Germany didn't commit to this plan, the article says it's a recommendation.
"BERLIN - Germany SHOULD stop using coal for electricity production by 2038, a government-appointed commission said Saturday, laying out an 80-billion euro roadmap to phase out the polluting fuel."
"Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier said the government would "carefully and constructively examine" the recommendations, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported in its Sunday edition."
For the first time in a decade, Corporate America is steering more money into stock buybacks than investing in the future.
The CEO class is lining their own pockets with tax cut profits. Their personal stock grants have multiplication factors leveraging stock price increases. They have raised their compensation by factors over 100%, perhaps as high as 500%.
I quoted the Comcast annual report numbers on capital expenditures. The CNN link you sent adds nothing to that.
I love it when a comment which directly addresses the topic is moderated as "off topic".
The topic is about a small reduction in capital expenditures in one Comcast business area. I provided the explanation as to why this was expected and reported on nearly a year ago.
BZZZZZZZT! OFF TOPIC!!!
My mistake, clearly Comcast made the business decision to cut 3% from almost 8 billion dollars "despite net neutrality repeal".
It doesn't matter what is written in the law, because again, the law doesn't apply in the USA. They don't have jurisdiction.
They can definitely regulate the business activities of companies doing business in the EU, and they can levy fines for non-compliance. Business activities do not require physical presence. Some companies have chosen compliance, other have chosen to stop doing business. It depends on the value of the business. I was involved with a project that chose compliance. It was a big undertaking.
Not sure about the case where a company outside the EU is not doing business in the EU but is handling data of EU citizens.
"The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but also applies to organisations located outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location."
"For the twelve months ended December 31, 2018, capital expenditures increased 2.3% to $9.8 billion compared to 2017. Cable Communications' capital expenditures decreased 3.0% to $7.7 billion, reflecting decreased spending on customer premise equipment and support capital, partially offset by higher investment in scalable infrastructure and line extensions. For the year, Cable capital expenditures represented 14.0% of Cable revenue compared to 15.0% in 2017. NBCUniversal's capital expenditures increased 15.2% to $1.7 billion in 2018, primarily reflecting investment at Theme Parks."
Ok so cable capex dropped 3% to 7.7 billion. There could be many reasons for the drop, like this article from March 2018 describes: https://www.fiercevideo.com/ca...
"“For 2018, spending on customer premise equipment is expected to continue to decline. With X1 now deployed to nearly 60% of our residential video base, the pace of our rollout has started to slow,” noted Comcast CFO Michael Cavanaugh during Comcast’s fourth-quarter earnings call in January. "
Nothing will draw more attention because the whole thing is ludicrous. Facebook is in the USA. Unless they open up brick and mortar stores there they don't "do business" in Russia. Their business is in the USA and foregneirs "travel" here. If Russians fly to Florida to go to Disneyworld they are doing business in the USA and if they connect through their ISPs to Facebook's servers in the USA they are, likewise, doing business in the USA.
You don't understand GDPR. The presence of brick and mortar stores is irrelevant. GDPR does not apply to Russia but they certainly could enact similar data privacy regulations.
If you hire a contractor who quotes you X, do you instead pay them 2X? Of course you don't. In fact, you get multiple bids and take the lowest one that you believe will product the best work.
There is nothing discriminatory in paying someone what they think they are worth.
The advice is the same for everyone: Negotiate for what you want, especially when getting hired. It could take years to get a title you could have had from day 1. Change jobs if you aren't getting what you want. Change jobs in any case. You get new challenges and usually a bigger increase than you would have gotten at the previous place.
I think this is more about age then sex- it's well known that your earning potential slides when you go past 50. Employers don't want to invest in older employees.
I'm well past 50 and I've never had an issue demanding the comp I want. If anything I've had a lot of practice doing it. If you aren't willing to take risks you will not get rewards.
From the article: "I just couldn’t believe it. I was angry,” Marilyn Clark, one of the Oracle plaintiffs, told the Guardian. The complaint alleged that she discovered the wage gap when she saw a pay stub a male colleague had left in a common area. “I felt like I had been punched in the gut.” Clark, 66, who has since retired from Oracle, said it was particularly painful because she had even trained the male employee, who was making roughly $20,000 more than she was, amounting to a 22% higher salary. Clark, 66, who has since retired from Oracle, said it was particularly painful because she had even trained the male employee, who was making roughly $20,000 more than she was, amounting to a 22% higher salary."
