>Tracking religion is not so much evil as stupid These are not mutually exclusive things - it is not one or the other, it's both, and it's not less evil for being stupid. It's of course a flagrant violation of the constitution but Trump has proven over and over that he neither knows nor cares about that document and clearly has never read it. Hell he doesn't even know how many articles it has - because when he was trying to brag about how seriously he take the constitution he claimed the wrong number he was wrong by 90%.
> if religious works promote criminal activity, they should be banned or at the very least be made illegal to distribute to minors.
You people watch too much TV and read too little. The print media DID find the evidence and published expose after expose that, every time, detailed with explicit evidence scandals that make the worst concerns about Clinton look insignificant by comparison - including detailed evidence of extreme racism in his businesses, of large scale fraud, bribery, corruption and consorting and dealing with hostile powers.
Most of those stories got exactly zero airtime on TV. The Washington post did a brutal story with detailed proof of extreme corruption in the week before the election - and it got no airtime at all, James Comey made for better ratings.
Stop watching the news. Start reading it again. Print media is nothing like TV news. It has a code of ethics, it has a demand for proof, it has constraints against wild conjecture. And no - not "read some random website" - old fashioned, real, newspapers (even if you read them online) - the kind that will get successfully sued if they can't back their stories up, the kind that exposed Watergate.
Trump told us everything he is going to do that matters. When politicians promise ot do something evil, when the promise to oppress some ethnic or religious group for example, that's one promise they NEVER fail to keep.
> It fits into a broader narrative in which Trump represents the second coming of Hitler, and everyone who does not unconditionally reject him is a neo-nazi.
A narative that is absolutely and objectively true on every single metric. Though, just like with the first coming of Hitler, most of the NAZIs don't yet know they are NAZIs.
Here is the list of things Trump and Hitler do NOT have in common: 1) Trump has no mustashe 2) The Drumpf family is German, The Hitler family was from Austria (it no longer exists, all the Hitlers in Germany and Austria changed their names after the war). 3) Hitler could paint.
That is it. Every other thing is EXACTLY the same. Hell this very topic is about the creation of a registry to track people of a particular faith: one of the very first Nuremberg laws. If you think that there is any way that Trump is NOT EXACTLY like Hitler and his election is not a prime example of how a formerly free nation succumbs to fascism - then you are quite ignorant about at least one of these three things.
I can't list all the things Trump and Hitler have in common in a slashdot post- I don't have the several hours it would take to type it all out. But I've provided a complete list of the things they don't have in common, a valuable reference on what fascism actually is (and Trump meets all the requirements) and a nice article that does list the most critical similarities, including in the behaviour of both the right and leftwing right now. The GOP behaviour right now mirrors EXACTLY the behaviour of the German conservative party after Hitler's strong election showing, the behavior of the democrats mirror the behaviour of the German socialist party to the letter. And the journalists and the people - they too are saying and doing exactly what they did.
But don't take MY word for it. The countries that have the most experience of fascism, that know exactly what it looks like when it begins - Spain, Germany and Italy have roundly and universally been warning you - we know this man, we know those speeches, they are the same ones, we know where they lead - do not fall for it. America didn't listen... America has doomed itself to repeat the same pattern. For 8 years the right have lived in a panicked fear that Obama would declare Martial Law as a precept to becoming a Tyrant... quite a weird little fantasy to have about a politician who has governed on a centrist platform of non-controversial policies - and of whom the worst you can say is that he refused to do any radical things at all, yet you just voted in the first ever American president of whom it must be said that doing so would not only be believable but EXTREMELY likely. Indeed, only a complete ignoramus at this point doubts that this was his plan all along.
One things that history has taught us is - when the politician says he'll do something terrible, ALWAYS believe him. Even a politician who lies about everything NEVER lies when he promises to be evil. Those are the promises they always keep and exceed. Do not trust your institutions to keep him in check.
There is only one, tiny, sliver of hope. The people marching against him in the street. The people protesting his ideas before he is even sworn in. Nobody did that in Germany when Hitler took office. That's new. That's different. It might change the outcome - but that is a hope, not a guarantee, and the best thing you can do to increase that hope is to get out there and join them. Those people have paid attention.
