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What does this have to do with Trump? The EU increased their carbon output in 2017 (and is doing worse in 2018). Are they Trump supporters? https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The stupid EU keeps emitting more and more carbon. They aren't doing anything, but pointing fingers: https://www.reuters.com/articl...

If US numbers were climbing then you could maybe argue the US should do its part to cut back. But US numbers are going down. We're doing our part. And that's before you account for all the carbon sink qualities of US territory.

By your reasoning above, a gruesome analogy would be that you would prefer murder by throwing someone off a cliff because it takes orders of magnitude longer to die than simply shooting someone in the head with a gun.

So... Enough. Go whine to China or possibly Europe who's numbers UNLIKE US NUMBERS are not going down.

Look it up.

I looked, and this is what I found:
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Maybe global climate change is caused by humans, maybe it's not, but regardless, it does seem to be occurring. So slowing down behavior that is known to be environmentally destructive is good, but patting oneself on the back for a reduction that seems to be a drop in the bucket may be a bit premature.

Maybe you can talk Trump into easing economic sanctions in his little trade war with China based on adoption of environmentally friendly policies and products. Oh, wait... nevermind.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department late on Sunday filed suit after California Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation to restore open internet protections known as net neutrality in the state after the Trump administration repealed the rules in December 2017."

Admittedly Aluminum production is one of the most energy intense industries but the common factor is large scale consumption of power and the need for reliable power. You really don't want to expose a steel mill to a brownout.

And smelters in Europe go bankrupt when they can't secure connection to German power. So much for your "expensive overall power costs"...

When I saw Elon's tweet I thought it was a joke. 420? Really? I just thought he was stoned. Then I saw his Joe Rogan interview and realized that when it comes to pot Elon doesn't know the difference between his ass and a hole in the ground, which is rather endearing for a smart uber-geek. Joe offered, Elon was just being polite.

I honestly think that so much effort has been put into bringing down Tesla and denigrating Elon as a fraud, that he is justified in harassing the short sellers. I also suspect that the real motives of the Securities and Exchange folks are to prop up their pro-Trump big business buddies - and for that they all need some mob justice.

I really hate it when people bring Trump into every argument even when it's not relevant, but in light of current events with this administration it is very likely that government forces are busy at work to protect their establish big business buddies. After all, despite the major calamity of global warming, Trump still wants to roll back environmental protections. So, this securities and exchange bullshit is just what you'd expect...

I read that US school teachers are buying supplies with their own money. That's just crazy.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The US government got Assange to play fast and loose with a couple sexual liaisons, then convinced the women to file complaints?

For what it's worth, I think I remember hearing that it went something like this (not sure though, could be wrong):

Assange pretended to put on a condom to get one woman to agree to sex with him, and after having protected sex with another woman (who presumably insisted on checking that he had put on a condom), initiated further unprotected sex while she was asleep. Neither woman initially intended to take any action, but after talking to each other, became concerned that he could be a potential source of infection, and contacted the police to ask if Assange could be compelled to be tested for STIs.

The police took testimony, then indicated that they would be pressing rape charges, against the women's wishes. This is unusual, police usually only press rape charges if a woman agrees to testify for this purpose. However, a senior officer was on leave, and a less experienced officer was handling the case. The women withdrew their testimony, the senior officer returned from leave, and the case was dropped. Assange asked if he could leave the country, was told this was fine, and he left.

The case was then reopened without explanation. (This is the suspicious part.)

Again, not sure this is right, but if it is right, I don't have a problem with Assange being called a rapist, but the handling of the case still seems suspicious.

Actually I think there's some important differences if this recap is accurate.

My reading is that when the encounter happened the women understood something wrong had happened but weren't sure exactly how to feel about it. Sometimes it takes a while to process what happened and figure out both if you've been seriously wronged and if other people will take is seriously.

This first manifested with the STD fears, very legitimate, but also a concrete way to demonstrate they'd been harmed. And note they actually got a hold of Assange before going to the cops, so the trip to the cops wasn't just about STDs, it was to tell an authority figure what happened.

At that point I don't think they intended to press charges.... but they did intend to tell law enforcement what happened realizing that law enforcement might talk them into laying charges. So while they didn't go to the cops with the intent of press charges I do think they went to the cops with the intent of being convinced to lay charges (or some sort of other official action against Assange).

