Incredibly optimistic. A case like this will take more than 2 years to reach a jury verdict for someone as high profile and as prone to fighting as Stone. Trump can't pardon him until he's actually convicted of something. So if Stone has two choice, bet his freedom on Trump winning in 2020 or plead guilty immediately so Trump can pardon him.
There's also no guarantee Trump would pardon him, the political fallout could be too heavy and Trump proves over and over again he's not loyal to anyone but himself. He's thrown hundreds of people that were loyal to him for years to the wolves.
Yea, well the only way the SC will take it up is if they get flooded with friend of the court briefs by companies that will be affected by the ruling. Any company relying on an API created by someone else should be immediately filing those. If the appeal is allowed to stand there's going to be a LOT of lawsuits.
The title of this should be "Shuttleworth Chases Newest Fad".
Almost every year without fail Shuttleworth sits down looks at the current technology market and chases whatever newest fad he can find. Remember when everything was touch screen, or how about every computer was going to be a tablet or phone?
You can literally go back every single year for the past 10 years and he comes up with some new grand redesign of the PC market and throws the company at it until the next years fad. This "chase every fad" model of business means Ubuntu remains and will always remain constantly changing in bad ways and constantly reinventing the wheel.
They should hold an annual contest on what new fad Shuttleworth will send Ubuntu chasing.
The difference between a chromebook and a netbook from the mid 00's is that the chromebook runs a very lightweight OS optimized as a thin client to Google's services. The Windows version of this is a dog because Windows isn't a lightweight OS and can't possibly run as a thin-client to a windows cloud.
Microsoft is scared Shitless of how well Chromebooks have penetrated the K-12 education market. Chromebooks almost entirely dominate the K-12 sector at this point. Kids learning to use chromebooks means kids of the future won't be scared of Linux or running things in the cloud. That's terrifying to Microsoft.
As noted in the article you linked. Aggregators drive traffic that wouldn't exist otherwise. When google left the spanish market there was a drop in 6-12% of visitors to previously linked sites.
Aggregation is a symbiotic relationship in that it allows news consumers to view snippets and consume more news and to selectively pair out stories or biased content. This empowers viewers and forces publishers to bring more relevant news articles that will draw clicks. But it also draws more visitors to those articles that can better draw viewers.
The bad side effect is it causes clickbait headlines and snippets. But European publishers are idiots if they think Google is a parasite in this relationship, Google is probably the only thing keeping them in business at this point. If they force Google News out of Europe they'll be sending lots of European news customers outside the block.
You don't have any idea what your talking about. You clearly have no experience with solar and are not aware of advancements since at least 2010. The panels on my house generate power in a normal curve that peaks around 2pm, starts as soon as sunrise and ends at sunset. I generate power rain or shine. The only time I don't generate is when the panels are covered in snow. In fact I even generate power during the night during a full moon (though production is minimal). Had I had the roof profile for it I could have tuned this curve to generate a flatter curve all day long by mixing panels facing different directions or even tuned it to my usage. And if I'd ground mounted with 2 axis trackers I could maximize production all day every day of the year.
Solar is incredibly flexible. Recent studies of commercial solar systems are showing capacity factors near 60% without any storage. When coupled with storage capacity factors can equal standard generation without the downtimes that traditional power plants need.
And that doesn't even factor in cost where solar and wind are clearly the cheapest.
Solar and Wind plus storage gets routine bids for 25 PPA's at $0.03kwh, whereas the typical 100 year old coal plant is around $0.04 to $0.08kwh. Solar and Wind became cheaper than fossil fuels in 2015.
Solar panels are warrantied (by Federal regulation) to generate 80% of their rated power for 25 years.
Solar panels have no known life span, panels made in the 70's are still in operation in some places (even though the efficiency of the panels was a joke compared to today). Most people pulled them down and replaced them with modern panels, not because the older ones stopped functioning but because the newer panels are so much cheaper with very short payoffs.
Nuclear in the mix would be a reasonable use if it wasn't so unreasonably expensive. $20 billion to build a reactor today is $0.30kwh over 75 years (higher if you don't get 75).
