Interesting how this post survived the first wave of troll mods, picking up more insightful/informative mods for 24 hours. Then Mashiki's sock puppets get more mod points, and suddenly he replies, goes instantly to +1 insightful and hammers my post with some more troll mods.
It's completely transparent and obvious, and he doesn't even bother to hide it. If the system can't handle this kind of abuse it's clearly broken.
Exactly, it's all just rumours and conspiracy theories and no substance. Reminds me of McCarthyism - whatever was really there was dwarfed by the paranoia, the fear that SJWs are everywhere and anyone could be one.
Difference being that "Linux" isn't responsible for patching all those devices. Microsoft has taken on a maintenance contract for hundreds of millions of computers. The terms are pretty shitty, if they brick your machine you are on your own, but they do at least pretend to try to make the update process kinda robust.
So while the Linux kernel was patched in March, it takes time for distros to adopt the patch, and then even longer for admins to roll the patch out to devices. In fact many devices will never be patched. One thing you can say about Windows 10 is that most machines do get patched, even if it bricks them.
Heard this and the other conspiracy theory about Linus never being alone in a room with a woman, but never seen any evidence that it's true.
It seems pretty unlikely that the SJW Illuminati would have been able to blackmail him, yet much more powerful people like the NSA/GCHQ have apparently failed to force him to weaken Linux for them. It's not like they are above using sex scandals or accusations to get what they want.
Meanwhile Linux hasn't forked, hasn't been destroyed, the predicted mass exodus of developers and use of the CoC to oust all straight white men hasn't happened.
They have a range of these things and seem to be selling a reasonable number. Most are much smaller than required for the X Prize. So they stuck a few of them in a shipping container, and added a biomass generator to meet the carbon neutral / low running cost requirements.
You need a lot of energy for those things. The 378L/day one (at 50% RH) needs 4.2kW. They claim that biofuel gassifiers are already in use in India.
It's marginal but interesting. Their use case if where there is local water available but over-use is causing problems like acute droughts.
And as usual, especially for Dave Jones, both have been debunked. Seriously, apart from Batterizer I don't think Jones has ever once been right in one of his debunking rants.
In this case they are applying the wrong test to the device. If you read TFA you can see that it needs a lot of energy to work, which they suggest supplying via a biomass generator or solar+battery. As such it's not designed to run continuously or even be particularly efficient, it's just designed to supply emergency water for a short period of time in an emergency.
They seem to think that it's going to be deployed in a desert and run indefinitely. That was never the goal.
Often the problem in a disaster area is lack of potable water. Fuel/energy may be more available so it makes sense to use that to create clean water. Why not clean up dirty water? Well you can but there are risks to handling dirty water, and it's easy to contaminate the containers you want to use for clean water. With biomass you can you stuff that has to be cleared from the disaster area anyway as fuel.
When has people spreading lies and propaganda designed to cause division and reduce the ability of citizens to effectively participate in democracy ever been acceptable?
If you post lies, if you deliberately try to sow discord, people are going to call you out and flag up what you are doing. And we should take notice because we want to be informed and aware of the world around us, not stuck in a bubble of misinformation.
If you want to criticise John Oliver then you need to address the things he was saying. Of course he has a right to state an opinion on the matter, what is at issue is if he is trying to add to the political discourse or deliberately trying to confuse and bullshit voters because he wants to destabilise Canada.
Repeatedly, on camera, on national TV. All lies, they never had any intention of delivering that, they just wanted people to vote to leave so they could then push for a hard brexit.
The exact implementation details might focus on sales because if companies hide their profits with ridiculous licencing fees then what else can you go on? And it might as well be punitive, to encourage them to work with the proper tax system and pay the right amount instead of getting an inflated estimate.
The "outrage" over the NPC meme is fake, and a great example of how fake news can be divisive. In this case the fake news is from the meta-outrage industry, the one that puts out YouTube videos and articles about triggered SJWs and leftists going berserk. Some channels, like Carl Benjamin's, get views into the millions on those videos, not to mention Patreon, so they are quite lucrative.
You can see that a single tweet mentioning that the humour in the trailer was a bit off from someone otherwise excited about the game spawned at least 64 almost identical videos (how could they not be given the meagre source material) and claims of mass outrage and triggering.
Please stop repeating this stuff. All you are doing is driving the wedge between people who think of themselves as conservatives/rational and everyone else in deeper.
