That's not an entirely fair assessment. Solar feed-in is during peak power rates and the owner is at best reimbursed at the fixed residential rate which is frequently 1/4 to 1/8 of the peak rate. I agree that solar users are going to need to contribute to the grid but the power companies are being very short sided here.
Without the feed-in of peak solar output and the credits that generates there is no reason not to install the batteries needed to go fully off grid where the homeowner won't be contributing anything to the grid. There is a very fine line here where battery storage becomes viable and we are approaching it rapidly. Solar continues to fall in cost, it's already approaching price parity with nuclear power without subsidies. If it continues to fall to $0.50 a watt it's going to reach cost the amortized cost of coal generation. It's beginning to hit critical mass, the more demand the steeper costs will drop which lowers costs and increases demand more. After years of subsidies priming the pump solar is finally gaining momentum and it scares these power companies to death because they are invested almost entirely in hydrocarbons. They are fighting solar because of these investments.
The scary thing here is that if they don't turn things around and realize the potential of solar and embrace it they are going to get displaced by battery storage and then the power company is out of business. There is a very real possibility that by 2030 solar is going to be THE source of power.
shouldn't every year have to be warmer than the past?
If you think that is a serious question you have absolutely no understanding at all of the issue. Explaining this to you would be like trying to teach calculus to someone that can't even multiply small numbers together. You are woefully unprepared to understand even the basics let alone the real science. The question is why do you go into discussions you don't understand and report talking points you heard on TV? Are you that stupid?
Let me start of saying I like the AK, but frankly you are talking it up way beyond it's capabilities.
It's a popular and widely used weapon worldwide for one reason and one reason alone. It's cheap. I can be had in black markets in Africa for less than $200 used, and when Ukraine offloaded it's stockpiles of old AK's to Russian arms merchants in the 90's there was a time period where you could buy them for $50. That puts them in the price range that even rural subsistence farmers can buy them. Because of the shear number of weapons the Soviets produced Ukraine alone was able to put double digit millions of surplus AK's on the market.
If you are counting on number of bullets fired and think "full auto" is how you get there you don't know what the hell you are talking about. If you hold the trigger down on an AK and empty a clip in seconds you are going to be either shooting straight up or shooting everyone to one side of you within 4 shots. In addition with the grain and weight of bullet fired you are far less likely to kill someone. Most AK rounds will fire through meaning unless you get lucky and hit a major artery or vein or a critical organ chances are you aren't going to kill them because the bullet passes cleanly through the victim. These wounds are very clean and often the victim isn't even incapacitated. In the event you actually hit something vital with an AK you will kill them very quickly if not instantly which again reduces the maximum effect (the goal in any combat is to incapacitate, not kill because it takes 3 people out of the battle rather than 1, that is one wounded and two people to get the wounded medical assistance).
I like the AK, but it's not the best weapon ever made. It's the most prolific weapon ever made because of cost and nothing else. You might be surprised to find that many actual fighters ditch the AK and it's variants fairly quickly after they learn how to shoot. For example in the current Syrian conflict though the AK variant is the most prolific weapon other weapons of greater quality and accuracy are favored by the experienced fighting groups. It is my understanding that the Steg and other NATO variants are highly favored.
I don't disagree on the quality of reporting. But this NHSTA funded study is real and has been covered several times in the national press. The author of the article assumes the reader is already aware of said study. It's basically a redo of this 2007 study.
It's covered on Ron Paul's website. I wouldn't call this a "rumor". It's a reality and a poorly written article that makes assumptions about it's readership knowledge about current events. Just because you don't know about these research projects doesn't mean it's rumor. It's good research and helps policy makers understand the real danger of impaired driving. I don't like how it's being done or that cops are used but it's still valid research that's needed in the continuous drive to make our roadways safer.
Ever heard of the physics phenomenon where radiation decreases by the square of distance? Wireless power needs to be within a few inches of the power source to work properly. That is why the phones that support wireless charging have to be set on power mat to charge and can't do it from across the room.
The Farm bills that give huge subsidies to big agriculture have always been bipartisan in the sense that congress-critters from any rural farming state always voted for them regardless of party.
I always find it funny when one group of Republicrats tries to blame the Democans for something that's always been bipartisan.
But don't let me get in the way of the manufactured hate.
Triclosan is a fungal spore. It's prevents bacterial growth by out-competing them with fungus. Frankly I find it disgusting but it's damn near impossible to avoid.
