1. China, after many years cranking out scientific papers on solar and wind, has ended new coal use (which is actually down) and is focussed on new solar, new wind, and converting older coal to more efficient coal hybrids that use waste heat and have scrubbers (if near water).
2. India continues to be efficient and is using solar and ending fossil fuel subsidies.
3. The 20 US States and 5 Canadian Provinces that have most of the growth in GDP are requiring between 5 and 20 percent of all new energy plants are solar, wind, geothermal, or biomass. So all the US/Canada growth in energy demand is going partially into solar.
4. Australia, US, and Canadian consumers, especially poor people, are buying their own cheap solar panels and installing them, as they can sell the power cheaper than it costs to buy it from a polluting energy industry.
5. Change is Now.
Fossil Fuels are over, kidlings. Time to realize that.
exactly. Right now they have 20 percent artificial water subsidies for "state water" and no charge for "well water" for agricultural uses, even when that depletes everyone else's water.
Remove the artificial water subsidies and a lot (not all, a lot) of the problems go away. The incentives change.
Use local plants that are adapted to your climate. Seattle has been doing this and reducing water use for lawns at the same time. Plus, greener.
Also, when you mow your lawn, use a mulching mower, mow 3 to 6 inch not 1/2 inch, let the cut grass stay in the lawn. Less fertilizer, less water. Deep soak once a week IN EVENING not during the day when salt buildup from evaporation happens. Less water, better growth, better roots.
You're not getting our nuclear fusion plants that we're making at the UW until you adapt.
part of the drop in fossil fuels is places like the West and Northeast switching to renewable fuels. we also are using transit more and walking and biking to work more.
Adapt or die. We already are. Your old fossil fuel subsidized ways are over.
1. California is always a semi-desert, with the exception of the northern fifth of the state, which is a rainforest. Adapt or die, b*tc*s. Yes, that means sustainable crop practices.
2. You're not getting any extra power from Oregon or Washington this year, cause our snowpack is around 8 percent of what it normally has been (which will be the norm in 2025 due to global warming, by the way, but is not directly caused by that). So we need our water to sell bottled water to you idiots who fail to realize the fancy water you drink in plastic bottles is just our usual drinking water in Seattle that we let settle a bit so it's "fresh". No cheap electricity for you. Grow a pair and build more solar and wind, cause it's just going to get much much much much worse.
3. As to crop practices, do what British Columbia learned in the 1970s and 1980s. You've had 50 years to adapt. Mix crops (no monoculture), grow crop cover between tree rows (less soil loss, less water loss) which also fixes nitrogen and can kill bad bugs. Cover your dam water canals (hint: try using solar panels, win win) to reduce water evaporation. It's been done in other places in North America for a long time, cheap water is over.
4. Most of your water use and water waste is farming. Most of that is because you insist on growing artificially subsidized water intensive crops that aren't suited for your climate. Stop subsidizing those and let the market self correct that very very bad choice. Adapt.
5. There is no all or nothing artificial choice. Half measures are better than no measures. Small and moderate adaptations now, or even to partial removal of subsidies and misuse have major impacts. Try changing 1/10th of your crops to better methods. I drove thru almost all of Cali this past winter, you really haven't done much, and you could easily adapt without much of a problem, but you have to stop sticking your heads in the sands.
Except you ignore NAFTA, FTA, and TPP and other treaties. Consumer Laws used to be at the state level, with few at the national level, but increasingly it's the international treaties that undercut those, and if we are so foolish as to allow China to force us to sign TPP, will be gutted even further.
I took US and Canadian consumer law classes for a while, my brother is an international lawyer in NYC with BC and CA bars. You can continue to believe this is only decided locally, but it isn't.
I was born here too. But I know, having lived in other American countries, that we are NOT the only ones on these two continents to say America and mean where we are (not USA).
Your advice makes perfect sense, which is exactly why dumb devices will soon be illegal to own.
