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An F-35 costs a minimum of $165 million, so that $50 mil is less than 1/3.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

According to this article, Equifax says the three execs did not know about the breach before they arranged the sale.

Insider trading is legal. Trading on insider information is not. Company officers like these three execs are required to announce their sales of shares well in advance. Normally, this is no big deal -- it's like cashing their paycheck. However, if they did in fact know about the breach when they arranged the sale, then they're looking at jail time.

The network we built to survive nuclear war has been weaponized against us and DARPA is giving out grants now to study how its child turned into a killer.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Russia is trying to incite civil war and very few people see how. Their end game is not a glorious Trump presidency but a demoralized and ineffectual United States that no longer intrudes in their sphere of influence.

We're a nation of useful idiots now. Our partisan hatred makes us more willing believers in the alleged atrocities of our enemies. Credulity is vulnerability. Patriotism now requires skepticism of atrocities by political opponents and criticism of real misbehavior by our allies that feeds weaponized narratives.

Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Revealed https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

On one hand even though "[n]one of the filings lists the transactions as being part of 10b5-1 scheduled trading plans", the three only “sold a small percentage of their Equifax shares”; they still took a bath on the remainder.

On the other hand, because the executives involved were the CFO, president of U.S. information solutions, and president of workforce solutions, this looks suspect. You would think the president of U.S. information solutions would have been informed of the breach immediately.

On one hand even though "[n]one of the filings lists the transactions as being part of 10b5-1 scheduled trading plans", the three only “sold a small percentage of their Equifax shares”; they still took a bath on the remainder.

On the other hand, because the executives involved were the CFO, president of U.S. information solutions, and president of workforce solutions, this looks suspect. You would think the president of U.S. information solutions would have been informed of the breach immediately.

They hold too much power and should be held liable for all damages. A CC reissue does is not enough.

Before the breach went public, three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

"Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers." https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

If you think EU fines have dubious beneficiaries (not unjustifiably so), consider that due to the existence of punitive damages in the US, the US fines far more heavily overall. E.g. banks have been fined 321 billion (!) dollars; mostly by the US due to the financial shenanigans in the crash (see e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...). Similarly, VW is likely to pay a lot more in fines than a US firm would in the EU. (Not that it's weird for VW to be fined so heavily, it's just that the law isn't symmetric).

Frankly, I think the EU fines are absurdly low, especially fines such as this which undermine the whole point of capitalism in the first place. Firms have grown absurdly large, causing competition to cease in significant portions of the economy - particularly in large homogeneous markets such as the US. And as you might expect, such firms engage in rent-seeking behavior: their profits soar, while customers stagnate (again, as economics 101 dictates).

I do agree that it's problematic that there is this perverse incentive for a prosecutor to "capture" as many spoils of war as they can (on a somewhat related note, WTF asset forfeiture). Part of the problem here is the voting public - the very sentiment you're now feeling; where you're probably quietly relieved that VW is fined a lot in the US (hey, it's foreign!) but indignant that intel is elsewhere. You'd want that to be fixed, but how? There is at least some solace in that anticompetitie behavior is much, much more harmful to the US than a relatively piddling fine. Just be happy that the far more questionably fair punitive damages haven't (yet) arrived in the EU; even if the concept is fair, the distribution of "loot" surely is not.

Solar is only cheap if it is connected, and that means there's some centralized utility. If you take solar off the grid then you need storage, and that costs money.

Careful or facts might get in the way. It's called economies of scale and it's helped us before.

Wouldn't an idiot with a rifle be even more successful in attacking solar panels than a coal, nuclear, or natural gas power plant?

The point is the reduce amount of damage that can be done by one person. With shingles they could use a shitload of ammo to destroy the power system for one house but they can't do that to millions of houses. Even if one guy shot a bunch of solar panels, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel.

I mean we can (and do) put a nuclear power plant in a big concrete dome to protect it from attack but we can't do that to solar panels. What of a hail storm?

Oh those pesky facts are at it again!

Without a tie to the grid then how are these people supposed to get power until the solar panels are repaired? I know the answer, on site diesel generators, kind of like how we deal with grid outages now.

With solar shingles, you would have to take them all out to reduce power generation to zero. If someone shoots three-fourths of them, you just don't use high power high-power things until you can get replacement shingles. With panels, again, you can just go to wal-mart and buy a new panel. This isn't rocket science.

