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>US and European regulators have mandated all aircraft carry this equipment as of next year.
Surely with the exception of all military planes, a bunch of CIA-owned planes and a bunch of private planes owned by the dark state puppet masters.
Most of these military birds carry some sort of gear like this although the Russian recon birds sometimes turn it off and fly through the commercial air lanes just to ruin your day and royally piss everybody off. If you are worried about the 'gubbermint' and their grey alien overlords tracking you, you can try wrapping your plane in aluminium foil:-)
That is an even better thing. They used the gains from their country for the good of the people, instead of for a few individuales that own shares in the company.
Can you imagine that instead of the oil barons in Texas, they would have put that money into use for the people, to be used by the people? Or instead of the coalmine owners, used that money to re-educate the people now their jobs became useless.
Well they whatever the Noggies put their Oil dollars into it wasn't the road network. Norway's road network sucks ass considering the amount of oil dollars they have and road tolls they collect. My advice to anybody driving anywhere in Norway North of Trondheim is to drive as close to your destination as you can inside Sweden and then pop over the border into Norway as needed. The Swedish roads are better, the max speed is between 30-50 kph higher, the average speed is between 40 and 60 kph higher and there are hardly any road tolls. The interesting thing is that if you plot a route from Lofoten to Oslo all of the alternative routes are through Sweden. The longest Swedish route is 23 hours of driving, as opposed to 21 hours if you go through Norway despite the Swedish route being over 200 km longer and taking you all the way to the Baltic coast. Realistically, because the Swedes allow you to drive at 100-120 kph, you can overtake slow moving trucks on Swedish roads which you often can't in Norway due to the roads being single lane and you are not constantly on pins and needles about speed cameras and a draconian speeding fine, you'll probably be faster going through Sweden.
Yes, that and the fact that they can afford all of these huge expenditures in infrastructure and subsidies because they became rich through oil.
No, a number of other countries can afford these measures too without access to huge oil profits. The idea is to accelerate the adoption of an emerging and superior new technology. On the other side of the coin the US for example can afford to subsidise its oil industry, not sure why that is necessary since the US oil industry would be profitable without them but there you go. The US government is of the opinion that oil companies are in such dire need of subsidies because they were already making altogether too much profit without them.
Beating the pants off the Germans and the Japanese. So how do we reward it?
Even/. that is tolerant of pot and porn is hostile and call the CEO a pot smoking fraud. Well orchestrated campaign is on to oust the star CEO to hobble its ability to raise capital.
Structure the tax break to punish the ones that take early lead and risk. Tax break for Tesla and GM EVs are being phased out while the imports enjoy full benefit.
Well, Tesla is a left-wing libtart tree-hugger company. Good right thinking christian conservatives can't tolerate that now can they? So, they go for the only other alternative which is try to kill Tesla by any means possible and then equating the use of coal/oil/gas and producing massive CO2 emissions with patriotism. They send people to energy industry conventions to promote coal fed power plants and get laughed at.
Large EV sales in norway are due to subsidies to the tune of the equivalent of USD~10-30000 pr. car:
* Goods (including cars) normally carry a 25% VAT. BEVs are exempted. (Easily worth USD 10-20000)
* Non BEV cars additionally carry taxes calculated from emissions and weight. Additional taxes for cars tend to range from the USD equivalent of USD 2000 to many tens of thousands for large performance cars.
* There are a lot of toll roads in norway. Many car drivers can spend the equivalent of USD 3000 annually on tolls. BEVs are expempted from tolls. (This benefit will likely be reduced shortly, but a 50% saving has been assured)
* Many cities have free parking for BEVs (Also likely to be a reduced benefit going forward)
For usability: Most roads are limited to 80km/h and most drivers do not drive excessively long distances. 15000 km annually is the average.
The parts of norway where very long driving distances are common (Northern Norway) BEV penetration is very low.
