Well.. as long as church and state is separate and marriage doesn't have any impact on taxes or give other benefits then I don't see why people shouldn't be allowed to marry their toasters.
You're the guy I've been talking about who saves money on their phones because iPhones are overpriced crap, but ends up with a new phone every year. One guy on our Board of directors comes in with a new android phone every 2-3 months. Saves money on each purchase.
Wow. Like you couldn't discern from the first sentence that a device having a camera, audio, and LTE Band 4 capabilities, sharing the name of one of the most-hyped phones of the year, was a phone? You must either be an idiot or a troll. Although I did like the spittle-flecked shouting of your faux outrage.
You're getting little froth on your keyboard as well, muchacho. The summary wasn't well written, and not all of us are born knowing everything. One less espresso in the morning might be indicated.
Taxes on corporations don't make any sense anyway. The tax can only come from three places: shareholders, employees, or customers.
The entire modern fiscal system is just shuffling shit around. The idea that the only entity that shouldn't pay taxes is a corporation is the same as the idea that religions shouldn't pay taxes. Pointless. It's all made up, and we can do as we will.
Many people falsely believe that corporate taxes fall on on fat cats. Actually, corporate income taxes tend to be regressive, since the main results are lower wages and higher prices.
The problem there is that it assumes that non-corporation entities will be paid more. It also assumes that they will be similarly taxed. None of these things would happen.
Now in some sort of perfect world, or a system that worked out differently, where people aren't out for personal advantage, yeah, corporations that exist merely to make money, and pass it along to shareholders and employees, a system could work out with supporting government totally via individuals.
Except that it's made up of humans. We are capable of incredibly short sighted greed. Which leaves us seriously vulnerable to confidence games. So assuming that somehow in this new utopia that employees will reap a windfall - which they won't because there are others who will make a case that they are more entitled to it - the same employees will happily put up with the greatly increased tax burden on them.
I'm tired of being being unimportant again and fighting the same battles I was fighting 30 years ago. This is not the life I ordered; of course I'm a grumpy old man.
The question of course, is if you would be grumpy even with things working your way.
I describe it as the capacity of middle aged and up males to become incredibly angry at really small things. Some women as well, but most do not fall into that trap.
I'm glad folks like you are no longer calling Democrats "communists". You are all still full of astonishing unmitigated bullshit, but at least you seem to be making progress towards realizing that the right doesn't have your best interests at heart. I bet Hillary Clinton would in fact be glad to hear you are coming around.
And The Russias have finally won the cold war. And the party that gave them the keys to the kingdom?
Popcorn time!
I find myself increasingly at odds with many friends of my own age, who are sliding into olde fartism. I don't engage in the weird "Next thing you know, Dogs and cats will be living together in sin! - when the price of a cup of coffee goes up a dime, and just don't have the dire need for the news to validate my thoughts, or yell at people to get off my lawn. Even with a lot of younger people. Since most I know are rushing to that outlook, I have to suspect my brain isn't maturing correctly. To me, they seem to be entering cognitive decline.
Everything in the world does not piss me off. How weird is that?
No. I'm just someone who can do math, and knows a bit about what kind of stresses a roadbed is subjected to.
A house is not a roadway. I'm not sure WHY this is such a tough concept to grasp.
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
Who ever thought that I might make good of a William Shakespeare quote here in Slashdot.
You see, there are things that are obvious, that are not wise to attempt. It's never a good idea to jump off a hundred foot cliff, or lay on the railroad tracks when the train is coming, or try to stop traffic by running into the path of cars. There's no point in experimenting in that direction.
But you have the luxury of being 100 percent sure that this solar roadway business will not work.
Personally, I sort of envy that unassailable knowledge, because it allows you to speak with tremendous authority.
Even when you could be 100 percent wrong.
Because do you know all of the advances in technology, and all of the drawbacks that will never ever be solved? Your basic math is impressive if that is all you used to solve the intractable problem.
While the past is no predictor of the future, I've listened to people like you regarding solar power for the past 30 plus years, as you move the "its impossible!!!" goalposts every time the last impossible thing was beat.
But good for you - you have the courage of your convictions, and you know for a fact what will or will not work before it is even tried. Me? I'm full of doubts that it is impossible. And if you want to enter an earnest discussion, without your insinuations that I am too dense to understand, we could do that. Although, I think that might be tilting at windmills.
