If the Germans had any sense they would have kept their nukes running and shutdown these coal plants long ago.
As an American living in Germany, I never understood that decision either. It was definitely not based on sense at all . . . it was more like fear, emotion and almost religious in nature. The Chernobyl experience also most certainly played a role. It was most certainly not based on logic or science.
I've always been curious if the crew of Markus Wolf - "The Man Without a Face" - had their fingers in this. The East German Stasi tried to stir up trouble and discontent in West Germany. Much like what the Russians are very successfully doing in the US right now.
If its a LFTR and I get a cut of the revenue, I'll put one in my literal back yard.
I'll up you one on that . . . I'll happily take all of your nuclear "waste" now and bury it in my backyard. My great-great-grandchildren will make a fortune selling it to the Chinese as "fuel" for their advanced nuclear technology plants.
The police already have actual assault rifles, armored assault vehicles, and grenade launchers.
Those weapons require police boots on the ground, police need to get up close, and things get "messy". Despite what you might think, some police will feel a little "squeamish" when ordered to fire a grenade at a criminal.
With a drone it's not so up close and personal . . . more removed, like a computer game . . . so killing is "cleaner".
And for five months during the fiscal year, it used drones to support the US Customs and Border Patrol's counterdrug operations.
Well, there's our solution to The Wall Problem right there: Who needs a real wall, when we have a "Drone Virtual Wall" . . . ?
Actually my solution to the problem would be to let volunteers build it. Some brave Senator or Representative could order a bunch of rolls of barbed wire, fence posts and augers from Amazon and pay with their government credit card. Have them delivered to the border. Summon all those wacky militia types to the border, but tell them to leave their weapons at home. Let them build the "wall".
OK, it's won't really be a wall . . . more of just a barded wire fence, but the government is expert at "fudging" things. And both sides can claim victory.
unless you're suggesting they raised Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell from their graves to recreate them.
Oh, for sure, raising folks from the dead is something that the NSA & CIA do all the time using Roswell Alien Technology at Area 51.
Unfortunately, the technology hasn't been perfected yet, so the dead come back as zombies. The Zombie Kubrick appeared to show no interest in a Moon Landing Remake. When he was alive, he never made sequels to his films. Instead, he seemed to want to film a new work titled, "Brains!".
The Zombie Harnell ate the Best Boy on the set, and need to be put down with a shot to the head.
I prefer the Nudist side, but that's a personal lifestyle choice that everyone can make for themselves, when we have to evacuate the Earth and all move to live on the Moon.
Ironically, the biggest audience for this film will be the Kubrick Hoax Crew. They will just absolutely swarm to watch this multiple times, scrutinizing every scene, sniffing for clues to The Hoax.
Just as a joke and to rile them up a bit, the producers of the film should have included Kubrick in the credits:
"Special Area 51 Advisor from the Afterlife Beyond the Grave: Stanley Kubrick"
At any rate, social media will be burning with a fresh crop of "proof" that the Moon Landings were faked, based on evidence from this film.
If the producers want to make money, they should make a film about Roswell as their next project.
It could have been the Russians, who regularly undertake malicious activity. But it could also be China, or a leak from within the DNC, or the Awan spy ring, who had access to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz's computers and tablets, as well as those of some 40 other House Democrats.
Of course cities are not going to simply allow it . . . they are going to lucratively license it.
Want to putter about in your flying car . . . ? Fine, just pay $1 million for your flying permit. The high price will keep the riff raff out of the skies. $1 million is chump change for seriously rich folks.
Ordinary folks aren't going to be car flying from JFK to Manhattan . . . any more than they take a helicopter shuttle from JFK to Manhattan, which is already available today.
Yeah, when your workers need to make enough to buy a million dollar house that would go for $250k in Texas California seems pretty expensive doesn't it...
Buy a house? No, no, no . . . that's not the plan at all.
SpaceX employees will be given cheap options as beta testers to rent a Tesla Model Mobile Home M, or a Tesla Model Trailer Park Trailer T.
The Boring Company will dig big underground trailer parks.
The future of humanity is electric, and underground. It will prepare us for life on Mars.
