You mean how an 'unpaid' mule replaced a farm hard earning a wage? Throughout the course of history everything has been pushed down, simplified and cheapened. The way to stay ahead of that is to adapt.
You mean like how ~20-25 years ago I would be paid and hourly wage to work picking stuff like tobacco, blueberries, strawberries and so on? And now they pay people who they import into the country seasonally by weight. Yes, very pushed down, simplified and cheapened. People no longer want to do those jobs because the wages they're paying because they've been artificially depressed can no longer sustain people living within the same country.
LOL an Ontario Conservative shill on Slashdot, whodathunkit!
LOL look a big city Liberal shill, that can't even read their own links, and doesn't know what they're talking about. And doesn't think that people are having problems affording electricity! Sorry for "typing on my phone" and not getting that "8" in there idiot. Don't worry though, if you can't readgenerally up to I know, difficult. You should go look at all those "wind mill and solar" projects and you'll suddenly realize that most weigh under 500kW in order to milk the system.
Germany also has "absurd high" feed in tariffs for wind and solar, but the end user prices don't sky rock through the roof.
You mean like 0.30kWh isn't expensive and sky high? That's not counting regional fluctuations but an averaged price. Where prices can hit over 0.44kWh.
In the aftermath of the Brexit Vote there was a very large surge in racist and racially motivated attacks
Don't forget the number of groups you've had in the UK making false claims, and it was such a problem that at least one group was banned and refused funding as well. Just a FYI it was a muslim group making up crimes.
It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario,that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%
You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.
Politically in the current climate, it's easier to dissect the population based on skin colour or religion rather than behaviour.
I guess that's why they're having so much of a problem with native germans committing sexual assault compared to oh migrants right? No no, I understand. That 105% increase in one quarter from migrants wasn't real. The media and government weren't suppressing stories, and you're not going to be arrested for pointing out facts or put on trial for stating your opinion. Double plus good comrade, please enjoy your extra chocolate ration.
Is the data in your hand, as in you can leaf through it yourself, or do you merely control who has access to it?
It can be, you only have to request it. You can also revoke access if you take your data with it you. The laws protects you in that regard, your data is yours.
Are you responsible for bringing all of your heath records to the physician's office, or do they already have them all and you're merely "authorizing" them to access the records?
If you're moving from a doctors office to another? Yes. You are responsible. Doctor-patient privileges "kick in" you only authorize the party you want.
So to answer your questions:
#1 Yes if you want.
#2 Only pertaining information, otherwise it's secondary. Hospital, doctors office, and so on. There are no 3rd parties that have access.
#3 The government has no access unless you grant it to them.
#4 Doctors officers only hold them if you go to that doctor, you can request them at any time. No insurance companies, billing services, have access to any form of your medical records unless you stipulate it.
Unless you know otherwise, the steering and brakes always have mechanical fail-safes. In particular I'm familiar with the Infinity Q50 system.
Depends on what you define as "mechanical fail-safes" if in theory the electronic actuator is supposed to engage the clutch in the event of the motor failure is considered a fail-safe I guess so. Nissan dumped their "drive by wire" design because even when the electric motor system disengaged, there was a chance that the mechanical system wouldn't. And while there haven't been any failures on the Q50 yet, the chance that an electric re-engage of the linkage clutch failing is possible. In theory it's a 3-part system, but each part can independently fail because they all rely on one thing: Electricity. That in my book means that there is no mechanical fall back. Even on lift trucks that have steer-by-wire, if the electric motors for steering fail most designs are a complete cut of power and engaging of the brakes. But brakes have been known not to engage because of relay failures. The difference between a gasoline engine and most lift trucks though is that the electric motor that moves it, enables it to slowdown quickly. Even when the weights of a lift truck can be more then your average sedan when loaded.
Brakes get a bit more...interesting. The emergency brake is considered the fallback. But you can find cars that use an electric motor at the engage the system instead of a manual cable to engage those too.
Yep. Ditching the steering wheel and the pedals would be really, really dumb. It would mean that if the car had a problem it would be stuck where it is.
Surprise! The very high end cars have already done this. Lexus, BMW, Rolls Royce, several others all have drive-by-wire systems, the steering wheel is controlled by individual electric motors(sometimes a single motor). And and electric motor on the pedal simulates the feel of hydraulic pressure.
Of course the president elect actually having used his foundation to bribe TWO different state attorney generals not to criminally charge him - is entirely acceptable right ?
