The Global Warming Gang is not in the business of predicting anything, they try hard to make it happen.

But if you mean scientists, just wait till you hear about AMOC collapse. No serious models anymore say it won't happen. And then, you'll have the heat that you wish for.

Recycling plastic is a scam, and has been known to be impossible 70 years ago when the idea was born. But reducing trash is an important goal, mostly due to plastic not decomposing for pretty much forever.

No, forwarding doesn't work either. For both reply and forward, all you get is the dividing line and the header info of the original message (sender, recipient, date, etc).

Switching to new Outlook works, but then that comes with the bunch of other issues that makes me stick with legacy Outlook. That said, the previous update to this broken one also seems to have resulted in a bunch of missing emails, even after rebuilding my profile in a different folder and verifying that I can see them in new Outlook and in the browser via OWA. An older version of Outlook on a different Mac that can't be upgrade due to it running on Big Sur has no such problems. I think Microsoft just aren't testing legacy Outlook properly anymore and rolling back to known older versions is difficult with their continuous delivery approach (or at least I don't know where to download the installers from for older versions).

I've been using Demon's Dead (MAP10/MAP16) as phone's ringtone for decades now; DSSLOP as the notification sound.

Shawn Got the Shotgun (MAP07) is another gem.

On the other hand, if you haven't seen Doom stuff this millenium, go check out Pirate Doom!

You can't switch to an older version? That's what I did with Lightroom when they introduced a bug with GPU rendering.

I'm not going to replace an old but perfectly good Mac so that I can install even newer versions. It's disgraceful that they charge a monthly fee to customers who can't upgrade and won't fix bugs they introduced. Where's the value in that?

It's their pricing model that's killing them more than anything. It made them rich for a bit, but they've successfully pissed off every one of their users in the process.

I live in London. Can you tell me where I apparently canâ(TM)t go?

This just seems so short-sighted. You spend a bunch of money familiarising with the code knowing that youâ(TM)ll be forced to do it again after youâ(TM)ve forgotten it. This is an opportunity to eliminate an unnecessary upgrade step. Each step of course will risk new and different regressions. Never mind that people donâ(TM)t find working on old code and tooling very motivational.

Iâ(TM)m not so au fait with the Java world anymore, but in C++ land, there are some serious benefits from using new compilers in terms of code speed and better language features and compiler errors/warning they help you write better code. Every time we upgrade, the compiler finds something in our 25 year old code base that shouldnâ(TM)t have worked!

Our former colonies have all made the metric switch just fine. Canada's a bit confused because the building industry tends to be Imperial (or the US equivalents), but otherwise they're switched fine. As a Briton who emigrated to Canada as an adult and married an Aussie, before returning to the UK, I can attest to the fact that you can adjust. I don't do anything in miles anymore, even though I've been back in the UK almost 20 years. For a while I did low temperatures in celsius (I'd lived in Canada) and high temperatures in Farenheit (I'd live on a RAF base in Cyprus in the early 80s and later in the US in my 20s), but then I lived in Melbourne and experienced high temperatures and metric at the same time. It comes down to experiences.

Pints are defined in mls! Please don't go metric in the Aussie way: their beers are tiny ;)

But Ireland, Malta and Cyprus can continue driving on the on the left? Would the province of Northern Ireland be given a special exemption? Seems fair given that it's already got half a foot in the EU already due to Boris's Brexit deal that sold them out and undermined British sovereignty with a line down through the Irish Sea. Or would you force a switch of sides when crossing the border? That would all seem to undermine the Good Friday Agreement though.

Two decades seems a bit arbritary, maybe even spiteful. Maybe an absolute majority of the electorate rather than just of those who bothered to vote or perhaps a clear margin of 20% or more would be a better measure of suitability to rejoin the EU. Anything less risks reversal a few years later.

I don't think many people supporting rejoining actually realise or support the idea that rejoining won't be on the same terms as before. You're alluding to that in a spiteful and unrealistic way, but your comment is based in reality.

Can I run Homebrew on that? What about Linux, Windows and macOS VMs?

Thatâ(TM)s not true: they have a matte option.

Wrong: macOS can be installed without an email address or phone number.

I think the OP is saying that a better quality UPS will "improve" poor input quality, while a cheaper one will just disconnect.

However, I don't know enough about grid stability to know whether this is reasonable. My guess would be that abrupt disconnect for over-voltage, rather than just draw less current and down convert will tend to increase the grid instability, while an abrupt disconnect for under-voltage would tend to improve grid stability.

I would bet that the engineers at the power company have already thought about all of these things and told management what should be done. It's 50/50 whether management then wrote these requirements into the contracts with these big consumers or whether the big consumers have claimed to be doing whatever is required while actually choosing the cheapest option (which I would assume is abrupt disconnect on over or under voltage and switch to site power)

You might want to read up on how current hybrid vehicles actually work, 'cause it seems you have more than one misconception going on.

I have. For instance, my latest vehicle is the Ford F-159 XLT,, the full-hybrid model of the F-series pickup truck line. Power train is:
  - 6 cylinder dual-turbo engine. (runs low power but approoximately doubles output when a lot is needed.)
  - 47 HP motor-generator "pancake" on the engine side of the ttransmission, to scavenge / return power to./from a 1.5 kWhr lithium battery.
  - 10-speed automatic transmission, working with the lithium battery;s main alternator to fine-tune match the engine/mogen to the current driving situation. Max power of engine plus hybrid mogen; 430 hp.
  - full four wheel drive.

So it's primarily a gas-engine power train with an electric-car motor mechanically coupled to the engine shaft. Many other hybrids, from the venerable prius onward, are similar, with plug-in variants having a big scavaging/peaking battery good for pure electric operation of tens of miles rather than a minute or so and a wall-powered charger added.

What I'm looking for is essentially a pure electric - totally electronic "transmission" consisting of alternator(s) between the batteries and the motor(s), plus a tiny engine-generator able to burn gas and feed some teens of KW of charging power into the batteries when running down the road or parked near it.
 

Do the Waymo batteries use one of the lithium chemistries including cobalt, or a non-cobalt chemistry such as lithium iron phosphate?

Cobalt chemistries have a higher power/weight and energy/weight ratio, which made them the go-to chemistries for vehicle batteries. But they also produce oxygen when the cells overheat, leading to an unextinguishable runaway fire hazard: A burning cell makes enough heat to ignite the adjacent cells, so the whole assembly of them goes. Bad enough when it's a car's worth, but a disaster if it's a shipping-container sized module of a utility energy storage site. (And even worse when the site is a building full of racks, which someone had "protected" from fire with water-spraying, equipment-shorting system, so the whole site burns up, as happened recently with one in California creating a toxic mess.)

That's why purpose-built stationary lithium energy systems use non-cobalt chemistries - heavier, but a shorted cell just kills itself without getting hot enough to light off its neighbors.