Yes, "enough shade and nothing will grow" is true, but unless they were going to build the solar panels above the town, I don't see the relevance. Solar panels don't vacuum up sunlight. They only process the sunlight that hits them. So unless you were planning on putting solar panels directly above your farmland, they wouldn't affect plants in any way.
Maybe they were going to put the solar farm in the woman's view shed. These farms can take 100 acres of land or more. That's a lot of scenic North Carolina mountain vista to lose, especially when there are already 2 of them in the area. Maybe the objection is turning an attractive landscape into more of this eyesore. And, of course, the town actually gets no benefit. At least when Apple builds a solar farm, they provide local jobs...
Clearly the Libertarians are the most intelligent party , they are smart enough to wear Tin Foil Hats to block the mind control rays from the UN-Constitutional traffic lights.
To be fair, if Libertarians had been in charge of this town, there would be no zoning at all, so the Council would not have been able to stop the solar farm.
Also, you're clearly being pedantic. There is nothing unconstitutional about traffic lights. It's the traffic light CAMERAS that violate the Constitution.
You can find ignorant people anywhere. Some places, like slashdot, just have more than their fair share.
When it comes to bigoted, hate speech against Southern people, it seems like Slashdot has nothing BUT ignorant people. Even the summary excludes any substance in favor of stereotyping a group that is "different".
Take a look at Virginia to your north - it's much the same way, although there at least the Republicans have a less slightly strong grip.
If by "less slightly strong grip", you mean every executive office holder a member of the Democratic party, the legislature split down the middle, and a Democratic governor that was once the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton and obtained his first elected office as the Governor, then, yes, I guess they have a "less slightly strong grip."
This was a stunt they pulled in the show "Mr. Robot" (highly recommended, BTW), except it wasn't to meet a band. They were trying to sneak into a secure corporate facility, and the main character, Elliot, just shows up asking for a tour. Of course he's told they only do that by appointment, so he just says "You should look me up." After the old dufus tour guide checks his tablet and finds a detailed Wikipedia post about the young technical genius entrepreneur worth billions of dollars, he runs after him and offers him the tour.
Of course that kind of stunt doesn't work when you have actual competent security, but every place has vulnerabilities.
Try using it at least once a day for 3 or 4 weeks (common usage during winter especially) and get back to me when you try to stop. Better yet, research it for yourself.
They mean addicted as in habit-forming. Kind of like Chapstick - and, yes, that stuff is horrendously habit-forming.
Afrin is not as bad as the nasal spray they used to sell over-the-counter. My mom used that stuff enough that it completely destroyed her sense of smell. I mean completely. I can't remember what it was called.
Yeah but pseudoephedrine relieves all congestion, not just nasal.
So does Nasacort ( triamcinolone ). I've used it in prescription for many years after they banned phenylpropanolamine. Pseudoephedrine was only ever marginally effective for me, and I tried a lot of things before finding the Nasacort.
Not sure if the new over-the-counter Nasacort works as well or not, I'm still using the prescription.
So was the hypothesis of the neutrino before it was actually detected. You see, there was this anomaly in the beta decay spectrum and it was hypothesized that the missing energy was carried away by this particle called a neutrino. Decades later the neutrino was actually detected. In what way is dark matter different?
The neutrino hypothesis included some very specific property values for the particle, and possible ways it could be detected. Dark matter, not so much.
So they decided not to include a removable SD card storage, huh? Unfortunate.
I looked at the Nexus phones when I decided I needed to replace my aging HTC "Vivid", which was becoming pretty unreliable. I looked at a LOT of phones, including ones made by LG and Huawei. Samsung was at the top of my list, but even the previous gen phones were a little over my budget. I ruled out HTC because of their awful updates (or should I say lack of them). It was still running Android 4.0.4 - same thing it had when I bought it.
To make a long story short, I ended up with one most of you have never heard of - the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3. I got the 4.7" version (with 16 GB and an SD card slot), which was $179 retail. VERY happy with this phone. Very snappy (it's a quad-core proc with 1.5GB RAM), latest Android (well, Lollipop, anyway), and a very stock Android experience.
