What could be a game changer is if China finds a simpler way to do EUV. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsemiwiki.com%2Fforum%2Fthr... Not a done deal by any stretch, but by forbidding China the ASML fruit, they may end up with a less expensive better tasting fruit. Another thing that is being overlooked is the optics side of the equation. Not just ASML is out of reach, they are also not able to get the Zeiss optics. Also a necessary piece of the puzzle at the moment. I think they are shadow importing Nikon and Cannon optics, although not as capable as the Zeiss from what I understand.

I'm sure Intel thought they would always be a few years ahead of TSMC.

Saw that and was like WTF. Media merging with a fusion co? Massive gov grant in 3, 2, 1...

I saw a story where they showed the location heat map of brown's cameras. They do have many. I think the perp knew the map though. There was one area with almost no cameras, which is the side he entered/exited the campus, and did the shooting at. I think the video footage to date has been neighborhood cameras. And as you'd expect not high rez. From the images I've seen so far, I am not even sure we can say with certainty he was portly. Could have been body armor or extra clothes making him appear heavier than he is. All I can say for certain was he was light skin from photos with his hands. Surprised he did not wear gloves.

He is starting to age. Badly. Makeup can only do so much. His walking gait has also changed as well as his fist shake. Like I said, I will be surprised if the fat man makes it to 28. I could see him kicking next year. Especially if the R's circle back to Epstein. I imagine the whole VZ thing was about deflection. He enjoys controlling the narrative which is good for adding years for him. His problem is he gets very angry when he is not, subtracting years.

I get this all the time. Everything is local. Everything. There are many jurisdictions that do what Austin is doing. Most of Florida as an example. There is an exterior disconnect, just not on the panel. It is an adjacent giant labelled switch. My system is large, 10KW, breaker backflow is not allowed at that level, so wired direct, no circuit breaker. Disconnect box has fuses though. Trust me the thing is in compliance. Upon inspection the only nit was one of the wires touched the roof. Inspector waited while vendor secured wire to panel off roof. Some other just crazy to me stuff was red stickers about every 10' on metal conduits to roof warning of dual powering. Really not true either as no battery, so no grid, microinverters shut down. Stickers required none the less. Stickers on main panel, stickers on cutoff switch stickers on combiner box. Fireproof rated silicon instead of regular for any penetration points. Even wire routing in boxes must be done "just so". Straight no unnecessary bends. Anal does not begin to describe austin code enforcement. Legendary.

As to criminal, theft of service. Note the word theft. And here you go... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Florfinglaw.com%2Fblog%2Fth... And if I rewire it, pretty clear intent is there.

And I'll give you a couple more real examples of just how petty austin has become. A neighbor built a hobby house behind their main house. All of our yards have a drainage easement behind us. The hobby house roof overhang by maybe a foot or 2 at the corner infringed on the easement. Not a problem the corner is probably 30' in the air. Nope, its a problem. Like water is going to come up 30' at the edge of the easement and not 1" next to easement. City demanded the corner of the roof be cut so now the edge of the roof at that corner was chopped off to meet the easement. Stupid eh? It looks stupid I'll confirm. Or another fairly famous case, a pretty famous movie director in Austin built a wrought iron fence that was more than 6' tall along his property. A neighbor saw the fence and thought nice, I'll do that. Whoops, code says you can't build a fence more than 6' within some distance of property edge. I don't know the number. Anyway unlike the director who likely got a code exemption, this guy just did it. 10's of thousands for the fence. City code guy saw it, verified no code exemption, city demanded fence come down. And it did. He pleaded for a exemption but was shot down, probably to be made an example. That is Austin now.

That fat cow will be dead by 2035. He'd be 90. Way past the average male death age and his weight is anything but average. I'll not be surprised if he dies before the end of his term.

Much closer. Here is a story about an Audi only available in China. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinance.yahoo.com%2Fnews... 40K EU 470mi range German's want it apparently. Looks quite nice. Would sell well in the US too I imagine. At the rate the Chinese are improving auto's, I don't see how the US or EU compete practically. And tariff'ing them I just don't see working. All other countries are going to dump US/EU vehicles leaving them to their own shrinking markets exclusively while China sells to Africa, South America, Russia, Middle East, India and of course its own growing internal consumption. In fact I thought China is now the largest consumer of autos in the world. I know they are the largest manufacturer in the world.

