"Move in next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation or shut the fuck up."
He's talking about nuclear power, not nuclear weapons. When the federosaurus goes nuclear, it doesn't have to observe any of the safety and cleanliness standards it imposes on the private sector.
I noticed this effect a couple of summers ago, when I hiked across the northern UK, starting at the Windscale nuclear reprocessing plant. At every little town across Cumbria and Yorkshire there was a drawn-out NIMBY battle going on over the siting of wind turbines. It struck me that if they had thought to add a couple of gigawatts of generating capacity at Windscale, which is already written off as an Evil Nuclear Site, all of these villages could enjoy both a pristine view and a more reliable power supply. If they built it as big as the one we have hereabouts, they could also retire that coal-fired hellmouth at Drax, and the whole region would have cleaner air.
"Not to mention, when a wind turbine fails catastrophically, there's a dent in the shrubbery"
And when a wind turbine works as intended, there's a corresponding little bump in the grid power total. Thank your lucky nukes that wind is just a supplementary source of power.
A scattering of science-literate Greens does exist: Mark Lynas, George Monbiot, et. al. All the other Greens sneer at them as sellouts (the logocal fallacy of argumentum ad monsantium) and will no longer let them join their drumming circles at all the sites of major infrastructure projects they are trying to get shut down.
"The good thing is that Bitcoin is not really anonymous, unlike the common wisdom. With a bit of lick these people will be identified. The bad thing is that it will take some time and by then others will have copied the scam."
So why is the all-seeing, omnipotent NSA not able to nail ransomware hackers? I've heard the excuse that ransomware was below their level of concern, but now governments are being targeted, and this has already included police agencies. My take is that the NSA cannot see as much as it claims.
These figures are for nameplate, or maximum possible output, of each turbine. First you have to triple the number of installed turbines, so that the capacity factor comes out to about the same availability as nuclear. Then we have to attach those turbines to Smart Grid, which when it exists will allow fluctuating renewables to shuttle their output across large distances (windy in Texas this morning, in South Dakota later in the day).
The first element of Smart Grid is the smart meter, which will report continuous load information to the grid and eventually be able to turn your major appliances on and off to match supply. These meters are hotly opposed by Greens because they radio their reading to the utility or as the Greens put it, "emit radiation."
The origin of which was mistranslation of the room labeled vomitorium in architecture diagrams of Roman villas and public structures. The term actually denoted an entry/exit lobby, "where people go out and in."
" Suddenlink likes to send me these flyers that say they have internet 30X faster than dsl. The flyer doesn't say how fast that is but its $35/mo" It actually is blazingly fast. But there's a ridiculously low cap, which limits what you can do with that speed after about the first week of every month.
Like some other European countries, France allows anyone from its former colonies to swarm in without going through regular immigration channels. Terrorists don't need to use crypto to game a system like that.
"Contact-less payments are dumb, and lead to precisely this kind of abuse. "
Obligatory Fanboy Neener: If you're going to carry around a contactless payment device, make sure it's one that requires a fingerprint for authorization and that not even the FBI and the NSA can hack.
"The chance is small but the potential damage is huge, so it's better to get some insurance to mitigate that risk. Just as how people generally get fire insurance even though there is no guarantee that their house will burn down."
After all, this is why the weapons were built in the first place.
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Read Daily Mail Online. People there still get reamed for offenses of this kind.
Just hire local mafiosi to do some "wet work."
"sands" is a poetic form, of course, as in "sands of time."
"Move in next to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation or shut the fuck up."
He's talking about nuclear power, not nuclear weapons. When the federosaurus goes nuclear, it doesn't have to observe any of the safety and cleanliness standards it imposes on the private sector.
I noticed this effect a couple of summers ago, when I hiked across the northern UK, starting at the Windscale nuclear reprocessing plant. At every little town across Cumbria and Yorkshire there was a drawn-out NIMBY battle going on over the siting of wind turbines. It struck me that if they had thought to add a couple of gigawatts of generating capacity at Windscale, which is already written off as an Evil Nuclear Site, all of these villages could enjoy both a pristine view and a more reliable power supply. If they built it as big as the one we have hereabouts, they could also retire that coal-fired hellmouth at Drax, and the whole region would have cleaner air.
