Perhaps if you think about the path of the storm up to that point and the direction it is likely to continue to go, you might realize that once it passes over Florida it is very likely to hit ... Alabama, Georgia, etc.

There are a large number of people in Canada who lost electrical power because one of the recent storms that went up the east coast kept going and hit them. If you look at the official predictions early on, you would notice that the storm was supposed to magically stop in North Carolina -- if you don't understand what the prediction chart is.

Ahh! A name-flame. How, ummm, unusual? And you don't even have the courtesy to spell it right.

Even a stopped (analog) clock is right twice a day.

No, it is not. It is the conversation as collected by intelligence ops who were listening to the call, after they compared their copies to correct errors. The ops were not parties to the call. They played no role other than to listen and record.

He says no such thing.

You mean to check into Biden's claims that he used his office and that of the President to derail an investigation into his son's activities in Ukraine? You do realize that Biden's bragging about abuse of his office was what started this, right?

What you are missing is the antecedent to "they". In the case of McDonald's, the antecedent is "the local franchise owner". Local franchise owners are not multi-national companies with deep pockets. They run half a dozen locations or so. They have to meet payroll and pay the costs. When payroll exceeds income and the store loses money, they can't just up all the prices, because prices are set by the parent company. That means they go out of business.

Can "they" close all the stores? Absolutely. Our local Wendy's franchisee closed all the stores he ran in this area back when Wendy's parent company mandated all stores close down for a few months for facility upgrades. Our stores closed down "for a few months" to get "the new look", and for us the "new look" was an entirely different company's.

Unionizing a subcontracting shop is pretty counter-productive. It's shooting oneself in the foot. Yeah, great, you can strike and force the contractor to pay more, except he can't get more for contracts he's already engaged in, and he won't get new contracts if he can't meet or better the bids from other contractors. "We're paid premium wages at this shop" ... when we have work to do.

Ummm? What?

That's perhaps the funniest thing I've read all day.

Who is talking about laptops? We're talking about game consoles, and the fact that some of the power savings they get from being in "resting mode" while trying to do work isn't a real savings because it would be faster to do the same job at full speed. Like I pointed out, 5W for an hour is the same as 15W for 20 minutes.

You can try to put all kinds of stupid words in my mouth, but I'm not going to let you succeed. I didn't say anything of the sort. You know it.

They didn't do anything with the source code.

That's not always true, either. I quite often look out my front window across at my neighbor's house. I'm behind a blind and he can't see me at all. I'm observing him in his front yard.

And, of course, the quintessential example is in this discussion where one person says his security cam caught a perv in the bushes watching the neighbor girls. But then he says that the camera didn't actually cover the bushes, so how it actually caught someone in the bushes is a mystery.

Then exactly what is "resting" in resting mode? It's not the CPU, since the CPU tasks are taking "no longer".

Yes, yes, I know that. But that would be exactly the same had his system been in full power mode for a shorter period of time previously while downloading and installing games. Either way, they're there when he went to play them.

The point is, taking longer to do something in "resting mode" compared to shorter times to do it in full power can work out the same overall. Five watts for an hour is the same energy as 15 watts for 20 minutes.

Nobody is saying you have to wait for downloads. But you could save a lot of electrical energy if you did go do something besides play games. Like ride your bike or read a book?

There are small reactors well along the development curve that will not take 20 years to get in place and operating, unless the know-nothing fear monger nuke haters keep throwing every legal challenge they can think of into the works to stop them.

This is a man-made deadline, and is hardly cast in stone. It's like the 20 year schedule you mention -- a creation of man.

How much longer did it take for those installs and downloads while running in "rest mode" compared to full power mode? The downloads may have been limited by your network bandwidth, but the install is local.

And what does the study say about how many billions of dollars in energy costs are wasted when they are not in standby. I.e., playing games?

If the game is consuming electricity, it cannot be carbon neutral. The "carbon neutral" can come only if someone pays extra so that all of his electricity comes from a truly carbon-neutral source. The game has nothing to do with it.

The city of Salem, OR bans "cruising" on at least one of the main roads in town.