Then why would Thiel - or Cook - go there at all? Thiel's sexual orientation was an open secret to his friends, colleagues, competitors & biz partners. It would have been very easy for someone to cause him serious trouble without needing Gawker's hit piece.
"The reason Thiel hated Gawker was that they outed him as gay while he was on a business trip in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Gawker almost git him killed"
Bullshit. He's not a Saudi citizen and unless he's caught in Riyadh cocksmoking a young buff Arab, they have no legal grounds. Execute a wealthy foreigner based on hearsay? Not fucking likely. By the way, Thiel who is now KNOWN to be gay, has been back to Saudi Arabia since being outed. Tim Cook had been reported to be gay since 2011 and when he officially acknowledged it, he didn't merely say "yes I'm gay", he wrote in Bloomberg Business in 2014 " I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me" How does a blunt statement like that play in the militantly religious atmosphere of Saudi Arabia? Cook has been to the region several times since coming out and has met with members of the Saudi royal family.
It's the usual sort of lie - twist definitions to include accidental shots in a firing range near a school, or unassociated suicides in the parking lot, and you can really rack up those numbers.
I'm surprised Everytown didn't include paintgun and pellet guns in their list, like they did back in 2015.
Unbunch your panties. One is too many and there have been about 11 that I would count from the link you provided.
The biggest threat to Trump is the gullibility of morons like you. The dems have been FAR FAR FAR more creative with the truth than Trump could ever be.
I'd like to see what your big smoking #1 yuuuge terrific example is. As far as creativity & truth goes in the USoF, the rightwing has been better at it than the left for a long time.
for a system that will show in great detail how human activity is irrevocably changing the climate of the planet for the worse.
Hate to break it to you, but it actually proves we don't have a thorough-enough understanding of planetary systems to be able to make reliable predictions 100 years or more in the future.
From TFA:
The first results from an array of sensors strung across this region reveal that things are much more complicated than scientists previously believed.
Ocean currents a huge major factor in global climate trends, and here we're still making major discoveries about things like ocean currents and magma plumes.
Only recently it was accidentally discovered by a NASA satellite that the accelerated Antarctic ice-melt rates that had been blamed on AGW were actually being caused by a monster-sized magma plume rivaling the Yellowstone magma plume underneath the ocean floor under the Antarctic.
Given that there is so much we are still learning and have yet to learn, it's patently absurd to insist we can reliably & accurately predict global average temperatures 100 years or more in the future.
Strat
You don't need perfect understanding of every little detail to make accurate general predictions. I can't predict the exact path traveled by the neighbor & his dog on their nightly walk but I can make some predict good guesses as to where they'll be & roughly when.
The big question is how much additional heat is being added to the oceans as that can't be handwaved away and while a lot can be absorbed, it'll eventually be released. Never mind how much heat will be added in the years to come, what's already been sequestered in the oceans will come back to bite us in the next several decades.
That's a non-sequitur argument. Just because they follow the same path doesn't mean they haven't learnt from the mistakes of the USA.
It's not just that they killed a "trivial" number of people, but in doing so became one of the world's greatest superpowers. What they seem to have learnt is that resting on laurels of the environment after becoming a superpower doesn't help your cause.
Following the same path is one thing but they made ALL the same mistakes - and worse - as the West in a fraction of the time. Now they're finding out that cleaning up isn't so easy. They do have the advantage of absolute authoritarianism but so did the Soviet Union - remember them?
Expect China to become even more dominant as a major power / developer of environmental technologies in the future
I fully expect them to try but again, no easy feat especially since it's been apparent for some time that their financial system is a tightly controlled house of cards that cannot and will not hold up forever. When the eventual correction comes, I expect a serious amount of unrest. Whether it's enough to topple the status quo is an open question.
"China has obviously learned from the mistakes of the EU and the US" You're obviously wrong. If they had, they would never have made such a mess of their environment in the first place. Air pollution ALONE may have taken more than a million lives. Perhaps that seems trivial in a country of well over a billion people but it's 1/2 the number of people in their standing army
Uh, absolute values, yes. Per-capita values, it's still 2× the amount that China pollutes, from the wikipedia page that you linked.
