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  1. Re:Good, but nuclear is doomed on Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 (oilvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    Coal? Is your land in Nunavut, or in Siberia?

  2. Re:Good, but nuclear is doomed on Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 (oilvoice.com) · · Score: 1

    and neither does it buy into the Green dream of devolving the economy into primitive foraging tribes.

    [citation needed]

    This is their vision of man's future if we don't keep them out of our court system so there can be progress again:
    https://deepgreenresistancegre...

  3. Who in hell watches porn at Starbucks? on Starbucks Says It Will Start Blocking Porn On Its Stores' Wi-Fi In 2019 (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    People watch porn in public libraries, where creepy bums are a legally protected class.

  4. There are sports nerds. There are AV super-definition nerds. Hi-res content is an emerging market. Debunked moron, next.

    Sports nerds tend to be people who actually get out there and play the game.

  5. Re:Good, but nuclear is doomed on Japan Has Restarted Five Nuclear Power Reactors In 2018 (oilvoice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Japan doesn't have enough sun and wind to run an industrial economy, and neither does it buy into the Green dream of devolving the economy into primitive foraging tribes. While its nuclear plants were down, it even has to import coal for the interim mothballed power plants.

    Most importantly, Japan doesn't have western defeatism. When a problem comes up, it gets worked on and solved.

  6. What restaurant architects don't realize... on How Restaurants Got So Loud (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Even been to a Black Angus? Restaurants with those high-backed booths creating private spaces are the quietest in the world. But that's not how things are done today, as TFA indicates. People who use hearing aids are the ones who still like the quiet style of restaurant, because in a noisy one the cacophony is amplified along with the conversation, and they hear nothing.

  7. The same sort of lock-in has afflicted photo organizing and editing software. You have your choice of Adobe.

  8. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Many years and hundreds of millions of dollars later and we have a few dozen meters of test track/tube, an empty tin can with no propulsion, seats, etc. for the car/pod/coffin, and abandoned starts of tunnels.

    But the government isn't going to build this. Elon Musk will.

  9. Re:Why does anyone do anything in California? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    California can always attract population. But recheck your economy and quality of life when it's all bureaucrats, zombie homeless and MS-13 refugees.

  10. In California, certain trees need to have a Prop. 65 warning sticker:
    https://www.acsh.org/news/2018...

  11. Re: Environmental impact of a tunnel? WTF? on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Hyperloop will never happen. It's bullshit.

    The way to test this assertion is by actually trying to get one working.

  12. Don't build in the People's Republic! on Elon Musk's Boring Company Cancels Los Angeles Tunnel Following Lawsuit (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    According to the suit, California law forbids the approval of individual facets of a larger project...

    If this is how the law actually reads, that is California's way of assuring BANANA (Build absolutely nothing, anywhere, near anyone). Segmenting a potential big project into individually testable smaller sections is a perfectly natural way of trying out something new. Small wonder that it can't even install a TGV that can be ordered right out of the Alstom catalog.

    Come to Arizona, where experimentation is encouraged, and bore a tunnel here. The automated car companies are testing on the streets above you.

  13. General Motors hired Kim Stanley Robinson on Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers To Predict Their Futures (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    His recommendation: spend whatever it takes to reach the stars. Then upon encountering the very first problem there, immediately give up.

  14. Re: Massively overpriced on Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    Home automation keeps being judged by its silliest uses. Most of us don’t need multicolored floor lamps that we can control remotely. But all homes can benefit from sensors. Your older home was designed before today’s fire safety standards. Is the plumbing subject to leaks? Do wou want ti be advised of breaking glass or opening doors when you’re away from home?

    There are a num,her of good HA sensor systems that will give you peace of mind.

  15. France saves on nuclear costs by building many plants to one standardized design at a time. In contrast, the American approach is to make each new plant a science fair project, unique and built in the most expensive way we can find.

    By 2035, when the French have to replace their oldest plants, standardized factory-builr reactors will be rolling off Chinese assembly lines.

  16. Re:Wind and solar? That's a joke right? on France To Close Four Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2022, 14 Nuclear Reactors By 2035 (cleantechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your 4 sun hours/day is also wildly optimistic.

    He included some of the oversea territories in the area figure...

    Interesting. French Kerguelen is the windiest place I’m the world. The cabling is going to be a bitch, though.

  17. Re: Boy am I glad on Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Boomers are idiots who don't know and thus don't care how idiotic they've become. The sooner their short sighted idiocy can be rendered incapable of influencing governmental regulatory policy regarding the safety and welfare of the country they are destroying, the better.

    This is true in many different areas, and I speak as a Boomer.

  18. As long as we pretend Norway doesn't exist.

    Hydro is the one renewable that Greens love to hate, until they want to brag about some country's high percentage of renewables. Then hydro magically reappears in their figures.

    France has fully exploited its hydro already, topping out at under 10%, which further complicates the idea of pairing hydro with sun and wind to take up the slack when these sources are not producing. You going to build more mountains in France, and where will you put them?

  19. It helps that I've spent a lot of time there. Where in hell would France put enough solar and wind to replace such a large amount of its power generation? It doesn't have an Outback or a Mojave that it can pave over with solar collectors, unless it teams up with the energy-short Germans to get help reconquering Algeria.

    In countries where there are large sprawls of new residential and industrial development, you can put a lot of photovoltaic capacity on rooftops. To avoid chewing up too much land, France builds higher than in the sunny countries, which means less collector space per user. And when you contemplate bolting solar panels onto all those ancestral rooftops in farms and villages, suddenly the Greens are going to find NIMBY working against them rather than with them.

    When you sail the Rhône you see nuclear plants nestled among the vineyards. How many wind turbines would it take to replace even one of them, and where?

  20. China is doing the work on technologies like CRISPR and breeder reactors that we haven't even started yet. More power to them.

  21. Re:I've seen this movie on The Police in UK Want AI To Stop Violent Crime Before it Happens (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Pre-crime here we come.

    The server will be wired to three zombies floating in a hot tub.

  22. Re:"Cord Cutters" is a term created by cable co's on Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's however like stepping back about 20 to 25 years. The programming on the air wave channels are re-runs of 1990's and early 2000 movies.
    Ed Sullivan shows, BuzzR tv is game shows. that's fun.

    This is caused by multipathing bounce from Tau Ceti. Go up there and tweak your antenna over another arcsecond.

  23. Re:TV=Waste of money on Comcast Raises Cable TV Bills Again -- Even If You're Under Contract (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not certain why you think that companies who provide a service to the public should be locked in to prices and never be able to raise them...

    Because you have a contract. It binds you to stay with the company for a specified period of time to keep your agreed price. It's supposed to bind Comcast in the same way, but the cable company has lawyers you couldn't afford.

  24. Re:Of course it's not a new low on Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is the government that enslaved million of black Africans for profit.

    A trade which still exists today in the Middle East:
    https://www.theguardian.com/gl...

  25. Falling sales, as in, "Tesla is eating our lunch and we need to retool for electric production, including new workers who can be retrained to assemble them."