The problem is that to take away this power, you'll need to invest power into the government. This power will then be abused, as it has been every other time someone has blindly followed this suggestion.
As much as you'll start raping your secretary and ordering mob hits on your rivals the second you start your own business, sure. One is as inevitable as the other.
Why else do so many experiments promising "Socialism" end having their democracies overthrown by the CIA?
A single data point is statistically meaningless "woe is us" wanking UNLESS other industries are surveyed.
Other data points are irrelevant to the subject at hand. How more or less other workers are burned out in comparison has jack and shit to do with IT, and Jack left town. If waitresses have it worse, it doesn't mean IT has it better. If accountants have it easier, it doesn't mean IT has it harder.
Your attempt to forcibly inject relevance to the subject has no relevance.
The inevaduhble organics/synthetics concept was shot when you had the chance to make peace between the Geth and the Quarians. If I were to ever win a large Powerball, I'll commission Netflix to make a Mass Effect series. First to make sure Femshep makes lots of little blue children, and the second is to come up with a real ending to the series.
Seriously, the west has been under attack from Russia, CHina, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and a few others, for the last 20 years.
...or are you so far out there you can see Pluto from your house? Paid no attention whatsoever to Wikileaks or Edward Snowden? Attacking other countries networks and trying to spy on everyone is what you do. Just ask one of your top allies, Angela Merkel.
attacks ON Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran were going on LONG before Stuxnet.
FTFY. For christsake you spend more than the rest of the world combined, so stop being a tough guy crybaby.
The guy comes up with some great ideas and should be paid to create storyboards - the concept of the pod race on Tatooine (stressing concept here, not necessary what was in TPM), the sabre duel between Kenobi/Jinn and Maul.
But - those ideas should be handed over to a competent writer to be used or discarded as need be. So midiclorians would have been nipped in the bud, and the Ewoks would have been limited to being the cuddly native teddy bears of Endor. Said screenwriter could have then gone with the first idea for VI, where it was escaped Wookie slaves that defeated "an entire legion" of the Emperor's best troops.
Same goes for Peter Jackson, who's Lucas complex metastasized after the LOTR trilogy. Every time I hear Guillermo del Toro's name I cry inside that he wasn't able to direct The Hobbit, instead of PJ.
That and the fact that Democrats like Hillary have supported a border wall since the 90's, as well as recognizing occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. When Trump actually wants to do it, though, Dems lose their damned partisan minds.
Asking voters that have been betrayed by the Democratic party - over and over and over again, for decades - to stick it out is like telling a person with an abusive spouse that they shouldn't leave.
Besides, building a third party to replace the Dems is a herculean task - but it's a walk in the park next to reforming it. Every step of the way you'll be supporting the very corrupt interests you're trying to fight, because you're still supporting the party. Get every single Justice Democrat running for office elected, and they'll still be voting the party line if they don't want to find their office moved to the nearest lagoon, along with their re-election chances.
Obama's "sequester" alone debunks that nonsense. If public sector unions had any power, Obama never would have proposed capping their benefits and cutting department funding. And that's the tree next to the forest of repealing Taft-Hartley, which is still in force.
This is the difference between Democrat voters and Republican voters. Democrats call their politicians out on this bullshit.
Partisan Democrats spent a full eight years gaslighting the hell out of their base and the public that Obama was anything but a right wing neoliberal/neocon.
Oh, those meanie Republicans wouldn't let him close Gitmo (even though Obama only wanted to move it to Illinois).
Oh, Obama creating the massive deportation machine that Trump inherited wasn't so bad because he mostly deported people at the border - except Americans mostly live on said border as defined by the feds: within a hundred miles of our neighbors or the ocean.
Oh, we didn't get a Public Option because meanie Joe Lieberman (who was allowed to keep his committee chair after campaigning for McCain) joined Republicans in voting against it. Nevermind that it passed by reconciliation so we didn't NEED 60 votes, and that it was confirmed that Obama killed the PO for lobbyists.
Constantly telling everyone that Obama's shit didn't stink. And you can count on the same when its Corporate Cory or Kamela "I let Steve Mnuchin commit billions in fraud" Harris.
I'll add that it's very easy to change your party affiliation if you pay attention to the deadline to do so before a primary.
Better yet, get rid of that sheep herding operation entirely:
1) If parties want to have a closed vote for a party chair, have at it - but public officials represent everyone and impact everyone, not just party members.
2) It takes quite the amount of hubris to use taxpayer dollars to run closed primaries. Independent and third party voters support those elections with their tax dollars, but aren't allowed to vote in them. Fuck that.
