30 MW is not good. It's complete shit. A 500 MW combined cycle power plant consumes 10 MW in parasitic load. In other words this wind farm is just doing nothing. 20,000 homes? That's if the wind is blowing all the time. More likely a coal burner is picking up the slack.
You spent millions to do nothing. Thanks whoever built this. What a waste.
This is the first of its kind, dumbfuck. Scotland only has 1 coal plant in operation but it's a big one.
They do have quite a bit of hydroelectric, both pumped & conventional
Actually, the last Scottish coal-fired plant closed in early 2016 (Longannet). The UK as a whole will only have 4 of the old coal-fired plants left, by the end of next year. Most of the well over a hundred plants we used to have in the UK were closed in the 1980s and 1990s.
Besides the Peterhead floating wind farm consists of just 5 turbines, as a pilot. If successful, they plan large scale deployment in much deeper waters.
In Europe diesels will disappear. Cities will begin to either ban or increase charges to run such vehicles. The UK are already proposing a diesel scrappage scheme. Sales of new diesel cars are down by 30%.Sales of AFV (Alternative Fuel Vehicles) are up by almost 50% according to the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
In London the T-Tax (Toxin Tax), which is charged each time you take an older more polluting diesel into town. This will extend to cover pretty much every diesel car in 2019. The T-Tax begins in October, this year. Cities like Bristol have banned introduction of any new diesel taxis and are considering their own T-Tax.T-Tax schemes are proposed by many other cities, including Paris and Madrid and their proposals to ban are more explicit, than London's.
As the owner of a diesel vehicle, purchased a couple of years ago, I already regret that decision. When they start hitting me in my pocket with higher taxes for travel and fuel, then the decision to keep the vehicle becomes ever harder. Besides, if I did purchase an electric or hybrid vehicle to travel round the city, which is most of my usage, I can always handle longer distance travel by hiring a petrol vehicle.
I think in the short term there will be a desperate scramble by the cities to protect their interests, as best they can.
Many of the places voting to remain have service and technology industries, some of which will be lost. I can't see Airbus staying in the UK being owned by the French and German governments, for example. That accounts for over 10,000 jobs in the West of England and Wales. Can London keep its financial interest when banks will be obliged to move their HQ because of EU rules. I think we will see two things.
Increased polarisation, whereby resources are shared less evenly by London and other big cities.
The new "leave" government, desperately doing its best to "leave" whilst changing as little as possible.
We already are hearing that the prospective leadership are looking at how they can maintain their position within the economic framework and that does inevitably mean some free movement of people. Trouble is that central have admitted government really does not have any sort of plan, other than to keep bailing.
One other issue that will likely become critical very quickly is the Le Touquet Agreement between UK and France. This sets the UK border at Calais, which is where refugees wanting into Britain are stacked by the French, in the Sangette camp. There are calls in France for that treaty to be reviewed, so I wonder where those refugees will end up? - not to mention the other camps being built at Dunkirk and Le Harve.
Bitter?? ITYM laughing at a bunch of skirt wearing professional whingers north of the border who blame everyone except themselves for their non existent economy.
Yeah well. You'll soon have managed to get rid of us and then you can start of the Welsh and the Irish and those irritating Northern Folks, who moan when it gets a little bit damp. A sad, selfish and short-sighted attitude, typical of the Southern "Elite".
Trouble is that people have learnt that it is possible to not use Windows. They know about iPads and Nexus or Galaxy tabs. Until recently there was no real Microsoft option in this area.
Up pops Microsoft with their Windows tablet and hurrah! Except, it isn't quite the Windows we all know and relatively expensive and it flops. So MS try again, failing miserably to make it a compelling experience!
The least MS could have done is make the price so competitive that people will think about it. They need the consumer and I mean really need them! They need to grow the market and they need to help/encourage other manufacturers by way of subsidy.
He is a writer and director and has picked up awards for both. He also has an Oscar for best short film which he wrote and directed.
His acting range includes both drama and comedy so he ought to be able to keep the DW team on their toes.
A fine choice and someone who really wants the role and willing to sacrifice to get it.
I am really struggling with this tablet phenomenon or fad. I do have one but I still do understand them. Sure they are good as a (bulky) personal media player and web surfer. Yup, they can work well enough as big PDA.
They are fairly useless at document creation meaning they are really only a consumption device and that's what puts them in the ranks of flying boat cars. How so you fill the gap between the smartphone and the desktop? I don't think it is the tablet.
