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  1. Re:The real conspiracy... on Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    "bury them all in the same spot" we call that "pre-cycling" as they are just holding on to them until recycling actually does become economically viable.

  2. Re:So let me see if I get this right. on DOJ Launches New Cybercrime Unit, Claims Privacy Top Priority · · Score: 1

    And "affordable care" costs more. And they also want to increase my freedom by applying more restrictions. The word is "Orwellian."

  3. Re:Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Yes because economies of scale is just another lie just like the relationship between demand/availability and price.

  4. Re:Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Well, the OP probably lives in NYC or Vegas or somewhere similar that has mob run trash hauling. How else to explain such exorbitant rates?

  5. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Why should your utility pay you for power generation any more than they pay the big plant that is actually a reliable source? Do you think your local utility pays any generator more than wholesale? Do you not understand that the point of being a retailer is that you buy your product at wholesale and sell it at retail. Your grocer does this, your tailor (or department store, etc.) does this, your gas stations do this. It is the normal way of operating a business, why do you expect to be treated any differently.

    Now how often the OSHA inspectors stop by to inspect your power generation plant? How many lawyers did you have to hire to write and file the environmental impact statements and get your power generation plant authorized before you even started building it? Are you paying income taxes on the revenue you receive - those wholesale payments you receive or are you still amortizing the costs of the equipment?

    What, none of that is happening? Then you should not be competing with the other power generators at all.

  6. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    And almost everyone can afford it, as in 99.99% If all the tree-hugger whackjobs got their wish that number would go down to 90% or less.

  7. Re: Are they really that scared? on Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies · · Score: 1

    Do they fight to make it illegal or to make it illegal if safequards aren't in place to keep the solar from entering the grid when teh grid is supposed to be dead (like for repairs and such).

  8. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    Yes, but I was pointing out the absurdity of looking only at number of arrests by race as a determinant of racism.

  9. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    You mean they are gathering data on people reported to have committed crimes? How dare the police and courts track such a thing.

  10. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 1

    or maybe the "innocent" guy was killed in the act of committing a felony assault on someone known to be armed with a handgun. I guess that would qualify as a guy was killed just for being an idiot.

  11. Re:A tech gloss over racial profiling? on 'Moneyball' Approach Reduces Crime In New York City · · Score: 2

    So, if 80 of witnessed murders are reported to have been committed by a perpetrator with SkinColorA and 20 were reported to have been committed by a perpetrator with SkinColorB, the police should ignore 60 of the first group of murders in order to remain balanced? What a load of shit!

    I guess we could also make a similar claim that a small town northern US city (that generally have single digit black populations) should not allow something like 90% of their white students to attend school in order to remain "non-racist" in their educational policies.

  12. Re: Most of the problem is Monsanto, the Great Sat on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 1

    Then grow your own

  13. Re:Oh fark off on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    "artificially low" = "not taxed enough".

  14. Re:Cars and even SUVs do not cause much damage on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    You do realize that modern semis average around 12 mph and carry about 50,000 lbs of cargo? the average passenger car can carry around 500 lbs of cargo so you would need 100 of them. Even if the are Prius' getting 50 mph, you are using way more fuel using Prius' to move the cargo and causing way more congestion.

  15. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    but trains cannot reach every little town, let alone every store.

  16. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    I believe the gain is that somebody got where they were going in a manner they enjoyed doing it in. That you are complaining that you, personally, received no gain only proves that you are selfish.

  17. Re: so why specifically target drivers? on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    And they will pass it on to you, their customer. Or are you one of those who never buys anything in a store or online and produces everything you use in your basement from materials you mined yourself in your own backyard with tools you carried by hand after buying them from somebody else just like you.

  18. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    like the 1970s? we adapted and survived.

  19. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    So we start off with complaints about how heavy commercial trucks damage the road and then we get to how heavy buses are better. And don't even get me started about how much damage that light rail system does to the roadway.

  20. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    "What the hell are talking about?" says dunkelfalke, who often wonders where this planet called earth that everybody around him is always going on about.

  21. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Really, my "rush hour" commute is only about 13% longer than when I make the drive not during rush hour. That's right, it takes me a whole 2 minutes longer to make the drive during "rush hour" around here. Maybe you should notice that the entire country has not chosen to live in a big city.

  22. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have. I live and drive here everyday and it isn't really that bad. People reading your rant would think that half of us are involved in an accident everyday but that is really not the case.

  23. Re:Stupid, trucks cause the problem on The Downside to Low Gas Prices · · Score: 1

    Well, public transportation costs will be reduced so they will need to pay less in taxes to subsidize the operation.

  24. Re:About time for a Free baseband processor on Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes · · Score: 1

    but it also says the right of the people and every other amendment that uses people (or the singular, person) has never been interpreted by the right of the left to mean anything other than individuals. really. Why don't we read the first amendment as claiming that State governments have the right to make political speech but no individual person does? It really is that simple; either the Constitution guarantees the right of individuals to be armed or it does not guarantee the right of any individual to free speech.

  25. Re:About time for a Free baseband processor on Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes · · Score: 1

    Ah yes, the old "stop promoting adherence to an ancient document and get oppressed the modern way" argument.