Oregon uses 45,000 MkWh a year. 45,000,000,000 kWh. 3.5 cent a kWh would solve this with the added bonus that it will also take care of electric cars as well.
Oregon, and many other places, have this weird tax the thing used ONLY for its support; which needs to stop. IN the context of services for society, it's really stupid to do that.
" push more people to use fuel efficient vehicles " and then raise the price more, and then more. then..what? eventually you will need to find an alternate source of revenue for the roads. They are looking at that now. IT's called being proactive.
The regulation we applied to capitalism made higher standard of living for a population.
You might want to actually read up on capitalists.
"Tax payer money was wasted by loaning it to a business nobody else would touch." while true with studio 38, usually that isn't true. In fact, a lot of case it as helped. but success in government isn't really reported. You know why? it's not unusual.
Why? trades jobs suck. I have many trades person in my family. My dad, uncles aunts etc..
I always heard the same thing from them: You want to go to school and get a good job becasue trades jobs suck. Paraphrase.
Different hours, low security, in order to make 'real money' you work all kinds of crazy overtime. Deal mostly with uneducated loud mouths. I work with people in a specific trade right now, and all of them over 35 our pretty beat up and wish they had an office job .
Current data support the theory that dispondant people with mental issue are drawn to video games, not created by them.
If true, removing video games removes a potential red flag when a child becomes despondent and mentally starts to internalize frustration and anger.
If you have a child whose personality shifts that much, it's a cause to be concerned. If you child is being bullied, and you do not know about it, I would say you are failing as a parent.
Actually there is strong evidence that that is a factor. Other factors seem to include: Home video games and computers. This has cause a drop in the amount of 16-21 year olds doing crime out of boredom.
I would like to point out the: A) it wasn't just old biddies B) It worked. It accomplished the goal it set out to. Reduce domestic abuse and crime. Domestic Abuse all but disappeared, violent crime dropped significantly.
I would also like to point out the prohibition meant the media(Newspapers) lost a lot of advertising money.
Please don't reply with a comparison to other substances; that's irrelevant.
o it isn't, and I protest the word loser in the sentence.
"he problem is the mental wiring..." please sight the peer reviewed neurological paper the shows that.
Nerd doesn't equal DnD; DnD doesn't equal nerd. And there is no correlation between DnD and school rampage killings. I mean, the press loves to spread that lie, but it simply isn't true.
When someone become despondent, they need correct health care.
Being sullen and withdrawn is not being a nerd, it's a sign of mental illness; espcially if it is a change in personality; which often seems to be the case.
Being social inept and smart is being a nerd. How does Charles Starkweather fit into your little stupid idea? Charles Whitman?
Jocks are bullies and brute, and becasue of that they are allowed to be at the top. When something is wrong, there is a bunch of people that will help them, becasue god forbid a football game suffer. Anyone else? good fucking luck.
" but they also teach people how to lose gracefully and that losing is a part of life. " HAHAHA. Not in any sport I have seen. Ever go to a middle school football game and listen to the parent of the loosing team? nothing gracefull there. The winning team? nope.
".. but it turns out that the dumb louts actually manage their emotions better than you do." yelling, cursing, and lashing out at the weak is better control of emotions now?
You're attitude is exactly what is wrong with this conversation. You are applying a piss ass belief as away to explain everything away, when in fact it's far more complex then that.
Yes you do. You need to think emotionally and politically. No one is gong to track what you spend your token on. They will just count the number of games Point at the pile and say 'See!' why won't you DOOOOOOO something!'
"The NRA has said clearly video games are the reason..."
The NRA is full of memeber who ahve no wish to actual confront this issue. It would mean better socialized health care(pubs HATE helping people) and a serious look at the that data about gun control. Something they stop wanting about 15 years ago when the data very clearly shows a decrease in killing when guns are severly restricted. And the data continues to support that year after year. The used to just looka t UK data. Hand guns were outlawed in '97. Since there wasn't an immdeiate and distinct drop in crime the moment the were outlawed the NRA said that didn't work. But as guns were removed and the culture changed, fewer homicides. You see then is every 1st world country that enforces strict gun control. Every. Single. One.
I mean Buy more guns! it hasn't fixed a damn thing in 50 years, but that's becasue you have bought enough guns! PLUS there is half a sentence when taken out of context gives you the right!
