I don't know in what world calling somebody an isolationist prick isn't an attack
Hold on cowboy - I didn't call YOU an isolationist prick since YOU HAVE NOT DONE THOSE THINGS, you are not acting like a Hollywood 2D survivalist character because you are not actually hiding in a hole today. It's hypothetical at this point and it's a label for a person DOING those things instead of someone DISCUSSING those things. Clear now? How many times do I have to write "I'm not attacking you" for it to come across that I'm going after the widespread conditioned attitude that you'll probably be grown up enough to shed when you really need to, and not yourself. Now please calm down and consider my other post, especially the bit I put in bold text.
And being the stupid asshole to contribute to an epidemic by spreading deadly disease
I'm trying to point out that it's not a two choice thing between hiding in a hole with your child and "being the stupid asshole to contribute to an epidemic". There's a third choice of helping out without making things worse. Why isn't it getting through?
If anything is "harmful information" it's a suggestion to hide in a hole with a magic first aid kit that is not going to be able to keep the "cutie" alive in the example I gave above. People in disasters die of a lot of things other than the primary cause because they cannot get food, water and medicine for other problems.
So I suppose the only rational thing to do is to assume that *every single* teacher that ever existed was competent
Ah yes - the "hey look I'm far too stupid to breath" approach. How about you try again after you have calmed down, or just say you don't give a shit about the issue and don't wish to discuss it rationally. The "So your argument is" and "Should I instead believe you that there is no such thing" stuff is just pure mindless strawman insults in the same pretended stupidity mould. You are not so clueless as to misunderstand so badly, we both know it, and nobody else here gives a shit so you are not fooling anyone. You may hate me intensely but putting words in my mouth does nothing other than bring yourself down.
It's not hard to fire people at all, even with very little cause. The "hard" bit is taking responsibility for doing it afterwards, which is why it's all too hard for those that like to dodge responsibility.
Joint replacements are typically for a decade or two - a common failure mode is the vast number of tiny bits of bone that get ground off when the metal scrapes them off get attacked by the immune system and then it starts eating into the bone where the joint is anchored, eventually leading to it being too weak and replacement is needed on fresh bone, requiring a larger joint. Similarly getting a decade or two out of beta cells is still a pretty big deal. It doesn't have to last fifty or seventy years per operation to be useful.
Yes I suppose - selfishness and greed can be called conservative just like Communist East Germany called itself the Federated Democratic Republic but neither reflect the values the words are supposed to represent. Getting my point yet? Being an isolationist prick is counterproductive in a disaster situation and is likely to lead to more harm to the little cutie than sensible interaction with the community around you - despite the bullshit we've been fed by disaster and action movies. I'm not attacking you, just the bullshit you've been fooled into spreading. It's insidious and looks incredibly stupid when held up to the light, as show by the cretinous "first aid kit" attempted putdown above. You are not that stupid just playing a part. When shit hits fans (probably a very bad way to phrase things since Ebola can make that literal), we need to wake up and act like citizens instead of cartoon cavemen or useless Eloi.
There's been a few things made from adult stem cells. This may end up being one of them after a bit more work, so that then cells from the intended recipient can be taken, altered, grown and transplanted. Then it's functionally like a skin graft.
With a wide range of perscription drugs in it? Come on now:)
As for the other bits, you seem to be thinking of something like a fallout shelter and coming out after the fallout. That's not applicable to this situation. Avoiding close contact and avoiding no-go areas is.
If you think preparation or knowing how to survive is kooky
It's the isolationist bit that is kooky and "not conservative", and knowing how to a survive in a disaster frequently relies on the muscle power of many people to do what one person without machinery can not do. There's a very good reason why establishing communication is a high proirity in disaster situations. Being "community minded" is a core of being conservative. Hiding in a hole while your neighbour dies of hunger is not, especially when you can do something about it with zero risk to yourself.
Maybe there's other things that need to be discovered
They would be nice but we don't really "need" them, we just use whatever works best in a role. Space probe going way out? Radiation source plus internal photovoltaics. A source of a lot of really hot gas? Turbine, MHD or steam. A very large source of heat that you can conduct away? Huge volumes of steam being ducted through a series of large turbines (on the same rotor, but the steam is looped around and around to each set of blades). Being indirect is nice for nukes - that cooling water in the towers is a couple of steps removed from anything exposed to radiation and when the turbine water leaks it's just expensively processed water that hasn't been exposed to radiation either. Everything scary lives in the relatively small reactors and adjacent heat exchangers.