Isn't it interesting that comparing Trump to Hitler, and his movement to the NAZIs does not even violate Godwin's law ? Andrew Godwin himself has stated that it's an apt comparison. Simply put -the REASON we have Godwin's law - is so that when the tim
No they weren't - two other companies replied, and their answers are in the summarry. Microsoft's answer by the way can be loosely translated from corporate speak into "maybe".
>I have noticed that Adobe Flash is no longer doing the "install MacAffee" checkbox that's pre-checked, maybe they got enough complaints that someone with a conscience finally removed it
More likely McCaffee used to pay them to do it, and have stopped doing so - presumably flash's reduced popularity has made them rethink it as a good way to force yourself onto as many machines as possible. I never did think their guerilla marketing approach of pushing the demo on everybody was particularly ethical - but it probably made sense for them to only pay for channels via software people still actually install.
These days even windows users hardly ever install flash anymore, most don't use microsoft's browser anymore and the most popular ones (like chrome) come with sandboxed flash already bundled - and more secure than if you install it from adobe.
>No, we weren't tricked into upgrading the way some MS-users were. But that's a rather thin defense for any software-maker, which simply discontinues older versions — forcing users to upgrade or remain open to security and other bugs.
Honestly - there are some problems with this story. Firstly it was needed, KDE3's tech had reached a dead-end, there was no way forward there, to keep building a new base was needed. KDE4 had to happen, and it was in fact not significantly more different or incompatible to KDE3 than 3 had been 2 or 2 to 1 (I should know - I wrote one of the compatibility features - mine was a small addition but I worked closely with the team who spent their time doing huge things on that).
So what went wrong: 1) The Distros screwed up - KDE had to reach a point where the code base was stable (as in 'app developers can start using the API now') but that 'stable' was never meant to be mean 'ready for end users' - distro's misinterpreted it, and shipped the thing prematurely. The KDE4 that shipped had some terrible bugs, it was slow as hell, memory leaked frequently - it was not production ready, but it was ready to produce upon. You can't really blame KDE for what distributions did. 2) The resulting backlash was not handled well. KDE lost a huge deal of support and goodwill, partly because of bad communication at that time. It took years to recover - and I suppose KDE never really regained the same position it once held.
That said when Gnome had to make it's next major release - the same thing happened, arguably far worse and handled much worse too. Gnome effectively killed itself and almost no distro's ship it as default now. KDE is actually way better off today than Gnome - and it's largely because of that. So while KDE did not handle the transition from 3 to 4 as well as they should have, they did a lot better than Gnome did soon after. Ultimately the real issue is that during hte KDE3/Gnome2 years Linux had grown massively on the desktop (not relative to mac and windows, just relative to what it had been before then). Suddenly there were a very large contingent of users who were not programmers, who were not techs, who were not part of the original revolution. People for whom these changes (and the challenges they presented, especially in their early incarnations) were huge and highly disruptive: and there were far more of them. Neither of these desktops had ever dealt with trying to do a major version release on a platform that had large numbers of non-technical users. They had no experience of how to do that, how to orchestrate or communicate a release. And they didn't have microsoft's warchests either.
But part of what makes FOSS great is the way that horrible things can actually cause great leaps forward. The KDE problems had made Gnome the system of choice for almost all users. The subsequent Gnome issues, with KDE still misstrusted, created a vaccuum which allowed some fantastic desktops to blossom and become far more competitive than they otherwise would have been. Indeed, arguably cinnamon and mate would not have existed at all if not for that. The same way that Oracle's terrible misshandling of OpenOffice.org gave us LibreOffice which is a massively superior product in every way (not least because there is no longer a single massive corporation with veto rights on every patch controlling features and fixes and design plans), and their screwing up of mysql gave us mariaDB, or even the way owncloud's fuckups gave us nextcloud.
