Time. I mean sure if you're going to use data and talking points built up from last decade mixed in some garbage data (Australia's electricity price had nothing to do with renewables as much as deregulation, god plating, and the government fucking up the market) you can make the trend say anything.
Do you own a computer? Here let me show you a graph from the 80s which proves that computers are only available to the top 1%... because we all know prices are fixed across time.
honestly, this is not a cost of doing business. block access to EU countries. see what happens.
You think a $2.7 billion fine for doing something illegal is *not* a cost of doing business is a market of a predominantly well off 1/10th of the human race? You're delusional if you think Google would even consider pulling out of the EU over chump change. Google earns that kind of money each month in Europe. Hell Google happily wrote off the $5 billion fine in one go last time without even spreading it over accounting quarters and while their EPS took a hit that quarter the result was still a massive profit.
But the problem with the EU approach is they don't state exactly how to stop the behavior.
What law on any book gives you instructions on how to not break it? It's not difficult to understand anti-trust regulations and abuse of market power.
They instead require companies to propose a solution, and they will reply whether or not they think the solution is good enough. If they don't think it's good enough, the company has to go back to the drawing board, come up with a new solution, and propose that. Repeat.
There is of course an alternative: Just impose daily fines until the process stops. Is that the answer you were after? Many large legal cases work in exactly this way. The point is to create a discourse that ends the behaviour rather than dragging on endless legal battles as preferred in America.
Anti-competitive behaviour isn't a made up crime. It's a crime in most countries. The fact America chooses not to pursue it despite also having anti-trust laws in place doesn't mean they are imaginary.
I wonder how soon the west will realize that this approach is destroying us?
Want to destroy the west? De-regulate the free market. The free market is inherently unstable with more than one company in it and will eventually consolidate to a monopoly. How great that would be. Fancy a dinner at Taco bell? Every restaurant is now taco bell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Think about why they never gave him permanent permission to stay!
Because countries typically don't grant permanent permission for anyone claiming political asylum to stay? Because he's not wealthy and doesn't qualify for economic citizenship? Because Russia doesn't grant PR lightly to foreigners, especially American spies?
I can keep thinking all day. How many perfectly normal reasons which apply to many countries and many people do you want me to come up with?
No one gives a rats ass what a kids opinion is because they don't have the knowledge, life experience, or maturity to take part in politics. (not to say that adults are any better)
The fact that you think politics is in any way made up of knowledge, life experience, of maturity (I literally spat coffee on my screen at this one) is just golden.
Indeed it has. It has helped weed them out of the gene pool. After all there's a massive disparity in how both changing climate and pollution affects the rich and the poor. The poor are more likely to suffer in extreme weather events. The poor are more likely to suffer from pollution primarily from that cheap thing that is supporting them.
What water are you talking about? River water? Do you dam a major river? Storm water? Where do you put that? Expend endless energy pumping it inland and uphill?
There's a reason water is left to flow into the ocean. It's frequently too expensive to do anything else with.
There's a fundamental problem with storm water, it ends up in cities, and cities are often close to the coast which makes it very difficult to do anything useful with storm water. It's not like you can put a giant dam across the beach. This is precisely why stormwater is ejected into the sea and yet captured inland in dams and lakes.
Of course a lot of manufacturers like to pretend oil and such don't get acidic and eat away at the aluminum.
There's a reason why manufacturers say that, and it has something to do with you not realising that oil has changed a lot over the years. In the meantime my 14 year old car is working as well as the day I bought it, it gets an oil change every ~20000 miles. But sure piss money against the wall if you want.
You don't have 3 sensors available, you've changed the design of the plane. But since you're advanced enough to acknowledge that 2 sensors aren't suitable you're a damn sight better than most of the Slashdot armchair wannabie engineers, so I tip my hat to you already since this would be the only solution that really makes sense.
But let's continue. You've just designated the "safe" state to disable a fundamental stability system on the plane, one which makes the plane respond differently to the pilot. This is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
I do agree you don't fly without working instruments, and I'd be very surprised if this wasn't already the case.
