I'm about to build a new house out in the country so I've been looking hard at solar. So far, my research has led me to the conclusion that solar power is simply not economically competitive in comparison to grid power.
I'm building a 4 acre ranch with minimal technology. I have enough technology at work, on my cell phone, in my car, etc. Home will be my retreat from "all things connected".
No. Observable and testable. Consensus has nothing to do with it.
That is an over-simplification. Nothing in science is as black and white as you are suggesting. If it was, there would be no need for peer reviews and follow-on studies. Scientific studies utilize observation and testing to "support" scientific theory and assertion. A single instance of corroboration from these results does not establish scientific fact. That's why scientific consensus is important. Theology has done the same in regards to faith over the course of thousands of years to reveal theological truth. It begins with the theological premise that God is creator of the universe. You may not agree with it, but to many people it is fundamental to the human condition every bit that science is to other folks. I simply question why people feel the need to denigrate religion and faith. If you are a non-believer, great - that's your choice.
And how do you define "facts" - scientific consensus perhaps? Science routinely re-evaluates its own scientific conclusions and often returns a very different outcome than the previous. I think science seeks "truth", not facts - the same way faith does albeit by way of a different methodology.
Bitter chocolate tastes bad, therefore it must be good for you. It's like a religion.
Perhaps a better way of getting your point across is by NOT arbitrarily assailing people of faith - especially when the topic at hand has nothing at all to do with religion.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014. Clinton's final day as secretary was February 1, 2013.
The "Law" that everyone keeps claiming that she broke wasn't effective until a year and a half after she left office.
There was absolutely no legal requirement at the time of her tenure to use a government e-mail. Furthermore, she retroactively complied with the records portion of the law by turning over any business related e-mails she had on her home server archive.
Also, previous Secretaries of State, like Colin Powell, used personal email as well. In his case, they didn't even archive it so many of the emails are lost. We'll never have access to his electronic discusssions about, say, the decisions leading for him to give a speech at the United Nations calling for the Invasion of Iraq.
Not true. She was still bound by the Federal Records Act of 1950, U.S.C. chapters 29, 31 and 33.
Wait... there's a problem with the British Healthcare System? I thought that was one of the the arguments for implementing ObamaCare in the first place - the argument that theirs was so much better than ours. Silly Rabbit.
I don't want to discount the threat of fundamentalist religious lunatics(of any stripe), nor would I stand in the way of reasonable efforts to put them down, but lets be real here, and not blame an entire religion of 1.2 billion people for a handful of incidents, and fringe groups....
I agree with the general point you are trying to make in indiscriminately blaming a large group of people for the actions of a few. However, spending a significant amount of time in Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain and others over the past 27 years I have become intimately familiar with the ideology that you describe as "the fringe" which is much more mainstream than many westerners believe even if only a small fraction of those people act on their beliefs in the form of terrorist acts. In western society, we have different opinions left or right of the political spectrum. Even so, western societies largely agree on basic moral standards of what constitutes a "civilized society" which I would argue are simply orthogonal to moral "standards" in mainstream Muslim communities.
Every day is a sad day when you're divorced from reality.
Of course it is. Because your perception of right and wrong is by definition "reality" and by extension superior to mine, right? I wonder if you or any members of your family have experienced Cuban communism first hand (and I don't consider Disney-esque vacations in Cuba as "experience"). I'll go out on a limb here and say 'no'. So tell me, how's the view from the cheap seats?
"A good one is the Democracy Index put out by the Conservative economics journal "The Economist"."
You have got to be shitting me. Do you actually believe the "The Economist" is a conservative publication? Please!
Also, I bet computer gaming uses a lot less carbon than most pre-computer leisure activities.
Think again. That's why I get a kick of of these so-called "green" electric plugin cars. Where do they think the 240 volt power source comes from. Researchers actually studied this and found that the amount of carbon emission produced via the national power grid to charge an electric for 4 hours at 240 volts or 8 hours at 120 volts is roughly equivalent in term of miles per gallon to the carbon produced by vehicles with standard gasoline combustion engines.
Finally! A climate change article that actually exposes the real motivation of the climate change snake oil salesmen - that "climate change" has nothing to do whatsoever with the climate. It is and always has been about wealth distribution on a global scale.
"Apparently the economics of wave power just don't make sense yet."
Shocker... the economics of renewable energy in general makes little economic sense.
Skepticism is key to the scientific method. For someone who supposedly pushes science, I don't see why being skeptical is such a bad thing. To declare man-made global warming as settled science is a stretch.
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I'm about to build a new house out in the country so I've been looking hard at solar. So far, my research has led me to the conclusion that solar power is simply not economically competitive in comparison to grid power.
I'm building a 4 acre ranch with minimal technology. I have enough technology at work, on my cell phone, in my car, etc. Home will be my retreat from "all things connected".
No. Observable and testable. Consensus has nothing to do with it.
