because there was a power-station there, but that was years ago
Well, only fifteen years ago. It shouldn't be all that problematic to take advantage of it, it was a 4GW plant so even partial capacity would be more than adequate for servicing a solar plant of any reasonable size.
And still there, although not as pretty as it once was.
this seems such a great idea at 1st, but why build a solar plant there?
Solar has come far enough that you don't have to have an ideal location to have a product. There are solar installations in some nasty-ass northern places in Alaska, which shocked me when I found that out. While it's true that during portions of the winter, they have to use diesel power generation, during the spring summer and fall, they don't, so solar becomes a cost cutter.
And the Ukraine is in a temperate zone, so they can expect power generation the entire year.
The other matter, I would conjecture, is an innate desire to return the land to some sort of practical use. Think of it as a psyche healing event. All of which would be a good thing.
How do advertisers know which particular sites are "a thing", especially smaller sites that are too big to be run as a pure hobby but not yet big enough to be household names?
And you can't.
But you have to remember, we never signed a contract with teh internetz that these folk have some sort of right to existence.
The model is broken, and needs fixed. And if some sites go out of business, well - insuring their right to deliver malware is not what we signed up for.
What is needed is "ethical advertising providers" as a service. With vetted ads checked for problems. Then I might consider turning off the programs I use to protect my systems.
In the meantime, if a site won't let me in, I just look it as if I caught a 404. And there is a real problem for them. Because while they might have successfully stopped me from seeing their content - they have also not shown me their advertisements. So they have not achieved anything other than saving a second or so of bandwidth use. And if Forbes or some other ad blocker blocking site went away tomorrow, it would be a net positive thing, AFAIAC.
As well, the parts of my internet use that I have to do, is research at sites that don't provide malware. The rest of it is merely entertainment, and I'm more than willing to find other ways to entertain myself if they try to make blockers illegal. I'm not certain that's an actual win for them.
You can't bring advertising in-house unless you are the top 3 websites in the world. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone has to rely on a third party ad exchange, because Coke and Pepsi aren't going to go to a million websites and set up 100$ campaigns.
Sounds like a market opening for "ethical ad providers, with people who vet out the ads. I'd consider actually allowing ads onto my computer. If I was in the mood to create a company at the moment, I would look into that.
The scammers and political Robocalls have enticed me to not answer the phone unless I know exactly who is calling. The Telephone system is now a liability, and not much more. The home phone displays who it is, and the mobile phone doesn't even ring unless the number is in the contacts list. So they can both go fornicate themselves/
What are YOU going to do about Microsoft's questionable methods of installing Windows 10 and how all settings are turned on by default?
I cannot control what businesses do. I can only control what I do. So although I have had to learn how to troubleshoot Microsoft OS installs for support purposes - and there are a metric fuckton of 'em - I'm 99 percent on Unix and Unixy Operating systems now, and lovin' it. Fortunately they have almost no issues, so I have time to fix the problems du jour in the Microsoft boxes.
Total nonsense. Hiring one or two guys to test and push security patches would add pennies or less to each device's cost. This is about OEMs and carriers trying to enforce planned obsolescence so customers will buy newer models more frequently.
So are you saying that this planned obsolescence bricks android devices after a certain amount of time? Odd, I have some old tablets on Android that still run.
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Regardless, Pennies on devices add up over time to large amounts. Pennies on all aspects of devices can make a real difference.
he is inviting Russians to come screw with our political system!
You say that like our political system isn't already ass backwards going full speed behind.
You say that like you approve espionage against the USA. Do you?
No I don't, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Our government spies on us and other countries all the time, what makes you think they won't do the same?
This is not about whether Russia or North Korea or any country is spying on us. oe vice versa. This is inviting them to spy on us.
He didn't. The headline is misleading, but neither was it a joke. What he said was, if they have already hacked the server, he would love for the emails to be released.