I'm sure that there's a lot of things we could do to secure our electrical supply. I'm also sure that solar power isn't one of those things.

You're also an idiot who ignores inconvenient facts, so nobody should take your word for it.

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

You are so right. When revealing personal information, do it yourself.

Doing so would entail substantial financial risk for the Trump business conglomerate:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-02/ivanka-trump-s-china-sewn-line-turns-profit-at-a-political-cost

http://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-clothing-line-made-in-china-hong-kong-2017-2

The best selling electric car is the Nissan Leaf. You haven't looked very hard, because the rest of us have seen a company other than Tesla deliver a production vehicle that people really want to drive. The Leaf.

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No wonder another Indonesian bank BRI bought their owned satellite. This lousy Telkom must be a really shitty telecom.

Facts say you are wrong.

Toyota Puts Fuel-Cell Semi Truck to Test at Los Angeles Port April 19, 2017 https://www.bloomberg.com/news... The newest heavy-duty truck set to operate at the Port of Los Angeles emits an unusual byproduct that California could certainly use more of: water. Toyota Motor Corp.’s hydrogen fuel-cell truck, which will emit nothing but vapor, will begin a feasibility study at the port this summer. The Japanese automaker unveiled the concept Wednesday and will start testing it in short-distance fleets that run back and forth between the city’s docks and nearby warehouses operated by retailing giants. Swapping internal-combustion engines for fuel-cell stacks will support Governor Jerry Brown’s efforts to cut emissions from freight movement in California. The ports of Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland handle 40 percent of U.S. container traffic, with commercial shipments generating half of California’s toxic diesel-soot emissions and 45 percent of the nitrogen oxide that plagues L.A. with the nation’s worst smog.

Oh, look, the "if you oppose nuclear you must love coal" canard. It was an annoying false dichotomy before wind and solar became cost competitive with coal, and that was allowing coal to externalize most of its costs. Now it's just dumb.

Until the age of 26, I was employed as a technology consultant by a small firm that served the financial industry. I built servers and workstations, mostly for banks, and in a happy foreshadowing of my future writing for Bloomberg View, I installed some of the first PC-based Bloomberg terminals for a Japanese firm’s office in New York.

Finance back then was heavily male, as it is now. And technology, the same. At the intersection of the two well, I can count on one hand all the women I worked with directly during almost four years of consulting.

It was very male-centric. I heard about client outings, involving strippers, to which I was obviously not invited. And the sexual harassment (entirely from clients, not colleagues), could be spectacular.

Which has nothing to do with why I left. This will make me sound a bit dim, but at the time, it never occurred to me that being a female in this bro ecosystem might impinge my ultimate career prospects. Nor did I miss having women in the room. I liked working with the bros just fine. And the sexual harassment, while annoying, was just that: annoying. I cannot recall that it ever affected my work, nor that I lost any sleep over it.

No, the reason I left is that I came into work one Monday morning and joined the guys at our work table, and one of them said “What did you do this weekend?” I was in the throes of a brief, doomed romance. I had attended a concert that Saturday night. I answered the question with an account of both. The guys stared blankly. Then silence. Then one of them said: “I built a fiber-channel network in my basement,” and our co-workers fell all over themselves asking him to describe every step in loving detail.

At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job as the guys around me.

Probably rolling out continuous monitoring equipment as we speak to embassies around the world

You might have to wait on that one, for an administration which isn't actively trying to dismantle the Department of State.

Denialist points.

1. No point in U.S.A. aiming for sustainability if (insert 3rd world country) isn't doing their part. - Check
2. It's just a wealth transfer. - Check
3. Renewables aren't reliable and consistent. - Check

There is no perfect solution. Saying something is worthless because it's not perfect is just a stalling tactic. There will never be an enforceable, global contract. The Paris accord was a success in getting every nation to recognize the problem and work towards solutions. It was a really good step in the right direction. Nobody claimed it was "gospel" except you. "sent trillions of dollars from the US to anyone who wanted a free bucket of money" Source please. - I call B.S. on that statement.

