Comment Re:Yes. This is how you keep housing costs down (Score 2) 126
What the fuck is a "net zero" HVAC?
A window. The top models come with a sunscreen.
Comment Re:Hot or cold? Make your minds up! (Score 1) 164
Oh come on, we know for decades that the weather will be more extreme. So on average it will get warmer. For example, that makes showers bigger and more violent, as more energy gets into it and it reaches higher altitude until all water vapour has not only been undercooled, but actually frozen. This makes the cooling effect afterwards so large it can actually cause hypothermia if you are not dressed for it and have nowhere to hide. This is apart from the larger hailstones.
This is actually one of the major problems in Europe. In the past, a heatwave just ended, and sometimes with some thunderclouds. Nowadays, heatwaves end with violent thunderstorms. But those are not the frontal thunderstorms we are used to; these thunderstorms hardly move at all and can flood the same area for hours, sucking all moisture in from the environment and delivering it in one spot.
And yes, the global currents have changed as well, and will change further, which was what you were referring to.
Maybe it is time to pull your head out of the sand after 3 decades. If only because that sand gets terribly hot in summer.
Comment Re: Charles Poon (Score 1) 97
Comment Re:There is very little need (Score 4, Interesting) 96
Comment Re:Is he really a trillionaire? (Score 1) 315
Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 87
Comment Re:Because State ownership of the means (Score 1) 99
Not really. It enabled them to break down tank factories during the second world war, and move them elsewhere to resume production within months. It also enabled any aircraft factory to make any model that was needed.
But it could be that you have forgotten that the US also had standard tanks and could force companies to make that standard model. Those factories were not collective ownership, but the "means of production" were state controlled nonetheless.
Comment Re:Are these cloud features? (Score 1) 135
Comment Displacing the question (Score 0) 19
Comment Re:GOP hates capitalism (Score 1) 118
Capitalism is about the free market - where companies get a free choice.
There, fixed that for you. Whether the people have a free choice is entirely up to the government imposing fair market laws. Companies usually choose to not have competition. Without government regulation, these companies will become too powerful and start to take over society. There are a lot of versions of capitalism, depending on the rules in which the companies operate.