The best way to kill it is to make renewable energy sources cheaper
So...by subsidizing renewables even more than we're already doing now?
It's great that some countries are phasing out coal, but
A. these aren't the same countries with stacks of coal reserves
B. natural gas production is huge right now, therefore prices are low, therefore it makes sense to convert to natural gas fired plants
C. unfortunately natural gas isn't renewable either...or at least not in a happy friendly no C02 emissions kind of way, it's just a bit less dirty than coal.
I enjoy having electricity at night time. Apparently not everyone agrees with that.
Compared to coal, it's vastly cleaner so...um, you're comparing it to the wrong thing.Renewables (other than hydro) are not capable of running a "base grid"
solve the mis-pricing of fossil fuels and reveal how uncompetitively expensive they are
You certainly have an argument regarding coal, natural gas? Not so much.
Thanks to all these fracking projects we have a glut of the stuff. Even after wells stop producing oil they can produce significant amounts of natural gas for years.
It's relatively clean burning and is the clean go-to power source for "base grid" supplies since it works even when at night or when it isn't windy out.
The better discussion would be about what's done with the imagery and any resulting (say, facial recognition/tracking) database that's created from that imagery
Um...cross referenced with the cell-phone location and call records they receive sans-warrant from all the major cellular providers?
That said, you technically have no right to privacy in a public space, even before the "Patriot Act" stepped in. Unreasonable? Yes. Perfectly legal? Also yes.
Why automate when depressed, third-world wages are cheaper?
Well you do have a point. Those 8 year olds assembling iPhones for 50 cents a day have really nimble fingers.
That said, once you have it automated the only thing you're paying for is the electricity. The technology is getting better all the time...and yes, the USA is still (by GDP) the #2 manufacturer in the world, despite almost nobody actually working in factory jobs anymore.
Ripley: "Van Luen, why don't you just check out lv426?"
Van Luen: " 'Cause I don't have to, there have been people there for 20 years and they never complained about any hostile organism"
Ripley: "What do you mean, what people?"
Van Luen: "Terraformers, planet engineers, they go in set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable, takes decades, it's what we call a Shake and Bake colony."
Nope, it exploits only one thing: Android's brain dead permission system of all/nothing. User gets text, then told that due to bug, they can't see the real SMS. User goes and downloads.apk file (turning on sideloading, ignoring warnings about downloading from unofficial sources, and ignoring the permissions that the app wants), and then is nailed.
You're half right. What it exploits are brain dead users.
There I have a bit of an advantage over you though. About 90% of the power in my city is nuclear.
Good for you? The majority of the country runs on coal. I agree Nuclear energy is far cleaner, unfortunately it's also far (as in more than 10 times) more expensive, even assuming you can thread through the mob of nutjob eco-warriors and actually build one.
Solar isn't at all ideal (for this application) since it only works in the daytime and that's when people and their cars are at work.
it would need to be about 30 dollars more before the cost of gas even begins to approach the externalities you inflict on everybody else when you buy it.
...as opposed to your coal powered electric car? oh wait, sorry. natural gas...natural gas that comes primarily from...wait for it, oil wells.
Thats why they are now facing criminal charges in California for lying to the public
And how will that do anything other than raise fuel prices even more? Oh right, it fills the states coffers.
Thanks ever so much for the new (2015) carbon tax on fuel governor Brown, I guess 40 cents a gallon (highest in the nation) just wasn't enough for your slush fund this year.
"Former CIA agent Robert Baer described the policy to the New Statesman: "If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear â" never to see them again â" you send them to Egypt"
1. Petroleum based Fertilizer stocks will go through the roof (combating desertification and creating farmland to replace the previously above-ground farmland)
2. No more batshit crazy North Korea issues, now it's 70% underwater.
3. The change in weather patterns will make some places a whole lot more pleasant. Greenland for instance...is actually turning green as we speak.
4. The inevitable Nuclear winter should really take the edge off of this whole 'global warming' thing.
This is the future we feared when Steam raised its head. A hundred different logins and services running on your machine that demand to be updated or refuse to work. We are squarely back in the mainframe era again. For the record, i like Steam a lot, but i saw where it would lead. Now i have Steam, Origin, Gog.com, Blizzard, Ubisoft, and Epic game launchers on my machine,
Agreed. It's a train wreck. It makes me sad when the only non-connected version I can get is for game consoles.
The good news is (at least for Gog) the games shouldn't need to be connected to actually work. AFAIK it's just a launcher/installer.
For a very long time, I wouldn't think of purchasing a printer from another company. But that time is long past.
Indeed. My HP 4M+ (circa 1994) is still giving my IBM Model M (circa 1984) and my Tektronix 465B (circa 1980) a run for their money...unfortunately that ship has long since sailed.
The fuck i am. My HTPC is also my main home server, handling anything from remote SSH access to torrenting to backups - is that really such an impossible scenario to you?
Then continue using that? Your hardware works now. Your drivers work now. If they stop, downgrade your OS/drivers to something that works, or upgrade your hardware to something that works. This isn't rocket science.
people with refunds in hand might just opt out of the whole emissions rat race for a nice 454 V8.
Is there a large cross-section between people with mullets and VW diesels?
Good luck with your 454 project, my dad got 280K out of his before it developed a rod knock. They aren't bad motors but (understandably) not terribly high revving or fuel efficient.
It is, by very definition, our job to make ourselves superfluos.
