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Wealth inequality is the weakest argument possible you could make for the average price of a car, since the poor buy used cars.

And how many EVs do you see at Buy-Here-Pay-Here dealers?

You can drop $5000 on an used all electric today that still has a few years left on it's warranty and charge it at home saving far more in transportation costs.

This is the cheapest used EV I found near me. $5.5k and 40% battery life remaining. What planet are you living on?

You still haven't made a single valid or evidence based claim

Buy an EV if it makes you happy, but it's likely not going to save you any money over simply buying a cheaper, fuel-efficient ICE car. The numbers don't lie.

Plenty, as per the Auto Trader link, since almost all of them are posted by car lots.

Funny that it seems you chose to post the only one being sold by a private seller that didn't so much as a VIN number, in Florida...

Also, fun to see you hick ass dumbasses are still pulling the same, previously disproven data about the batteries, still vastly overstating the cost of batteries and their failure rates, your hick ass thought they where using LI-Ion batteries.

Wealth inequality is the weakest argument possible you could make for the average price of a car, since the poor buy used cars.

And how many EVs do you see at Buy-Here-Pay-Here dealers?

You can drop $5000 on an used all electric today that still has a few years left on it's warranty and charge it at home saving far more in transportation costs.

This is the cheapest used EV I found near me. $5.5k and 40% battery life remaining. What planet are you living on?

You still haven't made a single valid or evidence based claim

Buy an EV if it makes you happy, but it's likely not going to save you any money over simply buying a cheaper, fuel-efficient ICE car. The numbers don't lie.

The Pentagon, FBI and NSA are criminals. Over 5200 people viewed child porn regularly at the Pentagon and nothing happened.

Remember the law only applies to you, the common serf, not the aristocracy.

That's just over 2 acres.

You're still thinking in 2 dimensions.

It takes 3 to 5 acres to feed a family.

It's not really that simple. Your assuming traditional agriculture with traditional crop yields, traditional crop spacing, etc. Those all change when you farm indoors and control all the variables. You can get more crops out of the same space indoors AND you can do it more times per year. And your estimates are too high. It's more like 1.5-2 acres to feed a family of 4. There would be no point to indoor farming if they couldn't get better yield out of the same footprint.

So they are going to do what, make it 1 million stores high?

No but if profitable there would eventually be a lot of buildings making food. It's not an either/or sort of problem. Indoor farms may be able to solve certain problems. Traditional farms aren't going to disappear in the lifetime of anyone reading this.

This is a joke, right?

Not even a little bit. It might turn out to be economically impossible but it's definitely not a joke.

But it is not better to think every person is a conspirator.

There was a study that showed that Americans trust each other a lot more than Russians trust each other and that impedes Russian growth.

The study is the basis for the Russian strategy now -- cripple the US by making them distrust each other as much as Russians do.

It's a really good strategy. It'll work, and there's nothing we can do about it.

The Russians have the help of the 1%, and the left, which are both always pushing for diversity and mass immigration. Both lower social cohesion as shown even by left leaning sociologists. Want to fragment America, just let enough Spanish speakers who won't assimilate and you'll get your wish.

Citation

http://archive.boston.com/news...

No, they buy a license that allows lending electronic copies.

https://www.boston.com/news/te...

The pricing structure and attached permissions are completely different.

We all want to be with people like us. That means living near, hiring, being hired by, buying from, selling to, dating, marrying, breeding with, befriending, having them as our law enforcement officers and judges, seeing them daily, and having shared cultural standards and mores with them.

Robert Putnam (author of Bowling Alone) had some convincing research on the failure of diversity which explains our balkanized and atomized state:

Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam -- famous for "Bowling Alone," his 2000 book on declining civic engagement -- has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects. In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings. ...Putnam claims the US has experienced a pronounced decline in "social capital," a term he helped popularize. Social capital refers to the social networks -- whether friendships or religious congregations or neighborhood associations -- that he says are key indicators of civic well-being. When social capital is high, says Putnam, communities are better places to live. Neighborhoods are safer; people are healthier; and more citizens vote. ...In more diverse communities, he says, there were neither great bonds formed across group lines nor heightened ethnic tensions, but a general civic malaise. And in perhaps the most surprising result of all, levels of trust were not only lower between groups in more diverse settings, but even among members of the same group.

You don't even know what racism is. You have much less idea what a Nazi is.

What is racism? Why is it bad?
What is a Nazi? Why is it bad?

"because everyone is equal because some one said it's true and I'm poor and it makes me feel better about having to submit so humiliatingly to this society"

In reality there are differences between races based in genetics.
https://www1.udel.edu/educ/got...
In reality people are happier in homogeneous societies.
http://archive.boston.com/news...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...
In reality, up until literally one microsecond ago on our evolutionary timeline as hominids, everyone always lived in homogeneous communities.

How do you justify the change?
You can't, because you're so brainwashed you won't let yourself ask an honest question or even have an honest thought, you are stressed and anxious and all you care about is fitting in.
This makes you subhuman, not your race. This is what real Nazis think.

