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Posted on 2011-07-12
And then
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OMG!!!! His page statistics got reset at the beginning of the month. Wow, that really means that the ideas inside are not worth considering. I mean, it's like if you had a science book, but discounted the contents because the cover was torn. OMG! What to do?
If you click "About this blog" you'll find out it is a personal blog by somebody from another field and that the purpose is non-technical and mostly political.
"another field"? Physics isn't concerned with energy?
Yes, it's purpose is to show that we cannot continue to increase our energy use at the rate we are increasing now.
And he draws a red line that fits for 200 years from ~1700-1900 and then flies over the actual recent values.
But it is still increasing. So how far out do you want to look? All you have to do is extend the time frame from 2500 years to a longer time if you want to use the more recent trend.
So, pretty much everything you posted is BS.
Tell me, what rate of increase of energy use can we afford if we use seawater extraction and thorium?
I posted the link as something of a joke against your claim, and you descended to insults. So, now I'll return the favour: STFU, you childish prick.
Thanks asshole, you the greens and the sierra club have inadvertently killed us all by turning the public against nuclear power and forcing governments to rely on coal
And no blame for the people who designed the safety measures at Fukushima? Or the operators at Chernobyl? Or the people responsible for the near disaster at Windscale/Sellafield.
Exchange offers a lot of organizational-level management tools (e.g. revoking email privileges for a fired employee while retaining their emails for reference by their replacement) which are sorely lacking in open source mail servers.
Don't be stupid. Of course you can revoke email privileges while retaining the actual emails with most (if not all) open-source mail servers.
Email isn't what drives Exchange. Calendar integration is what drives it. That plus ignorant managers who think that Outlook IS email.
How convenient the executives sold their shares before it plunged. So why are they still not in jail?
Didn't you hear, the company hired the Three Wise Monkeys (other wise known as their own corporate layers) to do an investigation. They went "La, la, la, I can't see or hear you" and exonerated the executives of any wrongdoing.
Do you really expect the SEC under Trump to actually do anything?
In the USA, the problem with hand counted paper ballots is that, on election day, we frequently have about 20-30 different positions and referenda to vote on.
Where I vote, they have paper ballots, but they are machine counted. There is a record that can be checked for accuracy.
So, these drivers are somewhere near their car, monitoring their cellphones for rides. How is that not on-call?
In traditional employment in the UK, you could be in a cinema, or down the pub and still expect to be paid for your time if you are on-call at that time.
Of course, but if you decide to not go home and wait to see if any work will come up fior you to do, thatÃ(TM)s in your own time, not your bossÃ(TM)s
If you are on site, waiting for work, in the UK, an employment tribunal might decide that you are actually working for those hours. Bosses really need to send people home and not let them linger on site if they want to ensure that they are safe from an unpaid wages claim.
If you're sitting there for an hour and no jobs come up, that's called not working.
A nice example of a circular argument.
If you are employed and at the workplace, you must be paid. Just because the boss doesn't have any work for you to do is irrelevant. If there isn't any work, the boss should send you home.
"Capital" == money or other liquid assets, or the the most important city in a region, typically, the city that is the seat of government and its administrative center.
"Capitol" == the building that houses the legislature.
Subsidized taxi, er, "ride sharing" is a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly compared to a bunch of empty busses on fixed routes with really expensive drivers.
You really don't have a clue, do you? Perhaps you got your ideas about India from some fictional movie or TV program with an idealized view of the country?
India has lots of "ride sharing": "auto-rickshaws". You may know these as "tuk-tuks". They predominantly use two-stroke engines, which spew out large quantities of particulates.
Finally, taxis (whether traditional or "ride-sharing") are never the answer. They are no better than individual cars, except in one respect: no need to provide parking.
I too have made an edit to an article about lava caves in Washington state. I had explored those caves many times, and knew some elements of the article were just wrong.
Original research.
I am surprised your edits were not reverted; according to Wikipedia's rules, they should be.
It's always fun to be called out by ignorant fuckwits who want to push an agenda, but the facts are not on their side: https://www.technologyreview.c... "The inflection point has already been reached in the West, and by 2021 solar will be cheaper than coal in China."
Yes, fracking has historically been the reason coal is going away, but renewable sources are now adding to that. "Those milestones will surely lead to greater adoption of clean energy. And the report predicts that of the $10.2 trillion expected to be invested into power generation between now and 2040, 72 percent will be channeled into renewables."
You have to show that moving to renewable sources of energy will cost the USA more over the long term. The fact that solar and wind energy sources are coming down in cost very quickly suggests that complying with the accord will actually benefit the USA.
And, if you want to talk about the USA spending more than other countries, how about we retire about 1/3 of our military and bring almost all forces back to the USA?
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OMG!!!! His page statistics got reset at the beginning of the month. Wow, that really means that the ideas inside are not worth considering. I mean, it's like if you had a science book, but discounted the contents because the cover was torn. OMG! What to do?
