The solar panels aren't subsidized. But they're not the primary purpose of the project anyway. [principia-scientific.org]
This is a load balancing project, needed because existing wind and solar generation fluctuates so much. The real money here is in the battery storage, which will be charged from the grid and is only needed because of subsidized solar and wind generation generation projects elsewhere.
Thanks for getting to the real facts of the matter. The hype machine will roll on regardless.
Quiet, you heathens!
This is Green Progress(TM)!!
Why do you hate civilization, cute little animals, and the planet?/s
It also demonstrates how a "free market" is capable of failing to be in the best interests of the population.
Slow down there, cowboy! Are we to understand now that a radio station being *forced*...by government regulation...to *stop* serving their market in the manner that they'd been doing and spent good coin on doing is the *free market* at work?
These words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
And as far as this gem from TFS:
FCC audio division's regulations have done little to stop AM and satellite radio from broadcasting right-wing streams-of-consciousness throughout the lower 48 states.
Fuck you very much, and you could switch the terms to left-wing, atheist, Christian, Muslim, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, etc etc, and unless they're actually inciting violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow, I'd still tell you to fuck right off.
Government has no business policing the content of speech outside the aforementioned incitement to violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow caveats, particularly and especially concerning politics or religion. This idea of "hate speech" is simply Orwell's "Newspeak" re-labeled. A prison for the minds of the masses who cannot rebel when the words and the concepts they conveyed that were used to describe it, and even for the very concept of individual freedom itself, have been erased.
If I were to post that I decided to have pancakes instead of waffles without any explanation as to why, via twitter, I'd have half the world convinced I was anti-waffles and promoted their extermination; simply because I said I was picking one and not the other.
Well of course they'd believe it, being a self-confessed member of the Waffle-SS!
And let's face it, more Americans dislike the head Cheeto than like him.
See, this is where so many in the US on the Left deny reality and cause themselves and others so much anger and frustration. Trump-haters are actually the minority in the US yet behave as if they are a "majority denied" and become all self-righteously angry believing, because of the echo-chamber within which they exist, in their own delusion that they are the majority and were somehow cheated.
The rest of the US may not love Trump but they don't hate him, and they definitely preferred Trump to the alternatives they were presented with last election.
Intelligence agencies exist to spy on foreigners. Why is this news?
Because the systems, procedures, rules, laws, methods, and products they produce are only tangentially & marginally useful for preventing foreign-sourced terrorist attacks or catching foreign terrorists but are ideal for domestic spying for political ends, and recent revelations point to them being used for exactly that purpose contrary to law, Constitutional restrictions on government powers, and civil rights.
But other than that, no idea why it would be news.
...who have used race baiting against working whites in the same way white supremacists attack black and latinos. It's an inversion of LBJ's famous observation about poor southern whites:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Only instead of getting poor whites to resent minorities who have never done a thing to them, it's getting poor minorities to resent white people who have never done anything to them. And all the while, the fine folks at COINTELPRO are laughing their asses off as people ignore the deep state crony capitalists hiding behind the curtain.
Alright, who are you and what have you done with the Uberbah that I've argued with on/. countless times over the years!? LOL!
Damn man, I find myself agreeing with your posts a lot lately! Well said. It's all about 'divide & conquer' using propaganda and disinformation while simultaneously dumbing-down the population so they are unable to think critically or possess any knowledge of history. Evil Kabuki theater.
I'll admit that I used the wrong term & should have written bigoted instead of racial, happy?
Actually, you're still wrong. It was a statement of fact, neither bigoted nor racist. Facts have no bias, they simply are. How they make you feel has no bearing whatsoever on their accuracy or legitimacy. There are problems with many recently-immigrated Muslim men raping and abusing Western women in the countries they immigrate to. Pointing that fact out is not bigoted nor racist.
Failing to acknowledge the world and people for how and what it and they are for reasons of political correctness prevents solving problems and only makes them worse.
As far as Uber, I believe in the individual's right to contract his labor on whatever terms best meet his needs.
Wow the little bitch can't back-up his assertion (which is patently false) so he attacks the speaker like the little wasteful bitch he is.
Die in a fire, little snowflake bitch.
Also your pee-pee is tiny
LOL!
An AC "Brainiac" snowflake that is so ate-up and blinded with hate that he apparently can't even figure out how to reply to the correct post that has him so triggered!
Ya just can't make this stuff up, folks! Reality *is* truly stranger than fiction, and a hell of a lot funnier, too!