Welcome to Slashdot, a division of Dice tolling media. You must be new here, otherwise you would know factual relevance has little to do with moderation.
Son of a Bitch. They do say it's required in the FAQ. It appears they are using it to simplify the boot from USB installation process based on the FAQ. I'd imagine if your board supports booting from USB you are probably ok but they may have hardwired support for UEFI in the installer (such that it will only look for UEFI instances for installation media) so you won't know till you try.
Not required, supported. The list is supported hardware. I would assume standard BIOS is supported as well but they wanted to point out that newer UEFI only boards are also supported.
My goodness, only one reference to the Memory hole? That is where erased history went in the book 1984 and this situation fits it perfectly and there is only one bloody reference. I'm disappointed.
Oh and BTW, they aren't erasing him, only the mentions of him that were good. They broadcast live him being dragged out (by his elbows) of the politburo by soldiers.
I'm not attempting to argue that keeping the product is correct so stop referring to that.
As you said it's perfectly reasonable to tell them to cover shipping, but who's covering the costs of getting it shipped? I don't know where you live but where I live package pickups are at the parcel services convenience, NOT the shipper or receivers convenience. A standard pickup is at best a 4 hour window and and worst multiple days waiting. Shipping it back is not "free".
So do you believe the person that had NO involvement in being shipped the wrong product is at fault and is required to cover the time and cost of shipping it back for costs above the bare parcel delivery cost? Cause there is a cost beyond the parcel service and that cost varies for every single person.
Sabotage? No sabotage isn't postal rates, it's requiring that the USPS prefund 75 years of retirement pension in 10 years. That means in 10 years they have to fund the retirement for employees that haven't been born yet. That's sabotage. Refusing to raise stamp prices to pay for the prefunding requirement is just following through on the real sabotage.
You are way outside the bounds of what you know and are speculating highly incorrectly. Those poles are there by either a defined permanent easement, by prescriptive right or are in public ROW as a public utility (and bound by public utility laws). They are the property of ATT and no one can tell them how they can use those poles with the one exception that if the pole is situation in public ROW the government can place restrictions on sharing the poles with other public utilities, but if the poles predate the roadway or the poles are within an easement owned by ATT the government can't regulate them at all because they are private property.
So you think Zawi should have to compensate the people for their time, gas and other expenses to ship the product back?
What if they have to drive 4 miles and spend an hour of their time to drop it off for shipping? Or conversely they have to take a day off work to wait for the delivery truck to pick it up?
You shouldn't have posted anonymous because you nailed it with the first post. This NIH syndrome they've developed will ultimately be the end of Canonical. In the long run they can't sustain the independent development on all these separate and diverse features, not unless Shutleworth is going to continue to fund this with millions of his own money in perpetuity.
They don't pay "whatever they say it's worth". The law is that they pay what fair market value is as appraised by independent appraisal. This includes that if the owner doesn't believe the appraisal was accurate they can pay for their own appraisal and use that as a club against the price.
Failure to pay fair market value will get a government agency stomped in court faster than you would believe is even possible. Most Judges if they believe the offer was low balled deliberately will award costs equivalent to the highest appraisal as a punishment.
Don't think for a minute the Austin government purchasing those poles under eminent domain is going to be at all cheap. In fact it just might be cheaper to put up all new poles.
We paid good money for that Uranium and IIRC the Russians got a bunch of jobs mixing the highly refined into low grade at the 2% rate that reactors use. They didn't need it, and it was a security risk laying around. It was a win-win for both nations.
Modern weapons don't use Uranium anyway because you need so much more of it versus a plutonium trigger on an H-Bomb. IIRC the US phase uranium based weapons out decades ago and used up the excess uranium in exactly the same way we're using the Russian uranium. The Russians also didn't' ship it all out, they used a bunch of it for their own reactors as well.
But don't play this out as a loss for either nation, there was nothing for the Russian to lose face over because the material isn't part of their nuclear deterrent any more than uranium weapons are in the US. It was a marketable commodity as generator fuel and essentially worthless otherwise. The US was the only nation willing to buy it because of the protections other nations put on their internal refinement programs. The Russians didn't want to idle the refinement factories that supply Uranium to the world and the US had shut down their refinement capacity decades ago.
Using up the US and Russian weapons grade Uranium in US reactors delayed a restarting of US uranium production by decades. In fact after this last shipment is used up the US Uranium enrichment facilities will need to rebuild/restart to continue fueling the reactors.