The fundamental problem for nuclear and coal is the economics of the power market have shifted and with solar and wind nearly half the cost of any other generation technology (and that includes storage as part of the solar and wind) the free market is now working against Fossil fuels and Nuclear. Solar and wind are growing at rates that even in 2010 you'd have been labeled a crack pot if you'd suggested them.
Solar and Wind are going in so fast in some areas of the country that the lobbyists of the fossil fuel industry and nuclear industry have been turned to attack them with talk of taxes, caps and all kind of other government interference in the free market to stop their advance. This is happening at both the state and federal level where tame lawmakers are being called in to put roadblocks in the free market to do something, anything to make solar and wind more expensive.
That's probably because the people building those nuclear waste sites realize we need to build something that will last longer than our civilization AND must survive geological scale events.
One of the problems with a waste product that will take a million years to decay is that you need a facility that can survive anything within that million years including the mountain range is buried in being ground down to nothing by a glacier in the next ice age. Nuclear waste disposal is a HUGE problem if you care to be responsible about the future.
2017 Auction prices in Colorado for a 25 year power purchase agreement for solar + storage generated bids of $0.03 kwh. This is less than HALF the price for coal generated from 100 year old paid for plants. Both Wind and Solar submitted bids in this range and both included storage.
This is incorrect, it's far easier to dump the renewable resources than the fixed generators and that's typically what happens.
I had used the wrong word apparently, I was discussing capacity factors. Capacity factors assigned to solar and wind were concocted 30 years ago when these resources were new, now that we've hit double digit percentages the new studies are showing capacity factors that are 60% or higher for raw generation and once storage is added in they have capacity factors of ~90%, nearly the same as nuclear.
The law change allowed companies other than the power company to buy and sell demand. This rather small change has had MASSIVE effects on the power market which is why the power companies appealed this change all the way to the supreme court.
The result of this relatively "small" change in the law is that now there is an entire market of companies paying high energy users to turn off demand to keep peak prices much lower than prior. It's also caused the whole concept of base load to go out the window as this demand shifting is balancing demand against supply rather than the prior reverse.
Prior to this change the power companies had no incentive to incentivize demand shifting. Higher peak prices meant more unregulated profits in their pockets.
Yes don't distract us with the real math that a modern nuclear plant costs upwards of $20BILLION to build. With a 75 year life that's power at almost $0.30 a kwh.
The reverse is true. Now that Solar and Wind are hitting above 10% total grid they've realized their utilization factors are significantly higher than estimated. On top of this storage can now be provided within a deployed cost that's still cheaper than even old coal power. And a huge mitigating factor is that base load is no longer relevant. In addition changes in US federal law allowed for the economical use of load shifting such that demand can now follow supply rather than the prior paradigm of demand being an unchangeable quantity.
The end result being that renewable resources can provide significantly higher contributions to the grid without impacting stability. Add in storage and Renewables can easily provide nearly all our power if not all. And at the cheapest source of power we'd have to be fools not to use it. Fools who bow down to old technology or fossil fuels to enrich the elite that have invested in them.
Qualacom's patents are essential to all cellular networks. If you want to use a cellular service that's digital you have to license Qualacom's patents. They are the guys that control about 50% of the entire patent pool on digital networks. Asking for $7.50 is FRAND IMO, now if they were asking for $75.50 it might be a different story but hell, it's under $10 for world changing technological advances.
It is not illegal to have a monopoly.It is illegal to ABUSE a monopoly through market manipulation, exclusive distribution deals, coercive licensing, and predatory pricing.
No it's not, not in the US anyway. It's illegal to leverage a monopoly to take control of another market or product. Otherwise there is nothing illegal about a monopoly in the US at least. I suggest you evaluate the Sherman Anti-Trust law and the case law behind it. There's nothing illegal about obtaining a trust, or abusing customers afterwards. It's only illegal to use that monopoly to enter another market or service.
Qualacom has alleged in court filings that Apple provided Qualacom trade secrets and code to Intel to help intel improve their modems. This data had been transferred to Apple for evaluation for future products.
If it was my company and I believed that had happened I wouldn't sell Apple chips for new stuff either. They would want to evaluate the product and then they'd hand all the IP over to intel.