Damn, this sounds like a f'n marketing ad. Yea, I don't need the latest/greatest. I wanted fairly stock Android, 4G LTE capability, GSM, unlocked. This one met my req's at a very nice price.
My money is on this being a method for the government to attempt to prevent widespread use of modified WiFi routers as mesh-network routers when they decide to shut down internet access due to 'terrorism' or domestic uprisings/protests.
Right. I've been working on just such a system, experimentally. Lots of commodity ($20) wifi routers, loaded with Open-WRT, connected to a small solar panel and rechargeable battery. They run forever and you can mount them anywhere, even on trees. Even if the access points are down, the hosts connected to the network can talk to each other. It's a neat system, and except for the wider Internet connections, relies on no ISP whatsoever.
Not exactly seeing folks cast off VMWare for RHEV [redhat.com] - and they've had that for awhile now.;)
That's likely to change, as with newer versions of ESXi can no longer be managed without a license for VCenter. Not very practically, anyway. Sure, companies with an investment in VMWare are unlikely to jump ship, but there will be more engineers and independent consultants using other tools, and those are the tools they will start recommending for businesses looking to invest in VM.
I'm not going to convince you but for most people it's plain as day that he uses the language of hate and fear to gain popularity.
It's "obvious" to you because this is what the media focuses on and interprets for you, and you have been propagandized with it. Not because he actually does that. His campaign has nothing to do with hate or fear. Look at Sander's campaign to see someone running on hate. Check out Cruz or Lindsey Graham's campaigns for something based on fear. These are just out-of-context quotes used to excoriate Trump.
Since you don't seem to understand how this works, let me explain it to you. The media covers politics the way the DC political consultants tell them to. That's because media companies get a LOT of money from those consultants. Any candidate that does NOT hire these consultants for their campaign is at a significant disadvantage because of the influence these consultants have in the coverage.
"Laziness is a trait in the blacks.... Black guys counting my money! I hate it" - Trump
This one kind of surprised me - I hadn't heard it repeated before, so I went to check the context. I found where it came from on a HuffPo article from 2011, which says he didn't directly deny it, but the veracity is very questionable. In any case, the article points out Trump's public support of civil rights, donations to civil rights groups, etc., although it paints an unflattering picture of Trump generally. Regardless, there is nothing racist about his campaign, it has nothing to do with his positions or his views on these issues, which seem reasonable.
"China is killing us. They’ve taken so much of our wealth. They’ve taken our jobs. They’ve taken our business, they’ve taken our manufacturing, [audience member screams out “our land”] Our land? The way they’re going they’ll have that pretty soon.Think about it, we have rebuilt China — somebody said to me “that’s a harsh statement” — it’s the greatest theft in the history of the United States." - Trump
So you're in favor of moving more manufacturing jobs to China? Driven by more dirty coal power plants? This is about US competition with China - all countries compete for better trade position, and China is producing all the cheap crap that Walmart sells millions of dollars worth of every day. THIS is one of the threats we should be focused on. Afghanistan and Syria are not going to attack us any time soon, but we are pouring billions into military operations there, while China has all the jobs. Not sure what this has to do with Hitler. Trump isn't advocating invading China or anything like that. He's pointing out that our politicians and multinational corporations have sent all of our manufacturing there, and we can't compete with them. He's right.
I assume you're a TPP supporter? Because that's going to close down more jobs in the US, send more manufacturing to Asia, and allow global multinational corporations to have more power than ever.
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." - Trump
Okay, this was about illegal immigrants. And, yes, they are causing problems for the US. This, again, is about the US competing with other countries, primarily. What you left out was the intro to this quote:
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They're laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our
You're not talking about reality. You're talking spin. It's really easy to call anyone a racist - especially with the media consistently misquoting Trump over and over and then having long panel discussion about things he didn't actually say, or ways that they interpret what he said. You've bought all that rhetoric from supporters of the political status quo hook, line and sinker. And people that know the media is deceptive check out what Trump is really saying and he gets more support. Too bad so many people (like you) can't be bothered to do that. Especially when it fits your ideology.