However, pretty much everyone will have to make a long trip from time to time
Indeed. That's when you rent a car. Why would anyone buy a car for something they do rarely? If you can't afford two cars then you should be focusing on affordability, not trying to buy a jack of all trades. They are almost universally more expensive to run.
Speaking of long trips if you can't drive it in a single charge of an EV, chances are it's more cost effective to take a flight or a train. There's something distinctly American about this idea of driving anywhere.
Missing 20% of your school days doesn't seem like a good way to achieving their goals. If you don't have a good education, how do you expect to be able to effect positive change in the world? Fixing things takes more than good intentions.
If your education being good depends on 20% of attendance you've already lost.
Speaking of good intentions you are absolutely right. The problem is most of the stupid shits running the world don't have the least bit of good intentions.
But are they willing to make real sacrifices for the environment? Probably not.
They are doing what they can which is voicing their opinions to those who actually make decisions for them. After all you did correctly identify they are kids. What are they going to do? Vote out governments?
You have to give up meat. You can't buy electronics devices. You can't use plastics. Can't drink milk or consume many other animal products unless they are expensive sustainable varieties.
Man cut the hyperbole. There's metric shit-ton of stuff you can do for the environment that doesn't involve any of that and has far more impact than any of the things you just mentioned.
Give up any sports or extracurriculars that require you to travel by bus.
Their parents could learn a lot by example of people using a bus. That alone would be a good for the environment.
When kids do those things, they will be standing on firm moral ground.
They are standing on much higher moral ground than you after you just wasted electricity to post your declaration of being an arsehole.
In fact, according to 10+ years ago we only had 10 years to fix things or we're done for.
We did. Those predictions still stand. There's fuck ton going wrong with the world at an ever increasing rate and even cutting back now won't actually solve the problem.
until they come up with solutions other than "Give me money" "Give me power" then I'll believe them
I know. Those evil mad scientists with their Ferraris and their evil lairs keeping you down. I to pollute the world just to spite them.
Until then, this whole thing is too politicized to believe EITHER side as having the gospel truth.
Oh I get it now. You've been getting your science from politicians rather than scientists. It's an easy mistake to make. May I interest you in some conspiracy theory? You likely to love those.
I still don't understand. Sounds like a completely optional activity to me. I don't know any EV owner who has ever used one of these "superchargers", and one of those EV owners (my colleage) like me works in a different country to the one in which he lives and will very likely return the battery before the warranty period expires due to over use of his car.
I do on the other hand know plenty of EV owners who get into their car every day and are greeted with full range and ready to go.
Also I was part of a study group into impact of ICE vehicles on consumer behaviour on their fuel cycle. Currently the average time spent on an american city forecourt is 9minutes, the average spent on an interstate truckstop forecourt is 14minutes. That can put a shitton of "fuel" into an EV at one of your superchargers. The only people who spend an hour standing about at the supercharger are those that actually want to stand there.
You what? I thought I was being generous with my comment. No I change my oil when the car asks me to. For me that's every 19000 miles or one calendar year, whichever comes first. My now 15 year old beater still has no problems, and the *average* speed on the engine is close to 60mph thanks to the engine spending a significant chunk of its life sitting on the redline while I tear down the autobahn (units converted for American viewers).
My guess is for maximum engine life, you might want to push that down to 3-4K which would mean maybe 4 changes per year.
I think you missed the fact that modern oil isn't the same shit we poured into our engines in the 70s. There's absolutely no car that needs oil changes that frequently anymore.
Maybe you should fix your horrible WiFi network. I use it just fine. No discernable lag as far as I can see on either of my networks, even the room with some questionable coverage is still playable.
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Time. I mean sure if you're going to use data and talking points built up from last decade mixed in some garbage data (Australia's electricity price had nothing to do with renewables as much as deregulation, god plating, and the government fucking up the market) you can make the trend say anything.
