I used to joke that this whole russian meddling thing is way overblown. Why? Because only a few hundred thousand dollars was spent in facebook ads. Noone stopped Hillary from spending on facebook ads. Hillary spent 1.4 BILLION, not including special interest PACs on her campaign. If a few hundred thousand dollars is all it took to get elected she simply is not qualified to be president based exclusively on the fact that she spend 1.4 BILLION DOLLARS of someone elses money on a task that only required a few hundred thousand dollars. I would much rather elect the brains behind the facebook ad firm, whoever that may have been, that did this to the role of president, in order to run the county more efficiently, than someone who wastes 1.4 BILLION dollars, looses, and promptly cries foul over a $400,000 investment. IF that one single fact does not make her less qualified that someone more frugal with their investments, nothing will.
maybe we should stop holding our noses and vote libertarian and i dont mean the stolen tea-party use of the word. When the D's in california decided to wage war against the average law-abiding gun owner and treat them as if they were criminals they drove many centrist out of the party and left only the fringe special interest groups. Treating the average law-abiding gun owner as a criminal in waiting is no different than wearing a shirt that says "Arrest black babies before they grow up to be criminals". The party is now beholden to every special-interest group there could be, all of them diametrically opposed to each-other. All of them have been promised something another group finds revolting. Hell they just elected that Cortez idiot (yes idiot because she claims the 3 branches of government are the executive branch, the senate, and house or representatives). Cortez is already claiming she needs to take time off for self-healing and she hasnt even started to work yet. She talks about the commoner while wearing a $3500 dress and now complains that having to run a campaign has resulted and not being able to do yoga 5 times a week. Translation - "OMG this work stuff sucks! I need a break, that silver spoon I was born with didnt get me ready for any of this!" A true libertarian has an understanding that every solution must not infringe of fundamental freedoms. "By any means necessary" has become a mainstay in politics and are the building blocks of oppression in every example of history. More atrocities have been committed by justifying the 'ends' than any single other reason in the 4.54 Billion years this planet has existed.
It is the states that elect the president, not the people. They, however, did try to make the electoral college somewhat representative of every member of congress. The electoral votes each state gets is based on the number of congressman and senators in that state. Therefore states with more population get more electoral votes. If it was merely each state getting a vote it would be even more offset from popular vote. Here is something you should be complaining to your state about, not to the federal government. It is the STATE that runs the elections and it is the STATE that determines how the electoral votes are appointed. IF YOUR STATE truly wanted the popular vote to have more weight, they would DIVIDE their electoral votes and have them vote by district. Each state already has districts divided by congressman so they could take each district and appoint the electoral vote according to how that district voted. And for the two that represent the senators, appoint those based on the popular vote within the state as a whole. Even states that has the most to gain by a purely popular vote (california, texas, new york) seem opposed to this system.
What people forget is that when the constitution was drafted, each state was practically an independent country. Thats why the term Sovereign State of _____ is used regularly. The federal government is supposed to be an umbrella of commonly accepted standards between them. Electing a president was supposed to have little impact on the day to day lives of the average state citizen. Too much power has been absorbed into the presidency that was not decreed or granted from the constitution. The president is supposed to answer to congress and execute their decrees, hence the term Executive Branch. Since 1865 there has been more and more power acquired at the Executive level and taken from the voters (ie via elected congressman)
you do realize that/. is a conglomerate of more than just US citizens and therefore any and all political discussion on here is, technically speaking, coming from foreigners trying to influence political opinion. Its a very thin line where one draws a distinction between illegal and legal when first amendment rights are in question. Even fewer have the ability to see such a distinct line. If you react too broadly, you risk opening the door to suppression of free speech, if you do nothing you risk foreign-state sanctioned election tampering. Also, stop drinking the cool-aid, Jim Jones is already dead. There is no 'sides'. Both Democrats and Republicans are playing the same games, taking money from the same corporate elite. They both engage in insider trading without fear or prosecution. Neither party actually does a damn thing about the shit they campaign on (Repealing obamacare, amnesty, Repealing the Patriot Act, curtailing immigration, etc) once they get into power. If they solve those problems you have no reason to continue to elect them. Better to blame someone else and keep promising to fix it 'this time'. They are two sides of the same coin. Its a game and apparently someone has convinced you that you're fighting alongside Joan of Arc. There's no fucking Joan of Arc's on either side, just a bunch of generals doing the bidding of some behind-the-scenes Nebuchadnezzar. This is never going to stop repeating itself until people realize that this is a back-and-forth game being played to achieve a long-term strategy. Look at what things stay in existence despite the constant back-and-forth (FISA, Patriot Act, PIPA, NDAA) all things one party criticizes when the other has majority control, and yet these things pass with votes like 98-0. If people keep electing insiders and falling for the cool-aid, things will only continue and never reverse themselves.