This is just a bunch of 3rd and 4th -party hearsay that Trump may have had a book of Hitler's speeches. It in no way supports your assertion that "Donald Trump has more in common with Hitler..." at all.
http://www.poynter.org/news/me... [poynter.org]
This, of course, is just more of what I assumed you really meant, which that Trump is a racist and a misogynist, which is simply what the political class (especially on the left, and this guy is very far left) say about Trump. Sure, you can mischaracterize statements from anyone and claim they are racist, it happens all the time, but it's just hyperbole. This guy didn't really even try to demonstrate any commonalities between Trump and Hitler (except, as I pointed out, hair), rather he used Hitler's election to drum up additional hatred for Republicans in his leftist audience. You can find articles doing that all the time. In fact, I can find lots of similar articles using the same rhetoric about Bush W. and even Mitt Romney.
So, poor effort on your part, terrible fail.
Again, I would try it with Sanders if I were you. Compare his career history and trajectory to Hitlers, the campaign promises each made / make, and the groups they vilify during their run for the highest office.
Actually as a UC student I attended classes supporting a student entrepreneurship contest. A representative of the UC IP department attended and explained the program to us and emphasized its support of and discounts to small local startups.
So you have to win a contest to be considered? Did he actually discuss the process, the forms, the reviews, the requirements for actually being eligible of getting any of that "support and discounts" and the chances of getting any? NO? I wonder why...
Wisconsin-Madison is a state-supported school. I realize these days it's considered okay to double- and triple-dip into taxpayers pockets, but this system where schools get to have tax money for research, and then patent the results for profit, is completely wrong.
Oh yeah and because the state funded the education of the students whatever those students make belongs to the state. States fund schools to educate people, if a school does it better then they should be rewarded for that, it means they can expand and sustain that expansion themselves rather than burdening the state.
I would rather public moneys go to education students - it benefits all of us. State-granted monopolies, derived from publicly funded research, not so much. That only benefits the rich at the expense of society.
The UC IP program gives such companies a break on licensing fees, as they also do for local companies.
Oh, so after already paying tax money to support this bloated bureaucracy, and dedicated "monitization" staff, a few companies get a "break" from paying extra for the results of tech research that they've already paid for? How... terribly kind.
No cronies required.
Clearly, you've never tried to get one of these "discount" licenses from the elites at UC.
The schools worked fine when it wasn't allowed to "monetize IP", and when tuition was lower. What happened? Now they have a bigger research staff (because somebody has to WRITE the patent applications), higher-paid administration, lawyers on staff (because they have to defend their patents - how else do you take on Apple Corp?), and everybody wealthy gets wealthier still. It introduces barriers to entry for small businesses so the poor get poorer. And even if you have some system to support small business start-ups, that becomes a crony system where you have to have some connections to get any real support.
This is a small part of what Bernie is talking about - a capitalist system that protects the wealthiest and places the greatest burdens on the middle class. If you're working class, you get NOTHING out of this system, and you're worse off for it. So it's a system for concentrating wealth.
It's all fine and good to claim that it's mostly state money, but of course most of the revenue comes from tuition - and much of the tuition comes from FEDERAL student aid, whether grants or loans or some combination of that.
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Mod parent up. This is the best summary in this thread (full of comments that suck, frankly).
She is so naive that she thinks the government has no backdoors and ways around encryption?
I'm sure lots of people want a 'work around', but what they want isn't always possible.
I think the term you're looking for is "reach around".
Yes, "enough shade and nothing will grow" is true, but unless they were going to build the solar panels above the town, I don't see the relevance. Solar panels don't vacuum up sunlight. They only process the sunlight that hits them. So unless you were planning on putting solar panels directly above your farmland, they wouldn't affect plants in any way.
