Ain't it a shore ta gawd lucky thang theys dozens an dozens o trucks onna road fir eechen avery car. I thank so anywayz. Coz if thet wernt the true, then it wood make a lotta sense ta make a hunnert or a thousint lil cars use soler then one big truck.
How can Germany have "failed on the claim to abandon coal" when German hard coal subsidies aren't scheduled to stop until 2018 and total coal generation isn't scheduled to end until 2030 at the earliest?
Please understand I'm not responding to you. I understand that you have an agenda, and renewables aren't part of it. I'm commenting here simply so people honestly interested in what's happening in the European energy sector have convenient access to information more accurate and less agenda-driven than yours.
Your English suffers when you're angry. Also, seem unaware that Putin was oozing in to replace Yeltsin at just the time of those killings. Within three years Yeltsin was a memory, his supporters in the journalism community were muzzled or dead and his oligarch friends had been replaced by Putin's oligarch friends.
So if you want to throw around words like "bullshit" I feel entirely comfortable asking you how Putin's dick tastes.
Not exactly false flag, Gucci. Nice attempt at mis-defining what's happening, though.
As you probably know, the top guy at Interfax, the Russian company targeted by the same hackers, isn't exactly close to Putin. Three Interfax journalists have been murdered by Putin's thugs. And the Interfax CEO is under 24-hour guard. He has also structured Interfax so that killing him won't turn it over to a Putin satrap, and he's sent his daughter abroad where she's less likely to be kidnapped.
So while Russia is weeping crocodile tears about how it's also a victim of the same virus as the one attacking Ukrainian targets, the only actual Russian target is being run by a guy who's well up there on Putin's sh^t list.
You know Russia always screams like it's been gut-shot whenever it kicks the crap out of somebody. And you know there's no way to verify whether there's been any actual damage.
Russia is really good at the misinformation game. But you already know that.
The government got what it wanted out of this. They asked for the whole loaf, and even though they'll bitch and complain, they're actually more than happy to get most of it.
It would be better for everybody if Microsoft kept the lawsuit going and dragged the government into court, so its power to reach into the private lives of law-abiding citizens could be brought back into some sane balance. They've got deep pockets and a strong legal team.
The FBI, NSA and the rest of that long-nosed pack need to be put back on a leash. And yes, I appreciate the irony of the biggest information-sucker on the planet defending the right of privacy.
I had to search long and hard for that link. It totally was not in my bookmarks or anywhere else on my computer. It took me ages to find it. Yeah. Ages and ages.
My friend, you sure brought back some memories by mentioning those long, lazy hill/valleys around Toronto. I never paid the least attention to them until one time I was driving a five-speed manual with a slipping clutch. I did exactly what you did, but with a little Elantra full of passengers rather than a huge rig full of steel.
Lots of jokes at my expense, and a fairly cheap repair job at the end of the trip.
Sorry, my friend, but you're shooting at the wrong target. Fossil fuel subsidies in 2015 (the last year they've got all the data assembled, as far as I know) were over $5 trillion world-wide. Total renewable subsidies were around $88 billion. Yes, that's a large number, but it's a tiny fraction of the amount governments hand over to fossil fuel giants. And fossil fuels are a mature industry. They should be standing on their own feet. You say renewables should be doing that, even though by any measure you care to name, solar, wind, and the rest are still emergent technology.
So until we're willing to talk about ending all the fossil fuel subsidies, there should be no argument whatsoever about spending a few tax dollars to grow an investment in new technology.
And yes, the grid as we know is on the way out. Not today or tomorrow, but within our lifetimes. One of the places my work takes me into spent a lot of money on installing a lot of solar panels about five years ago. The subsidy they got went straight out the door into the local economy, because they were assembled and installed by small local contractors. If strident conservative voices hadn't poisoned any chance of manufacturing subsidies, they'd have been built here too. But that boat has sailed. China jumped in with both feet and now owns solar. Anyway, the director of the place told me last week those panels have now paid for themselves and are generating a lot of free electricity. He tells me that when they do the books this year, the panels will appear as an asset. Because the place is a non-profit organization, it does a lot of work in the community either cheap or for free. The free energy they're getting translates (again) into a direct benefit for the community.
The main thing fossil fuels contribute to the local community is bad air, yet we still hand that industry billions of free taxpayer dollars every year that go straight off shore.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Flagrantly, blatantly wrong. I explained the reasons elsewhere, and am not going to reiterate just to bring somebody too lazy or stupid to inform themselves up to speed.
