Sounds like a propaganda post. Looking at your own link, the "other hardware" cost was a small fraction of the total. It also looks like you cherry picked a single year, because it looks pretty consistent for the rest of the chart. Sort of like how denialists like to pretend that climate monitoring began in 1998, so they could blow smoke about succeeding years being "cooler".
Sure - in the same way you can stop worrying about forest fires or hurricanes, because you haven't been personally affected by one in the last month or so.
The only thing holding back wind and solar is a good mechanism for load leveling the differences between day and night, wind and no wind.
Baseline power (or as I prefer to call it, the Baseline Zombie) isn't holding us back, as generating capacity can be spaced across the grid. Same as we do today for coal and nuclear power, which can and is moved hundreds of miles over power lines. The chances of a non-arctic region being both windless and sunless for an extended period of time is small.
While some regions are capable of pumping water uphill to level out the power availability, what is missing is a more general mechanism such as huge banks of "flow batteries" that charge an electrolyte that can be stored in mass quantity and used to put power on the grid when needed.
Just build water towers - use redundant power from grid to pump water up, then use the outflow to move a turbine and generate electricity when needed. Even if we make breakthroughs in molten salt batteries (or something), a municipal water tower battery should have a long lifespan with low maintenance costs.
But don't you think that "being out on the street" is a significant change of status from sleeping a warm bed?
And sleeping in a car you can lock is a big step over being under a bridge, too, but it's still going without a home. So, degrees of homelessness, just as there are degrees of joblessness - having a sleeping bag and cardboard box is better than nothing, having a car is better than the box, having a roof is better than the car, etc - but still without a home.
My grandmother told me that the boundary is paper towels. She believed that once you can afford to buy paper towels, then you are no longer poor.
She might have also said that running water and the polio vaccine were mana from heaven - civilization advances and standards change.
No, this is stupid semantic bullshit to manipulate the reader/voter.
Uh huh. Lets see if you still think so when it's you crashing on your cousin's couch, and gets thrown out when she gets tired of you, or her landlord finds out and threatens her with eviction.
Are they the most persecuted people on the planet? Hell no. There are full-on ethnic cleansings going on this very day.
And where those ethnic cleansings are going on - like from US-backed ISIS and Al Qaeda factions in Libya and Syria - those doing the cleansing would put a bullet in the face of any transperson they saw, taking you back to square one.
It is in that you are without your own home, and are subject to being out on the street on a moments notice. Same line of reasoning as to counting you on unemployment statistics if you are working part time at Home Depot to get by, after being H1-B'd out of a well paying tech job.
Those would be services, not money. Don't have a car? You still pay for roads. Don't have lawsuits? Still pay for judges. Don't fly? Still pay for airports.
All of which benefit the society you live in, whether you use them personally or not. And if society is better off - so are selfish self-centered shortsighted Randian whackjobs, whether you admit it or not.
The only problem with your story is that if it is true, you know that the tropes of having a can-do attitude and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are bullshit, because you lived it first hand.
When I started my first job, I moved hundreds of miles from a small Oklahoma town to Houston, with everything I owned inside my small, old car.
And how long did you have to live in that car before finding a job and saving up money for first months rent plus deposit? Did you have to add on extra time to pay off a previous landlord before a new one would rent to you?
I had no savings and no liquid funds, just a willingness to work, and a willingness to move where there were jobs to be had.
And how did that willingness work out for you when your car broke down and you had a choice between fixing it (to keep your job), making next months rent, or visiting a payday loan shark to make rent and hope you were able to pay them back. Because being working poor means trying to climb out of a dick pit but the ladder is also made of dicks. Which you would know first hand if it happened to you.
Or there are degrees of homelessnes, as there are degrees of joblessness. If you're an engineer with a PhD working part time as a janitor, you will be counted on U6 unemployment stats because you are taking a shit job outside of your career field.
If you have to sleep on your friends floor while your kids crowd onto the couch because your other choice is waiting in line at a shelter, you might consider your family to be home-less as well.
Eugenics is just as ugly now as it was a hundred years ago. You're also ignoring the fact that some of those families used to be middle class before a job loss or a bad event made them poor. And funding for basic reproductive health care is denied or cut, frequently by the same people who then whine about poor people having babies.
Slashdot is for people with at least a working knowledge of search engines.
"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence." (Christopher Hitchens).
As for Apple and Foxxcon - good luck fucking that chicken, or finding a piece of electronics that isn't made by them, outside of Samsung. Even Sony uses Foxxcon.
You socialists are all alike, with your "class" labels.
"It's only 'class warfare' when we fight back".
