Fair enough but that word "rideshare" that you use so much is a blatant confidence trick and an insult to the reader's intelligence. It's part of the obfiscation that has created situations such as what you describe.
The true irony here is that if you act as you suggest you end up being a massive leech on society yourself - exactly what you accuse the government of doing! It's funny how all these "step outside society" fantasies always depend on stealing from someone else - "when society falls apart I've got mine and I've got a lot of guns so I can get yours too".
Negotiating my own deals with management, setting my own terms and salary.
That is why you are a contractor while they are piecework employees. As for the last bit, yes yes, we get that a Union bit your sister when you were a kid or similar thing that gave you issues, but please keep it to yourself, it just looks ridiculous.
There have been a few products of this type such as some in the UK. Tesla are not the early adopters and neither will be their customers. I think it will get cheaper though just as the panels did once some huge factories came online.
Glass is very, very strong - which is why it is used in glass fibre reinforced plastic. It is however normally very brittle as in it can't absorb a lot of impact energy without cracking. If you add something to absorb the energy, such as a sandwich of plastic between layers of glass in a car's windscreen you end up with something that is tough enough to take some impacts without cracking.
For a first year engineering materials practical I used to get students to load up horizontal glass rods with a lot of weight until they bowed a lot. You need a very smooth surface so that cracks won't start from tiny scratches, so that meant preparing with Hydrofluoric acid (don't try it at home!). That gave the students a bit of an insight into the difference between strength (maximum load) and toughness (energy which is proportional to the area under a curve of load versus extension).
Thanks for the reply. The problems (minor ones really) were with Chrome with the Adobe PDF plugin and not the current version of Chrome that renders PDF files itself. It had a very bad habit of keeping an "acroread" process running after the tab had closed.
Yes - a failure on the "Canadian Grid" led to a blackout of a lot of the "Eastern Grid". So apply that to what you think you know and you may be able to get what I was writing about above and how the three grids you mentioned have not been independent things for decades. Consider timezones and peak usage times and you'll get a bit of an idea of how much is saved by having such a vast east-west grid.
Isn't it amazing how somebody can insist so intently that reality isn't true.
Indeed. You appall me. All this impotent charging at windmills. If you were a little bit older you'd see solar as something amazing on spacecraft and wind as something useful to pump water on the farm instead of this hate driven by the empty ideology of "I've got mine".
Covert operations, as I wrote above - twice. Killing people after using the NGOs as cover to get close to them from what he's been able to say about his service. Without getting into the morality and need to do such operations it is a bit of a kick in the teeth to NGO groups that we should be supporting. It's like flying the flag of a neutral country that we have good dealings with on a warship before sneaking in and opening fire. The conspiracy theories about the NGOs just being fronts for the CIA get believed more after actions like that and it seems to have resulted in a few deaths of NGO workers on the assumption that they are spies. It's looking like we could have already eliminated polio if some NGOs hadn't been faced by trust issues relating to this.
Wind USAGE isn't steady you goose - base load is. I pointed you at that graph so you could learn something even if reading words is beyond you. There are words written on the graph to tell you which "real world data" it is based on.
BASE LOAD DOESN'T GET TURNED OFF TO MAKE WAY FOR WIND and your politically motivated lies to pretend it does are extremely annoying. Nukes run all day and all night all year no matter what the wind is doing.
Take a look at the second graph to get a good dose of reality over ideology: http://www.theenergycollective... All it took was a very quick google image search.
If you spend anywhere near the amount of time you write about this stuff on actually learning about it we wouldn't need to have these discussions where I try hard to not write as if I am looking down on an idiot.
With the greatest possible respect they had the fuel at the time for but pretended not to for pricing purposes. You know quite a bit about the topic - how about filling in those gaps instead of just winging it and then inflicting those guesses from nowhere on people?
S Australia was gas pipeline constrained back then
There is a vast amount more available than even five years ago so that is most definitely not the case. The Australian system is a gross perversion of the sort of market you think it is. I had the misfortune of seeing it implemented in the 1990s and jumped ship into the resource sector via academia.
I read them - they are content free expressions of intentions. If you want to learn something go looking for an example of base load generators halted in the middle of the day to make way for windmills and solar. You won't find any and that will show you that you are just spreading a rather stupid lie. Maybe you already know that since you seem to push hard for ideology over reality. Anything "green" whether it's a good idea or not gets attacked by you. Machines don't have politics you goose.
No. The CIA had/has covert operations embedded within medical NGOs and Evan McMullin is an example of one of the agents doing covert operations with that as a cover.
It's the sort of stupid idea sure to backfire, which it already has to an extent in the years since it was exposed, and it's something the conspiracy nuts can point to as "proof" that AIDS was spread by the CIA via vaccination.
I'm not blaming McMullin for doing his job. The idiots that suggested such operations on the other hand should be locked up before they attempt something as stupid as that again.
One thing in reality that reinforces conspiracy theories like that is many people such as the ex-CIA Republican candidate Evan McMullin who spent their career embedded in Medical NGOs. I'm not blaming him, he was doing a job, just the idiots in his management that thought up that counterproductive shit that makes utter loonies like the CIA-AIDS conspiracy nuts look like they have a point.
They do go halfway to being as noisy as a mechanical typewriter so I get the prima donna's point even though I like the things. I have one in a server room and one at home, but wouldn't inflict it on my co-workers at close range. I blame both the office layout and suspect the person who complained is too young to have heard a typewriter.
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Fair enough but that word "rideshare" that you use so much is a blatant confidence trick and an insult to the reader's intelligence. It's part of the obfiscation that has created situations such as what you describe.
It's called piecework.
The difference here is it's cars as the tool and not sewing machines.
The true irony here is that if you act as you suggest you end up being a massive leech on society yourself - exactly what you accuse the government of doing!