The problem is they then go crying to the police and public services when they are raped by Muslim drivers
It's very rarely the people who use Uber that "go crying to the police and public services when they are raped by [racial smear deleted] drivers".
"Muslim" is not a race, snowflake.
How the hell can you think you know *anything* about *anything* that's worth anyone listening to concerning important societal topics when you lack such basic knowledge & understanding?
Why are you even posting here? Isn't there a Gender Studies class you're late for?
Right. Reread what you wrote. You're agreeing that Assange was doing his best to stop Clinton from being elected, and you're making excuses for why.
As Uberbah pointed out already, Wikileaks published dirt on the Bush Jr. administration as well as HRC.
Maybe he smiled a bit when WL published the Clinton/DNC emails after having his life threatened by HRC, but seeing as how WL has published dirt from *both sides*, I don't see any other reason than DNC/Clinton butthurt as a reason to accuse Assange/WL of plotting specifically against HRC.
What I meant was that consumer protection in general tends to be a lower priority for Republicans, which compounds the problems caused by the corruption.
I am unconvinced that (D)isney is any better in that regard.
So, backing up to the top of your comment, you are saying that the scary-sounding "glycerin vapor", and even more scary-sounding polyethylglycol, which sounds like Anti-Freeze, are actually entirely innocuous when converted to vapor and inhaled. Repeatedly?
Compared to tobacco smoke, I'd say yes.
I'd also venture it's healthier than breathing the air on a sidewalk in Manhattan.
Would you prefer people died of smoking-related diseases and inflict second hand smoke on others, rather than risking as-yet-not totally-understood risks from vaping?
Nothing is perfect, everything comes with trade-offs and compromises. Choose your poison.
Wow, modded 'Troll' for dissing Congress, as low as their approval polls have been?
Must be some bored Congresscritters or their staff are trolling Slashdot comments in between passing Acts and laws selling-out the US population and exempting themselves from insider stock trading laws.
Unfortunately, that's quite possible, particularly given the current political climate in Washington.
And by "the current political climate in Washington" you mean the last several decades if not more, right? It's not like this sort of corruption just suddenly became a problem.
Who cares if they control the distribution channel of their content. The rest of us can create and enjoy our content without them.
Well, until the very hardware you use refuses to obey *your* wishes and forbids any content/software that isn't DRM-enabled & encrypted to their standards, effectively killing indie creators' ability to create and distribute their works unless the proper Danegeld is paid.
Why is he wrong if the burden is on the plaintiff to show actual harm, and the plaintiff could not show actual harm?
But there was actual harm [wikipedia.org]. The Mirai botnet attacked other computers on the Internet, and as a part of that botnet, D-Link's routers probably did tens of millions of dollars of economic damage to the Internet as a whole. So there was very clearly harm. It just wasn't directed specifically at the owners of the devices. Rather, the owners of the devices were unknowingly being complicit in that harm to others.
What seems 'off' about this case is that the FTC legal department's lawyers surely understood basic civil law, but yet did not prepare their case with the requisite evidence of harm any such case has to demonstrate.
It makes me think maybe the FTC just wanted to *look like* they were "taking serious action" here when in reality they wanted the problem to quietly go away because of regulatory-capture/crony-capitalism.
You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the original artists could do while playing live.
My pedal station totals a half sheet of plywood. My choice of guitars numbers well over 100. I practice with a metronome just to ensure my timing is exact. I no longer play professionally, but I still try to get two hours of practice in, every single day. I've played for more than 45 years.
If you think it is four hours of work, you've never made music. If you need proof of my skill level, and thus my ability to speak authoritatively, I'm more than happy to provide that proof, in this public space. It takes more than four hours, just to master a fairly simple song. Yeah, there is shitty music but evennshitty music, and shitty artists, take quite a bit of time to create the music you like.
However, as I have no financial worries, I don't actually sell my work and don't try to make money with it. So, I don't have any personal qualms about putting my work into the public domain.
Long time (45+ years) professional musician (guitarist, session/live-performance) here as well.
The original purpose of copyright was to make certain that new music steadily entered the public domain instead of either never being created or never made public at all. To that end, they incentivized the creation and publication of music by trying to guarantee creators a reasonable time within which they could exercise exclusivity and profit. "We'll allow you a small window within which to profit, and in exchange, your works will enter the public domain at the end of that limited period." However, modern copyright has destroyed the bargain by making the term of copyright effectively "eternity minus a day" and preventing music from entering the public domain.
