Let's assume for a moment that everything 60 minutes claims is in fact true. Exactly how do they propose to force a foreign government to put themselves under the jurisdiction of a domestic civil court?
Leftists do not tolerate challenging questions, legitimate or otherwise.
Extremists of ALL political and religious colours abhore dissent, humans are born and raised on a handful of innate moral principles. For example "purity" is expressed on the far right by their puritanical view of sex, on the left it is all about the purity of our food and water. The unpopular and difficult solution for avoiding these mental cages is to try not to attach yourself to firmly to any particular political/religious tribe. It is difficult because it violates the innate morality of "loyalty".
The point is the building is designed to be a very efficient chimney, it doesn't need any air-conditioners, it also has a much smaller footprint so you don't need as much land as a flat data center. Whether the data center gets built will largely depend on whether the extra costs for building up is significantly less than the reduced land and air-conditioning costs. The building can (and probably will) be powered from the grid, geothermal plants can be located efficiently elsewhere on the island, eg: the North Atlantic ocean makes a great heat sink.
It would also need to be a well-ventilated one, to make sure said employees don't catch the whiff of all that CO2 from the gas burning to support them solar benefits.
Are you saying that so called "base load" coal somehow doesn't need fast switching gas turbines to meet peak demands?
If solar gets the air and heat moving that's a major win even if the power to actually drive the servers comes from somewhere else.
The point is that the building doesn't need anything but the servers themselves to cool the building. The entire building is designed like a chimney, hot air from the server "pods" rises creating a convection current that draws in air from the outside. The building funnels the cool air through the "pods" - rinse and repeat. It minimises (or eliminates) the substantial cost of air-conditioning a data center, you don't need anything else to power the air-conditioners, the building itself is the air-conditioner. The larger the outside surface area the more air the structure can take in from outside, the hotter the servers the faster that air will flow through the building. The only downside I can see is - good luck putting it out if it is on fire!
Termites have been using similar "chimney" technology in their climate controlled mounds for hundreds of millions of years, it allows them to cultivate delicate tropical fungi in the middle of the desert.
When I was a lab tutor teaching C to 2nd year CS students in the early 90's the standard "sanitising inputs" lesson was me randomly bashing their keyboard and reducing their mark if it crashed. Turning theory into practice is what lab classes and assignments are supposed to be all about, unfortunately many of the people who teach lab classes do not have any real world experience. Having said that, the role of a university should be to educate people, it should not be expected to relive industry of their responsibility to train their workers.
Yes, large organisations had "computer pools" and "typist pools", both were almost exclusively filled with women. Even during the 70's when I went to HS, boys were not offered typing lessons because "boys don't grow up to be typists". Computers (of the human variety) were in very high demand during WW2 to compile artillery tables, the same job that first electronic computers were put to work on.
Remember how the polar ice caps are supposed to be gone by now
No?
BTW: Al Gore did not make his fortune by educating people about climate science, he has testified in the Senate that he doesn't personally profit from that activity, all the money goes into the education foundation he established. Similarly none of the thousands of scientists who work on the IPCC report that Gore faithfully presented in his "movie" do not receive a dime for their countless hours of tedious work on the reports.
That human activity is responsible for most, if not all, of the observed warming of the last 100yrs is an established scientific fact.
Some people object to that 'fact" in the same way that some people object to the fact we evolved from apes, or the fact that smoking causes cancer, or the fact that vaccines do not cause autism, etc. They simply refuse to accept the evidence because it contradicts their firmly established religious/political/financial needs and beliefs. We all do this to some degree but most of us are capable of some level of introspection and are not so stubbornly adverse to reason and evidence
You need a minimum of three points to unambiguously triangulate a position. I really can't see why this is "news", three or more sensitive microphones placed in the area could also be used to locate individuals by their fart noises and the speed of sound, the question is why bother when there are more practical ways to do the same thing?
Slowly, at their pace, but fundamentally better than other hype oriented stuff.
Agree, IBM's "Blue Brain" project has been mapping the brain of a rodent at the molecular level, one microscope slide at a time, for over a decade. The wealth of raw data that this has produced for medical researchers is astonishing, in particular it has been a great gift for neuroscientists. The project is a genuine "public good" and deserves more of our attention than a racist twitter bot.
