False equivalence. There are spectacularly more species and variety of birds than one.
Cats can kill all the starlings and pigeons they want, but those birds are not the ones being smacked by wind turbines. Wind turbines disproportionately affect large birds, which are also more likely to be endangered species.
And there is absolutely no drawbacks to releasing and burning yet more carbon.
There is absolutely no such thing as a safe carbon-based energy facility, and those will kill far more people than 10 Chernobyl-scale events could.
Plus, as others have pointed out, Chernobyl was the result of a piss-poor reactor design, complete lack of any kind of attempt at fail-safe containment, and extra-ordinary operations that should have never been done.
A triple-decker shit sandwich that is amazingly easy to not repeat by designing facilities to fix the first two, and then implement controls to make the third impossible.
Please explain what "wrong" opinions are, you precious snowflake.
Being presented with something you don't agree with is just so hard to deal with when you are used to surrounding yourself with total agreement. Better hurl insults at someone you know absolutely nothing about!
You are the problem in civic discourse today. You are causing the division. Go enlighten yourself and come back once you can behave yourself. The adults are talking.
Oh, I completely agree. However, words and accusations matter. Argue that point. Argue the point of hiding behind classification of massive mountains of documents. Argue that he doesn't have temperament requisite for the bench. Argue that his wildly flailing conspiracy accusations of the Clintons and all that horseshit in his opening statement shows that he's unable to rise above political debate, as is expected of a Supreme Court Justice.
All of these are valid criticisms. But calling someone a rapist without being able to prove it is called slander; and levying those accusations as a reason to disqualify someone from the bench is called trying them in the court of public opinion, because you know you couldn't make any of it wash in a real courtroom.
This is not how our Republic should work, and it's a disgrace.
More than that, when they asked for his PIN, twice, he should have hung up then and there. Banks never have, and never will ask for your PIN. It is always set either by yourself at a bank branch keying it into a terminal, or when you activate the card by dialing the number on the card sent to you at the time of activation.
The other stuff is semi-legit if you include all practices that banks have used since the beginning of time, but many of them are not in use anymore. Example: mother's maiden name is easily gained information in the age of The Book of Faces.
So you are coming out on the side of abandoning friends and integrity because of the optics of being at a senate hearing for a friend, because you work in a groupthink echo chamber that has been virtue signalling for so long that they don't even know what real virtue is anymore.
And all of what you just said is completely legit criticism about this nomination. Democrats screwed themselves with interrogation about high school yearbooks and other nonsense that has distracted from what should be the central argument here: disposition and conduct during these hearings showing that he is not fit to be named to the highest court of the land.
A supreme court justice should be able to rise above the fray, and Kavanaugh showed he is incapable when he opened his testimony last week with random conspiracy nut garbage about the Clintons, who have absolutely nothing to do with this process.
It's a good thing you aren't nominated for anything within 10 city blocks of a judgeship or the justice system.
Please read about the following: Due Process Presumption of innocence Equal protection under the law Being prosecuted in the court of public opinion because you can't actually prove the case in a legal court
Thanks for attempting to speak for 326 million citizens of the United States, but you're wrong, and you're kind of an idiot.
And those several hundred need to grow up and realize that people have different opinions than them, and aren't going to throw friends under the bus because of the groupthink echo chamber.
He wasn't there conveying Facebook's official support for the nominee. He was there showing personal support. There's a distinct difference, and these idiots need to hurry up and realize that diverse opinion and robust debate are what make this country great.
That being said, this entire nominating process has been a partisan hack shit show, with both sides contributing to the turd-slinging. It's disgraceful, and not befitting the United States Senate. Or, at least I'd like to say so, but lately that's what the Senate has become.
Instead, they need to pre-fuel the rocket and have it boiling off cryogenics while they have far more people working around it that don't have the convenience of a launch escape system?
That sounds far more dangerous to me.
Load up the payload, whether it be breathing or not, clear the pad, pump in the fuel, launch. If anything happens while pumping fuel, the only people around have a solid rocket motor to lift them away from the danger and deposit them out of harm's way.
It was a test flight, and the first one for that family of rockets, at that. There was a decent chance that it would have exploded on the pad destroying the payload. Most universities don't have loads of cash to waste on building experiments that potentially only gather data about the internal temperature of a rocket fuel explosion.
They put a Tesla on there because it was more interesting than the usual chunk of tungsten that would be used for payload simulation on this type of mission.
Except that it is a much closer proving ground that doesn't take 8 minutes just to get a radio wave to.
Crawl, then walk, then run. It's not like we have a warehouse of Apollo LMs laying around that we can dust off and learn to fly again. It's worthwhile to shake the bugs out in more favorable conditions.
If there's anyone in the world that could ship and store that many nuts, it would be Amazon. When you get paid your peanuts, it's with "free" 2-day shipping!
