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They said it all along, you just weren't listening, or your chosen media outlets didn't find it news-worthy. Here's an article from March 2012, the year after the disaster;

"Yogi Berra supposedly said, "It's tough making predictions, especially about the future." He was right. However, there is an out for forecasters trying to predict long-term medical consequences of the Fukushima nuclear facility accident: The final reckoning will take about 50 years; they are unlikely to be around to be judged wrong."

50 years, got it? Also

"But there is also good news from Chernobyl. After intensive study of hundreds of thousands of people, there are no convincing data of increased leukemia or other cancers, even among the 500,000 cleanup workers who received the highest doses. It may be too soon for a final call, but so far the situation looks favorable."

Too soon for a final call on Chernobyl, even after all these years, much less Fukushima.

Don't talk about "the media" and "experts" as if they are some sort of homogeneous entities.

Intellectual Ventures is very well known as the worst of the patent trolls. It is not an "invention company" it is an intellectual property litigation company.

Lowell Wood is notorious for his brazenly fraudulent claims about SDI technology (especially the X-ray laser chimera) during the 1980s.

Oddly, I suggested a story on how Uber drivers are on strike right now at this very moment, and it mysteriously, inexplicably failed to go anywhere!

How could that possibly be? It's an Uber story after all :D

http://www.latimes.com/busines...

the drivers have four demands: that Uber increase fares by 60% nationwide, that the company add a tipping option to the Uber app, that the ride cancellation fee be raised to $7 and that the minimum fare be increased, also to $7.

I wonder how surge pricing works during the strike?

http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

not really, putin is a man that steals superbowl rings.

"can i try that on?" and just walks away with surrounded by bodyguards... then says that it was a gift.

pretty innocuous, but that op-ed strikes me as true, he's a bully. and thinks that the wall should have never come down.

I could've sworn a local train that navigates a mountain pass had regenerative braking. I appear to be mistaken.

Dynamic Braking (wikipedia link if you prefer) dissipates all of the electricity generated as heat. These trains are clearly referenced as engaging the dynamic braking system during a braking scare in the 90s, and not a regenerative braking system. A 2004 paper obtained dynamic braking data for this train line.

For further evidence, I ran some informal youtube and google searches. There are no videos for "train regenerative braking", but a lot for "train dynamic braking". Google searches only turn up papers for "train regenerative braking", but "train dynamic braking" returns plenty of magazine articles and press releases .

My source is the fact that all the waste in the US is stored in dozen different places where each one is far bigger than a foorball field:
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
or read this: http://www.nei.org/Issues-Poli... particular this: http://www.nei.org/CorporateSi...

The only thing giving your a small edge about your claim is that the above waste (first link) includes waste from weapon production and decommissioning.

FYI: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/p...

"All told, the nuclear reactors in the U.S. produce more than 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste a year, according to the DoE"

From: http://www.scientificamerican....

I really wonder how pro nuclear advocates can be so uneducated that they not even know the basic facts.

In which desert do the USA store the biggest amount of nuclear waste in the word?

http://articles.latimes.com/ke...

"*cough* Guantanamo"

To name just one.

That's not even one. Guantanamo Bay holds prisoners of war, not common criminals from the civilian criminal justice system. It is entirely legitimate to hold them without trial, that's the way it works.

The number of well documented criminal actions committed by the US government or its representatives, including major war crimes and terrorism, currently and in the last 65 years, is quite surprising for the average American.

It is quite surprising and infuriating to the average anti-American how many of those claims evaporate like a puff of smoke in the wind or are demonstrated to be molehills decried as mountains when subjected to serious scrutiny in which the standard is the actual law or treaty, or simply the facts, not the specious claims of advocates from the remote fringes of the political spectrum. Communists and the far Left have frequently practiced that sort of game. Case in point: the Soviet Union propaganda campaign falsely claiming that the US government created AIDs.

AIDS: A GLOBAL ASSESSMENT : Soviets Suggest Experiment Leaks in U.S. Created the AIDS Epidemic

His spending is part of the public record; as is required by law for campaign contributions in California. The LA Times has an easily-searchable database of contributors showing his spending:

http://projects.latimes.com/pr...

