You start off with "one guy" I correct you, he'll just get tossed off. You opine with two guys or a dozen give em tasers/MP5's. I reply that dozens of guys with MP5's * thousands of trains = blackwater. You either have the attention span of a gnat or are lying when you pretend to misunderstand how _you_ inflated a guy with a cricket bat into a substantial army & gnats don't know how to type.
TFA specifically says that the panels will save money through diminished diesel needs, yet somehow when I tell you that the Indian railways don't have the money to hire your army you state "they have it for the purchase, installation and maintenance of the panels". You're either dumber than a gnat and/or lying.
When I tell you that I have ridden Indian trains & that you clearly have no idea of their conditions you move on to "where did I lie & evade?" instead of admitting that you really don't know -- that's called evading.
When engaging with others on/. it's often useful to look at their other posts to see whether they're a troll or not. You're a troll
A strawman isn't any argument you disagree with or cannot prove you twit, it's a ridiculous argument that you pretend your opponent supports that makes you look good when you knock it down.
As you have no idea of the conditions on indian trains and _I_ and others who have commented do, my arguments are what is called _truth_ and yours the evasive maneuvering of a twit afraid to be caught out prevaricating.
But then, in your imagination your lies and inventions trump real-world experience.
What, you think that Blackwater only takes a single contract at a time and employs the entirety of it's personnel on it? It's a strange strange world you live in. For the rest of us, employing thousands "security consultants" with cricket bats is perfectly up Blackwater's line of business.
You've never actually _taken_ any train rides in India, so to you, my arguments are far fetched strawman. To me and all those who _have_ taken Indian trains my arguments are realty. But you still think that your imagination trumps everyone else's reality.
They have the money for panels that will be saving money on diesel fuel, not for hiring thousands of people to stop people from travelling on train roofs. Do try to use your brain next time, will you?
Who is it that was proposing to hire a dozen or more men -- per train -- and barbed wire to stop people from riding on the train roofs? Oh, yeah that was you. What, you _don't_ like hyperbole when it's pointed at you? Poor, poor you.
Again, you have literally no idea of the conditions on trains in India. Stop proposing idiotic "solutions".
They already don't have enough money to improve their infrastructure enough to make riding on the tops of the cars a non issue and you want to hire blackwater to "solve the problem". Do you also advocate pointing a revolver at your face to "solve" toothaches? "your imagination" isn't solving any problem that needs solving.
You clearly have never taken a train in India. The guy with a cricket bat will get swarmed and thrown off the train by the dozens to hundreds of people that ride the roofs every day. Commuter and even many long distance trains in India are packed to the gills overflowing to inter-wagon platforms/the roofs and run insufficiently frequently to be able to say "just take the next one".
My old 5s is now my wife's so yeah, I do. It's not as fast as my 7+ but is still a big step up from the even older 4S she was using previously - besides which she mostly uses it for phone/facetime so it's _more_ than fast enough for her.
The adoption rates of Android updates (that I don't have the time to track down but that you can if you need confirmation) begs to differ.
Am I saying that there aren't Android vendors that do a better job than most giving exceptions like yours and indeed more/. posters than is the norm? No.
Am I saying that the the use of outdated Android versions is how most android owners get owned? Nope, the low hanging fruit of gullible users is clearly the major vector at present but much like for Wannacry & Petya for Windows sooner or later those Android vulnerabilities are going to get packaged and used & smart people make sure that they're as protected as they can.
A 10 year old meme is an apt reply to a 4 digit slashID harking back to the glory days of Ma Bell.
Wtf pissed in your cornflakes this morning hmm? I own both my apartment in Paris & have a summer home on the Côte d'Azur. Did the bank repossess your doublewide?
You don't know or care but you posted to an apple subject on/.? Thanks for sharing your ignorance & apathy with us, because that's the reason we frequent/.
So your phone has the most recent Android safe from the currently known crop of android exploits? That puts you in the tiny minority of android owners.
The vast majority of Android owners need to upgrade their phones every year or two just to be able to get more recent updates given how fast so many android makers drop support of their phones.
Apple a mixed bag? Your ignorance is bliss apparently. iPhone owners get a few years more safe use from their phones as all phones newer than the 5s (sold since Sept2013) can use the latest iOS 11 & most do, having been updated since Apple made iOS 11 available in June.