I create commercial music for TV series, advertisements, promotional/corporate videos, etc for a set price through a bidding process. That's the "bread & butter" part.
I also play live performances with a band. I/we produce recordings of the live-performance band and hand them out for free for promotional purposes. It's the actual live performances that generate money.
The reality is that times & technologies have changed but the "music industry" business model has not. Artists' recordings have become merely a promotional tool for actual live performances, but the industry refuses to acknowledge this fact and attempts to have laws created and/or altered to deny reality and preserve their 'buggy-whip factories'.
This only turns otherwise honest & law-abiding people into criminals for doing what comes naturally and creates other negative societal and cultural distortions.
That's the part that really hacks them off, I sinned by smoking and they want to see some serious suffering as penance.
A former smoker thanks to vaping here as well.
Not only that, but it hurts the bottom-lines of Big Tobacco and the healthcare industry, and thus the amount of money politicians receive from BT's & HCI's PACs and lobbyists, as well as reducing State and Federal tobacco-tax receipts.
Culturally it also reduces the number of people that it's socially-acceptable to discriminate against, harass, shame, threaten, intimidate, segregate, and generally persecute.
"The Spice^W^W^W^W^WTobacco must flow!"
These are simply the tobacco and healthcare "Guild Navigators'" representatives telling the politicians that they'll live out their days in a pain-amplifier if the flow is threatened, and those politician's attempts to send in the cultural Harkonnens and Imperial Sardaukar.
> You 'solve' it by making energy so cheap, plentiful, and available that it doesn't matter.
Call me when that happens.
Did you read any further than the first line of my reply?
Of course, then you have the problem of overcoming the push-back from the radical environmentalist types who would scream bloody Gaia-murder about any increase in civilization's energy generation/usage, no matter how safe, clean, and low-impact it might actually be.
Another problem is political/ideological in nature, as many nations would never allow their populations access to such an empowering technology, like Best Korea.
The technological hurdles are solvable, the political/ideological ones are a much harder problem to solve, as they involve innate traits of basic human nature.
It's not like I expected it by Tuesday, if at all.
If he is actually in the employ of the Chinese state and is an illegal agent it's a fair bet the Chinese will do anything and everything to get him back...
Why would you think they'd do that? It's not like the Chinese value individual lives a great deal.
More than likely they'd either leave him to twist in the wind if he knows little that could hurt the Chinese government, or they'd simply have him killed while in custody by someone who has access to him and something to be blackmailed with or also otherwise in the Chinese government's employ.
Sorry, but a guy who injected himself in the election specifically because he personally didn't like a candidate deserves that title.
A corrupt, incompetent candidate who allegedly said "can't we just drone this guy"? Golly Gee, I wonder why Assange might not like her. Were you whining, though, that Assange "just didn't like Bush" when he was publishing information about that president's war crimes?
You and I have rarely agreed on political/ideological topics, but I will step up and say we are in agreement regarding the hypocrisy shown here regarding Wikileaks/Assange. You nailed it quite well. Thank you.
Wait, I agree with a '+5 Insightful' post, even thank him when we usually disagree on many if not most topics, and I get modded 'Troll'?
LOL!
I'm not sure if it's the actual content of the post or the fact that I dared to exhibit consistency in my principles even with someone with whom I usually disagree with that triggered the snowflake with mod-points.
Either way it's pretty damned hilarious, and very telling!
Sure, we solved the pilot problem. Call me when you figured out the problem about how to make VTOL use less energy than a wheel.
You 'solve' it by making energy so cheap, plentiful, and available that it doesn't matter.
Of course, then you have the problem of overcoming the push-back from the radical environmentalist types who would scream bloody Gaia-murder about any increase in civilization's energy generation/usage, no matter how safe, clean, and low-impact it might actually be.
Another problem is political/ideological in nature, as many nations would never allow their populations access to such an empowering technology, like Best Korea.
The technological hurdles are solvable, the political/ideological ones are a much harder problem to solve, as they involve innate traits of basic human nature.
Sorry, but a guy who injected himself in the election specifically because he personally didn't like a candidate deserves that title.
A corrupt, incompetent candidate who allegedly said "can't we just drone this guy"? Golly Gee, I wonder why Assange might not like her. Were you whining, though, that Assange "just didn't like Bush" when he was publishing information about that president's war crimes?
You and I have rarely agreed on political/ideological topics, but I will step up and say we are in agreement regarding the hypocrisy shown here regarding Wikileaks/Assange. You nailed it quite well. Thank you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everyone who gets triggered or trolled over this shit needs to understand this simple truth.
