The controversial government program that funded failed solar company Solyndra, and became a lighting rod in the 2012 presidential election, is officially in the black.
Where are these missing "several Billion" that you claim?
I have backed my assertions with citations. Either show some basis for your claims, or STFU.
Obama giving hundreds of billions of tax dollars to great projects like Solyndra are similarly fine.
Yes it was fine.
Do you think that we should close the stock markets down because individual companies fail? The Solyndra loan guarantees were part of a program which was a success overall.
While there might be something to your argument that past pollutants were high in the US, it does not translate into the current pollution levels in the US. I've been to major cities all around the world, and in most cases, I would gladly choose to breath U.S. big city air over most other places. Visit Asia much? How about South America?
While true, that says nothing about CO2 and it is CO2 that is the subject of the Paris treaty.
The US is also one of the first countries to establish the Environmental Protection agency to explicitly DO something about getting emissions down. Which is why things like smog in Los Angeles is much less a problem today than it was before and we didn't need a worldwide treaty to do it.
Smog in LA has nothing to do with CO2 emissions.
If you are going to post about something, please do try to get a clue first.
But poking around a hard drive is a legitimate part of fixing a computer, and if they inform on criminal activity they've observed as part of their normal activities they're informants.
Unless the customer is asking for recovery of deleted files, please explain the reason for looking for files in unallocated space while performing maintenance.
If I read this right, they are claiming that putting a huge load on the system (bringing up power to too many servers at once) resulted in excessive voltage on the power rails.
In my understanding of physics, increasing the current usually results in reduced voltage. So where did the over-voltage come from?
Or are they saying their their UPS generators were somehow incapable of limiting their output voltage? Pretty strange generators, not suitable for the task?
None of this sounds right, which is why I reject it outright as a CYA claim by the CEO. I expect that the technicians responsible for rebuilding have been told that, if they talk about it, they will find that their own jobs have been outsourced. But still, perhaps some anonymous leaks will happen.
And the return of the power overwhelmed the UPSes?
No, they appear to be saying that turning the power on somehow damaged the computers: "The power then returned in an uncontrolled way causing physical damage to the IT servers"
I don't believe this. The CEO is just protecting his own ass after outsourcing IT.
and while Wine promised to solve that it's way too complex for most people. Enter PlayOnLinux, which makes common Windows software installation just as simple as on Windows
You know that PlayOnLinux is a layer on top of Wine, right? You are using Wine.
I'm not saying ditch Windows. I'm saying let's fix this. If we can't fix it, then we ditch Windows.
We already know it's unfixable. What's the delay in ditching Windows?
I think that, for many people, if running Windows required the user to endure an electric shock, they would still not ditch it. They have such little imagination that an alternative is possible.
Unfortunately, if you want a full fledged computer, you probably won't find anything smaller than a Zotac. That's the limitation of micro ATX boards basically.
Have you never heard of Mini-ITX? It's significantly smaller than micro-ATX, but still not sufficiently low power for battery operation. And then there are these boxes, but again, still probably too power hungry for battery power.
Somewhere, there is probably an IT guy who has been begging for the budget to upgrade some old machines, or move the services onto a cloud provider and was ignored.
He's crying today, because this huge revenue loss could probably have been avoided with a small budget for newer hardware or more redundancy.
It is quite likely the costs have gone up since then, or the revenue went down, if they were ever accurate. Labor/part costs change. The cost of energy changes.
If you look carefully at that study, you will see that the maintenance cost estimate was based on figures from 2009.
Costs for wind power (especially offshore) have gone down a lot since 2009. Not up. Why would you even suggest that costs may have gone up?
The maintenance cost for a turbine is about 30% of its energy production.
Bullshit. This study, which is already old and out of date, puts O&M costs at 20-25%. With the newer, larger offshore turbines, that figure will be lower.
Did you collect your check from the Koch Brothers for posting that falsehood?
They'll just keep tightening the data caps in their favor.
No, I don't think they will. Comcast has been very smart in this regard. The current cap is typically 1TB which is plenty enough for streaming today, but Comcast knows that eventually, higher resolution, more usage and other factors will make that 1TB a real limitation on data usage for many subscribers.
Then Comcast will leverage that limitation for greater profits, all without ever decreasing the data cap.
The fact that many Senators and Congresspeople don't is to a large extent a reflection of how two aspects of our government system (the ability to gerrymander congressional districts, and the fact that senators are elected by state and many low population states lean right) distort what our elected government ends up looking like compared to what it would on a strict population basis.
