If you want to fly the nazi flag, I will fight for your right to do so.
Really? I know this phrase is thrown around a lot with Free Speech types, and it sounds cute, and I'm a fan a free speech too, but I'd never actually fight anyone to allow a Nazi flag.
Inflation is an actual number derived from actual predefined things listed by your government's statistics department ( see here for the UK version). So if people are just making up stuff, that's not inflation.
I did something similar for a year, just to see if I could. It was surprisingly easy, I had a wagon with a mattress in it and joined the local gym. Park up, sleep, wake up go to gym, go to work, back to gym, sleep, repeat.
It did l get a little monotonous, and I missed not having a couch, but I got in great shape, lost weight and now if push comes to shove I know it can be done.
The only people who had homelands are native people's. Unless you're a native Indian shut up because your ancestors didn't give a shit. How do you think you are where you are now?
Don't fall for that shit. Original inhabitants were usually not there by choice, and migrated for the same reasons you did. They also fought each other to the death to steal each other's shit. Western culture is exactly the same just slightly more advanced. This myth of the noble savage is exactly that, a myth.
This is actually happening already with the Chinese. The rise of China gave birth to the rise of Chinese investor who wants out of their country. Smaller countries simply cannot handle the weight of millions of Chinese with money buying up all their land.
Interesting times ahead...
Haha you kill me. At least Europeans (and Asians,and Africans etc) can point out the US on a map. That's at least little bit less ignorant than a lot of Americans
You seem to be be sensitive to the US/European relationship, maybe because of your personal experience. But it take from me, everywhere you go there are good people and bad people. I forgot where this thread even started, but if you feel insulted by my anti-Amercan comments I apologise. I like the US, but I also love to point out its faults. Don't take it personally
Cool. Now it's my turn, how do you get half a planet's demand for electricity from one side of the earth to the other? No seriously, what diameter cable do you think you'll need to carry 2 or 3 TW or electricity over 20000km? What sort of transmission losses do you expect?
The key thing is if you can predict in advance when your power plant will go offline, and how much power you have from storage and other sources when that happens. Complementing wind and solar with batteries and pumped hydro can give a pretty good base load capacity and an approximately 2x peak load capacity. Even so it still winds up being much cheaper than nuclear.
Yeah you're missing the key part of the equation, capacity. You're assuming all the places on this planet that need electricity also have an adequate supply of wind, solar, and a stinking big river nearby. Hint: They don't.
I love the idea of completely free energy from wind and solar, I'd even stick a wind turbine in my backyard if it meant free energy, but the numbers simply don't stack up. "Base Load" is the reliable always available supply that currently only coal and nuclear can offer. Given the choice of bad or really bad, then bad still wins.
Well yes, because one thing a dictatorship can do is change course quickly. China have already signaled interest in this space , so it's not too much of a stretch to believe the command will come from the top and leave us all looking like dinosaurs.
Human progress since the Industrial Revolution has been based on cheap energy. While in principle I'm all for clean energy, on the timeline he's talking about it will result in a massive increase in energy costs, essentially running us backwards.
If you add up the true costs (millions of deaths from air pollution, climate change losses), coal will end up costing more than Nuclear, so all that cheap energy was really borrowed money from our children.
The numbers I've seen, even the most expensive energy option is still less than $1/kwh. That still seems cheap in my opinion, so why are we arguing?
I don't have anything against nukes besides time and cost but "base load" is propaganda invented by the coal industry and supported by the nuclear industry.
Base load means being able to switch on and off on demand, any time of the day, any time of the year. This is something solar, wind and hydro can't do.
The demand curve of a modern city is not flat, the flat supply curve generated by "base load" is made to fit the demand curve using dams and gas turbines as fast switching, rechargeable "batteries".
In the case of Hydro, what happens when the demand outstrips the size of the lake? Hydro is not suitable for medium to large base loads
Solar and wind can use the exact same technology to manipulate their supply curve into fitting the varying demand. As for air-conditioners, they are at peak use during peak solar generation times, meaning they actually have a better natural fit to demand than "base load" in some specific scenarios.
Some but not all, hence the dilemma. For most of the western world, demand is highest when it is dark and cold. Solar and wind are next to useless in these scenarios.
nuclear is extremely expensive; far more expensive than wind or solar, on average.
True, but Nuclear works when its dark and there's no wind. Nuclear is a base load source so should only be compared against other base load sources.
Some people fudge their figures in various ways (not taking into account decommissioning costs and waste handling costs, etc.) to make it look like it isn't, though.
Nuclear probably has the most accurate and transparent cost model of all the base load options. So if it looks expensive, it's because all power generation is, but Nuclear is forced to include ALL costs, while the likes of coal get a free ride. If you include the costs of climate change, which is a cost of Coal Power, it's pretty much the most expensive thing ever in all of human history.
Easy to say, hard to do. What about the wife and kids? Who's going to make the mortgage payment?
The end result is the same. If you work somewhere that has such questionable ethics that it is likely to cause massive financial or personal harm to someone, then your mortgage isn't safe anyway. I know not everyone has the luxury of leaving, but it's something I've done, and always try to keep myself in a position to have that choice.