Winter range of BEVs can drop a bit on the coldest days but norway is mostly temperate. Subzero temperatures usually only occur 30-60 days pr. year in most populated areaes. (Though it varies greatly, but so does BEV adoption)
Note that the high numbers of EV sales in march is significantly due to that Tesla delivered ~5000 cars in. Tesla tends to deliver cars towards the end of the quarter, and Q1 saw the first availability of model 3 which had a large pent up demand, so do not expect next month to repeat this number.
The Norwegian BEV exertion on road tolls has been ended and even with when a sales tax is levied on on BEV's you still no longer have to pay the carbon taxes you are saddled with when buying a fossil fuel powered car. I don't think that internal combustion powered cars will make a resurgence once the incentives are dropped. Only the current US government is betting its bottom dollar that the future of the car industry is to be found in 19th century vintage internal combustion engine technology.
Oh, a bit of digging says that they are almost entirely hydroelectric production, so this is an actual real reduction in fossil fuel dependance. Awesome!
Or 365 days early, (if I counted right, there’s a February 29th between now and the next April first).
Also, if this weren’t an April Moron-Day joke, I would have to weigh being bitten by mosquitos and risking contracting various mosquito-borne illnesses against having to listen to dubstep. Not sure which is worse.
Don't complain, it could have been 1940s German umpapa music.
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
Actually, if you think about it it's completely implausible. The flat earth society operates on a much higher intellectual plain than both Trump and the Republicans.
If someone's success depends on your success, chances are they're going to help you actually succeed.
Let's see how this works out.
Your (financial) success (as a business) depending on the success of your graduates is a principle that should be applied to all for-profit schools because currently their business model seems to be to trick students into life long debt slavery in return for a truly useless bargain basement education.
That's racist.
Somehow.
Oh yes of course. It's objectifying the female body. So there, racist.
A couple of points here: Racism is a form of prejudice based on an imaginary social construct known as race that has been thoroughly debunked by modern genetic science. It is practiced mostly by bitter and angry people exhibiting a distinct lack of social skills and an ability to show empathy. Predudice against obese people is based on the quantifiable physical property of mass, that and a whole lot of elitism, arrogance and the thoroughly shitty character of the person disparaging obese people. The two should not be confused.
A key part of a good april fools joke is having sufficient believability to make people pause and think WTF! This one looks like it was created by a pre-schooler... and one on the lower end of the IQ scale at that.
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
They should just put up their own cell tower and intercept all calls and triangulate the call and go get the phones.
Um... Wouldn't that need three towers?:-)
No, they know which antennas on the cell tower the call is being routed through and they can calculate the distance and direction, but I don't think that is precise enough. If it was they'd have done this already.
By all accounts the AirPods hold up reasonably well, it's just that after 18 months or so the battery is knackered and only lasts a couple of hours.
I agree with that, most of the battery powered headphones that I have bought used to have user replaceable batteries but now the fashion seems to be to make them batteries internal which is an annoying general trend in the headphone market. That being said I've not had any major problems with my battery powered Sennheiser over-ear phones yet that have an internal battery. You can get spares fairly easily from Sennheiser and once you figure out how to take them apart the battery is usually attached with a snap-on connector. On the one time I had Sennheiser earbuds it was a Bluetooth model and the cables insulation became frayed before the battery gave in.
I have a high quality set of noise cancelling corded headphones from Sennheiser that cost me $370. If you want good quality, expect to pay more than $5 at the thrift store. Nothing amuses me more than audiophiles who bought a $8.95 set of earbuds from Sony on Amazon and them posted outraged reviews about how they expected awesome audio quality and didn't get anything even close from a set of $8.95 earbuds. Thing is that (1) if you think you're going to get the same quality audio out of earbuds as on-ear or over-rear headphones think again, (2) you bought the cheapest model of the worst type of headphone (3) there are actually earbuds in the $150 range and there is a very distinct difference in the Audio quality between a set of Bose SoundTrue Ultra earbuds and Sony's $8.95 model.
