Ok, now that we have success with breast cancer, how about time and funds for prostate cancer....you know, to keep things even.
;)
If you had to prioritize, you would in all cases go for breast cancer first. Except for the much fewer cases of aggressive prostate cancers, you have something that kills more people.
Many men die of old age while having prostate cancer.
The more important issue of treating prostate cancer is the number of false positives, which lead to unneeded operations, and often some pretty nasty outcomes. A husband of one of my wife's friends was diagnosed, and the doctor and the wife demanded a really aggressive approach. Today, he is impotent and wears adult diapers because he has no bladder control. He said death wasn't a bad alternative to that.
And 'Murricans are the evil ones. Between hate speech laws and now what appears to be the true beginnings of thoughtcrime, those sophisitcated Europeans are representin'.
Seems you cut out all of my part of the post , but here we are. So I'll drop some comments that aren't specifically related to you.
Oops, sorry-- My response had been addressed to the previous post (the one saying solar panels were not light compared to kittens or feathers); I mis-threaded it.
Good comments, if I had mod points I'd mod you up.
No problem. It gave me the chance to skewer the strange new inhabitants of Slashdot. 8^)
Trump didn't win. Clinton lost. And considering she was running against the least popular candidate in US electoral history, the vast majority of the focus should be on how much Clinton and the DNC failed.
You do know that Trump set a record both in vote tallies and more than doubled the number of votes received over his closest rival, Ted Cruz. http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...
Sorry, but rather than the least popular candidate in US history, I claim that numbers like that illustrate that he is not only the most popular ever, but he also shares the values of the Republican party more than any other candidate in US history.
You don't get that sort of support by being unpopular and out of tune with your party.
I know that Republicans are the never wrong party, but you have to own this one. Trump is the soul of the party, and represents the total package of their ideals.
Your second sentence is the main reason why this country has become the political shit stain that it is. NO ONE should be bribing politicians at all. Not even American citizens.
AC or not, this should be at +5 insightful.
The corruption has become so strong, that the politicians don't even deny that they are working for the groups and corporations who bribe them. They have hit upon a successful formula that allows their supporters to support them while engaging in the large scale pecuniary extraction which surely doesn't help the average American.
Even more disturbing is that they seem to approve of other nations getting involved as long as if fits their agenda.
My gut tells me that...Elon Musk is doing a good thing, for the sake of doing a good thing. Yes, he does the PT Barnum from time to time, selling promises with great flair, kinda has to...but these PowerWall deliveries are still a good thing, at a very basic human level.
From what I understand, Musk doesn't identify with people on the individual level very much, but more on humanity as a large group. But I'll buy the good thing idea. It fits with his personality.
Neither feathers nor kittens would have been my first choice for generating electrical power to charge batteries. My guess is that the weight of feathers and/or kittens needed to provide a megawatt of electrical power would probably be more than the same power generated by solar arrays, but I'd be very interested in hearing the results of your experiment showing the contrary.
Seems you cut out all of my part of the post , but here we are. So I'll drop some comments that aren't specifically related to you.
They aren't going to set up a big system like the examples shown for PR, but that's where Tesla's PowerWalls really fit the bill. And they can be charged by equally deliverable PV panels.
The remarks by some Slashdotters have been concerning, especially for a site frequented by people presumably tech-savvy. A company does something humanitarian, and Slashdotters don't seem to think the military can deliver it, that it won't work once its there because they can't deliver solar cells, which is kinda weird because they have to believe that something can't be delivered and can be at the same time.
More concerning to me is that our presumed smart people seem to think alternative energy is still in the early 1960's. Too expensive, batteries too little storage capacity, wind power just a toy. All things that have long since been untrue.
Hell, in my area, we have installed enough wind power that they can feather back during off-peak times. It's freaky to see a site starting up and stopping as needed. In fact, wind has made the transition to mainstream energy as far as most around here ae concerned.
Puerto Rico will make good use of these PowerWalls, and Tesla will reap a lot of goodwill and publicity - but Jesus on a pogo stick, it takes a mind like a bag full of warts to hate a humanitarian effort like that.
Surprise surprise it's another irrelevant political comment, with a bonus "you are anonymous therefore less than nothing" insult attempt. It's two cancers for the price of one!
If I've insulted you, I have to say that am deeply and truly quite pleased.
In a week? Because that's what the mainstream media seems to be demanding.
"Mainstream Media" heheh I think this has something to do with PizzaGate and OBlama's birth certificate as well.
