• Silly News Story #2

    From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to All on Thu Jul 29 12:43:12 2021
    [ I laughed when I first read this story. -- Sean]

    From: https://tinyurl.com/ts2rrnr4 (nationalfile.com)

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    GREEN NEW DEAL: Dell Stops Shipping High-End PCs To California, Blue States
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    Ban Energy-Inefficient Computers

    California will begin restricting "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks, notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" in December

    by Gabriel Keane
    July 26, 2021

    Computer manufacturer Dell will no longer be shipping high-end Alienware
    gaming PCS to liberal-controlled states such as California, Colorado,
    Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to new restrictions on "energy
    efficiency" implemented in July 2021. California will begin banning
    "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks,
    notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" in
    December.

    Prospective buyers perusing the selection of Dell PCs on the Alienware
    website were greeted with the following [56]stipulation attached to
    higher-end listings: "This product cannot be shipped to the states of
    California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont or Washington due to power
    consumption regulations adopted by those states. Any orders placed that
    are bound for those states will be canceled."

    Sorry, gamers.

    Your government screwed you. [58]pic.twitter.com/f2iFz8uqBD

    - Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) [59]July 26, 2021

    Shortly after news of the situation broke on Monday, Dell [60]told British
    tech website The Register that "Yes, this was driven by the California
    Energy Commission (CEC) Tier 2 implementation that defined a mandatory
    energy efficiency standard for PCs - including desktops, AIOs and mobile
    gaming systems. This was put into effect on July 1, 2021. Select
    configurations of the Alienware Aurora R10 and R12 were the only impacted
    systems across Dell and Alienware."

    California first approved restrictions on computers which do not meet
    liberal standards of energy efficiency in 2016, claiming that such
    mandates would "save more than 2.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a
    year - equivalent to annual electricity use by all the homes in San
    Francisco - and avoid 730,000 tons a year of climate-disrupting carbon
    pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants."

    The first set, or Tier 1, of requirements took effect in January 2019.
    Tier 2, which took effect in July 2021, extends the mandate to desktop
    computers and mobile gaming systems and devices. On December 9 of this
    year, the Tier 3 restrictions will take effect, cracking down on
    "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks,
    notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates."
    Other blue states, including those listed by Dell on its website, have
    followed California's lead.

    56. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/gaming-and-games/alienware-aurora-r12-gaming-desktop/spd/alienware-aurora-r12-desktop

    57. https://www.doyoucovfefe.com/?utm_source=nationalfile&utm_medium=sitebanner&utm_campaign=nationalfile

    58. https://t.co/f2iFz8uqBD

    59. https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1419662284893347840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

    60. https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/26/dell_energy_pcs/
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  • From Mike Powell@618:250/1 to SEAN DENNIS on Sat Jul 31 14:58:00 2021
    California will begin restricting "computers with high-speed networking capability, multi-screen notebooks, notebooks with cyclical behavior, and monitors with high refresh rates" in December

    I once predicted that lefties would throw fits once they realized that
    green initiatives might mean giving up their high speed internet that they
    use for social networking and gaming. My prediction was in response to
    someone that claimed that solar power could be the primary source of power
    for our country. Ooops! :)

    Mike


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  • From Sean Dennis@618:618/10 to Mike Powell on Sat Jul 31 16:46:00 2021
    Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

    I once predicted that lefties would throw fits once they realized that green initiatives might mean giving up their high speed internet that
    they use for social networking and gaming. My prediction was in
    response to someone that claimed that solar power could be the primary source of power for our country. Ooops! :)

    They don't like suffering the consequences of their own actions.

    -- Sean


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