Mod parent up. It's astounding to me how many people are unaware of or deny that the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in the 80's was a fake scam perpetrated for the benefit of the accusers.
GoDaddy is HORRIBLE. You've got to be a FOOL to use them as a registrar and the reasons why are not difficult to find.
But outside EV certificates everyone should be using Let's Encrypt certificates. They are trivial to install, secure and renewals can be fully automated. On top of all that they are free. Anyone buying non-EV certificates is neither cost conscious nor values the time of their IT staff.
You apparently don't know how the financial collapse happened. The banks took junk loans, sliced them up and packaged them as AAA (the highest rating) investment grade even though 80% of the loans were subprime that the banks KNEW were going to default. The banks then turned around an invested the banks money in shorting those very same investments.
The banks can't be trusted, and the investors can't know what the risk is when the banks lie about it. That is what the government is saying with Uber because that's EXACTLY what the banks are doing again.
That's great, you likely live in a city with no taxi-regulations. Good for you that you get to see the result of no regulation. Maybe you should visit a city with real taxi regulation where the prices are fixed and the safety and insurance rates are standardized and you know the cabby has had a background check.
Only if you're the mouse that's the Booze mouse, you could lose the coin flip and get to be the mouse that gets stuck with a needle (that's the equivalent to a 2inches in diameter for you) four times a day for your entire life.
Almost all US government funded research into nutrition is done through the department of Agriculture and up until about a decade ago was completely focused on pushing American's to a diet that prioritized foods grown in America. This resulted in diets pushed to consume grains, something America produced in great excess. It's this push that caused the shift in American eating habits that prioritized cold breakfasts composed of cold cereals instead of the prior tradition of high protein/fat breakfasts using bacon, eggs, ham and even steak. On top of this the DoA was a primary instigator, often providing all the research in the creation of most of the junk foods you love.
There are quite a few people in the nutrition and medical fields that now believe this shift is one of the factors that has caused America's obesity issues which are only exacerbated by the reduced exercise. American diets contain massive amounts of carbs due to this push by the DoA. Even with the shifts we've seen towards less carbs it's probably going to take a decade or several, maybe a whole generation to restore proper protein/fat consumption and reduce america's obesity epidemic.
Quantum dots have been in TV's since 2014 or so. Samsung's brand is SUHD, and AFAIK they've been on sale since then. I bought one of them in 2015 and the image quality is astounding compared to the previous HD set I retired with it.
The proper response is to report the comment and Slashdot either takes it down (and thus shields themselves from liability) or decides to leave it up (in which case, they might expose themselves to liability).
You have a misunderstanding of the law. Slashdot is under no obligation to take down illegal content posted by other people, with only one possible exception and that's child pornography and only because mere possession of such material is criminal. In cases like human trafficking, drug sales or pretty much any other illegal content Slashdot is under no obligation to take down the material unless ordered to by a judge.
Your recourse in such cases is to contact the authorities and let them follow through in the proper channels. In actuality notifying Slashdot so they delete it can actually assist the trafficker by covering up the act before law enforcement can get involved and the proper subpoenas filed.
Since when is a common carrier required to carry ad's they don't like? Your assertion is bogus. No one forces the telecom companies to put other people's ad's on their websites. You will likely try to equate this to a completely unrelated thing, I suggest you don't describe your idiocy is such great detail.
It's extremely difficult to prosecute banking crime that didn't involve direct theft. The issue is often abstract enough, often involving complex math and difficult economic concepts, in addition the evidence is often difficult to interpret often involving forensic accounting which again involves complex mathematics. Finally the defendant's in the cases are often wealthy with significant funds available for good lawyers such that the prosecutors have a very hard time convincing a jury of guilt.
Hate to break it to you but US carbon emissions have fallen faster than any other nation. The economic shift that occurred with fracked gas cut carbon emissions 20%, combined with the efficiency program implemented by Bush Jr, US energy consumption has either held level or fallen (depending on location), this has cut Coal's contribution to energy generation from 60% to 40%. In addition the rise of Wind in particular and the increasingly relevant solar sector US energy production is shifting dramatically towards less carbon emissions (combined wind and solar has gone from less than 1% of generation to more than 10% in the last 10 years).
