I consider myself a pro-nuclear hippie too. But I'm also painfully aware that when you do a full cycle cost accounting for nuclear, that includes plant decommissioning and permanent waste disposal, the economic picture isn't quite as rosy as promoters would have you believe.
Actually that's my position on pretty much every issue out there; if a full cycle accounting - including all externalities, risks, and hidden subsidies - shows something to be the best available option, I'll shut the fuck up and accept the solution. I've swallowed crow plenty of times in my life and I'm happy to be proved wrong by an economic analysis that includes all the variables.
*Every* political party has its share of disinformation and lies.
I'll go one further and say that *every* political party actively engages in pastisanship, fearmongering, and disinformation - with the explicit intent of making the electorate less rational and less able to make clear choices. The study in TFA (correctly) paints this phenomenon as a bad thing, but for political hucksters it's not a bad thing; it's a good thing - a great thing - when you can turn people into mindless partisan zombies just by throwing a few lies around.
Better still, the executives who embarked upon this vision of "success" are sitting in really nice offices somewhere, pulling down huge salaries with all kinds of perks.
But if they change the formula for calculating safe dosages, they can show fewer bars on the display and people will at least feel better about their dioxin exposure.
... and Bluetooth has a range much greater than 3m in my experience. I've had my phone autoconnect to my car when the phone is a good 8m away in a pants pocket, on a different floor, in the opposite corner of the house.
Although there's no rational justification for it to happen, I somehow think the end result would be your boycott website being issued a DMCA takedown notice.
carbon paper and the card's embossed name/number, these security problems were very rare
Rare, but not unheard of.
I know of somebody who had a fraudulent transaction applied against their credit card, and after investigating the police determined that some fraudster must have gone dumpster diving for discarded carbon slips, and copied the information/signature from there.
I now use my personal credit card and enjoy the loyalty bonuses as a result
My company also forces us to use a corporate Amex card for all business-related expenses... and I am happy to do so because the Amex rewards program is actually way better than any of the other loyalty programs I've come across. The rewards points accrue to me, personally, rather than my company, and the rewards/expenditure ratio is really nice.
GP's point was that raw intelligence helps people be good teachers. In my experience, people who can't sense a ripple of confusion spreading through the classroom, or who can't detect a thoughtful look on the face of a listener, are not good teachers.
Does it include a side trip to the loading dock at Sears? Picking up your kids on the way home from school? The first demands cargo space, the second passenger space.
Why would you care, in either case, whether your vehicle runs on gasoline, electricity, diesel, propane, or magic pixie dust?
If the I-190 bridges over Grand Island close, your run home north from Buffalo has effectively doubled. Not good if you have already burned through the better part of that 50 mile quickie charge-up.
Assuming electric vehicle infrastructure has gained some penetration, then if you're driving around in suburban Buffalo you simply find your way to the nearest quickcharge station. What do you do today if your commute home unexpectedly lengthens and you're running close to empty? Park at the side of the road and take a taxi home?
I wouldn't go so far as to diagnose these people with Asperger's. Maybe Asperger's Lite? They just live in a world of self-absorbed analytical thinking.
You could toss a match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen.
Wrong. What would happen is the ever-present layer of gasoline vapour would ignite, and then the remaining liquid gasoline would burn vigorously and hotly until the bucket was finished.
Don't believe me? Go lock yourself in a linen closet somewhere with a bucket of gasoline and a pack of matches and spend some time running experiments.
intelligent enough not only to understand the material but also to understand their audience
It takes a whole lot more than raw intelligence to understand people. I have met plenty of folks who are wickedly smart but couldn't read body language or a facial expression if their life depended on it.
Yup, that pretty much sums it up. I suspect you could effectively locate the contaminated portions of the Gulf of Mexico from a blimp floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.
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Who is the biggest dick now?
Proof that given enough time and participants, all internet discussions eventually devolve into a dick-measuring contest.
Wow you're not kidding. Mere incompetence really can't explain away that degree of fuckupedness.
I've found OpenSuse to install on a wider range of hardware with fewer problems to troubleshoot than Ubuntu.
I'll give you a big stockpile of cans of spam, plus your choice of either a big kickass slingshot, or a small trebouchet.
I consider myself a pro-nuclear hippie too. But I'm also painfully aware that when you do a full cycle cost accounting for nuclear, that includes plant decommissioning and permanent waste disposal, the economic picture isn't quite as rosy as promoters would have you believe.