IBM, and more recently Google, have come up with useful AI systems that are within the price range of a small startup company, IMO it is the beginnings of genuinely useful AI tools and in many ways it's a new market that deserves a new phrase to describe it. IBM have been marketing their AI tools under the umbrella of "cognitive computing" for some years now, The MS marketing department is using the word "cognitive" in classic "me too" style, they are trying to equate their racist chatbot to IBM's 'Watson' because they can see the huge potential and want a piece of the pie.
I'm 12,000 miles away and I've recently heard republican senators say that they would not confirm anybody for SC justice that Obama picked, simply because Obama picked them. That is childish obstructionism and a clear dereliction of duty, Trump is the Frankenstein candidate the republicans created with 20yrs of anti-intellectual rhetoric.He has divided the GOP and in so doing has handed the election to the democrats on a silver platter.
Ironically that cable was built so that Tassie could export hydro power to the mainland. Persistent drought conditions in Tassie over the last couple of decades means that it has often been used to import power from coal plants on the mainland.
All of the same transmission and load balance problems exist with "base load" power. Coal fired plants chew through a lot of coal that has to be transported and loaded into the furnace, so they are usually built next to a coal mine, not next to a city. Their supply curve is managed 24/7 by pumping water uphill during off-peak and using hydro/gas turbines during peak consumption. There is absolutely no technical or logical reason that the jittery renewable supply curve cannot be managed in a similar way. Contrary to what coal shills would have you believe, the demand curve of a city is not flat and steady, in some cases renewables are a actually a much better 'natural fit' for the demand curve, eg the sun shines brightest when the city's air-conditioners are running.
Which is exactly what coal plants do now. "Base load" is nonsense, no city in the world has a flat demand curve so coal fired plants pump water uphill during the night, There is no reason "base load" sources cannot be replaced by variable sources using the same "fast switching" hydro/gas infrastructure that was built for coal plants.
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Let's assume for a moment that everything 60 minutes claims is in fact true. Exactly how do they propose to force a foreign government to put themselves under the jurisdiction of a domestic civil court?
I'm a smoker and I think banning smoking in theatres was a good idea, I don't have a smart phone so banning them in theatres would also be fine by me.
Leftists do not tolerate challenging questions, legitimate or otherwise.
Extremists of ALL political and religious colours abhore dissent, humans are born and raised on a handful of innate moral principles. For example "purity" is expressed on the far right by their puritanical view of sex, on the left it is all about the purity of our food and water. The unpopular and difficult solution for avoiding these mental cages is to try not to attach yourself to firmly to any particular political/religious tribe. It is difficult because it violates the innate morality of "loyalty".
The point is the building is designed to be a very efficient chimney, it doesn't need any air-conditioners, it also has a much smaller footprint so you don't need as much land as a flat data center. Whether the data center gets built will largely depend on whether the extra costs for building up is significantly less than the reduced land and air-conditioning costs. The building can (and probably will) be powered from the grid, geothermal plants can be located efficiently elsewhere on the island, eg: the North Atlantic ocean makes a great heat sink.
10MW is the peak output of a single modern windmill.
It would also need to be a well-ventilated one, to make sure said employees don't catch the whiff of all that CO2 from the gas burning to support them solar benefits.
Are you saying that so called "base load" coal somehow doesn't need fast switching gas turbines to meet peak demands?
If solar gets the air and heat moving that's a major win even if the power to actually drive the servers comes from somewhere else.
The point is that the building doesn't need anything but the servers themselves to cool the building. The entire building is designed like a chimney, hot air from the server "pods" rises creating a convection current that draws in air from the outside. The building funnels the cool air through the "pods" - rinse and repeat. It minimises (or eliminates) the substantial cost of air-conditioning a data center, you don't need anything else to power the air-conditioners, the building itself is the air-conditioner. The larger the outside surface area the more air the structure can take in from outside, the hotter the servers the faster that air will flow through the building. The only downside I can see is - good luck putting it out if it is on fire!
Termites have been using similar "chimney" technology in their climate controlled mounds for hundreds of millions of years, it allows them to cultivate delicate tropical fungi in the middle of the desert.
When I was a lab tutor teaching C to 2nd year CS students in the early 90's the standard "sanitising inputs" lesson was me randomly bashing their keyboard and reducing their mark if it crashed. Turning theory into practice is what lab classes and assignments are supposed to be all about, unfortunately many of the people who teach lab classes do not have any real world experience. Having said that, the role of a university should be to educate people, it should not be expected to relive industry of their responsibility to train their workers.
