The reason for costs is because they do a whole lot more than ferrying you when you're too drunk to drive. Things like ferrying children, elderly and disabled. Which requires relevant training and equipment.
Also taxis are considered a part of public infrastructure, and are often given tasks like ferrying small children to schools. You occasionally get a huge scandal when someone gets through the safety nets and gets reported/caught for being not fully sober when driving kids to school.
Uber's model is not going to work. First people to get on barricades are going to be mothers afraid for their children.At which point "uber is freedom" folks are going to either shut up or get mass destroyed on all public forums. If there's one group you never want to mess with, it's mothers worried about their children's safety.
If you want to be a police officer in Finland, there's only one school in the entire country that can qualify you. You need lyceum education with good grades. Finnish Intelligence Service will make a background check on you. If you're male, you have to have finished your mandatory military service, and you're credited if you were in military police unit. Citizenship of the country is mandatory. You have to pass a series of tests to be accepted if you meet all other requirements, which includes a personal interview, various psychological tests as well as written test, physical test and some group work.
You are also required to adhere to ethics code, which is very tight. Essentially you are assumed to represent the police force to people, and as relationship between police and population in Finland is very good, making police look bad due to your bad behaviour will get you ejected from the force very rapidly. If you are accepted, it's recommended that you live on their campus (which is a closed dorm, and allows visitors only on permission). This is one of the mechanisms they use to weed out problematic individuals.
Typically this takes about 3 years. You complete studies with bachelor's degree in policing which lets you become a basic police officer. Studies include items that vary from relevant laws to criminology to physical conditioning.
If you want to make it a career, you will want to go for master's degree which would allow you to become inspector. That's another ~2 years of studies.
I know this because my alma mater, Tampere university of technology shared a sports facility with the police academy back in the day. It was right next to our campus, so I got to meet a lot of people from that school.
That said, in this case the police are likely being given the order to perform specific investigation from higher up. I.e. inspectors who are people that have master's degree in policing and relevant law and assisted by people with PhD in law as specialists.
False due to clueless poster not knowing what he's talking about.
In Finland, taxis are a part of public infrastructure. When you're a huge country with one of the lowest population densities in the world, you have to make certain adjustments. Taxi licence in Finland requires a significant background check and passing a specific course. Their task, among other things, is to ferry small children to schools in rural areas, assisting the elderly and disabled in transportation for a minimal fee and other similar mission critical tasks for operation of the state and its support of its weaker members. As a result, one of the items of feedback we typically get from tourists is that while our taxis are fairly expensive, they tend to provide some of the best quality of service in the world.
Civil disobedience in this case would be a direct attack on least privileged in the country which prides itself on having one of the most inclusive welfare states in the world. And it sounds a lot less sexy to say "let's dismantle the system that lets us ferry our elderly and our small children as necessary for much smaller cost than a separate service would require" than "yeah, let's stick it to the MAN!"
Magnificent. You can save a few seconds every day on boot and shutdown and lose a few minutes to hours to various telemetry and spyware crap sucking out the extra juice while it runs.
I've noticed this intense MS shilling as win10 was approaching, I guess microsoft is getting desperate to push its new business model of spyware + ads + windows store on users no matter how much of a downgrade it is.
Yes, we know that you worked for power companies as a desk clerk or a cleaner. You keep advertising that alongside your utter ignorance of basics of power generation. Sutor ne ultra crepidam.
Not going to bother with the rest. When you deny that sudden outages cause cascade failures, something that is routinely demonstrated in developing countries and sometimes occurs in developed countries when cascade failure across all safeties happens to align, you cannot discuss the topic. It's like trying to argue math who starts with "no you're just assuming that 2+2 in decimal system is 4 which is wrong. It's actually 77.6, and I know this because I worked in university at a math faculty!"
Dear mathematically changed moron. I do wonder how you got on a computer-related site which generally requires people to actually comprehend basic math, which you fail at.
It's very, very simple.
Your reactor takes a certain fuel rod (depending on reactor type this can be anything from natural levels to various stages of enrichment). This rod is considered to be 100% fuelled. The actual levels of U235 compared to rest of contents is only relevant from point of view of what kind of reactor you're using it in - it's wholly irrelevant for the scope of this discussion which does not specify reactor types.
You use the rod in the reactor, moving it within the reactor as it slowly depletes. Eventually when there's around 96% of original U235 contents still left in the rod, the rod is considered "spent" and needs to be enriched back to original 100% level (which again can be anything from natural uranium content to various enriched levels depending on reactor type).
Easy math: fully fuelled rod just inserted into the reactor: 100% fuelled. "Spent" fuel rod: around 96% of the original contents still in the rod.
Do us all a favour, and get through elementary school math before your attempt to discuss mathematics on slashdot again.
