One of the reasons nuclear power isn't cost effective in the US is that each plant is a one-off custom build that has to be certified from the ground up. We should have built clusters of plants all on the same blueprint rather than each plant being a new experiment.
Yes, shame and insult and "other" us some more. As President-elect Clinton can confirm, that's a surefire way to get people to come over to your side.
You and your ilk have "othered" yourselves just fine over the last 8 years. From cries of "He's a muslim terrorist!" to "Where's his birth certificate!?!?!" to "Michelle is really a man and they kidnapped those kids!!" or "Obama's a tyrant and he's gonna steal our guns!!!", you've demonstrated that you are not in possession of an ability to assess reality like the rest of us. You've reviled and denigrated and spat on a man who won the popular AND electoral vote twice, and now you cry that we progressives are the ones tearing the nation apart. That WE need to get over it and accept your President.
Your conspiracy theories and loose interpretation of the truth have had Hillary investigated time and time and time again and they still verify she broke no laws, committed no treason but do you reconcile? Do you come over to our side? No, you double f**king down and scream "Throw her in jail!!!" for whatever fake story you choose to believe this time.
You spout ignorant racist misogynist propaganda for the better part of a decade and then cry out in shock that we took you literally. "Oh, we didn't REALLLY mean those words, it's just retoric! Believe what we mean, not what we say!"
The difference is in the "why" you want them to go back. Building a better society back at their home: Progressive. Because they're brown, talk funny and steal our jobs!: Alt-Right
The idea is you educate them here and send them back home so they can startup industry's there and effect political change that steers their home country more towards US political ideas and increases the number of their people who can buy our products. That's the payoff to our investment.
I understand that's a hard concept for the average Trumpie to understand but if you think about it really hard maybe you'll get it.
Well to be fair he does have to still pretend that he's not an outright racist piece of crap while speaking in code phrases the Breitbart crowd can understand.
There's been a pilot plant for the process since 2004 in Carthage Missouri. Last reports were that it was running at a loss, but it did successfully turn sewage and offal from meat processing plants into crude oil.
You forgot to mention that while you're suing and lobbying to even string up your first wire they are spending months lobbying on their own and improving their own network so you aren't as competitive and otherwise undercutting you at ever turn.
It's exactly how cable ISP's fight municipal broadband. Sue and cry that it's unfair competition and while it's all rolling through the courts they're busy stringing wire and servicing customers long before the municipal can, undercutting their position.
This is one of those situations where we need a strong government to seize the utility poles and mandate fair and equal access for all.
That's a bullshit argument. The pipeline uses whatever technologies federal regulators imposed on it. And that's obviously not going to satisfy either Amy Goodman or the tribal chiefs.
Ah, so you admit the glorious job creators wouldn't give two wet squirts about safety if the evil government didn't impose upon them to do so!
Under the legal system you call for, it's your own fault for living next door to an oil lake and lead smelter. You should have picked better neighbors. Also since it's not illegal in your system to have an oil lake in your property, you can't sue anyone for it either.
But, hey, at least, abortions are still legal — is not that comforting?..
Sure, as long as you have a note from your husband, have attended a local church's "Don't do it!!" seminar, you've lasted through the mandatory 48 hour waiting period just to be really really sure you're certain you want one and then you've driven outside the state to find an actual clinic....
Conservatives, strict on property rights and still trying to consider women as property.
What is commercial and what isn't. It's none of the governments business.
You must be from Texas, where you can run a fertilizer plant in the middle of a residential neighborhood, until it blows up and destroys the neighborhood and you run off crying bankruptcy. This is exactly why government has a very keen purpose in deciding what is and isn't commercial property and what it's next to.
It's not new tech, AirBnB is pretty much a sublet which is and has been against the terms of most lease agreements since forever.
The twist is that a lot of their bookings are not Bill and Jan renting out the apartment while they're away on holiday but the landlord who's thrown his tenants out because he can make more on short term rentals without going through the task of having his building rezoned as a hotel.
...imagine if we could have covered that land with solar cells instead of a lake
Yeah, imagine a huge swath of land with no purpose other than being covered with solar cells that have to be kept clean and maintained. A chunk of land nobody can be allowed to enter, no trees or animals can be allowed to inhabit.. just imagine it all.
The reservoir is the key side benefit of hydro, in that it creates recreation areas, fish habitat and flood control. None of which solar would provide.