How the hell can you say its not an issue. If you had done it you would most certsinly have gone to jail. Its a classic case of those in power held to a lesser standard. People go to jail for mishandling classified information ALL THE TIME. Sending classified messages over the internet in PLAIN TEXT over SMTP port 25 is the very fucking definition of mishandling classified documents. You might as well print it on the back of postcards and drop them in the mail.
She admitted to doing it. She said âoebut the recipient had clearanceâ. What about the 27 hops that message traversed during transit? What sbout her daughter? She didnt have clearance.
Hold officials to a HIGHER standard. Not lower. Pick a different candidate.
that sounds cool. 400amp is the in-line water heater. Theres no natural gas in my neighborhood and the electric versions need high amperage even though its for very short durations of time. In order to get 220V you need two legs of power and each leg is 100amp. A lot of older homes are single leg service, they actually have to use gas dryers for their clothes. That will be an interesting event when everyone has to get permits to upgrade their service. That booster thing for cars sounds weird, I envision some sort of weird briefcase sized thing that acts like those portable batteries for cell phones.
hmm I think of hydrogen as more like a battery than a fuel since it requires so much energy to create it in the first place. Obviously going straight electrical is more efficient, but there are some drawbacks currently that will eventually dissipate.
1) costly - to switch to all EV requires CONSIDERABLE expense. Last time I checked (been a few years), aside from the car itself you also need to install the charging station and your house needs to be able to support the number of amp service, otherwise you could be looking at dozens of hours in charging time. This same drawback is what keeps homes without natural gas from being able to utilize on-demand hot water heaters (400amp service required for those)
2) slow charging times due to volatility of lithium ion batteries. A new breakthru in solid state lithium was announced this year but it could be another 10 years to market. You can fill a gas tank in 5min and you can charge a hydrogen tank in about as much time. Charging times need to come down to 15min for a full charge to make this more practical.
3) range still needs work especially considering the rather lengthy charging times. Taking a road trip can consume 12hrs, easily, a day in traveling. There needs to be at least one service station with a rapid charge station every 50mi on every interstate and if there is only 1 then waiting in line is destroying your travel time.
I don't think hydrogen will ultimately be the end solution, but I think its a great intermediate step. Half the infrastructure is nearly ready to convert. Logistically it would work similarly to what we have now in terms of service stations. The only difference would be installing higher pressure tanks in the ground to hold compressed hydrogen. We still have to solve the jet engine issue too. I don't want to return to slow ass prop planes, so some sort of combustion is still going to need to occur. Hydrogen may still play a part here.
Your mistaken about it requiring fossil fuels. Iceland embraced Hydrogen a couple decades ago. Iceland sits on top of one of the biggest renewable sources you can imagine, not subject to weather, or daylight cycles, or clouds. Which goes to show that we really should use Yellowstone for something besides just a national park, as an aside thought.
Another invention announced in the mid 2000 - 2010 decade was a catalyst (structure actually) that could split hudrogen with just sunlight. So the efficiency of conversion is on the rise significantly.
However, putting all of that aside, even if it was 100% dependent on fossil fuels; the carbon impact of hydrogen is still much less than internal combustion gasoline car engines. Fixed power plants can incorporate the added mass to scrub exhaust without affecting efficiencies. Adding mass to cars affects fuel economy and serves to worsen, not lessen, the impact. Im not opposed to EV; but you will never reach 100% market saturation when the pricetag is $50,000. If a $20 voterID is considered a tax on poor people to keep them from voting, Im pretty sure I could make the argument that $50,000 EV mandates amount to forcing poor people to ride the bus. Hence why I suggest doing both. In fact, why arent out hybrids Diesel/Electric hybrids? Diesel works so much better at being a generstor than gasoline and its more efficient. These are quick low-hanging-fruit steps toward getting off hydrocarbons entirely.
about 10 years ago there was an article link on/. that talked about being able to strip hydrogen from gasoline as an intermediate step. Gasoline is a hydrocarbon after all. The stations are already in place, the trucks already travel, so having higher pressure tanks and new pumps is really the only big distribution.