This has ALL been done by the free market. And the future pricing predicted for Wind and solar have it as the dominant and probably only new energy production methods by the mid-2020s. Costs are falling so rapidly the economics indicate that by the mid-2020's solar and wind energy jobs will be some of the fastest growing sectors in the US.
Training as a wind generator technician right now could set you in a career for life with very high chances of advancement to management in the near future once you have experience and the knowledge to do it.
Thanks for the concise reply, I was going to say the same thing. Oil was produced in a similar way, massive blooms of algae in the ocean (when algae first evolved) died and were deposited on the ocean floor and covered in sediments before they could be digested by other life. These algae deposits turned into crude oil and because life has now evolved to consume the dead algae before it can be deposited into sediment oil will not be produced again.
You are reading the wrong law. It's in the required contracting provisions not part of the EEO law. Ask someone that does federal contracting, it's a standard clause mandated by congress and written into the code as part of the DOL rule making. This was added to the contracts in the 80's and the final rule probably has Regan's signature on it.
There is a compelling government interest if verifying that their contractors are in compliance with Federal law and validating that compliance. In Federal funded transportation jobs the Resident engineer is required to interview a certain number of employees from each contractor and sub to verify that their employers are in compliance with EEO and mandated wage requirements.
Yes it does, they have the clause so they can contact empolyees directly if they have suspicions the data provided by the company is inaccurate or incomplete. It would appear the agency believes the data is erronious and wishes to spot audit by contacting employees directly outside the work place so they can be sure the employees aren't being pressured. These are standard terms in govt contracts.
As my reply above noted these restrictions were put in place by congress a long time ago. They are a requirement of every single government contract, if you want to work for the government you must by law comply. The information gathering is extensive, often includes information on all employee's not just the ones working on government contracts and is one of the reasons federal work is specialty in the contracting world that requires people knowledgeable with the process and requirements. The agency in question is required by law to audit these contracts for compliance, Google is not complying with the terms of their contract.
There are plenty of other companies that will be willing to comply with these restrictions, if Google will not comply they should be bared from working for the government.
The government doesn't force anyone to do this. What they do is make it part of any government contract, if you want to work for the government you must agree to these regulations (that were put in place by congress long before Obama took office) and the agency in question is required by law to audit contractors to ensure their compliance with the contract provisions.
If Google refuses to provide this they will see every government contract terminated and will be bared from providing services to the government for a time period of either 1 to 5 years. Google will cave.
I never said they were illegal. If that's your reading comprehension I don't expect reasonable discussion.
In Jan 2016 the Supreme court heard a case about new FERC rule forcing power producers to pay users that curtailed energy use during peak periods. See: http://thehill.com/policy/ener...
There are dozens of companies that have sprung up and are assisting large manufacturers and heavy power users in maximizing these payments. The result has been that the whole dynamic of the electricity market is changing. Power companies no longer are talking about base load, they are talking about demand response and power shifting. The whole idea of a dumb grid and base load is not the energy market of the future. Germany and California have already moved heavily in this direction and it won't be long before the rest of the US follows. The western states are all talking about joining California's central grid management and there is a compact already under consideration.
Those numbers are garbage, like statistics they can be manipulated by deciding how it's counted and what's counted.
Looking at the numbers my bet is they've only counted accelerated depreciation writeoffs which are rarely used in coal and nuclear because they don't build new plants. Where did you pull those numbers, the Koch brothers back pocket?
You are apparently unaware of how the companies game the system.
They create two companies, the company that mines the coal and pays the taxes sells the coal to company number 2 for pennies per ton and as a result pays almost no royalties or taxes (because they are determined by the sale price). Company number 2 then takes the coal and sells it commercially and then pushes the profit back to company 1.
I'm sure a similar scam exists in any fossil fuel extraction where royalties are due the tax payer.
Solar panels are warrantied to maintain 80% output for 25 years. The total life of a solar panel is unknown at this point. Providing there is no electrical failure they could presumably generate electricity for a century with declining efficiency as time passes.