In the 50's "Computer" was a job title.
Yes, large organisations had "computer pools" and "typist pools", both were almost exclusively filled with women. Even during the 70's when I went to HS, boys were not offered typing lessons because "boys don't grow up to be typists". Computers (of the human variety) were in very high demand during WW2 to compile artillery tables, the same job that first electronic computers were put to work on.
Remember how the polar ice caps are supposed to be gone by now
No?
BTW: Al Gore did not make his fortune by educating people about climate science, he has testified in the Senate that he doesn't personally profit from that activity, all the money goes into the education foundation he established. Similarly none of the thousands of scientists who work on the IPCC report that Gore faithfully presented in his "movie" do not receive a dime for their countless hours of tedious work on the reports.
That human activity is responsible for most, if not all, of the observed warming of the last 100yrs is an established scientific fact.
Some people object to that 'fact" in the same way that some people object to the fact we evolved from apes, or the fact that smoking causes cancer, or the fact that vaccines do not cause autism, etc. They simply refuse to accept the evidence because it contradicts their firmly established religious/political/financial needs and beliefs. We all do this to some degree but most of us are capable of some level of introspection and are not so stubbornly adverse to reason and evidence
Scotland has shut down their last coal plant, the largest in Europe during it's heyday.
He can't do any worse then idiot we have in office atm.
Irony?
I'm waiting for him to say he will make the trains run on time.
Really, what are you basing that on?
Carpet bombing Cambodia?
You need a minimum of three points to unambiguously triangulate a position. I really can't see why this is "news", three or more sensitive microphones placed in the area could also be used to locate individuals by their fart noises and the speed of sound, the question is why bother when there are more practical ways to do the same thing?
Is not the Clinton's money, it's a charity organisation and their books are open for inspection..
The English forced the Irish to wear green, so they wore it with pride.
Slowly, at their pace, but fundamentally better than other hype oriented stuff.
Agree, IBM's "Blue Brain" project has been mapping the brain of a rodent at the molecular level, one microscope slide at a time, for over a decade. The wealth of raw data that this has produced for medical researchers is astonishing, in particular it has been a great gift for neuroscientists. The project is a genuine "public good" and deserves more of our attention than a racist twitter bot.
That word 'cognitive' kinda worries me.
IBM, and more recently Google, have come up with useful AI systems that are within the price range of a small startup company, IMO it is the beginnings of genuinely useful AI tools and in many ways it's a new market that deserves a new phrase to describe it. IBM have been marketing their AI tools under the umbrella of "cognitive computing" for some years now, The MS marketing department is using the word "cognitive" in classic "me too" style, they are trying to equate their racist chatbot to IBM's 'Watson' because they can see the huge potential and want a piece of the pie.
It doesn't matter what rate the US charge when they allow US companies to pay Irish taxes instead of the US taxes.
I'm 12,000 miles away and I've recently heard republican senators say that they would not confirm anybody for SC justice that Obama picked, simply because Obama picked them. That is childish obstructionism and a clear dereliction of duty, Trump is the Frankenstein candidate the republicans created with 20yrs of anti-intellectual rhetoric.He has divided the GOP and in so doing has handed the election to the democrats on a silver platter.
Ironically that cable was built so that Tassie could export hydro power to the mainland. Persistent drought conditions in Tassie over the last couple of decades means that it has often been used to import power from coal plants on the mainland.
All of the same transmission and load balance problems exist with "base load" power. Coal fired plants chew through a lot of coal that has to be transported and loaded into the furnace, so they are usually built next to a coal mine, not next to a city. Their supply curve is managed 24/7 by pumping water uphill during off-peak and using hydro/gas turbines during peak consumption. There is absolutely no technical or logical reason that the jittery renewable supply curve cannot be managed in a similar way. Contrary to what coal shills would have you believe, the demand curve of a city is not flat and steady, in some cases renewables are a actually a much better 'natural fit' for the demand curve, eg the sun shines brightest when the city's air-conditioners are running.
Which is exactly what coal plants do now. "Base load" is nonsense, no city in the world has a flat demand curve so coal fired plants pump water uphill during the night, There is no reason "base load" sources cannot be replaced by variable sources using the same "fast switching" hydro/gas infrastructure that was built for coal plants.