From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,can.politics,alt.politics
Subject: Re: "Green" Solar Panels
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 21:34:13 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 13:55:51 -0700, Alan wrote:
> On 2024-10-01 01:40, R Kym Horsell wrote:
>> In alt.global-warming Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:19:24 -0500, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>> Nebraska, USA: Within minutes, a single hailstorm reduced 14,000 solar
>>>> panels, worth millions of dollars, into a pile of toxic debris-leaching
>>>> materials like cadmium and lead into the soil.
>>> Lotta folks don't get how fragile hi-tech shit is.
>>> Dhu
>>
>>
>> Long gone are the days of servicing your own vehicle.
>> Apart from oiling some bearings you can't and sometimes are
>> prohibited by law from fixing your own car.
>> I was helping a neighbor recently and it turned out you
>> needed to break an old mil grade encryption to even ask it here it hurt.
>>
>
> What kind of car was that?
>
> All cars built for sale in North America have had a standard OBD-II port
> that can be read by various scanners costing anywhere from $20...
> ...to a lot more depending on complexity.
>
> So what was that "mil grade encryption", hmmm?
You've not looked at automobile firmware, EVER, have you?
Just think of a bit of high-speed gravel in your cooling
system, OK?
Dhu
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