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  1. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    You would have expected them to build their houses etc properly in the first place with proper insulation to keep out extreme weather

  2. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the anti-renewables crew always omit Energy Storage from their arguments as it trashes their argument.

  3. Re:blame social media on Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting (ft.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the Democrats realised bigotry is retrograde humanity and changed. The Republicans with their fundamental christian friends took the opposite route and went retrograde. The wise ones learn from history, the dim ones repeat history

  4. Re: This is why ipv6 should be disabled by default on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    you should really go back to using slate and chalk.

  5. Re:Slackware: not affected. on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Nor does opensuse use this particular module as its very very optional

  6. Re:First of many on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    They are still finding security issues with X even after all this time and yet no-one whines like an ignorant anti-systemd poster. https://www.theregister.co.uk/...

  7. Re:First of many on New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Thats the problem with your comment, pure ignorance. its optional and nothing to do with the systemd init process at all.

  8. Re: CO2 is not a pollutant on Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air · · Score: 1

    you try drinking a glass or two of that salty 70% or even use that salty 70% to water your plants

  9. yeah, plant them down each road as lane dividers on multi-lane road, should sort the problem...

  10. Re: The next GOP Supreme Court nominee! on Google Reportedly Paid Andy Rubin $90 Million After He Allegedly Coerced Sex From Employee (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    ROFL.. you talk as if a woman refused/humiliated you in the past and you still haven't got over it and now they all out there to get you.

  11. Re:Terrible consequences on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    he/she has to recover from the shock of reality first...

  12. Re:As usual Rei is misleading. on Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "If you're betting on a "Christmas slowdown" to save you"
    You're thinking about production only."

    are you considering the thousands they have on back order? Any sales over teh slower christmas will generally go to the back of the queue. It might be a "problem" if their order book was empty.

  13. Re: Qualcomm's Quick Charge is against the standar on Why the Google Pixel 3 Charges Faster On a Pixel Stand Than Other Wireless Chargers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    with this "Made for Google" program, they are getting more and more like Microsoft of old

  14. Re: Rusians, right? on Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect (blogspot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Seems like Trump is a Russia then as he's not paying $1m to charity for losing the Elizabeth Warren's DNA test claim - then again, he is just a dishonourable human being anyway

  15. Re:Cell Phones More Important on Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You first have to get fibre installed but until then you are stuck with broadband over copper. Who is going to pay for mass fibre rollout?

  16. Re: What a shame on iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism (vice.com) · · Score: 0

    the left loonies are just the same as the right loonies - bigoted idiots, a plague on both their houses

  17. Re: it's not clear. on Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt (nationalgeographic.com) · · Score: 0

    so that's where all the moronic AC trolls come from.....

  18. yes, "toxic" stuff like silicon and aluminium for the frame

    https://www.quora.com/Which-ty...

  19. Re: They certainly spew more BS on Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "so this makes me think this article is oil company FUD." - certainly is, its the manufacture that's the problem not the cars themselves.

  20. Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    " Why should I believe the next version of wind and solar should be cheaper than the last?" just look at all the graphs of costs for renewable costs,, cheaper and cheaper with improving tech every year as technology improves.

  21. Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "The point is: in every case of nuclear accident on this scale, it was invariably due to human error. Every damned time. "

    A great reason for not having nuclear, human fallibility.

  22. Re:Nuclear power and hydrocarbon synthesis on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The Uk government subsidises nuclear power to enable it to be competitive in price on the open market

  23. Re:UK Steps Towards Zero- Economy on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    the UK is currently in the EU

  24. Re:UK Steps Towards Zero- Economy on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    yeah, but with the Tories in power, it'll just be lip service to make it look like they are doing something

  25. Re:Too late on UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    oh yeah.. helping the poorer countries to modernise is so UnChristian.