If you prefer to go straight to the source, the government's own database is searchable here:

http://dbsearch.ss.ca.gov/Cont...

I can't provide a direct link to Eich's money on the Secretary of State website. It's not exactly a user-friendly design and doesn't support permalink to specific contributions. But it's easy enough to search for his data there as well.

A defense contractor welded a section of a British submarine upside down.

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-04-09/news/mn-814_1_nuclear-powered-submarines

Your specific claim is that we perform killing BETTER than we do anything else. "Anything" is a pretty broad spectrum of possibilities ;

Wait - what?

I wrote - complete with the typo: I simply saty that killing each other is an integral part of the human mind, to deny tht takes a special sort of tap-dance.

Yeah - "Saty" should have been "say".

Your idea that I said we do it "BETTER" than anything else just isn't correct. I never said that. Killing each other is simply part of being human. Probably a part of "us versus them", aggression and ability to kill others possibly making for a better chance of survival, and the qualities that might fuel that aggression, like robustness, and high testosterone levels, just aid in the process. Not a condemnation, not a endorsement. Just a statement of what to me is as much a fact as humans having a drive to reproduce, or eat, or express themselves through art.

I'm still puzzled how you can actually compare "killing" and all other activities. That is a major advance in the philosophy of knowledge - up there with Immanuel Kant, and I hadn't heard of such major advances in philosophy. Where did you publish it? How do other philosophers regard your comparison arguments?

Oh, come off it. If I have to be published to make a comment, you need to be published to respond to it. But I do have some references below.

But first, you need to not tell me what I said, and substitute something you apparently wanted me to say in order to defeat the argument you wanted me to have.

All I'm saying is that humans have a genetically based component that predisposes us to life ending violence. Whether through personal murder or tribal sponsored warfare, we've been doing it for a long long time. We are good at it, just like we are good at a lot of things.

Since there are no longer any species of species of Homo to compare humanity with - perhaps in itself telling - we have to look elsewhere.

A comparison might be made between our closest living relatives, the chimpanzees Pan troglodytes and Pan paniscus

http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/... for an entry level text.

The two species are very similar physically, but have a number of behavioral differences. The most striking difference is that Pan paniscus, the bonobo, is a very peaceable creature, while troglodytes is quite violent, including fratricide.

http://www.latimes.com/science...

There's a paywalled versions of that article - if you have to have the actual article, not articles based on them, ya gotta shell out some green.

Here's one that isn't paywalled. Very good article , with some intriguing genetic relationships between the behaviors of the two species assessed through differences in neurological systems.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...

Regardless, our closest living relatives, with Toglodytes being the very closest, show distinctive behavioral differences, with one being very violent, especially towards outsiders - yet not exclusively, and the other species settling conflicts, often via sexual activity. Which most closely resembles humanity?

I say human violence is an integral part of human heritage via our genes, just as with Pan Troglodytes.

You might differ, but now you need to show me the research saying we are not inherently violent.

Here is just one little example: If a Government project fails its stated goals, what happens? If a Private Company's project fails, what happens?

Apparently they get bailed out by your congress...

You won't be able to make your own Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episodes because Toodles and other post-1929 elements are still copyrighted. But you'll still be able to make your own Mickey works that use only the elements set forth in the trilogy and original elements. See, for example, the copyright case allowing commercial publication of Sherlock Holmes fan fiction despite that Arthur Conan Doyle's last ten stories were still copyrighted.

That's a legal argument that the plaintiffs made. The judge denied that one.

That's correct, the judge denied the argument. However, he argued the argument is denied because the plaintiffs didn't provide evidence that the publication of
Happy Birthday in The Everyday Song Book in 1922 was authorized.
He didn't argue that it was denied because the publication was only done by a licensee, like you say.

