The point of the post is that Hydrogen is a really rotten method of storing electricity. You lose 20-50% of the energy converting to hydrogen, storing it and then reconverting it to electricity. These are hard losses, they cannot be recovered for reduced without eliminating the hydrogen. These losses are astronomical in comparison to directly storing and using the electricity from a battery.
There was a recent study looking at an economy that moved entirely to electricity. One of the interesting things about it is that we'd need to generate about 30% less energy as electricity than the total energy of the hydrocarbons we are burning because of all the inefficiencies of hydrocarbon energy conversion. Hydrogen is even worse than hydrocarbons.
The DOE "money" was a loan guarantee and you'd have to be a fucking moron to think a Loan guarantee involves the expenditure of a single dollar. It WAS Google's money along with several other investors that was used to build the place. Now if the fucking morons could stop equating a loan guarantee with money out of the pocket we'd be able to have a reasonable discussion.
Why do people that bring up the loan guarantee act as if it's money out of anyone's pocket? It cost the tax payer NOTHING to provide it. Just like it does when they provide loan guarantee's to anything else.
Carnival is a party line for poor people. They target singles with low budgets. The passengers reflect this, which isn't a bad thing if that's what you are looking for but if you are a fairly well to do married couple you can do significantly better for only slightly higher cost.
Carnival has also had significantly more issues than the other lines. Their ships have been the ones with the huge norovirus outbreak and account for about 75% of the illness outbreaks. Norovirus outbreaks occur from not washing your hands after going to the restroom, particularly number 2. Some people would argue this is tied to that "class" of passenger they target.
And it's not just illness, The ship that run around in Italy was a carnival line and they've had several fires and other issues. But most of the people turning their nose up at Carnival are doing it because of the type of passenger.
Frankly from your comment you've never been on a cruise ship and have the intelligence and world experience of a teenager.
Like all ships the employees are employees of the nation who's flag flies on the ship (typically a small island nation with no real legal system). No ship is "based" in any first world country. Cruise ships that are carrying American's and Europeans are NOT flying their home ports flags. They are all based in countries where there are no labor rules and the ships (cruise, cargo, whatever) can do whatever they want.
As a result there is no "undocumented" employee on a cruise ship or any other ship for that matter. There isn't any documentation or citizenship or anything else required. The cruise lines are also meticulous about ensuring the passengers are safe. Any crimes or drug use will get you fired and locked in the brig. See in international water they are their own state and the captain can do whatever he wants including put employees in jail.
Most cruise ship employees are from countries that are poor and where the $12 a hour the ship pays and then ridiculous hours they make you work (16 hour shifts are common) isn't a problem. One of the ones I talked to that had worked in the industry a long time told me he could tell when the economy of a country tanked because the cruise ships would be flooded with applications and employees from those countries. All the cruise ship employees I encountered were educated (some with college degrees) and very nice people from very bad situations (countries and economies) that were forced into these jobs to support family back home.
And yet the open darwin project shutdown entirely because Apple made it impossible to keep an open version of the kernel around wasting developer hours and generally disrespecting the developers involved.
As a result everyone abandoned the project and Apple was happy about it. Apple OS X is not open source and doesn't support it.
No one and I mean not a single person knows what Donald Trump is for or against other than himself. He's a liar that will say or do ANYTHING to get elected. The funny thing is half his supporters acknowledge this with winks and nods that claim he'll not do the stuff he's said that they don't like as if they can actually predict what he's lying about. Trump will do and say whatever it takes to win.
You don't have any fucking idea what he believes or what he'll do if he won. The only thing you can be certain of is that Donald Trump will do whatever is in Donald Trumps best interest without regard for anyone else. That is the one consistent thing he's done his entire fucking life. You and all the other voters aren't even insects to him.
I don't think anyone on the democratic side needs to worry. The evangelicals in the republican party are going to stay home and that's 15% of the republican vote, and that's with the electoral math already against him and Hillary only needing to win Florida to take the white house. That is even if his past history doesn't destroy him during the real campaign which is highly likely. The media's been sitting on hundreds of prior interviews he's done over the years just waiting for the real campaign to start. Like the one where he brags about all the venereal diseases he's had, that will make one hell of a campaign add and robocall.
Besides if I thought Trump had a chance in hell of winning I'd hold my nose and vote for Hillary. Hell I'd vote for Saddam Hussein to be president of America if I thought Trump could win. You'll find similar attitudes among many Bernie supporters. Trump doesn't have a chance, no republican did. The electoral math favors the democrats by about 100 electoral college votes. As I said all Hillary needs to win is either Florida or Ohio and Obama won both and she's beating Trump by about 20% in Florida's polls. You've got better odds to win a triple-double at the track then Trump does to win the presidency.
The only people claiming Sanders voters are going to vote for Trump is Trump supporters.