Satya Nadella is sitting in his office weeping. "But... but... I said I love you ! I told them all Microsoft Loves Linux. Why won't they believe me ? Why are they still fighting us ? My poor broken heart. Linux does not love me back"
Everybody misses the fact (and since it's bloody screamed out on half the pages I can only assume by not actually having read the book) - that the leftist dystopia in 1984 was brought about by, and could not have existed if it had not been preceded by, a capitalist dystopia that was JUST AS EVIL.
Orwell was as anti-capitalist as Marx. He just wasn't a state socialist or communist either. Orwell was an anarcho-socialist, comparable to Noam Chomsky's beliefs.
You're half right. Make no mistake - child-porn production is a massive and extremely well-funded industry. A few years ago there was a tell-all from a programmer who used to work in the industry - he admits outright he did it (despite not sharing the proclivities of the users) because it was the best paying job in the world. And he runs in detail through the technologies they use. The data is stored on servers all across the world - and none of them owned by the syndicate, all compromised servers owned by third-parties who generally have no idea their websites have hidden folders serving up child porn.
Data transfers to these servers happen over multiple networks of vpn's with other layers of encryption built on top - and it's what they pay such a huge premium to get built. The setup relies on three major things to make it harder to stop. Firstly - by operating across so many national borders they add huge jurisdictional red-tape for authorities - when no two of the files you need to make your case is in the same country, you need to cooperate with dozens or even hundreds of other countries - many of which will be politically hostile. Even interpol struggles. Secondly - because the storage is all on compromised servers cops catch some user, trace his download, find the server he got it from... and hit a dead-end. The owner had no idea it was there (they often end up prosecuted but in free countries these guys usually walk since it's impossible ot prove they are lying about not knowing when there is strong evidence that this is usually true). There is usually some evidence of a compromise... and that's it. Every log is scrubbed clean by powerful, automated anti-forensic code, every transmission was encrypted and routed through multiple VPNs to mask the origin.
Cops catch users, they catch producers - but the syndicates that distribute the stuff are practically untouchable and from the exorbitant amounts they pay their employees (partly, of course, to buy silence) - it's clear they are extremely profitable businesses.
Except I didn't even originally do that. They did, however, go together (there were no white slaves in American after all), and in post-slavery America racism remained a problem - which was the literal words I said. I pointed out that the war did nothing to alleviate the latter.
Nobody dictated anything except you - who is trying very hard to dictate to me that I'm not allowed to think that if you have so little respect for other people that you can use the n-word you MUST also have so little respect for them that you could lynch one.
Not quite. But not for the reason you think. At that early point in the universe - time did not exist. Since speed is a factor of time. Speed therefore did not exist. Saying infinite speed is no different from saying velocity of zero - because neither concept actually existed yet. The universe had to reach at least the point where time existed (which happened as it begun to expand - so is not true at the 'singularity' level) before velocity could exist.
I actually used Google to that calculation - even if you're right and Google was wrong (or I made a typo) - that's only two orders of magnitude, we need a whole lot more... more orders of magnitude.
>Next you will tell me that the energy can be generated by a guitar amplifier that goes up to 11 . . . Just don't play it at 85 miles an hour or you will create a paradox by travelling back in time.
Let me give you a bit of advice: prejudice against people - is an evil that has no end. There is no gradation to that evil. The least of it inevitably leads to the worst of it.
Don't try to pretend there is a difference between saying the n-word and participating in genocide - because there isn't one. They are merely two points on the same timeline.
And that does happen in the real world, it's at least one scenario where that may occur. I did say it was a rare occurrence that only happened when a lot of variables (mostly random) all worked out correctly, but to assert it never happens is disproven by empirical data.
It may never happen to you though - it's rare enough that it's entirely possible in the lifetime of a panel never to experience a confluence of events that work out that way. Even where it was observed in Hawai it wouldn't happen with all the installations being monitored on those days - just some of them on the days it happened.
Brown was never the 'headliner' he was the straw that broke the camels back. Brown cannot be mentioned WITHOUT mentioning the others or you ARE being deceptive (whether deliberately or not).
Facts without all appropriate context are better known as 'lies'.
