This charts shows you the size of Earth's gravity well, and where the moon is positioned. Getting to the moon and getting to the Sun take about the same amount of power, but landing on the moon at low speed will take more power than just falling into the Sun when starting from Earth.
And all the humans who flew to the moon had plans for a return trip, including making it back up out of the moon's gravity well with brought fuel.
You're mostly correct about the general proportions regarding the practicality of sending the waste to the Sun, but your specific example isn't very strong.
So German's electrical trade is not an objective fact, but just an opinion you make up entirely from scratch? As a great person once said, "What a maroon."
Germany hasn't imported more than they exported since 2002! And they haven't had two years in a row as a net importer since 95! If you can read the chart you'll find out that currently they produce almost double the electricity they use; and the increase has mostly been solar and onshore wind.
In fact Germany's usage in 2016 was 593TWh (down from a peak of 621 in 2007). Their production was 648TWh. Surely you would agree that 648 is larger than 593?!
They're burning too much to meet their emissions goal....
Complete hogwash. Shameful.
They're a huge exporter of electricity. They can turn off all the coal-fired plants in Germany without any local electricity shortage.
Don't be surprised if they appear to be way behind their targets until the target arrives and suddenly they're meeting it. It just means they let the energy companies maximize profits before the deadline, that's all it means.
And the countries buying the exported power will simply experience a price spike followed by reduced demand.
You believe a false headline, and then worse you extrapolate based on it! Surely you can do better.
For the non-native speakers or anybody who didn't see past these weasel words, let me explain: atomicalgebra is playing a word game. See, France is world's largest reprocessor of nuclear waste. They process it, and store it. In France. So the emissions generated in France don't actually leave the country. So he's counting the phrase "France's emissions" to mean emissions that leave the country France, rather than emissions that leave power plants operated in France to become waste.
It is not an innocent word game, but a malicious one designed to mislead. Shameful.
And not technically true, since there is also a bait-and-switch; he counts the radioactive elements emitted by burning coal in Germany as some unstated positive value, but apparently regards burning coal in France to be without emission! France burns less coal, but it doesn't burn zero coal.
That's easy: Radiation is the EMI blasting out of the electrical wires all around you in your house, and radioactive particles are what nuclear reactors dump into the water supply!
You should visit the West Coast of the US sometime, anybody on a street corner can explain that much to you.
Oh, and tinfoil only blocks EMI, it can't be used to protect against radioactive particles! "Everybody" knows that, too.
Virtue signaling has two required components: Signaling, and the belief that what you are signaling is virtuous.
Adding in extra conditions just shows you don't comprehend the idea. If you are actually virtuous is an opinion of somebody observing your behavior, it has nothing at all to do with objectively characterizing the behavior. Virtue signaling is an objective characterization of intent, it does not contain any of your subjective evaluations.
In fact, your attempt to add subjective evaluations to the definition serves only to attempt to signal your virtues!
Yes, it is something with real meaning. And the Paris Accord fits that meaning almost to a 't'. Just because you're on board with it doesn't mean it's anything beyond virtue signaling.
So, by that analysis, opposing it is also virtue signaling. By the exact same proportions! Even talking about it must be to purely to signal something if it doesn't have actual substance.
Real gem you dug up, too bad you didn't read or understand it.
Key information that a person should see right when they load the page, and before they start deciding to credulously receive information from them:
Posted on 2011-07-12
And then
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If you click "About this blog" you'll find out it is a personal blog by somebody from another field and that the purpose is non-technical and mostly political. Furthermore, if you look at his first chart you can see a long steady linear increase in the past, and then the most recent ~50 years has a totally different slope. And he draws a red line that fits for 200 years from ~1700-1900 and then flies over the actual recent values. So it is a good line for estimating the historical usage in a particular year that hasn't had a specific workup, but it is hogwash to extend it into the future when it already stopped fitting the line in the past. But he's not an idiot, you are: he goes on to say,
The purpose of this exploration is to point out the absurdity that results...
You do know that Linux Journal is a magazine, right? It exists specifically because the publishers want money; same as other magazines. And it has nothing at all to do with needing or receiving vendor hardware support.
