Uhm. They haven't even broken ground yet. So no, they're NOT.
Until the site is up and 100% operational, this is all smoke being blown out someone's ass.
Why don't others do this?
Because this sort of solution isn't suitable everywhere.
Reno sees about 250 sunny or partly sunny days a year, with roughly 60% of those being totally sunny.
A place like Chicago sees 189 sunny or partly sunny days a year with roughly 40% of those being totally sunny.
Places like Reno don't have to deal with long stretches of extreme low temperatures and snow measured in feet.
Also, there's the land use to consider. Farmland is a LOT more valuable for what it can produce than a big stretch of desert land. So converting it to a wind/solar farm from food production is idiotic.
There's also issues of space availability. If you have a factory in someplace like Los Angeles, you simply aren't going to have the land area to build a totally renewable setup.
On top of this, what other environmental impacts does building in this manner, on a wide-scale basis (not just one factory, but dozens/hundreds/thousands of businesses and their facilities) have?
There's also the issue that the local utility needs to be set up to accept power back into the system.
And finally, if everyone's doing this, how do you maintain a stable power production industry? And how does the industry finance maintenance, expansion and construction of new facilities to replace old/obsoleted facilities that have met/exceeded their productive lifetimes?
But I have my phone. I don't need an additional device. Especially not something that lives in wristwatch land.
In my line of work I can't wear wristwatches or jewelry on my wrists. I'd have to constantly be taking it off to the point where I may as well not even bother wearing it in the first place.
Not to mention I have an uncanny history of killing digital/battery operated wristwatches just by wearing them. Not that I damage them like bouncing them off walls, furniture or anything like that. Just, usually in about 30-60 days of wearing one, I used to have digital wristwatches (even expensive ones) just up and die on me. Even battery replacement didn't help after the first time or two.
Yeah, but Minecraft ain't an FPS. It's an entirely different class of multiplayer game. And one that Microsoft has, historically, never been able to crack properly.
Okay! I understand a monster cash infusion could help Minecraft Studio immensely.
And I'll be damned if I tell Mojang they "MUST" refuse a big payday for all the work they've done.
But Microsoft has proved, time and again, that it simply doesn't know how to deal with properties like this and pretty much always winds up shutting them down because they can't figure out a way to monetize it properly.
You know what would be awesome? A 42-cores CPU. To keep your cup of tea really, really hot.
Unfortunately cores this large, powerful and complex all stand excellent chances of spontaneously self-triggering SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure).
FCC: We're redefining what constitutes "high speed broadband", as the current description is about 10 years old. TelcomLobby: We're good with what we have now. FCC: Unfortunately no. Your networks haven't really grown in capacity for the end-user in several years now. And by the new definitions, your service won't qualify as "high speed". TelcomLobby: We're good with what we have now. FCC: No, that's what we're telling you, you're not. TelcomLobby: Uh. Can we just bribe you not to make this change? It might affect our killer bottom line!
While I don't own a gun, it's times like these I wish I fucking did.
Is that this is another solid fuel, boiling water reactor. Which means they have all this Rube-Goldberg-esque over-elaborate over-engineering to control the plant in a shutdown state. And if they miss even one little thing, boom. Steam explosion.
While burning up existing reactor wastes is a Good Thing, there are better, simpler, safer reactor designs for things like that.
Not counting the huge amount of our food that comes from those places.
From Wyoming? Seriously. The majority of Wyoming's income is mineral production and tourism. Sure, tourism is going to take a whopping hit for a while. And the mines will probably see a short term hit.
(Note: Unless the eruption is especially destructive. Then, there's a lot more to worry about than a few feet of ash.
One of the BIG hits would probably be the short term effect on coal mining. Illinois tends to import much of its coal (yes, one of the largest coal producing states in the union IMPORTS coal) from Wyoming. This is because most of the coal produced in the state has a high sulfur content (which can lead to acid rain). And most of the coal-fired plants in the state aren't outfitted to properly burn such coal. As Illinois is also one of the top 5 energy EXPORTERS, this could have trickle-down effects.