"They probably have them. I'd like to have them released... It gives me no pause. If they have them, they have them," Trump added later when asked if his comments were inappropriate. "If Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I mean, to be honest with you, I'd love to see them."
Can you give me the quote where he says "If they have already hacked the server? I've been looking, and have not found anywhere where he said that.
Trump is an interesting person. One of those who says something, and then all of his supporters scramble to tell us what he actually said.
Seriously, it's a whole helluva lot easier if you say what you mean, and people don't have to tell others that you didn't actually say what you said, but that you actually said something else, not what you said, but something else that makes it look like you said what you didn't actually say.
I don't think even Donald Trump is oblivious enough to suggest that someone should hack a server that was decommissioned years ago.
I'll agree that man does a fine job of de-calibrating sarcasm detectors, but I just don't understand how anyone can take this seriously. The idea that professional journalists are doing so (apparently it was played as straight news by CNN as their top story) does not pass the smell test with me, and (in my opinion) is just an excuse to manufacture controversy.
The former hed of the CIA seems to take this pretty seriously. One does not commit treason even as sarcasm. It isn't funny, and at some point, this is taken pretty seriously.
I listened to his comments. I was truly shocked. At some point, it becomes not at all funny, and the great irony is that he calls Hillarhy a criminal, yet as far as I am concerned, with the utterance of those sentences, he committed high treason. There is a level at which they take this stuff very very seriously.
Oh, I see. So it's okay to lie so long as it didn't seem credible to begin with. Got it. I guess people like you are the reason why so many politicians get away with perjury.
No - its people like me that have learned a skeptical approach to matters. In fact, I believe that if more people had my attitude, it might just prevent politicians from being politicians as you describe.
Its a pretty well established fact that Android devices update seldom, if ever, and most of the time, never. This is the result of the race to the bottom approach of catering to those who demand as cheap as possible. So the profit margin does not allow for updates.
So yeah - when a company say they are going to regularly update their version of an Android phone, I'll damn well wait until they have a track record becore I'll give that claim any veracity.
I think you might misunderstand my statements. I'm not in the least saying that it is okay to claim that you will do regular updating, and then not do regular updating. That's wishful ad copy at best, and fraud at worst. Motorola needs to be taken to task over this.
But as a savvy consumer, I know that Android devices seldom - and that means close to the point of never - get updates, and am extremely skeptical that one that is claimed to, actually will. And look what happened! Skepticism that turns out to be truth is still ground truth.
Meanwhile, perhaps Motorola might be forced to exchange phones for one that gets updates. Now that would be hilarious, if you know what I mean.
So I shouldn't be mad at Lenovo, because even though they are guilty of blatantly false advertising, I shouldn't've believed it in the first place?
What kind of victim-blaming shit logic is that?
While we might debate about victim blaming, it's no secret that updates on most all android products simply don't happen. So it fits in the "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" category.
Perhaps you missed the part where Motorola advertised the phone as one that will receive updates and not get left behind.
You missed the part where people shouldn't believe everything they read or are told. Lack of updates has been an android issue from day one, so I'm not going to believe any outfit that promises them on Android.
One might get the idea that part of those "overpriced" Apple phones is getting updates, and if you want a razor thin margin like the more "sensibly priced" android phones, maybe they can't afford to update you every month.
>...the poorest using emergency rooms as basic healthcare - the most expensive healthcare in the world.
TRUE! Here we are in the emergency room, my wife had fallen & hurt her back- and cannot feel her legs and is incontinent. We're talking spinal injury here. Who gets to go before us? Little Jimmy being coached by mom to cough, so they can 'get some sort of physical' needed by the next morning at school. The cough was to legitimize their visit. Yeah we were there 8 hrs, and the spinal operation is forthcoming but thank god Jimmy got some Robotussen and a clean bill of health for school.
>...the poorest using emergency rooms as basic healthcare - the most expensive healthcare in the world.
