That cone thing is nonsense, but adding solar panels to windmill blades? That might be a good idea -- for one thing it gets them up out of the surface blowing dirt that etches hell out of the panels. For another the rest of the unit is already budgeted. So even if the solar isn't angled efficiently, it could be a bonus.
Some of the methods being used are covered in this symposium. 7 hours and some dead air (starts about 14 minutes in) but if you're interested in the topic, well worth your time.
I use HOSTS (that one, in fact), NoScript, and PrefBar (to have control over flash, acrobat, image loading, etc.) and that pretty much strips what I get in my browser down to the minimum to make a given page work. On average my browser loads maybe 10% of what the server would like to send me. (No adblocker required, either.)
But even thus, modern browsers are still slow, nothing to do with the server or devs' finest efforts at optimization; as best I (not a coder but an experienced observer) can tell the problem really is in the browser itself: If you run any of the Mozilla family on a slower machine, you can actually see it doing linear singletasking (most visibly when asked to save several files in a row). Old Netscape didn't have this problem; it arrived with the opensource version. One suspects a plague of bad coding Zen [a la Abrash's Black Book].
And why does it take 100mb of RAM just to display a 10k text-only page?? and up to 1.9GB to run a couple videos? the same HTML renders in any other program at a cost of a couple MB, and flash itself uses very little. My observation is that the problem is mostly in plugin-container.exe, but it's not the whole issue. Disabling disk cache entirely helps too (its current convoluted structure seems to cause a major memory leak -- seriously, 1500+ directories holding one file apiece??), but not enough.
The latest bizarre slowdown (this is in SeaMonkey 2.39, can't run a newer one BECAUSE IT'S TOO DAMN SLOW) is running CPU at 100% for 30+ seconds when asked to merely copy text from a webpage. Thank ghu for the "Copy as Plain Text" add-on, which works around the problem.
Performance gets significantly worse with every update, which is why I've fallen into the practice of using the oldest browser that will still halfway work.
Browser devs need to be restricted to working on old hardware, so they can see what they're doing to the rest of us who can't justify new hardware just so the browser doesn't take forever to do its job.
Oh, but they don't WANT their data out there for all to see, because then manipulations of said data to reach the desired conclusions will also be visible...
BTW Trump is reportedly a voracious reader of anything he can lay hands on, which isn't typically contiguous with a desire to burn books.
Keith Olbermann has been a loony prick since day one. Back when he was new in L.A., he singlehandedly got me to switch to another channel for my nightly news, because I couldn't stand his pontificating on shit he clearly knew nothing about, and his egotistical contempt for anyone who didn't agree.
I'm not entirely impressed with Alex Jones either (his style makes my teeth itch), but his buddy Paul Joseph Watson has been pretty reliable (far as I've seen).
I heard some time back that the leaks were an inside job, no hack required because the NSA archives all internet traffic anyway (and I've personally heard local ISP owners bitch about the "black boxes" on their backbones). I find this a lot more believable than that some script kiddie knew enough to look for a Clinton server. Especially since 'deleted' emails have magically reappeared as leaks.
Recommended reading: "The First Family Detail" -- a book of Secret Service stories about POTUSs and VPs of the past 50 years. Most enlightening. We dodged a bullet.
I vaguely recall that one of the big electronic voting machine companies has financial ties to Soros. Care to guess why electronic voting is being pushed so hard? Other than the obvious that it's a lot more hackable and leaves no paper trail...
And tho I haven't seen any hard proof, I think Soros is funneling Saudi money. The parallels of interest are too much for coincidence.
2. Now show me the evidence for 30+ states where Hillary lost, all of which have different election systems.
It's just innuendo and misdirection... hoping we won't notice how the recount exposed districts where up to 6x more votes (all for Democrats) somehow appeared than the total number of registered voters.
Actually, I had exactly the same thought, and that's coming from a background in biochemistry.
It's not "global warming" that I find frightening; it's the schemes people come up with to "cool the planet" (one or two degrees and hello ice age) or "get rid of CO2" (which is to say, plant food -- this is a recipe for famine by reducing crop yields by at least as much, probably about half-again more since starving plants need more water, and cooling reduces rainfall).
So while you got modded funny... it was actually damned insightful.
The statement being copied went something like "Stein raised more money this weekend than she did down the whole home stretch of her campaign" -- the point being not to compare how much, but rather how FAST it was raised. And that is indeed a good point. If she can raise $3M in one holiday weekend, how could she not raise similar amounts that fast at least occasionally all last year?
