I'm pretty sure he has running water and electricity now (and no Amazon!). It's in the Constitution.
Indeed he does, but it was obviously forced upon him, and rightfully so. If that wasn't the case, I'm pretty sure he was perfectly happy w/o it. But it is getting kind of strange that you damn near have to go to that extreme to avoid things like Amazon if you live in this day and age.
I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
Ted Kaczynski wouldn't have had an issue with it. Of course if you like things like running water and electricity. As well as not mailing hand made bombs to people, that life might not be for you.
Ahh yes. Who could forget the great solar panel spill of '04?
Are you talking about 2104? Because this may be the case by then.
Or the constant solar smog exuding from the solar plants every day?
Is that what the lead and cadmium leaching from solar panels discarded in landfills will be called?
Or the ongoing war in Sunstania. They said it was for peacekeeping purposes.
It's certainly possible that various materials needed for batteries and solar panels very well could cause unstable regions to become the new middle east.
I fear that solar is going to become the new nuclear, though I hope I'm wrong. I remember when I was a kid, nuclear everything was going to fix all of our woes. No one wants to discuss the potential issues that are going to occur when panels reach EOL. Granted, radioactive waste is more dangerous, but it's also regulated federally and is only coming from power plants. Panels are used in road side signs, on houses, solar farms, portable battery chargers, etc.
Currently most, if not all, states simply allow EOL panels to be sent to land fills. While they are made of a lot of glass, it's not pure enough to be recycled. The aluminum is does not have enough value to be removed from the frames for recycling either.
Fawn Lake Virginia has a 6,000 acre solar farm. It's been reported that there is 100,000 pounds of cadmium between all of those panels. What happens if there's a hail storm, or a tornado? Depending on how long the clean up takes, how much of that will get leached out by rainfall? What is the plan when those panels reach EOL?
Of course there are panels that don't contain much toxic material. But most current production solar panels are not made that way. It's also not currently, nor is it likely to become financially viable to recycle solar panels. Hopefully this will get figured out, but just like nuclear waste, we're going to have to figure out what the hell to do with this stuff at some point.
There is a LOT of crime DIRECTLY associated with the people who use drugs like cocaine or heroin. So calling use of such drugs "victimless" is incorrect when the situation is viewed in a complete manner.
Also, those who use drugs like cocaine often destroy their own lives as well as the lives of those close to them. Given the preceding, the notion that such drug use is a "victimless" crime is erroneous. You might think you could "fix" this by making cocaine available for free. Sorry, but that would not solve the problem. Lives would still be destroyed, because cocaine addiction does that.
The same can be said of alcohol. But it's still legal. I'm not saying that this is going to be a magical fix. But trying to hide the issue by making it illegal is just stupid.
You should try to learn more about a subject before you wade in and spew overly simplistic arguments that don't withstand even slight scrutiny.
I can just about guarantee you I know more about it than you do, or most on/. for that matter.
264 member of Congress have used a taxpayer fund of $17 million to pay off sexual harassment accusers. That is half of the 538 total members.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but isn't that the total number of know offenders all together? Not 264 of all currently serving congressmen. While I'm sure there are many still in congress who would be on that list, I'm sure that many are no longer there. Even so, the fact that none of them have been charged with a crime, and that others are complicit in covering it up is very disturbing. It also just shows how broken our legal system is. After all, these are the people who we sent to Washington to write our laws. Breaking these laws should be grounds for being removed from congress and no longer being eligible to run or benefit in any way from their time there. No pension, no lobbyist job, etc.
Put another way, 1 in 38 adult Americans was under some form of correctional supervision.
All victimless crimes need to be removed from the books. If someone wants to smoke pot, do coke, or what ever, let them. But also spend money on better education. Work on the root cause of why this is the case. Obviously there are some people who are going to waste their life. But it's a hell of a lot less than the wasted lives we have with people in prison, or who get out and will never be able to find a meaningful job afterward. Tax drugs and use the money to help people too. This eliminates the money made by current criminals in the drug trade as well.