Don't be so sure

As soon as a humanoid robot is perfected, the only value people will have is knowing where the aim points are.

http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

found online, not vouching for its accuracy

Independent verification of FBI Anon claims

1995: Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, Izaac Herzog, and an unidentified Israeli representative meet to discuss the possibility of Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich in exchange for Rich funding the PLO, a Muslim terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/p...

Qatar would buy a stake in Marc Rich's company Glencore after his death, and Qatar and Glencore would operate in concert afterwards.

2000: Marc Rich associate Michael Steinhardt controls the DLC and Progressive Policy Institute.
http://www.deepcapture.com/200...

2003: George Soros and Morton Halperin placed John Podesta as founding head of the Center for American Progress.
http://www.discoverthenetworks... https://archive.is/Gb2FV

Under Podesta's watch, unknown persons placed accused Hamas fundraiser Faiz Shakir as Vice President of the Center for American Progress and chief editor of Think Progress. In 2011 Faiz Shakir and Wajahat Ali produced the report "Fear Inc." smearing national security analysts and political activists who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, including liberal Muslims.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fp... https://archive.is/tOxwC

Online rumors have attempted to connect the art trading of John Podesta's brother Tony Podesta with Qatari art purchases of works by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who have been hosted by Qatar Museums.
http://qz.com/764975/qatars-oi...

The Podesta Group lobbyied for Qatar Petroleum in 2013.
https://www.desmogblog.com/201...

2004: The Awan brothers begin employment in the US Congress and will work under Robert Wexler, Xavier Becerra, Gregory Meeks, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others before they are exposed as a spy ring in 2017.
http://www.politico.com/story/...

2005: Unknown persons placed Emad Shahin and Juliette Kayyem in the Dubai Initiative which produced propaganda to promote the Muslim Brotherhood using the name and reputation of Harvard University.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvar...
Emad Shahin was convincted in absentia of aiding Hamas and Iran to overthrow the Egyptian government.
http://emadshahin.com/?p=1839
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Juliette Kayyem advocated for Qatari state television network Al-Jazeera and wrote "The War On Terror Is Over" to discourage continued resistance to al-Qaeda.
https://www.boston.com/bostong...
https://www.boston.com/bostong...

2005: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal paid Georgetown University $20 million to continue hosting John Esposito's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which was originally founded in 1993 with a grant from PLO board member Hasib Sabagh

found online, not vouching for its accuracy

Independent verification of FBI Anon claims

1995: Martin Indyk, Dennis Ross, Izaac Herzog, and an unidentified Israeli representative meet to discuss the possibility of Bill Clinton pardoning Marc Rich in exchange for Rich funding the PLO, a Muslim terrorist organization committed to Israel's destruction.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/p...

Qatar would buy a stake in Marc Rich's company Glencore after his death, and Qatar and Glencore would operate in concert afterwards.

2000: Marc Rich associate Michael Steinhardt controls the DLC and Progressive Policy Institute.
http://www.deepcapture.com/200...

2003: George Soros and Morton Halperin placed John Podesta as founding head of the Center for American Progress.
http://www.discoverthenetworks... https://archive.is/Gb2FV

Under Podesta's watch, unknown persons placed accused Hamas fundraiser Faiz Shakir as Vice President of the Center for American Progress and chief editor of Think Progress. In 2011 Faiz Shakir and Wajahat Ali produced the report "Fear Inc." smearing national security analysts and political activists who oppose the Muslim Brotherhood, including liberal Muslims.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fp... https://archive.is/tOxwC

Online rumors have attempted to connect the art trading of John Podesta's brother Tony Podesta with Qatari art purchases of works by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons who have been hosted by Qatar Museums.
http://qz.com/764975/qatars-oi...

The Podesta Group lobbyied for Qatar Petroleum in 2013.
https://www.desmogblog.com/201...

2004: The Awan brothers begin employment in the US Congress and will work under Robert Wexler, Xavier Becerra, Gregory Meeks, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and others before they are exposed as a spy ring in 2017.
http://www.politico.com/story/...

2005: Unknown persons placed Emad Shahin and Juliette Kayyem in the Dubai Initiative which produced propaganda to promote the Muslim Brotherhood using the name and reputation of Harvard University.
http://belfercenter.ksg.harvar...
Emad Shahin was convincted in absentia of aiding Hamas and Iran to overthrow the Egyptian government.
http://emadshahin.com/?p=1839
https://news.vice.com/article/...
Juliette Kayyem advocated for Qatari state television network Al-Jazeera and wrote "The War On Terror Is Over" to discourage continued resistance to al-Qaeda.
https://www.boston.com/bostong...
https://www.boston.com/bostong...

2005: Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal paid Georgetown University $20 million to continue hosting John Esposito's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, which was originally founded in 1993 with a grant from PLO board member Hasib Sabagh

You also need to consider diversity. If your in a fire, it is generally not one lone hero who will come to the rescue, but rather a team. And a diverse team can notice things that a non-diverse team cannot.

