Weak sauce. No other power source costs $20 billion and two decades just to construct. No other power source has the potential to render an entire region uninhabitable for centuries.
Nuclear is the only power source that is completely dependent on government to exist.
Sunny days. Man, if there was just some method to get power from the sun. Better go tell German power engineers, as the idea that there may be windless or sunless days has never occurred to them, or that power generating capacity needs to be spread across a grid - same as it is for coal or nuclear power.
You need to adapt to changing power demands with a variable source.
Variable like your nuclear power plant going down for planned (or worse, unplanned) maintenance, blowing a megawatt-sized hole in your power grid? Sometimes for years at a time?
All the FUD aimed at wind and solar can easily be addressed by tech used to back up coal and nuclear power plants - like pumped storage. If a large hydrostatic battery is good enough for nuclear, it's good enough for a wind farm.
Laughable. Nuclear power is by far the most expensive power source ever invented by man - it costs too damn much (and too damn long) to build, to secure, to maintain, to decommission, and to store the waste for millennia. You can build out wind and solar power in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost with none of the safety issues. And all the FUD against wind and solar can be addressed by technology that's already in use for coal and nuclear power plants - like pumped storage facilities.
No reactor has ever been built that wasn't massively subsidized by taxpayers. Subsidies for construction, subsidies for security, subsidies for insurance, subsidizes for decommissioning - and that's before the ultimate subsidy, storing the waste for millennia on the taxpayer's dime.
BUT, CHina, Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc have been working to destroy the west since the 90s.
More projection. The U.S. literally bragged about interfering in the 1996 Russian election, has been staging practice invasions off North Korea's coast every year since the 90's, committed an act of war on Iran with Stuxnet and spent years illegally threatening them with a military invasion over a nuclear weapons program the U.S. knew Iran didn't actually have.
So, no, the smart thing is for us to start dealing with Russia/China/etc on their own terms.
Good to hear! So you'll slash you war budget from ~$1.4 trillion or so a year down to $45 billion dollars to match Russia's, close down almost every single one of your overseas military bases, and go down to a single aircraft carrier to match China's.
Fossil fuel plants can explode and catch fire. Windmills catch fire. Hydroelectric dams fail, People fall off roofs when installing solar cells. I can go on. and on.
I'm sure you could go on and on with these false equivalencies. Only large hydroelectric dams come close to the threat that a meltdown poses - but if a terrorist manages to blow up the Hoover Dam, reconstruction can begin as soon as the floodwaters subside. It's not going to make an entire region uninhabitable for a century or more.
But it leaves many large and powerful environmental/anti-pollution and similar political groups high & dry for primary issues to fund-raise with.
Powerful environmental groups - that's rich. The government could not give less of a shit what environmentalists want when there's corporate welfare involved. Not the tinyest, greenest little shit.
Nuclear would be cheaper to the point of out-competing solar/wind while being less damaging to the environment if only the anti-nuke nutjobs and NIMBYs didn't both prevent more modern and safer designs including breeder types from being built and force them to carry the costs of extreme over-regulation, much of which does not materially affect safety at all but are giveaways to political cronies that massively increasing cost.
There are no designs that make nuclear power safe and cost effective. It's not hippies that are preventing nuclear power from happening. It's cost.
Your previous "free market" would see fossil fuels used all the way through the clathrate gun hypothesis, while chopping down every last redwood tree and hunting multiple species to extinction. Fuck you free market. Fuck it up its stupid ass.
You no more need to be a prosecutor to see the double standards in play than you need to be a Supreme Court justice to see the five conservatives were full of shit on their back-to-back rulings on gay wedding cakes and Muslim travel bans. You only need not have your head planted deep in one's partisan ass.
"No it's still illegal because it circumvents the FOIA laws." Not true. Not true.
Completely true. Aside from FOIA, Hillary's private server flouted record preservation laws that were on the books before the internet was a gleam in anyone's eye.
You fuck off. Parent poster isn't defending the Trump Administration's use of private email. That's what Dembots are doing for Hypocrite Hillary, who set up her own private email server a mere two years after she blasted the Bush Administration for using private email accounts.
The United States Justice System does not simply guess at motives, dumb ass.
Motives are irrelevant when it comes to being guilty for mishandling classified evidence, dumb-er ass. It's a simple yes/no question, like when the high school gym teacher is accused of sleeping with a 14 year old student.
And that's assuming that Hillary's motives were pure. Of course we know they weren't, as she received extra training as one of a few Original Classification Authorities, and that she blasted the Bush Administration for using private email two years before she set up her own private email server and used it exclusively. Something no other official has done before or since.