Sanders voters are more likely to stay home and not vote at all than vote for Trump. I support Sanders, I'd rather cut my testicles off than vote for Trump. Trump'll start WWIII because some foreign leader insulted him. And if he doesn't do that he'll gut the constitution and free speech to make it so people can't insult him. He'd fit right in with the average Arab Dictator.
And the lawyers involved were not involved at any step in this process and likely didn't even know. He's punishing essentially innocent people assigned to the case.
He's got lifetime employment, He's almost untouchable. There are good reasons for this but he's clearly stepped over the batshit crazy line. My bet is he's going to get slapped down by this either by a judicial ethics panel, a state licensing board or the supreme court itself. Judges can be punished but it takes time.
The Supreme court could embarrass him by voiding his order with prejudice. That would be a major public slap down and damage his reputation significantly. As the Supreme court is about to rule on this case there is a chance they'll include such a slapdown in the ruling.
They don't meet women because they are the creepy guy undressing every girl with their eyes. They are the guys that if a girl is nice to them immediately think they are dating and get jealous and start acting passive aggressive to both the girl and anyone that knows her. They are just like the kid in California that killed a bunch of people because he hadn't gotten laid.
Adam Baldwin and his horde of unwashed, anti-social, passive aggressive, misogynistic nitwits.
Microsoft laughed at them too, I distinctly remember Balmer saying something like this is a product with no market.
And please don't forget one of the prime tenets of computing in schools. When kids grow up they will use the computers and software they grew up using. It's the reason both Microsoft and Apple (this was a major apple philosophy) practically gave their products away to schools.
I urge you to keep laughing at Chromebooks, in 20 years when 1 of every 2 laptops is a Chromebook you can have a good solid laugh.
Disney, like Sony has a recording division for music and an entire back catalog that dates back decades. The fact that Disney, Sony, et. al. has other assets was EXACTLY my point. Most music companies are owned by much larger conglomerates. Warner Music is part of the Time Warner Group for example and includes HBO, a cable company and a dozen other assets that are worth billions alone.
He didn't bother to look into the ACTUAL value of the music industry. This includes Disney, one of the larger companies in the US by market cap. Besides, for the public companies (the vast majority) you'd need to do essentially a hostile takeover. Stock rules prohibit you buying more than 10% of the stock without a cooling off period and a public federal filing with the SEC. Which means the price will blow up shortly after the filing which would dramatically increase your costs. This is the reason hostile takeovers are extremely rare.
Though I have no doubt they could get controlling interest in one of the majors or even more than one buying the entire music industry outright? Hardly. Besides even if they did they would have to maintain all the existing contracts.
Demonstrating something in a lab and in a factory are completely different. You might be able to build MRAM in a lab at a million dollars a megabyte but until it can be mass produced at consumer prices it shouldn't be compared to things that are.
What's held up the vast majority of these technologies is the cost and ability to mass produce. They invent new stuff all the time then they find out they can't mass produce it or that it will cost so much it won't sell. It's great that IBM figured out a roadblock, but you won't see any mention of cost or mass reproduceability because they haven't even looked at that.
Extortion is a pretty serious crime. Just because someone else got away with a crime doesn't mean this guy should. He should go to jail and the law should be adjusted so the bankers do go to jail next time. The reason the laws aren't being changed should be reason for you to realize who's in the pocket of the bankers because there is a large number of politicians who defend those bankers for additional oversight and legal responsibility for their actions.
Actually Al Qaeda is a top down organization. They swear loyalty to the leadership like fealty to a king. Attacks on the leadership significantly weakened them. I doubt you can argue that the Al Qaeda is a shadow of it's former self strength wise.
Yes there will always be radicals in it's orbit but it's most important strength is it's ability to draw donations and man power, both of which have been degraded significantly by the loss of leadership. Bin ladin was the number one fund raiser, being Saudi and Arab he brought credibility (you need to understand that Muslims are brought up to believe Saudi Arabs are better than everyone else). The new leader Al-zawari is an Egyptian and a shit fundraiser. There has been a no doubt reduction is their prestige in the Jihadii movement and their ability to project power. ISIS stole their thunder for the most part and co-opted the Jihad movement and the drone strikes decimated their intermediate leadership and prevented the higher ups from even talking to anyone.
You're a bit late to the race war category. That was the prediction from end of Jim Crow to the 90's or so. The echo chamber has much newer items to be afraid of you just need to brush up a little and you will be up to speed on the new "scary".
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The point of the post is that Hydrogen is a really rotten method of storing electricity. You lose 20-50% of the energy converting to hydrogen, storing it and then reconverting it to electricity. These are hard losses, they cannot be recovered for reduced without eliminating the hydrogen. These losses are astronomical in comparison to directly storing and using the electricity from a battery.
