Most reputable suppliers warn their customers if they anticipate kinks in the supply chain.
No they don't. All suppliers will inform their customers and their customers only that their plant specifically will have a restriction in supply. Or they declare force majeure a term that is used quite often in the process industries.
In either case there's nothing a customer can do when the entire industry has a hiccup
As I do not have a keyless car (I do not even have a car) could you please tell me what the solution is?
Well the good news is that no-one has a keyless car. Which is kind of my point. Just because it looks keyless doesn't mean that manufacturers haven't taken your very scenarios into account since the dawn of the keyfob.
If the technology is too difficult for you to manage, how about you carry the key.
But in any case there sure as hell isn't some nightmare scenario where you need to get your car towed to some mythical garage that has some mythical $20000 piece of magic gear to get in your car.
Solved yes - whether the solution is actually *used*
So go steal a car. I mean pretty much every single car out there uses keyless entry already. FYI, yes it is used and keyless entry has been resistant to replay attacks since the damn 90s.
As for 3 and 4, I fail to see how #1 is relevant to either.
I fail to see how 3 is not identical to 1, but in any case I misread 4. But someone was able to directly link a car with the phone owner, compromise the specific device directly, and then use it to access the car? What else are we afraid of. Aliens! Aliens can remotely trigger my phone to unlock my car and then they can get the chewing gum out of the glove box.
In case it's not clear, I'm mocking the absurdity that someone would jump through these absolutely insane hoops required to directly link the car, the device, and then directly attack the device, then monitor the driver for the opportunity to slip away with their car. (tip: very few viruses are targeted to this level, and no targeted viruses have every been discovered on mobile platforms).
Besides which, just because it's (probably) possible to secure your car from digital entry by past owners doesn't mean that the new owner has any idea of how to do that, or even that it's necessary.
Maybe once the first set of stupid people are separated from their cars people will learn to actually take an interest in the thing they just spent lots of money on.
All but the degree of the hot weather was 100% predictable.
By whom? Do you share information of all your customers to every customer? How is one to know you'll devert your supply to slaughterhouses? The supplier doesn't care, supply and demand will just make that a bit more profitable.
No. *some* Belgian beers are and it's highly dependent on the style. For example certified Trappist beers are bottle conditioned and need to be for their certification, but that covers only 8 breweries each with a common style of beer. Many Belgian strong ales are too like Duvel. But it's far from universal.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it"
1. Err this is a solved problem and has been for pretty much every "keyless" car on the market. There's always a secondary means of entry available to owners.
Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal
2. Err this is a solved problem and has been since the dawn of encryption.
Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k
3. Err See #1
My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car
4. Err See #1
Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it
5. Err just like you can* access my Facebook account from my previous phone after a factory reset? *You can't.
etc. etc. etc
Oh no, please continue. I'm enjoying reading one nonsense statement after another.
They did learn from the American model. They learnt that exams are important and can have an affect on their life. They learnt that in America people aren't allowed to talk during exams. The learnt that supervisors are generally quite poor at spotting cheating mid test, and they learnt that mobile devices can be used for communication. That's what the students learnt.
Now what did the government learn? The government learnt that it has power over airwaves. It also learnt that its country is not dependent on flow of information like the USA. And it also learnt that if everyone sits the test at exactly the same time you can defeat an entire category of cheats simply by turning off the internet.
I think in the USA either students or governments have simply stopped trying to outsmart the other.
Because students don't cheat, the internet cheats! The problem is broken culture, not internet access.
Indeed it is. But it is far easier to cut off communication than it is to fix cheating. Or do you propose we let parents and friends come in and talk to students during exams too and just base it on the honour system?
Pretty much every country has some form of communication blackout for people under exam conditions. This is just a slightly more extreme version.
Oh you can move the stuff. You can move it from the Switch or Xbox TO your Playstation account. But just like a shitty marriage expect to end up in court if you want to leave again.
He'd say, "Good". That's EXACTLY what the Senate was designed for... so that small states would be on an equal footing with the large states.
This is just it. Democracy comes in various flavours. Some representational, some direct, some are tyranny of the minority, but all were designed with a very specific purpose and end goal.
