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  1. So we're literally talking about shale revolution and CCGT breakthrough, both of which have happened in the last decade. And you just happen to have the timeline long enough that would diminish effects of both to make it appear that those didn't happen.

    Completely by accident.

    Do you see why your narrative is rather difficult to believe in context of this discussion?

  2. >The complaints of the Polish are a myth. Every energy transport is either planned day ahead or hourly ahead, or in rare cases a minute ahead. There are no surprises.

    Germans have direct command of the wind. Ah angelosphere. You truly deliver the most insane narratives on slashdot with hilarious regularity.

    Good day to you. Keep on trollin'.

  3. In other words, US is on track to keep reducing its emissions, while Germany has stalled. It looks like we're in agreement on facts.

  4. Re: So, if you can't you get booted, but if you ca on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    Some of the translated ones clearly are, but there are quite a few actual on point reporting. Unlike US, we maintain a working relationship with Russia to this day. It's a precarious balancing act as it has been for last half a decade, but we have quite a bit of expertise on the topic. We lack the interest to be hostile to Russia, so much of reporting is quite neutral and does go over the relevant biases in reporting.

  5. Re:So, if you can't you get booted, but if you can on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    No, I think it would be sufficient to go to their days of old, when you actually reported what was said, in context. And if there's an another story that you're translating as a core for your story, you also investigate and report on the known biases of the original author.

    It's how journalism used to be conducted around here, at least in the state broadcaster. There's a reason why I'm in full support of paying the special tax to support it. I think it's necessary for a small neutral state like ours to maintain balanced reporting that doesn't just regurgitate the bias from any of the major empires we have to live between. Instead we need to be informed on what they're talking about, but in context of what's actually going on.

    You can't even excuse this with progressivism. We don't get to vote on US legislators or executives. We're foreigners, who have distinctly different interests from those of US and its citizenry. Therefore it makes no sense to just transplant and push ideologies from across the Atlantic and it's distinctly anti-Finnish thing to do. Which is something that should not be done in a state broadcaster, financed wholly by the state and the taxpayers.

  6. Re:So, if you can't you get booted, but if you can on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    Technology stories is actually what got me started on not trusting the media about a decade ago. When you're actually educated and have worked in industries that are almost universally hated in the circles that appear to be producing overwhelming majority of journalists, you start seeing that things you read in the news outlets are sometimes diametrically opposed to reality.

  7. Re:Double Standard on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    But what outlets are liberal today? All I see is conservatives vs progressives. Of the two, progressives openly denounce liberalism's core tenets. Conservatives at least don't go that far any more.

  8. Re:Double Standard on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    So the progressive movement literally took their methodology from their ideological enemies?

    I guess they have stared in the abyss long enough on this one.

  9. Re: Not the first time on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how human attraction works. It's well documented that men go for signs of fertility in women and women go for signs of status in men.

    As in women are attracted to status symbols in men. Billionaires can afford the highest status among men, and as a result are the most attractive among men. And most attractive people don't get cheated on with even remotely the same amount of frequency as your average man does.

    Stop thinking TV dramas have any kind of relation to reality and read books on relevant human psychology.

    The "cheating with the gardener" stereotype didn't actually exist until very recently, when upper middle class came into existence. That's mostly men who are decently wealthy enough to secure women of high reproductive value, but not high enough to secure their loyalty the same way genuine aristocracy could throughout the history.

    And billionaires are at the top of modern aristocracy.

  10. Yes, Sony retooled hardware manufacturing capacity for the tiny market that is VR. It had nothing to do with the massive resolution boost, addressing the "60fps" complaints and trying to look less outdated compared to the PC gaming scene.

    It's all about VR.

    2016 called. They want their VR marketing BS back.

  11. Re:So, if you can't you get booted, but if you can on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm from Finland. Every single media outlet reprints the spin from everything other than Fox when it comes to Trump. Every time I go to double check from the source and then compare to what actually was said/happened, I find that story printed is either a complete fabrication, a partial lie or a spin on facts. I'm yet to actually see a Trump related story that wouldn't be one of the three, which is frankly quite frightening as it tells about a massive bias in the media.

    This is in everything from all major private networks to the state broadcaster. Latter has been a bit of a shock to me, because they used to do a lot of their own investigating before they put anything into news articles or analyses, which usually stripped a lot of bias from stories they would get from AP and such. Now it's translation slack-journalism with zero fact checking (if I'm generous, and just reprinting lies knowingly, which would be assuming systemic malice), as long as it's negative about Trump.

    Take it for what you will.

  12. That's literally how predatory form of venture capitalism works. How on earth did you get from that to public funding, which is polar opposite of that in almost every conceivable way?

  13. The moment you think that private consumption is in any meaningful way analogous to large scale production, and you use this analogy as the core of your argument, you demonstrate that you're utterly out of your depth.

    Stop. You clearly lack even the most cursory understanding of the subject you're trying to argue in detail about. This is in no way, shape or form even remotely comparable to car accidents.

  14. Re:Not the first time on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Straight from the story:

    >Earlier this year, a guest at a party Liu hosted in downtown Sydney was convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow guest after the event. There was no accusation of any misconduct by Liu. The billionaire lost a legal attempt to keep his name out of the records. Over the weekend, JD said it will take legal action against the publishing of untrue reports or rumors.

    Good to see that spreading false rumours that are clearly debunked in the linked story still gets happily modded up on slashdot as "insightful".

  15. Re: Not the first time on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Hint: those are not the same thing, and billionaires generally don't need to be sexually predatory. Human females are hypergamic, and therefore throw themselves all over men with peak status traits, such as extreme wealth. If anything, someone in his position has to reject advances of opposite sex too aggressively.

