Nope They are all self-sustaining without subsidies. The subisdies were created to incent investment. Given the success, they have. That subsidy is still less than 1% of what the fossil fuel industries get.
Making them illegal is irrelevant. Making them inaccessible would make a difference, But that wasn't your question, because you don't want the answer to that.
You seem to not understand cause or effect. There are places with lots of guns and lots of crimes. There are places with no guns and little crime. There are places with no guns and lots of crimes. There are places with lots of guns and little crime.
Once a place has high crime and lots of gun murders, does gun control increase or decrease crime? That's irrelevant to the existence of places that aren't in the same gun/crime quadrant.
The current size of the Tesla Powerwall batteries for the application you describe are about 1/100th the volume you describe, and less than 1/10th the weight you describe.
Also cheaper.
"I could have done this back in the '50s, but the cost would have been $1M per house, so that's proof it could never happen."
That's not the way it works. It sounds like your battery bank was a pile of 12V lead acid batteries, and your inverters were '50s tech.
Today's battery home takes zero floor space. The electronics and batteries are wall-mounted, taking up a little space on one wall of your garage. If you can't spare that, then you are lying. I've seen one-bedroom condos that have more than enough space for that. The absolute worst-case is to replace your water-heater with an on-demand unit, and in less than the space/weight of a typical water heater, you can put in a tankless, and all the electronics and batteries of a home solar kit.
Why? Heavy video surveillance, with alarms in the central monitoring center for motion at the station. Trivial solutions for the Luddite Slashdot. These problems are all known and solved.
Sure, coal is cleaner than solar. There is zero space needed for solar. If every building had panels on the roof, then we'd produce more power than we consume. Yes, it is that easy, absolutely zero space needed. As for the materials, they are common and cheaper than the pro-coal-religion nutjobs claim (yes, the pro-coal nutjobs are a religion, as it's a belief held in opposition of logic and evidence)..
You can't fake the expected results if you use a RNG. Also, RNGs don't generate Normal results. They generate random results. Most real-world "random" events are not "random", but are "normal". So a computer-generated RNG would fail to make reasonable results. That would be obvious to anyone who has faked a result. You need to overlay a normal distribution on your RNG. It's easier to just guess results, using your brain as both the RNG and normal distribution.
The good frauds can't be caught. The bad ones are usually obvious, and only pass because nobody looks that hard.
In most cases, a breathalyzer fail isn't an automatic conviction (though a refusal is). So take the flawed test, and get two doctors to testify that the result is invalid.
The way the system works, the software isn't "open source" but was seen by non-employees. The devices were tested in court and found to be reliable. Then, under the "common law" system, when they are trusted to a standard, all courts accept them as trusted black boxes, and attacks against the accuracy aren't allowed. Thank the speeders in the '60s for that relic of the legal system.
That and you are demanding all "evidence" be proof, proving you don't know the definition of the word "evidence". A sum of bad evidence is proof. Even if every piece alone isn't very good, if you have 10,000 pieces of evidence that all agree, you end up with a conviction.
You trust non-manipulated photos, right? There's a non-zero chance of a bit-flip or error in a pixel. But in a 10 MP photo, the chances that you took a picture of the man on the grassy knoll and it turned out looking like a duck is zero. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Any single pixel is flawed, open to error, but a sum of 10,000,000 that perfectly align to show a duck, and have no other explanation, would prove that it's a duck. You don't need to see the RAW format, the final JPG is sufficient.
Predicted recidivism rate, used for sentencing, isn't "evidence" as as such has no legal basis for being examined. If you are going to pretend to make a legal argument, at least get the basics right.
This algorithm isn't changing the maximum and minimum. That's what the politicians mess with. This is giving the judge more information. The judge always arbitrarily set the sentence. This way, he has an additional piece of information. The sentencing basis is *always* closed source and arbitrary. Now, if it's closed source and non-arbitrary, how is that worse?
Remember OJ? The crowd here is political. Innocent until proven guilty wasn't the stance for many, especially around gamergate and BLM.
Slashdot is much more pro-gun and libertarian than the average person. And that includes being more anti-crime (which is undefined in many circumstances). Being libertarian, I'd expect a small-government stance on crime. More fines (linked to income), and public lashings would be much much cheaper than time in prison, and no less effective, but slashdot, like American Conservatives, wants to "lock them up".
The algorithm applies to sentencing, so it's not about conviction rates. The proprietary algorithm replaces a proprietary algorithm. The sentence used to be based 100% on the judge's gut (hence why Black people are sentenced to much more prison for the same thing as a white person). So long as race isn't a major component in the algorithm, this should be an improvement in fairness, not a reduction.
Slashdot has a tendency to argue "If it ain't perfect, we shouldn't do it" even if it's an improvement. Nobody is asking if this is an improvement, jsut whether it's flawed.
The government could turn off the NIST atomic clock, but couldn't turn off the ones in universities or the like. GPS is explicitly run by the US government, and has been tweaked to reduce its efficiency.