Ah yes, the great EU firewall that enforces our GDPR rights... Oh, wait, we just force companies that do business in the EU to comply with our laws. And strangely even though the EU is an authoritarian hell-hole on the verge of fascism/communism and being overrun by Muslims we still find that a lot of companies want to be here.
This isn't about products. This is about companies that operate in the EU. For example Apple has subsidiaries in most EU countries and a holding company in Ireland where it sends all its global profits to.
Those subsidiaries will be forced to pay the global tax rate. Apple can either pay to close them down and leave the EU, which it won't do because the EU is an incredibly lucrative market.
Didn't read the first sentence of the summary, huh?
It doesn't matter if the US agrees or not. What Germany is proposing is that the EU implements a minimum global tax rate for companies that do business in the EU. So if the minimum global rate is say 10% and the US levies 15% all is well. If the US only levies 5% then the EU will collect the other 5%. Numbers made up.
This has nothing to do with the US though. This is about tax havens and companies funnelling profits out of the EU. They use bullshit like ridiculous licencing fees to a holding company in the Cayman Islands to claim that their EU operation is making no profit and only has to pay a tiny bit of tax there, but the EU will just tax them based on global income instead.
The main problem he has with Tesla is that it's selling products to the public, so when he tweets something a lot of people take it as a promise or at least a reasonably reliable statement. Then when Tesla doesn't deliver for years they get upset.
Most companies have a PR department for that reason, and don't let the CEO tweet. Well, at least now Musk will have to have his tweets vetted so maybe it will get better.
1. We are not getting our laws back, the proposal is to do trade deals with other nations like the US who have already said they will demand changes to British law, e.g. to food standards. Plus we will likely stay pretty close to the EU rules so we can keep selling to them anyway, except with no say in them.
2. The referendum was on the single point of EU membership. We were assured it would not affect our membership of the single market or customs union. The most prominent Leave campaigners said that repeatedly, particular Farage with his support of the "Norway model". This is not what we are not getting.
3. In a democracy everyone has the right to change their mind. Otherwise elections would appoint people for life terms. Given the importance of this change and that the change being proposes it neither what was promised or what anyone wants, remainer or Brexiteer, it seems reasonable to put it to the country.
Actually it's the Independent that has been pushing for a vote on the deal, not the Guardian.
Another vote is quite likely now. Either a referendum or a general election. It's hard to see how the government can survive. Of course the politicians are waiting to see what happens before spending a lot of money, but whoever these people are are not so restrained.
The thing is there was plenty of reliable information out there, but people were doing their best to confuse you. The Leave campaign in particular was very anti-expert, anti-reason, believe in your country rah rah rah. That's why it's all come crashing down around us now, reality hit us in the face like wet fish.
Half of what you say was actually Vote Leave lies, e.g. the claim that there would be an instant recession was an exaggeration that they turned in to a talking point for their "Project Fear" story. And of course the whole point about Project Fear was to make you ignore the experts who were giving you factual information and realistic predictions with caveats.
But really those are relatively small things, bad predictions, compared to what leave campaigners lied about. For example, Farage was promoting the Norway model (EEA membership) as being an ideal outcome and something we should welcome, but now claims it would be a betrayal and a disaster. The "Brexit Bonus" money we would stop sending to the EU has all vanished into mitigating the losses and replicating institutions and subsidies that are going away. Worse still, even at the time the £350m/week figure was known to be a fabrication but they didn't remove it from that bloody bus.
There were lots of specific promises about what leaving would mean, things like staying in the single market and customs union, about making immigration easier (!) for non-EU citizens and the like which were all reneged on within hours of the result.
More over there were decades of lies supporting them. I remember a few weeks after the vote there was a woman on Question Time who said she was thinking of voting remain but the day before saw some bananas in the supermarket, and was reminded of the "straight bananas" Euro Myth. That apparently changed her mind, despite it being a well known lie that has been debunked continually since the 90s when it first appeared.
What's really worrying is how many people are in denial about foreign powers interfering in our democracies. If this happens again they will be the ones to blame.
Troll is definitely the wrong word for this. These guys are trying to manipulate public opinion and the British political process in a way that is likely illegal, since they are masking who they are.
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Interesting how this post survived the first wave of troll mods, picking up more insightful/informative mods for 24 hours. Then Mashiki's sock puppets get more mod points, and suddenly he replies, goes instantly to +1 insightful and hammers my post with some more troll mods.
It's completely transparent and obvious, and he doesn't even bother to hide it. If the system can't handle this kind of abuse it's clearly broken.
