I don't think passing along liability costs to customers is a good thing, but I do think PG&E was assuming they could do this as a part of their planning.
PG&E was a customer of ours, so of course we were talking about them at work. Everyone seemed to agree that even a couple of years ago it would have seemed absurd to think that PG&E was not a good reliable investment, much less that it would file for bankruptcy with a possibility of going out of business. With an existing utility it's almost like printing money as long as you manage it well. There's a cap on rates from the PUC but there's always enough leeway there to provide for a reasonable profit.
One factor in the bankruptcy is that the PUC and the courts have said that they can't pass along costs of lawsuits to their customers by raising rates.
The PUC of California sets a maximum rate and profit level for PG&E and other utilities, and they do this each year. This was what caused the first bankruptcy awhile back when electricity prices were spiking but PG&E couldn't raise rates. This ceiling forces the utilities to find ways to conserve and run more efficiently.
Not really a beach though, it's pretty rocky there with steep drop offs. The tsunami inundation zone map for the area is very minor, not even going up to the plant. It's nothing like the Fukushima area. The bigger danger there is potentially from earthquakes.
Ha, Slashdot is just as bad with science as well. Knee-jerk responses without reading articles to declare someone's research was a waste and that there was a better analysis just waiting for the Slashdot experts to reveal. So many show up here on any topic to start blabbing out their opinions without ever once doing any research to get their facts sorted out; they go on a gut feeling alone based on a headline and pretend to be experts. Ie, blowhards who make the Slashdot editors look like geniuses.
The quick stamping out of fires was a common practice in the past, and one done across many states and also by the feds in their federal lands. But everyone knows now, including forestry officials in California, that controlled burns are necessary to prevent more catastrophic fires. The snag is that after many decades of bad management, you can't just correct it all quickly. You're making it sound like California is still acting like the 1950's era with Smokey the Bear.
You're mistating the California senate part here. State senators still come from districts, they're not voted on my state-wide popular vote. It is popular vote within a district, same as many other states. It is true that senate districts are not based upon county lines, but this is not that unusual.
It is a bit unknown about the cause here, still. But they were negligent in the San Bruno gas explosion and they have had judgements against them for that. And they have a history of horrible public relations. Also accusation about the Santa Rosa fires last year. So they're facing a lot of lawsuits but without any evidence of culpability yet, but it's enough to cut into their finances. As for the maintenance of transmissions lines, they are doing this but they're possibly getting behind as there's more to do than they have people. Potentially it was a private power system that caused the initial fire as well, though it's unclear still.
Also a factor from PG&E was not shutting off power when they suspected potential dangers. They tried that earlier and there were a lot of complaints from customers (power outage but no fires, therefore bitch about it).
I am not entirely sure the global warming is a major factor here or not either. While I do believe that's a thing, California is prone to droughts and high winds, and there were a lot of "not worse than usual" factors coming together at the same time. Dead trees from insects and drought, a town in a valley with only one major exit, getting behind on controlled burns to learn out excess trash that arose from decades of stamping fires out quickly.
Saying soyboy in an argument generally invalidates it, just like using SJW. By using those words you're just asking in code for the rest of your Iron Will book club to agree.
He wasn't your impression of what Luke should be. That doesn't mean he wasn't Luke to some people. If you can't stand some characters in a set of movies not being the way you appear, then write your own fanfic instead.
At the time, the effects were so much better than Flash Gordon. Amazingly better. And this despite the entire premise of the movie to be an homage to space opera. Not up to today's standards of course, but at least they didn't have god rays and an exploding ring.
Ha, Darth Maul was deliberately a throw-away character, entirely forgettable except for his looks. I really expected to see him with more screen-time in the movie given how much hype there was about him before the premiere. Perhaps it was misdirection, getting the fans to think that he's the next Vader and ignoring the guy behind the curtain?
The first Star Wars was great. The sequels never measured up. You can like Star Wars while still disliking Empire Strikes Back, and you can also like the sequels without elevating them on a pedestal as well.
There wasn't any agenda pushing shit, except from some fans who showed up expecting that their manhood would be besmirched. If you're bringing in politics when you go see a fluff movie then you need some perspective.
To me, only the original move is really great. All the rest are chock full of major flaws. There really was no need to make the sequels except to cash in, and despite his claims to the contrary,it is clear that the first movie was originally intended to be standalone.
