We definitely had descendants in Africa. We can trace large migrations out of Africa.
That is not what Out of Africa comprises: Out of Africa means that modern humans developed exclusively or almost exclusively in Africa and then they get out of Africa, already in their modern form, to colonize the world. Instead, the main theories challenging that view have modern humans developing significantly (for example, interbreeding with other human species not found in Africa and so on) not in Africa or not just in Africa.
But they are free to use what ever plant they want, or simply buy power elsewhere.
Ah, ok, now I get it: your plan is to let, say, Mexico build coal plants, so when your solar and wind power is slacking off, you can buy power from them and berate them because they still use dirty sources. Smart.
Did I mention: I'm tired about idiots who have no clue how production works?
Solar is very schedulable. Wind less so, but it's not like weather forecasts don't exist. Already used in load forecasting.
I know that english is not my mother tongue, but, come on, I was pretty clear. I am not talking about load balancing or production scheduling. I am talking about production planning and capacity factor. The biggest share of renewable sources you have, the lowest the capacity factor of your whole power supply (i.e. the weighted sum of the capacity factor of all your power sources) is, so you need more redundancy to meet the requested power supply, that is you need more plants, which means more costs. Moreover, for traditional power sources, maintenance and refuelling can be planned months in advance, while for wind or solar you have no control on their downtime, so you have to plan in advance a backup source, that is you have to build even more plants.
you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future (next 15, next 30, next 120, next 240 minutes)
Wow, that is a lot of time to get your backup system up and running efficiently./sarcasm
When you have enough renewables, then they are spread out as virtual power plants. E.g. a wind farm with 100 turbines is not 100 plants but one single virtual plant.
When you have a few dozens of those virtual plants you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future.
Here is where reality kicks in. Power plants do not produce energy, but power: electric utilities sell a guaranteed power output (e.g. 3kW to a household, 500kW to a small factory etc.) and they are liable if that power supply is not met. New renewables do not guarantee a given power output, unlike hydropower, coal, gas, nuclear. With coal for example, you build a 1MW coal power plant and you are pretty sure to have a 1MW output (maintenance aside, but that's programmable); while with solar or wind, you build a 1MW power plant and you will get 250kW on average if you are lucky, but you do not really know. So you end up building 10 1MW solar plants to have good chances (but no certainty, so you still need backup!) of meeting that 1MW request. While the price per energy produced is low, the price per power guaranteed is high. Unfortunately it is the latter that you need.
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
"While the ball did not go through the goal posts, it clearly would have if the goal posts had been somewhere else instead."
So basically the president did things that were deeply disturbing but technically legal
What deeply disturbing things? To be an anti-establishment candidate like Obama before him? Trump is not the first anti-establishment, outsider president: Obama is. That's a well established trend now, and Russians have little to do with it. Look at all those Democratic presidential candidates (O'Rourke, Warren, Yang, Sanders, Harris, Gabbard...): they are all somewhat anti-establishment or posing as anti-establishment and/or pushing their outsider status.
So, you've never heard of Keith Bostic, nor of BSD, then?
I heard of BSD. It is that other OS that used to be compiled with GCC.
It used to be compiled with cc.
Exactly. On BSD cc was symlinked to GCC since BSD 4.4, the parent of all "modern", open source BSDs. CC and cc were and are always symlinks to some other compiler, e.g. PCC or GCC or Sun C compiler.
Nonetheless, I'm dubious that those features can be actually useful. Those two aircraft crashed in a matter of minutes after take-off, that's a very short time to take action. Especially if the pilots are also trying to keep an uncontrolled aircraft flying. Boeing should just scrap the design.
And vegetables too. Not just palm oil, I mean, huge swaths of land once were forests and swamps, but they are now agricultural land full of pesticides. If someone doesn't want to hurt nature too much, he/she should get back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (and if he/she REALLY cares, just gatherer, you know).
"Meddling", what does that even mean in plain english? I suppose that they are... mmh... doing stuff or something. Is Saudi Arabia "meddling"? Is Israel? What about corporations? Government agencies?
China. Still today, the banking system (that is the "capital" of capitalism) is firmly under the control of the state, that is the Communist Party.
As for having success, modern India and modern China at their birth, at the beginning of the '50s were pretty equal (well, India was actually in a better position, with a somewhat greater gdp) and similar (very large pre-industrial, agricultural societies etc.). Nowadays it is clear that Communist China surpassed in every conceivable way Capitalist India.
That's a pretty big success story to me.
This is the kind of thing that is much easier to get public support for than the hockey sticks and whatnots.
I'd like to elaborate about this point. The eventual benefits of a CO2 reduction, for example, are very difficult to acknowledge, because they could take years to materialize, if at all. Instead, the benefits of cleaner water and cleaner air can be easily and quickly evaluated. That's why there wouldn't be as much controversy for pollution as there is for climate change policies.
To be precise, they do not adapt, they are just selected. Antibiotics resistant microbes were always there, but they were just a tiny portion of the overall population, before selection. We are just changing the characteristics of the population, not the characteristics of the individual microbes.
