I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
That is a steaming load of horse shit, noting more, nothing less, just a big steaming pile of horse shit.
Also with the State of California (The Top State Economy in the US) carrying most of the country.
Is that what progressives tell themselves these days? Man, someone should add more robust programming to those NPCs, they're pretty repetitive.
Welcome to the Trump Economy. It's why Trump will be re-elected in 2024 and 2028. (2020 is a given.) You ready for the Red Tide in November?
Why wouldn't they? Seeing as how it's true. The Red states are mostly subsidised by the Blue ones (and Texas). Plus the country that sat at the top of the competitiveness scale over the las ten years was Switzerland so for the US to make it to the top once a decade is not really any kind of an achievement. Also, just to add insult to injury Socialist Sweden and Socialist Finland have been higher than the US on that competitiveness list for a good part of the last ten years.
P.S. There are term limits on POTUS. Unless Mitch McConnell manages to repeal amendment XXII to the US constitution orangutang-human hybrid* face will not be re-elected in 2028.
*If Trump can call women 'horse-face' it only seems fair that the rest of us can call him that, or 'orangutang face' for short.
This is standard FUD. Of course you can do twisted calculations where you penalize battery production for the fact that existing electricity and transportation systems burn coal and hydrocarbons and claim that we can't build new electric transportation infrastructure because it requires energy. But their option of sticking with hydrocarbons is a long term disaster, both because of CO2 and because it keeps getting more expensive and energy intensive to extract hydrocarbons. If you also penalize hydrocarbon burning for the waste and pollution produced by oil extraction, batteries still end up ahead in the current US or European economies (on emissions, not yet on cost). If we as a global society plan to shift to sustainable CO2 emissions, we have to switch to driving less, and using renewable electricity for the driving we do.
They have a point. You can either make your batteries in China, in a factory powered by coal plants and then transport them clear across the world in a diesel powered mega-freighter spewing carbon into the atmosphere and achieve no significant carbon savings. Alternatively you can make your batteries in Bulgaria, were the wages are low and skilled workers are available, in a factory with it's own wind/solar park + grid storage and move the batteries to market on electric trains in which case your average electric car has a carbon footprint of 40% or less that of a gas powered car. A similar case for the US would involve making the batteries in Mexico, or better yet some economically depressed low-wage are in the US. Other than that same recipe. I don't see how this article is FUD, it is worthwhile to remind the public that it matters how your electric car is made and where the batteries come from. The article even points out that just switching production facilities to renewables (which the Germans are doing) instantly slashes emissions by 65 percent, cutting out the transport from China also slashes a significant amount of carbon emissions. The way to solve this is basically to charge exorbitant import duties and make the amount of import duties you pay directly dependent on the carbon footprint such that a near zero carbon footprint equals near zero tariffs.
Try local pollution and continuous habitat loss. When you destroy habitat (especially continuous habitat) you lose. Much more of a threat than climate change.
Eeeeh.... no. Many species of animals and plants are highly temperature sensitive and forests in particular don’t just up roots and migrate north when the global temperature goes up by 2-4 degrees on average.
is out. What then are we going to eat when we run out of food?
Oh, I know. Soylent Green.
An old cliche but a true one:
Only when the last tree has been cut down
When the last river been poisoned,
When the last fish been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Except UBI and Trump are pretty much mortal enemies. Silly argument.
Well, it's a bit late to debate Tacitus on the validity of his argument. As for UBI it's pretty much a case of: WOOSH!... on your part. If you can choose between pacifying the downtrodden and neglected citizenry with UBI or have then come for you with Glocks, AR-15s and IEDs then UBI starts to look pretty good much like investing in bread and games did 2000 years ago. Civil unrest, or god forbid civil war and revolution, tend not to be conducive to profitable capitalist activities (excepting weapons manufacturing, private security and private incarcerations service industries but they don't make for much of an economy). I will agree with you on one point. While the rest of the plutocrats will probably realise the value of UBI as a relatively cheap way of pacifying the masses, Donald Trump is far too much of an idiot to ever reach that conclusion.
tool for enslavement: using emotionally loaded language.
Quoting Tacitus, actually... in a slightly round about way. Mind you Tacitus was speaking about 'civilisation' as the tool of enslavement
"He...gave private encouragement and official assistance to the building of temples, public squares and good houses...and so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as 'civilisation,' when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement."