It doesn't mean that old phones can't soldier on for years and years afterwards, just not safely.
The USA is not China's only rival, you twit & not even the biggest (that would be Japan & Korea had you actually been capable of reading and understanding what I posted previously) but you keep missing the point there troll boy. The point is that China _cannot_ make more batteries without more lithium and all foreseeable supplies have already been bespoken.
Come on trollboy post a reference for how China is going to two magnitudes more batteries.
Sometimes the best answer to some questions is "that cannot be determined with the available facts" and that indeed seems to be the case here.
Their methodology in determining the speed of a (assumed healthy) T-Rex (assumed to be) walking at it's best speed contains too many assumptions that _cannot_ be proven to be reliable. The parable of the blind men that each examined a different part of an elephant and gave different descriptions applies here -- It's a wall said the one that touched it's ribcage, no it's a tree-trunk, said the one that touched it's foot/leg, no, it's a spear said the one who touched a tusk, etc.
Their work is of some interest and may indeed help to determine T-Rex's top speed -- if it is corroborated with other sources that do not use the same assumptions.
Grizzly bears can outrun horses, elk and deer in many/some conditions which takes away from your thesis but they also take kills and carrion from wolves if the pack isn't too large.
So T-Rex may have been apex predators that often/usually fed off of the kills of other predators. The ratio of often to usually has yet to be determined.
I've posted references showing that China's production of both lithium metal and batteries is dwarfed by that of other countries. You? Nothing.
If there is "nothing whatsoever, standing in the way of China becoming the largest manufacturer of batteries" then you would have no difficulty whatsoever in coming up with references detailing China's progress in overcoming their deep and growing deficit with other countries.
Yup, a pharmacist may be regimented enough to not reuse a pill bottle, but what about standard Joe Blogs and his wife? Putting half their medication into a random pill bottle for safe keeping, travelling etc, and then sticking it in the medicine cabinet and forgetting... wait a minute, is this really oxycodone or is it paracetamol...?
That's no worse than the remnant of a blister pack that was snipped down to the last unused pills & no longer can be distinguished between oxy/ibu as is so common. Yeah, Joe's wife may remember that _that_ one, was the Oxy, and that one is the ibu given that they were her prescriptions, but maybe not & Joe won't know.
You claimed to _know_ that dropping the bombs was a mistake without any consideration for what would have happened had another path been taken: (the millions of allied troops and Japanese population that _would_ have died had WWII not come to a rapid conclusion.)
You clearly have given _no_ thought to how these much more numerous deaths impinge on the morality of your stand, thus my mockery of how you came to hold it as being magical -- because it clearly isn't logical.
The arrogance is being shown by the one claiming that China can multiply it's production of batteries by close to two magnitudes without the least shred of support.
So then just take it on faith that Clina will double their production of Lithium batteries, and then double it again, and double it again, and again -- to be able to produce enough batteries to replace their production of IC vehicules by EVs as announced. They'll be able to do so because even though China only produced a small fraction of lithium batteries worldwide -- corresponding roughly to their own production of Lithium metal and the (already locked up by others) worldwide production dwarfs China's production because J random basilbrush says "we don't have a lot of visibility"...
Come up with some hard numbers and/or official and credible announcements by China explaining how they plan to pull off this miraculous transformation. China has many industrial advantages but making batteries out of Lithium that do not have isn't one of them. The pronouncements of faith that you keep pulling out of your ass have zero credibility;
Care to share any announcements for Chinese massive battery manufacturing plans that everyone has been ignoring? Massive increases in planned Chinese lithium production? _ANYTHING_ that would answer Tesla's Gigafactory coming on line or Daimlers plans? No? Just your "on faith" pronouncements?
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lets count a few lies and evasions.
You start off with "one guy" I correct you, he'll just get tossed off. You opine with two guys or a dozen give em tasers/MP5's. I reply that dozens of guys with MP5's * thousands of trains = blackwater. You either have the attention span of a gnat or are lying when you pretend to misunderstand how _you_ inflated a guy with a cricket bat into a substantial army & gnats don't know how to type.