Oh, most of the loudest offense-takers *do* understand it just fine.
Their "offense" is not genuine in many cases, it is a propaganda weapon they deliberately & knowingly employ against those they wish to attack and marginalize.
Those who are genuinely offended have simply been propagandized and indoctrinated to the point that no actual higher intellectual cognition is involved, only extreme emotional lizard-brain knee-jerk reaction to the stimulus that they've been trained to react to like Pavlov's dog.
Slashdot Mirror
Quiet, you heathens!
This is Green Progress(TM)!!
Why do you hate civilization, cute little animals, and the planet? /s
Strat
It also demonstrates how a "free market" is capable of failing to be in the best interests of the population.
Slow down there, cowboy! Are we to understand now that a radio station being *forced*...by government regulation...to *stop* serving their market in the manner that they'd been doing and spent good coin on doing is the *free market* at work?
These words, I do not think they mean what you think they mean.
And as far as this gem from TFS:
FCC audio division's regulations have done little to stop AM and satellite radio from broadcasting right-wing streams-of-consciousness throughout the lower 48 states.
Fuck you very much, and you could switch the terms to left-wing, atheist, Christian, Muslim, Nazi, Communist, Socialist, Fascist, etc etc, and unless they're actually inciting violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow, I'd still tell you to fuck right off.
Government has no business policing the content of speech outside the aforementioned incitement to violence and/or armed rebellion/overthrow caveats, particularly and especially concerning politics or religion. This idea of "hate speech" is simply Orwell's "Newspeak" re-labeled. A prison for the minds of the masses who cannot rebel when the words and the concepts they conveyed that were used to describe it, and even for the very concept of individual freedom itself, have been erased.
Strat
If I were to post that I decided to have pancakes instead of waffles without any explanation as to why, via twitter, I'd have half the world convinced I was anti-waffles and promoted their extermination; simply because I said I was picking one and not the other.
Well of course they'd believe it, being a self-confessed member of the Waffle-SS!
Breakfast-Nazi!
Strat :)
And let's face it, more Americans dislike the head Cheeto than like him.
See, this is where so many in the US on the Left deny reality and cause themselves and others so much anger and frustration. Trump-haters are actually the minority in the US yet behave as if they are a "majority denied" and become all self-righteously angry believing, because of the echo-chamber within which they exist, in their own delusion that they are the majority and were somehow cheated.
The rest of the US may not love Trump but they don't hate him, and they definitely preferred Trump to the alternatives they were presented with last election.
Strat
Intelligence agencies exist to spy on foreigners. Why is this news?
Because the systems, procedures, rules, laws, methods, and products they produce are only tangentially & marginally useful for preventing foreign-sourced terrorist attacks or catching foreign terrorists but are ideal for domestic spying for political ends, and recent revelations point to them being used for exactly that purpose contrary to law, Constitutional restrictions on government powers, and civil rights.
But other than that, no idea why it would be news.
Strat
...who have used race baiting against working whites in the same way white supremacists attack black and latinos. It's an inversion of LBJ's famous observation about poor southern whites:
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Only instead of getting poor whites to resent minorities who have never done a thing to them, it's getting poor minorities to resent white people who have never done anything to them. And all the while, the fine folks at COINTELPRO are laughing their asses off as people ignore the deep state crony capitalists hiding behind the curtain.
Alright, who are you and what have you done with the Uberbah that I've argued with on /. countless times over the years!? LOL!
Damn man, I find myself agreeing with your posts a lot lately! Well said. It's all about 'divide & conquer' using propaganda and disinformation while simultaneously dumbing-down the population so they are unable to think critically or possess any knowledge of history. Evil Kabuki theater.
Strat
I'll admit that I used the wrong term & should have written bigoted instead of racial, happy?
Actually, you're still wrong. It was a statement of fact, neither bigoted nor racist. Facts have no bias, they simply are. How they make you feel has no bearing whatsoever on their accuracy or legitimacy. There are problems with many recently-immigrated Muslim men raping and abusing Western women in the countries they immigrate to. Pointing that fact out is not bigoted nor racist.
Failing to acknowledge the world and people for how and what it and they are for reasons of political correctness prevents solving problems and only makes them worse.
As far as Uber, I believe in the individual's right to contract his labor on whatever terms best meet his needs.
Strat
Wow the little bitch can't back-up his assertion (which is patently false) so he attacks the speaker like the little wasteful bitch he is.
Die in a fire, little snowflake bitch.