Your comment that China is "simply not good at keeping promises. They are good at deception, expansion, and colonization" reeks of the type of isolationism rhetoric that's infected the airwaves lately, and it's got little to do with addressing AGW. I'm not defending China and their government, but I take issue with your statement. The truth is that China has exploded over the last 20 years and is still developing rapidly. They've experienced many growing pains including terrible pollution. That pollution has caused them to prioritize clean energy. It's no coincidence they are the lead solar panel manufacturer. They're also a leader in renewable installations and battery powered vehicles. "China added 35 gigawatts of new solar generation in 2016 alone. “That’s almost equal to Germany’s total capacity, just in one year" http://news.nationalgeographic...

"Simply dumping non-renewable sources means that millions suffer and die because we lose necessary power for hospitals, refrigeration, air conditioning"

Pure Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. You forgot to mention the children. Nobody is calling to just suddenly shut off all the coal power plants. Anyway, it doesn't matter what you think. The economics of renewables have already overtaken coal. "... solar already rivals the cost of new coal power plants in Germany and the U.S. and by 2021 will do so in quick-growing markets such as China and India." https://www.bloomberg.com/news... My relatives in Mississippi, yes Mississippi, have an offer on a nice chunk of land for the power company to install solar panels. Time to wake up.

"And lets face facts: We will always have some dependency on non-renewable sources of energy. Renewable sources are not consistent, and dead batteries are very bad for the environment."

No. That's not a fact. Not consistent? The sun shines. Water runs. Wind blows. The earth holds heat. Not all the time in every place, but in combination with smart distribution and storage it's very much possible. It's sad the pessimistic view you have on the potential of the human race. The "dead battery" thing is such a red herring. Though no product has 0 impact, common lithium-ion batteries are relatively benign, recyclable, and have lifetimes greater than 10 years. Tesla's lead researcher, Jeff Dahn, one of the world's leading and most respected battery researchers claimed they've doubled the lifetime of batteries. https://electrek.co/2017/05/09... So we have 10 year batteries in service and 20 year batteries on the way - all of which can be recycled. And that's not even looking at Vanadium-Redox, salt water batteries, and lithium-iron-phosphate batteries and so on.

But at Google the gender gap in tech roles is 80-20, according to their own self-reporting. There's something more systemic going on than the subtle psychological differences between men and women.

Perhaps. This woman argues that the differences...

Hmm. I just noticed that I inadvertently pasted the wrong link there. The correct one is: https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

But at Google the gender gap in tech roles is 80-20, according to their own self-reporting. There's something more systemic going on than the subtle psychological differences between men and women.

Perhaps. This woman argues that the differences...

Hmm. I just noticed that I inadvertently pasted the wrong link there. The correct one is: https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

Actually, it seems that the means/variances are indeed extremely different.

What are you measuring? Your examples are not measuring difference in ability, they're measuring counts of people at the tail of some unknown composite distribution. And when you look at the tails of similar normal curves, you find large ratios in the number of people at the same position on the two curves, even though the means and variances are quite close together.

In addition, I think you also have to consider feedback effects. This woman points out that although she was competent in her field she left IT because she eventually realized that she just wasn't like her all-male cohort of colleagues and she didn't like not having more like-minded women around to talk to. Thus, a biological basis for a difference in ability or interest that leads to a, say 65/35 "natural" split may produce a sufficiently lopsided environment that all but the most hardcore female engineers are driven out by the "free-floating testosterone" (her words). So, kernel developers being only 0.8% women may be less because capable and interested women are really *that* rare than because in the completely uncontrolled world of kernel development (there is no HR!) the "boys' club" effect becomes so powerful that few women can stomach it. Indeed, even for men, LKML is known as a place not for the faint-hearted or thin-skinned.

When you factor that in, you should probably assume that if Google has an 80/20 split, the "natural" ratio is actually somewhat less lopsided than that, which argues that the ability/interest means and variances are small.

Google having over 20% female engineers compared to only 0.8% top kernel contributors being female suggests the bias is way above any plausible diversity boost.

I strongly disagree. When you factor in both the boost provided by the fact that we're talking about the extreme end of the curve, and the potential feedback effects, I think the core bias is actually very small -- and that view is supported by the science. Studies do find differences in various characteristics, but they are not large, generally only on the order of 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations on the mean, and the advantage is not universally male. Variance measurements are harder to make, but those are also typically not that large (though larger variances are almost exclusively on the male side).

This is actively harmful to women who are genuinely skilled -- they are to be likely to be disregarded by their peers as "affirmative action hires".