Apparently running on hydrogen is the same conversion as making a vehicle burn natural gas.
those are both rediculous amounts of money to pay for something that loses half its value in 3 years. And thats including the federal subsidy to buy it correct? My mortgage payment on a 3000sq ft home barely comes in above that. Even after the property taxes and homeowners insurance escrow portion is added in it comes in at just $1000. That's something that does not lose value over time. I am sure $638/mo doesn't sound like a lot in Kalifornia, but that would increase someone's monthly expenses by a huge margin in the midwest. When you live where a 3000sq ft home comes in at $225k, the average salary comes in proportionally as well. So when you go by the 50% ration (the one where your bills should come in less than 50% of your net pay), a $75k salary means your total annual bills (housing, food/consumables, utilities, clothing, education, internet etc) need to come in under $28.5k. After subtracting $12k for mortgage, another [being very conservative] $400/mo or $5k/yr in groceries, costs like cell plans / cable / internet / etc are fairly universal so even being conservative at $75/ea adds almost another $3k; and another $3k/yr in electricity that only leaves you just under $6k to spread between transportation, education, water, sewer, trash, and any other monthly budgeted expense.
By comparison just about every car on the road today could be converted to hydrogen fuel cell for a $2500 investment. A far greater number of people can swallow $2500 much easier than $48,000. To make the sort of impact needed to reduce carbon emission, you are going to have to get these into the hands of people that dont even make $48k a year income.
Price still needs to come down. The monthly payments of the sticker price seem to come close to my mortgage costs for my home. Thats why places like California can do this faster. Their cost of living is so fucking rediculous that they dont even blink at throwing down $1200 for an iPhone X or Samsung phone. Thats like a month of not eating out. Miniscule houses there can cost $600,000. In fsct the city of SF recently declared low 6 figure salaries are eligible for housing subsidies. In other places 6 figure salaries are the top 1% earners in their area.
I had the same thought. Itâ(TM)s probably all my past experience working in power production and propulsion in the Navy thats making this seem like such a Duh! moment. Maybe its a lot less obvious to those that never had to study carnot engines and other theoreticals.
The same way hydrogen fuel can. Its a lot easier to scrub the exhaust of a fixed and stationary structure that has little need for weight balancing than a vehicle whose increase in weight serves to increase consumption. So even on a 1:1 ratio, power plant consumption of carbon emitting fuels can be done considerably âcleanerâ(TM) than car exhaust simply because it can add the mass to do this without a significant strain on efficiencies (cost factor ignored for sake of simpler explanation)
Coal fired plants and cow farts would not be an environmental impact if every gas vehicle was converted to hydrogen or EV.
1) how will anyone be able to do anything about it considering the free pass to HRC? In the latter case there was confirmed cases of documents she specifically instructed her staff to remove the classified warning and re-mail it over unencrypted SMTP. Yet she was basically called 'too stupid to knowingly or intentionally violate the law'. So short of some serious classified content, this wont go anywhere unless someone locks both of them up for not using secure government servers to conduct executive branch business. I would certainly compromise and let Ivanka go to jail if it meant HRC gets at least the same sentence.
2) how are we going to stop this before it gets even more complex? The potential is far greater than the actual damage sofar. But this wont be true forever. Maybe a domain transfer of all personal domains to government servers for the express purpose of monitoring personal email while holding a position within higher government positions. You'd have to make the software idiot proof though. The mail app would have to have some image of a nondescript person with different hats. Change your hat to a working hat to see and respond to work email, change the hat again to respond to personal email. Separate the two accounts to different servers to provide a partition. Use elaborate spam software, not to look for spam, but to cross reference recent classified information against anything being sent out to the rest of the world.
only a few things would consume dung. Fish heads and fish guts, however, would get eaten very quickly by a lot of ocean wildlife. I think of it much more as a food source than fertilizer. Its fertilizer only in the sense that it boosts a decent population growth of ocean animals. Small pieces of dead fish are a great bait for bigger fish.
that was my reaction too. The article headline made it out to sound as if the ship was running directly on fish waste, which would smell to high hell. By the time I finished the article I realized its no different than any other biofuel. Of course those same fish guts and fish heads used to get dumped into the ocean to quickly get consumed by the ocean ecosystem. If this were to expand in a much bigger capacity we would see a decline in ocean life populations since we arent returning some of the food stock back to the ocean.