Tattoos were never a very clever fashion statement. At least with bad jeans or a silly haircut you can change it with the trends. All those idiots will have 2010 printed on them for the rest of their lives. Tattoo removal is going to be a huge business in a few years.
That seems low in my neighborhood. It seems like most people under 30 have one. It also seems to be a requirement to work in food service or graphic design.
Depends where you live I guess. I'm lucky enough to live in a rich area by a beach, 20% is high here (going to the beach is a giveaway if you have one or not). When I go inland to the working class areas, it seems like every second person has one. The stupid thing about them is that as they are associated with poor and dumb people (have you noticed that in prison the number climbs to nearly 100%), so while getting a tattoo when you're 20 might sound cool at the time, all you are doing is advertising to everyone else that you're probably on the dumb/poor side of the bell curve.
Is this because military men used to be the group that mainly had tattoos? If so, is the author telling us that he/she never knew that many people who served?
I come from a military family, the only Tattoos I saw as a kid we're either at my dad's work, or on loser, bad guy types. So I agree with that. These days it seems to be the compulsory uniform for retail and bar staff.
how about we just make it a crime punishable by 20 years for any IT professional to hook sensitive computers to the internet.
Even if the PHB makes you do it?
In my experience, it's not the IT guy that is responsible, it's the PHB who doesn't understand the risks, doesn't take the IT guy's advice or provide the necessary resources to do the job safely, they just want it done NOW!
So resign. Nuremberg gave us pretty clear rules around this type of thing.
When laws were introduced to make Directors down to IT Managers personally liable for corporate piracy (corporate product like Office, not user's downloading MP3s), not surprisingly, the PHBs started listening to their Sysadmins.
And we already have similar laws in the payments world with PCI-DSS, so I can't see why a similar incentive wouldn't have a similar impact.
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I'm not sure what a "Communist" flag is. I never knew Communism was a country.
The NFL is not a country either, but you can still buy NFL flags...
Look, the Confederate flag means slavery, hatred, bigotry and ...
...and stupidity. Anyone I've met with a confederate flag was dumb as a post.
I often wonder where those Crazy Arabs* get their flags? Always so many flags being burnt, they must have shops full of them.
* Crazy Arab meaning an Arab who is crazy, not that all Arabs are crazy.
ALL speech is protected.
That is a myth. Freedom of Speech has defined boundaries, it doesn't mean you can say what you like, when you like, free from repercussions.
If you want to fly the nazi flag, I will fight for your right to do so.
Really? I know this phrase is thrown around a lot with Free Speech types, and it sounds cute, and I'm a fan a free speech too, but I'd never actually fight anyone to allow a Nazi flag.
They can be anything just as long as adequate spare and storage capacity exists.
Yes, so when you calculate actual capacity for an entire country you will see that only Coal or Nuke can scale up to that level reliably.
I'm sorry but saying you HAVE to have either coal or nuclear is just plain dumb - no offense -
I'm not offended that you don't get it.
and there are many countries in the world that use neither of those to any large extent but get by just fine and rarely have blackouts.
Name them.
Inflation is an actual number derived from actual predefined things listed by your government's statistics department ( see here for the UK version). So if people are just making up stuff, that's not inflation.
I did something similar for a year, just to see if I could. It was surprisingly easy, I had a wagon with a mattress in it and joined the local gym. Park up, sleep, wake up go to gym, go to work, back to gym, sleep, repeat.
It did l get a little monotonous, and I missed not having a couch, but I got in great shape, lost weight and now if push comes to shove I know it can be done.
The only people who had homelands are native people's. Unless you're a native Indian shut up because your ancestors didn't give a shit. How do you think you are where you are now?
Don't fall for that shit. Original inhabitants were usually not there by choice, and migrated for the same reasons you did. They also fought each other to the death to steal each other's shit. Western culture is exactly the same just slightly more advanced. This myth of the noble savage is exactly that, a myth.
This is actually happening already with the Chinese. The rise of China gave birth to the rise of Chinese investor who wants out of their country. Smaller countries simply cannot handle the weight of millions of Chinese with money buying up all their land.
Interesting times ahead...
Hey no problem. I enjoy a robust discussion, and can handle the insults :)
Haha you kill me. At least Europeans (and Asians,and Africans etc) can point out the US on a map. That's at least little bit less ignorant than a lot of Americans
You seem to be be sensitive to the US/European relationship, maybe because of your personal experience. But it take from me, everywhere you go there are good people and bad people. I forgot where this thread even started, but if you feel insulted by my anti-Amercan comments I apologise. I like the US, but I also love to point out its faults. Don't take it personally
Cool. Now it's my turn, how do you get half a planet's demand for electricity from one side of the earth to the other? No seriously, what diameter cable do you think you'll need to carry 2 or 3 TW or electricity over 20000km? What sort of transmission losses do you expect?
The key thing is if you can predict in advance when your power plant will go offline, and how much power you have from storage and other sources when that happens. Complementing wind and solar with batteries and pumped hydro can give a pretty good base load capacity and an approximately 2x peak load capacity. Even so it still winds up being much cheaper than nuclear.