Mine is wired direct. From panel->inverter->kill switch->meter->main panel in and utility in->meter->main panel. Both then pass thru main breaker. I've no battery, so without grid, inverter stops. I've considered tapping into the kill switch and siphon some power off. They'd not know on a sunny day where I pull say 10%. But what do I do with it. Way too much trouble. And really the big problem is if you get caught, you really are screwed, like possibly jail time screwed.

Nope, my utility does not allow partial connects. And my smart meter reads at 15 minute (possibly even shorter) intervals. It is clear from the reg's, if you are connected, its their party. Like I said before, could not find the completely offgrid thing in the regs. I still believe that is possible, it just my installer did not want to risk me blaming them if it was in there. Especially given I've heard the city can and will charge a grand a day if you are out of compliance with "occupancy" rules. What is particularly bad in my view is that even in a blackout and if you had a battery, they would still pay you 9c for the juice from your battery and charge you the variable 12+ rate to consume it during the blackout. Crazy eh? Really stupid in my view. At least your utility does what I'd expect. If you push power into the grid, your basically a generator and should be paid like one. If you consume your own power, well, its yours and should be free. The other smart thing I see your utility doing is ToD billing. It encourages you to use the battery to shift usage into their peak times to avoid the high rates. A friend has an EV and has had one for years. And his attitude towards charging is he charges when convenient. Why should he care since they don't give him a break to charge at non-peak times. Like I said, I view my utility as one of the dumbest on the planet. And they did not used to be. They used to act pretty smart when I installed the first system. They were ahead of the curve. I guess not just tech co's are enshitifying. Utilities can too.

Well modern economies, but very true and often overlooked. If you look at the malaise of the late 70's/80's it was oil price shock that tanked the economy. Cheap energy means cheap cost of production, product delivery etc. It is woven everywhere into the economy.

I just redid mine as well on a roof redo. The original ones (20 years ago) probably never paid me back. It was more then per watt though. Your problem though is likely your utility can change the deal anytime they wish. Mine did, and partially why the original panels never paid me back. I was counting on net, and the utility changed to Value of Solar. IE, 9c/kwh generated. Period. Problem is I am paying them about 3c net now for power generated by my panels. And that 9c could go lower. It started at 12. On the redo I considered going off grid. My installer suggested that city code forbade that. Apparently also common. I read the code and couldn't find it, but I'm no expert in bldg codes. Other fun facts I discovered in my battery research were that over I think it was 15KWH I needed the fire dept's approval. And if they were on an interior garage wall, a bollard was required in front of the battery. Rules.

Agree, reminiscent of cig companies targeting kids (remember the camel characters) and booze companies too. It really isn't all that different than a drug dealer giving away samples to get people hooked. At least with booze and cigs, kids had to bypass the legal methods of obtaining the product. I'd say all Denmark is trying to do is put the same friction into social media that we put into booze and cigs.

Schools have started to require kids lock up their devices during the school day. They are given locked down devices to use during school. The primary reason schools have been switching to this no cell phone policy is precisely that kids were spending their day on social media instead of doing school. A friend has taught for a couple decades and I was just amazed about the behavior and how schools were not permitted to clamp down. I kept telling him the pendulum is going to swing back from kids get to do whatever they want during the day back to more restrictions. And probably eventually too restrictive, it is normal human behavior to toss back and forth like a ship in high seas. The pendulum has started to swing back. His school now requires phones locked away at beginning of day and returned at end of school. He is pretty happy about it. At least now he doesn't have to compete with their social media feed.

I have noticed though China has some very long combined mileage vehicles. This one, https://interestingengineering... as an example is 820 miles combined range. Amazing. And for around 30 grand. Another https://cleantechttps//interes... claims 1300 miles. And buick will offer an MPV with 1320KM (820mi) this year. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Felectriccarsreport.com... I expect for the China customer segment with rural sparse infrastructure requirements, these super high range offer security from running out of power.