Sure. Just like one of the previous Prime Ministers(Jean Chretien) of Canada knowingly having been involved in illegally funneling money into the party Liberal Party. It took a RCMP investigation, and nearly 20 years and 3 party changes(around 5-6 news sittings in government) in government before anyone was even put in prison over it. You enjoying what corruption looks like yet?
Just like how there's now the starting of a new pay-for-play scandal starting with Justin Trudeau.
Yes, I'm telling you, Canada and the US are the same here. It's still not your data. You control the access, but that's about it. It's "your" data, not your data.
The law is telling you it's not. The privacy act makes that fundamentally clear. So do things like PHIPA and so do things like PIPEDA. "Your" data is yours, PHIPA even goes further allowing patients to "lock box" personal information from ALL parties except those directly disclosed.
Nope, this is the status quo as described in #4. You don't keep your data, the clinic does. You may "own" it but that ownership is only de jure.
Nope. In Canada a clinic is a "doctors office." On top of that the only person that can transfer records from doctor to doctor is the patient. This is a fundamental part of the privacy act.
If nuclear is so cheap, then why does the British government have to guarantee a minimum price
Why don't you ask the UK government? I'm sure we can already guess what the answer is, massive corruption and giant kick-backs. That is the same country that's willing to cover up anything that dares to damage the crown or the leader in power remember.
1. You own your data and control its access entirely. Every time physicians, clinics, pharmacists, researchers, etc need or want access to your data, you must authorize them (to whatever extent you wish, for however long, etc).
This is how it basically works in Canada, access can be revoked at any time as well. It works fine, you don't need to carry your medical information around with you, you don't need some device. You're not responsible either, but each individual organization/doctor/pharmacist/etc is responsible for the data they store. Ex: My pharmacist has access to the two doctors I permit them to access to(one is family(GP), the other is my neurologist(spinal cord treatment and migraines)), they are limited under the privacy act to what information they can request. Such as "is this the medication you've prescribed." Or "this medication conflicts with another that they're on, we'd recommend this medication instead. Do we have your permission to change it." This is covered in our privacy act, some provinces have further enforcement in regards to personalized data. In Canada government agencies have to get your permission before it can be shared even between agencies. Ex: Revenue Canada can't share between Health Canada. OHIP(Ontario Health Insurance) can't share between Health Canada, etc. Failures/breaches/etc are covered under the privacy act. The range of actions can be from the company/corporation itself right down to actions against individuals.
If you show up at a hospital for diagnostic tests, you sign a waiver on who those diagnostic tests go to or where you want them to go besides the assigning physician. The hospital holds a master copy. Go for diagnostic tests at a lab? They only go directly to the assigning physician, the lab keeps no physical copies.
Since they're already vastly cheaper than nuclear, your argument is shit. Get a real one. We're all tired of yours.
No, they're not vastly cheaper then nuclear. At between $0.50kWh and $1.50kWh they are no where near as cheap whennuclear is $0.07-0.08kWh including refurbishment costs for the reactor after 25-35 years. Hell it costs between $40m and $150m to build a 1GW natural gas power station in the asshole of Canada which pays for itself in under 10 years, it costs nearly $800m for solar or wind over 50-70 years to pay for it. That's at current rates.
By this metric, I "divested" myself last year of a substantial amount of energy sector stocks and reallocated to "green" electric utilities.
Useful tip: Get out of "green energy" in the next 12 months, the market is about to crash on those, since governments are pulling funds out of FiT programs and loans/allocations to solar and wind power. The green energy market it at peak, just like it was in 2008. You can take my warning or not, but don't cry over it when it does happen and you did nothing.
I gave the same warning to people who were heavily invested in property in Vancouver around 5 months ago, people said that the 15% foreign tax wouldn't amount to anything. Well, the housing market there is now crashing and is down 30% in the last 45 days. This is likely going to spread to the rest of Canada within the next year. I'm on the opposite side of the country and we're seeing an uptick in bank foreclosures already. Top that out, you've probably got 6-18mo before the same happens in Seattle where the speculation market has just exploded.
Ooh, ooh! I can answer that one! Absolutely nothing whatsoever, because it's a charitable foundation and doesn't have business contracts with countries in the Middle East.
I guess that's why all those leaders, politicians and so on in the middle east who were demanding to meet with the State Dept., when Clinton was SoS were left hanging outside. Until they turned around and started dumping millions into the Clinton Foundation. FYI it's just shy of $70m from individual countries, and between $55m and $100m from individuals within those countries, who suddenly got "influential meetings" or preferential treatment or loans.
Fossil fuel power stations do not have to pay for the shit they pump into the air, rivers and sea, so they're already being subsidised by the national health problems they cause down the road. Tell them to clean up their shit first, and then let's compare costs.