A diverse team is actually less of a "team". Perhaps a better question is to ask if diversity is worth the effort. Yes there is some research that diversity helps in some situations. And it hurts in other situations. The levels of bias by those doing the research is also a cause for concern as it is an article of faith among the humanities that diversity is a must do. This makes me suspect that they over emphasis the benefits while understating the drawbacks. If you want an example of this read the account of the classic liberal sociologist whose research conclusively showed this (citation below). He essentially found out that diversity is not always good and then tried to disprove this every which way because that outcome was not acceptable. He eventually did publish his results but not without first citing how important diversity was for other reasons and how the impact negative may lesson over time.

citation: http://archive.boston.com/news...

I'm sorry that you hate me (enough to mention me by name, apparently), but facts matter to me.

Tesla's recall rate in 2016 per 1000 vehicles was 936. This places it lower than Mazda, GM, Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, Jaguar / Land Rover, Mitsubishi, Ford, Volvo, BMW, Hyundai, Honda, Chrysler, and Volkswagen (by the end of that list we're up to 1805 recalls per 1000 vehicles). Only three manufacturers had a lower recall rate than Tesla - Porsche, Mercedes, and Kia. Furthermore, Tesla was ranked the most proactive of all manufacturers, with 100% of recalls initiated by internal investigation rather than NHTSA investigation; and the top spot for recall timeliness. As for the cars being "mediocre", Tesla once again topped the Consumer Reports owner satisfaction index, with a 91% "would buy again" rating crushing the next closest competitor, Porsche at 84%.

I fully and understand your reaction. You see other people happy about a product, think that they shouldn't be, and so that makes you mad. Has it ever crossed your mind that perhaps there is a real, legitimate reason that other people are happy with the product? And have you taken the time to consider where you're getting wrong information from, such as "Tesla has a high recall rate" - when in reality the opposite is true?

Found it. It was part of the tail to the Tsarnayev story.

https://www.boston.com/news/lo...

I grew up in and still live in a state with a deposit system (and I remember the days before we had deposits, when you would just bring crushed aluminum cans to the recycling center). Here's how it works in Massachusetts. There are 166 registered recycling centers listed, but close to 100 of those are liquor stores or grocery stores and many of the rest are municipal recycling centers. More than half of recycling centers closed between 1995 and 2011, prompting a 1 cent per container increase in the handling fee in 2013, which of course means more costs passed on to consumers on top of the deposit. And of the recycling centers that are left, most are concentrated in the most densely populated areas. There is exactly one recycling center within a 10 mile radius of where I live, in the biggest city in the area of course (and not in a nice area). 20 miles adds one or two more. After that, you're getting into dense urban areas that are best to avoid. And even if you can get to one, here's the kicker:

Unlike retail stores - which are required to redeem the same brands, types and sizes of containers they sell or recently sold for full deposit value - redemption centers can choose which containers they will accept and deduct processing fees from refunds.

They don't have to give you the full deposit back and they aren't required to take what you bring. Even grocery stores only have to accept what they sell, but you're lucky if you can get the machines to work. And forget about returning beer bottles to grocery stores, limited liquor licenses mean that most grocery stores can't sell any beer and therefore won't accept most of the containers in their machines.

And unclaimed deposits? They go into the general fund. The attempt to expand the bill's scope to include water bottles would have directed unclaimed deposits to unspecified "environmental programs," which isn't really much of an improvement once you get politicians involved. If they actually put that money toward making recycling bins as common as trash cans (like they do in civilized countries), they would probably see a big increase in the recycling rate for non-deposit containers. But then that would weaken the case for deposits. So instead, retailers, distributors, and consumers have to foot the bill for a separate inefficient system to recycle one type of container while most communities have recycling programs of their own that could do the same thing with less overhead because they already have the systems in place and would only need a marginal increase in upstream capacity. And we get phony studies that try to seriously claim that increased distribution costs don't increase prices to the consumer with a methodology that would be laughed out of an elementary school science fair. Anything to keep the cash flowing to Beacon Street...

http://archive.boston.com/ae/m...

https://it.slashdot.org/commen...

In Delpâ(TM)s last days, the crisis involving Meg Sullivan weighed heavily on him, according to legal filings examined by the Globe.

On Feb. 28, Meg Sullivan discovered the battery-powered camera in her bedroom when it fell into view. The next day, Delp wrote her an emotional e-mail saying, âoeI feel sick about this, and deservedly so.â She didnâ(TM)t respond.

On March 2, Delp had a show with his Beatles tribute band, Beatlejuice, at the Sit â(TM)n Bull pub in Maynard. Todd Winmill, Meg Sullivanâ(TM)s boyfriend, was scheduled to work as a sound engineer for the show; Winmill had also been a sound man for Boston. Delp huddled in Winmillâ(TM)s car before the gig, according to Winmillâ(TM)s testimony.

