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Comment Re:To Make Beer Taste Even Better.... (Score 2) 80

Taste is subjective.

Obviously, you personally ought to stick to drinking Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers. Meanwhile, you should let the hundreds of millions of people who think beer tastes just fine (hops and all) enjoy their beverage of choice.

Pro tip: Most beers balance the bitterness with an appropriate amount of malt sweetness to create a pleasing overall effect for the average taster. This is similar to the way many mixed drinks balance sourness (another evolutionary poison alarm bell, OMG!) with sweetness.

Comment Re:Stop listening to customers, start losing them. (Score 1) 55

Well, perhaps start making some hardware people could like or get excited about besides the bland crap that keeps coming out. Even Alienware got boring after being bought by Dell.

Given that the one big "exciting" thing that all the PC makers are touting these days is adding some kind of AI chip, I'll stick with cheap and boring.

Comment Re:And Now (Score 4, Informative) 56

The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.

There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.

Comment DOT (Score -1, Offtopic) 11

DOT.... they should talk, after doing what they have done that raised the number of deaths due to commercial trucks now operating at maximum speed with completely tired drivers due to all the stuff they did since the 2019... the results were as expected, which means 'nobody could have seen it coming' in political speak. They would never admit to being complete idiots, now they want more control over other stuff. They are going to get it.

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score 0) 282

You don't know me, so it doesn't matter. I fly maybe 50 times a year, seriously. I drive a few cars, I do drive quite a bit in some days, and I have to 'charge' (buy gas at a pump) somewhere in the middle of a day, I have to do this fast and keep going because of business and because of many personal things I have to do. This entire thing doesn't work for me at all. I buy plane tickets without long planning, I mean I buy them and fly the next day most of the time, I purchase them on the way back (I don't know from where I will be flying back), basically this is what I consider normal life and what I consider necessities of life. There is no chance I would have time in my day to plan my day around charging my work car, which is just a mode of transportation and it has to be ready in the moment's notice at any time. I also have a car, that I drive for fun for example, it's not an electric, it's a fun car, I like it. I don't actually like electric cars, I get sick in them, I could get one when they get good but just as a curiosity.

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1) 282

https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs... what improvement in air quality though?

source, billion kWh, % of total
Fossil fuels (total) 2,505 60.0%
Natural gas 1,802 43.1%
Coal 675 16.2%
Petroleum (total) 16 0.4%
Petroleum liquids 12 0.3%
Petroleum coke 5 0.1%
Other gases (Other gases includes blast furnace gas and other manufactured and waste gases derived from fossil fuels.) 11 0.3%
Nuclear 775 18.6%
Renewables (total) 894 21.4%
Wind 425 10.2%
Hydropower 240 5.7%
Solar (total) 165 3.9%
Photovoltaic 162 3.9%
Solar thermal 3 0.1%
Biomass (total) 47 1.1%
Wood 31 0.8%
Landfill gas 8 0.2%
Municipal solid waste (biogenic) 6 0.1%
Other biomass waste 2 0.1%
Geothermal 16 0.4%
Pumped storage hydropower (Pumped storage hydroelectricity generation is negative because most pumped storage electricity generation facilities use more electricity than they produce on an annual basis. Most pumped storage systems use electricity from an electric power grid for pumping water to the storage component of the system.) -6 -0.1%
Other sources (Other (utility-scale) sources includes non-biogenic municipal solid waste, batteries, hydrogen, purchased steam, sulfur, tire-derived fuel, and other miscellaneous energy sources.) 10 0.2%

and this is without a significant number of EVs on the roads. How about actually doing something useful, like building nuclear power plants and shutting down coal and oil and gas ones before attacking individual freedoms, which is obviously what this move to subsidize EVs at the expense of freedoms is?

Comment Re:nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1, Troll) 282

You are mistaken, this is not progress, this is pure dictatorship. There is nothing progressive about Lithium Ion batteries for example. Just because green or white paint is used on some battery pack, doesn't make it any more green in a country where most electricity is produced by natural gas and coal.

Comment nice to live in a dictatorship (Score -1, Insightful) 282

if you are the dictator.
Government has legitimacy due to the silent agreement of the governed. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is itâ(TM)s natural manure.

Certainly there will be EVs, maybe I will own a few, who knows. It is not the cost of it that stops me, I like to enjoy my freedom to drive whatever I can purchase and I am not going to be slowed down by charge times. I am just curious which will be the straw that will break the back of this, very patient camel?

Comment Re:66 months (Score -1) 159

shouldn't you have to prove such accusations? All /. comments are open for everyone to see, provide proof of your accusations. The fact that I am at -1 here is the result of multiple votes by whatever moderators, who disagree with opinions, however you have to provide some sort of proof for the accusations you are throwing around.

Comment 66 months (Score 0, Interesting) 159

5 and a half years for showing the world that he has... he is a dick, that's a curious amount of time though. I don't fully understand the sentencing for this act, not that it is excessive, it's just unclear how anyone arrives at that number? Also if everyone, with their dick out is going to be jailed, we will probably have to build more jails.

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