TRUE! Here we are in the emergency room, my wife had fallen & hurt her back- and cannot feel her legs and is incontinent. We're talking spinal injury here. Who gets to go before us? Little Jimmy being coached by mom to cough, so they can 'get some sort of physical' needed by the next morning at school. The cough was to legitimize their visit. Yeah we were there 8 hrs, and the spinal operation is forthcoming but thank god Jimmy got some Robotussen and a clean bill of health for school.
During the runup to my father's death, we had the experience of a few visits to the ER. And yes, there were people there who were not suffering from anything a general practitioner couldn't provide. But as the doctor said when I queried him - "There are no other choices for them." No doubt we all want our loved ones to receive the best of treatment and as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, to extremely loosely paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: "You Use the Healthcare You Have---not The Healthcare You Might Want Or Wish To Have At A Later Time."
When Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor act in 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it mandated just that. It is one of th dlargest unfunded mandates I know of. And I don't see much possibility of the faithful going against the mandates of their patron saint.
The other problem is they were sold a bill of goods that says you HAVE to have a traditional 4 year degree, to get a job.
Certainly sold that along with their parents.
In the early 70's, my HS counselor was asking me what college I wanted to go to. I told him I didn't really want to go to
a "normal" college and learn all the crap they make you learn. He asked what I really wanted to do. I told him I LOVED
playing around with electronics. He said how about a technical college.
Wow - you gotta be my doppleganger! The only real difference was I took both the Technical route plus the Academic classes - which they tried to discourage. "You're such a smart boy, Ol! If you do this, some peopel will think you are stupid." Tough, says I. I was a real oddball, thinking of alternative career paths even in High school.
Today, getting a 4 year BS degree can leave you in such debt, and the jobs in some markets if you can find one in your
degree field, pay squat, forcing some to have 2 jobs, 3 jobs, just to pay rent (that is if they move out of mom & dads).
Many graduate with the equivalent of a modest house mortgage. And unless you are in one of the few really good paying fields, you better be prepared to make maybe 30 K a year.
Everyone complains about "big oil" big pharma" etc, but this country needs to have a SERIOUS discussion about
"big college". A major university can pay their presidents way over 6 figures, over 7 for their sports coaches, professors
earn a ton, sometimes using teacher aids to actually teach the class because they are too busy writing books and what
not. Universities are nothing more than money generating.
As the research money passed from places like Bell Labs to Universities, much of the drain started. Now they are in competition with each other not only for research money, but compete for The pay at the top, for buildings, for sports of course, and are at this point teetering with top-heaviness.
They have squeezed that turnip as far as it can be squeezed. Graduating with 80-100K of debt, and trying to start life as an adult on the meager pittance most degrees afford is simply a non starter any more.
And a note to the Universities. Those things that you are really interested in, the sports stadiums and coaches that must be paid millions, and fleecing fans you extract more and more from every year. Here's something that might make you shit your Kalvin Klines. Who is going to make the millions in donations to your football programs, and give your universities special "gifts" in order to pay the face value of your sason tickets and come to your stadion and pay the crazy prices just to park and get shit faced? When they don't make enough total money a year to pay for one season?
Your product just isn't worth it, and in many places attendance is showing, as the crowds grow positively ancient, and teh new crop of fans aren't showing up.
This cash cow is dying from being overmilked and underfed.
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because there was a power-station there, but that was years ago
Well, only fifteen years ago. It shouldn't be all that problematic to take advantage of it, it was a 4GW plant so even partial capacity would be more than adequate for servicing a solar plant of any reasonable size.
And still there, although not as pretty as it once was.
The obsession with Trump
Every story, you see liberals bring up Trump.
To be accurate, its kinda like how people like you spent the last 8 years blaming everything on the present occupant. Thanks, present occupant!
this seems such a great idea at 1st, but why build a solar plant there?
Solar has come far enough that you don't have to have an ideal location to have a product. There are solar installations in some nasty-ass northern places in Alaska, which shocked me when I found that out. While it's true that during portions of the winter, they have to use diesel power generation, during the spring summer and fall, they don't, so solar becomes a cost cutter.