It's funny how all these "step outside society" fantasies always depend on stealing from someone else - "when society falls apart I've got mine and I've got a lot of guns so I can get yours too".
That is why you are a contractor while they are piecework employees.
As for the last bit, yes yes, we get that a Union bit your sister when you were a kid or similar thing that gave you issues, but please keep it to yourself, it just looks ridiculous.
Really?
Being in a pistol club would be really boring without pistols if you were correct.
http://www.marplerifleandpisto...
The NRA lies you know. It has people like Oliver North, (that guy who sold weapons to Iran and Hezbolla and embezzled a bit on the side) running it.
There have been a few products of this type such as some in the UK. Tesla are not the early adopters and neither will be their customers. I think it will get cheaper though just as the panels did once some huge factories came online.
Glass is very, very strong - which is why it is used in glass fibre reinforced plastic. It is however normally very brittle as in it can't absorb a lot of impact energy without cracking.
If you add something to absorb the energy, such as a sandwich of plastic between layers of glass in a car's windscreen you end up with something that is tough enough to take some impacts without cracking.
For a first year engineering materials practical I used to get students to load up horizontal glass rods with a lot of weight until they bowed a lot. You need a very smooth surface so that cracks won't start from tiny scratches, so that meant preparing with Hydrofluoric acid (don't try it at home!). That gave the students a bit of an insight into the difference between strength (maximum load) and toughness (energy which is proportional to the area under a curve of load versus extension).
Thanks for the reply.
The problems (minor ones really) were with Chrome with the Adobe PDF plugin and not the current version of Chrome that renders PDF files itself.
It had a very bad habit of keeping an "acroread" process running after the tab had closed.
Yes - a failure on the "Canadian Grid" led to a blackout of a lot of the "Eastern Grid".
So apply that to what you think you know and you may be able to get what I was writing about above and how the three grids you mentioned have not been independent things for decades. Consider timezones and peak usage times and you'll get a bit of an idea of how much is saved by having such a vast east-west grid.
Isn't it amazing how somebody can insist so intently that reality isn't true.
Indeed. You appall me. All this impotent charging at windmills. If you were a little bit older you'd see solar as something amazing on spacecraft and wind as something useful to pump water on the farm instead of this hate driven by the empty ideology of "I've got mine".
Covert operations, as I wrote above - twice. Killing people after using the NGOs as cover to get close to them from what he's been able to say about his service.
Without getting into the morality and need to do such operations it is a bit of a kick in the teeth to NGO groups that we should be supporting. It's like flying the flag of a neutral country that we have good dealings with on a warship before sneaking in and opening fire.
The conspiracy theories about the NGOs just being fronts for the CIA get believed more after actions like that and it seems to have resulted in a few deaths of NGO workers on the assumption that they are spies. It's looking like we could have already eliminated polio if some NGOs hadn't been faced by trust issues relating to this.
Wind USAGE isn't steady you goose - base load is. I pointed you at that graph so you could learn something even if reading words is beyond you. There are words written on the graph to tell you which "real world data" it is based on.
BASE LOAD DOESN'T GET TURNED OFF TO MAKE WAY FOR WIND and your politically motivated lies to pretend it does are extremely annoying.
Nukes run all day and all night all year no matter what the wind is doing.
Take a look at the second graph to get a good dose of reality over ideology:
http://www.theenergycollective...
All it took was a very quick google image search.
If you spend anywhere near the amount of time you write about this stuff on actually learning about it we wouldn't need to have these discussions where I try hard to not write as if I am looking down on an idiot.
There is a vast amount more available than even five years ago so that is most definitely not the case.
The Australian system is a gross perversion of the sort of market you think it is. I had the misfortune of seeing it implemented in the 1990s and jumped ship into the resource sector via academia.
Look up "interconnection" or remember what happened a few years ago with a cascading failure that started in Canada.
Read what I wrote again and answer the actual question instead of a mistake or a deliberate evasion via pretending to be stupid.
I read them - they are content free expressions of intentions.
If you want to learn something go looking for an example of base load generators halted in the middle of the day to make way for windmills and solar. You won't find any and that will show you that you are just spreading a rather stupid lie.
Maybe you already know that since you seem to push hard for ideology over reality. Anything "green" whether it's a good idea or not gets attacked by you.
Machines don't have politics you goose.
No.
The CIA had/has covert operations embedded within medical NGOs and Evan McMullin is an example of one of the agents doing covert operations with that as a cover.
It's the sort of stupid idea sure to backfire, which it already has to an extent in the years since it was exposed, and it's something the conspiracy nuts can point to as "proof" that AIDS was spread by the CIA via vaccination.
I'm not blaming McMullin for doing his job. The idiots that suggested such operations on the other hand should be locked up before they attempt something as stupid as that again.
One thing in reality that reinforces conspiracy theories like that is many people such as the ex-CIA Republican candidate Evan McMullin who spent their career embedded in Medical NGOs.
I'm not blaming him, he was doing a job, just the idiots in his management that thought up that counterproductive shit that makes utter loonies like the CIA-AIDS conspiracy nuts look like they have a point.
I'm sure some winner can trump those numbers.
Quite a bit smaller than your local power substation that distributes power to your town/suburb.
Workaround - I've seen people use MS Win10 just to run VirtualBox full screen with an older version of MS Windows.
From your other posts I thought you were a student.
A lot of Model M's would survive that. The mechanism is underneath to avoid spill damage and keycaps are on top of the keys.
They do go halfway to being as noisy as a mechanical typewriter so I get the prima donna's point even though I like the things. I have one in a server room and one at home, but wouldn't inflict it on my co-workers at close range.
I blame both the office layout and suspect the person who complained is too young to have heard a typewriter.