âoeHe essentially apologized for about a half-hour,â said Winmill. âoeAnd then I told him he had to tell Pamela. He didnâ(TM)t like the thought of having to do that.â

At 2 a.m. on March 3, Delp e-mailed Meg Sullivan again, pleading for forgiveness.

âoeI want to try and make you understand that I consider myself a decent person who made a dreadful error in judgment,â wrote Delp. âoeI acted out of some impulse that is still not completely fathomable to me.â

He called his action an âoeaberrationâ and compared it to Pamela Sullivanâ(TM)s affair the previous summer â" an affair that emerged in previous testimony and was confirmed last year by Pamela Sullivan in a Globe interview. At one point, Delp had tried to set up tracking devices on her computer to catch her in an affair, but in the end, she admitted the infidelity and the two eventually made plans to get married.

Pamela Sullivan did not respond to recent requests for an interview. Attorney Jeffrey Robbins, who is representing the Herald, declined to comment on the case. Scholz attorney Nicholas Carter also declined comment.

The e-mail Delp sent in the early morning hours of March 3 led to responses from Meg Sullivan and Winmill.

Winmill pushed Delp to tell Pamela Sullivan about the camera. He gave him one day to do it because, he wrote via e-mail, it was unfair to ask Meg to keep the secret from her sister.

âoeIt is because of [Megâ(TM)s] regard for you that she has given you this opportunity to tell Pam yourself,â wrote Winmill, who now lives in California and did not respond to recent interview requests. âoeIt is probably the best way for her to hear it, but please understand, and this is not a threat, but understand that she will find out.â

Delp asked if he could have until March 5, when he planned to tell his fiancee on the phone.

That day, Delp started purchasing tubes and vents at the Home Depot in Plaistow, N.H., according to receipts filed in court. Delpâ(TM)s idea was to hook these up to the exhaust pipe of his yellow Volkswagen Bug. This, he would later write in a note taped to his garage, was for a backup suicide plan.

On the night of March 7, according to Winmillâ(TM)s deposition, he and Meg Sullivan showed up at Delpâ(TM)s home to pick up more of her things. It was an unpleasant experience, as described in Meg Sullivanâ(TM)s deposition. Winmill yelled and swore at Delp, who repeatedly apologized and was in tears, according to Sullivan.

The next day, Delp bought a pair of charcoal grills at Walmart. And that night, instead of returning to Delpâ(TM)s house, Pamela Sullivan stayed at an apartment they had rented for her. She found Delpâ(TM)s body the following day.

The Herald, in a pair of recent articles, has focused on Delpâ(TM)s relationship with Scholz, describing what it says were the singerâ(TM)s negative

Hello, this is the Internet calling.

http://archive.boston.com/ae/m...

Or whatever Google.com.

Brad Delp nannycam

In Delpâ(TM)s last days, the crisis involving Meg Sullivan weighed heavily on him, according to legal filings examined by the Globe.

On Feb. 28, Meg Sullivan discovered the battery-powered camera in her bedroom when it fell into view. The next day, Delp wrote her an emotional e-mail saying, âoeI feel sick about this, and deservedly so.â She didnâ(TM)t respond.

On March 2, Delp had a show with his Beatles tribute band, Beatlejuice, at the Sit â(TM)n Bull pub in Maynard. Todd Winmill, Meg Sullivanâ(TM)s boyfriend, was scheduled to work as a sound engineer for the show; Winmill had also been a sound man for Boston. Delp huddled in Winmillâ(TM)s car before the gig, according to Winmillâ(TM)s testimony.

âoeHe essentially apologized for about a half-hour,â said Winmill. âoeAnd then I told him he had to tell Pamela. He didnâ(TM)t like the thought of having to do that.â

At 2 a.m. on March 3, Delp e-mailed Meg Sullivan again, pleading for forgiveness.

âoeI want to try and make you understand that I consider myself a decent person who made a dreadful error in judgment,â wrote Delp. âoeI acted out of some impulse that is still not completely fathomable to me.â

He called his action an âoeaberrationâ and compared it to Pamela Sullivanâ(TM)s affair the previous summer â" an affair that emerged in previous testimony and was confirmed last year by Pamela Sullivan in a Globe interview. At one point, Delp had tried to set up tracking devices on her computer to catch her in an affair, but in the end, she admitted the infidelity and the two eventually made plans to get married.

Pamela Sullivan did not respond to recent requests for an interview. Attorney Jeffrey Robbins, who is representing the Herald, declined to comment on the case. Scholz attorney Nicholas Carter also declined comment.

The e-mail Delp sent in the early morning hours of March 3 led to responses from Meg Sullivan and Winmill.

Winmill pushed Delp to tell Pamela Sullivan about the camera. He gave him one day to do it because, he wrote via e-mail, it was unfair to ask Meg to keep the secret from her sister.