It's not theory. It's real world data. The most comprehensive data on solar panel performance available was gathered by the government renewable energy labs which tracked daily performance of thousands of solar panels in Hawai over a full year. It's rare, but sometimes panels would actually produce more on overcast days than the sunny days on either side of them. It requires very specific conditions - firstly it's much more likely in a very hot climate, where your normal heat losses are higher - so you gain more on cooler days - secondly it's only likely to happen when you have high ambient light conditions and fairly thin cloud cover - in those conditions the fact that the clouds reflect a bunch of ambient light back down actually increases in the amount of photons that hit the panels.
Don't plan on it (I did say that) since it's a very rare occurrence, but it's not just theory - it's been observed in the real world.
>Ah, lovely, to see the moral equivalence being made between slavery and racism.
Because they are. If you are able to hold a prejudice against somebody about his skin, you are capable of enslaving him on the same grounds. That's literally how the first 200 years of America went.
>The early universe was not a vacuum. It was an extremely dense, high-temperature plasma. Agreed, but I was referring to the GP's suggestion to heat up a beam and send photons through a vaccuum. I can see how my post could be ambiguous though.
>In any case, vacuum can in fact have a temperature, due to virtual particle production. True again, but not really relevant to the point I was making. I am NOT going to try and calculate the energy required to heat up a vaccuum's virtual particles to the temperature of the big bang...
Actually - Solar Panels can actually be MORE efficient on cloudy days - because they get both ambient light and reflected light AND it's cooler (heat reduces efficiency). There is no ONE answer to what happens on a cloudy day - a whole host of factors (including the thickness of the cloud cover) come into play. It is best to bet on an efficiency loss (as that is the most common scenario) but it's definitely not the only one and 'drastically' is an entirely subjective claim. I notice you gave it since you didn't have numbers. That's because there aren't any. The numbers vary way too much from location to location, from season to season.
The only thing you can say for certain is that solar panels DO produce power on cloudy days - they don't stop working (like I said).
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>Tracking religion is not so much evil as stupid
These are not mutually exclusive things - it is not one or the other, it's both, and it's not less evil for being stupid. It's of course a flagrant violation of the constitution but Trump has proven over and over that he neither knows nor cares about that document and clearly has never read it. Hell he doesn't even know how many articles it has - because when he was trying to brag about how seriously he take the constitution he claimed the wrong number he was wrong by 90%.
> if religious works promote criminal activity, they should be banned or at the very least be made illegal to distribute to minors.
That is every religious book ... ever.
You people watch too much TV and read too little.
The print media DID find the evidence and published expose after expose that, every time, detailed with explicit evidence scandals that make the worst concerns about Clinton look insignificant by comparison - including detailed evidence of extreme racism in his businesses, of large scale fraud, bribery, corruption and consorting and dealing with hostile powers.
Most of those stories got exactly zero airtime on TV. The Washington post did a brutal story with detailed proof of extreme corruption in the week before the election - and it got no airtime at all, James Comey made for better ratings.
Stop watching the news. Start reading it again. Print media is nothing like TV news. It has a code of ethics, it has a demand for proof, it has constraints against wild conjecture.
And no - not "read some random website" - old fashioned, real, newspapers (even if you read them online) - the kind that will get successfully sued if they can't back their stories up, the kind that exposed Watergate.
Trump told us everything he is going to do that matters. When politicians promise ot do something evil, when the promise to oppress some ethnic or religious group for example, that's one promise they NEVER fail to keep.
> It fits into a broader narrative in which Trump represents the second coming of Hitler, and everyone who does not unconditionally reject him is a neo-nazi.
A narative that is absolutely and objectively true on every single metric. Though, just like with the first coming of Hitler, most of the NAZIs don't yet know they are NAZIs.
Here is the list of things Trump and Hitler do NOT have in common:
1) Trump has no mustashe
2) The Drumpf family is German, The Hitler family was from Austria (it no longer exists, all the Hitlers in Germany and Austria changed their names after the war).
3) Hitler could paint.
That is it. Every other thing is EXACTLY the same. Hell this very topic is about the creation of a registry to track people of a particular faith: one of the very first Nuremberg laws.
