I just picked France because I know that France sells nuclear energy to Germany. You can compare the rates of any Western European nation to Germany and see the cost per kWh is much higher in Germany than anywhere else. So either everyone is subsidizing their electricity, or Germany's production costs are higher.

I thought solar radiation was the biggest contributor to the temperature of the Earth!

Thank you, thank you. I'll be pedantic all week.

And if you compare the cost of electricity in Germany versus the cost of electricity in France? This comparison on average cost of living between the two countries show that electricity is, on average 26% cheaper in France versus Germany. Just because its going down in Germany doesn't mean that electricity rates in Germany were ever reasonable to begin with.

I'm not some random guy in the internet. I am Jittles. The font of all knowledge, wisdom, and science. If you can't handle that, you don't belong on the internet. If I tell you that there is a comet coming with Aliens hiding in its wake, you had better drink the kool-aid and be saved from this drab existence. Whatever I say goes, basically. It's time you learn to play by the rules.

NBC is owned by comcast. Comcast is NBC's pimp man. You give it up and pay out your earnings when your pimp comes along.

You are correct - they have not been updated. Why are they even mentioned in the summary and the article? Either way, I think the sources themselves are more valuable than the silly article.

Which cartel do you work for, exactly? Because I see an outright ban on tobacco going about the same as the ban on marijuana, heroine, crack, cocaine, etc etc. I assume the reason you want to see it banned is that you plan on making insane money on its illegal sale and manufacture. How many people actually start smoking at the age of 18 or later? I'd be willing to bet its a smaller fraction than the number of people who start smoking in high school. And it's not always a matter of intelligence or education. I know people who work in pulmonary critical care (doctors) who smoke. They know all the risks you do, and more. They also know they will die regardless of their decision to smoke, and they enjoy doing it for one reason or another.

I'm all for reasonable restrictions on smoking. I really dislike smokey bars, restaurants, and offices. I also dislike when someone smokes outside of my open residential window. But outright prohibition has never worked, and will never work. It just raises the "cool factor" because you're a rebel if you flout the law.

Yes but how many Library of Congresses is it per KM of wall? You need to stick with the established units of measure around here, son.

Uhh you understand that this was over a holiday weekend (3 day weekend) and that they were only briefly meeting that demand on an especially sunny afternoon? Germany has a lot of cool and cloudy weather. I spent almost a month of June 2013 in Germany and it was cloudy and cold 70% of the time.

The biggest case where this is an issue for the US Army is actually with drones. They can't operate the larger, more capable drones that they would like because they fall under the purview of the US Air Force. If its fixed wing and flies over a certain altitude, the army cannot operate it.

Tesla's goal is to make Elon Musk and the other shareholders money. They don't care how many competitors they have, as long as they are making money. If driving other competitors out of business makes them more money, it is because they are able to charge higher prices with less competition. They don't make money by low-balling their price, unless that decreased price causes an increase in overall sales to compensate for the lower margin per sale.

I hate to break it to you, but an emulator isn't going to fix that either. The emulator will perform more slowly than the simulator, but it is still ultimately running on a completely different system than your final product. Perhaps your app is IO bound and you're running on a faster IO device than the target? The point of a simulator or emulator in this case is to verify your proof of concept. Not to say "I did my job." And if you already knew there was a performance issue on the actual hardware with your web based application, why would you think you could just code something up in Objective-C and have it perform better? Sure Obj-C should run faster than javascript, but you can't take that on faith. Until you see it running as it should natively on that platform, you have to assume the job is not done.

Jumping jigawatts Marty!

Huh. I had no idea. I didn't think you could immunize against bacteria. Not only that, but we test so heavily for TB - both in education and in healthcare. Thanks for the education.