If you had asked him about the Roman elite's practice of pacifying the vast masses of Rome's unemployed with 'bread and games' (in a modern context: universal income, reality TV, Trump rallies and Fox News) he probably would have had similar things to say except he would probably have also pointed out, with a considerable degree of satisfaction, that the Roman mob sold itself more cheaply than the Britons did.
>The US government is going to bury this at all costs
The US government would love a culture of suspicion of foreign built hardware to develop.
That's one plausible source of the story.
Too bad for the Trump admin then that there is already a culture of severe suspicion of domestically made US hardware after the NSA bugging revelations. Now that it seems everybody is spiking computer hardware with spy chips I suppose we can always follow the example of the Russians and their intelligence services, they keep all their most sensitive data on paper and replicate it only with typewriters.
Does anybody think the Chinese government deserves the benefit of the doubt?
Does Bloomberg?
Yes. Bloomberg is a center-right media outlet, and almost all of their profitable business is related to selling financial information to professionals. They make an industry-leading software product called Bloomberg Terminal that they use to disseminate this information.
I wouldn't trust them on political reporting, because they tend to give the perspective of a center-right business executive. But on general news that doesn't relate to their industry, they are nothing if not mainstream. They don't go for bombastic tabloid nonsense, it would tarnish their brand. Getting page views isn't the purpose of their public news service; enhancing their brand is the purpose.
Therefore, I would give Bloomberg the benefit of the doubt that they believe this information to be true, and to be of great import to purchasing and IT managers, in addition to investors and financial services providers. This is big enough that the insurance community is probably taking a lot of interest, too. They would never intentionally publish a false report that purported to be of great interest to the industries where they make their bread-and-butter; it would be all downside for them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/comp...
Don't worry about the PR there, just look at the bottom of the page under "Products" and "Industry Products" and you can understand why they are a trusted source on this; they'd lose a lot by being wrong. And they have a lot to lose.
...that and Michael Bloomberg is no Trumpkin so Bloomberg media is extremely unlikely to be helping Trump and his gang of lunatics in their ongoing effort to start a war with China, be it of the shooting or the trade variety. Now Fox News & the Murdoch media behemoth, Sinclair Broadcast Group and the rest of that ilk on he other hand will lie for Trump no matter what he does. What interests me is how these chips are supposed to have worked and how they could siphon off gigabytes of data and ship it to China, presumably over network connections and through firewalls, without anybody noticing.
Which tells you everything you need to know about how specious and capricious the valuation model is for the art market.
Capricious yes, specious not entirely. Art is about things like communicating ideas and finding new ways to express them. I can't see much that is newer art than doubling the value of a work by shredding it in public. It says so much about the arbitrary way that people value things. There can have been no greater shock than having just bought a new work and watching it apparently disappear before you. Being so rich you can own and take away something that was originally given to the public by being put out as graffiti and yet not being able to own it because the artist (maybe? - he seems to have been at least tipped off) manages to control and change the presentation of his own work.
IMHO being able to arrange something like this shows that Banksy actually is worth the money.
You have really overdosed on the art world cool-aid haven't you? IMHO this is right up there with Marcel Duchamp's urinal which is still inspiring art-philosophical musings like: What is a work of art? Who gets to decide, the artist or the critic? Can a work derive from an idea alone, or does it require the hand of a maker? How was the work conceived? What did the artist intend?... ITS A F*CKING URINAL!! If there is such a thing as a great beyond Marcel Duchamp is there laughing his ass off at such musings over a F*CKING URINAL and I bet Banksy is laughing too at the idiocy of people who'll bay $2.6 million for a shredded painting somebody else paid $1.3 million for because now,.... it is shredded!.
The level of risk they're willing to accept should be up to the hardware's owner. At the most, there should be a warning about using unauthorized parts, not a totally unusable device.
The manufacturer of a device should strive to make it as secure as possible to safeguard the users sensitive and valuable data. All security mechanism should at least be opt-out and in many canses they sououd be mandatory. Nobody wants to log onto their internet bank one day and find is has been raided because of lax security in your laptop's operating system and/or hardware.
This is a fight one simply cannot win. You are inundated with angry tirades from outraged people if you implement proper security and you are inundated with angry tirades form outraged people if you do not implement proper security so you might as well implement proper security protocols since at least that cuts down on litigation and compensations you have to pay over damages to customers caused by lax security. Other than that, whatever you do, you are going to get yelled at by angry people so pick the option that costs you less money.