Maybe they were going to put the solar farm in the woman's view shed. These farms can take 100 acres of land or more. That's a lot of scenic North Carolina mountain vista to lose, especially when there are already 2 of them in the area. Maybe the objection is turning an attractive landscape into more of this eyesore. And, of course, the town actually gets no benefit. At least when Apple builds a solar farm, they provide local jobs...
Clearly the Libertarians are the most intelligent party , they are smart enough to wear Tin Foil Hats to block the mind control rays from the UN-Constitutional traffic lights.
To be fair, if Libertarians had been in charge of this town, there would be no zoning at all, so the Council would not have been able to stop the solar farm.
Also, you're clearly being pedantic. There is nothing unconstitutional about traffic lights. It's the traffic light CAMERAS that violate the Constitution.
You can find ignorant people anywhere. Some places, like slashdot, just have more than their fair share.
When it comes to bigoted, hate speech against Southern people, it seems like Slashdot has nothing BUT ignorant people. Even the summary excludes any substance in favor of stereotyping a group that is "different".
Take a look at Virginia to your north - it's much the same way, although there at least the Republicans have a less slightly strong grip.
If by "less slightly strong grip", you mean every executive office holder a member of the Democratic party, the legislature split down the middle, and a Democratic governor that was once the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton and obtained his first elected office as the Governor, then, yes, I guess they have a "less slightly strong grip."
This was a stunt they pulled in the show "Mr. Robot" (highly recommended, BTW), except it wasn't to meet a band. They were trying to sneak into a secure corporate facility, and the main character, Elliot, just shows up asking for a tour. Of course he's told they only do that by appointment, so he just says "You should look me up." After the old dufus tour guide checks his tablet and finds a detailed Wikipedia post about the young technical genius entrepreneur worth billions of dollars, he runs after him and offers him the tour.
Of course that kind of stunt doesn't work when you have actual competent security, but every place has vulnerabilities.
Lul wut? Chapstick is addictive? That's silly.
Try using it at least once a day for 3 or 4 weeks (common usage during winter especially) and get back to me when you try to stop. Better yet, research it for yourself.
They mean addicted as in habit-forming. Kind of like Chapstick - and, yes, that stuff is horrendously habit-forming.
Afrin is not as bad as the nasal spray they used to sell over-the-counter. My mom used that stuff enough that it completely destroyed her sense of smell. I mean completely. I can't remember what it was called.
Yeah but pseudoephedrine relieves all congestion, not just nasal.
So does Nasacort ( triamcinolone ). I've used it in prescription for many years after they banned phenylpropanolamine. Pseudoephedrine was only ever marginally effective for me, and I tried a lot of things before finding the Nasacort.
Not sure if the new over-the-counter Nasacort works as well or not, I'm still using the prescription.
So was the hypothesis of the neutrino before it was actually detected. You see, there was this anomaly in the beta decay spectrum and it was hypothesized that the missing energy was carried away by this particle called a neutrino. Decades later the neutrino was actually detected. In what way is dark matter different?
The neutrino hypothesis included some very specific property values for the particle, and possible ways it could be detected. Dark matter, not so much.
Hopefully we still can manage to get a cyberpunk dystopia.
Oh, we're going to get a dystopia, alright. Cyberpunk, not so much. More like Orwellian or Huxleyish. It's planned for 2030.
So they decided not to include a removable SD card storage, huh? Unfortunate.
I looked at the Nexus phones when I decided I needed to replace my aging HTC "Vivid", which was becoming pretty unreliable. I looked at a LOT of phones, including ones made by LG and Huawei. Samsung was at the top of my list, but even the previous gen phones were a little over my budget. I ruled out HTC because of their awful updates (or should I say lack of them). It was still running Android 4.0.4 - same thing it had when I bought it.
To make a long story short, I ended up with one most of you have never heard of - the Alcatel OneTouch Idol 3. I got the 4.7" version (with 16 GB and an SD card slot), which was $179 retail. VERY happy with this phone. Very snappy (it's a quad-core proc with 1.5GB RAM), latest Android (well, Lollipop, anyway), and a very stock Android experience.
