It's only a failure of you selectively compare it to France, a country with a lot of really expensive and extremely heavily subsidised nuclear power. In fact it's so expensive that the French don't want it any more, leaving their energy companies to start leaching off other countries like the UK.
Germany started in a poor position. It's half way through its transition, so any proclamation of failure is premature. It's reduced its coal consumption, massively increased renewables, and built up a huge new industry with jobs and wealth.
Oh, and done something good for the planet too.
What is the alternative? Throw even more money at a dying technology like nuclear?
I'm totally fine with that. Foreigners represent a tiny proportion of the users, and I'd rather the ambulance crew didn't have to check my ID and tax status before administering care.
More over, I want foreigners to feel safe in my country, and to bring their tourism money here.
You are comparing a scam where people pay for nothing (a failed bid) to socialised healthcare where all taxes paid into the system result in some benefit for the payee.
We know exactly what it costs, where the money comes from. We have endless debates about it. But the question is always "how much should web pay?", not "should we pay?" because when we need medical care we don't want to be checking our wallets first.
And I'm not sure how you think insurance works, but that's the healthy subsiding the sick too.
They can't be compared. Bananas, when consumed, pass through your body and only as much potassium as required is absorbed. Your body maintains the correct level and keeps it away from areas that it could damage.
Radiation you get on aircraft is mostly external, hitting your skin. So it's a one-off dose and mostly causes skin cancer.
The material released from nuclear plants through accidents and bad design is stuff like Cesium. It can get into your body and sit there for decades, irradiating your organs. Unit potassium from bananas, it can get into places where it causes damage, like your thyroid.
The latter. It's nuke industry shilling to try to stop its inevitable decline as the market turns to cheaper and cleaner renewables.
It's not the safety of a week maintained, normally operating reactor that is the problem. They just fixate on that because they have no answers to the real issues.
If you paid $100k for a car that lacks basic features, and with promises of self driving capability this year that just got pushed back to 2020, you might care.
I admire that Musk has done, but it's also reasonable to criticise Tesla's failings too.
Thanks for commenting. In future, perhaps you could consider evaluating how comments contribute to the discussion, not just if you agree with them or not. And commenting is always better than down-mods.
Give me a smart watch with reliable, always on heart rate monitor and step counter, plus a vibration motor and one line LCD for notifications. One week battery life minimum.
China isn't communist. I'm in China right now, it's a monument to consumerism. Capitalism is huge here, people value material possessions and bling more than anything. "Imported" brands (made in China) are the most desirable.
China is just authoritarian. Not socialist, definitely not that, and not communist in any meaningful way. It's no more communist than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
Star Trek Discovery was good too. Took a few episodes to really look like Trek. I agree about The Orville, some episodes were very well worn plots that were not particularly well written. It was a bit "in your face" at times but mostly enjoyable.
Most of those requirements already exist for guest workers from outside the EU. From inside we get reciprocal benefits from freedom of movement.
Thing is, most immigration is not skilled workers. About 100k a year is family reunions. That's even with the Home Office doing its best to rip families apart and create more misery. Then you have students, the financial life line keeping our education system just barely affordable for British students.
And this idea that people have to go home as soon as their job ends is a non-starter. If your want skilled workers you have to accept that they will bring their families and settle down. Kids will be born here and have no other citizenship, maybe only speak English.
Immigrating is a net benefit to the UK. It keeps our NHS going. Stop blaming it for all our self inflicted problems and do a few simple things to make it easier for people to accept.
This. Wages in the UK are a joke at the moment. 50k for a "senior" developer in London. I can get a lot more than that in Europe, at least until Brexit hits.
That's one of the main "benefits" of Brexit. UK companies don't have to compete on wages.
I always thought it was because there is supposed to be separation of state and religion. That bit on the constitution about not establishing religion, for example.
That's why government buildings don't have religious decorations, right?
Whoa, I don't think the GP meant it was oppressive!
It's just the assumption and the inability to understand that you don't participate that is the issue. It's annoying when people keep asking you stuff that you already told them doesn't apply, right?
I get this too at work. It would be fine if people were more considerate. Saying happy holidays shows that they at least understand you might not be a Christian or whatever non-religious Christmas fans are called.
The problem with Christmas is that it's not just a religious holiday any more, it's a mandatory retail and work event.
For two months of the year, 1/6th of your life, it's hard to avoid. Every shop and public space has the same shitty Christmas music, all the stuff you want to buy was moved to stores to make way for red and white tat, and the car parks are full to overflowing because everyone wants to buy some crap to wrap up for their friends and family.
I've managed to stop any gift giving for a few years now, which is a huge load off. These days I tend to just fly east to where it's not such a big deal.
I just wish they wouldn't waste time on this crap and instead add basic features that the car is missing. Auto wipers and speed sensitive volume control would have been much better Xmas presents.
The quality of meat in many parts of the world is quite poor. Meat in China is not high quality, and they eat parts of the animal that westerners wouldn't like the feet of chickens. They have a choice, they just like eating that stuff, probably because the body meat isn't great quality anyway.
So plant grown meat could actually be a nice upgrade for a lot of people. Could also be good for feeding animals like pets.
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Doubled, really?
https://www.cleanenergywire.or...
Doesn't seem like double the 2007 price.
It's only a failure of you selectively compare it to France, a country with a lot of really expensive and extremely heavily subsidised nuclear power. In fact it's so expensive that the French don't want it any more, leaving their energy companies to start leaching off other countries like the UK.
Germany started in a poor position. It's half way through its transition, so any proclamation of failure is premature. It's reduced its coal consumption, massively increased renewables, and built up a huge new industry with jobs and wealth.
Oh, and done something good for the planet too.