If someone is publicly intoxicated, who cares. If they are making a nuisance of themselves, put them in a drunk tank until they sober up the next day. Just because someone is staggering a bit on the way home from the bar, who cares. Why is this something that can get a person prison time? If they are being belligerent or threatening others, that's a different case. But that's illegal even if you are sober.
Prostitution is another case. As long as it's a persons choice and they are not being forced into it, why is this a crime. Pimps should be punished for sure. But if someone wants to work for a prostitute, or group of them for an agreed upon amount/percentage I don't see the issue. At least as long as it's understood that the prostitute is in charge and not the other way around. Again, taxes and education should get funding from this. As well as testing.
While I don't necessarily agree with copyright infringement, it is not a criminal offense. This is a civil matter. But copyright law is such a mess in this county, I don't think it will be fixed in my lifetime. But no one should ever go to jail for downloading music or video. If a person gets caught for it, then they should not have to pay any more than the cost of what it would be to purchase the track on iTunes or similar service. $400,000 for one song is insane.
Some crimes should also be judged on the circumstance as well. If someone gets pulled over for a DUI, maybe we shouldn't have the criminal justice system destroy their life. But make the punishment for a second offense much stricter. Granted, the possibility of an innocent bystander getting harmed could go up too. So this might not be the best example.
The criminal justice system is in place to protect the citizenry, not enslave it. If 1 in 38 adults are somehow in the system, then something is obviously very wrong. The laws are in place to help protect the people, not enslave them. Our system of government was supposed to be for the people. The rich and corporations should not be able to purchase politicians either. When someone does more time for a joint than stealing a couple million from a pension fund, something is very wrong.
If you like short songs like that, then Procol Harem put out "In Held 'Twas on I" on the Shine on Brightly album. Jethro Tull put out Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. Both of which took both sides of an album at 22 minutes per side. Damn near any live version of a Led Zeppelin song will be around that long as well.
If your looking for long songs and like classical music, 17 minutes isn't difficult to find at all. Wagner's Der Ring is a 15 hour opera. In the past it was all but impossible to find a reasonably priced copy of it. But I found one a couple of years back that was $35 on 10 CDs. It's not.the best version that I have, but for the price, it's a bargain.
I wasn't sure if you were going for time or the number of movies made. I assumed time since I don't believe there are 9 Rocky movies, but I could be wrong.
If you include animated movies, there are a shit ton of Batman movies. There were two with Adam West, and several old black and white ones as well. Superman is similar. I remember some black and white Captain America movies, but they may have been serials. There were some really bad ones in the 70s and/or 80s too.
You also forgot the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie. If we're going to not count repeated stories, the Force Awakens can be argued as a remake of A New Hope.;-)
I think the better question to ask is: WHO is buying the tapes?
I'd be willing to bet it's Boomers and/or Gen-X. I highly doubt it's teens or the 20-year olds given the data:
I'd bet it's more likely teens and 20 somethings. I have a teen and she thinks albums and cassettes are pretty cool. In fact a lot of the indie bands that she likes only release their albums on vinyl and cassette.
Most of us that are older remember how terrible cassettes were and how delicate vinyl is. I think it's a novelty to kids. There might also be some backlash to download/streaming as it's nice to actually have a physical object when purchasing music.
Oh wait, I want to listen to the next song. Let me find it.... nope, not yet.... nope, not yet.... nope, not yet... wait, went to far..... a bit more.... there it is.
I still have my cassette deck, though I haven't used it in over a decade. Anyhow, it had a search for next track option. Actually it has the ability to set up the order to play the tracks. Granted, I don't think I used that after trying it when I first got it, but being able to skip to the next track (or two or three)was a nice feature.
Hisssssssssssssss
On type 4 tapes using Dolby S hiss wasn't much of an issue. Actually, I'd bet the sound was better than a lot of the MP3s.
I grew up with this shit. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Yeah, I don't get it either. I have a few cassettes that never made it to CD or another format. But why anyone would actually buy an album on cassette that is available on a better format. is beyond me.
My current blue tooth headset lasts for 7 hours of talk time. Usually a little more. The one I had prior was good for 9 hours, but it finally broke after a couple of years. I would have bought the same model if they still made it. But the new one has better sound for both me and who I'm speaking with.