There was a recent study looking at an economy that moved entirely to electricity. One of the interesting things about it is that we'd need to generate about 30% less energy as electricity than the total energy of the hydrocarbons we are burning because of all the inefficiencies of hydrocarbon energy conversion. Hydrogen is even worse than hydrocarbons.
People think it's a good idea because the president of the US (Bush Jr.) got on TV and said it was and people believe what they are told on TV.
The DOE "money" was a loan guarantee and you'd have to be a fucking moron to think a Loan guarantee involves the expenditure of a single dollar. It WAS Google's money along with several other investors that was used to build the place. Now if the fucking morons could stop equating a loan guarantee with money out of the pocket we'd be able to have a reasonable discussion.
Why do people that bring up the loan guarantee act as if it's money out of anyone's pocket? It cost the tax payer NOTHING to provide it. Just like it does when they provide loan guarantee's to anything else.
Carnival is a party line for poor people. They target singles with low budgets. The passengers reflect this, which isn't a bad thing if that's what you are looking for but if you are a fairly well to do married couple you can do significantly better for only slightly higher cost.
Carnival has also had significantly more issues than the other lines. Their ships have been the ones with the huge norovirus outbreak and account for about 75% of the illness outbreaks. Norovirus outbreaks occur from not washing your hands after going to the restroom, particularly number 2. Some people would argue this is tied to that "class" of passenger they target.
And it's not just illness, The ship that run around in Italy was a carnival line and they've had several fires and other issues. But most of the people turning their nose up at Carnival are doing it because of the type of passenger.
Frankly from your comment you've never been on a cruise ship and have the intelligence and world experience of a teenager.
Like all ships the employees are employees of the nation who's flag flies on the ship (typically a small island nation with no real legal system). No ship is "based" in any first world country. Cruise ships that are carrying American's and Europeans are NOT flying their home ports flags. They are all based in countries where there are no labor rules and the ships (cruise, cargo, whatever) can do whatever they want.
As a result there is no "undocumented" employee on a cruise ship or any other ship for that matter. There isn't any documentation or citizenship or anything else required. The cruise lines are also meticulous about ensuring the passengers are safe. Any crimes or drug use will get you fired and locked in the brig. See in international water they are their own state and the captain can do whatever he wants including put employees in jail.
Most cruise ship employees are from countries that are poor and where the $12 a hour the ship pays and then ridiculous hours they make you work (16 hour shifts are common) isn't a problem. One of the ones I talked to that had worked in the industry a long time told me he could tell when the economy of a country tanked because the cruise ships would be flooded with applications and employees from those countries. All the cruise ship employees I encountered were educated (some with college degrees) and very nice people from very bad situations (countries and economies) that were forced into these jobs to support family back home.
And yet the open darwin project shutdown entirely because Apple made it impossible to keep an open version of the kernel around wasting developer hours and generally disrespecting the developers involved.
As a result everyone abandoned the project and Apple was happy about it. Apple OS X is not open source and doesn't support it.
No one and I mean not a single person knows what Donald Trump is for or against other than himself. He's a liar that will say or do ANYTHING to get elected. The funny thing is half his supporters acknowledge this with winks and nods that claim he'll not do the stuff he's said that they don't like as if they can actually predict what he's lying about. Trump will do and say whatever it takes to win.
You don't have any fucking idea what he believes or what he'll do if he won. The only thing you can be certain of is that Donald Trump will do whatever is in Donald Trumps best interest without regard for anyone else. That is the one consistent thing he's done his entire fucking life. You and all the other voters aren't even insects to him.
I don't think anyone on the democratic side needs to worry. The evangelicals in the republican party are going to stay home and that's 15% of the republican vote, and that's with the electoral math already against him and Hillary only needing to win Florida to take the white house. That is even if his past history doesn't destroy him during the real campaign which is highly likely. The media's been sitting on hundreds of prior interviews he's done over the years just waiting for the real campaign to start. Like the one where he brags about all the venereal diseases he's had, that will make one hell of a campaign add and robocall.
Besides if I thought Trump had a chance in hell of winning I'd hold my nose and vote for Hillary. Hell I'd vote for Saddam Hussein to be president of America if I thought Trump could win. You'll find similar attitudes among many Bernie supporters. Trump doesn't have a chance, no republican did. The electoral math favors the democrats by about 100 electoral college votes. As I said all Hillary needs to win is either Florida or Ohio and Obama won both and she's beating Trump by about 20% in Florida's polls. You've got better odds to win a triple-double at the track then Trump does to win the presidency.
Thank Apple and Jobs. They won't be happy until you can shave with your phone.
The only people claiming Sanders voters are going to vote for Trump is Trump supporters.