Yeah you're missing the key part of the equation, capacity. You're assuming all the places on this planet that need electricity also have an adequate supply of wind, solar, and a stinking big river nearby. Hint: They don't.
I love the idea of completely free energy from wind and solar, I'd even stick a wind turbine in my backyard if it meant free energy, but the numbers simply don't stack up. "Base Load" is the reliable always available supply that currently only coal and nuclear can offer. Given the choice of bad or really bad, then bad still wins.
It doesn't sound like anybody paid Google, rather this was some automatic process
Processes don't write themselves...
Well yes, because one thing a dictatorship can do is change course quickly. China have already signaled interest in this space , so it's not too much of a stretch to believe the command will come from the top and leave us all looking like dinosaurs.
Human progress since the Industrial Revolution has been based on cheap energy. While in principle I'm all for clean energy, on the timeline he's talking about it will result in a massive increase in energy costs, essentially running us backwards.
If you add up the true costs (millions of deaths from air pollution, climate change losses), coal will end up costing more than Nuclear, so all that cheap energy was really borrowed money from our children.
The numbers I've seen, even the most expensive energy option is still less than $1/kwh. That still seems cheap in my opinion, so why are we arguing?
I don't have anything against nukes besides time and cost but "base load" is propaganda invented by the coal industry and supported by the nuclear industry.
Base load means being able to switch on and off on demand, any time of the day, any time of the year. This is something solar, wind and hydro can't do.
The demand curve of a modern city is not flat, the flat supply curve generated by "base load" is made to fit the demand curve using dams and gas turbines as fast switching, rechargeable "batteries".
In the case of Hydro, what happens when the demand outstrips the size of the lake? Hydro is not suitable for medium to large base loads
Solar and wind can use the exact same technology to manipulate their supply curve into fitting the varying demand. As for air-conditioners, they are at peak use during peak solar generation times, meaning they actually have a better natural fit to demand than "base load" in some specific scenarios.
Some but not all, hence the dilemma. For most of the western world, demand is highest when it is dark and cold. Solar and wind are next to useless in these scenarios.
nuclear is extremely expensive; far more expensive than wind or solar, on average.
True, but Nuclear works when its dark and there's no wind. Nuclear is a base load source so should only be compared against other base load sources.
Some people fudge their figures in various ways (not taking into account decommissioning costs and waste handling costs, etc.) to make it look like it isn't, though.
Nuclear probably has the most accurate and transparent cost model of all the base load options. So if it looks expensive, it's because all power generation is, but Nuclear is forced to include ALL costs, while the likes of coal get a free ride. If you include the costs of climate change, which is a cost of Coal Power, it's pretty much the most expensive thing ever in all of human history.
Sarcasm aside, take a look at some of the recent studies
45% of energy coming from Solar? What happens at night, you know when people actually want to use electrcity?
Easy to say, hard to do. What about the wife and kids? Who's going to make the mortgage payment?
The end result is the same. If you work somewhere that has such questionable ethics that it is likely to cause massive financial or personal harm to someone, then your mortgage isn't safe anyway. I know not everyone has the luxury of leaving, but it's something I've done, and always try to keep myself in a position to have that choice.
European bigotry also exists in former colonies
"European Bigotry"? Can you even say that with a straight face?
Tattoos were never a very clever fashion statement. At least with bad jeans or a silly haircut you can change it with the trends. All those idiots will have 2010 printed on them for the rest of their lives. Tattoo removal is going to be a huge business in a few years.
That seems low in my neighborhood. It seems like most people under 30 have one. It also seems to be a requirement to work in food service or graphic design.
Depends where you live I guess. I'm lucky enough to live in a rich area by a beach, 20% is high here (going to the beach is a giveaway if you have one or not). When I go inland to the working class areas, it seems like every second person has one. The stupid thing about them is that as they are associated with poor and dumb people (have you noticed that in prison the number climbs to nearly 100%), so while getting a tattoo when you're 20 might sound cool at the time, all you are doing is advertising to everyone else that you're probably on the dumb/poor side of the bell curve.
Is this because military men used to be the group that mainly had tattoos? If so, is the author telling us that he/she never knew that many people who served?
I come from a military family, the only Tattoos I saw as a kid we're either at my dad's work, or on loser, bad guy types. So I agree with that. These days it seems to be the compulsory uniform for retail and bar staff.
how about we just make it a crime punishable by 20 years for any IT professional to hook sensitive computers to the internet.
Even if the PHB makes you do it?
In my experience, it's not the IT guy that is responsible, it's the PHB who doesn't understand the risks, doesn't take the IT guy's advice or provide the necessary resources to do the job safely, they just want it done NOW!
So resign. Nuremberg gave us pretty clear rules around this type of thing.
When laws were introduced to make Directors down to IT Managers personally liable for corporate piracy (corporate product like Office, not user's downloading MP3s), not surprisingly, the PHBs started listening to their Sysadmins.
And we already have similar laws in the payments world with PCI-DSS, so I can't see why a similar incentive wouldn't have a similar impact.