Go read the online versions of Energy Policy, Environmental Research, and various other journals.
Seriously, I will not do your work for you. Wake up, it's the 21st Century. There are these things that are called "search engines" if you're too darned lazy.
If it's behind a firewall, find a college or university library that has access to real science.
I can't fix your UK subsidies of London and the flaws in your system. But they are heavily subsidized. I have been investing in oil and coal since the 70s, and was one of the IPO participants in Peabody, a number of ethanol firms, and various oil firms including RDS (Shell PLC), Exxon Mobil, etc.
The fact that you can't see the massive subsidies - from cheap land rents, pipeline construction subsidies, etc - just shows you don't read your SEC filings and detailed prospectuses.
They've done it in a number of cities in China already. Look, I get that you don't keep up with current events, you probably don't even understand that solar is cheaper than coal now.
It's ok, just step away from the Internet and go back to reading your old copies of the Prairie Home Companion in the outhouse, gramps.
Not true. In fact, if you had studied modern cities since at least 2000, you'd realize there are many ways to grow food in a city.
Look, I'm sorry that you're stuck in an 18th Century viewpoint of what America is, but just because you can't get your head around the fact that most of us live in cities now, and aren't farmers, isn't my problem.
Oh, and try to use modern farming practices that involve less water that we started doing in the 1970s, ok?
Look, there's no real reason to double tar sands output in Canada either.
Yet MSM take that as a given.
There is no given.
There are only massive subsidies and tax exemptions for fossil fuels that should go away, so the Invisible Hand of Capitalism can break the Mercantilist Monopolies into tiny little bleeding pieces.
It's not that hard. It just requires a reset point, realizing that empty areas have very few people, almost all of whom will die out, and that growing cities are the easiest to change by requiring new zoning codes and removing tax subsidies for old polluting cars and trucks for streets that were designed and built for bicycles and streetcars in the first place.
It allows China's national wealth owned corporations to sue under TPP and force us to invalidate Laws written by US Citizens to protect our environment so that we can be a hell hole on earth just like them.
All for the almighty Yuan.
Citizens are regarded as disposable chattel with no rights, with only 3/5 of a vote, while corporations get votes for every dollar they spend, and actual rights.
If anything, it's an expensive waste of time and resources that makes terrorism more likely, especially when combined with unnecessary and counter-productive unconstitutional search and seizure and monitoring of American citizens in America, when the only useful actionable intel we have ever had has been due to intel gathering that started in the Middle East.
Period.
Living in Fear is the wrong answer. Americans are made of sterner stuff than that.
Under data treaties that were signed, the basic Consitutional Right to Privacy is enforceable for all Canadian citizens, not just in Canada, but also in the US (US/Canada Data Treaty) and the EU (including the UK btw).
Period.
You can sue.
I know it's unusual for Canadians to sue, but sometimes we have to do it to stop Evil.
When we went from UDS2 to UDS3 we implemented many open source (cheaper) tests to replace the proprietary (expensive) tests.
While the new tests are designed to be close to the old tests, they are actually less culturally biased and better at prediction.
But the shift in tests causes either a plateau effect (an increase looks like it is stable and not increasing) or a discontinuity up or down.
Someone not familiar with the tests would say "Ah ha! Dementia was stopped!" or "Ah ha! there was a sudden increase/decrease in dementia due to the stress of the tests!"
Neither is correct. They are different (but similar and more predictive) tests.
Same thing here. NOAA upgrades hardware and software and gets better at analysis. People who want to deny what's really happening (global warming, or increased energy in climate systems resulting in much larger storms, changes in weather patterns (both colder snowstorms and hotter summers)) see the difference and latch onto it to deny reality.
Seriously, though, we all know (or those of us with CT experience), that the only programs that have worked are those in the Middle East and nearby countries. Spying on Americans in America has proved very worthless. Traditional police investigations using targetted individual warrants and traditional police interrogation (not torture) have resulted in all the successes to date.
We need to stop wasting time on promoting Fear to justify wasting taxes on unneeded spying and focus on the true threats, which are not here.
That said, expect numerous false flag media reports over the next few weeks in a vain attempt to prove we should all live in Fear.
In which case they will have to release the code that corresponds to binaries - would be useful for checking that there is not some little tweaks to help the NSA -- but if they have already put those into the system DLLs (eg for encryption) we would not really know. Maybe I am too cynical but I am very suspicious of what they did to skype.
All your base is belong to NSA. Currently there are no non-frontdoor secure systems.
As someone with extensive counter-terrorism experience and who started off as a combat field engineer, I can tell you that it is a total farce and waste of time and money.
Anyone with even a minor bit of experience or training can get through them. Just for fun I've usually put forbidden items during half of my trips, knowing they'd never spot them, due to their methods.
The full body scans are even more useless.
Just end it and stop wasting our scarce tax dollars which should be used overseas by nuking Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with extreme prejudice. Neither of which is our ally.
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Go read the online versions of Energy Policy, Environmental Research, and various other journals.
Seriously, I will not do your work for you. Wake up, it's the 21st Century. There are these things that are called "search engines" if you're too darned lazy.
If it's behind a firewall, find a college or university library that has access to real science.
Just make sure they don't replace the printers. Those are the ones being used to root the network.
Why do you think IBM had so much money?
I can't fix your UK subsidies of London and the flaws in your system. But they are heavily subsidized. I have been investing in oil and coal since the 70s, and was one of the IPO participants in Peabody, a number of ethanol firms, and various oil firms including RDS (Shell PLC), Exxon Mobil, etc.
The fact that you can't see the massive subsidies - from cheap land rents, pipeline construction subsidies, etc - just shows you don't read your SEC filings and detailed prospectuses.
