Wait until someone you care about develops Alzheimer's (this, of course, assumes you care about anyone other than yourself), and you have to deal with their progressive mental deterioration on a personal level.
You're dealing with the politicized misanthropy movement here. They hate it when a disease is cured because it means either more young people having "too many" children, or more useless old people who should all be gassed for the benefit of Mother Gaia.
You would just be replacing one fan-in problem with another. So instead of trucking farm produce from fields at harvest times, you're going to extend the electrical grid to collect from every square centimeter of farmland, a problem orders of magnitude more difficult than just bringing power to farmhouses. Furthermore, you would have to replace a fan-out rural electrical grid with a much bigger fan-in one.
Around here, utility companies are trying to take the tiniest first step toward putting small renewables on the grid by installing smart electrical meters to replace the ones that were read once a month. The hippie mom activists have stopped even this cold by claiming that smart meters "emit radiation," by which they mean the periodic squirts of cellular data by which the meters send data back to the electric company. So good luck trying to replace farmland with PV collectors.
Let's review what happens when you remove the "harvesting", shall we?
Facebook is going to cost you $14.99/month, Twitter will be $9.99/month, Instagram will be $9.99/month, YouTube Basic will be $7.99/month, while YouTube Red will continue to be $9.99/month.
And you would still have no assurance that your data is not being harvested. You would be like the people who search with DuckDuckGo because it claims to be secure.
If you search my full name (which is unique due to mix of nationalities) you will only find my LinkedIn profile, ie my carefully curated professional profile and CV.
I do it the other way: my full name happens to match that of a well-known politician (Democrat), making any search on it lost among millions of irrelevant political references.
The original federal argument in 1787 was that a strictly popular house would effectively represent the few most heavily populated regions. So the Senate represents areas and the House represents populations. Most states have adopted a similar system.
I visited Epcot in the 80s and saw demos of hydroponics and automated gardening. Never amounted to much outside of some cool science demos because it cost WAY more than traditional farming.
Hydroponics is really taking off now in certain states (CO, CA, WA) for growing certain high-value crops.
"Solar won't do it"? You do realize nearly ALL crops we currently consume are grown exclusively with solar power, right?
That would be crops grown the conventional way, in fields. Covering those fields with solar panels to power a high-rise building full of the same crops under lights is an expensive way of going exactly nowhere.
The attraction of vertical farming is being able to grow crops in cities, pesticide free and saving transportation cost. It's a concentrated use that works best with the concentrated sources of power that you need to have cities in the first place.
The plants that the enormous new strip mines at Garzweiler and Hambach are being exploited to supply. Hambach alone will cover 85 square kilometers. And now that Germany's last anthracite at Bottrop is exhausted, all of that new production is lignite - basically, damp firewood. A tiny fraction of that amount of coal in uranium would be supplying the same industrial baseload carbon-free. Instead, notwithstanding Germany's expensive investment in solar and wind, its carbon output is actually increasing.
...because of the onboard DSP, you must feed it digital files. So analog input from something like a Phono is out, unless your Phono Preamp has a digital output which can then be fed to the HomePods in realtime via airplay, possibly through a computer. But you cannot give the HomePod analog audio, as the DSP which does all the room correction requires digital input.
So all you hipsters with vinyl turntables will have to feed the audio to the 1960 version of HomePod. Oh, wait - there wasn't one!
Building green highways, a comprehensive network of cycling paths completely free from motorized traffic, would radically transform pharmaceutic and healthcare industries.
Because a cityful of people cycling to work in the rain and the cold would be highly profitable for them.
Have you seen drug prices in America? Europeans pay a small fraction of what Americans pay for the same drug.
And in every foreign market, US pharma makes money, at prices that are consistent with the competition and general price level in each country. This includes Mexico.
There is no country that can control prices outside its own borders. Americans pay more because we are chumps who are willing to put up with it.
But TFA isn't about retail medicine. It is about funding R&D. For medical R&D, America does far more than any other country. Europeans are basically freeloaders leeching off American R&D spending.
