The energy consumed would have been consumed anyway. So oil made from discarded plastic means we need to pump less oil from the ground.
So there is no net additional release of carbon, and likely a net decrease since the plastic would eventually degrade and outgas in a landfill.
You are really struggling with the concept of carbon sequestration. The problem of plastic garbage is bad but the problem of releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere is worse. The whole point of mitigating climate change is to replace oil as a source of energy with energy sources that have a smaller carbon footprint. You sound like a heroin addict who thinks that switching to crystal meth will solve all his problems.
So, they have discovered a method to convert millions of tons of plastic into fossil fuels that can be burned to release yet more sequestered carbon into the atmosphere. That's sure to solve our ongoing problem with carbon emissions causing climate change.
Yea, but there are still places in the US (backwoods places popular with "conservatives") where you can find a good sized 4-bedroom rental for about half that, leaving over $300 extra a month for food and booze, which is also extra cheap in those regions compared to the typical metropolis.
We have that here too, small villages in the ass end of nowhere that rely on a single business for their existence. That single business in turn relies on subsidies from the taxpayer to avoid bankruptcy. Those, however, are not exactly the normal case now are they?
This is actually a really shitty test. Give wage slaves a year of guaranteed pay and of course they will take the year off, it's the only time in their lives they'll get a year-long vacation before they've gone senile. Basic income tests which don't last for life are invalid (to say nothing of their non-randomized selection of candidates.) This whole study was propaganda to keep plebs thinking they need to spend every waking hour of the good parts of their life working for someone other than themselves.
Year long vacation??? You are seriously overestimating what a luxurious al life you can lead on $695 dollars per month and it makes you sound like one of those clueless conservatives who think single mothers are living the high life on 7.25 dollars an hour working 16 hours a day 7 days a week while raising three kids. Speaking for myself 695 dollars per month would not even be enough to pay for rent or pay off the mortgage, even if I downgraded to a dirty cockroach paradise of a living space, not even close. If I wanted to prioritise not starving to death over paying off the mortgage on that UBI, I'd have to settle for housing in the form of a nice cardboard box under a bridge, that way, 695 dollars would do me fairly well for food, washing and clean clothes. If somebody held a gun to my head and made me choose between this $695 UBI, and working somewhere as a dish washer (instead of what I usually do, which is coding) I'd pick the dishwasher job in a heartbeat because even a crappy job like that just pays much better.
We need an firewall that ALSO blocks OUTBOUND requests..And why doesn't security software already do that? Norton did at one time they stopped. Someone out their is smart enough to do this..i will buy a copy for sure
There is a bunch of them for MacOS, like Little Snitch for example which works fine for me. I'd be surprised if such apps don't exist on Windows and Linux. iOS on the other hand forbids that kind of app although you can block apps from accessing the cellular connection (not Wifi it seems). There used to be an app for Android called NetGuard that did this but I don't use Android so I'm not qualified to judge it's effectiveness. These things taking screenshot and sending them to some server out on the net seems pretty outrageous to me. The thing is though, that with a net connected app it's kind of hard to distinguish between legitimate data and UI analysis data.
A mobile expert known as The App Analyst recently found Air Canada's iPhone app to be improperly masking the session replays when they were sent, exposing passport numbers and credit card data in each replay session. Just weeks earlier, Air Canada said its app had a data breach, exposing 20,000 profiles.
Government Executive: We must push the Russian involvement...guys...
A few hours later...
Main Stream Media: "The apps have links with the Kremlin and direct links with Putin...."
The Main Stream Media is publicly claiming that Air Canada is a front for Russian intelligence? That is a quite extraordinary leap, even for a conspiracy mongering Trumpkin.
..They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal....
What are you talking about?
I said that BOTH Americans and European companies are doing this stuff, it is just that the European govs are going after the American companies.
You suggested that the EU is unfairly fining US companies and not fining European ones for getting up to the exact same shenannigans the US companies are pulling, or, in other words the usual: Bwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhh. UNFAIR!!!... whining that seems to be so in vogue with US conservatives these days.
Here are some companies that have been fined by the EU for all kinds of dirty tricks over the last few decades:
Daimler (German)
Scania (Swedish)
DAF (Dutch)
Saint Gobain (French)
Philips (Dutch)
LG Electronics (South Korean)
Volvo/Renault (Swedish/French)
Iveco (Italian)
Deutsche Bank (German)
F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Swiss)
The list is much, much longer and it consists of many European and Asian companies. The EU is not singling out US companies for 'unfair' treatment, it's more that US companies get away with murder in the US, with the help of US politicians to screw the US public, and they think they can get away with it everywhere else too. Well think again.
they are NOT being fined for taxes. They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal....