If you published an authorized work under the Copyright Act of 1909, and missed a copyright mark, the work would become public domain. From the ruling (some quotes removed):

Under the Copyright Act of 1909, one secured a federal copyright by publishing a
work with proper notice. Before such publication, the work was protected by common
law copyright. If the work was published without notice, two things happened: the
author (1) failed to obtain a federal copyright and (2) lost the common law copyright as
well.

General publication, which would cause a forfeiture, occurs “when, by consent of
the copyright owner, the original or tangible copies of a work are sold, leased, loaned,
given away, or otherwise made available to the general public, or when an authorized
offer is made to dispose of the work in any such manner, even if a sale or other such
disposition does not in fact occur.” 1 Nimmer 4.03. By contrast, a limited publication,
which does not cause a forfeiture, is when “tangible copies of the work are distributed
both (1) to a ‘definitely selected group,’ and (2) for a limited purpose, without the right of
further reproduction, distribution or sale.” Acad. of Motion Picture Arts & Scis., 944 F.2d
at 1452. Moreover, “mere performance or exhibition of a work does not constitute a
[general] publication of that work.” Am. Vitagraph, Inc. v. Levy, 659 F.2d 1023, 1027
(9th Cir. 1981).

The judge even said that this would apply for the 1922 publication:

If the [1922] publication was authorized, that could
make it a general publication (without proper copyright notice), divesting the Hill sisters
of their common law copyright.

But later on, he sais:

As Defendants [Time Warner] point out, there is no direct evidence
that the Hill sisters had authorized Summy Co. to grant permission for the publication of
the lyrics in The Everyday Song Book.

And concludes:

Plaintiffs cannot satisfy their initial burden under Rule 56. Accordingly,
Plaintiffs’ Motion is DENIED as to this issue.

From the ruling:

The 1909 Copyright Act, which governs E51990, did not require that a work be registered to
obtain a federal copyright. See 2-7 Nimmer 7.16. But registration was nonetheless
highly desirable, not only because it was a precondition to the filing of an infringement
suit, but also because, once registered, the certificate of registration “shall be admitted in
any court as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.” 17 U.S.C. 209 (1909 Act);
see also 17 U.S.C. 410(c) (1976 Act) (providing for the presumption of validity in the
modern Copyright Act). Furthermore, “[a]lthough the ‘facts’ stated in a certificate of
registration are limited to the date, name and description of the work, and name of the
registration holder, a majority of courts have held that 209 [of the 1909 Copyright Act]
creates a rebuttable presumption that the certificate holder has met all the requirements for
copyright validity.” Acad. of Motion Picture Arts & Scis. v. Creative House Promotions,
Inc., 944 F.2d 1446, 1451 (9th Cir. 1991). Once a claimant shows that she has a
certificate of registration, the burden of proof shifts to the opposing party who must “offer
some evidence or proof to dispute or deny the [claimant’s] prima facie case.” United
Fabrics Int’l, Inc. v. C&J Wear, Inc., 630 F.3d 1255, 1257 (9th Cir. 2011).

Apparently the tune is already public domain with or without the court decision, according to the LA Times

Warner and the plaintiffs both agreed that the melody of the familiar song, first written as "Good Morning To All," had entered the public domain decades ago. But Warner claimed it still owned the rights to the "Happy Birthday" lyrics, leaning on the 1935 copyright claim.

So an instrumental performance (whistling or humming) or a parody (per fair use rights) should be in the clear.

This is what an agenda looks like. I don't know why, but whenever countries meet over AGW, the topic always turns to giving billions of dollars from one group to another.

The fact that you don't like some of the proposed solutions does not mean there is not a problem. Go look at the list of the top 100 companies, the largest political donors, etc. and then try to make a cogent argument as to how big bad environmental and/or poverty lobby has some how convinced 1000s of scientists to participate in whatever strange and huge conspiracy you appear to be proposing.

We are releasing millions of years of sequestered carbon into the atmosphere and we are doing it on the time scale of decades. To pretend that will not have consequences because all the solutions are ideologically distasteful is appalling.

This is what an agenda looks like. I don't know why, but whenever countries meet over AGW, the topic always turns to giving billions of dollars from one group to another.