Or just abolish all parties. Have a primary election and keep the top 3 or 4 to move onto the election. Thats how quite a few mayoral races work. Getting sick of the whole polarization. This would likely make it so no one group gets more than 30-35% of the votes. Thst would force them to have to work together.
Comparing the internet to highway speed limits or pharmaceuticals makes no sense. Sometimes a prescription requirement is there for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of drug manufacturers. This is why different countries have different cutoffs for over-the-counter vs prescription only. Comparing drug restrictions to the internet amounts to making restrictions deliberately to make Zuckerfuck even richer. Likewise I am probably one of the few/. members who remember when the federal government capped the speed limit at 55mph. Whereas speed limits are SUPPOSED to represent a safe driving speed for a, very much, lesser skilled driver.
Maybe instead of artificial barriers that only serve to enrich the gatekeepers, mandate a de-centralization of all data so that one security breech does not buy the entire farm.
what exactly does jump the shark mean? Jumping the gun had a real-world image of a false start during the race, where a racer took off before the starting pistol fired. Hence jumping before the gun. Jumping the shark draws some really fucking perverse jack-be-nimble fairy tail images in my head. Do these sharks have freaking laser beams??
I didnt think he gave a shit about abortion? Both are definitely obsessed with title and position. His more so on public opinion (ie how many people attended inauguration) and hers is about holding a title of first woman president. Neither case puts country above politics.
I dont think thats a one side problem. Winning at any cost seems to be an epidemic. HRC is clearly evidence of that, otherwise sheâ(TM)d never make it on a ballot. But she can blackmail a lot of groups into obscene amounts of fundraising and donations, so it makes it ok in the end.
Its an product of polarization, which the media DID fan the flames of since the 2000 election. Polarization sells views which brings in ad revenue. Theyre the whores and we are the Johns. This isnt Football. When the game is over WE are the ones thst has to clean the fucking stadium. But you seem content to keep rooting for one side and bashing the other. Take a step back. Both sides are doing the exact same shit.
Its hard to say if $500M is a lot of money or not to the likes of FB. Their net worth fluxuates a lot more than that on a daily basis. It sure sounds like a lot of money to me, but ive never had anything even close to a million dollars. My gut says it wasnt about the money. Perhaps the lawsuit, but not the $500M itself.
Here is a guy that caused a rift because he was an outlier for his political position. Then the lawsuit concluded and was found guilty of infringing. My first question as a FB exec is,
- Did we actually buy anything? Or did we find ourself paying top dollar for whst we thought was talent; only to turn out to be a poser that stole the tech and slapped their name on it? -
That would be my first question. Afterall they did pay $3 billion for Oculus. What so they have to show for $3.5B? ($3B plus the $500M lawsuit) If there is no actual *talent* here, why bother keeping him on? Especially one who does make waves among the staff. So his political actions most likely was a few nails, but not the coffin itself.
Thats good to know about the tires. Its the other drivers that make for the biggest threat. We dont keep a lot of snow for very long, but we do get a ton of freezing rain and black ice. Its a bit like controlled sliding. It will start as rain and then the temp drops to below freezing, then snow. Too many people reading facebook instead of being hypervigilant while driving. IMO going out in that is a bit like choosing to ride without a helmet.
During the dummer I saw a guy commuting on a very interesting looking bike. It was about 2x as long as a regular bike and appeared to be made of a steel frame. The area between the front and rear tire was box shaped open container about 3.5ft x 2ft x 1ft to hold his briefcase and other material.
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dont forget plain text email hopping across at least 27 hops without any encryption of said confidential information.
