I'm not sure Iceland's economy is based on growing much of anything. Have you been there? Nutrient rich soil isn't a key terrain feature.
What may be more interesting is whether warmer weather attracts even more tourists. The whole island felt overrun when I went there and it's apparently getting worse by the year.
Labour couldn't get ID cards through, with a massive majority. The current government might succeed with no majority purely because Labour will want them.
It wont end well. The Brexit vote showed the British people have limits on the shit they'll take, and the Government will do well to remember this.
What's concerning me is that every single female minister we have seems to have a vicious authoritarian bent. May was held in check by her party, Rudd appeared to be appointed to continue the terrible work and this security minister appears to want to ignore the common sense her own security services will tell her.
Where the fuck are the intelligent sensible female MPs and why aren't they being given cabinet posts?
Well, fucking forgive me for equating premature death through unnatural causes with premature death through unnatural causes. Forgive me for valuing the life of someone the same as the life of someone else. Forgive me for understanding that people choosing to commit suicide are predominantly legally not mentally capable of making that decision. Forgive me for feeling that helping 25 men stay alive might be worth merely as much as keeping one woman alive.
I'm struggling to come up with any justification for pretending that violence against non-consenting women is somehow less important than people taking their own lives.
At the moment the Government funding suggests it's well over 25 times as important. Justify that.
Are you saying that if O J Simpson had been tried in the UK, nobody would know he had even been tried because of being acquitted?
No. Had OJ been tried in the UK the media would have been able to report that a trial was taking place, and the outcome of that trial. If, to assure a fair trial, reporting was restricted during the trial, the media would have been able to report on the contents of the trial and its outcome following its completion.
Nobody is preventing trials from being reported. There is a just temporal adjustment to maximise the chances of a fair trial.
It's called justice. The US might like to learn from it.
The issue isn't the representation of muslims in office, it's the use of 'inciting hatred' laws to limit people's ability to highlight the prevalence of a certain religion when discussing rape gangs, or to highlight the religious commonality around genital mutilation, or the intolerance shown by certain religions to things like homosexuality.
Or indeed, discussing the religion of fuckwits murdering british soldiers in the streets.
Part of the reason why people watch physical sports is the teamwork showed by the players. How's that work in most competitive e-sports again?
Some e-sports are individual affairs. Boxing is tremendously popular and doesn't have much (visible) teamwork.
Some e-sports can only be won by team play. The Rocket League world champs were this weekend, and were won by a team that in the final matchup didn't just coordinate their roles, they explicitly passed the ball between them to break down a very well coordinated defence.
(It still wont reach a wide audience, because the camera direction was fucking terrible, but that's a different issue)
Your entire post is predicated on a very flawed assumption.
The cost of an engine is so high
You can download and use Unity for free, or pay $1500/year for a full licence. You can use the Unreal engine for free, earn $12k/year (per game) with no royalties then pay 5% on top of that. You can use the CryEngine for free, earn $5k/year royalty free then pay 5% on top of that. You can buy RPGMaker for $130 and pay no royalties on a game that sells over a million copies.
So to recap. You're pissed off that someone is doing something that will improve the environmental friendliness of providing data centre services because it will also be economically beneficial for them and they might make higher profit.
I'll just highlight two reasons you're talking shit: 1 - by suggesting this will be more profitable for them you've de facto acknowledged that it's more efficient due to the lower costs that offers 2 - they're doing tthis in tidal waters which provides substantially more water flow than a whole fucking barrage of water pumps
So even if they know nothing about the sea (demonstrably bollocks) there's a net benefit to the environment. Running the numbers merely tells us the magnitude of that benefit; raw fucking logic tells us it exists.
My point is that your point is irrelevant because you can not cool something below ambient (let alone quickly) without suffering inefficiencies. So you will always use more energy to cool something than it will dissipate if it cools naturally.
So the ocean may warm up but less than if it was cooling the power station used to drive aircon.
20x? Depends how much of the power station, fuel mining, transportation, transmission infrastructure (and associated mining, transportation, manufacturing), power conversion, aircon efficiency (and manufacture, Inc. mining, trans.. etc) and severe other uses of energy that you want to allocate as part of calculating it.
I haven't run the maths. I don't need to. My point stands anyway, and proves the flaw in your own.
Your inability to comprehend the point I'm making does not make me a dickhead. The 25x ratio is pertinent because of the discrepancy in Government spending on violence against women as compared to suicide prevention.
Women are also far more likely to kill themselves than be killed by someone else, so it's not helping women either.
The 25x is the chance a man will kill himself compared to the chance he will kill a woman.
(Even that assumes no female murder victims will killed by another woman, which is unlikely)
But your claim about how it's impossible to interact with women without risking a charge of harassment is the kind of unmitigated bullshit that shows you have a very large axe to grind.
Oh please. You want to see men getting accused of harassment for perfectly innocuous behaviour, just browse Twitter with a filter set to #metoo.
I know a man reported to HR for harassment for.. holding a door open for the next person to come through, because it was a woman.
If you want to make a difference, drop the MRA hyperbole.