Here I fully and completely agree. Affirmative action approaches that significantly lower the bar, especially below where the business needs it to be placed, harm everyone. But in the case of Google, that doesn't happen, and it doesn't need to happen. Even Damore's document admitted that Googles "lowering of the bar" consisted only in actions taken to reduce the false negative rate (competent people rejected). Instead, Google focuses on working harder to find women and minorities, and may occasionally give a diversity candidate a second shot at the interview process (though without telling either the interviewers or the hiring committee who evaluates their feedback) where a white male who had a bad day on his interview day is just out of luck.

Another thing that can be done is to apply affirmative action to retention. Companies can work harder to retain the competent non-majority employees, by paying them more, for example. Further, I think this sort of action is completely and totally justifiable with hard, cold business logic. If there is a significant diversity boost, then your non-majority employees are actually more valuable to the company than their equally-skilled majority peers, because while both sets may be equal as individual contributors, the

The US has just had 8 years of "green jobs" which turned out to be BS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news... AGW mitigation work is the same as bureaucracy, not only does it waste the life energy of the worker trying to solve the wrong problem, it places an unnecessary burden on the rest of us.

We already have clean air and clean water, and those were as you say valuable improvements, but that is not the topic at hand. Trying to mitigate CO2 in the atmosphere is like removing Nitrogen from the atmosphere, there is no benefit because there is no problem. CO2 levels measured scientifically pre-industrial revolution are the same as today: http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-...

The expected sea level rise is somewhere between 6 inches and 2 feet IF warming continues. The wildest projections have it at 6 feet. That is not millions of people displaced. In the modern world, we will just build seawalls, in the third world, people will just move, as this change is not like a tidal wave, it is gradual. There is a lot of evidence that sea levels have been rising for millennia: http://thechive.com/2016/11/03... Those people didn't have gills, they built on dry land and as the sea levels rose, they moved and the stuff they didn't take went under, that's just historical fact and a part of our world.

But at Google the gender gap in tech roles is 80-20, according to their own self-reporting. There's something more systemic going on than the subtle psychological differences between men and women.

Perhaps. This woman argues that the differences are self-exaggerating, that fields which fewer women are interested in pursuing tend to be male-dominated, which makes them even less attractive to women, which makes them more male-dominated, in a cycle which leads ultimately to a situation where only the women most devoted to the field stay in it.

Read the article, it's well-written and insightful.

This accords as well with the experience of Scandinavian countries who have bent over backwards to ensure not just absolute equality of opportunity, but that everyone has the opportunity to pursue whatever course of education they like and have the talent for. And what they've seen is that rather than fields which are historically dominated by one gender or another equalizing, the ratio has become even more extreme. In Norway, for example, engineering fields tend not to be 50/50, or even 80/20, but 90/10. It appears that when you free people to pursue their own interests, the gender gap increases.

An interesting exploration of this issue in Norway is presented in https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

The abundant test drive reviews disagree with you.

Motor Trend - Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend

Top Gear- Tesla Model 3 review: first drive of Elon Musk's affordable EV

The Verge - A closer look at Tesla Model 3's spartan interior

The Verge - Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised

Bloomberg - Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range

Bloomberg[/COLOR] - Driving Tesla’s Model 3 Changes Everything

Car and Driver - 2018 Tesla Model 3: Everything We Know | Feature | Car and Driver

CNET - Tesla Model 3 is well worth the hype

Car Advice - Tesla Model 3 quick drive review | CarAdvice

Fortune - Here’s What Reviewers Think About Tesla’s Model 3 So Far

Ars Technica - All the things the Internet hates about the Tesla Model 3 have me excited

Mashable - Driving a Tesla Model 3 is pretty damn awesome

TechCrunch - Your smartphone is the key for the Tesla Model 3

But hey, feel free to live in your own little world and deny reality to your heart's content.

I'm expecting that the author will be hounded out of his job by the end of next week

You are an optimist, I see.

"We can accept many transgressions, but we cannot accept thoughtcrime. It is the most dangerous to our authority."

And he's terminated as of now.

It is a business though. However, if they want out of the box thinkers... I dunno.

Seattle Misery: Together with Microsoft and bad city management, Seattle is a miserable place:

Traffic: Seattle one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic congestion, tied with NYC (March 31, 2015) Quote: "An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic may not sound like much, but when it adds up over a year it becomes 89 hours." (Whoever wrote that must be accustomed to Seattle misery. An additional 23 minutes a day spent in traffic sounds HORRIBLE.)