I used to joke that this whole russian meddling thing is way overblown. Why? Because only a few hundred thousand dollars was spent in facebook ads. Noone stopped Hillary from spending on facebook ads. Hillary spent 1.4 BILLION, not including special interest PACs on her campaign. If a few hundred thousand dollars is all it took to get elected she simply is not qualified to be president based exclusively on the fact that she spend 1.4 BILLION DOLLARS of someone elses money on a task that only required a few hundred thousand dollars. I would much rather elect the brains behind the facebook ad firm, whoever that may have been, that did this to the role of president, in order to run the county more efficiently, than someone who wastes 1.4 BILLION dollars, looses, and promptly cries foul over a $400,000 investment. IF that one single fact does not make her less qualified that someone more frugal with their investments, nothing will.
maybe we should stop holding our noses and vote libertarian and i dont mean the stolen tea-party use of the word. When the D's in california decided to wage war against the average law-abiding gun owner and treat them as if they were criminals they drove many centrist out of the party and left only the fringe special interest groups. Treating the average law-abiding gun owner as a criminal in waiting is no different than wearing a shirt that says "Arrest black babies before they grow up to be criminals". The party is now beholden to every special-interest group there could be, all of them diametrically opposed to each-other. All of them have been promised something another group finds revolting. Hell they just elected that Cortez idiot (yes idiot because she claims the 3 branches of government are the executive branch, the senate, and house or representatives). Cortez is already claiming she needs to take time off for self-healing and she hasnt even started to work yet. She talks about the commoner while wearing a $3500 dress and now complains that having to run a campaign has resulted and not being able to do yoga 5 times a week. Translation - "OMG this work stuff sucks! I need a break, that silver spoon I was born with didnt get me ready for any of this!" A true libertarian has an understanding that every solution must not infringe of fundamental freedoms. "By any means necessary" has become a mainstay in politics and are the building blocks of oppression in every example of history. More atrocities have been committed by justifying the 'ends' than any single other reason in the 4.54 Billion years this planet has existed.
It is the states that elect the president, not the people. They, however, did try to make the electoral college somewhat representative of every member of congress. The electoral votes each state gets is based on the number of congressman and senators in that state. Therefore states with more population get more electoral votes. If it was merely each state getting a vote it would be even more offset from popular vote. Here is something you should be complaining to your state about, not to the federal government. It is the STATE that runs the elections and it is the STATE that determines how the electoral votes are appointed. IF YOUR STATE truly wanted the popular vote to have more weight, they would DIVIDE their electoral votes and have them vote by district. Each state already has districts divided by congressman so they could take each district and appoint the electoral vote according to how that district voted. And for the two that represent the senators, appoint those based on the popular vote within the state as a whole. Even states that has the most to gain by a purely popular vote (california, texas, new york) seem opposed to this system.
What people forget is that when the constitution was drafted, each state was practically an independent country. Thats why the term Sovereign State of _____ is used regularly. The federal government is supposed to be an umbrella of commonly accepted standards between them. Electing a president was supposed to have little impact on the day to day lives of the average state citizen. Too much power has been absorbed into the presidency that was not decreed or granted from the constitution. The president is supposed to answer to congress and execute their decrees, hence the term Executive Branch. Since 1865 there has been more and more power acquired at the Executive level and taken from the voters (ie via elected congressman)
you do realize that /. is a conglomerate of more than just US citizens and therefore any and all political discussion on here is, technically speaking, coming from foreigners trying to influence political opinion. Its a very thin line where one draws a distinction between illegal and legal when first amendment rights are in question. Even fewer have the ability to see such a distinct line. If you react too broadly, you risk opening the door to suppression of free speech, if you do nothing you risk foreign-state sanctioned election tampering. Also, stop drinking the cool-aid, Jim Jones is already dead. There is no 'sides'. Both Democrats and Republicans are playing the same games, taking money from the same corporate elite. They both engage in insider trading without fear or prosecution. Neither party actually does a damn thing about the shit they campaign on (Repealing obamacare, amnesty, Repealing the Patriot Act, curtailing immigration, etc) once they get into power. If they solve those problems you have no reason to continue to elect them. Better to blame someone else and keep promising to fix it 'this time'. They are two sides of the same coin. Its a game and apparently someone has convinced you that you're fighting alongside Joan of Arc. There's no fucking Joan of Arc's on either side, just a bunch of generals doing the bidding of some behind-the-scenes Nebuchadnezzar. This is never going to stop repeating itself until people realize that this is a back-and-forth game being played to achieve a long-term strategy. Look at what things stay in existence despite the constant back-and-forth (FISA, Patriot Act, PIPA, NDAA) all things one party criticizes when the other has majority control, and yet these things pass with votes like 98-0. If people keep electing insiders and falling for the cool-aid, things will only continue and never reverse themselves.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/...
https://mic.com/articles/20835...
https://thehill.com/homenews/s...
