Residential electricity consumption is down. Some of this is people buying solar panels and wind turbines for their houses. And managing that "in house". Some of that is much more efficient appliances and lighting and consumer electronics. While PCs have not decreased power draw, laptops have. As more people switch to LEDs and high efficiency washers, dryers, ranges, ovens, microwaves, and fridges, they notice their utility bills plummet.
Commercial electricity consumption is only growing slightly. For much the same reasons as residential electricity consumption. But many firms like Google with a large presence build their own solar and wind farms to provide their own power at their buildings, instead of paying a premium for off site electricity generation. The move to DC server farms has also impacted this.
Industrial electricity consumption is actually growing. However, many industrial firms are also building their own solar, wind, and hydro power generation units, much like the commercial sector.
Some users cover up these cameras with tape or slim gadgets to ensure nefarious players do not remotely activate the cameras.
Technically, they can still be activated, they just don't send any usable images. The same can not be said for microphones, which record vibration, including the vibration of you typing on a keyboard, and even on your iPhone X surface, which can be used with the other sensor data to infer what you actually typed. Pressure, vibration, gyro, therm, attitude, they're all signals.
Any microprocessors in your phone can also be used to store data in some way shape or form. Keyboards and mice all have buffers.
spoken like someone who doesn't understand what money is
Money is power backed by the organization which grants you resources. Bitcoin is a mathematical expression of the powerless pretending that they have both power and resources.
"ride sharing" means you have a person driving from point A (the dwell point, where they take up space on the road or in tax-subsidized on street parking) to point B (where they pick up the passenger(s)). Normally each ride is for one person, rarely for 2+ people. They then drive from point B to point C (the drop point, utilizing roadways, and artificially increasing passengers to qualify for HOV lanes which would otherwise be used by actual families and co-workers driving together). The car then either dwells at point C (unlikely unless in suburban areas) or moves to an optimal point to pick up another passenger, again taking up tax-subsidized on street parking and road space.
This entire process artificially restricts the optimal use of tax-subsidized roadways for actual HOV usage, and tax-subsidized parking on street.
If we move to a model of automated self-driving vehicles, we reduce only the usage of HOV lanes by the self-driving car, but it still has to park at a tax-subsidized on street parking spot. The car still causes the increased wear and tear on urban and suburban streets, and occupies one or more tax-subsidized parking spots on streets.
If the "share rider" uses transit or their own car, we have different impacts. Using their own car causes a lesser impact on tax-subsidized roads, and may increase the use of HOV lanes if the owner ride shares, or to a lesser extent gives park and ride occupants a ride to their destination. This may in fact be better, but then the car has to be stored while at the destination, taking up either a tax-subsidized on street parking spot that is not available for commercial or other uses, and/or a parking garage spot (urban parking is a non-optimal and fairly expensive use of urban land).
Bubble Tea started in Taiwan, then made its way over to the States more recently. Having been traveling back and forth between both places I'm not exactly sure on the timeline of when Bubble Tea made it to the states, but it seems to be within the last 2-5 years, but I had it all the time 12 years ago in Taiwan at every single drink stand which are literally at least one, if not two or three, per block.
Try many decades. You need to get out more, grandpa.
As you may be aware, especially if you read scientific journals, we can literally grow organs on biomaterial lattices that absorb into the organs. We can also 3D print biomaterials, including ones that compost organically, from vegetable materials.
Even styrofoam itself is replaced. Try looking inside those packages from Amazon and Microsoft sometimes. Those peanuts have changed.
The future is now. Stop thinking "plastics". That was 1950s. This is 2020s tech, and it's ramping up to massive production levels, except for some backwards countries and regions, that will be dragged into the future regardless.
AIs tend to drift after a while, you need to rebuild them, use new frameworks, remove the bug that has them send sports cars out of the solar system, and makes them hate transit for no reason.
once the software is rebuilt and the cruft removed, we'll reinstall him
Seriously, what parent isn't concerned that their kid is addicted to mobile devices? Cars, trucks, sure they seem innocent enough, but then they start demanding you change zoning codes to subsidize the device storage "Mom, I want my trucks in the living room AND the kitchen!", they require minimum parking standards "I don't want to go to grandma's house, there's no place to play with my car race set!", and they monopolize the streets demanding more than one-third of the land "I have to set up my race track in the hallway!".
