The problem with energy storage methods like batteries or flywheels is that once they are "charged" they no longer take any excess production off the grid. if your production is really good and by mid day all your energy storage options are "charged" then you're fucked when it comes to any excess production in the afternoon. This is where you just need something like a substation with a megawatt sized resistor array to dump the excess energy as heat. You're going to be able to switch on that array and vary the load that its pulling off the grid faster than you can spin generation up and down. In my area they actually have jet engine load demand generators to deal with summer air conditioning loads. You can fire up a jet engine, get it up to speed and synced with the grid in just a few minutes compared to the time it takes to bring a steam powered turbine online.

This is exactly the problem. Some of the last cargo ships to transit the strait are probably just arriving at their destinations. There won't be anymore deliveries after this. Even if the strait opens tonight it's going to be several weeks for that next shipment to arrive.

They'll exactly know your age. The addressing space in IPv6 is so large you could probably assign every person at birth a block of addresses that they would use for life and the govt would know exactly who is accessing posting what.

I'll believe it when I see it. As long as our healthcare system is profit driven, keeping people on "treatments" keeps the $$$$ rolling in. There should be NO profit drive to healthcare. Drs and Nurses should get healthy salaries for doing the actual work. Paper pushing clerks should be getting min wage.

LOL there will never be a "cure" keeping people on recurring medications or treatments is too profitable to give up. Same as there will never be a cure for cancer.

Probably exactly what they'll do. Give everyone a $5 voucher, at the same time jack the service fee up by $5 and call it a day.

Maybe 5% off the service fee of next ticket purchase.

Pretty sure livenation was initially a hidden shell company then they just got brazen and "merged" the two.

If you're not aware. Livenation / Ticketmaster is also in the business of building / operating / purchasing venues. So that 2/3rds also comes to them once they get their hands on the venue.

I expect we'll be lucky to get a $5 voucher off our next ticket purchase.

"intermissions" at concerts are actually a requirement between bands. They need that 10-15min to break down the previous band's setup and move the next bands setup into place. Probably the only way to get around this would to be have a stage that had to halves and rotated. Have the active band on one half, next band setting up on the other half. When one is done, drop the curtain for 30 seconds, rotate the stage, raise the curtain and on with the show.

Internet Archive domain seized by the FBI during piracy enforcement sting.

If they build the identification into the slicer software, there will just be a black market for files / thumb drives with pre sliced "parts"

Only two ways this is happening. Require an unneeded amount of compute power in a 3d printer just to do the identification. Ban printers that can print stand alone off a USB stick and require them to be tethered to a PC and do the identification in the 3d printer software running on the PC.

Most 3d printers can directly print from a sliced model from a usb stick. Most 3d printers donn't have the compute power to render then identify what the sliced file is. They simply have enough compute power to read the coordinates from the file, and move the extruder to said coordinate while ejecting molten plastic