Now the first prosecutor subsequently said it wasn't rape but at this point the women had enough time to decide it was rape, so they got a lawyer and that lawyer got the investigation re-opened. The senior prosecutor took another look, decided it was rape, and went after Assange.

So I don't really find the re-opening suspicious, it's just one of these situations that falls between rape and really sketchy behaviour and it took a while for people to decide it was rape.

However, whatever steps taken should be done with actual planning by competent people that understands the complexities. Trump's administration clearly hire the dumbest and most unqualified grifters.

That applies to every single issue that trump has glommed on to. His schtick is to say "You hate foo? I hate foo too!! You should support me!" But foo is always secondary to his grifting. At best he neglects foo because it doesn't make him richer, but when foo becomes an obstacle to him, he abandons it.

Consequently everybody who thought they would get their issues addressed is actually getting fucked. If you cared about NSA spying on innocent people, the end result of trump's war on spies is going to be increased support for spies as the fact that they actually caught him and his crew conspiring with foreign countries. If you were a steel worker, you won't get jackshit because the steele corps are keeping all the profits for themselves. If you wanted better healthcare, all you are getting is more sabotage. If you were a democrat who didn't like how Comey treated Clinton, he tried to co-opt you into supporting his firing of Comey. If you wanted more racism, trump's going to fire his most effective racist because sessions won't do enough to protect trump from a criminal investigation.

ET4S: Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit.

Ireland collects disputed Apple taxes in full ahead of appeal

They just got nailed for letting landlords to target ad's based on racial groups. Seems they do not practice what they preach when it comes to the bottom dollar. Ok for them, but not for others. It's wrong who ever does it in my mind. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Trump has nothing to do with this except for a comment from him at one point that he wanted to investigate the missing funds.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

• The first phone with an on-screen keyboard was the LG Prada (introduced a few months before the iPhone). In fact it was the first capacitive touchscreen phone, not the iPhone as widely believed.
• Here's pinch to zoom in 1988.
• Android had whole device search before Apple. But Apple was first to file for, and got the patent (Google apparently didn't think the idea was patentable). Google removed it from Android when Apple began using the patent to sue.
• Digital cameras had an orientation sensor to detect if a photo was taken in portrait or landscape mode, and would display the photo as such (which creates the annoying problem where you take a photo in portrait mode, but want to view it in landscape mode - the device won't let you do it because it keeps flipping the photo's playback orientation).
• While Apple pushed screens past 300 PPI, Android was actually the one which started the high-res craze. The original iPhone was only 163 PPI. The first Galaxy S was 233 PPI. And things began climbing from there. So picking 300 PPI as a threshold is extremely arbitrary. Apple was constrained to doubling the screen resolution (163 PPI to 326 PPI) due to limitations in iOS' design. Android's design allows variable screen size to resolution ratios, so its PPI climbed gradually as manufacturers pushed out higher and higher res screens.
• Spell checkers are far, far older than phones. I remember seeing the squiggly line underneath spelling errors in the late 1990s.
• Not sure why Apple is credited with multitasking cards. iOS multitasking initially wasn't true multitasking - only certain functions (like music playback) were allowed to continue running when an app was in the foreground. Outside of those functions, iOS would basically task-switch, not multi-task (continue to run the program in the background). Android had true multitasking from the get-go, killing tasks in FIFO order as the device ran out of RAM.
• Cut, copy, paste is credited to Android in the list. But Apple introduced those concepts with the original Macintosh in the 1980s (though they probably lifted the idea from Xerox PARC).
• The dock was introduced with NextSTEP way back in 19888. Though to be fair, Jobs was a co-founder of the company (probably some low-rank grunt developer came up with the idea).
• Portrait photos (using two lenses to determine distance and blurring the background) was something I predicted way back in the 1990s when digital point and shoot cameras first began coming out. I'm sure I wasn't the first one to think of it either. It's an obvious idea if you understand how an interferometer works. You realize you don't need an entire circular lens to create the blur, you can simulate it with just two physical points on opposite sides of a virtual lens.
• Pay-by-phone was available in Korea (primarily with Samsung's phones since they had NFC first) way back in 2011. Apple was just the first to introduce the function in the U.S.
• You could do WiFi calls on both devices using a SIP app long before they began adding the capability to your phone's dailer. In particular, Sprint partnered with Google Voice in 2011 - your Sprint number became your Google Voice number, allowing you to make and receive calls from your phone number over cellular, WiFi, or cellular data. This was years before the 2014 "innovation" date listed in the spreadsheet.
• Voicemail

I mean, I assume you're equally diligent about reporting fires in gasoline cars, right? I totally remember your coverage of, say, the million BMWs that were recalled in 2017 due to over 40 parked cars - not cars involved in accidents, but parked cars - spontaneously bursting into flames, right? That's just up to 2017. And they keep getting more fires and keep issuing more recalls this year. The BMW fires have been particularly prolific in South Korea, where 11 burst into flames in July alone.