Your first statement is factually incorrect, as the trend of "sane energy policy equals cheap energy prices" is easily visible in other states. Finland for example has a large installed nuclear capacity in addition to having hydro pretty much everywhere where it's easy enough to install, while having minimal "not yet ready" renewables installation. Energy is cheap.
Compare to Denmark which went full out on wind power and shut down the burner plants. Energy price astronomically high.
Notably, this is also seen in heavy industry. While Germany, realising what Energiewende would do to their heavy industry opted to subsidise heavy industry and let the rest bear the burden. Results were well documented.
Rest of your argument is frankly inane to the extreme and could only be argued by someone utterly ignorant of reality of strategic sectors and how they are protected. Energy, food production, water and so on are strategic sectors required for existence of a functioning state. As a result they are heavily regulated and subsidized to ensure their seamless functionality regardless of market forces. Arguing against this on "free market" basis is utterly inane simply because lack of these subsidies and regulation in the said sectors would cause societal collapse, as failures in these sectors would be strategic failures causing failures of state structures.
And as has already been explained in this thread, only ignorant people would think that this item is about "winding down France's dependence on nuclear". It's a PR stunt, aimed at ignorant and opinionated people like you who would make such sweeping and utterly incorrect statements and feel that this is an accomplishment for their anti-nuclear crusade.
That is a net import-export balance, not importation numbers. Read what you replied to to comprehend why your first statement is correct, and second one is factually false.
Obvious problem being that like many other legal requirements, they go ignored in an actual war, as soldiers do not generally spend a lot of time debating the "lawfulness" of the said order for fairly self-evident reasons.
Lose completely? Mostly no. Suffer severe constraints on many of your guaranteed freedoms? Yes. That's the entire point of judicial system. You lose many of your guaranteed freedoms based on your illegal actions that harmed the community.
Unless you think that all those people in jails are having many of their constitutional rights directly violated by the state as well.
Not at all. Soldiers are expected to obey the order, then report their superiors through chain of command.
Soldier is not expected to have extensive legal training to recognise complex "on the fence" issues. And disobeying the order gets you in military court where it will be really hard to prove the legality of the order as judges will inherently be on the side of your commander, and in war time it will be a kangaroo court after which you will likely be summarily executed to make an example. Discipline in ranks will always trump concerns like these.
Right. Prices of electricity are magical, managed by overlords in their respective capitols. They have nothing to do with actual costs of production.
In other news, did you remember that we live in a real world with limited resources, not one where electricity comes out of the socket?
P.S. Nuclear energy remains the cheapest energy source available to date per produced energy unit. That is why states that don't have to care for psychological bullshit pushed here in the West by people like you on their impressionable and ignorant public are investing heavily in them. Think China. Some of the best and toughest negotiators in the world, and people with some of the greatest power needs in the world. And they're massively investing in nuclear. If you were even close to reality with your "nuclear is expensive" claims, they simply wouldn't be doing it.
There is no shifting of goalposts. All there is is dirt throwing on your part hoping some of it will stick. He clearly stated what he was talking about, you went to great pains to intentionally misunderstand what he was actually saying.
And then you proceeded to throw dirt at those who pointed your error out to you.
I'll make it simple. please show me a bitcoin miner that can produce numbers you suggest on CPU in comparison to numbers produced on GPU while staying on approximately same cost levels.
I don't get it. You dig for singular problems in other states just to pretend that massive corruption and theft ingrained at all levels in your culture is somehow not as bad as it is.
No, they're still just as bad. And the people you are trying so hard to look for flaws at are poorer than you. And they're still paying for your thievery and corruption.
This is related to worker taxation. Not company taxation (what we actually call tax haven).
Essentially what happens is that you hire a worker, have him work in Finland and register his taxes in Estonia. That lets you pay your worker less because of lesser taxation, social benefits and standard of living.
This was a problem mostly back in the early days of the crisis, when people were looking for a way out. That's why news you quote is dated 5 years ago. Around 2012 we passed a reform which closed the relevant legal loophole and enabled checks by both tax officials and worker's union officials, as well as mandated that every foreign worker in relevant sector must register with tax office and carry a tax certificate when he's working.
So no, it's a completely different problem. And no, Estonians still paid taxes to their own state in that case. That was the initial issue. They chose to pay taxes back home rather than with us, which is what they were supposed to do.
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The reason for costs is because they do a whole lot more than ferrying you when you're too drunk to drive. Things like ferrying children, elderly and disabled. Which requires relevant training and equipment.
Which shockingly costs money.
Yes.
Also taxis are considered a part of public infrastructure, and are often given tasks like ferrying small children to schools. You occasionally get a huge scandal when someone gets through the safety nets and gets reported/caught for being not fully sober when driving kids to school.