Really, go take a better look at a parking lot. How hard it would be to lay a layer with inductive mats, vs installing "hoses" that idiots will hate and therefore never make a switch to electrics.
If they got passed highschool and got educated and decided to better themselves they wouldn't have been replaced by automation. They have no one to blame but themselves as a hedge fund manager is a job for highschool kids that anyone can do. It was never meant to support a family
I'm sure you're going for the funny mod, and I hope you get it, but you're on the edge of insight, too. Superficial network-mediated social relationships are no substitute for the real thing, and human beings are extremely social animals.
Mostly. But one of th emost amusing things to me at least, is that there is a sort of shaming going on - that if you are not someone with a lot of friends, that if you enjoy yourself some solitude, there is something wrong with you. That being a private person is bad. Somehow. "Gotta watch out for those quiet ons, you know!"
I have a lot of demands on my time. And people - including friends - are like a loud background noise that can be sressful after a while, and with no doubt tires me out. It really keeps me from processing problems.
My joke on the topic (from many years ago) is that too much computer usage is not good for your mental health.
Slashdot is quite bad, but Facebook is vastly worse.
But at least for me, Slashdot is nothing like Facebook. Since I had to open a Facebook account for one of my duties, that place is seriously fucked up, from the oversharing idiots, and the fake news, and some of the drama llamas who never let the chance to turn a bad day into the end of the universe.
But Slashdot - I can do that without stressing my batteries.
What about if you find being around other people stressful? I know plenty of people - myself included - who need to get away from others from time to time because being around other people just drains my batteries big time. It isn't shyness, I'm completely socialized, and not remotely awkward. But I find being around others stressful at times. I guess that you might describe it as how some people are afraid of public speaking. I can stand and deliver all day without a hitch, without a bit of nervousness - but after the evening's socialization, I need a day or two to recharge.
Any other promising research that you want stopped?
You seem to be assuming that this project is promising. With a bit of basic math, you can figure out that the costs are insanely high
A smart person in 1976 would have taken one look at the insane costs of silicon crystalline solar cells, and declared that there was no point at all in doing any research, because other than satellites, it was too expensive, and probably would never lower in price. I know this because I listened to exactly that from more than one person back then.
Of what use is a newborn baby? All they do is shit and eat, and cry. no point to them. They will never amount to anything.
You are suffering form a lack of vision. You are stuck in the idea that this is solar PV generation, and not anything else.
It's actually less about the solar aspect and more about having a durable, modular, pre-fabricated road surface.
Laying tarmac is expensive. It needs maintenance. It has a limited lifespan. An improvement on any of those aspects will be worthwhile.
Wow - I thought I was in this battle all by myself! As Slashdotters descend further into reactionarianism, demanding that only successful experiments be made, and frothing a little at the mouth when PV solar is mentioned, it gets a little depressing for a presumed tech site that is starting to resemble those old guys at the Legion bar, who hate everything and everybody.
tl;dr version: It's exactly a materials experiment, and for some reason, a lot of people don't get it.
This road is expensive but it is a prototype research project. It may or may not turn out to be cost effective in the long run but it should be tested.
Why should it be tested? What problem is this solving?
A materials problem. Not a solar power problem. If merely to provide power to some street lamps, there are methods that are reduced to practice now that require no experimentation.
In fact, if this was not a solar setup,it wouldn't bother those of you who are so upset.
One day as efficiency improves it may get their but it is not even close at this point.
Yeah. Once they figure out how to break thermodynamics and extract more than 100% of power through a layer of dirt and grime and snow, and with the breakthrough of unobtainium so they're durable to the point of never needing replacement.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
Are you related to that guy at the patent office that said everything was already invented?
You could have said exactly the same thing when crystalline silica solar cells cost 70 some dollars a watt. Man the math wasn't there then was it? How the hell could we have powered a house for that kind of money? Talk about a bullshit pipe dream.
As for dirt and grime, have the Mars Rovers all stopped because of the grime on them?
But the strangest thing is, why do so many slashdotters get so angry at doing the research? Those street lamps could be powered more efficiently by other sources, or solar installs per pole. This isn't about lighting street lamps. This really isn't about solar. This is about materials research. So perhaps slashdotters might think of it as research to possibley develop a hella strong glass for their next smartphone instead.