Based on the facts of the system. Fossil fuels are subsidized at rates that no other industry achieves. Oil alone nets close to 5 billion dollars in incentives and tax benefits and this doesn't even count underpaying the tax payers for the oil by as much as 50%. Coal is even worse, massive subsidies, free use of federal land and resources and often paying the taxpayers less than a penny per ton for the coal. Nuclear wouldn't even exist without the Federal loan guarantees and the federal government backstoping the disaster insurance. That doesn't count the tax cuts and subsidies the industry receives.
Solar and Wind receive two tax breaks, an accelerated depreciation schedule and a tax credit that goes away in 2020 for wind and 2024 for solar with both credits scaling down yearly until their final year.
Compared fairly the tax credits to fossil fuels over the past 50 years could have paid to replace the entire electricity gird a dozen times over. Fossil fuels receive more government subsidies than any other industry.
The Chinese central government is under intense public pressure to solve the air pollution problem. Most people in the US don't realize how bad the air in China is, their "red" air warning is IIRC almost 10 times the values the EPA uses in the US. The Chinese public has grown tired of this and is getting disgruntled about it, and the one thing the Chinese administration fears more than anything it's their public getting angry about something. They are well aware that all it takes is one big public revolt and the entire communist party could lose their heads.
The supreme court just legalized the curtailment agreements too. The whole idea of baseload went out the window with that ruling because companies can now be paid to not consume electricity. There is a whole group of companies now that do managed use of the grid by paying companies not to use power during peaks. This is particularly valuable to companies with very high power use and very low labor (the new automated factor). They can basically turn the plant off when power rates are high and then turn it back on when it's low rather than running just a standard 9-5 shift, this allows them to do maintenance during these shutdowns rather than at night when power rates are the lowest.
Anyone that brings up baseload in a discussion about power frankly doesn't understand how a modern grid and power system is run. The whole paradigm of base load is a 20th century idea.
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Mod parent up. It's astounding to me how many people are unaware of or deny that the Satanic Ritual Abuse panic in the 80's was a fake scam perpetrated for the benefit of the accusers.
GoDaddy is HORRIBLE. You've got to be a FOOL to use them as a registrar and the reasons why are not difficult to find.
But outside EV certificates everyone should be using Let's Encrypt certificates. They are trivial to install, secure and renewals can be fully automated. On top of all that they are free. Anyone buying non-EV certificates is neither cost conscious nor values the time of their IT staff.
You apparently don't know how the financial collapse happened. The banks took junk loans, sliced them up and packaged them as AAA (the highest rating) investment grade even though 80% of the loans were subprime that the banks KNEW were going to default. The banks then turned around an invested the banks money in shorting those very same investments.
The banks can't be trusted, and the investors can't know what the risk is when the banks lie about it. That is what the government is saying with Uber because that's EXACTLY what the banks are doing again.
That's great, you likely live in a city with no taxi-regulations. Good for you that you get to see the result of no regulation. Maybe you should visit a city with real taxi regulation where the prices are fixed and the safety and insurance rates are standardized and you know the cabby has had a background check.
Awful example, the engineer responsible for the forged data is being prosecuted and could spend 20 years in jail.
Only if you're the mouse that's the Booze mouse, you could lose the coin flip and get to be the mouse that gets stuck with a needle (that's the equivalent to a 2inches in diameter for you) four times a day for your entire life.
Almost all US government funded research into nutrition is done through the department of Agriculture and up until about a decade ago was completely focused on pushing American's to a diet that prioritized foods grown in America. This resulted in diets pushed to consume grains, something America produced in great excess. It's this push that caused the shift in American eating habits that prioritized cold breakfasts composed of cold cereals instead of the prior tradition of high protein/fat breakfasts using bacon, eggs, ham and even steak. On top of this the DoA was a primary instigator, often providing all the research in the creation of most of the junk foods you love.
There are quite a few people in the nutrition and medical fields that now believe this shift is one of the factors that has caused America's obesity issues which are only exacerbated by the reduced exercise. American diets contain massive amounts of carbs due to this push by the DoA. Even with the shifts we've seen towards less carbs it's probably going to take a decade or several, maybe a whole generation to restore proper protein/fat consumption and reduce america's obesity epidemic.