Are you? The entire purpose of using private email instead of government issue is to hide information. It's why Democrats blasted the Bush Administration for using private email when Dubbya was in office. Democrats like.....Hillary Clinton.
That line of excuse-making is extra dishonest because the kind of information Hillary dealt with was inherently classified. If Hillary got an email from the ambassador to South Korea on the status of North Korea's nuclear weapons program, that email was automatically classified. It didn't have to be stamped that way like someone hitting the "important" tag on an email.
No harder than prosecuting a 40 year old teacher who's admitted to sleeping with a 14 year old student. Because intent is irrelevant - it's a simple yes/no question on whether or not it happened. Hillary mishandling classified material is not in dispute.
There was no evidence that anybody who wasn't allowed to see the emails actually accessed them.
Irrelevant. The case of Kristian Saucier debunks all the Hillbot excuses for her criminal hypocrisy. Former sailor went to jail for taking selfies on a sub - even though the government agreed there was no sign of intent or that the photos were subjected to espionage.
Prosecutors want a case that's a slam dunk.
Not only was the mishandling charge a slam dunk, so would have been the extra 20 years for obstruction of justice (destroying evidence). If it was Hillary Smith, state department flunky, who committed the same offenses for the same reasons, she'd be serving an effective life sentence in prison.
Doesn't have to. She ran it on a woefully insecure private server. The head of any foreign intelligence agency of any repute who didn't hack it should be fired for incompetence. Also, this is the same party that blames Russian hackers for everything - but they left Hill's server alone out of the goodness of their hearts?
Aren't people getting tired of whataboutism like this? It's a logical fallacy and it doesn't help the conversation.
That and it's just digging their hypocrisy hole deeper. Democrats most certainly did complain of the Bush Administration's use of private emails at the time. Democrats like....Hillary Clinton.
Summary is written as if Comey was engaging in hypocrisy - ignoring the fact that Comey bent over backwards to clear Hillary while at the same time the DOJ was prosecuting others for mishandling classified evidence. Using Dembot talking points like the emails weren't "marked as classified" which is asinine, as the information was 'born' classified. And that she didn't have intent to mishandle evidence, which 1) is crap given that she blasted the Bush administration for using private email 2) intent is irrelevant. It's like statutory rape: either it happened or it didn't. Doesn't matter what the person's intent was.
Rural economies are dried up because the people that tend to get hired don't deserve a job anywhere. I cannot conceive of how the people I see in retail get jobs when I know for a fact that more useful workers are out of work, except that their employers want people they can abuse and those people have demonstrated a willingness to sit still for it.
Maybe they have developed a spider-sense for elitist snobs, and you're getting the level of service you deserve? Then there's the fact you get what you pay for.
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His post was perfectly clear, but your willful libertarian blindness probably blurred out those parts.
Weak sauce. No other power source costs $20 billion and two decades just to construct. No other power source has the potential to render an entire region uninhabitable for centuries.
Nuclear is the only power source that is completely dependent on government to exist.
The red tape you complain about is to ensure that every other nuke plant doesn't blow up, Sherlock.
Sunny days. Man, if there was just some method to get power from the sun. Better go tell German power engineers, as the idea that there may be windless or sunless days has never occurred to them, or that power generating capacity needs to be spread across a grid - same as it is for coal or nuclear power.
Variable like your nuclear power plant going down for planned (or worse, unplanned) maintenance, blowing a megawatt-sized hole in your power grid? Sometimes for years at a time?
All the FUD aimed at wind and solar can easily be addressed by tech used to back up coal and nuclear power plants - like pumped storage. If a large hydrostatic battery is good enough for nuclear, it's good enough for a wind farm.
Laughable. Nuclear power is by far the most expensive power source ever invented by man - it costs too damn much (and too damn long) to build, to secure, to maintain, to decommission, and to store the waste for millennia. You can build out wind and solar power in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost with none of the safety issues. And all the FUD against wind and solar can be addressed by technology that's already in use for coal and nuclear power plants - like pumped storage facilities.
ftfy
No reactor has ever been built that wasn't massively subsidized by taxpayers. Subsidies for construction, subsidies for security, subsidies for insurance, subsidizes for decommissioning - and that's before the ultimate subsidy, storing the waste for millennia on the taxpayer's dime.
More projection. The U.S. literally bragged about interfering in the 1996 Russian election, has been staging practice invasions off North Korea's coast every year since the 90's, committed an act of war on Iran with Stuxnet and spent years illegally threatening them with a military invasion over a nuclear weapons program the U.S. knew Iran didn't actually have.