Such as?... please enlighten us by elaborating and providing some citations to weasel stuff that European Corpocrats do but American ones would never dream of doing because they are such honest salt-of-the-earth people.
It was obvious that Europe can not use their tax laws to go after Google (and other American tech companies), so, they were going to use their laws with MASSIVE fines.
I had to laugh when somebody gripped about America fining VW 2.8B for their lying and polluting, while Europe will make up fake fines which are much higher against these companies and use it on their coffers.
Yeah, because American mega-corps are such a nice honest salt-of-the-earth bunch people who never cheat on their taxes. I'm pretty sure the people running US corporations are the exact same species of greedy sociopathic assholes as their European colleagues. I for one despise them all equally.
AI though?!? Really, a company that deals in spice should know the Butlerian prohibition on thinking machines.
Thinking machines, what do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger.
-- Leto Atreides II, God Emperor God Emperor of Dune
Citation for your 30% figure please. Mining and transportation are also necessary for coal but I bet they aren't included in typical coal-plant CO2 figures either.
Coal 1050 g co2/kWh
Solar 32 g co2/kWh
Wind 10 g co2/kWh
Most other studies are in the same ballpark, i.e two orders of magnitude. Wind power has around 1% of the life cycle carbon footprint of coal burning and solar 3%. The really funny part here is the idea hat the CO2 footprint involved in mining a metric ton of coal is going to be a significant part of the life-cycle greenhouse emissions caused by burning that ton of coal, coal is pretty much pure carbon. The weight ratio of CO2 produced per octane molecule burned is roughly 3 to 1. The burning of the coal creates orders of magnitude more CO2 over the lifespan of a coal power plant than producing and operating a solar array or wind farm for the same period. In the case of wind and solar, after the carbon created during manufacture, your CO2 footprint is limited to the carbon produced by maintenance activities. On top of that solar and wind are more cost effective and they also aren't subject to fluctuations in fuel prices.
First, I enjoy knowing that for once we have a POTUS that is willing to tell the rest of the world that they can't keep slacking off and expect the USA to pick it up. NATO nations have not been keeping up with their military spending and training and it's making Russia and other threats to the world very bold. So bold that things can turn into a shooting war very quickly. Germany can't keep their military pilots certified because few of their helicopters are fit to fly. Their Navy is a bunch of barely afloat wrecks, and their tank crews are getting "trained" in mini-vans because they can't keep their tanks running either. The rest of NATO is barely any better. If they want peace then they must prepare for war.
Second, I also enjoy that Trump is living rent free in the minds of those posting here. Throw all the fits you like, my grin only gets bigger.
Oh, so much winning I can hardly stand it!
So, I hear Mexico is going to pay for that border wall, not the US taxpayer, how is that going?
so why should China invite others for their power plants,..?
"We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of wining!!!"
-- Donald J Trump
See, it's all part of the stable genius plan... piss off everybody with trade wars, insults, an inept foreign policy and asinine impulsive tweets and then the winning will start for real so just relax and enjoy the ride;-)
I would tentatively suggest that a 3.5mm jack that does not need to be charged is always going to be superior to a bluetooth dongle that does.
I would tentatively suggest that a Bluetooth connection that does not suffer from metal fatigue is always going to be superior to an ultra thin audio chord that does.
What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
I hope so, having one charger for the laptop, phone and tablet would be nice.
... and every Android phone, every Windows phone, every other 'smart phone' out there. I don't have a dog in your asinine Apple vs Android pissing contest, they are both good systems and making a religion out of either one is idiotic. My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid. The real question is not sound quality, it is whether or not you are willing to trade awful sound for a little bit more awful sound and the occasional charging and instead get the convenience of not having a chord (which is my preference, your mileage may vary).
Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
Yeah, because recompressing (bluetooth intrinsic compression) an already compressed audio signal (99% of the music out there) is somehow better. Except it isn't, but don't let that get in the way of the marketing hype and fanboys talk.
... and let's not forget that corded cheap ass headphones and earbuds deliver such fantastic, near concert quality, audio.
and it turned out that US industry cannot even handle large volume screw production.
The problem is not large volume screw production... its large volume custom screw production with very short notice given.