Quantum dots have been in TV's since 2014 or so. Samsung's brand is SUHD, and AFAIK they've been on sale since then. I bought one of them in 2015 and the image quality is astounding compared to the previous HD set I retired with it.
The proper response is to report the comment and Slashdot either takes it down (and thus shields themselves from liability) or decides to leave it up (in which case, they might expose themselves to liability).
You have a misunderstanding of the law. Slashdot is under no obligation to take down illegal content posted by other people, with only one possible exception and that's child pornography and only because mere possession of such material is criminal. In cases like human trafficking, drug sales or pretty much any other illegal content Slashdot is under no obligation to take down the material unless ordered to by a judge.
Your recourse in such cases is to contact the authorities and let them follow through in the proper channels. In actuality notifying Slashdot so they delete it can actually assist the trafficker by covering up the act before law enforcement can get involved and the proper subpoenas filed.
Since when is a common carrier required to carry ad's they don't like? Your assertion is bogus. No one forces the telecom companies to put other people's ad's on their websites. You will likely try to equate this to a completely unrelated thing, I suggest you don't describe your idiocy is such great detail.
It's extremely difficult to prosecute banking crime that didn't involve direct theft. The issue is often abstract enough, often involving complex math and difficult economic concepts, in addition the evidence is often difficult to interpret often involving forensic accounting which again involves complex mathematics. Finally the defendant's in the cases are often wealthy with significant funds available for good lawyers such that the prosecutors have a very hard time convincing a jury of guilt.
Hate to break it to you but US carbon emissions have fallen faster than any other nation. The economic shift that occurred with fracked gas cut carbon emissions 20%, combined with the efficiency program implemented by Bush Jr, US energy consumption has either held level or fallen (depending on location), this has cut Coal's contribution to energy generation from 60% to 40%. In addition the rise of Wind in particular and the increasingly relevant solar sector US energy production is shifting dramatically towards less carbon emissions (combined wind and solar has gone from less than 1% of generation to more than 10% in the last 10 years).
This has ALL been done by the free market. And the future pricing predicted for Wind and solar have it as the dominant and probably only new energy production methods by the mid-2020s. Costs are falling so rapidly the economics indicate that by the mid-2020's solar and wind energy jobs will be some of the fastest growing sectors in the US.
Training as a wind generator technician right now could set you in a career for life with very high chances of advancement to management in the near future once you have experience and the knowledge to do it.
Thanks for the concise reply, I was going to say the same thing. Oil was produced in a similar way, massive blooms of algae in the ocean (when algae first evolved) died and were deposited on the ocean floor and covered in sediments before they could be digested by other life. These algae deposits turned into crude oil and because life has now evolved to consume the dead algae before it can be deposited into sediment oil will not be produced again.
You are reading the wrong law. It's in the required contracting provisions not part of the EEO law. Ask someone that does federal contracting, it's a standard clause mandated by congress and written into the code as part of the DOL rule making. This was added to the contracts in the 80's and the final rule probably has Regan's signature on it.
There is a compelling government interest if verifying that their contractors are in compliance with Federal law and validating that compliance. In Federal funded transportation jobs the Resident engineer is required to interview a certain number of employees from each contractor and sub to verify that their employers are in compliance with EEO and mandated wage requirements.
Yes it does, they have the clause so they can contact empolyees directly if they have suspicions the data provided by the company is inaccurate or incomplete. It would appear the agency believes the data is erronious and wishes to spot audit by contacting employees directly outside the work place so they can be sure the employees aren't being pressured. These are standard terms in govt contracts.
You apparently believe he will rewrite the entire federal code in 2 weeks. Your wrong. They couldn't change 10% of the federal code in 4 years.
As my reply above noted these restrictions were put in place by congress a long time ago. They are a requirement of every single government contract, if you want to work for the government you must by law comply. The information gathering is extensive, often includes information on all employee's not just the ones working on government contracts and is one of the reasons federal work is specialty in the contracting world that requires people knowledgeable with the process and requirements. The agency in question is required by law to audit these contracts for compliance, Google is not complying with the terms of their contract.