Firefox addon Ghostery does the same including going to the next logical step of self-destructing all cookies that you don't explicitly protect. It also give the ability to white/blacklist. Combined with addon's that take care of the long term cookies that Adobe created with flash and you have the ability to block almost all tracking.
I've yet to see a single addon that gets all the different avenues of tracking. It's not enough to block the tracking widgets because cookies can reveal you, and Adobe flash cookies are even worse, they are long term, generally unmanageable and can be read by almost any site. And those are just the ones I know about, there are probably others.
The only safe way to browse is with noscript, ghostery and a dozen other addons that make browsing a pain because of all the sites that totally break without the ability to track you. In fact in the last 3 months or so there's been a trend to break critical parts of the site deliberately if you disable the tracking widgets.
No, the parents involved will blame the medical establishment for not saving their child.
Measles is a serious disease that we have an established and functional protection from that they refused to use but they will blame the doctors for not being able to save their snowflake from the disease. There have already been people in this thread claim Measles is not a big deal when before the vaccine it used to kill anywhere from 1 in 10 to 1 in 4. In fact every 10 killer in 1950 is no longer on the list because of vaccines and IIRC in 1950 Measles was number 2 on the fatality list, right behind small pox and in front of polio. Only one of those diseases is gone, with the anti-vax campaign we're going to see a resurgence in the other two unless they can get rid of polio before some jackass brings is back from Pakistan.
A major VM website provider switched to Apache on Windows after MS handed them a big pile of money. That's skewed the numbers. It's estimated that 99% of websites that run on VM's are garbage parked websites filled with ad's.
So yea, Microsoft probably has a corner on the 10,000 VM, ad laden, malware serving, website parking servers that count as an installation but in fact aren't actually doing anything. As a result the numbers you quote are worthless indicators of actual use.
Or desperation. I've met plenty of people that moved without any idea if they would even find a job but they did it because they were out of options and were going to be homeless either way.
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That's not an entirely fair assessment. Solar feed-in is during peak power rates and the owner is at best reimbursed at the fixed residential rate which is frequently 1/4 to 1/8 of the peak rate. I agree that solar users are going to need to contribute to the grid but the power companies are being very short sided here.
Without the feed-in of peak solar output and the credits that generates there is no reason not to install the batteries needed to go fully off grid where the homeowner won't be contributing anything to the grid. There is a very fine line here where battery storage becomes viable and we are approaching it rapidly. Solar continues to fall in cost, it's already approaching price parity with nuclear power without subsidies. If it continues to fall to $0.50 a watt it's going to reach cost the amortized cost of coal generation. It's beginning to hit critical mass, the more demand the steeper costs will drop which lowers costs and increases demand more. After years of subsidies priming the pump solar is finally gaining momentum and it scares these power companies to death because they are invested almost entirely in hydrocarbons. They are fighting solar because of these investments.
The scary thing here is that if they don't turn things around and realize the potential of solar and embrace it they are going to get displaced by battery storage and then the power company is out of business. There is a very real possibility that by 2030 solar is going to be THE source of power.
If you think that is a serious question you have absolutely no understanding at all of the issue. Explaining this to you would be like trying to teach calculus to someone that can't even multiply small numbers together. You are woefully unprepared to understand even the basics let alone the real science. The question is why do you go into discussions you don't understand and report talking points you heard on TV? Are you that stupid?
Let me start of saying I like the AK, but frankly you are talking it up way beyond it's capabilities.
It's a popular and widely used weapon worldwide for one reason and one reason alone. It's cheap. I can be had in black markets in Africa for less than $200 used, and when Ukraine offloaded it's stockpiles of old AK's to Russian arms merchants in the 90's there was a time period where you could buy them for $50. That puts them in the price range that even rural subsistence farmers can buy them. Because of the shear number of weapons the Soviets produced Ukraine alone was able to put double digit millions of surplus AK's on the market.
If you are counting on number of bullets fired and think "full auto" is how you get there you don't know what the hell you are talking about. If you hold the trigger down on an AK and empty a clip in seconds you are going to be either shooting straight up or shooting everyone to one side of you within 4 shots. In addition with the grain and weight of bullet fired you are far less likely to kill someone. Most AK rounds will fire through meaning unless you get lucky and hit a major artery or vein or a critical organ chances are you aren't going to kill them because the bullet passes cleanly through the victim. These wounds are very clean and often the victim isn't even incapacitated. In the event you actually hit something vital with an AK you will kill them very quickly if not instantly which again reduces the maximum effect (the goal in any combat is to incapacitate, not kill because it takes 3 people out of the battle rather than 1, that is one wounded and two people to get the wounded medical assistance).
