Of course, there's a simple solution - don't buy anything from Sony.
Sony have always had a callous disregard for their customers up to and including rootkitting and breaking their computers but it was *this* that finally pushed you over the edge? I've not bought anything from Sony since 2005.
Your "pub" analogy is absolutely right. And this is what people - especially those calling for censorship - need to think about. No one is hovering around the tables at your local pub, telling people what they're allowed to say, and what they cannot say.
So close yet so far. Pubs can and do bar people for shitty behavior all the time. If you started spouting off about raping another patron, you'd find yourself out not just from the pub, but probably most of the pubs in the town center (they share information on problem customers).
Freedom of speech does not and had never meant that someone is obliged to hand you a megaphone.
Who the fuck is Tim Pool? I mean I've heard of twitter but I've never heard of that guy. So his "destruction" of Twitter's credibility is a little on the incomplete side.
I'm not referring to new tech likes thorium. The reactor designs are ancient; it's the equivalent of building a brand new Ford Corinna because people are afraid to get a modern far with airbags, crumple zones and so on.
So we're stuck with 40 year old designs and a whole bunch of bizarre expense.
They still used the same old designs because the cost was already completely insane and adding further risk with new technology would have been unacceptable to investors and the government that was subsidising it.
This is the crazy thing about nuclear regulation. In every other industry, engineering has improved in the last 50 years and we've got better, safer, more efficient designs for just about everything. Except because of the regulations we've somehow concluded the opposite to literally every other engineering discipline.
The electricity it generates has a guaranteed price of A-L-92.50/MWh, at least double current wind prices. By the time it's finished it will be costing about double wind + battery. It also gives control of critical parts of our energy infrastructure to the French and the Chinese government.
Yeah well that's just barking mad. Also pretty typical of the UK government. Spend a fuckton of money devaloping some capability. Just when the expensive deveopment has been done and many of the lessons learned, trash the entire industry and go buy American because it's "cheaper". Then fast forward a few decades and find out it's very much not cheaper after all.
The main problem is there is not enough wind and solar capacity available to power the country. We have a population density that's too high.
It's insane that you believe the right to self defense is dystopian.
It's insane that the OP was practically jizzing himself over the idea he could actually shoot someone. The right to self self defense IMO is absolute, but nonetheless the OP describes some kind of awful dystopia. You, it appears, are so shortsighted that you buy into it.
Workers would be like temporary shareholders, gaining voting rights while joining a company That sounds great until the company has a bad quarter and your paycheck is $0. Ownership has a negative side as well.
If in doubt, make shit up based on how you want the world to be. Worker cooperatives are actually a thing and don't simply stop paying workers the instant profits are down. They are still companies so they still pay salaries.
Hey Zuck, WTF do you think shares are? They are shares of ownership which means you get a say in how the company is run. Don't like that? Form a partnership and give up on the lucrative opportunity to exchange ownership for money.
Its one of those futurey things that sounds easy, but ends up being really fucking hard without sometimes killing people.
This is all rather sad really. We know that human driven cars are impossible to do without killing tons of people. However, "we" won't accept killing far fewer people if we can't blame someone for the deaths that do occur.
Examples abound. Oscilloscopes are a good example. I bought a good scope (nice mixed signal model) then paid extra to get the bus decoding features unlocked. Mine's a Hameg, but all the vendors do it. Some of them even allow you to unlock higher sampling rates.
It certainly used to be the case with graphics cards too (in the AGP era). Nvidia Quadros used to be identical to the much cheaper consumer models. The "pro" features like stereo visuals were unlocked by the drivers. You used to be able to change the ID with a kernel hack and get the pro features. They closed that loophole but you could still do it by bridging some resistors on the board. They kept changing the drivers to try to keep the pro features disabled.
It's definitely the case with CPUs. Often the lower core count/lower clocked ones are binned when the cores/high clocks weren't stable. As the production line matures and the yield goes up, they just disable the features instead.
Apparently several models of gopro vary only in the firmware.
At one point Apple charged a fee (or threatened to?) to enable 802.11n on some devices.
