Perhaps the word "overload" was poorly chosen. If a solar neighborhood feeds back into power grid more power than the local distribution wires and transformers are capable of carrying, either they burn out or a breaker/fuse opens: either way it's a problem.
I receive a single bill with several itemized charges: meter charge, transmission charge, stranded cost recovery charge, system benefits charge (WTF!), KWH distribution charge, energy charge, and electricity consumption tax. 7 items, 1 bill.
Repairs are part of the cost of doing business, not a separate line item on the bill. Of course, the consumer pays them eventually
First world countries generally have more capacity than needed, otherwise blackouts and brownouts would be commonplace.
Just because water flows in rivers does not make it free. Damns are expensive and need to be insured against breaking, and those costs among others make the water not free. (More fundamentally, water rights are a part of the purchase price of riverside land.) You might as well argue that coal or oil is free, because they're already buried there, waiting to be used.
Economists have developer a polynomial....
Well hooray for the economists. <sarcasm>They're like gods; they're never wrong. </sarcasm>
If he wants to investigate security holes in Boeing aircraft, he should get a job with Boeing, or offer his services to them for free. Messing around on an aircraft in flight, where he can't be certain that a misplaced keystroke won't cause death, is criminal negligence or worse.
Given modern experimental evidence that wild foxes can be domesticated in a few generations (that includes physical changes, most notably non-erect ears), multiple site domestication is quite plausible.
There are also several modern examples of wild fox newborns raised as pets without significant problems.
Then again, there's the fun of Bing maps. A big label in the center of the screen blocks what I want to see, and it stays with the location when I pan. To remove the label, I have to turn off all labels, thus rendering the map useless.
They measure success by how long you stay on their page. The slower it runs, the harder it is to get it to do what you want, the longer you stay on their page.
There are other personnel expenses in schools, janitors for example. The biggest dollar sinkhole is "special needs" children that shouldn't even be in public schools, the sort of children who get $100k of special instructors per year and who can't do anything but drool.
You're telling me that the teachers are so poor quality that if they don't teach the material that will be on the test and nothing else, the students won't pass the test. Teachers that poor should be fired. There are a great number of people in the general public who need jobs and could teach better than people currently employed as teachers; they'd have the additional advantage of not already having their minds corrupted by the garbage that teachers learn in normal schools.
A student who has learned nothing in a year has been seriously damaged by his teacher, who should be fired before damaging other children.
Tooth decay starts early. A great deal of it occurs before puberty, during which time children crave sweets and haven't really gotten the knack of good teeth brushing. Optimistically, 42% of Americans have had a cavity by age 11.
The idea that primitives don't live long enough to have tooth decay problems is silly.
A typical bachelor's degree in engineering involves no more than 5 courses per term for 8 terms. Discard the wasted 1 course per term of humanities or other irrelevant drivel, that leaves 32 courses total, each of which consists of little more than learning the contents of one book. Look at a college catalog and degree requirements, figure out what those 32 books are, buy them and learn the contents. Buy a computer and teach yourself enough programming to be able to handle some problems in your field, also learn some of the standard software in the field that's freely available (or available as student edition), like SPICE. You are now short of a college education's "well-rounded rich engineering base" only by the absence of some lab courses.
About $4000 plus room and board for the time it takes to learn the material, some hands-on experience, done. As a bonus, no exposure to depraved fellow students.
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People who (uninvited) talk about their accomplishments are boors.
Cloud cover varies greatly. There's nothing unusual about solar flux dropping 85% or more on a overcast day.
Perhaps the word "overload" was poorly chosen. If a solar neighborhood feeds back into power grid more power than the local distribution wires and transformers are capable of carrying, either they burn out or a breaker/fuse opens: either way it's a problem.
By whom? Where's the budget item in the state/local/federal budget? Or is there a "Power Industries Charities, Inc." that I don't know about?
Stop repeating paranoid memes.