Like I said, go and look up the company called RedHat, as they are a provider of the support that you think is lacking. When somebody says to look it up because it answers the question, do it. Or shut up and go away. Obtain the necessary knowledge to participate in the conversation, or else I don't give a shit what you say. You say nonsense about Microsoft's certification programs; before deciding that that is relevant, did you check to see if RedHat also offers certification programs? Because if they do (they do) then your comment doesn't support your arguments, it actually refutes them. Which you would know if you had checked the information I advised you to check. Nobody cares if you like MS training better, nobody but you is talking about your personal opinion.
You're supposed to correlate what is true, not correlate things that are not true. When you detected that IQ isn't the word with disputed meaning, then instead of jumping straight to "yer rong" you should have instead realized your mistake and understood that we weren't even arguing over the definition of IQ. Figure out the context of your argument. Then you might even be able to comprehend what I said.
As for now I'm just going to mark you down as "failed." I don't really care what the numerical representation of your failure would be, either. Or the underlying causes.
It is just like Timothy Leary was saying in the 80s; with computers, everybody gets the electrons they deserve!
"He who controls what enters you mind, controls your brain. You've got to control the screens you're looking at."
A lot of people enjoy cat videos, and they deserve it. They shouldn't watch something else because somebody thought it was better.
This week I learned how to program an ATmega238 microcontroller to output NTSC signals. With just a $3 microcontroller I can write to a television through the composite video port! Not only is there a bunch of different versions of the code online, but there is even a nice PDF and a youtube by video by professor Bruce Land at Cornell. In the past I wouldn't have even been allowed access to that sort of stuff. Now I can not only copy the circuit, I can even watch the associated lecture! I can build an old-style TV video game for less than $10. Not only because the parts are available, but more importantly, the instructions are now available.
I can get access to advanced information on almost any topic. I'm getting the electrons I deserve. And you're getting the electrons you deserve.
I remember in the `90s when I was just starting to learn system administration we even had web-based software tools that would do it.
I'll bet if I really wanted to do it with the mouse, I still could! Surely GUI tools aren't some old thing from the 90s that *nix finally escaped from.;)
It isn't actually a useful thing to do, because only one person at a company would be setting up the package of applications anyways. End users shouldn't be installing windows from scratch either! So they have no need at all to know if their office tools were installed as one OS package, or 15.
Actually, there are more tools like you describe available for *nix mail servers than you can shake a stick at!
The problem is that users who don't have a clue, want to have credit for having a clue anyways. So somebody such as yourself repeats this total bullshit about some software not existing, not because you searched for it and couldn't find it, but simply because you don't know about it and so believe it doesn't exist.
For stupid people who don't want to learn anything, it is really a lot easier to choose Windows because there will be exactly 1 (one) official correct software package to buy from MS, and you can just call them and they'll tell you what to buy, even before you tell your IT department what you chose for them and what they have to suffer with.
Whereas if they had recognized their ignorance and need to have a company tell them what software to use, they could just pay RedHat to tell them what to use and they'd have the exact same ease of choosing ignorantly that they value, but for a lower price.
If you're thinking you're better off not worrying about it and simply concentrating on your core business. Well you're probably correct.
It is really simple, your company either has full time IT or other technical staff who should already have this knowledge, and whose core duties include doing it, or else you don't. In both cases the manager or "boss" should not be worrying about the technical details or making those decisions.
Wait, what? Are fucking nuts? Most of the users are software developers. For reasons.
B) Hardware vendor support
That's because under Linux very few pieces of hardware require any vendor "support," most things are supported out of the box. Even on windows, "vendor support" is the most reliable way to make your system unreliable; never insert a vendor driver disk, Just Say No! Microsoft almost always has a better driver than whatever your vendor pushed at you. Same is true on Linux, except that the vendor didn't even try to trick into installing a bunch of malware disguised as drivers.
D) End-user training programs and support
Look up a company called "RedHat," and then eat your hat.
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So, not as expensive as some make it sound, but still pretty pricey; I pay 12 cents per kWh retail!
https://xkcd.com/681/
This charts shows you the size of Earth's gravity well, and where the moon is positioned. Getting to the moon and getting to the Sun take about the same amount of power, but landing on the moon at low speed will take more power than just falling into the Sun when starting from Earth.
And all the humans who flew to the moon had plans for a return trip, including making it back up out of the moon's gravity well with brought fuel.