For the sake of oneness: I am an ex-NRA member. 30 years ago, all this emotional and 'obvious' arguments seemed to make sense... but the data doesn't actual support it.
for the shooting, and, btw buy more guns because that will solve the problem.
The use FUD, lies to spread an emotional argument. Couple that with the fact people don't want to question what they are emotional attached with. Guns and getting socialized health care are cast aside to go after video games. It easy target because these people are already emotional attached to the idea that video games are wrong.
Except they are using an incorrect assumptions 'evidences' and this sort of thing add to the weight of their incorrect argument. It's not much of a leap from and emotional argument to have a volunteer system to 'See all these people agree, clearly we need a law.'
" "Linux" (which one?)" Properly done, it doesn't matter. Don't confuse idiots who write code dependent on libraries from other people or specific distro as a Linux issue.
No, they are not behaving better the Google. What rock do you live under? What innovation has come out of MS? While MS is better then they were, that's not much of a bar.
"Google left the "Don't Be Evil" philosophy " example beside hear say from a site know from anti Google stance from an author who regularly spreads FUD?
" it'll be kind of boring, since once is basically a copy of the other. " ah. So either you are stupid or ignorant. Gotcha.
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1.6 billion shortfall.
Oregon uses 45,000 MkWh a year.
45,000,000,000 kWh.
3.5 cent a kWh would solve this with the added bonus that it will also take care of electric cars as well.
Oregon, and many other places, have this weird tax the thing used ONLY for its support; which needs to stop. IN the context of services for society, it's really stupid to do that.
Road in Oregon are pretty good, so I don't know what you are talking about.
Of course you don't really know anything about roads, so you will remain a clueless load mouth fuck.
" push more people to use fuel efficient vehicles "
and then raise the price more, and then more. then..what? eventually you will need to find an alternate source of revenue for the roads.
They are looking at that now. IT's called being proactive.
as much as not having roads would.
No a true Scotsman, eh?
I've been programming computers for 30 years, and this morning I took a dump that had a wide array of browns in it. Maybe that should be a /. article?
Do you think if I went to a Sake* website, do you think they would talk about this guys IT work because he also happened to make sake?
If everything is going to qualify as news for nerds, whey not just call it dumb ass random internet stories for dumb as random people?
*note the 'e', idiot.
"Bush and Obama do with the banking sector"
sigh, No. THAT was do to lack of regulations and then needing to save the economy.
Wrong.
The regulation we applied to capitalism made higher standard of living for a population.
You might want to actually read up on capitalists.
"Tax payer money was wasted by loaning it to a business nobody else would touch."
while true with studio 38, usually that isn't true.
In fact, a lot of case it as helped. but success in government isn't really reported. You know why? it's not unusual.
Let me know when someone uses a hammer to kill 20 people in a minute.
Also, hammer are widely available. Thanks for providing a data point show weapons that are more easily available are more likely to be used in crimes.
Except guns, apparently.
Why? trades jobs suck. I have many trades person in my family. My dad, uncles aunts etc..
I always heard the same thing from them: You want to go to school and get a good job becasue trades jobs suck.
Paraphrase.
Different hours, low security, in order to make 'real money' you work all kinds of crazy overtime. Deal mostly with uneducated loud mouths.
I work with people in a specific trade right now, and all of them over 35 our pretty beat up and wish they had an office job .
First: The argument is Violent video games, however I will address you specific point:
Take a look at all the home gardens and 'organic' farming that has popped up over the last 5 years. So there is your correlation right there~
You chose to take a job for little money where it's primary function is to extinguish the life from other human beings.
Do you understand that? Do you understand that IS a violent tendency?
I'm not saying it's from video games. That is some serious Cognitive dissonance you got going on.
This is in no way a comment on your service.
The good news is, this is America, so if you do become mentally unstable, you can easily get a gun and kill dozens of kids.
And yes, people become mentally unstable, they are necessarily always mentally unstable.
"OK, but counter to that, what stories actually do glorify violence? Rather than simply present it?"
most stories until about 75 years ago.
"nearly the same access to weapons as do Americans, "
what western country is that?
Current data support the theory that dispondant people with mental issue are drawn to video games, not created by them.
If true, removing video games removes a potential red flag when a child becomes despondent and mentally starts to internalize frustration and anger.
If you have a child whose personality shifts that much, it's a cause to be concerned.