âoeIt is because of [Megâ(TM)s] regard for you that she has given you this opportunity to tell Pam yourself,â wrote Winmill, who now lives in California and did not respond to recent interview requests. âoeIt is probably the best way for her to hear it, but please understand, and this is not a threat, but understand that she will find out.â

Delp asked if he could have until March 5, when he planned to tell his fiancee on the phone.

That day, Delp started purchasing tubes and vents at the Home Depot in Plaistow, N.H., according to receipts filed in court. Delpâ(TM)s idea was to hook these up to the exhaust pipe of his yellow Volkswagen Bug. This, he would later write in a note taped to his garage, was for a backup suicide plan.

On the night of March 7, according to Winmillâ(TM)s deposition, he and Meg Sullivan showed up at Delpâ(TM)s home to pick up more of her things. It was an unpleasant experience, as described in Meg Sullivanâ(TM)s deposition. Winmill yelled and swore at Delp, who repeatedly apologized and was in tears, according to Sullivan.

The next day, Delp bought a pair of charcoal grills at Walmart. And that night, instead of returning to Delpâ(TM)s house, Pamela Sullivan stayed at an apartment they had rented for her. She found Delpâ(TM)s body the following day.

The Herald, in a pair of recent articles, has focused on Delpâ(TM)s relationship with Scholz, describing what it says were the singerâ(TM)s negative feelings about Scholz

Tesla has one of the highest recall rates of any manufacturer.

That doesn't seem to be true. Through September 2016 Telsa has averaged 936 total recalls per 1,000 vehicles. Porche was the best manufacturer with only 531 recalls, and Volkswagan was the worst with 1805. Of the 18 manfucturers listed in my link, they averaged 1072 recalls, or about 15% higher than Tesla. Toyota for instance had 10% more recalls than Tesla (per car sold) and Ford had 22% more.

Even though Tesla is only a 10 year old car company, their recall rates are better than companies that have been doing this for 100 years.

If there were high prices and lack of competition in 5 or 10% of locales, then simple corruption and ineptitude would be a reasonable explanation

Why must my methodology differ?

when the problem exists everywhere, you need to look for systemic structural problems.

Indeed it is a system problem. And, according to the article I cited, that problem is the local governments mistreating commercial ISPs. The companies need the governments' cooperation to lay cables, and the local mayors, town councils et al consider it a golden opportunity — to extract favors. The favors are either for themselves (corruption) or for their cities (ineptitude)...

Now, you didn't include the requested citation(s) in your reply. Was that an accident you can promptly rectify, or are you taking back your earlier claim:

99% of the cost of providing service is the trenching

?

Once they start mass production the cost will fall. When considering the cost, you have to factor in labour costs and the cost of closing the road for the time required to resurface it too, and how long the road surface will last, and what the on-going maintenance costs are.

And in the meantime, putting the solar panels *beside the road* (*) is still cheaper, more energy efficient and their installation is a tiny bit less invasive to traffic.

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(*) : like roofing over a bike path, on the roof of noise barriers, or simply along the road, etc. I.e.: places where the surface also belongs to the department of public roads, but where the panels are much more efficient by being better oriented and not shadowed by the traffic, where aren't subject to constant wear and tear by said traffic, and thus won't need tons of engineering to come up with a solution that could protect tham (like TFA's silicon layer).

And who gives a shit about their opinion?

An otherwise perfectly qualified man has lost his job of running Harvard University for merely suggesting, men and women could be different in some respects:

Last year [2005 -mi], Summers sparked international outrage by speculating at an economics conference that innate differences between men and women might be one of the reasons women lag behind in science and math careers.

Even closer to the point in TFA, this year Donald Trump was widely denounced for stating (back in 2004), that an employee's pregnancy is an inconvenience for the employer. Hillary Clinton, portraying herself as a pillar of feminism (pay no attention to her husband's sexual predations), chose to use that obvious and unremarkable true statement to attack her opponent.

You may think, no one "gives a shit", but her billion-dollar campaign did enough research to believe, there is enough of an audience, who'll defecate bricks over it. And they did...

Please. Let them rant

Nobody intends to stop "faminazis" from exercising their First Amendment rights. We are just pointing out, their rants are wrong.

http://archive.boston.com/news...

• A haircut
• Their Christmas card list
• Their cat's correspondence (no lie)

..and no wrongdoing of any kind was ever found. The middle one there consumed 10 days of Congress' time, with 140 hours of sworn testimony. But they were just getting warmed up...

30 years later, I'm done with your partisan made-up Clinton "scandals". Seriously. We have a criminal justice system in this country specifically for this kind of thing. Come to me when she's been convicted of something. Until then, if you say she's a "criminal", I'm going with 30 years of history and saying you're lying. Again.

"Diversity society will fail" --Putnam;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

First, why do you say that Sony lobbied for the laws you're complaining about (it would help also if you articulated those laws with specificity, but then that would make your assertions falsifiable, which I imagine you don't want.)

What, have you been living under a damn rock for the last 20 years? Sony has lobbied for pretty much every recent copyright law. DMCA, SOPA, PIPA, TPP -- you name it, they've lobbied for it. It's not a goddamn secret, you know!