What is the alternative? Throw even more money at a dying technology like nuclear?
I'm totally fine with that. Foreigners represent a tiny proportion of the users, and I'd rather the ambulance crew didn't have to check my ID and tax status before administering care.
More over, I want foreigners to feel safe in my country, and to bring their tourism money here.
You are comparing a scam where people pay for nothing (a failed bid) to socialised healthcare where all taxes paid into the system result in some benefit for the payee.
We know exactly what it costs, where the money comes from. We have endless debates about it. But the question is always "how much should web pay?", not "should we pay?" because when we need medical care we don't want to be checking our wallets first.
And I'm not sure how you think insurance works, but that's the healthy subsiding the sick too.
Plugins are needed for GPG. That's the only reason I have thunderbird installed.
They can't be compared. Bananas, when consumed, pass through your body and only as much potassium as required is absorbed. Your body maintains the correct level and keeps it away from areas that it could damage.
Radiation you get on aircraft is mostly external, hitting your skin. So it's a one-off dose and mostly causes skin cancer.
The material released from nuclear plants through accidents and bad design is stuff like Cesium. It can get into your body and sit there for decades, irradiating your organs. Unit potassium from bananas, it can get into places where it causes damage, like your thyroid.
The latter. It's nuke industry shilling to try to stop its inevitable decline as the market turns to cheaper and cleaner renewables.
It's not the safety of a week maintained, normally operating reactor that is the problem. They just fixate on that because they have no answers to the real issues.
If you paid $100k for a car that lacks basic features, and with promises of self driving capability this year that just got pushed back to 2020, you might care.
I admire that Musk has done, but it's also reasonable to criticise Tesla's failings too.
Thanks for commenting. In future, perhaps you could consider evaluating how comments contribute to the discussion, not just if you agree with them or not. And commenting is always better than down-mods.
Speaking English is generally a requirement for non-EU migrants, although most EU ones do speak it. It's a big problem for families.
Smart watches need to be dumber.
Give me a smart watch with reliable, always on heart rate monitor and step counter, plus a vibration motor and one line LCD for notifications. One week battery life minimum.
That's all. A normal clock face is fine.
China isn't communist. I'm in China right now, it's a monument to consumerism. Capitalism is huge here, people value material possessions and bling more than anything. "Imported" brands (made in China) are the most desirable.
China is just authoritarian. Not socialist, definitely not that, and not communist in any meaningful way. It's no more communist than the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
This documentary, along with The Power of Nightmares by the same guy, are great.
Star Trek Discovery was good too. Took a few episodes to really look like Trek. I agree about The Orville, some episodes were very well worn plots that were not particularly well written. It was a bit "in your face" at times but mostly enjoyable.
Gotham isn't bad either.
The Punisher on Netflix was good too. Stranger Things as well.
Most of those requirements already exist for guest workers from outside the EU. From inside we get reciprocal benefits from freedom of movement.
Thing is, most immigration is not skilled workers. About 100k a year is family reunions. That's even with the Home Office doing its best to rip families apart and create more misery. Then you have students, the financial life line keeping our education system just barely affordable for British students.
And this idea that people have to go home as soon as their job ends is a non-starter. If your want skilled workers you have to accept that they will bring their families and settle down. Kids will be born here and have no other citizenship, maybe only speak English.
Immigrating is a net benefit to the UK. It keeps our NHS going. Stop blaming it for all our self inflicted problems and do a few simple things to make it easier for people to accept.
This. Wages in the UK are a joke at the moment. 50k for a "senior" developer in London. I can get a lot more than that in Europe, at least until Brexit hits.
That's one of the main "benefits" of Brexit. UK companies don't have to compete on wages.
I always thought it was because there is supposed to be separation of state and religion. That bit on the constitution about not establishing religion, for example.
That's why government buildings don't have religious decorations, right?
Whoa, I don't think the GP meant it was oppressive!
It's just the assumption and the inability to understand that you don't participate that is the issue. It's annoying when people keep asking you stuff that you already told them doesn't apply, right?
I get this too at work. It would be fine if people were more considerate. Saying happy holidays shows that they at least understand you might not be a Christian or whatever non-religious Christmas fans are called.
The problem with Christmas is that it's not just a religious holiday any more, it's a mandatory retail and work event.
For two months of the year, 1/6th of your life, it's hard to avoid. Every shop and public space has the same shitty Christmas music, all the stuff you want to buy was moved to stores to make way for red and white tat, and the car parks are full to overflowing because everyone wants to buy some crap to wrap up for their friends and family.
I've managed to stop any gift giving for a few years now, which is a huge load off. These days I tend to just fly east to where it's not such a big deal.
It's the merry part I object to. I am not a merry man!
From a developer point of view, is there anything comparable to say WPF on Linux? Qt seems to be about the best on offer.
I just wish they wouldn't waste time on this crap and instead add basic features that the car is missing. Auto wipers and speed sensitive volume control would have been much better Xmas presents.
Same with some Nintendo games that were only ever transmitted over satellite radio and stored in battery backed RAM carts.
I'd love to play my old Medal of Honour games online again too, but they used GameSpy so are dead now.
Alex Jones sells soy supplements, so it must be okay, right? That guy is a reliable source of medical information.
Seriously, I'm really enjoying the great 2017 soy panic. The threads on Reddit and 4chan are the funniest thing I've read this year.
The quality of meat in many parts of the world is quite poor. Meat in China is not high quality, and they eat parts of the animal that westerners wouldn't like the feet of chickens. They have a choice, they just like eating that stuff, probably because the body meat isn't great quality anyway.
So plant grown meat could actually be a nice upgrade for a lot of people. Could also be good for feeding animals like pets.