How the hell can you say its not an issue. If you had done it you would most certsinly have gone to jail. Its a classic case of those in power held to a lesser standard. People go to jail for mishandling classified information ALL THE TIME. Sending classified messages over the internet in PLAIN TEXT over SMTP port 25 is the very fucking definition of mishandling classified documents. You might as well print it on the back of postcards and drop them in the mail.
She admitted to doing it. She said âoebut the recipient had clearanceâ. What about the 27 hops that message traversed during transit? What sbout her daughter? She didnt have clearance.
Hold officials to a HIGHER standard. Not lower. Pick a different candidate.
that sounds cool. 400amp is the in-line water heater. Theres no natural gas in my neighborhood and the electric versions need high amperage even though its for very short durations of time. In order to get 220V you need two legs of power and each leg is 100amp. A lot of older homes are single leg service, they actually have to use gas dryers for their clothes. That will be an interesting event when everyone has to get permits to upgrade their service. That booster thing for cars sounds weird, I envision some sort of weird briefcase sized thing that acts like those portable batteries for cell phones.
hmm I think of hydrogen as more like a battery than a fuel since it requires so much energy to create it in the first place. Obviously going straight electrical is more efficient, but there are some drawbacks currently that will eventually dissipate.
1) costly - to switch to all EV requires CONSIDERABLE expense. Last time I checked (been a few years), aside from the car itself you also need to install the charging station and your house needs to be able to support the number of amp service, otherwise you could be looking at dozens of hours in charging time. This same drawback is what keeps homes without natural gas from being able to utilize on-demand hot water heaters (400amp service required for those)
2) slow charging times due to volatility of lithium ion batteries. A new breakthru in solid state lithium was announced this year but it could be another 10 years to market. You can fill a gas tank in 5min and you can charge a hydrogen tank in about as much time. Charging times need to come down to 15min for a full charge to make this more practical.
3) range still needs work especially considering the rather lengthy charging times. Taking a road trip can consume 12hrs, easily, a day in traveling. There needs to be at least one service station with a rapid charge station every 50mi on every interstate and if there is only 1 then waiting in line is destroying your travel time.
I don't think hydrogen will ultimately be the end solution, but I think its a great intermediate step. Half the infrastructure is nearly ready to convert. Logistically it would work similarly to what we have now in terms of service stations. The only difference would be installing higher pressure tanks in the ground to hold compressed hydrogen. We still have to solve the jet engine issue too. I don't want to return to slow ass prop planes, so some sort of combustion is still going to need to occur. Hydrogen may still play a part here.
Your mistaken about it requiring fossil fuels. Iceland embraced Hydrogen a couple decades ago. Iceland sits on top of one of the biggest renewable sources you can imagine, not subject to weather, or daylight cycles, or clouds. Which goes to show that we really should use Yellowstone for something besides just a national park, as an aside thought.
Another invention announced in the mid 2000 - 2010 decade was a catalyst (structure actually) that could split hudrogen with just sunlight. So the efficiency of conversion is on the rise significantly.
However, putting all of that aside, even if it was 100% dependent on fossil fuels; the carbon impact of hydrogen is still much less than internal combustion gasoline car engines. Fixed power plants can incorporate the added mass to scrub exhaust without affecting efficiencies. Adding mass to cars affects fuel economy and serves to worsen, not lessen, the impact. Im not opposed to EV; but you will never reach 100% market saturation when the pricetag is $50,000. If a $20 voterID is considered a tax on poor people to keep them from voting, Im pretty sure I could make the argument that $50,000 EV mandates amount to forcing poor people to ride the bus. Hence why I suggest doing both. In fact, why arent out hybrids Diesel/Electric hybrids? Diesel works so much better at being a generstor than gasoline and its more efficient. These are quick low-hanging-fruit steps toward getting off hydrocarbons entirely.
about 10 years ago there was an article link on /. that talked about being able to strip hydrogen from gasoline as an intermediate step. Gasoline is a hydrocarbon after all. The stations are already in place, the trucks already travel, so having higher pressure tanks and new pumps is really the only big distribution.
