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  1. Re:Everything in China is a JV with the state on Apple iCloud Data in China is Being Stored By a State-Run Telco (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Now, perhaps you are confused because in the US the political parties ARE member-driven in large part, because the parties are seeking VOTES from those members -- which provides a great deal of democracy in the direction the party goes.

    Hillary...

  2. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't work for drugs, but magically it will work this time...

    So invest your million into a different business, or something else. Probably they don't even have a million each, but it can be a big group pooling their money remember. You are much more free to do what you want without the restrictions if you had the million to invest anyway. Plus it was mostly just to show your original price isn't even in the ballpark of what people will spend for a green card already.

    It wasn't my proposal either. I was just pointing out that it was a stupid one.

  3. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    America has the largest % of people in jail, so it's doesn't seem that much of a deterrent for other crimes. Why is this one so different? $50k for a lawyer won't do anything if you can't qualify for other reasons.

    If it's really so cheap and easy at 50k, why do people bother to do this for a million?

    2. Any employee turning in their employer for failure to use e-Verify will have their status automatically transitioned to legal immigrant. This will apply to all other employees and their families in the US.

    This was the original proposal, all can be quite a big number.

    So a large group of people who were willing to spend a million and set up a business and hire 10 people and, and..would easily be able to find someone they could pay to set up 1 scam business and beat this system with much less hassle/effort.

    People with not much to lose and a lot to gain will take the chance for the money.

    People would also be willing to sacrifice themselves to bring over their families/friends, family members friends etc, etc.

    The business and person "caught", need not have any assets to lose. And the proposal doesn't even mention the green cards are contingent on a conviction anyway. So they could just flee first and avoid the jail and fine anyway.

  4. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you did address my concern. Larger fines would just push up the price and not stop anything. Fines are just the cost of doing business. And even the threat of jail time would just make it take a little bit longer to find someone willing to risk it. So I added a 4.

  5. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have read it if you quoted it back to me, yes?

  6. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    OK 4...3...2... instead

  7. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Scam business set up to provide citizenship in 3..2..

  8. Of course the Constitution needs interpretation. Otherwise I can claim it means anything I want it to mean, and so can everyone else. Someone needs to be able to decide who is right.

  9. Seems you were wrong again WindBourne.

    No, they said 'factory', NOT 'next factory'. That is a huge difference. And considering that Tesla sells a great deal more cars in Europe than in China, I would be amazed if China comes first. Keep in mind that if a factory is cheap to put in Europe, that he has just as much, if not more, incentive to go with Europe. And with all the gear there, it would be cheap, easy, and fast.

    Tesla has signed an agreement to build a factory in Shanghai

  10. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    Your main advantage is at night when less power is used anyway. You still have to build extra capacity for the daytime, but you don't want to use cheap wind or solar to do it? Do you want to build extra coal for daytime use too, and then run it idle and waste that power every night?

  11. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    What set power cost? Do you think the production line will have its own dedicated coal plant, not connected to the grid? That hardly seems efficient. It won't solve the problem of variable power demand from everything/everyone else anyway, just increase the minimum.

    You're looking at it backwards anyway. Does having cheaper power when the wind is blowing and the sun is shining make the coal more or less expensive? When the sun is shining or the wind is blowing power will be cheaper, when it's not it wont make the coal any better. Gas, hydro and batteries will all be much more use than coal for dealing with solar and wind variability. Coal is on its last legs.

  12. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    hahahahaha

  13. Re:Tesla or Panasonic batteries? on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 0

    land which has been patented

    Land can be patented? I wish I'd thought of this sooner.
    We should just be grateful Apple aren't claiming to have invented it I suppose.

  14. Re:Let me get this straight on Giant Tesla Battery Project Now Proposed For Silicon Valley (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    People are going to go wind, solar and hydro whether you like it or not. Dinosaurs like you with your dinosaur fuels will just have to put up with the teething pains. Unless you think the old way of burning more and more coal is sustainable...

  15. These things take a little bit of time. Wait and see the 2018 numbers :)

  16. Re:We withdrew from the Paris agreement on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    In the real world things aren't as simple as you.

  17. Re:We withdrew from the Paris agreement on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you don't realise a lot of things...

  18. You never show anything, only lie. on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No silly little boy, You have been shown over and over how it peaked in 2013. And your lie after lie were pointed out back then too.

    Iv'e been pounding it into your head over and over that Chinese coal is more efficient than American coal and the new plants are more efficient than the old ones. Glad you are finally at long last starting to realise.
    Though I never said they were twice as efficient, that's just complete stupidity you made up for yourself. Even your made up 1.5x is a complete joke of a number.

    All you can ever do is lie and make shit up, don't you get tired of appearing so completely clueless and foolish at every turn?

  19. Re:We withdrew from the Paris agreement on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    No you lie yet again. I explained to you China was replacing old coal plants with new more efficient ones. Now you pretend you thought of it, but still get it wrong. Amount of coal burned and how efficiently it's done is the point, not how many plants. You already know most of those plants will be run at even less capacity than the old ones, because less coal is being used for electricity in China.

    Whats the capacity of American and Chinese coal plants again? Thats right both about half, so even replacing them 1 for one with new plants the same size will still allow a doubling of coal. So you idea is just nonsense right from the start.

    That you think China isn't into hydro shows your complete ignorance on this whole topic. China has more hydro than every other country has total electricity except for 2 countries (India and America).

  20. Re:We withdrew from the Paris agreement on America is Falling Behind On Its Paris Climate Pledge (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Because nobody makes enough solar panels and wind turbines yet.

  21. Re: Also, if you don't give us $2500... on Tesla Opens Orders To All US and Canadian Model 3 Reservation Holders (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why aren't the other car companies making better electric cars then? They are already 'profitable' and and don't need VC.

  22. Must be a bit of a fluke that they have been doing this then.

  23. How does the shipping company determine the 10%? on Tech Giants Urge Congress To 'Protect Entrepreneurs' From Supreme Court Ruling (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    And the shipping company gets to decide what the value is? How will it determine the 10%? Open every container, box, envelope, check what's inside, have a bit table to look up the price of literally everything. How much will that cost? You are kidding yourself if you think half a percent will be enough to cover it. Unlikely even the full 10% would be enough to pay for it all.

  24. Let me introduce you to WindBourne. He thinks China is focusing on coal and you think it's nuclear.
    You can both argue with each other to see who is right.
    Everyone else can laugh at you both, safe in the knowledge China is actually building solar and wind.

  25. Re:not enough resources on the planet to meet dema on Search is on For Cobalt-Free Batteries As Metal Gets Increasingly Rare and Expensive (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    A few days of still air over an area as large as China? Same with sunlight?
    I think they have bigger problems, maybe alien invaders put a dome over their whole country.