That is an over-simplification. Nothing in science is as black and white as you are suggesting. If it was, there would be no need for peer reviews and follow-on studies. Scientific studies utilize observation and testing to "support" scientific theory and assertion. A single instance of corroboration from these results does not establish scientific fact. That's why scientific consensus is important. Theology has done the same in regards to faith over the course of thousands of years to reveal theological truth. It begins with the theological premise that God is creator of the universe. You may not agree with it, but to many people it is fundamental to the human condition every bit that science is to other folks. I simply question why people feel the need to denigrate religion and faith. If you are a non-believer, great - that's your choice.
And how do you define "facts" - scientific consensus perhaps? Science routinely re-evaluates its own scientific conclusions and often returns a very different outcome than the previous. I think science seeks "truth", not facts - the same way faith does albeit by way of a different methodology.
Bitter chocolate tastes bad, therefore it must be good for you. It's like a religion.
Perhaps a better way of getting your point across is by NOT arbitrarily assailing people of faith - especially when the topic at hand has nothing at all to do with religion.
Laws are for the little people, not them.
The Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments of 2014 became law on November 26, 2014. Clinton's final day as secretary was February 1, 2013. The "Law" that everyone keeps claiming that she broke wasn't effective until a year and a half after she left office. There was absolutely no legal requirement at the time of her tenure to use a government e-mail. Furthermore, she retroactively complied with the records portion of the law by turning over any business related e-mails she had on her home server archive. Also, previous Secretaries of State, like Colin Powell, used personal email as well. In his case, they didn't even archive it so many of the emails are lost. We'll never have access to his electronic discusssions about, say, the decisions leading for him to give a speech at the United Nations calling for the Invasion of Iraq.
Not true. She was still bound by the Federal Records Act of 1950, U.S.C. chapters 29, 31 and 33.
Wait... there's a problem with the British Healthcare System? I thought that was one of the the arguments for implementing ObamaCare in the first place - the argument that theirs was so much better than ours. Silly Rabbit.
Given what they are teaching in public schools these days, I'm rather curious as to their definition of "family-friendly destination".
Great, Socialism for the Internet... I can't wait to see how this one turns out. I wonder when the "individual mandate" is coming?
I don't want to discount the threat of fundamentalist religious lunatics(of any stripe), nor would I stand in the way of reasonable efforts to put them down, but lets be real here, and not blame an entire religion of 1.2 billion people for a handful of incidents, and fringe groups....
I agree with the general point you are trying to make in indiscriminately blaming a large group of people for the actions of a few. However, spending a significant amount of time in Djibouti, Iraq, Kuwait, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Bahrain and others over the past 27 years I have become intimately familiar with the ideology that you describe as "the fringe" which is much more mainstream than many westerners believe even if only a small fraction of those people act on their beliefs in the form of terrorist acts. In western society, we have different opinions left or right of the political spectrum. Even so, western societies largely agree on basic moral standards of what constitutes a "civilized society" which I would argue are simply orthogonal to moral "standards" in mainstream Muslim communities.
Every day is a sad day when you're divorced from reality.
Of course it is. Because your perception of right and wrong is by definition "reality" and by extension superior to mine, right? I wonder if you or any members of your family have experienced Cuban communism first hand (and I don't consider Disney-esque vacations in Cuba as "experience"). I'll go out on a limb here and say 'no'. So tell me, how's the view from the cheap seats?
Who's reality, yours?
Humans are brave, and motivated by ideals like liberty and honor.
Corporations are risk averse, and motivated solely by profit.
Humans are brave, and motivated by ideals like liberty and honor.
Corporations are risk averse, and motivated solely by profit.
Well said.
"A good one is the Democracy Index put out by the Conservative economics journal "The Economist"." You have got to be shitting me. Do you actually believe the "The Economist" is a conservative publication? Please!
A sad day indeed. My grandparents are rolling in their graves and the left wingers are rejoicing.
So quantum fluctuations are "nothing" then?
My thoughts exactly...
Also, I bet computer gaming uses a lot less carbon than most pre-computer leisure activities.
Think again. That's why I get a kick of of these so-called "green" electric plugin cars. Where do they think the 240 volt power source comes from. Researchers actually studied this and found that the amount of carbon emission produced via the national power grid to charge an electric for 4 hours at 240 volts or 8 hours at 120 volts is roughly equivalent in term of miles per gallon to the carbon produced by vehicles with standard gasoline combustion engines.
Finally! A climate change article that actually exposes the real motivation of the climate change snake oil salesmen - that "climate change" has nothing to do whatsoever with the climate. It is and always has been about wealth distribution on a global scale.
"Apparently the economics of wave power just don't make sense yet." Shocker... the economics of renewable energy in general makes little economic sense.
Skepticism is key to the scientific method. For someone who supposedly pushes science, I don't see why being skeptical is such a bad thing. To declare man-made global warming as settled science is a stretch.