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  1. Re:Want to guess why? on Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Want to guess why? Because one is subsidized and the other was successfully taxed and regulated out of existence.

    This is complete bullshit. The reason is simpler: natural gas because cheaper. Coal was out-competed by fracking.

    The free market killed coal, not regulations.

    The only way coal will continue is if it is subsidized more than it is already (by not having to clean up the mess created by coal).

  2. Re:Full Employment Act for Comedians on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    when George W. Bush was elected, the left insisted the world was practically coming to an end.

    Maybe the world did not end, but at the end of Bush's term, the economy was in a mess, with huge deficits being built up and the US embroiled in an unwinnable situation in the middle east.

    So, yes, Bush did fuck up the US massively.

  3. Re:America hates Hillary Clinton on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    rather than urbanites getting to dictate how everyone should be forced to live.

    So, instead, a minority of the population should be able to tell everyone else how to live?

  4. Re:Its winner take all, not electoral college. on Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Democrats need to stop crying about the EC and figure out how to connect with those people. It's not going to change.

    IMHO, the solution for democrats is obvious: get rid of the superdelegates.

  5. Why porn? on South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does blocking porn impact human trafficking?

    This is simply pandering to the religious right. Those repressed people who probably cannot control their own urges to look at porn, so they want the state to do it for them (the want the state to control their viewing of porn, not wanting the state to look at porn for them).

  6. Re:The simplest solution would be on Can Consumers Fight Package Thieves With Technology? (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    In Italy, they have another solution to avoid carrying packages to houses. During transit, the package gets some very slight damage to the outer packaging. Because of the damage, you have to go to the post office and open it there, so that they can see that the contents were not damaged in transit.

    The postal workers also get to see what is in your package, as they will look over your shoulder while you open it.

  7. Re:Clowns with weapons. on A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    No, actually, I am going back to my original statement. J. Edgar gave assistance to Reagan during his career, which ultimately resulted in Reagan becoming President. The connection between the assistance and the election wasn't so direct as with Comey and Trump.

  8. Re:Clowns with weapons. on A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Sorry, Nixon.

  9. Clowns with weapons. on A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    The FBI are a bunch of clowns. It's history is littered with investigations that arise simply from misunderstanding the culture of the time. Perhaps others arise from jealousy of intelligent and knowledgeable people.

    Unfortunately, the FBI is very dangerous: it has weapons that can be used to destroy people's lives.

    And then we have the fact that Hoover used the FBI to help Reagan get elected and then, this year, Comey provided the final push to get Trump elected.

  10. How on earth can it be so little? Let's say you worked there 5 days a week for one year, and you were denied a 30 minute lunch break on every shift. That would be around 130 hours of your time... or $1300 per employee per year... how does that become $95?

    Because the lawyers decided that it wasn't worth their time to negotiate for more. The injured parties (the employees) did not factor into the decision.

  11. So where is my warp engine?

    I would be happy with a car that is powered by water.

  12. Re: Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Wind is already cost-competitive with more expensive coal sources (excluding the cost of coal pollution). Solar probably has another decade to go.

    Well done, completely misreading (or failing to read) TFA. TFA discusses recent bids to provide power being cost effective (cheap, in fact) now when comparing the cost of electricity produced (priced per MWh). All your guff about capacity factors is irrelevant when the article discusses actual wholesale prices for electricity.

  13. Re:Citation please on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't cover solar, but the actual 2015 costs are nowhere near what knightghost claimed.

    FTFY.

  14. Re:Cheaper than wind? on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your numbers are wrong because you are either looking at rooftop solar, which is different to this, or you are looking at costs related to existing solar installations (ie, historical solar costs).

  15. Re:Who exactly? on Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    LOLWAT? Are they going to try to stick Jerry Yang with the fallout? If Verizon buys Yahoo, there will be no "Yahoo" left to assume responsibility. The Yahoo business unit of Verizon will still be part of Verizon, and Verizon will still have exposure. When you buy a business, you acquire both its assets and its liabilities, you don't get to pick and choose. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

    You could not be more wrong. Companies buy some of the assets of other companies all the time.

    In this case, specifically, this is an asset sale, so that the original Yahoo company remains and continues to own the Alibaba shares, thus avoiding a huge tax bill on these shares.

  16. Re:Basic small-government argument. on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are already mandatory financial liability minimums for traveling down the roadway.

    Which are laughably low. So low that they are almost meaningless.

    In the UK, the limits on liability are measured in millions. Before the Great Heck rail crash, which cost the driver's insurance company almost $30M, I believe it was typically unlimited. There is still no limit for personal injury and death claims by third parties.

  17. Re: Basic small-government argument. on Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    In my city, you can tell when they are doing the traffic survey on any particular street: highly visible police presence just before and during the survey to reduce the average speed.

  18. Re:radiation was detected on Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, you are the one pushing bullshit.

    Those links provide no support for the idea that the FIT can be greater than 31c per kWh.

    Green energy can be cheap: look at the latest costs for offshore wind in Europe. They are cheaper than the rate your employer sells electricity for (assuming you work for your local power station).

  19. Your reading comprehension is poor.

    The article includes sales taxes and property taxes in the "42%", making that number quite typical for a western nation that provides universal health care.

    And your point is?

  20. 0.18/kWh peak price? My heart bleeds for them.

    My current peak price in CA is $0.44/kWh, with the lowest price $0.12. In fact, the high price works in my favour, because that's what the power company is paying to buy the power that my solar panels are producing.

    More typical in this area is the E1 tariff, which varies from $0.18 to $0.40 for a kWh, depending on total usage, not time of use.

  21. Number of turbines isn't a useful measure. What's important is total capacity.

    Just a few miles from here is Altamont Pass, where there is a very large wind farm, but the turbines there are old, small and inefficient.

    Apart from Texas, there is very little new investment in wind power taking place.

  22. Re:I'm highly skeptical on IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump (reuters.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purpose of the Trump presidency is to oversee the end of USD Hegemony and the transition to a UN mediated reserve currency for foreign exchange.

    Hah, hah, very funny conspiracy theory you have there.

    In reality, it's much simpler, and far more obvious. The purpose of the Trump presidency is to enrich Donald Trump.

  23. Re: You will always be a foreigner on Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    Getting the green card can reasonably take another two years for marriage, employment, etc;

    Depending on current nationality. I think that they are currently processing green card applications from about 2005 for Indian nationals.

  24. Re:Article disagreement on A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report (thehill.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What about the second part, where he told him to change his password? There isn't a single letter typo that can reverse the meaning, plus, if there is no action, then "immediately" is completely redundant.

    No, this is a poor cover story from someone who fucked up massively.

  25. It is very different from private industry, where (according to legend) people rise through the ranks based on skills and accomplishments, and you would never put someone in charge of a trillion dollar company on the basis of a Prom Queen contest. Corporate competence concentrates at the top. So they say.

    "So they say". Exactly, the people at the top claim this. In reality it is more a competition to be the most ruthless and confident bullshitter.