If you child is being bullied, and you do not know about it, I would say you are failing as a parent.
Actually there is strong evidence that that is a factor.
Other factors seem to include:
Home video games and computers. This has cause a drop in the amount of 16-21 year olds doing crime out of boredom.
I would like to point out the:
A) it wasn't just old biddies
B) It worked. It accomplished the goal it set out to. Reduce domestic abuse and crime.
Domestic Abuse all but disappeared, violent crime dropped significantly.
I would also like to point out the prohibition meant the media(Newspapers) lost a lot of advertising money.
Please don't reply with a comparison to other substances; that's irrelevant.
o it isn't, and I protest the word loser in the sentence.
"he problem is the mental wiring..."
please sight the peer reviewed neurological paper the shows that.
Nerd doesn't equal DnD; DnD doesn't equal nerd.
And there is no correlation between DnD and school rampage killings. I mean, the press loves to spread that lie, but it simply isn't true.
When someone become despondent, they need correct health care.
DnD is a social activity. Just so you know.
Are you an idiot?
Sorry, that was rhetorical, obviously you are.
Being sullen and withdrawn is not being a nerd, it's a sign of mental illness; espcially if it is a change in personality; which often seems to be the case.
Being social inept and smart is being a nerd.
How does Charles Starkweather fit into your little stupid idea? Charles Whitman?
Jocks are bullies and brute, and becasue of that they are allowed to be at the top. When something is wrong, there is a bunch of people that will help them, becasue god forbid a football game suffer.
Anyone else? good fucking luck.
" but they also teach people how to lose gracefully and that losing is a part of life. "
HAHAHA. Not in any sport I have seen. Ever go to a middle school football game and listen to the parent of the loosing team? nothing gracefull there. The winning team? nope.
".. but it turns out that the dumb louts actually manage their emotions better than you do."
yelling, cursing, and lashing out at the weak is better control of emotions now?
You're attitude is exactly what is wrong with this conversation. You are applying a piss ass belief as away to explain everything away, when in fact it's far more complex then that.
Yes you do. You need to think emotionally and politically.
No one is gong to track what you spend your token on. They will just count the number of games Point at the pile and say 'See!' why won't you DOOOOOOO something!'
No different then book burning.
WTH? the top of my post was cut off.
"The NRA has said clearly video games are the reason..."
The NRA is full of memeber who ahve no wish to actual confront this issue. It would mean better socialized health care(pubs HATE helping people) and a serious look at the that data about gun control. Something they stop wanting about 15 years ago when the data very clearly shows a decrease in killing when guns are severly restricted. And the data continues to support that year after year.
The used to just looka t UK data. Hand guns were outlawed in '97. Since there wasn't an immdeiate and distinct drop in crime the moment the were outlawed the NRA said that didn't work. But as guns were removed and the culture changed, fewer homicides.
You see then is every 1st world country that enforces strict gun control. Every. Single. One.
I mean Buy more guns! it hasn't fixed a damn thing in 50 years, but that's becasue you have bought enough guns! PLUS there is half a sentence when taken out of context gives you the right!
For the sake of oneness: I am an ex-NRA member. 30 years ago, all this emotional and 'obvious' arguments seemed to make sense. .. but the data doesn't actual support it.
for the shooting, and, btw buy more guns because that will solve the problem.
The use FUD, lies to spread an emotional argument. Couple that with the fact people don't want to question what they are emotional attached with. Guns and getting socialized health care are cast aside to go after video games. It easy target because these people are already emotional attached to the idea that video games are wrong.
Except they are using an incorrect assumptions 'evidences' and this sort of thing add to the weight of their incorrect argument. It's not much of a leap from and emotional argument to have a volunteer system to 'See all these people agree, clearly we need a law.'
" "Linux" (which one?)"
Properly done, it doesn't matter.
Don't confuse idiots who write code dependent on libraries from other people or specific distro as a Linux issue.
No, they are not behaving better the Google. What rock do you live under?
What innovation has come out of MS?
While MS is better then they were, that's not much of a bar.
"Google left the "Don't Be Evil" philosophy "
example beside hear say from a site know from anti Google stance from an author who regularly spreads FUD?
" it'll be kind of boring, since once is basically a copy of the other. "
ah. So either you are stupid or ignorant. Gotcha.
" At least WP8 dares to be different."
Now if they would at least dare to be better.
HAve a nice day.