Say your cutie gets some sort of infection easily cured by antibiotics in your bunker. She dies even though with communication and dropoffs you could have saved her with some medicine from the pharmacist down the road with no risk of catching or spreading infection. That's a potential price of dropping out of society when you should be doing something to help keep it going. Stop dreaming of apocalyptic disaster movies where infection control does not exist and think like a rational human being. It does indeed suck but you alone are not enough to get your kid through life, and the more of civilisation we keep intact when the shit hits the fan the more people survive.
then stock up on supplies and get ready to lock down your home because hell is coming and all will go.
Selfishly hiding in a bunker and expecting others to bring you food and supplies is not the act of a good citizen. Safely helping out the people around you when a disaster hits is the act of a good citizen. The "conservative" view is supposed to be to support your community instead of hiding in a hole. A guy with gloves, mask and wheelbarrow full of food and water that unloads the contents where his neighbours can pick it up later is both a "hero" that keeps people alive and someone with zero risk of spreading infection. I'm astonished that you didn't get that point before your two replies. It appears you took things far too personally despite the "but even though it's a common fantasy and it's not your fault". Stupid fucking survivalist fantasies do not help in disasters, whether hurricane or virus. What helps is people that are not prepared to watch their neighbours die of cold or lack of food when normal infrastructure is not available. There's plenty that can be done without risking your life.
What should be obvious is that large groups of people being paid to do nothing
No. The two instances I've heard that very verified as far as a courtroom were a government department run by cowardly bureaucratic pricks and a large multinational resources company with a division run by cowardly bureaucratic pricks while other divisions had no problems at all firing people. There's plenty of other rumours but how do we really tell them from fiction?
is a sign that it is too hard to fire someone.
No. If it's too hard to fire someone that is incompetent then it's a sign that the person with the authority to fire is operating beyond their competence level themselves or is scared of "office politics" consequences, such as firing the bosses nephew.
Think back a bit. We've seen a teacher fired for a "drunken pirate" costume party photo on Facebook. We've seen plenty fired on "moral" grounds if it's suspected that they are gay just not devout enough for some religious schools, and that's just the stuff that makes it into the mass media. How do you reconcile such incidents with "too hard to fire someone"? You've been misled by hype from some professional weasel going after a soft target to build popularity.
This is why I've sometimes wondered if there isn't a way to directly convert nuclear energy to electricity
Some spacecraft have been powered that way - a bit like a radiation source and a photovoltaic to turn the photons into electricity - but it's doesn't turn much of the energy you could potentially use into electricity so steam still wins on the ground. It's a solution for very small scales where thermal is not going to work. Then there's peltier/seebeck of dissimilar metals and a heat gradient producing electricity in tiny amounts compared with what you could do with that temperature difference and steam.
The Nvidia driver is very good for that sort of thing and can have up to four sessions per card Xephr is crap in comparison. Other points such as USB are spot on, unless you make sure nobody unplug their mouse. Two used to be easy with one user on ps/2 (or bluetooth) and one on usb, but all on usb does suck as you say. As for "All users sessions run on the same virtual terminal" - no wonder you had problems and had to use Xephr. Anyway my point is that the above poster made an utterly huge newbie mistake that showed he's a bit of a backyard dabbler instead of someone that has seen X in action in a workplace - he was pointing out a limitation that does not exist and saying that he can solve that non-problem. I'd like Wayland to be nice but these guys need to get out of their "X sux" rut and take a look at why people actually use the thing. There's been a dozen failed dumb framebuffer projects due to not making it work in such a way that developers were interested in writing or porting software for it, especially since it's a lot harder writing stuff for a supposedly very fast dumb framebuffer than something with a bit more complexity that handles a lot of output instead of the application having to do it. I'll give you a quote from the often quoted on Wayland Daniel Stone - "Multiple screens - that's an application problem". Bit of a worry, however others in the project may have very different views, he wants it for phones after all, so it won't necessarily end up stuck that way. Wayland may expand to provide enough stuff to be useful despite some of those things being initially dismissed as "crufty X stuff".
I look forward to rebuilding this setup with pure SystemD + Wayland in the next 18-24 months
For someone not actually involved in the development of either that's a pretty weird thing to write.
