I did, and I kept coming up with articles about how base load is a myth, and the wind is always blowing somewhere, and how it's cheaper to get a given capacity with batteries and solar/wind than with nuclear, and how coal can only be competitive if you don't require the industry to clean up after itself by fixing carbon.
This is how abusers string along their victims - random occurrences of being "nice", by doing precisely what they SHOULD be doing. But it doesn't excuse their behavior the rest of the time. Apple has been generally unresponsive to bug reports since their first days. They pissed on their user base with this garbage bug, and now all they have to do to distract their Stockholm syndrome audience is grant a bug bounty to someone who clearly deserves it. "Look", they'll say, "Apple can do the right thing!" Yes, but only when it would otherwise make it obvious what they really are: abusive.
I could make the same rant about Microsoft on another day, but it's Apple's turn:P
There is some use for ultra-capacitors in performance electric vehicles - dump regenerative braking energy into caps instead of the battery for use in the following acceleration. But unless you are decelerating and accelerating lots - think, racing on a track - you'd be better off using the extra mass for more batteries.
This makes me pine for the Bush and Obama days before the world had such dictators. Don't bee too surprised when Mueller indcits Trump for things like torture and bombing men, women, and children.
Obama didn't get indicted for drone striking men, women, and children. Why would Trump? That would set a precedent that neither party wants to see.
I think it's human nature not to waste effort combating something that isn't effecting them or anyone they know yet.
There is no one on the planet who is not being affected by global warming. It is affecting literally every nation, on every continent. It is affecting the jet stream and the gulf stream, and the conveyor. It is affecting plant life, and animal life, and fungus, and insects.
It's human nature to stick one's head up one's ass and pretend that bad things aren't happening, but we have to do better if we're going to survive.
WOW from +5 Insightful to a +1 I don't like what he is saying in under an hour.
Yesterday and today have been downvote days for me, for stating a combination of clearly labeled opinions, and actual facts. Slashbot must have given modpoints to shitlords in honor of football brain damage.
If you don't give away more money than someone does, you have no right to complain about them not spending more on charity.
That's ever so much bullshit. You can reasonably complain on the basis that they are the ones with the bulk of the money, and therefore they are the ones who can afford to give more to charity.
if you want to increase Ãoeaccessà and drive investments in infrastructure then the FCC change was appropriate.
We paid the telcos billions to build internet out to the last mile and they literally distributed it amongst their executives in the form of bonuses. If you want to increase access and drive investment in infrastructure, the appropriate response is to either imprison those execs and reclaim their ill-gotten goods (stolen from The People) or to nationalize the telcos, and split the infrastructure apart from everything else.
Education reduces birthrate where educated people can see that things are going bad. Make the world a better place and educated people will want kids again. And educating more of the population is how to make the world better.
"Lots of Europe has free health care annd college; the childcare is becoming a thing too. The birthrate is still low."
Europe is full. Of course the birth rate is low, people are living on top of one another, and they're insecure about the future. Crises both real and imagined are responsible for the reduction in birth rate.
That is a real problem, but it's becoming less of one as recharge times continue to fall. Most apartment-dwellers at least have an off-street parking space where a charger could physically be fitted. Now it's just a problem of paying for it.
People everywhere say they want two kids, and Indian girls have smartphones, so researcher concludes that population will decrease. How lame.
First, you can't trust self-reporting. Second, most people don't have two kids and then go get sterilized. They can therefore have more kids.
Second, you can't make the horse drink. People with all of human knowledge at their fingertips often ignore it, and go with their feelings instead.
Third, people's current desired number of children is based on current conditions. If there were less people, there would be more room and more opportunity, and people would want more children.
Now, I will acknowledge that there is one way that this prediction could come true. We might have already pushed the climate past recovery. In that case, yes, human population will continue to fall, and will not recover - maybe ever. But that has nothing whatsoever to do with this guy's faulty logic.
Industry pundits know that diesel cars are going to be killed off by EVs. The automakers know, too, though they are being less open about it. Diesel trucks will continue to be a thing for some time, though.
"Though I've never really understood driving a giant vehicle for one passenger and no cargo."
How large are you? If one is very large and/or tall, a truck is pretty much the only vehicle which doesn't feel cramped at this point. They've also been gaining a ton of content over the last couple decades. The average transaction price on a pickup on America is now over 50k! But to get the same amount of stuff in a car that's not tiny, you have to spend even more. Most people who don't actually do work with their truck have the short bed, and rear doors or half-doors, so the bed isn't most of the truck anyway.
