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  1. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 1

    Redoing a bathroom costs around $30k. What homeowner would balk at that kind of outlay for a home improvement project? (hint, for every $ you spend improving your home, you get back around $3 in home value)

  2. Re:Gamechanger on Tesla Announces Home Battery System · · Score: 1

    while heating is often accomplished substantially by on-site combustion heaters, which impose negligible electrical load(typically a trickle to keep the thermostats and other regulatory electronics up; but that's peanuts compared to AC load).

    I think the fans in the central heat system would easily use way more power than the thermostats...

    I do love my natural gas heat though, I am never cold in the winter, and it costs much less to run.

  3. Re:Not sure, if this is much better on NSA Reform Bill Backed By Both Parties Set To Pass House of Representatives · · Score: 1

    So, what would make you happy? If they need a warrant (from the FISA court) to access the data (just like previously), how is it not abbiding by the fourth amendment?

    Would you prefer that law enforcement/spy agencies had to be fully tied and unable to conduct investigations?

  4. Re:Hoping they return... on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    It does not appear to be available from Google Play. However, in the US, it is perfectly legal to grab the Youtube video, so there is that.

  5. Re:Try again... 4? on Grooveshark Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing you have never heard of mix tapes or mix cds? I imagine it even happened in the 8 track era as well, but I don't have experience back that far.

    In the middle ages, it was common for music to be shared for free, what suddenly changed to make it so expensive? It has only gotten easier to reproduce music.

  6. Re: flooding in 3, 2, 1 ... on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 1

    My curiosity is what will they load these free ebooks onto? Is the state going to hand out Nooks to all these kids? How long before those are stolen and sold for crack money?

  7. Re:flooding in 3, 2, 1 ... on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 1

    The worst off Americans have much better conditions than the middle class in India even. Indoor plumbing, clean water, electricity, healthcare, housing.

  8. Re:flooding in 3, 2, 1 ... on Obama Announces e-Book Scheme For Low-Income Communities · · Score: 1

    Don't let the facts get in your way, but Walmart pays well above minimum wage.

    http://www.glassdoor.com/Salar...

    Raising the minimum wage will only make the problem worse. When the minimum wage goes up, there are less jobs. How far do you think McDonalds is from replacing their staff with robots? Another couple minimum wage hikes and many manual labor jobs will just disappear. Also, when minimum wage goes up, the costs for needed items rises as well quickly eating up any raises.

    What you should really be advocating for a is a basic income.

    http://theweek.com/articles/45...

    Also, forget affordable healthcare, we need to just have single payer and get it over with. We pay so much more than all the other countries for health care, without any improvement of outcomes.

  9. Re:There's a shock... on FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption · · Score: 1

    would have some ideas about encryption that are anything other than technologically cutting edge and fourth amendment compliant

    They are asking for something that is forth amendment compliant. What do you expect them to do with a warrant when the device is encrypted? Beg the phone to decrypt itself?

  10. Re:The problem isn't the FBI ... on FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption · · Score: 1

    AC might not be American. Though I can't see what else the average person could do to stop these kinds of abuses except maybe run for office yourself. Though I imagine as soon as you gain office, you too will get corrupted by the real powers.

  11. Re:It is much worse than _that_! on White House Outsources K-12 CS Education To Infosys Charity · · Score: 1

    Funny cause I have seen nothing in Romney or McCain that would be worse than Obama.

  12. Re:Infosys, Really? on White House Outsources K-12 CS Education To Infosys Charity · · Score: 1

    Many Conservatives also dislike foreigners, so would push for less H1-B. This isn't as clear cut an issue as business vs common man.

  13. Re:It is the Internet on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    http://www.catholiccharities-m...

    Not sure how hard that is.

  14. Re:The all-or-nothing fallacy on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 1

    What is this logitudinal data? It sounds like position data...

    How was the data produced? Who produced it? Why are they keeping it secret? Does the benefit to we the people outweigh the right of secrecy of the data?

    Last I checked, but climate data and studies of the harm of substances, the majority of the data is collected by the government (NOAA, NIH, NASA, etc), so therefore it should be public data. If you feel that the data should be hidden, and all the studies should be "on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'." -Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  15. Re:The all-or-nothing fallacy on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the EPA would already regulate fracking if there were danger to ground water. Funny thing, but if the oil they are fracking for was anywhere near the water, it would already be in your water, in fact, fracking happens nowhere near water as the water would have removed the oil long ago. The depth differences are pretty extreme in the case of fracking.

  16. Re:EPA has exceeded safe limits, needs curbing on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 1

    Just to nitpick...the polar vortex pulled cold air out of the polar regions and into most of the eastern US. This caused more warm air to be pushed into the polar regions, not colder air to somehow appear at the poles.

  17. Re:EPA has exceeded safe limits, needs curbing on Senate Advances "Secret Science" Bill, Sets Up Possible Showdown With President · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering what a molecule of CO32 would look like. A long chain of Os?

  18. Re: It is an ad. on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    WMD are not equivalent to just nuclear weapons, they include many weapon classifications. Yellow cake is pretty much useless for making nuclear weapons, it needs a considerable amount of processing, the type of processing we see happening in Iran interestingly enough.

  19. Re:I agree with them on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Considering that at the root, abortion is murder, I would have no problem with him doing that.

  20. Re:Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    That is kind of funny you mention it, the invisible hand did kind of help as the recent recession caused the US to keep Kyoto's requirements even though they were not a signatory.

  21. Re:Seems he has more of a clue on Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics · · Score: 1

    Considering Kyoto had nothing to say about China, I would tend to agree with Bush. The US has kept to Kyoto without signing, while China has completely dwarfed all of the Kyoto changes.

    Cruz is actually correct as well, over the last 15 years there was a hiatus in the warming. How is that being a denier to point out a problem with the theory that exists (and has been explained...)?

  22. Re:Damnit, Jebediah! on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 1

    I would expect in this case it is more of

    Dammit Jeb, you're supposed to shut off the engines before staging!

  23. Re:Google Searches are promoting Alien abduction.. on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    I can understand most of those, but why add this as it is clearly a scientific truth.

    and that Aspartame isn't bad for you.

    Numerous scientific studies have returned that Arpartame is perfectly healthy in the doses used unless you have a genetic issue with it that causes much worse issues.

  24. Re:It is the Internet on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    locations of women's shelters

    Isn't the utility of a women's shelter in that women can find them when needed?

  25. Re:UNMANNED Russian Spacecraft on Russian Cargo Mission To ISS Spinning Out of Control · · Score: 1

    I have seen plenty of women wearing that hair style...