That's why decided to research if there were any headphones (in-ear earbuds in my case) with replaceable cables. Turns out they do exist. There's the MMCX standard many use and there're other propietary ones.
I ended up buying a pair of MEE audio M6 and I'm happy so far. We'll see if the buds themselves last more than the cable and so the replaceablity is actually useful.
There are some Bluetooth Sennheiser and Bose headphones (and probably other brands) that come with a cord as an option. The corded Sennheisers also often have a replaceable cord which is one reason I buy them, I like the option of having different cords. However, smaller headphones and earbuds are generally a lost cause since they are designed to be single use (irrespective of manufacturer).
iFixit Teardown Reveals Apple's New AirPods Are 'Disappointingly Disposable'
I generally don't like to throw things away so I'll go out of my way to repair them but I don't think I've ever seen a set of earbuds that did not fit that description. Even the legendary 3,5mm jack equipped corded earbuds and headphones are a bitch to re-solder to a new jack when the cord gives in to metal fatigue because the copper wires are coated and very, very, very fine and delicate. In fact, apart from the big over-ear headphones from brands like Sennheiser for which you can **GHASP** actually get spare parts, headphones in general are somewhere between a nightmare and impossible to (economically) repair.
I agree in principle that we should not needlessly waste oil or produce trash. But an outright ban has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases. We have market-based regulations available that produce the desired outcome at a lower cost. Place a Pigouvian Tax on manufacturing these items. Bonus: you can marginally lower some other tax or decrease deficits.
I just want this plastic crap eliminated the mechanism why which that is achieved is immaterial if it works. Going the banning route just forces innovators to find better alternative solutions that are easier to dispose or recycle. I have every confidence in industry's ability to come up with new and better tech if they are forced to.
Can anyone tell me why these things aren't being mass produced with bamboo? There's so much we could make out of bamboo and it grows so readily in so many places, yet it's so underutilized.
Because the Trump administration and the Republican hawks in congress are afraid the bamboo may be spying for China?
And it's not from the coal we're burning in the US! Even with the coal we burn, we're DOWN, year over year.
Look at China and India though.
This is where the global rise is coming from.
Yes but in terms of raw tonnage of CO2 emissions it's the US and China that matter by far the most. The US and China emit more CO2 put together than the entire rest of the top 20 list of CO2 emitters put together including India: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/d...
If you consider the populations behind the slices on that pie chart the US emissions are simply staggering.
The EU just abandoned their 2050 climate goals because there was no chance of reaching it. And Germany has seen coal use slightly rise over the last 10 years - no chance of meeting their own 2020 and 2030 commitments.
The future isn't solar and wind (because it's not working); it's nuclear. That is the only way forward out of pollution and limited power.
Germany is set to phase out coal-fired power stations by 2038: https://www.ft.com/content/cfa... Both Nucear and Coal will be killed off by the free market for the simple reason that Nuclear and Coal are the two most expensive options available in terms of LCOE and the only remaining fossil full that can compete with terrestrial wind and solar in terms of cost-effectiveness is natural gas. Isn't the free market wonderful?
Coal contributes to one third of the increase mainly due to China and India
Yes, but per capita the US reigns as emperor along with Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia who all emit from 15-17 tons of CO2 per capita. Comparable figures for India and China are 1,58 tons and 6,59 tons of CO2 per capita. Some 327 million Americans produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as 800 million Chinese and 3,4 billion Indians (that's 2,5 times the current population of India).
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>US and European regulators have mandated all aircraft carry this equipment as of next year. Surely with the exception of all military planes, a bunch of CIA-owned planes and a bunch of private planes owned by the dark state puppet masters.