Damn, this sounds like a f'n marketing ad. Yea, I don't need the latest/greatest. I wanted fairly stock Android, 4G LTE capability, GSM, unlocked. This one met my req's at a very nice price.
My money is on this being a method for the government to attempt to prevent widespread use of modified WiFi routers as mesh-network routers when they decide to shut down internet access due to 'terrorism' or domestic uprisings/protests.
Right. I've been working on just such a system, experimentally. Lots of commodity ($20) wifi routers, loaded with Open-WRT, connected to a small solar panel and rechargeable battery. They run forever and you can mount them anywhere, even on trees. Even if the access points are down, the hosts connected to the network can talk to each other. It's a neat system, and except for the wider Internet connections, relies on no ISP whatsoever.
Not exactly seeing folks cast off VMWare for RHEV [redhat.com] - and they've had that for awhile now. ;)
That's likely to change, as with newer versions of ESXi can no longer be managed without a license for VCenter. Not very practically, anyway. Sure, companies with an investment in VMWare are unlikely to jump ship, but there will be more engineers and independent consultants using other tools, and those are the tools they will start recommending for businesses looking to invest in VM.
I'm not going to convince you but for most people it's plain as day that he uses the language of hate and fear to gain popularity.
It's "obvious" to you because this is what the media focuses on and interprets for you, and you have been propagandized with it. Not because he actually does that. His campaign has nothing to do with hate or fear. Look at Sander's campaign to see someone running on hate. Check out Cruz or Lindsey Graham's campaigns for something based on fear. These are just out-of-context quotes used to excoriate Trump.
Since you don't seem to understand how this works, let me explain it to you. The media covers politics the way the DC political consultants tell them to. That's because media companies get a LOT of money from those consultants. Any candidate that does NOT hire these consultants for their campaign is at a significant disadvantage because of the influence these consultants have in the coverage.
"Laziness is a trait in the blacks. ... Black guys counting my money! I hate it" - Trump
This one kind of surprised me - I hadn't heard it repeated before, so I went to check the context. I found where it came from on a HuffPo article from 2011, which says he didn't directly deny it, but the veracity is very questionable. In any case, the article points out Trump's public support of civil rights, donations to civil rights groups, etc., although it paints an unflattering picture of Trump generally. Regardless, there is nothing racist about his campaign, it has nothing to do with his positions or his views on these issues, which seem reasonable.
"China is killing us. They’ve taken so much of our wealth. They’ve taken our jobs. They’ve taken our business, they’ve taken our manufacturing, [audience member screams out “our land”] Our land? The way they’re going they’ll have that pretty soon.Think about it, we have rebuilt China — somebody said to me “that’s a harsh statement” — it’s the greatest theft in the history of the United States." - Trump
So you're in favor of moving more manufacturing jobs to China? Driven by more dirty coal power plants? This is about US competition with China - all countries compete for better trade position, and China is producing all the cheap crap that Walmart sells millions of dollars worth of every day. THIS is one of the threats we should be focused on. Afghanistan and Syria are not going to attack us any time soon, but we are pouring billions into military operations there, while China has all the jobs. Not sure what this has to do with Hitler. Trump isn't advocating invading China or anything like that. He's pointing out that our politicians and multinational corporations have sent all of our manufacturing there, and we can't compete with them. He's right.
I assume you're a TPP supporter? Because that's going to close down more jobs in the US, send more manufacturing to Asia, and allow global multinational corporations to have more power than ever.
When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." - Trump
Okay, this was about illegal immigrants. And, yes, they are causing problems for the US. This, again, is about the US competing with other countries, primarily. What you left out was the intro to this quote:
the one who singles out the "others" and casts blame on them for a majority of the problems
Actually, this is a good one. You've pegged Bernie's campaign exactly.