If you are going to trust the government for your time, you have no trust in your time. You might as well manually synchronize with an atomic clock once every month as your internal time source won't lose +- 5 min in a month (unless there's a serious problem with the system clock), and drift isn't a "real" problem if everyone in the same security domain is drifting together.
Then phased out the extra days, so you effectively have no sick days. The places that still have actual sick days have done studies, and found that employees perform better.
The wording indicates it's a violation of law. If no-call-no-shows are allowed under federal, state, and local laws, then that's an issue for your legislators, not calling on WalMart to punish them in violation of the law.
The details of the wording usually allow a no-show by reason of incapacity to be considered "with notice" if notice is given as soon as practical. At least it's been worded that way in my employment contracts, which haven't included employment at WalMart, and I didn't read them with detail when I was a teen.
Nope. "Your right to extend your fist ends at my nose" libertarianism is dead. Your right to shove pollutants up my nose is enshrined in law. So why doesn't that stop at my nose?
And the law clearly indicates that a swing and a miss is "assault". So why aren't the libertarians trying to get assault laws repealed? Oh yeah, because the libertarians hate liberty.
So, Audi "cheats" emissions when the wheel is turned more than 15 degrees. So bad emissions when parking. Maybe some turns on the road. Almost all driving is done with the wheel nearly straight. You don't do a drag race with the wheel turned, so it wouldn't have improved the feel or numbers in reviews or test drives.
If anything is allowed, so long as it protects people from statutory rape, then pass a law requiring a camera in every room.
What if the deceased received child porn? She was "sexted" by a friend. So, should the friend who sent the dick pic be prosecuted for production and distribution of child porn because the parents wanted to go on a fishing expedition in her history? There doesn't seem to be any gain, to anyone, to dig up the sealed profile. Except helping the parents getting over denial.
How does a passenger fee charged to an airline affect their competitive position, compared to a passenger fee added as a separate "tax" on top of the ticket price?
Though, if I were Emperor, I'd mandate that all prices must be the full and final price. No advertising the "cost" then adding hundreds in undisclosed fees on top of the advertised price. Movie theaters do it. Gas stations do it. Pretty much every other country on the planet does it. So why can't we?
My Y70 is great specs. But the build and design is bad. Not enough heat dissipation and the screen flickers (known hardware issue, cheap cable to the screen). i7, 16G, discrete GTX 960, for under $1000.
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Nope They are all self-sustaining without subsidies. The subisdies were created to incent investment. Given the success, they have. That subsidy is still less than 1% of what the fossil fuel industries get.
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There needs to be a compelling reason to restrict freedom. What compelling reason is there to prevent me from flying a drone within my own house?
Making them illegal is irrelevant. Making them inaccessible would make a difference, But that wasn't your question, because you don't want the answer to that.
You seem to not understand cause or effect. There are places with lots of guns and lots of crimes. There are places with no guns and little crime. There are places with no guns and lots of crimes. There are places with lots of guns and little crime.
Once a place has high crime and lots of gun murders, does gun control increase or decrease crime? That's irrelevant to the existence of places that aren't in the same gun/crime quadrant.
The current size of the Tesla Powerwall batteries for the application you describe are about 1/100th the volume you describe, and less than 1/10th the weight you describe.
Also cheaper.
"I could have done this back in the '50s, but the cost would have been $1M per house, so that's proof it could never happen."
That's not the way it works. It sounds like your battery bank was a pile of 12V lead acid batteries, and your inverters were '50s tech.
Today's battery home takes zero floor space. The electronics and batteries are wall-mounted, taking up a little space on one wall of your garage. If you can't spare that, then you are lying. I've seen one-bedroom condos that have more than enough space for that. The absolute worst-case is to replace your water-heater with an on-demand unit, and in less than the space/weight of a typical water heater, you can put in a tankless, and all the electronics and batteries of a home solar kit.
Why? Heavy video surveillance, with alarms in the central monitoring center for motion at the station. Trivial solutions for the Luddite Slashdot. These problems are all known and solved.
The EVs don't charge at 12V.
Sure, coal is cleaner than solar. There is zero space needed for solar. If every building had panels on the roof, then we'd produce more power than we consume. Yes, it is that easy, absolutely zero space needed. As for the materials, they are common and cheaper than the pro-coal-religion nutjobs claim (yes, the pro-coal nutjobs are a religion, as it's a belief held in opposition of logic and evidence)..
You can't fake the expected results if you use a RNG. Also, RNGs don't generate Normal results. They generate random results. Most real-world "random" events are not "random", but are "normal". So a computer-generated RNG would fail to make reasonable results. That would be obvious to anyone who has faked a result. You need to overlay a normal distribution on your RNG. It's easier to just guess results, using your brain as both the RNG and normal distribution.
The good frauds can't be caught. The bad ones are usually obvious, and only pass because nobody looks that hard.
In most cases, a breathalyzer fail isn't an automatic conviction (though a refusal is). So take the flawed test, and get two doctors to testify that the result is invalid.