You had just better have a large food-grade silo at home to hold them all in. A cubic foot of peanuts weighs somewhere between 16 and 19 pounds, so 35 metric tons of peanuts would take up about 4500 cubic feet. Personally, I can't afford to buy a stainless steel silo that big when I'm paid peanuts!
Yes, I'm mixing metric and imperial units, get over it.
My brother-in-law has one. Whoop de do. Underpowered, overpriced. Just like Apple!
I would rather have a laptop with serious computing power when I need it, portable, and available. The Dell XPS 15 fits this bill nicely. And when in an office, including my home office, the display is secondary because, gasp, I have a 4k display on my desk that is 3x the size of a laptop display. Fat lot of fucking good a touchscreen does when you are plugged into a much larger, nicer display with a real keyboard and mouse.
Touchscreen laptops are a gimmick that were introduced to attempt to bandwagon their way into the iPad craze, but none of them are anywhere as useful as a touchscreen on a device that has software engineered with a touchscreen in mind, and Windows isn't that. So spare me the price of putting the digitizer on the screen, because I'll never touch it, and I'll be looking to turn it off in any way possible in order to get marginally better battery life, because even that 5 minutes of life over a 7-hour lifetime is more useful to me than a touchscreen ever will be on a laptop.
Where I live, Cable TV service from Spectrum costs you $65 a month for 125 channels, of which you give a shit about maybe 20 of them. 3 or 4 of those are broadcast in HD over radio waves for free, so the value proposition is already looking sketchy. By the way, it's more than that $65/mo if you want any other channels that may interest you, such as extra sports channels, or the premium channels where the signal-to-noise ratio of quality programming isn't shockingly low.
Then, if you dare to want to actually have a DVR attached so you can watch shit when you actually have time, rather than arranging your life around what some douchebag network executive in New York arbitrarily decides, you have to rent one for another $12/month because they use encryption to make sure you can't just make your own out of a spare computer you have laying around and a tuner card. But wait, there's also a "DVR Service Package" for another $13/month, whatever the hell that is; doesn't matter, you'll be paying it. And their DVR will be a huge piece of shit with a 10-year old hard drive inside as far as capacity goes. So now we're already at $90/month without including Internet service. Until the price goes up because some introductory offer expires at some point in the future.
We won't include the cost of Internet service because you'll have that in either scenario.
We're over $90/month for a shitty service with shitty hardware when you could instead go with YouTube TV ($40/month) and Netflix ($13.99/mo for premium plan with 4k content) for a little more than half the cost, with DVR functionality built-in, a UI that isn't total garbage, and without the most shitty customer service ever.
So, less cost for better service and better quality. I hope that answers your question.
By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose.
So I can choose to pay for a touchscreen I'll never use, and can accept accidental input I don't want; but I'll bet I can't choose what OS I want installed on this thing due to having to fuck about with SecureBoot, weird partitioning schemes that no other bootloader wants to deal with, proprietary crap hardware that doesn't have drivers in any other OS but the latest spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows 10 edition.
It's a laptop. I don't want a touchscreen, and in fact turned off the one I have because it's annoying and ergonomically terrible on a laptop. It's a laptop. I don't want a stylus because it's even more ergonomically terrible than a touchscreen.
I'm glad you are including choice when it allows you to raise the price and include more margin, but not when it comes to the things that actually matter to people.
Netflix has no choice but to pull it when their distribution contract ends, and there isn't a new one to take it's place. What are they supposed to do in your mind, just continue distributing stuff they have no rights to distribute and get sued into oblivion by ComcastNBCUniversal21stCenturyDisneyABCBSViacomTimeWarner?
Yeah, that's a great solution. You have demonstrated that you have no actual knowledge about how media distribution works.
Since moving to switched digital video in order to free up channel bandwidth for internet service, some providers actually have been allowing "start when you want" functionality because it's not a direct repeater feed from a satellite anymore.
They still charge outrageous fees for basic service and have the most horrid hardware known to man with absurd specs and awful user experience though, so SDV solved none of that.
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False equivalence. There are spectacularly more species and variety of birds than one.
Cats can kill all the starlings and pigeons they want, but those birds are not the ones being smacked by wind turbines. Wind turbines disproportionately affect large birds, which are also more likely to be endangered species.
Don't go bringing "facts" into his knee-jerk FUD baseless arguments!
Don't you know that every waterway that serves as coolant for nuclear reactors ends up glowing in the dark?
And instantly, every barricade and anti-vehicle security system in front of every government installation ever is completely worthless.
They won't be able to even get regulations passed to allow this in 5 years.
And there is absolutely no drawbacks to releasing and burning yet more carbon.