Just one of the great, gaping holes in your "blame the gubmint for over-regulating" narrative is the inarguable fact that taxpayers are on the hook for almost the entire cost of cleanup in the event of a nuclear accident. That is a handout to the nuclear industry, pure and simple. There are many others.
You raise excellent points about "proper management". Somehow, it just never seems to happen. When I took business law back in high school, one of the first things we learned is that in a basic contract, if costs go too high, the contractor shouldn't have bid so low and gets to pay the difference. That never happens with these contracts, and I've never heard a convincing explanation for it.
Also, there's no reason why we should even be considering building basically the same kind of generating stations we've been building for the last half century. There are several really encouraging new reactors at or near pilot plant stage. If government's going to be involved, which is a given, then ONLY new technology should be considered. Thorium reactors would be one example.
It's also becoming increasingly obvious that solar, wind and probably also geothermal and tidal generation is going to be a bigger and bigger part of the mix, along with decentralized generation. The days of the electrical grid as we know it are numbered. Nuclear needs to get with that generating profile or get out of the game. Small reactors powering a town or city would be a hell of a lot more helpful for what's coming than the idea of a giant plant feeding a huge regional grid.
I want to be really, really clear: I am NOT anti-nuclear. I am, however, 100% against nuclear generation as it is currently done in both of our countries. Right now, it's a money-sucking parasite making a bunch of faceless corporations and their pet bureaucrats rich.
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As this photo of the prototype of Walmart's shelf-scanning robot shows, prolonged exposure to such a work environment is not without consequences.
https://funnypictures.toofunny.pics/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/walmart-visitors1.jpg
What about two things that aren't true?
Who gives a fuck.
Ain't it a shore ta gawd lucky thang theys dozens an dozens o trucks onna road fir eechen avery car. I thank so anywayz. Coz if thet wernt the true, then it wood make a lotta sense ta make a hunnert or a thousint lil cars use soler then one big truck.
Muh haid hurtz.
Archie Bunker to Sammy Davis Junior:
"You being colored, well, I know you had no choice in that. But whatever made you turn Jew?"
Even to be mentioned in the same sentence as the great Creimer, Mangler of Language! The honour...it is too much!
That study is a eco-warrier lie. Even cars burning coal direckly produce less Carbon Die Oxyde then cars burning soler pannels.
Stop giving my money to soler greeny SJW warriers and you are not going to get my gasoline car until you Prius from my cold dead hans.
Hail a Murka! We are Nummer One!!!
Eucker covered it. I don't need to repeat what he said.
Thanks for that. I truly did "LOL". I hadn't realized blindseer was so...ah..."dedickated".
Cheers, my friend.
Rarely have I seen a comment so stuffed with half truths, myths and outright nonsense.
https://energytransition.org/2013/02/the-german-coal-myth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_phase-out
How can Germany have "failed on the claim to abandon coal" when German hard coal subsidies aren't scheduled to stop until 2018 and total coal generation isn't scheduled to end until 2030 at the earliest?
Please understand I'm not responding to you. I understand that you have an agenda, and renewables aren't part of it. I'm commenting here simply so people honestly interested in what's happening in the European energy sector have convenient access to information more accurate and less agenda-driven than yours.
I can't help but notice you dodged the question.
Your English suffers when you're angry. Also, seem unaware that Putin was oozing in to replace Yeltsin at just the time of those killings. Within three years Yeltsin was a memory, his supporters in the journalism community were muzzled or dead and his oligarch friends had been replaced by Putin's oligarch friends.
So if you want to throw around words like "bullshit" I feel entirely comfortable asking you how Putin's dick tastes.
Not exactly false flag, Gucci. Nice attempt at mis-defining what's happening, though.
As you probably know, the top guy at Interfax, the Russian company targeted by the same hackers, isn't exactly close to Putin. Three Interfax journalists have been murdered by Putin's thugs. And the Interfax CEO is under 24-hour guard. He has also structured Interfax so that killing him won't turn it over to a Putin satrap, and he's sent his daughter abroad where she's less likely to be kidnapped.
So while Russia is weeping crocodile tears about how it's also a victim of the same virus as the one attacking Ukrainian targets, the only actual Russian target is being run by a guy who's well up there on Putin's sh^t list.
Hope that clears things up for you, Gucci
Gucifer? Is that you, buddy?
You know Russia always screams like it's been gut-shot whenever it kicks the crap out of somebody. And you know there's no way to verify whether there's been any actual damage.
Russia is really good at the misinformation game. But you already know that.
LOL. Yeah, I'll accept that.
Coming soon to an America near you!