The way the system works, the software isn't "open source" but was seen by non-employees. The devices were tested in court and found to be reliable. Then, under the "common law" system, when they are trusted to a standard, all courts accept them as trusted black boxes, and attacks against the accuracy aren't allowed. Thank the speeders in the '60s for that relic of the legal system.
That and you are demanding all "evidence" be proof, proving you don't know the definition of the word "evidence". A sum of bad evidence is proof. Even if every piece alone isn't very good, if you have 10,000 pieces of evidence that all agree, you end up with a conviction.
You trust non-manipulated photos, right? There's a non-zero chance of a bit-flip or error in a pixel. But in a 10 MP photo, the chances that you took a picture of the man on the grassy knoll and it turned out looking like a duck is zero. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... Any single pixel is flawed, open to error, but a sum of 10,000,000 that perfectly align to show a duck, and have no other explanation, would prove that it's a duck. You don't need to see the RAW format, the final JPG is sufficient.
Predicted recidivism rate, used for sentencing, isn't "evidence" as as such has no legal basis for being examined. If you are going to pretend to make a legal argument, at least get the basics right.
This algorithm isn't changing the maximum and minimum. That's what the politicians mess with. This is giving the judge more information. The judge always arbitrarily set the sentence. This way, he has an additional piece of information. The sentencing basis is *always* closed source and arbitrary. Now, if it's closed source and non-arbitrary, how is that worse?
Remember OJ? The crowd here is political. Innocent until proven guilty wasn't the stance for many, especially around gamergate and BLM.
Slashdot is much more pro-gun and libertarian than the average person. And that includes being more anti-crime (which is undefined in many circumstances). Being libertarian, I'd expect a small-government stance on crime. More fines (linked to income), and public lashings would be much much cheaper than time in prison, and no less effective, but slashdot, like American Conservatives, wants to "lock them up".
The algorithm applies to sentencing, so it's not about conviction rates. The proprietary algorithm replaces a proprietary algorithm. The sentence used to be based 100% on the judge's gut (hence why Black people are sentenced to much more prison for the same thing as a white person). So long as race isn't a major component in the algorithm, this should be an improvement in fairness, not a reduction.
Slashdot has a tendency to argue "If it ain't perfect, we shouldn't do it" even if it's an improvement. Nobody is asking if this is an improvement, jsut whether it's flawed.
The government could turn off the NIST atomic clock, but couldn't turn off the ones in universities or the like. GPS is explicitly run by the US government, and has been tweaked to reduce its efficiency.
Pilots do fine in the air in 3D space. The simple fix is to dispel the notion that every idiot incapable of tying their own shoes deserves a license.
If you are going to trust the government for your time, you have no trust in your time. You might as well manually synchronize with an atomic clock once every month as your internal time source won't lose +- 5 min in a month (unless there's a serious problem with the system clock), and drift isn't a "real" problem if everyone in the same security domain is drifting together.
Then phased out the extra days, so you effectively have no sick days. The places that still have actual sick days have done studies, and found that employees perform better.
The wording indicates it's a violation of law. If no-call-no-shows are allowed under federal, state, and local laws, then that's an issue for your legislators, not calling on WalMart to punish them in violation of the law.
The details of the wording usually allow a no-show by reason of incapacity to be considered "with notice" if notice is given as soon as practical. At least it's been worded that way in my employment contracts, which haven't included employment at WalMart, and I didn't read them with detail when I was a teen.
This is an authoritarian/libertarian issue.
Nope. "Your right to extend your fist ends at my nose" libertarianism is dead. Your right to shove pollutants up my nose is enshrined in law. So why doesn't that stop at my nose?
And the law clearly indicates that a swing and a miss is "assault". So why aren't the libertarians trying to get assault laws repealed? Oh yeah, because the libertarians hate liberty.
"White people should listen better" is offensive to you? Get back in your safe space (parent's basement) you triggered little snowflake.
So, Audi "cheats" emissions when the wheel is turned more than 15 degrees. So bad emissions when parking. Maybe some turns on the road. Almost all driving is done with the wheel nearly straight. You don't do a drag race with the wheel turned, so it wouldn't have improved the feel or numbers in reviews or test drives.
If anything is allowed, so long as it protects people from statutory rape, then pass a law requiring a camera in every room.
What if the deceased received child porn? She was "sexted" by a friend. So, should the friend who sent the dick pic be prosecuted for production and distribution of child porn because the parents wanted to go on a fishing expedition in her history? There doesn't seem to be any gain, to anyone, to dig up the sealed profile. Except helping the parents getting over denial.
How does a passenger fee charged to an airline affect their competitive position, compared to a passenger fee added as a separate "tax" on top of the ticket price?
Though, if I were Emperor, I'd mandate that all prices must be the full and final price. No advertising the "cost" then adding hundreds in undisclosed fees on top of the advertised price. Movie theaters do it. Gas stations do it. Pretty much every other country on the planet does it. So why can't we?
My Y70 is great specs. But the build and design is bad. Not enough heat dissipation and the screen flickers (known hardware issue, cheap cable to the screen). i7, 16G, discrete GTX 960, for under $1000.