It is official; Netcraft now confirms: Earth is dying

That does not match with what I am reading when I search online. But I have no firsthand experience and IANAL.

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It is entirely possible that the debt Kodak will be paying back with the pension funds is owned by, you guessed it, another pension fund.

It is not so easy to say which debt obligation should be satisfied first. When a debtor is unable to pay back all it owes, there will always be hard choices.

If they don't raid the pension fund, they may end up in bankruptcy court, and it may be that the judge would order them to raid the pension fund. I am no expert in bankruptcy proceedings. So this is pure speculation. But I do know that corporate bonds are often secured by collateral. The idea that Kodak would be able to default on external debt and keep its pensioners whole may simply be a fantasy.

I went to see it. Against my better judgement, because it got decent reviews. Don't be taken in. This is an eminently forgettable movie. You would be much better off not going to see it. It is not even worth streaming. Maybe if you find yourself on a long flight with nothing else to do. If you doze off, don't worry. You didn't miss anything.

I can't say whether Superman is any better because I didn't see it. I may go see it with the family if they are interested. Otherwise I will wait until I can stream it on one of the platforms I pay for. Or maybe I will never watch it. Not sure.

The electrolyte is reportedly non-flammable. If this really works it will completely change the game as far as lithium battery fires go.

This is like every company's wet dream. Have some piece of tech that tells them the maximum amount a person will pay for whatever they are selling, and zero transparency and zero price discovery. Hopefully the FTC will not allow this to happen. Not holding my breath.

You mean solar plus batteries, right? You can't do a cost comparison between pure solar (without storage) and fossil fuels. Since pure solar can't produce power when the sun is not shining. The batteries drive up the cost quite a bit.

Reports depicting the grueling work conditions in Amazon warehouses, especially during seasonal sales, have continually dogged Amazon. Workers report long hours, timed bathroom breaks, surveillance of work productivity/speed, intense isolation from others, physically demanding quotas, and other difficult conditions to work under. These working conditions take a physical and mental toll on the workers, who are often treated more as a data set or a robot than as humans. Amazon’s troubling labor abuses aren’t limited to their warehouses either. Amazon’s corporate offices have their share of toxic workplace cultures too. A 2015 expose on Amazon’s offices described an office that prioritized productivity and efficacy over all else, pushing their employees to physical, mental, and emotional limits. One employee was sent on a business trip the day after a miscarriage; another was put on a “performance improvement plan” while struggling with breast cancer. Employees shared experiences such has having their personal and working lives monitored, demanding work schedules, and a competitive workplace culture where employees were encouraged to sacrifice themselves – and their coworkers – in order to advance.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Ad free is 2.99 per month. As long as there is an ad-free tier and it is not too terribly expensive, I don't really care if Amazon uses ads on their "Included with Prime" tier. When I first subscribed to Amazon Prime they didn't even have a streaming business. So I still kind of feel like the Included With Prime streaming is "free" in some sense.

What irritates me is Freevee. Last time I checked, even though Freevee is an Amazon streaming service, there is no way to use it ad free. So far I have not watched anything on Freevee for that reason.

Do you draw any distinction between bitcoin and other crypto?

In California, if you have PG&E, in the summer, from 4pm to 9pm, energy is (depending on rate plan) around 60 cents per kwh. So I recommend that you turn off your AC by 4pm unless your own home solar or batteries can cover it.

I live in California. On our rate plan (the only one available for those who have solar) the peak rate in the summer, in effect from 4pm to 9pm, is 61 cents per kWh. The lowest rate is 35 cents per kWh for winter off-peak.

Reply and let me know what the peak rate is where you live so we can compare.

My house has solar and are looking into batteries so we can avoid using utility power from 4-9pm. Until recently we had net metering which was great. But I guess that agreement expired and now net metering is not available to us.

You are right except, since the tax credit is still available through this calendar year, you can be sure there will be a flurry of activity between now and end of year. This should be a banner year for solar suppliers (which includes not just the panels, but the racks, batteries, inverters, optimizers, etc., etc).

These are not image forming. The contacts just emit visible light when they are subjected to IR.

Subjects were able to perceive the direction of an IR light source while wearing the contacts. Which I figured must be the case. They would have to get the light to form a focused image on the retina for it to be an image forming system. Considering that the nanoparticles are getting lit up and are re-radiating in random directions, there is no way it would form an image.

The problem is that google search now sucks. I guess that is probably specifically because they have become a search monopoly, so that just cram more and more commercial material into the results.

Either that or they are simply losing the battle against search engine optimizes.

SEO is the new spam. Who cares what the user types into the search box. Let's just make sure our results pop up prominently.

Duck Duck Go search also sucks for the same reasons.