The government got what it wanted out of this. They asked for the whole loaf, and even though they'll bitch and complain, they're actually more than happy to get most of it.
It would be better for everybody if Microsoft kept the lawsuit going and dragged the government into court, so its power to reach into the private lives of law-abiding citizens could be brought back into some sane balance. They've got deep pockets and a strong legal team.
The FBI, NSA and the rest of that long-nosed pack need to be put back on a leash. And yes, I appreciate the irony of the biggest information-sucker on the planet defending the right of privacy.
...apply to that well-known vetting agency, "Spies-R-Russ".
You are more of a threat to a free, democratic society than terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers and their ilk have ever been.
Here is a cock. Suck it.
The United States of America has more nuclear weapons than any other country on the planet.
And they have handed the launch codes to an intellectually lazy, narcissistic asshole.
Have I got that about right?
http://disneyprincess.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Disney_Princesses
I had to search long and hard for that link. It totally was not in my bookmarks or anywhere else on my computer. It took me ages to find it. Yeah. Ages and ages.
You're welcome.
My friend, you sure brought back some memories by mentioning those long, lazy hill/valleys around Toronto. I never paid the least attention to them until one time I was driving a five-speed manual with a slipping clutch. I did exactly what you did, but with a little Elantra full of passengers rather than a huge rig full of steel.
Lots of jokes at my expense, and a fairly cheap repair job at the end of the trip.
"Um, use that one over there. We're a big company. We have more than one truck."
Sorry, my friend, but you're shooting at the wrong target. Fossil fuel subsidies in 2015 (the last year they've got all the data assembled, as far as I know) were over $5 trillion world-wide. Total renewable subsidies were around $88 billion. Yes, that's a large number, but it's a tiny fraction of the amount governments hand over to fossil fuel giants. And fossil fuels are a mature industry. They should be standing on their own feet. You say renewables should be doing that, even though by any measure you care to name, solar, wind, and the rest are still emergent technology.
So until we're willing to talk about ending all the fossil fuel subsidies, there should be no argument whatsoever about spending a few tax dollars to grow an investment in new technology.
And yes, the grid as we know is on the way out. Not today or tomorrow, but within our lifetimes. One of the places my work takes me into spent a lot of money on installing a lot of solar panels about five years ago. The subsidy they got went straight out the door into the local economy, because they were assembled and installed by small local contractors. If strident conservative voices hadn't poisoned any chance of manufacturing subsidies, they'd have been built here too. But that boat has sailed. China jumped in with both feet and now owns solar. Anyway, the director of the place told me last week those panels have now paid for themselves and are generating a lot of free electricity. He tells me that when they do the books this year, the panels will appear as an asset. Because the place is a non-profit organization, it does a lot of work in the community either cheap or for free. The free energy they're getting translates (again) into a direct benefit for the community.
The main thing fossil fuels contribute to the local community is bad air, yet we still hand that industry billions of free taxpayer dollars every year that go straight off shore.
Sorry, but you're wrong. Flagrantly, blatantly wrong. I explained the reasons elsewhere, and am not going to reiterate just to bring somebody too lazy or stupid to inform themselves up to speed.
Just one of the great, gaping holes in your "blame the gubmint for over-regulating" narrative is the inarguable fact that taxpayers are on the hook for almost the entire cost of cleanup in the event of a nuclear accident. That is a handout to the nuclear industry, pure and simple. There are many others.
Please try to keep up.
You raise excellent points about "proper management". Somehow, it just never seems to happen. When I took business law back in high school, one of the first things we learned is that in a basic contract, if costs go too high, the contractor shouldn't have bid so low and gets to pay the difference. That never happens with these contracts, and I've never heard a convincing explanation for it.
Also, there's no reason why we should even be considering building basically the same kind of generating stations we've been building for the last half century. There are several really encouraging new reactors at or near pilot plant stage. If government's going to be involved, which is a given, then ONLY new technology should be considered. Thorium reactors would be one example.
It's also becoming increasingly obvious that solar, wind and probably also geothermal and tidal generation is going to be a bigger and bigger part of the mix, along with decentralized generation. The days of the electrical grid as we know it are numbered. Nuclear needs to get with that generating profile or get out of the game. Small reactors powering a town or city would be a hell of a lot more helpful for what's coming than the idea of a giant plant feeding a huge regional grid.
I want to be really, really clear: I am NOT anti-nuclear. I am, however, 100% against nuclear generation as it is currently done in both of our countries. Right now, it's a money-sucking parasite making a bunch of faceless corporations and their pet bureaucrats rich.