We expect the price of newly released compounds to be high as manufacturers make what they can up front in the limited time that they have exclusive rights to produce it. But what proves our system is corrupt is those sudden price spikes for compounds whose patents have expired. These spikes occur in the US market because someone has cornered the supply of the generic in the protected domestic market. And why is there a need to "protect" the US market for generics at all? If American patients were able to operate in a free market and fill prescriptions for generics through Amazon on the open world market, the Daraprim and colchicine train wrecks would never have occurred.
The other problem is that nobody knows what new, branded compounds actually cost. Those news-making high prices are list prices, not the actual price paid by insurers and foreign governments which buy in bulk for their patients. The US governmental agencies that supply medical services are forbidden by law to negotiate for bulk pricing. Patients have no idea what the actual going rate for any medication is. These laws were put in place at the behest of Big Pharma.
If it's going to be a free market, it has to be a free market for patients as well as manufacturers.
Because an "alternative market for compute power that pays better" would just make even more money for this coal plant, I have a better idea: put the NSA to work on breaking the Bitcoin system itself, either the mining part or the blockchain part, to crash its value. Let mobsters kill each other over their suddenly emptied stores of value while millions of GPUs suddenly become available for cheap.
Are not coal plants heavily regulated for filters? It may release more CO2, but that isn't "polluting the hell" out of anything.
Today's filters do a good job of straining out particulates, but you still have gases. Not just the ever-popular CO2, but NOx and SO2, the stuff that creates smog in the Grand Canyon from Arizona's last remaining coal plant.
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So now there's a Roomba which will not injure your cat, nor through inaction allow your cat to come to harm?
Europeans will never miss an opportunity for wacky political causes. Germans can dream up more rules and the French can hold more strikes.
Wait until someone you care about develops Alzheimer's (this, of course, assumes you care about anyone other than yourself), and you have to deal with their progressive mental deterioration on a personal level.
You're dealing with the politicized misanthropy movement here. They hate it when a disease is cured because it means either more young people having "too many" children, or more useless old people who should all be gassed for the benefit of Mother Gaia.
You would just be replacing one fan-in problem with another. So instead of trucking farm produce from fields at harvest times, you're going to extend the electrical grid to collect from every square centimeter of farmland, a problem orders of magnitude more difficult than just bringing power to farmhouses. Furthermore, you would have to replace a fan-out rural electrical grid with a much bigger fan-in one.
Around here, utility companies are trying to take the tiniest first step toward putting small renewables on the grid by installing smart electrical meters to replace the ones that were read once a month. The hippie mom activists have stopped even this cold by claiming that smart meters "emit radiation," by which they mean the periodic squirts of cellular data by which the meters send data back to the electric company. So good luck trying to replace farmland with PV collectors.
Let's review what happens when you remove the "harvesting", shall we?
Facebook is going to cost you $14.99/month, Twitter will be $9.99/month, Instagram will be $9.99/month, YouTube Basic will be $7.99/month, while YouTube Red will continue to be $9.99/month.
And you would still have no assurance that your data is not being harvested. You would be like the people who search with DuckDuckGo because it claims to be secure.
If you search my full name (which is unique due to mix of nationalities) you will only find my LinkedIn profile, ie my carefully curated professional profile and CV.
I do it the other way: my full name happens to match that of a well-known politician (Democrat), making any search on it lost among millions of irrelevant political references.
But it's competition, and competition makes every player better.
The original federal argument in 1787 was that a strictly popular house would effectively represent the few most heavily populated regions. So the Senate represents areas and the House represents populations. Most states have adopted a similar system.
I visited Epcot in the 80s and saw demos of hydroponics and automated gardening. Never amounted to much outside of some cool science demos because it cost WAY more than traditional farming.
Hydroponics is really taking off now in certain states (CO, CA, WA) for growing certain high-value crops.
"Solar won't do it"? You do realize nearly ALL crops we currently consume are grown exclusively with solar power, right?
That would be crops grown the conventional way, in fields. Covering those fields with solar panels to power a high-rise building full of the same crops under lights is an expensive way of going exactly nowhere.
The attraction of vertical farming is being able to grow crops in cities, pesticide free and saving transportation cost. It's a concentrated use that works best with the concentrated sources of power that you need to have cities in the first place.