Nice fantasy casting yourself as the lone hero - but even though it's a common fantasy and it's not your fault Hollywood has brainwashed you it's fucking selfish.
When disasters hit the job of a citizen is to get off their arse and prevent their neighbours from dying AS PART of keeping that little cutie safe - in fact you can't keep that cutie safe unless someone is working to make sure that there is food and water getting in for her. It means precautions, protective gear and being co-ordinated by whatever bunch can accumulate a clue, but you shouldn't expect to get through a disaster by sitting on your arse and waiting for a food delivery when you are capable of doing something to help when everyone is overwhelmed.
You don't have to be a Doctor to be a hero. The people that got phones and Wifi going in Haiti after the disaster there were also heroes that saved lives because the doctors etc knew where they were needed and others could find out where to send food and clean water. In a quarantine situation where you can't get close to the people who drop off the food it would be just as important.
If it's out of control in the US, it's out of control in Europe and Asia as well
Not necessarily. See the long string of fuckups in Texas where it's a wonder that there isn't already hundreds of cases due to the casual way it's been treated. It's already been seen in Europe and has scared people to take it very seriously and be very professional. Asia has had recent bird flu etc so are far better prepared than a "What? Me worry?" attitude demonstrated around the US case. It could get out of control in several US States without getting to others with sensible quarantine, so it doesn't mean the whole world gets it if it's in Texas to Florida.
Imprisoning people in with those wastes without cleaning it up or moving them is a poor refection on everyone involved in attempting to contain it and just asking for an outbreak. Those Africans we like to look down on were far more professional about it before they got overwhelmed. Meanwhile - one case in Texas, one of the richest states of the USA, and there's a long string of fuckups such that it's amazing luck that we don't have dozens of other cases yet.
I'm talking about is that a teacher (assuming they are incompetent), can't actually be fired. As long as the teachers show up to work and don't assault anyone they get paid
That sounds incredibly unlikely and like something written up by a political intern to be spewed from the mouth of someone who has decided to define their politics by crusading against "lazy teachers" of similar weasel campaign. I'm sure, especially now with everyone in "think of the kiddies" mode, that there is a very long list of misbehaviour and shortcomings that will get a teacher fired - far more so than back in what you probably think of as "the good old days" when teachers could theoretically be fired at will but sex offenders were quietly moved around to avoid a scandal.
Maybe all the teachers being paid to sit in a room
That's an old trick in many workplaces of the people who are too gutless to fire someone so they just make it so the employee feels useless and hopefully quits instead of having to be fired. Sometimes it saves a large payout, but even then it's somewhat of a "dick move". Most people will move on after a "we really think you should go" talk so such mind games are a waste of time and money. What should be obvious is that an low level employee does not get to choose their assignment to get paid to sit in a room. That gets done by a manager either incapable of reassigning them to a task they can cope with or without the guts to fire them. So the manager has to talk to someone from a big scary union? So what? Being able to justify your actions is what being in a position of responsibility is about. It's not about being a weasel taking all the benefits without any of the responsibility.
IT WAS YOU that tried to rationalize the real world variability of Germany's wind output
You brought up your report from Germany - maybe you should have read it and gained some understanding of what the graphs meant first before your pathetic goalpost shift and ridiculous cut and paste repetition. Why did you bother to waste so much time when you had nothing to say apart from from a bait and switch bluff?
Apart from instances like now when I'm running four X sessions at once because it makes some full screen software behave a lot better and sandboxes workflows nicely. Then there's the people that were running multiple keyboards, mice and monitors for a couple of people on the same box well over a decade back. What is it with Wayland fanboys not having a clue about the system that they are supposed to be improving on?
Yes but systemd doesn't solve any of those problems since it will still be kicking off similar scripts, and not telling you about it when they fail until someone gets their shit together to progress it to the point where you can read the logs when you actually need them. You don't even know stuff is broken until you try to use something and it hasn't started. Updates break anything non-standard such as ZFS. There's long rants here that put things better than I can with my limited exposure on desktop machines - it's not ready for anything with serious consequences of failure yet.
They stopped doing long term investments in technology and processes
As a protected industry they thought they never would have to. Just sit on their assets, let the money roll in and put the idiot nephew in charge of the plant.
