8h ago
@Rib this may be apocryphal, but I remember hearing the backing track for it was also used without paying the creator royalties Nischay@thatloststudent@infosec.exchange
2h ago
@bootblackcub@woof.group @Rib
It's not apocryphal, it actually happened: https://torrentfreak.com/rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-artist-for-anti-piracy-ad-120717/
That's kind of impressive, actually.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand, on a cell phone on a boat in the middle of nowhere with no congestion in the airwaves, it's probably by far the most practical.
because the real water savings never came from stupid showers:
Another factor is that your shower water is very probably
unless you have some sort of gray-water irrigation system going on or something
heading to a sewage treatment plant, and if we wanted to do so, we can purify the water there, make that closed loop and feed back into the water supply, recover basically all the water from treatment.
The UK does it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/29/uk-drink-sewage-water-squeamish-wastewater-recycle/
California and some other states are doing it:
California has been using recycled wastewater for decades. The Ontario Reign minor league hockey team has used it to make ice for its rink in Southern California. Soda Springs Ski Resort near Lake Tahoe has used it to make snow. And farmers in the Central Valley, where much of the nation’s vegetables, fruits and nuts are grown, use it to water their crops.
But it hasn’t been used directly for drinking water. Orange County operates a large water purification system that recycles wastewater and then uses it to refill underground aquifers. The water mingles with the groundwater for months before being pumped up and used for drinking water again.
California’s new rules would let — but not require — water agencies to take wastewater, treat it, and then put it right back into the drinking water system. California would be just the second state to allow this, following Colorado.
The new rules require the wastewater be treated for all pathogens and viruses, even if the pathogens and viruses aren’t in the wastewater. That’s different from regular water treatment rules, which only require treatment for known pathogens, said Darrin Polhemus, deputy director of the division of drinking water for the California Water Resources Control Board.
In fact, the treatment is so stringent it removes all of the minerals that make fresh drinking water taste good — meaning they have to be added back at the end of the process.
“It’s at the same drinking water quality, and probably better in many instances,” Polhemus said.
Plus, in California and a lot of other places, we can (and do) desalinate water.
https://www.sdcwa.org/your-water/local-water-supplies/seawater-desalination/
In November 2012, the Water Authority approved a 30-year Water Purchase Agreement with Poseidon Water for the purchase of up to 56,000 acre-feet of desalinated seawater per year, approximately 10 percent of the San Diego region’s water demand.
It costs more than pulling from a river, and that's economically-difficult for agriculture...but it's just not prohibitive for residential use, and there's a whole ocean of water out there.
https://www.sdcwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/desal-carlsbad-fs.pdf
Based on current electricity cost estimates, the Water Purchase Agreement sets the price of water at about $3,400/ acre-feet for fiscal year 2024.
An acre-foot of water will, depending upon where in the country you are
usage levels vary by area
supply about one to four households for a year at average usage. And that price is in California; electricity is a major input to desalination, and California has some of the highest electricity prices in the US, generally second only to Hawaii and something like double most of the country. It'll be significantly cheaper to desalinate water in most other places.
I'm fine with putting more insulation on refrigerators, but low-flow showerheads are a serious disappointment in showering experience. I want to be hammered by that water, not misted.
They probably didn't, seeing as aside from Miller, they're figures from past administrations.
But seriously, how does Linux save you money on laptop tariffs?
An issue for a number of people is that Windows 10 is EOLing this year, and Windows 11 doesn't support hardware without TPM 2.0 support, which a fair bit of in-use hardware doesn't have (Kaby Lake and earlier).
It's also quite unusual in that, as typically acronyms with four-or-more letters are spoken as a word.
Pebbles aren't a real unit, but 1 stone is equal to 3584 drams.
I suppose that if surgery is in the picture, it alters a lot of what's realistically-achievable in many ways.
That being said, China also has something of a more-males gender imbalance due to a significant degree of infanticide of females, so you'd think that the pickings would be pretty good for surviving women in China compared to in most countries. I'd expect that you'd see the guys being more likely to go to extreme ends than the girls.
Okay, the part where they show her detaching her bionic hand from her bionic arm and then communicating it with it wirelessly to do things some distance away is pretty neat. I mean, there has been telerobotics for stuff like remote surgery, but she's just naturally using it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Wouldn%27t_Steal_a_Car
And the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm8vNHBSU