Give FB my photo? Not a chance! They already track my every move. They probably already have my photo. I have deleted my account on FB before, and wonder of wonders, All my old 'deleted' data mysteriously reappeared.
Facebook is a bunch of lying liars who lie with their every corporate breath.
I have had very limited contact with LEOs, none of them resulted in the capture of the perpetrators.
I guess I just encountered the lazy or overworked ones, or they just didn't know how to follow up on the leads I gave to them.
I was able to get a quicker response on my own just over the phone, in response to a debit card theft. The local sheriff's department quickly suspended the case. Just not important that my entire bank account had been wiped out. I eventually got all my money back, but without much help from the LEOs who worked the case. It took a couple of weeks just to connect with them to give them my evidence.
First, tRump has done NOTHING but support the big corporate and private spenders at every turn of the dial. They are still making tons of cash, and they are successfully getting some of their most important legislation passed, albeit not so well publicized (which is how they really like it).
Consumer protection? GONE!
Student loan forgiveness? GONE!
ACA? Still pumping money into the insurance industry!
Tax breaks? Nearly DONE!
Everyone's going on about high tech battery solutions. They're overlooking one highly effective low tech solution that would serve a mountainous island like Puerto Rico very well. Guess there's not enough glamor in it.
There's no possibility of launching anything that could catch up to it now.
Maybe the aliens will come back, but if they do, it will probably only be their Intergalactic Pest Control Team coming to rid the planet of psychotic human infestations before they can spread to the rest of the universe...
Besides, Earth will make a pretty good vacation spot, once it's pet problem is corrected.
Do you even know the difference between the "Arctic Ocean being ice-free" and "a collapse of a major ice sheet in Greenland or West Antarctica could raise sea levels by 20 feet in the near future"?
Those two effects of global warming have a hugely different effect on the sea-level rise:
Since the Arctic Ocean's ice pack is already floating on the ocean, its melting does not affect the sea rise, although it CAN affect the buildup of global temperatures due to the fact that water reflects less and absorbs more of the insolation heat it receives than does the same area of sea ice.
On the other hand, the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica rest on land, and the addition of that melted water DOES create a rise in sea levels because it is effectively adding more water to the world's oceanic basins.
The two effects are connected because the increased heating of the Arctic Ocean's sea after it's ice pack has melted accelerates the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
You can go back to sleep now, but your grandchildren WILL BE TESTED on this material.
Pumped water storage utilizing paired reservoirs of water could serve two purposes in the Puerto Rico crisis:
The kinetic energy of water is an environmentally sound method for storing excess solar or wind energy. Since the central portions of the island are mountainous, there is plenty of height to supply the head pressure for micro-hydro power generation, while the water itself can also be used as a source of a community's water, which would be recharged by utilizing the usual wells or surface runoff sources.
Instead of using expensive, short-lived, and toxic chemically-based batteries to store the energy, the excess power from solar/wind arrays is used to pump the water up to reservoirs in the mountains. This water is used to provide power during the night. If the system is designed with enough overall storage capacity, any water in excess of what is required to meet the demand for electricity can be tapped from the system as needed. Batteries and/or capacitors may still have a place in such a system, to serve as a voltage-leveling buffer. Such a system would be physically more robust during hurricanes since much of the infrastructure could be built on or under the ground.
Systems such as these have been in operation for many years, but the idea has never been used at the scale that would power an island the size of Puerto Rico, which has many small towns separated by difficult mountainous terrain, this could be a viable solution.
It would be relatively easy to set up such a system in the Western USA, such as using the facilities at Lake Meade and Lake Havasu along the Colorado River and connecting them with a pair of pipelines that carry water either uphill for storage, or downhill for power generation.
The Mohave Valley has ample space and wind resources for wind power, which would never have to be stopped due to low peak demands for energy since Lake Meade is so much larger than Lake Havasu there would always be enough storage capacity for the excess wind/solar energy.
It's obvious to me that the matter segregated itself from the antimatter as it formed during the Big Bang, and thus never had the chance to annihilate each other. There must be a mirrored anti-matter universe out there somewhere but we can not see it. All of our experiments are being conducted simultaneously in the anti-universe, so the perfect balance is always maintained.