Uber's model is not going to work. First people to get on barricades are going to be mothers afraid for their children.At which point "uber is freedom" folks are going to either shut up or get mass destroyed on all public forums. If there's one group you never want to mess with, it's mothers worried about their children's safety.
Sweden seems to hold just fine so far, and they're almost ten times more multicultural than us.
If you want to be a police officer in Finland, there's only one school in the entire country that can qualify you. You need lyceum education with good grades. Finnish Intelligence Service will make a background check on you. If you're male, you have to have finished your mandatory military service, and you're credited if you were in military police unit. Citizenship of the country is mandatory.
You have to pass a series of tests to be accepted if you meet all other requirements, which includes a personal interview, various psychological tests as well as written test, physical test and some group work.
You are also required to adhere to ethics code, which is very tight. Essentially you are assumed to represent the police force to people, and as relationship between police and population in Finland is very good, making police look bad due to your bad behaviour will get you ejected from the force very rapidly.
If you are accepted, it's recommended that you live on their campus (which is a closed dorm, and allows visitors only on permission). This is one of the mechanisms they use to weed out problematic individuals.
Typically this takes about 3 years. You complete studies with bachelor's degree in policing which lets you become a basic police officer. Studies include items that vary from relevant laws to criminology to physical conditioning.
If you want to make it a career, you will want to go for master's degree which would allow you to become inspector. That's another ~2 years of studies.
I know this because my alma mater, Tampere university of technology shared a sports facility with the police academy back in the day. It was right next to our campus, so I got to meet a lot of people from that school.
That said, in this case the police are likely being given the order to perform specific investigation from higher up. I.e. inspectors who are people that have master's degree in policing and relevant law and assisted by people with PhD in law as specialists.
False due to clueless poster not knowing what he's talking about.
In Finland, taxis are a part of public infrastructure. When you're a huge country with one of the lowest population densities in the world, you have to make certain adjustments. Taxi licence in Finland requires a significant background check and passing a specific course. Their task, among other things, is to ferry small children to schools in rural areas, assisting the elderly and disabled in transportation for a minimal fee and other similar mission critical tasks for operation of the state and its support of its weaker members. As a result, one of the items of feedback we typically get from tourists is that while our taxis are fairly expensive, they tend to provide some of the best quality of service in the world.
Civil disobedience in this case would be a direct attack on least privileged in the country which prides itself on having one of the most inclusive welfare states in the world. And it sounds a lot less sexy to say "let's dismantle the system that lets us ferry our elderly and our small children as necessary for much smaller cost than a separate service would require" than "yeah, let's stick it to the MAN!"
Buying during boom vs buying during recession.
More likely people will simply get their porn elsewhere.
What, you think kids get their porn on legit UK websites and not via various methods of sharing ranging from torrents to social media?
Do you at all comprehend the concept of spinning reserve? At all?
If you could predict its need a day ahead you would need ZERO of it.
What is there to elaborate? You linked generation charts. We were talking about generation-consumption balance.
You may as well ask me to solve y in x-y=1
Ah yes, the world where what anonymous coward MS shill on slashdot wants is what other people get shoved down their throats.
If that actually happened, world would have actually moved to linux desktop.
Magnificent. You can save a few seconds every day on boot and shutdown and lose a few minutes to hours to various telemetry and spyware crap sucking out the extra juice while it runs.
I've noticed this intense MS shilling as win10 was approaching, I guess microsoft is getting desperate to push its new business model of spyware + ads + windows store on users no matter how much of a downgrade it is.
Yes, we know that you worked for power companies as a desk clerk or a cleaner. You keep advertising that alongside your utter ignorance of basics of power generation. Sutor ne ultra crepidam.
Not going to bother with the rest. When you deny that sudden outages cause cascade failures, something that is routinely demonstrated in developing countries and sometimes occurs in developed countries when cascade failure across all safeties happens to align, you cannot discuss the topic. It's like trying to argue math who starts with "no you're just assuming that 2+2 in decimal system is 4 which is wrong. It's actually 77.6, and I know this because I worked in university at a math faculty!"
Dear mathematically changed moron. I do wonder how you got on a computer-related site which generally requires people to actually comprehend basic math, which you fail at.
It's very, very simple.
Your reactor takes a certain fuel rod (depending on reactor type this can be anything from natural levels to various stages of enrichment). This rod is considered to be 100% fuelled. The actual levels of U235 compared to rest of contents is only relevant from point of view of what kind of reactor you're using it in - it's wholly irrelevant for the scope of this discussion which does not specify reactor types.
You use the rod in the reactor, moving it within the reactor as it slowly depletes. Eventually when there's around 96% of original U235 contents still left in the rod, the rod is considered "spent" and needs to be enriched back to original 100% level (which again can be anything from natural uranium content to various enriched levels depending on reactor type).
Easy math: fully fuelled rod just inserted into the reactor: 100% fuelled.
