The degree was pulled because of his racist comments about Muslims which make up a significant percentage of Scotland. Not in relation to this wind farm, though those comments are probably going to significantly damage his business dealings in Scotland for the future and the comments likely had an impact in this case as well.
Wind power production has MORE than lived up to the hype. It's the single fastest growing power source by a WIDE margin precisely because it's been so phenomenally successful and the turbines trump is opposed to are some of the most productive in the world (coastal turbines in Scotland and the north sea are under wind damn near 100% of the time). Turbines are so cost effective up there (even with the cost of sinking foundation into deep water) because the wind never stops blowing and it blows with enough force that the turbines are almost always at maximum spin efficiency.
Coastal wind power is so effective that Denmark gets nearly 60% of their power from it and Scotland could EASILY be an exporter of power to the rest of the UK if they fully built out their wind resources.
A true quantum computer with double digit numbers of qubits should be able to crack even the best encryption ridiculously fast. The NSA is believed to be heavily involved in quantum computer development. We need significantly harder encryption to beat quantum computers (in the sense of making it take too long). Right now very few of them exist and they are very expensive to run (have to be cooled with liquid helium) so there is very little risk but as price and availability come down that will change.
I can't comment on how normal it is but in Australia according to google the power is 240volt like Europe. I doubt they run power like they do in the US with 2 120 volt lines providing that 240 volts so I would wager that 3 phase is very very unlikely at a residence.
More expensive and less performance than the Tesla. That will win over absolutely no one. But not surprising given the disdain the Porsche management has shown for Tesla and electric cars in general.
Only after losing significant market share to Tesla has Porsche decided to build a car and they will screw it up big time because their leadership doesn't want to build electric cars. It's as simple as that.
If conspiracy to commit was actionable on writing a story there would be a LOT of people in jail. Better than 3/4s of the population has probably violated the law in a story, writing or drawing at some point in their lives.
Remember those pictures you drew of a kid? Actionable conspiracy under your definition. For all the research this person did he never took a single action to make his plan real. He didn't buy chloroform, he didn't start building a kitchen and he didn't have a partner (regardless of what the prosecution to the press). He was writing stories.
Though he's one sick individual and probably shouldn't have been a cop with fantasies like that nothing he did was illegal. That's a fact at this point as all his convictions were tossed.
Or the alternative description is he was researching material so his writing was more accurate. Something authors do all the time.
For all the bluster of the prosecution, if this man was actually planning these actions and his documents weren't just a story why did he change the names of the people?
Maybe it's because he was just writing a story. If they thought this guy was a real risk they should have put him under 24 hour surveillance and waited for him to take action. Even if what he planned was real all they could arrest him for was researching a story. A vile, repugnant story but a story nonetheless.
If this guy can be prosecuted for what he did so could you for what you write on the internet.
Not just car sales, car manufacturing is being disrupted as we speak. Elon Musk is going to do long term damage to the car companies that refuse to move into the future. He's already hurt the sales of the high end automobile and hurt these manufacturers. The rapid fire attempts to build electric cars by the luxury brands are the signs of the damage he's doing.
These companies don't publish sales numbers but I'm willing to bet he's taken at least 1/4 of their business by how quickly they are trying to respond to a market they all said was pointless two years ago. In fact I can remember statements by Porsche a couple years ago that the electric car is a joke, bet it's not funny anymore!
Every car I've ever owned has had more than $4k in maintenance costs by the time it's 10 years old. The water pump, the timing belt, flushing the transmission, flushing the radiator, etc... amount to a pretty penny. But the oil changes alone are going to net you more than $1000 in that timeframe. You get one major part going out on a combustion car that requires the engine to be disassembled and you'll drop $1k before they even know what's wrong. Yea if you do all your own maintenance you can save money on stuff but mechanical engines break down over time.
And from what I've seen of battery replacement information the only batteries failing at 8-10 years are the NiMH batteries in the Prius. The lithium-ion in the more advanced vehicles have not exhibited the same failure rate and currently have a very poorly understood failure rate because not many have failed.
Dealers are very well entrenched at the local political level. Most dealers are some of the richest and most connected people in their local markets. Many states have laws written around dealers and basically granting them monopolies over car sales.
As Tesla has discovered in Texas, getting these laws removed from the books is near impossible because of how well connected dealers are.
Whether he was charged or not isn't particularly relevant. People are arrested all the time and not charged. In fact people are arrested all the time and beat up by the police and not charged.
People rarely win when suing the cops for arresting them. His lawyers need to prove there was discrimination and all the school and police need to prove is there was legitimate suspicion.
The population voted overwhelming to leave. You can claim the elections were fabricated but not the followup independent polls that showed better than 92% in favor of joining Russia.
They should have the right of self determination. On the other hand Ukraine should be under no obligation to supply Crimea with water, power sewer or any other service for which the people of Ukraine pay for. If I was the Ukrainian leader I would have cut the utilities ages ago without a significant and expensive payment from Russia to maintain them.