Most of these military birds carry some sort of gear like this although the Russian recon birds sometimes turn it off and fly through the commercial air lanes just to ruin your day and royally piss everybody off. If you are worried about the 'gubbermint' and their grey alien overlords tracking you, you can try wrapping your plane in aluminium foil :-)
That is an even better thing. They used the gains from their country for the good of the people, instead of for a few individuales that own shares in the company.
Can you imagine that instead of the oil barons in Texas, they would have put that money into use for the people, to be used by the people? Or instead of the coalmine owners, used that money to re-educate the people now their jobs became useless.
Well they whatever the Noggies put their Oil dollars into it wasn't the road network. Norway's road network sucks ass considering the amount of oil dollars they have and road tolls they collect. My advice to anybody driving anywhere in Norway North of Trondheim is to drive as close to your destination as you can inside Sweden and then pop over the border into Norway as needed. The Swedish roads are better, the max speed is between 30-50 kph higher, the average speed is between 40 and 60 kph higher and there are hardly any road tolls. The interesting thing is that if you plot a route from Lofoten to Oslo all of the alternative routes are through Sweden. The longest Swedish route is 23 hours of driving, as opposed to 21 hours if you go through Norway despite the Swedish route being over 200 km longer and taking you all the way to the Baltic coast. Realistically, because the Swedes allow you to drive at 100-120 kph, you can overtake slow moving trucks on Swedish roads which you often can't in Norway due to the roads being single lane and you are not constantly on pins and needles about speed cameras and a draconian speeding fine, you'll probably be faster going through Sweden.
Yes, that and the fact that they can afford all of these huge expenditures in infrastructure and subsidies because they became rich through oil.
No, a number of other countries can afford these measures too without access to huge oil profits. The idea is to accelerate the adoption of an emerging and superior new technology. On the other side of the coin the US for example can afford to subsidise its oil industry, not sure why that is necessary since the US oil industry would be profitable without them but there you go. The US government is of the opinion that oil companies are in such dire need of subsidies because they were already making altogether too much profit without them.
Beating the pants off the Germans and the Japanese. So how do we reward it?
Even /. that is tolerant of pot and porn is hostile and call the CEO a pot smoking fraud. Well orchestrated campaign is on to oust the star CEO to hobble its ability to raise capital.
Structure the tax break to punish the ones that take early lead and risk. Tax break for Tesla and GM EVs are being phased out while the imports enjoy full benefit.
Well, Tesla is a left-wing libtart tree-hugger company. Good right thinking christian conservatives can't tolerate that now can they? So, they go for the only other alternative which is try to kill Tesla by any means possible and then equating the use of coal/oil/gas and producing massive CO2 emissions with patriotism. They send people to energy industry conventions to promote coal fed power plants and get laughed at.
Large EV sales in norway are due to subsidies to the tune of the equivalent of USD~10-30000 pr. car:
* Goods (including cars) normally carry a 25% VAT. BEVs are exempted. (Easily worth USD 10-20000) * Non BEV cars additionally carry taxes calculated from emissions and weight. Additional taxes for cars tend to range from the USD equivalent of USD 2000 to many tens of thousands for large performance cars. * There are a lot of toll roads in norway. Many car drivers can spend the equivalent of USD 3000 annually on tolls. BEVs are expempted from tolls. (This benefit will likely be reduced shortly, but a 50% saving has been assured) * Many cities have free parking for BEVs (Also likely to be a reduced benefit going forward)
For usability: Most roads are limited to 80km/h and most drivers do not drive excessively long distances. 15000 km annually is the average. The parts of norway where very long driving distances are common (Northern Norway) BEV penetration is very low. Winter range of BEVs can drop a bit on the coldest days but norway is mostly temperate. Subzero temperatures usually only occur 30-60 days pr. year in most populated areaes. (Though it varies greatly, but so does BEV adoption)
Note that the high numbers of EV sales in march is significantly due to that Tesla delivered ~5000 cars in. Tesla tends to deliver cars towards the end of the quarter, and Q1 saw the first availability of model 3 which had a large pent up demand, so do not expect next month to repeat this number.