Slow internet: Many areas of Seattle have poor internet connections. See the article, These places have the slowest Internet in the country. (June 25, 2015) Quote: "... Seattle ... CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds."

Amazon: Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (February 23, 2014)

Amazon: Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (August 15, 2015) Quote: "The company is conducting an experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers..."

Amazon: Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Microsoft: Microsoft Is Filled With Abusive Managers And Overworked Employees, Says Tell-All Book (May 23, 2012)

Well what do you know?
I still haven't run out of copy/paste NOR has the reality abruptly changed to fit delusions of pathetic creatures who can't face facts.
How's them mod points working for ya, snowflake? Still downmodding facts and arguments you can't accept?
Aaaaw...

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Well what do you know?
I still haven't run out of copy/paste NOR has the reality abruptly changed to fit delusions of pathetic creatures who can't face facts.
How's them mod points working for ya, snowflake? Still downmodding facts and arguments you can't accept?
Aaaaw...

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Poor snowflake can't face reality.
Snowflake want rubber ball? Squeezed between its ties it might feel like a testicle? Maybe?
Maybe then snowflake can face reality instead of being a pathetic loser who can't accept factuality of arguments, forced to throw mod-tantrums instead?
Like a retarded baby with diarrhea. Only more retarded.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

The best part of all this is - facts still remain facts.
I.e. My downmodders are proving themselves to be SUCH pathetic cognitively dissonant losers with each downmode it's so HI-LAR-I-OUS it's almost tragic.
Like watching a brat writhing on the floor, kicking and screaming "IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT!".
And then you say "Oh yes it is." And kick it in the face.

Poor snowflake can't face reality.
Snowflake want rubber ball? Squeezed between its ties it might feel like a testicle? Maybe?
Maybe then snowflake can face reality instead of being a pathetic loser who can't accept factuality of arguments, forced to throw mod-tantrums instead?
Like a retarded baby with diarrhea. Only more retarded.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

The best part of all this is - facts still remain facts.
I.e. My downmodders are proving themselves to be SUCH pathetic cognitively dissonant losers with each downmode it's so HI-LAR-I-OUS it's almost tragic.
Like watching a brat writhing on the floor, kicking and screaming "IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT! IT'S NOT!".
And then you say "Oh yes it is." And kick it in the face.

You snowflakes realize you're more likely to run out of mod points while trying to bury facts than I am to run out of copy/paste?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

You snowflakes realize you're more likely to run out of mod points while trying to bury facts than I am to run out of copy/paste?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Aaaaw... someone don't likey facty-facty? Boo-hoo... Poor snowflake. Don't you know that global warming is bad for you?
Too bad copy/paste is my ally.

Anyways... as I was saying above to that CUNT who's accusing people promoting renewables of genocide...

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

Those hundreds of thousands you mention have NO energy, if by energy you mean electricity.
Nor the means to get it. There is no electric grid in most those places. Nor will there be as long as there's money in stealing copper cables.

And guess what?
Those "douche bag westerns preaching about global warming" are actually a part of the solution.
Cause all that preaching is the reason why western governments have pumped in billions of dollars into renewable energy (and continue to do so), increasing production and lowering prices of solar and wind power (particularly solar) - thus creating conditions for all those hundreds of thousands you clearly care sooooo much for to get electricity for the first time.
Electricity from renewable sources, that is.
Which is not only cleaner now, thanks in part to those "western douche bags", it is also cheaper than the same electricity from coal.

Which kinda makes you a part of the problem, doesn't it?
So... how does it feel to be "actively killing real people right now"? Does it get your limp dick hard enough to see it?
Without a microscope?

As an "open minded engineer" you should read these reports.
https://www.ing.com/Newsroom/A...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.iea.org/publicatio...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
http://inhabitat.com/stanford-...

I am already rich and have no need to take your money so I will not accept your bet.
You, OTOH, might find cause to divest from oil and fossil cars after reading these reports. It might save you some money.

As an "open minded engineer" you should read these reports.
https://www.ing.com/Newsroom/A...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.iea.org/publicatio...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
http://inhabitat.com/stanford-...

I am already rich and have no need to take your money so I will not accept your bet.
You, OTOH, might find cause to divest from oil and fossil cars after reading these reports. It might save you some money.