I like the AK, but it's not the best weapon ever made. It's the most prolific weapon ever made because of cost and nothing else. You might be surprised to find that many actual fighters ditch the AK and it's variants fairly quickly after they learn how to shoot. For example in the current Syrian conflict though the AK variant is the most prolific weapon other weapons of greater quality and accuracy are favored by the experienced fighting groups. It is my understanding that the Steg and other NATO variants are highly favored.
The blow random sampling with that and will only get one economic group.
Not saying I don't agree with you, just saying it would damage the intent of the study.
I don't disagree on the quality of reporting. But this NHSTA funded study is real and has been covered several times in the national press. The author of the article assumes the reader is already aware of said study. It's basically a redo of this 2007 study.
http://www.nhtsa.gov/DOT/NHTSA/Traffic%20Injury%20Control/Articles/Associated%20Files/811175.pdf
It's covered on Ron Paul's website. I wouldn't call this a "rumor". It's a reality and a poorly written article that makes assumptions about it's readership knowledge about current events. Just because you don't know about these research projects doesn't mean it's rumor. It's good research and helps policy makers understand the real danger of impaired driving. I don't like how it's being done or that cops are used but it's still valid research that's needed in the continuous drive to make our roadways safer.
Ever heard of the physics phenomenon where radiation decreases by the square of distance? Wireless power needs to be within a few inches of the power source to work properly. That is why the phones that support wireless charging have to be set on power mat to charge and can't do it from across the room.
The Farm bills that give huge subsidies to big agriculture have always been bipartisan in the sense that congress-critters from any rural farming state always voted for them regardless of party.
I always find it funny when one group of Republicrats tries to blame the Democans for something that's always been bipartisan.
But don't let me get in the way of the manufactured hate.
Triclosan is a fungal spore. It's prevents bacterial growth by out-competing them with fungus. Frankly I find it disgusting but it's damn near impossible to avoid.
Class actions are gone, there is a binding arbitration clause in every single sales contract since the supreme court ruled they aren't unconscionable.
Not all statistics are created equally. It's very difficult to compare rates of anything because of how drastically different they are counted.
Almost every region in the US includes suicides in the homicide by gun count. In fact they account for more than 50% of all gun crime.
Welcome to Slashdot, a division of Dice tolling media. You must be new here, otherwise you would know factual relevance has little to do with moderation.
Son of a Bitch. They do say it's required in the FAQ. It appears they are using it to simplify the boot from USB installation process based on the FAQ. I'd imagine if your board supports booting from USB you are probably ok but they may have hardwired support for UEFI in the installer (such that it will only look for UEFI instances for installation media) so you won't know till you try.
My bad for misleading you.
Not required, supported. The list is supported hardware. I would assume standard BIOS is supported as well but they wanted to point out that newer UEFI only boards are also supported.
My goodness, only one reference to the Memory hole? That is where erased history went in the book 1984 and this situation fits it perfectly and there is only one bloody reference. I'm disappointed.
Oh and BTW, they aren't erasing him, only the mentions of him that were good. They broadcast live him being dragged out (by his elbows) of the politburo by soldiers.
I'm not attempting to argue that keeping the product is correct so stop referring to that.
As you said it's perfectly reasonable to tell them to cover shipping, but who's covering the costs of getting it shipped? I don't know where you live but where I live package pickups are at the parcel services convenience, NOT the shipper or receivers convenience. A standard pickup is at best a 4 hour window and and worst multiple days waiting. Shipping it back is not "free".
So do you believe the person that had NO involvement in being shipped the wrong product is at fault and is required to cover the time and cost of shipping it back for costs above the bare parcel delivery cost? Cause there is a cost beyond the parcel service and that cost varies for every single person.
Sabotage? No sabotage isn't postal rates, it's requiring that the USPS prefund 75 years of retirement pension in 10 years. That means in 10 years they have to fund the retirement for employees that haven't been born yet. That's sabotage. Refusing to raise stamp prices to pay for the prefunding requirement is just following through on the real sabotage.