The reality is this is her own fault. This is not a union job with fixed pay scales. People make more because they ask for more and create a perception of value.
From my experience, when taking a new job: Women undervalue themselves and they ask for the comp they think they deserve or is the most the employer is willing to pay Men ask for what they want, not what they think they deserve, and don't care about the employers problems
When annual comp happens, raises and bonuses can very often be crappy Women will be unhappy but will not change jobs to get what they want. Men change jobs aggressively.
In fact, from a management standpoint knowing you will eat shit and not change jobs just provides evidence they are paying you appropriately.
Where is that cited? I didn't go into extreme detail, but I didn't see anything like that when reading the study. I didn't even see a list of "real news"
From the article: "Researchers then checked links posted to their timelines against a list of web domains that have historically shared fake news, as compiled by BuzzFeed reporter Craig Silverman."
There was an embedded link to a google doc spreadsheet with the list of "fake" and "real" news, along with share counts. https://docs.google.com/spread...
Who knew "Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton" qualified as "Real news", worthy of being shared shared 623,000 by the intellectual elites too smart to fall for "fake news"
The point is that they don't general publish outright fabrications. Yes, yes, I'm sure you can find something that turned out to be untrue, those Chinese spy chips come to mind, but for the most part they are not trying to lie to you. Even if you disagree with their opinion pieces.
Your ability to copy/paste is admirable, but you might want to work on the formatting.
By definition "Opinion pieces" are opinion, not news. Agreeing with an opinion neither makes it "real" or "news". Unfortunately news organizations have forgotten this distinction.
This study is fake news in that the list of "real news"cited is almost entirely opinion pieces from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post.
Story Publication Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one? Washington Post Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton Huffington Post Melania Trump’s girl-on-girl photos from racy shoot revealed New York Post I Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton. New York times Ford fact checks Trump: We will be here forever CNN ‘Pantsuit Power’ flashmob video for Hillary Clinton: Two women, 170 dancers and no police Washington Post The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins Wall Street Journal More Than 160 Republican Leaders Don’t Support Donald Trump. Here’s When They Reached Their Breaking Point New York Times New Kasich ad: If Trump becomes president, ‘you better hope there’s someone left to help you’ Washington Post The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign Vox He fought in World War II. He died in 2014. And he just registered to vote in Va Washington Post Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected Huffington Post Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President New York times Hillary Clinton for President New York times Max Lucado: My prediction for November 9 FOX News Donald and Billy on the Bus New York times Trump campaign manager: There'd be no rape if women were stronger New Yor Daily News A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump New York Times Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out New York Times FBI Completes Review of Newly Revealed Hillary Clinton Emails, Finds No Evidence of Criminality NBC News
This is dire news. America went up 3.4%. Not good.
"Not good" is real news. "Dire" is fake news. The report makes no such claim. It even says they don't expect it to repeat in 2019.
I thought the description of where the increases came from was interesting. Big increases in jet and diesel fuel, some increase in gas powered electricity generation.
The report itself is a good detailed estimate of emissions from various sectors along with analysis and projections. Last year's estimate was pretty accurate so this probably is as well. But nowhere do they use the words "Dire news". That's the spin from Ars Technica.
The Internet is global, and any platform built on it is going to reach millions, if not billions, of people. If we pass laws that require companies to police their users, we will simply lose the platforms. Whatever happened to personal responsibility and liability? Why aren't the harassers arrested and charged? Why is Grindr the villain in this suit?
(I know there are people here who would love to see the more popular platforms disappear, but that's just petty jealousy and elitism talking.)
Grindr as a service provider could have designed a system that required identity verification of users before they are allowed to use the service. Some users may balk at this requirement, but that's irrelevant.
About ten years ago I bought a Prada-labelled shoulder bag in Vietnam for $10 from a street vendor. When I got it back to NY I asked around and it sold for around $400. Not only is it indistinguishable from the real thing, it IS the real thing. It's what I call a "real fake." As described above, the factory gets an order for 5000 of these bags, makes 6000 and sells 1000 out the back door. There is no difference between those 1000 and the other 5000. Did this happen in China with iPhones? Has Apple complained about it? Because they would surely know.
