Sadly i'm afraid this might be an issue as many large news companies tend to report on things they find on other sites, including sites that report fake news:/
Let's ignore obviously fake news for a moment, and just go with regular news.
There is a lot of news happening in the world, every day. Just the very act of deciding what to report is going to show the news agency/reporter's bias.
There is no such thing as an unbiased news source.
So what one has to do, is pay some attention to what you are reading or seeing. The aggregate of the news presented will let you know, and getting more than one source is also a big help. But then there is confirmation bias. Which both Liberal and what passes for conservative today is stricken with. So of all of the new providers today, I tend to get most of mine from NPR. They have somewhat of a liberal bias, but nowhere near the CNN/MSNBC outlook, and definitely not Fox with it's pseudo conservatism outlook. But perhaps unlike most people today, if I hear a story that annoys me, It doesn't drive me crazy like the confirmation addicted crowd demands of their affirmation news.
When do "the coasts" start feeding themselves, if they start demanding the red interior start paying their own way?
Stop being an ignorant divisive fuck. We're one country, working together. Or, at least, we should be. But people like you are maintaining the status quo of "it's all THEIR fault".
This is an amazing post, and worth pointing out the incredible word salad that passes doe discussion these days.
First AC demands to know when "the coasts" will start feeding themselves. then a defense of the "red interior"
Then demanding that we are all supposed to be one. and after AC's own divisive comments, blames the divisiveness on the person they are replying to.
You alternative truth people really need to publish a playbook so we can figure you out.
We have heard that slashdot poster mi is a wide disseminator of fake news, and serves the cause nobly by pointing out that anything determined to be politically wrong is "fake news".
Please explain how one publishes scientific information without publishing documents?
You hand it to a politician, who yellow lines the parts that do not align with party policy You remove the parts that are not true because the truth has been set by party policy, and if the politician ends up finding the now policy confirming paper acceptable, it gets published.
I have a strong suspicion that in science departments all over the country, that they are making backups to be hidden from the new age of alternative truth we have entered. Kind of like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for science data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
Because this too shall pass. Ages of alternative facts come and go. Ages of politics determining the laws of physics will come and go. We don't hear much of Lysenkoism these days, though it was once official Soviet Union policy.
I suspect that at this time that physics will be ignored and all research into the greenhouse effect will be suppressed, that creationism will rear it's head again, and a lot of heath science will be suppressed as well.
And? Well these are the times we live in. Scientists are a different breed. An example is in WW2, oddly enough - in Leningrad - 12 scientists chose to slowly starve to death rather than eat the seeds of their seed bank. http://www.popsci.com/science/...
All in all, if The new Politicians see fit to kill me for my views on physics, if the greenhouse effect and my support of it, or any of my other science views that have been banned by policy make me too dangerous to allow to live - then I shall die. Hopefully they are smart enough to know that suppression and killing tend to make truth stronger than policy. I have my grave doubts though.
the gag order specifically applies to policy-related statements in press releases and interviews, which need to be vetted with the secretary of agriculture
Policy. Allow me to repeat that - Policy.. You do know what policy is perhaps you can tell me.
Science. Allow me to repeat that - Science. You are apparently celebrating that when Science is not in lockstep with Policy, it must be suppressed.
In other words, anything that disagrees with your politics and the policies derived from must be vetted so that it is aligned with that policy, or else it shall be suppressed, or possibly re-written so that the Science is promoting the policy.
Its kind of interesting that You and your team are rapidly becoming the policy equivalent of 1930's Bolsheviks, where Politicians determine whether facts are true, and to be true, they must align with party policy . See Lysenkoism.
I know you'll call this fake news, or whatever you use to immediately dismiss something you don't like, but:
https://www.scientificamerican...
A battery powered load leveler or "peaker"! From the Sith lord Musk, the most hated man on Slashdot.
As it turns out, "normal" power plants are not perfect as we might think, and they have big problems dealing with shifting demands. Wanna see a turbine operator blanch? suddenly drop the load. But rapid increases in load are an issue as well, as turbines just don't spin up and slow down immediately. So we need load leveling services. Typically, this might be a natural gas turbine plant. Hydro power ponds and lakes where water is pumped off peak, then re-released during times of heavy demand.