G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary used to have debates (http://articles.latimes.com/1989-07-12/entertainment/ca-3542_1_timothy-leary)

I'm sure McAfee can match Leary for consumption of mind altering substances.

two-thirds of fatalities are of those with no helmets.

http://www.latimes.com/busines...

They now have pretty much all their publications on line.
http://www.bls.gov/opub/

Don't forget, Gordon Crovitz notwithstanding, the government really did invent the Internet. http://articles.latimes.com/20...

Between all these new hurricanes and unusually warm water off of California, wonder when Southern California will experience it's first hurricane on land?

Nuuuup.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion...

Its a thing, kitten. It is trivially easy to cite systemic example after systemic example after systemic example.

Not an individual... but rather... individuals... individuals in places of power, authority, and with the respect and support of millions of tweedle dees and tweedle fuckwits.

the biggest change they can cite is that in some areas the average water consumption per person went from 170 gallons to 150 gallons... and that's only a in a couple places

Bullshit.

"Two water distributors in San Francisco and one in East Los Angeles recorded the lowest average totals, 46, 46 and 48, respectively. In Santa Cruz, which has some of the toughest conservation measures in the state, residents used an average of 49 gallons per person a day." "on average, Southern California residents used 119 gallons per person a day". http://www.latimes.com/local/c...

"The population of the U.S. has grown by more than 81 million people since 1975, but total water use has declined. As a result, our per-person water use is almost 30% lower than it was 30 years ago" http://pacinst.org/news/397/

California's "TOTAL WATER USE has been DECLINING since 1980"

"Water used for urban and agricultural purposes has generally remained stable, and has even declined at times, even though population has increased." http://www.lao.ca.gov/2008/rsr...

I won't be responding to you again in this thread.

Well that is a reasonable response when you've been making stupid statements that you can't possibly support. I would have suggested keeping your mouth shut after my first reply demonstrated how baseless and ignorant your statements were.

Slamming the messenger instead of the message is a sure sign of your lack of a viable position.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/...

Apparently, there was even a geologist who warned the EPA that their solution wasn't safe:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-g...

An A-10 pilot shot down a helicopter using his cannon in the first Gulf War: http://articles.latimes.com/19...

That plastic is poylethelene http://www.latimes.com/local/l.... Same thing used in drinking bottles and the PEX lines in newer homes.

I spent four years in Central America, in Costa Rica and Panama. I only wonder why this is news.

If you take a look at the Panama City skyline, it's pretty impressive. The population for the metropolitan area is only about 1.5 million though, so why all the skyscrapers? Who lives there?

No one. The government started investing in infrastructure after the Canal changed hands and they actually started getting money from it, and this fostered a booming construction trade. The construction companies thought that this government money was a grand idea, and the best way to keep it flowing is obviously to kick some of it back to the government officials. The government has spend the last decade trying to hide the debt that has been piling up as a result of this, and the only thing that I can say is that at least some of the money went into infrastructure.

Corruption is the expected norm in the entirety of Central America. It's how things are done there. I've bribed police there myself, and one of my friends was elected Representante de Panama while I was there: I can confirm that this operates the same way on all levels. The only reason I can think of why this would show up in the news at all is that someone didn't get paid enough. Where is the story here?

They are getting about 16 bucks from every American, and not 'per car'. Musk's scams have gotten him 5 billion in federal aid. 'Bootstrapper' indeed. http://www.latimes.com/busines...

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Yes because funding BP, Exxon, Monsanto etc is really honorable.

Second, plan on having something you can offer to employers besides the threat of a revolution or strike; good workers can find good jobs.

Anything you can do can be taught to someone else willing to work for less.

Have you so soon forgotten Disney's attempt to replace their techs?
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disney-technology-h1b-20150617-story.html

Seems that the only thing that stopped that was the publicity it got once the techs started complaining.

you. post. on. slashdot. you of all people should know anecdotal evidence means squat.

especially in the face of ample evidence contradicting your naive claim: http://www.latimes.com/busines... http://www.npr.org/sections/al... http://genderandset.open.ac.uk...