They're mostly hardware, they have no skin in the game on software protection.

What the fuck are you talking about? Sony operates major movie, music and video game studios in addition to making hardware. And don't even try to feed me some bullshit about "that's some other division" -- they're all owned by the same corporation.

Also, I find it telling that so many seem to switch seamlessly back and forth between characterizing Microsoft as using their monopoly powers to coerce manufacturers into doing things that aren't in their own economic best interest, and characterizing Microsoft and Sony as voluntary co-conspirators

Microsoft is not forcing Sony to install Windows at gunpoint. Sony is installing Windows because they want to install Windows and have entered into a contractual agreement with Microsoft to do so -- that's called a partnership.

Psychologists have determined, for example, that shares in companies with easy-to-pronounce names do indeed significantly outperform those with hard-to-pronounce names. Other studies have shown that when presenting people with a factual statement, manipulations that make the statement easier to mentally process - even totally nonsubstantive changes like writing it in a cleaner font or making it rhyme or simply repeating it - can alter people’s judgment of the truth of the statement, along with their evaluation of the intelligence of the statement’s author and their confidence in their own judgments and abilities.

Let Black Police/Judge deal with Black Suspects;
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

"The greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects; In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings."
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

"The greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and the less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects; In the most diverse communities, neighbors trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings."
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

"we don't just build our cities on fault-lines, we also tend to rebuild them, in the same place, but no more robust, time and time again."

I can't speak for everywhere, but in California, the construction standards are much higher after the 1989 earthquake.

Boston, however, is in serious danger because of so many tall buildings built of brick (and other reasons).

Anyone with common sense would realize that Mayor Gray sexual orientation conflicts with that preferred by the KKK, which would preclude him from ever gaining membership in a group like them.

Common sense alone does not suffice. Why, just a few days ago, a candidate for the Cambridge city council who also happens to be openly gay dropped out of the race after his white nationalist postings were publicized. Anyway, it is impossible to define membership requirements for the KKK since it is not a distinct organization: "The current manifestation consists of numerous small unconnected groups that use the KKK name"

Really, the KKK in 2015 is just a paper tiger. Anonymous should be doubly ashamed of themselves: first for defaming innocents who have no connection to the KKK; and second, when seeking to do battle against present-day evils, choosing such a relatively weak target when there are much bigger fish to fry.

Re the gender imbalance in commercial fishing, someone did do something about it. You can read about her career here.

It's even questionable if walking that distance has a smaller pollution footprint because of the energy cost needed to produce the food you ate which powers your walk to the local store. (And no, you cannot bypass this by growing a home garden. People vastly underestimate how much land is needed to grow the food we eat.

I take it you've never worked a vegetable garden, then? In theory you may be right. But your example is waaaayyy off the mark, especially using that link above as reference.

I have worked a vegetable garden for about a year, it was around 150-200 m^2 (around 1900 sq. feet?). And food that came out was moooore than enough to supply a 3-people household with all the fresh vegetables, potatoes, corn, pumpkins, and beans that we could eat. Not entirely year-round, but that was due to the more interesting problem of how to store all the produce. A lot was given away, some went to waste, a little even got stolen. Point being: the numbers given in above link don't add up, unless you're extremely bad at growing food.

Now factor in the energy needed to work all that land, and you'll quickly find that you'll need to increase your daily caloric intake to 5000-8000 kcal/day if you farm that by hand. There's a very good reason we shifted that inefficient labor-intensive task to being done by machines.

Again that's waaaay off the mark. 5000-8000 kcal/day is top athlete territory, the kind of energy burnt by pro cyclists in the Tour de France. For gardening, there's a few short weeks of 'heavy lifting' at the start of a season. No reason you couldn't do some of that using machines, btw. For the rest it's mostly remove weeds, keep an eye on things, watering, etc. Far from the kind of activity that pushes your body's energy consumption up. About as energy-intensive as walking from shop to to shop in a big mall.

Btw. that's gardening in a small plot in moderate climate. In warmer or tropical climate you may grow stuff all year round and have 2 or 3 crops per season.

Not necessarily. You have to take into account the efficiency of the transport. From the figures I've seen, the fuel cost to ship something from China to the U.S. is about the same as the fuel cost to transport it from a U.S. port to its final destination inland (the U.S. has a terrible rail system so most goods are transported by relatively inefficient trucks).

Assuming the 1 cent to transport a T-shirt from China figure is correct, if you're driving more than 500 feet to buy your "local" T-shirt, you're producing more pollution buying from that local store. It's even questionable if walking that distance has a smaller pollution footprint because of the energy cost needed to produce the food you ate which powers your walk to the local store. (And no, you cannot bypass this by growing a home garden. People vastly underestimate how much land is needed to grow the food we eat. Now factor in the energy needed to work all that land, and you'll quickly find that you'll need to increase your daily caloric intake to 5000-8000 kcal/day if you farm that by hand. There's a very good reason we shifted that inefficient labor-intensive task to being done by machines.)