3) The most important vote is frequently in the primary, not the general. In 2016, a massively corrupt, incredibly racist, and unbelievably incompetent candidate could have been denied the nomination if not for closed primaries and caucuses. That goes for the Republican nominee as well.
here are many, mostly on the right, that don't want the government involved in regulating the Internet because they are concerned about the unintended consequences of this. This is legitimate position and while you may not agree with it
It's as legit as a communist having a full-on panic attack at the sight of a privately owned business.
The primary tactic in this game is Villain Rotation. They always have a handful of Democratic Senators announce that they will be the ones to deviate this time from the ostensible party position and impede success, but the designated Villain constantly shifts, so the Party itself can claim it supports these measures while an always-changing handful of their members invariably prevent it.
Glenn wrote that years ago about Democrats killing the Public Option, but it holds true to pretty much any policy the party wants to drown in the bathtub at any level of government. There's also the flipside to this tactic: Hero Rotation. That's where some member of the party grandstands on C-SPAN to make liberals wet, but its just propaganda as they don't intend to make any changes beyond this week's news cycle. See: pretty much anything from Kamela Harris, Cory Brooker, and especially Elizabeth Warren.
There's also a huge similarity, it's been copied not taken. So if you object to the word stolen when it comes to copyright infringement you should also object to the word stolen when it comes to espionage. At least unless any documents, prototypes, backup disks or similar was actually removed from Tesla's possession.
Scenario A: Joe Blow makes a high-quality rip of Black Panther a week before it was released on blue ray and torrents it. Out of the ten thousand people that download it, 800 would have otherwise bought the disk. 800 x $25 = Disney is out $20,000 on a movie approaching $1.4 billion at the box office.
Scenario B: Joe Blow is a research assistant at Merck, and realizes his team is on the verge of a breakthrough on a cancer drug. Rather than get a pat on the back from his boss, he takes his findings to try and sell to his buddy who's an executive at Pfizer. If the corporate espionage is successful and Pfizer gets the patent first, Merck is out a hundred million in profits.
Still think corporate espionage is "hugely similar" to copyright infringement?
Spent fuel from the military weapons program is still from the weapons program, which the parent pointed out is not subject to the same regulations as power production. Who is it that has a reading comprehension problem, again?
The idiot who skates right past the quoted sections showing both incidents involved waste from nuclear fuel with only one saying anything about military weapons.
Until your nuclear plant goes down for planned - or unplanned - maintenance and you have a megawatt-sized hole in your power grid. Sometimes for years at a time. Which is why nuclear plants are frequently backed up by pumped storage facilities - and if they're good enough for nuclear, they're good enough for renewables.
As is usually the case, the fears, uncertainties and doubts thrown at wind and solar are easily addressed by ideas that have long been used for coal and nuclear.
And it's not windless over at the Aberdeen Bay wind farm in Scotland that is in the process of going online. Coal and nuclear power is moved across great distances (over 400 miles from central North Dakota to Minneapolis MN) via traditional power lines so there's no reason we couldn't do that with wind and solar, either. That's far enough that a wind farm in Scotland could pick up the slack for one in Ireland, or vice versa.
I mean it used to be shorthand for "grandstanding, virtue signaling, demagogic assholes"
FTFY
From Salon writing a dozen fainting couches on a Game of Thrones rape scene while ignoring Theon's mutilation in the previous season and cannibals munching on a village in the same episode, to Marvel not race swapping Iron Fist, to pretending two wankers who complain about a black stormtrooper on Twitter means Star Wars fans are racist (nevermind 35 years of Londo).....yeah, SJW's are a thing.
And therein lies the Problem. Solar and wind due to their intermittency cannot be used as base load, unless you get physical/chemical/thermal battery to store energy when it is in excess and reuse it when it is not shiny/windy.
Baseload is a red herring. Accounting for windless or cloudy days is a simple engineering/statistical issue - how much generating capacity do you need to build out across a grid, and how do you account for times of high demand/low production. And demand is highest on hot, sunny days and cold, windy nights.
Gas, coal, oil, nuclear are base load plants
"Baseload" plants that need their own backup solutions which means they aren't really baseload, either. If pumped storage is good enough for nuclear plants, it's good enough for wind and solar.
nuclear energy would be providing cheap, clean energy to the world right now
As much as a $2 million Bugatti with no breaks is an affordable family car, sure.
unsafe reactors out there that have to be kept running because we can't bring ourselves to build newer, safer ones
"New" designs are an old red herring. None of them makes nuclear power both safe and cost effective.