Want something more recent? Just seven days ago, Ford recalled two million trucks due to fire risks. GM's last major fire-related recall was a couple years, their *third attempt* to fix a problem that was causing cars - often ones that were parked - to burst into flames. Also seven days ago a million Priuses were recalled due to a fire risk in the wiring harness. Need I keep going? Remember here that we're not talking about fires in these cars from crashes - we're talking only the subset of fires that occur during normal use. Fires in gasoline cars during crashes are effectively a problem flagged "WONTFIX" by the NHTSA.

Pff, as if the international bankers are just going to let one of their territories go.

I'm fairly ignorant about these matters, but I if by "international bankers" you mean the IMF, then I believe that dollar or yuan makes no difference to them.

Sorry, bad link in previous message.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-day-plastic/southeast-asias-plastic-addiction-blights-worlds-oceans-idUSKCN1J10LM

Sometimes I don't know if you shorts get things wrong through deliberate FUD, or just a really bad game of telephone. Because your (incorrect) initial rumour was "The Air Force is considering revoking Musk's security clearance", but that's apparently already morphed to "has just revoked his security clearance and canceled all contracts". The latter BTW having nothing to do with Musk's security clearance regardless.

But for those who actually care? Even the initial claim was wrong. "Reports that Musk security clearance under review are inaccurate: U.S. Air Force".

Objecting to nukes because of economics makes much more sense. They are far too expensive, and the cost is going up while the cost of solar, wind, and storage is falling.

US costs are going up because each nuke is still a site-built science fair project that requires individual plant approval. China is building them for less, and will probably be the first country to offer factory-built modular reactors.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

How much would your next vacation cost if Boeings had to be built at each airport and then individually qualified?

I mean, 3 humans, lives snuffed out by the horror of nuclear power - and what does it give us?

Well it provides employment for the homeless and workers from around the world in a high tech clean-up that proves the benevolence od the nuclear industry.

The people who enthusiastically support nuclear power now have a way to sincerely show their commitment to their cause by participating in the effort side by side with the workers who are cleaning it up.

Facebook is committed to answer to the US government as it is an American company and conducts business under its regulatory control.

But what about in countries where almost the entire citizenry relies on Facebook as its primary source of information? One of these is the Philippines, where once tabloids and tv dominated, today Facebook is THE biggest medium to disseminate information, thanks to the mobile phone and subsidized access to Facebook courtesy of the telco duopoly.

Duterte's campaign team used it to propel a known murderer into the presidency, whereby he immediately implemented his War on Drugs which has since claimed over 12,000 lives. His first two years in office has also seen the economy plummet to new lows, with inflation at its highest in close to a decade and currently the highest in asia.

And now that Duterte's social media propaganda is state-sponsored, you can then understand why his approval ratings are the highest in history. This is even if his sound bites make Trump sound like Anne Frank in comparison (even more so in the vernacular).

I am unsure if Facebook will be able to fix itself because if it doesn't, you can very well imagine what the consequences are for Filipinos.

More Random Bullshit? The solution to the Putin Problem is the elimination of his security forces without hesitation. That involves the support of EU armies against Russia, and the direct provision of armaments to both Ukraine and the Free Syria rebels against Assad and Putin. Guess what is already happening, or are you not aware of PESCO since your news is filtered for you in St. Petersburg?

You blame oil price declines? Not so fast... The below was originally written in response to an article blaming the Venezuelan economic issues on oil price declines, so you’ll see references to that. I’m posting this as-is, rather than rewriting it. In the six months since I wrote it, things have only gotten worse, in terms of lack of food and in terms of oil production (despite recently rising oil prices, up $10/barrel in that time), to the point where we’re seeing news stories about treason charges for oil workers in a futile attempt to get production back up at government-run PDVSA. How bad is it according to Reuters?