Personally I hate the system in the USA, but there sure is no arguing against the reasons for its creation. There is only arguing if its design was ultimately in the best interest of the people, and in this case that argument depends entirely on which people you are talking about.
I think you're underestimating how complex it is to purify CO2 (or overestimating the complexity of brewing). A CO2 recovery system would be by far the most complex process at any brewery and require equipment that well outside of the competence / knowledge of a typical brewery.
That said breweries are starting to adopt this kind of complexity in the form of energy recovery systems and advanced wastewater treatment. CO2 recovery wouldn't be too much above these kinds of processes.
But frankly the costs don't make sense. Unless there is a price on CO2 emissions or other regulations that force it, it is far cheaper to bottle the stuff from other industrial processes. Hell I once worked at a refinery where we literally paid someone to take the CO2 from us.
Yeah I know. I remember when they introduced an RO plant for drinking water from the sewage system in my state and asked the residents what they thought of it. One guy said "It's TOILET WATER! Doesn't matter what they do, it's toilet water!"
Disregard the fact that the town's actual supply of water is a lake with all manner of animals crapping in it, and tests show that it was full of feces, e.coli, and all that wonderful stuff, and that the RO water is orders of magnitude cleaner.
Especially the US military where they simply sexually assault their way around. Hard to say you were in a relationship when it's non consensual, amirite?
And before someone asks for sources just remember sexual assault in the US military has a full wikipedia page assigned to it.
I had the same problem happen to me when I moved internationally. I was accidentally flagged as having left the company in the meantime. So when I got to where I was going I found out I had a new computer, new email, new account, no HR history, nothing. It took the best part of 3 weeks to get me "reinstated" and we're still picking up the pieces now 2 years later.
Why are we picking up pieces? Because there are so many interconnected systems that if you try to manually correct something, abort something, or revert something mid way through a process the processes end up getting all messed up.
Only 2 months ago I was locked out of my office building, because I didn't submit some non-existent and not required paperwork to renew my not actual contractor status in the one system that didn't realise I wasn't a contractor but rather a permanent employee.
To this date my email address in Office365 has the wrong subdomain (Asia/Pacific regional server rather than Europe/Africa regional server). Yet when I change the password on my one, the password automatically propagates through to the other. Just don't try sending an email to the wrong one. Better still IT can't figure it out. Like actually can't. They simply can not find any reference to where the old subdomain link comes from. After 9 months we agreed to ignore the quirk.
Which system? I had the same problem happen to me when I moved internationally. I was accidentally flagged as having left the company in the meantime. So when I got to where I was going I found out I had a new computer, new email, new account, no HR history, nothing. It took the best part of 3 weeks to get me "reinstated" and we're still picking up the pieces now 2 years later.
Why are we picking up pieces? Because there are so many interconnected systems that if you try to manually correct something, abort something, or revert something mid way through a process the processes end up getting all messed up.
Only 2 months ago I was locked out of my office building. Why? Because I didn't submit some non-existent and not required paperwork to renew my not actual contractor status in the one system that didn't realise I wasn't a contractor.
To this date my email address in Office365 has the wrong subdomain on the back of it (Asia/Pacific regional server rather than Europe/Africa regional server). Yet when I change the password on my one, the password automatically propagates through to the other. Just don't try sending an email to the wrong one. Better still IT can't figure it out. Like actually can't. They simply can not find any reference to where the old subdomain link comes from. After 9 months we agreed to ignore the quirk.
This is why I always wondered why electric car enthusiasts just automatically assumed that battery prices would just keep dropping and dropping.
Because electric car producers understand the economics and actively work around them. Do you know *why* battery prices keep dropping? Mainly because of how each successive battery generation seems to have less cobalt than the last.
Panasonic announced last month their aim to have cobalt free batteries very soon. As it is they have around 3% in their cathodes which is phenomenally low compared to the 20% in 2014.
Jokes aside you know how little CO2 is in the air right? If you are getting CO2 as a result of separating it from the air,... there's some other steps in between. We for instance separate the air, toss the CO2 away, take the pure O2, combine it with natural gas in a partial oxidation gasifier to create syngas which gets passed through a shift reaction to generate CO2 + H2, the H2 is then used in the oil refinery, the CO2 is purified and put in the beer.