Don't expect to go to a factory with a custom product design and expect to have a huge volume of them manufactured for reasonable cost without any lead time.
It takes setup time and money to build out a certain amount of production capacity.
If you want to compete in the modern manufacturing business you have to get used to the idea of ramping up production at very short notices because the Chinese did that a long time ago. The MAGA crowd pisses and moans about jobs being 'un-patriotically outsourced' but it's about more than that. The Chinese simply kicked the US's as at this sort of thing decades ago and apparently they are still doing it. If you can't go from a CAD drawing to spitting out custom screws or whatever other component the customer wants in a matter of days using robotic lathes, presses, milling machines etc... and do it at high volumes you might as well not bother competing, this is not a game for slow movers.
... without any regard for cost-effectiveness. I love how you Trump conservatives always manage make the case that companies should move production back to the US without any regard for the effect that has on their ability to compete. Nobody is moving production back to the US unless they can be sure that they will be able to compete effectively with Huwei, Xiaomi and the rest of the new Chinese tiger corporations and they won't be doing that if they are subsidising jobs in the US to make components they can get cheaper elsewhere.
I think you'll find that the Americas contain no less that 56 countries and territories who are inhabited by 'Americans'. For US citizens to claim the term 'Americans' for themselves to the exclusion of all others is a bit like the French claming exclusive rights to on the term 'European' or the Chinese claiming exclusive rights to the term 'Asians' (which I would not put past them given what they have been up to in the S-China sea lately). The best you can do to monopolise the term 'American' is to call yourselves 'US-Americans'.
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#CarbonFundamentalist
No, more like: #NotLivingInLaLaLand
The energy consumed would have been consumed anyway. So oil made from discarded plastic means we need to pump less oil from the ground.
So there is no net additional release of carbon, and likely a net decrease since the plastic would eventually degrade and outgas in a landfill.
You are really struggling with the concept of carbon sequestration. The problem of plastic garbage is bad but the problem of releasing massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere is worse. The whole point of mitigating climate change is to replace oil as a source of energy with energy sources that have a smaller carbon footprint. You sound like a heroin addict who thinks that switching to crystal meth will solve all his problems.
So, they have discovered a method to convert millions of tons of plastic into fossil fuels that can be burned to release yet more sequestered carbon into the atmosphere. That's sure to solve our ongoing problem with carbon emissions causing climate change.
Yea, but there are still places in the US (backwoods places popular with "conservatives") where you can find a good sized 4-bedroom rental for about half that, leaving over $300 extra a month for food and booze, which is also extra cheap in those regions compared to the typical metropolis.
We have that here too, small villages in the ass end of nowhere that rely on a single business for their existence. That single business in turn relies on subsidies from the taxpayer to avoid bankruptcy. Those, however, are not exactly the normal case now are they?
This is actually a really shitty test. Give wage slaves a year of guaranteed pay and of course they will take the year off, it's the only time in their lives they'll get a year-long vacation before they've gone senile. Basic income tests which don't last for life are invalid (to say nothing of their non-randomized selection of candidates.) This whole study was propaganda to keep plebs thinking they need to spend every waking hour of the good parts of their life working for someone other than themselves.
Year long vacation??? You are seriously overestimating what a luxurious al life you can lead on $695 dollars per month and it makes you sound like one of those clueless conservatives who think single mothers are living the high life on 7.25 dollars an hour working 16 hours a day 7 days a week while raising three kids. Speaking for myself 695 dollars per month would not even be enough to pay for rent or pay off the mortgage, even if I downgraded to a dirty cockroach paradise of a living space, not even close. If I wanted to prioritise not starving to death over paying off the mortgage on that UBI, I'd have to settle for housing in the form of a nice cardboard box under a bridge, that way, 695 dollars would do me fairly well for food, washing and clean clothes. If somebody held a gun to my head and made me choose between this $695 UBI, and working somewhere as a dish washer (instead of what I usually do, which is coding) I'd pick the dishwasher job in a heartbeat because even a crappy job like that just pays much better.
We need an firewall that ALSO blocks OUTBOUND requests..And why doesn't security software already do that? Norton did at one time they stopped. Someone out their is smart enough to do this..i will buy a copy for sure
There is a bunch of them for MacOS, like Little Snitch for example which works fine for me. I'd be surprised if such apps don't exist on Windows and Linux. iOS on the other hand forbids that kind of app although you can block apps from accessing the cellular connection (not Wifi it seems). There used to be an app for Android called NetGuard that did this but I don't use Android so I'm not qualified to judge it's effectiveness. These things taking screenshot and sending them to some server out on the net seems pretty outrageous to me. The thing is though, that with a net connected app it's kind of hard to distinguish between legitimate data and UI analysis data.