I read a book some years ago on the many pitfalls of doing business in China. Issues raised included:
- Selling unauthorized overproduction runs as you described - Making unauthorized changes to the product design or materials to make manufacturing cheaper. There were multiple cases cited where the product changes produced unsafe or defective products that cost the product owners dearly - Duplicating the product under another label and competing with the original
The Chinese government has little incentive to crack down on such practices.
The press report makes declarations the study does not make. The study claims and conclusions are very measured.
The full conclusion:
"West Texas wind produced the most total power annually, followed by South Texas wind production and then solar. Over the year, solar production is complementary with both WT and ST wind. WT wind paired with solar provided the highest levels of firm capacity at an 87.5% threshold. Accordingly, combining solar resources with WT wind might increase reliable power production on an annual basis. On a daily basis, however, WT wind, ST wind and solar all have different peak production times with ST wind peaking in the later afternoon, when demand for power is highest. This suggests that combining solar with ST wind might increase reliable power production over the course of a summer day during hours of high demand.
Directly comparing the sites’ hourly production with times of greatest demand throughout the year yielded further insights. Solar production was the highest during summer hours when load on the ERCOT grid was highest, and WT and ST wind productions were the highest during winter peak hours. WT wind showed greater production during both the summer and winter peak hours than the ERCOT estimate, suggesting ERCOT’s approach is conservative in this case. Our results also suggest a need for ERCOT to re-evaluate its estimates of ST wind availability during seasonal peak hours. We estimate that these coastal sites provide more output during winter peak load than summer, contrary to ERCOT’s assumptions in its resource assessments.
Comparisons of different solar configurations show that, though a west-facing fixed-tilt system yields less than half the output of a dual-axis tracking system, it can produce almost as much power during the peak load hours for summer. This suggests that a relatively low-cost system could play a valuable role in meeting summer peak demand.
Areas for further investigation include expanding the scope of measurements from seven sample sites to locations throughout the state in order to pinpoint specific locations that maximize complementarity (thus reliability) and best meet demand over the course of each day. Further research could also explore alternatives to the ERCOT resource adequacy factors that might more fully characterize the reliable production potential of Texas renewables. These results might suggest ways to organize future renewables projects to maximize reliability with minimal investment in expensive storage technologies. Such analyses will become increasingly important as the mix of Texas variable renewable electricity supply shifts from predominately West Texas wind to include more solar power and a broader mix of wind locations."
I'm not sure what I'll do when the 5s gets obsoleted. I'm hoping for an updated SE that still has a headphone port, but I'm not holding my breath. It's going to be a tough decision.
I'm on an IPhone 6, it meets my needs just fine. If it fails I will look for a replacement on Ebay. A 128GB 6S goes for about $250.
As other respondents have pointed out with needless vulgarity, YouTube's one-sided "terms of service" almost certainly give them the legal right to use her content without compensation. The problem here is that _all_ "terms of service" documents essentially say the user has no rights - fuck you, prole, that's why.
I know that's true, but I've never been clear just how limited. What percent can be melted down and remade? What percent can be broken down into non-toxic component materials?
We should ban the fucking production of plastic except for special circumstances, and also enforce stricter recycling rules, only 10% of plastic is recycled AT ALL, it should be 99% is recycled.
You want to ban all plastic production, except for "special circumstances"? Good luck with that. What would you replace plastic with?
Slashdot Mirror
More fake news on Slashdot
Germany didn't commit to this plan, the article says it's a recommendation.
"BERLIN - Germany SHOULD stop using coal for electricity production by 2038, a government-appointed commission said Saturday, laying out an 80-billion euro roadmap to phase out the polluting fuel."
"Economy and Energy Minister Peter Altmaier said the government would "carefully and constructively examine" the recommendations, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported in its Sunday edition."
You are lying with statistics: CNN Sept 17 2018
For the first time in a decade, Corporate America is steering more money into stock buybacks than investing in the future.
The CEO class is lining their own pockets with tax cut profits. Their personal stock grants have multiplication factors leveraging stock price increases. They have raised their compensation by factors over 100%, perhaps as high as 500%.