Exactly, it's all just rumours and conspiracy theories and no substance. Reminds me of McCarthyism - whatever was really there was dwarfed by the paranoia, the fear that SJWs are everywhere and anyone could be one.
Difference being that "Linux" isn't responsible for patching all those devices. Microsoft has taken on a maintenance contract for hundreds of millions of computers. The terms are pretty shitty, if they brick your machine you are on your own, but they do at least pretend to try to make the update process kinda robust.
So while the Linux kernel was patched in March, it takes time for distros to adopt the patch, and then even longer for admins to roll the patch out to devices. In fact many devices will never be patched. One thing you can say about Windows 10 is that most machines do get patched, even if it bricks them.
Of course nothing happened. The shitstorm over the Code of Conduct was just the latest moral panic, largely ignored by people it actually affects.
Heard this and the other conspiracy theory about Linus never being alone in a room with a woman, but never seen any evidence that it's true.
It seems pretty unlikely that the SJW Illuminati would have been able to blackmail him, yet much more powerful people like the NSA/GCHQ have apparently failed to force him to weaken Linux for them. It's not like they are above using sex scandals or accusations to get what they want.
Meanwhile Linux hasn't forked, hasn't been destroyed, the predicted mass exodus of developers and use of the CoC to oust all straight white men hasn't happened.
Have a look at their web site: https://islandsky.com/products...
They have a range of these things and seem to be selling a reasonable number. Most are much smaller than required for the X Prize. So they stuck a few of them in a shipping container, and added a biomass generator to meet the carbon neutral / low running cost requirements.
You need a lot of energy for those things. The 378L/day one (at 50% RH) needs 4.2kW. They claim that biofuel gassifiers are already in use in India.
It's marginal but interesting. Their use case if where there is local water available but over-use is causing problems like acute droughts.
And as usual, especially for Dave Jones, both have been debunked. Seriously, apart from Batterizer I don't think Jones has ever once been right in one of his debunking rants.
In this case they are applying the wrong test to the device. If you read TFA you can see that it needs a lot of energy to work, which they suggest supplying via a biomass generator or solar+battery. As such it's not designed to run continuously or even be particularly efficient, it's just designed to supply emergency water for a short period of time in an emergency.
They seem to think that it's going to be deployed in a desert and run indefinitely. That was never the goal.
Often the problem in a disaster area is lack of potable water. Fuel/energy may be more available so it makes sense to use that to create clean water. Why not clean up dirty water? Well you can but there are risks to handling dirty water, and it's easy to contaminate the containers you want to use for clean water. With biomass you can you stuff that has to be cleared from the disaster area anyway as fuel.
Drink for AmiMojo making empty claim about himself with no evidence...
That's not a claim, it's an offer. Admit you don't want to take it up or address the point directly.
My experiment is not going well.
When has people spreading lies and propaganda designed to cause division and reduce the ability of citizens to effectively participate in democracy ever been acceptable?
If you post lies, if you deliberately try to sow discord, people are going to call you out and flag up what you are doing. And we should take notice because we want to be informed and aware of the world around us, not stuck in a bubble of misinformation.
If you want to criticise John Oliver then you need to address the things he was saying. Of course he has a right to state an opinion on the matter, what is at issue is if he is trying to add to the political discourse or deliberately trying to confuse and bullshit voters because he wants to destabilise Canada.
https://youtu.be/0xGt3QmRSZY
Repeatedly, on camera, on national TV. All lies, they never had any intention of delivering that, they just wanted people to vote to leave so they could then push for a hard brexit.
It should have said "let's spend money we won't get trying to replace all the EU nurses we will be missing".
The exact implementation details might focus on sales because if companies hide their profits with ridiculous licencing fees then what else can you go on? And it might as well be punitive, to encourage them to work with the proper tax system and pay the right amount instead of getting an inflated estimate.
The "outrage" over the NPC meme is fake, and a great example of how fake news can be divisive. In this case the fake news is from the meta-outrage industry, the one that puts out YouTube videos and articles about triggered SJWs and leftists going berserk. Some channels, like Carl Benjamin's, get views into the millions on those videos, not to mention Patreon, so they are quite lucrative.
Here's a study of a recent example of fake outrage over the new Doom game: https://youtu.be/l63nY0AYebI
You can see that a single tweet mentioning that the humour in the trailer was a bit off from someone otherwise excited about the game spawned at least 64 almost identical videos (how could they not be given the meagre source material) and claims of mass outrage and triggering.