Actually that's my position on pretty much every issue out there; if a full cycle accounting - including all externalities, risks, and hidden subsidies - shows something to be the best available option, I'll shut the fuck up and accept the solution. I've swallowed crow plenty of times in my life and I'm happy to be proved wrong by an economic analysis that includes all the variables.
So if I made a similar post using the terms "conservative" and "conservatard" that'd be cool too and I wouldn't get modded down?
The use of insulting names is by definition polarizing, and immediately calls into question the neutrality of the speaker/writer.
*Every* political party has its share of disinformation and lies.
I'll go one further and say that *every* political party actively engages in pastisanship, fearmongering, and disinformation - with the explicit intent of making the electorate less rational and less able to make clear choices. The study in TFA (correctly) paints this phenomenon as a bad thing, but for political hucksters it's not a bad thing; it's a good thing - a great thing - when you can turn people into mindless partisan zombies just by throwing a few lies around.
It's one thing I'm pissed off at a lot of environuts for, they have a short sighted view that is just black and white.
Whereas people who use terms like "environuts" are typically paragons of nuanced, critical thinking.
Better still, the executives who embarked upon this vision of "success" are sitting in really nice offices somewhere, pulling down huge salaries with all kinds of perks.
What are you, a Japanese porn director?
But if they change the formula for calculating safe dosages, they can show fewer bars on the display and people will at least feel better about their dioxin exposure.
... and Bluetooth has a range much greater than 3m in my experience. I've had my phone autoconnect to my car when the phone is a good 8m away in a pants pocket, on a different floor, in the opposite corner of the house.
Well, if we broaden the definition of "ex" to include anyone who has taken out a restraining order ...
I'm predicting something other than nuclear - probably biological.
Although there's no rational justification for it to happen, I somehow think the end result would be your boycott website being issued a DMCA takedown notice.
carbon paper and the card's embossed name/number, these security problems were very rare
Rare, but not unheard of.
I know of somebody who had a fraudulent transaction applied against their credit card, and after investigating the police determined that some fraudster must have gone dumpster diving for discarded carbon slips, and copied the information/signature from there.
I now use my personal credit card and enjoy the loyalty bonuses as a result
My company also forces us to use a corporate Amex card for all business-related expenses ... and I am happy to do so because the Amex rewards program is actually way better than any of the other loyalty programs I've come across. The rewards points accrue to me, personally, rather than my company, and the rewards/expenditure ratio is really nice.
Seems to me a blank magstripe card is a whole lot more suspicious than a room key card.
GP's point was that raw intelligence helps people be good teachers. In my experience, people who can't sense a ripple of confusion spreading through the classroom, or who can't detect a thoughtful look on the face of a listener, are not good teachers.
Does it include a side trip to the loading dock at Sears? Picking up your kids on the way home from school? The first demands cargo space, the second passenger space.
Why would you care, in either case, whether your vehicle runs on gasoline, electricity, diesel, propane, or magic pixie dust?
If the I-190 bridges over Grand Island close, your run home north from Buffalo has effectively doubled. Not good if you have already burned through the better part of that 50 mile quickie charge-up.
Assuming electric vehicle infrastructure has gained some penetration, then if you're driving around in suburban Buffalo you simply find your way to the nearest quickcharge station. What do you do today if your commute home unexpectedly lengthens and you're running close to empty? Park at the side of the road and take a taxi home?
I wouldn't go so far as to diagnose these people with Asperger's. Maybe Asperger's Lite? They just live in a world of self-absorbed analytical thinking.
You could toss a match into a bucket of gasoline and nothing would happen.
Wrong. What would happen is the ever-present layer of gasoline vapour would ignite, and then the remaining liquid gasoline would burn vigorously and hotly until the bucket was finished.
Don't believe me? Go lock yourself in a linen closet somewhere with a bucket of gasoline and a pack of matches and spend some time running experiments.
intelligent enough not only to understand the material but also to understand their audience
It takes a whole lot more than raw intelligence to understand people. I have met plenty of folks who are wickedly smart but couldn't read body language or a facial expression if their life depended on it.
Don't worry, BP is only just getting started fucking up. This blimp will still get to spend plenty of time over the gulf spotting runaway crude.
Yup, that pretty much sums it up. I suspect you could effectively locate the contaminated portions of the Gulf of Mexico from a blimp floating in Jupiter's atmosphere.