If fuel prices ever go up to where they arguably ought to be in America, then you'll see the trucks go away quickly. Until then, they do make some sense.
Doesn't help with legacy cash. We also either have to tax wealth and not just income, or at least bring back inheritance taxes to a nice high rate... Or just use inflation. Tying the minimum wage to inflation (and also making it a living wage) would at least reduce the impact there. And we could drive inflation by printing money and handing it out as UBI. Any plan for the future that doesn't include UBI is doomed to fail anyway, unless we outlaw automation:p
Me too, it was a LG Nexus 4 E960. I loved that phone until touch suddenly stopped working. I blame it on the fact that I tend to sweat, and that it was made by LG. Replaced it with a Moto G 2nd, which I regret because of the small RAM. I dropped it spectacularly several times, and the screen is coming out of the case at one corner, but it still works as well as ever. It wasn't advertised as being water resistant, but several independent tests have shown it to be highly so. Now I won't buy another phone unless water resistance is an advertised feature.
"Yeah, edit a document on a phone. Show me. And I don't mean cut&paste - write a few paragraphs of text."
Ironically, cut and paste is at least as big a pita as writing text. First you long press, then you drag some tiny handles whose size is resolution-dependent, so they are tiny on displays which are small but high-res. And then you (well, I) often run into the bug where the edit menu won't pop up if you've selected a complete sentence including punctuation which is both following and followed by a space. Drag either handle one character in either direction, and the menu appears. Good work, Google! Dildos.
I agree. Avast absolutely beats my system down. And when AVG was new, it was good, but it started using up the whole system ages ago. I went back to just using the Mickeysoft stuff, which for some reason doesn't do that even though it seems to actually work pretty well according to independent tests.
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"You need to research baseload electricity."
I did, and I kept coming up with articles about how base load is a myth, and the wind is always blowing somewhere, and how it's cheaper to get a given capacity with batteries and solar/wind than with nuclear, and how coal can only be competitive if you don't require the industry to clean up after itself by fixing carbon.
Get a new argument, preferably a valid one.
This is how abusers string along their victims - random occurrences of being "nice", by doing precisely what they SHOULD be doing. But it doesn't excuse their behavior the rest of the time. Apple has been generally unresponsive to bug reports since their first days. They pissed on their user base with this garbage bug, and now all they have to do to distract their Stockholm syndrome audience is grant a bug bounty to someone who clearly deserves it. "Look", they'll say, "Apple can do the right thing!" Yes, but only when it would otherwise make it obvious what they really are: abusive.
I could make the same rant about Microsoft on another day, but it's Apple's turn :P
There is some use for ultra-capacitors in performance electric vehicles - dump regenerative braking energy into caps instead of the battery for use in the following acceleration. But unless you are decelerating and accelerating lots - think, racing on a track - you'd be better off using the extra mass for more batteries.
Tesla Roadster (2020)
This makes me pine for the Bush and Obama days before the world had such dictators. Don't bee too surprised when Mueller indcits Trump for things like torture and bombing men, women, and children.
Obama didn't get indicted for drone striking men, women, and children. Why would Trump? That would set a precedent that neither party wants to see.
I think it's human nature not to waste effort combating something that isn't effecting them or anyone they know yet.
There is no one on the planet who is not being affected by global warming. It is affecting literally every nation, on every continent. It is affecting the jet stream and the gulf stream, and the conveyor. It is affecting plant life, and animal life, and fungus, and insects.
It's human nature to stick one's head up one's ass and pretend that bad things aren't happening, but we have to do better if we're going to survive.
(Fortnite players never leave their mom's basement.)
Just wait until mom goes out to get more cheetos and mt.dew, and you can walk in and lure them out with twinkies. Or maybe twinks.
WOW from +5 Insightful to a +1 I don't like what he is saying in under an hour.
Yesterday and today have been downvote days for me, for stating a combination of clearly labeled opinions, and actual facts. Slashbot must have given modpoints to shitlords in honor of football brain damage.
If you don't give away more money than someone does, you have no right to complain about them not spending more on charity.
That's ever so much bullshit. You can reasonably complain on the basis that they are the ones with the bulk of the money, and therefore they are the ones who can afford to give more to charity.
if you want to increase Ãoeaccessà and drive investments in infrastructure then the FCC change was appropriate.
We paid the telcos billions to build internet out to the last mile and they literally distributed it amongst their executives in the form of bonuses. If you want to increase access and drive investment in infrastructure, the appropriate response is to either imprison those execs and reclaim their ill-gotten goods (stolen from The People) or to nationalize the telcos, and split the infrastructure apart from everything else.