Any other promising research that you want stopped?
You seem to be assuming that this project is promising. With a bit of basic math, you can figure out that the costs are insanely high, aren't likely to come down any time soon, and would be much better spent building regular solar farms that we know work pretty well.
Then it wouldn't be an experiment. There's a world of difference between experiments and reduced to practice technology.
How about we stop this terrible project, and spend the money on something more promising? Storing energy created by solar/wind is still a pretty big issue, how about throwing some money at that problem?
Why don't we just connect it to good old mains electricity? That's reduced to practice, and well understood.
I fear altogether too many Slashdotters lack a fundamental understanding of experimental technology. If we only do the experiments we know will succeed, we'll eventually just put baking soda in to vinegar, and be wowed by the results.
Not too many years ago, some folks were saying the same thing aout any solar installations.
Not at all.
Oh, come on. There are still a few holdouts. At those 70 some dollars a Watt 1970's prices, I heard plenty of "this will never work for generating power outside of satellites."
Someday in the mysterious future when the production cost of these roadways is much, much less than it would be today (and I'm not talking about the prototype cost either) it may make sense to install solar roads. But right now, it makes literally less than no sense.
I wonder how we will find the ways to do this that make sense?
I've participated in a lot of failed technology tests. The tests were failures, but the results were not. We learned a method that did not work, and found valuable clues to what might work. So changes were made, and eventually we honed in on successful tests.
It is exactly how research is performed. If we don't perform tests, we won't learn to do it right. Is it impossible to do it right? We can learn that as well. I only object to Slashdotters pronouncing it a deadlock failure.
The disadvantages of putting solar panels on roads are huge: not only is the angle wrong and are the panels covered by dirt, dust, snow, etc. but roads are subject to considerable wear and tear that requires a massive construction to have any kind of longevity
And? We can make a bucket list of hard things for any technology. Rockets, Silicon wafers, Chicken McNuggets, Nuclear power generation.
If it then turns out that the panels are only good enough to light up a few streetlights (i.e. do not even recover the energy used in their production), I think it is absolutely fair to criticize this project.
No one is stopping you. What you really don't like is anyone rebutting you.
Give some thought for a moment. Is the only goal of this project to provide electrical power for street lamps?
Not at all. As you and some others have pointed out, it isn't ideal conditions for solar. More on that later.
So we have some other things going on in this experiment. The roadway itself might be a candidate. I'd wager that it exactly is the main thrust of the experiment. Maybe some battery technology as a side experiment. But the solar cells themselves are the least of this test.
Moreover, both the angle problem, and the 'wear and tear' problem, are going to remain, while all kinds of much more useful surfaces (roofs) go unused.
You are still stuck on the purpose of the install. If your only purpose is to light streetlamps, some individual panels on individual street lamps with some long lasting rechargeable batteries is the way to go. But that "problem" has been pretty well solved, except for increments, and is infrastructure status, so is not a basic technology experiment.
Now for your ideal conditions touchstone. Not many installs are ideal. Roofs are not always in the ideal locations or angles, and in either case, few to none follow the sun as it traces it's anelemma across the sky. And they get dirty, and they break.
Here's a little mind blower - there are many places in Alaska that use solar. And interior Alaska has to be one of the strangest places to use solar power, with months of mostly darkness and all. As well, given the nature of the anelemma of the sun there, some installs are approaching circular in shape: http://acep.uaf.edu/projects/s...
That in itself probably violates your apparent "Don't do it if it isn't ideal" outlook. Months without useable daylight, Only a few panels in optimum position at any one time. But it allows these folk to stockpile the diesel fuel they need to get through the dark part of the year, and saves them money.
As for the ad hominems - I really think the good people here on slashdot, including you, need to learn to discuss without ending every comment with something like
I have a tendency to give as I receive. And I heartily suggest that people who find me intolerable simply avoid me, since I have nothing to offer except ad-hominums and calling people "morons". Actually I don't know that I've ever called anyone a moron anywhere. I usually use "asshat" for people who are behaving like asshats, and Pepe' for those who fit that mold.
Regardless, if that is all I have to offer, just pass me by, and blessed be.