It's extremely clear in that graph you provided where all but one of the peaks shown displays a much larger supply of wind power than off the peak, but that's not the point, that's just where you shifted the goalposts too and failed with your silly little bluff. Your own source disproves your statement instead of reinforcing it, and it in no way addresses the obvious reality you objected to of there being wind blowing somewhere so long as you have a big enough electricity network. Europe is certainly big enough. North America - making such an objection as yours does not appear to be sane when considering such a scale. That's where reality denial for the sake of politics gets you. The Berlin wall fell years ago and people are going to make money out of windmills whether you hate the idea of such capitalism or not.
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Hold on cowboy - I didn't call YOU an isolationist prick since YOU HAVE NOT DONE THOSE THINGS, you are not acting like a Hollywood 2D survivalist character because you are not actually hiding in a hole today. It's hypothetical at this point and it's a label for a person DOING those things instead of someone DISCUSSING those things. Clear now? How many times do I have to write "I'm not attacking you" for it to come across that I'm going after the widespread conditioned attitude that you'll probably be grown up enough to shed when you really need to, and not yourself.
Now please calm down and consider my other post, especially the bit I put in bold text.
I'm trying to point out that it's not a two choice thing between hiding in a hole with your child and "being the stupid asshole to contribute to an epidemic". There's a third choice of helping out without making things worse. Why isn't it getting through?
If anything is "harmful information" it's a suggestion to hide in a hole with a magic first aid kit that is not going to be able to keep the "cutie" alive in the example I gave above. People in disasters die of a lot of things other than the primary cause because they cannot get food, water and medicine for other problems.
Ah yes - the "hey look I'm far too stupid to breath" approach. How about you try again after you have calmed down, or just say you don't give a shit about the issue and don't wish to discuss it rationally.
The "So your argument is" and "Should I instead believe you that there is no such thing" stuff is just pure mindless strawman insults in the same pretended stupidity mould. You are not so clueless as to misunderstand so badly, we both know it, and nobody else here gives a shit so you are not fooling anyone. You may hate me intensely but putting words in my mouth does nothing other than bring yourself down.
It's not hard to fire people at all, even with very little cause. The "hard" bit is taking responsibility for doing it afterwards, which is why it's all too hard for those that like to dodge responsibility.
Joint replacements are typically for a decade or two - a common failure mode is the vast number of tiny bits of bone that get ground off when the metal scrapes them off get attacked by the immune system and then it starts eating into the bone where the joint is anchored, eventually leading to it being too weak and replacement is needed on fresh bone, requiring a larger joint. Similarly getting a decade or two out of beta cells is still a pretty big deal. It doesn't have to last fifty or seventy years per operation to be useful.
Yes I suppose - selfishness and greed can be called conservative just like Communist East Germany called itself the Federated Democratic Republic but neither reflect the values the words are supposed to represent. Getting my point yet? Being an isolationist prick is counterproductive in a disaster situation and is likely to lead to more harm to the little cutie than sensible interaction with the community around you - despite the bullshit we've been fed by disaster and action movies. I'm not attacking you, just the bullshit you've been fooled into spreading. It's insidious and looks incredibly stupid when held up to the light, as show by the cretinous "first aid kit" attempted putdown above. You are not that stupid just playing a part. When shit hits fans (probably a very bad way to phrase things since Ebola can make that literal), we need to wake up and act like citizens instead of cartoon cavemen or useless Eloi.
Sadly the new Australian definition of "broadband" appears to be lower than any of those either way, let along a nerfed ADSL upload.
There's been a few things made from adult stem cells. This may end up being one of them after a bit more work, so that then cells from the intended recipient can be taken, altered, grown and transplanted. Then it's functionally like a skin graft.
With a wide range of perscription drugs in it? Come on now :)
As for the other bits, you seem to be thinking of something like a fallout shelter and coming out after the fallout. That's not applicable to this situation. Avoiding close contact and avoiding no-go areas is.
It's the isolationist bit that is kooky and "not conservative", and knowing how to a survive in a disaster frequently relies on the muscle power of many people to do what one person without machinery can not do. There's a very good reason why establishing communication is a high proirity in disaster situations.
Being "community minded" is a core of being conservative. Hiding in a hole while your neighbour dies of hunger is not, especially when you can do something about it with zero risk to yourself.