“About 25,000 PDVSA workers resigned between the start of January 2017 and the end of January 2018, out of a workforce last officially reported at 146,000, Reuters reported last week. The resignations – including high-level professionals that are now almost impossible to replace – have only accelerated since Quevedo arrived, two dozen industry sources told Reuters.”

Disclaimers:
I’ve never been to Venezuela. This isn’t original research, it’s collating from publicly available sources. I did run the results past three people who live in Venezuela and they agreed it describes what they’ve seen/experienced.

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The article contains some facts, but it also includes opinions and as Gilberto pointed out, it leaves many facts out, mostly about the government as related to the economy.

Here are some additional facts and opinions to consider:

From 1998 to 2018, oil production in Venezuela is down from 3.5 million barrels per day in December of 1997 vs 2 million in October of 2017.

So what happened in the last 20 years? From Wikipedia :
“After Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country’s oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under his Bolivarian Revolution. Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields on stream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total. Chávez’s policies damaged Venezuela’s oil industry due to lack of investment, corruption and cash shortages.”

Probably just a fluke, though, right? I mean, steel production in Venezuela increased from 3400 tons in 1998 to about 4600 tons in 2008. The steel industry was nationalized by the Venezuelan government in 2008 and production declined to under 1600 tons. Huh, definitely a pattern forming. Similar stories of lower production and losses in the other industries after they were taken over: aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media.

How well does the government run the nationalized oil company, PDVSA? Reuters:
“The output fall could not come at a worse time, with the economy in crisis and the socialist government struggling to pay its foreign debt.” and “Compounding the situation, another eight managers and employees of state oil company PDVSA in eastern Venezuela were arrested in recent days for fiddling production figures, chief prosecutor Tarek Saab told reporters.

In a major corruption sweep engulfing the oil sector, about two dozen high-level executives have already been arrested in recent weeks, ridding PDVSA of much of its top brass.”

Without the government takeover, even if oil c

You blame oil price declines? Not so fast... The below was originally written in response to an article blaming the Venezuelan economic issues on oil price declines, so you’ll see references to that. I’m posting this as-is, rather than rewriting it. In the six months since I wrote it, things have only gotten worse, in terms of lack of food and in terms of oil production (despite recently rising oil prices, up $10/barrel in that time), to the point where we’re seeing news stories about treason charges for oil workers in a futile attempt to get production back up at government-run PDVSA. How bad is it according to Reuters?

“About 25,000 PDVSA workers resigned between the start of January 2017 and the end of January 2018, out of a workforce last officially reported at 146,000, Reuters reported last week. The resignations – including high-level professionals that are now almost impossible to replace – have only accelerated since Quevedo arrived, two dozen industry sources told Reuters.”

Disclaimers:
I’ve never been to Venezuela. This isn’t original research, it’s collating from publicly available sources. I did run the results past three people who live in Venezuela and they agreed it describes what they’ve seen/experienced.

—
The article contains some facts, but it also includes opinions and as Gilberto pointed out, it leaves many facts out, mostly about the government as related to the economy.

Here are some additional facts and opinions to consider:

From 1998 to 2018, oil production in Venezuela is down from 3.5 million barrels per day in December of 1997 vs 2 million in October of 2017.

So what happened in the last 20 years? From Wikipedia :
“After Hugo Chávez officially took office in February 1999, several policy changes involving the country’s oil industry were made to explicitly tie it to the state under his Bolivarian Revolution. Since then, PDVSA has not demonstrated any capability to bring new oil fields on stream since nationalizing heavy oil projects in the Orinoco Petroleum Belt formerly operated by international oil companies ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Total. Chávez’s policies damaged Venezuela’s oil industry due to lack of investment, corruption and cash shortages.”

Probably just a fluke, though, right? I mean, steel production in Venezuela increased from 3400 tons in 1998 to about 4600 tons in 2008. The steel industry was nationalized by the Venezuelan government in 2008 and production declined to under 1600 tons. Huh, definitely a pattern forming. Similar stories of lower production and losses in the other industries after they were taken over: aluminum, cement, gold, iron, farming, transportation, electricity, food production, banking, paper and the media.

How well does the government run the nationalized oil company, PDVSA? Reuters:
“The output fall could not come at a worse time, with the economy in crisis and the socialist government struggling to pay its foreign debt.” and “Compounding the situation, another eight managers and employees of state oil company PDVSA in eastern Venezuela were arrested in recent days for fiddling production figures, chief prosecutor Tarek Saab told reporters.