How exactly will they "understand" the gender of the passenger? Check for pink hair and Tumblr stickers?
Well, with me, they will see me doing a line of coke off the dashboard, while drinking some gulps from a bottle of Jack to take the edge off the coke, while fingering my girlfriend next to me, while listening extremely loud to:
My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin'
If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."
So I guess I won't care, if they can "understand" my gender . . .
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Was Windows ME really bad, or just irrelevant?
If I recall correctly, Windows ME was really bad and irrelevant.
Our support folks recommended that everyone wait a year for Windows XP. Irrelevant.
One department in my lab played with it a bit, just to see if their Windows product ran OK it. They gave up on it, because of constant BSODs. Bad.
This is Germany. I'm sure they can find something else to burn.
. . . that would cause a Soylent Green shortage.
If the Germans had any sense they would have kept their nukes running and shutdown these coal plants long ago.
As an American living in Germany, I never understood that decision either. It was definitely not based on sense at all . . . it was more like fear, emotion and almost religious in nature. The Chernobyl experience also most certainly played a role. It was most certainly not based on logic or science.
I've always been curious if the crew of Markus Wolf - "The Man Without a Face" - had their fingers in this. The East German Stasi tried to stir up trouble and discontent in West Germany. Much like what the Russians are very successfully doing in the US right now.
If its a LFTR and I get a cut of the revenue, I'll put one in my literal back yard.
I'll up you one on that . . . I'll happily take all of your nuclear "waste" now and bury it in my backyard. My great-great-grandchildren will make a fortune selling it to the Chinese as "fuel" for their advanced nuclear technology plants.
The police already have actual assault rifles, armored assault vehicles, and grenade launchers.
Those weapons require police boots on the ground, police need to get up close, and things get "messy". Despite what you might think, some police will feel a little "squeamish" when ordered to fire a grenade at a criminal.
With a drone it's not so up close and personal . . . more removed, like a computer game . . . so killing is "cleaner".
And for five months during the fiscal year, it used drones to support the US Customs and Border Patrol's counterdrug operations.
Well, there's our solution to The Wall Problem right there: Who needs a real wall, when we have a "Drone Virtual Wall" . . . ?
Actually my solution to the problem would be to let volunteers build it. Some brave Senator or Representative could order a bunch of rolls of barbed wire, fence posts and augers from Amazon and pay with their government credit card. Have them delivered to the border. Summon all those wacky militia types to the border, but tell them to leave their weapons at home. Let them build the "wall".
OK, it's won't really be a wall . . . more of just a barded wire fence, but the government is expert at "fudging" things. And both sides can claim victory.
unless you're suggesting they raised Stanley Kubrick and William Hartnell from their graves to recreate them.
Oh, for sure, raising folks from the dead is something that the NSA & CIA do all the time using Roswell Alien Technology at Area 51.
Unfortunately, the technology hasn't been perfected yet, so the dead come back as zombies. The Zombie Kubrick appeared to show no interest in a Moon Landing Remake. When he was alive, he never made sequels to his films. Instead, he seemed to want to film a new work titled, "Brains!".
The Zombie Harnell ate the Best Boy on the set, and need to be put down with a shot to the head.
Unfortunately the "experts" sometimes have a financial incentive to "know" what they claim is true.
So who funded this research . . . ? The government . . . ? Independent private university . . . ?
Or private industry . . . ?
"He who pays the piper calls the tune."
But geothermal is extremely location-specific.
Nuclear is also extremely location-specific, because everyone wants to build it in someone else's backyard . . . not in their own.
If Bill Gates wants to support nuclear, he could donate his backyard, where we could build a plant.
Otherwise the biggest challenge to nuclear will always be NIMBY. Technical problems with nuclear are solvable. NIMBY . . . not so easily fixed.
One is mostly igneous rock, one is mostly silicate.
One is Fun Nudist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
One is Evil Helium 3 Whiffing Nazis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I prefer the Nudist side, but that's a personal lifestyle choice that everyone can make for themselves, when we have to evacuate the Earth and all move to live on the Moon.