And the Ukraine is in a temperate zone, so they can expect power generation the entire year.
The other matter, I would conjecture, is an innate desire to return the land to some sort of practical use. Think of it as a psyche healing event. All of which would be a good thing.
How do advertisers know which particular sites are "a thing", especially smaller sites that are too big to be run as a pure hobby but not yet big enough to be household names?
And you can't.
But you have to remember, we never signed a contract with teh internetz that these folk have some sort of right to existence.
The model is broken, and needs fixed. And if some sites go out of business, well - insuring their right to deliver malware is not what we signed up for.
What is needed is "ethical advertising providers" as a service. With vetted ads checked for problems. Then I might consider turning off the programs I use to protect my systems.
In the meantime, if a site won't let me in, I just look it as if I caught a 404. And there is a real problem for them. Because while they might have successfully stopped me from seeing their content - they have also not shown me their advertisements. So they have not achieved anything other than saving a second or so of bandwidth use. And if Forbes or some other ad blocker blocking site went away tomorrow, it would be a net positive thing, AFAIAC.
As well, the parts of my internet use that I have to do, is research at sites that don't provide malware. The rest of it is merely entertainment, and I'm more than willing to find other ways to entertain myself if they try to make blockers illegal. I'm not certain that's an actual win for them.
The telegraaf.nl site (biggest Dutch newspaper) has been running an anti-ad-blocker for a long time now.
Oh NO!
I don't want to live on this planet any more.
You can't bring advertising in-house unless you are the top 3 websites in the world. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone has to rely on a third party ad exchange, because Coke and Pepsi aren't going to go to a million websites and set up 100$ campaigns.
Sounds like a market opening for "ethical ad providers, with people who vet out the ads. I'd consider actually allowing ads onto my computer. If I was in the mood to create a company at the moment, I would look into that.
No, his speling is fine, it is his gramar that has a problem...
I met his gramar, and she is a very nice lady, so quit picking on her.
The scammers and political Robocalls have enticed me to not answer the phone unless I know exactly who is calling. The Telephone system is now a liability, and not much more. The home phone displays who it is, and the mobile phone doesn't even ring unless the number is in the contacts list. So they can both go fornicate themselves/
It's like the Linux of internet access - you have to jump through so many hoops, but at least you aren't submitting to the Man!
1999 called. They said you should bone up on 2016 before you call out Linux for things it does better than Windows.
But if you really wanna talk about ancient issues, let's talk about how badly Windows 1 sucks.
What are YOU going to do about Microsoft's questionable methods of installing Windows 10 and how all settings are turned on by default?
I cannot control what businesses do. I can only control what I do. So although I have had to learn how to troubleshoot Microsoft OS installs for support purposes - and there are a metric fuckton of 'em - I'm 99 percent on Unix and Unixy Operating systems now, and lovin' it. Fortunately they have almost no issues, so I have time to fix the problems du jour in the Microsoft boxes.
half-baked, ugly, sloppy Linux distros.
Mint and Ubuntu Mate are more polished than most MS distros.
Total nonsense. Hiring one or two guys to test and push security patches would add pennies or less to each device's cost. This is about OEMs and carriers trying to enforce planned obsolescence so customers will buy newer models more frequently.
So are you saying that this planned obsolescence bricks android devices after a certain amount of time? Odd, I have some old tablets on Android that still run.
. Regardless, Pennies on devices add up over time to large amounts. Pennies on all aspects of devices can make a real difference.
he is inviting Russians to come screw with our political system!
You say that like our political system isn't already ass backwards going full speed behind.
You say that like you approve espionage against the USA. Do you?
No I don't, but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Our government spies on us and other countries all the time, what makes you think they won't do the same?
This is not about whether Russia or North Korea or any country is spying on us. oe vice versa. This is inviting them to spy on us.