Apparently running on hydrogen is the same conversion as making a vehicle burn natural gas.
those are both rediculous amounts of money to pay for something that loses half its value in 3 years. And thats including the federal subsidy to buy it correct? My mortgage payment on a 3000sq ft home barely comes in above that. Even after the property taxes and homeowners insurance escrow portion is added in it comes in at just $1000. That's something that does not lose value over time. I am sure $638/mo doesn't sound like a lot in Kalifornia, but that would increase someone's monthly expenses by a huge margin in the midwest. When you live where a 3000sq ft home comes in at $225k, the average salary comes in proportionally as well. So when you go by the 50% ration (the one where your bills should come in less than 50% of your net pay), a $75k salary means your total annual bills (housing, food/consumables, utilities, clothing, education, internet etc) need to come in under $28.5k. After subtracting $12k for mortgage, another [being very conservative] $400/mo or $5k/yr in groceries, costs like cell plans / cable / internet / etc are fairly universal so even being conservative at $75/ea adds almost another $3k; and another $3k/yr in electricity that only leaves you just under $6k to spread between transportation, education, water, sewer, trash, and any other monthly budgeted expense.
By comparison just about every car on the road today could be converted to hydrogen fuel cell for a $2500 investment. A far greater number of people can swallow $2500 much easier than $48,000. To make the sort of impact needed to reduce carbon emission, you are going to have to get these into the hands of people that dont even make $48k a year income.
Price still needs to come down. The monthly payments of the sticker price seem to come close to my mortgage costs for my home. Thats why places like California can do this faster. Their cost of living is so fucking rediculous that they dont even blink at throwing down $1200 for an iPhone X or Samsung phone. Thats like a month of not eating out. Miniscule houses there can cost $600,000. In fsct the city of SF recently declared low 6 figure salaries are eligible for housing subsidies. In other places 6 figure salaries are the top 1% earners in their area.
I had the same thought. Itâ(TM)s probably all my past experience working in power production and propulsion in the Navy thats making this seem like such a Duh! moment. Maybe its a lot less obvious to those that never had to study carnot engines and other theoreticals.
The same way hydrogen fuel can. Its a lot easier to scrub the exhaust of a fixed and stationary structure that has little need for weight balancing than a vehicle whose increase in weight serves to increase consumption. So even on a 1:1 ratio, power plant consumption of carbon emitting fuels can be done considerably âcleanerâ(TM) than car exhaust simply because it can add the mass to do this without a significant strain on efficiencies (cost factor ignored for sake of simpler explanation)
Coal fired plants and cow farts would not be an environmental impact if every gas vehicle was converted to hydrogen or EV.
I get looking up a word like devil and getting back both diablo and diabla. But if I type in
SienÃra es la diabla
and translate back to english, I better not get both
The woman is the devil
The man is the devil
That phrase in latin languages has absolute gender already assigned.
its not. The two questions here are
1) how will anyone be able to do anything about it considering the free pass to HRC? In the latter case there was confirmed cases of documents she specifically instructed her staff to remove the classified warning and re-mail it over unencrypted SMTP. Yet she was basically called 'too stupid to knowingly or intentionally violate the law'. So short of some serious classified content, this wont go anywhere unless someone locks both of them up for not using secure government servers to conduct executive branch business. I would certainly compromise and let Ivanka go to jail if it meant HRC gets at least the same sentence.