The government is under no obligation to provide a return on investment on ANY item. You bought that medallion as an investment, if your investment doesn't perform because the regulatory climate changes that is the risks you take when you invest money.
This would be no different than bailing out private investor who lost money in a stock purchase and it's equally absurd.
I read it as the user requires zero knowledge about encryption to use it, as in it's freely available and default and requires no user intervention to use it. This would block almost all snooping and is what Apple and Google have been talking about since the NSA revelations.
ISIS comes in two groups. Former Iraqi army officers and foreign fighters. There are occasional local supporters but they are vastly outnumbered by the prior two groups. Every single one of those foreign fighters was recruited through their external public affairs operation which runs entirely on social media sites.
If twitter wasn't a big deal to them they wouldn't have threatened to kill the twitter executives when they banned a thousand of their accounts earlier this year.
Yea the Pinto that miraculously explodes when hit from the rear and the trunk is full of explosives.
In all seriousness the car did have a significant design flaw, a flaw that exists in a lot of cars because it's actually pretty hard to protect a tank of fluid that is more explosive than dynamite.
Gotta love a documentary that takes a good swipe at Arnold Schwarzenegger too for being a bad roll model that claimed to support healthy living but did every steroid and HGH ever made.
I remember it too, and read the national geographic expose on the both the fake story and the real one.
The thing is, it was a great cover story because it was possible. The only reason it didn't really happen was the cost to extract wasn't worth it. Drones change that, it might be possible to pull all those minerals off the bottom if we have drones, the cost thing that killed the original was all the manpower and special submarines that would be needed.
If you have drones doing the mining and only need surface ships to sort and pull the minerals to port your manpower costs are significantly lower.
Their entire PR and recruiting operation works on twitter, facebook and other social network properties. You don't actually think they are calling people do you? Sure they have facilitators on the outside spreading their message but 99% of their propaganda goes out via social networking and based on the people they've caught trying to join daesh they are their primary recruiting tools as well.
What do you think they are holding job fairs or some such nonsense? Their only way to communicate with people is through social media.
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The degree was pulled because of his racist comments about Muslims which make up a significant percentage of Scotland. Not in relation to this wind farm, though those comments are probably going to significantly damage his business dealings in Scotland for the future and the comments likely had an impact in this case as well.
Wind power production has MORE than lived up to the hype. It's the single fastest growing power source by a WIDE margin precisely because it's been so phenomenally successful and the turbines trump is opposed to are some of the most productive in the world (coastal turbines in Scotland and the north sea are under wind damn near 100% of the time). Turbines are so cost effective up there (even with the cost of sinking foundation into deep water) because the wind never stops blowing and it blows with enough force that the turbines are almost always at maximum spin efficiency.
Coastal wind power is so effective that Denmark gets nearly 60% of their power from it and Scotland could EASILY be an exporter of power to the rest of the UK if they fully built out their wind resources.
Lol, yea right. He's committed crime, lots of it. He's just never been convicted for any of it.
Military contracting 101:
You don't charge 700e6 for a project that doesn't work, you charge $700e6 for a project that just need $300e6-$700e6 more to actually work.
So if you travel with your computer you will be immediately locked out of your steam account for x number of days.
A true quantum computer with double digit numbers of qubits should be able to crack even the best encryption ridiculously fast. The NSA is believed to be heavily involved in quantum computer development. We need significantly harder encryption to beat quantum computers (in the sense of making it take too long). Right now very few of them exist and they are very expensive to run (have to be cooled with liquid helium) so there is very little risk but as price and availability come down that will change.
I can't comment on how normal it is but in Australia according to google the power is 240volt like Europe. I doubt they run power like they do in the US with 2 120 volt lines providing that 240 volts so I would wager that 3 phase is very very unlikely at a residence.
More expensive and less performance than the Tesla. That will win over absolutely no one. But not surprising given the disdain the Porsche management has shown for Tesla and electric cars in general.
Only after losing significant market share to Tesla has Porsche decided to build a car and they will screw it up big time because their leadership doesn't want to build electric cars. It's as simple as that.
If conspiracy to commit was actionable on writing a story there would be a LOT of people in jail. Better than 3/4s of the population has probably violated the law in a story, writing or drawing at some point in their lives.
Remember those pictures you drew of a kid? Actionable conspiracy under your definition. For all the research this person did he never took a single action to make his plan real. He didn't buy chloroform, he didn't start building a kitchen and he didn't have a partner (regardless of what the prosecution to the press). He was writing stories.
Though he's one sick individual and probably shouldn't have been a cop with fantasies like that nothing he did was illegal. That's a fact at this point as all his convictions were tossed.
Or the alternative description is he was researching material so his writing was more accurate. Something authors do all the time.
For all the bluster of the prosecution, if this man was actually planning these actions and his documents weren't just a story why did he change the names of the people?