Obviously, we as a society need to change this.
And get them to stop playing with their cell phones while doing so. Have you ever been run into by a metal truck as your kid careens down the sidewalk?
But if they are phasing them out over twelve years, they have time to do that. First, they replace them in governments supply contracts, police, etc. Then they only allow imported non-plastic straws, to encourage local industry to provide them, but help them wean off.
A better idea is switch to vegetable fiber or algae/seaweed based fiber straws, which also can be incinerated. Since both sources are carbon sinks, this reduces greenhouse gasses, as opposed to already stored oil used for plastic straws, and the organic based straws are net neutral GHG, and also burn more cleanly.
They use that in America to sell bubble tea. They shrink wrap the top of the cup.
You can make the seal from vegetable fiber/oil too, using local seaweed or local blue green algae, or even wood biproducts. Works fine. You just need to scale it up.
They have had tech to make full vegetable fiber straws for at least a decade now, and all of the EU is converting to bio-plastics, so it's not difficult.
As you scale up production, the prices drop. If you remove the artificial subsides for plastic disposal of non-recyclable materials, you can easily switch, using this thing we like to call "capitalist markets".
Most people in Seattle don't carry cash, actually. At best it's like 10 percent of us.
And before you try to guilt me, I donate to actual deductible non-profits that provide services like actual housing and sundries to homeless youth and women. A higher percentage of my income than Bill Gates does, actually.
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Residential electricity consumption is down. Some of this is people buying solar panels and wind turbines for their houses. And managing that "in house". Some of that is much more efficient appliances and lighting and consumer electronics. While PCs have not decreased power draw, laptops have. As more people switch to LEDs and high efficiency washers, dryers, ranges, ovens, microwaves, and fridges, they notice their utility bills plummet.
Commercial electricity consumption is only growing slightly. For much the same reasons as residential electricity consumption. But many firms like Google with a large presence build their own solar and wind farms to provide their own power at their buildings, instead of paying a premium for off site electricity generation. The move to DC server farms has also impacted this.
Industrial electricity consumption is actually growing. However, many industrial firms are also building their own solar, wind, and hydro power generation units, much like the commercial sector.
Some users cover up these cameras with tape or slim gadgets to ensure nefarious players do not remotely activate the cameras.
Technically, they can still be activated, they just don't send any usable images. The same can not be said for microphones, which record vibration, including the vibration of you typing on a keyboard, and even on your iPhone X surface, which can be used with the other sensor data to infer what you actually typed. Pressure, vibration, gyro, therm, attitude, they're all signals.
Any microprocessors in your phone can also be used to store data in some way shape or form. Keyboards and mice all have buffers.
spoken like someone who doesn't understand what money is
Money is power backed by the organization which grants you resources. Bitcoin is a mathematical expression of the powerless pretending that they have both power and resources.
The key problem here is one factor, valuation.
It has no intrinsic value.
It only has inferred value.
The value depends on the market, if and when such a market is in existence.
It's worth at least one-percent of a wooden vessel cargo pallet of tulips.
Just do a thought experiment.
"ride sharing" means you have a person driving from point A (the dwell point, where they take up space on the road or in tax-subsidized on street parking) to point B (where they pick up the passenger(s)). Normally each ride is for one person, rarely for 2+ people. They then drive from point B to point C (the drop point, utilizing roadways, and artificially increasing passengers to qualify for HOV lanes which would otherwise be used by actual families and co-workers driving together). The car then either dwells at point C (unlikely unless in suburban areas) or moves to an optimal point to pick up another passenger, again taking up tax-subsidized on street parking and road space.
This entire process artificially restricts the optimal use of tax-subsidized roadways for actual HOV usage, and tax-subsidized parking on street.
If we move to a model of automated self-driving vehicles, we reduce only the usage of HOV lanes by the self-driving car, but it still has to park at a tax-subsidized on street parking spot. The car still causes the increased wear and tear on urban and suburban streets, and occupies one or more tax-subsidized parking spots on streets.