"Not to mention, when a wind turbine fails catastrophically, there's a dent in the shrubbery"
And when a wind turbine works as intended, there's a corresponding little bump in the grid power total. Thank your lucky nukes that wind is just a supplementary source of power.
A scattering of science-literate Greens does exist: Mark Lynas, George Monbiot, et. al. All the other Greens sneer at them as sellouts (the logocal fallacy of argumentum ad monsantium) and will no longer let them join their drumming circles at all the sites of major infrastructure projects they are trying to get shut down.
Maybe but damn they are experts on droids and iphones. Good for something I guess just not much of anything else.
If that were so, why are they desperately wheedling for Apple to bail them out of their inability to crack an iPhone?
"The power company can suck it if they think they can control my appliances."
See what I mean? That wind fad has apparently blown over already.
"The good thing is that Bitcoin is not really anonymous, unlike the common wisdom. With a bit of lick these people will be identified. The bad thing is that it will take some time and by then others will have copied the scam."
So why is the all-seeing, omnipotent NSA not able to nail ransomware hackers? I've heard the excuse that ransomware was below their level of concern, but now governments are being targeted, and this has already included police agencies. My take is that the NSA cannot see as much as it claims.
These figures are for nameplate, or maximum possible output, of each turbine. First you have to triple the number of installed turbines, so that the capacity factor comes out to about the same availability as nuclear. Then we have to attach those turbines to Smart Grid, which when it exists will allow fluctuating renewables to shuttle their output across large distances (windy in Texas this morning, in South Dakota later in the day).
The first element of Smart Grid is the smart meter, which will report continuous load information to the grid and eventually be able to turn your major appliances on and off to match supply. These meters are hotly opposed by Greens because they radio their reading to the utility or as the Greens put it, "emit radiation."
And I for one am not going to try the stool-flavored yogurt.
"That's a myth, by the way."
The origin of which was mistranslation of the room labeled vomitorium in architecture diagrams of Roman villas and public structures. The term actually denoted an entry/exit lobby, "where people go out and in."
It falls back to authenticating with passcode in this case.
" Suddenlink likes to send me these flyers that say they have internet 30X faster than dsl. The flyer doesn't say how fast that is but its $35/mo"
It actually is blazingly fast. But there's a ridiculously low cap, which limits what you can do with that speed after about the first week of every month.
"Queue the various senators and congressmembers"
This would be a good first organization step before handing out indictments.
Like some other European countries, France allows anyone from its former colonies to swarm in without going through regular immigration channels. Terrorists don't need to use crypto to game a system like that.
I thought Caesar's encryption was Shift 3.
Yes, and after X fruitless attempts at decryption, a burly slave would be sent out to smash the encrypted document with a sledgehammer.
An icepick is what I used when I had a card like that. A ball peen hammer might do less exterior damage.
The ballpeen hammer is for use on the pickpocket.
"Contact-less payments are dumb, and lead to precisely this kind of abuse. "
Obligatory Fanboy Neener: If you're going to carry around a contactless payment device, make sure it's one that requires a fingerprint for authorization and that not even the FBI and the NSA can hack.
McAfee's software, which comes loaded by default on millions of PCs, has been instrumental in making OS X more popular.
"Trump 2016"
Warning sign: if we hear of Trump hiring JJ Abrams to film his next big rally.
"The chance is small but the potential damage is huge, so it's better to get some insurance to mitigate that risk. Just as how people generally get fire insurance even though there is no guarantee that their house will burn down."
After all, this is why the weapons were built in the first place.
What could possibly go wrong?
The universal excuse for doing nothing about a given problem. But...having an asteroid aiming for us would tend to concentrate the collective mind.
Short guys don't get dates, and since money had not been invented yet, the hobbits were selected out.