I scanned the article quickly and did not see (too lazy) what sort of motors/actuators and mechanical linkages they used. That will be a large factor in determining the efficiency of PV power to thrust.
My grandmother would step out of the kitchen door and wring a chicken's neck. Or reach into the pen and skin a rabbit. Until refrigeration was widely available, the cow was used mainly for milk. But even before that, a daily trip to the town butcher shop would do. And then there were preserved meats. Heavily salted and or smoked sausage or jerky.
salt & pepper salmon
That's fine if you live near a sea port. And it's the right season. Otherwise you risked buying that rotting stuff that some indian caught out of a river. My grandmother would never have touched the stuff.
You don't choose to go to jail (philosophical issues about committing the crime aside) so you don't get charged for it. You make a call, that's your choice.
You do understand that they monitor those calls? Just so the gang leaders can't continue to run their empires from behind bars. Or the tweakers can't arrange the next delivery with their supplier. There is a cost associated with that.
because they didn't sign up to work on weapons of war
Were they working on the AI project that contracted to do Pentagon work? Or just some unrelated department at Google? If it's the former, most DoD contractors are more then happy to move you to some unrelated work. The last thing they want is a disgruntled employee that feels trapped (need the income, don't like the work) and might cause trouble. If it's just a protest over Google's involvement in general, there isn't much you can do in this country that isn't six degrees away from Kevin Bacon or the Pentagon.
3. Remember back when you (China) were just getting into the mobile phone business. And you proposed developing your own standards. And the US threw a hissy-fit because you weren't going to use theirs? You should have told them to go shove it up their bum.
Lesson learned. Maybe it's not to late to re-start that effort.
The EU, Britain, Switzerland. Pretty much any one of those has more respect for a rule of law, a more equitable tax system and less inclination to bully other nations around.
ell, maybe not Britain. They have a bad habit of crippling their domestic R&D and handing it over to the USA. Because we bailed them out in some stupid war 70 years ago.
The system operator (AEMO) needs to overhaul its policies and procedures for control as well as billing. Something that can 'jump on' to the grid faster than the operator can schedule power reserves and bring them on line risks system instability. Once you have a bunch of (competing) battery operators and they all sense the frequency sag, you can't have them all cranking up their outputs at once in an uncoordinated fashion.
It's going to be interesting, what with some of the old timers in the power business still thinking in terms of phoning up plant operators and having a guy crack open a steam valve.
We lost that battle late in the last century. One of the telecoms bills changed the ownership of call metadata from the party placing the call to the phone company.
Slashdot Mirror
e-Paper bumper stickers. Throw off the police. And change your politics every time the wind direction changes.
I Support'); DROP TABLE Vehicles;--
It really could be this simple.
I scanned the article quickly and did not see (too lazy) what sort of motors/actuators and mechanical linkages they used. That will be a large factor in determining the efficiency of PV power to thrust.
a robot that would detect methane leaks
Robots following my ass around. Do Not Want.
Because Bird scooters are rented using a mobile app, homeless people are unlikely to be able to rent them
I don't know about that. Lime bikes are pretty popular in the Seattle hobo camps. What the homeless will have trouble with is charging them.
My grandmother would step out of the kitchen door and wring a chicken's neck. Or reach into the pen and skin a rabbit. Until refrigeration was widely available, the cow was used mainly for milk. But even before that, a daily trip to the town butcher shop would do. And then there were preserved meats. Heavily salted and or smoked sausage or jerky.
salt & pepper salmon
That's fine if you live near a sea port. And it's the right season. Otherwise you risked buying that rotting stuff that some indian caught out of a river. My grandmother would never have touched the stuff.
Moving parts. More things to fail or seals to wear out and let dirt/water in.
You don't choose to go to jail (philosophical issues about committing the crime aside) so you don't get charged for it. You make a call, that's your choice.
We can ship them off to a secure site and still allow some 'face time' with family members. Best of both worlds.
You do understand that they monitor those calls? Just so the gang leaders can't continue to run their empires from behind bars. Or the tweakers can't arrange the next delivery with their supplier. There is a cost associated with that.
because they didn't sign up to work on weapons of war
Were they working on the AI project that contracted to do Pentagon work? Or just some unrelated department at Google? If it's the former, most DoD contractors are more then happy to move you to some unrelated work. The last thing they want is a disgruntled employee that feels trapped (need the income, don't like the work) and might cause trouble. If it's just a protest over Google's involvement in general, there isn't much you can do in this country that isn't six degrees away from Kevin Bacon or the Pentagon.
Good point. So I guess I'll have to add:
3. Remember back when you (China) were just getting into the mobile phone business. And you proposed developing your own standards. And the US threw a hissy-fit because you weren't going to use theirs? You should have told them to go shove it up their bum.
Lesson learned. Maybe it's not to late to re-start that effort.
So, this isn't about my wearing pants?
which your email client must display automatically
Must? I guess I'm in real trouble. Because I read my e-mail with elm. The standards police will be kicking in my door any minute now.
In Japan. When?
Given their love of robots, I'd say that this is a no-brainer.
So please, next time before you "guess" and start spewing your biased agenda
Hey! Go easy on the PP. Maybe he's just practicing running for the presidency.
more equitable tax system ... zero or close to zero taxes
Same thing. At least the rest of progressive western society (with the notable exception of the USA) has settled on a flat tax rate.
The EU, Britain, Switzerland. Pretty much any one of those has more respect for a rule of law, a more equitable tax system and less inclination to bully other nations around.
ell, maybe not Britain. They have a bad habit of crippling their domestic R&D and handing it over to the USA. Because we bailed them out in some stupid war 70 years ago.
Some object lessons here:
1. Foreign manufacturers need to secure alternate sources for components.
2. Software manufacturers need to hold their licenses overseas.
Exposing your business to the vagaries of totalitarian regimes is not a viable strategy.
will surely be blocked by your routers firewall anyway
I'll be sure to bring my router with me the next time I use my laptop at the local coffee shop.
I'll bet it really hurt when you hit it.
The system operator (AEMO) needs to overhaul its policies and procedures for control as well as billing. Something that can 'jump on' to the grid faster than the operator can schedule power reserves and bring them on line risks system instability. Once you have a bunch of (competing) battery operators and they all sense the frequency sag, you can't have them all cranking up their outputs at once in an uncoordinated fashion.
It's going to be interesting, what with some of the old timers in the power business still thinking in terms of phoning up plant operators and having a guy crack open a steam valve.
We lost that battle late in the last century. One of the telecoms bills changed the ownership of call metadata from the party placing the call to the phone company.