The main source of CO2 is not "corporations", but personal transportation and residential power. It is YOU, not "them".
Yes and we all know that corporations and producers will happily sit and eat the cost of compliance because shareholders don't like money. Taxing corporations is the most efficient way to do it. Ultimately it will be YOU that pays the money anyway, but it's far easier to collect a tax on a consolidated level.
And in the end, you have a bunch of tanks of CO2 that nobody wants.
Or you could put it somewhere. Pumping it into decommissioned wells under ground may be a good start.
Generally I don't think the cost of carbon capture stacks up for energy generation against green energy forms but we will always have cases where we emit something (industrial processes for example) so capturing that may be a good idea.
Depends how you define real cost. If you define it as money spent on engineering construction and materials, then there's nothing "real" about the cost of nuclear and there hasn't been since the 60s.
Not even close. Transmission lines are about 90-95% efficient.
Grids on the other hand have on top of that: multiple stages of transformers, switch rooms, losses through reactive power, losses due to harmonics, slow reaction to load changes and shifts, not to mention major losses due to backfeeding from end users generation like solar through systems that were designed to be efficient feeding the other direction.
The answer is still no, but that's because they're playing buzzword bingo rather than just calling it an intelligent control system. Not everything needs "an OS" or "AI".
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
I'm not sure about you, but I don't fly in a plane to get connected with the world. Hell when I fly long enough on the plane I disconnect altogether and go to sleep.
If you want a joy flight through the grand canyon, take a joy flight through the grand canyon. The vast majority of what you see in flying is less interesting than a picture in photoshop made of a blue gradient that suddenly changes to white.
The world is a beautiful place. You're a monster if you think you're doing it any justice from the window of a commercial airliner which is primarily designed to move people from A to B as quickly and cheaply as possible.
I would love it if every one of the Top 5 (Apple, Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon) said "You know what? Fuck it. We're out" and just left Europe entirely. Just leave it to its own devices.
And why would they do that? Let's add some perspective:
2017 net profit: $27bn EU market: 10% of the world EU market for rich western consumers: 60% of world EU fine: $2.8bn
I feel like I'm missing something....
Oh that's right: Tax avoidance due to double Irish with a Dutch sandwich: $3.8bn
Yeah I'd be putting up with a lot of fines for that kind of a sweet deal.
would it just be more profitable to stay away from the EU
So just to be clear what you're saying is that staying away from a rich market twice the size of the USA is more profitable because of measly $2.8bn fine? I take it you've never actually seen a financial report before. You know that fine is less than Google's EU tax avoidance scheme right? A company that made $26bn last year, a large chunk of which was in EU business.
But yeah, let's make knee jerk reactions about something which we know nothing about because of ${scarybignumber}
They're amount of space that they're measuring is minuscule compared to the size of the universe. The amount of time they're measuring is tiny compared to the total span of possible time.
As others have pointed out the space isn't as small as you think, but there's something more fundamental about physics here. We don't conclusively prove much of anything by observation in physics. What we do is increase our confidence.
This experiment increased confidence significantly due to the duration of time and the movement of the earth during this time.
The point was that there is more to communication than throwing words out there and expecting people to understand you.
Any 'tone' you impart is mostly of your own making. I can't provide you with one nor select what you choose to perceive.
That my friend is where you are very wrong. There are multiple ways of saying exactly the same thing in ways that can be taken completely differently. The tone is entirely within your control as the person communicating. The difference betwen positive negative and the level of aggression isn't even good or bad (though sometimes it can be seen as appropriate or inappropriate, not that any of it happened here). However in order to further a discussion it does have to be consistent.
That you continue to get bent even after I said I had no implications is also perplexing.
I'm not bent at all. I'm not even part of the original conversation. Just providing some critique on debate which needlessly caused tension where none existed. My post is advice as is. You can take it or leave it. I have zero skin in the game either way. It shouldn't be perplexing that a 3rd party offers friendly advice. That is really all this is. But if you're not interested in talking then I'll happily leave it be.
He's not in the least bit incompetent. He is doing the thing he knows how to do best: Enrich himself through corruption. ZTE had nothing to do about politics. https://www.huffingtonpost.co....
5 days. That's all it took. 5 days from May 9th where Trump helped kill ZTE, to getting a major investment from the Chinese, to Trump helping bail ZTE out tweeting about his concern for Chinese jobs.
Trump's administration is openly pay-to-play, which begs the question, what does Trump get out of this transaction?
$500million
May 8th: Trump announces sanctions on ZTE. May 9th: ZTE announces it will shutdown phone business. May 11th: $500m investment from China http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/... May 13th: Trump tweets concern about Chinese jobs lost with ZTE, confirms he spoke to Xi, and tells the commerce department to "get it done".