But despite being full of flaws the movies were somewhat fun (if you block out Jar-Jar). Last Jedi follows that same trajectory, not a work of astounding art like the first movie, but certainly better than the worst that came before. Yes, some parts are dumb, like the commander wearing an evening dress the whole time, but then Ewoks were even more stupid. So yah, they did the ice-planet thing before, but then they did the death star once before as well before trotting that out again.
At the end of the day though - it's just a frigging movie! Get over it!
I liked them too. But I didn't go into the movies with a chip on my shoulder about how white men are the most persecuted peoples on the planet. Anyone using "SJW" in the description has lost contact with reality and is too caught up in some political fantasy.
It was a good movie, suck it up the men-only world you remember from your puberty days is gone. Maybe it's not the same old junk as the originals, or maybe you miss Ewoks and capes, but it's far and away better than the three "prequels".
Socialism is about the masses banding together to help each other, fascism is about the masses banding together to help the guy at the top. The historical fascist governments were highly pro-industry and pro-capitalism, and they supported industrial leaders. Historical socialist governments usually distrusted industrial leaders and capitalism. They have different words for them because they were very different things. Highly left wing leaning vs high right wing leaning, with a mix of authoritarianism not directly tied to classical left vs right.
When people try to convince you that fascists were left wing, remember that this is a completely modern invention. I think the rationale here is that "fascists were bad, therefore the must logically be the opposite of what my political beliefs are, therefore they must have been leftist scum since rightwing scum don't exist in my world-view." Franco was fascist and right wing, so was Pinochet, though not necessarily as hard-core fascist as Mussolini.
I don't know what that noise was I heard in my house last night. Since it was unidentified it means it could have been an extraterrestrial drinking out of my milk carton without even using a glass. I just don't have enough information to eliminate or even reduce the possibility of such a potentiality.
On the other hand, they don't have a track record of having good streaming services. Netflix is not about its original programming, which is a tiny fraction of what it offers. Original programming gets the headlines of course, but I if it decided to only show its original programming and dumped everything else, Netflix would collapse.
If they actually have the deep pockets, they could just buy out Netflix and merge.
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I really liked Rogue One as well. But there are some I think who are stuck in the mindset that anything not by Lucas must be terrible.
I don't think passing along liability costs to customers is a good thing, but I do think PG&E was assuming they could do this as a part of their planning.
I saw every one of the movies in first release, and I never saw Luke as a demigod.
PG&E was a customer of ours, so of course we were talking about them at work. Everyone seemed to agree that even a couple of years ago it would have seemed absurd to think that PG&E was not a good reliable investment, much less that it would file for bankruptcy with a possibility of going out of business. With an existing utility it's almost like printing money as long as you manage it well. There's a cap on rates from the PUC but there's always enough leeway there to provide for a reasonable profit.
One factor in the bankruptcy is that the PUC and the courts have said that they can't pass along costs of lawsuits to their customers by raising rates.
You mean raking the forest floor?
The PUC of California sets a maximum rate and profit level for PG&E and other utilities, and they do this each year. This was what caused the first bankruptcy awhile back when electricity prices were spiking but PG&E couldn't raise rates. This ceiling forces the utilities to find ways to conserve and run more efficiently.
Not really a beach though, it's pretty rocky there with steep drop offs. The tsunami inundation zone map for the area is very minor, not even going up to the plant. It's nothing like the Fukushima area. The bigger danger there is potentially from earthquakes.
Ha, Slashdot is just as bad with science as well. Knee-jerk responses without reading articles to declare someone's research was a waste and that there was a better analysis just waiting for the Slashdot experts to reveal. So many show up here on any topic to start blabbing out their opinions without ever once doing any research to get their facts sorted out; they go on a gut feeling alone based on a headline and pretend to be experts. Ie, blowhards who make the Slashdot editors look like geniuses.
The quick stamping out of fires was a common practice in the past, and one done across many states and also by the feds in their federal lands. But everyone knows now, including forestry officials in California, that controlled burns are necessary to prevent more catastrophic fires. The snag is that after many decades of bad management, you can't just correct it all quickly. You're making it sound like California is still acting like the 1950's era with Smokey the Bear.
You're mistating the California senate part here. State senators still come from districts, they're not voted on my state-wide popular vote. It is popular vote within a district, same as many other states. It is true that senate districts are not based upon county lines, but this is not that unusual.