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Well.. as long as church and state is separate and marriage doesn't have any impact on taxes or give other benefits then I don't see why people shouldn't be allowed to marry their toasters.
Make sure you unplug it before you plug it!
So what is the solution?
You're gonna smack me, but again - nature.
What entity is going to force birth control on the human population?
Nature?
and 2017 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
That's only funny if there is a context for it.
My Pixel XL is my 7th Google phone
You're the guy I've been talking about who saves money on their phones because iPhones are overpriced crap, but ends up with a new phone every year. One guy on our Board of directors comes in with a new android phone every 2-3 months. Saves money on each purchase.
Wow. Like you couldn't discern from the first sentence that a device having a camera, audio, and LTE Band 4 capabilities, sharing the name of one of the most-hyped phones of the year, was a phone? You must either be an idiot or a troll. Although I did like the spittle-flecked shouting of your faux outrage.
You're getting little froth on your keyboard as well, muchacho. The summary wasn't well written, and not all of us are born knowing everything. One less espresso in the morning might be indicated.
You are overpaid.
Earned every cent of it.
Taxes on corporations don't make any sense anyway. The tax can only come from three places: shareholders, employees, or customers.
The entire modern fiscal system is just shuffling shit around. The idea that the only entity that shouldn't pay taxes is a corporation is the same as the idea that religions shouldn't pay taxes. Pointless. It's all made up, and we can do as we will.
Many people falsely believe that corporate taxes fall on on fat cats. Actually, corporate income taxes tend to be regressive, since the main results are lower wages and higher prices.
The problem there is that it assumes that non-corporation entities will be paid more. It also assumes that they will be similarly taxed. None of these things would happen.
Now in some sort of perfect world, or a system that worked out differently, where people aren't out for personal advantage, yeah, corporations that exist merely to make money, and pass it along to shareholders and employees, a system could work out with supporting government totally via individuals.
Except that it's made up of humans. We are capable of incredibly short sighted greed. Which leaves us seriously vulnerable to confidence games. So assuming that somehow in this new utopia that employees will reap a windfall - which they won't because there are others who will make a case that they are more entitled to it - the same employees will happily put up with the greatly increased tax burden on them.
I'm tired of being being unimportant again and fighting the same battles I was fighting 30 years ago. This is not the life I ordered; of course I'm a grumpy old man.
The question of course, is if you would be grumpy even with things working your way.
I describe it as the capacity of middle aged and up males to become incredibly angry at really small things. Some women as well, but most do not fall into that trap.
I'm glad folks like you are no longer calling Democrats "communists". You are all still full of astonishing unmitigated bullshit, but at least you seem to be making progress towards realizing that the right doesn't have your best interests at heart. I bet Hillary Clinton would in fact be glad to hear you are coming around.
And The Russias have finally won the cold war. And the party that gave them the keys to the kingdom? Popcorn time!
Everything in the world does not piss me off. How weird is that?
No. I'm just someone who can do math, and knows a bit about what kind of stresses a roadbed is subjected to.
A house is not a roadway. I'm not sure WHY this is such a tough concept to grasp.
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
Who ever thought that I might make good of a William Shakespeare quote here in Slashdot.
You see, there are things that are obvious, that are not wise to attempt. It's never a good idea to jump off a hundred foot cliff, or lay on the railroad tracks when the train is coming, or try to stop traffic by running into the path of cars. There's no point in experimenting in that direction.
But you have the luxury of being 100 percent sure that this solar roadway business will not work.
Personally, I sort of envy that unassailable knowledge, because it allows you to speak with tremendous authority.
Even when you could be 100 percent wrong.
Because do you know all of the advances in technology, and all of the drawbacks that will never ever be solved? Your basic math is impressive if that is all you used to solve the intractable problem.
While the past is no predictor of the future, I've listened to people like you regarding solar power for the past 30 plus years, as you move the "its impossible!!!" goalposts every time the last impossible thing was beat.
But good for you - you have the courage of your convictions, and you know for a fact what will or will not work before it is even tried. Me? I'm full of doubts that it is impossible. And if you want to enter an earnest discussion, without your insinuations that I am too dense to understand, we could do that. Although, I think that might be tilting at windmills.
"Wireless charging is a technology that our customers have told us they are interested in", our customers also want flying cars.
And sex robots.
