"Currently, conservative voters are dying over 1 million per year faster than replacement. It's a shift of almost 3 million votes for the 2016 elections."
The election is 1-1/2 years away. At 1 mil/year, wouldn't that be 1.5 mil, not 3 mil?
...you have been drinking "toilet to tap" your entire lives. You think animal urine doesn't make it into the rivers and groundwater supplies? Where, exactly, do you think all that stuff that goes into septic tanks goes?
The one advantage with using renewable energy for this is that since you are making a fuel that can be stored, the intermittent nature of certain sources (solar, wind) won't matter. Bright sunny day? Make fuel. Cloudy night? Just wait for the next sunny day to make fuel. No big deal.
If you are a native of any kind, just start yelling that something is sacred, and nobody will be able to fight back against you.
Hate stuff being built near you? Just claim you can't build there because it is sacred ground.
Want something built, like a casino or giant housing development? Just claim the land is sacred and demand it back as 'sovereign' territory... so that you can build your casino.
Instead, the department would only use the power if it was acting on "some intelligence or observation of abnormal behaviour", she said
And that 'intelligence' or 'observation' will be totally classified (you know, because of national security and stuff), so there will be no way to verify if there was actually a valid reason to break into your iPhone. But don't worry, we won't abuse this new power.
Currently the money goes to the city/police department, not the 'town'. They have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. I want the money to NOT go to the city/police department so that they will not have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. So, no, I do not want to 'increase that effect', I want to do the complete opposite.
Why? Because you think a guy with millions per year cannot afford a lawyer if he's victim of crooks?
No, because right now there is no financial incentive for cops to go after more expensive cars in the hopes of getting a big payday for their department. You make the fines income based and guess who they will go after the most?
I thought about that, but then who determines what charity the money goes too, and who gets how much? The tax refund takes out any decision making (i.e. bribing) by the politicians, and individuals could donate their refund if they choose.
If you thought it was bad how cops were targeting/ticketing poor people, wait until the police realize they can fund their whole budget if they can ticket a guy like Zuckerberg once or twice!
Before a system like this is in place, the financial incentive for cops to ticket people needs to be removed. Any fines need to be given back to the community via some type of property/income/sales tax rebate, rather than back to the city (which in essence goes back to the cops that are handing out the fines). For example, if $1,000,000 in fines were collected for a town with 10,000 property tax assessments, they could knock $100 off of each tax bill.
The same needs to be done with civil asset forfeitures. If there was ever a clearer case of conflict of interest, I haven't seen it.
Swedish prosecutors are arranging to come to London and question Assange within the embassy
Sweden still needs to be granted permission from both the UK and Ecuador.
The phone, motherfuckers, pick it up and CALL HIM WITH YOUR QUESTIONS!!! I am constantly amazed at how people in charge of important things can make simple tasks so convoluted.
But as a regulated monopoly, most utilities can't just charge more or change how they charge customers on a whim. Hence the need for special laws. Regular market forces aren't in play here.
...have passed revisions to their net metering policies that would included fixed monthly surcharges for residences and businesses that install solar to make it less competitive with conventional forms energy.
Well, that's not a biased statement at all, is it? I don't know all of the details of who wants want law passed to do who knows what, but I think there is a legitimate argument to be made for a fixed monthly charge.
A standard, non-solar customer is hooked up to the grid, and uses 100% of the power companies power 100% of the time. The power company knows this, so they are able to figured out what to charge the customer for things like power generation, transmission, distribution, etc.
Along comes a solar user, and they use 50% of the power company's power 50% of the time. BUT, they want to be hooked up and able to use the power company 100% of the time, so the power company still has to maintain the same infrastructure, but now they are getting less from the customer. Sure, they are saving on not having to generate the power for them sometimes, but the transmission and distribution cost are rolled into the cost of your generated power.
Look at it this way. Say they were earning $10mil a month from their customers, and $5mil was generation costs and $5mil was distribution costs. Suddenly, half of their customers go solar, cutting the amount of power generated by 20%. Now they made $8mil. Their generation cost was $4mil, leaving $4mil for distribution maintenance. But they still have $5mil worth of maintenance because all of their customers still are hooked up to the same system. How do you make up that $1mil shortfall?
To be fair, maybe the power company just needs to split the bill so that every household pays a fixed infrastructure charge, regardless of how much you use, and then tack on the cost of your actual usage.
"Beneficial associations between low intensity alcohol consumption and all cause mortality may in part be attributable to inappropriate selection of a referent group and weak adjustment for confounders. Selection biases may also play a part."
