Non-green energy has externalities which are not directly attributable to the producers of that energy, which makes its price inconsistent with its true costs.
Solar panels are fairly "dirty" in production and disposal. It's only during the active life that they produce "clean" energy, but health-wise you get dinged pretty hard before and after.
In the vast majority of cases the subsidiaries come from the federal/state government, not the electric company...
But you still pay for them, regardless. Subsidies aren't free money that comes from nowhere, they just get charged to the taxpayers. At least in that case you could claim that the retired grandma isn't getting dinged, since the wealthier will take the larger portion of a progressive tax, rather than the more usage-based electric company fees.
Thanks to the Browser Wars and the other various corporate battles of the 90's, and the ensuing minor triumphs of open-source (especially BSD-licensed) compatibility projects, compatibility is a growing expectation among consumers, whether they realize it or not.
I really wish this was the case, but I've been seeing more and more lately attempts to lock down protocols and clients. Back when, anyone could connect to any IRC server with any IRC client. Pidgin could connect to AOL's AIM network (and still can). But recently, Steam Chat -- you can't do anything on it outside of the incredibly shitty Steam client. There's at least a third party plugin for pidgin to connect to skype, but it requires Skype to be to be running and all communications go through that.
I just like having all my IM networks and contacts in one chat client that I control.
But no, the problem is not "needs to have its ability to dial out disabled as fast as possible," the problem is that they need personal information wiped, as more and more, the smart phone has become the extension of everything else with tons of personal data on it.
I try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum on my phone, though there are certainly times when it's "inconvenient."
One big drawback of the "kill switch," it also kills much chance of you ever getting your phone back if the thief gets busted.
The weather in Texas was horrible when I went to visit (hot and humid), but that's apparently the norm. When I drove through the pan-handle a year later, it was also not anything worth writing home about, not even in the cities.
I will admit though, the best BBQ I have ever had in my entire life I had in Amarillo, TX. I would go back for that in an instant.
Maybe you should stop expecting people to congratulate you for being gay.
Maybe he's not looking for "congratulations." Not interested in pride parades, gay nightclubs, or any of that nonsense that a minority of gays fall for, but he doesn't want to have people go ape-shit if he casually mentions "his husband" the same way a straight man would reference his wife.
I wouldn't say hockey houligans are representative of anyone but themselves.
Plus, if you look at the icons of the people sending those tweets, it clear that many were not Bostonians and were fans of other NHL teams. There were only two teams in the playoffs by then, and hockey fans of other teams will still tune in to watch.
The problem is, California keeps electing politicians that while they apparently are exactly what California thinks is good, look to the rest of the non-blue country as not so hot.
I dunno, California also gave the country the Republican presidents not named Bush for the last 75 years.
Replacing a grass lawn with a cactus garden violates the terms of many homeowners' associations.
Guess what? Homeowners' associations will change. Their rules aren't static, unending, never-changing dictates. No, they're capricious dictates and they could be different after the next meeting.
Uh, yeah, that's right... You don't understand. Bandwidth isn't connectivity.
Bandwidth without connectivity is useless. The money you pay to your ISP partially goes towards connectivity. Instead, Comcast degrades the connections until web sites pay up, and they pocket the money. So no one wins except Comcast shareholders and executives.
I remember Sierra (the 1980s/90s game company) used to live in Oakhurst, California, in the Sierra Foothills close to Yosemite. Beautiful, remote, probably a fantastic place to work... and they complained often that it was hard to attract quality employees because their location wasn't close to a large city (or a large tech city, at least). In the 90s they gave up and moved headquarters to Bellvue, Washington, though much of their development was still in Oakhurst. That was pretty close to the end.
Replacing pensions with 401K's looked great on paper. But the unintended consequences weren't so great.
I think pensions were always, always a mistake. Being tied to a single employer, whether you like them or not, because your post-working life relies on them? Sure, it can be great to love your job, but it means far less worker freedom, and it hasn't worked out for any large company that used pensions either. What it ends up being is the company is saddled with lots of debt (pensions) that bleed it little by little. It's not a deadly cut, but it does mean that younger companies without that debt have a big advantage.
A pension is kicking the can down the road; forcing future generations to pay for what you should be paying now. You pay less now, but you have to pay more later. Except that when the 'later' finally comes, somehow companies, towns, even states find ways to invalidate the pension, usually through bankruptcy. I'm not saying 401ks have a pristine record, but they were no where near the disaster that pensions have been.
So no, I don't think it would be great to tie someone's retirement to the health of their current company. I think it's a stupid idea to tie health care with employers as well, for many reasons.
Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their children instead of leaving them to be raised by single mothers in broken homes in bad neighbourhoods.
This is almost as laughable as "The poor just need to stop being poor, then they could afford health care."
.... wait, are you saying these black men just aren't capable of staying in and raising a family?
They are not going to do that because a cell tower covers a lot more area than any protest.