You're mostly correct about the general proportions regarding the practicality of sending the waste to the Sun, but your specific example isn't very strong.
So German's electrical trade is not an objective fact, but just an opinion you make up entirely from scratch? As a great person once said, "What a maroon."
https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/...
https://www.cleanenergywire.or...
Germany hasn't imported more than they exported since 2002! And they haven't had two years in a row as a net importer since 95! If you can read the chart you'll find out that currently they produce almost double the electricity they use; and the increase has mostly been solar and onshore wind.
In fact Germany's usage in 2016 was 593TWh (down from a peak of 621 in 2007). Their production was 648TWh. Surely you would agree that 648 is larger than 593?!
They're burning too much to meet their emissions goal....
Complete hogwash. Shameful.
They're a huge exporter of electricity. They can turn off all the coal-fired plants in Germany without any local electricity shortage.
Don't be surprised if they appear to be way behind their targets until the target arrives and suddenly they're meeting it. It just means they let the energy companies maximize profits before the deadline, that's all it means.
And the countries buying the exported power will simply experience a price spike followed by reduced demand.
You believe a false headline, and then worse you extrapolate based on it! Surely you can do better.
For the non-native speakers or anybody who didn't see past these weasel words, let me explain: atomicalgebra is playing a word game. See, France is world's largest reprocessor of nuclear waste. They process it, and store it. In France. So the emissions generated in France don't actually leave the country. So he's counting the phrase "France's emissions" to mean emissions that leave the country France, rather than emissions that leave power plants operated in France to become waste.
It is not an innocent word game, but a malicious one designed to mislead. Shameful.
And not technically true, since there is also a bait-and-switch; he counts the radioactive elements emitted by burning coal in Germany as some unstated positive value, but apparently regards burning coal in France to be without emission! France burns less coal, but it doesn't burn zero coal.
That's easy: Radiation is the EMI blasting out of the electrical wires all around you in your house, and radioactive particles are what nuclear reactors dump into the water supply!
You should visit the West Coast of the US sometime, anybody on a street corner can explain that much to you.
Oh, and tinfoil only blocks EMI, it can't be used to protect against radioactive particles! "Everybody" knows that, too.
Now you've been Envirosplained. You're welcome.
Virtue signaling has two required components: Signaling, and the belief that what you are signaling is virtuous.
Adding in extra conditions just shows you don't comprehend the idea. If you are actually virtuous is an opinion of somebody observing your behavior, it has nothing at all to do with objectively characterizing the behavior. Virtue signaling is an objective characterization of intent, it does not contain any of your subjective evaluations.
In fact, your attempt to add subjective evaluations to the definition serves only to attempt to signal your virtues!
How virtuous of you to come out in opposition of trivialization!
You'd probably do better to defend your virtues in this case, since you're trying so hard to signal them.
Yes, it is something with real meaning. And the Paris Accord fits that meaning almost to a 't'. Just because you're on board with it doesn't mean it's anything beyond virtue signaling.
So, by that analysis, opposing it is also virtue signaling. By the exact same proportions! Even talking about it must be to purely to signal something if it doesn't have actual substance.
I don't mind the dumb bundles of sticks, it is the ones that start talking that really piss me off! Like you.
While true, I'm not sure which is worse, the echo chamber their commenting system encourages, or their weak amateurish writing.
That said, they could be worse; look at the shit you write, you can't even tell the word "clean" from "ars."
I doubt even 1% of Democrats would poll as "having heard of the phrase `China Syndrome.'"
Real gem you dug up, too bad you didn't read or understand it.
Key information that a person should see right when they load the page, and before they start deciding to credulously receive information from them:
And then
If you click "About this blog" you'll find out it is a personal blog by somebody from another field and that the purpose is non-technical and mostly political.
Furthermore, if you look at his first chart you can see a long steady linear increase in the past, and then the most recent ~50 years has a totally different slope. And he draws a red line that fits for 200 years from ~1700-1900 and then flies over the actual recent values. So it is a good line for estimating the historical usage in a particular year that hasn't had a specific workup, but it is hogwash to extend it into the future when it already stopped fitting the line in the past.
But he's not an idiot, you are: he goes on to say,
These slashdot idiots can't comprehend that nuclear power plants emit nuclear waste, because it is a solid. And they're just that painfully stupid.