Do you own a computer? Here let me show you a graph from the 80s which proves that computers are only available to the top 1%... because we all know prices are fixed across time.
Wow. Do you get all your talking points from Trump rallies, or do you reserve bullshit only for EU stories?
honestly, this is not a cost of doing business. block access to EU countries. see what happens.
You think a $2.7 billion fine for doing something illegal is *not* a cost of doing business is a market of a predominantly well off 1/10th of the human race? You're delusional if you think Google would even consider pulling out of the EU over chump change. Google earns that kind of money each month in Europe. Hell Google happily wrote off the $5 billion fine in one go last time without even spreading it over accounting quarters and while their EPS took a hit that quarter the result was still a massive profit.
But the problem with the EU approach is they don't state exactly how to stop the behavior.
What law on any book gives you instructions on how to not break it? It's not difficult to understand anti-trust regulations and abuse of market power.
They instead require companies to propose a solution, and they will reply whether or not they think the solution is good enough. If they don't think it's good enough, the company has to go back to the drawing board, come up with a new solution, and propose that. Repeat.
There is of course an alternative: Just impose daily fines until the process stops. Is that the answer you were after? Many large legal cases work in exactly this way. The point is to create a discourse that ends the behaviour rather than dragging on endless legal battles as preferred in America.
them make up crimes
Anti-competitive behaviour isn't a made up crime. It's a crime in most countries. The fact America chooses not to pursue it despite also having anti-trust laws in place doesn't mean they are imaginary.
I wonder how soon the west will realize that this approach is destroying us?
Want to destroy the west? De-regulate the free market. The free market is inherently unstable with more than one company in it and will eventually consolidate to a monopoly. How great that would be. Fancy a dinner at Taco bell? Every restaurant is now taco bell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That last one really IS to much as now you have an app that can intercept your password manager.
Think about why they never gave him permanent permission to stay!
Because countries typically don't grant permanent permission for anyone claiming political asylum to stay? Because he's not wealthy and doesn't qualify for economic citizenship? Because Russia doesn't grant PR lightly to foreigners, especially American spies?
I can keep thinking all day. How many perfectly normal reasons which apply to many countries and many people do you want me to come up with?
Wow you really are special.
"hear" "global". I don't think you know what those words mean.
EVERYWHERE.
Rick Sanchez is that you?
Kids skipping school opportunistically
To go stand in front of parliament? What the hell kind of weird kids do you know?
No one gives a rats ass what a kids opinion is because they don't have the knowledge, life experience, or maturity to take part in politics. (not to say that adults are any better)
The fact that you think politics is in any way made up of knowledge, life experience, of maturity (I literally spat coffee on my screen at this one) is just golden.
Good post. +5 funny. Would read again.
Cheap energy has helped poor people.
Indeed it has. It has helped weed them out of the gene pool. After all there's a massive disparity in how both changing climate and pollution affects the rich and the poor. The poor are more likely to suffer in extreme weather events. The poor are more likely to suffer from pollution primarily from that cheap thing that is supporting them.
Yay for cheap energy. /sarcasm
What water are you talking about? River water? Do you dam a major river? Storm water? Where do you put that? Expend endless energy pumping it inland and uphill?
There's a reason water is left to flow into the ocean. It's frequently too expensive to do anything else with.
There's a fundamental problem with storm water, it ends up in cities, and cities are often close to the coast which makes it very difficult to do anything useful with storm water. It's not like you can put a giant dam across the beach. This is precisely why stormwater is ejected into the sea and yet captured inland in dams and lakes.
Of course a lot of manufacturers like to pretend oil and such don't get acidic and eat away at the aluminum.
There's a reason why manufacturers say that, and it has something to do with you not realising that oil has changed a lot over the years. In the meantime my 14 year old car is working as well as the day I bought it, it gets an oil change every ~20000 miles. But sure piss money against the wall if you want.
You have 3 sensors and vote.
You don't have 3 sensors available, you've changed the design of the plane. But since you're advanced enough to acknowledge that 2 sensors aren't suitable you're a damn sight better than most of the Slashdot armchair wannabie engineers, so I tip my hat to you already since this would be the only solution that really makes sense.