Indeed you are right that VAT is a consumer tax. Transactions between companies are not VAT-rated (unless they themselves are the consumers). However...
Due to a loophole, Amazon pay VAT for books sold in the UK to the Luxembourg Government (at 3%). I am no VAT expert and it is a stupidly complicated tax but it may well be that Amazon is forced to pay UK VAT on ebooks it buys from UK publishers because they are the end of the chain and seen as the consumer for UK tax purposes. In fact Amazon UK is classed simply as a distributor. The real business is in Luxembourg
Amazon now class themselves as just a distributor in the UK with their main business located in Luxembourg. On UK sales of £3.3 billion last year they paid precisely no UK tax. Amazon in Luxembourg employ 134 people, who must work very hard indeed compared to the 2300 box pushers in the UK. Amazon also get a Federal tax credit in the US because they pay (ahem) tax abroad. This means they pay less than the standard rate (35%) companies would normally pay.
And indeed the Nokia 7710 had a touch screen and multi-tasking back in 2004.
If companies are allowed to combine lots of technologies together to produce new patents then, effectively innovation in the West is finished. Future developments and sales will be done by countries who don't give a flying fig about Apple or Google or IBM etc patents!
Well FUCK THAT, I will still be playing games as much when I am 60 as now that I am 30.
I am sure you will, but not like you do now! I consider myself a gamer but now at 48, I play games in a different way. I no longer wish to spend hours and days and weeks on the same game. This change happened about 2 years ago.
Now, I need a quick football match, a spin round the block, blow the head off some dude, just as much as I ever did... but now only for short periods of time and not every day.
If you can't find something fun, look harder or GTFO.
It is called growing up and not growing old. I can still out play the kids at football (real with a real ball) and out run them over a distance.
As you get older you learn there is more to life than any single thing and you have to regulate your activities accordingly
Now get off my lawn.
You, my friend, are welcome to visit my lawn any time you like. One of the things I don't do are lawns!
GM - Bust!
Coca Cola - prefer Pepsi
McDonalds - We got em in town. Not a Yank in sight! Most seem to come from Central Europe. Probably true of many staff in American franchises too.
Microsoft - You got me on this one. You can proudly to have sole bragging rights!
Anheuser Busch - From the famed Bavarian state in the US?
Fox News - Owned by that well know American philanthropist from... Adelaide. Having forced him to become a US citizen, could you do the rest of us a favour by keeping him there? Just when we thought we had got rid of him, he pops up just to irritate us. Thanks for your help.
I remember when I was small, I used to hear of these "commies". AFAIK, Margaret Thatcher sorted them all out in the 1980s, with a bit of help from some actor chap-or-other - I am a little vague on the details - something to do with minors and dents or dentists or somesuch.
Nowadays they are all fine upstanding people who, having seen the error of their ways, reformed themselves and bought most of our stuff. Apparently they got a good deal because all the things were second hand and a bit old-fashioned and worn out. Anyway we don't call them "commies" any more. We call them "sir".
You claim the extradition treaty between the US & UK is unbalanced. If true, the UK should press for it to be renogotiated. In the meantime, they need to honor it.
You assume that the relationship bound by the treaty is an equal one. I'd argue that it is not. We have to prove probable cause. You do not.
Again, something for the court to decide as far as how much (if any) punishment to apply.
I never mentioned his mental health, you did. However the Commons Home Affairs Committee - a senior committee of UK politicians from all parties - said that the extradition should be halted because of his "precarious state of mental health. They also said that there was a "serious lack of equality" in the way the extradition treaty deals with UK citizens compared with US citizens. - Source BBC
I am not saying that what he did was right. However, I am saying that the processes being used against him are fundamentally wrong and the potential sentence is severely out of proportion with the offence he committed.
In addition Aspergers sufferers are commonly obsessives combined with a high degree of social naivety, which means they are unable to assess the consequences of their actions. In short there was no criminal intent and I don't think anyone is arguing differently. In this case the weight of law being used is out of proportion to the offence and the punishment threatened is extreme and unreasonable and therefore cruel.
Because he admits to hacking into computer systems in the USA. So why shouldn't he be extradited?
...because has he been in the US hacking UK computers, he would not be extradited to the UK to stand trial.
The extradition treated between the UK and the US is very one-sided and ill-conceived. It has caused a fair degree of anger, in some circles this side of the pond.