Maybe a blond-haired blue-eyed straight white conservative judge who isn't a Muslim (or a Jew, just to be safe) and has no disabilities?
Oh wait, also his blond hair is thinning on top so he grows it extra long and then swirls it around. Perfect.
You forgot - no Hispanics either.
He didn't. The headline is misleading, but neither was it a joke. What he said was, if they have already hacked the server, he would love for the emails to be released.
Can you give me the quote where he says "If they have already hacked the server? I've been looking, and have not found anywhere where he said that.
Trump is an interesting person. One of those who says something, and then all of his supporters scramble to tell us what he actually said.
Seriously, it's a whole helluva lot easier if you say what you mean, and people don't have to tell others that you didn't actually say what you said, but that you actually said something else, not what you said, but something else that makes it look like you said what you didn't actually say.
I don't think even Donald Trump is oblivious enough to suggest that someone should hack a server that was decommissioned years ago.
I'll agree that man does a fine job of de-calibrating sarcasm detectors, but I just don't understand how anyone can take this seriously. The idea that professional journalists are doing so (apparently it was played as straight news by CNN as their top story) does not pass the smell test with me, and (in my opinion) is just an excuse to manufacture controversy.
The former hed of the CIA seems to take this pretty seriously. One does not commit treason even as sarcasm. It isn't funny, and at some point, this is taken pretty seriously.
he is inviting Russians to come screw with our political system!
You say that like our political system isn't already ass backwards going full speed behind.
You say that like you approve espionage against the USA. Do you?
I listened to his comments. I was truly shocked. At some point, it becomes not at all funny, and the great irony is that he calls Hillarhy a criminal, yet as far as I am concerned, with the utterance of those sentences, he committed high treason. There is a level at which they take this stuff very very seriously.
Oh, I see. So it's okay to lie so long as it didn't seem credible to begin with. Got it. I guess people like you are the reason why so many politicians get away with perjury.
No - its people like me that have learned a skeptical approach to matters. In fact, I believe that if more people had my attitude, it might just prevent politicians from being politicians as you describe.
Its a pretty well established fact that Android devices update seldom, if ever, and most of the time, never. This is the result of the race to the bottom approach of catering to those who demand as cheap as possible. So the profit margin does not allow for updates.
So yeah - when a company say they are going to regularly update their version of an Android phone, I'll damn well wait until they have a track record becore I'll give that claim any veracity.
I think you might misunderstand my statements. I'm not in the least saying that it is okay to claim that you will do regular updating, and then not do regular updating. That's wishful ad copy at best, and fraud at worst. Motorola needs to be taken to task over this.
But as a savvy consumer, I know that Android devices seldom - and that means close to the point of never - get updates, and am extremely skeptical that one that is claimed to, actually will. And look what happened! Skepticism that turns out to be truth is still ground truth.
Meanwhile, perhaps Motorola might be forced to exchange phones for one that gets updates. Now that would be hilarious, if you know what I mean.
So I shouldn't be mad at Lenovo, because even though they are guilty of blatantly false advertising, I shouldn't've believed it in the first place?
What kind of victim-blaming shit logic is that?
While we might debate about victim blaming, it's no secret that updates on most all android products simply don't happen. So it fits in the "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" category.
This is ewegenics!
You sir, have won Slashdot for the entire month. Bravo!
Perhaps you missed the part where Motorola advertised the phone as one that will receive updates and not get left behind.
You missed the part where people shouldn't believe everything they read or are told. Lack of updates has been an android issue from day one, so I'm not going to believe any outfit that promises them on Android.
One might get the idea that part of those "overpriced" Apple phones is getting updates, and if you want a razor thin margin like the more "sensibly priced" android phones, maybe they can't afford to update you every month.
Show me ONE doctor who doesn't adhere to the concept of I don't give a fuck unless I'm making money.
Ask and ye shall receive: http://www.doctorswithoutborde...
You are confusing altruistic people with your own personal selfishness, my dear Coward.