As an "open minded engineer" you should read these reports.
https://www.ing.com/Newsroom/A...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.iea.org/publicatio...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
http://inhabitat.com/stanford-...

I am already rich and have no need to take your money so I will not accept your bet.
You, OTOH, might find cause to divest from oil and fossil cars after reading these reports. It might save you some money.

There are many, many other defects in Amazon management. Every web page, for example, tries to sell you something else before giving full information about a product.

Playing games with prices is EXTREMELY self-destructive. People buy much more from companies they know they can trust. When a company can't be trusted, customers must spend time thinking carefully about every item before buying.

Amazon abuses employees, according to news reports:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (Aug. 15, 2015)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, owns a spaceflight company, Blue Origin. Would you fly into space with a company whose owner makes abusive web pages?

Given the rampant ageism in tech nowadays, you'd better have an exit plan. And so should all these new entrants into the field. More and more, tech jobs should be seen as just stepping stones, not a career in its own right. This was predicted 5 years ago, and people lost their shit over it. "Never going to happen!"

The downside? Well, say you interview as a graduating college senior at Facebook Inc. You may find, to your initial delight, that the place looks just like a fun-loving dorm -- and the adults seem to be missing. But that is a sign of how the profession has devolved in recent years to one lacking in longevity. Many programmers find that their employability starts to decline at about age 35.

Gone by 40

Employers dismiss them as either lacking in up-to-date technical skills -- such as the latest programming-language fad -- or “not suitable for entry level.” In other words, either underqualified or overqualified. That doesn’t leave much, does it? Statistics show that most software developers are out of the field by age 40.

Government data show that H-1B software engineers tend to be much younger than their American counterparts. Basically, when the employers run out of young Americans to hire, they turn to the young H-1Bs, bypassing the older Americans.

And then there's the widespread discrimination based on sex and ethnicity. Plus having a pool of talent twice as large means you can dispose of them twice as fast, and it's going to put tremendous downward pressure on wages and working conditions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view...

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-196...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Currency fluctuation is common across all countries. The euro declined from a recent high of around 0.71 euro per U.S. dollar in April 2014 to near-parity at the end of 2016 before bouncing back slightly to around 0.91 euro per U.S. dollar in May 2017. For most of 2014, one U.S. dollar bought about 102 yen, but that number began to rise late in the year, reaching a peak of 124 yen per U.S. dollar in mid-2015 before falling back to 100 yen per dollar in late 2016. As of May 2017, one U.S. dollar bought about 113 yen. The U.S. dollar has also fluctuated against the Australian dollar, the Brazilian real, the Canadian dollar, the Indian rupee, the Mexican peso, the Thai baht, and many other currencies.

And it just gets more laughable from there. China's industrilazation rate is 100% and too high is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Oops, you're just making shit up again.
It's never been more than 90% and has been dropping for a decade, currently in the low 70's %
https://www.bloomberg.com/prof...

Meanwhile Masa allegedly soliciting off loading some of its Sprint. Perhaps they can swap some Sprint for Uber;) https://www.bloomberg.com/news...

Actually, you are mistaken. The data that you used from your quick google search was from 2015. In 2016 and most of 2017, it changed. http://marketrealist.com/2015/...

What are you talking about? I quoted no data. And I'm not wrong. Rig counts have been climbing for weeks (I think only recently did they break the climbing streak): http://www.businessinsider.com...

In any case, anything that you said does not discount what I said, in fact agrees with it. Near $50 a barrel, probably 60-70 now would be a fair market value.

I still think $60-$70 is out of the question with the new market. Permian break-even occurs around $40 and is profitable even below $50: http://oilprice.com/Energy/Cru... And that assumes no further advancements in efficiency. The Permian production price was $98 in 2013. It was $38 in 2016. Newer fields are going as low as $20 profitability: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... We are not going to see $70 oil again. $60 is a longshot possibility, but unlikely.

The Cartel is by no means broken, and as the supply price is driven down and competing tech is made enviable, you will see the price rise again.

It's completely broken. OPEC tried to freeze production to boost prices and it didn't do anything. The US producers just filled the gap. The US is profitable at $50 oil. OPEC is not: https://www.bloomberg.com/news... What you're going to see is a great deal of budget changes and economic realignment in OPEC nations. There's gonna be subsidy cuts and attempts at building other industries, because they won't be able to rely on oil anymore.