If nobody highlights the inanity of the current culture then it wont change. That's not even a men's rights issue, it's causing women a shitload of problems too. They're finding that men are choosing not to ask them out, and certainly not to marry them, because the risks to the man are too great.
I'd be interested in seeing the sources for that trend. I'm aware that transexual suicide rates are horribly high relative to the general population but I don't know whether that's historically the case or not.
In the UK there's also a sizeable funding issue. The government spends more on 'violence against women and girls' than it does on suicide prevention/support, even though men are 25 times more likely to kill themselves than a woman.
In divorce cases women can get legal aid; men can not.
In domestic violence situations there are hundreds of refuges funded for women. Very few in the whole country for men. Funding for domestic violence is almost all targeted towards helping female victims too, and at least one of the national domestic violence charities assumes men are abusers (and is demanding gendered legislation to provide protections to women but not men).
That's before you look at the gender imbalances in the justice system and the family courts, the impossibility for men to interact with women without risking a charge of harassment, the demands that men should show emotion combined with criticism when they do, the suspicion men face when alone with children, the constant barrage of media hatred towards masculinity..
Look, I live in England and am thus legally obliged to hate the French and even I think you're a twat.
It's not just the way you failed miserably in responding to his valid point, the inherent racism, the assumption of his religion. It's the pathetic childish lack of imagination you used in your insult.
Given the mess caused by the few horses we get riding through the village I'm kind of glad every kid isn't on one every day. The country would be ankle deep in shit.
Could be worse. In the UK the primary sport is football, and the most watched is the Premier League in England.
To watch the live games on TV you now have to subscribe to three different services, and even then you'll only see a small subset of the games the team you support plays. They wont broadcast many of them live.
Streaming is shit quality but oddly enough it's significantly better than no game at all.
The daft thing is that I'd pay the cost of all three services for one that showed all my team's games, even if that was all it showed. Sadly nobody offers such a sensible fucking option.
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I'm not sure Iceland's economy is based on growing much of anything. Have you been there? Nutrient rich soil isn't a key terrain feature.
What may be more interesting is whether warmer weather attracts even more tourists. The whole island felt overrun when I went there and it's apparently getting worse by the year.
(Yeah, I was part of the problem)
As though it ever stops bloody raining in Iceland..
What's worse is that I didn't even notice the mangling. It all just fit straight into the language.
Labour couldn't get ID cards through, with a massive majority. The current government might succeed with no majority purely because Labour will want them.
It wont end well. The Brexit vote showed the British people have limits on the shit they'll take, and the Government will do well to remember this.
What's concerning me is that every single female minister we have seems to have a vicious authoritarian bent. May was held in check by her party, Rudd appeared to be appointed to continue the terrible work and this security minister appears to want to ignore the common sense her own security services will tell her.
Where the fuck are the intelligent sensible female MPs and why aren't they being given cabinet posts?
Well, fucking forgive me for equating premature death through unnatural causes with premature death through unnatural causes.
Forgive me for valuing the life of someone the same as the life of someone else.
Forgive me for understanding that people choosing to commit suicide are predominantly legally not mentally capable of making that decision.
Forgive me for feeling that helping 25 men stay alive might be worth merely as much as keeping one woman alive.
I'm struggling to come up with any justification for pretending that violence against non-consenting women is somehow less important than people taking their own lives.
At the moment the Government funding suggests it's well over 25 times as important. Justify that.
Are you saying that if O J Simpson had been tried in the UK, nobody would know he had even been tried because of being acquitted?
No. Had OJ been tried in the UK the media would have been able to report that a trial was taking place, and the outcome of that trial.
If, to assure a fair trial, reporting was restricted during the trial, the media would have been able to report on the contents of the trial and its outcome following its completion.
Nobody is preventing trials from being reported. There is a just temporal adjustment to maximise the chances of a fair trial.
It's called justice. The US might like to learn from it.
Now that Saunders is out of the CPS cases will reach the courts, and the courts apply the law to all sides.
Sentences are still sexist, but findings of guilt are not.
100% of London Mayors are muslim.
The issue isn't the representation of muslims in office, it's the use of 'inciting hatred' laws to limit people's ability to highlight the prevalence of a certain religion when discussing rape gangs, or to highlight the religious commonality around genital mutilation, or the intolerance shown by certain religions to things like homosexuality.
Or indeed, discussing the religion of fuckwits murdering british soldiers in the streets.
Yeah, I have access to several subscriptions and more than one virtual currency due to my gmail account.
I've behaved and not taken advantage of any of them. Not worth the legal grief.
Part of the reason why people watch physical sports is the teamwork showed by the players. How's that work in most competitive e-sports again?
Some e-sports are individual affairs. Boxing is tremendously popular and doesn't have much (visible) teamwork.
Some e-sports can only be won by team play. The Rocket League world champs were this weekend, and were won by a team that in the final matchup didn't just coordinate their roles, they explicitly passed the ball between them to break down a very well coordinated defence.
(It still wont reach a wide audience, because the camera direction was fucking terrible, but that's a different issue)
Welcome to Europe, where that's just bullshit.
https://www.itassetmanagement....
Yeah. If only there were somewhere you could buy a tremendous range of AAA, indie and other games at sensible prices.