In a major corruption sweep engulfing the oil sector, about two dozen high-level executives have already been arrested in recent weeks, ridding PDVSA of much of its top brass.”

Without the government takeover, even if oil c

Oil in the ground ultimately isn't really worth that much when you can't extract, process, and ship it. And Venezuela's aging oil infrastructure has been struggling for years now. Case in point this article from Routers that reports that Venezuela's tankers have been banned from some ports because they're so poorly maintained that they leak unacceptable amounts of oil into the local area. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

At the end of the day this really does show one of the weakness of socialist monoculture economies. If the one good you can sell starts too loose value you'll quickly find yourself in a pretty dire situation. Even more so if you're government is both corrupt and too incompetent to modernize your industrial equipment.

The Olkiluoto 3 plant in Finland, was planned to be finished 2010, now it is delayed till 2019.
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Capacity: It will have a nameplate capacity of 1600 MW.
Costs: The cost of Olkiluoto 3 was initially put at 3.2 billion euros but Areva in 2012 estimated the overall cost at closer to 8.5 billion euros. Since then, it has not updated its cost projection.

EDF on Monday confirmed a 10.5 billion euro cost estimate for a similar European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) it is building in Flamanville, France, which has also suffered delays and cost overruns.

Lets check what a ~10MW windmill costs?
The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed. Most of the commercial-scale turbines installed today are 2 MW in size and cost roughly $3-$4 million installed. Source: http://www.windustry.org/how_m...
and https://www.wind-energy-the-fa...

With "installed" in this case is meant: already operational ... so lets find a 10MW one ...
Siemens said it has committed to reducing offshore wind costs to â80/MWh including connection costs by 2025. Hannibal said the target of â100/MWh will be met by 2020. This are production costs of power, not the cost of the turbine, from: https://www.windpowermonthly.c...

This is a 9.5MW turbine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Hm, still not finding anything concrete regarding the price of a turbine, lets go with this corner numbers: https://about.bnef.com/blog/2h... The price of wind turbines set for delivery in 2H 2017 averaged $990,000 per MW according to Bloomberg New Energy Financeâ(TM)s Wind Turbine Price Index.

So, the nuclear power plant above costs close to 10billion for 1600MW. That is 6.2million per MW.
So with the cost of the nuclear plant I could build offshore wind parks 6 times as big. Considering CFs, that still two to three times more power for the same price.

Of course you can blame me for cherry picking a new power plant famous for cost overruns. But it is the most soon finished on in the west. Costs for nukes will increase, cost for wind is constantly decreasing.

P.S. this is an interesting read, too: https://www.irena.org/Document...

I have not been to Europe since the 70s. So I have to rely upon reporting.

In 2013 this was a thing

And in 2017, so was this

And then this year...

Imagine my surprise that this began in the 90s, around Strasbourg apparently...

Reuters, reasonably reliable, offers some more insight. Many reasons, even insurance fraud. Apparently the term 'youths' isn't very precise.

But they do not refute the reality that car burnings are a New Years' celebration in some areas of France, and even for general frivolity or riots. At least France doesn't seem to suffer from the Friday Night Fights so common in other parts of the world. And there are in fact incidents of car burnings in Sweden, who knew?

Here's one of the so called failures of Communism in the Soviet Union's planned economy:

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/0...
Citing some of the thousands of letters reportedly received on the subject, Pravda said farmers were complaining that in some areas bread was being fed to cattle and hogs. A writer from Kursk said: ''I often see people walking out of a bread store with 15 to 20 loaves. Clearly it's not for them - it's to feed their pigs, chickens and ducks.'' Less Bread, More Meat

If the farmers get feed grain cheaply, they can produce cheaper meat and poultry - and thus lower consumer dependence on bread. That, in turn, would free more grain for feed and help achieve the Government's longstanding goal of balancing consumption of meat and bread.

Now see this news item a couple years back:
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Mike Yoder’s herd of dairy cattle are living the sweet life. With corn feed scarcer and costlier than ever, Yoder increasingly is looking for cheaper alternatives — and this summer he found a good deal on ice cream sprinkles.

“It’s a pretty colorful load,” said Yoder, who operates about 450 dairy cows on his farm in northern Indiana. “Anything that keeps the feed costs down.”

As the worst drought in half a century has ravaged this year’s U.S. corn crop and driven corn prices sky high, the market for alternative feed rations for beef and dairy cows has also skyrocketed. Brokers are gathering up discarded food products and putting them out for the highest bid to feed lot operators and dairy producers, who are scrambling to keep their animals fed.

