LOL. It's only "prohibitive" because local generation is cheaper. Exact same thing with energy storage - if it's cheaper to build locally, that's what you do.
As of 1980, the longest cost-effective distance for direct-current transmission was determined to be 7,000 km (4,300 mi). For alternating current it was 4,000 km (2,500 mi), though all transmission lines in use today are substantially shorter than this.
Wikipedia (ibid)
Yea, I see why you think reality sucks - it upsets your worldview.
"unlikely to provide enough power when you need it "
Which is why there are large energy storage solutions. Heck, the OP left out hydropower, which is the largest clean renewable energy source in the US today. In Canada, hydro is the largest source of electricity, period.
And no, it's not fake news, it's just poor journalism because they're parroting an unsupported claim. There's nothing to indicate that it isn't true or was simply created from whole cloth.
What the fuck does the court have to do with whether it's discrimination or not??? They just decide if it's lawful discrimination. It's perfectly clear that race based discrimination both personal and institutional exists against whites in the USA. At least to anyone who isn't trying to bullshit their way through arguing that it doesn't exist.
The rest of your comment is just poorly done rationalization.
consumers who repair their own phones could cause lithium batteries to catch fire.
yep, and changing the oil on my motorcycle could cause scalding hot oil to burn me
The difference being, of course, that the oiling system is built to support changing the oil. The answer to Apple's objection is that they're perfectly free to make phones with replaceable batteries, instead of designing planned obsolescence into them.
She was 27, which is hardly a child. And if you're implying that her father bought her the car, you're wrong. It belonged to her boss, and the crash occurred after "a company event."
She deleted emails (or more correctly, perhaps, she directed that thousands of emails be deleted).
According to the [FBI] investigation report, top Clinton adviser Cheryl Mills told a PRN worker whose name was redacted in December 2014 that Clinton wanted her email to only be retained for 60 days, and instructed him to reset the retention policy on her email account.
But the individual told the FBI he realized that he had failed to do so until after The New York Times published its bombshell story revealing Clinton's private server and email use, prompting an "'oh s***' moment."
"In a follow-up FBI interview on May 3, 2016, (name redacted) indicated he believed he had an 'oh s***' moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015, deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported.PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton's emails," the report stated.
The mass deletion occurred after the March 2, 2015, Times story and after a March 3, 2015, preservation order from the House Benghazi Committee to retain and produce documents related to her email accounts.
Documents are classified due to their content, whether marked or unmarked. Clinton received training and signed off that she understood this. "Intent" is not a condition for violating the laws governing document security, negligence is sufficient. Clinton broke laws which others have been prosecuted for. Go alt-fuck yourself.
It's to support some future Star Trek style utopia, where the Romulans are the biggest concern.
Seriously, UBI is fine, if the rich folk voluntarily hand over their money to support it. But, it's not like they all have a hoard of cash - the vast majority of wealth is invested in ownership of productive companies. Force them to sell it all, and watch the markets tank, taking the 401(k)/pension/etc. investments of productive people with it.
HRC didn't get in trouble for using a private email system. She got in trouble for letting classified information leak onto it, being disingenuous about it, and deleting information which was under subpoena.
Yea, this. "Best" isn't just speed, latency, and uptime, which is all this report covers. It's also coverage when you're out in the middle of nowhere. I understand that TMo's gotten somewhat better in some places, but it still doesn't nearly match VZW.
In TMo's own words, they "cover 97% of Verizon's population." Meh. Them's weasel words - it's not covering where the customers are, it's also covering where they aren't, like on a rural highway.
That misleading statistic reminds me of another in recent Sprint advertising, where they claim their network is within 1% of VZW for reliability. Sound good? Nope, it's terrible. The standard for telecom reliability is "5 nines," or 99.999% uptime. That's about 5 minutes of downtime per year. If you have a network which is only 99% reliable (e.g. within 1% of VZW), that's over 3 1/2 days of downtime per year.
" the genetic understanding now gained will allow them to breed shorter, stockier plants that don't fall over as easily, and that these benefits could be gained without the use of genetic modification."
WTF? Do they mean to somehow imply that breeding isn't creating genetic alterations? That's the whole point of breeding, which mankind has been doing for millenia. GMO = why humans are different than the fish which crawled onto land millions of years ago.
"yelling very loudly at your hardware vendor and refusing to buy from them again unless they cut this crap out"
3.18 was released slightly over 2 years ago (7 Dec 2014). It went LTS 3 months later (2015/3/11). At the time, "it will be supported with patches for at least two more years from today." Now it's gone, less than 2 years later. And, 2 years isn't "long term" by any reasonable definition to begin with. Don't yell loudly at anyone who used it, yell loudly at Greg Kroah-Hartman and the other kernel maintainers for over-promising and under-delivering, who think 2 years is a long time and won't even keep that commitment. 3.16 (LTS) is projected to go to 2020, when it's 5 1/2 years old (kudos to Ben Hutchings, who's a bit more realistic about what "long term" means).
(and of course, anyone the size of Google should be able to put their own resource on maintaining a kernel they chose to use for longer if need be, not that they've figured out how to keep Android devices up-to-date anyway)
Yea. Fuck them. If they want to maintain the illusion that markets (short term) are any different than Las Vegas, require all trades to be hands-on (by humans). No millisecond trades, require holding at least 5 minutes (as a start, a day or week should be the goal).. None of this automated bullshit, which just sucks profits away from investment for speculation. And, make the rules the same for all, no more fast trading for the patricians when the proles have to deal with settlement measured in days.