TFA specifically says that the panels will save money through diminished diesel needs, yet somehow when I tell you that the Indian railways don't have the money to hire your army you state "they have it for the purchase, installation and maintenance of the panels". You're either dumber than a gnat and/or lying.
When I tell you that I have ridden Indian trains & that you clearly have no idea of their conditions you move on to "where did I lie & evade?" instead of admitting that you really don't know -- that's called evading.
When engaging with others on /. it's often useful to look at their other posts to see whether they're a troll or not. You're a troll
A strawman isn't any argument you disagree with or cannot prove you twit, it's a ridiculous argument that you pretend your opponent supports that makes you look good when you knock it down.
As you have no idea of the conditions on indian trains and _I_ and others who have commented do, my arguments are what is called _truth_ and yours the evasive maneuvering of a twit afraid to be caught out prevaricating.
But then, in your imagination your lies and inventions trump real-world experience.
What, you think that Blackwater only takes a single contract at a time and employs the entirety of it's personnel on it? It's a strange strange world you live in. For the rest of us, employing thousands "security consultants" with cricket bats is perfectly up Blackwater's line of business.
You've never actually _taken_ any train rides in India, so to you, my arguments are far fetched strawman. To me and all those who _have_ taken Indian trains my arguments are realty. But you still think that your imagination trumps everyone else's reality.
They have the money for panels that will be saving money on diesel fuel, not for hiring thousands of people to stop people from travelling on train roofs. Do try to use your brain next time, will you?
Who is it that was proposing to hire a dozen or more men -- per train -- and barbed wire to stop people from riding on the train roofs? Oh, yeah that was you. What, you _don't_ like hyperbole when it's pointed at you? Poor, poor you.
Again, you have literally no idea of the conditions on trains in India. Stop proposing idiotic "solutions".
Brain fart. You're entirely correct.
They already don't have enough money to improve their infrastructure enough to make riding on the tops of the cars a non issue and you want to hire blackwater to "solve the problem". Do you also advocate pointing a revolver at your face to "solve" toothaches? "your imagination" isn't solving any problem that needs solving.
You clearly have never taken a train in India. The guy with a cricket bat will get swarmed and thrown off the train by the dozens to hundreds of people that ride the roofs every day. Commuter and even many long distance trains in India are packed to the gills overflowing to inter-wagon platforms/the roofs and run insufficiently frequently to be able to say "just take the next one".
My old 5s is now my wife's so yeah, I do. It's not as fast as my 7+ but is still a big step up from the even older 4S she was using previously - besides which she mostly uses it for phone/facetime so it's _more_ than fast enough for her.
The adoption rates of Android updates (that I don't have the time to track down but that you can if you need confirmation) begs to differ.
Am I saying that there aren't Android vendors that do a better job than most giving exceptions like yours and indeed more /. posters than is the norm? No.
Am I saying that the the use of outdated Android versions is how most android owners get owned? Nope, the low hanging fruit of gullible users is clearly the major vector at present but much like for Wannacry & Petya for Windows sooner or later those Android vulnerabilities are going to get packaged and used & smart people make sure that they're as protected as they can.
If you want to be the blind man with his hand up the elephant's nether region claiming that elephants are a latrine, please be my guest...
The thing is, neither the authors nor doubters like me can be provably wrong which makes the paper more a declaration of faith than real science.
A 10 year old meme is an apt reply to a 4 digit slashID harking back to the glory days of Ma Bell.
Wtf pissed in your cornflakes this morning hmm? I own both my apartment in Paris & have a summer home on the Côte d'Azur. Did the bank repossess your doublewide?
You forgot to tell us to get off your lawn there grandpa...
You don't know or care but you posted to an apple subject on /.? Thanks for sharing your ignorance & apathy with us, because that's the reason we frequent /.
You're no true Scotsman!
So your phone has the most recent Android safe from the currently known crop of android exploits? That puts you in the tiny minority of android owners.
The vast majority of Android owners need to upgrade their phones every year or two just to be able to get more recent updates given how fast so many android makers drop support of their phones.
Apple a mixed bag? Your ignorance is bliss apparently. iPhone owners get a few years more safe use from their phones as all phones newer than the 5s (sold since Sept2013) can use the latest iOS 11 & most do, having been updated since Apple made iOS 11 available in June.