Maximum energy efficiency is achieved when you multitask and group multiple tasks together. That's how buying stuff on Amazon can end up cheaper with a smaller energy footprint than buying stuff locally. Yes if Amazon were to ship just one T-shirt to you and UPS sent a truck out to deliver just one T-shirt to your house, it' be horribly inefficient. But that UPS truck makes a hundred or so deliveries on its daily route so the portion of its total drive attributable to your T-shirt package delivery is only a few hundred or few thousand feet. Likewise Amazon processes millions of orders every day, so the portion of its operating costs attributable to your single order is very small. This is also the same reason the big department stores end up being able to offer lower prices than the small mom and pop shop - greater volume of sales generates more opportunity for efficiency improvements. If you can come up with a way to combine big box efficiency with the mom and pop buying experience, you'll become the next billionaire.

"Diverse society will fail" --Putnam;
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

"Diverse society will fail" --Putnam;
Let black Police deal with black Culprits;
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

“This mapping tool scraped Facebook data in a way that violated our terms, and those terms exist to protect people’s privacy and safety,” Steinfeld [a Facebook spokesperson] told Boston.com. “Despite being asked repeatedly to remove the code, the creator of this tool left it up. This is wrong and it’s inconsistent with how we think about serving our community.”

http://www.boston.com/communit...

"Diverse society will fail" --Putnam;
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

'Diverse society will fail' --Putnam;
Let black Police deal with black Culprits;
http://www.boston.com/news/glo...

You can't have it both ways, chuck. If you want men to be sensitive and vulnerable... willing to cry... and share their feelings... then you need to not tell them they're man babies whenever they point out that the system is in some respects biased against them.

When did I say I wanted men to be "sensitive and vulnerable...willing to cry...and share their feelings"? I mean, goddamn, all you do is share your feelings like a toddler with a wet diaper. I'm advocating growing up.

As to raping and killing women, this is just idiotic strawman... who is advocating that?

I'm glad you asked:

https://storify.com/a_man_in_b...

http://www.businessinsider.com...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

https://www.boston.com/news/lo...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ga...

You drew a face on your ass... then pulled your pants down, opened your asshole, and made shit come out of the mouth your drew on your butt. You are speaking... shit.

You know, that's not the first reference you've made to stuff going in and out of butts. This is more verification of my theory that Men's Rights Activists became whiny manbabies because of trauma associated with potty training. You just couldn't make mommy proud, and now you're going to show them bitches!

You do realize that there is no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber, right? It would be like a store owner with video surveillance in his own store raping someone as they come in. Might as well walk into a police station and rape the guy at the front desk. There is literally no way you can't get caught. Your every move is tracked by GPS. Christ, you fucking liberals and your "basic needs". You'll have us all living in caves before you're through.

I don't remember a lot of stories about people being attacked by their taxi driver. But I do remember this and this and this. I'm not saying Uber is inherently dangerous. But it seems more than "no service that is less conducive to violent or property crime than Uber". According to my unscientific quick Googling, it seems regular taxis are safer.

Don't insult Canada by comparing it to the armpit of America.

Whenever statistics is used to talk about discrimination (sexual, racial, religious), two conflicting sets of axioms are employed by the people arguing. Allow me to enumerate:

• All groups of people (genders, races, religions) are, on average, the same and any statistically-observed differences in their behavior or treatment can only be due to bigotry.
• All groups of people (genders, races, religions) are, on average, treated the same and any statistically-observed differences in their behavior or treatment can only be due their own differences from others.

Obviously, the first axiom — and conclusions — is the politically-correct official stance championed by the government. And I'd like to share it too. But it contradicts some of the well-known facts:

1. Vastly more Black kids (67%!) are growing up in single-parent households than any other race.
2. Asian kids — who should be, if the "Whites-are-racists" narrative is to be believed, be suffering just as well — are, in fact, doing so well, college admission boards (adherents of the first axiom) penalize them by about 140 points compared to Whites. It is so ugly, some Asians choose to not answer the "race" question on their application at all.

So, the first axiom is shot by reality...

Maybe, it is all about single-parenthood — all human cultures were highly suspicious of bastard children (the very term is a derogatory one). And not because the mother "sinned" — if that were the case, her subsequent marriage would not have absolved the child — but because it is much harder for a single parent to raise a child into a decent human being. So, the "preconditioned" response this study exposed may not be so much about race per se, as about the likelihood of the person to be not right in the head — they are about 2.5-3 times more likely to have grown up without a father.

It'd be interesting, if the study used Whites, who've grown up in those parts of the world, where Blacks' incidence of single-parenthood is not so awfully lopsided. And compared them with the American Whites.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/07/23/pentagon_workers_tied_to_child_porn/

Nothing ever came of this. I guess if you work for the Pentagon it's perfectly fine?

Ok, Let's focus on these answers that you have wider selection sets to make a mental image over than just people you know.

That would be 1-5, and 10.