That's why I think the guy who pointed out it's probably a guess-whose-bot doing the donating is likely correct.
I suggest that if one state is recounted, in fairness they all must be. With each voter being validated during the recount. Slow and would cost but don't you want to get it right?
Someone noted that the pace at which the money is coming in indicates a bot, not real humans, so is probably almost entirely from a single source. I leave it to your imagination who that that might be...
Also odd how...curiously nonspecific... is her statement about what will be done with any leftover funds. I translate this as "convenient way to refill my war chest".
And funny how the whole notion didn't get serious until it was almost too late to do anything about it, even if a recount were called for.
I had regarded Stein as honest, if politically misguided. I may have to reassess that.
I'm wondering if the determination that "7% of respondents believe in lizard people" was actually those who said "I don't know, there could be" which is hardly a statement of belief, but isn't an outright negation so was recorded as the opposite of "No". That would be in line with pollsters today, anyway.
Historically, people out of their place and time (eg. Native Americans visiting 1700s Europe) have been hailed as celebrities. There's no reason to believe she'd be treated otherwise, at least so long as something remains of western civilization.
The real savings might be in no longer needing vast sewage treatment plants, which for metro areas, and areas with high ground water, can be a financial and ecological adventure. And instead of construction cost followed by your taxes or sewer fees going up to maintain it, it would be construction cost followed by income (probably enough to cover operating costs) as the product was sold at something close to crude prices. Even if the cost/income was a wash (and I didn't look for operational costs for the conversion plant), not having to dispose of the waste sludge is a bonus.
So even if it's a drop in the daily oil bucket, it might still be very much worth considering for new sewage treatment construction.
If I were designing this, I'd keep an index on your local HD, which the cloud server never sees, and which you can search for whatever file you want to pull down.
Slashdot Mirror
TL;DR: Easier to ask forgiveness than permission.
That cone thing is nonsense, but adding solar panels to windmill blades? That might be a good idea -- for one thing it gets them up out of the surface blowing dirt that etches hell out of the panels. For another the rest of the unit is already budgeted. So even if the solar isn't angled efficiently, it could be a bonus.
Some of the methods being used are covered in this symposium. 7 hours and some dead air (starts about 14 minutes in) but if you're interested in the topic, well worth your time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I use HOSTS (that one, in fact), NoScript, and PrefBar (to have control over flash, acrobat, image loading, etc.) and that pretty much strips what I get in my browser down to the minimum to make a given page work. On average my browser loads maybe 10% of what the server would like to send me. (No adblocker required, either.)
But even thus, modern browsers are still slow, nothing to do with the server or devs' finest efforts at optimization; as best I (not a coder but an experienced observer) can tell the problem really is in the browser itself: If you run any of the Mozilla family on a slower machine, you can actually see it doing linear singletasking (most visibly when asked to save several files in a row). Old Netscape didn't have this problem; it arrived with the opensource version. One suspects a plague of bad coding Zen [a la Abrash's Black Book].
And why does it take 100mb of RAM just to display a 10k text-only page?? and up to 1.9GB to run a couple videos? the same HTML renders in any other program at a cost of a couple MB, and flash itself uses very little. My observation is that the problem is mostly in plugin-container.exe, but it's not the whole issue. Disabling disk cache entirely helps too (its current convoluted structure seems to cause a major memory leak -- seriously, 1500+ directories holding one file apiece??), but not enough.
The latest bizarre slowdown (this is in SeaMonkey 2.39, can't run a newer one BECAUSE IT'S TOO DAMN SLOW) is running CPU at 100% for 30+ seconds when asked to merely copy text from a webpage. Thank ghu for the "Copy as Plain Text" add-on, which works around the problem.
Performance gets significantly worse with every update, which is why I've fallen into the practice of using the oldest browser that will still halfway work.
Browser devs need to be restricted to working on old hardware, so they can see what they're doing to the rest of us who can't justify new hardware just so the browser doesn't take forever to do its job.
Chemical (primarily manufacturing)
https://earth.nullschool.net/#...
Particulate (coal)
https://earth.nullschool.net/#...
Oh, but they don't WANT their data out there for all to see, because then manipulations of said data to reach the desired conclusions will also be visible...
BTW Trump is reportedly a voracious reader of anything he can lay hands on, which isn't typically contiguous with a desire to burn books.
Really? Chemical pollutants overlay, positioned so you can see China vs North America:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#...
or how about the whole rest of the world:
https://earth.nullschool.net/#...
Considering the CIA's track record of the past few decades, if they say Russia hacked anything, I take that as positive evidence against it.
