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  1. Re:But it isn't reliable like coal or nukes!!!! on Elon Musk Says Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Power Grid With Batteries, Solar (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    Give every house its panels and batteries and you don't need 'infrastructure'.

  2. So it's true, they didn't do it for the Pixel 2.

  3. So the 'hack' was state sponsored...

  4. Well, that's why it was a music major.

  5. It's not a bombshell, it's cognitive or predictive programming.
    Next time someone tries to make clear that 3 years ago they even didn't have a security department, you'll go like: "Yeah, we know that already..."

  6. Re:Whaddya mean there'll be no lines? on Missouri Considers Hyperloop Route Between St. Louis and Kansas City (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't hijack an airplane and fly it into a building any more either.

    Yes you can.
    You only need a vice-president who organizes an exercise and orders the air force to stand down on the day of 'the event'.
    Happened before, can be done again.

  7. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Only about 9% of guns are registered.

    In that case I recommend to improve the registration process.

  8. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you explained it correctly, I missed it.

  9. Re:Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of 'deep state'?

  10. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Try to vote them out. You'll get another candidate that owes to the same industry.

  11. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In Dakota they (the corporate assholes) will find something else to economize, and put us all at risk because they wanted to save a few dollars.

  12. Re:Here come the regulatory loonies on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, you could always wear protection. Oh, wait, government forbids that...

  13. Re:This stuff needs to END - whats wrong with ppl? on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This is the wrong response.
    You were supposed to say: "Take all our registered weapons away from us. Please! So this will never happen again."
    Never mind that the weapon wasn't registered.

  14. Re:Not an off the shelf weapon on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Governments do all kinds of crazy things.
    He could as well have been put there by the FBI in a false flag attack as an attempt to get more stringent anti-gun laws passed.

  15. Re:No legal guns, no crime on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    False? False flag you mean.

  16. Re:Racial profiling on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 0

    200 bucks this was a white on anti-depression medicines.

  17. Re: We need more guns on Las Vegas Shooting Leaves at Least 50 Dead, More Than 200 Wounded (wsj.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More than 90% of gun violence is not done with registered guns.
    So leave people, innocent civilians, who register their guns, alone please.

  18. Re:Well... on Russian Defense Company Demos A One-Person Flying Car (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, if it carries a human pilot, it isn't a drone anymore.

  19. Re:nonsense on so many levels on Laser Light Forges Graphene Into the Third Dimension (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    30 years ago I acquired a pot of graphene grease.

  20. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    If only the UK government would pull their fingers out of their collective arses and give it the final go-ahead.

    They can't, the nuclear-industrial complex would make sure they'd never be re-elected.

  21. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I'd suggest you look for an illegal connection tapping off electricity from your home to your neighbour's marijuana plantation.
    Or buy a new fridge.

  22. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    And look at Fukushima how costly a decommissioning could turn out to be...

  23. Re:Cost comparison on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm quite sure that if they'd give the same subsidy to the solar farm as they give to Hinkley C, the former alternative would turn out more cost effective.
    Elon Musk is almost ready to provide the bulk of the solar cells and batteries needed for a full conversion to solar electricity.

  24. Re: awesome! on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course one could also transport just the charged liquid for a flow battery, like the Zinc-Bromine battery.

  25. Re: awesome! on Britain Opens Its First Subsidy-Free Solar Power Farm (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The main losses in High Voltage Direct Current transmission occur in the AC/DC and DC/AC converters at the ends of the cable. There are plans to connect Iceland's geothermal generators to the European mainland through means of that technology. And that's not meant to only supply electricity to Belgium...