Even more, if you sort by per-capita, USA is 7th place, the first real large polluter (~14%) behind small countries (up to 1.5%). So yes, USA still has a long way to go *per-capita*.
At some point in the past several decades, "pollution" became synonymous with CO2 emissions or GHG emissions. While they may go together in most cases, they're not inextricably linked. It's very possible to have a country with high CO2 emissions that has terrific environmental stewardship - and the reverse is also true.
"Serious question: Did Donald Trump appoint anyone who isn't corrupt, tied to neo-nazis or doesn't beat women? I mean, you'd think that by accident he'd have chosen at least one person for some department who isn't crooked or in some other manner fucked up. There's been so much turnover in the administration, at some point he will run out of shitty people to appoint"
Rod Rosenstein? He did appoint Bob Mueller to head the investigation into Russian electoral interference which has caused Trump's orange symbiont to stand on end
Even with close to 12,000 satellites, there isn't enough spectrum to get the service to/from the satellites to supply the broadband needs of 1/1000th the current terrestrial networks.
Much as I'm impressed with SpaceX, I don't see this working. And if they do get those thousands of satellites up into LEO, it'll just be a lot more space junk, of which there's already too much.
Those two boosters, which were used in previous launches of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, will not be reused again, Musk said in a post-launch news conference last week.
Then why spend fuel and other resources on landing them?
The plan is to only use only Block 5 modules from here onwards but this maiden launch gave them a chance to test recovery using expendable boosters. Even if reuse is not being considered, I'm sure there's plenty to recycle.
LiFePO4 has pretty shit cycle life compared to even manganese oxide cells. These days they're only good if you want cheap and you don't care about weight, size or disposing of them.
Wiki disagrees. LiFePO4:
100% DOD cycle life (number of cycles to 80% of original capacity) = 2,000–7,000 10% DOD cycle life (number of cycles to 80% of original capacity) > 10,000 Sony Fortelion: 74% capacity after 8,000 cycles with 100% DOD Cathode composition (weight)
LiFePO4 cycle life is better than any other except for Lithium Titanate and it can also be discharged very quickly compared to the other Li-on types
Power density isn't everything. LiFePO4 is much safer than the cobalt chemistries and is used in several hundred thousand buses in China. And its raw materials are cheaper.
A Tesla battery contains about 60 kg of lithium, which comes from about 320 kg of lithium carbonate. At $12k per ton, that costs about $4k, which is only 5% of the cost of the car.
Bring on the Molten salt grid storage batteries instead of wasting the Lithium there.
I never understood the appeal of lithium for grid storage, since weight of a stationary battery is not an issue.
I can understand why Tesla (and others) would use them for home units but I don't consider it ideal for large / utility storage.
Speaking of molten-salt, Sumitomo is years overdue on their promised low-temp molten-salt battery and have gone quiet about it.
It sounds like a modified recipe for Masonite (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonite)
"Masonite swells and rots over time when exposed to the elements, and may prematurely deteriorate when it is used as exterior siding. In 1996, International Paper (IP) lost a class action suit brought by homeowners whose Masonite siding had deteriorated. The jury found that IP's Masonite siding was defective"
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Then why would Thiel - or Cook - go there at all?
Thiel's sexual orientation was an open secret to his friends, colleagues, competitors & biz partners. It would have been very easy for someone to cause him serious trouble without needing Gawker's hit piece.
"The reason Thiel hated Gawker was that they outed him as gay while he was on a business trip in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. Gawker almost git him killed"
Bullshit. He's not a Saudi citizen and unless he's caught in Riyadh cocksmoking a young buff Arab, they have no legal grounds.
Execute a wealthy foreigner based on hearsay? Not fucking likely.
By the way, Thiel who is now KNOWN to be gay, has been back to Saudi Arabia since being outed.
Tim Cook had been reported to be gay since 2011 and when he officially acknowledged it, he didn't merely say "yes I'm gay", he wrote in Bloomberg Business in 2014 " I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me"
How does a blunt statement like that play in the militantly religious atmosphere of Saudi Arabia?