I mean, the Democrats were fucking children right? There are children in Puerto Rico,. And Hawaii, the fake place where the Kenyan Terror baby, says he was born - This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. It's a big ocean. It's a very big ocean. A coincidence? Hell no, this is the smoking gun that blows the dust off of the truth that FDR started World War two. This is it folks, the end times as prophesied buy Supply side Jesus when he handed out loaves and fishes to the crowd at the sermon on the mount - after they's been drug tested of course.
Well would you look at that, it's an irrelevant political comment with no value.
But you beat it with a post even less valuable. ACs never fail to lower the bar. Hey, there's something on Fox radio now. Turns out the Gunman in Las Vegas was Hillary!
Exactly. Hospitals, nursing homes, distribution centers, shelters, schools, etc. Lots of great places to have electricity!
Though I suppose hospitals probably need more power than these could provide, and probably are getting priority for generators and diesel.
A diesel generator that can power an entire hospital is surprisingly small. I visited a generation site that used a natgas powered turbine to generate electricity and steam heat last year, and they had a diesel backup generator that generated the same amount of power - no steam - and it fit in a building that was maybe 20 by 20 feet. Very small anyhow. Fortunately it was seldom used, as deisel electricity is about as expensive as you can get.
What I think is weird is these Il Duce II apologists who seem to think that the situation there is something the American Military can't cope with.
How will these Powerwall units be recharged after they have been used up on the first go around? The electricity infrastructure is going to be down for quite a while, as the power plants and transmission lines have to be replaced. Whilst solar panels sound like a good idea, how will you install PV when the vast majority of buildings are wrecked, and building materiel is going to be prioritised for reconstruction of homes and public structures?
Thois is yet another cool thing. Our American Army, perhaps the finest in teh world, has on occasion flown in and constructed entire buildings. What is even more, there are the se portable generators, and like they make a lot of power. Just threow in some diesel fuel, and they can make electricity. Why, the US even builds airstrips and bridges in short order. It's pretty fascinating, they even did this sort of thing in WW2.
Now, what you should be asking yourself right now is, "What sort of bullshit places have I been getting my information from that sold me on this story? What other bullshit have they sold me on over the years? What other bullshit do I currently believe that they sold me on?"
Fox News, Il Duce II, and Alexander Putin. Truth is irrelevant now, they are in teh dehumanizing proess so that the enemy, whoever that is, can be exterminated.
This will probably be downvoted as a trolll, but yes, the dehumanizing process is occurring, and truth does not matter any more. A person disseminating lies can yell "Fake News" and the proles will believe him first.
"You have zero privacy anyway, get over it." Scott McNealy (then CEO of Sun Microsystems), 1998.
Pretty much hasn't changed either. If you are on the interwebs, it can be determined who you are. It all depends on how badly someone wants to find you, because it can take an effort. But they even found the Silk Road dude. They make a big deal out of the gumshoe part where they swooped in on him live to snatch his laptop, but they already knew who he was, where he was, and just needed the physical evidence.
tl;dr version, if you want to do crime, don't do it on the internet.
Exactly. There's pretty much nothing I can do that I can't fix in an hour on a Sunday plus a bit of an apology right as I die. Hell must be a lonely place.
Its strange. I've never got much of an answer when I've asked what heaven is like. Usually Something like "Ohhhh, it' a wonderful place, you'll be able to worship God in his presence!".
Is there sex there? "Of course not - sex is for making children!"
How about my loved pets? "Pets don't have souls, so no pets in heaven?
So let me get this straight - I have to worship this guy who likes to kill his greatest creation, or live like a hedon until the last moment so I can spend eternity worshipping him, and that's all I'll be doing? "Yes, isn't that wonderful?
Heaven or hell, it would all be the same thing to me. So if the genocidal angry desert god somehow exists, I don't care where he plans to send me. I'm hoping for going to sleep some day, and then peaceful nothing.
Mark Twain wrote "Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company."
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In 1984 Airstrip One (UK) is controlled by the same political entity that controls north and south americas too..
Every time I hear Airstrip, I think of landing strip, and that's a whole lot more pleasant a thought. Do go on.
A victory for sure, but not nearly enough. Feminism will not be complete until every man dies of ass cancer.
They'll have a party after you expire of it. Along with the rest of humanity.
Ok, now that we have success with breast cancer, how about time and funds for prostate cancer....you know, to keep things even.
If you had to prioritize, you would in all cases go for breast cancer first. Except for the much fewer cases of aggressive prostate cancers, you have something that kills more people.
Many men die of old age while having prostate cancer.
The more important issue of treating prostate cancer is the number of false positives, which lead to unneeded operations, and often some pretty nasty outcomes. A husband of one of my wife's friends was diagnosed, and the doctor and the wife demanded a really aggressive approach. Today, he is impotent and wears adult diapers because he has no bladder control. He said death wasn't a bad alternative to that.