I receive a single bill with several itemized charges: meter charge, transmission charge, stranded cost recovery charge, system benefits charge (WTF!), KWH distribution charge, energy charge, and electricity consumption tax. 7 items, 1 bill.
Repairs are part of the cost of doing business, not a separate line item on the bill. Of course, the consumer pays them eventually
First world countries generally have more capacity than needed, otherwise blackouts and brownouts would be commonplace.
Just because water flows in rivers does not make it free. Damns are expensive and need to be insured against breaking, and those costs among others make the water not free. (More fundamentally, water rights are a part of the purchase price of riverside land.) You might as well argue that coal or oil is free, because they're already buried there, waiting to be used.
Well hooray for the economists. <sarcasm>They're like gods; they're never wrong. </sarcasm>
Seldom are contradictions so obvious.
If he wants to investigate security holes in Boeing aircraft, he should get a job with Boeing, or offer his services to them for free. Messing around on an aircraft in flight, where he can't be certain that a misplaced keystroke won't cause death, is criminal negligence or worse.
In chess, this is known as gambit accepted. Perhaps the joke is too subtle for your understanding.
In computer science, passing scores are 11, 100, and 101.
Given modern experimental evidence that wild foxes can be domesticated in a few generations (that includes physical changes, most notably non-erect ears), multiple site domestication is quite plausible.
There are also several modern examples of wild fox newborns raised as pets without significant problems.
I would much rather be the person whose dog talks to me.
Then again, there's the fun of Bing maps. A big label in the center of the screen blocks what I want to see, and it stays with the location when I pan. To remove the label, I have to turn off all labels, thus rendering the map useless.
They measure success by how long you stay on their page. The slower it runs, the harder it is to get it to do what you want, the longer you stay on their page.
Profit !
If nobody knows how to write scalable code, that's a computer science problem, not a problem in the vast legions of programmers.
Take the money out of union dues.
There are other personnel expenses in schools, janitors for example. The biggest dollar sinkhole is "special needs" children that shouldn't even be in public schools, the sort of children who get $100k of special instructors per year and who can't do anything but drool.
What's your problem with child labor? Have you considered the possibility that eliminating child labor introduces child death?
You're telling me that the teachers are so poor quality that if they don't teach the material that will be on the test and nothing else, the students won't pass the test. Teachers that poor should be fired. There are a great number of people in the general public who need jobs and could teach better than people currently employed as teachers; they'd have the additional advantage of not already having their minds corrupted by the garbage that teachers learn in normal schools.
A student who has learned nothing in a year has been seriously damaged by his teacher, who should be fired before damaging other children.
Don't know the difference between levy and levee? Perhaps your school floated away when the levee failed.
Tooth decay starts early. A great deal of it occurs before puberty, during which time children crave sweets and haven't really gotten the knack of good teeth brushing. Optimistically, 42% of Americans have had a cavity by age 11.
The idea that primitives don't live long enough to have tooth decay problems is silly.
Pot tends to disable the critical faculty. You think you have more creativity because you fail to quickly discard inferior ideas.
Wow. Just wow. You don't think there is a massive legalization campaign?
A typical bachelor's degree in engineering involves no more than 5 courses per term for 8 terms. Discard the wasted 1 course per term of humanities or other irrelevant drivel, that leaves 32 courses total, each of which consists of little more than learning the contents of one book. Look at a college catalog and degree requirements, figure out what those 32 books are, buy them and learn the contents. Buy a computer and teach yourself enough programming to be able to handle some problems in your field, also learn some of the standard software in the field that's freely available (or available as student edition), like SPICE. You are now short of a college education's "well-rounded rich engineering base" only by the absence of some lab courses.
About $4000 plus room and board for the time it takes to learn the material, some hands-on experience, done. As a bonus, no exposure to depraved fellow students.
It's not 1937 any more.
China's aggression is limited by what they think they can get away with.