Solar and wind are great unless you have a still, cloudy day.
Which doesn't happen across an entire region. Which is why you simply build your renewable generating capacity across the grid - exactly as you do for coal or nuclear power. Back it up with a pumped storage facility if necessary - and if it's good enough for nuclear, it's good enough for wind and solar.
Of course they are, as there are far fewer nuclear plants than coal/solar/wind/hydro.
There have been more accidental electrocutions from solar and wind than nuclear.
Regular, vanilla industrial accidents don't count as they distort the real issue, which is the safety of the technology in question. If Homer trips on the stairs at the local nuclear power plant, that's not a failure of nuclear energy, as opposed to getting cancer from a containment leak. By the same token, if Homer slips and falls off a wind tower, that's not a failure of wind energy.
When solar panels create an Archimedes ray and set someone on fire, or wind turbines create a mini-tornado that crushes someone, then we can start comparing the safety of renewable energy technology to nuclear power.
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As much as you'll start raping your secretary and ordering mob hits on your rivals the second you start your own business, sure. One is as inevitable as the other.
FTFY
Other data points are irrelevant to the subject at hand. How more or less other workers are burned out in comparison has jack and shit to do with IT, and Jack left town. If waitresses have it worse, it doesn't mean IT has it better. If accountants have it easier, it doesn't mean IT has it harder.
Your attempt to forcibly inject relevance to the subject has no relevance.
The inevaduhble organics/synthetics concept was shot when you had the chance to make peace between the Geth and the Quarians. If I were to ever win a large Powerball, I'll commission Netflix to make a Mass Effect series. First to make sure Femshep makes lots of little blue children, and the second is to come up with a real ending to the series.
FTFY. For christsake you spend more than the rest of the world combined, so stop being a tough guy crybaby.
The guy comes up with some great ideas and should be paid to create storyboards - the concept of the pod race on Tatooine (stressing concept here, not necessary what was in TPM), the sabre duel between Kenobi/Jinn and Maul.
But - those ideas should be handed over to a competent writer to be used or discarded as need be. So midiclorians would have been nipped in the bud, and the Ewoks would have been limited to being the cuddly native teddy bears of Endor. Said screenwriter could have then gone with the first idea for VI, where it was escaped Wookie slaves that defeated "an entire legion" of the Emperor's best troops.
Same goes for Peter Jackson, who's Lucas complex metastasized after the LOTR trilogy. Every time I hear Guillermo del Toro's name I cry inside that he wasn't able to direct The Hobbit, instead of PJ.
"It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."
That and the fact that Democrats like Hillary have supported a border wall since the 90's, as well as recognizing occupied Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. When Trump actually wants to do it, though, Dems lose their damned partisan minds.
Asking voters that have been betrayed by the Democratic party - over and over and over again, for decades - to stick it out is like telling a person with an abusive spouse that they shouldn't leave.
Besides, building a third party to replace the Dems is a herculean task - but it's a walk in the park next to reforming it. Every step of the way you'll be supporting the very corrupt interests you're trying to fight, because you're still supporting the party. Get every single Justice Democrat running for office elected, and they'll still be voting the party line if they don't want to find their office moved to the nearest lagoon, along with their re-election chances.
Any more questions?
The same pharma/banking/oil/war scumfucks fund and thus control both parties.
Obama's "sequester" alone debunks that nonsense. If public sector unions had any power, Obama never would have proposed capping their benefits and cutting department funding. And that's the tree next to the forest of repealing Taft-Hartley, which is still in force.
Partisan Democrats spent a full eight years gaslighting the hell out of their base and the public that Obama was anything but a right wing neoliberal/neocon.
Oh, those meanie Republicans wouldn't let him close Gitmo (even though Obama only wanted to move it to Illinois).
Oh, Obama creating the massive deportation machine that Trump inherited wasn't so bad because he mostly deported people at the border - except Americans mostly live on said border as defined by the feds: within a hundred miles of our neighbors or the ocean.
Oh, we didn't get a Public Option because meanie Joe Lieberman (who was allowed to keep his committee chair after campaigning for McCain) joined Republicans in voting against it. Nevermind that it passed by reconciliation so we didn't NEED 60 votes, and that it was confirmed that Obama killed the PO for lobbyists.
Constantly telling everyone that Obama's shit didn't stink. And you can count on the same when its Corporate Cory or Kamela "I let Steve Mnuchin commit billions in fraud" Harris.