Is it? It certainly confronts whoever is supposed to decide how to define the term 'moon' with some very interesting questions. As far as I could discover in a 60 second web search, a moon is simply defined to be a celestial body that makes an orbit around a planet including dwarf planets, and minor planets. There are no size restrictions. It does undeniably seem a bit odd that this thing, which is something like 4 times bigger than earth, qualifies as a mere 'moon'.
How do these compare to nuclear? Everyone keeps talking about fossil fuels and green renewables, but I have to hunt around for mention of nuclear. What gives?
Fukushima, Chernobyl, Mayak, Three Mile Island, Lucens, Sellafield, Ibaraki, Jaslovské Bohunice, Idaho Falls all INES level 4 or higher. You can argue in favour of nuclear till you are blue in the face but, fair or not, given the long history of nuclear safety issues the public is about as interested in living within 500 kilometres of a nuclear plant as it is in eating as vanilla ice cream with ketchup and onions.
No, not the 20 dollar bill, the 100 dollar bill is the most counterfeited denomination of U.S. currency and thus the most fitting one to feature Trump's face.
Kind of, but it’s more like the definition of what is conservative and right wing has shifted so far to the right into fringe lunatic country that what counted as stuffy, conservative and right of center in the Reagan era has now become the center left. I think John Boehner kind of summed it up: There is no Republican Party, there is only a Trump Party, the Republican Party is off taking a nap somewhere”. I would add that the Trump Party is a lunatic convention, it sure as hell is not kind of generally rational conservative party I grew up with.
Was $1 billion a couple years ago. Could also be that Apple doesn't care switching to Bing. This huge $9b amount is not only to have users go through Google, it's also to prevent the same users from going through Bing.
I will cry dry tears over Bing (or any other search engine) gaining market share and Google getting some competition, Google is in urgent need of some serious competition.
Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS
That sounds fair, Google is a stinking rich tax cheating monopolist and 'google.com' is 10 characters the developer setting the default search engine needs to type so at one billion per keystone Google is getting one keystroke for free. Furthermore, Im sure that in the best traditions of capitalism Apple will not pay a dime of taxes on those 9 billion any more than Google did when it monopolised them out of the internet using public.
No his intuition is thinking of all those rail lines you see which are mostly electric. You really need to go bush or down to some nastier parts of the country to find non-electrified railways. Over 50% of the rail network in Germany is electrified. MOST of the goods are moved over exclusively electric tracks. Pretty much all people are. This is really a case of edge cases. Some whole coutnries will refuse transit to non-electric trains, and the biggest ports in the EU are all electric as well.
The German green hype machine is — typical of German propaganda — highly effective.
As it should be. Hype should be quite easy when you generate a fraction of the emissions as the USA, have the second largest wind power system in the world, and the largest solar installation while investing heavily in green power.
France sitting on a tower of nukes doesn't change the Germany's achievements.
... and better yet, production of hydrogen via electrolysis is becoming cost competitive so there should be an excellent business case for these trains given that in the absence of grid storage there is often a glut of quite cheap wind and solar generated electricity which Germany has a lot of. Come to think of it, since the efficiency of PEM electrolysis, for example, is currently coming up on 80%, it will reach ~85% within a decade and is predicted to rise above 90% over the next couple of decades so hydrogen is actually a form of highly efficient grid energy storage. The more and imaginative uses we find for the stuff the better.
Yes....but California is going to save the world with laws.
Meanwhile, because they always do the opposite of what liberals do, the rulers of Magaland are going to save your personal finances by encoding in law you the FREEDUMB!! to set your internet bank password to 'password". USA!!! USA!! USA!!!
Facebook isn't doing business with the EU. European companies are doing business with Facebook (buying ads etc). They can continue doing that even if the actual transactions happen in the US, right?
Even if that is true, In the end the money to pay for those transactions comes form Europe. Since Facebook like any good corporation cheats on its taxes and considers itself entitled to do so, the EU can easily give them a hard time over that. The EU can also make their life hell in other ways until Facebook comes to heel. When you are a market of 500 million people you can do that because no matter how you turn it, Facebook is not going to piss of the people in charge of a market that size nor are Facebook Google, Apple or anybody else going to abandon a market area that size, with that many consumers of US services and medium to high end US made products to go back to the US, put on a MAGA hat and and sulk.