And if you think that sounds bad, remember the other way you get it is as a byproduct of ammonia production:-). Just let that go through your head the next time you wonder why your carbonated beverage tastes bitter.*
*This isn't the reason, but now you will be wondering every single time.
Why not change the taste and texture of the beer people know and love? How did that work out for cocacola again? You don't just change a recipe at whim because of a minor shortage. You run the risk of actually alienating your customers, who otherwise will return to your brand when it is available again.
Why the hell would there be a seasonal shutdown when there is year-round demand?
That's an easy one. Basically it's not cost effective to produce CO2 by itself. CO2 production is usually a byproduct of air-separation and hydrogen generation at oil refineries, bio-ethanol plants, or (and the biggest one in the UK) ammonia plants. The shutdown of refineries and bio-ethanol plants are not within the control of the CO2 suppliers, but they favour summer due to reduced weather delays and improved efficiencies of workers not freezing their tits off.
The ammonia plants on the other hand... they are seasonal. They shutdown for maintenance yearly in the summer after doing heavy production for fertilizer in the winter and spring for the main growing season.
That and at least one Linde plant is down because someone did a woopse one the main air separation compressor train which looks like it may take quite a while before it comes back online. Though I'm not sure if that was in the UK or on the continent, I didn't care about the notice I saw until I heard the beer was affected...
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it's not a Mac anymore
To quote myself:
Don't redefine words at whim.
Most reputable suppliers warn their customers if they anticipate kinks in the supply chain.
No they don't. All suppliers will inform their customers and their customers only that their plant specifically will have a restriction in supply. Or they declare force majeure a term that is used quite often in the process industries.
In either case there's nothing a customer can do when the entire industry has a hiccup
As I do not have a keyless car (I do not even have a car) could you please tell me what the solution is?
Well the good news is that no-one has a keyless car. Which is kind of my point. Just because it looks keyless doesn't mean that manufacturers haven't taken your very scenarios into account since the dawn of the keyfob.
If the technology is too difficult for you to manage, how about you carry the key.
But in any case there sure as hell isn't some nightmare scenario where you need to get your car towed to some mythical garage that has some mythical $20000 piece of magic gear to get in your car.
Solved yes - whether the solution is actually *used*
So go steal a car. I mean pretty much every single car out there uses keyless entry already. FYI, yes it is used and keyless entry has been resistant to replay attacks since the damn 90s.
As for 3 and 4, I fail to see how #1 is relevant to either.
I fail to see how 3 is not identical to 1, but in any case I misread 4. But someone was able to directly link a car with the phone owner, compromise the specific device directly, and then use it to access the car? What else are we afraid of. Aliens! Aliens can remotely trigger my phone to unlock my car and then they can get the chewing gum out of the glove box.
In case it's not clear, I'm mocking the absurdity that someone would jump through these absolutely insane hoops required to directly link the car, the device, and then directly attack the device, then monitor the driver for the opportunity to slip away with their car. (tip: very few viruses are targeted to this level, and no targeted viruses have every been discovered on mobile platforms).
Besides which, just because it's (probably) possible to secure your car from digital entry by past owners doesn't mean that the new owner has any idea of how to do that, or even that it's necessary.
Maybe once the first set of stupid people are separated from their cars people will learn to actually take an interest in the thing they just spent lots of money on.
So, there isn't actually shortage at all
Climbing up the supply and demand graph to temporarily higher than ordinary product cost is basically the definition of a shortage.
All but the degree of the hot weather was 100% predictable.
By whom? Do you share information of all your customers to every customer? How is one to know you'll devert your supply to slaughterhouses? The supplier doesn't care, supply and demand will just make that a bit more profitable.
Belgian beer is bottle conditioned.
No. *some* Belgian beers are and it's highly dependent on the style. For example certified Trappist beers are bottle conditioned and need to be for their certification, but that covers only 8 breweries each with a common style of beer. Many Belgian strong ales are too like Duvel. But it's far from universal.
