It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.
They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.
Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.
Kinda like when Obama administration declared Public Transit bus drivers were workers with Green Jobs, then declared every public bus driver that drove a diesel bus as a *new* green energy job they created?
But, honestly, the Inflation Reduction Act (AKA Green New Deal 2.0) was the legislation that paid power companies (incentivized them) to shut down coal plant at an accelerated pace DESPITE having no alternative to pick-up the loss in generation.
Additionally, solar power production accelerated from 2010 on, lowering demand on the grid during the day and creating more evening peaks.
HOW does increased solar power production "(lower) demand on the grid"?
Do people use less A/C? Fewer lights? How? HOW?
44% of their electricity is from non-renewable sources, that's not a trivial amount, it's very nearly half.
I know Germany employs radar to stop a wind turbine once birds get into the danger zone.
How long does it take to 'stop' a turbine?
How fast do the birds fly?
How big is the 'area' (distance) from the turbine the radar covers? How far out does the radar need to be to detect the birds in time to actually stop the turbine?
I think this is a PR feature, I *suspect* the wind turbines rarely, if ever are actually stopped for passing birds...
To recap:
Solar increased 18.7%, wind dropped 5.2%, and Hydro dropped 24.2% over previous year... seems pretty unreliable, I wonder what produced the other 44% of Germany's electricity?
In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.
This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.
Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.
All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.
Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?
> Apple builds the handset, the OS and the store
Remember, when iPhone came out there was no App Store.
That was a separate business that came later, competition was prohibited, and by prohibiting competition rents were extracted.
This is called "illegal tying" in the law.
They're gonna install malware on your device but heaven forbid your website sets the wrong cookie, then they're fining you 6% of annual revenue.
When did East Germany win?
"The Trump administration, with the aid of AI and crypto czar David Sacks, has been pursuing a path that would allow federal rules to preempt state regulations on AI
Uh, ever heard of the Supremacy Clause? This is really a nothing burger, it simply re-asserts that the supremacy clause applies to Crypto
The researchers say that while the study cannot establish causation, the patterns suggest that supporting low-income students during their transition from college to the labor market may be a fruitful area for policy intervention.
They figured out giving poor college students money when they graduate may be "fruitful"?
Did anyone consider the majors/degrees the poor students and the other (non-poor?) students graduated with? Of course not, why would that matter? The point of this study was to affirm the obvious - people that need money to afford college could probably benefit from continuing to get money after college.
It is very hard for me to imagine a scenario where it would be harmful to give anyone any money at any time for any purpose, maybe we could stop funding these types of studies to keep discovering this obvious truth?
It's over.
l think this comment wins the thread.
The time has come for a European University CSE department group to reverse-engineer HDMI 2.1 and publish a compatible implementation on Github.
There's a solid history of this category of work going back 30 years.
They have certain legal protections for compatibility and public interest work.
This 1990's licensing model is antiquated and obsolete.
IEEE and ITU have abdicated their responsibility so sombody like Valve needs to do for transport spec what AV1 did for codecs and linux did for operating systems.
"A rising tide lifts all boats" is common among free marketeers and communists but opposed by fascists.
> Is there a huge difference between a criminal organization and a multinational corporation?
Yes, huge difference.
The common-law criminals running corporations get statutory protection from liability for the crimes they commit under corporate letterhead.
A regular mafia has individual liability.
A modem is a baudy house.
