> If you need to drive a gas guzzler then you don't have a life.
That's an interesting if utterly unfounded assertion. Not everybody lives in a densely populated European city with trains going everywhere you want. SOME of us live in the back end of a mountain canyon five miles from the nearest highway.
It's not clear from that article how *much* solar has to be installed on a given house to meet the standard...a single power? The average power draw for a house in that area? A flat minimum per house? I'm pretty sure a single panel won't be quite what they're looking to accomplish (though it would definitely help costs).
I suspect those details ARE out there, but they don't seem obvious from the article.
See, I live off grid...I work during the day and I get home just about when the sun goes down. There are no options for me to charge overnight...at very best all I can do is transfer power from one stack of batteries (the house) to another stack of batteries (the car). That ain't all that efficient.
I'd love an electric vehicle, but it's gonna have to work around me, not me work around it....
> Yes they have - it's very a simple experiment that's been done to death. It's what started scientists being aware
> that there was a potential problem back in the days when "computer" was still a human occupation. Take two
> identical glass jars with thermometers in them, fill one with ambient air, add some extra CO2 to the other, seal
>them up, and put them under a lamp. The CO2-enriched jar will always warm faster, with the difference depending
> on just how much CO2 was added.
Swing and a miss...I'm amazed how often Alarmists cite some variation of this silliness.
It was good to start with, and they've just about doubled since I started with them. And talking to folks online the only way I can get a good rate is to switch over to Dish...and then, after they hike things up to Annoying do it back to DirectTV.
Really very annoying. JUST LET ME PICK MY OWN CHANNELS and we can go from there.
...that they won't use clean power unless they're forced to? Seems they could just use "clean power" (whatever that means today) anyway, and continue to expand their resources and supplies of same regardless.
> I'm tired of Republicans pretending this is a legitimate concern
(remainder of blather deleted)
I'm not a Republican. I'm a Libertarian. And YES in order to vote a person should have to prove their ID--just like in most every other first world nation on Earth.
His views on whether or not global warming exists has no bearing of any kind on whether not he'd be a good administrator. He's got more important thing like getting us a mission to Mars.
I honestly don't know anybody personally who voted for Hillary....everybody around me was (some reluctantly) a Trump voter.
I do agree Bernie would have made it a much closer and tougher race. Everybody know what her flaws were and, for those in which those things mattered, it was enough. Bernie on the other hand was promising a whole lot of free stuff, and that would have been hard to overcome.
I really don't know if Trump would have won against Bernie....there's a great "What If" story in there though!
> Folks want to lock Clinton up for misusing State Department emails.
No, though I know it pleases Democrats to keep spreading that lie.
Clinton committed several felonies....destruction of classified information, concealment of classified information, illegal possession of classified information....every single one of those a felony. A good 150 or so the last time I added it up.
Even Comey admitted she committed felonies....it's not even remotely arguable. I have a clearance; if I'd done even one of these things I'd be writing this from Leavenworth.
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No. But it sure seems like some whiney millennial types want to act like it.
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> If you need to drive a gas guzzler then you don't have a life.
That's an interesting if utterly unfounded assertion. Not everybody lives in a densely populated European city with trains going everywhere you want. SOME of us live in the back end of a mountain canyon five miles from the nearest highway.
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No.
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....will there be cheese?
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> Slashdot commenters, as a whole, probably have a median IQ somewhat higher than the average
From many of the posts in this thread I'm looking askance at that particular assertion.....
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...she used several Blackberry's even though they'd been shown as poor security wise for literally years.
Same thing. Small personal computing devices are a relatively new thing, and security is still wrestling with how deal with them.
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"Duh" seems the most appropriate response.
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Money for the SJW causes, or moving out of Seattle so they don't have to pay it?
I guess will be a good of how seriously they take their causes....
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Rightly or wrongly, the man does do what he says he'll do...
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It's not clear from that article how *much* solar has to be installed on a given house to meet the standard...a single power? The average power draw for a house in that area? A flat minimum per house? I'm pretty sure a single panel won't be quite what they're looking to accomplish (though it would definitely help costs).
I suspect those details ARE out there, but they don't seem obvious from the article.
Ferret
> With Trump, the US *has* decided to stop innovating
Credible citation needed.
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Unfortunate I can't charge the car overnight.
See, I live off grid...I work during the day and I get home just about when the sun goes down. There are no options for me to charge overnight...at very best all I can do is transfer power from one stack of batteries (the house) to another stack of batteries (the car). That ain't all that efficient.
I'd love an electric vehicle, but it's gonna have to work around me, not me work around it....
Ferret
> Yes they have - it's very a simple experiment that's been done to death. It's what started scientists being aware > that there was a potential problem back in the days when "computer" was still a human occupation. Take two > identical glass jars with thermometers in them, fill one with ambient air, add some extra CO2 to the other, seal >them up, and put them under a lamp. The CO2-enriched jar will always warm faster, with the difference depending > on just how much CO2 was added.
Swing and a miss...I'm amazed how often Alarmists cite some variation of this silliness.
The Earth ain't in a glass jar.
Ferret
It was good to start with, and they've just about doubled since I started with them. And talking to folks online the only way I can get a good rate is to switch over to Dish...and then, after they hike things up to Annoying do it back to DirectTV.
Really very annoying. JUST LET ME PICK MY OWN CHANNELS and we can go from there.
Ferret
Okay, sure. I'm a bit skeptical but do your rock thing if you want...
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> The vast majority (> 95%)
Heh....there's your problem right there, that number was discredited a good decade ago. Solid talking point though.
Ferret
IF (and it's a big if) this pans out you definitely deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ferret
An interesting assertion....evidence of them being virtuous in the first case and not so in the second?
Ferret
...that they won't use clean power unless they're forced to? Seems they could just use "clean power" (whatever that means today) anyway, and continue to expand their resources and supplies of same regardless.
Seems rather against their stated point, I think.
Ferret
> I'm tired of Republicans pretending this is a legitimate concern
(remainder of blather deleted)
I'm not a Republican. I'm a Libertarian. And YES in order to vote a person should have to prove their ID--just like in most every other first world nation on Earth.
Ferret
> Trump isn't an oligarch like the Clinton's or Bushe's, but he was definitely a hell of a shitty 2nd choice.
And yet VASTLY better than the other choice.
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> This Bridenstine guy will probably turn out to be a Flat Earther as well.
Nope...the Flat Earthers are also big believers in global warming:
https://www.salon.com/2013/06/...
Which probably means more about something along the lines of gullible people being easily manipulated.
Ferret
His views on whether or not global warming exists has no bearing of any kind on whether not he'd be a good administrator. He's got more important thing like getting us a mission to Mars.
Ferret
I honestly don't know anybody personally who voted for Hillary....everybody around me was (some reluctantly) a Trump voter.
I do agree Bernie would have made it a much closer and tougher race. Everybody know what her flaws were and, for those in which those things mattered, it was enough. Bernie on the other hand was promising a whole lot of free stuff, and that would have been hard to overcome.
I really don't know if Trump would have won against Bernie....there's a great "What If" story in there though!
Ferret
> Folks want to lock Clinton up for misusing State Department emails.
No, though I know it pleases Democrats to keep spreading that lie.
Clinton committed several felonies....destruction of classified information, concealment of classified information, illegal possession of classified information....every single one of those a felony. A good 150 or so the last time I added it up.
Even Comey admitted she committed felonies....it's not even remotely arguable. I have a clearance; if I'd done even one of these things I'd be writing this from Leavenworth.
Ferret