They would be nice but we don't really "need" them, we just use whatever works best in a role. Space probe going way out? Radiation source plus internal photovoltaics. A source of a lot of really hot gas? Turbine, MHD or steam. A very large source of heat that you can conduct away? Huge volumes of steam being ducted through a series of large turbines (on the same rotor, but the steam is looped around and around to each set of blades).
Being indirect is nice for nukes - that cooling water in the towers is a couple of steps removed from anything exposed to radiation and when the turbine water leaks it's just expensively processed water that hasn't been exposed to radiation either. Everything scary lives in the relatively small reactors and adjacent heat exchangers.
Say your cutie gets some sort of infection easily cured by antibiotics in your bunker. She dies even though with communication and dropoffs you could have saved her with some medicine from the pharmacist down the road with no risk of catching or spreading infection. That's a potential price of dropping out of society when you should be doing something to help keep it going.
Stop dreaming of apocalyptic disaster movies where infection control does not exist and think like a rational human being. It does indeed suck but you alone are not enough to get your kid through life, and the more of civilisation we keep intact when the shit hits the fan the more people survive.
Selfishly hiding in a bunker and expecting others to bring you food and supplies is not the act of a good citizen. Safely helping out the people around you when a disaster hits is the act of a good citizen. The "conservative" view is supposed to be to support your community instead of hiding in a hole. A guy with gloves, mask and wheelbarrow full of food and water that unloads the contents where his neighbours can pick it up later is both a "hero" that keeps people alive and someone with zero risk of spreading infection. I'm astonished that you didn't get that point before your two replies. It appears you took things far too personally despite the "but even though it's a common fantasy and it's not your fault".
Stupid fucking survivalist fantasies do not help in disasters, whether hurricane or virus. What helps is people that are not prepared to watch their neighbours die of cold or lack of food when normal infrastructure is not available. There's plenty that can be done without risking your life.
No. The two instances I've heard that very verified as far as a courtroom were a government department run by cowardly bureaucratic pricks and a large multinational resources company with a division run by cowardly bureaucratic pricks while other divisions had no problems at all firing people. There's plenty of other rumours but how do we really tell them from fiction?
No. If it's too hard to fire someone that is incompetent then it's a sign that the person with the authority to fire is operating beyond their competence level themselves or is scared of "office politics" consequences, such as firing the bosses nephew.
Think back a bit. We've seen a teacher fired for a "drunken pirate" costume party photo on Facebook. We've seen plenty fired on "moral" grounds if it's suspected that they are gay just not devout enough for some religious schools, and that's just the stuff that makes it into the mass media. How do you reconcile such incidents with "too hard to fire someone"? You've been misled by hype from some professional weasel going after a soft target to build popularity.
That's really the problem of car companies going for "laser", "meteor", "satellite" and so on :)
Some spacecraft have been powered that way - a bit like a radiation source and a photovoltaic to turn the photons into electricity - but it's doesn't turn much of the energy you could potentially use into electricity so steam still wins on the ground. It's a solution for very small scales where thermal is not going to work.
Then there's peltier/seebeck of dissimilar metals and a heat gradient producing electricity in tiny amounts compared with what you could do with that temperature difference and steam.
Anyway my point is that the above poster made an utterly huge newbie mistake that showed he's a bit of a backyard dabbler instead of someone that has seen X in action in a workplace - he was pointing out a limitation that does not exist and saying that he can solve that non-problem. I'd like Wayland to be nice but these guys need to get out of their "X sux" rut and take a look at why people actually use the thing. There's been a dozen failed dumb framebuffer projects due to not making it work in such a way that developers were interested in writing or porting software for it, especially since it's a lot harder writing stuff for a supposedly very fast dumb framebuffer than something with a bit more complexity that handles a lot of output instead of the application having to do it.
I'll give you a quote from the often quoted on Wayland Daniel Stone - "Multiple screens - that's an application problem". Bit of a worry, however others in the project may have very different views, he wants it for phones after all, so it won't necessarily end up stuck that way. Wayland may expand to provide enough stuff to be useful despite some of those things being initially dismissed as "crufty X stuff".
For someone not actually involved in the development of either that's a pretty weird thing to write.
Nice fantasy casting yourself as the lone hero - but even though it's a common fantasy and it's not your fault Hollywood has brainwashed you it's fucking selfish.