Good to hear! So you'll slash you war budget from ~$1.4 trillion or so a year down to $45 billion dollars to match Russia's, close down almost every single one of your overseas military bases, and go down to a single aircraft carrier to match China's.
I'm sure you could go on and on with these false equivalencies. Only large hydroelectric dams come close to the threat that a meltdown poses - but if a terrorist manages to blow up the Hoover Dam, reconstruction can begin as soon as the floodwaters subside. It's not going to make an entire region uninhabitable for a century or more.
Powerful environmental groups - that's rich. The government could not give less of a shit what environmentalists want when there's corporate welfare involved. Not the tinyest, greenest little shit.
There are no designs that make nuclear power safe and cost effective. It's not hippies that are preventing nuclear power from happening. It's cost.
Your previous "free market" would see fossil fuels used all the way through the clathrate gun hypothesis, while chopping down every last redwood tree and hunting multiple species to extinction. Fuck you free market. Fuck it up its stupid ass.
You no more need to be a prosecutor to see the double standards in play than you need to be a Supreme Court justice to see the five conservatives were full of shit on their back-to-back rulings on gay wedding cakes and Muslim travel bans. You only need not have your head planted deep in one's partisan ass.
Completely true. Aside from FOIA, Hillary's private server flouted record preservation laws that were on the books before the internet was a gleam in anyone's eye.
You fuck off. Parent poster isn't defending the Trump Administration's use of private email. That's what Dembots are doing for Hypocrite Hillary, who set up her own private email server a mere two years after she blasted the Bush Administration for using private email accounts.
Right, because the government is in the habit of using unsecured email for beyond-top-secret officials like CIA directors and Secretary of State.
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Motives are irrelevant when it comes to being guilty for mishandling classified evidence, dumb-er ass. It's a simple yes/no question, like when the high school gym teacher is accused of sleeping with a 14 year old student.
And that's assuming that Hillary's motives were pure. Of course we know they weren't, as she received extra training as one of a few Original Classification Authorities, and that she blasted the Bush Administration for using private email two years before she set up her own private email server and used it exclusively. Something no other official has done before or since.
Are you? The entire purpose of using private email instead of government issue is to hide information. It's why Democrats blasted the Bush Administration for using private email when Dubbya was in office. Democrats like.....Hillary Clinton.
That line of excuse-making is extra dishonest because the kind of information Hillary dealt with was inherently classified. If Hillary got an email from the ambassador to South Korea on the status of North Korea's nuclear weapons program, that email was automatically classified. It didn't have to be stamped that way like someone hitting the "important" tag on an email.
No harder than prosecuting a 40 year old teacher who's admitted to sleeping with a 14 year old student. Because intent is irrelevant - it's a simple yes/no question on whether or not it happened. Hillary mishandling classified material is not in dispute.
Irrelevant. The case of Kristian Saucier debunks all the Hillbot excuses for her criminal hypocrisy. Former sailor went to jail for taking selfies on a sub - even though the government agreed there was no sign of intent or that the photos were subjected to espionage.
Not only was the mishandling charge a slam dunk, so would have been the extra 20 years for obstruction of justice (destroying evidence). If it was Hillary Smith, state department flunky, who committed the same offenses for the same reasons, she'd be serving an effective life sentence in prison.
Doesn't have to. She ran it on a woefully insecure private server. The head of any foreign intelligence agency of any repute who didn't hack it should be fired for incompetence. Also, this is the same party that blames Russian hackers for everything - but they left Hill's server alone out of the goodness of their hearts?
That and it's just digging their hypocrisy hole deeper. Democrats most certainly did complain of the Bush Administration's use of private emails at the time. Democrats like....Hillary Clinton.
Summary is written as if Comey was engaging in hypocrisy - ignoring the fact that Comey bent over backwards to clear Hillary while at the same time the DOJ was prosecuting others for mishandling classified evidence. Using Dembot talking points like the emails weren't "marked as classified" which is asinine, as the information was 'born' classified. And that she didn't have intent to mishandle evidence, which 1) is crap given that she blasted the Bush administration for using private email 2) intent is irrelevant. It's like statutory rape: either it happened or it didn't. Doesn't matter what the person's intent was.
Maybe they have developed a spider-sense for elitist snobs, and you're getting the level of service you deserve? Then there's the fact you get what you pay for.
Which can only be achieved through the same taxes that pay for the services libertarians hypocritically enjoy
FTFY
A phrase commonly repeated by libertarians, who commonly ignore the fact that living in a first-world civilization isn't free.