It doesn't mean that old phones can't soldier on for years and years afterwards, just not safely.
Yet another content free post from basilbrush.
The USA is not China's only rival, you twit & not even the biggest (that would be Japan & Korea had you actually been capable of reading and understanding what I posted previously) but you keep missing the point there troll boy. The point is that China _cannot_ make more batteries without more lithium and all foreseeable supplies have already been bespoken.
Come on trollboy post a reference for how China is going to two magnitudes more batteries.
But you won't.
Because you cannot.
Because you are a troll.
Sometimes the best answer to some questions is "that cannot be determined with the available facts" and that indeed seems to be the case here.
Their methodology in determining the speed of a (assumed healthy) T-Rex (assumed to be) walking at it's best speed contains too many assumptions that _cannot_ be proven to be reliable. The parable of the blind men that each examined a different part of an elephant and gave different descriptions applies here -- It's a wall said the one that touched it's ribcage, no it's a tree-trunk, said the one that touched it's foot/leg, no, it's a spear said the one who touched a tusk, etc.
Their work is of some interest and may indeed help to determine T-Rex's top speed -- if it is corroborated with other sources that do not use the same assumptions.
Grizzly bears can outrun horses, elk and deer in many/some conditions which takes away from your thesis but they also take kills and carrion from wolves if the pack isn't too large.
So T-Rex may have been apex predators that often/usually fed off of the kills of other predators. The ratio of often to usually has yet to be determined.
I've posted references showing that China's production of both lithium metal and batteries is dwarfed by that of other countries. You? Nothing.
If there is "nothing whatsoever, standing in the way of China becoming the largest manufacturer of batteries" then you would have no difficulty whatsoever in coming up with references detailing China's progress in overcoming their deep and growing deficit with other countries.
But you won't.
Because you cannot.
Because you are a troll.
Yup, a pharmacist may be regimented enough to not reuse a pill bottle, but what about standard Joe Blogs and his wife? Putting half their medication into a random pill bottle for safe keeping, travelling etc, and then sticking it in the medicine cabinet and forgetting... wait a minute, is this really oxycodone or is it paracetamol...?
That's no worse than the remnant of a blister pack that was snipped down to the last unused pills & no longer can be distinguished between oxy/ibu as is so common. Yeah, Joe's wife may remember that _that_ one, was the Oxy, and that one is the ibu given that they were her prescriptions, but maybe not & Joe won't know.
Treating a pushy yet clueless troll with the disdain it merits after it refuses to post references _multiple_times_ is merely normal behavior.
Either post references supporting your opinions _as_I_have_ or stfu, troll.
Snort, that's called _sarcasm_ drinkypoo.
You claimed to _know_ that dropping the bombs was a mistake without any consideration for what would have happened had another path been taken: (the millions of allied troops and Japanese population that _would_ have died had WWII not come to a rapid conclusion.)
You clearly have given _no_ thought to how these much more numerous deaths impinge on the morality of your stand, thus my mockery of how you came to hold it as being magical -- because it clearly isn't logical.
The arrogance is being shown by the one claiming that China can multiply it's production of batteries by close to two magnitudes without the least shred of support.
Put up or STFU.
So then just take it on faith that Clina will double their production of Lithium batteries, and then double it again, and double it again, and again -- to be able to produce enough batteries to replace their production of IC vehicules by EVs as announced. They'll be able to do so because even though China only produced a small fraction of lithium batteries worldwide -- corresponding roughly to their own production of Lithium metal and the (already locked up by others) worldwide production dwarfs China's production because J random basilbrush says "we don't have a lot of visibility"...
Come up with some hard numbers and/or official and credible announcements by China explaining how they plan to pull off this miraculous transformation. China has many industrial advantages but making batteries out of Lithium that do not have isn't one of them. The pronouncements of faith that you keep pulling out of your ass have zero credibility;
Care to share any announcements for Chinese massive battery manufacturing plans that everyone has been ignoring? Massive increases in planned Chinese lithium production? _ANYTHING_ that would answer Tesla's Gigafactory coming on line or Daimlers plans? No? Just your "on faith" pronouncements?