2) how are we going to stop this before it gets even more complex? The potential is far greater than the actual damage sofar. But this wont be true forever. Maybe a domain transfer of all personal domains to government servers for the express purpose of monitoring personal email while holding a position within higher government positions. You'd have to make the software idiot proof though. The mail app would have to have some image of a nondescript person with different hats. Change your hat to a working hat to see and respond to work email, change the hat again to respond to personal email. Separate the two accounts to different servers to provide a partition. Use elaborate spam software, not to look for spam, but to cross reference recent classified information against anything being sent out to the rest of the world.
only a few things would consume dung. Fish heads and fish guts, however, would get eaten very quickly by a lot of ocean wildlife. I think of it much more as a food source than fertilizer. Its fertilizer only in the sense that it boosts a decent population growth of ocean animals. Small pieces of dead fish are a great bait for bigger fish.
that was my reaction too. The article headline made it out to sound as if the ship was running directly on fish waste, which would smell to high hell. By the time I finished the article I realized its no different than any other biofuel. Of course those same fish guts and fish heads used to get dumped into the ocean to quickly get consumed by the ocean ecosystem. If this were to expand in a much bigger capacity we would see a decline in ocean life populations since we arent returning some of the food stock back to the ocean.
Or just abolish all parties. Have a primary election and keep the top 3 or 4 to move onto the election. Thats how quite a few mayoral races work. Getting sick of the whole polarization. This would likely make it so no one group gets more than 30-35% of the votes. Thst would force them to have to work together.
Comparing the internet to highway speed limits or pharmaceuticals makes no sense. Sometimes a prescription requirement is there for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of drug manufacturers. This is why different countries have different cutoffs for over-the-counter vs prescription only. Comparing drug restrictions to the internet amounts to making restrictions deliberately to make Zuckerfuck even richer. Likewise I am probably one of the few /. members who remember when the federal government capped the speed limit at 55mph. Whereas speed limits are SUPPOSED to represent a safe driving speed for a, very much, lesser skilled driver.
Maybe instead of artificial barriers that only serve to enrich the gatekeepers, mandate a de-centralization of all data so that one security breech does not buy the entire farm.
what exactly does jump the shark mean? Jumping the gun had a real-world image of a false start during the race, where a racer took off before the starting pistol fired. Hence jumping before the gun. Jumping the shark draws some really fucking perverse jack-be-nimble fairy tail images in my head. Do these sharks have freaking laser beams??
I didnt think he gave a shit about abortion? Both are definitely obsessed with title and position. His more so on public opinion (ie how many people attended inauguration) and hers is about holding a title of first woman president. Neither case puts country above politics.
I dont think thats a one side problem. Winning at any cost seems to be an epidemic. HRC is clearly evidence of that, otherwise sheâ(TM)d never make it on a ballot. But she can blackmail a lot of groups into obscene amounts of fundraising and donations, so it makes it ok in the end.
Its an product of polarization, which the media DID fan the flames of since the 2000 election. Polarization sells views which brings in ad revenue. Theyre the whores and we are the Johns. This isnt Football. When the game is over WE are the ones thst has to clean the fucking stadium. But you seem content to keep rooting for one side and bashing the other. Take a step back. Both sides are doing the exact same shit.
Its hard to say if $500M is a lot of money or not to the likes of FB. Their net worth fluxuates a lot more than that on a daily basis. It sure sounds like a lot of money to me, but ive never had anything even close to a million dollars. My gut says it wasnt about the money. Perhaps the lawsuit, but not the $500M itself.
Here is a guy that caused a rift because he was an outlier for his political position. Then the lawsuit concluded and was found guilty of infringing. My first question as a FB exec is,
- Did we actually buy anything? Or did we find ourself paying top dollar for whst we thought was talent; only to turn out to be a poser that stole the tech and slapped their name on it? -
That would be my first question. Afterall they did pay $3 billion for Oculus. What so they have to show for $3.5B? ($3B plus the $500M lawsuit) If there is no actual *talent* here, why bother keeping him on? Especially one who does make waves among the staff. So his political actions most likely was a few nails, but not the coffin itself.
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Thats good to know about the tires. Its the other drivers that make for the biggest threat. We dont keep a lot of snow for very long, but we do get a ton of freezing rain and black ice. Its a bit like controlled sliding. It will start as rain and then the temp drops to below freezing, then snow. Too many people reading facebook instead of being hypervigilant while driving. IMO going out in that is a bit like choosing to ride without a helmet.
During the dummer I saw a guy commuting on a very interesting looking bike. It was about 2x as long as a regular bike and appeared to be made of a steel frame. The area between the front and rear tire was box shaped open container about 3.5ft x 2ft x 1ft to hold his briefcase and other material.