I think that you are wrong about the cause of US politicians not accepting climate change predictions. I propose the real reason is much simpler: money from the Koch Brothers.
In my LinkedIn feed, someone posted the results of an attempt to use the retina scanner at an airport in order to go through the faster "Clear" security line.
The scanner identified the person's retina as belonging to a completely different person.
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Don't let facts get in the way of your argument:
Where are these missing "several Billion" that you claim?
I have backed my assertions with citations. Either show some basis for your claims, or STFU.
Apparently you are unable to read and you try to mask your stupidity with insults.
It doesn't work: it just shows your own stupidity.
Yes, think about it.
What do you call someone who inherited their money, then got returns on investment that are lower than tracker funds? You don't call them smart.
Only an idiot points to Trump's wealth as a sign of intelligence.
Yes it was fine.
Do you think that we should close the stock markets down because individual companies fail? The Solyndra loan guarantees were part of a program which was a success overall.
Typical Republican falsehoods.
While true, that says nothing about CO2 and it is CO2 that is the subject of the Paris treaty.
Smog in LA has nothing to do with CO2 emissions.
If you are going to post about something, please do try to get a clue first.
Or, you could shut down your coal-powered power stations and replace them with wind, solar and, yes, natural gas; which the USA is doing already.
We don't need (or even want) to get down to zero carbon emissions.
Unless the customer is asking for recovery of deleted files, please explain the reason for looking for files in unallocated space while performing maintenance.
*If only.
* Dow and DuPont are in the process of merging.
Citing the Heritage Foundation, LOL!
Let me suggest that you go and look up the definition of Democracy. Here is a primer for you:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
If I read this right, they are claiming that putting a huge load on the system (bringing up power to too many servers at once) resulted in excessive voltage on the power rails.
In my understanding of physics, increasing the current usually results in reduced voltage. So where did the over-voltage come from?
Or are they saying their their UPS generators were somehow incapable of limiting their output voltage? Pretty strange generators, not suitable for the task?
None of this sounds right, which is why I reject it outright as a CYA claim by the CEO. I expect that the technicians responsible for rebuilding have been told that, if they talk about it, they will find that their own jobs have been outsourced. But still, perhaps some anonymous leaks will happen.
No, they appear to be saying that turning the power on somehow damaged the computers:
"The power then returned in an uncontrolled way causing physical damage to the IT servers"
I don't believe this. The CEO is just protecting his own ass after outsourcing IT.
"Whatabout" argument detected.
You know that PlayOnLinux is a layer on top of Wine, right? You are using Wine.
We already know it's unfixable. What's the delay in ditching Windows?
I think that, for many people, if running Windows required the user to endure an electric shock, they would still not ditch it. They have such little imagination that an alternative is possible.
Have you never heard of Mini-ITX? It's significantly smaller than micro-ATX, but still not sufficiently low power for battery operation. And then there are these boxes, but again, still probably too power hungry for battery power.
Somewhere, there is probably an IT guy who has been begging for the budget to upgrade some old machines, or move the services onto a cloud provider and was ignored.
He's crying today, because this huge revenue loss could probably have been avoided with a small budget for newer hardware or more redundancy.
If you look carefully at that study, you will see that the maintenance cost estimate was based on figures from 2009.
Costs for wind power (especially offshore) have gone down a lot since 2009. Not up. Why would you even suggest that costs may have gone up?
Don't worry, lucm was lying about that figure.
Bullshit. This study, which is already old and out of date, puts O&M costs at 20-25%. With the newer, larger offshore turbines, that figure will be lower.
Did you collect your check from the Koch Brothers for posting that falsehood?
No, I don't think they will. Comcast has been very smart in this regard. The current cap is typically 1TB which is plenty enough for streaming today, but Comcast knows that eventually, higher resolution, more usage and other factors will make that 1TB a real limitation on data usage for many subscribers.
Then Comcast will leverage that limitation for greater profits, all without ever decreasing the data cap.
Or not.
Perhaps we all need to go back to Europe!
I think that you are wrong about the cause of US politicians not accepting climate change predictions. I propose the real reason is much simpler: money from the Koch Brothers.
In my LinkedIn feed, someone posted the results of an attempt to use the retina scanner at an airport in order to go through the faster "Clear" security line.
The scanner identified the person's retina as belonging to a completely different person.
And we rely on these systems?