  16. Re:Per Bloomberg and other sources on JD.com's Billionaire CEO Was Arrested On Allegation of Rape (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Dear wife, google title nine, sexual misconduct and be horrified at this backwards puritan insanity they have going in the States".

    Explanation done. Wife horrified, advices husband not to hire any women from US, and avoid being in the same room with them without keeping the door open.

  17. Not necessarily, as PS4 pro was released, and that's effectively the next gen console. It's just that now consoles are effectively x86/amd64 PCs, so they can be easily made to be fully backwards compatible with all of their old games made for the x86/amd64 consoles. For all we know, we'll simply see hardware bumps every few years, PC gaming style from now on. And eventually standard PS4 will go away and in its place we'll have PS4 mega, ultra, or whatever, which will be to PS4 pro what PS4 pro is to vanilla PS4.

    Or they might even call it PS5. But it will likely still be the same x86/amd64 machine with a spec bump.

  18. Re:So, if you can't you get booted, but if you can on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    They're not scared of Trump. They're scared of their own. Progressive mob tends to devour its own when it judges that they stepped out of line.

    And progressive mob has gone utterly insane since Trump got elected. He was everything from Hitler to Putin's puppet to insane mastermind to just plain idiot. And twitter is literally what he's currently using to completely bypass the media lock down on anything positive regarding Trump. To the mob going utterly insane with hatred, this is a severe crime.

    Which is why twitter is constantly balancing between not kicking out the man who is massively boosting the popularity of their platform, and not getting devoured from inside by their own political faction who hates the fact that twitter lets him bypass the media and all the spin it puts on anything he does and just air his thoughts as he wishes them to be aired.

  19. Re:Double Standard on Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off (politico.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There was a recent hilarious case of twitter user bluecheckwatch who literally went through verified twitter users with far left views, and just post screenshots of their open hate speech, twitter took swift action...

    By banning the user bluecheckwatch. All the racist, sexist hatred user posted evidence of is obviously still allowed, because it's targeting the correct untermensch, in the name of correct ubermensch. In modern progressive lingvo, we call it "fair and balanced".

  20. Re: Why so many death threats? on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I see your patent and play "e-condom". Your move.

  21. Re:Why so many death threats? on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How do you know, did I fuck you in the ass on slashdot previously?

    HIV doesn't infect people through internet rape though. You'll have to find a way to propagate your illness some other way.

  22. Wasn't shale extraction done in Germany after WW2 basically similar to what they do in Estonia today? Shale rock formations that they dig out wholesale and either try to extract oil from it, or just burn it as is, pollution be damned?

    They most certainly could not have had gas extraction back then. Transport technology and extraction technology wasn't there. Until very recently, oil extraction processes were almost universally flaring natgas off. This was a universal process for at least a century if not more. Methane tends to gather up around your extraction facility if you don't flare it off or gather it as you extract oil, and is extremely flammable. A smallest spark will set it off. It's what typically generates those tremendous explosions when something goes really badly wrong in oil extraction.

    Statistics show that Germany clearly broke the trend it was on for previous ten years in the current decade. This hasn't been news for at least half a decade if not more. It's generally not talked about in Germany, because like most nasty things that happen as a result of utter failure of federal policy, it's better to just sweep it under the rug. It's far from the only such failure that has been acted upon this way. Problem is, Germany still has to report its numbers, so those of us actually in business got to go "just as expected" in late 2000s and early 2010s. The trend where Germany was reducing its CO2 emissions by about 2% per year broke around then, and reduction flatlined at zero, even growing in some of the measurement periods. And that's with Germany outsourcing much of its spinning and cold reserve to France and Poland, with Poland producing it on nothing other than coal. That huge facility that was built up in a small enclave sitting near Germany and Chechia was a wonderful example of consequences of Energiewende. Not to even mention the constant complaints from Polish grid operators about constant loop flows of electricity through German interconnects.

    And do notice how you and all the other apologists are desperate to increase the scale from "decade" which is the span of Energiewende to "two decades or more" to cover the period before Green insanity of Energiewende was in place and Germany was actually on track to meet its CO2 emissions reduction obligations. Something that widely accepted as impossible today due to Energiewende's consequences without some massive numbers fudging such as artificially counting Germany's spinning reserve's emissions as lower than it is by using more Polish and French power instead.

    Also, do note that your religious hatred of nuclear power has zero grounding in either reality or science. Average speed of building a nuclear power plant today stood at 7,5 years in 2016 if IAEA's PRIS database collation I've seen back then is to be believed. What religious zealots like you do is pretend that the massive outlier, the two AREVA's test EPR reactors, who have been around 13 years in building and will likely take about 15 years to finish are somehow the norm, and then you add 5 years on top of that massive outlier to get to your stated number of "twenty years".

    It's a statement so out of any confines of reality, it's hard for me to even imagine where you could have dreamed those numbers from.

  23. Re:Why so many death threats? on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Why, are you planning to send me death threats?

  24. Re:Reddit moderation is bullshit... on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people aren't in that group as most people don't participate in cesspool that is most reddit discussions, especially the kind that goes in the garbage fire that is front page, and most certainly do not moderate them.

  25. Re:Why so many death threats? on Unpaid and Abused: Moderators Speak Out Against Reddit (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or: these aren't credible threats.
    Or: these are people looking for attention.

    There are quite a few options, and considering the trend to play the victim, combination of that first name and user as well as the source being well known for social justice activism which specializes in victimhood weaponisation suggests this is a standard "we have a victim here, company needs to do what we say" social justice attack vector.