Read the draft form of the climate change report Trump is trying to bury.
All those floods, storms, heat waves, and other events are being caused by humans, using fossil fuels.
This is dead tech. Fossil fuel vehicles are phased out in three years worldwide, no matter where you go. Just run your current gas car into the ground, and then buy a cheaper all-electric car to replace it.
The major problem with this is not the cost, which is fairly low, or the transmission, which is not from that great a distance, or even the add on jobs for the African population, which would be great.
But it does provide a lack of resilience in France if the lines are cut. More local power gives you the ability to withstand power cuts from ever increasing quakes, storms and other disruptions, as you can always bring back buildings with their own roof top solar and wind first, then turn on grids with enough power.
So long as the total output is kept below 25 percent of the French utility grid usage, it's not a problem. Since this is fairly small, this might be ok, but it does increase risks.
Me, I miss USENET and its comparatively civilised discussions, with user client choice and lots of snark if you fsck up. But that wasn't inclusive enough, so AOL opened the floodgates. The original SJWs, I'm telling you.
Unlike you, I survived the USE*NET flame wars. It was a nightmare I tell you, many techies were flamed by the 2400 baud slimelords who laughed at the 110 baud dweebs in the rural hinterlands and their System 360 terminals.
I should also point out, as someone with five languages, that you can usually work fairly well in written versions of a language you didn't grow up with, but that having to listen to audio of a language, with accents, that is not your own, is far more difficult.
A lot of people who prefer text are not native speakers of the text. They can either google translate it, or understand 95 percent of it, if it's text, but with audio and video they tend to have to listen to it 2-3 times before they understand. Have you ever watched Mandarin or Russian broadcasts where the speaker is talking quickly?
Seriously, this is just some push by marketroids who sold a bill of goods to media execs. They think it will let them fire journalists and print hosts and replace them with cheaper H2-B and H1-B workers and recent AV grads.
But we don't want video everywhere.
I hate stupid articles that start playing videos. I hate news showing as video when I'd rather read it and skim it.
Ad funny cartoons. We like that.
But this is so fake, and just an attempt to cut costs by firing existing print journalists and replacing them with cheaper "video" journalists.
For example, if we look at the burden on consumers from Trump bailouts, it dwarves that of Elon Musk.
At least Musk makes stuff. The Russian comrade just stamps his logo on stuff built by shell companies he lets default on obligations for, and licenses his likeness for a 20-40 percent markup, without actually building anything.
A long time ago, I was one of the first alpha testers of car-mounted GPS, along with dashboard radio and directions.
After doing this for a couple of years, finding they froze when you went skiing and all that, I realized it was just a pain in the butt, and changed my driving from fun with the radio on and the top down to worry and stress.
So, at the end of the program, I turned it in, and never used GPS while driving ever again.
It's way better this way. Only serfs become slaves to their tools.
What the UK didn't admit was that all electric vehicles, on average, cost about half as much for maintenance (fewer moving parts), and also have half the amount of particulate emissions as do gas and diesel vehicles.
Tires are tires. They get worn out the same. Basic physics. Only reason electric cars would burn more rubber would be if they... wait for it... accelerated much faster from a standing start.
Yup. They're faster. This is why all the supercars have both electric and gas motors, as the electrics kick in for fast acceleration.
Dude, we are not just in the building, but we're in the skies.
Note the Seattle and King County councils and police always refer to their own surveillance. The feds, state, ports are all exempt and do in fact spy on you.
Then they get modified to preserve the property and markets that are endangered by change.
Just like 98 percent of DOE money is used to stop cheaper solar and wind, and prop up failed fossil fuels and halt the transition of the transportation to clean energy by the DOT.
Lead, follow, or stop progress. It's the American Way.
I do this all the time. There is this thing called "power" that gets "consumed" when devices are on.
You may have heard of it.