I only had one Motorola clamshell in the past and it wasn't a Razer. But the one I had could be closed while talking via speaker or wired headset. It had caller ID on the front when it was closed and I could answer by pressing a button without opening it.
Not only are Saturn's rings young, but it appears they are going away soon
I can't wait to tell my great^300,000 grandchildren about how I remember when Saturn had rings. It was around the time that Pluto was still a planet, and Ceres was still pissed about it
"1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
Sorry Agent K, you got that backwards. Pythagoras postulated the earth was round by 500 BC, mostly because he thought spheres were really cool. Aristotle used observational evidence for it being round in mid 300 BC. In mid 200 BC Eratosthenes estimated the earth to be 250,000 stadia. We don't know exact size of a stadia, but it's estimated to be between 500 and 600 feet. So his estimate of the circumference of the earth was between 23.6 thousand and 28.5 thousand miles.
The geocentric model was widely used until the 1500's AD.
Even if that were the case, it would offset the the almost 2 million people who are killed by coal per year. So it would decrease the overall number of people killed per year, reduce particulate/chemical pollution, and reduce CO2 emissions.
IÃ(TM)d suggest the solution is to mandate better safety precautions regarding working on rooftop solar, but in Australia that is regarded as blasphemy as fighting safety standards (aka red tape) is one of the governmentÃ(TM)s holy missions.
Or they could start installing more commercial solar and wind farms.
Actually, no, they excluded those deaths, especially in the mining and construction.
I don't have the WHO publication in front of me, but almost all of the papers I've read on the topic do include deaths from mining and construction.
In fact some risk assessments that I've read include mining accidents for materials needed and assembly of components for construction as well. So they include accidents from mining iron to make the steel that is used as well as deaths in the steel manufacture, etc. As well as pollution from the energy needed to build the components.
They included the people falling off ladders as "solar deaths" - is that SOLAR being dangerous? Nope, ladders. It's disingenuous illiterate shit, perfect for propaganda. People fell off LADDERS. Solar killed NOBODY.
If it was during the installation of the panels or maintenance, then yes it's solar related. Just the same as black lung, mine collapses, etc are part of the deaths for coal, or falling off of a oil rig is counted as a death for oil power generation.
The idea that nuclear power (including ALL spent fuel rods in ALL concrete pools in earthquake zones, derp, THOUSANDS OF POOLS) is perfectly safe,
While there is risk, the point is how many measured deaths have there been per kilowatt generated. Not fear mongering. What about all of those heavy solar panel arrays and wind turbines suspended above houses in areas that are prone to earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes?
forgetting Chernobyl and Fukushima et all, is for RETARDED ILLITERATES.
As I stated, there was one confirmed death from radiation at Fukushima and four instances of cancer that have been linked to it. Or are you counting all of the people that were killed by the tsunami too? Chernobyl is included in the numbers from the WHO paper. So, no Chernobyl was not forgotten.
The swath of nuclear enegy's death toll per terawatt tell a different story. It is in a bloody category to its own compared to every other form of energy out there, even solar.
I can't tell if you are saying nuclear is the safest or deadliest. I'm assuming you mean the safest. At least that's what the WHO seemed to think in 2010. The WHO ranked them as follows:
Coal: 170,000 deaths per trillion kilowatt hours. 1,963,500 annual total deaths
Hydro: 1400 per trillion KW. 4851 annual deaths
Solar(rooftop): 440 deaths per trillion KW. less than 102 deaths per year
Wind: 150 deaths per trillion KW. 102 deaths per year
Nuclear; 90 per trillion KW. 353 total deaths per year
Nuclear was rated as 1889 times safer than coal. Wind was rated 1133x safer than coal, solar was rated 386x safer than coal.
Granted, this was published one year prior to the 2011 Fukushima disaster. However as far as I know there has only been one death which was tied directly to radiation exposure as of 2018. There were four workers who received compensation who were diagnosed with leukemia and thyroid cancer as a result of exposure. In comparison, over 18,000 were killed by the earthquake and tsunami. Another 500 some died afterward do to disaster related reasons. This included patients who starved to death in a hospital.