Why don't you just move to Greece and enjoy a truly socialist economy - they have spent all of everyone else's money, until the only way they can try to stay afloat is to keep borrowing (with predictable results).
If Greece were remotely socialist, they would have seceded from the EU and NATO five years ago. "Syriza" and "radical left" are frequently used in conjunction, but that means fuck-all when you go out of your way to pass even more draconian measures than the previous government. Nice hobby-horse you have there, but you might want to have somewhat of an idea WTF you're talking about while riding it. Otherwise you're the asshole.
Has that ever happened to you? To someone you met? I once flew with someone to whom it happened on the flight right before (i.e. - that was the flight they took in lieu of the flight they were supposed to take). Once. And that was 15 years ago.
What difference would it make if it were 0 times or 50? All we'd be doing is trading anecdotes, and anecdotes are worthless. If neither you nor anyone you know has been the victim of violent crime, does that mean that violent crimes don't happen in this country?
Point isn't that it's necessarily a common occurrence, point is you cannot dismiss it out of hand. Once it's you or a friend/family member missing a flight to a championship game/wedding/meeting, it will seem like a BFD when the gate attendant says there is no way you're getting on that flight because there isn't a seat for you.
Still not a gang based around a black market. You can find accountants that specialize in registering mobile homes in states without sales taxes too - doesn't make them a cartel.
first youre assuming it was the same people voting both times.
And the Democrats have used a magic lasso on the voting public to tell that yes, Trumps victory really was due to racism? In states that had voted for a black man in the last the two presidential elections.
Trump got pretty much the same number of votes as Romney and McCain, so the question is not why he won. The question is why Hillary lost. But to do that, Democrats would have to do some introspection, admit that Hillary was a complete shit of a candidate and do a 180 from Clinton-style politics if they want to start winning elections again.
But, the party would obviously rather do a root canal without novocaine before such introspection, thus the hysterical shit flinging to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents win - just like the Birthers.
that the guy with fewer votes "won" the election
The Democratic Party also spent half the year telling independents and lefty Dems to STFU and quit whining about closed primaries and frontloading the race with conservative southern states, because the rules were known in advance. Well, guess what, the Electoral College was too.
youre ignoring the slew of disenfranchisement in those republican held states
Disenfranchisement that the Democratic Party has turned a blind eye to, outside of lip service. Because of a dirty little secret I'll let you in on: the party establishment is perfectly happy to have poor minorities kicked off the roles so they're less likely to vote for a populist candidate on the left like Bernie Sanders, who might actually do something about poverty and other class issues.
The Democratic Party as it is today would rather lose to someone like Trump than win with someone like Sanders.
Let me guess. You weren't aware that Trump got caught refusing to rent to people of colour. This was proven in court, and he suffered consequences as a result.
Tell that to the millions of poor blacks thrown into prison by draconian Clinton crime bills, lost their jobs due to Clinton corporate trade laws, thrown onto the streets by Clinton welfare "reform", or lost their houses because of Clinton-empowered bank fraud. Tell that to the parents of Superpredators, and to black men that yes, it's perfectly rational for white people to shit themselves at the sight of one of them in a hoody.
You see, this is the problem for partisan hack Democrats: the only complaint you can make against Trump that doesn't apply far more to the Clintons is that Hillary hasn't boasted about 'grabbing women by the pussy'. But Trump didn't have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern women on his hands before running for president.
So try to get out of your fantasy world once in a while, Trumpster-boy.
Ah, so not turning a blind eye to the shit record of the Clinton's means one must be a Trump supporter? And you guys wonder why you lost the election.
When were you diagnosed with your mental condition?
You speaking to your bathroom mirror?
This is what the pipelines are being built to prevent:
Uh, no. Pipelines are about increasing profit margins for oil companies, not safety. Because pipelines leak all. the. time.
Anyone who supports the status quo over the much safer pipelines is for environmental damage. If you would prefer the numerous train derailments that lead to massive oil spills, then keep protesting every pipeline trying to protect the environment from oil spills, it really increases your enviro-cred!
It's not deflection to point out how full of shit you Hatebois are when you race for the fainting couches if Apple is involved but DGAF if it's anyone else.
I seriously doubt they went into "saving the customer" mode knowing a lot of people were going to die from faulty ignitions.
They kept putting the same parts in vehicles over ten years after knowing it was a problem. You see this DGAF attitude over and over and again, just to save a few bucks per widget for the sake of profits.
do you seriously think that trump campaigning in new york or california would have moved the needle with no electoral college? If you do you are deeply delusional.