If the "share rider" uses transit or their own car, we have different impacts. Using their own car causes a lesser impact on tax-subsidized roads, and may increase the use of HOV lanes if the owner ride shares, or to a lesser extent gives park and ride occupants a ride to their destination. This may in fact be better, but then the car has to be stored while at the destination, taking up either a tax-subsidized on street parking spot that is not available for commercial or other uses, and/or a parking garage spot (urban parking is a non-optimal and fairly expensive use of urban land).
Have you actually looked at "world leaders" recently?
Sounds like a plan!
There was a lot more, but this is what is being used for charging evidence.
Oh, and, yes, we still have your cloud data.
Bubble Tea started in Taiwan, then made its way over to the States more recently. Having been traveling back and forth between both places I'm not exactly sure on the timeline of when Bubble Tea made it to the states, but it seems to be within the last 2-5 years, but I had it all the time 12 years ago in Taiwan at every single drink stand which are literally at least one, if not two or three, per block.
Try many decades. You need to get out more, grandpa.
As you may be aware, especially if you read scientific journals, we can literally grow organs on biomaterial lattices that absorb into the organs. We can also 3D print biomaterials, including ones that compost organically, from vegetable materials.
Even styrofoam itself is replaced. Try looking inside those packages from Amazon and Microsoft sometimes. Those peanuts have changed.
The future is now. Stop thinking "plastics". That was 1950s. This is 2020s tech, and it's ramping up to massive production levels, except for some backwards countries and regions, that will be dragged into the future regardless.
AIs tend to drift after a while, you need to rebuild them, use new frameworks, remove the bug that has them send sports cars out of the solar system, and makes them hate transit for no reason.
once the software is rebuilt and the cruft removed, we'll reinstall him
Seriously, what parent isn't concerned that their kid is addicted to mobile devices? Cars, trucks, sure they seem innocent enough, but then they start demanding you change zoning codes to subsidize the device storage "Mom, I want my trucks in the living room AND the kitchen!", they require minimum parking standards "I don't want to go to grandma's house, there's no place to play with my car race set!", and they monopolize the streets demanding more than one-third of the land "I have to set up my race track in the hallway!".
Obviously, we as a society need to change this.
And get them to stop playing with their cell phones while doing so. Have you ever been run into by a metal truck as your kid careens down the sidewalk?
We have this thing called the Rule of Law around here.
And being a pawn of foreign corporations controlled by others won't save you.
No matter how many cookies you bake, elf.
But if they are phasing them out over twelve years, they have time to do that. First, they replace them in governments supply contracts, police, etc. Then they only allow imported non-plastic straws, to encourage local industry to provide them, but help them wean off.
Corn is always sub-optimal, due to fertilizers and water required for it.
A better idea is switch to vegetable fiber or algae/seaweed based fiber straws, which also can be incinerated. Since both sources are carbon sinks, this reduces greenhouse gasses, as opposed to already stored oil used for plastic straws, and the organic based straws are net neutral GHG, and also burn more cleanly.
Science.
They use that in America to sell bubble tea. They shrink wrap the top of the cup.
You can make the seal from vegetable fiber/oil too, using local seaweed or local blue green algae, or even wood biproducts. Works fine. You just need to scale it up.
They have had tech to make full vegetable fiber straws for at least a decade now, and all of the EU is converting to bio-plastics, so it's not difficult.
As you scale up production, the prices drop. If you remove the artificial subsides for plastic disposal of non-recyclable materials, you can easily switch, using this thing we like to call "capitalist markets".
Most people in Seattle don't carry cash, actually. At best it's like 10 percent of us.
And before you try to guilt me, I donate to actual deductible non-profits that provide services like actual housing and sundries to homeless youth and women. A higher percentage of my income than Bill Gates does, actually.
I'm not paying $2 to Amazon for "raw water" no matter how much you make it look "tech".
Are you saying a fake currency with no value backed by non-existent resources is a farce?
Next thing, you'll tell me my South Sea shares are worthless and my tulip futures are at best 1 peso a bulb!
Or, more to the point, South Sea shares in baleen whale futures
It's much easier to mine that.
It's called cash.
Yeah, that will not happen.
Nice try, fly guy, but we all know how to take those down.