The obvious reason would be that other than the repeating signal these are one time deals whereas pulsars and such are often repeating signals.
These are entirely mysterious, we now know gamma ray bursts are created by stars collapsing into black holes but these bursts are not gamma waves and lie below visual light in the EM spectrum. Although the amount of energy involved is large it's believed it's not large enough to involve neutron stars/blackholes. This is what makes them so interesting, scientists don't' have a good explanation for the cause within the standard model.
Wake up western colonizers. China is learning from the IMF and World Bank of the last century.
The Irony of this statement cannot be overlooked. China is engaged in the second wave of colonization of the third world. They are exporting millions of Chinese citizens to countries like Kenya as part of their Road and Belt initiative. The countries involved are tolerant of this just like they were the Europeans because the Chinese are paying off all the right people right now to keep this suppressed. At some point down the road the populace will figure out what's going on and it'll end up just like European colonialism.
What China is doing is just a reshoe of European Colonialism. The first thing the European colonizers did was build infrastructure funded by their own government. They also used the current Chinese practice of giving loans to the countries they couldn't afford and then seized the product afterwards.
You might think the Chinese would be smarter than the Europeans had been but they are just as racist and just as entitled and will abuse these undeveloped countries just like the Europeans did. If you supported these countries you would realize they are being abused.
Old Sam didn't do what you think he did. When he ran the company it prioritized american made products.
When Sam handed the company to his kids is when the made in china takeover happened. His kids had been raised with a silverspoon in their mouths and had no concept of american patriotism. Much like the current president.
Embalming is a HORRIFIC process that was created before the advent of refrigeration and began to be widely used in the USA after the civil war due to the army's use of the process to send war dead home. It's continued use today is an abomination. Getting your corpse embalmed and put in an airtight casket pretty much guarantees that in a thousand years someone is going to dig up your remains and put them in a museum.
Like other posters in this thread, I've made my demand that I be cremated to dust known to my relatives and spouse.
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Incredibly optimistic. A case like this will take more than 2 years to reach a jury verdict for someone as high profile and as prone to fighting as Stone. Trump can't pardon him until he's actually convicted of something. So if Stone has two choice, bet his freedom on Trump winning in 2020 or plead guilty immediately so Trump can pardon him.
There's also no guarantee Trump would pardon him, the political fallout could be too heavy and Trump proves over and over again he's not loyal to anyone but himself. He's thrown hundreds of people that were loyal to him for years to the wolves.
Yea, well the only way the SC will take it up is if they get flooded with friend of the court briefs by companies that will be affected by the ruling. Any company relying on an API created by someone else should be immediately filing those. If the appeal is allowed to stand there's going to be a LOT of lawsuits.
You know, there was a time when no one had cell phones and we all got along fine. In many ways it was better.
The title of this should be "Shuttleworth Chases Newest Fad".
Almost every year without fail Shuttleworth sits down looks at the current technology market and chases whatever newest fad he can find. Remember when everything was touch screen, or how about every computer was going to be a tablet or phone?
You can literally go back every single year for the past 10 years and he comes up with some new grand redesign of the PC market and throws the company at it until the next years fad. This "chase every fad" model of business means Ubuntu remains and will always remain constantly changing in bad ways and constantly reinventing the wheel.
They should hold an annual contest on what new fad Shuttleworth will send Ubuntu chasing.
The difference between a chromebook and a netbook from the mid 00's is that the chromebook runs a very lightweight OS optimized as a thin client to Google's services. The Windows version of this is a dog because Windows isn't a lightweight OS and can't possibly run as a thin-client to a windows cloud.
Microsoft is scared Shitless of how well Chromebooks have penetrated the K-12 education market. Chromebooks almost entirely dominate the K-12 sector at this point. Kids learning to use chromebooks means kids of the future won't be scared of Linux or running things in the cloud. That's terrifying to Microsoft.
As noted in the article you linked. Aggregators drive traffic that wouldn't exist otherwise. When google left the spanish market there was a drop in 6-12% of visitors to previously linked sites.