It's not like refusing to even talk to the police or pleading the 5th to every question isn't going to make you look really suspicious even if you're completely innocent. Oh wait...
No you're already suspicious. The point is not giving an inch of rope to the hangman.
The minor engineering problem prevents the 1.21GW passing through your server. Seriously this is especially trivial to do in this scenario with easy energy dissipation, easy shielding, local earth reference due to local generation, and isolation of external connections (unless you don't chose to connect via fibre because you don't like bandwidth in your datacentre).
This is literally one of the best cases for lightning protection. It is far worse putting a datacentre in a building on land.
Man are we going to get this copy paste rubbish upvoted on every Slashdot article discussing a gun? That despite it's obvious faults of attempting to separate school shootings from gun violence for the purposes of statistic abuse?
No this is a whoosh whoosh whoosh. Missing a geographical joke is one thing. Missing a geographical joke in reply to a geographical joke in reply to everyone stuffing up the geographical part of a former Slashdot article is another thing altogether.
But that is their policy. At no point did they say they will host games that are banned. At no point did they say they will not advertise regional ratings.
The thing that may upset the very people who are unhappy about life the universe and everything is that the game itself wasn't actually banned, just removed from Steam due to a silly policy of thought-policing.
Turn it around. Why would users be unhappy? Are they forced to buy it? No where does it say Valve will promote the titles. If you're unhappy because someone else somewhere in the world that doesn't affect you is an arsehole, maybe the correct answer is not to be locking all of society in a bubble but rather a healthy dose of antidepressents.
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Yeah that Anonymous Coward is a bastard.
Or maybe you just can let the moderation system take care of it. I've not seen a poem, and you can too!
The main source of CO2 is not "corporations", but personal transportation and residential power. It is YOU, not "them".
Yes and we all know that corporations and producers will happily sit and eat the cost of compliance because shareholders don't like money. Taxing corporations is the most efficient way to do it. Ultimately it will be YOU that pays the money anyway, but it's far easier to collect a tax on a consolidated level.
And in the end, you have a bunch of tanks of CO2 that nobody wants.
Or you could put it somewhere. Pumping it into decommissioned wells under ground may be a good start.
Generally I don't think the cost of carbon capture stacks up for energy generation against green energy forms but we will always have cases where we emit something (industrial processes for example) so capturing that may be a good idea.
That's the real cost.
Depends how you define real cost. If you define it as money spent on engineering construction and materials, then there's nothing "real" about the cost of nuclear and there hasn't been since the 60s.
... so I'm leaning towards a "no" answer.
Not even close. Transmission lines are about 90-95% efficient.
Grids on the other hand have on top of that: multiple stages of transformers, switch rooms, losses through reactive power, losses due to harmonics, slow reaction to load changes and shifts, not to mention major losses due to backfeeding from end users generation like solar through systems that were designed to be efficient feeding the other direction.
The answer is still no, but that's because they're playing buzzword bingo rather than just calling it an intelligent control system. Not everything needs "an OS" or "AI".
More disturbing is how few people here seem to have a problem with this. Are we so disconnected from our world that an image on an LCD display is not only suitable but preferable to a window?
I'm not sure about you, but I don't fly in a plane to get connected with the world. Hell when I fly long enough on the plane I disconnect altogether and go to sleep.
If you want a joy flight through the grand canyon, take a joy flight through the grand canyon. The vast majority of what you see in flying is less interesting than a picture in photoshop made of a blue gradient that suddenly changes to white.
The world is a beautiful place. You're a monster if you think you're doing it any justice from the window of a commercial airliner which is primarily designed to move people from A to B as quickly and cheaply as possible.
Queue the claustrophobia.....
Man am I glad planes never fly at night, and there's no scenarios where flights require you to close windows. /sarcasm.
I would love it if every one of the Top 5 (Apple, Microsoft, Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon) said "You know what? Fuck it. We're out" and just left Europe entirely. Just leave it to its own devices.
And why would they do that? Let's add some perspective:
2017 net profit: $27bn
EU market: 10% of the world
EU market for rich western consumers: 60% of world
EU fine: $2.8bn
I feel like I'm missing something....
Oh that's right: Tax avoidance due to double Irish with a Dutch sandwich: $3.8bn
Yeah I'd be putting up with a lot of fines for that kind of a sweet deal.
They have what now? As an European, this is the first time I am hearing about "google's shopping platform", ever
It's okay. I too have never typed in a product name on the internet.
What is preventing the EU from coming up with a better: hardware combination? Better search engine? Better operating system?
Monopolies abusing their power?