Maybe it's because he was just writing a story. If they thought this guy was a real risk they should have put him under 24 hour surveillance and waited for him to take action. Even if what he planned was real all they could arrest him for was researching a story. A vile, repugnant story but a story nonetheless.
If this guy can be prosecuted for what he did so could you for what you write on the internet.
Not just car sales, car manufacturing is being disrupted as we speak. Elon Musk is going to do long term damage to the car companies that refuse to move into the future. He's already hurt the sales of the high end automobile and hurt these manufacturers. The rapid fire attempts to build electric cars by the luxury brands are the signs of the damage he's doing.
These companies don't publish sales numbers but I'm willing to bet he's taken at least 1/4 of their business by how quickly they are trying to respond to a market they all said was pointless two years ago. In fact I can remember statements by Porsche a couple years ago that the electric car is a joke, bet it's not funny anymore!
Every car I've ever owned has had more than $4k in maintenance costs by the time it's 10 years old. The water pump, the timing belt, flushing the transmission, flushing the radiator, etc... amount to a pretty penny. But the oil changes alone are going to net you more than $1000 in that timeframe. You get one major part going out on a combustion car that requires the engine to be disassembled and you'll drop $1k before they even know what's wrong. Yea if you do all your own maintenance you can save money on stuff but mechanical engines break down over time.
And from what I've seen of battery replacement information the only batteries failing at 8-10 years are the NiMH batteries in the Prius. The lithium-ion in the more advanced vehicles have not exhibited the same failure rate and currently have a very poorly understood failure rate because not many have failed.
Dealers are very well entrenched at the local political level. Most dealers are some of the richest and most connected people in their local markets. Many states have laws written around dealers and basically granting them monopolies over car sales.
As Tesla has discovered in Texas, getting these laws removed from the books is near impossible because of how well connected dealers are.
Whether he was charged or not isn't particularly relevant. People are arrested all the time and not charged. In fact people are arrested all the time and beat up by the police and not charged.
People rarely win when suing the cops for arresting them. His lawyers need to prove there was discrimination and all the school and police need to prove is there was legitimate suspicion.
The population voted overwhelming to leave. You can claim the elections were fabricated but not the followup independent polls that showed better than 92% in favor of joining Russia.
They should have the right of self determination. On the other hand Ukraine should be under no obligation to supply Crimea with water, power sewer or any other service for which the people of Ukraine pay for. If I was the Ukrainian leader I would have cut the utilities ages ago without a significant and expensive payment from Russia to maintain them.
This worked in the US because of the 1st amendment. This probably would not work in Australia.
The US is the only country with such extensive speech protections.
And the irony is that PETA puts down dogs that could otherwise adopted because the head of Peta doesn't believe in pets.
The government is under no obligation to provide a return on investment on ANY item. You bought that medallion as an investment, if your investment doesn't perform because the regulatory climate changes that is the risks you take when you invest money.
This would be no different than bailing out private investor who lost money in a stock purchase and it's equally absurd.
I read it as the user requires zero knowledge about encryption to use it, as in it's freely available and default and requires no user intervention to use it. This would block almost all snooping and is what Apple and Google have been talking about since the NSA revelations.
ISIS comes in two groups. Former Iraqi army officers and foreign fighters. There are occasional local supporters but they are vastly outnumbered by the prior two groups. Every single one of those foreign fighters was recruited through their external public affairs operation which runs entirely on social media sites.
If twitter wasn't a big deal to them they wouldn't have threatened to kill the twitter executives when they banned a thousand of their accounts earlier this year.
Yea the Pinto that miraculously explodes when hit from the rear and the trunk is full of explosives.
In all seriousness the car did have a significant design flaw, a flaw that exists in a lot of cars because it's actually pretty hard to protect a tank of fluid that is more explosive than dynamite.
Gotta love a documentary that takes a good swipe at Arnold Schwarzenegger too for being a bad roll model that claimed to support healthy living but did every steroid and HGH ever made.
I remember it too, and read the national geographic expose on the both the fake story and the real one.
The thing is, it was a great cover story because it was possible. The only reason it didn't really happen was the cost to extract wasn't worth it. Drones change that, it might be possible to pull all those minerals off the bottom if we have drones, the cost thing that killed the original was all the manpower and special submarines that would be needed.
If you have drones doing the mining and only need surface ships to sort and pull the minerals to port your manpower costs are significantly lower.
Their entire PR and recruiting operation works on twitter, facebook and other social network properties. You don't actually think they are calling people do you? Sure they have facilitators on the outside spreading their message but 99% of their propaganda goes out via social networking and based on the people they've caught trying to join daesh they are their primary recruiting tools as well.
What do you think they are holding job fairs or some such nonsense? Their only way to communicate with people is through social media.
The entire countries internet goes through a single building for a reason and it's not cost. They've not forgot their KGB roots.