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"Glad to hear we're implementing that new-fangled 4th amendment I keep hearing about."
Not to mention those even newer rules which don't allow RF transmissions on cellular frequencies without a license.
Wikipedia (ibid)
Yea, I see why you think reality sucks - it upsets your worldview.
"You don't know what "at scale" means."
I do. I also know it doesn't mean what you think it means.
"There are no energy storage solutions that are currently workable at scale."
Yes, there are.
If only someone could figure out how to transport electricity long distances.
"unlikely to provide enough power when you need it "
Which is why there are large energy storage solutions. Heck, the OP left out hydropower, which is the largest clean renewable energy source in the US today. In Canada, hydro is the largest source of electricity, period.
And no, it's not fake news, it's just poor journalism because they're parroting an unsupported claim. There's nothing to indicate that it isn't true or was simply created from whole cloth.
What the fuck does the court have to do with whether it's discrimination or not??? They just decide if it's lawful discrimination. It's perfectly clear that race based discrimination both personal and institutional exists against whites in the USA. At least to anyone who isn't trying to bullshit their way through arguing that it doesn't exist.
The rest of your comment is just poorly done rationalization.
"USA has no institutions that oppress whites in favour of blacks"
That's simply untrue.
The difference being, of course, that the oiling system is built to support changing the oil. The answer to Apple's objection is that they're perfectly free to make phones with replaceable batteries, instead of designing planned obsolescence into them.
The boss was the passenger, who was also drunk, and also died.
She was 27, which is hardly a child. And if you're implying that her father bought her the car, you're wrong. It belonged to her boss, and the crash occurred after "a company event."
"Had she been in another vehicle, she would have been alive for me to yell at her for driving after drinking,"
This happened last November, and he's at the 3rd stage of grief. He's going to get depressed when people point out he's being an idiot in public.
"they want to use this technique on other species until all of the predators on New Zealand are wiped out."
The want to wipe out all the humans in NZ. If the problem is solved, what's the problem?
-Clinton News Network
Documents are classified due to their content, whether marked or unmarked. Clinton received training and signed off that she understood this. "Intent" is not a condition for violating the laws governing document security, negligence is sufficient. Clinton broke laws which others have been prosecuted for. Go alt-fuck yourself.
So, supply and demand is a foreign concept to you.
It's to support some future Star Trek style utopia, where the Romulans are the biggest concern.
Seriously, UBI is fine, if the rich folk voluntarily hand over their money to support it. But, it's not like they all have a hoard of cash - the vast majority of wealth is invested in ownership of productive companies. Force them to sell it all, and watch the markets tank, taking the 401(k)/pension/etc. investments of productive people with it.
"But.. Hillary's emails."
HRC didn't get in trouble for using a private email system. She got in trouble for letting classified information leak onto it, being disingenuous about it, and deleting information which was under subpoena.
Citation needed.
Yea, this. "Best" isn't just speed, latency, and uptime, which is all this report covers. It's also coverage when you're out in the middle of nowhere. I understand that TMo's gotten somewhat better in some places, but it still doesn't nearly match VZW.
In TMo's own words, they "cover 97% of Verizon's population." Meh. Them's weasel words - it's not covering where the customers are, it's also covering where they aren't, like on a rural highway.
That misleading statistic reminds me of another in recent Sprint advertising, where they claim their network is within 1% of VZW for reliability. Sound good? Nope, it's terrible. The standard for telecom reliability is "5 nines," or 99.999% uptime. That's about 5 minutes of downtime per year. If you have a network which is only 99% reliable (e.g. within 1% of VZW), that's over 3 1/2 days of downtime per year.
Your point?
" the genetic understanding now gained will allow them to breed shorter, stockier plants that don't fall over as easily, and that these benefits could be gained without the use of genetic modification."
WTF? Do they mean to somehow imply that breeding isn't creating genetic alterations? That's the whole point of breeding, which mankind has been doing for millenia. GMO = why humans are different than the fish which crawled onto land millions of years ago.
I think he was talking about a real dictionary, not an alt-facts one.
"yelling very loudly at your hardware vendor and refusing to buy from them again unless they cut this crap out"
3.18 was released slightly over 2 years ago (7 Dec 2014). It went LTS 3 months later (2015/3/11). At the time, "it will be supported with patches for at least two more years from today." Now it's gone, less than 2 years later. And, 2 years isn't "long term" by any reasonable definition to begin with. Don't yell loudly at anyone who used it, yell loudly at Greg Kroah-Hartman and the other kernel maintainers for over-promising and under-delivering, who think 2 years is a long time and won't even keep that commitment. 3.16 (LTS) is projected to go to 2020, when it's 5 1/2 years old (kudos to Ben Hutchings, who's a bit more realistic about what "long term" means).
(and of course, anyone the size of Google should be able to put their own resource on maintaining a kernel they chose to use for longer if need be, not that they've figured out how to keep Android devices up-to-date anyway)
But, Google.
:)
Who are you to say that something from nothing isn't possible?
Yea. Fuck them. If they want to maintain the illusion that markets (short term) are any different than Las Vegas, require all trades to be hands-on (by humans). No millisecond trades, require holding at least 5 minutes (as a start, a day or week should be the goal).. None of this automated bullshit, which just sucks profits away from investment for speculation. And, make the rules the same for all, no more fast trading for the patricians when the proles have to deal with settlement measured in days.