So, why is YOUR study automatically better than all of the other studies that came before you? This is why I generally ignore any 'study' that shows this is good or that is bad until there are LOTS of studies done on it that all say the same thing.
...by this he meant things like physical observation, bugging rooms, and breaking into phones or computers.
Which means that you will now have to have an actual agent go do this (hopefully with a warrant, but those are just soooo passe now days). This will limit their ability to just scoop up all data on everybody everywhere, and actually just concentrate on, you know, bad guys and stuff.
Alexander said he had a tense time with police when officers returned his children, asked for his identification and told him about the dangers of the world.
#1 on that list: Overreaching government and law enforcement.
Half the ships are going to be in the dark at any given time
But even the ship's nighttime travel will be beneficial, as the expect the bubbles to remain for up to 24 hours. Those bubbles laid at midnight will still be doing useful reflecting at noon the next day...
When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were baffled.
Baffled? Really? You never expected people driving on a highway RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR EMPTY ROAD to not figure out that maybe that way might be faster?
"The traffic is unbearable now. You can't even walk your dog,"
Why would street traffic affect walking your dog?
Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour.
Wait, so people are diverting onto streets that average two miles per hour? Are the highways only averaging one mile per hour?
The streets on the west side are no longer a secret for locals, and people are angry,"
PUBLIC streets aren't suppose to be a 'secret'. Duh.
Sony Pictures legal department quashed the idea, saying that if pirate sites were illegal, it would also be illegal for Sony Pictures to upload onto them.
I don't think 'sites' are illegal, only the content that is distributed is illegal. That's like saying a Ford Mustang is illegal because sometimes they are used to transport illegal drugs, so don't ride in one of them.
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"Currently, conservative voters are dying over 1 million per year faster than replacement. It's a shift of almost 3 million votes for the 2016 elections." The election is 1-1/2 years away. At 1 mil/year, wouldn't that be 1.5 mil, not 3 mil?
...you have been drinking "toilet to tap" your entire lives. You think animal urine doesn't make it into the rivers and groundwater supplies? Where, exactly, do you think all that stuff that goes into septic tanks goes?
The one advantage with using renewable energy for this is that since you are making a fuel that can be stored, the intermittent nature of certain sources (solar, wind) won't matter. Bright sunny day? Make fuel. Cloudy night? Just wait for the next sunny day to make fuel. No big deal.
What?
Please stop hogging all the water and send some to us. Sincerely, California
If you are a native of any kind, just start yelling that something is sacred, and nobody will be able to fight back against you.
Hate stuff being built near you? Just claim you can't build there because it is sacred ground.
Want something built, like a casino or giant housing development? Just claim the land is sacred and demand it back as 'sovereign' territory... so that you can build your casino.
You get to have it both ways!
Instead, the department would only use the power if it was acting on "some intelligence or observation of abnormal behaviour", she said
And that 'intelligence' or 'observation' will be totally classified (you know, because of national security and stuff), so there will be no way to verify if there was actually a valid reason to break into your iPhone. But don't worry, we won't abuse this new power.
Currently the money goes to the city/police department, not the 'town'. They have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. I want the money to NOT go to the city/police department so that they will not have a financial incentive to hand out more fines. So, no, I do not want to 'increase that effect', I want to do the complete opposite.
Conflict of interest. Go look it up.
Why? Because you think a guy with millions per year cannot afford a lawyer if he's victim of crooks?
No, because right now there is no financial incentive for cops to go after more expensive cars in the hopes of getting a big payday for their department. You make the fines income based and guess who they will go after the most?
I thought about that, but then who determines what charity the money goes too, and who gets how much? The tax refund takes out any decision making (i.e. bribing) by the politicians, and individuals could donate their refund if they choose.
Depending on the amount of fines, people would get good or very very bad surprise
Can you explain what the 'very very bad surprise' would be?
If you thought it was bad how cops were targeting/ticketing poor people, wait until the police realize they can fund their whole budget if they can ticket a guy like Zuckerberg once or twice!
Before a system like this is in place, the financial incentive for cops to ticket people needs to be removed. Any fines need to be given back to the community via some type of property/income/sales tax rebate, rather than back to the city (which in essence goes back to the cops that are handing out the fines). For example, if $1,000,000 in fines were collected for a town with 10,000 property tax assessments, they could knock $100 off of each tax bill.
The same needs to be done with civil asset forfeitures. If there was ever a clearer case of conflict of interest, I haven't seen it.