Oh, think you'll be smart and just not configure networking to ensure your privacy? Cute, but nice try. They'll soon tie the license and EULA directly to networking, to ensure it is enabled 100% of the time, to all but guarantee the advertising capability behind that marketing-supplemented price tag.
You're right. You don't need any of these features. Then again, you didn't ask for them, which also explains just how much control you have in this situation. Now, or in the future.
Thank you for the advice. Too bad we can't do a damn thing about it.
You could always damage the circuit which does the reporting. This may generate a fault, but since you own the device, and it's your property, an act like removing a bridge jumper or cutting a capacitor on the circuit should suffice.
Or just find out where the IOT connects and disconnect that.
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It's not brain dead on an EKG.
But it sure as heck isn't human.
NEXT!
(seriously, do you guys even think about what you post? androids dream of electric sheep)
Actually, the Canadian Constitution, and the EU-US Data Treaty both preserve the Right of Privacy for citizens of those countries in the USA.
The lack of enforcement, or lawyers with kahunas big enough to use them, says nothing about the existence of these protections.
I know that UW Tech has quite a few patents in the near field charging sphere, so there are always those, based on original research, to draw on.
1. China, after many years cranking out scientific papers on solar and wind, has ended new coal use (which is actually down) and is focussed on new solar, new wind, and converting older coal to more efficient coal hybrids that use waste heat and have scrubbers (if near water).
2. India continues to be efficient and is using solar and ending fossil fuel subsidies.
3. The 20 US States and 5 Canadian Provinces that have most of the growth in GDP are requiring between 5 and 20 percent of all new energy plants are solar, wind, geothermal, or biomass. So all the US/Canada growth in energy demand is going partially into solar.
4. Australia, US, and Canadian consumers, especially poor people, are buying their own cheap solar panels and installing them, as they can sell the power cheaper than it costs to buy it from a polluting energy industry.
5. Change is Now.
Fossil Fuels are over, kidlings. Time to realize that.
I thought those went out of style last century.
I still think it will go over well in certain areas of North America, mostly fashion and fitness.
Again, the gold and the personalize "model/superstar" versions will sell better. Just look at how well the Gold iPhone did.
This privacy-impaired fear-based system of control is being resisted in Scotland, and probably in other parts of the UK.
If anything, this will speed up the dissolution of the UK into separate countries (all with the same Queen). Just ask Canada or Australia.
exactly. Right now they have 20 percent artificial water subsidies for "state water" and no charge for "well water" for agricultural uses, even when that depletes everyone else's water.
Remove the artificial water subsidies and a lot (not all, a lot) of the problems go away. The incentives change.
why do you have a "yard"?
Use local plants that are adapted to your climate. Seattle has been doing this and reducing water use for lawns at the same time. Plus, greener.
Also, when you mow your lawn, use a mulching mower, mow 3 to 6 inch not 1/2 inch, let the cut grass stay in the lawn. Less fertilizer, less water. Deep soak once a week IN EVENING not during the day when salt buildup from evaporation happens. Less water, better growth, better roots.
You're not getting our nuclear fusion plants that we're making at the UW until you adapt.
part of the drop in fossil fuels is places like the West and Northeast switching to renewable fuels. we also are using transit more and walking and biking to work more.
Adapt or die. We already are. Your old fossil fuel subsidized ways are over.
1. California is always a semi-desert, with the exception of the northern fifth of the state, which is a rainforest. Adapt or die, b*tc*s. Yes, that means sustainable crop practices.
2. You're not getting any extra power from Oregon or Washington this year, cause our snowpack is around 8 percent of what it normally has been (which will be the norm in 2025 due to global warming, by the way, but is not directly caused by that). So we need our water to sell bottled water to you idiots who fail to realize the fancy water you drink in plastic bottles is just our usual drinking water in Seattle that we let settle a bit so it's "fresh". No cheap electricity for you. Grow a pair and build more solar and wind, cause it's just going to get much much much much worse.
