Not to mention the fact that home solar is still a big fat fail. It's supposed to be industrial scale solar that's "cheaper than coal".
Don't get me wrong. I would LOVE for it to be the other way. My own house would be solar if it made any sense. But I'm not just going to be an early adopter "just because".
> I love the irony of the utters bringing up Star Trek TOS as an example in their anti-SJW crusade. Half the purpose of that show was race and gender issues....and it was still filled with painful to watch stereotypes that should get run off the air with torches and pitchforks by modern SJWs.
It's not so much Janeway as a woman as the woman that played her. She just didn't have the chops for it. Throwaway roles with cameo actors ran circles around her.
A lot of the new Doctors have felt like children with no real gravitas. I rather liked the fact that Capaldi did NOT suffer from this. I suspect that this new actress will be more of that same nonsense beyond the mindless virtue signalling.
You mean the Mad Max movie where the title character was mainly a blood bag and a hood ornament. I can see why MRAs got their panties in a bunch over it. It did come of like some raging anti-man feminst from academia was allowed to run the project.
Theron was actually an upside in all of that mess.
> It's almost as if a fedraly funded and fedraly regulated government agancy does a job better
Nope. I hate it when stuff gets sent to me snail mail. I never know when it's going to take a strange unexplained vacation to one of the coasts for a week or two.
Letter delivery also sucks. Half the time stuff doesn't go to the right house. It really makes you wonder about important and sensitive things.
If I could deselect USPS from my shipping options at Amazon, I would do so. I would pay extra to avoid the potential hassle.
Watson can be Pubmed for doctors who have to deal with obscure stuff they aren't a specialist in. It's not going to replace the specialists that actually deal with that obscure stuff on a daily basis.
Hitler was just as much as a leftist as Stalin. This fact is just terribly inconvenient to lazy liberals that want to use the terms Nazi or Fascist to smear Republicans.
Some very notable Republicans (the Pauls) are very much for smaller government. There were sitting members of Congress (R) that objected to the various big business bailouts during the great Recession. Romney himself is a notable example as well.
Certain Republican factions have allied with social conservatives and the term "conservative" itself implies being resistant to change including things labeled as "social progress".
> Interesting how you talk about free speech but cheer those who want to deny professors the right to teach what science tells them is best.
You're delusional. Nobody here is advocating that. At most, some of us are just want academic freedom applied to the students too. Even then, nobody that teaches science needs to be protected from their students. Professors in the STEM disciplines simply aren't such moronic wimps. They can fend for themselves and have done so for a very long time.
Fundies don't need state sanction to get their panties in a bunch and actual science professors have never had any problem dealing with them.
You are trying to make something out of a total non issue.
Really. The real question is do you expect to be the victim of a violent crime? Whether or not you lose a few bucks in the process is pretty trivial really.
I try to avoid the kinds of places where crime is prevalent. I have pretty much spent my entire biological adult life trying to escape such places and remain away from them.
Oddly enough, it sounds like the algorithm may need to be racist. It may be applying the same rules to both population based on the population data it's been given. It may need to adjust it's rules depending on the relevant distinguishing characteristics of populations in question.
Of course "good racism" is what the bleeding hearts want. They're just not so blunt about saying it.
GMOs entirely different. They are something that you're letting out into the environment. They aren't something you're injecting into a single person. Like all blood cells, these things have a very short lifetime. Then they die. They don't replicate themselves. They're not even designed to (like GMOs).
GMOs are like Dick Cheney deciding he owns your house because his out of control dog shat on your lawn.
It sounds like this has more to do with America's interest in finding better and more efficient ways of killing everyone else. This really isn't about "enlightened efficient government" but the American military industrial complex.
Peaceful civilian applications are just a happy accident.
>> "upgrading to coal from electric" > > Making America Great Again
Electric heating systems have always been terribly inefficient. This has historically driven up consumer cost. Even if "renewables are cheaper", it may be a wash in the end because of stuff like this.
They probably have well developed civic infastructure as well as the means to afford more expensive heating options. Coal seems primitive like something the Clampetts would use in their back woods cabin but it's rough equivalent is what people in "Scandanavian Utopias" are forced to deal with.
Petrochemicals are the ultimate reservior of carbon based compounds. Even if you solve the "energy" problem. You can't just hid your head in your ass and pretend we don't use oil as a raw material for the rest of what holds our society together.
Why would it piss anyone off? It just demonstrates how bogus the liberal media narrative is. That includes the screeching cripple in the wheelchair that's entirely dependent on oil fueled modern technology (don't forget plastic).
We don't need dubious legal abuses to save the world from itself.
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Not to mention the fact that home solar is still a big fat fail. It's supposed to be industrial scale solar that's "cheaper than coal".
Don't get me wrong. I would LOVE for it to be the other way. My own house would be solar if it made any sense. But I'm not just going to be an early adopter "just because".
> I love the irony of the utters bringing up Star Trek TOS as an example in their anti-SJW crusade. Half the purpose of that show was race and gender issues. ...and it was still filled with painful to watch stereotypes that should get run off the air with torches and pitchforks by modern SJWs.