Somewhere like itch.io, gog.com, Steam or humblebundle.com
Oh. Hang on.
Your entire post is predicated on a very flawed assumption.
The cost of an engine is so high
You can download and use Unity for free, or pay $1500/year for a full licence. You can use the Unreal engine for free, earn $12k/year (per game) with no royalties then pay 5% on top of that. You can use the CryEngine for free, earn $5k/year royalty free then pay 5% on top of that. You can buy RPGMaker for $130 and pay no royalties on a game that sells over a million copies.
The cost of an engine is not high.
Ooh, excellent - but tell me, why haven't they already contacted me about hosting the servers in my house?
Just that.. the moment they host them anywhere else, there'll be latency. Shit, I run my own streaming service and get latency from the next room.
Thing is, if you're buying two new full price EA games a year then £90/year subscription for access to their whole catalogue is a decent deal.
If it was available on Steam and not Origin then I might be tempted.
The microtransactions would be the thing holding me back. I hate games being crippled to encourage microtransaction income.
So to recap. You're pissed off that someone is doing something that will improve the environmental friendliness of providing data centre services because it will also be economically beneficial for them and they might make higher profit.
I'll just highlight two reasons you're talking shit:
1 - by suggesting this will be more profitable for them you've de facto acknowledged that it's more efficient due to the lower costs that offers
2 - they're doing tthis in tidal waters which provides substantially more water flow than a whole fucking barrage of water pumps
So even if they know nothing about the sea (demonstrably bollocks) there's a net benefit to the environment. Running the numbers merely tells us the magnitude of that benefit; raw fucking logic tells us it exists.
Try some, you might find you like it.
My point is that your point is irrelevant because you can not cool something below ambient (let alone quickly) without suffering inefficiencies. So you will always use more energy to cool something than it will dissipate if it cools naturally.
So the ocean may warm up but less than if it was cooling the power station used to drive aircon.
20x? Depends how much of the power station, fuel mining, transportation, transmission infrastructure (and associated mining, transportation, manufacturing), power conversion, aircon efficiency (and manufacture, Inc. mining, trans.. etc) and severe other uses of energy that you want to allocate as part of calculating it.
I haven't run the maths. I don't need to. My point stands anyway, and proves the flaw in your own.
Your inability to comprehend the point I'm making does not make me a dickhead. The 25x ratio is pertinent because of the discrepancy in Government spending on violence against women as compared to suicide prevention.
Women are also far more likely to kill themselves than be killed by someone else, so it's not helping women either.
The 25x is the chance a man will kill himself compared to the chance he will kill a woman.
(Even that assumes no female murder victims will killed by another woman, which is unlikely)
But your claim about how it's impossible to interact with women without risking a charge of harassment is the kind of unmitigated bullshit that shows you have a very large axe to grind.
Oh please. You want to see men getting accused of harassment for perfectly innocuous behaviour, just browse Twitter with a filter set to #metoo.
I know a man reported to HR for harassment for.. holding a door open for the next person to come through, because it was a woman.
If you want to make a difference, drop the MRA hyperbole.
If nobody highlights the inanity of the current culture then it wont change. That's not even a men's rights issue, it's causing women a shitload of problems too. They're finding that men are choosing not to ask them out, and certainly not to marry them, because the risks to the man are too great.
I'd be interested in seeing the sources for that trend. I'm aware that transexual suicide rates are horribly high relative to the general population but I don't know whether that's historically the case or not.
we'll see resources devoted to help
Cynically I don't just think you're right, I think the resources will be targeted to women too.
In the UK there's also a sizeable funding issue. The government spends more on 'violence against women and girls' than it does on suicide prevention/support, even though men are 25 times more likely to kill themselves than a woman.
In divorce cases women can get legal aid; men can not.
In domestic violence situations there are hundreds of refuges funded for women. Very few in the whole country for men. Funding for domestic violence is almost all targeted towards helping female victims too, and at least one of the national domestic violence charities assumes men are abusers (and is demanding gendered legislation to provide protections to women but not men).
That's before you look at the gender imbalances in the justice system and the family courts, the impossibility for men to interact with women without risking a charge of harassment, the demands that men should show emotion combined with criticism when they do, the suspicion men face when alone with children, the constant barrage of media hatred towards masculinity..
It's no wonder some men are struggling to cope.
Look, I live in England and am thus legally obliged to hate the French and even I think you're a twat.
It's not just the way you failed miserably in responding to his valid point, the inherent racism, the assumption of his religion. It's the pathetic childish lack of imagination you used in your insult.
Please, do try harder.
Given the mess caused by the few horses we get riding through the village I'm kind of glad every kid isn't on one every day. The country would be ankle deep in shit.
Could be worse. In the UK the primary sport is football, and the most watched is the Premier League in England.
To watch the live games on TV you now have to subscribe to three different services, and even then you'll only see a small subset of the games the team you support plays. They wont broadcast many of them live.
Streaming is shit quality but oddly enough it's significantly better than no game at all.
The daft thing is that I'd pay the cost of all three services for one that showed all my team's games, even if that was all it showed. Sadly nobody offers such a sensible fucking option.