You're not talking about reality. You're talking spin. It's really easy to call anyone a racist - especially with the media consistently misquoting Trump over and over and then having long panel discussion about things he didn't actually say, or ways that they interpret what he said. You've bought all that rhetoric from supporters of the political status quo hook, line and sinker. And people that know the media is deceptive check out what Trump is really saying and he gets more support. Too bad so many people (like you) can't be bothered to do that. Especially when it fits your ideology.
Riiiiight... http://www.businessinsider.com... [businessinsider.com]
This is just a bunch of 3rd and 4th -party hearsay that Trump may have had a book of Hitler's speeches. It in no way supports your assertion that "Donald Trump has more in common with Hitler..." at all.
http://www.poynter.org/news/me... [poynter.org]
This, of course, is just more of what I assumed you really meant, which that Trump is a racist and a misogynist, which is simply what the political class (especially on the left, and this guy is very far left) say about Trump. Sure, you can mischaracterize statements from anyone and claim they are racist, it happens all the time, but it's just hyperbole. This guy didn't really even try to demonstrate any commonalities between Trump and Hitler (except, as I pointed out, hair), rather he used Hitler's election to drum up additional hatred for Republicans in his leftist audience. You can find articles doing that all the time. In fact, I can find lots of similar articles using the same rhetoric about Bush W. and even Mitt Romney.
So, poor effort on your part, terrible fail.
Again, I would try it with Sanders if I were you. Compare his career history and trajectory to Hitlers, the campaign promises each made / make, and the groups they vilify during their run for the highest office.
Actually as a UC student I attended classes supporting a student entrepreneurship contest. A representative of the UC IP department attended and explained the program to us and emphasized its support of and discounts to small local startups.
So you have to win a contest to be considered? Did he actually discuss the process, the forms, the reviews, the requirements for actually being eligible of getting any of that "support and discounts" and the chances of getting any? NO? I wonder why...
Anyway, the AA meetings are "secret." Not so much searches.
Umm... no, not secret. At all. Anonymous. Which is much different. I assume the author was referring to this online calendar of AA meetings in the L.A. area which is, yes, public.
Donald Trump has more in common with Hitler than the founding fathers
Yea, no. The only thing I can think of is that they both have very unusual hair (facial in Hitler's case). Other than that, they are polar opposites.
Try comparing Bernie Sanders to Hitler, and you'll find more commonality.
Wisconsin-Madison is a state-supported school. I realize these days it's considered okay to double- and triple-dip into taxpayers pockets, but this system where schools get to have tax money for research, and then patent the results for profit, is completely wrong.
Oh yeah and because the state funded the education of the students whatever those students make belongs to the state. States fund schools to educate people, if a school does it better then they should be rewarded for that, it means they can expand and sustain that expansion themselves rather than burdening the state.
I would rather public moneys go to education students - it benefits all of us. State-granted monopolies, derived from publicly funded research, not so much. That only benefits the rich at the expense of society.
The UC IP program gives such companies a break on licensing fees, as they also do for local companies.
Oh, so after already paying tax money to support this bloated bureaucracy, and dedicated "monitization" staff, a few companies get a "break" from paying extra for the results of tech research that they've already paid for? How... terribly kind.
No cronies required.
Clearly, you've never tried to get one of these "discount" licenses from the elites at UC.
The schools worked fine when it wasn't allowed to "monetize IP", and when tuition was lower. What happened? Now they have a bigger research staff (because somebody has to WRITE the patent applications), higher-paid administration, lawyers on staff (because they have to defend their patents - how else do you take on Apple Corp?), and everybody wealthy gets wealthier still. It introduces barriers to entry for small businesses so the poor get poorer. And even if you have some system to support small business start-ups, that becomes a crony system where you have to have some connections to get any real support.
This is a small part of what Bernie is talking about - a capitalist system that protects the wealthiest and places the greatest burdens on the middle class. If you're working class, you get NOTHING out of this system, and you're worse off for it. So it's a system for concentrating wealth.
It's all fine and good to claim that it's mostly state money, but of course most of the revenue comes from tuition - and much of the tuition comes from FEDERAL student aid, whether grants or loans or some combination of that.