Is that why we keep creating ever more complicated web frameworks that you need to have 5+ years experience in to get jobs? (You know, the ones that have been out for 1-2 years or so)
Yes the simple stuff is getting simpler. The good news for working developers is that there's no shortage of hard stuff left to do.
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So...by subsidizing renewables even more than we're already doing now?
It's great that some countries are phasing out coal, but
A. these aren't the same countries with stacks of coal reserves
B. natural gas production is huge right now, therefore prices are low, therefore it makes sense to convert to natural gas fired plants
C. unfortunately natural gas isn't renewable either...or at least not in a happy friendly no C02 emissions kind of way, it's just a bit less dirty than coal.
I enjoy having electricity at night time. Apparently not everyone agrees with that. Compared to coal, it's vastly cleaner so...um, you're comparing it to the wrong thing.Renewables (other than hydro) are not capable of running a "base grid"
You certainly have an argument regarding coal, natural gas? Not so much.
Thanks to all these fracking projects we have a glut of the stuff. Even after wells stop producing oil they can produce significant amounts of natural gas for years.
It's relatively clean burning and is the clean go-to power source for "base grid" supplies since it works even when at night or when it isn't windy out.
Um...cross referenced with the cell-phone location and call records they receive sans-warrant from all the major cellular providers?
That said, you technically have no right to privacy in a public space, even before the "Patriot Act" stepped in. Unreasonable? Yes. Perfectly legal? Also yes.
You can have my Firefox when you can pry Firebug from my cold dead hands...or they make a really nice port of it for other browsers.
Edge is a bit faster, but using it for script development/debugging? Really kind of a pain in the ass.
Well you do have a point. Those 8 year olds assembling iPhones for 50 cents a day have really nimble fingers.
That said, once you have it automated the only thing you're paying for is the electricity. The technology is getting better all the time...and yes, the USA is still (by GDP) the #2 manufacturer in the world, despite almost nobody actually working in factory jobs anymore.
FTFY!
Ripley: "Van Luen, why don't you just check out lv426?"
Van Luen: " 'Cause I don't have to, there have been people there for 20 years and they never complained about any hostile organism"
Ripley: "What do you mean, what people?"
Van Luen: "Terraformers, planet engineers, they go in set up these big atmosphere processors to make the air breathable, takes decades, it's what we call a Shake and Bake colony."
You're half right. What it exploits are brain dead users.
5 or 6 seconds before the last of these phone batteries poops out?
Good for you? The majority of the country runs on coal. I agree Nuclear energy is far cleaner, unfortunately it's also far (as in more than 10 times) more expensive, even assuming you can thread through the mob of nutjob eco-warriors and actually build one.
Solar isn't at all ideal (for this application) since it only works in the daytime and that's when people and their cars are at work.
I have an issue with them being close to a buck more than other states for no goddamn reason, sure. Why don't you?
And how will that do anything other than raise fuel prices even more? Oh right, it fills the states coffers.
Thanks ever so much for the new (2015) carbon tax on fuel governor Brown, I guess 40 cents a gallon (highest in the nation) just wasn't enough for your slush fund this year.
"Former CIA agent Robert Baer described the policy to the New Statesman: "If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear â" never to see them again â" you send them to Egypt"
They kind of have to be since most of them are just glorified batch scripts that run games via dosbox.
It's technically possible to DRM it (encrypt the game image and only decrypt it once you're signed in) but I'd be very surprised if Gog ever did it.
1. Petroleum based Fertilizer stocks will go through the roof (combating desertification and creating farmland to replace the previously above-ground farmland)
2. No more batshit crazy North Korea issues, now it's 70% underwater.
3. The change in weather patterns will make some places a whole lot more pleasant. Greenland for instance...is actually turning green as we speak.
4. The inevitable Nuclear winter should really take the edge off of this whole 'global warming' thing.
Agreed. It's a train wreck. It makes me sad when the only non-connected version I can get is for game consoles.
The good news is (at least for Gog) the games shouldn't need to be connected to actually work. AFAIK it's just a launcher/installer.
Windows 98? DOS 1.x FTW. Fortunately you can still get parallel and PS/2 ports on modern PC's. I don't know for how much longer though.
(I still have one of those Compaq 'Portables' I pull out every so often just for grins)
Indeed. My HP 4M+ (circa 1994) is still giving my IBM Model M (circa 1984) and my Tektronix 465B (circa 1980) a run for their money...unfortunately that ship has long since sailed.
Then continue using that? Your hardware works now. Your drivers work now. If they stop, downgrade your OS/drivers to something that works, or upgrade your hardware to something that works. This isn't rocket science.
Is there a large cross-section between people with mullets and VW diesels?
Good luck with your 454 project, my dad got 280K out of his before it developed a rod knock. They aren't bad motors but (understandably) not terribly high revving or fuel efficient.
...and you thought we had "global warming" problems before.
On the plus side, we'd be just 1 hackathon away from "baked Alaska" for everyone.
You know what else is dead quiet and can handle almost any kind of video? Plex and a $30 android 'stick'.
I do sympathize with you, until a year ago I was running a fanless HTPC (AMD E350) myself.
Is that why we keep creating ever more complicated web frameworks that you need to have 5+ years experience in to get jobs? (You know, the ones that have been out for 1-2 years or so)
Yes the simple stuff is getting simpler. The good news for working developers is that there's no shortage of hard stuff left to do.