The Norwegian BEV exertion on road tolls has been ended and even with when a sales tax is levied on on BEV's you still no longer have to pay the carbon taxes you are saddled with when buying a fossil fuel powered car. I don't think that internal combustion powered cars will make a resurgence once the incentives are dropped. Only the current US government is betting its bottom dollar that the future of the car industry is to be found in 19th century vintage internal combustion engine technology.
Oh, a bit of digging says that they are almost entirely hydroelectric production, so this is an actual real reduction in fossil fuel dependance. Awesome!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But this is entirely offset by Norway being one of the biggest net contributors to CO2 emissions world wide through their oil exports.
Or 365 days early, (if I counted right, there’s a February 29th between now and the next April first).
Also, if this weren’t an April Moron-Day joke, I would have to weigh being bitten by mosquitos and risking contracting various mosquito-borne illnesses against having to listen to dubstep. Not sure which is worse.
Don't complain, it could have been 1940s German umpapa music.
Canada will soon be a livable country.
At which point they'll have to build a wall because the USA won't be sending their best people?
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
But if the headline had been Donald Trump Announces Membership in the Flat Earth Society it would have been too believable to be funny. A good April fools joke should be both funny and believable. It should definitively not be a sad reminder of the reality we live in.
Actually, if you think about it it's completely implausible. The flat earth society operates on a much higher intellectual plain than both Trump and the Republicans.
If someone's success depends on your success, chances are they're going to help you actually succeed.
Let's see how this works out.
Your (financial) success (as a business) depending on the success of your graduates is a principle that should be applied to all for-profit schools because currently their business model seems to be to trick students into life long debt slavery in return for a truly useless bargain basement education.
That's racist. Somehow. Oh yes of course. It's objectifying the female body. So there, racist.
A couple of points here: Racism is a form of prejudice based on an imaginary social construct known as race that has been thoroughly debunked by modern genetic science. It is practiced mostly by bitter and angry people exhibiting a distinct lack of social skills and an ability to show empathy. Predudice against obese people is based on the quantifiable physical property of mass, that and a whole lot of elitism, arrogance and the thoroughly shitty character of the person disparaging obese people. The two should not be confused.
A key part of a good april fools joke is having sufficient believability to make people pause and think WTF! This one looks like it was created by a pre-schooler... and one on the lower end of the IQ scale at that.
Quite, if the headline had been Republican Party Announces It's Merging With the Flat Earth Society I might have been tempted to believe it for a few seconds.
They should just put up their own cell tower and intercept all calls and triangulate the call and go get the phones.
Um... Wouldn't that need three towers? :-)
No, they know which antennas on the cell tower the call is being routed through and they can calculate the distance and direction, but I don't think that is precise enough. If it was they'd have done this already.
So..... Floridans have finally figured out that they can use the sun to run the air conditioning systems they use to escape the heat of the sun?
By all accounts the AirPods hold up reasonably well, it's just that after 18 months or so the battery is knackered and only lasts a couple of hours.
I agree with that, most of the battery powered headphones that I have bought used to have user replaceable batteries but now the fashion seems to be to make them batteries internal which is an annoying general trend in the headphone market. That being said I've not had any major problems with my battery powered Sennheiser over-ear phones yet that have an internal battery. You can get spares fairly easily from Sennheiser and once you figure out how to take them apart the battery is usually attached with a snap-on connector. On the one time I had Sennheiser earbuds it was a Bluetooth model and the cables insulation became frayed before the battery gave in.
Have you ever paid $150 for headphones?
I have a high quality set of noise cancelling corded headphones from Sennheiser that cost me $370. If you want good quality, expect to pay more than $5 at the thrift store. Nothing amuses me more than audiophiles who bought a $8.95 set of earbuds from Sony on Amazon and them posted outraged reviews about how they expected awesome audio quality and didn't get anything even close from a set of $8.95 earbuds. Thing is that (1) if you think you're going to get the same quality audio out of earbuds as on-ear or over-rear headphones think again, (2) you bought the cheapest model of the worst type of headphone (3) there are actually earbuds in the $150 range and there is a very distinct difference in the Audio quality between a set of Bose SoundTrue Ultra earbuds and Sony's $8.95 model.