Obamacare has brought down health care costs in the US. It's also brought down the number of uninsured, and seems to be part of the economic recovery. (when small business owners can get health coverage, it removes a dis-incentive to start a business, and thus create new jobs). some stats, and some more stats. or you can just peruse through a tags search on dailyKOS

Strange thing is that the left is all over stats about stuff -- but if you only go to Fox for your news, you won't hear much about hard numbers.

The right was forecasting massive price increases, but California only saw a 4% increase in premiums, compared to a historical (pre-ACA) trend of about 10% per year.

Not all, but the overwhelming majority of them.

The measles vaccine isn't perfect, two doses are required and even them it's possible to get the disease. But the chances of it spreading are greatly reduced if everyone is immunized.

Health officials have immunization records of 43 measles patients; 37 were unimmunized, one had only one shot, and five were fully immunized.

I don't doubt that such methods are routinely practised by corporations in other areas. For instance: United Launch Alliance creating a stealth PR campaign against the upstart SpaceX, as exhibited by this hopelessly biased hit piece; or established auto companies creating a stealth PR campaign against the upstart Tesla or other electric cars as exhibited in the overemphasis of Tesla battery fires; or the propagation of the myth that the hybrid Toyota Prius is worse for the environment than a Hummer (I heard that one repeated from an engineering professor friend of mine recently). The biggest one of all is the continued campaign against the entire field of climate science in order to prevent action on climate change, action that would with certainty reduce the revenues and power of fossil fuel companies.

The MPAA was inept in allowing this email to surface. Most other companies who engage in such corrupt actions would not allow such incriminating evidence to surface, or even to exist. Seeing this email lifts the veil on the behaviour of one organization. But it seems to me that such behaviour is likely widespread. I am of the opinion that what can be done by corporations will be done, if it increases their overall profits and power. If a corporation can pay for newspaper articles to increase their power (and get away with it), then they will. If they can pay posters to write messages on Disqus (or on Slashdot for that matter), then they will. If they can purchase powerful politicians, either by direct payment or by offering of employment after the politician leaves office, then they will. This is not paranoia. It is an hypothesis that is supported both by logic and by evidence. If they can do that which benefits them, then they will.

you might as well include somebody throwing their shoe at GWB as an assassination attempt [...]

What about the suicide pretzel?

Anybody employed by a government agency is used to not only having the salary of their position public, but having their names and salaries published in major newspapers for everybody to read:

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I think we can all agree that the salaries of government positions should be public, but I'm not sure publishing actual people's names, positions, and salaries in a public database is ethical.

Great they built an online system. They're hardly the first. Why should we believe this system will be any better than the innumerable past attempts?

Because it has better propaganda attached, of course. This time it's from the Gates foundation, which is pretending to save the world! They'll never eradicate anything as long as there's whole countries they can't get into because they're actually doing the work of Big Pharma... the best the Gates Foundation can do is just suppress a disease for a time. But they can also weasel their way into education so they can really shit it up and become an unremovable part of graft and pork.

Opponents of "Hillarycare" in the 1990s predicted that her plan's rating of doctors based on outcomes would lead to excellent doctors who took-on difficult cases and very ill patients getting lower grades than bad doctors who only took on healthy young patients with the result being that doctors would avoid patients who were very sick or severely injured. Hillary's supporters expressed outrage at the criticism.

When "Obamacare" came up for debate and similarly proposed to reduce costs and increase quality by rating doctors based on outcome, the same criticism arose from opponents, and the same left-wing supporters of "universal healthcare" similarly claimed this was a false argument.

This big lie at the heart of "universal healthcare" plans that promise to do opposing things (limit costs while improving quality) within a big bloated institutional (government and/or corporate) scheme have long been known and predicted as even the LA Times (hardly a Republican rag) noted in 2005 long before Obama was even running for President. In fact, it has long been known, and there are studies to prove it, that many things about the patient drive the outcomes more than the quality of the doctor (within reason, of course - frauds and quacks in ANY field should not be lumped-in with valid practitioners).