Altogether too many people (as in approaching 100 percent) think that the coal plant or nuc reactor sits there by itself, mighty and alone, to meet all demands perfectly and in stride, never breaking a sweat.
Nope, there has to be levelers. And Los Angeles needed another leveler, so had looked at a NatGas version, but instead has made the move of installing a 100 MegaWatt peaking leveler source, of batteries. It can run this level for 4 hours. Peak demand being what it is, this is plenty for LA.
But y'all keep moving the goalposts, and we keep getting to them. That must get tiring for y'all.
Good to see the alternative facts crowd chiming in. Well me chachalaca, someone has to make the software, music and movies. Sharing or liking things on Facebook does not count.
That now that we have entered alternate reality days, that the Good Republicans, those doyens of the free market, and suckling at the teat of Ayn Rand, have enabled the Time honored principle of if you can't beat it, makie it illegal.
Brings back the heady days of when indy racing couldn't compete with turbine cars, so they outlawed them. Freedom!
Keep those post reality laws coming! I've heard that scientists have a big machine tht keeps humans fmor flying - but it only works if a few try, so if all deniers and anti-competitive true citizens just jump off a cliff at once, the machine will over load and we will reach our greatest potential. You will soar with the birds!
Buddy, please explain it, because I really don't understand. Why don't you have $500 million in the bank, since the government could assess various fees totaling $500 million against you? You didn't have to pay that, so it should be just lying around unused right?
Explain, I'm soooo confused! Or I would be if I was a fucking idiot like you and thought hypothetical dollars were real.
You are correct, you do not understand it. There is apparently nothing I can do about that, since I explained it to you several times already. Contact an accountant for further elucidation. Inability to get you to accept the truth isn't my problem, and I've been called a fucking idiot by more than one person who has turned out to be really badly wrong. Good day sir, how about a profanity laced reply so that you can call yourself the winner of the internet. Calling people "fucking idiots" really does show the deep level of your knowledge, and always wins the argument in altworld. Looking forward to more of your insight ridden profanity which I'll promptly ignore. Ciao my chachalaca!
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had. An answer without a question. The typical marketing-oriented wet dream to increase sales by addressing a problem that does not exist.
The whole way back to "Bwana Devil", 3D is trotted out every so often, and then abandoned after people get bored with it. Probably the most successful 3D product ever was the still image Viewmaster system, and before that, the ancient 3D still photo viewers of Victorian times. But for motion? Maybe after we can go full immersive, and I suspect that the market will be mainly pr0n. Otherwise, what would be the point of going full immersive in say, one of the neverending Star Wars reboots?
I've routinely pulled the power cord out of a local server just to demonstrate to a coworker that it's more robust than Windows. I had to because they refused to turn the power off. They were too afraid.
Which, by the way, is why a lot of people would not update. Having to reboot after updates is anathema to people who have spent so much time just getting the computer to run that they become superstitious and afraid to restart it once they get it running. I've worked with several people who are deathly afraid of a reboot.
Properly set up, you will NOT get an unbootable machine. And it only takes seconds to check and restore a journaling file system and be up and running again.
Those who claim Windows is better really need to, as you say, stop with the meth.
Years ago, setting up a Linux computer took a bit of effort, admittedly. So if someone here wants to complain about 20 year old problems, I'll happily discuss Windows 95 with them. But as long as a person can follow some simple instructions, present day Linux works about as good as you can get.
And if a person has any doubts, just use a live distro to check the computer out.
Must be some powerful stuff that they have to do that.
regardless, you and I are in a minority now, so we must put up with it, and embrace coal, the clean energy source of the 21st century, which is ironically, the dirty energy source of the 19th century.
This is what the minority who rule the country wants, so who are you and I to disrespect that?
I had noted for months now that if we are going to put coal miners back to work mining coal - one of the core promises of Sunset in America - we will have to force other energy supplies out of the market. A communist level of forced coal subsidy.
Not that this will work. All it does is encourage people to move off-grid. And they won't be using coal to do it. Unless we make renewables completely illegal. Because for all of the punishment of Tesla by republicans it hasn't stopped Tesla, merely exposed the owners.
Trying to turn back the clocks to 1950 will not work in a world that is living in the 21st century.