But let's continue. You've just designated the "safe" state to disable a fundamental stability system on the plane, one which makes the plane respond differently to the pilot. This is an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
I do agree you don't fly without working instruments, and I'd be very surprised if this wasn't already the case.
However, pretty much everyone will have to make a long trip from time to time
Indeed. That's when you rent a car. Why would anyone buy a car for something they do rarely? If you can't afford two cars then you should be focusing on affordability, not trying to buy a jack of all trades. They are almost universally more expensive to run.
Speaking of long trips if you can't drive it in a single charge of an EV, chances are it's more cost effective to take a flight or a train. There's something distinctly American about this idea of driving anywhere.
Missing 20% of your school days doesn't seem like a good way to achieving their goals. If you don't have a good education, how do you expect to be able to effect positive change in the world? Fixing things takes more than good intentions.
If your education being good depends on 20% of attendance you've already lost.
Speaking of good intentions you are absolutely right. The problem is most of the stupid shits running the world don't have the least bit of good intentions.
But are they willing to make real sacrifices for the environment? Probably not.
They are doing what they can which is voicing their opinions to those who actually make decisions for them. After all you did correctly identify they are kids. What are they going to do? Vote out governments?
You have to give up meat. You can't buy electronics devices. You can't use plastics. Can't drink milk or consume many other animal products unless they are expensive sustainable varieties.
Man cut the hyperbole. There's metric shit-ton of stuff you can do for the environment that doesn't involve any of that and has far more impact than any of the things you just mentioned.
Give up any sports or extracurriculars that require you to travel by bus.
Their parents could learn a lot by example of people using a bus. That alone would be a good for the environment.
When kids do those things, they will be standing on firm moral ground.
They are standing on much higher moral ground than you after you just wasted electricity to post your declaration of being an arsehole.
In fact, according to 10+ years ago we only had 10 years to fix things or we're done for.
We did. Those predictions still stand. There's fuck ton going wrong with the world at an ever increasing rate and even cutting back now won't actually solve the problem.
until they come up with solutions other than "Give me money" "Give me power" then I'll believe them
I know. Those evil mad scientists with their Ferraris and their evil lairs keeping you down. I to pollute the world just to spite them.
Until then, this whole thing is too politicized to believe EITHER side as having the gospel truth.
Oh I get it now. You've been getting your science from politicians rather than scientists. It's an easy mistake to make. May I interest you in some conspiracy theory? You likely to love those.
I still don't understand. Sounds like a completely optional activity to me. I don't know any EV owner who has ever used one of these "superchargers", and one of those EV owners (my colleage) like me works in a different country to the one in which he lives and will very likely return the battery before the warranty period expires due to over use of his car.
I do on the other hand know plenty of EV owners who get into their car every day and are greeted with full range and ready to go.
Also I was part of a study group into impact of ICE vehicles on consumer behaviour on their fuel cycle. Currently the average time spent on an american city forecourt is 9minutes, the average spent on an interstate truckstop forecourt is 14minutes. That can put a shitton of "fuel" into an EV at one of your superchargers. The only people who spend an hour standing about at the supercharger are those that actually want to stand there.
You what? I thought I was being generous with my comment. No I change my oil when the car asks me to. For me that's every 19000 miles or one calendar year, whichever comes first. My now 15 year old beater still has no problems, and the *average* speed on the engine is close to 60mph thanks to the engine spending a significant chunk of its life sitting on the redline while I tear down the autobahn (units converted for American viewers).
My guess is for maximum engine life, you might want to push that down to 3-4K which would mean maybe 4 changes per year.
I think you missed the fact that modern oil isn't the same shit we poured into our engines in the 70s. There's absolutely no car that needs oil changes that frequently anymore.
Maybe you should fix your horrible WiFi network. I use it just fine. No discernable lag as far as I can see on either of my networks, even the room with some questionable coverage is still playable.