They just hire security companies, like the Pinkertons to kill off the miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. There's even a memorial at the site with all the names of the dead.
"The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. About two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know perfectly well that the National Anthem and the flag are merely symbols. They can be an expression of a person's free speech.
The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The significance of a flag is to identify the combatants on the field of battle, so naturally, those who have fought may consider that the flag symbol has a special significance for them.
However, if a person is REQUIRED to stand or make any other expression, THAT is PROHIBITING the free exercise of a person's right to speak freely. Forced speech is not free, and therefore any law requiring such speech is not permitted. To require a lockstep obedience to a symbol would be disrespecting the content and purpose of the First Amendment of our US Constitution.
Kneeling during the National Anthem is, therefore, an expression akin to petitioning the government for redress of grievances in a public expression of the right to peacefully assemble and express those grievances.
The President has called for those players to be punished and he has actively advocated that the player's employers be the instrument of that punishment. tRump's actions while in office are those of an official of the government and show a profound disrespect for and a lack of understanding of the meaning of the First Amendment. He does have the right to express his opinion, but he does not have the right to advocate punishment. Except possibly in the case of allegedly black-balling Kaepernick from NFL play, the team owners have correctly refrained from punishing any of the other players, even while they are pressuring them to stop their public statements of conscience.
The whole thing stinks of McCarthyism on the part of tRump and the NFL owners for publicly pressuring the players to tow the line and abandon their right to make statements about their grievances in a public forum. Fortunately, there are still some memories of the consequences of such McCarthyism in the entertainment industry and in the minds of at least some US American citizens.
I see no reason to give the insurance companies a bonus customer base, as the ACA did for the health insurance companies. Taxes are the way to go. Put the extra money into a trust fund for trauma centers in high crime areas, or for anti-gang efforts.
After I sign my card, along with a "Please ask for photo ID", I place a piece of Scotch Magic tape over it. The tape all but disappears, and the signature stays good for the life of the card.
I think that kneeling does NOT show disrespect for the flag at all!
It is the most respectful way that these players can make a significant statement about the atrocities of people getting shot and killed by an out of control police culture.
The respect for the flag remains unchanged. It's the disrespect of the boycott of the NFL by the fans that is the real show of disrespect being acted out here. These fans have absolutely no understanding of the true meaning of the First Amendment. They also do not have any understanding that the First Amendment also guarantees that no one should be forced to show obeisance to any symbol.
To be forced into such acts is not expressing a love of freedom, but is only showing another form of tyranny.
To be plainspoken about it, conservatives/libertarians purposely defund public healthcare/schools/postal services so that they must fail, fulfilling the prophecies foretelling such failures, thus providing the evidence for the conservative's philosophy that private healthcare/schools/postal services are better, even while they end up costing considerably more and while providing considerably less.
They are private, which is all the proof required to make them better, even in the light of hard evidence to the contrary.
I think we agree about concealed guns and silencers. I am intimidated every day with open carry guns being so prevalent these days as well. I was in a restaurant just yesterday. At least two customers had their armaments "proudly" on display. And one of them was loudly proclaiming his disdain for all things liberal and his outspoken fears that his 2nd Amendment rights were about to be revoked if ever another LIBERAL was elected anywhere.
As a progressive liberal, it was not a pleasant meal to have to endure this guy's exercise of his 1st Amendment right to free speech, but I was not in a confrontational mood in such an intimidating environment. Politeness be damned! The carrying of guns seems to be an adult pacifier for bullies. It allows them to display their ignorance of the rule of law and any true understanding of the principles of the US Constitution. IMO.
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Typical of the rigid, constricted thought patterns to be expected of someone who has never progressed past concrete thinking.
Give FB my photo? Not a chance! They already track my every move. They probably already have my photo. I have deleted my account on FB before, and wonder of wonders, All my old 'deleted' data mysteriously reappeared.
Facebook is a bunch of lying liars who lie with their every corporate breath.
I have had very limited contact with LEOs, none of them resulted in the capture of the perpetrators.
I guess I just encountered the lazy or overworked ones, or they just didn't know how to follow up on the leads I gave to them.