More power disruptions are caused by squirrels than any other entity. Website with mapped out known attacks: http://cybersquirrel1.com/
But what a way to go! I saw one once meandering around a substation. A flash of light, and the freaking thing was vaporized. The whole thing took maybe a tenth of a second. The aftermath took a while though.
I'm not a huge fan of renewables for large scale use but this seems kinda petulant to me.
It protects coal, and coal is a part of the future of America.
Better to have no subsidies or penalties, either way, on any energy production method. The market will work it out; just don't put a hand on the scale.
In some idealized world maybe. But we have that little problem with the owners of the politicians who run the country. They do not want the competition with renewables, period. Coal and gas and petrochemicals all have their subsidies. Which goes completely against the whole idea of subsidies in this arena, that being to promote worthy new technologies that won't just appear fully formed like Venus from the ocean, so need a bit of a boost. The problem is that other countries understand that, while we are either antagonistic or not allowed to think that way.
So some of the owners of the US are frightened of the new technology are so frightened of it that they not only do not want it subsidized, but they want it anti-subsidized? Using the force of law to punish it? Must be some powerful stuff.
Meanwhile, it appears that the US is working it's inexorable way towards surrendering it's technology lead to other countries. We'll let China develop new technology, we're too busy selling our hats to each other.
My only wish is that people who think that the free market is the solution to everything show the courage of their convictions and refuse to use anything anywhere that ever had a government subsidy of any amount. That would be exceptionally interesting. Probably would look like "The legend of Mick Dodge" http://channel.nationalgeograp...
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urine from an undisclosed source
Most of the time, urine comes from people pee-pees.
Good pogrammers know how to manage their system resources, after all...
And if they make a mistake, it will be a pogramattic error.
Sadly i'm afraid this might be an issue as many large news companies tend to report on things they find on other sites, including sites that report fake news :/
Let's ignore obviously fake news for a moment, and just go with regular news.
There is a lot of news happening in the world, every day. Just the very act of deciding what to report is going to show the news agency/reporter's bias.
There is no such thing as an unbiased news source.
So what one has to do, is pay some attention to what you are reading or seeing. The aggregate of the news presented will let you know, and getting more than one source is also a big help. But then there is confirmation bias. Which both Liberal and what passes for conservative today is stricken with. So of all of the new providers today, I tend to get most of mine from NPR. They have somewhat of a liberal bias, but nowhere near the CNN/MSNBC outlook, and definitely not Fox with it's pseudo conservatism outlook. But perhaps unlike most people today, if I hear a story that annoys me, It doesn't drive me crazy like the confirmation addicted crowd demands of their affirmation news.
So we just need to pay attention.
We'll Putin a good word fr them here as well.
and everything I say or write is a lie.
Fake reply, your alternate fake reply fake news is noted and exposed. Fake fake fake.
When do "the coasts" start feeding themselves, if they start demanding the red interior start paying their own way?
Stop being an ignorant divisive fuck. We're one country, working together. Or, at least, we should be. But people like you are maintaining the status quo of "it's all THEIR fault".
This is an amazing post, and worth pointing out the incredible word salad that passes doe discussion these days.
First AC demands to know when "the coasts" will start feeding themselves. then a defense of the "red interior"
Then demanding that we are all supposed to be one. and after AC's own divisive comments, blames the divisiveness on the person they are replying to.
You alternative truth people really need to publish a playbook so we can figure you out.
We have heard that slashdot poster mi is a wide disseminator of fake news, and serves the cause nobly by pointing out that anything determined to be politically wrong is "fake news".
Please explain how one publishes scientific information without publishing documents?
You hand it to a politician, who yellow lines the parts that do not align with party policy You remove the parts that are not true because the truth has been set by party policy, and if the politician ends up finding the now policy confirming paper acceptable, it gets published.
I have a strong suspicion that in science departments all over the country, that they are making backups to be hidden from the new age of alternative truth we have entered. Kind of like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for science data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
Because this too shall pass. Ages of alternative facts come and go. Ages of politics determining the laws of physics will come and go. We don't hear much of Lysenkoism these days, though it was once official Soviet Union policy.
I suspect that at this time that physics will be ignored and all research into the greenhouse effect will be suppressed, that creationism will rear it's head again, and a lot of heath science will be suppressed as well.