"Spent" fuel rod: around 96% of the original contents still in the rod.
Do us all a favour, and get through elementary school math before your attempt to discuss mathematics on slashdot again.
Your first statement is factually incorrect, as the trend of "sane energy policy equals cheap energy prices" is easily visible in other states. Finland for example has a large installed nuclear capacity in addition to having hydro pretty much everywhere where it's easy enough to install, while having minimal "not yet ready" renewables installation. Energy is cheap.
Compare to Denmark which went full out on wind power and shut down the burner plants. Energy price astronomically high.
Notably, this is also seen in heavy industry. While Germany, realising what Energiewende would do to their heavy industry opted to subsidise heavy industry and let the rest bear the burden. Results were well documented.
Rest of your argument is frankly inane to the extreme and could only be argued by someone utterly ignorant of reality of strategic sectors and how they are protected. Energy, food production, water and so on are strategic sectors required for existence of a functioning state. As a result they are heavily regulated and subsidized to ensure their seamless functionality regardless of market forces. Arguing against this on "free market" basis is utterly inane simply because lack of these subsidies and regulation in the said sectors would cause societal collapse, as failures in these sectors would be strategic failures causing failures of state structures.
And as has already been explained in this thread, only ignorant people would think that this item is about "winding down France's dependence on nuclear". It's a PR stunt, aimed at ignorant and opinionated people like you who would make such sweeping and utterly incorrect statements and feel that this is an accomplishment for their anti-nuclear crusade.
That is a net import-export balance, not importation numbers. Read what you replied to to comprehend why your first statement is correct, and second one is factually false.
Obvious problem being that like many other legal requirements, they go ignored in an actual war, as soldiers do not generally spend a lot of time debating the "lawfulness" of the said order for fairly self-evident reasons.
It's not a hologram. It's a video projection on angled plastic screen that makes it appear 3D.
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Lose completely? Mostly no. Suffer severe constraints on many of your guaranteed freedoms? Yes. That's the entire point of judicial system. You lose many of your guaranteed freedoms based on your illegal actions that harmed the community.
Unless you think that all those people in jails are having many of their constitutional rights directly violated by the state as well.
Except that you're expecting police to act like a judge in a very difficult, legally debatable issue that could go either way in court.
That's not going to happen. Granted slashdot is full of idealistic people who think this one is clear cut. Far from it.
Not at all. Soldiers are expected to obey the order, then report their superiors through chain of command.
Soldier is not expected to have extensive legal training to recognise complex "on the fence" issues. And disobeying the order gets you in military court where it will be really hard to prove the legality of the order as judges will inherently be on the side of your commander, and in war time it will be a kangaroo court after which you will likely be summarily executed to make an example. Discipline in ranks will always trump concerns like these.
Right. Prices of electricity are magical, managed by overlords in their respective capitols. They have nothing to do with actual costs of production.
In other news, did you remember that we live in a real world with limited resources, not one where electricity comes out of the socket?
P.S. Nuclear energy remains the cheapest energy source available to date per produced energy unit. That is why states that don't have to care for psychological bullshit pushed here in the West by people like you on their impressionable and ignorant public are investing heavily in them. Think China. Some of the best and toughest negotiators in the world, and people with some of the greatest power needs in the world. And they're massively investing in nuclear. If you were even close to reality with your "nuclear is expensive" claims, they simply wouldn't be doing it.
There is no shifting of goalposts. All there is is dirt throwing on your part hoping some of it will stick. He clearly stated what he was talking about, you went to great pains to intentionally misunderstand what he was actually saying.
And then you proceeded to throw dirt at those who pointed your error out to you.
Interesting hypothesis.
I'll make it simple. please show me a bitcoin miner that can produce numbers you suggest on CPU in comparison to numbers produced on GPU while staying on approximately same cost levels.
I don't get it. You dig for singular problems in other states just to pretend that massive corruption and theft ingrained at all levels in your culture is somehow not as bad as it is.
No, they're still just as bad. And the people you are trying so hard to look for flaws at are poorer than you. And they're still paying for your thievery and corruption.
This is related to worker taxation. Not company taxation (what we actually call tax haven).
Essentially what happens is that you hire a worker, have him work in Finland and register his taxes in Estonia. That lets you pay your worker less because of lesser taxation, social benefits and standard of living.
This was a problem mostly back in the early days of the crisis, when people were looking for a way out. That's why news you quote is dated 5 years ago. Around 2012 we passed a reform which closed the relevant legal loophole and enabled checks by both tax officials and worker's union officials, as well as mandated that every foreign worker in relevant sector must register with tax office and carry a tax certificate when he's working.
So no, it's a completely different problem. And no, Estonians still paid taxes to their own state in that case. That was the initial issue. They chose to pay taxes back home rather than with us, which is what they were supposed to do.