Bzzt. Costs area already included in Canada, there is a mandatory fund that all power producers and industries must pay into to cover any form of cleanup costs. I know, it hurts that green energy myth that you're pushing that fossil power stations do not have to clean up stuff. But be less ignorant.
Then it hits you: Electricity was never $0.07/kWh, it's just that someone else was paying part of your bill!
Then it hits you: You have no idea on what you're talking about. Electricity has never been subsidized in Ontario, because Ontario has always been a NET producer and NET exporter. Damn those facts huh?
People living under "green energy" recoil in horror as energy prices go through the roof due to FiT programs. Progressives continue to wonder why all those people don't vote for them and, tell their friends that they know what's best for everyone.
You are mixing up end consumer prices with production costs.
No, actually I'm not. Go read those links.
E.g. in Germany the end consumer prices are basically the same, regardless how the power is produced. That is simple to understand as most energy companies run a mix of various power plants.
Nevertheless if you want to build a new 1GW plant: it is cheaper to that with a wind or solar plant, than as a coal or nuclear plant. This is true since roughly 5 years and was covered on/. often enough. Believe what you want.
As it is in Ontario. And those "green energy" produces are what are driving the cost of electricity through the roof. It costs $50m-250m(or less on both amounts) CAD to build a 1GW NG power plant which will pay for itself in under 10 years, it costs $800m+ for a 1GW for solar or wind farm, that will take 50-70 years to pay for itself.
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You mean how an 'unpaid' mule replaced a farm hard earning a wage? Throughout the course of history everything has been pushed down, simplified and cheapened. The way to stay ahead of that is to adapt.
You mean like how ~20-25 years ago I would be paid and hourly wage to work picking stuff like tobacco, blueberries, strawberries and so on? And now they pay people who they import into the country seasonally by weight. Yes, very pushed down, simplified and cheapened. People no longer want to do those jobs because the wages they're paying because they've been artificially depressed can no longer sustain people living within the same country.
AKA you're not paying +42% of wages directly into taxes. Then pay another 13% on top of that with "sales tax" and that's also not counting property taxes. Once all totaled up we're pushing 60-70%
LOL an Ontario Conservative shill on Slashdot, whodathunkit!
LOL look a big city Liberal shill, that can't even read their own links, and doesn't know what they're talking about. And doesn't think that people are having problems affording electricity! Sorry for "typing on my phone" and not getting that "8" in there idiot. Don't worry though, if you can't readgenerally up to I know, difficult. You should go look at all those "wind mill and solar" projects and you'll suddenly realize that most weigh under 500kW in order to milk the system.
Germany also has "absurd high" feed in tariffs for wind and solar, but the end user prices don't sky rock through the roof.
You mean like 0.30kWh isn't expensive and sky high? That's not counting regional fluctuations but an averaged price. Where prices can hit over 0.44kWh.
In the aftermath of the Brexit Vote there was a very large surge in racist and racially motivated attacks
Don't forget the number of groups you've had in the UK making false claims, and it was such a problem that at least one group was banned and refused funding as well. Just a FYI it was a muslim group making up crimes.
47.9 cents/kWh? That's insane
It's 0.50-1.50kWh here in Ontario. This is what Feed in Tariff programs do, drive the price of electricity through the roof. It is now so bad in Ontario, that people are going broke trying to pay for electricity bills. The federal Liberals, are now looking at this *exact* policy. If it passes, you can be assured that you'll likely see mass protests and riots in the streets here in Canada. People can't afford 0.18/kWH(which is the peak price in Ontario) already. Top this off with the provincial Liberals in Ontario, the federal Liberals in Ottawa and the NDP in Alberta wanting to push a carbon tax? Not a chance that there won't be huge problems, especially when the most conservative estimate is that it will raise the cost of goods across all sectors by 20%
You want to know what the kicker is? In Ontario "green energy" accounts for under 1% of total generation and over 55% of the total price sold to consumers.
Politically in the current climate, it's easier to dissect the population based on skin colour or religion rather than behaviour.
I guess that's why they're having so much of a problem with native germans committing sexual assault compared to oh migrants right? No no, I understand. That 105% increase in one quarter from migrants wasn't real. The media and government weren't suppressing stories, and you're not going to be arrested for pointing out facts or put on trial for stating your opinion. Double plus good comrade, please enjoy your extra chocolate ration.
Is the data in your hand, as in you can leaf through it yourself, or do you merely control who has access to it?