Also your pee-pee is tiny
LOL!
An AC "Brainiac" snowflake that is so ate-up and blinded with hate that he apparently can't even figure out how to reply to the correct post that has him so triggered!
Ya just can't make this stuff up, folks! Reality *is* truly stranger than fiction, and a hell of a lot funnier, too!
Strat :D
"Muslim" is not a race, snowflake.
How the hell can you think you know *anything* about *anything* that's worth anyone listening to concerning important societal topics when you lack such basic knowledge & understanding?
Why are you even posting here? Isn't there a Gender Studies class you're late for?
Strat
Right. Reread what you wrote. You're agreeing that Assange was doing his best to stop Clinton from being elected, and you're making excuses for why.
As Uberbah pointed out already, Wikileaks published dirt on the Bush Jr. administration as well as HRC.
Maybe he smiled a bit when WL published the Clinton/DNC emails after having his life threatened by HRC, but seeing as how WL has published dirt from *both sides*, I don't see any other reason than DNC/Clinton butthurt as a reason to accuse Assange/WL of plotting specifically against HRC.
Strat
What I meant was that consumer protection in general tends to be a lower priority for Republicans, which compounds the problems caused by the corruption.
I am unconvinced that (D)isney is any better in that regard.
A pox on both their houses, I say.
Strat
So, backing up to the top of your comment, you are saying that the scary-sounding "glycerin vapor", and even more scary-sounding polyethylglycol, which sounds like Anti-Freeze, are actually entirely innocuous when converted to vapor and inhaled. Repeatedly?
Compared to tobacco smoke, I'd say yes.
I'd also venture it's healthier than breathing the air on a sidewalk in Manhattan.
Would you prefer people died of smoking-related diseases and inflict second hand smoke on others, rather than risking as-yet-not totally-understood risks from vaping?
Nothing is perfect, everything comes with trade-offs and compromises. Choose your poison.
Strat
Wow, modded 'Troll' for dissing Congress, as low as their approval polls have been?
Must be some bored Congresscritters or their staff are trolling Slashdot comments in between passing Acts and laws selling-out the US population and exempting themselves from insider stock trading laws.
Strat
Unfortunately, that's quite possible, particularly given the current political climate in Washington.
And by "the current political climate in Washington" you mean the last several decades if not more, right? It's not like this sort of corruption just suddenly became a problem.
Strat
Who cares if they control the distribution channel of their content. The rest of us can create and enjoy our content without them.
Well, until the very hardware you use refuses to obey *your* wishes and forbids any content/software that isn't DRM-enabled & encrypted to their standards, effectively killing indie creators' ability to create and distribute their works unless the proper Danegeld is paid.
Strat
What seems 'off' about this case is that the FTC legal department's lawyers surely understood basic civil law, but yet did not prepare their case with the requisite evidence of harm any such case has to demonstrate.
It makes me think maybe the FTC just wanted to *look like* they were "taking serious action" here when in reality they wanted the problem to quietly go away because of regulatory-capture/crony-capitalism.
Strat
Those items can be used for frontrunning trades, and are essentially "insider information".
But those in Congress can profit from "frontrunning" stock trading using their "insider information", it's only fair that others can as well, right?
Strat
You've never made music, have you? I used to earn extra money as a performance artist and, sometimes, studio musician. I play at a very high level (samples available) and can't even begin to enumerate the number of total hours it takes just to master a single song - and I can play at just about the same speed I can read tab. I play classical guitar, but usually earned money by making faithful reproductions (cover tunes). As in, note perfect reproductions of a studio cut and played better than some of the original artists could do while playing live.
My pedal station totals a half sheet of plywood. My choice of guitars numbers well over 100. I practice with a metronome just to ensure my timing is exact. I no longer play professionally, but I still try to get two hours of practice in, every single day. I've played for more than 45 years.
If you think it is four hours of work, you've never made music. If you need proof of my skill level, and thus my ability to speak authoritatively, I'm more than happy to provide that proof, in this public space. It takes more than four hours, just to master a fairly simple song. Yeah, there is shitty music but evennshitty music, and shitty artists, take quite a bit of time to create the music you like.
However, as I have no financial worries, I don't actually sell my work and don't try to make money with it. So, I don't have any personal qualms about putting my work into the public domain.
Long time (45+ years) professional musician (guitarist, session/live-performance) here as well.