Consider the protest in Nevada recently over the Bundy Ranch cattle being taken by armed federal agents. If you shut down cell access for that group, you are shutting down cell access for a potentially very large area of I-15. That's just not going to happen.
Sure it will, in the future people will just be used to it, and it will be seen as another minor annoyance in the complexities of life. "Oh, cell service is shut down? Yeah, there's a police action going on a few blocks away. Just wait a little while." Just like how those I-15 drivers have to wait if there's road work, a "traffic study," or an old fashioned accident.
Yes, because that would cost $0.001 more per phone and then they cant have solid gold toilets in the executive bathroom.
But if in 2015 all new phones and carriers will be required to support this, carriers and phone companies will be able to pass that expense through to the end user in the taxes and fees section. Everyone will have to do it, so no one will have the advantage of not complying.
People sent texts from protest marches in Iran and some of the Arab spring stuff, and the governments weren't successful in stopping that
However, law enforcement agencies did turn off cell capabilities in San Francisco on board the BART trains during the protests against police brutality: BART police and cell service.
Folks worried about losing data can use encryption if they want to protect their data,
Yeah....... unless you're a dedicated techie, that's just not happening.
This non-feature isn't being implemented by customer demand. This isn't something that these folks started offering then got popular and now they're standardizing on, nope. It's something they're making standard whether you want it or not.
That's because the folks who need it (the people who get their phones stolen) are fairly small in number. But when they need it, they really need it without delay.
as a 30 year old health male that hasn't needed to see a doctor in 10+ years, WHY THE F should i be paying more cause obama care cause i am naturally healthy?
That's the funny thing about healthy people -- they don't stay that way forever.
Irrelevant. The fact that this started at all is yet more evidence that the "kinder gentler" IRS that 1990 era reforms were supposed to bring about failed and/or didn't stick. The IRS demonstrates, decade after decade, that it is a rogue agency.
IRS enforces law passed by Congress == IRS is a rogue agency? You may not like the IRS, but in this case I think the blame should go to our lawmakers.
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Non-green energy has externalities which are not directly attributable to the producers of that energy, which makes its price inconsistent with its true costs.
Solar panels are fairly "dirty" in production and disposal. It's only during the active life that they produce "clean" energy, but health-wise you get dinged pretty hard before and after.
In the vast majority of cases the subsidiaries come from the federal/state government, not the electric company...
But you still pay for them, regardless. Subsidies aren't free money that comes from nowhere, they just get charged to the taxpayers.
At least in that case you could claim that the retired grandma isn't getting dinged, since the wealthier will take the larger portion of a progressive tax, rather than the more usage-based electric company fees.
Thanks to the Browser Wars and the other various corporate battles of the 90's, and the ensuing minor triumphs of open-source (especially BSD-licensed) compatibility projects, compatibility is a growing expectation among consumers, whether they realize it or not.
I really wish this was the case, but I've been seeing more and more lately attempts to lock down protocols and clients. Back when, anyone could connect to any IRC server with any IRC client. Pidgin could connect to AOL's AIM network (and still can). But recently, Steam Chat -- you can't do anything on it outside of the incredibly shitty Steam client. There's at least a third party plugin for pidgin to connect to skype, but it requires Skype to be to be running and all communications go through that.
I just like having all my IM networks and contacts in one chat client that I control.
Maybe comprehension is required, "bugs are shallow" means there will be a few bugs.
Raymond's proposition is that bugs will be easily or quickly found with lots of people looking at the code. That does not seem to be borne by reality.
Damned terrorists are now using the legal system!
But no, the problem is not "needs to have its ability to dial out disabled as fast as possible," the problem is that they need personal information wiped, as more and more, the smart phone has become the extension of everything else with tons of personal data on it.
I try to keep that sort of thing to a minimum on my phone, though there are certainly times when it's "inconvenient."
One big drawback of the "kill switch," it also kills much chance of you ever getting your phone back if the thief gets busted.
And people who can't stand a little cold might be upset to know it isn't really all that warm either.
"The coldest winter I ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco."
Well, it's not that bad. But it rarely goes above or below the 50s.
The weather in Texas was horrible when I went to visit (hot and humid), but that's apparently the norm. When I drove through the pan-handle a year later, it was also not anything worth writing home about, not even in the cities.
I will admit though, the best BBQ I have ever had in my entire life I had in Amarillo, TX. I would go back for that in an instant.
Maybe you should stop expecting people to congratulate you for being gay.
Maybe he's not looking for "congratulations." Not interested in pride parades, gay nightclubs, or any of that nonsense that a minority of gays fall for, but he doesn't want to have people go ape-shit if he casually mentions "his husband" the same way a straight man would reference his wife.
I wouldn't say hockey houligans are representative of anyone but themselves.
Plus, if you look at the icons of the people sending those tweets, it clear that many were not Bostonians and were fans of other NHL teams. There were only two teams in the playoffs by then, and hockey fans of other teams will still tune in to watch.
