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  1. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    That's becasue phone companies don't actually want to trench on peoples property. If they did, it would have been 500 buck. Well, maybe a 1000 since most electric companies actual pay a living wage.

  2. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    That's not a line buried issue. That sounds like a substation issue.

  3. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    They are squirrels, it's funny not macabre.

  4. Re:Aerial or underground ? on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    Well gosh, I guess you solved it. There are any any issues that can happen with buried power lines.
    Root never wrap around them, animals never nibble at them. the moisture in the soil is the same every where, as well as the microbe that live in the soil, and the ground never freezes, And street will part so you can just lay the wires underneath them.

    I'll rush down stair to tell the engineers you have solved this issue.

  5. Re: Storage on Ask Slashdot: Why Is the Power Grid So Crummy In So Many Places? · · Score: 1

    So we don't need storage for electricity? good to know.

    Moron.

  6. Re:FOX NEWS is bad for your mental health on Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions For Tiny US Biotech Firm · · Score: 1

    He is there token voice of reason.
    All the fear monger shows have one in order to seem like that are fair and balanced.

  7. Re:she almost crashed both Lucent and HP on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run · · Score: 2

    Bush was horrible at business as well.

  8. Re:Rubbish on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Too bad china is doing the same thing, you alarmist pig.

  9. Re:Carbon tax carbon tax carbon tax. on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Or don't tax it and just make coal companies liable for a 2 to 1 capture program.

    Once CO2 gets down to 280ppm, they can go to 1 to 1

  10. Re:Misleading Summary on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Based on the read, their premise seems really stupid.
    Reducing emissions, and getting rid of CO2 in the air are two different things. No wonder it failed.

    Why won't a 10MW solar furnace near a data center not work?
    If you want to reply 'doesn't work at night' you should be ashamed of yourself for commenting on something you know nothing about.

  11. two google engineers on Two Google Engineers Say Renewables Can't Cure Climate Change · · Score: 1

    well then,it' settled.
    Oh, but the numbers show they are wrong.

    Anyway they only showed one thing: That in a pure capitalist society, nothing will change.

    Yes, we can, in fact, replace coal with renewable energy, yes it might be marginally more expensive in the short term.

  12. Re:AIDS is bad on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 1

    You don't really understand how taxes and tax write offs work, do you?

  13. Re:AIDS is bad on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 1

    BF is more the Electronics. It's older then PC's for crying out loud.
    And the oldest using dining cards on dates? really?

  14. Re:AIDS is bad on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 2

    So what? They are giving money to help fund the finding for a cure of a disease. Why isn't that good enough? Would you rather nothing was given?
    Is you life so disappointing to you that you need to attack groups that are trying to do some good?

  15. Re:Oh great, the Master of the iFlop blowing more on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I disagree. Jobs did a lot and didn't take credit.
    Apple is, and has been, the greenest computer company on the planet. They just didn't advertise it until the green peace terrorist started lying about it. Apple, under Jobs, did many good things, they just didn't use it as PR. They used the user experience as PR.

    Yes, there are a lot of issues with Apple.
    Jobs was a hippie.

  16. Re:Oh great, the Master of the iFlop blowing more on Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight · · Score: 1

    Jobs was good at dropping losers.
    Sunk cost fallacy isn't something Jobs was a victim of. Did work like we thought? drop it, move on.
    He was also an expert at getting people to do more then they thought they could.

  17. "Writer and professor of philosophy "
    well, I'm sure there will be some solid fact based opinion there. One that won't be applied a tiny area to a wider and different sciences.

    Philosophy as a field of study in and of itself is dead. Its 'no better then astrology and rides on the coat tails of it's own history.

    As an example. well, this story.

  18. Re:TFA is a crappy piece of socialist propaganda on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    "Women are not paid less if they are doing the same jobs and spending the same time doing them as men do, "
    demonstrably false.
    I assume the rest of your post is based on that false data and did infect my mind with your stupidity be reading it.

    Let be guess:
    You incorrectly call it socialist. You assume gathering data that show something you don't like is 'whats wrong with America' and you make ad hom attacks against the article and author

    Did I get that about right?
    .

  19. Re:The workplace is changing. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A) You can't seem to do math.
    B) Female Vets do work the same hours
    C) Female vets general spend more time with the pet owners then men.

    "t 4-5 female vets do the job of one male vet."
    this just keep driving me up a wal. So by your "logic" a female vet works 3 hours a day?

  20. Re:Slashdot: polical-correct leftists anti-freedom on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    It's a lot better compared to then.
    Fuck, you're stupid.

  21. Re:Slashdot: polical-correct leftists anti-freedom on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    "Amazon should be free to hire who them like"
    Yes, lets bring back etrenched racism, thing went so well

    "and now lost again back to communist-socialism"
    I see you are an idiot.

    "Also flash news, weman[sic] do not prefer hard physical work all that much you know. "
    False.

  22. Re:show me the cold hard facts on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    Except that's not true at all.
    Women make over 6000 dollars less for the same job. 11,000 is they have one child.

    You idiots keep bringing up the well debunking or misleading points. Maybe you should shut the fuck up and read up on the issue?

  23. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 1

    Except negotiating on a person by person bases for the same work is stupid. Why should a great engineer be paid less because they aren't a social adept as someone else?
    It's the same work.

  24. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So people who are artists and nurses are stupid?

    You are a moron,and I hope you have a lot of daughters so you can watch and try to fight a variety of entrenched attitudes and systems that push them away from what they want to do.
    I have a daughter who like science and want's to be a game designer. I see how she has it stacked against her compared to my son.

    Society pushes those biases onto the kids, not just parents.

  25. Re:Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 4, Informative

    In Seattle tech, the average pay for a man is:$89,400 for a women its: $79,000