Cook has been to the region several times since coming out and has met with members of the Saudi royal family.
I'll take the 30 TB, you can have the slice of pi
False.
It's the usual sort of lie - twist definitions to include accidental shots in a firing range near a school, or unassociated suicides in the parking lot, and you can really rack up those numbers.
I'm surprised Everytown didn't include paintgun and pellet guns in their list, like they did back in 2015.
Unbunch your panties. One is too many and there have been about 11 that I would count from the link you provided.
"We came. We saw. He died!" *maniacally laughs*
Was that ever on CNN, ABC, NBC, MSNBC? Mentioned in a debate?
CBS News reported it, with video, on October 20th, 2011, the very day that Qaddafi Duck died with a spike up his ass
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/c...
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/...
In any case, what's your point?
The dems have been FAR FAR FAR more creative with the truth than Trump could ever be.
I'd like to see what your big smoking #1 yuuuge terrific example is.
In my opinion, the HUGE #1 is that the election wasn't Trump vs. Sanders.
As for gullibility, how about that no one seems to care that it wasn't Trump vs. Sanders.
The primary was "hacked". If I were a Dem, I'd still be rioting in front of the DNC.
If the rightwingnuts hadn't elected the retarded pussygrabber, perhaps there would be.
Bigger fish to fry & all that.
The biggest threat to Trump is the gullibility of morons like you. The dems have been FAR FAR FAR more creative with the truth than Trump could ever be.
I'd like to see what your big smoking #1 yuuuge terrific example is. As far as creativity & truth goes in the USoF, the rightwing has been better at it than the left for a long time.
for a system that will show in great detail how human activity is irrevocably changing the climate
of the planet for the worse.
Hate to break it to you, but it actually proves we don't have a thorough-enough understanding of planetary systems to be able to make reliable predictions 100 years or more in the future.
From TFA:
The first results from an array of sensors strung across this region reveal that things are much more complicated than scientists previously believed.
Ocean currents a huge major factor in global climate trends, and here we're still making major discoveries about things like ocean currents and magma plumes.
Only recently it was accidentally discovered by a NASA satellite that the accelerated Antarctic ice-melt rates that had been blamed on AGW were actually being caused by a monster-sized magma plume rivaling the Yellowstone magma plume underneath the ocean floor under the Antarctic.
Given that there is so much we are still learning and have yet to learn, it's patently absurd to insist we can reliably & accurately predict global average temperatures 100 years or more in the future.
Strat
You don't need perfect understanding of every little detail to make accurate general predictions.
I can't predict the exact path traveled by the neighbor & his dog on their nightly walk but I can make some predict good guesses as to where they'll be & roughly when.
The big question is how much additional heat is being added to the oceans as that can't be handwaved away and while a lot can be absorbed, it'll eventually be released.
Never mind how much heat will be added in the years to come, what's already been sequestered in the oceans will come back to bite us in the next several decades.
Kyodaina shakunetsu no farosu
Squirrel!!
What's Japanese for The Matchstick Building?
"You're not responsible by what your ancestors did and you have no impossible "historical debt" to pay"
And it's perfectly OK to profit & prosper from their crimes.
"Another possibility is that once we viruses sent in messages we receive by SETI"
?? That's a somewhat awkwardly crafted sentence. What are you trying to say?
I think you may be describing the plot of the Species movie franchise
That's a non-sequitur argument. Just because they follow the same path doesn't mean they haven't learnt from the mistakes of the USA.
It's not just that they killed a "trivial" number of people, but in doing so became one of the world's greatest superpowers. What they seem to have learnt is that resting on laurels of the environment after becoming a superpower doesn't help your cause.
Following the same path is one thing but they made ALL the same mistakes - and worse - as the West in a fraction of the time.
Now they're finding out that cleaning up isn't so easy. They do have the advantage of absolute authoritarianism but so did the Soviet Union - remember them?
Expect China to become even more dominant as a major power / developer of environmental technologies in the future
I fully expect them to try but again, no easy feat especially since it's been apparent for some time that their financial system is a tightly controlled house of cards that cannot and will not hold up forever.