There are also people that try to pirate your wi-fi during hours when you are sleeping, since you won't notice, and they can then use it to run various things, like blade servers in their basement used for hack attacks on foreign banks. That way it all gets traced back to you, since they changed their CPU ids. You end up in jail instead of them.
Having participated in hundreds of IPOs over the decades, I'd tend to agree with this analysis. Probably about 50 percent of the public or private offerings I looked at were not viable long term, usually predicated on a lack of both competition and regulation, both of which would exist.
That said, if you actually read the offerings, you'll find they disclose such things. Sometimes a good idea can in fact be a wise investment.
The only problem with OTA HDTV in Silicon Valley is that all the clear channels are in foreign languages. English channels are whitewashed in static.
Just turn on SAP n00b. Secondary Audio Programming. It's a setting on your TV menu. Guess what SAP on a Spanish or Japanese channel is... wait for it... it's English!!!
I've cut back all the extra cable channels I never watch, and it even gives me songs and anime in Spanish and Mandarin and Japanese.
It's super cool. Who knew that your local PBS station broadcasts on three frequencies, or that all the soccer games are on Telemundo in higher quality (1080p) instead of the lower definition 1080i you get from Comcast? And then you turn on SAP on the Spanish soccer game and you hear English!!
It totally rocks!
Add Crunchyroll Premium to that and you're a winner!
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Lol, electrics are already cheaper than fossil fuel in most First World countries.
What if I want to drive more than 500 miles in a day?
Get an electric truck. Pretty easy to get 2000 miles from enough battery packs, and you just offload them when you want to haul big loads
Read the draft form of the climate change report Trump is trying to bury.
All those floods, storms, heat waves, and other events are being caused by humans, using fossil fuels.
This is dead tech. Fossil fuel vehicles are phased out in three years worldwide, no matter where you go. Just run your current gas car into the ground, and then buy a cheaper all-electric car to replace it.
No amount of tech will change that.
The major problem with this is not the cost, which is fairly low, or the transmission, which is not from that great a distance, or even the add on jobs for the African population, which would be great.
But it does provide a lack of resilience in France if the lines are cut. More local power gives you the ability to withstand power cuts from ever increasing quakes, storms and other disruptions, as you can always bring back buildings with their own roof top solar and wind first, then turn on grids with enough power.
So long as the total output is kept below 25 percent of the French utility grid usage, it's not a problem. Since this is fairly small, this might be ok, but it does increase risks.
... you're still on here, aren't you?
Me, I miss USENET and its comparatively civilised discussions, with user client choice and lots of snark if you fsck up. But that wasn't inclusive enough, so AOL opened the floodgates. The original SJWs, I'm telling you.
Unlike you, I survived the USE*NET flame wars. It was a nightmare I tell you, many techies were flamed by the 2400 baud slimelords who laughed at the 110 baud dweebs in the rural hinterlands and their System 360 terminals.
I should also point out, as someone with five languages, that you can usually work fairly well in written versions of a language you didn't grow up with, but that having to listen to audio of a language, with accents, that is not your own, is far more difficult.
A lot of people who prefer text are not native speakers of the text. They can either google translate it, or understand 95 percent of it, if it's text, but with audio and video they tend to have to listen to it 2-3 times before they understand. Have you ever watched Mandarin or Russian broadcasts where the speaker is talking quickly?
Seriously, this is just some push by marketroids who sold a bill of goods to media execs. They think it will let them fire journalists and print hosts and replace them with cheaper H2-B and H1-B workers and recent AV grads.
But we don't want video everywhere.
I hate stupid articles that start playing videos. I hate news showing as video when I'd rather read it and skim it.
Ad funny cartoons. We like that.
But this is so fake, and just an attempt to cut costs by firing existing print journalists and replacing them with cheaper "video" journalists.
For example, if we look at the burden on consumers from Trump bailouts, it dwarves that of Elon Musk.
At least Musk makes stuff. The Russian comrade just stamps his logo on stuff built by shell companies he lets default on obligations for, and licenses his likeness for a 20-40 percent markup, without actually building anything.