You do know that Linux Journal is a magazine, right? It exists specifically because the publishers want money; same as other magazines. And it has nothing at all to do with needing or receiving vendor hardware support.
Like I said, go and look up the company called RedHat, as they are a provider of the support that you think is lacking. When somebody says to look it up because it answers the question, do it. Or shut up and go away. Obtain the necessary knowledge to participate in the conversation, or else I don't give a shit what you say. You say nonsense about Microsoft's certification programs; before deciding that that is relevant, did you check to see if RedHat also offers certification programs? Because if they do (they do) then your comment doesn't support your arguments, it actually refutes them. Which you would know if you had checked the information I advised you to check. Nobody cares if you like MS training better, nobody but you is talking about your personal opinion.
Praise be to Rust, for if it were not then those users might make a better choice, and be underfoot.
You're supposed to correlate what is true, not correlate things that are not true. When you detected that IQ isn't the word with disputed meaning, then instead of jumping straight to "yer rong" you should have instead realized your mistake and understood that we weren't even arguing over the definition of IQ. Figure out the context of your argument. Then you might even be able to comprehend what I said.
As for now I'm just going to mark you down as "failed." I don't really care what the numerical representation of your failure would be, either. Or the underlying causes.
So you just, don't know what the words mean?
It is just like Timothy Leary was saying in the 80s; with computers, everybody gets the electrons they deserve!
"He who controls what enters you mind, controls your brain. You've got to control the screens you're looking at."
A lot of people enjoy cat videos, and they deserve it. They shouldn't watch something else because somebody thought it was better.
This week I learned how to program an ATmega238 microcontroller to output NTSC signals. With just a $3 microcontroller I can write to a television through the composite video port! Not only is there a bunch of different versions of the code online, but there is even a nice PDF and a youtube by video by professor Bruce Land at Cornell. In the past I wouldn't have even been allowed access to that sort of stuff. Now I can not only copy the circuit, I can even watch the associated lecture! I can build an old-style TV video game for less than $10. Not only because the parts are available, but more importantly, the instructions are now available.
I can get access to advanced information on almost any topic. I'm getting the electrons I deserve. And you're getting the electrons you deserve.
I remember in the `90s when I was just starting to learn system administration we even had web-based software tools that would do it.
I'll bet if I really wanted to do it with the mouse, I still could! Surely GUI tools aren't some old thing from the 90s that *nix finally escaped from. ;)
It isn't actually a useful thing to do, because only one person at a company would be setting up the package of applications anyways. End users shouldn't be installing windows from scratch either! So they have no need at all to know if their office tools were installed as one OS package, or 15.
Actually, there are more tools like you describe available for *nix mail servers than you can shake a stick at!
The problem is that users who don't have a clue, want to have credit for having a clue anyways. So somebody such as yourself repeats this total bullshit about some software not existing, not because you searched for it and couldn't find it, but simply because you don't know about it and so believe it doesn't exist.
For stupid people who don't want to learn anything, it is really a lot easier to choose Windows because there will be exactly 1 (one) official correct software package to buy from MS, and you can just call them and they'll tell you what to buy, even before you tell your IT department what you chose for them and what they have to suffer with.
Whereas if they had recognized their ignorance and need to have a company tell them what software to use, they could just pay RedHat to tell them what to use and they'd have the exact same ease of choosing ignorantly that they value, but for a lower price.
If you're thinking you're better off not worrying about it and simply concentrating on your core business. Well you're probably correct.
It is really simple, your company either has full time IT or other technical staff who should already have this knowledge, and whose core duties include doing it, or else you don't. In both cases the manager or "boss" should not be worrying about the technical details or making those decisions.
A) 3rd party development support
Wait, what? Are fucking nuts? Most of the users are software developers. For reasons.
B) Hardware vendor support
That's because under Linux very few pieces of hardware require any vendor "support," most things are supported out of the box. Even on windows, "vendor support" is the most reliable way to make your system unreliable; never insert a vendor driver disk, Just Say No! Microsoft almost always has a better driver than whatever your vendor pushed at you. Same is true on Linux, except that the vendor didn't even try to trick into installing a bunch of malware disguised as drivers.
D) End-user training programs and support
Look up a company called "RedHat," and then eat your hat.
postgres always had paid support.
I don't doubt it was the reason they gave, just saying.