Hey, if you can convince our crazed "no nukes" lobby that they're in error, you'll see a slight bump in carbon emissions as we build new plants, followed by a long, sustained dropoff.
Areas like California will still maintain higher emissions, mainly due to it being a Bad Idea to build nuclear reactors in quake country, but...
Exactly. Where the fuck does someone get off telling someone else "You're just going to need to take a hit..." Christ, the sense of entitlement is incredible...
Well, its $400 a month for the entire energy expense, not just heating and cooling, and oil heat is insaner, so I'm not worried about saving or not saving money. I do like not having to deal with oil heat.
Yeah. It's not just the equipment. It's laying the fields / drilling the wells for the loops and all the labor.
China and India are in their "growing years" so I can understand.
Oi vey. You DO understand that you can't simply "forgive" carbon emissions simply based on "they're growing/modernizing" right?
Shit like this is why global compacts simply won't work. Because you'll get countries like China/India who will sign on, and then simply continue outputting whatever the hell they feel like.
And any "carbon trading" system will simply be gamed.
Now, I'm not saying the US's results are in any way "desirable". They're not.
The main problem is the activist/regulatory environment here. Due to poliicies enacted because of the positively PSYCHOTIC "no nuclear" lobby, the chances of implementing nuclear power in the US is virtually zero. We quite simply CANNOT implement enough solar or wind power. Nor could we build lesser capacities and back it with batteries. The quantities required simply aren't feasible.
You also need to understand that it's not because the US is being deliberately "dirtier". It's that total ACTIVITY for carbon production has been on the rise since the economy heated up. So nobody's pulling filtration units off, or deliberately choosing dirtier options.
And it's very EASY to sit back in a country like Germany (with a total area of 138K square miles) and preach about "what ought to be done" in a country like the US (with a total area of 3.7 MILLION square miles). Because hey, logistics is EASY, right? EVERY country on the planet has had a couple millennia to evenly distribute it's population throughout its' borders, right?
Now, if YOU can come up with a REAL solution that the no-nuke crazies will accept, that DOESN'T involve CRASHING OUR ECONOMY or killing off 90% of the populace and forcing the remainder to live in caves and eat grass, knock yourself out!
Instead of merely bumping energy efficiency requirements on houses to something like Passive House? Because building houses to a better standard, so they use a fraction of the power would be a Dumb Thing. Just keep building shitty homes that guzzle energy and offset it only partially by slapping on $5-10K in solar panel bling that increases the cost of the house, doesn't REALLY offset most of your power bill, and has to have components replaced over time...
And, as others have pointed out, there are going to be places where slapping on solar will net you NOTHING, as you may not be optimally placed for solar production.
They'll take the money, pad their bottom lines, and continue NOT actually improving the state of rural broadband.
Also, betting the window on actual implementation is so far into the future that this is nothing more than a blatant present to them anyhow.
We plan to boost the definition of broadband to 25Mbps! In 2025! Implementation? Maybe about the time that 25Gbps is in common use everywhere BUT rural areas!
Defender is also irrevocably tied into the OS. Meaning it's a relatively stationary target.
A third party AV is going to introduce an element malware writers can't necessarily account for. Sure, you might be able to specifically attack Norton AV, or McAfee, or AVG or ESet. But you kinda have to KNOW your target's going to be running one of these. Otherwise, the shenanigans to subborn one of these specific providers might just get caught by another AV provider.
Is it security theater? Yep. Is it a shell-game variant of Security Through Obscurity? Yep.
Ever hear "If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid."?
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Maybe in China. Sure.
Hey, if you want to volunteer to go live in a cave and subsist on grass, BE MY GUEST!
It's really easy to moralize how OTHER people should react and be okay with massive economic upheaval if it isn't affecting YOU.
BINGO!
I've got news for ya bunkie...
Cars in the US are primarily the same as cars everywhere else in the world.
A Nissan Sentra in the US is nominally identical to a Nissan Sentra in Japan.
Same for Kia.
Same for Jaguar.
Same for Ford.
Hey, if you can convince our crazed "no nukes" lobby that they're in error, you'll see a slight bump in carbon emissions as we build new plants, followed by a long, sustained dropoff.
Areas like California will still maintain higher emissions, mainly due to it being a Bad Idea to build nuclear reactors in quake country, but...
Exactly.
Where the fuck does someone get off telling someone else "You're just going to need to take a hit..."
Christ, the sense of entitlement is incredible...
Yes. Because that's what we need. The government controlling every facet of our lives. Including how we do business with one another.
Because Capitalism Is Evil!