That's why decided to research if there were any headphones (in-ear earbuds in my case) with replaceable cables. Turns out they do exist. There's the MMCX standard many use and there're other propietary ones. I ended up buying a pair of MEE audio M6 and I'm happy so far. We'll see if the buds themselves last more than the cable and so the replaceablity is actually useful.
There are some Bluetooth Sennheiser and Bose headphones (and probably other brands) that come with a cord as an option. The corded Sennheisers also often have a replaceable cord which is one reason I buy them, I like the option of having different cords. However, smaller headphones and earbuds are generally a lost cause since they are designed to be single use (irrespective of manufacturer).
iFixit Teardown Reveals Apple's New AirPods Are 'Disappointingly Disposable'
I generally don't like to throw things away so I'll go out of my way to repair them but I don't think I've ever seen a set of earbuds that did not fit that description. Even the legendary 3,5mm jack equipped corded earbuds and headphones are a bitch to re-solder to a new jack when the cord gives in to metal fatigue because the copper wires are coated and very, very, very fine and delicate. In fact, apart from the big over-ear headphones from brands like Sennheiser for which you can **GHASP** actually get spare parts, headphones in general are somewhere between a nightmare and impossible to (economically) repair.
I agree in principle that we should not needlessly waste oil or produce trash. But an outright ban has a habit of giving you unforeseen consequences in corner cases. We have market-based regulations available that produce the desired outcome at a lower cost. Place a Pigouvian Tax on manufacturing these items. Bonus: you can marginally lower some other tax or decrease deficits.
I just want this plastic crap eliminated the mechanism why which that is achieved is immaterial if it works. Going the banning route just forces innovators to find better alternative solutions that are easier to dispose or recycle. I have every confidence in industry's ability to come up with new and better tech if they are forced to.
Can anyone tell me why these things aren't being mass produced with bamboo? There's so much we could make out of bamboo and it grows so readily in so many places, yet it's so underutilized.
Because the Trump administration and the Republican hawks in congress are afraid the bamboo may be spying for China?
YEAH!
And it's not from the coal we're burning in the US! Even with the coal we burn, we're DOWN, year over year.
Look at China and India though.
This is where the global rise is coming from.
Yes but in terms of raw tonnage of CO2 emissions it's the US and China that matter by far the most. The US and China emit more CO2 put together than the entire rest of the top 20 list of CO2 emitters put together including India: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/d... If you consider the populations behind the slices on that pie chart the US emissions are simply staggering.
The EU just abandoned their 2050 climate goals because there was no chance of reaching it. And Germany has seen coal use slightly rise over the last 10 years - no chance of meeting their own 2020 and 2030 commitments.
The future isn't solar and wind (because it's not working); it's nuclear. That is the only way forward out of pollution and limited power.
Germany is set to phase out coal-fired power stations by 2038: https://www.ft.com/content/cfa... Both Nucear and Coal will be killed off by the free market for the simple reason that Nuclear and Coal are the two most expensive options available in terms of LCOE and the only remaining fossil full that can compete with terrestrial wind and solar in terms of cost-effectiveness is natural gas. Isn't the free market wonderful?
74% of the US coal plants threatened.
Coal contributes to one third of the increase mainly due to China and India
Yes, but per capita the US reigns as emperor along with Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia who all emit from 15-17 tons of CO2 per capita. Comparable figures for India and China are 1,58 tons and 6,59 tons of CO2 per capita. Some 327 million Americans produce the same amount of CO2 emissions as 800 million Chinese and 3,4 billion Indians (that's 2,5 times the current population of India).
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