You are way outside the bounds of what you know and are speculating highly incorrectly. Those poles are there by either a defined permanent easement, by prescriptive right or are in public ROW as a public utility (and bound by public utility laws). They are the property of ATT and no one can tell them how they can use those poles with the one exception that if the pole is situation in public ROW the government can place restrictions on sharing the poles with other public utilities, but if the poles predate the roadway or the poles are within an easement owned by ATT the government can't regulate them at all because they are private property.
So you think Zawi should have to compensate the people for their time, gas and other expenses to ship the product back?
What if they have to drive 4 miles and spend an hour of their time to drop it off for shipping? Or conversely they have to take a day off work to wait for the delivery truck to pick it up?
Mod Parent up.
You shouldn't have posted anonymous because you nailed it with the first post. This NIH syndrome they've developed will ultimately be the end of Canonical. In the long run they can't sustain the independent development on all these separate and diverse features, not unless Shutleworth is going to continue to fund this with millions of his own money in perpetuity.
They don't pay "whatever they say it's worth". The law is that they pay what fair market value is as appraised by independent appraisal. This includes that if the owner doesn't believe the appraisal was accurate they can pay for their own appraisal and use that as a club against the price.
Failure to pay fair market value will get a government agency stomped in court faster than you would believe is even possible. Most Judges if they believe the offer was low balled deliberately will award costs equivalent to the highest appraisal as a punishment.
Don't think for a minute the Austin government purchasing those poles under eminent domain is going to be at all cheap. In fact it just might be cheaper to put up all new poles.
We paid good money for that Uranium and IIRC the Russians got a bunch of jobs mixing the highly refined into low grade at the 2% rate that reactors use. They didn't need it, and it was a security risk laying around. It was a win-win for both nations.
Modern weapons don't use Uranium anyway because you need so much more of it versus a plutonium trigger on an H-Bomb. IIRC the US phase uranium based weapons out decades ago and used up the excess uranium in exactly the same way we're using the Russian uranium. The Russians also didn't' ship it all out, they used a bunch of it for their own reactors as well.
But don't play this out as a loss for either nation, there was nothing for the Russian to lose face over because the material isn't part of their nuclear deterrent any more than uranium weapons are in the US. It was a marketable commodity as generator fuel and essentially worthless otherwise. The US was the only nation willing to buy it because of the protections other nations put on their internal refinement programs. The Russians didn't want to idle the refinement factories that supply Uranium to the world and the US had shut down their refinement capacity decades ago.
Using up the US and Russian weapons grade Uranium in US reactors delayed a restarting of US uranium production by decades. In fact after this last shipment is used up the US Uranium enrichment facilities will need to rebuild/restart to continue fueling the reactors.
Firefox addon Ghostery does the same including going to the next logical step of self-destructing all cookies that you don't explicitly protect. It also give the ability to white/blacklist. Combined with addon's that take care of the long term cookies that Adobe created with flash and you have the ability to block almost all tracking.
I've yet to see a single addon that gets all the different avenues of tracking. It's not enough to block the tracking widgets because cookies can reveal you, and Adobe flash cookies are even worse, they are long term, generally unmanageable and can be read by almost any site. And those are just the ones I know about, there are probably others.
The only safe way to browse is with noscript, ghostery and a dozen other addons that make browsing a pain because of all the sites that totally break without the ability to track you. In fact in the last 3 months or so there's been a trend to break critical parts of the site deliberately if you disable the tracking widgets.
No, the parents involved will blame the medical establishment for not saving their child.
Measles is a serious disease that we have an established and functional protection from that they refused to use but they will blame the doctors for not being able to save their snowflake from the disease. There have already been people in this thread claim Measles is not a big deal when before the vaccine it used to kill anywhere from 1 in 10 to 1 in 4. In fact every 10 killer in 1950 is no longer on the list because of vaccines and IIRC in 1950 Measles was number 2 on the fatality list, right behind small pox and in front of polio. Only one of those diseases is gone, with the anti-vax campaign we're going to see a resurgence in the other two unless they can get rid of polio before some jackass brings is back from Pakistan.
A major VM website provider switched to Apache on Windows after MS handed them a big pile of money. That's skewed the numbers. It's estimated that 99% of websites that run on VM's are garbage parked websites filled with ad's.
So yea, Microsoft probably has a corner on the 10,000 VM, ad laden, malware serving, website parking servers that count as an installation but in fact aren't actually doing anything. As a result the numbers you quote are worthless indicators of actual use.
Or desperation. I've met plenty of people that moved without any idea if they would even find a job but they did it because they were out of options and were going to be homeless either way.