Ren, speaking Mandarin and using a company-provided translator, told the group that Huawei has never handed data to Beijing.
That's silly. Beijing is a city and can't speak. Now various intelligence/government agencies are a different story.
When it comes to cybersecurity and privacy protection we are committed to be sided with our customers.
This could go several ways. First, I'm guessing that the Chinese government is one of, if not their biggest customer. Second, Sided with what? Vinyl, aluminum, brick, stucco...
We will never harm any nation or any individual,
Of course not. Huawei is not a military, they are a company. Besides, information wants to be free (to flow into China).
China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors.
Neither did the NSA. But, you know, if they are there they should share this information with intelligence agencies.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added
Define "improper information".
Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."
I suspect if half of the US was on fire and the other half was under water he would still say something similar.
If there's one thing I've learned in the last few years, it's that car manufacturers sure take security of the systems in their cars seriously. (/s)
It's bad enough that bad people can remotely control all sorts of important systems in a new car, but now they can watch you as they slam you and your car into a tree. Maybe if the automotive manufacturers gave a damn, they'd work with companies that could help them to actually secure its stuff.
Also, does anyone else remember when we actually gave a damn about our own privacy? Not only are people recording and posting crap they do on Youtube, but they are buying televisions with cameras and microphones, paying for the privilege of having an always on mic in their house, and carrying one around that reports our location at all times. I'm strating to feel like I'm living in the world we all feared when I was young. But it's not being forced on us, we're actually gladly paying for it.
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Uh, I'm not sure I want to take drug advice from someone called "The Grim Reefer".
Damn, you've foiled my plan. I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids.
I'm pretty sure he has running water and electricity now (and no Amazon!). It's in the Constitution.
Indeed he does, but it was obviously forced upon him, and rightfully so. If that wasn't the case, I'm pretty sure he was perfectly happy w/o it. But it is getting kind of strange that you damn near have to go to that extreme to avoid things like Amazon if you live in this day and age.
I Tried to Block Amazon From My Life. It Was Impossible.
Ted Kaczynski wouldn't have had an issue with it. Of course if you like things like running water and electricity. As well as not mailing hand made bombs to people, that life might not be for you.
Ahh yes. Who could forget the great solar panel spill of '04?
Are you talking about 2104? Because this may be the case by then.
Or the constant solar smog exuding from the solar plants every day?
Is that what the lead and cadmium leaching from solar panels discarded in landfills will be called?
Or the ongoing war in Sunstania. They said it was for peacekeeping purposes.
It's certainly possible that various materials needed for batteries and solar panels very well could cause unstable regions to become the new middle east.
I fear that solar is going to become the new nuclear, though I hope I'm wrong. I remember when I was a kid, nuclear everything was going to fix all of our woes. No one wants to discuss the potential issues that are going to occur when panels reach EOL. Granted, radioactive waste is more dangerous, but it's also regulated federally and is only coming from power plants. Panels are used in road side signs, on houses, solar farms, portable battery chargers, etc.
Currently most, if not all, states simply allow EOL panels to be sent to land fills. While they are made of a lot of glass, it's not pure enough to be recycled. The aluminum is does not have enough value to be removed from the frames for recycling either.
Fawn Lake Virginia has a 6,000 acre solar farm. It's been reported that there is 100,000 pounds of cadmium between all of those panels. What happens if there's a hail storm, or a tornado? Depending on how long the clean up takes, how much of that will get leached out by rainfall? What is the plan when those panels reach EOL?
Of course there are panels that don't contain much toxic material. But most current production solar panels are not made that way. It's also not currently, nor is it likely to become financially viable to recycle solar panels. Hopefully this will get figured out, but just like nuclear waste, we're going to have to figure out what the hell to do with this stuff at some point.
There is a LOT of crime DIRECTLY associated with the people who use drugs like cocaine or heroin. So calling use of such drugs "victimless" is incorrect when the situation is viewed in a complete manner.
Also, those who use drugs like cocaine often destroy their own lives as well as the lives of those close to them. Given the preceding, the notion that such drug use is a "victimless" crime is erroneous. You might think you could "fix" this by making cocaine available for free. Sorry, but that would not solve the problem. Lives would still be destroyed, because cocaine addiction does that.