Very rosy colored glasses. what you need to see Trump as a stable genius, friend of the common man, master negotiator, keen political mind and greatest American of all time. I think I made it quite clear that I consider him a bumbling idiot, and that's me putting it kindly.
let me hope our president will change course, though I have no doubt that some folks will hope that he doubles down.
The US had plenty of clout, backed by a network of friends and allies that was unique in human history, and potentially still is mostly salvageable. That network of allies has always been the USA's strength because everybody knew that whatever the Americans got up to they'd always be better of with those occasionally crazy Yanks than the Soviets/Russians or the Chinese. The US' position would still be unassailable if Trump wasn't busy throwing away that clout and methodically disassembling the network of friends and allies. There is a whole slew of Asian countries now cozying up to China but not necessarily because they want to. With the Trump administration adopting a policy of insulting everybody and isolating the US, they have no choice but to cozy up to China. Most of them would much prefer the US, it usually offer a better deal and, (key point here) the USA is a distant hegemon, far across the ocean. You can't drive American tanks to Asia from the continental US and amphibious operations are very expensive and hard to do right. You can, however, easily drive Chinese tanks from bases in China to most of these Asian countries and they are only too keenly aware of it. Most of them have watched China claim the south China sea to the extent that you can stand on a beach at the water's edge in some of the countries in the region and send a golden arc of piss into what China regards as its sacred territorial waters.
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I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
I've read reports from ex-patriots of Sweden, Finland, Denmark and they call it "hell" because these countries cannot tolerate individualism. For example you buy yourself a BMW or Mercedes, your car will be keyed by your neighbors, to remind you "You are no better than we." If you try to express a contrary opinion, you get ostracized and home vandalized. Possibly arrested.
They are very oppressive societies.
That is a steaming load of horse shit, noting more, nothing less, just a big steaming pile of horse shit.
Also with the State of California (The Top State Economy in the US) carrying most of the country.
Is that what progressives tell themselves these days? Man, someone should add more robust programming to those NPCs, they're pretty repetitive.
Welcome to the Trump Economy. It's why Trump will be re-elected in 2024 and 2028. (2020 is a given.) You ready for the Red Tide in November?
Why wouldn't they? Seeing as how it's true. The Red states are mostly subsidised by the Blue ones (and Texas). Plus the country that sat at the top of the competitiveness scale over the las ten years was Switzerland so for the US to make it to the top once a decade is not really any kind of an achievement. Also, just to add insult to injury Socialist Sweden and Socialist Finland have been higher than the US on that competitiveness list for a good part of the last ten years.
P.S. There are term limits on POTUS. Unless Mitch McConnell manages to repeal amendment XXII to the US constitution orangutang-human hybrid* face will not be re-elected in 2028.
*If Trump can call women 'horse-face' it only seems fair that the rest of us can call him that, or 'orangutang face' for short.
Indeed... 779 billion dollars deficit for the first year of the Trump administration.
That's between tax breaks for the rich and spending even more on "defense".
Guess who's going to have to pay that back? I'll bet it won't be Trump's rich friends.
Well, that isn't surprising since 'world's most competitive' economy has become a synonym for 'best at letting the rich screw the citizenry'.
This is standard FUD. Of course you can do twisted calculations where you penalize battery production for the fact that existing electricity and transportation systems burn coal and hydrocarbons and claim that we can't build new electric transportation infrastructure because it requires energy. But their option of sticking with hydrocarbons is a long term disaster, both because of CO2 and because it keeps getting more expensive and energy intensive to extract hydrocarbons. If you also penalize hydrocarbon burning for the waste and pollution produced by oil extraction, batteries still end up ahead in the current US or European economies (on emissions, not yet on cost). If we as a global society plan to shift to sustainable CO2 emissions, we have to switch to driving less, and using renewable electricity for the driving we do.