Please stop repeating this stuff. All you are doing is driving the wedge between people who think of themselves as conservatives/rational and everyone else in deeper.
Ah yes, the great EU firewall that enforces our GDPR rights... Oh, wait, we just force companies that do business in the EU to comply with our laws. And strangely even though the EU is an authoritarian hell-hole on the verge of fascism/communism and being overrun by Muslims we still find that a lot of companies want to be here.
This isn't about products. This is about companies that operate in the EU. For example Apple has subsidiaries in most EU countries and a holding company in Ireland where it sends all its global profits to.
Those subsidiaries will be forced to pay the global tax rate. Apple can either pay to close them down and leave the EU, which it won't do because the EU is an incredibly lucrative market.
Didn't read the first sentence of the summary, huh?
It doesn't matter if the US agrees or not. What Germany is proposing is that the EU implements a minimum global tax rate for companies that do business in the EU. So if the minimum global rate is say 10% and the US levies 15% all is well. If the US only levies 5% then the EU will collect the other 5%. Numbers made up.
This has nothing to do with the US though. This is about tax havens and companies funnelling profits out of the EU. They use bullshit like ridiculous licencing fees to a holding company in the Cayman Islands to claim that their EU operation is making no profit and only has to pay a tiny bit of tax there, but the EU will just tax them based on global income instead.
The main problem he has with Tesla is that it's selling products to the public, so when he tweets something a lot of people take it as a promise or at least a reasonably reliable statement. Then when Tesla doesn't deliver for years they get upset.
Most companies have a PR department for that reason, and don't let the CEO tweet. Well, at least now Musk will have to have his tweets vetted so maybe it will get better.
1. We are not getting our laws back, the proposal is to do trade deals with other nations like the US who have already said they will demand changes to British law, e.g. to food standards. Plus we will likely stay pretty close to the EU rules so we can keep selling to them anyway, except with no say in them.
2. The referendum was on the single point of EU membership. We were assured it would not affect our membership of the single market or customs union. The most prominent Leave campaigners said that repeatedly, particular Farage with his support of the "Norway model". This is not what we are not getting.
3. In a democracy everyone has the right to change their mind. Otherwise elections would appoint people for life terms. Given the importance of this change and that the change being proposes it neither what was promised or what anyone wants, remainer or Brexiteer, it seems reasonable to put it to the country.
Actually it's the Independent that has been pushing for a vote on the deal, not the Guardian.
Another vote is quite likely now. Either a referendum or a general election. It's hard to see how the government can survive. Of course the politicians are waiting to see what happens before spending a lot of money, but whoever these people are are not so restrained.
The thing is there was plenty of reliable information out there, but people were doing their best to confuse you. The Leave campaign in particular was very anti-expert, anti-reason, believe in your country rah rah rah. That's why it's all come crashing down around us now, reality hit us in the face like wet fish.
In this case though they are some nefarious group out to manipulate us. If they were not they would be honest about who they are and who funds them.
Half of what you say was actually Vote Leave lies, e.g. the claim that there would be an instant recession was an exaggeration that they turned in to a talking point for their "Project Fear" story. And of course the whole point about Project Fear was to make you ignore the experts who were giving you factual information and realistic predictions with caveats.
But really those are relatively small things, bad predictions, compared to what leave campaigners lied about. For example, Farage was promoting the Norway model (EEA membership) as being an ideal outcome and something we should welcome, but now claims it would be a betrayal and a disaster. The "Brexit Bonus" money we would stop sending to the EU has all vanished into mitigating the losses and replicating institutions and subsidies that are going away. Worse still, even at the time the £350m/week figure was known to be a fabrication but they didn't remove it from that bloody bus.
There were lots of specific promises about what leaving would mean, things like staying in the single market and customs union, about making immigration easier (!) for non-EU citizens and the like which were all reneged on within hours of the result.
More over there were decades of lies supporting them. I remember a few weeks after the vote there was a woman on Question Time who said she was thinking of voting remain but the day before saw some bananas in the supermarket, and was reminded of the "straight bananas" Euro Myth. That apparently changed her mind, despite it being a well known lie that has been debunked continually since the 90s when it first appeared.
If only it was that simple.
What's really worrying is how many people are in denial about foreign powers interfering in our democracies. If this happens again they will be the ones to blame.
Troll is definitely the wrong word for this. These guys are trying to manipulate public opinion and the British political process in a way that is likely illegal, since they are masking who they are.
Thanks, I'm going to watch that later. Trust the CCC to find it!