I quoted the Comcast annual report numbers on capital expenditures. The CNN link you sent adds nothing to that.
I love it when a comment which directly addresses the topic is moderated as "off topic".
The topic is about a small reduction in capital expenditures in one Comcast business area.
I provided the explanation as to why this was expected and reported on nearly a year ago.
BZZZZZZZT! OFF TOPIC!!!
My mistake, clearly Comcast made the business decision to cut 3% from almost 8 billion dollars "despite net neutrality repeal".
It doesn't matter what is written in the law, because again, the law doesn't apply in the USA. They don't have jurisdiction.
They can definitely regulate the business activities of companies doing business in the EU, and they can levy fines for non-compliance.
Business activities do not require physical presence.
Some companies have chosen compliance, other have chosen to stop doing business. It depends on the value of the business.
I was involved with a project that chose compliance. It was a big undertaking.
Not sure about the case where a company outside the EU is not doing business in the EU but is handling data of EU citizens.
You don't understand the internet, how laws work, or both. GDPR is not a US law and therefore doesn't apply in the US.
You shouldn't make declarative statements about things you know nothing about. Wait, this is slashdot, carry on.
If you decide to learn something start with the GDPR FAQS:
From https://eugdpr.org/the-regulat...
"The GDPR not only applies to organisations located within the EU but also applies to organisations located outside of the EU if they offer goods or services to, or monitor the behaviour of, EU data subjects. It applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company’s location."
From the report
"For the twelve months ended December 31, 2018, capital expenditures increased 2.3% to $9.8 billion compared to 2017. Cable Communications' capital expenditures decreased 3.0% to $7.7 billion, reflecting decreased spending on customer premise equipment and support capital, partially offset by higher investment in scalable infrastructure and line extensions. For the year, Cable capital expenditures represented 14.0% of Cable revenue compared to 15.0% in 2017. NBCUniversal's capital expenditures increased 15.2% to $1.7 billion in 2018, primarily reflecting investment at Theme Parks."
Ok so cable capex dropped 3% to 7.7 billion. There could be many reasons for the drop, like this article from March 2018 describes:
https://www.fiercevideo.com/ca...
"“For 2018, spending on customer premise equipment is expected to continue to decline. With X1 now deployed to nearly 60% of our residential video base, the pace of our rollout has started to slow,” noted Comcast CFO Michael Cavanaugh during Comcast’s fourth-quarter earnings call in January. "
Nothing will draw more attention because the whole thing is ludicrous. Facebook is in the USA. Unless they open up brick and mortar stores there they don't "do business" in Russia. Their business is in the USA and foregneirs "travel" here. If Russians fly to Florida to go to Disneyworld they are doing business in the USA and if they connect through their ISPs to Facebook's servers in the USA they are, likewise, doing business in the USA.
You don't understand GDPR. The presence of brick and mortar stores is irrelevant.
GDPR does not apply to Russia but they certainly could enact similar data privacy regulations.
1114 people over age 18 with nothing better to do responsed to this survey. That's the "record number of Americans" they are referring to.
I wonder, do any slashdotters answer their phone for unknown numbers and engage in long conversations?
Like the fines for GDPR violations
https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
If you hire a contractor who quotes you X, do you instead pay them 2X? Of course you don't.
In fact, you get multiple bids and take the lowest one that you believe will product the best work.
There is nothing discriminatory in paying someone what they think they are worth.
The advice is the same for everyone:
Negotiate for what you want, especially when getting hired. It could take years to get a title you could have had from day 1.
Change jobs if you aren't getting what you want.
Change jobs in any case. You get new challenges and usually a bigger increase than you would have gotten at the previous place.
I think this is more about age then sex- it's well known that your earning potential slides when you go past 50. Employers don't want to invest in older employees.
I'm well past 50 and I've never had an issue demanding the comp I want. If anything I've had a lot of practice doing it.
If you aren't willing to take risks you will not get rewards.
From the article: "I just couldn’t believe it. I was angry,” Marilyn Clark, one of the Oracle plaintiffs, told the Guardian. The complaint alleged that she discovered the wage gap when she saw a pay stub a male colleague had left in a common area. “I felt like I had been punched in the gut.” Clark, 66, who has since retired from Oracle, said it was particularly painful because she had even trained the male employee, who was making roughly $20,000 more than she was, amounting to a 22% higher salary. Clark, 66, who has since retired from Oracle, said it was particularly painful because she had even trained the male employee, who was making roughly $20,000 more than she was, amounting to a 22% higher salary."
