Its warm enough not to need serious heating but cold enough to be uncomfortable.
Yes, most Australians have no central heating (I guess Canberra is an exception?), and often just a lounge-room heater. Mornings can be cold, which is why we invented ugg-boots. They are really just over-sized slippers, and not to be worn outside the house.
why take away efficient heating from people in a freezing-cold country?
But it is not efficient. Heat pumps (aka electric air conditioners) are much more efficient, even when using electricity produced by burning gas. And electric heating allows fossil fuels to be replaced by nuclear (imported from Sweden?) and renewables.
I'm surprised anybody still uses oil for heating. Here in Australia, oil heating has long ago almost disappeared, replaced at the time with piped natural gas and bottled butane or propane. Now they are giving way to efficient reverse-cycle split system air-conditioners. Gas is still economical for cooking and water-heating. (heat-pump water heaters cost much more than space heaters for some reason).
where he said "Godot," the Samuel Beckett-inspired name
Whats the chances that a reader does not get the "Godot" reference, but knows Beckett from all his other famous plays?
For those unfamiliar, Beckett won a Nobel Prize in literature, but is better known by your average theatre-goer as the most boring playwright in history. (And obviously the machine arrived well behind schedule.)
Look, we're to be getting close to 1K jobs. Who can say that's bad or that he hasn't delivered?
Maybe you were being sarcastic though, since 1k jobs is chickenshit, and I missed it.
You did not miss it. I took it as sarcasm, but these days, who can tell for sure?
Trump has been promising the coal miners their jobs back, but everyone in the industry is saying they are not coming back, and the best Trump can do is slow the losses. This is not Trumps fault, or Obama's, or any politician. Automation is global. One excavator can mine 240,000 tons of coal per day with a crew of five.
Trump may be trying to keep his promises, but he certainly does not try to make promises he can keep.
You're right. After all, when Windows XP came out Microsoft had a pristine security history from MS-DOS 3 to Windows 98.
That does not really count as XP is based on NT, not DOS as win-98 was. But still, Microsoft. Such a choice does not inspire confidence in the technical competence of the decision makers. Are they really using Windows for the combat systems?
It does not work that way, I hope. The federal legislators do not need to concern themselves with technical details of safety. They merely provide a legal framework for a designated body to set regulations. The regulations are set by technical experts, not politicians, and can be updated very quickly. They cover the design and maintenance of self-driving vehicles.
State legislation will need more work, because road-rules are set directly by legislation, and will need to be reconsidered. State laws also cover liability in an accident, or breech of rules such as speeding.
Does the US have any federal legislation for road rules? (i.e. rules for drivers, rather than cars - manufacturers etc.)
Interestingly, "unsecure" as an adjective meaning "not secure" has been a word since the 1600s!
Lots of spelling was different in the 1600s, and multiple spellings were common. Since then, dictionaries arrived and people, especially publishers, attempted to standardise. The "unsecure" form all but disappeared by 200 years ago. I'm certainly seeing red squiggly line every time I type the word:-) Not you?
No, "unsecure" is not a word. English is complicated enough already without making negative prefixes change with context. Are you one one of those people who think "mouses" is the correct plural for computer peripherals?
basically using modern medical techniques but who call themselves chiropractors because so much of America is convinced that "chiropractor" means "back doctor".
Sounds like a priest who does not believe in God in the literal sense, but likes the ceremony.
From the Ohio valley, to New York City and all the other great spots on the east coast,
Most of the country is freezing cold in winter, and stinking hot in summer. Half of Texas and everything east suffers from horrible humidity. The only really good climate is southern California, but that is ruined by Los Angeles:) Yes the farm land and natural beauty are abundant. A great place to visit in the right season.
In the UK Kiwis are fruit. They may alternately be flightless birds
If you are in the UK, you should know that "alternately" means back-and-forth. As is "we meet on alternate Tuesdays", or "alternating current". Alternatively, you may be speaking American.
Why free when they keep doing "3 months premium for 99c" promos for "new" users?
I have not watched adverts since the VCR was invented. If all the ad-free radio services were to shut down, I'd have to dust off the 20GB mp3 collection.
And I understand that the main reason it was never a treaty was exactly this: The US gov't would never have got it through the coal-industry, sorry, Republican-controlled congress.
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But if burning gas for electricity is so efficient, why did all our gas powered power plants go bankrupt despite the very high tax paid subsides?
Hard to say without knowing what country are you in, dumbass.
Its warm enough not to need serious heating but cold enough to be uncomfortable.
Yes, most Australians have no central heating (I guess Canberra is an exception?), and often just a lounge-room heater.
Mornings can be cold, which is why we invented ugg-boots. They are really just over-sized slippers, and not to be worn outside the house.
a significant number of /. readers would have look up who Jay Z and Kayne West are in order to follow this.
At least they sound vaguely familiar. I've never heard of Tidal. So its kind of like Spotify?
why take away efficient heating from people in a freezing-cold country?
But it is not efficient. Heat pumps (aka electric air conditioners) are much more efficient, even when using electricity produced by burning gas.