They have a point. You can either make your batteries in China, in a factory powered by coal plants and then transport them clear across the world in a diesel powered mega-freighter spewing carbon into the atmosphere and achieve no significant carbon savings. Alternatively you can make your batteries in Bulgaria, were the wages are low and skilled workers are available, in a factory with it's own wind/solar park + grid storage and move the batteries to market on electric trains in which case your average electric car has a carbon footprint of 40% or less that of a gas powered car. A similar case for the US would involve making the batteries in Mexico, or better yet some economically depressed low-wage are in the US. Other than that same recipe. I don't see how this article is FUD, it is worthwhile to remind the public that it matters how your electric car is made and where the batteries come from. The article even points out that just switching production facilities to renewables (which the Germans are doing) instantly slashes emissions by 65 percent, cutting out the transport from China also slashes a significant amount of carbon emissions. The way to solve this is basically to charge exorbitant import duties and make the amount of import duties you pay directly dependent on the carbon footprint such that a near zero carbon footprint equals near zero tariffs.
Try local pollution and continuous habitat loss. When you destroy habitat (especially continuous habitat) you lose. Much more of a threat than climate change.
Eeeeh.... no. Many species of animals and plants are highly temperature sensitive and forests in particular don’t just up roots and migrate north when the global temperature goes up by 2-4 degrees on average.
is out. What then are we going to eat when we run out of food? Oh, I know. Soylent Green.
An old cliche but a true one:
Only when the last tree has been cut down
When the last river been poisoned,
When the last fish been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
Except UBI and Trump are pretty much mortal enemies. Silly argument.
Well, it's a bit late to debate Tacitus on the validity of his argument. As for UBI it's pretty much a case of: WOOSH! ... on your part. If you can choose between pacifying the downtrodden and neglected citizenry with UBI or have then come for you with Glocks, AR-15s and IEDs then UBI starts to look pretty good much like investing in bread and games did 2000 years ago. Civil unrest, or god forbid civil war and revolution, tend not to be conducive to profitable capitalist activities (excepting weapons manufacturing, private security and private incarcerations service industries but they don't make for much of an economy). I will agree with you on one point. While the rest of the plutocrats will probably realise the value of UBI as a relatively cheap way of pacifying the masses, Donald Trump is far too much of an idiot to ever reach that conclusion.
tool for enslavement: using emotionally loaded language.
Quoting Tacitus, actually ... in a slightly round about way. Mind you Tacitus was speaking about 'civilisation' as the tool of enslavement
"He...gave private encouragement and official assistance to the building of temples, public squares and good houses...and so the population was gradually led into the demoralising temptations of arcades, baths and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as 'civilisation,' when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement."
If you had asked him about the Roman elite's practice of pacifying the vast masses of Rome's unemployed with 'bread and games' (in a modern context: universal income, reality TV, Trump rallies and Fox News) he probably would have had similar things to say except he would probably have also pointed out, with a considerable degree of satisfaction, that the Roman mob sold itself more cheaply than the Britons did.
>The US government is going to bury this at all costs
The US government would love a culture of suspicion of foreign built hardware to develop.
That's one plausible source of the story.
Too bad for the Trump admin then that there is already a culture of severe suspicion of domestically made US hardware after the NSA bugging revelations. Now that it seems everybody is spiking computer hardware with spy chips I suppose we can always follow the example of the Russians and their intelligence services, they keep all their most sensitive data on paper and replicate it only with typewriters.
Where is the evidence? They keep saying they have it. Why don't they show it?
Is somebody stopping you from buying one of their products: https://www.supermicro.com/pro... ...and looking for these backdoors yourself?
Does anybody think the Chinese government deserves the benefit of the doubt?
Does Bloomberg?
Yes. Bloomberg is a center-right media outlet, and almost all of their profitable business is related to selling financial information to professionals. They make an industry-leading software product called Bloomberg Terminal that they use to disseminate this information.
I wouldn't trust them on political reporting, because they tend to give the perspective of a center-right business executive. But on general news that doesn't relate to their industry, they are nothing if not mainstream. They don't go for bombastic tabloid nonsense, it would tarnish their brand. Getting page views isn't the purpose of their public news service; enhancing their brand is the purpose.
Therefore, I would give Bloomberg the benefit of the doubt that they believe this information to be true, and to be of great import to purchasing and IT managers, in addition to investors and financial services providers. This is big enough that the insurance community is probably taking a lot of interest, too. They would never intentionally publish a false report that purported to be of great interest to the industries where they make their bread-and-butter; it would be all downside for them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/comp... Don't worry about the PR there, just look at the bottom of the page under "Products" and "Industry Products" and you can understand why they are a trusted source on this; they'd lose a lot by being wrong. And they have a lot to lose.