The problem is, California keeps electing politicians that while they apparently are exactly what California thinks is good, look to the rest of the non-blue country as not so hot.
I dunno, California also gave the country the Republican presidents not named Bush for the last 75 years.
Replacing a grass lawn with a cactus garden violates the terms of many homeowners' associations.
Guess what? Homeowners' associations will change. Their rules aren't static, unending, never-changing dictates. No, they're capricious dictates and they could be different after the next meeting.
Wait a minute, what is that bill I get every month?
You're signing the Comcast shareholder checks.
Uh, yeah, that's right... You don't understand. Bandwidth isn't connectivity.
Bandwidth without connectivity is useless. The money you pay to your ISP partially goes towards connectivity. Instead, Comcast degrades the connections until web sites pay up, and they pocket the money. So no one wins except Comcast shareholders and executives.
I remember Sierra (the 1980s/90s game company) used to live in Oakhurst, California, in the Sierra Foothills close to Yosemite. Beautiful, remote, probably a fantastic place to work... and they complained often that it was hard to attract quality employees because their location wasn't close to a large city (or a large tech city, at least). In the 90s they gave up and moved headquarters to Bellvue, Washington, though much of their development was still in Oakhurst. That was pretty close to the end.
Replacing pensions with 401K's looked great on paper. But the unintended consequences weren't so great.
I think pensions were always, always a mistake. Being tied to a single employer, whether you like them or not, because your post-working life relies on them? Sure, it can be great to love your job, but it means far less worker freedom, and it hasn't worked out for any large company that used pensions either. What it ends up being is the company is saddled with lots of debt (pensions) that bleed it little by little. It's not a deadly cut, but it does mean that younger companies without that debt have a big advantage.
A pension is kicking the can down the road; forcing future generations to pay for what you should be paying now. You pay less now, but you have to pay more later. Except that when the 'later' finally comes, somehow companies, towns, even states find ways to invalidate the pension, usually through bankruptcy. I'm not saying 401ks have a pristine record, but they were no where near the disaster that pensions have been.
So no, I don't think it would be great to tie someone's retirement to the health of their current company. I think it's a stupid idea to tie health care with employers as well, for many reasons.
California gave us Nixon.
And he was pretty good until his personal demons finally made him make a Big Mistake in his re-election. So sad, he would have won either way.
Black men can start by seriously trying to parent their children instead of leaving them to be raised by single mothers in broken homes in bad neighbourhoods.
This is almost as laughable as "The poor just need to stop being poor, then they could afford health care."
.... wait, are you saying these black men just aren't capable of staying in and raising a family?
They are not going to do that because a cell tower covers a lot more area than any protest.
Consider the protest in Nevada recently over the Bundy Ranch cattle being taken by armed federal agents. If you shut down cell access for that group, you are shutting down cell access for a potentially very large area of I-15. That's just not going to happen.
Sure it will, in the future people will just be used to it, and it will be seen as another minor annoyance in the complexities of life. "Oh, cell service is shut down? Yeah, there's a police action going on a few blocks away. Just wait a little while." Just like how those I-15 drivers have to wait if there's road work, a "traffic study," or an old fashioned accident.
Yes, because that would cost $0.001 more per phone and then they cant have solid gold toilets in the executive bathroom.
But if in 2015 all new phones and carriers will be required to support this, carriers and phone companies will be able to pass that expense through to the end user in the taxes and fees section. Everyone will have to do it, so no one will have the advantage of not complying.
People sent texts from protest marches in Iran and some of the Arab spring stuff, and the governments weren't successful in stopping that
However, law enforcement agencies did turn off cell capabilities in San Francisco on board the BART trains during the protests against police brutality: BART police and cell service.
Or just jam the frequency. If it's AT&T they don't have to do anything at all, the network will just get busy and quit working.
Shit, I didn't realize there were so many protests in my backyard. They must be hiding under the deck.
Folks worried about losing data can use encryption if they want to protect their data,
Yeah....... unless you're a dedicated techie, that's just not happening.
This non-feature isn't being implemented by customer demand. This isn't something that these folks started offering then got popular and now they're standardizing on, nope. It's something they're making standard whether you want it or not.
That's because the folks who need it (the people who get their phones stolen) are fairly small in number. But when they need it, they really need it without delay.
as a 30 year old health male that hasn't needed to see a doctor in 10+ years, WHY THE F should i be paying more cause obama care cause i am naturally healthy?
That's the funny thing about healthy people -- they don't stay that way forever.
Irrelevant. The fact that this started at all is yet more evidence that the "kinder gentler" IRS that 1990 era reforms were supposed to bring about failed and/or didn't stick. The IRS demonstrates, decade after decade, that it is a rogue agency.
IRS enforces law passed by Congress == IRS is a rogue agency?
You may not like the IRS, but in this case I think the blame should go to our lawmakers.
Huh. Constant insults and language like that, and you have low karma? I never would have guessed!