The same can be said of alcohol. But it's still legal. I'm not saying that this is going to be a magical fix. But trying to hide the issue by making it illegal is just stupid.
You should try to learn more about a subject before you wade in and spew overly simplistic arguments that don't withstand even slight scrutiny.
I can just about guarantee you I know more about it than you do, or most on /. for that matter.
264 member of Congress have used a taxpayer fund of $17 million to pay off sexual harassment accusers. That is half of the 538 total members.
Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but isn't that the total number of know offenders all together? Not 264 of all currently serving congressmen. While I'm sure there are many still in congress who would be on that list, I'm sure that many are no longer there. Even so, the fact that none of them have been charged with a crime, and that others are complicit in covering it up is very disturbing. It also just shows how broken our legal system is. After all, these are the people who we sent to Washington to write our laws. Breaking these laws should be grounds for being removed from congress and no longer being eligible to run or benefit in any way from their time there. No pension, no lobbyist job, etc.
Put another way, 1 in 38 adult Americans was under some form of correctional supervision.
All victimless crimes need to be removed from the books. If someone wants to smoke pot, do coke, or what ever, let them. But also spend money on better education. Work on the root cause of why this is the case. Obviously there are some people who are going to waste their life. But it's a hell of a lot less than the wasted lives we have with people in prison, or who get out and will never be able to find a meaningful job afterward. Tax drugs and use the money to help people too. This eliminates the money made by current criminals in the drug trade as well.
If someone is publicly intoxicated, who cares. If they are making a nuisance of themselves, put them in a drunk tank until they sober up the next day. Just because someone is staggering a bit on the way home from the bar, who cares. Why is this something that can get a person prison time? If they are being belligerent or threatening others, that's a different case. But that's illegal even if you are sober.
Prostitution is another case. As long as it's a persons choice and they are not being forced into it, why is this a crime. Pimps should be punished for sure. But if someone wants to work for a prostitute, or group of them for an agreed upon amount/percentage I don't see the issue. At least as long as it's understood that the prostitute is in charge and not the other way around. Again, taxes and education should get funding from this. As well as testing.
While I don't necessarily agree with copyright infringement, it is not a criminal offense. This is a civil matter. But copyright law is such a mess in this county, I don't think it will be fixed in my lifetime. But no one should ever go to jail for downloading music or video. If a person gets caught for it, then they should not have to pay any more than the cost of what it would be to purchase the track on iTunes or similar service. $400,000 for one song is insane.
Some crimes should also be judged on the circumstance as well. If someone gets pulled over for a DUI, maybe we shouldn't have the criminal justice system destroy their life. But make the punishment for a second offense much stricter. Granted, the possibility of an innocent bystander getting harmed could go up too. So this might not be the best example.
The criminal justice system is in place to protect the citizenry, not enslave it. If 1 in 38 adults are somehow in the system, then something is obviously very wrong. The laws are in place to help protect the people, not enslave them. Our system of government was supposed to be for the people. The rich and corporations should not be able to purchase politicians either. When someone does more time for a joint than stealing a couple million from a pension fund, something is very wrong.
If you like short songs like that, then Procol Harem put out "In Held 'Twas on I" on the Shine on Brightly album. Jethro Tull put out Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play. Both of which took both sides of an album at 22 minutes per side. Damn near any live version of a Led Zeppelin song will be around that long as well.
If your looking for long songs and like classical music, 17 minutes isn't difficult to find at all. Wagner's Der Ring is a 15 hour opera. In the past it was all but impossible to find a reasonably priced copy of it. But I found one a couple of years back that was $35 on 10 CDs. It's not.the best version that I have, but for the price, it's a bargain.
I wasn't sure if you were going for time or the number of movies made. I assumed time since I don't believe there are 9 Rocky movies, but I could be wrong.
If you include animated movies, there are a shit ton of Batman movies. There were two with Adam West, and several old black and white ones as well. Superman is similar. I remember some black and white Captain America movies, but they may have been serials. There were some really bad ones in the 70s and/or 80s too.