I was able to get a quicker response on my own just over the phone, in response to a debit card theft. The local sheriff's department quickly suspended the case. Just not important that my entire bank account had been wiped out. I eventually got all my money back, but without much help from the LEOs who worked the case. It took a couple of weeks just to connect with them to give them my evidence.
Color me 'not impressed'.
What a frickin' useless article!
No site names included in order to protect the cash flow of the guilty. No doubt /. is one of them...
He's about to become a Flat Liner, aka a future Darwin Award winner for 2017!
Oh, but police overtime is VERY profitable... especially if it's in-house and no one is shooting at you.
A ready-made excuse to justify buyer's remorse for an overpriced piece of techno-junk.
Those movies with people & dinosaurs, they were the future!
The CO2 rises, plant life grows like crazy.
With not so many people around, reptiles and insects start growing huge again.
The few surviving people (named Rubble and Flintstone) must use their wits to survive as they go to work in the stone quarry.
First, tRump has done NOTHING but support the big corporate and private spenders at every turn of the dial. They are still making tons of cash, and they are successfully getting some of their most important legislation passed, albeit not so well publicized (which is how they really like it). Consumer protection? GONE! Student loan forgiveness? GONE! ACA? Still pumping money into the insurance industry! Tax breaks? Nearly DONE!
Everyone's going on about high tech battery solutions. They're overlooking one highly effective low tech solution that would serve a mountainous island like Puerto Rico very well. Guess there's not enough glamor in it.
There's no possibility of launching anything that could catch up to it now.
Maybe the aliens will come back, but if they do, it will probably only be their Intergalactic Pest Control Team coming to rid the planet of psychotic human infestations before they can spread to the rest of the universe...
Besides, Earth will make a pretty good vacation spot, once it's pet problem is corrected.
Do you even know the difference between the "Arctic Ocean being ice-free" and "a collapse of a major ice sheet in Greenland or West Antarctica could raise sea levels by 20 feet in the near future"?
Those two effects of global warming have a hugely different effect on the sea-level rise:
Since the Arctic Ocean's ice pack is already floating on the ocean, its melting does not affect the sea rise, although it CAN affect the buildup of global temperatures due to the fact that water reflects less and absorbs more of the insolation heat it receives than does the same area of sea ice.
On the other hand, the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica rest on land, and the addition of that melted water DOES create a rise in sea levels because it is effectively adding more water to the world's oceanic basins.
The two effects are connected because the increased heating of the Arctic Ocean's sea after it's ice pack has melted accelerates the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.
You can go back to sleep now, but your grandchildren WILL BE TESTED on this material.
Pumped water storage utilizing paired reservoirs of water could serve two purposes in the Puerto Rico crisis:
The kinetic energy of water is an environmentally sound method for storing excess solar or wind energy. Since the central portions of the island are mountainous, there is plenty of height to supply the head pressure for micro-hydro power generation, while the water itself can also be used as a source of a community's water, which would be recharged by utilizing the usual wells or surface runoff sources.
Instead of using expensive, short-lived, and toxic chemically-based batteries to store the energy, the excess power from solar/wind arrays is used to pump the water up to reservoirs in the mountains. This water is used to provide power during the night. If the system is designed with enough overall storage capacity, any water in excess of what is required to meet the demand for electricity can be tapped from the system as needed. Batteries and/or capacitors may still have a place in such a system, to serve as a voltage-leveling buffer. Such a system would be physically more robust during hurricanes since much of the infrastructure could be built on or under the ground.
Systems such as these have been in operation for many years, but the idea has never been used at the scale that would power an island the size of Puerto Rico, which has many small towns separated by difficult mountainous terrain, this could be a viable solution.
It would be relatively easy to set up such a system in the Western USA, such as using the facilities at Lake Meade and Lake Havasu along the Colorado River and connecting them with a pair of pipelines that carry water either uphill for storage, or downhill for power generation.
The Mohave Valley has ample space and wind resources for wind power, which would never have to be stopped due to low peak demands for energy since Lake Meade is so much larger than Lake Havasu there would always be enough storage capacity for the excess wind/solar energy.
It's obvious to me that the matter segregated itself from the antimatter as it formed during the Big Bang, and thus never had the chance to annihilate each other. There must be a mirrored anti-matter universe out there somewhere but we can not see it. All of our experiments are being conducted simultaneously in the anti-universe, so the perfect balance is always maintained.