The reality is this is her own fault. This is not a union job with fixed pay scales.
People make more because they ask for more and create a perception of value.
From my experience, when taking a new job:
Women undervalue themselves and they ask for the comp they think they deserve or is the most the employer is willing to pay
Men ask for what they want, not what they think they deserve, and don't care about the employers problems
When annual comp happens, raises and bonuses can very often be crappy
Women will be unhappy but will not change jobs to get what they want.
Men change jobs aggressively.
In fact, from a management standpoint knowing you will eat shit and not change jobs just provides evidence they are paying you appropriately.
Where is that cited? I didn't go into extreme detail, but I didn't see anything like that when reading the study. I didn't even see a list of "real news"
From the article: "Researchers then checked links posted to their timelines against a list of web domains that have historically shared fake news, as compiled by BuzzFeed reporter Craig Silverman."
There was an embedded link to a google doc spreadsheet with the list of "fake" and "real" news, along with share counts.
https://docs.google.com/spread...
Who knew "Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton" qualified as "Real news", worthy of being shared shared 623,000 by the intellectual elites too smart to fall for "fake news"
The point is that they don't general publish outright fabrications. Yes, yes, I'm sure you can find something that turned out to be untrue, those Chinese spy chips come to mind, but for the most part they are not trying to lie to you. Even if you disagree with their opinion pieces.
Your ability to copy/paste is admirable, but you might want to work on the formatting.
By definition "Opinion pieces" are opinion, not news. Agreeing with an opinion neither makes it "real" or "news".
Unfortunately news organizations have forgotten this distinction.
This study is fake news in that the list of "real news"cited is almost entirely opinion pieces from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post.
Story Publication
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one? Washington Post
Stop Pretending You Don't Know Why People Hate Hillary Clinton Huffington Post
Melania Trump’s girl-on-girl photos from racy shoot revealed New York Post
I Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton. New York times
Ford fact checks Trump: We will be here forever CNN
‘Pantsuit Power’ flashmob video for Hillary Clinton: Two women, 170 dancers and no police Washington Post
The Press Buries Hillary Clinton’s Sins Wall Street Journal
More Than 160 Republican Leaders Don’t Support Donald Trump. Here’s When They Reached Their Breaking Point New York Times
New Kasich ad: If Trump becomes president, ‘you better hope there’s someone left to help you’ Washington Post
The real Clinton email scandal is that a bullshit story has dominated the campaign Vox
He fought in World War II. He died in 2014. And he just registered to vote in Va Washington Post
Donald Trump Is Going To Be Elected Huffington Post
Why Donald Trump Should Not Be President New York times
Hillary Clinton for President New York times
Max Lucado: My prediction for November 9 FOX News
Donald and Billy on the Bus New York times
Trump campaign manager: There'd be no rape if women were stronger New Yor Daily News
A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump New York Times
Donald Trump Voters, Just Hear Me Out New York Times
FBI Completes Review of Newly Revealed Hillary Clinton Emails, Finds No Evidence of Criminality NBC News
This is dire news. America went up 3.4%. Not good.
"Not good" is real news. "Dire" is fake news. The report makes no such claim.
It even says they don't expect it to repeat in 2019.
I thought the description of where the increases came from was interesting.
Big increases in jet and diesel fuel, some increase in gas powered electricity generation.
The report itself is a good detailed estimate of emissions from various sectors along with analysis and projections. Last year's estimate was pretty accurate so this probably is as well. But nowhere do they use the words "Dire news". That's the spin from Ars Technica.
The Internet is global, and any platform built on it is going to reach millions, if not billions, of people. If we pass laws that require companies to police their users, we will simply lose the platforms. Whatever happened to personal responsibility and liability? Why aren't the harassers arrested and charged? Why is Grindr the villain in this suit?
(I know there are people here who would love to see the more popular platforms disappear, but that's just petty jealousy and elitism talking.)
Grindr as a service provider could have designed a system that required identity verification of users before they are allowed to use the service.
Some users may balk at this requirement, but that's irrelevant.