You also forgot the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes movie. If we're going to not count repeated stories, the Force Awakens can be argued as a remake of A New Hope. ;-)
Few franchises last this long with Rocky and Star Trek being about all I remember.
James Bond, Planet of the Apes, Alien, Superman, Batman, Captain America...
Nope.. dolby B/C
While the deck I have also has b/c it has Dolby so as well, which is what I stated.
I think the better question to ask is: WHO is buying the tapes?
I'd be willing to bet it's Boomers and/or Gen-X. I highly doubt it's teens or the 20-year olds given the data:
I'd bet it's more likely teens and 20 somethings. I have a teen and she thinks albums and cassettes are pretty cool. In fact a lot of the indie bands that she likes only release their albums on vinyl and cassette.
Most of us that are older remember how terrible cassettes were and how delicate vinyl is. I think it's a novelty to kids. There might also be some backlash to download/streaming as it's nice to actually have a physical object when purchasing music.
Compared to what?
It's probably not much worse than a 128bit MP3. However an MP3 doesn't wear out every time you play it.
Oh wait, I want to listen to the next song. Let me find it.... nope, not yet.... nope, not yet.... nope, not yet... wait, went to far..... a bit more.... there it is.
I still have my cassette deck, though I haven't used it in over a decade. Anyhow, it had a search for next track option. Actually it has the ability to set up the order to play the tracks. Granted, I don't think I used that after trying it when I first got it, but being able to skip to the next track (or two or three)was a nice feature.
Hisssssssssssssss
On type 4 tapes using Dolby S hiss wasn't much of an issue. Actually, I'd bet the sound was better than a lot of the MP3s.
I grew up with this shit. What the hell is wrong with these people?
Yeah, I don't get it either. I have a few cassettes that never made it to CD or another format. But why anyone would actually buy an album on cassette that is available on a better format. is beyond me.
Um, yeah... you do realize that the 'U' in UFO stands for Unknown... right?
It stands for unidentified, not unknown.
My current blue tooth headset lasts for 7 hours of talk time. Usually a little more. The one I had prior was good for 9 hours, but it finally broke after a couple of years. I would have bought the same model if they still made it. But the new one has better sound for both me and who I'm speaking with.
I only had one Motorola clamshell in the past and it wasn't a Razer. But the one I had could be closed while talking via speaker or wired headset. It had caller ID on the front when it was closed and I could answer by pressing a button without opening it.
Not only are Saturn's rings young, but it appears they are going away soon
I can't wait to tell my great^300,000 grandchildren about how I remember when Saturn had rings. It was around the time that Pluto was still a planet, and Ceres was still pissed about it
"1,500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was the center of the universe. 500 years ago, everybody knew that the Earth was flat. And 15 minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."
Sorry Agent K, you got that backwards. Pythagoras postulated the earth was round by 500 BC, mostly because he thought spheres were really cool. Aristotle used observational evidence for it being round in mid 300 BC. In mid 200 BC Eratosthenes estimated the earth to be 250,000 stadia. We don't know exact size of a stadia, but it's estimated to be between 500 and 600 feet. So his estimate of the circumference of the earth was between 23.6 thousand and 28.5 thousand miles.
The geocentric model was widely used until the 1500's AD.
Even if that were the case, it would offset the the almost 2 million people who are killed by coal per year. So it would decrease the overall number of people killed per year, reduce particulate/chemical pollution, and reduce CO2 emissions.
IÃ(TM)d suggest the solution is to mandate better safety precautions regarding working on rooftop solar, but in Australia that is regarded as blasphemy as fighting safety standards (aka red tape) is one of the governmentÃ(TM)s holy missions.
Or they could start installing more commercial solar and wind farms.
Actually, no, they excluded those deaths, especially in the mining and construction.
I don't have the WHO publication in front of me, but almost all of the papers I've read on the topic do include deaths from mining and construction.
In fact some risk assessments that I've read include mining accidents for materials needed and assembly of components for construction as well. So they include accidents from mining iron to make the steel that is used as well as deaths in the steel manufacture, etc. As well as pollution from the energy needed to build the components.