And? Well these are the times we live in. Scientists are a different breed. An example is in WW2, oddly enough - in Leningrad - 12 scientists chose to slowly starve to death rather than eat the seeds of their seed bank. http://www.popsci.com/science/...
All in all, if The new Politicians see fit to kill me for my views on physics, if the greenhouse effect and my support of it, or any of my other science views that have been banned by policy make me too dangerous to allow to live - then I shall die. Hopefully they are smart enough to know that suppression and killing tend to make truth stronger than policy. I have my grave doubts though.
Because all of this shall pass.
The article is not to be trusted.
You are fake news claiming fake news claiming fake news claiming fake news.
It's fake news claims all the way down.
The story is exaggerated. The science blackout is not permanent. The Trump administration just need a little time to get the alternative facts ready.
Not sure if +5 funny, or +5 informative.
the gag order specifically applies to policy-related statements in press releases and interviews, which need to be vetted with the secretary of agriculture
Policy. Allow me to repeat that - Policy.. You do know what policy is perhaps you can tell me.
Science. Allow me to repeat that - Science. You are apparently celebrating that when Science is not in lockstep with Policy, it must be suppressed.
In other words, anything that disagrees with your politics and the policies derived from must be vetted so that it is aligned with that policy, or else it shall be suppressed, or possibly re-written so that the Science is promoting the policy.
Its kind of interesting that You and your team are rapidly becoming the policy equivalent of 1930's Bolsheviks, where Politicians determine whether facts are true, and to be true, they must align with party policy . See Lysenkoism.
A battery powered load leveler or "peaker"! From the Sith lord Musk, the most hated man on Slashdot.
As it turns out, "normal" power plants are not perfect as we might think, and they have big problems dealing with shifting demands. Wanna see a turbine operator blanch? suddenly drop the load. But rapid increases in load are an issue as well, as turbines just don't spin up and slow down immediately. So we need load leveling services. Typically, this might be a natural gas turbine plant. Hydro power ponds and lakes where water is pumped off peak, then re-released during times of heavy demand.
Altogether too many people (as in approaching 100 percent) think that the coal plant or nuc reactor sits there by itself, mighty and alone, to meet all demands perfectly and in stride, never breaking a sweat.
Nope, there has to be levelers. And Los Angeles needed another leveler, so had looked at a NatGas version, but instead has made the move of installing a 100 MegaWatt peaking leveler source, of batteries. It can run this level for 4 hours. Peak demand being what it is, this is plenty for LA.
But y'all keep moving the goalposts, and we keep getting to them. That must get tiring for y'all.
We are a nation of many different facts.
This is fake news
This is true news.
At present, 100 percent of Americans want fossil fuel only solutions, go ask Wyoming politicians.
Good to see the alternative facts crowd chiming in. Well me chachalaca, someone has to make the software, music and movies. Sharing or liking things on Facebook does not count.
Brings back the heady days of when indy racing couldn't compete with turbine cars, so they outlawed them. Freedom!
Keep those post reality laws coming! I've heard that scientists have a big machine tht keeps humans fmor flying - but it only works if a few try, so if all deniers and anti-competitive true citizens just jump off a cliff at once, the machine will over load and we will reach our greatest potential. You will soar with the birds!
Buddy, please explain it, because I really don't understand. Why don't you have $500 million in the bank, since the government could assess various fees totaling $500 million against you? You didn't have to pay that, so it should be just lying around unused right?
Explain, I'm soooo confused! Or I would be if I was a fucking idiot like you and thought hypothetical dollars were real.
You are correct, you do not understand it. There is apparently nothing I can do about that, since I explained it to you several times already. Contact an accountant for further elucidation. Inability to get you to accept the truth isn't my problem, and I've been called a fucking idiot by more than one person who has turned out to be really badly wrong. Good day sir, how about a profanity laced reply so that you can call yourself the winner of the internet. Calling people "fucking idiots" really does show the deep level of your knowledge, and always wins the argument in altworld. Looking forward to more of your insight ridden profanity which I'll promptly ignore. Ciao my chachalaca!
I love 3d.
A lot of shit in 2d is a blur, 3d rocks.