> ...the poorest using emergency rooms as basic healthcare - the most expensive healthcare in the world.
TRUE! Here we are in the emergency room, my wife had fallen & hurt her back- and cannot feel her legs and is incontinent. We're talking spinal injury here. Who gets to go before us? Little Jimmy being coached by mom to cough, so they can 'get some sort of physical' needed by the next morning at school. The cough was to legitimize their visit. Yeah we were there 8 hrs, and the spinal operation is forthcoming but thank god Jimmy got some Robotussen and a clean bill of health for school.
> ...the poorest using emergency rooms as basic healthcare - the most expensive healthcare in the world.
TRUE! Here we are in the emergency room, my wife had fallen & hurt her back- and cannot feel her legs and is incontinent. We're talking spinal injury here. Who gets to go before us? Little Jimmy being coached by mom to cough, so they can 'get some sort of physical' needed by the next morning at school. The cough was to legitimize their visit. Yeah we were there 8 hrs, and the spinal operation is forthcoming but thank god Jimmy got some Robotussen and a clean bill of health for school.
During the runup to my father's death, we had the experience of a few visits to the ER. And yes, there were people there who were not suffering from anything a general practitioner couldn't provide. But as the doctor said when I queried him - "There are no other choices for them." No doubt we all want our loved ones to receive the best of treatment and as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, to extremely loosely paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld: "You Use the Healthcare You Have---not The Healthcare You Might Want Or Wish To Have At A Later Time."
When Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor act in 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... it mandated just that. It is one of th dlargest unfunded mandates I know of. And I don't see much possibility of the faithful going against the mandates of their patron saint.
The other problem is they were sold a bill of goods that says you HAVE to have a traditional 4 year degree, to get a job.
Certainly sold that along with their parents.
In the early 70's, my HS counselor was asking me what college I wanted to go to. I told him I didn't really want to go to a "normal" college and learn all the crap they make you learn. He asked what I really wanted to do. I told him I LOVED playing around with electronics. He said how about a technical college.
Wow - you gotta be my doppleganger! The only real difference was I took both the Technical route plus the Academic classes - which they tried to discourage. "You're such a smart boy, Ol! If you do this, some peopel will think you are stupid." Tough, says I. I was a real oddball, thinking of alternative career paths even in High school.
Today, getting a 4 year BS degree can leave you in such debt, and the jobs in some markets if you can find one in your degree field, pay squat, forcing some to have 2 jobs, 3 jobs, just to pay rent (that is if they move out of mom & dads).
Many graduate with the equivalent of a modest house mortgage. And unless you are in one of the few really good paying fields, you better be prepared to make maybe 30 K a year.
Everyone complains about "big oil" big pharma" etc, but this country needs to have a SERIOUS discussion about "big college". A major university can pay their presidents way over 6 figures, over 7 for their sports coaches, professors earn a ton, sometimes using teacher aids to actually teach the class because they are too busy writing books and what not. Universities are nothing more than money generating.
As the research money passed from places like Bell Labs to Universities, much of the drain started. Now they are in competition with each other not only for research money, but compete for The pay at the top, for buildings, for sports of course, and are at this point teetering with top-heaviness.
They have squeezed that turnip as far as it can be squeezed. Graduating with 80-100K of debt, and trying to start life as an adult on the meager pittance most degrees afford is simply a non starter any more.
And a note to the Universities. Those things that you are really interested in, the sports stadiums and coaches that must be paid millions, and fleecing fans you extract more and more from every year. Here's something that might make you shit your Kalvin Klines. Who is going to make the millions in donations to your football programs, and give your universities special "gifts" in order to pay the face value of your sason tickets and come to your stadion and pay the crazy prices just to park and get shit faced? When they don't make enough total money a year to pay for one season?
Your product just isn't worth it, and in many places attendance is showing, as the crowds grow positively ancient, and teh new crop of fans aren't showing up. This cash cow is dying from being overmilked and underfed.