About ten years ago I bought a Prada-labelled shoulder bag in Vietnam for $10 from a street vendor. When I got it back to NY I asked around and it sold for around $400. Not only is it indistinguishable from the real thing, it IS the real thing. It's what I call a "real fake." As described above, the factory gets an order for 5000 of these bags, makes 6000 and sells 1000 out the back door. There is no difference between those 1000 and the other 5000. Did this happen in China with iPhones? Has Apple complained about it? Because they would surely know.
I read a book some years ago on the many pitfalls of doing business in China. Issues raised included:
- Selling unauthorized overproduction runs as you described
- Making unauthorized changes to the product design or materials to make manufacturing cheaper. There were multiple cases cited where the product changes produced unsafe or defective products that cost the product owners dearly
- Duplicating the product under another label and competing with the original
The Chinese government has little incentive to crack down on such practices.
The press report makes declarations the study does not make. The study claims and conclusions are very measured.
The full conclusion:
"West Texas wind produced the most total power annually, followed by South Texas wind production and then solar. Over the year, solar production is complementary with both WT and ST wind. WT wind paired with solar provided the highest levels of firm capacity at an 87.5% threshold. Accordingly, combining solar resources with WT wind might increase reliable power production on an annual basis. On a daily basis, however, WT wind, ST wind and solar all have different peak production times with ST wind peaking in the later afternoon, when demand for power is highest. This suggests that combining solar with ST wind might increase reliable power production over the course of a summer day during hours of high demand.
Directly comparing the sites’ hourly production with times of greatest demand throughout the year yielded further insights. Solar production was the highest during summer hours when load on the ERCOT grid was highest, and WT and ST wind productions were the highest during winter peak hours. WT wind showed greater production during both the summer and winter peak hours than the ERCOT estimate, suggesting ERCOT’s approach is conservative in this case. Our results also suggest a need for ERCOT to re-evaluate its estimates of ST wind availability during seasonal peak hours. We estimate that these coastal sites provide more output during winter peak load than summer, contrary to ERCOT’s assumptions in its resource assessments.
Comparisons of different solar configurations show that, though a west-facing fixed-tilt system yields less than half the output of a dual-axis tracking system, it can produce almost as much power during the peak load hours for summer. This suggests that a relatively low-cost system could play a valuable role in meeting summer peak demand.
Areas for further investigation include expanding the scope of measurements from seven sample sites to locations throughout the state in order to pinpoint specific locations that maximize complementarity (thus reliability) and best meet demand over the course of each day. Further research could also explore alternatives to the ERCOT resource adequacy factors that might more fully characterize the reliable production potential of Texas renewables. These results might suggest ways to organize future renewables projects to maximize reliability with minimal investment in expensive storage technologies. Such analyses will become increasingly important as the mix of Texas variable renewable electricity supply shifts from predominately West Texas wind to include more solar power and a broader mix of wind locations."
I'm not sure what I'll do when the 5s gets obsoleted. I'm hoping for an updated SE that still has a headphone port, but I'm not holding my breath. It's going to be a tough decision.
I'm on an IPhone 6, it meets my needs just fine. If it fails I will look for a replacement on Ebay.
A 128GB 6S goes for about $250.
As other respondents have pointed out with needless vulgarity, YouTube's one-sided "terms of service" almost certainly give them the legal right to use her content without compensation. The problem here is that _all_ "terms of service" documents essentially say the user has no rights - fuck you, prole, that's why.
I guess this was necessary vulgarity?
> have limits to their recycle-ability.
I know that's true, but I've never been clear just how limited. What percent can be melted down and remade? What percent can be broken down into non-toxic component materials?
It's a complicated subject. Here's a simple article
https://blog.nationalgeographi...
I believe LordWabbit2 means production of *new* plastic. Recycled plastic would be fine.
Maybe but even there he's clueless. Certainly materials should be recycled where possible and better alternatives used where possible.
But plastics are incredibly versatile and have limits to their recycle-ability.
We should ban the fucking production of plastic except for special circumstances, and also enforce stricter recycling rules, only 10% of plastic is recycled AT ALL, it should be 99% is recycled.
You want to ban all plastic production, except for "special circumstances"? Good luck with that.
What would you replace plastic with?