When disasters hit the job of a citizen is to get off their arse and prevent their neighbours from dying AS PART of keeping that little cutie safe - in fact you can't keep that cutie safe unless someone is working to make sure that there is food and water getting in for her. It means precautions, protective gear and being co-ordinated by whatever bunch can accumulate a clue, but you shouldn't expect to get through a disaster by sitting on your arse and waiting for a food delivery when you are capable of doing something to help when everyone is overwhelmed.
You don't have to be a Doctor to be a hero. The people that got phones and Wifi going in Haiti after the disaster there were also heroes that saved lives because the doctors etc knew where they were needed and others could find out where to send food and clean water. In a quarantine situation where you can't get close to the people who drop off the food it would be just as important.
Not necessarily. See the long string of fuckups in Texas where it's a wonder that there isn't already hundreds of cases due to the casual way it's been treated. It's already been seen in Europe and has scared people to take it very seriously and be very professional. Asia has had recent bird flu etc so are far better prepared than a "What? Me worry?" attitude demonstrated around the US case. It could get out of control in several US States without getting to others with sensible quarantine, so it doesn't mean the whole world gets it if it's in Texas to Florida.
Imprisoning people in with those wastes without cleaning it up or moving them is a poor refection on everyone involved in attempting to contain it and just asking for an outbreak. Those Africans we like to look down on were far more professional about it before they got overwhelmed. Meanwhile - one case in Texas, one of the richest states of the USA, and there's a long string of fuckups such that it's amazing luck that we don't have dozens of other cases yet.
That sounds incredibly unlikely and like something written up by a political intern to be spewed from the mouth of someone who has decided to define their politics by crusading against "lazy teachers" of similar weasel campaign. I'm sure, especially now with everyone in "think of the kiddies" mode, that there is a very long list of misbehaviour and shortcomings that will get a teacher fired - far more so than back in what you probably think of as "the good old days" when teachers could theoretically be fired at will but sex offenders were quietly moved around to avoid a scandal.
That's an old trick in many workplaces of the people who are too gutless to fire someone so they just make it so the employee feels useless and hopefully quits instead of having to be fired. Sometimes it saves a large payout, but even then it's somewhat of a "dick move". Most people will move on after a "we really think you should go" talk so such mind games are a waste of time and money.
What should be obvious is that an low level employee does not get to choose their assignment to get paid to sit in a room. That gets done by a manager either incapable of reassigning them to a task they can cope with or without the guts to fire them. So the manager has to talk to someone from a big scary union? So what? Being able to justify your actions is what being in a position of responsibility is about. It's not about being a weasel taking all the benefits without any of the responsibility.
You brought up your report from Germany - maybe you should have read it and gained some understanding of what the graphs meant first before your pathetic goalpost shift and ridiculous cut and paste repetition. Why did you bother to waste so much time when you had nothing to say apart from from a bait and switch bluff?
Apart from instances like now when I'm running four X sessions at once because it makes some full screen software behave a lot better and sandboxes workflows nicely. Then there's the people that were running multiple keyboards, mice and monitors for a couple of people on the same box well over a decade back. What is it with Wayland fanboys not having a clue about the system that they are supposed to be improving on?
Yes but systemd doesn't solve any of those problems since it will still be kicking off similar scripts, and not telling you about it when they fail until someone gets their shit together to progress it to the point where you can read the logs when you actually need them. You don't even know stuff is broken until you try to use something and it hasn't started. Updates break anything non-standard such as ZFS. There's long rants here that put things better than I can with my limited exposure on desktop machines - it's not ready for anything with serious consequences of failure yet.
As a protected industry they thought they never would have to. Just sit on their assets, let the money roll in and put the idiot nephew in charge of the plant.
It's extremely clear in that graph you provided where all but one of the peaks shown displays a much larger supply of wind power than off the peak, but that's not the point, that's just where you shifted the goalposts too and failed with your silly little bluff. Your own source disproves your statement instead of reinforcing it, and it in no way addresses the obvious reality you objected to of there being wind blowing somewhere so long as you have a big enough electricity network. Europe is certainly big enough. North America - making such an objection as yours does not appear to be sane when considering such a scale. That's where reality denial for the sake of politics gets you. The Berlin wall fell years ago and people are going to make money out of windmills whether you hate the idea of such capitalism or not.
Use a ten inch Boox and turn the thing sideways for half a page of the PDF at a time.