And 'Murricans are the evil ones. Between hate speech laws and now what appears to be the true beginnings of thoughtcrime, those sophisitcated Europeans are representin'.
Seems you cut out all of my part of the post , but here we are. So I'll drop some comments that aren't specifically related to you.
Oops, sorry-- My response had been addressed to the previous post (the one saying solar panels were not light compared to kittens or feathers); I mis-threaded it.
Good comments, if I had mod points I'd mod you up.
No problem. It gave me the chance to skewer the strange new inhabitants of Slashdot. 8^)
Trump didn't win. Clinton lost. And considering she was running against the least popular candidate in US electoral history, the vast majority of the focus should be on how much Clinton and the DNC failed.
You do know that Trump set a record both in vote tallies and more than doubled the number of votes received over his closest rival, Ted Cruz. http://www.thegatewaypundit.co...
Sorry, but rather than the least popular candidate in US history, I claim that numbers like that illustrate that he is not only the most popular ever, but he also shares the values of the Republican party more than any other candidate in US history.
You don't get that sort of support by being unpopular and out of tune with your party.
I know that Republicans are the never wrong party, but you have to own this one. Trump is the soul of the party, and represents the total package of their ideals.
All bogus and inflated fact scarce leftist talking points.
Prove any one of those with actual true facts without using news articles.
Chto ty govorish' o Borise?
Your second sentence is the main reason why this country has become the political shit stain that it is. NO ONE should be bribing politicians at all. Not even American citizens.
AC or not, this should be at +5 insightful.
The corruption has become so strong, that the politicians don't even deny that they are working for the groups and corporations who bribe them. They have hit upon a successful formula that allows their supporters to support them while engaging in the large scale pecuniary extraction which surely doesn't help the average American.
Even more disturbing is that they seem to approve of other nations getting involved as long as if fits their agenda.
I thought Trump was a slug. This is getting very confusing.
No, he's the Hypnotoad.
My gut tells me that...Elon Musk is doing a good thing, for the sake of doing a good thing. Yes, he does the PT Barnum from time to time, selling promises with great flair, kinda has to...but these PowerWall deliveries are still a good thing, at a very basic human level.
From what I understand, Musk doesn't identify with people on the individual level very much, but more on humanity as a large group. But I'll buy the good thing idea. It fits with his personality.
Microsoft really should stick to their core competencies instead of endlessly trying to rip off other people's products.
Umm, that is their core competency.
Neither feathers nor kittens would have been my first choice for generating electrical power to charge batteries. My guess is that the weight of feathers and/or kittens needed to provide a megawatt of electrical power would probably be more than the same power generated by solar arrays, but I'd be very interested in hearing the results of your experiment showing the contrary.
Seems you cut out all of my part of the post , but here we are. So I'll drop some comments that aren't specifically related to you.
Anyhow, the US military is very capable of setting up mini-cities as need be. They can even do so-called alternative powering schemes. Like Solar https://us.sunpower.com/blog/2... wind - http://www.decentralized-energ... .
They aren't going to set up a big system like the examples shown for PR, but that's where Tesla's PowerWalls really fit the bill. And they can be charged by equally deliverable PV panels.
The remarks by some Slashdotters have been concerning, especially for a site frequented by people presumably tech-savvy. A company does something humanitarian, and Slashdotters don't seem to think the military can deliver it, that it won't work once its there because they can't deliver solar cells, which is kinda weird because they have to believe that something can't be delivered and can be at the same time.
More concerning to me is that our presumed smart people seem to think alternative energy is still in the early 1960's. Too expensive, batteries too little storage capacity, wind power just a toy. All things that have long since been untrue.
Hell, in my area, we have installed enough wind power that they can feather back during off-peak times. It's freaky to see a site starting up and stopping as needed. In fact, wind has made the transition to mainstream energy as far as most around here ae concerned.
Puerto Rico will make good use of these PowerWalls, and Tesla will reap a lot of goodwill and publicity - but Jesus on a pogo stick, it takes a mind like a bag full of warts to hate a humanitarian effort like that.
Mind blown.
I have a newsletter, the ideas of which you might find intriguing.
Surprise surprise it's another irrelevant political comment, with a bonus "you are anonymous therefore less than nothing" insult attempt. It's two cancers for the price of one!
If I've insulted you, I have to say that am deeply and truly quite pleased.
We need to consider if we'll be around in ten years before we waste time prognosticating on the businesses that will go out.
Kryste, we put Japan back together after WW2.
In a week? Because that's what the mainstream media seems to be demanding.