Except Thete isn't a doctor of medicine. He's more of an engineer or physicist. Those departments aren't 66% girls.
It's not so much Janeway as a woman as the woman that played her. She just didn't have the chops for it. Throwaway roles with cameo actors ran circles around her.
A lot of the new Doctors have felt like children with no real gravitas. I rather liked the fact that Capaldi did NOT suffer from this. I suspect that this new actress will be more of that same nonsense beyond the mindless virtue signalling.
You mean the Mad Max movie where the title character was mainly a blood bag and a hood ornament. I can see why MRAs got their panties in a bunch over it. It did come of like some raging anti-man feminst from academia was allowed to run the project.
Theron was actually an upside in all of that mess.
Except this is stuff that states already sell to anyone that cares to pay for it. The righteous indignation is nothing more than blatant hypocrisy.
Clearly. Instead of improving their product selection or their prices, they would rather waste money on propaganda.
> It's almost as if a fedraly funded and fedraly regulated government agancy does a job better
Nope. I hate it when stuff gets sent to me snail mail. I never know when it's going to take a strange unexplained vacation to one of the coasts for a week or two.
Letter delivery also sucks. Half the time stuff doesn't go to the right house. It really makes you wonder about important and sensitive things.
If I could deselect USPS from my shipping options at Amazon, I would do so. I would pay extra to avoid the potential hassle.
Watson can be Pubmed for doctors who have to deal with obscure stuff they aren't a specialist in. It's not going to replace the specialists that actually deal with that obscure stuff on a daily basis.
Hitler was just as much as a leftist as Stalin. This fact is just terribly inconvenient to lazy liberals that want to use the terms Nazi or Fascist to smear Republicans.
Some very notable Republicans (the Pauls) are very much for smaller government. There were sitting members of Congress (R) that objected to the various big business bailouts during the great Recession. Romney himself is a notable example as well.
Certain Republican factions have allied with social conservatives and the term "conservative" itself implies being resistant to change including things labeled as "social progress".
> Interesting how you talk about free speech but cheer those who want to deny professors the right to teach what science tells them is best.
You're delusional. Nobody here is advocating that. At most, some of us are just want academic freedom applied to the students too. Even then, nobody that teaches science needs to be protected from their students. Professors in the STEM disciplines simply aren't such moronic wimps. They can fend for themselves and have done so for a very long time.
Fundies don't need state sanction to get their panties in a bunch and actual science professors have never had any problem dealing with them.
You are trying to make something out of a total non issue.
> Church
Those are funded voluntarily by individuals, not the state.
Are you willing to include Mosques as well or does your fundie outrage have a blind spot?
> For primary and secondary education, sure, but at a university level that is not at all true.
It certainly is for a great many people. The percentage of losers is just smaller in (STEM) higher education.
Really. The real question is do you expect to be the victim of a violent crime? Whether or not you lose a few bucks in the process is pretty trivial really.
I try to avoid the kinds of places where crime is prevalent. I have pretty much spent my entire biological adult life trying to escape such places and remain away from them.
Not sure who you are getting to cook those numbers. Crime in general is pretty rare around here and any actual gun crime is a big deal.
I'm not sure anyone outside of "the city" buys that bullshit you're trying to peddle. Do you have a bridge for sale too?
Oddly enough, it sounds like the algorithm may need to be racist. It may be applying the same rules to both population based on the population data it's been given. It may need to adjust it's rules depending on the relevant distinguishing characteristics of populations in question.
Of course "good racism" is what the bleeding hearts want. They're just not so blunt about saying it.
GMOs entirely different. They are something that you're letting out into the environment. They aren't something you're injecting into a single person. Like all blood cells, these things have a very short lifetime. Then they die. They don't replicate themselves. They're not even designed to (like GMOs).
GMOs are like Dick Cheney deciding he owns your house because his out of control dog shat on your lawn.
Yes. The fact that it's the remnant of an ancient empire with no democratic traditions has nothing to do with.
It sounds like this has more to do with America's interest in finding better and more efficient ways of killing everyone else. This really isn't about "enlightened efficient government" but the American military industrial complex.
Peaceful civilian applications are just a happy accident.
We are drowning in our own waste in some places. So the fact that the energy density of compost is lower may not be at all relevant.
>> "upgrading to coal from electric"
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> Making America Great Again
Electric heating systems have always been terribly inefficient. This has historically driven up consumer cost. Even if "renewables are cheaper", it may be a wash in the end because of stuff like this.
They probably have well developed civic infastructure as well as the means to afford more expensive heating options. Coal seems primitive like something the Clampetts would use in their back woods cabin but it's rough equivalent is what people in "Scandanavian Utopias" are forced to deal with.
Petrochemicals are the ultimate reservior of carbon based compounds. Even if you solve the "energy" problem. You can't just hid your head in your ass and pretend we don't use oil as a raw material for the rest of what holds our society together.
Why would it piss anyone off? It just demonstrates how bogus the liberal media narrative is. That includes the screeching cripple in the wheelchair that's entirely dependent on oil fueled modern technology (don't forget plastic).
We don't need dubious legal abuses to save the world from itself.
Crass self interest seems to be winning the day.