The concept of race existed before of course, but was not really something Europeans thought about much until the scientific revolution of the 1800s, which coincided with colonialism. The various empires were in full swing by then, as was slavery[...]
The so called scientific racism, which used evolutionary biology as a basis, is a phenomenon of the late 19th century (The Origin of the species etc. was first published in 1859), well after that slavery was abolished in Europe.
Race is something invented long ago to give a pseudo-scientific explanation of why white people are superior.
Bullshit. The title of the founding text of evolutionary biology is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". The concept of race was right there, since the beginning.
Species are just a useful but largely arbitrary label for groups of animals with similar characteristics. Evolution is a continuous process, and there are no clear lines where one species ends and another starts.
Stop there, please. Race is basically the same: an arbitrary label with no clear lines. Like subspecies, which is basically the same concept as race, by a different name. Or family. It is all arbitrary. And it has nothing to do with Europeans (were/are only Europeans that view others as inferior?), nor with chauvinism (race, as a word, originally was mostly used for animals and livestock).
That's the problem. To manufacture solar PV cells and an adequate power grid, you need an advanced industry. You can install a small hydroelectric power plant in the middle of Africa, or on the top of Andes and it works and everyone can maintain it for decades with a worker toolbox. The same goes for a diesel or petrol or gas power unit. But solar? You can do maintenance only if you have access to an industrially advanced society: a society that could not sustain itself on solar alone.
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We definitely had descendants in Africa. We can trace large migrations out of Africa.
That is not what Out of Africa comprises: Out of Africa means that modern humans developed exclusively or almost exclusively in Africa and then they get out of Africa, already in their modern form, to colonize the world. Instead, the main theories challenging that view have modern humans developing significantly (for example, interbreeding with other human species not found in Africa and so on) not in Africa or not just in Africa.
Here the article from BBC.com
But they are free to use what ever plant they want, or simply buy power elsewhere.
Ah, ok, now I get it: your plan is to let, say, Mexico build coal plants, so when your solar and wind power is slacking off, you can buy power from them and berate them because they still use dirty sources. Smart.
Did I mention: I'm tired about idiots who have no clue how production works?
Internet is serious stuff, uh?
Solar is very schedulable. Wind less so, but it's not like weather forecasts don't exist. Already used in load forecasting.
I know that english is not my mother tongue, but, come on, I was pretty clear. I am not talking about load balancing or production scheduling. I am talking about production planning and capacity factor. The biggest share of renewable sources you have, the lowest the capacity factor of your whole power supply (i.e. the weighted sum of the capacity factor of all your power sources) is, so you need more redundancy to meet the requested power supply, that is you need more plants, which means more costs. Moreover, for traditional power sources, maintenance and refuelling can be planned months in advance, while for wind or solar you have no control on their downtime, so you have to plan in advance a backup source, that is you have to build even more plants.
you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future (next 15, next 30, next 120, next 240 minutes)
Wow, that is a lot of time to get your backup system up and running efficiently. /sarcasm
When you have enough renewables, then they are spread out as virtual power plants. E.g. a wind farm with 100 turbines is not 100 plants but one single virtual plant. When you have a few dozens of those virtual plants you perfectly know how much power each of them will produce in the foreseeable future.
Here is where reality kicks in. Power plants do not produce energy, but power: electric utilities sell a guaranteed power output (e.g. 3kW to a household, 500kW to a small factory etc.) and they are liable if that power supply is not met. New renewables do not guarantee a given power output, unlike hydropower, coal, gas, nuclear. With coal for example, you build a 1MW coal power plant and you are pretty sure to have a 1MW output (maintenance aside, but that's programmable); while with solar or wind, you build a 1MW power plant and you will get 250kW on average if you are lucky, but you do not really know. So you end up building 10 1MW solar plants to have good chances (but no certainty, so you still need backup!) of meeting that 1MW request. While the price per energy produced is low, the price per power guaranteed is high. Unfortunately it is the latter that you need.
The airplane in the LION air crash was 2 months old (delivered new mid-August, crashed in October). They had no time to do poor maintenance.
"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him
"While the ball did not go through the goal posts, it clearly would have if the goal posts had been somewhere else instead."
So basically the president did things that were deeply disturbing but technically legal
What deeply disturbing things? To be an anti-establishment candidate like Obama before him? Trump is not the first anti-establishment, outsider president: Obama is. That's a well established trend now, and Russians have little to do with it. Look at all those Democratic presidential candidates (O'Rourke, Warren, Yang, Sanders, Harris, Gabbard...): they are all somewhat anti-establishment or posing as anti-establishment and/or pushing their outsider status.
So, you've never heard of Keith Bostic, nor of BSD, then?
I heard of BSD. It is that other OS that used to be compiled with GCC.
It used to be compiled with cc.
Exactly. On BSD cc was symlinked to GCC since BSD 4.4, the parent of all "modern", open source BSDs. CC and cc were and are always symlinks to some other compiler, e.g. PCC or GCC or Sun C compiler.