A mobile expert known as The App Analyst recently found Air Canada's iPhone app to be improperly masking the session replays when they were sent, exposing passport numbers and credit card data in each replay session. Just weeks earlier, Air Canada said its app had a data breach, exposing 20,000 profiles.
Government Executive: We must push the Russian involvement...guys...
A few hours later...
Main Stream Media: "The apps have links with the Kremlin and direct links with Putin...."
The Main Stream Media is publicly claiming that Air Canada is a front for Russian intelligence? That is a quite extraordinary leap, even for a conspiracy mongering Trumpkin.
..They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal....
What are you talking about? I said that BOTH Americans and European companies are doing this stuff, it is just that the European govs are going after the American companies.
You suggested that the EU is unfairly fining US companies and not fining European ones for getting up to the exact same shenannigans the US companies are pulling, or, in other words the usual: Bwwwaaaaaaaahhhhhh. UNFAIR!!! ... whining that seems to be so in vogue with US conservatives these days.
Here are some companies that have been fined by the EU for all kinds of dirty tricks over the last few decades:
Daimler (German)
Scania (Swedish)
DAF (Dutch)
Saint Gobain (French)
Philips (Dutch)
LG Electronics (South Korean)
Volvo/Renault (Swedish/French)
Iveco (Italian)
Deutsche Bank (German)
F. Hoffmann-La Roche (Swiss)
The list is much, much longer and it consists of many European and Asian companies. The EU is not singling out US companies for 'unfair' treatment, it's more that US companies get away with murder in the US, with the help of US politicians to screw the US public, and they think they can get away with it everywhere else too. Well think again.
they are NOT being fined for taxes. They are being fined for all sorts of BS that their own companies do, but it is not illegal....
Such as? ... please enlighten us by elaborating and providing some citations to weasel stuff that European Corpocrats do but American ones would never dream of doing because they are such honest salt-of-the-earth people.
It was obvious that Europe can not use their tax laws to go after Google (and other American tech companies), so, they were going to use their laws with MASSIVE fines. I had to laugh when somebody gripped about America fining VW 2.8B for their lying and polluting, while Europe will make up fake fines which are much higher against these companies and use it on their coffers.
Yeah, because American mega-corps are such a nice honest salt-of-the-earth bunch people who never cheat on their taxes. I'm pretty sure the people running US corporations are the exact same species of greedy sociopathic assholes as their European colleagues. I for one despise them all equally.
Compared to what they owe planet wide.
They and every other megacorp out there.
AI though?!? Really, a company that deals in spice should know the Butlerian prohibition on thinking machines.
Thinking machines, what do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger.
-- Leto Atreides II, God Emperor God Emperor of Dune
Citation for your 30% figure please. Mining and transportation are also necessary for coal but I bet they aren't included in typical coal-plant CO2 figures either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coal 1050 g co2/kWh
Solar 32 g co2/kWh
Wind 10 g co2/kWh
Most other studies are in the same ballpark, i.e two orders of magnitude. Wind power has around 1% of the life cycle carbon footprint of coal burning and solar 3%. The really funny part here is the idea hat the CO2 footprint involved in mining a metric ton of coal is going to be a significant part of the life-cycle greenhouse emissions caused by burning that ton of coal, coal is pretty much pure carbon. The weight ratio of CO2 produced per octane molecule burned is roughly 3 to 1. The burning of the coal creates orders of magnitude more CO2 over the lifespan of a coal power plant than producing and operating a solar array or wind farm for the same period. In the case of wind and solar, after the carbon created during manufacture, your CO2 footprint is limited to the carbon produced by maintenance activities. On top of that solar and wind are more cost effective and they also aren't subject to fluctuations in fuel prices.
I have a couple replies here...
First, I enjoy knowing that for once we have a POTUS that is willing to tell the rest of the world that they can't keep slacking off and expect the USA to pick it up. NATO nations have not been keeping up with their military spending and training and it's making Russia and other threats to the world very bold. So bold that things can turn into a shooting war very quickly. Germany can't keep their military pilots certified because few of their helicopters are fit to fly. Their Navy is a bunch of barely afloat wrecks, and their tank crews are getting "trained" in mini-vans because they can't keep their tanks running either. The rest of NATO is barely any better. If they want peace then they must prepare for war.