1)
You say that you have never heard a female pilot over the intercom. How strongly does this paint the image that pilots are all male? (Or, how shocked would you be to hear a female pilot informing you of mid-air turbulence?) Would you say this would be encouraging for women to become pilots?

According to the Airline Pilots Association, only 5% of commercial aircraft pilots are female.
CNN has a story that tries to address some of the issues that might be involved in why there is a huge disparity there as well. Some of the reasons given are less likely to apply, given the statistical increase in women choosing careers over family in recent decades, so take some of the answers with a grain of salt.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL...

2)
Prior to the 1980s, only 19% of flight attendants were male. In 2007 that number had risen to 26%. Some attribute this to progressive social policies that encouraged males to take up "less manly" careers, as many stories in that time period discussed issues such as daycares operated by male caregivers, and other "controversial" subjects, which helped push back against the perception that flight attendant is a female job.

http://www.prb.org/Publication...

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
(A german article from Speigel circa 2012 concerning efforts in Germany to recruit more male childcare workers.)

http://www.boston.com/communit...
(An Op-Ed concerning the "Controversial" practice of leaving children in a male care-giver's custody, circa 2009)

Exactly how much impact the "Softening" of social reactions to males entering "Traditionally Female" occupations has had on the uptick in males serving as flight attendants is not known, and probably cannot be well known, but I would expect that it is at least partially attributable, as the societal reaction towards a male entering such a career has relaxed somewhat in recent decades.

3)
According to the bureau of labor statistics, 51% of gas station employees are female. Granted, this value contains retail positions. The occupation of "Attendant" as it relates to gas stations typically involves this retail counter interaction these days, but the more historical view is of the guy outside who helped you at full service stations (a thing of the past, I know), which more parallels with automotive repair. The same statistics breakdown has 9.3% worksforce as female in automotive repair. Sadly, they don't give trend data, just snapshot data.

Depending on your perception of what "Gas station attendant" is, there is either a very slight lead for women in the industry, or a major lead by men in the industry.

4)
Labor statistics for "Retail Trade" have female participation (overall) listed at 48.3%. In various sub-categories, women dominate sales, while in others, men lead. Most hover in the 40-60%, with some leaning one way, and some to the other. Sales seems to be something that does not, intrinsically, have a gender bias, excepting in specailty products tailored or marketed to a specific gender.

5)
Labor statistics for "Administration of human resources" cites a 69% statistic for females. That's nearly 50% greater liklihood of your HR director being female over being male.

10)
Scientific research and development cites a 47% statistic.
Again, very close to 50% split.

There's other interesting data in there, concerning computer equipment manufacture-- 29% industry wide are female.

With political things, yes, that's definitely true. However with scientific things it's not; there's real science (which is falsifiable and evidence-based), and there's bullshit and pseudoscience and religion. Of course, it's possible to BS people with "science" by presenting false evidence, covering up key evidence, etc., but if you teach people the scientific method (instead of teaching them to believe in BS like homeopathy for instance, or in Creationism which isn't science) eventually the truth will come out and people will believe the correct things once the evidence is presented and understood.

I'd love to think you're right. However, there's a lot of evidence that once people believe something, you can show them factual proof that they're wrong... and they'll end up believing whatever it was they believed in the beginning, even harder. Here's a discussion of this specifically about people's beliefs in vaccination and here's one that's more general, about beliefs across a wide variety of topics on which people, if shown facts that contradict their beliefs, merely believe them even more.
This is in fact precisely why Creationists try to peddle their ignorant junk in schools: they know very well that if they can get their beliefs in kids before the kids are able to recognize them as junk, they most likely have the kids for life, but if they don't get them then, they're very unlikely to get them as adults who can actually think well and question what they're being told.

I like Australian football and I respect the game but things are a bit different here. The few Australians that play in the U.S. are either place kickers or punters. Both would get knocked around like rag dolls if they decided to try to tackle anybody here. It's a completely different game.

juicing may have something to do with that players get heavier and die sooner than they did pre-juicing. http://www.boston.com/lifestyl...

Why apartheid "worked", why the Shah "worked", why Christianity "worked".

It is really too bad when science comes down on the side of the iron fist, but the studies show over and over that justice requires peace, and peace requires trust, and diversity reduces the social capital necessary to assure trust.

On the other hand, who wants to live under ISIL or similar diversity busting regimes? But one of the first prerequisites for a peaceful society appears to be a shared culture first, at least with respect to how people treat each other. It would be nice if we could use clothing to mark culture, so that when I see someone wearing a hoodie I could KNOW that indicated a peace-monger, but it just is not so, any more than someone wearing a sash with a swastika is identifying themselves as a keeper of the word of gawd.

The question has to be, how to get social capital higher and the science appears to suggest homogeneity. I don't like that answer, any more than I liked it when simulations showed "tit-for-tat" was the preferred strategy in cooperative games. I don't like that I cannot just flap my arms and fly either, but at some level all of these findings are our realities.