Welcome to 2017, year of the new Google, where the corporate logo is "First, Be Evil".
A long time ago, I was one of the first alpha testers of car-mounted GPS, along with dashboard radio and directions.
After doing this for a couple of years, finding they froze when you went skiing and all that, I realized it was just a pain in the butt, and changed my driving from fun with the radio on and the top down to worry and stress.
So, at the end of the program, I turned it in, and never used GPS while driving ever again.
It's way better this way. Only serfs become slaves to their tools.
What the UK didn't admit was that all electric vehicles, on average, cost about half as much for maintenance (fewer moving parts), and also have half the amount of particulate emissions as do gas and diesel vehicles.
Tires are tires. They get worn out the same. Basic physics. Only reason electric cars would burn more rubber would be if they ... wait for it ... accelerated much faster from a standing start.
Yup. They're faster. This is why all the supercars have both electric and gas motors, as the electrics kick in for fast acceleration.
Dude, we are not just in the building, but we're in the skies.
Note the Seattle and King County councils and police always refer to their own surveillance. The feds, state, ports are all exempt and do in fact spy on you.
Dirty little secret we tend not to admit.
This so reminds me of Ghostbusters.
Regulations exist for a reason. Originally.
Then they get modified to preserve the property and markets that are endangered by change.
Just like 98 percent of DOE money is used to stop cheaper solar and wind, and prop up failed fossil fuels and halt the transition of the transportation to clean energy by the DOT.
Lead, follow, or stop progress. It's the American Way.
Every day, in every way, they slip further and further into the Silicon Valley "I got mine, you get nothing" attitude.
I expect riots in the streets next year.
I do this all the time. There is this thing called "power" that gets "consumed" when devices are on.
You may have heard of it.
There are also people that try to pirate your wi-fi during hours when you are sleeping, since you won't notice, and they can then use it to run various things, like blade servers in their basement used for hack attacks on foreign banks. That way it all gets traced back to you, since they changed their CPU ids. You end up in jail instead of them.
Burning through cash is what VCs ignore silicon valley startups doing.
It costs money to actually build stuff.
And, no, your "smart water" is just tap water from Seattle. We get it out of the Tolt River. Stop paying $5 for tap water, idiot.
Having participated in hundreds of IPOs over the decades, I'd tend to agree with this analysis. Probably about 50 percent of the public or private offerings I looked at were not viable long term, usually predicated on a lack of both competition and regulation, both of which would exist.
That said, if you actually read the offerings, you'll find they disclose such things. Sometimes a good idea can in fact be a wise investment.
Then they wouldn't have to resort to such questionable tactics.
Don't know. Can barely keep up with what they have.
I don't know what your problem is, using Internet 3 with a 100 Gbps port, that kind of file is easy to download.
I mean, don't you all have 128 core blade servers with 512 TB storage?
This is digital. HDTV is ... digital.
And you can still get old format analog too.
The only problem with OTA HDTV in Silicon Valley is that all the clear channels are in foreign languages. English channels are whitewashed in static.
Just turn on SAP n00b. Secondary Audio Programming. It's a setting on your TV menu. Guess what SAP on a Spanish or Japanese channel is ... wait for it ... it's English!!!
I've cut back all the extra cable channels I never watch, and it even gives me songs and anime in Spanish and Mandarin and Japanese.
It's super cool. Who knew that your local PBS station broadcasts on three frequencies, or that all the soccer games are on Telemundo in higher quality (1080p) instead of the lower definition 1080i you get from Comcast? And then you turn on SAP on the Spanish soccer game and you hear English!!
It totally rocks!
Add Crunchyroll Premium to that and you're a winner!
In all the mil tests we found there was always an IoT backdoor.
Always.
Without exception.
It's the nature of forgetfullness. "Honey, did you remember to update the toaster and the fridge?"
Oh, I thought you meant IRL.