Go enjoy your over sugarated crap food, fake cheese, 2d, shitty 4g, crap NTSC, shit coffee.
Typical consumers, like subpar shit, coz they are cheap scum who want $3 movies.
You talk reaaaal purdy there.
So... in other words... 3D was a solution to a problem that no one seemed to have had. An answer without a question. The typical marketing-oriented wet dream to increase sales by addressing a problem that does not exist.
The whole way back to "Bwana Devil", 3D is trotted out every so often, and then abandoned after people get bored with it. Probably the most successful 3D product ever was the still image Viewmaster system, and before that, the ancient 3D still photo viewers of Victorian times. But for motion? Maybe after we can go full immersive, and I suspect that the market will be mainly pr0n. Otherwise, what would be the point of going full immersive in say, one of the neverending Star Wars reboots?
I've routinely pulled the power cord out of a local server just to demonstrate to a coworker that it's more robust than Windows. I had to because they refused to turn the power off. They were too afraid.
Which, by the way, is why a lot of people would not update. Having to reboot after updates is anathema to people who have spent so much time just getting the computer to run that they become superstitious and afraid to restart it once they get it running. I've worked with several people who are deathly afraid of a reboot.
Properly set up, you will NOT get an unbootable machine. And it only takes seconds to check and restore a journaling file system and be up and running again.
Those who claim Windows is better really need to, as you say, stop with the meth.
Years ago, setting up a Linux computer took a bit of effort, admittedly. So if someone here wants to complain about 20 year old problems, I'll happily discuss Windows 95 with them. But as long as a person can follow some simple instructions, present day Linux works about as good as you can get.
And if a person has any doubts, just use a live distro to check the computer out.
Simply BANNING renewable energy? DUMB!
Must be some powerful stuff that they have to do that.
regardless, you and I are in a minority now, so we must put up with it, and embrace coal, the clean energy source of the 21st century, which is ironically, the dirty energy source of the 19th century.
This is what the minority who rule the country wants, so who are you and I to disrespect that?
Trump America starts.
I had noted for months now that if we are going to put coal miners back to work mining coal - one of the core promises of Sunset in America - we will have to force other energy supplies out of the market. A communist level of forced coal subsidy.
Not that this will work. All it does is encourage people to move off-grid. And they won't be using coal to do it. Unless we make renewables completely illegal. Because for all of the punishment of Tesla by republicans it hasn't stopped Tesla, merely exposed the owners.
Trying to turn back the clocks to 1950 will not work in a world that is living in the 21st century.
More power disruptions are caused by squirrels than any other entity. Website with mapped out known attacks: http://cybersquirrel1.com/
But what a way to go! I saw one once meandering around a substation. A flash of light, and the freaking thing was vaporized. The whole thing took maybe a tenth of a second. The aftermath took a while though.
I'm not a huge fan of renewables for large scale use but this seems kinda petulant to me.
It protects coal, and coal is a part of the future of America.
Better to have no subsidies or penalties, either way, on any energy production method. The market will work it out; just don't put a hand on the scale.
In some idealized world maybe. But we have that little problem with the owners of the politicians who run the country. They do not want the competition with renewables, period. Coal and gas and petrochemicals all have their subsidies. Which goes completely against the whole idea of subsidies in this arena, that being to promote worthy new technologies that won't just appear fully formed like Venus from the ocean, so need a bit of a boost. The problem is that other countries understand that, while we are either antagonistic or not allowed to think that way.
So some of the owners of the US are frightened of the new technology are so frightened of it that they not only do not want it subsidized, but they want it anti-subsidized? Using the force of law to punish it? Must be some powerful stuff.
Meanwhile, it appears that the US is working it's inexorable way towards surrendering it's technology lead to other countries. We'll let China develop new technology, we're too busy selling our hats to each other.
My only wish is that people who think that the free market is the solution to everything show the courage of their convictions and refuse to use anything anywhere that ever had a government subsidy of any amount. That would be exceptionally interesting. Probably would look like "The legend of Mick Dodge" http://channel.nationalgeograp...
We all know what the next step is. If renewable energy is not a threat to coal powered energy, it would just die out, and we would be using coal.
But if you have to go out of your way to punish the users, you are just admitting that competing with them is not winning.