If you think that there is any way that Trump is NOT EXACTLY like Hitler and his election is not a prime example of how a formerly free nation succumbs to fascism - then you are quite ignorant about at least one of these three things.
http://www.nybooks.com/article...
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
I can't list all the things Trump and Hitler have in common in a slashdot post- I don't have the several hours it would take to type it all out. But I've provided a complete list of the things they don't have in common, a valuable reference on what fascism actually is (and Trump meets all the requirements) and a nice article that does list the most critical similarities, including in the behaviour of both the right and leftwing right now. The GOP behaviour right now mirrors EXACTLY the behaviour of the German conservative party after Hitler's strong election showing, the behavior of the democrats mirror the behaviour of the German socialist party to the letter. And the journalists and the people - they too are saying and doing exactly what they did.
But don't take MY word for it. The countries that have the most experience of fascism, that know exactly what it looks like when it begins - Spain, Germany and Italy have roundly and universally been warning you - we know this man, we know those speeches, they are the same ones, we know where they lead - do not fall for it.
America didn't listen... America has doomed itself to repeat the same pattern. For 8 years the right have lived in a panicked fear that Obama would declare Martial Law as a precept to becoming a Tyrant... quite a weird little fantasy to have about a politician who has governed on a centrist platform of non-controversial policies - and of whom the worst you can say is that he refused to do any radical things at all, yet you just voted in the first ever American president of whom it must be said that doing so would not only be believable but EXTREMELY likely.
Indeed, only a complete ignoramus at this point doubts that this was his plan all along.
One things that history has taught us is - when the politician says he'll do something terrible, ALWAYS believe him. Even a politician who lies about everything NEVER lies when he promises to be evil. Those are the promises they always keep and exceed. Do not trust your institutions to keep him in check.
There is only one, tiny, sliver of hope. The people marching against him in the street. The people protesting his ideas before he is even sworn in. Nobody did that in Germany when Hitler took office. That's new. That's different. It might change the outcome - but that is a hope, not a guarantee, and the best thing you can do to increase that hope is to get out there and join them. Those people have paid attention.
Isn't it interesting that comparing Trump to Hitler, and his movement to the NAZIs does not even violate Godwin's law ? Andrew Godwin himself has stated that it's an apt comparison. Simply put -the REASON we have Godwin's law - is so that when the tim
No they weren't - two other companies replied, and their answers are in the summarry. Microsoft's answer by the way can be loosely translated from corporate speak into "maybe".
User sjames is not in the sudoers file.
This incident will be reported.
>I have noticed that Adobe Flash is no longer doing the "install MacAffee" checkbox that's pre-checked, maybe they got enough complaints that someone with a conscience finally removed it
More likely McCaffee used to pay them to do it, and have stopped doing so - presumably flash's reduced popularity has made them rethink it as a good way to force yourself onto as many machines as possible. I never did think their guerilla marketing approach of pushing the demo on everybody was particularly ethical - but it probably made sense for them to only pay for channels via software people still actually install.
These days even windows users hardly ever install flash anymore, most don't use microsoft's browser anymore and the most popular ones (like chrome) come with sandboxed flash already bundled - and more secure than if you install it from adobe.
>No, we weren't tricked into upgrading the way some MS-users were. But that's a rather thin defense for any software-maker, which simply discontinues older versions — forcing users to upgrade or remain open to security and other bugs.
Honestly - there are some problems with this story.
Firstly it was needed, KDE3's tech had reached a dead-end, there was no way forward there, to keep building a new base was needed. KDE4 had to happen, and it was in fact not significantly more different or incompatible to KDE3 than 3 had been 2 or 2 to 1 (I should know - I wrote one of the compatibility features - mine was a small addition but I worked closely with the team who spent their time doing huge things on that).
So what went wrong:
1) The Distros screwed up - KDE had to reach a point where the code base was stable (as in 'app developers can start using the API now') but that 'stable' was never meant to be mean 'ready for end users' - distro's misinterpreted it, and shipped the thing prematurely. The KDE4 that shipped had some terrible bugs, it was slow as hell, memory leaked frequently - it was not production ready, but it was ready to produce upon. You can't really blame KDE for what distributions did.