Really, go take a better look at a parking lot. How hard it would be to lay a layer with inductive mats, vs installing "hoses" that idiots will hate and therefore never make a switch to electrics.
Bu pumping your own gas is just fine?
If they got passed highschool and got educated and decided to better themselves they wouldn't have been replaced by automation. They have no one to blame but themselves as a hedge fund manager is a job for highschool kids that anyone can do. It was never meant to support a family
Well done.
I'm sure you're going for the funny mod, and I hope you get it, but you're on the edge of insight, too. Superficial network-mediated social relationships are no substitute for the real thing, and human beings are extremely social animals.
Mostly. But one of th emost amusing things to me at least, is that there is a sort of shaming going on - that if you are not someone with a lot of friends, that if you enjoy yourself some solitude, there is something wrong with you. That being a private person is bad. Somehow. "Gotta watch out for those quiet ons, you know!"
I have a lot of demands on my time. And people - including friends - are like a loud background noise that can be sressful after a while, and with no doubt tires me out. It really keeps me from processing problems.
My joke on the topic (from many years ago) is that too much computer usage is not good for your mental health.
Slashdot is quite bad, but Facebook is vastly worse.
But at least for me, Slashdot is nothing like Facebook. Since I had to open a Facebook account for one of my duties, that place is seriously fucked up, from the oversharing idiots, and the fake news, and some of the drama llamas who never let the chance to turn a bad day into the end of the universe.
But Slashdot - I can do that without stressing my batteries.
What about if you find being around other people stressful? I know plenty of people - myself included - who need to get away from others from time to time because being around other people just drains my batteries big time. It isn't shyness, I'm completely socialized, and not remotely awkward. But I find being around others stressful at times. I guess that you might describe it as how some people are afraid of public speaking. I can stand and deliver all day without a hitch, without a bit of nervousness - but after the evening's socialization, I need a day or two to recharge.
Any other promising research that you want stopped?
You seem to be assuming that this project is promising. With a bit of basic math, you can figure out that the costs are insanely high
A smart person in 1976 would have taken one look at the insane costs of silicon crystalline solar cells, and declared that there was no point at all in doing any research, because other than satellites, it was too expensive, and probably would never lower in price. I know this because I listened to exactly that from more than one person back then.
Of what use is a newborn baby? All they do is shit and eat, and cry. no point to them. They will never amount to anything.
You are suffering form a lack of vision. You are stuck in the idea that this is solar PV generation, and not anything else.
And you are wrong.
What problem is this solving?
It's actually less about the solar aspect and more about having a durable, modular, pre-fabricated road surface.
Laying tarmac is expensive. It needs maintenance. It has a limited lifespan. An improvement on any of those aspects will be worthwhile.
Wow - I thought I was in this battle all by myself! As Slashdotters descend further into reactionarianism, demanding that only successful experiments be made, and frothing a little at the mouth when PV solar is mentioned, it gets a little depressing for a presumed tech site that is starting to resemble those old guys at the Legion bar, who hate everything and everybody.
tl;dr version: It's exactly a materials experiment, and for some reason, a lot of people don't get it.
This road is expensive but it is a prototype research project. It may or may not turn out to be cost effective in the long run but it should be tested.
Why should it be tested? What problem is this solving?
A materials problem. Not a solar power problem. If merely to provide power to some street lamps, there are methods that are reduced to practice now that require no experimentation.
In fact, if this was not a solar setup,it wouldn't bother those of you who are so upset.
One day as efficiency improves it may get their but it is not even close at this point.
Yeah. Once they figure out how to break thermodynamics and extract more than 100% of power through a layer of dirt and grime and snow, and with the breakthrough of unobtainium so they're durable to the point of never needing replacement.
Until then, it's a bullshit pipe dream for people who are incapable of doing math or understanding the materials requirements for building actual roads.
Are you related to that guy at the patent office that said everything was already invented?
You could have said exactly the same thing when crystalline silica solar cells cost 70 some dollars a watt. Man the math wasn't there then was it? How the hell could we have powered a house for that kind of money? Talk about a bullshit pipe dream.
As for dirt and grime, have the Mars Rovers all stopped because of the grime on them?
But the strangest thing is, why do so many slashdotters get so angry at doing the research? Those street lamps could be powered more efficiently by other sources, or solar installs per pole. This isn't about lighting street lamps. This really isn't about solar. This is about materials research. So perhaps slashdotters might think of it as research to possibley develop a hella strong glass for their next smartphone instead.