Some of the leftist true-beleivers who were architects of both Hillarycare and Obamacare (guys like Rahm Emmanual's brother) actually embrace this sort of effect as a natural form of rationing (some people get denied care, but without a government order and therefore with full-deniability for government). This goes hand-in-hand with various plans favored by fans of Eugenics and advocates for "whole life" systems of healthcare resource allocation, where the young and the old and the sick and handicapped are discarded in favor of those who are productive and in their reproductive years. Most people see "Logan's Run" as a cautionary tale, but these people fetishize it as an ideal.

Sadly, no matter how many times anti-Marxists predict things that are absolutely predictable because they result from physical or economic laws, Marxists will deny them and convince the ignorant masses that they have a way to violate the laws of physics or the laws of economics.

Interesting contemporary commentary here.

It sounds like a somewhat familiar story to most people in tech: the engineers put out decent work and have a decent idea of what's possible and necessary, but are increasingly sidelined by a management that's far too egotistical to believe anyone else might know more than they do, and far too fawned upon to realize that.

See also: Commodore, a far bigger tragedy (S-100 was the Wintel platform of its day, it was never that great a tragedy that it was supplanted by the PC. Commodore, OTOH, was where the innovation was happening. *sigh*)

I believe they would. I worked for American Rocket Company in 1989. They developed hybrid engine IP that SpaceDev now owns.

Anyhow, in the late 80's the owners of what would become AmRoc decided to go into the launch business and build a single stage suborbital proof of concept vehicle. Oxidizer was helium pressurized LOX tank and steered by the injected fuel vector control (60% Hydrogen Peroxide, just a few gallons). It needed a guidance system. I was a new grad hired to help obtain it, and do some of the wiring and testing.

The vendor was in Boulder CO. I forget their name. The name no longer exists because AmRoc's chief competitor, Orbital Sciences Corporation sabotaged AmRoc's avionics contract. How? On the eve of our CDR with this Boulder company, all of the employees quit, except for the two owners and a single tech who'd started the company with them. Why did they quit? Orbital Sciences Corp (now Orbital ATK, after they acquired Alliance earlier this year) hired every one of them out from under their feet promising to open a Boulder office.

And it worked. Instead of a custom designed flight computer, gyros, telemetry, data acquisition and etc., we got an avionics system made from secondhand Japanese gyros, engineering model electronics left at the Boulder shop, and the rest from the Omega catalog. Furthermore, only two gyros were available, and in that case, the Z-axis is the only choice to go uninstrumented. Which meant that the flight profile would have to rely on a simple timer schedule: when to start steering away from vertical, when to separate payload, etc. And when to pull the umbilical cord.

All of these things contributed to the failure mode: which was that the LOX valve (a 2.5" gate valve) became encased in ice after frost from the previous day's rehearsal/test pooled around the valve and then refroze when the LOX was filled on launch day. It actually opened about 10%... enough to light the engine. And the person in charge of manually pulling the umbilicals (a payload customer, not an employee) jumped the gun and didn't wait for visual verification of liftoff... so no command could be given to close the valve and turn off the engine. As a result, the rocket sat on the pad and idled, the timer ran up to the moment when the thrust vector Peroxide started flowing... and the X and Y accelerometers saw no response... so more peroxide flowed. Until it pooled in the flame bucket and caught fire.

We sent a nice big black cloud over Santa Maria that day. You can read about it here. But we did prove how safe a hybrid is: if it had been a solid engine or liquid fueled rocket, there would have been a very large explosion. Instead we effectively had a tire fire.

Amroc laid off 90% of its employees within 2 months. Closed its doors and sold its IP to Westinghouse a couple of years after that. Westinghouse later sold it to SpaceDev. And some very happy very well paid engineers in Boulder Colorado earned some very bad karma.

Do I think that Orbital ATK would pay a third party vendor to skimp a little on Acceptance Testing of critical structural components made for SpaceX?

Why yes. Yes I do.

Don't think so http://herocomplex.latimes.com...