I've dropped some 10s, and even a few 12s, and none of them were as productive as my regular 7s are.
I can do crunches and put in a bunch of 10s and 12s at a higher rate of productivity than my usual working days. The problem is that after a while my productivity nosedives to almost nothing. With luck that happens after the deadline, but not always. And then I need a long recovery period after when my productivity is very low.
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
Oh the huge manatee!
It's not the youth, it's more or less everybody. They either can't tell, don't notice or don't care and it simply doesn't bother them. There's no reason they should care either.
If you're able to dial back on the "herp derp gubbmint *drool*" attitude, you might actually be able to engage your brain. Warning: it might hurt.
London already has loads of diesel-electric hybrid busses. Heavy urban traffic is almost the perfect use case for hybrid vehicles and also greatly reduces the most polluting phase of diesel engines in high population areas.
Turbines are much less efficient than diesel engines, topping out at about 30% for shaft power. Automotive diesel engines hit over 40% for cars and 45% for bigger vehicles. Marine diesels get into the low 50s.
Pretty much the only thermal plants which beat diesel are large combined cycle gas turbine/Rankine hybids, which are heading towards about 65%. And you need huge low pressure turbines and a good sub atmospheric condenser to get there.
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Of course, there's a simple solution - don't buy anything from Sony.
Sony have always had a callous disregard for their customers up to and including rootkitting and breaking their computers but it was *this* that finally pushed you over the edge? I've not bought anything from Sony since 2005.
Right so a Japanese company does something because they're worried about legal action in the US, and somehow it's Europe's fault...?
WTF, dude.
Because hate speech cannot be defined in means clear enough for legal matters.
So? We're talking about twitter not a court of law.
I always aspired to become a professionally licensed wanker.
Some of the people I work with have got awfully close.
Your "pub" analogy is absolutely right. And this is what people - especially those calling for censorship - need to think about. No one is hovering around the tables at your local pub, telling people what they're allowed to say, and what they cannot say.
So close yet so far. Pubs can and do bar people for shitty behavior all the time. If you started spouting off about raping another patron, you'd find yourself out not just from the pub, but probably most of the pubs in the town center (they share information on problem customers).
Freedom of speech does not and had never meant that someone is obliged to hand you a megaphone.
Tim Pool destroyed Twitter's credibility.
Who the fuck is Tim Pool? I mean I've heard of twitter but I've never heard of that guy. So his "destruction" of Twitter's credibility is a little on the incomplete side.
Can you give a legal definition of "hate speech"?
Can you tell me why you need a legal definition if it? It's not like twitter is obliged to host anyone at all.
I'm not referring to new tech likes thorium. The reactor designs are ancient; it's the equivalent of building a brand new Ford Corinna because people are afraid to get a modern far with airbags, crumple zones and so on.
So we're stuck with 40 year old designs and a whole bunch of bizarre expense.
They still used the same old designs because the cost was already completely insane and adding further risk with new technology would have been unacceptable to investors and the government that was subsidising it.
This is the crazy thing about nuclear regulation. In every other industry, engineering has improved in the last 50 years and we've got better, safer, more efficient designs for just about everything. Except because of the regulations we've somehow concluded the opposite to literally every other engineering discipline.
The electricity it generates has a guaranteed price of A-L-92.50/MWh, at least double current wind prices. By the time it's finished it will be costing about double wind + battery. It also gives control of critical parts of our energy infrastructure to the French and the Chinese government.
Yeah well that's just barking mad. Also pretty typical of the UK government. Spend a fuckton of money devaloping some capability. Just when the expensive deveopment has been done and many of the lessons learned, trash the entire industry and go buy American because it's "cheaper". Then fast forward a few decades and find out it's very much not cheaper after all.
The main problem is there is not enough wind and solar capacity available to power the country. We have a population density that's too high.
Right. MMT applied on the scale of corporation. Now I have seen everything.
MMT?
I get the impresion you disbelieve me. If I show you a worker cooperative with sctual salaries and billions in revenue, will you alter your opinion?