Aggregation is a symbiotic relationship in that it allows news consumers to view snippets and consume more news and to selectively pair out stories or biased content. This empowers viewers and forces publishers to bring more relevant news articles that will draw clicks. But it also draws more visitors to those articles that can better draw viewers.
The bad side effect is it causes clickbait headlines and snippets. But European publishers are idiots if they think Google is a parasite in this relationship, Google is probably the only thing keeping them in business at this point. If they force Google News out of Europe they'll be sending lots of European news customers outside the block.
You don't have any idea what your talking about. You clearly have no experience with solar and are not aware of advancements since at least 2010. The panels on my house generate power in a normal curve that peaks around 2pm, starts as soon as sunrise and ends at sunset. I generate power rain or shine. The only time I don't generate is when the panels are covered in snow. In fact I even generate power during the night during a full moon (though production is minimal). Had I had the roof profile for it I could have tuned this curve to generate a flatter curve all day long by mixing panels facing different directions or even tuned it to my usage. And if I'd ground mounted with 2 axis trackers I could maximize production all day every day of the year.
Solar is incredibly flexible. Recent studies of commercial solar systems are showing capacity factors near 60% without any storage. When coupled with storage capacity factors can equal standard generation without the downtimes that traditional power plants need.
And that doesn't even factor in cost where solar and wind are clearly the cheapest.
25 Year Power Purchase Agreements.
Solar and Wind plus storage gets routine bids for 25 PPA's at $0.03kwh, whereas the typical 100 year old coal plant is around $0.04 to $0.08kwh. Solar and Wind became cheaper than fossil fuels in 2015.
Solar panels are warrantied (by Federal regulation) to generate 80% of their rated power for 25 years.
Solar panels have no known life span, panels made in the 70's are still in operation in some places (even though the efficiency of the panels was a joke compared to today). Most people pulled them down and replaced them with modern panels, not because the older ones stopped functioning but because the newer panels are so much cheaper with very short payoffs.
Nuclear in the mix would be a reasonable use if it wasn't so unreasonably expensive. $20 billion to build a reactor today is $0.30kwh over 75 years (higher if you don't get 75).
The fundamental problem for nuclear and coal is the economics of the power market have shifted and with solar and wind nearly half the cost of any other generation technology (and that includes storage as part of the solar and wind) the free market is now working against Fossil fuels and Nuclear. Solar and wind are growing at rates that even in 2010 you'd have been labeled a crack pot if you'd suggested them.
Solar and Wind are going in so fast in some areas of the country that the lobbyists of the fossil fuel industry and nuclear industry have been turned to attack them with talk of taxes, caps and all kind of other government interference in the free market to stop their advance. This is happening at both the state and federal level where tame lawmakers are being called in to put roadblocks in the free market to do something, anything to make solar and wind more expensive.
That's probably because the people building those nuclear waste sites realize we need to build something that will last longer than our civilization AND must survive geological scale events.
One of the problems with a waste product that will take a million years to decay is that you need a facility that can survive anything within that million years including the mountain range is buried in being ground down to nothing by a glacier in the next ice age. Nuclear waste disposal is a HUGE problem if you care to be responsible about the future.
2017 Auction prices in Colorado for a 25 year power purchase agreement for solar + storage generated bids of $0.03 kwh. This is less than HALF the price for coal generated from 100 year old paid for plants. Both Wind and Solar submitted bids in this range and both included storage.
Stop fabricating numbers.
This is incorrect, it's far easier to dump the renewable resources than the fixed generators and that's typically what happens.
I had used the wrong word apparently, I was discussing capacity factors. Capacity factors assigned to solar and wind were concocted 30 years ago when these resources were new, now that we've hit double digit percentages the new studies are showing capacity factors that are 60% or higher for raw generation and once storage is added in they have capacity factors of ~90%, nearly the same as nuclear.
The law change allowed companies other than the power company to buy and sell demand. This rather small change has had MASSIVE effects on the power market which is why the power companies appealed this change all the way to the supreme court.
The result of this relatively "small" change in the law is that now there is an entire market of companies paying high energy users to turn off demand to keep peak prices much lower than prior. It's also caused the whole concept of base load to go out the window as this demand shifting is balancing demand against supply rather than the prior reverse.