"another field"? Physics isn't concerned with energy?
Yes, it's purpose is to show that we cannot continue to increase our energy use at the rate we are increasing now.
But it is still increasing. So how far out do you want to look? All you have to do is extend the time frame from 2500 years to a longer time if you want to use the more recent trend.
So, pretty much everything you posted is BS.
Tell me, what rate of increase of energy use can we afford if we use seawater extraction and thorium?
I posted the link as something of a joke against your claim, and you descended to insults. So, now I'll return the favour: STFU, you childish prick.
And no blame for the people who designed the safety measures at Fukushima? Or the operators at Chernobyl? Or the people responsible for the near disaster at Windscale/Sellafield.
Have you seen the estimates for power usage in the distant future:
The Compuserve forums don't seem to have a functioning search and all agents are blocked by their robots.txt.
What did the people running the site expect? Traffic when no one can discover the site?
Whoever made the boneheaded decision to put this in their robots.txt file killed the forums:
Don't be stupid. Of course you can revoke email privileges while retaining the actual emails with most (if not all) open-source mail servers.
Email isn't what drives Exchange. Calendar integration is what drives it. That plus ignorant managers who think that Outlook IS email.
Solar panels don't run off heat, they convert sunlight to electricity. As the temperature rises, they become less efficient.
Didn't you hear, the company hired the Three Wise Monkeys (other wise known as their own corporate layers) to do an investigation. They went "La, la, la, I can't see or hear you" and exonerated the executives of any wrongdoing.
Do you really expect the SEC under Trump to actually do anything?
Not going to help if it's already been compromised before you receive it.
Just because it is tangible and useful doesn't mean that it is valuable. Water is tangible and useful.
I mentioned diamonds and gold because the price of those commodities is far higher than their intrinsic value.
So ... just like gold or diamond mining.
In the USA, the problem with hand counted paper ballots is that, on election day, we frequently have about 20-30 different positions and referenda to vote on.
Where I vote, they have paper ballots, but they are machine counted. There is a record that can be checked for accuracy.
I think that 100m counts as "close", don't you?
So, these drivers are somewhere near their car, monitoring their cellphones for rides. How is that not on-call?
In traditional employment in the UK, you could be in a cinema, or down the pub and still expect to be paid for your time if you are on-call at that time.
In the UK, if you are on-call and required to stay at or close to a workplace, you must be paid. Volunteers have no such constraints.
If you are on site, waiting for work, in the UK, an employment tribunal might decide that you are actually working for those hours. Bosses really need to send people home and not let them linger on site if they want to ensure that they are safe from an unpaid wages claim.
A nice example of a circular argument.
If you are employed and at the workplace, you must be paid. Just because the boss doesn't have any work for you to do is irrelevant. If there isn't any work, the boss should send you home.
No, that's evidence that he is a two-faced scumbag; otherwise known as a typical politician.
I agree that it should not include those things, but you are horribly naive if you don't realize that it always does mean those things.
Isn't that the wrong order?
https://imgur.com/gallery/9TxW...
Nope:
"Capital" == money or other liquid assets, or the the most important city in a region, typically, the city that is the seat of government and its administrative center.
"Capitol" == the building that houses the legislature.
You really don't have a clue, do you? Perhaps you got your ideas about India from some fictional movie or TV program with an idealized view of the country?
India has lots of "ride sharing": "auto-rickshaws". You may know these as "tuk-tuks". They predominantly use two-stroke engines, which spew out large quantities of particulates.
Finally, taxis (whether traditional or "ride-sharing") are never the answer. They are no better than individual cars, except in one respect: no need to provide parking.
What dragbar? Classic view here. /. looks like it did 15 years ago.
I saw that someone who was already banned by the Wikipedia community was editing articles again, so I reported it in the proper forum.
A Wikipedia administrator blocked me. That's right: I followed all the rules, reported someone else breaking the rules, yet I was blocked.
There are clearly rogue administrators out there, using their power in ways that should not be sanctioned.
Original research.
I am surprised your edits were not reverted; according to Wikipedia's rules, they should be.
It's always fun to be called out by ignorant fuckwits who want to push an agenda, but the facts are not on their side:
https://www.technologyreview.c...
"The inflection point has already been reached in the West, and by 2021 solar will be cheaper than coal in China."
Yes, fracking has historically been the reason coal is going away, but renewable sources are now adding to that.
"Those milestones will surely lead to greater adoption of clean energy. And the report predicts that of the $10.2 trillion expected to be invested into power generation between now and 2040, 72 percent will be channeled into renewables."
So crawl back under your bridge and STFU.
You have to show that moving to renewable sources of energy will cost the USA more over the long term. The fact that solar and wind energy sources are coming down in cost very quickly suggests that complying with the accord will actually benefit the USA.
And, if you want to talk about the USA spending more than other countries, how about we retire about 1/3 of our military and bring almost all forces back to the USA?