You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?

Errr … there’s a downside.

But I haven’t seen anyone expressing that Superman should not represent kindness.

Isn’t the take more like “You think it’s super-human to be kind?!?”

I tried it a couple of times and stopped both times because it puts it own password dialogue box up for my password. I assume it wants to sudo for some reason.

No! I will not give you my plaintext password.

1. No other piece of screen sharing software needs this.
2. You’ve not told me what you need it for.
3. Even if valid, no user level software should have my plaintext password. Make a request to the system, it will prompt me.
4. You now expect me to trust the software developers that make such brain-dead security choices with sharing my desktop? Not going to happen.

Uninstalled as fast as I possibly could.

Lawsuits seem like the wrong way to decide medical efficacy of treatments.

How did this manifest before? You only need to look at the advertising of the time. Take the 1950s America - McCarthyism and the red scare in full force. Most US marketing relied heavily on how buying American made you a good patriotic citizen, living the American dream… even if the product wasn’t 100% American.

…and it’s turned them into the state with the highest standard of living in the US…right?

If ethical boundaries get thrown out in times of trouble, we don’t have ethical boundaries. It’s easy to not step over the line in times of peace.

They just assumed a constant draw I think.

No, but I don’t think you’re appreciating how difficult it would be to fill that 3%. It’s not just about having 3% more power from something. It’s having it at the right time. It needs to be on demand. Having something on demand that has to cover all it’s costs selling just 3% isn’t easy.

It’s more resilient to have mixed supply where multiple types of generation take a proportion. Then when one falls short another can scale up a little.

If somebody has to keep that gas generator serviced only to run it on winter mornings, that electricity is going to be very pricey.

Rules that apply to all nations, much like we have for Antarctica.

Exactly. They’re not “accusing Putin”. They are saying to Trump " He is humiliating you! What are you going to do about it?"

It’s only the timescale I’m unsure about.

Venison probably. Boar is also good.

On poultry, I’d go turkey over duck. Not keen on goose, too fatty.

I’m going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We’re currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

Not really. Power induction through air is inherently lossy. That’s just physics.

No, we have a vaccine for that.

The BNP were not what we would call Conservatives. They were thugs and nationalistic bigots. Conservatives are a bit less thuggy.

I can speak a bit on the UK as I live there.

The use of gas is for two things.

• Balancing against wind and solar, both of which can evaporate at certain times of year. Without more storage we’re left in a position where we basically need to be able to support 30GW of demand just on gas.

• Frequency stabilisation and cold start capability. We never seem to drop below 4GW of gas (or biomass - anything spinning mass) generation. Even if we had excess wind and solar, some gas will be burnt “just in case”.

Right now we need more storage, and better connections from the new sources of power (the coast for wind and international connectors) to the centres of demand (the cities). Power stations were historically located much closer to where the demand is, and our electricity grid is still shaped by that.

Today has been a good example. Lots of wind and sun but still 16% gas. We even switched some wind farms off today because we couldn’t get the power to where it was needed or a way to store it.