It's insane that you believe the right to self defense is dystopian.
It's insane that the OP was practically jizzing himself over the idea he could actually shoot someone. The right to self self defense IMO is absolute, but nonetheless the OP describes some kind of awful dystopia. You, it appears, are so shortsighted that you buy into it.
stuff into heavy Mylar bag to block GPS and Cell signals.
Foil coated mylar bag. Mylar itself is mechanically altered PET (the stuff drinks bottles are made from) and doesn't block anything on its own.
Having citizens as jusde, jury and executioner is not freedom it's dystopian.
Workers would be like temporary shareholders, gaining voting rights while joining a company That sounds great until the company has a bad quarter and your paycheck is $0. Ownership has a negative side as well.
If in doubt, make shit up based on how you want the world to be. Worker cooperatives are actually a thing and don't simply stop paying workers the instant profits are down. They are still companies so they still pay salaries.
Hey Zuck, WTF do you think shares are? They are shares of ownership which means you get a say in how the company is run. Don't like that? Form a partnership and give up on the lucrative opportunity to exchange ownership for money.
Its one of those futurey things that sounds easy, but ends up being really fucking hard without sometimes killing people.
This is all rather sad really. We know that human driven cars are impossible to do without killing tons of people. However, "we" won't accept killing far fewer people if we can't blame someone for the deaths that do occur.
Example, please?
Examples abound. Oscilloscopes are a good example. I bought a good scope (nice mixed signal model) then paid extra to get the bus decoding features unlocked. Mine's a Hameg, but all the vendors do it. Some of them even allow you to unlock higher sampling rates.
It certainly used to be the case with graphics cards too (in the AGP era). Nvidia Quadros used to be identical to the much cheaper consumer models. The "pro" features like stereo visuals were unlocked by the drivers. You used to be able to change the ID with a kernel hack and get the pro features. They closed that loophole but you could still do it by bridging some resistors on the board. They kept changing the drivers to try to keep the pro features disabled.
It's definitely the case with CPUs. Often the lower core count/lower clocked ones are binned when the cores/high clocks weren't stable. As the production line matures and the yield goes up, they just disable the features instead.
Apparently several models of gopro vary only in the firmware.
At one point Apple charged a fee (or threatened to?) to enable 802.11n on some devices.
They want government to meddle with business in every way,
Hypocrite. Companies only exist due to government meddling in the first place.
I've dropped some 10s, and even a few 12s, and none of them were as productive as my regular 7s are.
I can do crunches and put in a bunch of 10s and 12s at a higher rate of productivity than my usual working days. The problem is that after a while my productivity nosedives to almost nothing. With luck that happens after the deadline, but not always. And then I need a long recovery period after when my productivity is very low.
It certainly doesn't average out to a net win.
What I find most disturbing about the trend is how the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media.
Oh the huge manatee!
It's not the youth, it's more or less everybody. They either can't tell, don't notice or don't care and it simply doesn't bother them. There's no reason they should care either.
Well that's not quite what you said and I misunderstood. Sorry for being a dickhead about it.
If you're able to dial back on the "herp derp gubbmint *drool*" attitude, you might actually be able to engage your brain. Warning: it might hurt.
London already has loads of diesel-electric hybrid busses. Heavy urban traffic is almost the perfect use case for hybrid vehicles and also greatly reduces the most polluting phase of diesel engines in high population areas.
and great efficiency from the turbine.
Turbines are much less efficient than diesel engines, topping out at about 30% for shaft power. Automotive diesel engines hit over 40% for cars and 45% for bigger vehicles. Marine diesels get into the low 50s.
Pretty much the only thermal plants which beat diesel are large combined cycle gas turbine/Rankine hybids, which are heading towards about 65%. And you need huge low pressure turbines and a good sub atmospheric condenser to get there.
Maybe they would have, if Sweden had actually charged him with a crime.
Maybe? If?
You know the Swedish suthorities kidnapped some innocent people and handed them over to American agents to be tortured, right?
You didn't really get the GP's point did you?