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Comment They need more IMF and World Bank Loans. (Score 0) 84

Let's send billions more in IMF and world bank loans that they can't repay and that the people will never see. This problem should be fixed in literally minutes. Let's also send $100,000,000,000 in "climate change aid" so that they can convert from wood fires to solar and wind energy.

Comment Re:Radical thinking would be. (Score 1) 83

That you do not understand it and find it "baffling" does not make it so. The reality is these people do need to fly. Being pro environment is irrelevant to the problem. When my boss says "they need you in Texas, get on an airplane", I don't say "but boss, what will Greta say?", I get on the plane and keep my job. I'm also not burning 2-3 days of my vacation in each direction to get to Florida. I took trains in the US. From Indianapolis to Chicago, the train was 2 hours late. It arrived 2 hours late, and took an hour more than a car. This is a trip of just over 150 miles. For me to go on vacation, it is 1000 miles to Tampa, Florida. This is a 2.5 hour flight. If I include the airport inconvenience, and the benefit of not having my junk touched for national security, I'd happily spend twice that in total travel time. If you have a train that can do 988 miles in 5 hours, on time, and less than a flight, I'll take it. We fought a world war because the Italian President and later dictator ran on "making the trains run on time". Even if trains didn't suck, and tomorrow they were all on time and all amazing and never had strikes that ruin vacations, it would still take 20-30 years for Americans to trust their job or their vacation to a train.

Submission + - Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted as FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Flights into the Dallas area are being forced to take older, cumbersome routes and a runway at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was temporarily closed after aviation authorities said GPS signals there aren’t reliable. The Federal Aviation Administration said in an emailed statement Tuesday it’s investigating the possible jamming of the global-positioning system that aircraft increasingly use to guide them on more efficient routes and to runways. So far, the agency has found “no evidence of intentional interference,” it said. American Airlines, the primary carrier at DFW, said the GPS issue is not affecting its operations. Southwest Airlines, which flies from nearby Love Field, said it also isn’t experiencing any disruptions. The FAA reopened the closed runway earlier on Tuesday.

The GPS problem — despite the lack of impact — highlights the risk of widespread reliance on the weak GPS radio signals from space used for everything from timing stock trades to guiding jetliners. The FAA occasionally warns pilots in advance of military testing that may degrade the GPS signals and pilots sometimes report short-lived problems, but the interference in Dallas is atypical, said Dan Streufert, founder of the flight-tracking website ADSBexchange.com. “In the US, it’s very unusual to see this without a prior notice,” Streufert said in an interview. ADSBExchange.com monitors aircraft data streams that indicate the accuracy of the GPS signals they are receiving and the website began seeing problems around Dallas on Monday, he said. The military has told the FAA it isn’t conducting any operations that would interfere with GPS in that area, said a person familiar with the situation who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it. The primary way FAA’s air-traffic system tracks planes is based on GPS, but older radars and radio-direction beacons have remained in place as backups.

Comment Re:I have an idea (Score -1, Flamebait) 179

by trelanexiph (#62957557) Attached to: New Zealand Angers Its Farmers By Proposing Taxing Cow Burps
No kidding. The enviro nutters have really really lost it. If I have to choose between 2 degrees of warming after I die and a steak, and screaming Formula 1 V8 engines.... I mean, that's honestly not even a choice, right? I'll take the steak medium rare, and wake me up when the race starts from my post-steak coma.

Comment Why do we need to play these games? (Score 5, Insightful) 157

by trelanexiph (#62764690) Attached to: Apple Warns Suppliers To Follow China Rules on 'Taiwan' Labeling
China's economy is collapsing. Real estate values are plummeting in China, banks are running short on funds and having to be guarded by tanks. Why don't we just implement 15-20% tariffs on everything imported from China or containing any Chinese components and end them? Our businesses need to accept that they can't get in bed with every despot on the planet to exploit cheap labor.

Submission + - SPAM: Biden Launches $6B Effort to Save Distressed Nuclear Plants 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to rescue nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change.

A certification and bidding process opened Tuesday for a civil nuclear credit program that is intended to bail out financially distressed owners or operators of nuclear power reactors, the U.S. Department of Energy told The Associated Press exclusively, shortly before the official announcement. It’s the largest federal investment in saving financially distressed nuclear reactors.

Owners or operators of nuclear power reactors that are expected to shut down for economic reasons can apply for funding to avoid closing prematurely. The first round of awards will prioritize reactors that have already announced plans to close.

The second round will be opened up to more economically at-risk facilities. The program was funded through President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure deal, which he signed into law in November.
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