There are plenty of other companies that will be willing to comply with these restrictions, if Google will not comply they should be bared from working for the government.
The government doesn't force anyone to do this. What they do is make it part of any government contract, if you want to work for the government you must agree to these regulations (that were put in place by congress long before Obama took office) and the agency in question is required by law to audit contractors to ensure their compliance with the contract provisions.
If Google refuses to provide this they will see every government contract terminated and will be bared from providing services to the government for a time period of either 1 to 5 years. Google will cave.
I never said they were illegal. If that's your reading comprehension I don't expect reasonable discussion.
In Jan 2016 the Supreme court heard a case about new FERC rule forcing power producers to pay users that curtailed energy use during peak periods. See: http://thehill.com/policy/ener...
There are dozens of companies that have sprung up and are assisting large manufacturers and heavy power users in maximizing these payments. The result has been that the whole dynamic of the electricity market is changing. Power companies no longer are talking about base load, they are talking about demand response and power shifting. The whole idea of a dumb grid and base load is not the energy market of the future. Germany and California have already moved heavily in this direction and it won't be long before the rest of the US follows. The western states are all talking about joining California's central grid management and there is a compact already under consideration.
Those numbers are garbage, like statistics they can be manipulated by deciding how it's counted and what's counted.
Looking at the numbers my bet is they've only counted accelerated depreciation writeoffs which are rarely used in coal and nuclear because they don't build new plants. Where did you pull those numbers, the Koch brothers back pocket?
You are apparently unaware of how the companies game the system.
They create two companies, the company that mines the coal and pays the taxes sells the coal to company number 2 for pennies per ton and as a result pays almost no royalties or taxes (because they are determined by the sale price). Company number 2 then takes the coal and sells it commercially and then pushes the profit back to company 1.
I'm sure a similar scam exists in any fossil fuel extraction where royalties are due the tax payer.
Solar panels are warrantied to maintain 80% output for 25 years. The total life of a solar panel is unknown at this point. Providing there is no electrical failure they could presumably generate electricity for a century with declining efficiency as time passes.
Based on the facts of the system. Fossil fuels are subsidized at rates that no other industry achieves. Oil alone nets close to 5 billion dollars in incentives and tax benefits and this doesn't even count underpaying the tax payers for the oil by as much as 50%. Coal is even worse, massive subsidies, free use of federal land and resources and often paying the taxpayers less than a penny per ton for the coal. Nuclear wouldn't even exist without the Federal loan guarantees and the federal government backstoping the disaster insurance. That doesn't count the tax cuts and subsidies the industry receives.
Solar and Wind receive two tax breaks, an accelerated depreciation schedule and a tax credit that goes away in 2020 for wind and 2024 for solar with both credits scaling down yearly until their final year.
Compared fairly the tax credits to fossil fuels over the past 50 years could have paid to replace the entire electricity gird a dozen times over. Fossil fuels receive more government subsidies than any other industry.
The Chinese central government is under intense public pressure to solve the air pollution problem. Most people in the US don't realize how bad the air in China is, their "red" air warning is IIRC almost 10 times the values the EPA uses in the US. The Chinese public has grown tired of this and is getting disgruntled about it, and the one thing the Chinese administration fears more than anything it's their public getting angry about something. They are well aware that all it takes is one big public revolt and the entire communist party could lose their heads.
The supreme court just legalized the curtailment agreements too. The whole idea of baseload went out the window with that ruling because companies can now be paid to not consume electricity. There is a whole group of companies now that do managed use of the grid by paying companies not to use power during peaks. This is particularly valuable to companies with very high power use and very low labor (the new automated factor). They can basically turn the plant off when power rates are high and then turn it back on when it's low rather than running just a standard 9-5 shift, this allows them to do maintenance during these shutdowns rather than at night when power rates are the lowest.
Anyone that brings up baseload in a discussion about power frankly doesn't understand how a modern grid and power system is run. The whole paradigm of base load is a 20th century idea.