2) The resulting backlash was not handled well. KDE lost a huge deal of support and goodwill, partly because of bad communication at that time. It took years to recover - and I suppose KDE never really regained the same position it once held.
That said when Gnome had to make it's next major release - the same thing happened, arguably far worse and handled much worse too. Gnome effectively killed itself and almost no distro's ship it as default now. KDE is actually way better off today than Gnome - and it's largely because of that. So while KDE did not handle the transition from 3 to 4 as well as they should have, they did a lot better than Gnome did soon after. Ultimately the real issue is that during hte KDE3/Gnome2 years Linux had grown massively on the desktop (not relative to mac and windows, just relative to what it had been before then). Suddenly there were a very large contingent of users who were not programmers, who were not techs, who were not part of the original revolution. People for whom these changes (and the challenges they presented, especially in their early incarnations) were huge and highly disruptive: and there were far more of them. Neither of these desktops had ever dealt with trying to do a major version release on a platform that had large numbers of non-technical users. They had no experience of how to do that, how to orchestrate or communicate a release. And they didn't have microsoft's warchests either.
But part of what makes FOSS great is the way that horrible things can actually cause great leaps forward. The KDE problems had made Gnome the system of choice for almost all users. The subsequent Gnome issues, with KDE still misstrusted, created a vaccuum which allowed some fantastic desktops to blossom and become far more competitive than they otherwise would have been. Indeed, arguably cinnamon and mate would not have existed at all if not for that.
The same way that Oracle's terrible misshandling of OpenOffice.org gave us LibreOffice which is a massively superior product in every way (not least because there is no longer a single massive corporation with veto rights on every patch controlling features and fixes and design plans), and their screwing up of mysql gave us mariaDB, or even the way owncloud's fuckups gave us nextcloud.
Satya Nadella is sitting in his office weeping.
"But... but... I said I love you ! I told them all Microsoft Loves Linux. Why won't they believe me ? Why are they still fighting us ? My poor broken heart. Linux does not love me back"
Yeah, say what you like about Moscow but the place sure smells better than New York.
Everybody misses the fact (and since it's bloody screamed out on half the pages I can only assume by not actually having read the book) - that the leftist dystopia in 1984 was brought about by, and could not have existed if it had not been preceded by, a capitalist dystopia that was JUST AS EVIL.
Orwell was as anti-capitalist as Marx. He just wasn't a state socialist or communist either. Orwell was an anarcho-socialist, comparable to Noam Chomsky's beliefs.
You're half right. Make no mistake - child-porn production is a massive and extremely well-funded industry. A few years ago there was a tell-all from a programmer who used to work in the industry - he admits outright he did it (despite not sharing the proclivities of the users) because it was the best paying job in the world. And he runs in detail through the technologies they use. The data is stored on servers all across the world - and none of them owned by the syndicate, all compromised servers owned by third-parties who generally have no idea their websites have hidden folders serving up child porn.
Data transfers to these servers happen over multiple networks of vpn's with other layers of encryption built on top - and it's what they pay such a huge premium to get built.
The setup relies on three major things to make it harder to stop. Firstly - by operating across so many national borders they add huge jurisdictional red-tape for authorities - when no two of the files you need to make your case is in the same country, you need to cooperate with dozens or even hundreds of other countries - many of which will be politically hostile. Even interpol struggles.
Secondly - because the storage is all on compromised servers cops catch some user, trace his download, find the server he got it from... and hit a dead-end. The owner had no idea it was there (they often end up prosecuted but in free countries these guys usually walk since it's impossible ot prove they are lying about not knowing when there is strong evidence that this is usually true). There is usually some evidence of a compromise... and that's it. Every log is scrubbed clean by powerful, automated anti-forensic code, every transmission was encrypted and routed through multiple VPNs to mask the origin.
Cops catch users, they catch producers - but the syndicates that distribute the stuff are practically untouchable and from the exorbitant amounts they pay their employees (partly, of course, to buy silence) - it's clear they are extremely profitable businesses.
UbuntuPhone was supposed to be that - and the dock-and-become-a-PC idea is brilliant.
