There has never been a point in recorded history when the British Isles and territorial waters were windless.

And yes, we have hydro, we have storage, and we could have a hell of a lot more.

Actually the former head of the National Grid said that. The guy running the UK's grid said that the concept of base load was obsolete, and he was right.

The UK has at least 20x as much wind power available than its current electricity consumption. Energy independence is entirely possible, if not particularly desirable.

The UK could be a massive exporter of clean energy. Scotland in particular could be getting rich off it, but like with the oil they aren't seeing as much of the benefit as they should be seeing.

I usually download Linux on my Raspberry Pi and install it on a new x86-64 laptop. The RPi is my random tasks computer that is hooked up to one of the ports on my living room TV. The RPi comes in handy because it has some I/O ports I can use to hook up experiments. And I have some emulators installed. And I have a wacky arcade joystick hacked together and plugged into it.

If I were to install Windows today, I'd have to download the disk images from Microsoft using Firefox on a Linux computer. I think theoretically it would work, but I have no idea if I'd hit any roadblocks along the way.

Why is it more cost effective to build a new Capitol than to build a water pipeline?

Both solid choices. Debian is also a nice option that I fall back to.

Zorin is for people who want to pay Zorin instead of Canonical for nice installer and some roadmap for long-term hardware and security support. With Canonical and Red Hat being the stronger choices for the latter.

What's an example of a common task? Copying files onto a USB stick? Formatting said USB stick? Editing a WAV file? Playing movies and MP3s? Ripping a CD? I think Linux and several other OSes have covered these particular common tasks for quite some time now.

Of course, if you're used to Windows or a Mac, the steps and names of the programs are going to be different on Linux/*BSD. But at a high level it's going to be a very similar process to complete any "common task".

I run Zorin on two machines, I went for it because they tweaked the UI a bit in a way that I thought might be nice. Overall happy but there are also things I wish they would change.

In this case, I mean literally... literally. You can find citations trivially. Everyone should know this by now. If you want to talk about Nazis, you should know something about Nazis.

I know the truth can be painful.

https://thehill.com/homenews/a...

Here's a crypto scammer that was pardoned and when asked Trump had no idea who the guy even was. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/t...

The 'noble experiment' that went horribly wrong came into being because of the campaigning of Protestant Christians. They were the dominant social force at the time...

2000 years ago the nations that have generated what is now 'Western culture' were part of the Roman Empire. This was a society in which human sacrifice was known, and the abandonment of unwanted children, for whatever reason the father had, was standard practice. Gladiator shows saw men killing each other for the entertainment of the crowds, and crucifixion was the punishment for serious criminals.

All these features of the culture changed - not spontaneously but because Christianity came to dominate the moral discourse, challenged these behaviours, and Emperors stopped them. Religion is part of 'culture'...

I know a guy that openly accepts money for pardons.