They've done it in a number of cities in China already. Look, I get that you don't keep up with current events, you probably don't even understand that solar is cheaper than coal now.
It's ok, just step away from the Internet and go back to reading your old copies of the Prairie Home Companion in the outhouse, gramps.
Not true. In fact, if you had studied modern cities since at least 2000, you'd realize there are many ways to grow food in a city.
Look, I'm sorry that you're stuck in an 18th Century viewpoint of what America is, but just because you can't get your head around the fact that most of us live in cities now, and aren't farmers, isn't my problem.
Oh, and try to use modern farming practices that involve less water that we started doing in the 1970s, ok?
Look, there's no real reason to double tar sands output in Canada either.
Yet MSM take that as a given.
There is no given.
There are only massive subsidies and tax exemptions for fossil fuels that should go away, so the Invisible Hand of Capitalism can break the Mercantilist Monopolies into tiny little bleeding pieces.
It's not that hard. It just requires a reset point, realizing that empty areas have very few people, almost all of whom will die out, and that growing cities are the easiest to change by requiring new zoning codes and removing tax subsidies for old polluting cars and trucks for streets that were designed and built for bicycles and streetcars in the first place.
Make the choices simple: Adapt or Die.
Doesn't mean it's right.
Or legal.
The TPP is evil.
It allows China's national wealth owned corporations to sue under TPP and force us to invalidate Laws written by US Citizens to protect our environment so that we can be a hell hole on earth just like them.
All for the almighty Yuan.
Citizens are regarded as disposable chattel with no rights, with only 3/5 of a vote, while corporations get votes for every dollar they spend, and actual rights.
Seriously, if I wanted your lousy add on, I would have asked for it.
Bad bad bad bad bad.
Sadly you are correct.
And that's because we're being kind.
If anything, it's an expensive waste of time and resources that makes terrorism more likely, especially when combined with unnecessary and counter-productive unconstitutional search and seizure and monitoring of American citizens in America, when the only useful actionable intel we have ever had has been due to intel gathering that started in the Middle East.
Period.
Living in Fear is the wrong answer. Americans are made of sterner stuff than that.
Nothing happened at WWDC today.
No, even less than that.
Under data treaties that were signed, the basic Consitutional Right to Privacy is enforceable for all Canadian citizens, not just in Canada, but also in the US (US/Canada Data Treaty) and the EU (including the UK btw).
Period.
You can sue.
I know it's unusual for Canadians to sue, but sometimes we have to do it to stop Evil.
This is one of those times.
When we went from UDS2 to UDS3 we implemented many open source (cheaper) tests to replace the proprietary (expensive) tests.
While the new tests are designed to be close to the old tests, they are actually less culturally biased and better at prediction.
But the shift in tests causes either a plateau effect (an increase looks like it is stable and not increasing) or a discontinuity up or down.
Someone not familiar with the tests would say "Ah ha! Dementia was stopped!" or "Ah ha! there was a sudden increase/decrease in dementia due to the stress of the tests!"
Neither is correct. They are different (but similar and more predictive) tests.
Same thing here. NOAA upgrades hardware and software and gets better at analysis. People who want to deny what's really happening (global warming, or increased energy in climate systems resulting in much larger storms, changes in weather patterns (both colder snowstorms and hotter summers)) see the difference and latch onto it to deny reality.
Happens all the time.
It's like smoking MJ.
It is socially acceptable.
But they want to control your ability to do it anyway.
Try getting a conviction for MJ anywhere on the West Coast. No jury would convict.
Same basic thing with VPNs due to stupid region locking.
You can't "steal" what is public domain.
Government desires to disable or thwart encryption run contrary to the highest law of many of the nations saying they can't allow privacy.
A case in point: Canada.
Just because people want something doesn't mean it's legal for the Government to violate it's Constitution in thwarting it.
Just because you can pay more for a service like HBO or Showtime by buying them in parts (even if only a month), does not make them cheaper.
Now, if we were a First World nation, we'd pay $20 a month for 10 Gbps internet plus TV.
That would be a bargain.
But this is still highway robbery.
Seriously, just because you can fab something, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
QC that.
Team America: World Police.
Seriously, though, we all know (or those of us with CT experience), that the only programs that have worked are those in the Middle East and nearby countries. Spying on Americans in America has proved very worthless. Traditional police investigations using targetted individual warrants and traditional police interrogation (not torture) have resulted in all the successes to date.
We need to stop wasting time on promoting Fear to justify wasting taxes on unneeded spying and focus on the true threats, which are not here.
That said, expect numerous false flag media reports over the next few weeks in a vain attempt to prove we should all live in Fear.
In which case they will have to release the code that corresponds to binaries - would be useful for checking that there is not some little tweaks to help the NSA -- but if they have already put those into the system DLLs (eg for encryption) we would not really know. Maybe I am too cynical but I am very suspicious of what they did to skype.
All your base is belong to NSA. Currently there are no non-frontdoor secure systems.
oh and what will work: training for cargo handling, telling passengers they must subdue any terrorists and throw coats and blankets on top of them.
The rest never works. It never has worked. Stop watching those stupid TV shows, life doesn't work like that.
Look, the TSA has never worked.
It never will work.
As someone with extensive counter-terrorism experience and who started off as a combat field engineer, I can tell you that it is a total farce and waste of time and money.
Anyone with even a minor bit of experience or training can get through them. Just for fun I've usually put forbidden items during half of my trips, knowing they'd never spot them, due to their methods.
The full body scans are even more useless.
Just end it and stop wasting our scarce tax dollars which should be used overseas by nuking Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with extreme prejudice. Neither of which is our ally.