This case has brought the issue to the fore and has made a wide range of people, who normally wouldn't care, feel very uncomfortable. The issue of reciprocity needs to be addressed but unfortunately for McKinnon it will be too late! When he gets to court in the US there will be massive coverage on our news channels and the levels of anger will be heightened. The UK government knows this but they also know they won't be in power when this phase is reached.
During the news coverage McKinnon has come across as a bewildered and lost individual. Your average Brit will not like seeing such as person being hounded in a foreign environment, on the 6pm news. This is an issue that the US government should never pushed forward with, but asked local legislative processes to deal with it!
Modern companies do not care about people rights, ethics or even human lives. All that matters to them is only... profit.
It is more than profit matters. Profit is an obligation and everything else is secondary. That is why you have legislation and monitoring bodies to limit the excesses caused by the prime obligation.
This isn't a case of "not supporting" a specific chip. By default it worked just fine, and is working just fine for many people currently using OS X on the Atom. No, this is a case of deliberately disabling a working feature for the express purpose of forcing you to buy their hardware over another's.
I think you'll find that "..forcing you to buy their hardware.." should read:
"..forcing you to install Ubuntu on your existing hardware and never experiencing the delights of owing Apple products.."
Nope! The solution is to wait. Readers will appear quite rapidly because they are not the difficult to make. Stores will get their act together quite quickly because they have already taken a hammering from Amazon.
Besides the Kindle is not the finished article. It also has a too stupid a name to be taken seriously. It's not exactly a Hoover nor an iPod.
"Right dear. Just off for a bit of a Kindle." or "The Kindle generation." - I don't think.
That said the Nook is far worse. If you told someone in the UK that you had a Nookie Reader, you'd get some very funny looks!
I agree, Spotify and perhaps We7 are two companies that would fit the "Its the Internet, stupid" approach that Google have.
The big problem for this model of music provision, is mobile coverage and data plans. It's the phone companies that need pushing into the 21st century.
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30 MW is not good. It's complete shit. A 500 MW combined cycle power plant consumes 10 MW in parasitic load. In other words this wind farm is just doing nothing. 20,000 homes? That's if the wind is blowing all the time. More likely a coal burner is picking up the slack.
You spent millions to do nothing. Thanks whoever built this. What a waste.
This is the first of its kind, dumbfuck. Scotland only has 1 coal plant in operation but it's a big one. They do have quite a bit of hydroelectric, both pumped & conventional
Actually, the last Scottish coal-fired plant closed in early 2016 (Longannet). The UK as a whole will only have 4 of the old coal-fired plants left, by the end of next year. Most of the well over a hundred plants we used to have in the UK were closed in the 1980s and 1990s.
Besides the Peterhead floating wind farm consists of just 5 turbines, as a pilot. If successful, they plan large scale deployment in much deeper waters.
A couple of Aspidistras and a lovely Bamboo.
In Europe diesels will disappear. Cities will begin to either ban or increase charges to run such vehicles. The UK are already proposing a diesel scrappage scheme. Sales of new diesel cars are down by 30%.Sales of AFV (Alternative Fuel Vehicles) are up by almost 50% according to the UK Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
In London the T-Tax (Toxin Tax), which is charged each time you take an older more polluting diesel into town. This will extend to cover pretty much every diesel car in 2019. The T-Tax begins in October, this year. Cities like Bristol have banned introduction of any new diesel taxis and are considering their own T-Tax.T-Tax schemes are proposed by many other cities, including Paris and Madrid and their proposals to ban are more explicit, than London's.
As the owner of a diesel vehicle, purchased a couple of years ago, I already regret that decision. When they start hitting me in my pocket with higher taxes for travel and fuel, then the decision to keep the vehicle becomes ever harder. Besides, if I did purchase an electric or hybrid vehicle to travel round the city, which is most of my usage, I can always handle longer distance travel by hiring a petrol vehicle.
I think in the short term there will be a desperate scramble by the cities to protect their interests, as best they can.
Many of the places voting to remain have service and technology industries, some of which will be lost. I can't see Airbus staying in the UK being owned by the French and German governments, for example. That accounts for over 10,000 jobs in the West of England and Wales. Can London keep its financial interest when banks will be obliged to move their HQ because of EU rules. I think we will see two things.
We already are hearing that the prospective leadership are looking at how they can maintain their position within the economic framework and that does inevitably mean some free movement of people. Trouble is that central have admitted government really does not have any sort of plan, other than to keep bailing.