Sure, if you can even get to the Pirate Bay this week, if the entertainment industry isn't having their DNS blocked or seeding fake torrents or merging with ISP's and slowing all the torrent users to an absolute crawl or busy writing international treaties that require ISP's to monitor everything you do and cut you off from the internet for life for crossing their line.
The entertainment industry has lawyers, money and patience. They can and will do whatever it takes to get you to continue to solicit their offerings even if it's just by making the alternatives a complete hassle.
The problem that small limited government people like you seem to never understand though is that we need the government to balance out the already overpowered corporate system. As it is corporations still have too much power but remove government as a counter and we'd be nothing more than barcoded slaves living a dystopia.
We where founded with the principle of LIMITED government, with LIMITED powers that left us free in as many ways as possible.
Also stop living in the past. The US was also founded on the principle's that only land owners got to vote and slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person. Things change.
People blame Netflix for this like it's something they want, which is untrue.
Fact of the matter is that the studios that own the rights to these films won't sign with Netflix because it competes with the cable companies that own them both for on demand streaming and cable channels, as well as studio owned fronts like Hulu.
This is what happens when content providers consolidate with the content delivery companies. Collusion, false monopolies and fixed markets.
It's time for the government to step in and break up the cable/studio/isp's into their separate pieces again.
Please. If nobody reviewed the code then it's going to linger around until someone exploits it. Just like very friggen other piece of software ever written.
Yes, funny. Except all these databases keep getting approved by frightened idiots afraid of "the browns" who frankly don't believe their police will ever actually use the unconstitutional powers they've given them against THEM.
We need reform of the laws that facilitate monopoly-like entrenchment and reform of the culture that looks at misfortune as a lottery ticket.
I don't think any amount of regulation will help with this, because it comes down to greed. If it weren't for the monopoly, they would just collude with the other manufacturers to keep prices high. Greed will find a way.
What we need is mandatory price regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. Will there be less R&D? Possibly, but the majority of new drugs produced now are just new formulations of old compounds that are no longer covered by patents.
"There's a small but hopefully growing subculture of people who are buying the active ingredients of drugs," he says. "It's encouraging to see people take control of their own health."
There used to be a time when you could walk to your corner pharmacy and get a bottle of laudanum, or some cocaine. This did not work out well. There are far too many stupid or murderous people to allow this. I'm sure these guys have the best of intentions but when the idiots start rolling up with lawsuits because they didn't assemble their pen correctly or overdosed or used old medicine or got an air bubble into their veins or the cheap needle they used broke off into their leg or any of the infinite number of horrible things that will happen, they will be wiped out.
There are very good reasons we don't allow Doctor Mom to build her own x-ray machine to save a buck. Just because this medical device is simple doesn't mean it isn't a medical grade device that should be constructed in your Maker lab.
The flaw in your argument is that profits can't exist when no one has any money to buy your stuff. Those "superstars" can't make up for the other 99% who are too poor to buy anything.
That is incorrect. Prior to industrialization or capitalism most people lived through peonage to a noble who held all the capital. Most people day to day never even saw money. The "superstar" performers sought patronage from the nobles to pay their bills, so 99% of the planet can be completely without money and still live.
Not that it'd be any kind of system I'd want my children living in though.
You're living in a priviliged bubble where you think because your job requires some skill it can't be automated. Lawyers and paralegals used to think that before advanced algorithms started replacing them too.
Truth is there are very few jobs that can't be automated to at least reduce the requirement for most current employees. Eventually the only people who will be able to get into a field will be the top top performers, the superstars.
This isn't about education either. This is about profit. Current business practices emphasis maximized profit over human presence and with the demand for higher wages to match the cost of living while robotics continue to drop in price, it's inevitable that humans will be replaced (Most 'job creators' have an antagonistic view towards labor anyway). No amount of education will stop this. There will, for a time, be refuge in jobs like repairing the various robots. Google cars won't repair themselves after all. But even that can and will be automated in time.
Just because a desktop is in the distro doesn't mean they went to any effort to actually make it a part of the distro or if they just compiled the packages and threw them into the image so they can claim a bullet point.
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One of the reasons nuclear power isn't cost effective in the US is that each plant is a one-off custom build that has to be certified from the ground up. We should have built clusters of plants all on the same blueprint rather than each plant being a new experiment.