In the mix are cookies, gummy worms, marshmallows, fruit loops, orange peels, even dried cranberries. Cattlemen are feeding virtually anything they can get their hands on that will replace the starchy sugar content traditionally delivered to the animals through corn.

“Everybody is looking for alternatives,” said Ki Fanning, a nutritionist with Great Plains Livestock Consulting in Eagle, Nebraska. “It’s kind of funny the first time you see it but it works well. The big advantage to that is you can turn something you normally throw away into something that can be consumed. The amazing thing about a ruminant, a cow, you can take those type of ingredients and turn them into food.”

Then we have China. In general, they cars are NEW, but more importanly, ppl are buying new cars, not just replacing them. So, China is going to add a bunch more, while the majority of their ICE vehicles remain on the road. Than we have the issue that their electricity is FILTHY. They still have 80+% coming from Coal. Worst yet, they have ZERO slack in their AE and continue to add more COal than AE. As such, all of their new electricity for charging EVs is going to come from coal.

Renewables and nuclear were 30%So lie number 1.

There is a lot of slack in China's AE. So lie number 2.

Power from wind, solar and hydro plants is often wasted as there is not enough transmission capacity to absorb it, leading to high curtailment rates, especially in northwestern China.

AE was higher than thermal And for thermal, gas was higher than coal anyway. Lie number 3.

Of course, when you base your conclusion on 3 lies, the conclusion will also be wrong.
China's % of electricity from coal is decreasing

Actually, no. Up to now, the 2nd and 3rd generation nuke reactors have not had the ability to load follow or scale up/down easily.
Now, the most of the 4th gen reactors are designed for load following (i.e. they can move up/down in load relatively quickly), and with the SMRs, they can bring up and down various reactors.

My reason for saying that we should not be say more than 50% dependent on single sources is due to national security reasons. We really need a matrix of energy sources.
A utility in Wyoming, in fact, in most of the west, can easily get on-demand base-load energy from geo-thermal. It is cheaper than nukes, but it still runs risk of running out.
For the northwest/northeast, both have loads of hydro. However, with climate change, these areas could easily run out of water. Venezuela is having serious budget issues, is also having serious drought issues and lacks electricity.
So, these should ideally have about 50% dependent on say hydro/ge-thermal, but also have wind, solar and nuclear.

This really is about national security, not just the lowest price.

her lawyer should have told her that the border agents have that authority... as bad as it sounds...

That's debatable. Customs and Border Protection decided for themselves that they had the authority to search cell phones without a warrant, but that's being challenged in court.

The judge brought up the the similarity to a 2014 case where the Supreme Court held that police have to obtain a warrant to search a cellphone and refused to dismiss the case, so there's a reasonable chance of justice prevailing.

As for Maduro, he publicly called Bernie Sanders "our revolutionary friend" and praised his candidacy. Pretty odd thing for a non-socialist to do.

Tourists flock not to the beaches, but the slums to see '21st-century socialism'
From a trickle a few years ago there are now thousands, travelling individually and on package tours, exploring a leftwing mecca which promises to build social justice in the form of "21st century socialism".

Guiccifer is a single guy in US custody in the US.
Anything else you wrote is utter bullshit, and you probably know it.

Story with a picture of him.

Not sure why you think outright making shit up is convincing anyone. You are obviously an idiot if you fell for the crap you repeated.

This is what Trump actually said from the Reuters The folks who did the interview.... ""I won't mention names but when they take certain people off of Twitter or Facebook and they're making that decision, that is really a dangerous thing because that could be you tomorrow,"" Trump said. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

The smart ones who owned TSLA got out at $380. Musk pulled the entire "go private" thing out of his ass and opened the company to potentially billions in liability. All for a short uptick in share price. This will go down in history as the most self-destructive tweet ever. Tesla was already a ticking time bomb but Musk's obsession with short sellers, his narcissism, and a healthy mix of drugs, resulted in the equivalent of him pulling the wrong wire, causing the clock to reset downward to 10 seconds.

Musk's disciples should have seen the event as a sacrifice by their Jesus so they could have gotten out at a price close to an all time high, yet I bet some are going to ride it all the way down to zero.

Where does it say Neighborhood Electric Vehicle? A Neighborhood Electric Vehicle is basically a golf cart, capable of up to 25mph. Article says up to 90km/h (55mph) and 90km (75 mile) range so I don't know where this "Neighborhood Electric Vehicle" suggestion in the description came from.