One other issue that will likely become critical very quickly is the Le Touquet Agreement between UK and France. This sets the UK border at Calais, which is where refugees wanting into Britain are stacked by the French, in the Sangette camp. There are calls in France for that treaty to be reviewed, so I wonder where those refugees will end up? - not to mention the other camps being built at Dunkirk and Le Harve.
Bitter?? ITYM laughing at a bunch of skirt wearing professional whingers north of the border who blame everyone except themselves for their non existent economy.
Yeah well. You'll soon have managed to get rid of us and then you can start of the Welsh and the Irish and those irritating Northern Folks, who moan when it gets a little bit damp. A sad, selfish and short-sighted attitude, typical of the Southern "Elite".
I'm not your pal, friend.
Clearly, you are unfamiliar with Scottish turn of phrase.
Scotland isn't a country.
I suggest you come over and say that, pal!
What we are not is a Sovereign State, though this is may well to change in the near future.
Trouble is that people have learnt that it is possible to not use Windows. They know about iPads and Nexus or Galaxy tabs. Until recently there was no real Microsoft option in this area.
Up pops Microsoft with their Windows tablet and hurrah! Except, it isn't quite the Windows we all know and relatively expensive and it flops. So MS try again, failing miserably to make it a compelling experience!
The least MS could have done is make the price so competitive that people will think about it. They need the consumer and I mean really need them! They need to grow the market and they need to help/encourage other manufacturers by way of subsidy.
He is a writer and director and has picked up awards for both. He also has an Oscar for best short film which he wrote and directed. His acting range includes both drama and comedy so he ought to be able to keep the DW team on their toes.
A fine choice and someone who really wants the role and willing to sacrifice to get it.
I am really struggling with this tablet phenomenon or fad. I do have one but I still do understand them. Sure they are good as a (bulky) personal media player and web surfer. Yup, they can work well enough as big PDA.
They are fairly useless at document creation meaning they are really only a consumption device and that's what puts them in the ranks of flying boat cars. How so you fill the gap between the smartphone and the desktop? I don't think it is the tablet.
Indeed you are right that VAT is a consumer tax. Transactions between companies are not VAT-rated (unless they themselves are the consumers). However...
Due to a loophole, Amazon pay VAT for books sold in the UK to the Luxembourg Government (at 3%). I am no VAT expert and it is a stupidly complicated tax but it may well be that Amazon is forced to pay UK VAT on ebooks it buys from UK publishers because they are the end of the chain and seen as the consumer for UK tax purposes. In fact Amazon UK is classed simply as a distributor. The real business is in Luxembourg
Amazon now class themselves as just a distributor in the UK with their main business located in Luxembourg. On UK sales of £3.3 billion last year they paid precisely no UK tax. Amazon in Luxembourg employ 134 people, who must work very hard indeed compared to the 2300 box pushers in the UK. Amazon also get a Federal tax credit in the US because they pay (ahem) tax abroad. This means they pay less than the standard rate (35%) companies would normally pay.
If companies are allowed to combine lots of technologies together to produce new patents then, effectively innovation in the West is finished. Future developments and sales will be done by countries who don't give a flying fig about Apple or Google or IBM etc patents!
How many people have access services via mobile with their work accounts? More than a few I would guess.
Yeah... yeah.
Well FUCK THAT, I will still be playing games as much when I am 60 as now that I am 30.
I am sure you will, but not like you do now! I consider myself a gamer but now at 48, I play games in a different way. I no longer wish to spend hours and days and weeks on the same game. This change happened about 2 years ago.
Now, I need a quick football match, a spin round the block, blow the head off some dude, just as much as I ever did... but now only for short periods of time and not every day.
If you can't find something fun, look harder or GTFO.
It is called growing up and not growing old. I can still out play the kids at football (real with a real ball) and out run them over a distance.
As you get older you learn there is more to life than any single thing and you have to regulate your activities accordingly
Now get off my lawn.
You, my friend, are welcome to visit my lawn any time you like. One of the things I don't do are lawns!
GM - Bust!
Coca Cola - prefer Pepsi
McDonalds - We got em in town. Not a Yank in sight! Most seem to come from Central Europe. Probably true of many staff in American franchises too.
Microsoft - You got me on this one. You can proudly to have sole bragging rights!
Anheuser Busch - From the famed Bavarian state in the US?