Any other promising research that you want stopped?
You seem to be assuming that this project is promising. With a bit of basic math, you can figure out that the costs are insanely high, aren't likely to come down any time soon, and would be much better spent building regular solar farms that we know work pretty well.
Then it wouldn't be an experiment. There's a world of difference between experiments and reduced to practice technology.
How about we stop this terrible project, and spend the money on something more promising? Storing energy created by solar/wind is still a pretty big issue, how about throwing some money at that problem?
Why don't we just connect it to good old mains electricity? That's reduced to practice, and well understood.
I fear altogether too many Slashdotters lack a fundamental understanding of experimental technology. If we only do the experiments we know will succeed, we'll eventually just put baking soda in to vinegar, and be wowed by the results.
Not too many years ago, some folks were saying the same thing aout any solar installations.
Not at all.
Oh, come on. There are still a few holdouts. At those 70 some dollars a Watt 1970's prices, I heard plenty of "this will never work for generating power outside of satellites."
Someday in the mysterious future when the production cost of these roadways is much, much less than it would be today (and I'm not talking about the prototype cost either) it may make sense to install solar roads. But right now, it makes literally less than no sense.
I wonder how we will find the ways to do this that make sense?
I've participated in a lot of failed technology tests. The tests were failures, but the results were not. We learned a method that did not work, and found valuable clues to what might work. So changes were made, and eventually we honed in on successful tests.
It is exactly how research is performed. If we don't perform tests, we won't learn to do it right. Is it impossible to do it right? We can learn that as well. I only object to Slashdotters pronouncing it a deadlock failure.
The disadvantages of putting solar panels on roads are huge: not only is the angle wrong and are the panels covered by dirt, dust, snow, etc. but roads are subject to considerable wear and tear that requires a massive construction to have any kind of longevity
And? We can make a bucket list of hard things for any technology. Rockets, Silicon wafers, Chicken McNuggets, Nuclear power generation.
If it then turns out that the panels are only good enough to light up a few streetlights (i.e. do not even recover the energy used in their production), I think it is absolutely fair to criticize this project.
No one is stopping you. What you really don't like is anyone rebutting you.
Give some thought for a moment. Is the only goal of this project to provide electrical power for street lamps?
Not at all. As you and some others have pointed out, it isn't ideal conditions for solar. More on that later.
So we have some other things going on in this experiment. The roadway itself might be a candidate. I'd wager that it exactly is the main thrust of the experiment. Maybe some battery technology as a side experiment. But the solar cells themselves are the least of this test.
Moreover, both the angle problem, and the 'wear and tear' problem, are going to remain, while all kinds of much more useful surfaces (roofs) go unused.
You are still stuck on the purpose of the install. If your only purpose is to light streetlamps, some individual panels on individual street lamps with some long lasting rechargeable batteries is the way to go. But that "problem" has been pretty well solved, except for increments, and is infrastructure status, so is not a basic technology experiment.
Now for your ideal conditions touchstone. Not many installs are ideal. Roofs are not always in the ideal locations or angles, and in either case, few to none follow the sun as it traces it's anelemma across the sky. And they get dirty, and they break.
Here's a little mind blower - there are many places in Alaska that use solar. And interior Alaska has to be one of the strangest places to use solar power, with months of mostly darkness and all. As well, given the nature of the anelemma of the sun there, some installs are approaching circular in shape: http://acep.uaf.edu/projects/s...
That in itself probably violates your apparent "Don't do it if it isn't ideal" outlook. Months without useable daylight, Only a few panels in optimum position at any one time. But it allows these folk to stockpile the diesel fuel they need to get through the dark part of the year, and saves them money.
As for the ad hominems - I really think the good people here on slashdot, including you, need to learn to discuss without ending every comment with something like
I have a tendency to give as I receive. And I heartily suggest that people who find me intolerable simply avoid me, since I have nothing to offer except ad-hominums and calling people "morons". Actually I don't know that I've ever called anyone a moron anywhere. I usually use "asshat" for people who are behaving like asshats, and Pepe' for those who fit that mold.
Regardless, if that is all I have to offer, just pass me by, and blessed be.