Which he copied from someone in Clinton's previous presidential campaign crew. Yep, they started it.
Keith Olbermann has been a loony prick since day one. Back when he was new in L.A., he singlehandedly got me to switch to another channel for my nightly news, because I couldn't stand his pontificating on shit he clearly knew nothing about, and his egotistical contempt for anyone who didn't agree.
I'm not entirely impressed with Alex Jones either (his style makes my teeth itch), but his buddy Paul Joseph Watson has been pretty reliable (far as I've seen).
I heard some time back that the leaks were an inside job, no hack required because the NSA archives all internet traffic anyway (and I've personally heard local ISP owners bitch about the "black boxes" on their backbones). I find this a lot more believable than that some script kiddie knew enough to look for a Clinton server. Especially since 'deleted' emails have magically reappeared as leaks.
Recommended reading: "The First Family Detail" -- a book of Secret Service stories about POTUSs and VPs of the past 50 years. Most enlightening. We dodged a bullet.
I vaguely recall that one of the big electronic voting machine companies has financial ties to Soros. Care to guess why electronic voting is being pushed so hard? Other than the obvious that it's a lot more hackable and leaves no paper trail...
And tho I haven't seen any hard proof, I think Soros is funneling Saudi money. The parallels of interest are too much for coincidence.
There's the thing.
1. Show me the evidence.
2. Now show me the evidence for 30+ states where Hillary lost, all of which have different election systems.
It's just innuendo and misdirection... hoping we won't notice how the recount exposed districts where up to 6x more votes (all for Democrats) somehow appeared than the total number of registered voters.
Being called a Democrat.
Actually, I had exactly the same thought, and that's coming from a background in biochemistry.
It's not "global warming" that I find frightening; it's the schemes people come up with to "cool the planet" (one or two degrees and hello ice age) or "get rid of CO2" (which is to say, plant food -- this is a recipe for famine by reducing crop yields by at least as much, probably about half-again more since starving plants need more water, and cooling reduces rainfall).
So while you got modded funny... it was actually damned insightful.
Perhaps the SPLC? by that standard, ordinary decent Americans are hatists if they happen to be white and don't think they should be exterminated.
The statement being copied went something like "Stein raised more money this weekend than she did down the whole home stretch of her campaign" -- the point being not to compare how much, but rather how FAST it was raised. And that is indeed a good point. If she can raise $3M in one holiday weekend, how could she not raise similar amounts that fast at least occasionally all last year?
That's why I think the guy who pointed out it's probably a guess-whose-bot doing the donating is likely correct.
I suggest that if one state is recounted, in fairness they all must be. With each voter being validated during the recount. Slow and would cost but don't you want to get it right?
Hello?? Where'd all the Democrats disappear to??
Someone noted that the pace at which the money is coming in indicates a bot, not real humans, so is probably almost entirely from a single source. I leave it to your imagination who that that might be...
Also odd how ...curiously nonspecific... is her statement about what will be done with any leftover funds. I translate this as "convenient way to refill my war chest".
And funny how the whole notion didn't get serious until it was almost too late to do anything about it, even if a recount were called for.
I had regarded Stein as honest, if politically misguided. I may have to reassess that.
Someone elsewhere mentioned that two of the cited states don't use electronic voting in the first place. So, fishing.
I'm wondering if the determination that "7% of respondents believe in lizard people" was actually those who said "I don't know, there could be" which is hardly a statement of belief, but isn't an outright negation so was recorded as the opposite of "No". That would be in line with pollsters today, anyway.
Historically, people out of their place and time (eg. Native Americans visiting 1700s Europe) have been hailed as celebrities. There's no reason to believe she'd be treated otherwise, at least so long as something remains of western civilization.
When I have a block list, how am I forced to listen to anyone on Twitter?
Yeah, every solution doesn't have to be the end-all and be-all. It's enough for a given solution to address its small part of the universe.
The real savings might be in no longer needing vast sewage treatment plants, which for metro areas, and areas with high ground water, can be a financial and ecological adventure. And instead of construction cost followed by your taxes or sewer fees going up to maintain it, it would be construction cost followed by income (probably enough to cover operating costs) as the product was sold at something close to crude prices. Even if the cost/income was a wash (and I didn't look for operational costs for the conversion plant), not having to dispose of the waste sludge is a bonus.
So even if it's a drop in the daily oil bucket, it might still be very much worth considering for new sewage treatment construction.
If I were designing this, I'd keep an index on your local HD, which the cloud server never sees, and which you can search for whatever file you want to pull down.