...that and Michael Bloomberg is no Trumpkin so Bloomberg media is extremely unlikely to be helping Trump and his gang of lunatics in their ongoing effort to start a war with China, be it of the shooting or the trade variety. Now Fox News & the Murdoch media behemoth, Sinclair Broadcast Group and the rest of that ilk on he other hand will lie for Trump no matter what he does. What interests me is how these chips are supposed to have worked and how they could siphon off gigabytes of data and ship it to China, presumably over network connections and through firewalls, without anybody noticing.
Which tells you everything you need to know about how specious and capricious the valuation model is for the art market.
Capricious yes, specious not entirely. Art is about things like communicating ideas and finding new ways to express them. I can't see much that is newer art than doubling the value of a work by shredding it in public. It says so much about the arbitrary way that people value things. There can have been no greater shock than having just bought a new work and watching it apparently disappear before you. Being so rich you can own and take away something that was originally given to the public by being put out as graffiti and yet not being able to own it because the artist (maybe? - he seems to have been at least tipped off) manages to control and change the presentation of his own work.
IMHO being able to arrange something like this shows that Banksy actually is worth the money.
You have really overdosed on the art world cool-aid haven't you? IMHO this is right up there with Marcel Duchamp's urinal which is still inspiring art-philosophical musings like: What is a work of art? Who gets to decide, the artist or the critic? Can a work derive from an idea alone, or does it require the hand of a maker? How was the work conceived? What did the artist intend? ... ITS A F*CKING URINAL!! If there is such a thing as a great beyond Marcel Duchamp is there laughing his ass off at such musings over a F*CKING URINAL and I bet Banksy is laughing too at the idiocy of people who'll bay $2.6 million for a shredded painting somebody else paid $1.3 million for because now, .... it is shredded!.
The level of risk they're willing to accept should be up to the hardware's owner. At the most, there should be a warning about using unauthorized parts, not a totally unusable device.
The manufacturer of a device should strive to make it as secure as possible to safeguard the users sensitive and valuable data. All security mechanism should at least be opt-out and in many canses they sououd be mandatory. Nobody wants to log onto their internet bank one day and find is has been raided because of lax security in your laptop's operating system and/or hardware.
This is a fight one simply cannot win. You are inundated with angry tirades from outraged people if you implement proper security and you are inundated with angry tirades form outraged people if you do not implement proper security so you might as well implement proper security protocols since at least that cuts down on litigation and compensations you have to pay over damages to customers caused by lax security. Other than that, whatever you do, you are going to get yelled at by angry people so pick the option that costs you less money.
That's no Moon....
Is it? It certainly confronts whoever is supposed to decide how to define the term 'moon' with some very interesting questions. As far as I could discover in a 60 second web search, a moon is simply defined to be a celestial body that makes an orbit around a planet including dwarf planets, and minor planets. There are no size restrictions. It does undeniably seem a bit odd that this thing, which is something like 4 times bigger than earth, qualifies as a mere 'moon'.
How do these compare to nuclear? Everyone keeps talking about fossil fuels and green renewables, but I have to hunt around for mention of nuclear. What gives?
Fukushima, Chernobyl, Mayak, Three Mile Island, Lucens, Sellafield, Ibaraki, Jaslovské Bohunice, Idaho Falls all INES level 4 or higher. You can argue in favour of nuclear till you are blue in the face but, fair or not, given the long history of nuclear safety issues the public is about as interested in living within 500 kilometres of a nuclear plant as it is in eating as vanilla ice cream with ketchup and onions.
so that boils down to "50% of people earns more than average"?
No, they just lowered the definition of ‘middle class’.
Can't wait until he's on the 20 dollar bill.
No, not the 20 dollar bill, the 100 dollar bill is the most counterfeited denomination of U.S. currency and thus the most fitting one to feature Trump's face.
or is this man truly evil?
Kind of, but it’s more like the definition of what is conservative and right wing has shifted so far to the right into fringe lunatic country that what counted as stuffy, conservative and right of center in the Reagan era has now become the center left. I think John Boehner kind of summed it up: There is no Republican Party, there is only a Trump Party, the Republican Party is off taking a nap somewhere”. I would add that the Trump Party is a lunatic convention, it sure as hell is not kind of generally rational conservative party I grew up with.