Second, I also enjoy that Trump is living rent free in the minds of those posting here. Throw all the fits you like, my grin only gets bigger.
Oh, so much winning I can hardly stand it!
So, I hear Mexico is going to pay for that border wall, not the US taxpayer, how is that going?
so why should China invite others for their power plants, ..?
"We're going to win so much, you're going to be so sick and tired of wining!!!"
... piss off everybody with trade wars, insults, an inept foreign policy and asinine impulsive tweets and then the winning will start for real so just relax and enjoy the ride ;-)
-- Donald J Trump
See, it's all part of the stable genius plan
Plants and Animals Sometimes Take Genes From Bacteria, Study Suggests
Ok, that is just blatant copyright infringement and IP theft all rolled into one ... the bacteria should lawyer up.
I would tentatively suggest that a 3.5mm jack that does not need to be charged is always going to be superior to a bluetooth dongle that does.
I would tentatively suggest that a Bluetooth connection that does not suffer from metal fatigue is always going to be superior to an ultra thin audio chord that does.
What I really want to know is if the USB-C port is coming to the mainline iPad and iPad mini. If so, that'd suggest they're generally transitioning away from Lightning, not just on their high-end products.
I hope so, having one charger for the laptop, phone and tablet would be nice.
Like the ones included with every iPhone?
... and every Android phone, every Windows phone, every other 'smart phone' out there. I don't have a dog in your asinine Apple vs Android pissing contest, they are both good systems and making a religion out of either one is idiotic. My point was that the sound of most of these lower end headphones and earbuds is dreadful anyway so complaining about Bluetooth compression ruining your 'listening experience' is kind of stupid. The real question is not sound quality, it is whether or not you are willing to trade awful sound for a little bit more awful sound and the occasional charging and instead get the convenience of not having a chord (which is my preference, your mileage may vary).
Can someone explain males with hyphenated names for me please?
I thought this was a feminist thing, but now guys are doing this too?
No, it's a snobby 19th century upper class thing.
Time to let the Jack die.It's outdated technology and there are better, wireless ways to do things.
Yeah, because recompressing (bluetooth intrinsic compression) an already compressed audio signal (99% of the music out there) is somehow better. Except it isn't, but don't let that get in the way of the marketing hype and fanboys talk.
... and let's not forget that corded cheap ass headphones and earbuds deliver such fantastic, near concert quality, audio.
and it turned out that US industry cannot even handle large volume screw production.
The problem is not large volume screw production... its large volume custom screw production with very short notice given. Don't expect to go to a factory with a custom product design and expect to have a huge volume of them manufactured for reasonable cost without any lead time.
It takes setup time and money to build out a certain amount of production capacity.
If you want to compete in the modern manufacturing business you have to get used to the idea of ramping up production at very short notices because the Chinese did that a long time ago. The MAGA crowd pisses and moans about jobs being 'un-patriotically outsourced' but it's about more than that. The Chinese simply kicked the US's as at this sort of thing decades ago and apparently they are still doing it. If you can't go from a CAD drawing to spitting out custom screws or whatever other component the customer wants in a matter of days using robotic lathes, presses, milling machines etc... and do it at high volumes you might as well not bother competing, this is not a game for slow movers.
... if you are willing to spend the money ...
... without any regard for cost-effectiveness. I love how you Trump conservatives always manage make the case that companies should move production back to the US without any regard for the effect that has on their ability to compete. Nobody is moving production back to the US unless they can be sure that they will be able to compete effectively with Huwei, Xiaomi and the rest of the new Chinese tiger corporations and they won't be doing that if they are subsidising jobs in the US to make components they can get cheaper elsewhere.
I think the accepted term is "Americans".
I think you'll find that the Americas contain no less that 56 countries and territories who are inhabited by 'Americans'. For US citizens to claim the term 'Americans' for themselves to the exclusion of all others is a bit like the French claming exclusive rights to on the term 'European' or the Chinese claiming exclusive rights to the term 'Asians' (which I would not put past them given what they have been up to in the S-China sea lately). The best you can do to monopolise the term 'American' is to call yourselves 'US-Americans'.
Seriously, who spends $3,000 on a laptop anymore?
Seriously, who spends $300,000 on a car anymore?
... and the Mac Pro is a desktop computer.
Answer: Those who can afford it and to whom it makes sense to do so.