There is absolutely no such thing as a safe carbon-based energy facility, and those will kill far more people than 10 Chernobyl-scale events could.
Plus, as others have pointed out, Chernobyl was the result of a piss-poor reactor design, complete lack of any kind of attempt at fail-safe containment, and extra-ordinary operations that should have never been done.
A triple-decker shit sandwich that is amazingly easy to not repeat by designing facilities to fix the first two, and then implement controls to make the third impossible.
Please explain what "wrong" opinions are, you precious snowflake.
Being presented with something you don't agree with is just so hard to deal with when you are used to surrounding yourself with total agreement. Better hurl insults at someone you know absolutely nothing about!
You are the problem in civic discourse today. You are causing the division. Go enlighten yourself and come back once you can behave yourself. The adults are talking.
Oh, I completely agree. However, words and accusations matter. Argue that point. Argue the point of hiding behind classification of massive mountains of documents. Argue that he doesn't have temperament requisite for the bench. Argue that his wildly flailing conspiracy accusations of the Clintons and all that horseshit in his opening statement shows that he's unable to rise above political debate, as is expected of a Supreme Court Justice.
All of these are valid criticisms. But calling someone a rapist without being able to prove it is called slander; and levying those accusations as a reason to disqualify someone from the bench is called trying them in the court of public opinion, because you know you couldn't make any of it wash in a real courtroom.
This is not how our Republic should work, and it's a disgrace.
More than that, when they asked for his PIN, twice, he should have hung up then and there. Banks never have, and never will ask for your PIN. It is always set either by yourself at a bank branch keying it into a terminal, or when you activate the card by dialing the number on the card sent to you at the time of activation.
The other stuff is semi-legit if you include all practices that banks have used since the beginning of time, but many of them are not in use anymore. Example: mother's maiden name is easily gained information in the age of The Book of Faces.
So you are coming out on the side of abandoning friends and integrity because of the optics of being at a senate hearing for a friend, because you work in a groupthink echo chamber that has been virtue signalling for so long that they don't even know what real virtue is anymore.
You are part of the problem.
And all of what you just said is completely legit criticism about this nomination. Democrats screwed themselves with interrogation about high school yearbooks and other nonsense that has distracted from what should be the central argument here: disposition and conduct during these hearings showing that he is not fit to be named to the highest court of the land.
A supreme court justice should be able to rise above the fray, and Kavanaugh showed he is incapable when he opened his testimony last week with random conspiracy nut garbage about the Clintons, who have absolutely nothing to do with this process.
It's a good thing you aren't nominated for anything within 10 city blocks of a judgeship or the justice system.
Please read about the following:
Due Process
Presumption of innocence
Equal protection under the law
Being prosecuted in the court of public opinion because you can't actually prove the case in a legal court
Thanks for attempting to speak for 326 million citizens of the United States, but you're wrong, and you're kind of an idiot.
There's a Constitutional process for impeachment of Supreme Court Justices. See: Samuel Chase.
How about you prove it, or STFU. For the sake of democracy, how about we give equal protection under the law, and due process?
And those several hundred need to grow up and realize that people have different opinions than them, and aren't going to throw friends under the bus because of the groupthink echo chamber.
He wasn't there conveying Facebook's official support for the nominee. He was there showing personal support. There's a distinct difference, and these idiots need to hurry up and realize that diverse opinion and robust debate are what make this country great.
That being said, this entire nominating process has been a partisan hack shit show, with both sides contributing to the turd-slinging. It's disgraceful, and not befitting the United States Senate. Or, at least I'd like to say so, but lately that's what the Senate has become.
Instead, they need to pre-fuel the rocket and have it boiling off cryogenics while they have far more people working around it that don't have the convenience of a launch escape system?
That sounds far more dangerous to me.
Load up the payload, whether it be breathing or not, clear the pad, pump in the fuel, launch. If anything happens while pumping fuel, the only people around have a solid rocket motor to lift them away from the danger and deposit them out of harm's way.
Why is this a difficult concept?
It was a test flight, and the first one for that family of rockets, at that. There was a decent chance that it would have exploded on the pad destroying the payload. Most universities don't have loads of cash to waste on building experiments that potentially only gather data about the internal temperature of a rocket fuel explosion.
They put a Tesla on there because it was more interesting than the usual chunk of tungsten that would be used for payload simulation on this type of mission.
Except that it is a much closer proving ground that doesn't take 8 minutes just to get a radio wave to.
Crawl, then walk, then run. It's not like we have a warehouse of Apollo LMs laying around that we can dust off and learn to fly again. It's worthwhile to shake the bugs out in more favorable conditions.
Except for the announcement last week where they are sending people into lunar orbit in a couple years?
If there's anyone in the world that could ship and store that many nuts, it would be Amazon. When you get paid your peanuts, it's with "free" 2-day shipping!
