By "burn it" I meant turn it into charcoal... Charcoal averages 80% carbon (range 50-95%), whereas depending on the type coal ranges from 60-92% carbon, with the purest type, anthracite, being 86-92% carbon
Given a mass production system would likely result in more uniform carbon content near the top of the range, I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that they could be swapped out pretty easily
I made a mistake from remembering something I read a long time ago and corrected my comment accordingly. I also made it clear that I thought the sentence for the protesters was way too harsh, I just took issue at the words "peaceful protest" when people were injured as a fairly direct result of their actions.
I definitely support JSO over the oil companies and whoever they pay off in government, but I don't think claiming a protest is "peaceful" should be a "get out of jail free card". Call it a justified protest or whatever, but the vast majority of what protesters call "peaceful protest" is actually not peaceful at all, as the actual peaceful protesters aren't having to defend their agressive or unpeaceful actions.
I'm from the UK and ordered a GPU from B&H as they had a sale on and as a result it was a bunch cheaper - there was a some confusion on the billing address (mine doesn't fit nicely in a US format & so got messed up when they tried to store it or something along those lines) but they were great to deal with about it so I'd definitely recommend them also
Yes, but not as exclusively as you might think. There's an increasing number of manually vetted "premium" sites (for better or worse, as it reduces SEO spam while also making it harder for good but niche content to break through) which provide actually good content, as irritated people looking for a sentence in a multipage article aren't going to look kindly on ads, whereas engaged people reading good content will
I mean "[local town] grandma discovers 10 foods you never knew you should avoid" or even downright scams when I say low quality advertising
Also "negative consequences" is a bit overdramatic and I'd love you to elaborate... Really it's down to the person's own opinion, eg you don't like it so you'll reject that sort of thing, meanwhile I don't mind it especially as a way of paying for decent quality media so I'll allow it on some sites but not others
The EU is primarily pro-business, but that also means being against anti-competitive and underhanded business practices
The browser thing sounds like a good solution (although there must be a reason why DNT headers weren't made legally binding, potentially as they wanted to allow people to pick and choose what cookies they allow based on what they thought was "too far" or something but that's conjecture), however disallowing all user data will likely lead to companies not being able to advertise to people who are interested in their products, something which the EU will see as a negative and would also cause an uptick in scams and misinformation as you see in low quality advertising space at the moment
I mean it depends on where... In London the taxis, although expensive and often not the politest to other road users, are nearly universally great service for the customer (and mathematically it very rarely makes sense to run up the meter due to how demand and the fare system works) and also pay the drivers a decent wage as they generally don't have a middleman to pay other than the government for their licence
That said, in the US (specifically New York) my experience was that ubers are generally nicer than taxis, but it's definitely not universal
Nah, it's just a very generic address at a custom domain, so I imagine they just have scripts to email {enquiries, admin, info, help, etc.}@abc.xyz or something
I mean I've used the photo of my passport I've had favourited on my phone whenever my passport number/a scan of my passport has been needed for about the last 10 years, so it's at least an inconvenience to just delete them rather than moving them to documents/files or whatever
It's always in the term after mismanagement that the effects are felt, eg. in the UK how the tories are raising funding sky high for everything, then will inevitably blame Labour for both underspending and making cuts when they get in later this year
Reason 3674 why representative democracy absolutely sucks
The dirty/worn out trains are old, but also ate getting replaced... The circle, district and metropolitan lines have fairly nice trains and the trains on the victoria and jubilee are just fine... The bakerloo having 50 year old worn out trains is a problem well over 13 years old, and the fact that their replacements were organised under tory leadership is directly at odds with what you're saying but I take it you'll give all the credit to the Labour PM when the new trains do arrive?
I'm not in favour of the tories or austerity any more than the next guy, but misrepresentation like this is just gonna make it worse as nobody takes note when they do anything actually good, so they go elsewhere to win votes
Sure, but people have memory and if you block people who aren't even going to contribute to the running costs of the site via the channels they provide, never mind profit, then from the site owners perspective it's pretty great if you recognise it as a site you don't want to visit as you likely won't come back