In other words, you value some people's lives less than others.
How ugly.
Nononono. You're misreading.
Now, if Yellowstone goes *Poof* and puts down 3 feet of ash in the appropriate area, we're talking maybe a million people who're dealing with 3 feet of ash.
That's basically 1/3rd of the population of Chicago (one city).
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Tesla is doing this
Uhm. They haven't even broken ground yet. So no, they're NOT.
Until the site is up and 100% operational, this is all smoke being blown out someone's ass.
Why don't others do this?
Because this sort of solution isn't suitable everywhere.
Reno sees about 250 sunny or partly sunny days a year, with roughly 60% of those being totally sunny.
A place like Chicago sees 189 sunny or partly sunny days a year with roughly 40% of those being totally sunny.
Places like Reno don't have to deal with long stretches of extreme low temperatures and snow measured in feet.
Also, there's the land use to consider. Farmland is a LOT more valuable for what it can produce than a big stretch of desert land. So converting it to a wind/solar farm from food production is idiotic.
There's also issues of space availability. If you have a factory in someplace like Los Angeles, you simply aren't going to have the land area to build a totally renewable setup.
On top of this, what other environmental impacts does building in this manner, on a wide-scale basis (not just one factory, but dozens/hundreds/thousands of businesses and their facilities) have?
There's also the issue that the local utility needs to be set up to accept power back into the system.
And finally, if everyone's doing this, how do you maintain a stable power production industry? And how does the industry finance maintenance, expansion and construction of new facilities to replace old/obsoleted facilities that have met/exceeded their productive lifetimes?
They're Weeping Angels! Don't blink!
Sorry to all the Dick Tracy fans and everything.
But I have my phone. I don't need an additional device. Especially not something that lives in wristwatch land.
In my line of work I can't wear wristwatches or jewelry on my wrists. I'd have to constantly be taking it off to the point where I may as well not even bother wearing it in the first place.
Not to mention I have an uncanny history of killing digital/battery operated wristwatches just by wearing them. Not that I damage them like bouncing them off walls, furniture or anything like that. Just, usually in about 30-60 days of wearing one, I used to have digital wristwatches (even expensive ones) just up and die on me. Even battery replacement didn't help after the first time or two.
Yeah, but Minecraft ain't an FPS. It's an entirely different class of multiplayer game. And one that Microsoft has, historically, never been able to crack properly.
Okay! I understand a monster cash infusion could help Minecraft Studio immensely.
And I'll be damned if I tell Mojang they "MUST" refuse a big payday for all the work they've done.
But Microsoft has proved, time and again, that it simply doesn't know how to deal with properties like this and pretty much always winds up shutting them down because they can't figure out a way to monetize it properly.
When approached for a comment, Dejah Thoris would only say "How have I come to be on Jasoom? And where is John Carter?".
Man. Talk about a giant shit sandwich...
I've seen "cheap" SF.com customizations before. And going by those benchmarks, I don't even wanna know what the cash outlay was for this.
And the worst part? At the end of the day, you're still leg-shackled to SalesForce.com with no real control over your data.
Seriously though.
Just remember, there's a fairly solid difference between wanting to take a gun and shoot people and ACTUALLY GOING OUT AND DOING IT.
It's a little muscle-like think most people have long since stopped exercising. We call it "self control".
Now, imagine, if you will, I had access to anything from a wrist rocket, all the way up to tacnukes.
Would the desire to just hit the "Meatspace Erase Button" ever actually push me into doing it? Again. "Self-control".
Would NOT using "Meatspace Erase" preclude me from lingering on the concept fondly? Hell no! I'm human!
Schmucks like you give gun-banners something to wield.
C'mon. It's not like I have anger management issues here!
YOU'RE still alive right?
Right?
Ah fuck. Killed another one.
Hello? Bob's Insta-Burial? Yeah. It's me again. Yeah, I'm still on the flat-rate plan...