Better yet, get rid of that sheep herding operation entirely:
1) If parties want to have a closed vote for a party chair, have at it - but public officials represent everyone and impact everyone, not just party members.
2) It takes quite the amount of hubris to use taxpayer dollars to run closed primaries. Independent and third party voters support those elections with their tax dollars, but aren't allowed to vote in them. Fuck that.
3) The most important vote is frequently in the primary, not the general. In 2016, a massively corrupt, incredibly racist, and unbelievably incompetent candidate could have been denied the nomination if not for closed primaries and caucuses. That goes for the Republican nominee as well.
It's as legit as a communist having a full-on panic attack at the sight of a privately owned business.
Greenwald:
Glenn wrote that years ago about Democrats killing the Public Option, but it holds true to pretty much any policy the party wants to drown in the bathtub at any level of government. There's also the flipside to this tactic: Hero Rotation. That's where some member of the party grandstands on C-SPAN to make liberals wet, but its just propaganda as they don't intend to make any changes beyond this week's news cycle. See: pretty much anything from Kamela Harris, Cory Brooker, and especially Elizabeth Warren.
Scenario A: Joe Blow makes a high-quality rip of Black Panther a week before it was released on blue ray and torrents it. Out of the ten thousand people that download it, 800 would have otherwise bought the disk. 800 x $25 = Disney is out $20,000 on a movie approaching $1.4 billion at the box office.
Scenario B: Joe Blow is a research assistant at Merck, and realizes his team is on the verge of a breakthrough on a cancer drug. Rather than get a pat on the back from his boss, he takes his findings to try and sell to his buddy who's an executive at Pfizer. If the corporate espionage is successful and Pfizer gets the patent first, Merck is out a hundred million in profits.
Still think corporate espionage is "hugely similar" to copyright infringement?
You guys can stop trying to make this comparison happen. Its not going to happen.
Except for all of it.
The idiot who skates right past the quoted sections showing both incidents involved waste from nuclear fuel with only one saying anything about military weapons.
Until your nuclear plant goes down for planned - or unplanned - maintenance and you have a megawatt-sized hole in your power grid. Sometimes for years at a time. Which is why nuclear plants are frequently backed up by pumped storage facilities - and if they're good enough for nuclear, they're good enough for renewables.
As is usually the case, the fears, uncertainties and doubts thrown at wind and solar are easily addressed by ideas that have long been used for coal and nuclear.
And it's not windless over at the Aberdeen Bay wind farm in Scotland that is in the process of going online. Coal and nuclear power is moved across great distances (over 400 miles from central North Dakota to Minneapolis MN) via traditional power lines so there's no reason we couldn't do that with wind and solar, either. That's far enough that a wind farm in Scotland could pick up the slack for one in Ireland, or vice versa.
FTFY
From Salon writing a dozen fainting couches on a Game of Thrones rape scene while ignoring Theon's mutilation in the previous season and cannibals munching on a village in the same episode, to Marvel not race swapping Iron Fist, to pretending two wankers who complain about a black stormtrooper on Twitter means Star Wars fans are racist (nevermind 35 years of Londo).....yeah, SJW's are a thing.
Baseload is a red herring. Accounting for windless or cloudy days is a simple engineering/statistical issue - how much generating capacity do you need to build out across a grid, and how do you account for times of high demand/low production. And demand is highest on hot, sunny days and cold, windy nights.
"Baseload" plants that need their own backup solutions which means they aren't really baseload, either. If pumped storage is good enough for nuclear plants, it's good enough for wind and solar.
As much as a $2 million Bugatti with no breaks is an affordable family car, sure.
"New" designs are an old red herring. None of them makes nuclear power both safe and cost effective.
Which doesn't happen across an entire region. Which is why you simply build your renewable generating capacity across the grid - exactly as you do for coal or nuclear power. Back it up with a pumped storage facility if necessary - and if it's good enough for nuclear, it's good enough for wind and solar.
Doubt it.
Of course they are, as there are far fewer nuclear plants than coal/solar/wind/hydro.
Regular, vanilla industrial accidents don't count as they distort the real issue, which is the safety of the technology in question. If Homer trips on the stairs at the local nuclear power plant, that's not a failure of nuclear energy, as opposed to getting cancer from a containment leak. By the same token, if Homer slips and falls off a wind tower, that's not a failure of wind energy.
When solar panels create an Archimedes ray and set someone on fire, or wind turbines create a mini-tornado that crushes someone, then we can start comparing the safety of renewable energy technology to nuclear power.
Both of them do. Try looking at the links again but reading this time.