Fox News - Owned by that well know American philanthropist from... Adelaide. Having forced him to become a US citizen, could you do the rest of us a favour by keeping him there? Just when we thought we had got rid of him, he pops up just to irritate us. Thanks for your help.
I remember when I was small, I used to hear of these "commies". AFAIK, Margaret Thatcher sorted them all out in the 1980s, with a bit of help from some actor chap-or-other - I am a little vague on the details - something to do with minors and dents or dentists or somesuch.
Nowadays they are all fine upstanding people who, having seen the error of their ways, reformed themselves and bought most of our stuff. Apparently they got a good deal because all the things were second hand and a bit old-fashioned and worn out. Anyway we don't call them "commies" any more. We call them "sir".
Apple TV! That is the reason for the failure. It should have been called iTV.... or is that taken?
a BBC reporter was caught live, on tape, accidentally breaking the 'unbreakable' phone
live, on tape?
ermm.. on tape? At CES? C90s are back?
When I pointed out the lack of year zero 10 years ago, I got called a pedant and worse. You get marked up as informative. How times have changed!
You claim the extradition treaty between the US & UK is unbalanced. If true, the UK should press for it to be renogotiated. In the meantime, they need to honor it.
You assume that the relationship bound by the treaty is an equal one. I'd argue that it is not. We have to prove probable cause. You do not.
Again, something for the court to decide as far as how much (if any) punishment to apply.
I never mentioned his mental health, you did. However the Commons Home Affairs Committee - a senior committee of UK politicians from all parties - said that the extradition should be halted because of his "precarious state of mental health. They also said that there was a "serious lack of equality" in the way the extradition treaty deals with UK citizens compared with US citizens. - Source BBC
I am not saying that what he did was right. However, I am saying that the processes being used against him are fundamentally wrong and the potential sentence is severely out of proportion with the offence he committed.
In addition Aspergers sufferers are commonly obsessives combined with a high degree of social naivety, which means they are unable to assess the consequences of their actions. In short there was no criminal intent and I don't think anyone is arguing differently. In this case the weight of law being used is out of proportion to the offence and the punishment threatened is extreme and unreasonable and therefore cruel.
Because he admits to hacking into computer systems in the USA. So why shouldn't he be extradited?
...because has he been in the US hacking UK computers, he would not be extradited to the UK to stand trial.
The extradition treated between the UK and the US is very one-sided and ill-conceived. It has caused a fair degree of anger, in some circles this side of the pond.
This case has brought the issue to the fore and has made a wide range of people, who normally wouldn't care, feel very uncomfortable. The issue of reciprocity needs to be addressed but unfortunately for McKinnon it will be too late! When he gets to court in the US there will be massive coverage on our news channels and the levels of anger will be heightened. The UK government knows this but they also know they won't be in power when this phase is reached.
During the news coverage McKinnon has come across as a bewildered and lost individual. Your average Brit will not like seeing such as person being hounded in a foreign environment, on the 6pm news. This is an issue that the US government should never pushed forward with, but asked local legislative processes to deal with it!
Modern companies do not care about people rights, ethics or even human lives. All that matters to them is only... profit.
It is more than profit matters. Profit is an obligation and everything else is secondary. That is why you have legislation and monitoring bodies to limit the excesses caused by the prime obligation.
This isn't a case of "not supporting" a specific chip. By default it worked just fine, and is working just fine for many people currently using OS X on the Atom. No, this is a case of deliberately disabling a working feature for the express purpose of forcing you to buy their hardware over another's.
I think you'll find that "..forcing you to buy their hardware.." should read:
"..forcing you to install Ubuntu on your existing hardware and never experiencing the delights of owing Apple products.."
The USA is the only country in the world.
Everything else is just a proxy state.
It just your turn for now. The "only country in the world" event passes to China very soon.
Nope! The solution is to wait. Readers will appear quite rapidly because they are not the difficult to make. Stores will get their act together quite quickly because they have already taken a hammering from Amazon.
Besides the Kindle is not the finished article. It also has a too stupid a name to be taken seriously. It's not exactly a Hoover nor an iPod.
"Right dear. Just off for a bit of a Kindle." or "The Kindle generation." - I don't think.
That said the Nook is far worse. If you told someone in the UK that you had a Nookie Reader, you'd get some very funny looks!
The big problem for this model of music provision, is mobile coverage and data plans. It's the phone companies that need pushing into the 21st century.