You wish. Obama explained it very when when he, very politely, called Hillary an incompetent lazyass:
"I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa, it was because I spent 87 days going to every small town, and fair, and fish fry, and VFW hall. And there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points," Obama explained. "There're some counties that maybe I won that people didn't expect - because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for."
Trump wouldn't have campaigned in California to win the state, but to reduce his opponent's margin of victory. Same reason Hillary would have spent time in Texas without the EC - completely different race with completely different rules.
The reason he had no chance of winning the major cities is that we see what he is - a conman.
Right, like pretending to be against the TPP after calling it the "gold standard" of trade agreements in 45 speeches, and getting busted for telling donors that he took a "private position" with them and a "public position" with the voters. i.e. lying through his teeth.
Oh, wait. That was Hillary Clinton.
The one and only complaint that you can make at Trump that doesn't apply as much or more to HRC is that she hasn't boasted about wanting to 'grab women by the pussy'. But that's small potatoes next to Hillary helping to kill hundreds of thousands of women around the Middle East, and turning millions more into refugees.
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Sounds like a propaganda post. Looking at your own link, the "other hardware" cost was a small fraction of the total. It also looks like you cherry picked a single year, because it looks pretty consistent for the rest of the chart. Sort of like how denialists like to pretend that climate monitoring began in 1998, so they could blow smoke about succeeding years being "cooler".
Sure - in the same way you can stop worrying about forest fires or hurricanes, because you haven't been personally affected by one in the last month or so.
Baseline power (or as I prefer to call it, the Baseline Zombie) isn't holding us back, as generating capacity can be spaced across the grid. Same as we do today for coal and nuclear power, which can and is moved hundreds of miles over power lines. The chances of a non-arctic region being both windless and sunless for an extended period of time is small.
Just build water towers - use redundant power from grid to pump water up, then use the outflow to move a turbine and generate electricity when needed. Even if we make breakthroughs in molten salt batteries (or something), a municipal water tower battery should have a long lifespan with low maintenance costs.
And sleeping in a car you can lock is a big step over being under a bridge, too, but it's still going without a home. So, degrees of homelessness, just as there are degrees of joblessness - having a sleeping bag and cardboard box is better than nothing, having a car is better than the box, having a roof is better than the car, etc - but still without a home.
She might have also said that running water and the polio vaccine were mana from heaven - civilization advances and standards change.
Uh huh. Lets see if you still think so when it's you crashing on your cousin's couch, and gets thrown out when she gets tired of you, or her landlord finds out and threatens her with eviction.
And where those ethnic cleansings are going on - like from US-backed ISIS and Al Qaeda factions in Libya and Syria - those doing the cleansing would put a bullet in the face of any transperson they saw, taking you back to square one.
It is in that you are without your own home, and are subject to being out on the street on a moments notice. Same line of reasoning as to counting you on unemployment statistics if you are working part time at Home Depot to get by, after being H1-B'd out of a well paying tech job.
All of which benefit the society you live in, whether you use them personally or not. And if society is better off - so are selfish self-centered shortsighted Randian whackjobs, whether you admit it or not.
The only problem with your story is that if it is true, you know that the tropes of having a can-do attitude and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps are bullshit, because you lived it first hand.
And how long did you have to live in that car before finding a job and saving up money for first months rent plus deposit? Did you have to add on extra time to pay off a previous landlord before a new one would rent to you?
And how did that willingness work out for you when your car broke down and you had a choice between fixing it (to keep your job), making next months rent, or visiting a payday loan shark to make rent and hope you were able to pay them back. Because being working poor means trying to climb out of a dick pit but the ladder is also made of dicks. Which you would know first hand if it happened to you.
Or there are degrees of homelessnes, as there are degrees of joblessness. If you're an engineer with a PhD working part time as a janitor, you will be counted on U6 unemployment stats because you are taking a shit job outside of your career field.
If you have to sleep on your friends floor while your kids crowd onto the couch because your other choice is waiting in line at a shelter, you might consider your family to be home-less as well.
Eugenics is just as ugly now as it was a hundred years ago. You're also ignoring the fact that some of those families used to be middle class before a job loss or a bad event made them poor. And funding for basic reproductive health care is denied or cut, frequently by the same people who then whine about poor people having babies.
"That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
(Christopher Hitchens).
As for Apple and Foxxcon - good luck fucking that chicken, or finding a piece of electronics that isn't made by them, outside of Samsung. Even Sony uses Foxxcon.
"It's only 'class warfare' when we fight back".
If Greece were remotely socialist, they would have seceded from the EU and NATO five years ago. "Syriza" and "radical left" are frequently used in conjunction, but that means fuck-all when you go out of your way to pass even more draconian measures than the previous government. Nice hobby-horse you have there, but you might want to have somewhat of an idea WTF you're talking about while riding it. Otherwise you're the asshole.