Not least "your battery runs flat, but you need to open it to jump-start it"
1. Err this is a solved problem and has been for pretty much every "keyless" car on the market. There's always a secondary means of entry available to owners.
Someone sniffed the NFC transaction from across the street- NFC is short-range-powered, but long-range-ordinary-radio-signal
2. Err this is a solved problem and has been since the dawn of encryption.
Every garage has a way to open that car if the system should fail and you can buy the kit to open any car for $20k
3. Err See #1
My phone got a virus and now anyone can open my car
4. Err See #1
Previous owners of the car can just walk up to it with their phone to unlock it
5. Err just like you can* access my Facebook account from my previous phone after a factory reset?
*You can't.
etc. etc. etc
Oh no, please continue. I'm enjoying reading one nonsense statement after another.
They did learn from the American model. They learnt that exams are important and can have an affect on their life. They learnt that in America people aren't allowed to talk during exams. The learnt that supervisors are generally quite poor at spotting cheating mid test, and they learnt that mobile devices can be used for communication. That's what the students learnt.
Now what did the government learn? The government learnt that it has power over airwaves. It also learnt that its country is not dependent on flow of information like the USA. And it also learnt that if everyone sits the test at exactly the same time you can defeat an entire category of cheats simply by turning off the internet.
I think in the USA either students or governments have simply stopped trying to outsmart the other.
Because students don't cheat, the internet cheats! The problem is broken culture, not internet access.
Indeed it is. But it is far easier to cut off communication than it is to fix cheating. Or do you propose we let parents and friends come in and talk to students during exams too and just base it on the honour system?
Pretty much every country has some form of communication blackout for people under exam conditions. This is just a slightly more extreme version.
A Mac is not a PC in that its operating system is not what people mean when they say PC.
And yet you can quite happily run Windows on a Mac. Don't redefine words at whim.
Oh you can move the stuff. You can move it from the Switch or Xbox TO your Playstation account. But just like a shitty marriage expect to end up in court if you want to leave again.
He'd say, "Good". That's EXACTLY what the Senate was designed for... so that small states would be on an equal footing with the large states.
This is just it. Democracy comes in various flavours. Some representational, some direct, some are tyranny of the minority, but all were designed with a very specific purpose and end goal.
Personally I hate the system in the USA, but there sure is no arguing against the reasons for its creation. There is only arguing if its design was ultimately in the best interest of the people, and in this case that argument depends entirely on which people you are talking about.
do some basic filtering
I think you're underestimating how complex it is to purify CO2 (or overestimating the complexity of brewing). A CO2 recovery system would be by far the most complex process at any brewery and require equipment that well outside of the competence / knowledge of a typical brewery.
That said breweries are starting to adopt this kind of complexity in the form of energy recovery systems and advanced wastewater treatment. CO2 recovery wouldn't be too much above these kinds of processes.
But frankly the costs don't make sense. Unless there is a price on CO2 emissions or other regulations that force it, it is far cheaper to bottle the stuff from other industrial processes. Hell I once worked at a refinery where we literally paid someone to take the CO2 from us.
Yeah I know. I remember when they introduced an RO plant for drinking water from the sewage system in my state and asked the residents what they thought of it. One guy said "It's TOILET WATER! Doesn't matter what they do, it's toilet water!"
Disregard the fact that the town's actual supply of water is a lake with all manner of animals crapping in it, and tests show that it was full of feces, e.coli, and all that wonderful stuff, and that the RO water is orders of magnitude cleaner.
People are weird.
Well known to any military.
Especially the US military where they simply sexually assault their way around. Hard to say you were in a relationship when it's non consensual, amirite?
And before someone asks for sources just remember sexual assault in the US military has a full wikipedia page assigned to it.
GPU prices have not dropped in the last few months, despite drop in demand, and oversupply.
You mean you haven't looked. There were only stories out 2 weeks ago about a fresh round of price cuts with several cards back down at their MSRP.
Here you go: https://www.newegg.com/Product... shop away. The price is right where it should be.
I had the same problem happen to me when I moved internationally. I was accidentally flagged as having left the company in the meantime. So when I got to where I was going I found out I had a new computer, new email, new account, no HR history, nothing. It took the best part of 3 weeks to get me "reinstated" and we're still picking up the pieces now 2 years later.