Ah. But that's where you're overthinking it.
How may multi-core GPUs have EXACTLY 42 (Forty Two) cores?
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=D
The plot thickens!
You know what would be awesome? A 42-cores CPU. To keep your cup of tea really, really hot.
Unfortunately cores this large, powerful and complex all stand excellent chances of spontaneously self-triggering SMEF (Spontaneous Massive Existence Failure).
FCC: We're redefining what constitutes "high speed broadband", as the current description is about 10 years old.
TelcomLobby: We're good with what we have now.
FCC: Unfortunately no. Your networks haven't really grown in capacity for the end-user in several years now. And by the new definitions, your service won't qualify as "high speed".
TelcomLobby: We're good with what we have now.
FCC: No, that's what we're telling you, you're not.
TelcomLobby: Uh. Can we just bribe you not to make this change? It might affect our killer bottom line!
While I don't own a gun, it's times like these I wish I fucking did.
All setting a corporate tax rate like that would do is create a massive tax dodge, while penalizing the workers.
I, for one, don't want to be ass-raped for 75% of my paycheck just so we can keep the government going.
There are obvious benefactors from such laws.
It's just that, this time, the people protesting, are NOT the ones drawing benefit from the law. And if it doesn't affect THEM in a positive way, it is (by definition) A Bad Thing (TM) ©.
For "really close"
I already don't eat mushrooms due to food allergies (and trying to tell them the specific TYPES I'm allergic to is a waste of time).
So this is just another reason for me to NEVER eat a frickin mushroom.
Just...eww.
Is that this is another solid fuel, boiling water reactor. Which means they have all this Rube-Goldberg-esque over-elaborate over-engineering to control the plant in a shutdown state. And if they miss even one little thing, boom. Steam explosion.
While burning up existing reactor wastes is a Good Thing, there are better, simpler, safer reactor designs for things like that.
Oh you are SO funny.
Ha.
Ha.
Oh yes! Ha!
If they require all these cheats (let's call them what they are) to play, how in the name of Hell are they "more elite"?
Are they somehow empowered to greater delusions of grandeur?
Or are they chasing players who're monetizing their game streaming?
In which case FUCK them.
We've put up with Put(z)in this long. He's essentially invading another country and we've have done nothing so far.
Now he's threatening to freely NUKE another country into submission.
This kind of insanity CANNOT be countenanced, EVER. It's hideously dangerous.
Guy from Idaho Falls here. Probably the second largest city in the swath. This confirms what we already know: if Yellowstone goes off we are all dead
If it goes off BIG, yeah, lots of people are going to die and ash is a VERY distant secondary concern.
If, however, it just burps a huge ash cloud and suffers a minor eruption, yeah, life in your area is going to suck. Hooverishly.
But a vast swath of that is essentially nowhere.
Not counting the huge amount of our food that comes from those places.
From Wyoming? Seriously. The majority of Wyoming's income is mineral production and tourism. Sure, tourism is going to take a whopping hit for a while. And the mines will probably see a short term hit.
(Note: Unless the eruption is especially destructive. Then, there's a lot more to worry about than a few feet of ash.
One of the BIG hits would probably be the short term effect on coal mining. Illinois tends to import much of its coal (yes, one of the largest coal producing states in the union IMPORTS coal) from Wyoming. This is because most of the coal produced in the state has a high sulfur content (which can lead to acid rain). And most of the coal-fired plants in the state aren't outfitted to properly burn such coal. As Illinois is also one of the top 5 energy EXPORTERS, this could have trickle-down effects.
In other words, you value some people's lives less than others.
How ugly.
Nononono. You're misreading.
Now, if Yellowstone goes *Poof* and puts down 3 feet of ash in the appropriate area, we're talking maybe a million people who're dealing with 3 feet of ash.
That's basically 1/3rd of the population of Chicago (one city).
I happen to live in bumblefuck you insensitive clod.
Well then! You have my condolences!