The original purpose of copyright was to make certain that new music steadily entered the public domain instead of either never being created or never made public at all. To that end, they incentivized the creation and publication of music by trying to guarantee creators a reasonable time within which they could exercise exclusivity and profit. "We'll allow you a small window within which to profit, and in exchange, your works will enter the public domain at the end of that limited period." However, modern copyright has destroyed the bargain by making the term of copyright effectively "eternity minus a day" and preventing music from entering the public domain.
I create commercial music for TV series, advertisements, promotional/corporate videos, etc for a set price through a bidding process. That's the "bread & butter" part.
I also play live performances with a band. I/we produce recordings of the live-performance band and hand them out for free for promotional purposes. It's the actual live performances that generate money.
The reality is that times & technologies have changed but the "music industry" business model has not. Artists' recordings have become merely a promotional tool for actual live performances, but the industry refuses to acknowledge this fact and attempts to have laws created and/or altered to deny reality and preserve their 'buggy-whip factories'.
This only turns otherwise honest & law-abiding people into criminals for doing what comes naturally and creates other negative societal and cultural distortions.
Strat
That's the part that really hacks them off, I sinned by smoking and they want to see some serious suffering as penance.
A former smoker thanks to vaping here as well.
Not only that, but it hurts the bottom-lines of Big Tobacco and the healthcare industry, and thus the amount of money politicians receive from BT's & HCI's PACs and lobbyists, as well as reducing State and Federal tobacco-tax receipts.
Culturally it also reduces the number of people that it's socially-acceptable to discriminate against, harass, shame, threaten, intimidate, segregate, and generally persecute.
"The Spice^W^W^W^W^WTobacco must flow!"
These are simply the tobacco and healthcare "Guild Navigators'" representatives telling the politicians that they'll live out their days in a pain-amplifier if the flow is threatened, and those politician's attempts to send in the cultural Harkonnens and Imperial Sardaukar.
Strat
Did you read any further than the first line of my reply?
Of course, then you have the problem of overcoming the push-back from the radical environmentalist types who would scream bloody Gaia-murder about any increase in civilization's energy generation/usage, no matter how safe, clean, and low-impact it might actually be.
Another problem is political/ideological in nature, as many nations would never allow their populations access to such an empowering technology, like Best Korea.
The technological hurdles are solvable, the political/ideological ones are a much harder problem to solve, as they involve innate traits of basic human nature.
It's not like I expected it by Tuesday, if at all.
Strat
If he is actually in the employ of the Chinese state and is an illegal agent it's a fair bet the Chinese will do anything and everything to get him back...
Why would you think they'd do that? It's not like the Chinese value individual lives a great deal.
More than likely they'd either leave him to twist in the wind if he knows little that could hurt the Chinese government, or they'd simply have him killed while in custody by someone who has access to him and something to be blackmailed with or also otherwise in the Chinese government's employ.
Strat
Wait, I agree with a '+5 Insightful' post, even thank him when we usually disagree on many if not most topics, and I get modded 'Troll'?
LOL!
I'm not sure if it's the actual content of the post or the fact that I dared to exhibit consistency in my principles even with someone with whom I usually disagree with that triggered the snowflake with mod-points.
Either way it's pretty damned hilarious, and very telling!
Strat
Sure, we solved the pilot problem. Call me when you figured out the problem about how to make VTOL use less energy than a wheel.
You 'solve' it by making energy so cheap, plentiful, and available that it doesn't matter.
Of course, then you have the problem of overcoming the push-back from the radical environmentalist types who would scream bloody Gaia-murder about any increase in civilization's energy generation/usage, no matter how safe, clean, and low-impact it might actually be.
Another problem is political/ideological in nature, as many nations would never allow their populations access to such an empowering technology, like Best Korea.
The technological hurdles are solvable, the political/ideological ones are a much harder problem to solve, as they involve innate traits of basic human nature.
Strat
You and I have rarely agreed on political/ideological topics, but I will step up and say we are in agreement regarding the hypocrisy shown here regarding Wikileaks/Assange. You nailed it quite well. Thank you.
Strat
Eleanor Roosevelt:
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everyone who gets triggered or trolled over this shit needs to understand this simple truth.
Oh, most of the loudest offense-takers *do* understand it just fine.
Their "offense" is not genuine in many cases, it is a propaganda weapon they deliberately & knowingly employ against those they wish to attack and marginalize.
Those who are genuinely offended have simply been propagandized and indoctrinated to the point that no actual higher intellectual cognition is involved, only extreme emotional lizard-brain knee-jerk reaction to the stimulus that they've been trained to react to like Pavlov's dog.
Strat