Yes, shame and insult and "other" us some more. As President-elect Clinton can confirm, that's a surefire way to get people to come over to your side.
You and your ilk have "othered" yourselves just fine over the last 8 years. From cries of "He's a muslim terrorist!" to "Where's his birth certificate!?!?!" to "Michelle is really a man and they kidnapped those kids!!" or "Obama's a tyrant and he's gonna steal our guns!!!", you've demonstrated that you are not in possession of an ability to assess reality like the rest of us. You've reviled and denigrated and spat on a man who won the popular AND electoral vote twice, and now you cry that we progressives are the ones tearing the nation apart. That WE need to get over it and accept your President.
Your conspiracy theories and loose interpretation of the truth have had Hillary investigated time and time and time again and they still verify she broke no laws, committed no treason but do you reconcile? Do you come over to our side? No, you double f**king down and scream "Throw her in jail!!!" for whatever fake story you choose to believe this time.
You spout ignorant racist misogynist propaganda for the better part of a decade and then cry out in shock that we took you literally. "Oh, we didn't REALLLY mean those words, it's just retoric! Believe what we mean, not what we say!"
F**k you and everyone like you.
The difference is in the "why" you want them to go back. Building a better society back at their home: Progressive. Because they're brown, talk funny and steal our jobs!: Alt-Right
The idea is you educate them here and send them back home so they can startup industry's there and effect political change that steers their home country more towards US political ideas and increases the number of their people who can buy our products. That's the payoff to our investment.
I understand that's a hard concept for the average Trumpie to understand but if you think about it really hard maybe you'll get it.
Well to be fair he does have to still pretend that he's not an outright racist piece of crap while speaking in code phrases the Breitbart crowd can understand.
There's been a pilot plant for the process since 2004 in Carthage Missouri. Last reports were that it was running at a loss, but it did successfully turn sewage and offal from meat processing plants into crude oil.
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They need to give you a reason to upgrade to the iPhone 8, which will be functionally the same as the iPhone 7 except with USB-C adapters.
You forgot to mention that while you're suing and lobbying to even string up your first wire they are spending months lobbying on their own and improving their own network so you aren't as competitive and otherwise undercutting you at ever turn.
It's exactly how cable ISP's fight municipal broadband. Sue and cry that it's unfair competition and while it's all rolling through the courts they're busy stringing wire and servicing customers long before the municipal can, undercutting their position.
This is one of those situations where we need a strong government to seize the utility poles and mandate fair and equal access for all.
That's a bullshit argument. The pipeline uses whatever technologies federal regulators imposed on it. And that's obviously not going to satisfy either Amy Goodman or the tribal chiefs.
Ah, so you admit the glorious job creators wouldn't give two wet squirts about safety if the evil government didn't impose upon them to do so!
I feel like progress has been made.
Don't be a dumbass. If a woman wants to kill her baby after it's born she'd just put it in a hoodie and claim she had to stand her ground.
Under the legal system you call for, it's your own fault for living next door to an oil lake and lead smelter. You should have picked better neighbors. Also since it's not illegal in your system to have an oil lake in your property, you can't sue anyone for it either.
But, hey, at least, abortions are still legal — is not that comforting?..
Sure, as long as you have a note from your husband, have attended a local church's "Don't do it!!" seminar, you've lasted through the mandatory 48 hour waiting period just to be really really sure you're certain you want one and then you've driven outside the state to find an actual clinic....
Conservatives, strict on property rights and still trying to consider women as property.
What is commercial and what isn't. It's none of the governments business.
You must be from Texas, where you can run a fertilizer plant in the middle of a residential neighborhood, until it blows up and destroys the neighborhood and you run off crying bankruptcy. This is exactly why government has a very keen purpose in deciding what is and isn't commercial property and what it's next to.
It's not new tech, AirBnB is pretty much a sublet which is and has been against the terms of most lease agreements since forever.
The twist is that a lot of their bookings are not Bill and Jan renting out the apartment while they're away on holiday but the landlord who's thrown his tenants out because he can make more on short term rentals without going through the task of having his building rezoned as a hotel.
We've pretty much already dammed every river that's capable of generating reasonable amounts of hydro power, and coal produces more radioactive waste than nuclear reactors: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/.
...imagine if we could have covered that land with solar cells instead of a lake
Yeah, imagine a huge swath of land with no purpose other than being covered with solar cells that have to be kept clean and maintained. A chunk of land nobody can be allowed to enter, no trees or animals can be allowed to inhabit.. just imagine it all.