Ironically, the biggest audience for this film will be the Kubrick Hoax Crew. They will just absolutely swarm to watch this multiple times, scrutinizing every scene, sniffing for clues to The Hoax.
Just as a joke and to rile them up a bit, the producers of the film should have included Kubrick in the credits:
"Special Area 51 Advisor from the Afterlife Beyond the Grave: Stanley Kubrick"
At any rate, social media will be burning with a fresh crop of "proof" that the Moon Landings were faked, based on evidence from this film.
If the producers want to make money, they should make a film about Roswell as their next project.
Black Russian: Kahlua & Vodka.
White Russian: Kahlua & Vodka & Cream.
Dead Russian: Polonium & Novichok.
Garnish with an umbrella swizzle stick laced with Ricin.
Although, considering what Saudi Arabia was allowed to do to Jamal Khashoggi . . . this really isn't something we should be making fun of . . .
It could have been the Russians, who regularly undertake malicious activity. But it could also be China, or a leak from within the DNC, or the Awan spy ring, who had access to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schulz's computers and tablets, as well as those of some 40 other House Democrats.
It was Bernie!
He made the DNC "Feel the Bern!"
The result of any compromising is the same as what the CIA/NSA have done to foreign entities, if I may add.
The result of any compromising is the same as what the CIA/NSA have done to domestic entities, if I may add.
Looks like they're finding a lot of witches.
If you have communications with WikiLeaks, you're a witch.
So the US is going to charge Assange with having communications with himself.
No western city is going to allow this.
Of course cities are not going to simply allow it . . . they are going to lucratively license it.
Want to putter about in your flying car . . . ? Fine, just pay $1 million for your flying permit. The high price will keep the riff raff out of the skies. $1 million is chump change for seriously rich folks.
Ordinary folks aren't going to be car flying from JFK to Manhattan . . . any more than they take a helicopter shuttle from JFK to Manhattan, which is already available today.
Too expensive. Playground for the super-rich.
...Long File Paths in WIndows File Explorer.
Which will we have first ?!
Duke Nukem Forever.
What about the POLAR bears on the moon?
If it's warm enough on the Moon for nudists to frolic around . . . then it's probably to warm for polar bears anyway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And, of course "drilling the Moon" might rile up those Helium 3 toking Nazis on the far side:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I hope those ESA folks perform due diligence and research schlocky Moon movies before just barging ahead with their drilling.
*lays off skilled older employees*
IBM considers being young as a important skill.
"I call it new collar."
. . . but what she really wants is a dog collar and the ability to put down the dog, when the skills are now longer in fashion.
Someone with a solid CS degree should be able to acquire new skills as they march in and out of fashion.
A simple single skill person is disposable.
I was thinking that the whole data industry is more like the international human sex/slave trafficking industry.
They're buying and selling human souls.
Yeah, when your workers need to make enough to buy a million dollar house that would go for $250k in Texas California seems pretty expensive doesn't it...
Buy a house? No, no, no . . . that's not the plan at all.
SpaceX employees will be given cheap options as beta testers to rent a Tesla Model Mobile Home M, or a Tesla Model Trailer Park Trailer T.
The Boring Company will dig big underground trailer parks.
The future of humanity is electric, and underground. It will prepare us for life on Mars.
Give 'em some credit; sure, they're thinking with their asses... but it's all they've got.
. . . and they're doing it with other people's money.
Extra credit, for sure.
How exactly will they "understand" the gender of the passenger? Check for pink hair and Tumblr stickers?
Well, with me, they will see me doing a line of coke off the dashboard, while drinking some gulps from a bottle of Jack to take the edge off the coke, while fingering my girlfriend next to me, while listening extremely loud to:
My pappy said, "Son, you're gonna' drive me to drinkin' If you don't stop drivin' that Hot Rod Lincoln."
So I guess I won't care, if they can "understand" my gender . . .
What "The Economist" thinks:
https://www.economist.com/lead...
I just wrote a hello world pubic network and didn't register it with the government! Did I just commit a felony?
Now that might get you into trouble . . . especially when you display it at your local mall.