Not shocked to see chugging of Hatorade when it comes to Apple.
Keep fucking that chicken, chicken-fucker.
What difference would it make if it were 0 times or 50? All we'd be doing is trading anecdotes, and anecdotes are worthless. If neither you nor anyone you know has been the victim of violent crime, does that mean that violent crimes don't happen in this country?
Point isn't that it's necessarily a common occurrence, point is you cannot dismiss it out of hand. Once it's you or a friend/family member missing a flight to a championship game/wedding/meeting, it will seem like a BFD when the gate attendant says there is no way you're getting on that flight because there isn't a seat for you.
Still not a gang based around a black market. You can find accountants that specialize in registering mobile homes in states without sales taxes too - doesn't make them a cartel.
And the Democrats have used a magic lasso on the voting public to tell that yes, Trumps victory really was due to racism? In states that had voted for a black man in the last the two presidential elections.
Trump got pretty much the same number of votes as Romney and McCain, so the question is not why he won. The question is why Hillary lost. But to do that, Democrats would have to do some introspection, admit that Hillary was a complete shit of a candidate and do a 180 from Clinton-style politics if they want to start winning elections again.
But, the party would obviously rather do a root canal without novocaine before such introspection, thus the hysterical shit flinging to undermine the legitimacy of their opponents win - just like the Birthers.
The Democratic Party also spent half the year telling independents and lefty Dems to STFU and quit whining about closed primaries and frontloading the race with conservative southern states, because the rules were known in advance. Well, guess what, the Electoral College was too.
Disenfranchisement that the Democratic Party has turned a blind eye to, outside of lip service. Because of a dirty little secret I'll let you in on: the party establishment is perfectly happy to have poor minorities kicked off the roles so they're less likely to vote for a populist candidate on the left like Bernie Sanders, who might actually do something about poverty and other class issues.
The Democratic Party as it is today would rather lose to someone like Trump than win with someone like Sanders.
Tell that to the millions of poor blacks thrown into prison by draconian Clinton crime bills, lost their jobs due to Clinton corporate trade laws, thrown onto the streets by Clinton welfare "reform", or lost their houses because of Clinton-empowered bank fraud. Tell that to the parents of Superpredators, and to black men that yes, it's perfectly rational for white people to shit themselves at the sight of one of them in a hoody.
You see, this is the problem for partisan hack Democrats: the only complaint you can make against Trump that doesn't apply far more to the Clintons is that Hillary hasn't boasted about 'grabbing women by the pussy'. But Trump didn't have the blood of hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern women on his hands before running for president.
Ah, so not turning a blind eye to the shit record of the Clinton's means one must be a Trump supporter? And you guys wonder why you lost the election.
Says a grown-assed adult who has child-like tempter tantrums at the mention of a single company.
You speaking to your bathroom mirror?
Uh, no. Pipelines are about increasing profit margins for oil companies, not safety. Because pipelines leak all. the. time.
Corporatist false dichotomy is false.
Why be willfully obtuse? Parent asserted that CR is "far" more trustworthy than Apple, and I'm asking him (or her) why that is.
If you think that saying 'citation needed' is shilling, you need to cut waaay back on the Hatorade.
Yet you don't see Slashdotters continually beating Samsung horses that have been dead for six and a half years.
It's not for Apple's benefit, it's to show how full of shit Apple Hatebois are.
It's not deflection to point out how full of shit you Hatebois are when you race for the fainting couches if Apple is involved but DGAF if it's anyone else.
Delusional corporatist is delusional.
They kept putting the same parts in vehicles over ten years after knowing it was a problem. You see this DGAF attitude over and over and again, just to save a few bucks per widget for the sake of profits.
If your idea of gang-related activity is drive-by-yellings, that might qualify.
You wish. Obama explained it very when when he, very politely, called Hillary an incompetent lazyass:
Trump wouldn't have campaigned in California to win the state, but to reduce his opponent's margin of victory. Same reason Hillary would have spent time in Texas without the EC - completely different race with completely different rules.
Right, like pretending to be against the TPP after calling it the "gold standard" of trade agreements in 45 speeches, and getting busted for telling donors that he took a "private position" with them and a "public position" with the voters. i.e. lying through his teeth.
Oh, wait. That was Hillary Clinton.
The one and only complaint that you can make at Trump that doesn't apply as much or more to HRC is that she hasn't boasted about wanting to 'grab women by the pussy'. But that's small potatoes next to Hillary helping to kill hundreds of thousands of women around the Middle East, and turning millions more into refugees.