It can be, you only have to request it. You can also revoke access if you take your data with it you. The laws protects you in that regard, your data is yours.
Are you responsible for bringing all of your heath records to the physician's office, or do they already have them all and you're merely "authorizing" them to access the records?
If you're moving from a doctors office to another? Yes. You are responsible. Doctor-patient privileges "kick in" you only authorize the party you want.
So to answer your questions:
#1 Yes if you want.
#2 Only pertaining information, otherwise it's secondary. Hospital, doctors office, and so on. There are no 3rd parties that have access.
#3 The government has no access unless you grant it to them.
#4 Doctors officers only hold them if you go to that doctor, you can request them at any time. No insurance companies, billing services, have access to any form of your medical records unless you stipulate it.
Unless you know otherwise, the steering and brakes always have mechanical fail-safes. In particular I'm familiar with the Infinity Q50 system.
Depends on what you define as "mechanical fail-safes" if in theory the electronic actuator is supposed to engage the clutch in the event of the motor failure is considered a fail-safe I guess so. Nissan dumped their "drive by wire" design because even when the electric motor system disengaged, there was a chance that the mechanical system wouldn't. And while there haven't been any failures on the Q50 yet, the chance that an electric re-engage of the linkage clutch failing is possible. In theory it's a 3-part system, but each part can independently fail because they all rely on one thing: Electricity. That in my book means that there is no mechanical fall back. Even on lift trucks that have steer-by-wire, if the electric motors for steering fail most designs are a complete cut of power and engaging of the brakes. But brakes have been known not to engage because of relay failures. The difference between a gasoline engine and most lift trucks though is that the electric motor that moves it, enables it to slowdown quickly. Even when the weights of a lift truck can be more then your average sedan when loaded.
Brakes get a bit more...interesting. The emergency brake is considered the fallback. But you can find cars that use an electric motor at the engage the system instead of a manual cable to engage those too.
Yep. Ditching the steering wheel and the pedals would be really, really dumb. It would mean that if the car had a problem it would be stuck where it is.
Surprise! The very high end cars have already done this. Lexus, BMW, Rolls Royce, several others all have drive-by-wire systems, the steering wheel is controlled by individual electric motors(sometimes a single motor). And and electric motor on the pedal simulates the feel of hydraulic pressure.
Is AP good enough? There's multiple articles since August of this year that expand on that number.
Of course the president elect actually having used his foundation to bribe TWO different state attorney generals not to criminally charge him - is entirely acceptable right ?
Sure. Just like one of the previous Prime Ministers(Jean Chretien) of Canada knowingly having been involved in illegally funneling money into the party Liberal Party. It took a RCMP investigation, and nearly 20 years and 3 party changes(around 5-6 news sittings in government) in government before anyone was even put in prison over it. You enjoying what corruption looks like yet?
Just like how there's now the starting of a new pay-for-play scandal starting with Justin Trudeau.
How much energy is it going to burn eavesdropping on me whilst it's in standby mode?
Zero? You can uninstall it with gpedit.
Yes, I'm telling you, Canada and the US are the same here. It's still not your data. You control the access, but that's about it. It's "your" data, not your data.
The law is telling you it's not. The privacy act makes that fundamentally clear. So do things like PHIPA and so do things like PIPEDA. "Your" data is yours, PHIPA even goes further allowing patients to "lock box" personal information from ALL parties except those directly disclosed.
Nope, this is the status quo as described in #4. You don't keep your data, the clinic does. You may "own" it but that ownership is only de jure.
Nope. In Canada a clinic is a "doctors office." On top of that the only person that can transfer records from doctor to doctor is the patient. This is a fundamental part of the privacy act.
If nuclear is so cheap, then why does the British government have to guarantee a minimum price
Why don't you ask the UK government? I'm sure we can already guess what the answer is, massive corruption and giant kick-backs. That is the same country that's willing to cover up anything that dares to damage the crown or the leader in power remember.
1. You own your data and control its access entirely. Every time physicians, clinics, pharmacists, researchers, etc need or want access to your data, you must authorize them (to whatever extent you wish, for however long, etc).
This is how it basically works in Canada, access can be revoked at any time as well. It works fine, you don't need to carry your medical information around with you, you don't need some device. You're not responsible either, but each individual organization/doctor/pharmacist/etc is responsible for the data they store. Ex: My pharmacist has access to the two doctors I permit them to access to(one is family(GP), the other is my neurologist(spinal cord treatment and migraines)), they are limited under the privacy act to what information they can request. Such as "is this the medication you've prescribed." Or "this medication conflicts with another that they're on, we'd recommend this medication instead. Do we have your permission to change it." This is covered in our privacy act, some provinces have further enforcement in regards to personalized data. In Canada government agencies have to get your permission before it can be shared even between agencies. Ex: Revenue Canada can't share between Health Canada. OHIP(Ontario Health Insurance) can't share between Health Canada, etc. Failures/breaches/etc are covered under the privacy act. The range of actions can be from the company/corporation itself right down to actions against individuals.