If the EU wants a search without the things Google offers and requires of its users, why don't they just build a state sponsored service
I'm going to go with anti-trust abuse, you know ... kind of the entire point which you are complaining about.
would it just be more profitable to stay away from the EU
So just to be clear what you're saying is that staying away from a rich market twice the size of the USA is more profitable because of measly $2.8bn fine? I take it you've never actually seen a financial report before. You know that fine is less than Google's EU tax avoidance scheme right? A company that made $26bn last year, a large chunk of which was in EU business.
But yeah, let's make knee jerk reactions about something which we know nothing about because of ${scarybignumber}
They're amount of space that they're measuring is minuscule compared to the size of the universe. The amount of time they're measuring is tiny compared to the total span of possible time.
As others have pointed out the space isn't as small as you think, but there's something more fundamental about physics here. We don't conclusively prove much of anything by observation in physics. What we do is increase our confidence.
This experiment increased confidence significantly due to the duration of time and the movement of the earth during this time.
Particularly when it comes to having a point.
The point was that there is more to communication than throwing words out there and expecting people to understand you.
Any 'tone' you impart is mostly of your own making. I can't provide you with one nor select what you choose to perceive.
That my friend is where you are very wrong. There are multiple ways of saying exactly the same thing in ways that can be taken completely differently. The tone is entirely within your control as the person communicating. The difference betwen positive negative and the level of aggression isn't even good or bad (though sometimes it can be seen as appropriate or inappropriate, not that any of it happened here). However in order to further a discussion it does have to be consistent.
That you continue to get bent even after I said I had no implications is also perplexing.
I'm not bent at all. I'm not even part of the original conversation. Just providing some critique on debate which needlessly caused tension where none existed. My post is advice as is. You can take it or leave it. I have zero skin in the game either way. It shouldn't be perplexing that a 3rd party offers friendly advice. That is really all this is. But if you're not interested in talking then I'll happily leave it be.
He's not in the least bit incompetent. He is doing the thing he knows how to do best: Enrich himself through corruption. ZTE had nothing to do about politics. https://www.huffingtonpost.co....
5 days. That's all it took. 5 days from May 9th where Trump helped kill ZTE, to getting a major investment from the Chinese, to Trump helping bail ZTE out tweeting about his concern for Chinese jobs.
ZTE has to embed NSA spyware into their US-market devices... or maybe all of their devices.
Don't be daft. Trump is in this for personal gain not to prop up the NSA: https://www.huffingtonpost.co....
Trump's administration is openly pay-to-play, which begs the question, what does Trump get out of this transaction?
$500million
May 8th: Trump announces sanctions on ZTE.
May 9th: ZTE announces it will shutdown phone business.
May 11th: $500m investment from China http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/...
May 13th: Trump tweets concern about Chinese jobs lost with ZTE, confirms he spoke to Xi, and tells the commerce department to "get it done".
It's not like refusing to even talk to the police or pleading the 5th to every question isn't going to make you look really suspicious even if you're completely innocent. Oh wait...
No you're already suspicious. The point is not giving an inch of rope to the hangman.
Also nickname checks out :-)
Sand n1gger refugees have invaded stupid Europe. Time to open up safaris and hunt for crocks.
Were you born like this or did you hone this level of intelligence over many years?
But don't those whooshes flow in the opposite direction below the equator?
So Whoosh + Whoosh + (-Whoosh) = Whoosh?
The minor engineering problem prevents the 1.21GW passing through your server. Seriously this is especially trivial to do in this scenario with easy energy dissipation, easy shielding, local earth reference due to local generation, and isolation of external connections (unless you don't chose to connect via fibre because you don't like bandwidth in your datacentre).
This is literally one of the best cases for lightning protection. It is far worse putting a datacentre in a building on land.
Man are we going to get this copy paste rubbish upvoted on every Slashdot article discussing a gun? That despite it's obvious faults of attempting to separate school shootings from gun violence for the purposes of statistic abuse?
No this is a whoosh whoosh whoosh. Missing a geographical joke is one thing. Missing a geographical joke in reply to a geographical joke in reply to everyone stuffing up the geographical part of a former Slashdot article is another thing altogether.
But that is their policy. At no point did they say they will host games that are banned. At no point did they say they will not advertise regional ratings.
The thing that may upset the very people who are unhappy about life the universe and everything is that the game itself wasn't actually banned, just removed from Steam due to a silly policy of thought-policing.
that users will be happy?
Turn it around. Why would users be unhappy? Are they forced to buy it? No where does it say Valve will promote the titles. If you're unhappy because someone else somewhere in the world that doesn't affect you is an arsehole, maybe the correct answer is not to be locking all of society in a bubble but rather a healthy dose of antidepressents.