Caveat: if the population were ten times as high, it would be both useful and make sense.
Alternately, if we had a holyhelluvalot of nuclear power, it MIGHT make sense
So once again, China will be the first to try these.
The plants that the enormous new strip mines at Garzweiler and Hambach are being exploited to supply. Hambach alone will cover 85 square kilometers. And now that Germany's last anthracite at Bottrop is exhausted, all of that new production is lignite - basically, damp firewood. A tiny fraction of that amount of coal in uranium would be supplying the same industrial baseload carbon-free. Instead, notwithstanding Germany's expensive investment in solar and wind, its carbon output is actually increasing.
https://www.cleanenergywire.or...
And let's hope, even better filters on the new coal plants that Germany is building to replace its nukes.
Swatters are murderers AND cops are incompetent and overlimitarized. There - I fixed it for you.
...because of the onboard DSP, you must feed it digital files. So analog input from something like a Phono is out, unless your Phono Preamp has a digital output which can then be fed to the HomePods in realtime via airplay, possibly through a computer. But you cannot give the HomePod analog audio, as the DSP which does all the room correction requires digital input.
So all you hipsters with vinyl turntables will have to feed the audio to the 1960 version of HomePod. Oh, wait - there wasn't one!
Building green highways, a comprehensive network of cycling paths completely free from motorized traffic, would radically transform pharmaceutic and healthcare industries.
Because a cityful of people cycling to work in the rain and the cold would be highly profitable for them.
Have you seen drug prices in America? Europeans pay a small fraction of what Americans pay for the same drug.
And in every foreign market, US pharma makes money, at prices that are consistent with the competition and general price level in each country. This includes Mexico.
There is no country that can control prices outside its own borders. Americans pay more because we are chumps who are willing to put up with it.
But TFA isn't about retail medicine. It is about funding R&D. For medical R&D, America does far more than any other country. Europeans are basically freeloaders leeching off American R&D spending.
Clearly you have never been to Basel.
We expect the price of newly released compounds to be high as manufacturers make what they can up front in the limited time that they have exclusive rights to produce it. But what proves our system is corrupt is those sudden price spikes for compounds whose patents have expired. These spikes occur in the US market because someone has cornered the supply of the generic in the protected domestic market. And why is there a need to "protect" the US market for generics at all? If American patients were able to operate in a free market and fill prescriptions for generics through Amazon on the open world market, the Daraprim and colchicine train wrecks would never have occurred.
The other problem is that nobody knows what new, branded compounds actually cost. Those news-making high prices are list prices, not the actual price paid by insurers and foreign governments which buy in bulk for their patients. The US governmental agencies that supply medical services are forbidden by law to negotiate for bulk pricing. Patients have no idea what the actual going rate for any medication is. These laws were put in place at the behest of Big Pharma.
If it's going to be a free market, it has to be a free market for patients as well as manufacturers.
This reveal, not anything to do with Donald Trump, may be the moment the Republicans lost the midterms.
Because an "alternative market for compute power that pays better" would just make even more money for this coal plant, I have a better idea: put the NSA to work on breaking the Bitcoin system itself, either the mining part or the blockchain part, to crash its value. Let mobsters kill each other over their suddenly emptied stores of value while millions of GPUs suddenly become available for cheap.
Are not coal plants heavily regulated for filters? It may release more CO2, but that isn't "polluting the hell" out of anything.
Today's filters do a good job of straining out particulates, but you still have gases. Not just the ever-popular CO2, but NOx and SO2, the stuff that creates smog in the Grand Canyon from Arizona's last remaining coal plant.
Next, we’re going to bulldoze the rainforest and plant tulips there.
In the South Seas! Stock in this new venture now available on 5% margin.
The problem is by making this better than vinyl surely it makes it worse than vinyl for the hipsters wanting vinyl distortion?
It a problem. Just add fake surface noise to the music you play on this new fake format.
I don't even think erasing a wallet's logs is a thing. Bitcoin cannot just disappear into the ether.
Actually, a lot of it has done exactly that, when keys to mined coin have been lost.