If you show up at a hospital for diagnostic tests, you sign a waiver on who those diagnostic tests go to or where you want them to go besides the assigning physician. The hospital holds a master copy. Go for diagnostic tests at a lab? They only go directly to the assigning physician, the lab keeps no physical copies.
Since they're already vastly cheaper than nuclear, your argument is shit. Get a real one. We're all tired of yours.
No, they're not vastly cheaper then nuclear. At between $0.50kWh and $1.50kWh they are no where near as cheap when nuclear is $0.07-0.08kWh including refurbishment costs for the reactor after 25-35 years. Hell it costs between $40m and $150m to build a 1GW natural gas power station in the asshole of Canada which pays for itself in under 10 years, it costs nearly $800m for solar or wind over 50-70 years to pay for it. That's at current rates.
By this metric, I "divested" myself last year of a substantial amount of energy sector stocks and reallocated to "green" electric utilities.
Useful tip: Get out of "green energy" in the next 12 months, the market is about to crash on those, since governments are pulling funds out of FiT programs and loans/allocations to solar and wind power. The green energy market it at peak, just like it was in 2008. You can take my warning or not, but don't cry over it when it does happen and you did nothing.
I gave the same warning to people who were heavily invested in property in Vancouver around 5 months ago, people said that the 15% foreign tax wouldn't amount to anything. Well, the housing market there is now crashing and is down 30% in the last 45 days. This is likely going to spread to the rest of Canada within the next year. I'm on the opposite side of the country and we're seeing an uptick in bank foreclosures already. Top that out, you've probably got 6-18mo before the same happens in Seattle where the speculation market has just exploded.
Ooh, ooh! I can answer that one! Absolutely nothing whatsoever, because it's a charitable foundation and doesn't have business contracts with countries in the Middle East.
I guess that's why all those leaders, politicians and so on in the middle east who were demanding to meet with the State Dept., when Clinton was SoS were left hanging outside. Until they turned around and started dumping millions into the Clinton Foundation. FYI it's just shy of $70m from individual countries, and between $55m and $100m from individuals within those countries, who suddenly got "influential meetings" or preferential treatment or loans.
Fossil fuel power stations do not have to pay for the shit they pump into the air, rivers and sea, so they're already being subsidised by the national health problems they cause down the road. Tell them to clean up their shit first, and then let's compare costs.
Bzzt. Costs area already included in Canada, there is a mandatory fund that all power producers and industries must pay into to cover any form of cleanup costs. I know, it hurts that green energy myth that you're pushing that fossil power stations do not have to clean up stuff. But be less ignorant.
Then it hits you: Electricity was never $0.07/kWh, it's just that someone else was paying part of your bill!
Then it hits you: You have no idea on what you're talking about. Electricity has never been subsidized in Ontario, because Ontario has always been a NET producer and NET exporter. Damn those facts huh?
Sure. Let's see how many recoil in horror when oil price will get back to previous 2014 levels.
That moment when you realize electricity was cheaper in 2008 before green energy programs started to really kick in, and the price has increased from 0.07kWh to 0.18kWh in less then a decade and oil prices had no impact on it. And was still almost 0.5kWh cheaper in 2014 then today.
People living under "green energy" recoil in horror as energy prices go through the roof due to FiT programs. Progressives continue to wonder why all those people don't vote for them and, tell their friends that they know what's best for everyone.
You are mixing up end consumer prices with production costs.
No, actually I'm not. Go read those links.
E.g. in Germany the end consumer prices are basically the same, regardless how the power is produced. That is simple to understand as most energy companies run a mix of various power plants.
Nevertheless if you want to build a new 1GW plant: it is cheaper to that with a wind or solar plant, than as a coal or nuclear plant. This is true since roughly 5 years and was covered on /. often enough. Believe what you want.
As it is in Ontario. And those "green energy" produces are what are driving the cost of electricity through the roof. It costs $50m-250m(or less on both amounts) CAD to build a 1GW NG power plant which will pay for itself in under 10 years, it costs $800m+ for a 1GW for solar or wind farm, that will take 50-70 years to pay for itself.