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  1. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Right, because of radiation fear. But a windmill is less radioactive than a coal plant (no teardown escrow there) and has less harmful substances in it than an old office building (also no escrow).

  2. Here, have another cup.

  3. It's nothing compared to old coal plants on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 2

    They seem oddly unconcerned about tering down old coal plants full of asbestoes, PCBs, and radioactive ash and slag.

    Talk about a hazardous and expensive clean-up.

  4. Re:That's some really expensive demolition on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the old equipment presents MORE value and then leaves a perfectly good tower to refit for further power generation, that can only improve on the worst case of blow up and cut up.

  5. Re:Subsidies are the solution... on Retiring Worn-Out Wind Turbines Could Cost Billions That Nobody Has (energycentral.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's definitely an anti-wind hit piece. Can you name any structures today that have their tear down cost in escrow anywhere? All those worn out old skyscrapers? And unlike a windmill, if they fall, it's in a populated area where people get hurt. Also, there's little chance of a windmill in the middle of nowhere becoming a crack house.

  6. First, the stuff served at Jonestown was an off brand, not the real thing.

    Second, the paid ads were a minuscule part of it. Perhaps you missed the bit about all the sock puppets Twitter is purging and all the actually fake news on Facebook.

  7. You act as if you expect disagreement from me. I was opposed to the entire snipe hunt that was Iraq. Personally, I didn't want Clinton or Trump.

    But I fail to see how rooting out some corruption is not better than leaving it all in place.

  8. That's the ads. Seperate from (but related to) fake media campaigns.

    You'll never gain understanding if you studiously look away like a baby that doesn't want strained peas.

  9. This is why I have a "dumb" TV. Accepts HDMI, composite, and RF inputs only. No network connection is needed or wanted.

    That's what the Raspberry Pi is for.

  10. Wow, that's a lot of cool aid!

  11. Have you forgotten all the ads and fake media campaigns?

  12. You consider an unfriendly power hacking our election to be somehow mouselike?

    So you won't mind if a bunch of hackers make sure Ficus wins every election for the next 10 years?

  13. Re: Why not employ skilled Americans? on Microsoft Could Move Some Jobs Abroad Because of US Immigration Policies, Top Exec Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then they're not all that serious about there being a shortage.

  14. Re: Why not employ skilled Americans? on Microsoft Could Move Some Jobs Abroad Because of US Immigration Policies, Top Exec Says (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should consider older workers or open an office somewhere in the midwest where the cost of living is more reasonable.

  15. But there is a lot more to it than the drop. You may notice that the mass shootings are more of the pray and spray variety. Not exactly a good fit for bolt action.

  16. What's really sad is that the patent pools are so packed with greed that they'd rather crap their pants and die an ignoble death than offer a better deal. They will not be missed.

  17. What part of mixed feelings was unclear?

  18. Facebook is known to create "shadow profiles" on people who have never used Facebook, and so have never agreed to any EULA with Facebook.

  19. That's my point.

  20. And don't have anyone wrongly report a debt.

  21. The majority of people going nuts and shooting people en-masse choose a fairly close range and rapid firing. They don't tend to be the sort of people who practice seriously enough that they would be any more accurate with a bolt action rifle. There are exceptions, of course, but unless we want to ban butter knives, there needs to be a cut-off somewhere.

    I have mixed feelings about that approach, but there is some logic to the thought.

  22. Lets put it this way, if you went nuts, which would you choose if you wanted to put a lot of holes in a crowd of people at fairly close range?

    The bolt action is absolutely the correct choice for a single target at 100 yards.

  23. It's not about the size of each hole, it's about how quickly you can put holes in lots of things with accuracy.

  24. Re:You can not apologize yourself! on PayPal Told Customer Her Death Breached Its Rules (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you can certainly offer an apology. It's up to the offended party to accept it or not.

  25. Re:God damnit AT&T. on AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't provide the bandwidth even in densely packed cities. They have no incentive as long as competition is weak to non-existent.

    Part of the problem is free market cheerleaders that don't realize that 2 players in a market is not a healthy competitive environment. Basically, they have a grade school level understanding of the market.