I'd like to add Roku OS and Tizen to the list, not to mention that Linux isn't just in your house.
So, you've never heard of Keith Bostic, nor of BSD, then?
I heard of BSD. It is that other OS that used to be compiled with GCC.
Nonetheless, I'm dubious that those features can be actually useful. Those two aircraft crashed in a matter of minutes after take-off, that's a very short time to take action. Especially if the pilots are also trying to keep an uncontrolled aircraft flying. Boeing should just scrap the design.
You have to give up meat.
And vegetables too. Not just palm oil, I mean, huge swaths of land once were forests and swamps, but they are now agricultural land full of pesticides. If someone doesn't want to hurt nature too much, he/she should get back to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (and if he/she REALLY cares, just gatherer, you know).
"Meddling", what does that even mean in plain english? I suppose that they are... mmh... doing stuff or something. Is Saudi Arabia "meddling"? Is Israel? What about corporations? Government agencies?
It's McCarthy all over again.
China. Still today, the banking system (that is the "capital" of capitalism) is firmly under the control of the state, that is the Communist Party.
As for having success, modern India and modern China at their birth, at the beginning of the '50s were pretty equal (well, India was actually in a better position, with a somewhat greater gdp) and similar (very large pre-industrial, agricultural societies etc.). Nowadays it is clear that Communist China surpassed in every conceivable way Capitalist India.
That's a pretty big success story to me.
This is the kind of thing that is much easier to get public support for than the hockey sticks and whatnots.
I'd like to elaborate about this point. The eventual benefits of a CO2 reduction, for example, are very difficult to acknowledge, because they could take years to materialize, if at all. Instead, the benefits of cleaner water and cleaner air can be easily and quickly evaluated. That's why there wouldn't be as much controversy for pollution as there is for climate change policies.
To be precise, they do not adapt, they are just selected. Antibiotics resistant microbes were always there, but they were just a tiny portion of the overall population, before selection. We are just changing the characteristics of the population, not the characteristics of the individual microbes.
never personally understood comic book-love, but to each their own.
There are good comics out there, even though superhero comics are usually rubbish.
Solar IS fusion. We're directly harvesting the results of a fusion reaction happening 1AU away.
Oil IS fusion. Ancient plants were directly harvesting the results of a fusion reaction happening 1AU away. :P
The concept of race existed before of course, but was not really something Europeans thought about much until the scientific revolution of the 1800s, which coincided with colonialism. The various empires were in full swing by then, as was slavery[...]
Not really. In 1794 slavery was abolished in all the territories of the French Republic. The British Empire had abolished slave trade in 1807, and actively forced the end of the slave trade, alongside other colonial powers, through military intervention. In 1809 Charles Darwin was born. In 1815, the Congress of Vienna condemned the slave trade, Darwin was a little kid. Free "brown" people continued to practice slavery well into the 20th centuries (and practically even today, if you look at Saudi Arabia and its neighbours), and they stopped only under international (i.e. Europe, USA, USSR and some other whitish country) pressure.
The so called scientific racism, which used evolutionary biology as a basis, is a phenomenon of the late 19th century (The Origin of the species etc. was first published in 1859), well after that slavery was abolished in Europe.
Race is something invented long ago to give a pseudo-scientific explanation of why white people are superior.
Bullshit. The title of the founding text of evolutionary biology is "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". The concept of race was right there, since the beginning.
Species are just a useful but largely arbitrary label for groups of animals with similar characteristics. Evolution is a continuous process, and there are no clear lines where one species ends and another starts.
Stop there, please. Race is basically the same: an arbitrary label with no clear lines. Like subspecies, which is basically the same concept as race, by a different name. Or family. It is all arbitrary. And it has nothing to do with Europeans (were/are only Europeans that view others as inferior?), nor with chauvinism (race, as a word, originally was mostly used for animals and livestock).
It is a murky concept.
So his definition is as good as yours. Species are a matter of perception (like planets, dwarf planets, satellites, quasi-satellites).
I'm in Thailand
That's the problem. To manufacture solar PV cells and an adequate power grid, you need an advanced industry. You can install a small hydroelectric power plant in the middle of Africa, or on the top of Andes and it works and everyone can maintain it for decades with a worker toolbox. The same goes for a diesel or petrol or gas power unit. But solar? You can do maintenance only if you have access to an industrially advanced society: a society that could not sustain itself on solar alone.
Socialist countries have to be repressive.'
A lot of countries with socialist government weren't and aren't. Tell that to Salvador Allende or Evo Morales or Lula.
There is Google, you know. Since the USA is too easy as a target, I'd point out the Philip Cross affair (as a reminder, Jimbo Wales is married with Christine Rohan, Tony Blair's former secretary), then the Australian Government editing spree, and finally the Zionist editing courses.
Besides propaganda, a good starting point on the truthfulness of Wikipedia would be 10 Most Notorious Wikipedia Editing Scandals, outdated, bust still good.
Well, Turkey is a capitalist country and they blocked Wikipedia too.