd free, but Gnome went out of their way to break them. Eventually the distros gave in because it was too hard, but they wanted gnome support to avoid pissing off users.
Which just raises the question of why Gnome wanted systemd
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IE was pushing weird non standard standards on the web. There were all these sites that didn't work on alternative browsers at a time when the WWW was becoming necessary to do things. As well, IE was just one of multiple things that MS was doing to kill any competition.
Youtube doesn't seem to be trying to kill Vimeo or other competitors, works on most all platforms and doesn't seem important. It it only worked on the Chrome browser and Google was using patents or such to deny competition, you might have a point.
There are not enough carbon absorbing life forms or mechanical means on earth to recapture that bulk of carbon which had been sequestered away for eons but is now floating around our atmosphere
Actually it will be recaptured, just not in a reasonable time frame. CO2 causes warming which causes more rain which causes more weathering which sequesters CO2. I've heard different numbers, some as short as a thousand years, for CO2 to return to preindustrial levels if we stopped adding it. DDGing for half life of CO2 gives about a 2.5% reduction a year.
He also promised jobs
Good points which I'm not knowledgeable enough to argue. I do know we had a pipeline explosion here (actually 500 miles north) the other week and it sure affected things. Gasoline instantly went up 20 cents a litre, people were told to lower their thermostats, businesses had to scale back, shutdown, or switch to alternatives such as diesel. I'd hate to think how things would have gone if we used it for electricity.
Generally governments give really good deals on land for pipelines (and even railroads, which ship a lot of energy), really good deals on land to drill or mine for energy, allow companies to leave a huge mess. In the case of nuclear, the insurance costs are very high and susidized and you're suggesting self insurance which equals company goes bankrupt if there are problems and the tax payers are on the hook. Nuclear is also given really good deals on water usage.
Greed is human nature, of course they will choose the option that makes them the most money. Humans have survived as long as they have because people are greedy. Nobody can remove greed from the human soul.
Lots of evidence that it is actually altruism that has enabled humanity to survive for hundreds of thousands of years. Tribes that support each other is the reason that people are successful.
And how many pages do the court cases on why the Constitution doesn't apply amount to? Just consider the 1st and 2nd amendments, which are very simple and all the exceptions ruled on by the courts instead of being put in the Constitution.
Lets do everything unsubsidized. Make the power companies pay for insurance, market prices on land etc.
My government ran the electrical utility well for 70 years until we got a more right wing government that claimed to be good business people, who then lowered taxes and made up the deficit by demanding the utility borrow money and give it to the government.
Unluckily it just takes one election to vote in a bunch of idiots who can destroy things. They're usually business people who can't see past the next quarter and yes, things are good for a short while until the bills come due, usually under the next government so they can blame them for the crap.
Of course private, is always inefficient as they have to have ever growing profits, at least in the case of publicly traded private companies.
Until you get a right wing government that wants to lower taxes and balance the budget. Then they discover they can demand large royalties from the government owned power company, putting the power company into massive debt while making the governments books look balanced. This also leads to the excuse that the public power company is badly run and should be given to private interests because private is always better.
Humanity has saved a lot more from extinction through conservation efforts than it has "wiped out". When will activists learn that such dishonest hyperbole is doing more harm to their causes than help?
I saw a blurb the other day that only in North America and Southern Africa wildlife has increased in numbers in recent decades - both based on income and sustainable use provided by the hunting industry ("big huntin' " ?). Probably needs verification, which I don't have...
Are they the same wildlife as was there previously? For example, here foxes are pretty well gone but we have a huge population of non-native coyotes.
Back in the '70's, they still made the decision that there were more profits in oil and seeing global warming coming and wanting to stop the less profitable solution, nuclear, financed Greenpeace.
Huh? The Chinese buying up property, usually as part of a laundering process is a real problem where I am. A bunch of empty properties doesn't benefit anyone except the foreigner who has a bolt hole, or at least assets that he can hide from their government.
Fair enough. around here the average person is getting fucked by the Chinese laundering money through real estate and then sitting on it rather then doing something with it.
Did you ever have an actual conservative party? History seems to be full of corporate welfare of some type or other with the rich buying politicians for as long as there has been politicians.
That's true. But when the government goes too far and starts subsidizing public transportation by taxing those who drive cars, it's a threat to our freedom to travel independently and under our own control.
OTOH, it helps your freedom of travel by cutting back on the number of cars on the road, at least if done well.
A better parallel would be a municipal run phone service. Do they get censored down there?
You do have a lot of government censorship on the public airwaves. Heard a DJ ranting here on the CBC as he was interviewing a band called the Fuckheads or such and the problems that the fact that his program would be broadcast on NPR caused, namely having to self-censor. Seems your Federal government actively bans certain types of speech and other types of freedom of expression on the public airwaves. It was quite amazing the reaction to Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction, especially the fact that citizens complained so much. I've seen almost everything (anal is about the only exception) on the local PEG channel, including real intercourse and closeups of a woman getting made up for a porn magazine, namely the "pussy juice" being applied. This was in the evening.
As for the above DJ, he also mentioned that there had never been one complaint about language from a Canadian. Whereas down there, there is a large portion of the population that would freak out if someone said fuck on TV when a kid might hear it.
They were paid well (actually heavily financed) by Exxon to prevent nuclear. Though a lot of the problem is just nuclear being expensive
Hmm, didn't know that about export taxes, whether the Supreme Court would agree that an export fee in the name of national security is a tax remains to be seen, but judging by some of their other rulings such as Congress being free to write laws abridging speech in the name of national security or infringe on the right to own arms in the name of the children, who knows.
It still takes a lot of power to liquefy and transport that way compared to a pipeline and it has got to the point where America is as unpredictable as Russia and seems to be heading for more of a war footing. Germany would be smart to do both, import by ship and pipeline
And how is that natural gas going to be liquefied? And what is going to power the ship that transports it across the ocean? And what about when Trump decides to put export fees or such on the natural gas?
40 megs is pretty good in a rural area, try being on dial up.
I'm in rural Canada and have a LTE connection. It's not too bad. Streaming works fine along as you don't expect really high resolution. I get about 10-15/1-3 for speed and 250 GB cap. In a severe weather scenario, the power and phone can be down for a couple of days, I doubt the cell service will be worse though the tower has only been there for a year so it hasn't been really tested yet.
I'm in Canada, somewhat rural, and that is what is happening here, rural LTE plans for internet. For about a hundred a month, I get 250 GBs of data at LTE (10-15/1-3 here) speeds. Seems to work well and while somewhat expensive, a lot better then the 10 GBs that the same price would buy in town.
Internet and Cell are expensive in Canada.
The weird reasoning is that Netflix, YouTube etc won't give out numbers, making it hard to pay royalties to the content producers, so have a tax to pay the content producers and since no one uses the internet for stuff like analyzing astronomical data, just streaming and low bandwidth stuff like email, tax them (actually probably officially a levy as the money will go to the industry, who promise to share it with the artists).
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
Because gnome practically requires it at this point. Several distros tried various workarounds to stay systemd free, but Gnome went out of their way to break them. Eventually the distros gave in because it was too hard, but they wanted gnome support to avoid pissing off users.
Which just raises the question of why Gnome wanted systemd