Because profit is a nasty word!
Everything should be run at a loss, as a public charity, right?
It's not just the equipment. It's laying the fields / drilling the wells for the loops and all the labor.
It adds up fast.
Well, its $400 a month for the entire energy expense, not just heating and cooling, and oil heat is insaner, so I'm not worried about saving or not saving money. I do like not having to deal with oil heat.
Yeah. It's not just the equipment. It's laying the fields / drilling the wells for the loops and all the labor.
Hey, if you work someplace that doesn't give a shit when you wander in the door, more power to you.
Just don't bitch when you're replaced by automation, because it's more reliable.
Oi vey. You DO understand that you can't simply "forgive" carbon emissions simply based on "they're growing/modernizing" right?
Shit like this is why global compacts simply won't work. Because you'll get countries like China/India who will sign on, and then simply continue outputting whatever the hell they feel like.
And any "carbon trading" system will simply be gamed.
Now, I'm not saying the US's results are in any way "desirable". They're not.
The main problem is the activist/regulatory environment here.
Due to poliicies enacted because of the positively PSYCHOTIC "no nuclear" lobby, the chances of implementing nuclear power in the US is virtually zero.
We quite simply CANNOT implement enough solar or wind power. Nor could we build lesser capacities and back it with batteries. The quantities required simply aren't feasible.
You also need to understand that it's not because the US is being deliberately "dirtier".
It's that total ACTIVITY for carbon production has been on the rise since the economy heated up.
So nobody's pulling filtration units off, or deliberately choosing dirtier options.
And it's very EASY to sit back in a country like Germany (with a total area of 138K square miles) and preach about "what ought to be done" in a country like the US (with a total area of 3.7 MILLION square miles). Because hey, logistics is EASY, right? EVERY country on the planet has had a couple millennia to evenly distribute it's population throughout its' borders, right?
Now, if YOU can come up with a REAL solution that the no-nuke crazies will accept, that DOESN'T involve CRASHING OUR ECONOMY or killing off 90% of the populace and forcing the remainder to live in caves and eat grass, knock yourself out!
Instead of merely bumping energy efficiency requirements on houses to something like Passive House?
Because building houses to a better standard, so they use a fraction of the power would be a Dumb Thing.
Just keep building shitty homes that guzzle energy and offset it only partially by slapping on $5-10K in solar panel bling that increases the cost of the house, doesn't REALLY offset most of your power bill, and has to have components replaced over time...
And, as others have pointed out, there are going to be places where slapping on solar will net you NOTHING, as you may not be optimally placed for solar production.
That's just awful.
Not quite as awful as IE or Edge.
But still.
What the fuck about top-down, authoritarian controlled, dystopian panopticon government is "liberal"?
Yet that's what these dumbasses are touting...
Dammit! Stop interrupting me!
Buys power from France!
France shuts power plants down!
Buys power from????
Want to invent Pre-Crime.
They've had what passes for an intellect among them poisoned by mass media...
They don't understand why it's impossible and would be bad if it were.
DSL is absolute shit technology.
You want to say that again?
But with proper english grammar?
They'll take the money, pad their bottom lines, and continue NOT actually improving the state of rural broadband.
Also, betting the window on actual implementation is so far into the future that this is nothing more than a blatant present to them anyhow.
We plan to boost the definition of broadband to 25Mbps! In 2025!
Implementation? Maybe about the time that 25Gbps is in common use everywhere BUT rural areas!
https://youtu.be/3xf45nHi4xQ
You apparently didn't understand that I'm aware of how ludicrous the concept is.
Yet that's what these mouth-breathers are doing ANYHOW!
Yet we're expected to take them seriously...
Yes. Because the JOBS such things bring in WON'T add money to the local economy and fuel investment in housing...
I swear to God. Some people are so fucking stupid I just want to nuke the planet and be done with it...
Defender is also irrevocably tied into the OS.
Meaning it's a relatively stationary target.
A third party AV is going to introduce an element malware writers can't necessarily account for.
Sure, you might be able to specifically attack Norton AV, or McAfee, or AVG or ESet.
But you kinda have to KNOW your target's going to be running one of these.
Otherwise, the shenanigans to subborn one of these specific providers might just get caught by another AV provider.
Is it security theater? Yep.
Is it a shell-game variant of Security Through Obscurity? Yep.
Ever hear "If it's stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid."?
One of the greatest storytellers of the 20th and 21st Century.
Like a modern day Greek god, he created vast numbers of heroes...
Even better, he INSPIRED even MORE heroes out here in the real world...
Excelsior.