You had just better have a large food-grade silo at home to hold them all in. A cubic foot of peanuts weighs somewhere between 16 and 19 pounds, so 35 metric tons of peanuts would take up about 4500 cubic feet. Personally, I can't afford to buy a stainless steel silo that big when I'm paid peanuts!
Yes, I'm mixing metric and imperial units, get over it.
Anything labeled as a "bonus" is also taxed at a much higher rate.
The average employee will come out much better this way.
My brother-in-law has one. Whoop de do. Underpowered, overpriced. Just like Apple!
I would rather have a laptop with serious computing power when I need it, portable, and available. The Dell XPS 15 fits this bill nicely. And when in an office, including my home office, the display is secondary because, gasp, I have a 4k display on my desk that is 3x the size of a laptop display. Fat lot of fucking good a touchscreen does when you are plugged into a much larger, nicer display with a real keyboard and mouse.
Touchscreen laptops are a gimmick that were introduced to attempt to bandwagon their way into the iPad craze, but none of them are anywhere as useful as a touchscreen on a device that has software engineered with a touchscreen in mind, and Windows isn't that. So spare me the price of putting the digitizer on the screen, because I'll never touch it, and I'll be looking to turn it off in any way possible in order to get marginally better battery life, because even that 5 minutes of life over a 7-hour lifetime is more useful to me than a touchscreen ever will be on a laptop.
Didn't they get the memo that we're using vaguely related random alphabetical nonsense for versions now?
I want WiFi Twinkie, which is clearly better than WiFi Quiche.
Here is how:
Where I live, Cable TV service from Spectrum costs you $65 a month for 125 channels, of which you give a shit about maybe 20 of them. 3 or 4 of those are broadcast in HD over radio waves for free, so the value proposition is already looking sketchy. By the way, it's more than that $65/mo if you want any other channels that may interest you, such as extra sports channels, or the premium channels where the signal-to-noise ratio of quality programming isn't shockingly low.
Then, if you dare to want to actually have a DVR attached so you can watch shit when you actually have time, rather than arranging your life around what some douchebag network executive in New York arbitrarily decides, you have to rent one for another $12/month because they use encryption to make sure you can't just make your own out of a spare computer you have laying around and a tuner card. But wait, there's also a "DVR Service Package" for another $13/month, whatever the hell that is; doesn't matter, you'll be paying it. And their DVR will be a huge piece of shit with a 10-year old hard drive inside as far as capacity goes. So now we're already at $90/month without including Internet service. Until the price goes up because some introductory offer expires at some point in the future.
Charter / Spectrum costs: https://www.cabletv.com/blog/h...
We won't include the cost of Internet service because you'll have that in either scenario.
We're over $90/month for a shitty service with shitty hardware when you could instead go with YouTube TV ($40/month) and Netflix ($13.99/mo for premium plan with 4k content) for a little more than half the cost, with DVR functionality built-in, a UI that isn't total garbage, and without the most shitty customer service ever.
So, less cost for better service and better quality. I hope that answers your question.
I especially like this:
By comparison, the competition is flailing around arguing about whether or not touchscreens have a place on laptops. The answer? Just let people choose.
So I can choose to pay for a touchscreen I'll never use, and can accept accidental input I don't want; but I'll bet I can't choose what OS I want installed on this thing due to having to fuck about with SecureBoot, weird partitioning schemes that no other bootloader wants to deal with, proprietary crap hardware that doesn't have drivers in any other OS but the latest spyware^H^H^H^H^H^H Windows 10 edition.
It's a laptop. I don't want a touchscreen, and in fact turned off the one I have because it's annoying and ergonomically terrible on a laptop.
It's a laptop. I don't want a stylus because it's even more ergonomically terrible than a touchscreen.
I'm glad you are including choice when it allows you to raise the price and include more margin, but not when it comes to the things that actually matter to people.
What, you're looking for specifics and justification of claims in one of the most clearly obvious astroturf posts there ever has been?
The first paragraph must have been hard to type with Microsoft's metaphorical balls in the author's mouth.
Netflix has no choice but to pull it when their distribution contract ends, and there isn't a new one to take it's place. What are they supposed to do in your mind, just continue distributing stuff they have no rights to distribute and get sued into oblivion by ComcastNBCUniversal21stCenturyDisneyABCBSViacomTimeWarner?
Yeah, that's a great solution. You have demonstrated that you have no actual knowledge about how media distribution works.
Since moving to switched digital video in order to free up channel bandwidth for internet service, some providers actually have been allowing "start when you want" functionality because it's not a direct repeater feed from a satellite anymore.
They still charge outrageous fees for basic service and have the most horrid hardware known to man with absurd specs and awful user experience though, so SDV solved none of that.