LA has a freeze cycle. It could even be hours of freezing temperatures in some areas, sometimes....

If you knew anything about nuclear weapons you'd know that the Soviet nuclear weapons program achieved a number of accomplishments that the US never attained, and had it's own pool of talent fully capable of independent accomplishment as well spies in the US program that helped leverage US research for Soviet purposes. They were going to get what they wanted one way or another.

The Soviets and Communism was an extremely dangerous and well armed menace. Can you acknowledge that?

Aug. 20, 1953: Soviets Say, 'We've Got the H-Bomb, Too'
Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies

So herewith, some examples.
The Ivanpah "Hoover Dam of solar" plant in the Mojave Desert;

http://articles.latimes.com/20...
http://calwatchdog.com/2014/04...

Sunrise Powerlink, a new transmission line to bring solar and windfield power generated in Imperial Country, CA to coastal markets:
http://www.biologicaldiversity...
http://truthsayer-esther.blogs...

Hawaii does not have many options when it comes to generating power in a spread-out island chain, but the best option in its volcanic environment would be geothermal. Or so one would think:
http://www.environmentalleader...

One of the more positive things that has happened recently is that they got starved for victims so they started attacking their own political camps. They were basically doing purity tests. Once everyone is a liberal how do they justify their existence? well... they then ask "how liberal are you"... and they just start goal posting moving to make sure they have enough people to be outraged with at any given time.

So anyway, they were doing that and eventually they hit a segment of their own political contingent that fought back. And now they're a little baffled because a lot of the wind has gone out of their sails. They're getting attacked from all sides now and they're losing credibility rapidly.

Its funny because they're such dogmatic robots that they don't really understand what happened.

We'll see... they'll either be suppressed to the general good of society or they'll osterize most of their political base which will lead to a structural schism in the faction which will weaken them collectively.

Hit. Nail. Head. I wish I had mod points today. What's happening with liberalism today is a case study in self destruction. All we need to do is sit back and watch it play out.

Like those ideological purity tests...if we started measuring conservatives on the basis of how conservative are you, it would surely mark the beginning of the end. Liberal purity tests have pushed their kind so far to the extreme, they're now attacking themselves. And their tactic of keeping one constituency or another outraged at any given time has totally backfired.

I don't really blame liberals for being baffled. They've spent so much time in an echo chamber, they've lost touch. When reality finally slaps them in the face, it is only natural for them to try to figure out what happened. The question is, do they have the capability to make the necessary changes in order to correct their course?

Somehow I doubt it. Liberals are so

There are fat cats running some of these charities, especially the name brands that people have heard of. Maybe Mr. Goodnight should raise his voice about that - that alone could make an enormous difference.

Is this why people become CEO's of charities - so they can enrich themselves and fly private jets to exclusive country clubs, while millions are starving? There's a basic disconnect of values here. A charity CEO should be making $125,000/yr.

Greece hasn't really implemented the austerity measures they were asked to implement, that is why they fared worse. And that is why they don't get more money now. And if 20% of Greek workforce wouldn't work for the government, their unemployment would have been much, much larger.

California just revoked the nonprofit status of Blue Shield, following an audit: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-blue-shield-california-20150318-story.html

I wasn't familiar with the specifics so I found this Wiki page. Apparently P visas are a general category for athletes, entertainers and their families who either represent something culturally unique, are part of an exchange program, or are internationally recognized (the main kind, P-1).

According the LA Times article linked in the Wiki page, programers have received P1-A visas specifically - the same subcategory as for any athlete.

It's insane to think Iran would open up its military facilities for inspection. No country has ever willingly done that except those that have surrendered unconditionally after defeat in war (such as Imperial Japan). It would essentially mean Iran gives up its right to exist as an independent sovereign nation. . . .

. . . Those insisting that Iran open up its military sites are insisting on something they know Iran won't do so as to derail the deal. Their intentions are not sincere.

Do tell.

U.S. Missile Base Braces for Soviet Inspectors
SOVIET INF MONITORS COMPLETE FIRST U.S. INSPECTIONS

Have a great day Comrade.