Why are we picking up pieces? Because there are so many interconnected systems that if you try to manually correct something, abort something, or revert something mid way through a process the processes end up getting all messed up.
Only 2 months ago I was locked out of my office building, because I didn't submit some non-existent and not required paperwork to renew my not actual contractor status in the one system that didn't realise I wasn't a contractor but rather a permanent employee.
To this date my email address in Office365 has the wrong subdomain (Asia/Pacific regional server rather than Europe/Africa regional server). Yet when I change the password on my one, the password automatically propagates through to the other. Just don't try sending an email to the wrong one. Better still IT can't figure it out. Like actually can't. They simply can not find any reference to where the old subdomain link comes from. After 9 months we agreed to ignore the quirk.
Which system? I had the same problem happen to me when I moved internationally. I was accidentally flagged as having left the company in the meantime. So when I got to where I was going I found out I had a new computer, new email, new account, no HR history, nothing. It took the best part of 3 weeks to get me "reinstated" and we're still picking up the pieces now 2 years later.
Why are we picking up pieces? Because there are so many interconnected systems that if you try to manually correct something, abort something, or revert something mid way through a process the processes end up getting all messed up.
Only 2 months ago I was locked out of my office building. Why? Because I didn't submit some non-existent and not required paperwork to renew my not actual contractor status in the one system that didn't realise I wasn't a contractor.
To this date my email address in Office365 has the wrong subdomain on the back of it (Asia/Pacific regional server rather than Europe/Africa regional server). Yet when I change the password on my one, the password automatically propagates through to the other. Just don't try sending an email to the wrong one. Better still IT can't figure it out. Like actually can't. They simply can not find any reference to where the old subdomain link comes from. After 9 months we agreed to ignore the quirk.
This is why I always wondered why electric car enthusiasts just automatically assumed that battery prices would just keep dropping and dropping.
Because electric car producers understand the economics and actively work around them. Do you know *why* battery prices keep dropping? Mainly because of how each successive battery generation seems to have less cobalt than the last.
Panasonic announced last month their aim to have cobalt free batteries very soon. As it is they have around 3% in their cathodes which is phenomenally low compared to the 20% in 2014.
Apparently the truth is
Whose truth?
Jokes aside you know how little CO2 is in the air right? If you are getting CO2 as a result of separating it from the air, ... there's some other steps in between. We for instance separate the air, toss the CO2 away, take the pure O2, combine it with natural gas in a partial oxidation gasifier to create syngas which gets passed through a shift reaction to generate CO2 + H2, the H2 is then used in the oil refinery, the CO2 is purified and put in the beer.
And if you think that sounds bad, remember the other way you get it is as a byproduct of ammonia production :-). Just let that go through your head the next time you wonder why your carbonated beverage tastes bitter.*
*This isn't the reason, but now you will be wondering every single time.
Why not change the taste and texture of the beer people know and love? How did that work out for cocacola again? You don't just change a recipe at whim because of a minor shortage. You run the risk of actually alienating your customers, who otherwise will return to your brand when it is available again.
Why the hell would there be a seasonal shutdown when there is year-round demand?
That's an easy one. Basically it's not cost effective to produce CO2 by itself. CO2 production is usually a byproduct of air-separation and hydrogen generation at oil refineries, bio-ethanol plants, or (and the biggest one in the UK) ammonia plants. The shutdown of refineries and bio-ethanol plants are not within the control of the CO2 suppliers, but they favour summer due to reduced weather delays and improved efficiencies of workers not freezing their tits off.
The ammonia plants on the other hand ... they are seasonal. They shutdown for maintenance yearly in the summer after doing heavy production for fertilizer in the winter and spring for the main growing season.
That and at least one Linde plant is down because someone did a woopse one the main air separation compressor train which looks like it may take quite a while before it comes back online. Though I'm not sure if that was in the UK or on the continent, I didn't care about the notice I saw until I heard the beer was affected...
And drink it warm like the British do just to really punish the few tastebuds you have left.
Yuk. I'll take a Belgian Trappist beer over that weird stuff that the British drink anyday.