Swedish prosecutors are arranging to come to London and question Assange within the embassy
Sweden still needs to be granted permission from both the UK and Ecuador.
The phone, motherfuckers, pick it up and CALL HIM WITH YOUR QUESTIONS!!! I am constantly amazed at how people in charge of important things can make simple tasks so convoluted.
... they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
NINE YEARS?!?!??! You went without a written contract for your work for nine years? How many years were you going to work like this? Twenty? Thirty?
He wanted to bring attention to the future problems of GPS. Fine. But I think he went about it in the worst way possible:
Grab an ax and start banging it on the side of a satellite.
Yeah, that will work great, because people generally think highly of people wildly swinging an ax around while destroying public property.
But as a regulated monopoly, most utilities can't just charge more or change how they charge customers on a whim. Hence the need for special laws. Regular market forces aren't in play here.
...have passed revisions to their net metering policies that would included fixed monthly surcharges for residences and businesses that install solar to make it less competitive with conventional forms energy.
Well, that's not a biased statement at all, is it? I don't know all of the details of who wants want law passed to do who knows what, but I think there is a legitimate argument to be made for a fixed monthly charge.
A standard, non-solar customer is hooked up to the grid, and uses 100% of the power companies power 100% of the time. The power company knows this, so they are able to figured out what to charge the customer for things like power generation, transmission, distribution, etc.
Along comes a solar user, and they use 50% of the power company's power 50% of the time. BUT, they want to be hooked up and able to use the power company 100% of the time, so the power company still has to maintain the same infrastructure, but now they are getting less from the customer. Sure, they are saving on not having to generate the power for them sometimes, but the transmission and distribution cost are rolled into the cost of your generated power.
Look at it this way. Say they were earning $10mil a month from their customers, and $5mil was generation costs and $5mil was distribution costs. Suddenly, half of their customers go solar, cutting the amount of power generated by 20%. Now they made $8mil. Their generation cost was $4mil, leaving $4mil for distribution maintenance. But they still have $5mil worth of maintenance because all of their customers still are hooked up to the same system. How do you make up that $1mil shortfall?
To be fair, maybe the power company just needs to split the bill so that every household pays a fixed infrastructure charge, regardless of how much you use, and then tack on the cost of your actual usage.
"Beneficial associations between low intensity alcohol consumption and all cause mortality may in part be attributable to inappropriate selection of a referent group and weak adjustment for confounders. Selection biases may also play a part."
So, why is YOUR study automatically better than all of the other studies that came before you? This is why I generally ignore any 'study' that shows this is good or that is bad until there are LOTS of studies done on it that all say the same thing.
...by this he meant things like physical observation, bugging rooms, and breaking into phones or computers.
Which means that you will now have to have an actual agent go do this (hopefully with a warrant, but those are just soooo passe now days). This will limit their ability to just scoop up all data on everybody everywhere, and actually just concentrate on, you know, bad guys and stuff.
"Traffic Analysis" wink, wink.
Alexander said he had a tense time with police when officers returned his children, asked for his identification and told him about the dangers of the world.
#1 on that list: Overreaching government and law enforcement.
Half the ships are going to be in the dark at any given time
But even the ship's nighttime travel will be beneficial, as the expect the bubbles to remain for up to 24 hours. Those bubbles laid at midnight will still be doing useful reflecting at noon the next day...
When the people whose houses hug the narrow warren of streets paralleling the busiest urban freeway in America began to see bumper-to-bumper traffic crawling by their homes a year or so ago, they were baffled.
Baffled? Really? You never expected people driving on a highway RIGHT NEXT TO YOUR EMPTY ROAD to not figure out that maybe that way might be faster?
"The traffic is unbearable now. You can't even walk your dog,"
Why would street traffic affect walking your dog?
Killeen said her four-mile commute to UCLA, where she teaches a public relations class, can take two hours during rush hour.
Wait, so people are diverting onto streets that average two miles per hour? Are the highways only averaging one mile per hour?
The streets on the west side are no longer a secret for locals, and people are angry,"
PUBLIC streets aren't suppose to be a 'secret'. Duh.
Sony Pictures legal department quashed the idea, saying that if pirate sites were illegal, it would also be illegal for Sony Pictures to upload onto them.
I don't think 'sites' are illegal, only the content that is distributed is illegal. That's like saying a Ford Mustang is illegal because sometimes they are used to transport illegal drugs, so don't ride in one of them.