They included the people falling off ladders as "solar deaths" - is that SOLAR being dangerous? Nope, ladders. It's disingenuous illiterate shit, perfect for propaganda. People fell off LADDERS. Solar killed NOBODY.
If it was during the installation of the panels or maintenance, then yes it's solar related. Just the same as black lung, mine collapses, etc are part of the deaths for coal, or falling off of a oil rig is counted as a death for oil power generation.
The idea that nuclear power (including ALL spent fuel rods in ALL concrete pools in earthquake zones, derp, THOUSANDS OF POOLS) is perfectly safe,
While there is risk, the point is how many measured deaths have there been per kilowatt generated. Not fear mongering. What about all of those heavy solar panel arrays and wind turbines suspended above houses in areas that are prone to earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes?
forgetting Chernobyl and Fukushima et all, is for RETARDED ILLITERATES.
As I stated, there was one confirmed death from radiation at Fukushima and four instances of cancer that have been linked to it. Or are you counting all of the people that were killed by the tsunami too? Chernobyl is included in the numbers from the WHO paper. So, no Chernobyl was not forgotten.
The swath of nuclear enegy's death toll per terawatt tell a different story. It is in a bloody category to its own compared to every other form of energy out there, even solar.
I can't tell if you are saying nuclear is the safest or deadliest. I'm assuming you mean the safest. At least that's what the WHO seemed to think in 2010. The WHO ranked them as follows:
Coal: 170,000 deaths per trillion kilowatt hours. 1,963,500 annual total deaths
Hydro: 1400 per trillion KW. 4851 annual deaths
Solar(rooftop): 440 deaths per trillion KW. less than 102 deaths per year
Wind: 150 deaths per trillion KW. 102 deaths per year
Nuclear; 90 per trillion KW. 353 total deaths per year
Nuclear was rated as 1889 times safer than coal. Wind was rated 1133x safer than coal, solar was rated 386x safer than coal.
Granted, this was published one year prior to the 2011 Fukushima disaster. However as far as I know there has only been one death which was tied directly to radiation exposure as of 2018. There were four workers who received compensation who were diagnosed with leukemia and thyroid cancer as a result of exposure. In comparison, over 18,000 were killed by the earthquake and tsunami. Another 500 some died afterward do to disaster related reasons. This included patients who starved to death in a hospital.
Ren, speaking Mandarin and using a company-provided translator, told the group that Huawei has never handed data to Beijing.
That's silly. Beijing is a city and can't speak. Now various intelligence/government agencies are a different story.
When it comes to cybersecurity and privacy protection we are committed to be sided with our customers.
This could go several ways. First, I'm guessing that the Chinese government is one of, if not their biggest customer. Second, Sided with what? Vinyl, aluminum, brick, stucco...
We will never harm any nation or any individual,
Of course not. Huawei is not a military, they are a company. Besides, information wants to be free (to flow into China).
China's ministry of foreign affairs has officially clarified that no law in China requires any company to install mandatory back doors.
Neither did the NSA. But, you know, if they are there they should share this information with intelligence agencies.
"Huawei and me personally have never received any request from any government to provide improper information," Ren added
Define "improper information".
Ren actually praised the U.S. president. "For President Trump as a person, I still believe he is a great president," he said. "In the sense that he was bold to slash taxes. And I think that's conducive for the development of industries in the United States."
I suspect if half of the US was on fire and the other half was under water he would still say something similar.
But does that violate the bots' freedom of speech,
No.
If there's one thing I've learned in the last few years, it's that car manufacturers sure take security of the systems in their cars seriously. (/s)
It's bad enough that bad people can remotely control all sorts of important systems in a new car, but now they can watch you as they slam you and your car into a tree. Maybe if the automotive manufacturers gave a damn, they'd work with companies that could help them to actually secure its stuff.
Also, does anyone else remember when we actually gave a damn about our own privacy? Not only are people recording and posting crap they do on Youtube, but they are buying televisions with cameras and microphones, paying for the privilege of having an always on mic in their house, and carrying one around that reports our location at all times. I'm strating to feel like I'm living in the world we all feared when I was young. But it's not being forced on us, we're actually gladly paying for it.