When the eventual correction comes, I expect a serious amount of unrest. Whether it's enough to topple the status quo is an open question.
"China has obviously learned from the mistakes of the EU and the US"
You're obviously wrong. If they had, they would never have made such a mess of their environment in the first place.
Air pollution ALONE may have taken more than a million lives. Perhaps that seems trivial in a country of well over a billion people but it's 1/2 the number of people in their standing army
Uh, absolute values, yes. Per-capita values, it's still 2× the amount that China pollutes, from the wikipedia page that you linked.
Even more, if you sort by per-capita, USA is 7th place, the first real large polluter (~14%) behind small countries (up to 1.5%). So yes, USA still has a long way to go *per-capita*.
At some point in the past several decades, "pollution" became synonymous with CO2 emissions or GHG emissions.
While they may go together in most cases, they're not inextricably linked. It's very possible to have a country with high CO2 emissions that has terrific environmental stewardship - and the reverse is also true.
"Serious question: Did Donald Trump appoint anyone who isn't corrupt, tied to neo-nazis or doesn't beat women? I mean, you'd think that by accident he'd have chosen at least one person for some department who isn't crooked or in some other manner fucked up. There's been so much turnover in the administration, at some point he will run out of shitty people to appoint"
Rod Rosenstein? He did appoint Bob Mueller to head the investigation into Russian electoral interference which has caused Trump's orange symbiont to stand on end
Even with close to 12,000 satellites, there isn't enough spectrum to get the service to/from the satellites to supply the broadband needs of 1/1000th the current terrestrial networks.
Much as I'm impressed with SpaceX, I don't see this working. And if they do get those thousands of satellites up into LEO, it'll just be a lot more space junk, of which there's already too much.
Those two boosters, which were used in previous launches of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, will not be reused again, Musk said in a post-launch news conference last week.
Then why spend fuel and other resources on landing them?
The plan is to only use only Block 5 modules from here onwards but this maiden launch gave them a chance to test recovery using expendable boosters.
Even if reuse is not being considered, I'm sure there's plenty to recycle.
LiFePO4 has pretty shit cycle life compared to even manganese oxide cells.
These days they're only good if you want cheap and you don't care about weight, size or disposing of them.
Wiki disagrees.
LiFePO4:
LiFePO4 cycle life is better than any other except for Lithium Titanate and it can also be discharged very quickly compared to the other Li-on types
Power density isn't everything. LiFePO4 is much safer than the cobalt chemistries and is used in several hundred thousand buses in China.
And its raw materials are cheaper.
Seriously? 60 kg of lithium should give you a ~300 kWh battery. Are you sure you about those numbers?
According to Electrek, a 70 kwh Model S pack contains 63 kg of lithium
https://electrek.co/2016/11/01...
So much for cheap batteries.
A Tesla battery contains about 60 kg of lithium, which comes from about 320 kg of lithium carbonate. At $12k per ton, that costs about $4k, which is only 5% of the cost of the car.
Bring on the Molten salt grid storage batteries instead of wasting the Lithium there.
I never understood the appeal of lithium for grid storage, since weight of a stationary battery is not an issue.
I can understand why Tesla (and others) would use them for home units but I don't consider it ideal for large / utility storage.
Speaking of molten-salt, Sumitomo is years overdue on their promised low-temp molten-salt battery and have gone quiet about it.
Ajit Pai: If you don't want people to characterize you as an industry puppet, don't be an industry puppet.
It's not that complicated.
You're assuming he has a spine. Or gives a damn about anyone who's not paying him to do their bidding.
It sounds like a modified recipe for Masonite (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masonite)
"Masonite swells and rots over time when exposed to the elements, and may prematurely deteriorate when it is used as exterior siding. In 1996, International Paper (IP) lost a class action suit brought by homeowners whose Masonite siding had deteriorated. The jury found that IP's Masonite siding was defective"
Let's hope its properties are somewhat different
Subtle that, we almost missed your racism. And sexism.
You missed something alright. But not what you think