Prior to this change the power companies had no incentive to incentivize demand shifting. Higher peak prices meant more unregulated profits in their pockets.
Yes don't distract us with the real math that a modern nuclear plant costs upwards of $20BILLION to build. With a 75 year life that's power at almost $0.30 a kwh.
The reverse is true. Now that Solar and Wind are hitting above 10% total grid they've realized their utilization factors are significantly higher than estimated. On top of this storage can now be provided within a deployed cost that's still cheaper than even old coal power. And a huge mitigating factor is that base load is no longer relevant. In addition changes in US federal law allowed for the economical use of load shifting such that demand can now follow supply rather than the prior paradigm of demand being an unchangeable quantity.
The end result being that renewable resources can provide significantly higher contributions to the grid without impacting stability. Add in storage and Renewables can easily provide nearly all our power if not all. And at the cheapest source of power we'd have to be fools not to use it. Fools who bow down to old technology or fossil fuels to enrich the elite that have invested in them.
Qualacom's patents are essential to all cellular networks. If you want to use a cellular service that's digital you have to license Qualacom's patents. They are the guys that control about 50% of the entire patent pool on digital networks. Asking for $7.50 is FRAND IMO, now if they were asking for $75.50 it might be a different story but hell, it's under $10 for world changing technological advances.
It is not illegal to have a monopoly.It is illegal to ABUSE a monopoly through market manipulation, exclusive distribution deals, coercive licensing, and predatory pricing.
No it's not, not in the US anyway. It's illegal to leverage a monopoly to take control of another market or product. Otherwise there is nothing illegal about a monopoly in the US at least. I suggest you evaluate the Sherman Anti-Trust law and the case law behind it. There's nothing illegal about obtaining a trust, or abusing customers afterwards. It's only illegal to use that monopoly to enter another market or service.
Qualacom has alleged in court filings that Apple provided Qualacom trade secrets and code to Intel to help intel improve their modems. This data had been transferred to Apple for evaluation for future products.
If it was my company and I believed that had happened I wouldn't sell Apple chips for new stuff either. They would want to evaluate the product and then they'd hand all the IP over to intel.
The amount of energy involved is the amount generated by our SUN over 80 years. It's a LOT of energy.
The obvious reason would be that other than the repeating signal these are one time deals whereas pulsars and such are often repeating signals.
These are entirely mysterious, we now know gamma ray bursts are created by stars collapsing into black holes but these bursts are not gamma waves and lie below visual light in the EM spectrum. Although the amount of energy involved is large it's believed it's not large enough to involve neutron stars/blackholes. This is what makes them so interesting, scientists don't' have a good explanation for the cause within the standard model.
Wake up western colonizers. China is learning from the IMF and World Bank of the last century.
The Irony of this statement cannot be overlooked. China is engaged in the second wave of colonization of the third world. They are exporting millions of Chinese citizens to countries like Kenya as part of their Road and Belt initiative. The countries involved are tolerant of this just like they were the Europeans because the Chinese are paying off all the right people right now to keep this suppressed. At some point down the road the populace will figure out what's going on and it'll end up just like European colonialism.
What China is doing is just a reshoe of European Colonialism. The first thing the European colonizers did was build infrastructure funded by their own government. They also used the current Chinese practice of giving loans to the countries they couldn't afford and then seized the product afterwards.
You might think the Chinese would be smarter than the Europeans had been but they are just as racist and just as entitled and will abuse these undeveloped countries just like the Europeans did. If you supported these countries you would realize they are being abused.
Old Sam didn't do what you think he did. When he ran the company it prioritized american made products.
When Sam handed the company to his kids is when the made in china takeover happened. His kids had been raised with a silverspoon in their mouths and had no concept of american patriotism. Much like the current president.
Embalming is a HORRIFIC process that was created before the advent of refrigeration and began to be widely used in the USA after the civil war due to the army's use of the process to send war dead home. It's continued use today is an abomination. Getting your corpse embalmed and put in an airtight casket pretty much guarantees that in a thousand years someone is going to dig up your remains and put them in a museum.
Like other posters in this thread, I've made my demand that I be cremated to dust known to my relatives and spouse.