The reservoir is the key side benefit of hydro, in that it creates recreation areas, fish habitat and flood control. None of which solar would provide.
Sure, if you can even get to the Pirate Bay this week, if the entertainment industry isn't having their DNS blocked or seeding fake torrents or merging with ISP's and slowing all the torrent users to an absolute crawl or busy writing international treaties that require ISP's to monitor everything you do and cut you off from the internet for life for crossing their line.
The entertainment industry has lawyers, money and patience. They can and will do whatever it takes to get you to continue to solicit their offerings even if it's just by making the alternatives a complete hassle.
The problem that small limited government people like you seem to never understand though is that we need the government to balance out the already overpowered corporate system. As it is corporations still have too much power but remove government as a counter and we'd be nothing more than barcoded slaves living a dystopia.
We where founded with the principle of LIMITED government, with LIMITED powers that left us free in as many ways as possible.
Also stop living in the past. The US was also founded on the principle's that only land owners got to vote and slaves counted as 3/5ths of a person. Things change.
People blame Netflix for this like it's something they want, which is untrue.
Fact of the matter is that the studios that own the rights to these films won't sign with Netflix because it competes with the cable companies that own them both for on demand streaming and cable channels, as well as studio owned fronts like Hulu.
This is what happens when content providers consolidate with the content delivery companies. Collusion, false monopolies and fixed markets.
It's time for the government to step in and break up the cable/studio/isp's into their separate pieces again.
Please. If nobody reviewed the code then it's going to linger around until someone exploits it. Just like very friggen other piece of software ever written.
Yes, funny. Except all these databases keep getting approved by frightened idiots afraid of "the browns" who frankly don't believe their police will ever actually use the unconstitutional powers they've given them against THEM.
We need reform of the laws that facilitate monopoly-like entrenchment and reform of the culture that looks at misfortune as a lottery ticket.
I don't think any amount of regulation will help with this, because it comes down to greed. If it weren't for the monopoly, they would just collude with the other manufacturers to keep prices high. Greed will find a way.
What we need is mandatory price regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. Will there be less R&D? Possibly, but the majority of new drugs produced now are just new formulations of old compounds that are no longer covered by patents.
"There's a small but hopefully growing subculture of people who are buying the active ingredients of drugs," he says. "It's encouraging to see people take control of their own health."
There used to be a time when you could walk to your corner pharmacy and get a bottle of laudanum, or some cocaine. This did not work out well. There are far too many stupid or murderous people to allow this. I'm sure these guys have the best of intentions but when the idiots start rolling up with lawsuits because they didn't assemble their pen correctly or overdosed or used old medicine or got an air bubble into their veins or the cheap needle they used broke off into their leg or any of the infinite number of horrible things that will happen, they will be wiped out.
There are very good reasons we don't allow Doctor Mom to build her own x-ray machine to save a buck. Just because this medical device is simple doesn't mean it isn't a medical grade device that should be constructed in your Maker lab.
The flaw in your argument is that profits can't exist when no one has any money to buy your stuff. Those "superstars" can't make up for the other 99% who are too poor to buy anything.
That is incorrect. Prior to industrialization or capitalism most people lived through peonage to a noble who held all the capital. Most people day to day never even saw money. The "superstar" performers sought patronage from the nobles to pay their bills, so 99% of the planet can be completely without money and still live.
Not that it'd be any kind of system I'd want my children living in though.
You're living in a priviliged bubble where you think because your job requires some skill it can't be automated. Lawyers and paralegals used to think that before advanced algorithms started replacing them too.
Truth is there are very few jobs that can't be automated to at least reduce the requirement for most current employees. Eventually the only people who will be able to get into a field will be the top top performers, the superstars.
This isn't about education either. This is about profit. Current business practices emphasis maximized profit over human presence and with the demand for higher wages to match the cost of living while robotics continue to drop in price, it's inevitable that humans will be replaced (Most 'job creators' have an antagonistic view towards labor anyway). No amount of education will stop this. There will, for a time, be refuge in jobs like repairing the various robots. Google cars won't repair themselves after all. But even that can and will be automated in time.
Just because a desktop is in the distro doesn't mean they went to any effort to actually make it a part of the distro or if they just compiled the packages and threw them into the image so they can claim a bullet point.