Sanders voters are more likely to stay home and not vote at all than vote for Trump. I support Sanders, I'd rather cut my testicles off than vote for Trump. Trump'll start WWIII because some foreign leader insulted him. And if he doesn't do that he'll gut the constitution and free speech to make it so people can't insult him. He'd fit right in with the average Arab Dictator.
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Were you as up in arms when the Nixon administration DOJ refused to prosecute Nixon?
And the lawyers involved were not involved at any step in this process and likely didn't even know. He's punishing essentially innocent people assigned to the case.
He's got lifetime employment, He's almost untouchable. There are good reasons for this but he's clearly stepped over the batshit crazy line. My bet is he's going to get slapped down by this either by a judicial ethics panel, a state licensing board or the supreme court itself. Judges can be punished but it takes time.
The Supreme court could embarrass him by voiding his order with prejudice. That would be a major public slap down and damage his reputation significantly. As the Supreme court is about to rule on this case there is a chance they'll include such a slapdown in the ruling.
You just described the gamer-gate movement. They absolutely go out of their way to review stuff that was not targeted at them.
They don't meet women because they are the creepy guy undressing every girl with their eyes. They are the guys that if a girl is nice to them immediately think they are dating and get jealous and start acting passive aggressive to both the girl and anyone that knows her. They are just like the kid in California that killed a bunch of people because he hadn't gotten laid.
Adam Baldwin and his horde of unwashed, anti-social, passive aggressive, misogynistic nitwits.
Microsoft laughed at them too, I distinctly remember Balmer saying something like this is a product with no market.
And please don't forget one of the prime tenets of computing in schools. When kids grow up they will use the computers and software they grew up using. It's the reason both Microsoft and Apple (this was a major apple philosophy) practically gave their products away to schools.
I urge you to keep laughing at Chromebooks, in 20 years when 1 of every 2 laptops is a Chromebook you can have a good solid laugh.
Disney, like Sony has a recording division for music and an entire back catalog that dates back decades. The fact that Disney, Sony, et. al. has other assets was EXACTLY my point. Most music companies are owned by much larger conglomerates. Warner Music is part of the Time Warner Group for example and includes HBO, a cable company and a dozen other assets that are worth billions alone.
He didn't bother to look into the ACTUAL value of the music industry. This includes Disney, one of the larger companies in the US by market cap. Besides, for the public companies (the vast majority) you'd need to do essentially a hostile takeover. Stock rules prohibit you buying more than 10% of the stock without a cooling off period and a public federal filing with the SEC. Which means the price will blow up shortly after the filing which would dramatically increase your costs. This is the reason hostile takeovers are extremely rare.
Though I have no doubt they could get controlling interest in one of the majors or even more than one buying the entire music industry outright? Hardly. Besides even if they did they would have to maintain all the existing contracts.
Demonstrating something in a lab and in a factory are completely different. You might be able to build MRAM in a lab at a million dollars a megabyte but until it can be mass produced at consumer prices it shouldn't be compared to things that are.
What's held up the vast majority of these technologies is the cost and ability to mass produce. They invent new stuff all the time then they find out they can't mass produce it or that it will cost so much it won't sell. It's great that IBM figured out a roadblock, but you won't see any mention of cost or mass reproduceability because they haven't even looked at that.
About the same as claiming it's an optical format when it's actually phase change. Throw those buzz words in.
Phase change memory already exists as Intel/Micron XPoint memory which should go on sale later this year (it already been sampling for a few months).
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Extortion is a pretty serious crime. Just because someone else got away with a crime doesn't mean this guy should. He should go to jail and the law should be adjusted so the bankers do go to jail next time. The reason the laws aren't being changed should be reason for you to realize who's in the pocket of the bankers because there is a large number of politicians who defend those bankers for additional oversight and legal responsibility for their actions.
Actually Al Qaeda is a top down organization. They swear loyalty to the leadership like fealty to a king. Attacks on the leadership significantly weakened them. I doubt you can argue that the Al Qaeda is a shadow of it's former self strength wise.
Yes there will always be radicals in it's orbit but it's most important strength is it's ability to draw donations and man power, both of which have been degraded significantly by the loss of leadership. Bin ladin was the number one fund raiser, being Saudi and Arab he brought credibility (you need to understand that Muslims are brought up to believe Saudi Arabs are better than everyone else). The new leader Al-zawari is an Egyptian and a shit fundraiser. There has been a no doubt reduction is their prestige in the Jihadii movement and their ability to project power. ISIS stole their thunder for the most part and co-opted the Jihad movement and the drone strikes decimated their intermediate leadership and prevented the higher ups from even talking to anyone.
You're a bit late to the race war category. That was the prediction from end of Jim Crow to the 90's or so. The echo chamber has much newer items to be afraid of you just need to brush up a little and you will be up to speed on the new "scary".