Too bad the actual product ended up being so utterly inferior to everything else on the market. Great design, horrible execution.
Except I didn't even originally do that. They did, however, go together (there were no white slaves in American after all), and in post-slavery America racism remained a problem - which was the literal words I said. I pointed out that the war did nothing to alleviate the latter.
Nobody dictated anything except you - who is trying very hard to dictate to me that I'm not allowed to think that if you have so little respect for other people that you can use the n-word you MUST also have so little respect for them that you could lynch one.
Not quite. But not for the reason you think. At that early point in the universe - time did not exist. Since speed is a factor of time. Speed therefore did not exist. Saying infinite speed is no different from saying velocity of zero - because neither concept actually existed yet. The universe had to reach at least the point where time existed (which happened as it begun to expand - so is not true at the 'singularity' level) before velocity could exist.
I actually used Google to that calculation - even if you're right and Google was wrong (or I made a typo) - that's only two orders of magnitude, we need a whole lot more... more orders of magnitude.
>Next you will tell me that the energy can be generated by a guitar amplifier that goes up to 11 . . .
Just don't play it at 85 miles an hour or you will create a paradox by travelling back in time.
Let me give you a bit of advice: prejudice against people - is an evil that has no end.
There is no gradation to that evil. The least of it inevitably leads to the worst of it.
Don't try to pretend there is a difference between saying the n-word and participating in genocide - because there isn't one. They are merely two points on the same timeline.
And that does happen in the real world, it's at least one scenario where that may occur.
I did say it was a rare occurrence that only happened when a lot of variables (mostly random) all worked out correctly, but to assert it never happens is disproven by empirical data.
It may never happen to you though - it's rare enough that it's entirely possible in the lifetime of a panel never to experience a confluence of events that work out that way. Even where it was observed in Hawai it wouldn't happen with all the installations being monitored on those days - just some of them on the days it happened.
Brown was never the 'headliner' he was the straw that broke the camels back.
Brown cannot be mentioned WITHOUT mentioning the others or you ARE being deceptive (whether deliberately or not).
Facts without all appropriate context are better known as 'lies'.
It's not theory. It's real world data. The most comprehensive data on solar panel performance available was gathered by the government renewable energy labs which tracked daily performance of thousands of solar panels in Hawai over a full year. It's rare, but sometimes panels would actually produce more on overcast days than the sunny days on either side of them. It requires very specific conditions - firstly it's much more likely in a very hot climate, where your normal heat losses are higher - so you gain more on cooler days - secondly it's only likely to happen when you have high ambient light conditions and fairly thin cloud cover - in those conditions the fact that the clouds reflect a bunch of ambient light back down actually increases in the amount of photons that hit the panels.
Don't plan on it (I did say that) since it's a very rare occurrence, but it's not just theory - it's been observed in the real world.
>Ah, lovely, to see the moral equivalence being made between slavery and racism.
Because they are. If you are able to hold a prejudice against somebody about his skin, you are capable of enslaving him on the same grounds. That's literally how the first 200 years of America went.
>The early universe was not a vacuum. It was an extremely dense, high-temperature plasma.
Agreed, but I was referring to the GP's suggestion to heat up a beam and send photons through a vaccuum.
I can see how my post could be ambiguous though.
>In any case, vacuum can in fact have a temperature, due to virtual particle production.
True again, but not really relevant to the point I was making. I am NOT going to try and calculate the energy required to heat up a vaccuum's virtual particles to the temperature of the big bang...
Actually - Solar Panels can actually be MORE efficient on cloudy days - because they get both ambient light and reflected light AND it's cooler (heat reduces efficiency). There is no ONE answer to what happens on a cloudy day - a whole host of factors (including the thickness of the cloud cover) come into play. It is best to bet on an efficiency loss (as that is the most common scenario) but it's definitely not the only one and 'drastically' is an entirely subjective claim. I notice you gave it since you didn't have numbers.
That's because there aren't any. The numbers vary way too much from location to location, from season to season.
The only thing you can say for certain is that solar panels DO produce power on cloudy days - they don't stop working (like I said).