So you live in a fairyland and smoke unicorn poop.
Right to work means the right to be a wage slave.
They just hire security companies, like the Pinkertons to kill off the miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado. There's even a memorial at the site with all the names of the dead. "The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. About two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I know perfectly well that the National Anthem and the flag are merely symbols. They can be an expression of a person's free speech.
The First Amendment says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
The significance of a flag is to identify the combatants on the field of battle, so naturally, those who have fought may consider that the flag symbol has a special significance for them.
However, if a person is REQUIRED to stand or make any other expression, THAT is PROHIBITING the free exercise of a person's right to speak freely. Forced speech is not free, and therefore any law requiring such speech is not permitted. To require a lockstep obedience to a symbol would be disrespecting the content and purpose of the First Amendment of our US Constitution.
Kneeling during the National Anthem is, therefore, an expression akin to petitioning the government for redress of grievances in a public expression of the right to peacefully assemble and express those grievances.
The President has called for those players to be punished and he has actively advocated that the player's employers be the instrument of that punishment. tRump's actions while in office are those of an official of the government and show a profound disrespect for and a lack of understanding of the meaning of the First Amendment. He does have the right to express his opinion, but he does not have the right to advocate punishment. Except possibly in the case of allegedly black-balling Kaepernick from NFL play, the team owners have correctly refrained from punishing any of the other players, even while they are pressuring them to stop their public statements of conscience.
The whole thing stinks of McCarthyism on the part of tRump and the NFL owners for publicly pressuring the players to tow the line and abandon their right to make statements about their grievances in a public forum. Fortunately, there are still some memories of the consequences of such McCarthyism in the entertainment industry and in the minds of at least some US American citizens.
Robocop and Robocop 2?
I see no reason to give the insurance companies a bonus customer base, as the ACA did for the health insurance companies. Taxes are the way to go. Put the extra money into a trust fund for trauma centers in high crime areas, or for anti-gang efforts.
After I sign my card, along with a "Please ask for photo ID", I place a piece of Scotch Magic tape over it. The tape all but disappears, and the signature stays good for the life of the card.
I think that kneeling does NOT show disrespect for the flag at all!
It is the most respectful way that these players can make a significant statement about the atrocities of people getting shot and killed by an out of control police culture.
The respect for the flag remains unchanged. It's the disrespect of the boycott of the NFL by the fans that is the real show of disrespect being acted out here. These fans have absolutely no understanding of the true meaning of the First Amendment. They also do not have any understanding that the First Amendment also guarantees that no one should be forced to show obeisance to any symbol.
To be forced into such acts is not expressing a love of freedom, but is only showing another form of tyranny.
Gun owners who shoot people should be charged extra taxes for the damages and extra expenses that they cause in the health care system.
To be plainspoken about it, conservatives/libertarians purposely defund public healthcare/schools/postal services so that they must fail, fulfilling the prophecies foretelling such failures, thus providing the evidence for the conservative's philosophy that private healthcare/schools/postal services are better, even while they end up costing considerably more and while providing considerably less.
They are private, which is all the proof required to make them better, even in the light of hard evidence to the contrary.
"A hell of a job, Brownie"
Ha, ha! I did fully understand the /sarcasm... but I'm a stickler for the fun-da-mentals!
Without bass players, drummers wouldn't know in which key they were playing!
Keep on funning on!
I think we agree about concealed guns and silencers. I am intimidated every day with open carry guns being so prevalent these days as well. I was in a restaurant just yesterday. At least two customers had their armaments "proudly" on display. And one of them was loudly proclaiming his disdain for all things liberal and his outspoken fears that his 2nd Amendment rights were about to be revoked if ever another LIBERAL was elected anywhere.
As a progressive liberal, it was not a pleasant meal to have to endure this guy's exercise of his 1st Amendment right to free speech, but I was not in a confrontational mood in such an intimidating environment. Politeness be damned! The carrying of guns seems to be an adult pacifier for bullies. It allows them to display their ignorance of the rule of law and any true understanding of the principles of the US Constitution. IMO.