12,000 euros is only $13,700 which is a great price point, $10,000 less than the next cheapest electric car, the smart fortwo ED, but I really think it needs at least a 70mph top speed so it can attempt to drive safely on US highways. Even if the range decreases some, the greatly increased usability is worth it.

Also, after seeing that the smart fortwo ED has a 80hp electric motor, are they sure that 20hp electric motor they're planning on using can reach 55mph? They look roughly the same size and that's 1/4th the power, 55mph might be optimistic, or it might take a very long time to reach 55.

And maybe $13,700 isn't that great, considering you can get a 4 door Fiesta for the same price, but it's nice seeing EVs drop to the prices of the cheapest ICE vehicles even if they aren't quite as practical.

1. There's no insurance that will work with crypto
2. Most people don't understand RSA tokens, and there's a pretty good chance he would have lost access even to himself going that route.

This site used to have knowledgeable people

1. https://www.reuters.com/articl...

2. If you are too stupid to use an RSA token your too stupid to have 24 million in bitcoin and the phone company can't do much to help you.

These gun nut assholes think it's ok to shoot somebody for knocking at your door for directions, or trying to get help after a car wreck. You might also notice a pattern in the victims of these crimes. The default solution to problems in America seems to be "shoot first, ask questions later."

One thing everyone here is missing is that U.S. Steel and Nucor Steel have been fighting every single exemption request companies have put forth to the U.S. Commerce Department. These companies want exemptions from the tariffs so they can continue to get steel at reasonable prices and/or quality and type they need.

Instead, the two largest producers of steel in the country have raised their prices and told the Commerce Department the exemptions are bogus because they can make the product, even though in at least one case, a company stopped buying steel from U.S. Steel because of quality control issues.

Of course politics plays a big role in all this:

Charlotte-based Nucor, which financed a documentary film made by a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump, and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, which has previously employed several top administration officials, have objected to 1,600 exemption requests filed with the Commerce Department over the past several months.

To date, their efforts have never failed, resulting in denials for companies that are based in the United States but rely on imported pipes, screws, wire and other foreign steel products for their supply chains.

In one case, a company stated “the sole U.S. producer of high speed steel material appropriate for cutting tools is not currently ramping up any production to expand this aspect of their business and has not shown any interest in quoting new business.”

As the tariffs take hold, expect prices of finished goods to rise substantially and more businesses to either go under or relocate out of the country. The largest nail manufacturer in the country has already laid off 12% of its workforce, cut hours for the remainder and is still on the brink of extinction, so it has to make such a decision.

https://www.reuters.com/articl... The Reuters article seems to be backed up better, but I don't put it past the Saudis to agree to talks to help them preserve the value of their recent open market stock purchase so they can to proceed to liquidate. Rei "forgot" to mention not only was SoftBank not interested last year in Tesla because they wanted Musk out, but they also said $300 a share was too expensive. From SoftBank, some of the dumbest money around. And this was when Tesla'a finances weren't nearly as precarious as they are today. Speaking of Tesla's finances, GreyBar just slapped a mechanics lien against Tesla, adding to the growing pile. They are a Fortune 500 electrical services company. First large vendor not getting paid. And lest you think high level talks always portend of something coming to fruition, remember Lehman? https://www.reuters.com/articl...

https://www.reuters.com/articl... The Reuters article seems to be backed up better, but I don't put it past the Saudis to agree to talks to help them preserve the value of their recent open market stock purchase so they can to proceed to liquidate. Rei "forgot" to mention not only was SoftBank not interested last year in Tesla because they wanted Musk out, but they also said $300 a share was too expensive. From SoftBank, some of the dumbest money around. And this was when Tesla'a finances weren't nearly as precarious as they are today. Speaking of Tesla's finances, GreyBar just slapped a mechanics lien against Tesla, adding to the growing pile. They are a Fortune 500 electrical services company. First large vendor not getting paid. And lest you think high level talks always portend of something coming to fruition, remember Lehman? https://www.reuters.com/articl...

they are not calling for open borders

Yes, they are calling for open borders — because, in their feverish minds, open borders are better than Trump enforcing them.

but rather for an end to an organization that has become associated with Trump's immigration policies

There is nothing wrong — to a rational mind — with Trump's immigration policies. If a country can control, who crosses its borders, it ought to be able to capture and detain those, who cross them without the country's permission. It also ought to be able to pursue those, who've managed to avoid the capture and detention earlier.