Nothing is needed to encourage build-out, they've been given billions to build out and pocketed it
Sounds like something is needed then. I suggest prison time for the executives that got the money as bonuses... and taking the money back, of course.
I have to ask...how do you think climate change is going to kill everyone off?
Runaway heating.
Are you imagining a scenario where all humans just roll over and give up trying to find solutions to the problems caused by the change?
That's what most people have done already.
Education reduces birthrate where educated people can see that things are going bad. Make the world a better place and educated people will want kids again. And educating more of the population is how to make the world better.
"Lots of Europe has free health care annd college; the childcare is becoming a thing too. The birthrate is still low."
Europe is full. Of course the birth rate is low, people are living on top of one another, and they're insecure about the future. Crises both real and imagined are responsible for the reduction in birth rate.
That is a real problem, but it's becoming less of one as recharge times continue to fall. Most apartment-dwellers at least have an off-street parking space where a charger could physically be fitted. Now it's just a problem of paying for it.
People everywhere say they want two kids, and Indian girls have smartphones, so researcher concludes that population will decrease. How lame.
First, you can't trust self-reporting. Second, most people don't have two kids and then go get sterilized. They can therefore have more kids.
Second, you can't make the horse drink. People with all of human knowledge at their fingertips often ignore it, and go with their feelings instead.
Third, people's current desired number of children is based on current conditions. If there were less people, there would be more room and more opportunity, and people would want more children.
Now, I will acknowledge that there is one way that this prediction could come true. We might have already pushed the climate past recovery. In that case, yes, human population will continue to fall, and will not recover - maybe ever. But that has nothing whatsoever to do with this guy's faulty logic.
Industry pundits know that diesel cars are going to be killed off by EVs. The automakers know, too, though they are being less open about it. Diesel trucks will continue to be a thing for some time, though.
"Though I've never really understood driving a giant vehicle for one passenger and no cargo."
How large are you? If one is very large and/or tall, a truck is pretty much the only vehicle which doesn't feel cramped at this point. They've also been gaining a ton of content over the last couple decades. The average transaction price on a pickup on America is now over 50k! But to get the same amount of stuff in a car that's not tiny, you have to spend even more. Most people who don't actually do work with their truck have the short bed, and rear doors or half-doors, so the bed isn't most of the truck anyway.
If fuel prices ever go up to where they arguably ought to be in America, then you'll see the trucks go away quickly. Until then, they do make some sense.
[loud applause]
Budweiser still has enough money for super bowl ads, and you have hope for humanity? I thought that was one of the seven signs.
Doesn't help with legacy cash. We also either have to tax wealth and not just income, or at least bring back inheritance taxes to a nice high rate... Or just use inflation. Tying the minimum wage to inflation (and also making it a living wage) would at least reduce the impact there. And we could drive inflation by printing money and handing it out as UBI. Any plan for the future that doesn't include UBI is doomed to fail anyway, unless we outlaw automation :p
Don't applaud too loudly Google's efforts to get more people to willingly turn their cellphones into even more of a spy device.
Me too, it was a LG Nexus 4 E960. I loved that phone until touch suddenly stopped working. I blame it on the fact that I tend to sweat, and that it was made by LG. Replaced it with a Moto G 2nd, which I regret because of the small RAM. I dropped it spectacularly several times, and the screen is coming out of the case at one corner, but it still works as well as ever. It wasn't advertised as being water resistant, but several independent tests have shown it to be highly so. Now I won't buy another phone unless water resistance is an advertised feature.
Which model? Is the SD slot shared with Sim 2? Water resistant?
You could reasonably set it to rotate upside down if you wanted to put it into a dock...
"Yeah, edit a document on a phone. Show me. And I don't mean cut&paste - write a few paragraphs of text."
Ironically, cut and paste is at least as big a pita as writing text. First you long press, then you drag some tiny handles whose size is resolution-dependent, so they are tiny on displays which are small but high-res. And then you (well, I) often run into the bug where the edit menu won't pop up if you've selected a complete sentence including punctuation which is both following and followed by a space. Drag either handle one character in either direction, and the menu appears. Good work, Google! Dildos.
I agree. Avast absolutely beats my system down. And when AVG was new, it was good, but it started using up the whole system ages ago. I went back to just using the Mickeysoft stuff, which for some reason doesn't do that even though it seems to actually work pretty well according to independent tests.