Why? Both types should be limited to the friction between the driving wheels and the tracks. You can put a motor in every carriage, but regular trains often have that as well. Where is the advantage for high speed rail?

Insults do not help your arguments.

If you don't use nuclear power (once the power station is built) you lose it. Exactly the same as solar and wind. You can turn solar and wind off if you want, exactly the same as nuclear power, but economic reasons make it infeasible to do so very often, again exactly the same as nuclear power.

Nuclear power is notoriously difficult to integrate into the grid; you need a lot of fossil fuel or hydro plants to handle the peak load that nuclear cannot handle economically.

Which is exactly the problem with nuclear power as well.

Norway is hydro limited by how much water they can store from spring and summer for the winter heating needs. Wind power in Scandinavia produces most power in winter, right when hydro reservoirs are closest to running dry. If Canada is similar, it can integrate amazing amounts of wind power into the hydro system.

The cost of nuclear is paid for up front. Fuel is effectively free. If you have a nuclear power plant and do not run it at full capacity at all times, you are throwing away free money.

If you only run your nuclear reactor at 33% output on average, your price per kWh has tripled. This would not matter if nuclear power was cheap, of course.

If you live too far north, there are probably better alternatives than solar.

Although solar is getting ridiculously cheap these days, so it is viable in some strange places now.

Why does base load generators help when the load is not flat? And the load is far from flat.

You will need peak power plants either way. Whether you run them because the load is too high for the nuclear power stations or because the wind has died down for a while does not matter.

I'll see your 10kWh battery bank and raise you a 1 m3 fuel tank. Every house used to have one. 3 orders of magnitude more energy.

Hydro is the perfect peak load. It is a waste to use it for base load, but in many places it is abundant enough to use for that as well.

Legally it is not a problem for most of the flight. Send it off from a ship in international waters and be sure to fly only over international waters. The legal problems start when you reach North Korean waters, of course.

It is not a realistic prospect. For daemons, the automatic handling by systemd is so much of an advantage that we will see server software depending on it. It will have to be emulated by the other init daemons, and so far I have not seen any of them work in that direction.

For GUI stuff, GNOME is already partially dependent on systemd, and KDE is going that way too.

There is no excuse for having congestion in your network on a daily or weekly. It can happen once in a blue moon when a line becomes unexpectedly busy, but it should never be the normal mode of operations.

At least not in a pretend-first-world-country where it is easy to lay backbone fiber.

Of course the screen lock in X was a security device; back when X was designed most workstations were shared.

XScreenSaver has some atrocious code to work around the deficiencies in X. Most of the time it succeeds.

Of course there is. One powerful negative feedback is that CO2 lets less and less infrared radiation escape, so every new added CO2 atom in the atmosphere has less effect than the previous one -- it cannot block radiation which was already blocked by other CO2 atoms.

This is part of the reason why doubling of CO2 levels "only" causes a linear temperature rise. CO2 only has a logarithmic effect on the temperature.

Which is lucky. Anything more complex than bacteria would have trouble surviving the wild temperature swings that a linear correlation between CO2 and temperature would cause.

And then you try to open a mainstream news site, like the Washington Times article linked to earlier, and you are presented with a full-page list of sites the page wants to load content from. It turns out the CSS one is washtimes.com, and that is all that was actually required.

I wish requestpolicy would label links by how they got pulled in (CSS, image, script...)