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  1. It's the tape that messes that up. There are green recycle-friendly label alternatives, which if purchased in bulk by a very large corporation, would be just as cheap as the non-recyclable labels they currently use, but that would involve someone at Amazon understanding economic supply constraints.

  2. I for one welcome our green Amazonians on Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    If you combine solar, wind, and a third source like batteries or hydroelectricity, it's very easy to achieve 99 percent green power.

    The major problem is the envelopes they use now jam up the recycling machines, due to using plastics.

  3. Pretty sure the EU has the Internet on The Internet, Divided Between the US and China, Has Become a Battleground (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, it was designed to be segmentable.

    Just block stuff from countries that host hackers

  4. Oh, please on How India's Single Time Zone Is Hurting Its People (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Try living in the Western US, or Canada, where stuff happens.

    Now, get rid of Daylight Savings Time and then we can discuss India and time zones, whilst the entirety of China, which is much much much wider, is in a single time zone.

  5. Yes. For example, most schools used to use SSN or SIN for IDs and moved away to other IDs over time. The only reason you should have this ID is for taxes, and it should never be stored in your primary customer database, for any reason.

    Birthdates can also be problematic. To someone who's 20, they think it's not identifiiable, but someone who's in their 90s knows it's very identifiable.

  6. Correct on The Stolen Equifax Data Has Never Been Found, Experts Suspect a Spy Scheme (cnbc.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just a point, Social Security numbers and birthdates are not things you can easily change.

    It's time to realize the entire concept of credit ratings is deeply flawed and inherently insecure.

  7. But subject to more storm damage on China and India Lead the Way in Greening (nasa.gov) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that China has basically destroyed large segments of it's barrier islands and wetlands that absorb storm damage, so expect to read in a few years about how much damage has dramatically increased in China from storms, that otherwise would have not caused major calamities.

  8. It's all about the looting on Activision Blizzard Cuts 8% of Jobs Amid 'Record Results In 2018' (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    Not loot crates, but more loot for senior execs, whose compensation will skyrocket while they fire employees.

  9. Almost as if this is targetted to addiction on Tobacco Use is Soaring Among US Kids, Driven By E-cigarettes (axios.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Almost all nicotine addiction occurs in middle school (not, as many believe incorrectly, in high school and college), and there are people working for the tobacco addiction industry who know this and are doing what they can to addict the next generations of addicts.

    And, don't lie to yourselves, you're addicts.

    Me, I do socially acceptable addictions that are common in Seattle instead.

    Bubble tea ftw!

  10. Based on what year? You underestimate how fast the power profiles of the region you're talking about are changing. In Cali, for example, all new residential will be solar enabled. There's a 50 percent RPI. It is highly likely that by 2020 you'll see a lot online that qualifies as green. The major pushbacks on hydro are large scale (science now shows a 50 percent larger GHG emission aspect due to fertilizer and other runoffs outgassing than originally described) and salmonid impacts. Those are workable in terms of fixes, however, on virtually any mini or micro hydro installations (those box buildings you see next to small lakes, which power a lot of data centers).

    Fossil fuels are over. Deal with it.

  11. Re:It's a range the Green New Deal can fix on Global Warming Could Exceed 1.5C Within Five Years, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Evidence shows that doesn't occur. Since renewable energy is so much cheaper compared to fossil fuel technologies, your basic costs are repair from fires floods and quakes, same as any electrical infrastructure. Wind has turbine blade replacement, as does tidal, but solar is basically pop in the tri inverter and the powerwall equivalent and it takes care of itself. The capital costs and the labor for installation are the largest components, with the maintenance being fairly low.

    (sources: UW CEI)

  12. So what tax exemptions, tax exclusions, tax incentives that they get that other business don't get? Or are you saying they should not get the standard deductions every other business gets?

    Correct. None. Zero. Nada.

  13. But how will we get our fake news? on Google Warns News Sites May Lose 45 Percent of Traffic If EU Passes Its Copyright Reform (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 0

    Because it's just teh G00g13 upset their cash cow is going bye bye

  14. The Navy operates the world's largest solar farm just for this purpose.

    Don't confuse them with facts. They might realize most naval bases use solar and wind for desal ops, and to run the bases, and the world has changed since the 1990s their simulation games are based on.

  15. I started as one.
    But do go on and tell me how the world works.

  16. You would not be correct, but that's your opinion.

  17. Any mechanical engineer can be a mechanical engineer. Any material science engineer can be a material science engineer. Manufacturing is mostly robotics and tool machining. The only people left high and dry are chemical engineers. And their lawyers.

  18. I disagree.

  19. Again, it's a lot easier to use explosive rounds of any type on a fuel storage than it is on either solar or wind infrastructure.

    Please come back when you actually know something.

  20. Read 1. Realize 1 is mostly getting rid of tax exemptions exclusions incentives depreciation. Tarrifs are just gravy.

  21. Panels move. Supply dumps also blow up, panels tend not to explode as much. You're better off with a frag round on panels.

    (caveat: I used to work as combat field engineer support for infantry mortar and machine gun/LAR squads)

  22. Re:It's a range the Green New Deal can fix on Global Warming Could Exceed 1.5C Within Five Years, Report Says (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you can. Most of the people I know who rent replace their lightbulbs with LEDs, since they pay utilities. Then when they move they put back the incandescent or CFL bulbs that used to be there, if they're expensive LEDs. The average LED 60 watt equiv runs around 80 to 99 cents on sale, so those get left behind.

  23. Wrong. There aren't processed jet fuel supplies being made at every base, nor bunker fuel, etc.

    Bases were not originally built to export energy, but to store it for redistribution. One of the reasons the military is going to renewables is modern combat is becoming fairly electric-based, and it's hard enough getting supplies in for the fossil fuel based stuff, but many drones and most infantry and other units draw a lot of power.

      You obviously have no idea what you're talking about.

  24. A lot of solar and wind production firms operate in upstate NY, upstate PA, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and all of those get almost all of their energy from renewables already, so it's already happening.

  25. Actually, converting military bases to renewable energy is a great way to build resiliency from attack, as you don't have to defend supply lines as much, and this reduces the actual operating cost of the military at the same time. There are a number of mil programs in action doing just this. Just accelerate it.