It is a bit unknown about the cause here, still. But they were negligent in the San Bruno gas explosion and they have had judgements against them for that. And they have a history of horrible public relations. Also accusation about the Santa Rosa fires last year. So they're facing a lot of lawsuits but without any evidence of culpability yet, but it's enough to cut into their finances. As for the maintenance of transmissions lines, they are doing this but they're possibly getting behind as there's more to do than they have people. Potentially it was a private power system that caused the initial fire as well, though it's unclear still.
Also a factor from PG&E was not shutting off power when they suspected potential dangers. They tried that earlier and there were a lot of complaints from customers (power outage but no fires, therefore bitch about it).
I am not entirely sure the global warming is a major factor here or not either. While I do believe that's a thing, California is prone to droughts and high winds, and there were a lot of "not worse than usual" factors coming together at the same time. Dead trees from insects and drought, a town in a valley with only one major exit, getting behind on controlled burns to learn out excess trash that arose from decades of stamping fires out quickly.
Saying soyboy in an argument generally invalidates it, just like using SJW. By using those words you're just asking in code for the rest of your Iron Will book club to agree.
He wasn't your impression of what Luke should be. That doesn't mean he wasn't Luke to some people. If you can't stand some characters in a set of movies not being the way you appear, then write your own fanfic instead.
At the time, the effects were so much better than Flash Gordon. Amazingly better. And this despite the entire premise of the movie to be an homage to space opera. Not up to today's standards of course, but at least they didn't have god rays and an exploding ring.
Ha, Darth Maul was deliberately a throw-away character, entirely forgettable except for his looks. I really expected to see him with more screen-time in the movie given how much hype there was about him before the premiere. Perhaps it was misdirection, getting the fans to think that he's the next Vader and ignoring the guy behind the curtain?
The first Star Wars was great. The sequels never measured up. You can like Star Wars while still disliking Empire Strikes Back, and you can also like the sequels without elevating them on a pedestal as well.
They're movies, just go and have some fun.
There wasn't any agenda pushing shit, except from some fans who showed up expecting that their manhood would be besmirched. If you're bringing in politics when you go see a fluff movie then you need some perspective.
To me, only the original move is really great. All the rest are chock full of major flaws. There really was no need to make the sequels except to cash in, and despite his claims to the contrary,it is clear that the first movie was originally intended to be standalone.
But despite being full of flaws the movies were somewhat fun (if you block out Jar-Jar). Last Jedi follows that same trajectory, not a work of astounding art like the first movie, but certainly better than the worst that came before. Yes, some parts are dumb, like the commander wearing an evening dress the whole time, but then Ewoks were even more stupid. So yah, they did the ice-planet thing before, but then they did the death star once before as well before trotting that out again.
At the end of the day though - it's just a frigging movie! Get over it!
I liked them too. But I didn't go into the movies with a chip on my shoulder about how white men are the most persecuted peoples on the planet. Anyone using "SJW" in the description has lost contact with reality and is too caught up in some political fantasy.
It was a good movie, suck it up the men-only world you remember from your puberty days is gone. Maybe it's not the same old junk as the originals, or maybe you miss Ewoks and capes, but it's far and away better than the three "prequels".
Socialism is about the masses banding together to help each other, fascism is about the masses banding together to help the guy at the top. The historical fascist governments were highly pro-industry and pro-capitalism, and they supported industrial leaders. Historical socialist governments usually distrusted industrial leaders and capitalism. They have different words for them because they were very different things. Highly left wing leaning vs high right wing leaning, with a mix of authoritarianism not directly tied to classical left vs right.
When people try to convince you that fascists were left wing, remember that this is a completely modern invention. I think the rationale here is that "fascists were bad, therefore the must logically be the opposite of what my political beliefs are, therefore they must have been leftist scum since rightwing scum don't exist in my world-view." Franco was fascist and right wing, so was Pinochet, though not necessarily as hard-core fascist as Mussolini.
I don't know what that noise was I heard in my house last night. Since it was unidentified it means it could have been an extraterrestrial drinking out of my milk carton without even using a glass. I just don't have enough information to eliminate or even reduce the possibility of such a potentiality.
On the other hand, they don't have a track record of having good streaming services. Netflix is not about its original programming, which is a tiny fraction of what it offers. Original programming gets the headlines of course, but I if it decided to only show its original programming and dumped everything else, Netflix would collapse.
If they actually have the deep pockets, they could just buy out Netflix and merge.