And electric heating allows fossil fuels to be replaced by nuclear (imported from Sweden?) and renewables.
I'm surprised anybody still uses oil for heating. Here in Australia, oil heating has long ago almost disappeared, replaced at the time with piped natural gas and bottled butane or propane. Now they are giving way to efficient reverse-cycle split system air-conditioners. Gas is still economical for cooking and water-heating. (heat-pump water heaters cost much more than space heaters for some reason).
where he said "Godot," the Samuel Beckett-inspired name
Whats the chances that a reader does not get the "Godot" reference, but knows Beckett from all his other famous plays?
For those unfamiliar, Beckett won a Nobel Prize in literature, but is better known by your average theatre-goer as the most boring playwright in history.
(And obviously the machine arrived well behind schedule.)
Look, we're to be getting close to 1K jobs. Who can say that's bad or that he hasn't delivered?
Maybe you were being sarcastic though, since 1k jobs is chickenshit, and I missed it.
You did not miss it. I took it as sarcasm, but these days, who can tell for sure?
Trump has been promising the coal miners their jobs back, but everyone in the industry is saying they are not coming back, and the best Trump can do is slow the losses. This is not Trumps fault, or Obama's, or any politician. Automation is global. One excavator can mine 240,000 tons of coal per day with a crew of five.
Trump may be trying to keep his promises, but he certainly does not try to make promises he can keep.
Cows consume grass -- and in very high volumes.
Not American cows. They eat grain, lots of it. And probably washed down with 32oz cups of HFCS.
You're right. After all, when Windows XP came out Microsoft had a pristine security history from MS-DOS 3 to Windows 98.
That does not really count as XP is based on NT, not DOS as win-98 was. But still, Microsoft.
Such a choice does not inspire confidence in the technical competence of the decision makers. Are they really using Windows for the combat systems?
It does not work that way, I hope.
The federal legislators do not need to concern themselves with technical details of safety. They merely provide a legal framework for a designated body to set regulations. The regulations are set by technical experts, not politicians, and can be updated very quickly. They cover the design and maintenance of self-driving vehicles.
State legislation will need more work, because road-rules are set directly by legislation, and will need to be reconsidered. State laws also cover liability in an accident, or breech of rules such as speeding.
Does the US have any federal legislation for road rules? (i.e. rules for drivers, rather than cars - manufacturers etc.)
Interestingly, "unsecure" as an adjective meaning "not secure" has been a word since the 1600s!
Lots of spelling was different in the 1600s, and multiple spellings were common. Since then, dictionaries arrived and people, especially publishers, attempted to standardise. The "unsecure" form all but disappeared by 200 years ago. I'm certainly seeing red squiggly line every time I type the word :-) Not you?
No, "unsecure" is not a word. English is complicated enough already without making negative prefixes change with context.
Are you one one of those people who think "mouses" is the correct plural for computer peripherals?
ABC says "unsecure"!? How literacy standards have fallen at the public broadcaster :-(
Can they no longer even afford a spellchecker?
They would get the same or better benefits from a professional masseuse,.
Or even from an oldest-professional massage parlour.
Maybe an even bigger smile.
basically using modern medical techniques but who call themselves chiropractors because so much of America is convinced that "chiropractor" means "back doctor".
Sounds like a priest who does not believe in God in the literal sense, but likes the ceremony.
From the Ohio valley, to New York City and all the other great spots on the east coast,
Most of the country is freezing cold in winter, and stinking hot in summer. Half of Texas and everything east suffers from horrible humidity. :)
The only really good climate is southern California, but that is ruined by Los Angeles
Yes the farm land and natural beauty are abundant. A great place to visit in the right season.
gooseberries, not strawberries.
In the UK Kiwis are fruit. They may alternately be flightless birds
If you are in the UK, you should know that "alternately" means back-and-forth. As is "we meet on alternate Tuesdays", or "alternating current".
Alternatively, you may be speaking American.
instead build a new, greater firewall 3.0 to protect the country from all those nasty threats like China,
And make China pay for it?
Exactly. I, as well as two of my friends, had a computer in my (their) bedroom as a kid -
Was this pre-internet?
Why free when they keep doing "3 months premium for 99c" promos for "new" users?
I have not watched adverts since the VCR was invented. If all the ad-free radio services were to shut down, I'd have to dust off the 20GB mp3 collection.
North is Germany. Some people are too geographically challenged to get a joke about the geographically challenged.
Yes, you can visit the open-air museum of Failed Immigration Policy. It is called Malmö.
Dammit, I went to Switzerland
Oh well, go see Ayers Rock instead. It can't be more than a couple of hours train ride east.
Intervened? I missed that, but wikileaks reported on US espionage on the French elections.
However , here is an article "The long history of the U.S. interfering with elections elsewhere". Is Washington Post MSM enough for you?
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Perhaps it would help if the US admitted past CIA corruption of democracy and apologised.
The Paris deal isn't a treaty, it's an "accord".
And I understand that the main reason it was never a treaty was exactly this: The US gov't would never have got it through the coal-industry, sorry, Republican-controlled congress.