3. As to crop practices, do what British Columbia learned in the 1970s and 1980s. You've had 50 years to adapt. Mix crops (no monoculture), grow crop cover between tree rows (less soil loss, less water loss) which also fixes nitrogen and can kill bad bugs. Cover your dam water canals (hint: try using solar panels, win win) to reduce water evaporation. It's been done in other places in North America for a long time, cheap water is over.
4. Most of your water use and water waste is farming. Most of that is because you insist on growing artificially subsidized water intensive crops that aren't suited for your climate. Stop subsidizing those and let the market self correct that very very bad choice. Adapt.
5. There is no all or nothing artificial choice. Half measures are better than no measures. Small and moderate adaptations now, or even to partial removal of subsidies and misuse have major impacts. Try changing 1/10th of your crops to better methods. I drove thru almost all of Cali this past winter, you really haven't done much, and you could easily adapt without much of a problem, but you have to stop sticking your heads in the sands.
While the iWatch might do well in China and Asia (especially the gold version), watches are an old person's deal here in North America.
Meh.
Wake me up when the iPhone 7 comes out.
tell that to the Nazi-created Daylight Savings Time.
Oh, and the unicorn needs to be pink with rainbow hooves, in case you were wondering.
Grow up and stop trying to turn the US into Nazi Germany, NSA.
Just because the NSA is trying to weaken encryption standards, why do you have to pile on too!
I think Bandai would say it's a "parody" of the IP they stole.
As in the original movies and cartoons that Power Rangers ripped off and spliced in "local content" to appear to be "original".
There is no stealing from crooks.
Unless you want to live in a 140 F (40 C) world, you need to leave 2/3 of all the coal and tar sands in the ground and not export them like morons.
Earth will get along fine after we kill ourselves off due to our shortsighted nature.
But I always buy the textbook. If the class is just one semester, I buy a used copy.
Same goes for reference texts.
The rest I get at the library or a bookstore. Paperbacks preferred, but Picketty's Capital isn't out in paperback yet.
Except you ignore NAFTA, FTA, and TPP and other treaties. Consumer Laws used to be at the state level, with few at the national level, but increasingly it's the international treaties that undercut those, and if we are so foolish as to allow China to force us to sign TPP, will be gutted even further.
I took US and Canadian consumer law classes for a while, my brother is an international lawyer in NYC with BC and CA bars. You can continue to believe this is only decided locally, but it isn't.
Look back at the beginning of the information superhighway and you'll see I was there long before you civilians even knew about it.
My name might not appear the same way, but I was there.
Now realize your trade deals are trying to sell your Rights to corporations, but we all know they aren't people, so they don't have Rights.
I was born here too. But I know, having lived in other American countries, that we are NOT the only ones on these two continents to say America and mean where we are (not USA).
Your advice makes perfect sense, which is exactly why dumb devices will soon be illegal to own.
Oh, think you'll be smart and just not configure networking to ensure your privacy? Cute, but nice try. They'll soon tie the license and EULA directly to networking, to ensure it is enabled 100% of the time, to all but guarantee the advertising capability behind that marketing-supplemented price tag.
You're right. You don't need any of these features. Then again, you didn't ask for them, which also explains just how much control you have in this situation. Now, or in the future.
Thank you for the advice. Too bad we can't do a damn thing about it.
You could always damage the circuit which does the reporting. This may generate a fault, but since you own the device, and it's your property, an act like removing a bridge jumper or cutting a capacitor on the circuit should suffice.
Or just find out where the IOT connects and disconnect that.
Actually, the highest risk is from using a cell phone, or even having a cell conversation while driving, even if hands off. Texting is even worse.
Alcohol is pretty bad though.
PUT DOWN THE PHONE!
Based on what my family knows from the intel agencies we worked in, it's a feature.
What, you thought you lived in a Free Society, with Rights?