That's all, there is nothing atrocious nor even cruel about it — and those, who insist otherwise, want just that: open borders.

But only for the US. Because they are driven not by humane compassion towards the refugees — had compassion been the motivation, the same groups who organized the "migrant caravan", for example, would've demanded Mexico give them refuge — but by the desire to weaken America. Which has, indeed, been the policy of American Communists for decades and the reason, USSR has been financing them for as long.

Facebook wants to outsource the moderation to insulate themselves from eventual blowback. So the big boys get to decide what is allowed on the platform and they can settle their conflicts amongst themselves. Here's a link which mentions the outsourcing https://www.reuters.com/articl...

(1) https://www.reuters.com/articl... [reuters.com]

Those are people who don't have health insurance, often by choice, not people who can't get health insurance. That's a big difference. The ACA health plans are such a financial ripoff that it's rational to be uninsured, in particular if you're young and healthy. If I could, I wouldn't have ACA-compliant coverage; as is, I picked the cheapest and most useless plan I could get and pay everything out of pocket.

(2) I'm pretty sure spending more on healthcare for people who are un/underinsured will make them healthier. Not sure how you can disagree with that.

No, more spending does not translate into better health. For example, the US spends a lot more per capita than countries with better health outcomes. And it's been shown that people on Medicaid have health outcomes that are no better, and often worse, than those with no insurance at all. Ultimately, the best way to improve health is for people to live a healthy lifestyle and take preventative measures; healthcare has a very limited effect on health, and too much healthcare spending (as in the US) has a statistically negative effect on population health.

(3) This is debatable but there's numerous studies indicating that healthy workers contribute to a more robust economy. See: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n... [harvard.edu]

The article talks about "indirect costs associated with preventable chronic diseases". What are those "preventable chronic diseases"? Heart disease and diabetes. The way to eliminate those costs is to actually prevent the preventable diseases. How do you do that? By maintaining a normal weight, eating a healthy diet, and exercising. None of those involve healthcare spending. In fact, excessive healthcare spending is what encourages people to lead the kinds of lifestyles that lead to preventable chronic diseases in the first place, because they assume (correctly) that they don't have to face the financial or personal consequences of their sloth and gluttony for many years to come.

OK, now I know you're just making shit up to justify your world view.

My world view is based on actually having looked at the data and having been insured in half a dozen different systems around the world. I encourage you to look at the data yourself, instead of trying to find various biased secondary articles written by journalists.

OK, now I know you're just making shit up to justify your world view.
(1) https://www.reuters.com/articl...
(2) I'm pretty sure spending more on healthcare for people who are un/underinsured will make them healthier. Not sure how you can disagree with that.
(3) This is debatable but there's numerous studies indicating that healthy workers contribute to a more robust economy. See: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/n...

"... including a 175 percent increase in shipments to the United Kingdom, and a doubling to France ..."
https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Just because Putin had a preference it doesn't mean that the government of Russia caused Trump to win. Believing that is just stupid.

If you want to know why he preferred Trump, read this: http://time.com/4422723/putin-....
And this: https://www.reuters.com/articl...

Took them a while. The problem's been known for years — even in peaceful Finland... And Russians have used malware to get location-data to target Ukrainian forces. And, of course, the NATO.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...

On the other hand are the subsidies that America has. How much government money is given to farmers?

US farmers received about $172 billion in 2010. The EU is considering cutting its subsidies down, by 2027, to $438 billion. Right now, it's about 3 times the US farm subsidies - and may "only" be 2.5 times that amount, in another 9 years.

With America it's like the playing field is never tilted enough in their favour.

Because it usually isn't. Your own request about farm subsidies shows as much.

And yet we never run out of other people's money to bail out banks, GM, or get new toys for the military.... (eyeroll)

Yeah, Venezuela's banks are doing JUST FINE.

Venezuelan banks shrivel as inflation roars and credit dries up

Authoritarian statism is a requirement for socialism. Without authoritarian rule how can you reach the point where "everyone owns the means of production" when you have to take those means from the original owners? Without authoritarian rule how a socialist society prevent the tragedy of the commons when non-believers dare to try to get more than society says they need?

So, please no childish bullshit about how authoritarian states are "true socialists". Because they most certainly are "true socialists".