Was $1 billion a couple years ago. Could also be that Apple doesn't care switching to Bing. This huge $9b amount is not only to have users go through Google, it's also to prevent the same users from going through Bing.
I will cry dry tears over Bing (or any other search engine) gaining market share and Google getting some competition, Google is in urgent need of some serious competition.
Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS
That sounds fair, Google is a stinking rich tax cheating monopolist and 'google.com' is 10 characters the developer setting the default search engine needs to type so at one billion per keystone Google is getting one keystroke for free. Furthermore, Im sure that in the best traditions of capitalism Apple will not pay a dime of taxes on those 9 billion any more than Google did when it monopolised them out of the internet using public.
No his intuition is thinking of all those rail lines you see which are mostly electric. You really need to go bush or down to some nastier parts of the country to find non-electrified railways. Over 50% of the rail network in Germany is electrified. MOST of the goods are moved over exclusively electric tracks. Pretty much all people are. This is really a case of edge cases. Some whole coutnries will refuse transit to non-electric trains, and the biggest ports in the EU are all electric as well.
The German green hype machine is — typical of German propaganda — highly effective.
As it should be. Hype should be quite easy when you generate a fraction of the emissions as the USA, have the second largest wind power system in the world, and the largest solar installation while investing heavily in green power.
France sitting on a tower of nukes doesn't change the Germany's achievements.
... and better yet, production of hydrogen via electrolysis is becoming cost competitive so there should be an excellent business case for these trains given that in the absence of grid storage there is often a glut of quite cheap wind and solar generated electricity which Germany has a lot of. Come to think of it, since the efficiency of PEM electrolysis, for example, is currently coming up on 80%, it will reach ~85% within a decade and is predicted to rise above 90% over the next couple of decades so hydrogen is actually a form of highly efficient grid energy storage. The more and imaginative uses we find for the stuff the better.
Yes....but California is going to save the world with laws.
Meanwhile, because they always do the opposite of what liberals do, the rulers of Magaland are going to save your personal finances by encoding in law you the FREEDUMB!! to set your internet bank password to 'password". USA!!! USA!! USA!!!
Facebook isn't doing business with the EU. European companies are doing business with Facebook (buying ads etc). They can continue doing that even if the actual transactions happen in the US, right?
Even if that is true, In the end the money to pay for those transactions comes form Europe. Since Facebook like any good corporation cheats on its taxes and considers itself entitled to do so, the EU can easily give them a hard time over that. The EU can also make their life hell in other ways until Facebook comes to heel. When you are a market of 500 million people you can do that because no matter how you turn it, Facebook is not going to piss of the people in charge of a market that size nor are Facebook Google, Apple or anybody else going to abandon a market area that size, with that many consumers of US services and medium to high end US made products to go back to the US, put on a MAGA hat and and sulk.
You have very rosy colored glasses.
Very rosy colored glasses. what you need to see Trump as a stable genius, friend of the common man, master negotiator, keen political mind and greatest American of all time. I think I made it quite clear that I consider him a bumbling idiot, and that's me putting it kindly.
"That premise no longer exists today, so our promise cannot be fulfilled."
I have a hunch that the USA no longer has that clout it once had. Countries are now openly willing to defy the USA.
Some countries are already trying to kill the dollar
let me hope our president will change course, though I have no doubt that some folks will hope that he doubles down.
The US had plenty of clout, backed by a network of friends and allies that was unique in human history, and potentially still is mostly salvageable. That network of allies has always been the USA's strength because everybody knew that whatever the Americans got up to they'd always be better of with those occasionally crazy Yanks than the Soviets/Russians or the Chinese. The US' position would still be unassailable if Trump wasn't busy throwing away that clout and methodically disassembling the network of friends and allies. There is a whole slew of Asian countries now cozying up to China but not necessarily because they want to. With the Trump administration adopting a policy of insulting everybody and isolating the US, they have no choice but to cozy up to China. Most of them would much prefer the US, it usually offer a better deal and, (key point here) the USA is a distant hegemon, far across the ocean. You can't drive American tanks to Asia from the continental US and amphibious operations are very expensive and hard to do right. You can, however, easily drive Chinese tanks from bases in China to most of these Asian countries and they are only too keenly aware of it. Most of them have watched China claim the south China sea to the extent that you can stand on a beach at the water's edge in some of the countries in the region and send a golden arc of piss into what China regards as its sacred territorial waters.