"Mainstream Media" heheh I think this has something to do with PizzaGate and OBlama's birth certificate as well.
I mean, the Democrats were fucking children right? There are children in Puerto Rico,. And Hawaii, the fake place where the Kenyan Terror baby, says he was born - This is an island sitting in the middle of an ocean. It's a big ocean. It's a very big ocean. A coincidence? Hell no, this is the smoking gun that blows the dust off of the truth that FDR started World War two. This is it folks, the end times as prophesied buy Supply side Jesus when he handed out loaves and fishes to the crowd at the sermon on the mount - after they's been drug tested of course.
Your move Dustin.
these things called helicopters
fake news.
Sikorsky was Russian, wasn't he? A coincidence? I think not!
... about how they construct their society. Beggars can't blown away by the hurricane, and nobody cares.
You are seriously fucking evil, troll or no. I just converted to Christianity so I know that you will burn in Hell.
Well would you look at that, it's an irrelevant political comment with no value.
But you beat it with a post even less valuable. ACs never fail to lower the bar. Hey, there's something on Fox radio now. Turns out the Gunman in Las Vegas was Hillary!
Exactly. Hospitals, nursing homes, distribution centers, shelters, schools, etc. Lots of great places to have electricity!
Though I suppose hospitals probably need more power than these could provide, and probably are getting priority for generators and diesel.
A diesel generator that can power an entire hospital is surprisingly small. I visited a generation site that used a natgas powered turbine to generate electricity and steam heat last year, and they had a diesel backup generator that generated the same amount of power - no steam - and it fit in a building that was maybe 20 by 20 feet. Very small anyhow. Fortunately it was seldom used, as deisel electricity is about as expensive as you can get.
What I think is weird is these Il Duce II apologists who seem to think that the situation there is something the American Military can't cope with.
Kryste, we put Japan back together after WW2.
How will these Powerwall units be recharged after they have been used up on the first go around? The electricity infrastructure is going to be down for quite a while, as the power plants and transmission lines have to be replaced. Whilst solar panels sound like a good idea, how will you install PV when the vast majority of buildings are wrecked, and building materiel is going to be prioritised for reconstruction of homes and public structures?
Thois is yet another cool thing. Our American Army, perhaps the finest in teh world, has on occasion flown in and constructed entire buildings. What is even more, there are the se portable generators, and like they make a lot of power. Just threow in some diesel fuel, and they can make electricity. Why, the US even builds airstrips and bridges in short order. It's pretty fascinating, they even did this sort of thing in WW2.
Or do you think we forgot?
I sure wouldn't want to try to carry a useful stack of panels through a hurricane-devastated landscape on foot.
There are these things called helicopters? I've seen videos of them dropping off and picking up soldiers, boxes of stuff and even trucks.
Who knew?
Now, what you should be asking yourself right now is, "What sort of bullshit places have I been getting my information from that sold me on this story? What other bullshit have they sold me on over the years? What other bullshit do I currently believe that they sold me on?"
Fox News, Il Duce II, and Alexander Putin. Truth is irrelevant now, they are in teh dehumanizing proess so that the enemy, whoever that is, can be exterminated.
This will probably be downvoted as a trolll, but yes, the dehumanizing process is occurring, and truth does not matter any more. A person disseminating lies can yell "Fake News" and the proles will believe him first.
Welcome to the end times.
"You have zero privacy anyway, get over it." Scott McNealy (then CEO of Sun Microsystems), 1998.
Pretty much hasn't changed either. If you are on the interwebs, it can be determined who you are. It all depends on how badly someone wants to find you, because it can take an effort. But they even found the Silk Road dude. They make a big deal out of the gumshoe part where they swooped in on him live to snatch his laptop, but they already knew who he was, where he was, and just needed the physical evidence.
tl;dr version, if you want to do crime, don't do it on the internet.
Exactly. There's pretty much nothing I can do that I can't fix in an hour on a Sunday plus a bit of an apology right as I die. Hell must be a lonely place.
Its strange. I've never got much of an answer when I've asked what heaven is like. Usually Something like "Ohhhh, it' a wonderful place, you'll be able to worship God in his presence!".
Is there sex there? "Of course not - sex is for making children!"
How about my loved pets? "Pets don't have souls, so no pets in heaven?
So let me get this straight - I have to worship this guy who likes to kill his greatest creation, or live like a hedon until the last moment so I can spend eternity worshipping him, and that's all I'll be doing? "Yes, isn't that wonderful?
Heaven or hell, it would all be the same thing to me. So if the genocidal angry desert god somehow exists, I don't care where he plans to send me. I'm hoping for going to sleep some day, and then peaceful nothing.
Mark Twain wrote "Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company."